Rubberneck
Written by Garth Donovan and Alex Karpovsky
Directed by Alex Karpovsky
USA, 2013
Lena Dunham isn’t the only filmmaker who also appears in front of the camera on the HBO series Girls. Alex Karpovsky (who plays Ray on the show) is a director in his own right, having directed the micro-indies The Hole Story and Woodpecker around the same time that Dunham was directing her earliest efforts. His new film Rubberneck is much like the characters in Girls: not completely together, but intriguing and well-intentioned.
Karpovsky himself plays Paul Harris, a scientist in Boston who is a rubberneck in many ways. In a few scenes he is literally rubbernecking on the side of a highway, which is maybe a too literal way to illustrate that he’s also rubbernecking at the people around him, watching them go by without being able to make any real connection. He thinks...
Written by Garth Donovan and Alex Karpovsky
Directed by Alex Karpovsky
USA, 2013
Lena Dunham isn’t the only filmmaker who also appears in front of the camera on the HBO series Girls. Alex Karpovsky (who plays Ray on the show) is a director in his own right, having directed the micro-indies The Hole Story and Woodpecker around the same time that Dunham was directing her earliest efforts. His new film Rubberneck is much like the characters in Girls: not completely together, but intriguing and well-intentioned.
Karpovsky himself plays Paul Harris, a scientist in Boston who is a rubberneck in many ways. In a few scenes he is literally rubbernecking on the side of a highway, which is maybe a too literal way to illustrate that he’s also rubbernecking at the people around him, watching them go by without being able to make any real connection. He thinks...
- 2/26/2013
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Tribeca Film has extended its relationship with multi-hyphenate Alex Karpovsky, acquiring North American rights to Rubberneck, a film he co-wrote, directed, and starred in, and plans to release it in February 2013. Read on for more details and a new still.
Tribeca Film's release plans include select theatrical screenings and offering the film on demand in more than 40 million homes in the U.S. and Canada through a variety of video-on-demand offerings as well as iTunes, Amazon Watch Instantly, Vudu, Xbox, Google Play, and YouTube.
Rubberneck had its world premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and has had a robust showing at festivals internationally thereafter. A slow-burn character study-turned-psychosexual thriller, Rubberneck, co-written by Karpovsky and Garth Donovan, is a chillingly believable story of workplace romance gone wrong. It co-stars Jaime Ray Newman and Dennis Staroselsky and was produced by Michael Bowes, Garth Donovan, and Adam Roffman.
Karpovsky is one of the...
Tribeca Film's release plans include select theatrical screenings and offering the film on demand in more than 40 million homes in the U.S. and Canada through a variety of video-on-demand offerings as well as iTunes, Amazon Watch Instantly, Vudu, Xbox, Google Play, and YouTube.
Rubberneck had its world premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and has had a robust showing at festivals internationally thereafter. A slow-burn character study-turned-psychosexual thriller, Rubberneck, co-written by Karpovsky and Garth Donovan, is a chillingly believable story of workplace romance gone wrong. It co-stars Jaime Ray Newman and Dennis Staroselsky and was produced by Michael Bowes, Garth Donovan, and Adam Roffman.
Karpovsky is one of the...
- 12/7/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Filmmaker/actor Alex Karpovsky likes to tinker with reality in ways that make for fascinating movies. The Hole Story is about a filmmaker named Alex who travels to Minnesota to film a natural winter phenomenon that does in fact occur there ... but is Alex's story fact or fiction? In Woodpecker, he interposed fictional characters into a real-life situation: a small town that believed an extinct bird species had been spotted nearby. Part of the movies' charm is determining where the documentary footage ends and where the fictional narrative begins.
In Red Flag, which recently premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival, Karpovsky returns to a character very much like "Alex" in The Hole Story, set during events that actually occurred, but wrapped in a narrative shot with actors and a story that might or might not have its roots in Karpovsky's life. If that sounds confusing ... it might be intentionally so.
In Red Flag, which recently premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival, Karpovsky returns to a character very much like "Alex" in The Hole Story, set during events that actually occurred, but wrapped in a narrative shot with actors and a story that might or might not have its roots in Karpovsky's life. If that sounds confusing ... it might be intentionally so.
- 7/6/2012
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Alex Karpovsky, the writer-director-actor who has already made an impact at SXSW and Sundance with films like “The Hole Story,” “Beeswax,” and “Tiny Furniture,” stars in two films that are premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this year. In “Supporting Characters,” Karpovsky is one half of a film editing duo working to re-cut a failing movie while coping with personal and professional turmoil. And in “Rubberneck,” which he also co-wrote and directed, Karpovsky is a scientist who gradually loses control after a one-night stand with a co-worker.This is Karpovsky’s first time in attendance at the festival, both as a viewer and a filmmaker. But after Tff closes on April 29, the indie favorite will be poised to break through to the mainstream with two high-profile projects.In Lena Dunham’s (“Tiny Furniture”) buzzed-about new half-hour series “Girls,” airing Sunday nights on...
- 4/22/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
Director: Alex Karpovsky Writer(s): Alex Karpovsky, Jon e. Hyrns Starring: Jon e. Hyrns, Wesley Yang The Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) – the most famous being the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker – ranks among the largest woodpeckers in the world and the largest in the United States. Shiny blue-black with white markings on its neck, back and trailing edges of its wings, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker when perched with the wings folded presents a large triangular patch of white on the lower back. Among North American woodpeckers, the ivory-bill is unique in having a bill whose flat tip is shaped much like a beveled wood chisel. The ivory-billed is sometimes referred to as the Lord God Bird (Sufjan Stevens wrote a song about the ivory-billed titled “The Lord God Bird”), because the sight of one is as awe-inspiring as seeing God. Unfortunately, sightings of the ivory-billed are few and far between. The...
- 12/9/2009
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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