Some contemporary filmmakers just have a charmed life when it comes to Sundance. Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik comes to mind. The Duplass brothers are up there. And let’s definitely not forget Joshua Leonard, the actor-director whose 13-year relationship with the festival continues this week with his feature helming debut The Lie .
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Joshua Leonard on The Lie, Directing Himself and His Decade-Plus at Sundance
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“I’m the kind of songwriter who isn’t good on spec,” confesses John Hawkes. “Sometimes I can sit down and a song will kind of happen, but more likely, an idea will follow me around for months and shove me into a corner until there’s no more choice and it just comes out.” So how did the actor end up on the soundtrack to Winter’s Bone , the just-released indie where Hawkes stars opposite Jennifer Lawrence?
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First Listen: ‘Bred and Buttered’ by John Hawkes, from Winter’s Bone
At the Sundance film festival this year, Debra Granik’s Ozark drama Winter’s Bone was one of the most buzzed-about titles, earning plaudits for its impressively conjured setting and riveting cast. We’ve already brought you a Verge interview with Jennifer Lawrence, who plays the film’s lead Ree, but as Winter’s Bone goes into limited release this weekend, here’s more about the movie from some of the people who know it best: Granik, John Hawkes (who almost walks away with the film as Ree’s fearsome uncle Teardrop), and Dale Dickey (who plays the stubborn, implacable mountain woman Merab).
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Debra Granik, John Hawkes, and Dale Dickey on How They Pulled Off Winter’s Bone
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Uncle Jesse, DMD ? In tonight’s Glee finale, Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) will reveal that she has been spending her long hours outside of McKinley High with a dreamy dentist — a dreamy dentist that John Stamos is reportedly in negotiations to play next season. Now, who’s ready for an autotuned Beach Boys hit to make the cut for season two’s premiere? [ EW ]
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John Stamos to Join Glee
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These days, it seems that every actor in Hollywood has made the shortlist for a new superhero movie — and that could be a liability for the onslaught of comic book movies to come, since casting directors are always on the hunt for the hot new up-and-comer, not the guy who got cut before his final Captain America screen test. With that in mind, then, Movieline has assembled a list of eight men who are superhero-ready, yet haven’t been named as a close contender for any past roles.
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8 Actors Who Haven’t Been Shortlisted for a Superhero, But Should Be
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Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone is one of those movies — like last year’s inner-city down-a-thon, Precious — that can’t quite make a distinction between profundity and plain old bleakness. The story of a 17-year-old girl in rural Missouri who’s desperate to find her ex-con father (he’s skipped bail, endangering not just the family’s modest house but its very survival), Winter’s Bone often feels stiffly self-conscious: Even though it’s based on a novel, it has the aura of a gritty documentary, as if Granik distrusted the idea that fiction alone could ever be good enough to get to the truth of human lives.
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REVIEW: Winter’s Bone a Little Too Pleased With its Own Folky Bleakness
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