This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. Brad Furman‘s latest movie, Runner Runner, has been getting terrible reviews. Like really, really terrible. I think we at Fsr even just avoided it entirely. That’s a shame because his first two narrative features, The Take and The Lincoln Lawyer, were pretty well received. And prior to that, his shorts were successful, too. His debut is called Fast Forward, and it involves the 1981 shooting of President Reagan. Rather than recreating the incident entirely, Furman takes the familiar TV footage, which millions of us have seen over and over before, and mixes it with peripheral reenactment where necessary for an added fictional component. Using the real material is for good purpose as the point of the film seems to be that the footage — and much of television like it — is confusing...
- 10/6/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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“Remember Me” stars Robert Pattinson, Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin, Lena Olin, Caitlyn Rund, Gregory Jbara, Ruby Jerins, Tate Ellington and David Deblinger from director Allen Coulter and writer Will Fetters.
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The movie poster for “Remember Me” with Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin.
Image credit: Summit Entertainment
Here is the “Remember Me...
“Remember Me” stars Robert Pattinson, Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin, Lena Olin, Caitlyn Rund, Gregory Jbara, Ruby Jerins, Tate Ellington and David Deblinger from director Allen Coulter and writer Will Fetters.
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The movie poster for “Remember Me” with Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin.
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Here is the “Remember Me...
- 3/10/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A terribly self-conscious attempt to meld black comedy, satire and brutal violence, Amos Poe's feature includes the by-now-standard gallery of reputable performers slumming in an attempt to gain indie credibility. Barbara Hershey, barely managing to maintain her dignity, stars as a struggling actress who moonlights as one of the screen's more unlikely mob collectors.
Poe's ("The Blank Generation", "Alphabet City") conceit is to link the desperation of New York's downtown acting community with the ruthless physical and emotional violence of David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino. When the motley crew of unemployed actors depicted in "Frogs for Snakes" (the title is taken from a Sonny Boy Williamson tune) insist that they would "kill for a part," the joke is that they mean it literally.
Hershey plays Eva, an actress who sidelines as a waitress at her friend Quint's (Ian Hart) diner and as an enforcer (she proudly insists that she'll maim but won't kill) for her ex-husband Al (the always wonderful Robbie Coltrane), a loan shark who also happens to be a small-time theatrical producer.
To collect his debts, Al has at his disposal a group of terminally unemployed actors who he knows are desperate. Particularly eager to play the lead role in Al's new production of Mamet's "American Buffalo" is his driver/hitman U.B. (David Deblinger). Al promises him the part on the condition that he whack Eva's new lover Zip (John Leguizamo), thus setting in motion Eva's resolve to quit show business.
Among the other actors on display are Harry Hamlin, Lisa Marie, Debi Mazar, Ron Perlman and Clarence Williams III, doing their best to act as sleazy and untalented as possible.
Although Poe's idea is not without its comic possibilities, he applies such a heavy hand to the material that it comes off more grotesque than satirical, with the dialogue straining for wit but mainly falling flat. Not helping matters is the endless display of explicitly gruesome, over-the-top violence that signifies nothing more than a filmmaker desperate to shock and at the same time entirely too pleased with himself.
FROGS FOR SNAKES
Artisan Entertainment
Presented by the Shooting Gallery
in association with Rain Films
Director-screenwriter:Amos Poe
Producer:Phyllis Freed Kaufman
Executive producers:Larry Meistrich, Daniel J. Victor
Associate producers:Keith Abell, Ara Cohen
Co-producer:Jonathan Starch
Director of photography:Enrique Chediak
Production designer:Michael Shaw
Editor:Jeff Kushner
Music score:Lazy Boy
Color/stereo
Cast:
Eva:Barbara Hershey
Al:Robbie Coltrane
Myrna:Lisa Marie
Quint:Ian Hart
U.B.:David Deblinger
Iggy:Nick Cinlund
Klench:Harry Hamlin
Simone:Debi Mazar
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Poe's ("The Blank Generation", "Alphabet City") conceit is to link the desperation of New York's downtown acting community with the ruthless physical and emotional violence of David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino. When the motley crew of unemployed actors depicted in "Frogs for Snakes" (the title is taken from a Sonny Boy Williamson tune) insist that they would "kill for a part," the joke is that they mean it literally.
Hershey plays Eva, an actress who sidelines as a waitress at her friend Quint's (Ian Hart) diner and as an enforcer (she proudly insists that she'll maim but won't kill) for her ex-husband Al (the always wonderful Robbie Coltrane), a loan shark who also happens to be a small-time theatrical producer.
To collect his debts, Al has at his disposal a group of terminally unemployed actors who he knows are desperate. Particularly eager to play the lead role in Al's new production of Mamet's "American Buffalo" is his driver/hitman U.B. (David Deblinger). Al promises him the part on the condition that he whack Eva's new lover Zip (John Leguizamo), thus setting in motion Eva's resolve to quit show business.
Among the other actors on display are Harry Hamlin, Lisa Marie, Debi Mazar, Ron Perlman and Clarence Williams III, doing their best to act as sleazy and untalented as possible.
Although Poe's idea is not without its comic possibilities, he applies such a heavy hand to the material that it comes off more grotesque than satirical, with the dialogue straining for wit but mainly falling flat. Not helping matters is the endless display of explicitly gruesome, over-the-top violence that signifies nothing more than a filmmaker desperate to shock and at the same time entirely too pleased with himself.
FROGS FOR SNAKES
Artisan Entertainment
Presented by the Shooting Gallery
in association with Rain Films
Director-screenwriter:Amos Poe
Producer:Phyllis Freed Kaufman
Executive producers:Larry Meistrich, Daniel J. Victor
Associate producers:Keith Abell, Ara Cohen
Co-producer:Jonathan Starch
Director of photography:Enrique Chediak
Production designer:Michael Shaw
Editor:Jeff Kushner
Music score:Lazy Boy
Color/stereo
Cast:
Eva:Barbara Hershey
Al:Robbie Coltrane
Myrna:Lisa Marie
Quint:Ian Hart
U.B.:David Deblinger
Iggy:Nick Cinlund
Klench:Harry Hamlin
Simone:Debi Mazar
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 5/21/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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