Winter’s Bone has been nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the Best Foreign Film category. The winners will be announced on December 5.
Amigo was screened at AFI Fest 2010 the other day. Hollywood.com has a few pictures. Hollywood Reporter caught up with Garret at the event and got him to share a few details about the upcoming guest stars on Raising Hope, Amy Sedaris and Jason Lee. Hit the link for the spoilers. Here’s another interesting snippet:
Dillahunt has his eye on Dexter and Boardwalk Empire as TV shows he’d like to appear in, but there’s another he wants to try out.
“I’d say [Starz’s] Spartacus, but I don’t want to have to wear a loincloth. I’d be pale and hairy. Who knew Spartacus shaved down so much, right?” Dillahunt said with a laugh.
Was he surprised by Raising Hope’s full-season order?
“Not really. I think it’s a really good show. In this climate, there’s no telling what’s going to happen, but I thought it deserved it. I’m happy about it. And I don’t die in it,” Dillahunt joked. [THR]
Tyler Shields did another photoshoot with Garret, this time also with Izabella Miko (that’s Carrie from Deadwood) and Ali Cobrin. You can see the pictures here.
And another clip from Oliver Sherman showed up on YouTube. It’s a scene with Garret and Molly Parker. The film has been added to the Whistler Film Festival lineup and will be screened there on December 4 (see listing).
Oliver Sherman was screened in North Bay last weekend. CottageCountryNow.ca has a nice, long article about the film. And Ryan Redford won another prize for it (Grand Prix Focus for best Canadian feature) at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, which ended a couple of days ago.
Winter’s Bone is out on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow. It will also be available via Movies on Demand.
Here is another recent interview with Garret:
And he was on Fox All Access this weekend. I haven’t seen any longer clips yet, but this preview showed up on Fox.com:
And some Raising Hope updates. Pictures are from episode 1×10, “Meet the Grandparents,” which airs in late November. Don’t forget that two episodes air tomorrow at 9 and 9:30 pm, after Glee’s Rocky Horror fest.
Here is the list of all the episodes that will air this month and next (no new ep on Nov. 2):
Tuesday, October 26 – “Happy Halloween/Family Secrets” (One-Hour Episode)
When Sabrina’s (Shannon Woodward) boyfriend can’t make it to the deli guy’s Halloween party, Jimmy (Lucas Neff) offers to put on his costume and go in his place. Virginia (Martha Plimpton) takes Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman), who is dressed as a cat, trick-or-treating while Burt (Garret Dillahunt) plots ways to play tricks on Jimmy. Meanwhile, when a box containing videos of Hope’s mother arrives from prison, Jimmy must decide whether or not to let Hope see them. Virginia explains that children need to be protected from the truth, leading Jimmy to question what exactly his parents have been keeping from him.
Saturday, October 30 (9:30 pm) – “Happy Halloween”
When Sabrina’s boyfriend can’t make it to the deli guy’s Halloween party, Jimmy offers to put on his costume and go in his place. Virginia takes Maw Maw, who is dressed as a cat, trick-or-treating, while Burt plots ways to play tricks on Jimmy in an encore episode.
Tuesday, November 9 – “The Sniffles”
When Hope catches a cold, Virginia (Martha Plimpton) goes into panic mode because the family doesn’t have health insurance, so she locks Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman) in her bedroom to avoid getting sick. However, when Jimmy (Lucas Neff) realizes that he can’t afford to take Hope to a doctor without insurance, he figures out a way to secure a second job at the grocery store where Sabrina (Shannon Woodward) works.
November 16 – “Blue Dots”
When Hope starts imitating the dogs at her day care, Jimmy decides to enroll her in an expensive, high-end center. But the blemish on Burt’s (Garret Dillahunt) record needs to be expunged before Hope has any chance of getting accepted. However, when trying to turn Burt’s past around the rest of the family ends up in a bind of their own and must pull together to straighten things out with the law.
November 23 – “Meet the Grandparents”
Instead of sleeping in and ordering pizza, per his normal Thanksgiving custom, Jimmy invites Hope’s other grandparents, Dale (guest star Greg Germann) and Margine (guest star Valerie Mahaffey), to join the Chances for a more traditional holiday dinner. The Chances soon realize that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when Dale and Margine kidnap Hope, and it’s up to them to get her back. [Fox November sweeps]
Okay, three new(ish) interviews today, but first the press release for Raising Hope 1×09, “Blue Dots,” which airs in about a month (pics in the post are from that episode):
RAISING HOPE “Blue Dots” Season 1 Episode 9 – Jimmy (Lucas Neff), Virginia (Martha Plimpton) and Burt (Garret Dillahunt) learn how they can qualify for a scholarship so Hope can attend an expensive day care facility. The Chance family also visits a lawyer (guest star Lou Wagner) in the “Blue Dots” episode of RAISING HOPE airing Tuesday, Nov. 16 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
And there were a bunch of reports yesterday saying that Jason Lee from My Name Is Earl (and, yeah, a bunch of Kevin Smith movies) will make a guest appearance in an episode titled “Burt Rocks” and play “Smokey Daniels, a washed-up rock star who is hired as the lead act for ‘Grocery-Palooza,’ a rock concert at the grocery store where Sabrina works.”
Interviews after the jump.
There is one from an event that took place a couple of days ago (Environmental Media Association Celebrates 2010 EMA Awards) over at Getty Images.
This one showed up at PopStar.com yesterday (follow the link for the whole article) and it’s pretty great:
For those who have not seen [Raising Hope] yet, give us what you think is the number one reason to tune in.
I think in the span of twenty two minutes of our stories, you will actually make an audible laugh sound, and you will feel good at the end of the show. It feels like you’re dealing with real people, even though the situations are really exploded. I kind of feel like I know people like this. They’re just good people, trying to make a go of it, having a hard time but managing to keep a sense of humor and a sense of, believe it or not, family.
You almost hate to say it, but it’s sort of like the times. I was going to say this country, but I guess this whole world is going through this hard time right now. I think that’s another reason our show sort of makes people feel OK. It’s a real product of the times. (…)
Who are some of the writers you most admire, and have perhaps influenced you along the way?
Well there’s so many. I collect books, and I like all kinds of books. That’s probably not surprising. Obviously I love Cormac McCarthy. I’ve been reading him since college, and I’ve made a silent pact with myself to be in every movie made of his stuff. So far, I’m in two. Another one is Ron Hansen, who wrote Jesse James and some incredible other books that I think would be great movies as well.
We met a lot of cool dudes off of Deadwood, because they were all fans of that show. Tom Franklin is another great guy. I seem to be drawn to sort of Southern male authors, it seems. But I also love fantasy stuff. I’ve become friends with this guy, Joe Abercrombie who writes these really interesting, believable books. He’s British. I guess that would be in the fantasy genre. Sherman Alexie is great. He’s an American author.
I could go all day, and it would be boring.
And this one is about a month old, but I just caught it:
And here is a behind-the-scenes clip, probably from the same day:
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.
