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LIMITED RELEASES: “Queen to Play,” “Ceremony” and “Meet Monica Velour”
Posted April 11, 2011 by Mitch Salem
> Today, 3 films from first-time directors: Caroline Bottaro’s marvelous QUEEN TO PLAY is, in a sense, a sports movie. We have the out-of-nowhere player whose newly-discovered talent shakes up her whole life, the wise and somewhat eccentric mentor, even the climactic competition. The game here, though, is chess, and the film (in French, with […]
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Spectacular Now”
Posted January 22, 2013 by Mitch Salem
The screenplay for THE SPECTACULAR NOW, a Dramatic Competition entry at Sundance, was written by the team of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who also wrote (500) Days of Summer, but the new film has none of the breezy and somewhat gimmicky visual style of that hit. Director James Ponsoldt, instead, goes to the […]
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