New Mexico in the late 19th century, as shown in Jt Mollner’s “Outlaws and Angels,” is a land where zealotry and hypocrisy go hand and hand, where Thomas Hobbes’ “nasty, brutish and short” characterization of human nature guides every interpersonal relationship. While that may not be an inaccurate characterization of what small-town life was like in the American Southwest during the Cleveland administration, “Outlaws and Angels” overestimates its own elegance, delivering a misguided ode to frontier ugliness.
Fittingly, “Outlaws and Angels” opens with a bloodbath, a bank heist gone wrong that leaves a Us Marshall dead. The gang responsible for the crime, armed by ringleader Henry (Chad Michael Murray) and laden with the fruits of their labor, quickly seek refuge from their newly-earned bounty. Starving and with no means of transportation across the Mexican border, the group happens on an unassuming farmhouse, home to the local preacher George Tildon...
Fittingly, “Outlaws and Angels” opens with a bloodbath, a bank heist gone wrong that leaves a Us Marshall dead. The gang responsible for the crime, armed by ringleader Henry (Chad Michael Murray) and laden with the fruits of their labor, quickly seek refuge from their newly-earned bounty. Starving and with no means of transportation across the Mexican border, the group happens on an unassuming farmhouse, home to the local preacher George Tildon...
- 7/15/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
For Outlaws and Angels, seasoned Dp Matthew Irving and first-time writer/director Jt Moliner wanted a film that looked as though it were “excavated straight out of a vault from the 1970s.” Irving shot the film on 35mm and used Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller as a chief reference point. Below, Irving talks about shooting on 35, the film’s elaborate 11-minute long take and the “grit and grain” of ’70s cinema. Outlaws and Angels made its world premiere at Sundance 2016. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led […]...
- 1/30/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For Outlaws and Angels, seasoned Dp Matthew Irving and first-time writer/director Jt Moliner wanted a film that looked as though it were “excavated straight out of a vault from the 1970s.” Irving shot the film on 35mm and used Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller as a chief reference point. Below, Irving talks about shooting on 35, the film’s elaborate 11-minute long take and the “grit and grain” of ’70s cinema. Outlaws and Angels made its world premiere at Sundance 2016. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led […]...
- 1/30/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Three bank robbers walk into a dysfunctional home on the prairie in Jt Mollner‘s cold-blooded Outlaws and Angels, filmed and premiering at Sundance in glorious 35mm. The premise naturally evokes Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, particularly when it comes to the outlaws, however light their presence may be. Amongst the three groups — the outlaws, the Tildon family and the law — angels, too, are largely missing in the film.
Opening on a small farm estate we are briefly introduced to the Tildon clan: patriarch George (Ben Browder) is a tough recovering alcoholic who attempts to get right with the Lord, even if his daughters Flo (Francesca Eastwood) and Charlotte (Madisen Beaty) aren’t buying it. Short on life outside of the homestead (they’re told most of the eligible bachelors in town have taken ill) they remain the ward of George until they are liberated by a band of outlaws.
Opening on a small farm estate we are briefly introduced to the Tildon clan: patriarch George (Ben Browder) is a tough recovering alcoholic who attempts to get right with the Lord, even if his daughters Flo (Francesca Eastwood) and Charlotte (Madisen Beaty) aren’t buying it. Short on life outside of the homestead (they’re told most of the eligible bachelors in town have taken ill) they remain the ward of George until they are liberated by a band of outlaws.
- 1/28/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
The 2015 Portland Film Festival is Oregon’s largest film event of the year, with 80 narrative and documentary feature films and 134 short films selected out of 3500 Submissions.
This weeklong extravaganza also includes over 75 Master Classes, Two Lifetime Achievement Tributes, and an unprecedented live event featuring Several Thousand Festivalgoers As Extras in a record-setting Zombie Day Event.
Los Angeles – August 13, 2015 – Portland Film Festival announced today the feature film competition programs, opening and closing screenings, music and midnight sections, tribute presentations, northwest, and special screenings for the 2015 Portland Film Festival. The 3rd Annual festival is a weeklong event of 214 screenings of feature length and short films from around the world, red carpet world premieres, tributes to filmmaking legends, more than 50 hours of professional workshops, nightly after-parties and more.
The third annual Portland Film Festival will take place September 1 – 7th, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, at seven venues throughout the city,...
The 2015 Portland Film Festival is Oregon’s largest film event of the year, with 80 narrative and documentary feature films and 134 short films selected out of 3500 Submissions.
This weeklong extravaganza also includes over 75 Master Classes, Two Lifetime Achievement Tributes, and an unprecedented live event featuring Several Thousand Festivalgoers As Extras in a record-setting Zombie Day Event.
Los Angeles – August 13, 2015 – Portland Film Festival announced today the feature film competition programs, opening and closing screenings, music and midnight sections, tribute presentations, northwest, and special screenings for the 2015 Portland Film Festival. The 3rd Annual festival is a weeklong event of 214 screenings of feature length and short films from around the world, red carpet world premieres, tributes to filmmaking legends, more than 50 hours of professional workshops, nightly after-parties and more.
The third annual Portland Film Festival will take place September 1 – 7th, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, at seven venues throughout the city,...
- 8/24/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
We have added a set pictures from the event 17th Annual Arpa International Film Festival ‘Odd Brodsky’ Screening. Guests included John Alton, Cindy Baer and Leigh Forrest, Tegan Ashton Cohan, Cindy Baer, Leigh Forrest, Tegan Ashton Cohan and Scotty Dickert, Scotty Dickert, Isaac Kaplan and Scotty Dickert, Leigh Forrest and Tegan Ashton Cohan, Matthew Irving and Cindy Baer, Sonia Ete, Cindy Baer and Thierry Ete, Isaac Kaplan, Thierry Ete, Sonia Ete and Scotty Dickert, Sonia Ete and Thierry Ete, Marianne Davis and Tegan Ashton Cohan. Photos are copyright by Winston Burris / PR Photos. John Alton, Cindy Baer and Leigh Forrest […]...
- 11/18/2014
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Fangoria will host a free screening of the new infection thriller Quarantine 2: Terminal tonight at Los Angeles’ Silent Movie Theater (611 North Fairfax Avenue; [323] 655-2510). The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be hosted by writer/director John Pogue (scripter of The Skulls and Ghost Ship), who will participate in a Q&A after the screening. Stars Mercedes Masohn and Bre Blair, cinematographer Matt Irving and FX artist Robert Hall will also be attending. See below the jump for more details on the Fango premiere.
- 6/14/2011
- by samueldzimmerman@gmail.com (FANGORIA Staff)
- Fangoria
Stars Mercedes Masohn (Red Sands) and Bre Blair (Cherry Falls) and cinematographer Matt Irving (The Echo) will join writer/director John (Ghost Ship) Pogue at Fangoria’s free screening of the new infection thriller Quarantine 2: Terminal this coming Tuesday, June 14 at Los Angeles’ Silent Movie Theater (611 North Fairfax Avenue; [323] 655-2510). The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and will include a Q&A after the screening. See below the jump for more details on the Fango premiere, exclusive pics and a link to Quarantine 2’s official website.
- 6/10/2011
- by samueldzimmerman@gmail.com (FANGORIA Staff)
- Fangoria
There is slow burn, and then there is no burn, that type of film that keeps making you think something, anything, is about to happen. Sometimes, if it is done poorly, a no burn film will tease you so hard that a big plot turn is coming just around the corner that it becomes obvious that no twist is coming. Fortunately, Carolyn Miller’s thriller Under Still Waters does offer that elusive twist. Sometime does occur in the film to make all the tantalizing and smoke generating seemingly worth while. However, it takes some time to get to that point, and, by the time it does, the film has fallen so far into no burn territory that it’s hard to recover.
Lake Bell and Jason Clarke play Charlie and Andrew, respectively, a young couple who are trying to work through their issues. Charlie’s father is a very powerful and very rich man,...
Lake Bell and Jason Clarke play Charlie and Andrew, respectively, a young couple who are trying to work through their issues. Charlie’s father is a very powerful and very rich man,...
- 11/13/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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