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Monday, June 29, 2009
Alamo honcho taps film production
The Alamo Drafthouse is getting into the producing racket — or at least the Alamo’s co-founder Tim League is. League, also co-founder of Fantastic Fest, is putting his name as executive producer on a new “slacker revenge movie” called “Red, White and Blue,” directed by Simon Rumley (“The Living and the Dead”).
The film is in production in Austin and stars Noah Taylor (“Shine,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”), Amanda Fuller (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and Marc Senter (“Cabin Fever 2”).
Rumley’s film “The Living and the Dead” was a smash at Fantastic Fest, where it won five awards. Producers say to expect “Red, White and Blue” to be a deep-dish Austin effort, with favorite local spots and local extras.
They also say: “An unashamedly tough and uncompromising movie, ‘Red White & Blue’ is a fearlessly frank, gut-wrenching romance and a merciless exploration of the futility of violence. Like Rumley’s ‘The Living and the Dead’ before it, the movie — with its casual nudity and scenes of extreme violence — is no doubt destined for controversy.”
Sweet.
Senter, Rumley, Fuller, League and Taylor, posing badd-like
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“Lookin’ to Get Out” (Warner Bros.): Star and producer Jon Voight has championed this never-before-seen edit of the late-career comedy by Hal Ashby (“Harold & Maude,” “Being There”), swearing it restores a director’s vision badly mangled by the original distributor.
“Eastbound & Down” Season 1 & “Entourage” Season 5 (HBO): The HBO debut of love him/hate him funnyman Danny McBride’s quirky series shares a release date with the latest installment of the cable channel’s most guilty pleasure, which happily hasn’t been derailed by costar Jeremy Piven’s little sushi problem.
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“Dark Streets” (Sony); “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,” “12 Rounds” (Fox); “Two Lovers” (Magnolia)
BEST OF TV
“Ali On Ali: The Lost Interviews,” “Swiss Family Robinson” Complete Series (Image); “Apollo 11” (Acorn Media); “The IT Crowd” Season 2 (MPI); “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” Season 2 (Lions Gate); “Stargate: Atlantis” Season 5 (MGM)
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“Kamp Katrina” (Carnivalesque); “RiP! A Remix Manifesto” (Disinformation)
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“Los Bastardos” (Kino); “Tokyo!” (Liberation)
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“British Cinema: Renown Pictures Crime & Noir” (VCI); “M. Butterfly” (Warner Bros.)
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“The Education of Charlie Banks,” directed by Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst (Anchor Bay); “The Human Contract,” directed by Jada Pinkett Smith (Sony)
CULT CORNER
“Door Into Silence,” “Fulci Frenzy” (Severin); “Header” (Synapse); “Kaidan” (Lions Gate); “Women In Prison” (Shock-O-Rama)
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