If you were an American independent filmmaker in the '90s, you could do a lot worse than casting Quentin Tarantino in a role. Odds are, you were already trying to rip him off anyway — maybe putting him in the movie could bring some of the magic he delivered with 1992's "Reservoir Dogs" and 1994's "Pulp Fiction." Movies like Rory Kelly's "Sleep With Me" let him play himself, riffing on the homoerotic subtext of "Top Gun." But only one movie trusted that the director's acting chops were sufficient to play the role of God. Or something.
That was "Destiny Turns On The Radio," a sprawling and silly crime comedy where prison escapee Julian (Dylan McDermott) returns home after three years spent locked up. He's hoping to make good with ex-girlfriend Lucille (Nancy Travis) and tie up loose ends with others like partner-in-crime Thoreau (James LeGros) and his Pappy (Tracey Walker). Meanwhile,...
That was "Destiny Turns On The Radio," a sprawling and silly crime comedy where prison escapee Julian (Dylan McDermott) returns home after three years spent locked up. He's hoping to make good with ex-girlfriend Lucille (Nancy Travis) and tie up loose ends with others like partner-in-crime Thoreau (James LeGros) and his Pappy (Tracey Walker). Meanwhile,...
- 10/8/2023
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
Before he was a superstar auteur, a Royale-with-Cheese rock star, the divisive and worshiped motormouth who launched a thousand dissertations and 10 times as many Film Twitter flame wars, Quentin Tarantino was a movie fanatic.
It pays to remember this fact — not that the raconteur would ever let you forget it. Read those early interviews, right as Reservoir Dogs was beginning to establish him as one of the exciting (and the most excitable) filmmakers of the 1990s, and you’ll hear him wax poetic about John Woo and Jean-Pierre Melville, Rio Bravo...
It pays to remember this fact — not that the raconteur would ever let you forget it. Read those early interviews, right as Reservoir Dogs was beginning to establish him as one of the exciting (and the most excitable) filmmakers of the 1990s, and you’ll hear him wax poetic about John Woo and Jean-Pierre Melville, Rio Bravo...
- 11/6/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Cleeve and Brendan Pinches.
Who needs film schools? Not Brendan Pinches, whose documentary about an anonymous female street artist who paints portraits of train commuters won the main prize at Tropfest in Sydney on Saturday night.
The self-taught Pinches wrote, directed and produced Be You T. Fool, his first ever short, collaborating with Dave Cleeve as the editor and Dop.
Eric Bana, who presented the winner’s trophy, said the judges were unanimous in their decision and described the film as “entertaining, well-made, inspiring and emotional: It had everything.”
Now 32, Pinches spent the last 10 years working in sales and marketing for a family engineering company. He is moving to a part-time role at the company as he is embarking on a Masters of Film and TV at Vca.
Pinches left a note addressed to the mystery painter with his telephone number on the Chandler Highway bridge, which is adorned with her works,...
Who needs film schools? Not Brendan Pinches, whose documentary about an anonymous female street artist who paints portraits of train commuters won the main prize at Tropfest in Sydney on Saturday night.
The self-taught Pinches wrote, directed and produced Be You T. Fool, his first ever short, collaborating with Dave Cleeve as the editor and Dop.
Eric Bana, who presented the winner’s trophy, said the judges were unanimous in their decision and described the film as “entertaining, well-made, inspiring and emotional: It had everything.”
Now 32, Pinches spent the last 10 years working in sales and marketing for a family engineering company. He is moving to a part-time role at the company as he is embarking on a Masters of Film and TV at Vca.
Pinches left a note addressed to the mystery painter with his telephone number on the Chandler Highway bridge, which is adorned with her works,...
- 2/10/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Allie’.
Tropfest has unveiled the 16 finalists for this year’s festival, which will be held on February 9.
Each film selected has referenced the 2019 Tropfest Signature Item (Tsi): ‘candle’. Organisers state this year’s films represent storytelling focused on diverse issues and people, with films such as Crush, following a lovestruck queer teen who racks up a hefty bill courting a cute shop girl; Comican’t, which stars a cast of actors with disability, and Allie, about the friendship between a car enthusiast and a young girl with disability.
The winner of Tropfest 2019 will be awarded a Equinox Ls+ valued at $32,000; a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of Kennedy Miller Mitchell; a $500 Camera Hire voucher, a 12 month Gold Pass courtesy of Event Cinemas; and a Professional Subscription to Digiital Pigeon.
They’ll also earn a film immersion course and week of meetings in Los Angeles with agents, studio executives and other industry...
Tropfest has unveiled the 16 finalists for this year’s festival, which will be held on February 9.
Each film selected has referenced the 2019 Tropfest Signature Item (Tsi): ‘candle’. Organisers state this year’s films represent storytelling focused on diverse issues and people, with films such as Crush, following a lovestruck queer teen who racks up a hefty bill courting a cute shop girl; Comican’t, which stars a cast of actors with disability, and Allie, about the friendship between a car enthusiast and a young girl with disability.
The winner of Tropfest 2019 will be awarded a Equinox Ls+ valued at $32,000; a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of Kennedy Miller Mitchell; a $500 Camera Hire voucher, a 12 month Gold Pass courtesy of Event Cinemas; and a Professional Subscription to Digiital Pigeon.
They’ll also earn a film immersion course and week of meetings in Los Angeles with agents, studio executives and other industry...
- 1/24/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
When you think of Quentin Tarantino, classic films like “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” and “Django Unchained” certainly come to mind. But what about the critically reviled “Saturday Night Live” sketch adaptation “It’s Pat”? Or the Michael Bay Alcatraz action movie “The Rock”? Tarantino’s fingerprints have been all over the movies ever since his breakout debut in 1992, and some of his projects are way more bizarre than others.
Read More:Quentin Tarantino Wants Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence For New Movie, And They Shouldn’t Resist
The director is currently getting together his ninth feature, which will be his penultimate effort behind the camera if his retirement talks are to be believed. Sources say Tarantino is putting together a drama involving the Manson family murders and that he’s eyeing Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence to star. As the filmmakers looks to the future for his next project, we...
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The director is currently getting together his ninth feature, which will be his penultimate effort behind the camera if his retirement talks are to be believed. Sources say Tarantino is putting together a drama involving the Manson family murders and that he’s eyeing Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence to star. As the filmmakers looks to the future for his next project, we...
- 8/22/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Rory Kelly's feature debut, Sleep With Me, boasts an impressive cast and looks good on paper but there's a reason that this 1994 movie is only just coming to DVD. The idea of having six writers scribing different scenes is an interesting one and brave for a first-time feature director. The inclusion of a substantial Quentin Tarantino cameo theoretically raises the street-cred of this mid-90s flick, but unfortunately fails to make the film stand out.
A road-movie opening clearly indicates two friends are desperately competing for one girl's affections until Sarah marries Joseph, leaving Frank to dangerously reflect. Kelly then uses black-and-white video recordings of friends' best wishes on the eve of their wedding, black and white camcorded footage of a pool party and eight unequal titled sections to tell this tale of lust, rivalry and jealousy.
A road-movie opening clearly indicates two friends are desperately competing for one girl's affections until Sarah marries Joseph, leaving Frank to dangerously reflect. Kelly then uses black-and-white video recordings of friends' best wishes on the eve of their wedding, black and white camcorded footage of a pool party and eight unequal titled sections to tell this tale of lust, rivalry and jealousy.
- 6/16/2011
- Shadowlocked
This week’s profiles of projects in various stages of production spotlights one of the films to be featured at Independent Film Project's (Ifp) Independent Film Week September 19-23, "The End of Something," from up-and-coming producer Mynette Louie and directed by Rory Kelly. Other projects include a documentary about a scientist trying to put an end to slash-and-burn farming in the tropics, a thriller about a peeping tom, an "Eternal Sunshine"-esque film ...
- 9/9/2010
- Indiewire
- Apparently Sundance isn't the only kid on the block for Screenwriting Labs, Film Independent (the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival) have announced eight lucky projects that get to take part in “an intensive five-week incubator designed to help writers improve their craft, and take their current scripts to the next level in a nurturing, yet challenging creative environment.”The eight participants (see after the jump) will be mentored by The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys' producer Meg LeFauve will be joined by guest speakers: Allison Anders (pre-prod with Smile Now Cry Later) , Shauna Cross (wrote the novel and screenplay for Whip It!), Rodrigo Garcia (Mother and Child is having its world preem at Tiff), Dito Montiel (in pre-prod with The Brotherhood of the Rose), Kay Schaber-Wolf, Michael Sucsy (in pre-prod with The Goree Girls), and Ligiah Villalobos (scribe for La misma
- 8/18/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Film Independent, the L.A.-based indie film organization, has selected eight projects for its 19th annual Screenwriters Lab, sponsored by the WGA West, which runs through Sept. 16.
The lab is a five-week incubator designed to help writers improve their craft, and take their current scripts to the next level. Screenwriter and producer Meg LeFauve returns as this year's Lab Instructor, and Lab Mentors and Guest Speakers include Allison Anders, Shauna Cross, Rodrigo Garcia, Dito Montiel, Kay Schaber-Wolf, Michael Sucsy, and Ligiah Villalobos.
The 2009 Screenwriters Lab participants and projects are:
"El Flaco," written by Jeff Seymann
"The End of Something," Rory Kelly and Tim McCarthy
"Grievous Angel," Jessica Hundley
"Gringita," Monica Bider
Future Weather, Jenny Deller
"I Am Not Werner Ernhard ," Steven Schardt
"The Prettiest Girl," Sasha Isaac-Young
"Touchback," Philip Flores...
The lab is a five-week incubator designed to help writers improve their craft, and take their current scripts to the next level. Screenwriter and producer Meg LeFauve returns as this year's Lab Instructor, and Lab Mentors and Guest Speakers include Allison Anders, Shauna Cross, Rodrigo Garcia, Dito Montiel, Kay Schaber-Wolf, Michael Sucsy, and Ligiah Villalobos.
The 2009 Screenwriters Lab participants and projects are:
"El Flaco," written by Jeff Seymann
"The End of Something," Rory Kelly and Tim McCarthy
"Grievous Angel," Jessica Hundley
"Gringita," Monica Bider
Future Weather, Jenny Deller
"I Am Not Werner Ernhard ," Steven Schardt
"The Prettiest Girl," Sasha Isaac-Young
"Touchback," Philip Flores...
- 8/18/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you’re an aspiring screenwriter which, let’s face it, you may be, one way to break into the “business” is through a lab where you work with established mentors and advisers on honing your work and getting it in the hands of the right people. One of the most prestigious and famous of these labs is the one sponsored by Film Independent, a non-profit group dedicated to fostering and nurturing creativity that also produces the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Spirit Awards.
Today, they’ve announced a new group of writers who will participate in this year’s lab. Here’s all the info about the lucky 9 participants from the official press release.
Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival, has announced the screenwriters and film projects selected for its 10th annual Screenwriters Lab, sponsored by the Writers Guild of America,...
Today, they’ve announced a new group of writers who will participate in this year’s lab. Here’s all the info about the lucky 9 participants from the official press release.
Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival, has announced the screenwriters and film projects selected for its 10th annual Screenwriters Lab, sponsored by the Writers Guild of America,...
- 8/17/2009
- by Joe Gillis
- The Flickcast
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Director Rory Kelly's ("Sleep With Me") second feature deals with young people in L.A. and their dysfunctional romantic relationships -- not exactly a fresh topic on the indie scene these days.
But some funny dialogue and appealing performances by a top-flight cast of up-and-comers make "Some Girls" a sporadically engaging experience. It was recently showcased at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Marissa Ribisi, who also co-wrote the script, plays the central role of Claire, a vibrant redheaded poet looking for that most elusive of commodities, unconditional love. She thinks she may have found it with Chad Jeremy Sisto), a good-looking actor with a particularly seductive bedroom technique. Unfortunately, according to Claire's friend April (Juliette Lewis), "Chads are bad news".
April herself is particularly screwed up, engaging in a series of one-night stands despite having a steady boyfriend (Michael Rapaport) who dotes on her. He's so agreeable, in fact, that she calls him to pick her up from various men's apartments. She's the type of woman who suffers head injuries from bedposts.
Other characters in the romantic roundelay include Suzanne (Kristin Dattilo), a struggling artist; Jason (Giovanni Ribisi), Claire's geeky younger brother; and the older, unattainable woman he has the hots for, Jenn (Pamela Segall), a rock music promoter.
The rambling screenplay mainly serves as an excuse for a series of alternately comic and woeful conversations about the difficulties of love and contains what must be the thousandth scene in recent years in which young woman discuss the intricacies of performing oral sex. This educational theme is further explored in another, more inventive scene in which Jason details the inner workings of female sex organs using a piece of carved fruit.
"Some Girls" suffers from an occasional preciousness and a tendency toward pretension, and its characters engage in some questionable behavior for a comedy; to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend, for example, Claire sets fire to his house, an act treated here in alarmingly lighthearted fashion. But, thanks to the incisive performances by the talented cast, the characters by the film's end will have gotten under your skin in a way you may not have anticipated.
SOME GIRLS
Millennium Films
in association with Nu Image
Director: Rory Kelly
Screenplay: Brie Shaffer, Marissa Ribisi
Producers: Abra Edleman, Gay Ribisi, Boaz Davidson
Executive producers: Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, John Thompson
Director of photography: Amy Vincent
Editor: Melissa Kent
Original score: Jim Goodwin, Dave Resnik
Color/stereo
Cast:
April: Juliette Lewis
Paul: Michael Rapaport
Jason: Giovanni Ribisi
Chad: Jeremy Sisto
Claire: Marissa Ribisi
Jenn: Pamela Segall
Suzanne: Kristin Dattilo
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
But some funny dialogue and appealing performances by a top-flight cast of up-and-comers make "Some Girls" a sporadically engaging experience. It was recently showcased at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Marissa Ribisi, who also co-wrote the script, plays the central role of Claire, a vibrant redheaded poet looking for that most elusive of commodities, unconditional love. She thinks she may have found it with Chad Jeremy Sisto), a good-looking actor with a particularly seductive bedroom technique. Unfortunately, according to Claire's friend April (Juliette Lewis), "Chads are bad news".
April herself is particularly screwed up, engaging in a series of one-night stands despite having a steady boyfriend (Michael Rapaport) who dotes on her. He's so agreeable, in fact, that she calls him to pick her up from various men's apartments. She's the type of woman who suffers head injuries from bedposts.
Other characters in the romantic roundelay include Suzanne (Kristin Dattilo), a struggling artist; Jason (Giovanni Ribisi), Claire's geeky younger brother; and the older, unattainable woman he has the hots for, Jenn (Pamela Segall), a rock music promoter.
The rambling screenplay mainly serves as an excuse for a series of alternately comic and woeful conversations about the difficulties of love and contains what must be the thousandth scene in recent years in which young woman discuss the intricacies of performing oral sex. This educational theme is further explored in another, more inventive scene in which Jason details the inner workings of female sex organs using a piece of carved fruit.
"Some Girls" suffers from an occasional preciousness and a tendency toward pretension, and its characters engage in some questionable behavior for a comedy; to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend, for example, Claire sets fire to his house, an act treated here in alarmingly lighthearted fashion. But, thanks to the incisive performances by the talented cast, the characters by the film's end will have gotten under your skin in a way you may not have anticipated.
SOME GIRLS
Millennium Films
in association with Nu Image
Director: Rory Kelly
Screenplay: Brie Shaffer, Marissa Ribisi
Producers: Abra Edleman, Gay Ribisi, Boaz Davidson
Executive producers: Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, John Thompson
Director of photography: Amy Vincent
Editor: Melissa Kent
Original score: Jim Goodwin, Dave Resnik
Color/stereo
Cast:
April: Juliette Lewis
Paul: Michael Rapaport
Jason: Giovanni Ribisi
Chad: Jeremy Sisto
Claire: Marissa Ribisi
Jenn: Pamela Segall
Suzanne: Kristin Dattilo
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/23/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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