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The Drop

9/13/2014

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Director Michaël Roskam made a strong debut with Bullhead, an ominous Belgian drama that was nominated last year for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture. A yarn about petty criminals and black market steroids, the film featured an excellent lead performance by Flemish actor Matthias Schoenaerts as Jacky, a farmer and small time criminal who, jacked up on hubris and hormones, was slowly seeding his own destruction. With his new noir thriller,The Drop, Roskam chose a Dennis Lehane short story, “Animal Rescue,” and transplanted it from Boston to Brooklyn. A wise decision: from The Boondock Saints through Mystic River,The Departed, and Ray Donovan, the mash-up of Southie crime and the Catholic Church has become more than a little tread-worn. Lehane’s story is well suited to New York’s grimy streets and working class neighborhoods, where the Catholic Church still looms large. Roskam’s visual style emphasizes the proletariat faces and dark spaces of a dingy terrain filled with the omnipresent one–upsmanship of small time crooks.
James Gandolfini, in his final role, is Cousin Marv MORE .........




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Land Ho

9/3/2014

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Aaron Katz’s early movies are stories of young, mostly white, twenty-somethings stumbling through relationships and rambling exchanges, their encounters filmed in a handheld style that captures their day-to-day frustrations. His first movie, Dance Party U.S.A, was one of the seminal entries in the ‘mumblecorps’ genre. His second film, 2007′s Quiet City, became a critics’ favorite, along with Joe Swanberg’s Hanna Takes the Stairs. The former featured Swanberg and writer/actor/director Michael Tully (Ping Pong Summer, Septien). Thus a repertory of ‘mumblecorps’ actors and directors took shape, moviemakers dedicated to interesting low budget work that ignored stars in favor of real people, chose simple awkwardness over gross-out comedy, and explored the difficulty of relationships rather than wallow in Hollywood murder, mayhem, and explosions. Many of these artists continued to evolve: Swanberg, Mark and Jay Duplass, Greta Gerwig, Lynn Shelton, and Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture,Girls). They have attained varying levels of success as writers, directors, and actors. Chad Hartigan, an actor in Katz’s first film, directed the charming This is Martin Bonner in 2013. That film featured a subtle knockout performance by Australian actor Paul Eenhoorn in the title role  
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