Paste’s choice for the Best Original Screenplay of 2010 isn’t even nominated for an Academy Award. The script was originally penned by Atlanta’s Scott Seeke and his friend Chris Provenzano based on a story that Seeke’s wife’s grandfather told him on the porch one night. Ten years and several Hollywood legends later, Get Low made its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, was immediately bought by Sony Pictures, and has moved audiences everywhere. This week it’s finally out on DVD and Blu-Ray. Paste sat down recently with Scott to talk about the film’s origins, themes, and reception....
- 2/28/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
I suppose Aaron Schneider knows a thing or two about how to make a cold gray stark wintry movie look even more Great Depression-y: washing out the colors, tweeding everyone up, getting lots of sad browns and golds on the screen. Schneider’s a cinematographer, see, making his feature debut as a director with Get Low (though did win an Oscar for his 2003 just-short-of-feature-length short “Two Soldiers”), and if there’s something Get Low has in spades, it’s atmosphere: the film is visually cold and spare, and agreeably so, while at the same time it’s emotionally warm and expressive. The look comes via cinematographer David Boyd, who also shot the Depression-set Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, as well as Joss Whedon’s short-lived TV series Firefly, which had a similar palette. The story comes via screenwriters Chris Provenzano (TV’s Mad Men), C. Gaby Mitchell (Blood Diamond), and Scott Seeke,...
- 8/19/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Note: This review was originally written on January 23rd, 2010.
Rating: 4/5
Writers: Chris Provenzano (screenplay), C. Gaby Mitchell (screenplay), Chris Provenzano (story), Scott Seeke (story)
Director: Aaron Schneider
Cast: Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Sissy Spacek
Studio: Sony Pictures Classic
Set in 1930s Tennessee, Get Low tells the tale of a crotchety old hermit named Felix Bush (Duvall), who has created his own literal and figurative prison in the woods for a horrible incident that occurred 40 years prior. In the nearby town, stories and urban legends of Felix run rampant, as everyone both fears and hates him. Everyone but the widower Mattie Darrow (Sissy Spacek), who Felix once had a relationship with before fleeing from his former life abruptly. But even she doesn’t know the full extent of the sordid past belonging to the man she once knew and loved.
As Felix nears the end of his life, he...
Rating: 4/5
Writers: Chris Provenzano (screenplay), C. Gaby Mitchell (screenplay), Chris Provenzano (story), Scott Seeke (story)
Director: Aaron Schneider
Cast: Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Sissy Spacek
Studio: Sony Pictures Classic
Set in 1930s Tennessee, Get Low tells the tale of a crotchety old hermit named Felix Bush (Duvall), who has created his own literal and figurative prison in the woods for a horrible incident that occurred 40 years prior. In the nearby town, stories and urban legends of Felix run rampant, as everyone both fears and hates him. Everyone but the widower Mattie Darrow (Sissy Spacek), who Felix once had a relationship with before fleeing from his former life abruptly. But even she doesn’t know the full extent of the sordid past belonging to the man she once knew and loved.
As Felix nears the end of his life, he...
- 8/13/2010
- by James Wallace
- GordonandtheWhale
The protagonist of drama "Get Low" is a man who blocks himself off from society, but the film's star Robert Duvall was in the thick of things at the Sundance premiere. Joining Duvall on the red carpet were fellow cast members Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black, Lori Beth Edgeman and director Aaron Schneider, with writers Chris Provenzano and Scott Seeke.
"Get Low" is a character study of shut-in Felix Bush (Duvall) and the town that lives in both fear and continuing curiosity of him, creating tall tales about their run-ins with the local hermit. The real nature of Felix becomes that much more complex when he engages the local funeral director (Murray) to throw his funeral before his actual death, so he can get a first hand account of what people think of him.
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"Get Low" is a character study of shut-in Felix Bush (Duvall) and the town that lives in both fear and continuing curiosity of him, creating tall tales about their run-ins with the local hermit. The real nature of Felix becomes that much more complex when he engages the local funeral director (Murray) to throw his funeral before his actual death, so he can get a first hand account of what people think of him.
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- 1/29/2010
- by IFC
- ifc.com
- T minus two. Nothing to report on, except I ran into a pair of poster one sheets of films I'll be covering that obviously caught my eye. The first we have the one sheet for (a smaller, clearer version of it can be found on IMDb) Aaron Schneider's feature length film debut. A cinematographer by trade, Schneider's last short actually won him the Oscar and this lifts from the short. Written by Chris Provenzano, C. Gaby Mitchell and Scott Seeke, Get Low is based on the winning short Two Soldiers and based on the true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale. Set in the depression-era 1930s Tennessee, when a man with a shady past (Robert Duvall) tries to find redemption through witnessing his own funeral as part of a funeral home’s promotional stunt. Sissy Spacek plays a woman from his past and Bill Murray makes a rare appearance
- 9/8/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- An indication that Atom Egoyan's Chloe will most definitely find a competition slot in Venice, Tiff has uncharacteristically went with a foreign English language title as the film festival's opening night selection. The spot usually reserved for a Canadian film went to Jon Amiel's unsold Creation which will have its world premiere on the 10th of September. Today's announcement of 23 titles confirms the a.) red carpet presence and early seat sale interest with names/faces like Matt Damon, Ricky Gervais, Clive Owen and Michael Douglas, b.) the latest from Bruno Dumont, Niki Caro, Neil Jordan and Tim Blake Nelson will not be receiving comp slots in Venice but will be part of the Special Presentations at Tiff instead, and c.) a sampling of adult fair titles (Solitary Man, Valhalla Rising, The Boys Are Back, Mao’s Last Dancer, Moloch Tropical, Cracks) that were perhaps not ready or
- 7/14/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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