Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs.

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Footage from My Own Private Idaho (1991) is re-contextualized in James Franco’s tribute to River Phoenix.

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The brief, but mythical, life and career of film acting legend James Dean is dramatized in this biographical 2001 feature, originally produced for cable television. Dean is portrayed here as a hard worker and wild man, yet a sensitive lost… The brief, but mythical, life and career of film acting legend James Dean is dramatized in this biographical 2001 feature, originally produced for cable television. Dean is portrayed here as a hard worker and wild man, yet a sensitive lost soul whose own turbulent life mirrored the roles he took on his short, but greatly influential career. Dean is played by James Franco under the direction of Hollywood veteran Mark Rydell, a friend of Dean during his life. Rydell’s insights provide an especially insightful look at studio politics and procedure in the 1950s.

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Synopsis by Jack Rodgers
A car accident brings together a writer, his girlfriend, a publisher’s assistant, and a mother in mourning. James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Marie-Josée Croze co-star. Directed by Wim Wenders.

Berlin Film Review: ‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’
A tragic car accident links the lives of a struggling writer (James Franco), his long-suffering girlfriend (Rachel McAdams), a grieving mother (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and a publisher’s assistant (Marie-Josée Croze), in this intricate and beautifully shot 3D drama from master director Wim Wenders (Pina).
After shooting his magnificent dance documentary, Pina, in 3D, Wim Wenders stated that he wouldn’t revert to two-dimensional format for his next narrative feature. He has kept his word with Every Thing Will Be Fine, and it’s interesting to see what a filmmaker of his stature can do with the technology in an intimate drama not at all similar to the special effects-driven spectacles that remain the natural home for 3D.
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The Quebec landscape provides a rich backdrop as Wenders casts his camera on an author coming to terms with a fatal car accident. Holed up in a cabin in the wintry wilds near Oka, Tomas (James Franco) is struggling with writer’s block. While driving in a ferocious blizzard, he hits and kills a young boy. This tragedy becomes the fulcrum for an agonizing reappraisal of his life. Tomas finds himself in an existential trap, caught between competing forces: his long-suffering girlfriend Sara (Rachel McAdams, also appearing at the Festival in Spotlight); the victim’s mother, Kate (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and older brother; and Ann (Marie-Josée Croze), an assistant at his publishing company. As the years slip by, Tomas revisits the scene of the accident in an attempt to make sense of it all, even as the rest of his life progresses.
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Wenders and cinematographer Benoît Debie (known also for his work with Gaspar Noé and Harmony Korine) eschew pyrotechnics in favour of technique. Every Thing Will Be Fine’s visuals actually ensure that the film’s psychology eclipses its technology. Rather than driving attention, the 3D supports it subtly, adding depth in composition to a film filled with dark tones, and we’re drawn deeper into the drama. Wenders, one of the pre-eminent filmmakers of the past forty years, continues to explore the potentials of the medium, his characteristic sensitivity to themes of loss and absence still intact. @ TIFF.net

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Nicolas Cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera with “Sonny,” the tale of a young man groomed as a gigolo by his Southern momma from age 12. Distinguished by affecting performances, commercial prospects seem modest but honorable in light of the semi-sordid storyline. However, anyone who gives “Sonny” a spin is unlikely to quickly forget it.

Pic made trade headlines prior to its Deauville world preem when Robert Dellinger filed suit against Cage and assorted production companies for failing to give him screen credit as co-writer. Dellinger claimed he and credited scripter John Carlen co-wrote a handful of screenplays when both were incarcerated in the ’70s, and “Sonny” borrows much from those texts.

Per production notes, Cage considered playing the lead himself in the mid-’80s and, later, never having forgotten the unusual material, dug up the script for his directing bow.

Besides “Midnight Cowboy” and “American Gigolo,” there aren’t many mainstream movies centered on straight male prostitutes. “Sonny” is a worthy, if indie-style, addition to the list, with James Franco (“James Dean”) making a lead as special as Jon Voight or Richard Gere in the aforementioned films.

Pic is set in New Orleans over the course of a few weeks in 1981. Fresh out of the Army, Sonny (Franco), who never knew his father and whose mother, Jewel (Brenda Blethyn), is a whore past her prime, returns to the house on Bourbon Street where Jewel lives with her cordial loser of a companion, Henry (Harry Dean Stanton).

Jewel made no provision for her retirement and Henry’s main source of income is petty theft. Jewel’s only cash is brought in by her lone “employee,” Carol (Mena Suvari), a fresh-faced call-girl she rescued from a hospital and put to work.

So Jewel is delighted Sonny is back, handsome as ever at age 26. But Sonny has no intention of returning to the gigolo biz, especially as an army buddy (Scott Caan) has promised him a job at a bookstore in Texas.

While encouraging Sonny to strive for the “square” life, Henry warns him that normal existence is also fraught with pitfalls, especially for someone whose sexual talents are considerable but whose social skills were channeled into a commercially expedient direction.

Indeed, the job promised by Sonny’s army pal doesn’t pan out, and a date with what Sonny believes to be a typical girl ends in (an impressively staged) crisis.

Sonny returns to New Orleans, and he and Carol begin working as a duo servicing bored couples. However, the couple Carol most yearns to form is a real one.

Movie is full of meaty scenes played to the hilt, the atmosphere a cousin to Tennessee Williams sans the florid dialogue. Set at the tail-end of an AIDS-free universe — with just a passing reference to a “new virus” in a men’s brothel — pic makes sex a forthright commodity, almost in the manner of a public service.

As Sonny’s mom, Blethyn is a whirlwind of broad emotion, while Franco makes the title character a paragon of boyish understatement, his occasional outbursts all the more effective. Suvari, as Carol, convinces as a pretty young thing who deserves better but can’t find a way to reach the feelings that were mostly bred out of Sonny by formative years devoted to the skilled lies of the hustler’s trade.

Stanton is a perfect blend of inherent dignity and pathos. Meanwhile, Cage, almost unrecognizable, casts himself as Acid Yellow, a coke-addled queen complete with frilly yellow suit (which belonged to Liberace and Cage bought at an auction years ago) and walking stick.

A selection of middle-aged thesps are marvelous as women of stature with basic needs they pay Sonny to fill. These include Brenda Vacarro, who enjoyed the ministrations of Joe Buck in “Midnight Cowboy,” here portraying an appreciative and pragmatic matron.

Cage’s approach to the material is unfailingly adult and non-judgmental. Sex scenes are convincing but never crass, with some older breasts and Franco’s handsome derriere on show.

Lensing makes good use of locations and imparts a refreshingly polished look to settings whose seediness others may have been tempted to underline. Scoring is mostly thoughtful, as is source music from Bach to disco.

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From wiki: The Company is composed of stories gathered from the actual dancers, choreographers, and office staff of the Joffrey Ballet. Most of the roles are played by real-life company members. While there are small subplots involving a love story between Campbell’s character and a character played by James Franco, most of the movie focuses on the company as a whole, without any real star or linear plot. The many real-life stories woven together show the dedication and hard work that dancers must put in to their art, even though they are seldom rewarded with fame, fortune, or even a statue, painting, or album on which to look back.

The Company was an idea of Campbell’s for a long time – she began her career as a ballet dancer, having been a student at Canada’s National Ballet School. [2] Altman was reportedly reluctant to take on the directing of the movie initially[citation needed], but later relented. After filming was concluded, Campbell was offered a position to dance in the company, but turned it down due to injuries and a desire to keep acting.

# Altman’s first foray into High Definition Video.

# Altman shot 10 ballets in full specially for the film.
Ballets Shown : – Light Rain: Choreography by Gerald Arpino – Tensile Involvement: Choreography by Alwin Nikolais – Suite Saint-Saëns: Choreography by Gerald Arpino – My Funny Valentine: Choreography by Lar Lubovitch – Creative Force: Choreography by Laura Dean – Trinity: Choreography by Gerald Arpino – Strange Prisoners: Choreography by Davis Robertson – La Vivandi È Re Pas De Six: Choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon;transcribed by Ann Hutchinson Guest – White Widow: Choreography by Moses Pendleton and Cynthia Quinn – Momix The Blue Snake: Choreography by Robert Desrosiers.

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