It might seem counterintuitive to make the case for filmmaking as a career when so much about the profession can sound like a charity case. The money is in TV, and its so-called Golden Age provides golden opportunities. I may advocate for the success of original cinematic feats like “The Northman,” but will just as easily admit that “Atlanta” and “Barry” are among the most satisfying cultural achievements to come out this month.
Still, cautionary tales abound. This week, news broke that Amy Seimetz “exited” as the director of “The Idol,” the new HBO series co-produced and starring Abel Tesfaye, otherwise known as The Weeknd. As usual, there’s more to this story, and it speaks volumes about how the layers of creative control differ in TV.
I’m told that Seimetz had already directed about four episodes of the six-episode series and adapted the show to her loose, exploratory approach.
Still, cautionary tales abound. This week, news broke that Amy Seimetz “exited” as the director of “The Idol,” the new HBO series co-produced and starring Abel Tesfaye, otherwise known as The Weeknd. As usual, there’s more to this story, and it speaks volumes about how the layers of creative control differ in TV.
I’m told that Seimetz had already directed about four episodes of the six-episode series and adapted the show to her loose, exploratory approach.
- 4/30/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
After reading Heather's recent 4/5 review for The Wolf of Show Hollow, I can't wait to check it out this weekend and we're excited to share with Daily Dead readers and exclusive track from the movie's soundtrack! Also due out on October 9th, the 20-track release was composed by Ben Lovett and will be available courtesy of Lakeshore Records:
Lakeshore Records is set to release The Wolf of Snow Hollow—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on October 9. Composed by Ben Lovett, the album is a strikingly orchestrated, multi-faceted work inspired by old school Bernard Herrmann-era suspense thrillers reflecting all the dimensions of the offbeat horror film—from darkly comedic to tension-fueled terror to oddball mystery caper. The album includes the newly reimagined cover version of “Little Red Riding Hood” originally performed by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs in 1966, and given a seductive and thoroughly haunting treatment by Lovett and indie artist Valen.
Lakeshore Records is set to release The Wolf of Snow Hollow—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on October 9. Composed by Ben Lovett, the album is a strikingly orchestrated, multi-faceted work inspired by old school Bernard Herrmann-era suspense thrillers reflecting all the dimensions of the offbeat horror film—from darkly comedic to tension-fueled terror to oddball mystery caper. The album includes the newly reimagined cover version of “Little Red Riding Hood” originally performed by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs in 1966, and given a seductive and thoroughly haunting treatment by Lovett and indie artist Valen.
- 10/8/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The fear of impending death is contagious in Amy Seimetz's new movie She Dies Tomorrow. Although the film explores a grim and timely topic, it's shot with a dreamlike beauty by director of photography Jay Keitel, and we were thrilled to discuss the film's indelible visuals with Keitel in a new Q&a feature.
Congratulations on She Dies Tomorrow, Jay! When did you first find out about this movie, and how long did you have to prepare for filming it?
Jay Keitel: Thank you! The director, Amy Seimetz called me early on and shared with me what she was writing. We talked about her thoughts on what direction the script was taking, the mood she was going for, and some character emotions and transitions. From there I did some personal creative exploration, gathering images and taking photos. And then we made some tests to kind of flesh out some visual ideas.
Congratulations on She Dies Tomorrow, Jay! When did you first find out about this movie, and how long did you have to prepare for filming it?
Jay Keitel: Thank you! The director, Amy Seimetz called me early on and shared with me what she was writing. We talked about her thoughts on what direction the script was taking, the mood she was going for, and some character emotions and transitions. From there I did some personal creative exploration, gathering images and taking photos. And then we made some tests to kind of flesh out some visual ideas.
- 8/14/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
It’s been eight years since Amy Seimetz directed her first feature, “Sun Don’t Shine,” and her second film, “She Dies Tomorrow,” carries her imprint. Both films pull you into an off kilter, menacing dreamscape where unreliable characters are capable of doing just about anything. Appropriately enough, her film was my last press screening before lockdown.
Recovering alcoholic Amy (Seimetz alter ego Kate Lyn Sheil) rattles around her empty new Los Angeles house, hugging the floor, dropping the needle over and over on a Mozart requiem, and slugging back wine. When she gets a friend (Jane Adams) to come over, she tells her, “I’m going to die tomorrow.” Her friend starts to feel the same foreboding, and passes the contagion to her brother (Chris Messina) and his wife (Katie Aselton) at a birthday party. It shares the same absurdist and morbid humor as Luis Bunuel.
At the Soho House...
Recovering alcoholic Amy (Seimetz alter ego Kate Lyn Sheil) rattles around her empty new Los Angeles house, hugging the floor, dropping the needle over and over on a Mozart requiem, and slugging back wine. When she gets a friend (Jane Adams) to come over, she tells her, “I’m going to die tomorrow.” Her friend starts to feel the same foreboding, and passes the contagion to her brother (Chris Messina) and his wife (Katie Aselton) at a birthday party. It shares the same absurdist and morbid humor as Luis Bunuel.
At the Soho House...
- 8/8/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It’s been eight years since Amy Seimetz directed her first feature, “Sun Don’t Shine,” and her second film, “She Dies Tomorrow,” carries her imprint. Both films pull you into an off kilter, menacing dreamscape where unreliable characters are capable of doing just about anything. Appropriately enough, her film was my last press screening before lockdown.
Recovering alcoholic Amy (Seimetz alter ego Kate Lyn Sheil) rattles around her empty new Los Angeles house, hugging the floor, dropping the needle over and over on a Mozart requiem, and slugging back wine. When she gets a friend (Jane Adams) to come over, she tells her, “I’m going to die tomorrow.” Her friend starts to feel the same foreboding, and passes the contagion to her brother (Chris Messina) and his wife (Katie Aselton) at a birthday party. It shares the same absurdist and morbid humor as Luis Bunuel.
At the Soho House...
Recovering alcoholic Amy (Seimetz alter ego Kate Lyn Sheil) rattles around her empty new Los Angeles house, hugging the floor, dropping the needle over and over on a Mozart requiem, and slugging back wine. When she gets a friend (Jane Adams) to come over, she tells her, “I’m going to die tomorrow.” Her friend starts to feel the same foreboding, and passes the contagion to her brother (Chris Messina) and his wife (Katie Aselton) at a birthday party. It shares the same absurdist and morbid humor as Luis Bunuel.
At the Soho House...
- 8/8/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Cinematographer Jay Keitel, a CalArts alum, credits his cinematic sensibilities to his time in experimental filmmaking and animation. Such background pushes him to go beyond traditional narrative form. In Amy Seimetz’s sophomore feature “She Dies Tomorrow,” (bowing across virtual cinemas this weekend) about a woman (Kate Lyn Sheil) certain she is living her final hours, he got to dive into abstract visuals and unorthodox lighting choices for powerful sensorial stimulation.
“There’s this foreboding feeling that a lot of people started to feel after the 2016 election,” said Keitel. “Amy wanted to talk about fear, anxiety, and isolation.” He previously collaborated with Seimetz on her directorial debut “Sun Don’t Shine,” the Starz series “The Girlfriend Experience,” and the short film “When We Lived in Miami.”
Multi-color washes illuminate the characters’ faces as they each have a terrifying realization served as one of the most effective artistic decisions, as these evoke great dreadfulness and heighten tension.
“There’s this foreboding feeling that a lot of people started to feel after the 2016 election,” said Keitel. “Amy wanted to talk about fear, anxiety, and isolation.” He previously collaborated with Seimetz on her directorial debut “Sun Don’t Shine,” the Starz series “The Girlfriend Experience,” and the short film “When We Lived in Miami.”
Multi-color washes illuminate the characters’ faces as they each have a terrifying realization served as one of the most effective artistic decisions, as these evoke great dreadfulness and heighten tension.
- 8/7/2020
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Variety Film + TV
"We're all going to die at some point," says Jason (played by Chris Messina) at some point in She Dies Tomorrow, written and directed by Amy Seimetz (Sun Don't Shine). Those words brought me back to one particular moment of my childhood. It was late evening, and I was already lying down in my bed. The light was on because I refused to sleep in darkness. Suddenly, a horrible feeling came over me, and the few-year-old me started wailing. I ran to my parents, crying my eyes out. They hugged me and looked at me with concern in their eyes. "I'm very afraid of dying," I choked out. I don't remember the rest, or what my parents told me. But Neon's latest release made me think of that moment and every other one when I had a feeling of death creeping behind me. Seimetz makes sure that the audience will...
- 8/6/2020
- by Zofia Wijaszka
- firstshowing.net
With the evocative title of She Dies Tomorrow, one might think they can predict where Amy Seimetz’s second feature is going, but the writer-director is keen to pull the rug out from under the viewer every step of the way. Her story of a woman (Kate Lyn Sheil) thinking that it’s her last full day left on this mortal coil and the contagious effect she has on people is not full of twists and turns, but it’s in the subtle ways Seimetz is able to upend expectations in the structure and visual approach that will have the viewer themselves entranced and perturbed by the spell that is cast.
Ahead of the film’s digital release this Friday by Neon, following its drive-in debut last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Seimetz about subverting a classical structure, her number one piece of advice for filmmakers, her...
Ahead of the film’s digital release this Friday by Neon, following its drive-in debut last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Seimetz about subverting a classical structure, her number one piece of advice for filmmakers, her...
- 8/6/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Truth be told, the first time I watched She Dies Tomorrow, I felt utterly devastated afterward, but I felt lost in my thoughts about the film. A second viewing of She Dies Tomorrow really put all the puzzle pieces in place for me, though, and I think that, upon review, writer/director Amy Seimetz has crafted a beautifully told and bold cinematic rumination on mortality that lingers in your psyche for some time. The imagery is unforgettable, the performances across the board are top-notch, and while She Dies Tomorrow isn’t a film that I’d necessarily categorize as horror, the material is often haunting and alarming all the same.
She Dies Tomorrow first introduces us to Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), a woman transfixed on something just outside of our viewpoint, but the pained look of her visage tells us everything we need to know in those opening moments. Amy is slowly unraveling,...
She Dies Tomorrow first introduces us to Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), a woman transfixed on something just outside of our viewpoint, but the pained look of her visage tells us everything we need to know in those opening moments. Amy is slowly unraveling,...
- 8/3/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
It’s altogether fitting that “She Dies Tomorrow” was scheduled to have its world premiere at a film festival that was canceled, South by Southwest, because Amy Seimetz’s indie drama is definitely a movie for this particular, strange and scary time. Seimetz didn’t know it when she made the film, of course, but a movie based on a pervasive sense of all-encompassing dread that spreads from person to person is pretty much right in tune with the prevailing mood of 2020.
It’s a movie about existential panic that happens to be coming out at a time of, well, existential panic. That might make it the last thing some people want to see at this point, or it might make it a disquieting indie thrill ride through a dysfunctional world that isn’t really ours but kind of feels like it.
The lead character, probably not coincidentally named Amy,...
It’s a movie about existential panic that happens to be coming out at a time of, well, existential panic. That might make it the last thing some people want to see at this point, or it might make it a disquieting indie thrill ride through a dysfunctional world that isn’t really ours but kind of feels like it.
The lead character, probably not coincidentally named Amy,...
- 8/2/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil) awakes with a start. She walks through her new house, filled with unpacked boxes and half-wallpapered walls. She puts on classical music, shops online for cremation urns and crawls across her living room floor. Something is clearly not right. When her friend Jane (Jane Adams), a photographer, stops by late in the evening to check on her, she finds Amy in a sparkly evening gown, blowing leaves on a precarious perch in her backyard. The glass of wine in her hand suggests she’s been drinking...
- 7/30/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Even if you haven’t experienced one, you might be familiar with the sensation of a panic attack or a supposedly irrational fear like claustrophobia, both of which can suffocate their victims with a feeling of impending death. Once triggered, those internal alarms present a lonely state of being — an alternate plane of existence with its own set of survival rules, hard to describe, even harder to reason with. In the lean, lurid and slow-burning psychodrama “She Dies Tomorrow,” filmmaker Amy Seimetz ingeniously expresses the feeling of being stuck in such a fugue, inexplicable to anyone other than those clutched by its claws in a given moment.
Indeed, a type of existential dread akin to that of “Mulholland Drive” and “It Follows” lies at the root of “She Dies Tomorrow,” which was set to premiere at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, before the event became a casualty of the contagion. Seimetz...
Indeed, a type of existential dread akin to that of “Mulholland Drive” and “It Follows” lies at the root of “She Dies Tomorrow,” which was set to premiere at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, before the event became a casualty of the contagion. Seimetz...
- 7/29/2020
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Film journalists, critics, directors, and more are showing support for writer-actress-filmmaker Amy Seimetz on social media after news surfaced she has an open restraining order against “Primer” and “Upstream Color” director Shane Carruth. Seimetz starred opposite Carruth in “Upstream Color” and the two had a relationship that ended in 2018. Seimetz filed for the restraining order against Carruth on June 12, citing years of emotional and physical abuse. One alleged incident that occurred at a hotel in 2016 found Carruth strangling Seimetz until it was hard for her to breathe.
Seimetz’s restraining order gained visibility on social media after Carruth tweeted an image of the “Upstream Color” soundtrack on vinyl with part of the restraining order document sticking out from underneath it. The photo’s timing has led many people in the film community to wonder if Carruth is trying to take attention away from the release of Seimetz’s acclaimed new film “She Dies Tomorrow,...
Seimetz’s restraining order gained visibility on social media after Carruth tweeted an image of the “Upstream Color” soundtrack on vinyl with part of the restraining order document sticking out from underneath it. The photo’s timing has led many people in the film community to wonder if Carruth is trying to take attention away from the release of Seimetz’s acclaimed new film “She Dies Tomorrow,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
If you’re looking to dive into the best of independent and foreign filmmaking, The Criterion Channel has announced their August 2020 lineup. The impressive slate includes retrospectives dedicated to Mia Hansen-Løve, Bill Gunn, Stephen Cone, Terry Gilliam, Wim Wenders, Alain Delon, Bill Plympton, Les Blank, and more.
In terms of new releases, they also have Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau, the fascinating documentary John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, the Kenyan LGBTQ drama Rafiki, and more. There’s also a series on Australian New Wave with films by Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, David Gulpilil, and Peter Weir, as well as one on bad vacations with Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated, Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, and more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton, 1989
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Roy Rowland,...
In terms of new releases, they also have Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau, the fascinating documentary John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, the Kenyan LGBTQ drama Rafiki, and more. There’s also a series on Australian New Wave with films by Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, David Gulpilil, and Peter Weir, as well as one on bad vacations with Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated, Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, and more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton, 1989
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Roy Rowland,...
- 7/24/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Neon has acquired the worldwide rights to Amy Seimetz’s apocalyptic thriller “She Dies Tomorrow,” which was supposed to premiere at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival before the event was cancelled over coronavirus concerns.
“She Dies Tomorrow” stars Kate Lyn Sheil as Amy, a woman who consistently thinks she’s going to die tomorrow, which sends her down an emotional spiral. When her friend, Jane, discovers Amy’s feelings are contagious, they both begin to live life as if it were their last.
“Amy Seimetz is a bold new voice and with the groundbreaking ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ has easily created one of the most prescient films of the decade,” Neon said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to be able to bring this unique and incredible SXSW premiere to audiences all around the world.”
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Seimetz added: “I...
“She Dies Tomorrow” stars Kate Lyn Sheil as Amy, a woman who consistently thinks she’s going to die tomorrow, which sends her down an emotional spiral. When her friend, Jane, discovers Amy’s feelings are contagious, they both begin to live life as if it were their last.
“Amy Seimetz is a bold new voice and with the groundbreaking ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ has easily created one of the most prescient films of the decade,” Neon said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to be able to bring this unique and incredible SXSW premiere to audiences all around the world.”
Also Read: SXSW Film Festival Announces Jury, Special Awards Despite Cancellation Due to Coronavirus
Seimetz added: “I...
- 3/25/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Neon has acquired the worldwide rights to Amy Seimetz’s apocalyptic thriller, “She Dies Tomorrow,” which had been set to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival before the event was canceled
The film stars Seimetz’s frequent collaborator Kate Lyn Sheil as a woman ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend, played by Jane Adams, discovers the feeling of imminent death is contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
“She Dies Tomorrow” is Seimetz’ second feature film as a writer-director following “Sun Don’t Shine,” which starred Sheil and premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival. It was nominated for two Gotham Awards. In 2015, Seimetz co-created and executive produced the Starz series “The Girlfriend Experience,” which featured Sheil in three episodes.
Seimetz produced “She Dies Tomorrow” with...
The film stars Seimetz’s frequent collaborator Kate Lyn Sheil as a woman ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend, played by Jane Adams, discovers the feeling of imminent death is contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
“She Dies Tomorrow” is Seimetz’ second feature film as a writer-director following “Sun Don’t Shine,” which starred Sheil and premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival. It was nominated for two Gotham Awards. In 2015, Seimetz co-created and executive produced the Starz series “The Girlfriend Experience,” which featured Sheil in three episodes.
Seimetz produced “She Dies Tomorrow” with...
- 3/25/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Neon has acquired worldwide rights to She Dies Tomorrow, the apocalyptic existential thriller from Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience co-creator Amy Seimetz, which was an official selection of this year’s 2020 SXSW Film Festival before the Austin, TX event was cancelled.
The movie stars Seimetz’s frequent collaborator Kate Lyn Sheil as Amy, a woman ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When Amy’s skeptical friend Jane (Jane Adams) discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
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The movie stars Seimetz’s frequent collaborator Kate Lyn Sheil as Amy, a woman ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When Amy’s skeptical friend Jane (Jane Adams) discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
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- 3/25/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Release plans to be announced at later date.
Neon has snapped up worldwide rights to Amy Seimetz’s existential thriller She Dies Tomorrow, an official selection of the cancelled SXSW.
Kate Lyn Sheil stars as a woman whose belief in her imminent death influences her skeptical friend and sends them both into an emotional downwards spiral. Jane Adams also stars.
She Dies Tomorrow marks the second feature from Seimetz as writer-director after her SXSW 2012 debut Sun Don’t Shine. In 2015 she co-created and served as executive producer on Starz series The Girlfriend Experience.
Seimetz and Rustic Films’ trio David Lawson Jr.,...
Neon has snapped up worldwide rights to Amy Seimetz’s existential thriller She Dies Tomorrow, an official selection of the cancelled SXSW.
Kate Lyn Sheil stars as a woman whose belief in her imminent death influences her skeptical friend and sends them both into an emotional downwards spiral. Jane Adams also stars.
She Dies Tomorrow marks the second feature from Seimetz as writer-director after her SXSW 2012 debut Sun Don’t Shine. In 2015 she co-created and served as executive producer on Starz series The Girlfriend Experience.
Seimetz and Rustic Films’ trio David Lawson Jr.,...
- 3/25/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
While the 2020 SXSW Film Festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus, IndieWire is covering select titles from this year’s edition.
Amy Seimetz has directed two movies over the past decade (as well as “The Girlfriend Experience” for Starz), but few recent American directors have demonstrated a greater singularity of vision. With her 2011 debut “Sun Don’t Shine,” Seimetz hovered in the confines of lovers on the lam with the world collapsing around them, watching as they wrestled with the queasy uncertainty of accepting that inevitability and running from it at the same time. “She Dies Tomorrow” expands that notion into Envisioning a disease where the afflicted believe they’ll die by morning, the movie taps into a timeless anxiety with hilarious and disquieting results, often delivered in the same dose.
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Amy Seimetz has directed two movies over the past decade (as well as “The Girlfriend Experience” for Starz), but few recent American directors have demonstrated a greater singularity of vision. With her 2011 debut “Sun Don’t Shine,” Seimetz hovered in the confines of lovers on the lam with the world collapsing around them, watching as they wrestled with the queasy uncertainty of accepting that inevitability and running from it at the same time. “She Dies Tomorrow” expands that notion into Envisioning a disease where the afflicted believe they’ll die by morning, the movie taps into a timeless anxiety with hilarious and disquieting results, often delivered in the same dose.
More from IndieWireSXSW 2020 Will Still Hand Out Film Awards Despite Cancellation'Freeland' Review: 'Krisha' Breakout Gives a Devastating Performance as...
- 3/13/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A24’s David Lowery fantasy adventure movie The Green Knight is making its world premiere at SXSW in Austin, TX on Monday, March 16 at 5:30pm at the Paramount Theatre.
Despite industry panic about the coronavirus, SXSW is indeed moving forward. Today’s news follows this morning’s announcement from SXSW about their “Conversations About America’s Future” political panel lineup which includes such speakers as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anita Hill, Gretchen Carlson, Andrew Yang, among others.
Yesterday SXSW continued to back-up their statement from late last week, that the fest is working closely on a daily basis with local, state, and federal agencies to plan for a safe event. “As a result of their dialogue and the recommendations of Austin Public Health, the 2020 event is proceeding with safety as a top priority,” said the fest yesterday.
Green Knight is a bold and fresh spin on the timeless Arthurian legend...
Despite industry panic about the coronavirus, SXSW is indeed moving forward. Today’s news follows this morning’s announcement from SXSW about their “Conversations About America’s Future” political panel lineup which includes such speakers as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anita Hill, Gretchen Carlson, Andrew Yang, among others.
Yesterday SXSW continued to back-up their statement from late last week, that the fest is working closely on a daily basis with local, state, and federal agencies to plan for a safe event. “As a result of their dialogue and the recommendations of Austin Public Health, the 2020 event is proceeding with safety as a top priority,” said the fest yesterday.
Green Knight is a bold and fresh spin on the timeless Arthurian legend...
- 3/2/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Everyone's hiding something at the Riviera Grand.
It won't be long before those secrets and lies start catching up with them as they've already begun to on Grand Hotel Season 1 Episode 9.
Santiago is hiding his involvement with Mateo's "boss," Mateo is hiding the shame of unintentionally killing his child, the twins are quite literally hiding their fugitive father, Felix, and Alicia and Danny are hiding their relationship.
Though Alicia considered going public about her relationship with Danny, he immediately shot the idea down because of the other thing he's hiding: the real reason he's working as a waiter in the first place.
Danny's walking a thin line here; he's trying to be himself and pursue a relationship with a woman he really likes all while not revealing anything real about himself and staying focused on his original mission to find out what happened to his sister.
I'm a huge Danny...
It won't be long before those secrets and lies start catching up with them as they've already begun to on Grand Hotel Season 1 Episode 9.
Santiago is hiding his involvement with Mateo's "boss," Mateo is hiding the shame of unintentionally killing his child, the twins are quite literally hiding their fugitive father, Felix, and Alicia and Danny are hiding their relationship.
Though Alicia considered going public about her relationship with Danny, he immediately shot the idea down because of the other thing he's hiding: the real reason he's working as a waiter in the first place.
Danny's walking a thin line here; he's trying to be himself and pursue a relationship with a woman he really likes all while not revealing anything real about himself and staying focused on his original mission to find out what happened to his sister.
I'm a huge Danny...
- 8/13/2019
- by Lizzy Buczak
- TVfanatic
Update 3: Amy Seimetz is in talks to join a new, big-screen version of Stephen King's Pet Sematary, according to Variety. Seimetz is a filmmaker (Sun Don't Shine) and actress who became known for her sterling work in a series of independent films, including You're Next, Upstream Color and The Sacrament (above). What role will Seimetz play? If things work out, she will costar as "the mother of the child who gets caught up in the pet graveyard behind the house," per...
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- 6/4/2018
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Read More: The 11 Indie Films You Must See This December: 'The Hateful Eight,' 'Anomalisa' and More "Christmas, Again" (December 3) The traditional holiday movie builds towards some climactic takeaway: A troubled character finds new value through the convenience of the Christmas spirit. "Christmas, Again," the bittersweet debut from writer-director Charles Poekel, is a welcome deviation from that tendency. Starring indie stalwart Kentucker Audley ("Sun Don't Shine") as a downtrodden loner selling Christmas trees in Brooklyn in the aftermath of a breakup, and the fleeting connection he finds with a fellow lost soul, the movie makes no grand gestures but provides a satisfactory arrangement of many small ones. Shot on grainy 16mm by cinematographer Sean Price Williams ("Listen Up Phillip"), "Christmas, Again" offers the unique pairing of vibrant holiday colors with a foundation of gritty realism built around its...
- 12/2/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The multitalented Shane Carruth ("Upstream Color") and Amy Seimetz ("Sun Don't Shine") show off their formidable acting chops in Casey Gooden's 12-minute SXSW short "We'll Find Something," about a couple visiting New York and looking for food—as well as "something" else—on a Friday night in New York. "Watch: 'The Girlfriend Experience' Channels Steven Soderbergh's Cool (Trailer)" As early evening passes into late night, and the frustrations of the overcrowded city spill over into pre-existing marital and professional problems, both Carruth and Seimetz carry off the "ornery" nature of the conversation convincingly—and Gooden's unfussy direction and naturalistic dialogue suggests an emerging, lo-fi talent. What may be most remarkable, though, is that Carruth and Seimetz found the time to participate at all: he's preparing for his next feature, "The Modern Ocean," and her TV series "The Girlfriend...
- 11/19/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Steven Soderbergh has always been clear that his retirement from directing features was not going to be a complete withdrawal from filmmaking altogether. Now, the man behind The Knick is back with The Girlfriend Experience, a new Starz show that that finds him revisiting a subject he first explored in his 2009 feature of the same name.
The first teaser trailer for the series, released Wednesday, plunges back into the gilded world of high-end escorts, where "The Girlfriend Experience" describes any service in which a client books a woman for an extended period of time.
The first teaser trailer for the series, released Wednesday, plunges back into the gilded world of high-end escorts, where "The Girlfriend Experience" describes any service in which a client books a woman for an extended period of time.
- 11/4/2015
- Rollingstone.com
For the first time since 1987 (Diane Kurys's A Man in Love), a female director will open the Cannes Film Festival: Emmanuelle Bercot's La Tête haute. Above: Josh Karp has written a book on Orson Welles's last film, The Other Side of the Wind, and has penned an article for Vanity Fair that traces the history of this infamous lost and found movie:"The story behind the making of The Other Side of the Wind begins at Schwab’s drugstore, the Hollywood soda fountain where: Charlie Chaplin played pinball, F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first heart attack, and, according to some versions of the story, Lana Turner was discovered while cutting school to grab a Coke."More on Orson Welles: David Bordwell writes on his personal history with the filmmaker (and his hometown) occasioned by a retrospective in Madison, Wisconsin: "So I had good luck coming here...
- 4/15/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Last Sunday, after a day at Austin Film Festival packed with a lackluster panel, a surprisingly well-done foreign shorts program, and the screening of a Reese Witherspoon film I've been keen to see for months, I closed the evening with The Sideways Light at the Alamo Drafthouse Village. The thriller was a chilling cap to the night.
In her large house, sextuagenarian Ruth (Annalee Jefferies, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The Girl) putters around and talks to herself (or so we and her daughter assume). Worried about her ailing mother, Lily (Lindsay Burdge, A Teacher, Frances Ha) has moved back home for the interim. Daughter Lily uneasily slips into the role of caretaker as her mom becomes more childlike. She takes breaks offered by her brother Sam (Mark Reeb, Eve of Understanding, Sun Don't Shine) to visit and flirt with bar owner Aidan (Matthew Newton, Queen of the Damned, Farscape).
Ruth...
In her large house, sextuagenarian Ruth (Annalee Jefferies, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The Girl) putters around and talks to herself (or so we and her daughter assume). Worried about her ailing mother, Lily (Lindsay Burdge, A Teacher, Frances Ha) has moved back home for the interim. Daughter Lily uneasily slips into the role of caretaker as her mom becomes more childlike. She takes breaks offered by her brother Sam (Mark Reeb, Eve of Understanding, Sun Don't Shine) to visit and flirt with bar owner Aidan (Matthew Newton, Queen of the Damned, Farscape).
Ruth...
- 11/3/2014
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
At SXSW, I must admit I was rather underwhelmed by the offerings. Maybe it was all the Brooklyn settings, or the abundance of 20 and 30-something malaise. Hasn’t this become stale by now? And this is coming from someone in the key demo to appreciate 20 and 30-something malaise. However, one performance stuck with me. Kate Lyn Sheil ("Sun Don't Shine"), a ubiquitous face in the indie scene if not yet a well-known name like, say, Greta Gerwig or Joe Swanberg, is undeniably a standout in Zachary Wigon’s tale of long-distance relationship woes and paranoia, “The Heart Machine.” Sheil stands out not because she “kills” the performance -- it’s not a big, showy turn -- but rather because she underplays it. It’s a difficult, somewhat inscrutable role -- and, alas, female characters who make murky choices typically throw viewers for a loop -- but as I watched her...
- 10/21/2014
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Is John Gallagher Jr. getting Catfished in this trailer? Let’s back up a bit. Part drama, part thriller to a smaller degree (or mystery, perhaps), “The Heart Machine” is about a man living in New York City who begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend who he met on the Internet has been living in the Manhattan the whole time, instead of Berlin like she claims. Of course, he sets out to find her. The movie stars John Gallagher Jr. of “The Newsroom” and Kate Lyn Sheil, an indie darling known for Amy Seimetz's "Sun Don't Shine," the early films of Alex Ross Perry (including a brief turn in his latest "Listen Up Philip") and “House of Cards.” Here’s the official synopsis: Tracking two parallel journeys that show how digital media complicates modern love, The Heart Machine explores the evolving relationship between physical and emotional intimacy, isolation in the urban hive,...
- 9/24/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Riley Keough ("Magic Mike," "Mad Max: Fury Road") is set to star in Starz's upcoming TV series based on Steven Soderbergh's low-budget 2009 film "The Girlfriend Experience".
Thirteen episodes of the series have been ordered with Lodge Kerrigan ("Keane," "Clean, Shaven") and Amy Seimetz ("Sun Don't Shine") writing and directing all the episodes between them. Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman will produce.
Meanwhile, Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver is set to play the female lead opposite Patrick Stewart in Starz's live-action, character-driven comedy series "Blunt Talk". Adrian Scarborough ("The King's Speech") also stars.
Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy") and Jonathan Ames ("Bored To Death") will produce the project which has scored a twenty-episode, two-season, straight-to-series order. Stewart plays an alcholohic and legendary British news anchor intent on conquering the world of American cable news.
Weaver will play Blunt’s straight-talking and motherthy producer-manager. Scarborough plays Walter’s manservant who rivals him in debauchery.
Thirteen episodes of the series have been ordered with Lodge Kerrigan ("Keane," "Clean, Shaven") and Amy Seimetz ("Sun Don't Shine") writing and directing all the episodes between them. Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman will produce.
Meanwhile, Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver is set to play the female lead opposite Patrick Stewart in Starz's live-action, character-driven comedy series "Blunt Talk". Adrian Scarborough ("The King's Speech") also stars.
Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy") and Jonathan Ames ("Bored To Death") will produce the project which has scored a twenty-episode, two-season, straight-to-series order. Stewart plays an alcholohic and legendary British news anchor intent on conquering the world of American cable news.
Weaver will play Blunt’s straight-talking and motherthy producer-manager. Scarborough plays Walter’s manservant who rivals him in debauchery.
- 9/23/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Steven Soderbergh is turning his 2009 feature film, The Girlfriend Experience into a television series for Starz. No official plot details have been revealed, but I think it's safe to assume it will follow a similar storyline to that of the film which featured Sasha Grey as a a high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation. Today The Playlist has learned it will be Riley Keough playing the series lead. Keough had a small role in Soderbergh's Magic Mike (pictured above) and has a role in next year's Mad Max: Fury Road. Starz has already ordered a thirteen episode first season with Lodge Kerrigan ("Keane," "Clean, Shaven") and Amy Seimetz ("Sun Don't Shine", Upstream Color) writing and directing, splitting duties across the first season. As of now, a production start and premiere are currently unknown.
- 9/22/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
If you're not watching "The Knick" right now, you'd better fix that situation immediately. Steven Soderbergh's medical drama (that is so much more than a medical drama) is one of the best things going right now on television. And it looks like the filmmaker is really embracing small-screen story telling. Earlier this summer it was revealed that the director's low-budget 2009 film "The Girlfriend Experience" had been turned into a series for Starz, with the network ordering up thirteen episodes with Lodge Kerrigan ("Keane," "Clean, Shaven") and Amy Seimetz ("Sun Don't Shine") to write and direct. And now, the show has found its lead. The Playlist has learned that Riley Keough will star in the upcoming show, produced by Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman. The rising actress appeared in a small role in Soderbergh's "Magic Mike" and clearly made an impression, and next summer, she'll appear in the...
- 9/22/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Now celebrating its 17th year, the Brooklyn Film Festival, which will run from May 30 through June 8 at indieScreen and Windmill Studios NYC in Williamsburg, now announces its narrative and documentary feature film line-up. This year's festival was themed "Formula," with Bff Executive Director Marco Ursino saying, "Our theme this year deals with an enigma: Is there a winning formula to communicate with the audience and ultimately create a successful independent film? We ponder this complex question by thinking about the chemistry that might ultimately achieve such a formula."With over 100 film premieres from around the world, the festival will open with two films: T.J. Misny's "Intimate Semaphores," a collection of three short stories starring Kate Lyn Sheil ("Sun Don't Shine") and Ariane Labed ("Attenberg"), and Leah Meyerhoff's "I Believe in Unicorns," starring Natalia Dyer ("Blue Like Jazz") and Peter Vack ("Kiss of the Damned").Check out the line-up below (synopses courtesy.
- 5/9/2014
- by Ziyad Saadi
- Indiewire
With the pitch-perfect casting of Kate Lyn Sheil (Sun Don't Shine) and John Gallagher Jr. (Short Term 12), Wigon could do no wrong with his feature length debut (adapted from his 2012 short film Someone Else's Heart). Caught within the claustrophobic confines of their characters' apartments for a majority of the film, Sheil and Gallagher find themselves spending a lot of time simply poised in front of their laptops. Aided by the fact that they rarely within the same locations, Sheil and Gallagher's awkwardly naive chemistry showcases the odd sense of [dis]connection between their two characters. As we grow increasingly aware of the truth, the subtle intricacies of Sheil and Gallagher's facial expressions provide the greatest "aha!" moments of the film.
- 3/9/2014
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Filmmaker and actor Kentucker Audley, who is best known for his lead performance in Amy Seimetz's directorial debut "Sun Don't Shine" and his supporting role in David Lowery's "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" created a petition on Change.org urging fellow mediocre filmmakers to stop making films. The petition, a direct response to recent stories in The New York Times and Salon complaining about the glut of independent films, is clearly tongue in cheek. Audley, who previously wrote and directed the features "Open Five" and "Open Five 2" said he counts himself among the "mediocre" filmmakers who should retire. He also tweeted his request. He writes on the Change.org page: Our goal is 5,000 signatures. We believe if we can convince enough aspiring filmmakers to give up on their dreams, the industry will become solvent again, returning to a thriving and viable state. Film critics and film audiences will...
- 2/24/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2013—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2013 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
- 1/13/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
"The Sixth Year" is a web series (of sorts) commissioned by downtown New York art space Ludlow 38 and written by Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda that pools the talents of several up-and-comers from the independent film scene, including Rick Alverson ("The Comedy"), Alex Ross Perry ("The Color Wheel"), Kentucker Audley ("Sun Don't Shine") and Cory Mcabee ("The American Astronaut"). Each installment of the five-episode series is directed by a different filmmaker -- the first by Alverson, the second by Loretta Fahrenholz ("Ditch Plains"), the third by Perry, the fourth by artists Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi and the fifth by Dustin Guy Defa ("Person by Person"). Producer Jakob Schillinger describes "The Sixth Year" as "an art world drama series" that "re-interprets the format of the TV series." Set in the New York art world, it stages the backstage and theatricalizes the social interactions and power games, the aspirations, passions,...
- 12/16/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" received the most nominations at the 2013 Gotham Awards but in the end, the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" took home the big award of the night -- the Best Feature award. Matthew McConaughey also beat "12 Years a Slave's" Chiwetel Ejiofor with his memorable, feel it in your bones performance as a dying AIDS patient in "Dallas Buyers Club."
Is this a sign to come this awards season? Stay tuned!
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2013 Gotham Awards:
Best Feature
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen, director; Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas, producers. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
David Lowery, director; Tony Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Amy Kaufman, Cassian Elwes, producers (IFC Films)
Before Midnight
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch,...
Is this a sign to come this awards season? Stay tuned!
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2013 Gotham Awards:
Best Feature
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen, director; Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas, producers. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
David Lowery, director; Tony Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Amy Kaufman, Cassian Elwes, producers (IFC Films)
Before Midnight
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch,...
- 12/3/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
This is a tough awards season! Lots of great movies to see, so little time! I'm catching up like crazy before we vote for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards for the Broadcast Film Critics Association. So I apologize if I haven't updated you with the latest on the awards season 2013-2014! And there were many award-giving bodies announcing nominations.
We already told you about the Rome Film Festival and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, now let's talk about the 2013 Gotham Awards, the Ida Documentary Awards, the Cinema Eye, and the Producers Guild announcing its best documentary choices.
First stop, we have the 2013 Gotham Awards where Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" topped the nominations with three nods including best feature, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and breakthrough actor for Lupita Nyong'o.
Winners will be announced on Dec. 2nd where Richard Linklater, Forest Whitaker, and Katherine Oliver (head of the NYC...
We already told you about the Rome Film Festival and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, now let's talk about the 2013 Gotham Awards, the Ida Documentary Awards, the Cinema Eye, and the Producers Guild announcing its best documentary choices.
First stop, we have the 2013 Gotham Awards where Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" topped the nominations with three nods including best feature, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and breakthrough actor for Lupita Nyong'o.
Winners will be announced on Dec. 2nd where Richard Linklater, Forest Whitaker, and Katherine Oliver (head of the NYC...
- 12/2/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
When the 23rd Gotham Independent Film Award nominations were announced earlier this week, Ryan Coogler ("Fruitvale Station"), Adam Leon ("Gimme The Loot"), Alexandre Moors ("Blue Caprice"), Stacie Passon ("Concussion") and Amy Seimetz ("Sun Don't Shine") were named in the Bingham Ray Breakthrough DIrector Award category. In case you missed the films in theaters (some are still showing in select theaters), you can still watch (or pre-order) them on iTunes. Click on the links below: Fruitvale Station Gimme The Loot Blue Caprice Concussion Sun Don't Shine...
- 10/25/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
There aren't exactly a ton of categories at the Gotham Awards so to say one film led all others isn't exactly saying much, but numbers are numbers and 12 Years a Slave is your leader as the nominees for the 2013 Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) Gotham Awards were announced this morning and leading the way was Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave with three nominees. The Fox Searchlight release was nominated for Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Supporting Actor (Lupita Nyong'o) and Best Feature. Also among the Best Feature nominees you have Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Before Midnight, Inside Llewyn Davis and Upstream Color, the latter two also saw nominations elsewhere, Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color) for Best Actress and Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) for Best Actor. Also nominated for two awards was Blue Caprice, the film based on the Beltway shooters, with both Isaiah Washington and Alexandre Moors scoring nominations and...
- 10/24/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
New on VOD this month are two films by directors at the opposite end of their career spectrums: Amy Seimetz, the promising and supremely talented newbie director of "Sun Don't Shine," and Olivier Assayas, a seasoned auteur at the height of his powers in the early-70s-set French political drama "Something in the Air." "Sun Don't Shine" (now on Fandor) owes stylistic and thematic debts to old school Terrence Malick and John Cassavetes. But it shares more explicit similarities with another debut by a female filmmaker, Kelly Reichardt's "River of Grass" from 1994, also a Florida-set, 16mm-shot road movie concerning misanthropic lovers on the lam, and a woman running from an ineffable past. They are alike in tone and texture, and hopefully Seimetz's film, an obvious homage, portends the same kind of talent. (Check out our insightful Toh! video interview with Seimetz here, in which she describes making a movie...
- 9/23/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Guys, Cara Delevingne can sing.
The 21-year-old model has popped up in a new single called "Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine)" with London musician Will Heard, released just this week on iTunes. While it's technically not the first time Cara's showcased her vocal talents (there was this little ditty for Love magazine), it's the first time we've really noticed: Girl's got skills.
Plenty of models have tried their hands (er, voices) at singing, with varying degrees of success. Karen Elson has found a second albeit smaller career crooning country tunes, while Heidi Klum has tried singing in German with less success. Based on this new video, we'd say Cara is poised for a Karen Elson-like mini-career in music, which would earn her the "slash" title (model-slash-singer, in this case) we hear she's been jonesing for.
Check out the video above to hear Cara's soulful, bluesy harmonies with Will Heard. Would...
The 21-year-old model has popped up in a new single called "Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine)" with London musician Will Heard, released just this week on iTunes. While it's technically not the first time Cara's showcased her vocal talents (there was this little ditty for Love magazine), it's the first time we've really noticed: Girl's got skills.
Plenty of models have tried their hands (er, voices) at singing, with varying degrees of success. Karen Elson has found a second albeit smaller career crooning country tunes, while Heidi Klum has tried singing in German with less success. Based on this new video, we'd say Cara is poised for a Karen Elson-like mini-career in music, which would earn her the "slash" title (model-slash-singer, in this case) we hear she's been jonesing for.
Check out the video above to hear Cara's soulful, bluesy harmonies with Will Heard. Would...
- 8/20/2013
- by Ellie Krupnick
- Huffington Post
Not many Austinites have had the chance to see You're Next yet. The horror film, directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, screened during Fantastic Fest 2011 and again at SXSW earlier this year. Jordan attended a special screening earlier this week with stars Aj Bowen and Barbara Crampton in attendance (look for her write-up soon). But the movie isn't officially being released in Austin theaters until August 23.
Slackerwood is giving you the chance to see You're Next early -- and for free! -- next Wednesday, August 21 at 8 pm at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. We have a limited number of admit-two passes to give away.
After the jump, you'll find promotional codes and links to the Gofobo website where you can enter the code to get an admit-two pass for the screening of your choice. These are first-come, first-served passes and seating is not guaranteed. If you've been to preview screenings,...
Slackerwood is giving you the chance to see You're Next early -- and for free! -- next Wednesday, August 21 at 8 pm at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. We have a limited number of admit-two passes to give away.
After the jump, you'll find promotional codes and links to the Gofobo website where you can enter the code to get an admit-two pass for the screening of your choice. These are first-come, first-served passes and seating is not guaranteed. If you've been to preview screenings,...
- 8/15/2013
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
While her "Sun Don't Shine" director Amy Seimetz can currently be seen in AMC's "The Killing" and HBO's "Family Tree," Kate Lyn Sheil will soon be seen in television project of her own. Well, if we can classify it as TV -- Sheil, a prolific indie actress who in the last few years has starred in "The Color Wheel," "V/H/S," "Green," "Silver Bullets," "The Comedy" and many more, has joined the cast of season two of Netflix's political drama "House of Cards." Buzzfeed's Jordan Zakarin broke the news, noting that her role on the show remains secret. The second 13-episode arc of the series, which comes out on DVD today and which kicked off Netflix's ongoing and influential rollout of original programming, is currently shooting in Maryland. Sheil isn't the only new cast addition -- TVLine reported last month that Sam Page (Greg Harris on "Mad Men") and Molly Parker ("Deadwood,...
- 6/11/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Amy Seimetz almost didn't get her role on AMC's "The Killing." Network executives initially dismissed the indie actress ("Upstream Color") and filmmaker ("Sun Don't Shine") as too "cute and sweet" for the part of hot mess single mom Danette, whose teenage daughter goes missing in tonight's Season 3 premiere.
"I'm from Florida, and I'm pretty scrappy," Seimetz explains. "The idea of -- at 31 -- being called too cute and sweet made me really angry." So she fought back and ultimately won the gig with the help of a self-made audition video that didn't even feature sound ("That's when I realized that my iPad microphone was broken," she laughs).
Maybe that sweetness was a lingering trace of her role as a love interest on HBO's Christopher Guest comedy "Family Tree," which she wrapped right before landing "The Killing" and coincidentally also airs on Sunday nights. Seimetz's "Tree" arc starts June 23, and she...
"I'm from Florida, and I'm pretty scrappy," Seimetz explains. "The idea of -- at 31 -- being called too cute and sweet made me really angry." So she fought back and ultimately won the gig with the help of a self-made audition video that didn't even feature sound ("That's when I realized that my iPad microphone was broken," she laughs).
Maybe that sweetness was a lingering trace of her role as a love interest on HBO's Christopher Guest comedy "Family Tree," which she wrapped right before landing "The Killing" and coincidentally also airs on Sunday nights. Seimetz's "Tree" arc starts June 23, and she...
- 6/2/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Here's the latest Austin film news:
The Paramount Theatre kicks off its Summer Classic Film Series with an opening-nght party and a double feature on Friday, May 23. Traditional Paramount opener Casablanca and Woody Allen's romantic dramedy Annie Hall will screen. The complete summer lineup will be announced on May 16.Texas filmmaker Amy Seimetz's (our interview) dramatic thriller Sun Don't Shine (Don's review), which premiered at SXSW 2012, is out now on VOD, iTunes and Amazon, among other digital platforms, according to the film's distributor. Factory 25. Sun Don't Shine, about a couple who takes a mysterious road trip through central Florida, stars Austin-based actors Aj Bowen (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) and Mark Reeb, as well as Houston-based actress Kit Gwen. The Austin-shot film blacktino (Chip's review) is now available to rent as a Vimeo download. The dark teen comedy, about an overweight nerd trying to find his place in the world,...
The Paramount Theatre kicks off its Summer Classic Film Series with an opening-nght party and a double feature on Friday, May 23. Traditional Paramount opener Casablanca and Woody Allen's romantic dramedy Annie Hall will screen. The complete summer lineup will be announced on May 16.Texas filmmaker Amy Seimetz's (our interview) dramatic thriller Sun Don't Shine (Don's review), which premiered at SXSW 2012, is out now on VOD, iTunes and Amazon, among other digital platforms, according to the film's distributor. Factory 25. Sun Don't Shine, about a couple who takes a mysterious road trip through central Florida, stars Austin-based actors Aj Bowen (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) and Mark Reeb, as well as Houston-based actress Kit Gwen. The Austin-shot film blacktino (Chip's review) is now available to rent as a Vimeo download. The dark teen comedy, about an overweight nerd trying to find his place in the world,...
- 5/6/2013
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
Amy Seimetz's "Sun Don't Shine," which is currently in limited release after debuting at SXSW last year, is a startling, visceral freshman film from the "Upstream Color" star. In addition to receiving plenty of support in the form of rave reviews (you can read ours here), the film also serves as an announcement of the arrival of some serious talent. Both its director and two stars, venerable indie character actors Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley, are about to be unavoidable in the indie film world. Read More: Amy Seimetz Discusses Her Busy Year and Why She Hates Being Labeled a 'Breakout' Both are certainly no strangers to the industry. Sheil has appeared in films by Joe Swanberg, Sophia Takal and Alex Ross Perry, as well as last year's controversial "The Comedy," and Audley is himself a filmmaker, having directed four features and a number of shorts while finding...
- 4/30/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
Amy Seimetz is having a moment. The writer-actress-filmmaker has for the better part of a decade been making a name for herself on the indie film circuit by working with everyone from Lena Dunham on "Tiny Furniture" to Joe Swanberg" in "Alexander the Last" to anchoring Megan Griffith's acclaimed Sundance character study "The Off Hours." This year, however, marks Seimetz biggest one yet. First came Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color," in which she co-starred with the writer-director in one of the most perplexing indies to come along in ages. Friday sees the theatrical release of her directorial debut "Sun Don't Shine," a 16mm shot, micro-budget portrait of a couple (Kentucker Audley and Kate Lyn Sheil) on the run for murder. In August you can catch her in Adam Wingard's acclaimed horror pic "You're Next," opposite Ti West and Swanberg. And on the small screen, she can soon be...
- 4/26/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
There's a small scene in Sun Don't Shine that keeps playing over and over again in my head. A woman is telling a story about the time she was making a pizza and almost burned her house down. She mixed her prescription sleeping pills with wine and passed out during the aforementioned pizza-making. Hours later, she woke up to a smoke-filled house. (Somebody up there must be looking out for her.) Without any hesitation, she blames this happening on her doctor. After all, he gave her the medication, which means it's in no way her fault that the sleeping pills made her fall asleep, resulting in a non-edible pizza and near non-existent house. This small moment reminds me of Sun Don't Shine's running theme. It's...
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- 4/26/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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