Taika Waititi in The Captain
Film-maker Nash Edgerton has received his second nod of approval from the Sundance Film Festival in as many years with his short film The Captain being accepted into competition.
The only Australian short film to get accepted in 2013, The Captain, was co-written by Edgerton, Hesher director Spencer Susser, who also co-directed the film, and Taika Waititi, who wrote and directed the New Zealand film Boy.
It follows Edgerton’s acceptance into the festival for 2012 with his film Bear. This is Edgerton’s sixth short film to feature at the festival.
Edgerton said:
“It’s a huge honor for Spencer and I that The Captain has been selected to screen at Sundance especially seeing as we co-wrote it with our friend Taika Waititi who also stars in it, someone whom we met at Sundance years ago. It’s such a privilege for us to get to make films with our friends.
Film-maker Nash Edgerton has received his second nod of approval from the Sundance Film Festival in as many years with his short film The Captain being accepted into competition.
The only Australian short film to get accepted in 2013, The Captain, was co-written by Edgerton, Hesher director Spencer Susser, who also co-directed the film, and Taika Waititi, who wrote and directed the New Zealand film Boy.
It follows Edgerton’s acceptance into the festival for 2012 with his film Bear. This is Edgerton’s sixth short film to feature at the festival.
Edgerton said:
“It’s a huge honor for Spencer and I that The Captain has been selected to screen at Sundance especially seeing as we co-wrote it with our friend Taika Waititi who also stars in it, someone whom we met at Sundance years ago. It’s such a privilege for us to get to make films with our friends.
- 12/7/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Originally posted online on August 11, 2010. Animal Kingdom is nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver).
Like his stunning short films Netherland Dwarf and Crossbow, David Michod’s terrific and terrifying feature debut, the 2010 Sundance World Dramatic Competition winner Animal Kingdom, is a smoothly photographed, moodily scored tale of a trapped, dim and docile young man who suffers at the hands of a careless and, in this case, criminal family. As in his previous work, Michod relies on an insistent voiceover to provide biting interiority while the unrelentingly grim working-class Melbourne milieu is strikingly depicted in slow-motion shots and even slower push-ins. James Frecheville is stoic and sullen as the lead, who we first glimpse as he’s watching a rancid television gameshow next to an unconscious woman who turns out to be his just recently heroin Od’d mother. Brought into the fold of his criminal clan of uncles by his complicit grandmother,...
Like his stunning short films Netherland Dwarf and Crossbow, David Michod’s terrific and terrifying feature debut, the 2010 Sundance World Dramatic Competition winner Animal Kingdom, is a smoothly photographed, moodily scored tale of a trapped, dim and docile young man who suffers at the hands of a careless and, in this case, criminal family. As in his previous work, Michod relies on an insistent voiceover to provide biting interiority while the unrelentingly grim working-class Melbourne milieu is strikingly depicted in slow-motion shots and even slower push-ins. James Frecheville is stoic and sullen as the lead, who we first glimpse as he’s watching a rancid television gameshow next to an unconscious woman who turns out to be his just recently heroin Od’d mother. Brought into the fold of his criminal clan of uncles by his complicit grandmother,...
- 2/26/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Like his stunning short films Netherland Dwarf and Crossbow, David Michod’s terrific and terrifying feature debut, the 2010 Sundance World Dramatic Competition winner Animal Kingdom, is a smoothly photographed, moodily scored tale of a trapped, dim and docile young man who suffers at the hands of a careless and, in this case, criminal family. As in his previous work, Michod relies on an insistent voiceover to provide biting interiority while the unrelentingly grim working-class Melbourne milieu is strikingly depicted in slow-motion shots and even slower push-ins. James Frecheville is stoic and sullen as the lead, who we first glimpse as he’s watching a rancid television gameshow next to an unconscious woman who turns out to be his just...
- 8/11/2010
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Year: 2010
Directors: David Michod
Writers: David Michod
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: kilowog
Rating: 7 out of 10
It is with some fanfare that David Michod releases his feature directorial debut, the dark thriller, Animal Kingdom, into the wild. As part of Blue Tongue Films, the Aussie filmmaker has been building buzz as a writer, scripting the enormously well-received short, Spider and following it up shortly after with two shorts of his own including Netherland Dwarf; both enormously simple tales, one concerning a poorly placed plastic spider and the other, a boy and his rabbit. Continuing with his affinity for animals, Michod introduces us to the Cody family, a grouping of individuals so maligned that the Manson family seems well-adjusted in comparison.
Headed by a Ma Barker-esque, Smurf, who is the mother to four grown Cody brothers, we quickly see where these spiritually bereft men draw their inspiration. However as much...
Directors: David Michod
Writers: David Michod
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: kilowog
Rating: 7 out of 10
It is with some fanfare that David Michod releases his feature directorial debut, the dark thriller, Animal Kingdom, into the wild. As part of Blue Tongue Films, the Aussie filmmaker has been building buzz as a writer, scripting the enormously well-received short, Spider and following it up shortly after with two shorts of his own including Netherland Dwarf; both enormously simple tales, one concerning a poorly placed plastic spider and the other, a boy and his rabbit. Continuing with his affinity for animals, Michod introduces us to the Cody family, a grouping of individuals so maligned that the Manson family seems well-adjusted in comparison.
Headed by a Ma Barker-esque, Smurf, who is the mother to four grown Cody brothers, we quickly see where these spiritually bereft men draw their inspiration. However as much...
- 6/24/2010
- QuietEarth.us
[Bumping this up as it's just turned out that this is not an isolated case. A bit of Googling by a Twitch reader revealed that Lisa's review of The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus was actually copied and pasted from Film School Rejects. Who are good people and deserve better treatment than this, frankly. Those who feel moved to complain to Lisa's employers about this may find all the contact information for Westwood One here. Major Update Below]
Any employers of a film columnist who goes by Lisa R (LisaLR1 on Twitter), be warned. She may very well be selling you things that do not actually belong to her. She certainly did with a recent column she turned in to Westwood One America which she plagiarized directly from the pages of Twitch.
Here's how Lisa describes herself on her blog:
Selections from a weekly film column I publish for Westwood One America (the largest producers and distributors of entertainment TV, radio and print media in the USA). These include: Interviews with actors, directors, writers, producers, film reviews, and events within the film industry. I am also currently the Co-Owner of the 3-person team of Wdk Film Productions, Inc. (we produce Independant Films and Documentaries). *{For over 10 yrs., Lisa's articles for Westwood One have appeared, been used or featured in such publications as: EW (Entertainment Weekly), Total Film, Premiere,...
Any employers of a film columnist who goes by Lisa R (LisaLR1 on Twitter), be warned. She may very well be selling you things that do not actually belong to her. She certainly did with a recent column she turned in to Westwood One America which she plagiarized directly from the pages of Twitch.
Here's how Lisa describes herself on her blog:
Selections from a weekly film column I publish for Westwood One America (the largest producers and distributors of entertainment TV, radio and print media in the USA). These include: Interviews with actors, directors, writers, producers, film reviews, and events within the film industry. I am also currently the Co-Owner of the 3-person team of Wdk Film Productions, Inc. (we produce Independant Films and Documentaries). *{For over 10 yrs., Lisa's articles for Westwood One have appeared, been used or featured in such publications as: EW (Entertainment Weekly), Total Film, Premiere,...
- 1/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Patrons of the film festival circuit will receive a double dose of David Michod next January. Sundance plays host to a pair of his projects -- one which he penned and Spencer Susser directed (Hesher) and the another, which he both wrote and directed. Perhaps the title with the most buzz in the World Dramatic Competition, Animal Kingdom receives its world premiere in the miniscule Park City Egyptian theater - tickets will be scarce. - Patrons of the film festival circuit will receive a double dose of David Michôd next January. Sundance plays host to a pair of his projects -- one which he penned and Spencer Susser directed (Hesher) and the another, which he both wrote and directed. Perhaps the title with the most buzz in the World Dramatic Competition, Animal Kingdom receives its world premiere in the miniscule Park City Egyptian theater - tickets will be scarce.
- 12/17/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
The man with the most famous circumflex in Australian filmmaking - and the bane of sub-editors everywhere - David Michôd, bounced back into headlines again last week with the news that not one - but two - of his feature films have been accepted into Official Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Yes, that's right - both Michôd's feature directorial debut Animal Kingdom, a gangland movie set in the Melbourne criminal underworld, and Hesher, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt-starring independent Us feature he co-wrote with director Spencer Susser, will screen at the Park City alpine festival in January.
Michôd first sprang to international attention after practically taking over the short film circuit in 2008 when Crossbow (which he wrote and directed) premiered at Sundance along with two other shorts he co-wrote, Nash Edgerton's Spider, and Spencer Susser's zombie film I Love Sarah Jane.
In 2009, the festival also screened another of his short films,...
Yes, that's right - both Michôd's feature directorial debut Animal Kingdom, a gangland movie set in the Melbourne criminal underworld, and Hesher, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt-starring independent Us feature he co-wrote with director Spencer Susser, will screen at the Park City alpine festival in January.
Michôd first sprang to international attention after practically taking over the short film circuit in 2008 when Crossbow (which he wrote and directed) premiered at Sundance along with two other shorts he co-wrote, Nash Edgerton's Spider, and Spencer Susser's zombie film I Love Sarah Jane.
In 2009, the festival also screened another of his short films,...
- 12/8/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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