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On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Discovering the Power of a Dick… Ahead of Its Time
Non-monogamy became a common topic of conversation this spring as Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” made any mention of pro tennis the conversational equivalent of a three-way sex invite.
On dating apps, searches for “open relationships” continued to rise in popularity just as reality television embraced multi-partnered dynamics through shows like Peacock’s “Couple to Throuple.” Even in 2024, polyamory isn’t outright “mainstream” by any stretch of the imagination(s). But as far as contemporary relationships are concerned, the “three’s...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Discovering the Power of a Dick… Ahead of Its Time
Non-monogamy became a common topic of conversation this spring as Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” made any mention of pro tennis the conversational equivalent of a three-way sex invite.
On dating apps, searches for “open relationships” continued to rise in popularity just as reality television embraced multi-partnered dynamics through shows like Peacock’s “Couple to Throuple.” Even in 2024, polyamory isn’t outright “mainstream” by any stretch of the imagination(s). But as far as contemporary relationships are concerned, the “three’s...
- 5/11/2024
- by Alison Foreman and Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
As theaters await “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” (Paramount) and “No Time to Die” (United Artists) over the next two weeks, home viewing options are similarly on the rise. “Free Guy” (Disney), honoring a 45-day window, debuts on Premium VOD September 28. Friday sees two theatrical openers: “Addams Family 2” (United Artists) and “The Many Saints of Newark” (Warner Bros.), also available at home.
That left a more routine week on the charts we follow, although some recent releases got attention as they made their first appearances. But price reductions, led by “F9” (Universal), were also important.
The latest entry in the “Fast” series, which opened in domestic theaters in early June, and then at $19.99 on PVOD in late July, just had its price cut to $5.99 (consistent with the timing of past Universal moves). The just-released director’s cut remains at the higher price. The result is a return to #1 at...
That left a more routine week on the charts we follow, although some recent releases got attention as they made their first appearances. But price reductions, led by “F9” (Universal), were also important.
The latest entry in the “Fast” series, which opened in domestic theaters in early June, and then at $19.99 on PVOD in late July, just had its price cut to $5.99 (consistent with the timing of past Universal moves). The just-released director’s cut remains at the higher price. The result is a return to #1 at...
- 9/27/2021
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Every floorboard creak and unexpected noise will have you spooked long after you’ve finished watching Intrusion, a haunting tale of isolation and what director Adam Salky calls “the terrifying unknowability of people.” Logan Marshall-Green and Freida Pinto star as Henry, a stylish architect, and Meera, a therapist and breast cancer survivor, who relocate from Boston to a palatial modern home Henry designed and helped build in a small New Mexico town. (Credit: Ursula Coyote/Netflix) “They want to reconnect and start a new chapter,” explains Salky. But before the couple can even uncork the wine for their housewarming party, their home is broken into twice in as many days. “Meera starts to question why they moved to this place and who the people around her really are,” he adds. Gripped by the fear that those behind the home invasion, like her cancer, could come back at any time, Meera grows paranoid.
- 9/22/2021
- TV Insider
There’s an incredibly interesting story lurking somewhere beneath “Intrusion,” about the way mistrust and paranoia can slowly chip away at a marriage. The film, however, eschews this tale in favor of something a little more rote, and a little bit trashier. It’s a fun watch, to be sure; as a home invasion movie of sorts, it has a number of thrilling moments, and lead actors . However, the final product also exudes trepidation about its most intriguing aesthetic and narrative elements — ideas which may have only enhanced its genre sensibilities, had the filmmakers further pursued them.
Married couple Meera (Pinto) and Henry (Marshall-Green), a psychiatrist and an architect, met in college in Boston, but their fancy new duplex sits in rural New Mexico. Per the film’s dialogue, their big move was owed at least in part to the wide-open landscape, which director Adam Salky and cinematographer Eric Lin present in picturesque fashion,...
Married couple Meera (Pinto) and Henry (Marshall-Green), a psychiatrist and an architect, met in college in Boston, but their fancy new duplex sits in rural New Mexico. Per the film’s dialogue, their big move was owed at least in part to the wide-open landscape, which director Adam Salky and cinematographer Eric Lin present in picturesque fashion,...
- 9/22/2021
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
If we have learned anything from movies of recent years, it is that moving into one’s dream house will surely lead to terror and death. That improbable yet familiar arc is traced again in “Intrusion,” wherein the domesticity under threat belongs to a wide-eyed Freida Pinto. Director Adam Salky and writer Christopher Sparling’s thriller will provide uninspired if serviceable fodder for subscribers when it launches on that platform Sept. 22.
The Parsons have just moved from Boston into a luxe, secluded New Mexico home that Henry (Logan Marshall-Green) designed, in part to provide him and Meera (Pinto) a fresh start after her difficult recovery from breast cancer. After dining out one night, they return to discover the place has been ransacked, though the intruders took nothing apart from a laptop and two cellphones. An alarm system is hastily installed — yet there’s another break-in, this one while the couple are asleep in bed.
The Parsons have just moved from Boston into a luxe, secluded New Mexico home that Henry (Logan Marshall-Green) designed, in part to provide him and Meera (Pinto) a fresh start after her difficult recovery from breast cancer. After dining out one night, they return to discover the place has been ransacked, though the intruders took nothing apart from a laptop and two cellphones. An alarm system is hastily installed — yet there’s another break-in, this one while the couple are asleep in bed.
- 9/22/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix's "Intrusion" is a thriller that hits close to home. Meera (Freida Pinto) is caught up in dangerous intrigue after an unexpected incident -- someone breaking into her and her husband's (Logan Marshall-Green) home -- causes her to uncover things she never expected. As the film's trailer suggests, Meera unearths horrific secrets when she digs into why people broke into her beautiful, modern house in the New Mexico mountains. As events unfold, you're right there with her for every twist and turn.
/Film talked with director Adam Salky about those twists and turns, including how shooting during the pandemic created major changes that ended...
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/Film talked with director Adam Salky about those twists and turns, including how shooting during the pandemic created major changes that ended...
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- 9/21/2021
- by Vanessa Armstrong
- Slash Film
Netflix is coming out with a slew of original features, one of which is "Intrusion," a thriller that focuses on a couple who live in a beautiful, modern house. Things don't stay so tranquil, of course — someone breaks into their home and the wife (Freida Pinto) starts trying to understand why and uncovers more than she bargained for.
To get us excited for the film, which drops on Netflix on September 22, Netflix released a trailer that introduces us to the happy(?) couple and hints at the intrigue and danger that Pinto's character uncovers.
"Intrusion" is directed by Adam Salky and was shot...
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To get us excited for the film, which drops on Netflix on September 22, Netflix released a trailer that introduces us to the happy(?) couple and hints at the intrigue and danger that Pinto's character uncovers.
"Intrusion" is directed by Adam Salky and was shot...
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- 8/26/2021
- by Vanessa Armstrong
- Slash Film
"Everyone is keeping secrets..." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for another intriguing home invasion suspense thriller called Intrusion, which looks a lot like so many of these other home invasion thrillers over the last few years. When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem. Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green star as the husband and wife who move into a very slick modern home built out in the desert. The film's cast also includes Robert John Burke, Sarah Minnich, Mark Sivertsen, and Hayes Hargrove. This looks like it might have some good twists in the second half, but the rest of it just seems so plain and obvious and derivative. These are all ending up the same - no one is who they seem. Check it out. Here's the...
- 8/26/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
For a festival that promotes new voices, how much fun would it be to see this debut break into the line-up? Proving that there is no age limit to begin a career behind the camera, author Amy Koppelman adapts from her own novel for what feels like a mental health companion piece to I Smile Back. Her debut screenplay was brought to screen by helmer Adam Salky and premiered at Sundance in 2015 and her directorial debut A Mouthful of Air enlists Britt Robertson, Amy Irving, Finn Wittrock, Jennifer Carpenter, Sundance vet Paul Giamatti and soon to be seen in David Fincher’s Mank Amanda Seyfried in the film’s lead role.…...
- 11/13/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green are set to star in a new Netflix thriller titled “Intrusion,” because there’s at least someone who is still announcing and releasing movies these days.
Read More: Netflix Greenlights ‘Monster’ Limited Series From Ryan Murphy About Jeffrey Dahmer
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, announcing that Netflix will release “Intrusion” from a script by Chris Sparling who wrote the thriller “Buried” and the upcoming disaster movie “Greenland.” Adam Salky will direct the film, after previously directing dramas like “I Smile Back” and “Dare.” Sparling will produce the film along with Kyle Benn via Creator Media Entertainment, Josh Weinstock for Sea Smoke Entertainment, Alexandra Milchan for Emjag Productions, Matthew Myers for Outlaw Productions and Russell Hollander.
Continue reading Freida Pinto And Logan Marshall-Green Set To Star In Netflix Home-Invasion Thriller ‘Intrusion’ at The Playlist.
Read More: Netflix Greenlights ‘Monster’ Limited Series From Ryan Murphy About Jeffrey Dahmer
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, announcing that Netflix will release “Intrusion” from a script by Chris Sparling who wrote the thriller “Buried” and the upcoming disaster movie “Greenland.” Adam Salky will direct the film, after previously directing dramas like “I Smile Back” and “Dare.” Sparling will produce the film along with Kyle Benn via Creator Media Entertainment, Josh Weinstock for Sea Smoke Entertainment, Alexandra Milchan for Emjag Productions, Matthew Myers for Outlaw Productions and Russell Hollander.
Continue reading Freida Pinto And Logan Marshall-Green Set To Star In Netflix Home-Invasion Thriller ‘Intrusion’ at The Playlist.
- 10/3/2020
- by Rafael Motamayor
- The Playlist
Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green are set to star in new Netflix thriller Intrusion. Pinto and Marshall-Green play a husband and wife who move to a small town and suffer a home invasion that leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.
Adam Salky, the helmer behind the drama I Smile Back, will direct from a script by Chris Sparling.
Sparling will produce, along with Kyle Benn via Creator Media Entertainment, Josh Weinstock for Sea Smoke Entertainment, Alexandra Milchan for Emjag Productions, Matthew Myers for Outlaw Productions and Russell Hollander.
Pinto, repped by CAA, Principal and Cohen ...
Adam Salky, the helmer behind the drama I Smile Back, will direct from a script by Chris Sparling.
Sparling will produce, along with Kyle Benn via Creator Media Entertainment, Josh Weinstock for Sea Smoke Entertainment, Alexandra Milchan for Emjag Productions, Matthew Myers for Outlaw Productions and Russell Hollander.
Pinto, repped by CAA, Principal and Cohen ...
- 10/2/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green are set to star in new Netflix thriller Intrusion. Pinto and Marshall-Green play a husband and wife who move to a small town and suffer a home invasion that leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.
Adam Salky, the helmer behind the drama I Smile Back, will direct from a script by Chris Sparling.
Sparling will produce, along with Kyle Benn via Creator Media Entertainment, Josh Weinstock for Sea Smoke Entertainment, Alexandra Milchan for Emjag Productions, Matthew Myers for Outlaw Productions and Russell Hollander.
Pinto, repped by CAA, Principal and Cohen ...
Adam Salky, the helmer behind the drama I Smile Back, will direct from a script by Chris Sparling.
Sparling will produce, along with Kyle Benn via Creator Media Entertainment, Josh Weinstock for Sea Smoke Entertainment, Alexandra Milchan for Emjag Productions, Matthew Myers for Outlaw Productions and Russell Hollander.
Pinto, repped by CAA, Principal and Cohen ...
- 10/2/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here is a wrap up of all the news you need to know from Wednesday, August 14, 2019.
Katrina Law is making her way to Hawaii Five-0.
The Arrow veteran has copped a series regular role on the tenth season of the veteran CBS drama series.
The actress is on board as Quinn Liu, a former Staff Sergeant with Army Cid who was demoted for insubordination.
Quinn comes into contact with the team during a case involving veterans, and despite a troubling beginning, the team quickly recognizes her as an asset.
Related: Training Day Canceled at CBS
“We are thrilled to have Katrina join the [cast],” says showrunner Peter M. Lenkov of the casting.
“She dazzles as Quinn, the team’s newest recruit, and viewers are going to love seeing how she first encounters McGarrett and Danny (played by Scott Caan). If you know the show well, you’ll be feeling some déjà vu.
Katrina Law is making her way to Hawaii Five-0.
The Arrow veteran has copped a series regular role on the tenth season of the veteran CBS drama series.
The actress is on board as Quinn Liu, a former Staff Sergeant with Army Cid who was demoted for insubordination.
Quinn comes into contact with the team during a case involving veterans, and despite a troubling beginning, the team quickly recognizes her as an asset.
Related: Training Day Canceled at CBS
“We are thrilled to have Katrina join the [cast],” says showrunner Peter M. Lenkov of the casting.
“She dazzles as Quinn, the team’s newest recruit, and viewers are going to love seeing how she first encounters McGarrett and Danny (played by Scott Caan). If you know the show well, you’ll be feeling some déjà vu.
- 8/14/2019
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Penelope Ann Miller and Mia Kirshner have been cast in Lifetime’s upcoming film based on the college admissions scandal that saw dozens of wealthy families indicted on fraud charges earlier this year.
Tentatively titled “College Admissions Scandal,” the two-hour film will center on two wealthy mothers who encounter college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer and willingly partake in getting their kids into top-tier colleges.
Michael Shanks will play Singer in the film.
In the film, Miller and Kirshner star as two wealthy mothers, Caroline (Miller), a sought after interior designer and Bethany (Kirshner), an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college. When charismatic college admissions consultant Rick Singer (Shanks) offers a side door into the prestigious institutions of their dreams,...
Tentatively titled “College Admissions Scandal,” the two-hour film will center on two wealthy mothers who encounter college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer and willingly partake in getting their kids into top-tier colleges.
Michael Shanks will play Singer in the film.
In the film, Miller and Kirshner star as two wealthy mothers, Caroline (Miller), a sought after interior designer and Bethany (Kirshner), an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college. When charismatic college admissions consultant Rick Singer (Shanks) offers a side door into the prestigious institutions of their dreams,...
- 8/12/2019
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Penelope Ann Miller and Mia Kirshner are set as the leads in Lifetime’s upcoming movie The College Admissions Scandal following the story of over 50 wealthy and elite families that tried to cheat the college admissions system. Additionally, Canadian actor Michael Shanks portrays college admissions consultant Rick Singer. Production is set to begin this month.
The College Admissions Scandal will debut this fall as part of Lifetime’s Ripped From the Headlines movie slate, which includes Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter, Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story and Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story.
The College Admissions Scandal follows two wealthy mothers, Caroline (Miller), a sought after interior designer and Bethany (Kirshner), an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
The College Admissions Scandal will debut this fall as part of Lifetime’s Ripped From the Headlines movie slate, which includes Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter, Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story and Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story.
The College Admissions Scandal follows two wealthy mothers, Caroline (Miller), a sought after interior designer and Bethany (Kirshner), an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
- 8/12/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Yep, you read that headline correctly. Art is imitating life in Lifetime's upcoming film based on the college admissions scandal involving Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. The network announced on Tuesday that the two-hour, made-for-tv movie is inspired by "privileged and elite individuals from across the country [who] were exposed for criminally conspiring to influence the undergraduate admissions decisions at some of America's top schools."
The film - which has been fast tracked to premiere in Fall 2019 - is produced by Varsity Films Inc. and will be executive produced by Gail Katz and Howard Braunstein. While the project is currently casting, Lifetime has confirmed that Adam Salky will direct from a script by Stephen Tolkin.
"College Admissions Scandal (working title) will follow two wealthy mothers who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college," the film's description reads. "When charismatic college admissions...
The film - which has been fast tracked to premiere in Fall 2019 - is produced by Varsity Films Inc. and will be executive produced by Gail Katz and Howard Braunstein. While the project is currently casting, Lifetime has confirmed that Adam Salky will direct from a script by Stephen Tolkin.
"College Admissions Scandal (working title) will follow two wealthy mothers who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college," the film's description reads. "When charismatic college admissions...
- 7/23/2019
- by Chanel Vargas
- Popsugar.com
There’s a new Lori Loughlin movie coming to Lifetime. Sort of. The network has greenlit a two-hour project, tentatively titled College Admissions Scandal, which will chronicle the true-life story of how “over 50 privileged and elite individuals from across the country were exposed for criminally conspiring to influence the undergraduate admissions decisions at some of America’s top schools.”
The scandal, which first made headlines in March, involved multiple celebrity parents, including Loughlin (Fuller House) and Felicity Huffman (American Crime), though neither are mentioned directly in Lifetime’s official synopsis:
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The scandal, which first made headlines in March, involved multiple celebrity parents, including Loughlin (Fuller House) and Felicity Huffman (American Crime), though neither are mentioned directly in Lifetime’s official synopsis:
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- 7/23/2019
- TVLine.com
Lifetime is doubling down on its ‘Surviving’ strand with a new series based on the case of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is charged with multiple counts including sex trafficking of minors, and a follow up on R Kelly.
The A+E Networks broadcaster has commissioned Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and Surviving R Kelly: The Aftermath.
The former will bring to life the numerous crimes of Epstein, who is currently in jail awaiting trial for a range of allegations of sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy for abusing young girls between 2002 and 2005 in New York and Florida. It is in development on Surviving Jeffrey Epstein with Robert Friedman’s Bungalow Media + Entertainment (Panama Papers) in association with award-winning filmmakers Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Preppy Murder). NY Times journalist Christopher Mason is also attached to the project.
Surviving R Kelly: The Aftermath is the follow-up to Surviving R Kelly, which...
The A+E Networks broadcaster has commissioned Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and Surviving R Kelly: The Aftermath.
The former will bring to life the numerous crimes of Epstein, who is currently in jail awaiting trial for a range of allegations of sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy for abusing young girls between 2002 and 2005 in New York and Florida. It is in development on Surviving Jeffrey Epstein with Robert Friedman’s Bungalow Media + Entertainment (Panama Papers) in association with award-winning filmmakers Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Preppy Murder). NY Times journalist Christopher Mason is also attached to the project.
Surviving R Kelly: The Aftermath is the follow-up to Surviving R Kelly, which...
- 7/23/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Lifetime is set to begin production on a movie based on the college admissions scandal that saw dozens of wealthy families indicted on fraud charges earlier this year, the network announced on Tuesday.
Tentatively titled “College Admissions Scandal,” the two-hour film will center on two wealthy mothers who encounter the college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer and willingly partake in getting their kids into top-tier colleges.
The project is currently casting, with production set to begin next month. Varsity Films Inc. will produce for Lifetime, with Gail Katz and Howard Braunstein serving as executive producers. Adam Salky will direct from a script by Stephen Tolkin.
Also Read: 'The People v Oj' Alum Dv DeVincentis to Write College Admissions Scandal Series for Annapurna
Lifetime’s movie is the second based on the scandal to go into development within just a few months. Earlier this year, Annapurna Television enlisted “American Crime Story...
Tentatively titled “College Admissions Scandal,” the two-hour film will center on two wealthy mothers who encounter the college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer and willingly partake in getting their kids into top-tier colleges.
The project is currently casting, with production set to begin next month. Varsity Films Inc. will produce for Lifetime, with Gail Katz and Howard Braunstein serving as executive producers. Adam Salky will direct from a script by Stephen Tolkin.
Also Read: 'The People v Oj' Alum Dv DeVincentis to Write College Admissions Scandal Series for Annapurna
Lifetime’s movie is the second based on the scandal to go into development within just a few months. Earlier this year, Annapurna Television enlisted “American Crime Story...
- 7/23/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Lifetime may win the race to put the college admissions scandal on TV. The cable network, famous for its quick turnarounds on dramatizations, is working on an original movie based on the ordeal that has impacted a number of Hollywood personalities.
Announcing the project on Tuesday morning during its semi-annual meeting with the Television Critics Association, A+E Networks president Rob Sharenow said the movie is set to premiere this fall.
There’s no casting as of yet, but the film is being executive produced by Gail Katz and Howard Braunstein. Adam Salky will direct, with Stephen Tolkin penning the script....
Announcing the project on Tuesday morning during its semi-annual meeting with the Television Critics Association, A+E Networks president Rob Sharenow said the movie is set to premiere this fall.
There’s no casting as of yet, but the film is being executive produced by Gail Katz and Howard Braunstein. Adam Salky will direct, with Stephen Tolkin penning the script....
- 7/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Skylar Gaertner, who plays Jonah Byrde opposite Jason Bateman and Laura Linney on Ozark and young Matt Murdoch on Marvel’s Daredevil, has signed with ICM Partners.
His TV credits also include roles on FX’s recently concluded The Americans and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. On the film side, he most recently appeared in The Ticket starring Dan Stevens and Adam Salky’s I Smile Back.
He continues to be repped by Ryan LeVine at Jackoway Austen.
His TV credits also include roles on FX’s recently concluded The Americans and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. On the film side, he most recently appeared in The Ticket starring Dan Stevens and Adam Salky’s I Smile Back.
He continues to be repped by Ryan LeVine at Jackoway Austen.
- 11/20/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s the “A Ghost Story” scene critics can’t stop talking about. Still grieving from the loss of her husband, the widow M returns home and consumes an entire vegan chocolate pie in one sitting. David Lowery captures the moment in a nearly four-minute long take, but the stillness of the camera makes it feel like an eternity. It’s up to Rooney Mara to fill the frame with a sense of hopelessness that anyone who’s been through the grieving process can relate to. She does so with the commitment and the sensitive gusto that has defined a majority of her 12 years as an actress.
Read More: Making ‘A Ghost Story’: How David Lowery Exorcised His Demons To Make The Best Film Of Sundance 2017
Mara first began acting as an extra in movies starring her sister, Kate, before landing television supporting roles on shows like “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,...
Read More: Making ‘A Ghost Story’: How David Lowery Exorcised His Demons To Make The Best Film Of Sundance 2017
Mara first began acting as an extra in movies starring her sister, Kate, before landing television supporting roles on shows like “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,...
- 7/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Istanbul event will host a total of 23 gala screenings, including the latest films from Charlie Kaufman and Jean-Marc Vallee, as well as a David Bowie tribute programme.Scroll down for the full line-up
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival has revealed its programme for the 2016 edition (February 18-28).
Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, which premiered at Telluride last year, and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, will open and close the festival respectively.
!f Istanbul - in its 15th edition - will host screenings, competitions and events dedicated to bringing the best of independent film to the Turkish city.
Other gala presentations will include Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Gaspar Noé’s Love 3D, Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s BAFTA-nominated The Assassin.
In memory of the late musician David Bowie, the festival will show remastered versions of his films The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Hunger...
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival has revealed its programme for the 2016 edition (February 18-28).
Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, which premiered at Telluride last year, and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, will open and close the festival respectively.
!f Istanbul - in its 15th edition - will host screenings, competitions and events dedicated to bringing the best of independent film to the Turkish city.
Other gala presentations will include Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Gaspar Noé’s Love 3D, Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s BAFTA-nominated The Assassin.
In memory of the late musician David Bowie, the festival will show remastered versions of his films The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Hunger...
- 1/29/2016
- ScreenDaily
In her comedy, there are few places Sarah Silverman fears to go, and the same seems to be true of her dramatic choices. "It was so clear from early on in the shoot that Sarah was giving everything to it and she was really just inspiring everyone so much," I Smile Back director Adam Salky told me last month onstage at The Contenders Presented By Deadline. "And was just so fearless in the way she attacked the role." In the film based on Amy Koppelman's 2008 novel, the…...
- 12/7/2015
- Deadline
Shock discusses the hidden horror in the new Sarah Silverman addiction drama I Smile Back. As we started discussing explicitly in Lee Gambin’s new “Secretly Scary” column, horror in cinema doesn’t always hide behind phantasmagorical images of monsters, masked madmen or spectral visitors. These are but hooks that the genre uses to sugar coat the…
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- 12/7/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
“I have a new love and respect for drama,” Sarah Silverman tells me as we sit down to record the ninth episode of the ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast. The 44-year-old, who is famous for her work as a no-holds-barred comedienne, was reflecting on her experience making Adam Salky‘s dark drama I Smile Back, a $400,000 indie shot in just 20 days, in which she plays a suburban housewife — “a woman who on paper has a perfect life,” as Silverman puts it — who’s secretly waging a battle with depression and addiction.
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The Hollywood Reporter
“I have a new love and respect for drama,” Sarah Silverman tells me as we sit down to record the ninth episode of the ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast. The 44-year-old, who is famous for her work as a no-holds-barred comedienne, was reflecting on her experience making Adam Salky‘s dark drama I Smile Back, a $400,000 indie shot in just 20 days, in which she plays a suburban housewife — “a woman who on paper has a perfect life,” as Silverman puts it — who’s secretly waging a battle with depression and addiction.
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- 11/7/2015
- by Patrick Shanley
- Scott Feinberg
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
An ecstatically original work of film-history-philosophy with a digital-cinema palette of acutely crafted compositions. Amour Fou seamlessly blends together the paintings of Vermeer, the acting of Bresson, and the psychological undercurrents of a Dostoevsky novel. It is an intensely thrilling and often slyly comic work that manages to combine a passionately dispassionate love story of the highest order with a larger socio-historical...
Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
An ecstatically original work of film-history-philosophy with a digital-cinema palette of acutely crafted compositions. Amour Fou seamlessly blends together the paintings of Vermeer, the acting of Bresson, and the psychological undercurrents of a Dostoevsky novel. It is an intensely thrilling and often slyly comic work that manages to combine a passionately dispassionate love story of the highest order with a larger socio-historical...
- 11/6/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
I recently caught up with director Adam Salky to talk about his second feature film, I Smile Back starring Sarah Silverman. The film tackles the issue of mental illness and...
- 11/5/2015
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
"I have a new love and respect for drama," Sarah Silverman tells me as we sit down to record the ninth episode of the 'Awards Chatter' podcast. The 44-year-old, who is famous for her work as a no-holds-barred comedienne, was reflecting on her experience making Adam Salky's dark drama I Smile Back, a $400,000 indie shot in just 20 days, in which she plays a suburban housewife — "a woman who on paper has a perfect life," as Silverman puts it — who's secretly waging a battle with depression and addiction. The performance
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- 11/3/2015
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Addiction narratives are more alike than unalike, and the only distinctive aspect of I Smile Back is that its depressed addict, Laney Brooks, is played by the raunchy comedian Sarah Silverman in her first major dramatic role. She’s very good. Laney is a rich girl who was abandoned as a child by her dad, and though she’s married with two kids to a doting insurance executive (Josh Charles), she’s still acting out like crazy—boozing, snorting cocaine, picking up strange and not-strange men, among them the husband of a close friend. Her masochism has an aura of entitlement. She wants to be cruisin’ for a bruisin’.Scripted by Paige Dylan and Amy Koppelman, the movie improves on Koppelman’s ungainly novel but is generally dreary and light on insight. Director Adam Salky steers clear of the usual addiction-movie clichés, but he doesn’t have anything to replace them with,...
- 10/24/2015
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
If you’re used to laughing when Sarah Silverman opens her mouth, the new movie “I Smile Back” could put an end to that right away. In the dark drama from director Adam Salky opening in limited release on Friday, Silverman plays a depressed, self-destructive young mother who torpedoes her comfortable suburban life with drugs and random sex. Fans of the comedian and actress know she can be raunchy, but this raunch is born out of self-loathing, and it’s not played for laughs; it’s unsettling and often hard to watch. But it’s also a good role for a comedian,...
- 10/23/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Read More: Sarah Silverman Shocks Sundance With Her Dramatic Performance in 'I Smile Back' Sarah Silverman has been the main focus of discussions around Adam Salky's "I Smile Back" since its premiere at Sundance earlier this year. Silverman's riveting dramatic performance as Laney shocked audiences familiar with the actress's raunchy comedic persona, as she tackles the role of a suburban wife struggling with an inner darkness that leads her to sex, drugs and alcohol. Recently, Silverman has spoken candidly about her own battle with depression, and the film has been praised for shining a light on mental illness and addiction. The actress brings something personal to the role as a character whose outward togetherness as a productive suburban mother belies a secret world of pain and compulsion. In an exclusive clip, Laney is freshly out of rehab and already trying to get a fix. Donny (Thomas Sadoski) refuses to give her anything,...
- 10/23/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
Snapshots into a life unraveling, I Smile Back is an unpleasant, earnest look at the struggles of coping with bipolar disorder and addiction. New Jersey housewife and mother of two children, Laney Brooks is prone to mistakes. Chief among them her decision to abruptly stop taking the lithium tablets that treat her mental disorder. She pounds alcohol at dinner, snorts cocaine in the bathroom, and cheats on her husband with their friend, but even when she’s home there’s a cavernous distance between the married couple.
This, the second feature film from Dare director Adam Salky, is the type of intimate suburban drama that’s a regular feature on film festival circuits. It feels recognizable if not familiar up until its depressing final few scenes. The biggest difference being that I Smile Back unexpectedly stars an unrelentingly vulnerable Sarah Silverman.
Silverman’s most notable work has been as a potty-mouthed,...
This, the second feature film from Dare director Adam Salky, is the type of intimate suburban drama that’s a regular feature on film festival circuits. It feels recognizable if not familiar up until its depressing final few scenes. The biggest difference being that I Smile Back unexpectedly stars an unrelentingly vulnerable Sarah Silverman.
Silverman’s most notable work has been as a potty-mouthed,...
- 10/23/2015
- by Zachary Shevich
- We Got This Covered
Sarah Silverman drew all eyes in a sexy low-cut dress at the La premiere of I Smile Back on Wednesday. The comedian, who was joined by the film's director, Adam Salky, and her costars Shayne Coleman and Mia Barron, turned heads on the red carpet while striking poses for the cameras. In the movie, which is based on a novel from author Amy Koppelman, Sarah takes on her first dramatic role as a married mother who's hit rock bottom due to drug and alcohol abuse. Read on for more of Sarah's sizzling night out, then check out the trailer for I Smile Back, which hits theaters on Oct. 23.
- 10/22/2015
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
As part of our "How I Shot That" series, Indiewire asked cinematographer Eric Lin about shooting Adam Salky's "I Smile Back," which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and opens in select theaters on October 23 and On Demand on November 6. Based on Amy Koppelman's 2008 novel, the film stars Sarah Silverman as a suburban wife and mother who struggles with depression and addiction. What camera and lens did you use? Arri Alexa with Cooke S2/S3 Lenses How do you decide what camera to use? I'm very cautious about the tools I use. If someone is asking which camera we should shoot on and I'm offered up choices, it's always because it's either going to fit the aesthetic or the style of production. There's always something about the medium that makes sense for the project. If I know I'm going to be in very small quarters or there are...
- 10/21/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Full line-up of the Stockholm film festival includes feature and documentary competition line-ups.Scroll down for full line-up
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 11-22) has unveiled the line-up for its 26th edition, comprising more than 190 films from over 70 countries.
The Stockholm Xxvi Competition includes Marielle Heller’s Us title The Diary of a Teenage Girl and László Nemes’ Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
It marks the first time Stockholm has a greater number of women than men competing for the Bronze Horse – the festival’s top prize.
The documentary competition includes Amy Berg’s An Open Secret, an investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry; and Cosima Spender’s Palio, centred on the annual horse race in Siena, Italy.
Announcing the programme, festival director Git Scheynius also revealed that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will visit Stockholm for the first time as chairman of the jury for the first Stockholm Impact Award, which...
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 11-22) has unveiled the line-up for its 26th edition, comprising more than 190 films from over 70 countries.
The Stockholm Xxvi Competition includes Marielle Heller’s Us title The Diary of a Teenage Girl and László Nemes’ Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
It marks the first time Stockholm has a greater number of women than men competing for the Bronze Horse – the festival’s top prize.
The documentary competition includes Amy Berg’s An Open Secret, an investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry; and Cosima Spender’s Palio, centred on the annual horse race in Siena, Italy.
Announcing the programme, festival director Git Scheynius also revealed that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will visit Stockholm for the first time as chairman of the jury for the first Stockholm Impact Award, which...
- 10/20/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
By Patrick Shanley
Managing Editor
Sarah Silverman, primarily known for her work in comedy, is one of the latest actors to branch out from lighter fare into the world of drama. This year’s I Smile Back, director Adam Salky‘s story of a troubled woman’s aim at redemption, was nominated for the Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and showcases star Silverman in a much different light than audiences are used to seeing her.
Silverman has ventured into dramatic territory before, with 2011’s Take This Waltz from director Sarah Polley, but was relegated to a supporting role beside stars Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen. With I Smile Back, Silverman takes on the heavy lifting of a serious starring role.
The history of comedic talent spreading their dramatic wings is full of big names and, in certain cases, has led to major Oscar recognition.
At last year’s Academy Awards,...
Managing Editor
Sarah Silverman, primarily known for her work in comedy, is one of the latest actors to branch out from lighter fare into the world of drama. This year’s I Smile Back, director Adam Salky‘s story of a troubled woman’s aim at redemption, was nominated for the Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and showcases star Silverman in a much different light than audiences are used to seeing her.
Silverman has ventured into dramatic territory before, with 2011’s Take This Waltz from director Sarah Polley, but was relegated to a supporting role beside stars Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen. With I Smile Back, Silverman takes on the heavy lifting of a serious starring role.
The history of comedic talent spreading their dramatic wings is full of big names and, in certain cases, has led to major Oscar recognition.
At last year’s Academy Awards,...
- 10/8/2015
- by Patrick Shanley
- Scott Feinberg
Premiering this Wednesday in Toronto, "I Smile Back" gathered early steam at Sundance for Sarah Silverman's tangy turn as a housewife over the edge. Director Adam Salky's film, co-written by the source material's novelist Amy Koppelman, pushes the comic actress to the brink as suburban mom Laney, who's barely able to maintain a facade of normalcy. She's a manic depressive who, after taking the kids to school or putting them to bed, plunges into an abyss of drug and sex addiction unknown to her husband (Josh Charles). And then she falls down one more time. This upsetting movie, even when careening into melodrama, is a real showcase for Silverman, who embodies a frittered woman willingly complicit in her own downfall, and who wants redemption — but not quite yet. Broad Green Pictures, which is supporting an awards campaign for Silverman, opens "I Smile Back" October 23. Read More: Sarah Silverman...
- 9/12/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
In I Smile Back, stand-up turned dramatic actress Sarah Silverman will shift gears from making you laugh to making you cringe. It's a different kind of gut-check, courtesy of Adam Salky's film, which centers on Silverman as Laney, a suburban housewife with a seemingly picture-perfect external life. According to the film's synopsis and trailer (via Indiewire), however, Laney's internal life clashes with a dark depression that leads her to radiating pits of decadence and despair. The movie, which also stars Josh Charles, hits Tiff on Saturday and bows domestically on October 23. Get your Sarah Silverman in I Smile Back costumes ready.
- 9/11/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Depression is a raw and complex issue that plagues millions of people across the world every day; an invisible demon perched atop shoulders that manages gnaws at happiness from the inside out. It’s a crippling condition, and one which will underpin Adam Salky’s low-key drama, I Smile Back.
Due to screen at Tiff later this week, Broad Green Pictures has revealed a new, emotional trailer for the film, showcasing an emphatic performance by Sarah Silverman. The comedian-cum-actress is set to play Laney, a woman who seemingly has everything – a loving family, suburban home, white picket fence – but begins to slide toward a downward spiral that involves alcoholism, adultery and drug abuse. Completely disillusioned with life itself, the unsettling footage has Laney travel through her day in a daze, only responding to stimulus that involves reckless, mentally damaging behaviour.
It’s a scenery-chewing turn that has caught the attention of critics,...
Due to screen at Tiff later this week, Broad Green Pictures has revealed a new, emotional trailer for the film, showcasing an emphatic performance by Sarah Silverman. The comedian-cum-actress is set to play Laney, a woman who seemingly has everything – a loving family, suburban home, white picket fence – but begins to slide toward a downward spiral that involves alcoholism, adultery and drug abuse. Completely disillusioned with life itself, the unsettling footage has Laney travel through her day in a daze, only responding to stimulus that involves reckless, mentally damaging behaviour.
It’s a scenery-chewing turn that has caught the attention of critics,...
- 9/11/2015
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
"Don't you want to be happy?" Broad Green Pictures has debuted the first official trailer for I Smile Back, a very emotional drug drama starring Sarah Silverman. This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews, as it's about the struggles of an addicted mother and how much she tries to be clean, but can't escape the depression. The cast includes Josh Charles, Thomas Sadoski, Mia Barron and Skylar Gaertner. It's a brutal film because as much as you hope, and really want, her to get better, she just keeps abusing herself and it's so painful to watch, but so potent in telling the story of this kind of person (who still deserves to be loved). This is also one of Sarah Silverman's best performances to date. Take a look below. Here's the first official trailer for Adam Salky's I Smile Back, direct from YouTube: Laney is an attractive,...
- 9/11/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The first trailer for I Smile Back, directed by Adam Salky and starring Sarah Silverman has arrived. Silverman stars as Laney; she has two loving children, a caring husband, and a nice home. Below her pristine exterior, lies depression and compulsive behavior, which have the potential to destroy everything she holds dear. It’s not until she faces true danger that she’s forced to confront the root of all her issues.
Silverman, who’s known for her comedic skills of course, is receiving glowing reviews for her performance in the film. As a big fan of hers for years, I look forward to checking this one out.
The film debuted at Sundance and screens at Toronto International Film Festival this week before arriving in theaters October 23rd.
Silverman, who’s known for her comedic skills of course, is receiving glowing reviews for her performance in the film. As a big fan of hers for years, I look forward to checking this one out.
The film debuted at Sundance and screens at Toronto International Film Festival this week before arriving in theaters October 23rd.
- 9/11/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Adam Salky‘s I Smile Back, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, will be stopping by Toronto International Film Festival and for the occasion, we have the first trailer. The grim, addiction drama stars Sarah Silverman in a rare leading turn as Laney, a suburban mother and housewife that suffers from a drug-fueled depression. The film also co-stars Josh […]...
- 9/11/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
Here’s the first trailer for I Smile Back, which features Sarah Silverman in a highly-praised dramatic performance as a woman dealing with overwhelming depression. The film was on our list of fall movies to look out for; written by Amy Koppelman and Paige Dylan and directed by Adam Salky, the film premiered at Sundance earlier this […]
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- 9/11/2015
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Read More: Sarah Silverman Shocks Sundance With Her Dramatic Performance in 'I Smile Back' Audiences know Sarah Silverman as the fearless R-rated comedian who loves a good dirty joke, but that's all about to change thanks to Adam Salky's "I Smile Back." The actress shocked audiences at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year with her breakthrough dramatic performance, and the film is bound to earn more positive notices at Tiff before opening in select theaters this October. The official synopsis reads: "Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very...
- 9/11/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Brace yourself to reassess your assumptions about funny woman Sarah Silverman. Yes, she's made her name at being an unflinchingly honest and caustic comedienne, and it's not unfair to say she paved the way for Amy Schumer's brand of comedy and success. While she did play a small dramatic supporting role in Sarah Polley's excellent 2012 drama, "Take This Waltz," you've never seen Silverman quite as raw and vulnerable as she is in the upcoming Sundance breakout film, "I Smile Back." Read More: Spotlight On Sarah Silverman At The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival Written by Amy Koppelman (the wife of screenwriter and podcaster Brian Koppelman) and Paige Ryan, and directed by Adam Salky ("Dare"), "I Smile Back" centers on a woman on the verge of a breakdown and in the throes of a serious spiritual crisis that leads her to a string of self-destructive habits. The movie co-stars Josh Charles,...
- 9/11/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
The California Film Institute will present a Spotlight on Sarah Silverman at the 38th Mill Valley Film Festival. The evening will feature a screening of her latest film "I Smile Back," which premiere at Sundance back in January, and will be followed by a live on-stage conversation and presentation of the Mvff Award.
Sarah Silverman is a two-time Emmy winner actress whose repertoire includes everything from film and television, stand-up comedy, to iconic online videos She became an author when she released a book in 2010, the New York Times Bestseller, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee. Silverman debuted an hour-long stand-up special, “We are Miracles,” on HBO in 2013. She was awarded a 2014 Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special category. The special was also nominated for Outstanding Variety Special, and Silverman recently received a WGA nomination as well. An album of the special was recently released through Sub Pop Records, which earned her a 2015 Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album.
Silverman's latest feature, "I Smile Back," is a film adaption of a novel by Amy Koppelman in which she plays the lead role. She also has wrapped production on Ashby opposite Mickey Rourke and Emma Roberts and recently had a recurring role on season 2 of the Golden Globe nominated series “Masters of Sex.” Silverman grew up in New Hampshire and attended New York University. In 1993 she joined “Saturday Night Live” as a writer and feature performer and has not stopped working since.
"I Smile Back" Synopsis:
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.
At the core of I Smile Back’s power is an indelible performance. Sarah Silverman reinvents herself as a dramatic actress in the career-defining, intensely layered, and heartbreaking role of Laney. Deftly directed by Adam Salky (Dare, 2009 Sundance Film Festival), "I Smile Back" is at times darkly humorous but also harrowing and unflinching as an authentic, humanizing portrait that offers no easy resolution for a damaged woman struggling to come to terms with herself.
"I Smile Back" will be release in theaters by Broad Green Pictures on October 23.
Sarah Silverman is a two-time Emmy winner actress whose repertoire includes everything from film and television, stand-up comedy, to iconic online videos She became an author when she released a book in 2010, the New York Times Bestseller, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee. Silverman debuted an hour-long stand-up special, “We are Miracles,” on HBO in 2013. She was awarded a 2014 Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special category. The special was also nominated for Outstanding Variety Special, and Silverman recently received a WGA nomination as well. An album of the special was recently released through Sub Pop Records, which earned her a 2015 Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album.
Silverman's latest feature, "I Smile Back," is a film adaption of a novel by Amy Koppelman in which she plays the lead role. She also has wrapped production on Ashby opposite Mickey Rourke and Emma Roberts and recently had a recurring role on season 2 of the Golden Globe nominated series “Masters of Sex.” Silverman grew up in New Hampshire and attended New York University. In 1993 she joined “Saturday Night Live” as a writer and feature performer and has not stopped working since.
"I Smile Back" Synopsis:
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.
At the core of I Smile Back’s power is an indelible performance. Sarah Silverman reinvents herself as a dramatic actress in the career-defining, intensely layered, and heartbreaking role of Laney. Deftly directed by Adam Salky (Dare, 2009 Sundance Film Festival), "I Smile Back" is at times darkly humorous but also harrowing and unflinching as an authentic, humanizing portrait that offers no easy resolution for a damaged woman struggling to come to terms with herself.
"I Smile Back" will be release in theaters by Broad Green Pictures on October 23.
- 9/1/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Ryan Kampe and his New York-based team head into the fall festival season with a raft of new acquisitions led by a worldwide deal excluding Australia/New Zealand on Venice premiere Tanna.
Visit FIlms’ roster encompasses world rights excluding Ireland and Scandinavia to My Name Is Emily, the world excluding Australia/New Zealand to A Month Of Sundays and the world for Lace Crater, all of which will screen in Toronto.
Toronto Vanguard world premiere Lace Crater is a genre-bending horror-comedy produced by Joe Swanberg about a woman who has an affair with a ghost during a stay in the Hamptons. Lindsay Burdge stars in Harrison Atkins’ feature directorial debut.
My Name Is Emily stars Evanna Lynch as 16-year-old who ditches her foster home and embarks on a road trip with her new friend to break her troubled father out of a psychiatric institution.
Simon Fitzmaurice wrote and directed using iris recognition software after he was...
Visit FIlms’ roster encompasses world rights excluding Ireland and Scandinavia to My Name Is Emily, the world excluding Australia/New Zealand to A Month Of Sundays and the world for Lace Crater, all of which will screen in Toronto.
Toronto Vanguard world premiere Lace Crater is a genre-bending horror-comedy produced by Joe Swanberg about a woman who has an affair with a ghost during a stay in the Hamptons. Lindsay Burdge stars in Harrison Atkins’ feature directorial debut.
My Name Is Emily stars Evanna Lynch as 16-year-old who ditches her foster home and embarks on a road trip with her new friend to break her troubled father out of a psychiatric institution.
Simon Fitzmaurice wrote and directed using iris recognition software after he was...
- 9/1/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Films set to show at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), updated as announcements are made in the run up to the event.
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
- 8/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Sarah Silverman is set to receive the Mill Valley Film Festival Award after a screening of her film "I Smile Back" at the festival (October 8 through 18, 2015) and an onstage Q&A. "I Smile Back," scooped by Broad Green out of Sundance and set for October 23 release, marks a serious dramatic turn for Silverman (excellent before as a recovering alcoholic in Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz"). She plays Laney, a suburban housewife whose facade is slipping away in the face of manic depression, and drug and sex addiction unknown to her long-suffering husband, played by Josh Charles ("The Good Wife"). This upsetting movie, even when careening into melodrama, is a real showcase for Silverman, who embodies a frittered woman willingly complicit in her own downfall, who wants redemption — but not quite yet. The film is directed by Adam Salky and written by Paige Dylan and co-writer Amy Koppelman, who penned...
- 8/24/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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