A movie can have the best intentions in the world and still not quite hit the mark. Such is the case with Ron Vignone’s heartland-set drama about a woman attempting to pick up the pieces of her life after serious missteps relating to her previously undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Although Two Ways Home features some powerful performances and affecting moments, it never feels wholly organic. You too often feel the film straining for the sort of significance that earned it an endorsement by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Tanna Frederick plays the central role of Kathy, first seen robbing a ...
Tanna Frederick plays the central role of Kathy, first seen robbing a ...
- 12/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A movie can have the best intentions in the world and still not quite hit the mark. Such is the case with Ron Vignone’s heartland-set drama about a woman attempting to pick up the pieces of her life after serious missteps relating to her previously undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Although Two Ways Home features some powerful performances and affecting moments, it never feels wholly organic. You too often feel the film straining for the sort of significance that earned it an endorsement by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Tanna Frederick plays the central role of Kathy, first seen robbing a ...
Tanna Frederick plays the central role of Kathy, first seen robbing a ...
- 12/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You can film a profound documentary about a man finding what makes him happy and pursuing it towards greatness, but throwing in a few philosophical musings about similarities between sports and life and the perfection of both won’t fix the structural issues that keep it from pursuing any one point to a satisfying conclusion. The Back Nine sets out to follow Jon Fitzgerald’s journey from his midlife crisis onward as he decides to pursue his dream of going pro with his golf game, and he uses it as a platform to better himself in a number of ways while balancing it with his increasingly complicated family life. Through all of this he struggles to keep the film festival he helped to found (Slam Dance) on track and resolve his paternal issues (with both his biological father and step-father) – sound like a disconnected documentary? It should, because none of...
- 1/7/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Gasland" (2010)
Directed by Josh Fox
Released by New Video Group
"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work"
Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
Released by Mpi Home Video
"Exit Through the Gift Shop" (2010)
Directed by Banksy
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
If you haven't caught up on the year's best documentaries in time to fill out your top 10 list, three of them will be hitting DVD shelves this week, beginning with Josh Fox's Sundance award-winning "Gasland," an exploration of the "hydraulic fracturing" going on in own backyard, a type of drilling that has spread to 34 states in the U.S. and has left a host of reservoirs of toxic waste and frequent gas explosions along the way. For something less serious, but equally compelling, there is also Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," which follows the...
"Gasland" (2010)
Directed by Josh Fox
Released by New Video Group
"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work"
Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
Released by Mpi Home Video
"Exit Through the Gift Shop" (2010)
Directed by Banksy
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
If you haven't caught up on the year's best documentaries in time to fill out your top 10 list, three of them will be hitting DVD shelves this week, beginning with Josh Fox's Sundance award-winning "Gasland," an exploration of the "hydraulic fracturing" going on in own backyard, a type of drilling that has spread to 34 states in the U.S. and has left a host of reservoirs of toxic waste and frequent gas explosions along the way. For something less serious, but equally compelling, there is also Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," which follows the...
- 12/12/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Kat Kramer attends Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Noah Wyle attends Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Tanna Frederick and Ron Vignone attend Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Simon Jaglom and Henry Jaglom attend Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Dennis Christopher attends Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. 11/18/2010 - Leslie David Baker - "Queen of the Lot" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals - Directors Guild of America - Los Angeles, CA, USA © Tina Gill /...
- 11/22/2010
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
(Tanna Frederick in Henry Jaglom's "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," above, with David Garver.)
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
- 3/18/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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