A Matter of Life appeals to some pretty basic human interests no matter what stage of life you’re in
A Matter of Life
by Jeffrey Brown
(Top Shelf Comix)
Jeffrey Brown is known for two things: his playful and silly comics that goof on childhood heroes from Transformers cartoons and Star Wars movies, and his autobiographical comics that depict his trials and tribulations in love and life. A Matter of Life is the latter. Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago from Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2000 to study painting at the School of the Art Institute. It wasn’t long before his attention turned back to his first love of comics (although he did receive his Mfa from Saic and now teaches comics at the school). As a kid, Brown was inspired to draw by Transformers and GI Joe cartoons, Marvel Comics super heroes and all things Star Wars. As an adult artist, Brown has created animation for the indie rock band, Death Cab for Cutie, he co-wrote the screenplay for...
by Jeffrey Brown
(Top Shelf Comix)
Jeffrey Brown is known for two things: his playful and silly comics that goof on childhood heroes from Transformers cartoons and Star Wars movies, and his autobiographical comics that depict his trials and tribulations in love and life. A Matter of Life is the latter. Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago from Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2000 to study painting at the School of the Art Institute. It wasn’t long before his attention turned back to his first love of comics (although he did receive his Mfa from Saic and now teaches comics at the school). As a kid, Brown was inspired to draw by Transformers and GI Joe cartoons, Marvel Comics super heroes and all things Star Wars. As an adult artist, Brown has created animation for the indie rock band, Death Cab for Cutie, he co-wrote the screenplay for...
- 7/15/2013
- by Chris Auman
- SoundOnSight
Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie seem to be just as obsessed with weddings as we are.
Both actresses are starring in their second wedding movies of 2012, with "Save the Date" released online Thursday.
The romantic comedy, which was screened earlier this year at Sundance and is written and inspired by the work of graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown, examines two sisters' polar opposite views on marriage.
Caplan, who played Gena in this year's "Bachelorette", told Redditors about hew new film today in an "Ask Me Anything" thread Thursday:
I read the script, and fell in love with its honesty and humor. And then I met with the writer/director Michael Mohan and he didn't annoy me...that was pretty much it. It's a really good movie...if you like films like 'Reality Bites' and 'Singles' and are mad that people don't make movies like that so much anymore..then this one is for you!
Both actresses are starring in their second wedding movies of 2012, with "Save the Date" released online Thursday.
The romantic comedy, which was screened earlier this year at Sundance and is written and inspired by the work of graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown, examines two sisters' polar opposite views on marriage.
Caplan, who played Gena in this year's "Bachelorette", told Redditors about hew new film today in an "Ask Me Anything" thread Thursday:
I read the script, and fell in love with its honesty and humor. And then I met with the writer/director Michael Mohan and he didn't annoy me...that was pretty much it. It's a really good movie...if you like films like 'Reality Bites' and 'Singles' and are mad that people don't make movies like that so much anymore..then this one is for you!
- 11/9/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
After premiering to warm reviews at Sundance, romantic comedy Save The Date is finally set to arrive in the Us. The trailer is online and can be seen above.Save The Date finds Kevin (Geoffrey Arend) and Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) in a seemingly happy relationship. But when he decides to propose in front of all their friends and his band, egged on by best pal and drummer Andrew (Martin Starr), Sarah turns him down flat and breaks up.While Kevin tries to figure out what went wrong and what it is she wants, Sarah attempts to find solace with her sister, Beth (Alison Brie), who is about the marry Andrew. But her soul-searching also takes her into the arms of bookshop worker Jonathan (Mark Webber) as she begins to wonder what her fear of love is all about. The poster is below. Co-written by director Michael Mohan with Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich,...
- 10/21/2012
- EmpireOnline
IFC Films is finally bringing the Sundance rom-com Save the Date campaign to life. Firstly, the movie poster designed as a fun and unique black and white wedding save the date announcement, hit the web and now we finally get a trailer.
Lizzy Caplan plays a woman who may or may not be embracing the bonds of the sacred marriage. Actually, Caplan and Alison Brie are sisters dating two best friends from a semi-successful rock band, each dealing with love on completely different levels.
Mark Webber, Martin Starr Melonie Diaz, Timothy Busfield and Geoffrey Arend round out the supporting cast.
Save the Date from writer and director Michael Mohan is coming to On Demand systems on November 8th, and will be in theaters on December 14th, 2012.
Watch the clip below.
Click here to view the embedded video.
After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Caplan) breaks...
Lizzy Caplan plays a woman who may or may not be embracing the bonds of the sacred marriage. Actually, Caplan and Alison Brie are sisters dating two best friends from a semi-successful rock band, each dealing with love on completely different levels.
Mark Webber, Martin Starr Melonie Diaz, Timothy Busfield and Geoffrey Arend round out the supporting cast.
Save the Date from writer and director Michael Mohan is coming to On Demand systems on November 8th, and will be in theaters on December 14th, 2012.
Watch the clip below.
Click here to view the embedded video.
After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Caplan) breaks...
- 10/19/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
First poster for Save the Date, starring Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie Michael Mohan directs as well as scripting alongside Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich. The IFC Films release also stars Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend, Mark Webber, Timothy Busfield, Jessica Morris, Melonie Diaz, Robin Riber and Kristin Slaysman. After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Caplan) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Arend). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Brie) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's band mate, Andrew (Starr). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Webber), she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability. With honesty, heart, and humor, all five struggle with the trials, happiness, and pain of modern love. In the end Sarah must decide - is...
- 10/18/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
First poster for Save the Date, starring Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie Michael Mohan directs as well as scripting alongside Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich. The IFC Films release also stars Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend, Mark Webber, Timothy Busfield, Jessica Morris, Melonie Diaz, Robin Riber and Kristin Slaysman. After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Caplan) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Arend). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Brie) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's band mate, Andrew (Starr). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Webber), she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability. With honesty, heart, and humor, all five struggle with the trials, happiness, and pain of modern love. In the end Sarah must decide - is...
- 10/18/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Four months removed from its Sundance premiere, Michael Mohan’s “Save The Date” has finally landed a North American distribution deal with IFC Films. This is the second high-profile release the distributor has picked up in as many weeks, recently having brokered a deal to release Walter Salles’ adaptation of the landmark Jack Kerouac novel, “On The Road” which is set to premiere next week at the Cannes Film Festival.
Mohan co-wrote the script with Egan Reich and acclaimed graphic-novelist, Jeffrey Brown, and it’s an endearing romantic comedy (read our review here, and an interview with Mohan here) that stars Lizzy Caplan (“Party Down”) as a young woman adrift in the aftermath of a failed relationship and in the throes of a rebound during the runup to her sister’s wedding. “Save The Date” also stars Alison Brie (“Community,” “Mad Men”), Martin Starr (“Party Down”), Mark Webber, and Geoffrey Arend.
Mohan co-wrote the script with Egan Reich and acclaimed graphic-novelist, Jeffrey Brown, and it’s an endearing romantic comedy (read our review here, and an interview with Mohan here) that stars Lizzy Caplan (“Party Down”) as a young woman adrift in the aftermath of a failed relationship and in the throes of a rebound during the runup to her sister’s wedding. “Save The Date” also stars Alison Brie (“Community,” “Mad Men”), Martin Starr (“Party Down”), Mark Webber, and Geoffrey Arend.
- 5/15/2012
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
IFC Films acquired North American rights to the Michael Mohan-directed romantic comedy Save The Date. The pic, scripted by Mohan and graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich, stars Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend, and Mark Webber. Jordan Horowitz, Michael Roiff, and Michael Huffington produced the project, with Gary Gilbert executive producing. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In Save The Date, fiercely independent Sarah (Caplan) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Arend) and finds herself caught up in an intense rebound relationship with new infatuation Jonathan (Webber). Always one to give life advice is Sarah’s sister Beth (Brie), who is diligently planning her upcoming wedding to apprehensive fiancé — and Kevin’s band mate — Andrew (Starr). With heart and humor, all five struggle with the trials, happiness, and pain of modern love. Simple and honest and always human, Save The Date is...
- 5/14/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Plenty of dealing took place today regarding U.S. Dramatic Competition titles from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Earlier, Tribeca Film acquired all North American rights to The Comedy, director Rick Alverson’s drama featuring Tim Heidecker as a privileged do-nothing named Swanson about to inherit his father’s estate and who passes his time in Brooklyn pushing the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Variety reported on the second post-Sundance 2012 deal of the day. IFC Films acquired North American rights to director Michael Mohan’s comic romance Save The Date. Mohan co-wrote the comedy with graphic novel author Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich with Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie as sisters trying to make sense out of complicated relationships.
- 5/14/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Plenty of dealing took place today regarding U.S. Dramatic Competition titles from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Earlier, Tribeca Film acquired all North American rights to The Comedy, director Rick Alverson’s drama featuring Tim Heidecker as a privileged do-nothing named Swanson about to inherit his father’s estate and who passes his time in Brooklyn pushing the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Variety reported on the second post-Sundance 2012 deal of the day. IFC Films acquired North American rights to director Michael Mohan’s comic romance Save The Date. Mohan co-wrote the comedy with graphic novel author Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich with Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie as sisters trying to make sense out of complicated relationships.
- 5/14/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
At a recent screening at the Dallas International Film Festival, writer-director Michael Mohan had to narrate the opening of his second feature film when it began with no sound: "Right now you're hearing the sounds of a book store. There might be a car driving by, and that guy is about to drink coffee." Fortunately the projectionist was able to restore sound by the time the title sequence started, but the botched and awkward opening set the mood for the equally awkward and uncomfortable situations that befall Lizzy Caplan in the romantic-comedy, "Save the Date."
The light and endearing film (you can read our review from Sundance right here) follows a struggling illustrator and bookstore manager (Caplan) who struggles with emotional vulnerability and commitment in the run up to her sister's wedding (played by "Community" and "Mad Men" star Alison Brie). And although the cast is rounded out by a...
The light and endearing film (you can read our review from Sundance right here) follows a struggling illustrator and bookstore manager (Caplan) who struggles with emotional vulnerability and commitment in the run up to her sister's wedding (played by "Community" and "Mad Men" star Alison Brie). And although the cast is rounded out by a...
- 4/29/2012
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
People have been talking in movies since the beginning. Since the late 1920s, audiences have been able to hear them talk. Since Preston Sturges’ films, they’ve been able to hear them talk a lot. In Save The Date, directed by Michael Mohan, it’s not that the characters talk too much. It’s that they talk about the same things too much, for too long. And then, they keep talking. Show, don’t tell. A common rule of thumb when making a film, broken here rather carelessly.
Starring a indie quartet to die for – Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr and Mark Webber - Save The Date concerns Sarah (Caplan), a twenty-something in a long-ish term relationship with Kevin (Geoffrey Arend), who plays in a successful L.A. rock band with Andrew (Starr), who’s engaged to Sarah’s sister Beth (Brie).
Then Kevin proposes to Sarah in a...
Starring a indie quartet to die for – Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr and Mark Webber - Save The Date concerns Sarah (Caplan), a twenty-something in a long-ish term relationship with Kevin (Geoffrey Arend), who plays in a successful L.A. rock band with Andrew (Starr), who’s engaged to Sarah’s sister Beth (Brie).
Then Kevin proposes to Sarah in a...
- 1/26/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Five young people trying to make heads or tails of love, life, and their place in it. There’s the conflicted heroine dating the lead singer of a rock band. There’s her older sister, who’s totally absorbed planning her dream wedding to the band’s long-haired drummer. And there’s the super-nice guy who wants our conflicted heroine all for himself. It almost sounds like something from Reality Bites, but Save the Date, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival, is the movie Ben Stiller’s 1994 paen to Gen-x neuroses could and should have been. Director...
- 1/26/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
[Premiere Screening: Sunday, January 22, 2:30 pm –Library Center Theatre, Park City]
When I was a kid I wanted to be a magician. I watched a VHS copy of David Copperfield walking through the Great Wall of China over and over and over again. I still don’t know how he did it.
Filmmaking isn’t that much different. I mean – think of it this way: movies start out as ideas. In your brain. These get spilled onto paper. People then pretend to be the characters on that paper. Which is filmed through the lens of a camera. The contents of which end up on a hard drive. Which are re-organized on a computer. And spit out onto a tape. The tape is then played through a large box at the back of an auditorium. And that idea is shot out onto a screen for people to watch. If that’s not magic I don’t know what is.
As for why...
When I was a kid I wanted to be a magician. I watched a VHS copy of David Copperfield walking through the Great Wall of China over and over and over again. I still don’t know how he did it.
Filmmaking isn’t that much different. I mean – think of it this way: movies start out as ideas. In your brain. These get spilled onto paper. People then pretend to be the characters on that paper. Which is filmed through the lens of a camera. The contents of which end up on a hard drive. Which are re-organized on a computer. And spit out onto a tape. The tape is then played through a large box at the back of an auditorium. And that idea is shot out onto a screen for people to watch. If that’s not magic I don’t know what is.
As for why...
- 1/22/2012
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Courtesy of the filmmakers Martin Starr and Alison Brie in ‘Save the Date’
Filmmaker Michael Mohan’s first interaction with his “Save the Date” co-writer Jeffrey Brown couldn’t have been more adorable if he had scripted the encounter himself.
As a wedding gift, both Mohan and his bride–to-be independently commissioned Brown, a graphic novelist by trade, to draw illustrations of their relationship as nuptial gifts. Though Brown initially thought he was being pranked, he completed both jobs – and...
Filmmaker Michael Mohan’s first interaction with his “Save the Date” co-writer Jeffrey Brown couldn’t have been more adorable if he had scripted the encounter himself.
As a wedding gift, both Mohan and his bride–to-be independently commissioned Brown, a graphic novelist by trade, to draw illustrations of their relationship as nuptial gifts. Though Brown initially thought he was being pranked, he completed both jobs – and...
- 1/20/2012
- by Michelle Kung
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
It’s the year of Lizzy Caplan. Such a bold proclamation is based entirely on the fact that the Party Down and Mean Girls star has two films world premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, an exciting feat for any actress, but doubly so for an up-and-coming comedic gem like Caplan whose two lady-centric films are bowing in a post-Bridesmaids world. Last year’s big it-girls, Elizabeth Olsen and Brit Marling, faced a somewhat similar situation – both came to the festival with two films to hype (Olsen had Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House, Marling turned up with Sound of My Voice and Another Earth). But even Olsen and Marling didn’t have the same challenge Caplan has to deal with this year when it comes to her work in Save the Date and Bachelorette - two films, two starring roles, two projects both about weddings. Madness! How...
- 1/14/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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