Oliver Sherman – first clips
The first two clips from Oliver Sherman, both with Garret and Donal Logue, showed up online this week.
Daily Motion has the first one:
And the second one is on YouTube:
The film will be shown at the Toronto Film Festival on September 13 and 17, then at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival (Sept. 18 – 26), and if you’re in North Bay, you can catch this screening on October 16.
Here is a longer description from the TIFF site (if you hit the link, they also have a couple of pics):
Does saving someone else’s life make you responsible for them? This is the central question of this penetrating film about existential angst, which is grounded in subtle oppositions: friendship and duties, innocence and manipulation, past and present.
Seven years have passed since Franklin Page (Donal Logue) saved the life of fellow soldier Sherman Oliver (Garret Dillahunt) on the battlefield. It feels like it’s been a long time for earnest and hard-working Franklin, who has since moved to the countryside with his wife, Irene (Molly Parker), and their two children. But seven years seems a mere heartbeat for solitary vet pensioner Sherman, who still bears the scars of the horrors he survived. When Sherman pays a surprise visit to Franklin, who hasn’t seen or heard from him since they left the army, it sets off a chain of events that first time feature director Ryan Redford skilfully crafts into a poignant and meaningful story.
Lost and shy, Sherman is a welcome guest in the Page home. He reconnects with his old friend over beers on the porch and during nights on the town. But when he overstays his welcome, the seemingly placid countenance of this veteran starts to crack, and he lashes out in outbursts of aggressiveness and resentment toward Irene. Drawn from a short story by Rachel Ingalls, the film plunges from quiet character study into psychological thriller.
As Sherman, Dillahunt (of Deadwood fame, and starring in John Sayles’s Amigo, also screening in the Festival) is nothing less than splendid. He conveys the hurt of a lost soldier, and hints at an emotional time bomb ticking beneath the surface of a calm exterior. Parker, who previously acted alongside Dillahunt in Deadwood, is equally compelling as the warm and understanding wife of a no-nonsense man. Franklin is embodied to subtle perfection by Logue. These fine performances buoy a gripping and memorable film.
Raising Hope – new preview & promotional pics
With Raising Hope premiering in a few weeks (Sept. 21), there’s some new promotional stuff out there on the web.
This little clip (if you’re outside the U.S., you can cheat with Hotspot Shield):
And some pics (click to enlarge):
Arkansas Traveler teaser
OxfordAmerican.org has a nice long article about Arkansas Traveler, including an abridged version of the trailer they shot a couple of months ago. Hit the link to see it.
Oliver Sherman heads to Toronto Film Festival
Just a quick note to say that Oliver Sherman will be screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (Amigo will premiere at TIFF too) between September 9 and 19. For details & screening schedules, keep an eye on the film’s listing at TIFF.net.
Oliver Sherman Ryan Redford, ON
World Premiere
Tensions arise when Sherman visits the home of Franklin, a fellow soldier who saved his life back in the war. Franklin has long since moved on – to a wife, two children and a reliable job, but the stability he has worked so hard to establish is soon threatened by Sherman’s presence. The film stars Donal Logue, Molly Parker and Garret Dillahunt.[TIFF.net]
Burn Notice 4×10 Hard Time – promo
USA has posted a teaser for next week’s Burn Notice. You can see it on their site.
Here are a couple of pics from the episode (click to enlarge):
“Hard Time” airs next Thursday (Aug. 12) at 9 on USA.
Also, since I won’t be around to post updates for a couple of weeks, don’t forget that Burning Bright is out on DVD on August 17. You can get it on Amazon:
Updates: The Glades, Raising Hope, Oliver Sherman, Amigo
Okay, so The Glades episode aired last week (July 25) and none of the TV sites I was watching (including the official one) posted the guest star info on time. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can still watch the ep on A&E’s site. Or just grab the clips: clip 1, clip 2, clip 3. Screencaps are here: The Glades 1×03 A Perfect Storm.
More news below.
Both Amigo and Oliver Sherman will have their world premieres in Canada in September. Amigo will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 9 – 19) before heading to San Sebastian (Sept. 17 – 25).
We don’t know the precise date yet but TIFF runs September 9-19, so some time during that period we’ll be showing AMIGO to the public for the first time. In the view of many, Toronto is the most important film market in North America. It’s a great opportunity to screen the movie for buyers from around the world, and it’s a good place to get press, and the audiences are full of civilians, not just people from the industry. [Amigo Production Journal]
John Sayles, to whom San Sebastian dedicated a retrospective in 1994, will revisit the Festival with Amigo. This is the fourth time John Sayles will have participated at San Sebastian, following Men of War, Silver City and Honeydripper, winner of the Best Screenplay Jury Award in 2007 (tied with Siete mesas de billar francés). [San Sebastian Film Festival site]
Oliver Sherman will be shown at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival (Sept. 18 – 26). Sudbury Star says, “Filmed in North Bay, Oliver Sherman will be screened as a special presentation within the Northern Connections Program.”
Finally, Raising Hope had a panel at the TCA Summer Press Tour earlier today. Life.com has some pics, The Futon Critic has a new clip (can’t see it if you’re outside the U.S.), and watch this space for links to any reports that show up by this time tomorrow. For early reports, do a Twitter search for Raising Hope (several critics tweeted during the event).
Update – reports at Zap2it, Deadline.com, TV Guide, LocaleTV, Playbill, Buzzsugar, IMDB, Pittsburgh Post Gazette and Ausiello at EW, among others.
Tyler Shields gets his paws on Garret
Hit play below and head over to TylerShields.com for more pics.
New guest appearance: The Glades
TV news.
Garret will appear in an episode of The Glades one of these weeks (not sure which one yet, so stay tuned) as Eddie Strickland, a suspect in one of their cases. The show airs Sundays at 10/9c on A&E.
And his next appearance on Burn Notice is in episode 4×10, “Hard Time,” which will air on August 12 at the earliest (if there aren’t any breaks in the schedule).
Will post definite dates for both shows when I have them.
Fox released the fall schedule last week and Raising Hope will premiere on September 21, with Sue Sylvester & the Glee kids as the lead-in.
Tuesday, Sept. 21
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT GLEE (Season Premiere)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT RAISING HOPE (Series Premiere)
9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT RUNNING WILDE (Series Premiere)
And a few other updates, since I’ve been AWOL for the better part of the month:
Burning Bright will be released on DVD in region 2 on September 6. Before that, it will be shown at the 2010 FrightFest in London in August. In region 1, the film will be out on August 17.
Pretty Bird was released last month. I’d embed a clip, but the last WordPress upgrade ate my video plugin, so let’s do this the pedestrian way – to see the clip, right click here and save.
And a couple of articles I don’t think I’ve linked yet.
Examiner talked to Garret about Winter’s Bone the other week.
Josh Youngerman: Thanks so much for speaking with us at examiner.com. You play Sherrif Baskin in Winter’s Bone. What attracted you to the part and how did you get involved?
Garret Dillahunt: I love doing films based on books that I’ve read or authors that I really love. I had actually had Daniel Woodrell’s book in my little Kindle before the movie came out; it’s just my kind of thing. I had read the book before the movie came out. I am a big Cormac McCarthy fan obviously, and Ron Hansen, I thought I’d make that movie [The Assassination of Jesse James]. I thought I’d discovered that book. So it was right in keeping with that whole philosophy. I think I was doing [Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles] at the time and I didn’t have a lot of time. They called me about Sherriff Baskin and I was a little ambivalent about it because I wanted to play Teardrop but than I heard that John Hawkes was doing it and I wanted to work with him again. It was a good book, a good script, I wanted to work with John, and it fit into my schedule. Keep reading
And NWA Online had a report last month from the Little Rock Film Festival, where they screened the trailer for Arkansas Traveler. Snippet:
The script is what led Dillahunt and Bettis to work for free to make the teaser; Dillahunt says his only regret is that he’s not a big enough star to guarantee that the movie would be made.
“I would be very happy to play Wayland,” Dillahunt says, “but I don’t have to play Wayland. I could take another part, or it could work out that I might not be able to be in it at all.”
Similarly, while Bridgers plays Bones in the teaser footage, he says he might not appear in the finished film. He means to once again co-direct along with Hemschoot.
“What’s important is that the film gets made,” Dillahunt says.
And made the right way. Wide Awake producers Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker say no one involved in the film wants to take the idea to a Hollywood studio because of the inevitable compromises that would entail. The plan is to shoot the film as a guerrilla production, using a lot of authentic locations and employing serious Civil War reenactors as extras, in part, Seley says, because they can supply their own costumes and equipment.
And the footage shown at the LRFF looks great; shot on a lightweight Viper Filmstream ultra-high-def digital camera that allows shooting in low light situations (eliminating the need for expensive Hollywood-style lighting), it has a rich, detailed but somehow still antique feel.
Winter’s Bone opens tomorrow
Winter’s Bone will finally hit theatres tomorrow (Friday, June 11). It’s a limited release and chances are, you won’t get to see the film in the first week unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, so check your local listings.
Here is the theatrical release schedule (incomplete, but it’ll give you a rough idea), from Jabcatmovies.com:
Raising Hope – first review
The Futon Critic has the first review of Raising Hope and it’s a very positive one. They’re calling it “the best of its kind this season.” The article also includes a synopsis of the pilot and a bunch of interesting stuff about the show. You can read it here. (Links only policy.)
