Today kicks off the second annual Montclair Film Festival in Montclair, New Jersey. Located about twenty miles outside of Manhattan, this quiet yet very compelling festival has quite a few highlights that will be showcased at this year’s festivities. In its second year, the impressive slate will have lots of films getting some extra press in preparation for their openings and plays around the circuit during the awards season.
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Next week in New Jersey, the Montclair Film Festival will kick it off its week run of fun-filled enjoyment audiences to indulge. One film that will be playing is Oscar-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher’s directorial debut, Violet & Daisy starring Alexis Bledel and Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan.
Telling the story of two teenage assassins that accept what they think will be an easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off course. The film also stars James Gandolfini and Oscar-nominee Marianne-Jean Baptiste. The film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival two years ago and will be opening in theaters in June.
Check out the two posters after the jump. Read more on Posters for Geoffrey Fletcher’s Directorial Debut ‘Violet & Daisy’…
Saoirse Ronan in Neil Jordan’s “Byzantium”
BYZANTIUM (***)…A rock solid Gothic horror film, looking for distribution Byzantium is a vampire thriller unlike any I have seen. Two women with a secret, the vicious and sexual Clara (Gemma Atherton) and Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan), a thoughtful young woman, move from town to town hunting prey realizing with a genuine terror that they too are being hunted. Forced to flee yet another home, they find themselves in a small coastal village that Clara decides will prove safe for a time. Eleanor has managed to survive two hundred years as a vampire with a conscience, feeding only on those who are ready for death, such as the old man at the beginning who has found pages of her story and asks her to end his existence on earth. Clara is up for anything and feeds on anyone and anybody she can stalk and kill. She takes risks but does so for her daughter (oh yes!) and latches on to a young man who has recently come into possession of a hotel which she turns into a brothel to make fast money. Eleanor finds herself falling for a young waiter dying of cancer, as she remembers how she and Clara came to be the creatures they are. Meanwhile those hunters are closing in on them and offer nothing more than death as they believe Clara has broken the rules of their secret society. Read more on TIFF: Byzantium, The Iceman, and To the Wonder…
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It’s that time of the month, so it’s time to talk about the “Oscarettes”. If you missed last month’s edition, here is a little recap of what this segment is all about.
At the start of each month, we will travel back a year at a time and discuss the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actresses of that year. I will recognize who was nominated and who won, and I will share my opinions about them, but I want yours. I want to know who you thought deserved to win and be nominated those particular years.
Last month we discussed the 84th Academy Awards, this month we will look back on the 80th Academy Awards. Read more on Women in Cinema: The ‘Oscarettes’ (2008)…
TOP TEN FILMS OF 2011 (in alphabetical order)
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“Drive”
“The Help”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“Moneyball”
“My Week With Marilyn”
“Super 8″
“The Tree of Life”
BEST PICTURE
“The Artist”
BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
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