Looks like Oliver Sherman will be released on DVD in Canada on May 24. A listing for the film appeared on Amazon Canada in the last week or so.
Still no word on theatrical release for the U.S. and the rest of the world, so if you’re impatient and live in region 1 or have a region-free/NTSC-friendly DVD player (or can play unfriendly DVDs on your VLC media player), you can pre-order the film on Amazon.ca.
Winter’s Bone won two Spirit Awards yesterday, for Best Supporting Male (John Hawkes) and Best Supporting Female (Dale Dickey). Black Swan and The King’s Speech won Best Feature and Best Foreign Film. The full list of winners is here.
Cinematical has posted all the Oscar nominated screenplays, including Winter’s Bone, here.
Zimbio has a couple of pics of Garret on the red carpet at the Spirit Awards and there are two short interviews with him on YouTube. He is about a minute into the first clip and a minute and a half into the second one.
Finally some news about Amigo. It has been picked up for distribution by Variance Films and will be released in the U.S. in August.
Press release from Variance Films:
Variance Films has acquired all US theatrical rights to AMIGO, the 17th feature film from acclaimed writer-director John Sayles (“Lone Star,” “Matewan,” “Honeydripper”), it was announced today by Variance’s founder, Dylan Marchetti. Variance Films will release the film, starring Chris Cooper, Ronnie Lazaro, Yul Vazquez, and Garret Dillahunt, in an innovative dual-release strategy in conjunction with Anarchist’s Convention on August 20, 2011.
Oliver Sherman finally hits theatres this weekend, at least in Canada. It opens in Toronto tomorrow, then in Vancouver on Feb. 18, and in Ottawa on Feb. 25 (says TwitchFilm). If you’re in Canada, you can check your local listings at Tribute.ca.
For a few hi-res production stills from the film like the one on the right, see: Oliver Sherman Image Gallery.
Eye Weekly talked to Garret about the film recently and they have an article up at http://www.eyeweekly.com/film/interview/article/110374
Here is a snippet or two:
It’s remarkable that Ryan Redford was able to get the cast that he did for a first-timer—how did you come to be involved with Oliver Sherman?
I think he was a big Deadwood fan, and he really wanted to work with us. It was Molly who first called me just saying, “Hey, there’s this kid up here—you should really take a look at this thing. And he wants it for us.” I was pleased and flattered. He came to New York, where I was doing a play at the time. I was between film jobs so it was perfect timing and I really liked him. When that kind of stuff happens, it’s exciting. This was one of those films you do that you always thought you would do when you aspired to be an actor. I hope that it finds a life outside of Canada because I think it’s one of the best films that I’ve ever been in, and that includes No Country and Assassination.
Are you pleased that the character of Sherman turned out to be so much more complex than the one-note villain he might’ve been?
Ryan really clung tenaciously to the story he wanted to tell with Oliver Sherman, and it was not a thriller by any means. A tragedy is what it is. It’s really about the war for Franklin’s soul, with his wife on one side and Sherman on the other. And it’s about these two soldiers and how they each came back and dealt with civilian life in completely different ways.
There is also an interesting interview with Ryan Redford at Canada.com.
And here is everything you need to know about the story and the production, from the press pack:
The Academy announced this year’s Oscar nominees today and Winter’s Bone nabbed four nominations: best picture, best adapted screenplay, best leading actress, and best supporting actor. Congratulations to all!
Best Motion Picture of the Year
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone