Ry Russo-Young was doing breathing exercises with me and her star Zoey Deutch before we sat down to chat about “Before I Fall,” her third film in a row to bow at the Sundance Film Festival. She was calm enough before she started breathing in and out in big, slow puffs, and she was positively beaming when we were done — with good reason.
Russo-Young may be a Sundance mainstay, but she’s never hit the festival with a film quite like “Before I Fall” – that is to say, a film that already has not only a well-regarded distributor (in this case, Open Road), but a set release date just a few weeks out. That’s one way to take the pressure off of the experience, but it’s understandable that the filmmaker would want to take a moment just to collect herself in the midst of the usual festival madness.
Russo-Young may be a Sundance mainstay, but she’s never hit the festival with a film quite like “Before I Fall” – that is to say, a film that already has not only a well-regarded distributor (in this case, Open Road), but a set release date just a few weeks out. That’s one way to take the pressure off of the experience, but it’s understandable that the filmmaker would want to take a moment just to collect herself in the midst of the usual festival madness.
- 1/26/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Adapted from Lauren Oliver’s successful Ya novel of the same name, director Ry Russo-Young’s fourth feature Before I Fall sees the indie director (Nobody Walks, You Wont Miss Me, Orphans) successfully transitioning to mainstream filmmaking. The story of a popular high school senior (Zoey Deutch, from Dirty Grandpa) caught in a time loop that forces her to relive a crucial day in her life over and over, this neatly written Heathers-meets-Groundhog Day high-concept package delivers both technical polish and a toothsome yet likeable cast. Better still, it has just enough tragic edge to draw young adults, and young-at-heart adults, with...
- 1/23/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I originally took notice of the project when the trades announced that the oft-used supporting indie starlet Louisa Krause (non-related pic above — who we interviewed back in the day for Martha Marcy May Marlene) was the featured “potential screamer” lead on this project. Filmmaker Jordan Galland has flirted with Park City before, his debut Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) received a special screening status at Slamdance. Along with his sophomore film item Alter Egos (2012), the summer shot Brooklyn set Ava’s Possessions basically informs us that the musician slash filmmaker’s interests lie within the framework of the horror genre. Certainly the addition of supporting players include Lou Taylor Pucci, Jemima Kirke, Stella Schnabel (You Wont Miss Me) and John Ventimiglia amps up the end product, and Galland’s ongoing creative collaboration with musician Sean Lennon might earmark the project as an appointment with the occult that avoids trappings of...
- 11/11/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Starring John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt and an excellent supporting cast that features Dylan McDermott, Justin Kirk, and one-to-watch up-and-comers like India Ennenga, Rhys Wakefield and Jane Levy, "Nobody Walks" is one of our favorite indie dramas of the fall. The third feature-length effort from Ry Russo-Young (2009's celebrated indie "You Wont Miss Me"), "Nobody Walks" is also co-written by one of Young's high school pals, one Lena Dunham, the star and creator of HBO's "Girls." An understated drama about a family that takes a young experimental film artist into their home and the havoc it wreaks, there's a lot to love about "Nobody Walks," from the excellent lead performance of Olivia Thirlby (which reminds us just how underused in Hollywood she is), to the moody score by Fall On Your Sword, to the inquisitive screenplay by Dunham and Russo-Young, which is interested in exploring human...
- 9/13/2012
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Andrew Barchilon and Kitao Sakurai, the cofounders of the New York-based production company Naked Faces. got their start in the world of film. Sakurai shot and Barchilon produced Ry Russo-Young's "You Wont Miss Me," after which the pair went on to make 2010 festival favorite "Aardvark," a slow-burning noir about a blind jiu-jitsu student who gets pulled into the shady doings of his friend and instructor (Barchilon served as producer while Sakurai wrote and directed the film). Their latest project finds them not just venturing into television but breaking it down as well (sometimes literally). "The Eric Andre Show," currently airing on Adult Swim on Sundays at 12:30am, is technically a talk show with interviews and planned bits. But host Eric Andre and his sidekick Hannibal Buress oversee what's more a scene of surreal, apocalyptic strangeness taking place on some alternate reality public access channel in which Savion...
- 6/27/2012
- by Andrew Barchilon and Kitao Sakurai
- Indiewire
Below Alex Ross Perry shares an exclusive scene from his sophomore feature "The Color Wheel," which topped Indiewire's 2011 end-of-year poll for best undistributed film. The film got picked up by Cinema Conservancy after topping that chart and opens Friday at BAMcinematek in New York. Co-staring and co-written by Perry and Carlen Altman ("You Wont Miss Me"), "The Color Wheel" is an odd, funny story of a slacker brother and ambitious sister on a mission to move her things from her ex-lover/ex-professor's home. Check out our profile of Perry Here. The Scene This scene occurs early in the film, like within the first twenty minutes or so. Colin and Jr are beginning day two of their trek to move her stuff out of professor/scorned lover Neil Chadwick’s (Bob Byington) house. It immediately follows a sequence in a motel, where they are told only married couples can share a room.
- 5/18/2012
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Starring Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister Jones, Hamish Linklater and Joel Kinnaman with supporting assistance from Bill Pullman and Debra Winger (who play Gerwig's parents), Daryl Wein's New York-centric romantic comedy "Lola Versus" arrives in theaters on June 8. And we've got the deets on both the soundtrack and score front. Let's start with the score, which was composed by LCD Soundsystem offshoots and multi-media composers Fall On Your Sword. They've been very busy on the indie-film score front of late, writing the scores to Brit Marling's "Another Earth," the as-yet unreleased Keanu Reeves indie "Generation Umm" and Ry Russo-Young's "You Wont Miss Me," among others.That score is due digitally June 5th and comes out on CD June 12th.
The soundtrack is its own beast. Due digitally on May 29th and on CD June 12th, the twelve-track soundtrack disc features electronic musician Dan Deacon, Ani Difranco (in a...
The soundtrack is its own beast. Due digitally on May 29th and on CD June 12th, the twelve-track soundtrack disc features electronic musician Dan Deacon, Ani Difranco (in a...
- 5/8/2012
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Starring Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister Jones, Hamish Linklater and Joel Kinnaman with supporting assistance from Bill Pullman and Debra Winger (who play Gerwig's parents), Daryl Wein's New York-centric romantic comedy "Lola Versus" arrives in theaters on June 8. And we've got the deets on both the soundtrack and score front. Let's start with the score, which was composed by LCD Soundsystem offshoots and multi-media composers Fall On Your Sword. They've been very busy on the indie-film score front of late, writing the scores to Brit Marling's "Another Earth," the as-yet unreleased Keanu Reeves indie "Generation Umm" and Ry Russo-Young's "You Wont Miss Me," among others.That score is due digitally June 5th and comes out on CD June 12th.
The soundtrack is its own beast. Due digitally on May 29th and on CD June 12th, the twelve-track soundtrack disc features electronic musician Dan Deacon, Ani Difranco (in a...
The soundtrack is its own beast. Due digitally on May 29th and on CD June 12th, the twelve-track soundtrack disc features electronic musician Dan Deacon, Ani Difranco (in a...
- 5/3/2012
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Alex Ross Perry's sophomore feature "The Color Wheel," which topped Indiewire's 2011 end-of-year poll for best undistributed film, has received distribution from Cinema Conservancy, a new company from Tyler Brodie and Hunter Gray, who will take the film to Brooklyn for its opening week, and follow that run with 15-city run. Co-staring and co-written by Perry and Carlen Altman ("You Wont Miss Me"), "The Color Wheel" is an odd, funny story of a slacker brother and ambitious sister on a mission to move her things from her ex-lover/ex-professor's home. See Indiewire's Futures profile of Perry here. The full press release follows below: Cinema Conservancy is pleased to announce the Us theatrical premiere release of The Color Wheel, the most acclaimed American Independent film of the moment. After a stellar run as an Official Selection in over twenty international festivals, including Festival del Film...
- 3/16/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
#59. Nobody Walks Director: Ry Russo-YoungWriter(s): Dunham and Russo-YoungProducers: Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy), Andrea Sperling (Kaboom) and Alicia Van Couvering (Tiny Furniture)Distributor: Rights Available The Gist: A a driven young artist is a guest at the home of a Hollywood sound designer and his family as he helps her finish her first film. Their professional connection triggers a sexual and emotional entanglement that lays bare the needs, narcissism and questionable morality of everyone involved....(more) Cast: Olivia Thirlby, Dylan McDermott, John Krasinski, Jane Levy, Rosemarie DeWitt, Rhys Wakefield and Sam Lerner List Worthy Reasons...: A project we've been keeping track of the moment it was mentioned as part of the Sundance labs, two hip and gifted New York based filmmakers putting their powers together in what should be a dialogue rich, fragile and vulnerable friendly kind of love story. Ry Russo-Young's You Wont Miss Me is...
- 1/6/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
#42. Nobody Walks - Ry Russo Young A 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Lab selected project with additional support from the Annenberg Film Fellowship Grant and the Indian Paintbrush Fellowship, Ry Russo Young teamed with Lena Dunham for a project that attracted the likes of Dylan McDermott, Rosemarie DeWitt, John Krasinski and Olivia Thirlby for a film budgeted at a significantly larger amount than what it cost to make her debut film, You Wont Miss Me (a New Frontier programmed film). Nobody Walks looks poised for a U.S Dramatic Comp inclusion. Gist: Co-written by Lena Dunham and Ry Russo-Young, a driven young artist is a guest at the home of a Hollywood sound designer and his family as he helps her finish her first film. Their professional connection triggers a sexual and emotional entanglement that lays bare the needs, narcissism and questionable morality of everyone involved. Producers: Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy), Andrea Sperling...
- 11/11/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
There’s something oddly compelling about Williamsburg, Brooklyn and its extraordinary population of aspiring creative people. Not that I would call myself a fan of either the neighborhood or its explosion of hipster culture, but at the very least there is an inherently interesting vibe to a community populated almost entirely by young-ish people attempting to achieve creative success. Inevitably most of them will fail, and this dynamic of constant competition and perpetual performance is in a way perfect for the cinema and its unique way of compounding artistic representation. “You Wont Miss Me” takes a blunt look at the psychological…...
- 5/17/2011
- Spout
The indie dramedy/mumblecore revolution keeps sailing on with word that Rosemarie DeWitt, John Krasinski, and Olivia Thirlby are in negotiations to star in Ry Russo Young's new film Nobody Walks. Jonathan Schwartz is producing, who's coming off of a big Sundance success in Like Crazy, which took home the big prize. When one considers that the film was co-written by Lena Durham (who took a cyber-beating earlier this month when her Tiny Furniture was more-or-less confirmed for a Criterion DVD), this really begins to take on the look of some sort of manifesto against the genre's detractors. Russo-Young's previous film You Wont Miss Me premiered at Sundance and had a stint at SXSW, was moderately successful critically, and really put Stella Schnabel on the map (though, Miral might have just undone that). The film was intended to go behind the camera in Los Angeles by early 2011, but, likely...
- 4/20/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Factory 25, the uber cool Brooklyn NY label responsible for making sure that Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and You Wont Miss Me get some love from the movie-going public have picked up one of my favorite films from the 2010 campaign in the Cannes Director's Fortnight selected Two Gates of Sleep. Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film easily puts him in a category apart of budding U.S filmmakers to watch out for (I'd include Lance Hammer, Antonio Campos, Jeff Nichols and more recently Sean Durkin) in that pack of remarkable first time efforts. Tgos will receive a one week release this Friday (April 1st) at the Re-Run Theater. I imagine other markets including Los Angeles (where the film was previously shown in AFI Fest) will follow and for sure we'll get some whacked out DVD release for the film -- I think of Factory 25 as a mix between Criterion and the...
- 3/30/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
As a way of celebrating this year's nominees for the Spirit Awards in the weeks leading up to the ceremony, we reached out to as many as we could in an effort to better understand what went into their films, what they've gotten out of the experience, and where they've found their inspiration, both in regards to their work and other works of art that might've inspired them from the past year. Their answers will be published on a daily basis throughout February.
Of all the things written about Lena Dunham in the past year, a span of 12 months that has included a New York Times piece on her ultra-low budget feature "Tiny Furniture"'s successful debut at SXSW in March and culminated with a lengthy profile in The New Yorker upon its release in November, the irony, which has surely not been lost on the actress/writer/director, has...
Of all the things written about Lena Dunham in the past year, a span of 12 months that has included a New York Times piece on her ultra-low budget feature "Tiny Furniture"'s successful debut at SXSW in March and culminated with a lengthy profile in The New Yorker upon its release in November, the irony, which has surely not been lost on the actress/writer/director, has...
- 2/15/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
It has been a somewhat crowded week for indieWIRE reviews. (And a big week for indieWIRE's history.) Links to coverage of this weekend's new releases follow. You Wont Miss Me Ry Russo-Young’s “You Wont Miss Me” wound up in the experimental New Frontiers section at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and won the Best Film Coming to a Theater Near You prize at the Gotham Awards that fall. It arrives in limited release nearly two years after the initial premiere with a long trail of responses that speak to its divisive nature. Is Russo-Young’s sophomore feature a feeble collection…...
- 12/10/2010
- Screen Rush
Ry Russo-Young's "You Wont Miss Me" wound up in the experimental New Frontiers section at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and won the Best Film Coming to a Theater Near You prize at the Gotham Awards that fall. It arrives in limited release nearly two years after the initial premiere with a long trail of responses that speak to its divisive nature. Is Russo-Young's sophomore feature a feeble collection ...
- 12/9/2010
- Indiewire
When speaking to Ry Russo-Young, the adjective "abstract" will come up a lot in conversation in terms of the style of her films. But that shouldn't be confused with the substance, which is so emotionally precise. Where many filmmakers have depicted the fear and uncertainty of twentysomethings with quirk and gorgeously lit indifference, Russo-Young portrays it in a grainy haze in her latest film "You Wont Miss Me," the result of her practical use of a variety of formats, ranging from Flip cams to Super 8s, and the world-weary skepticism of her main character Shelly Brown (Stella Schnabel) that rarely allows for clarity.
As refreshingly tough-minded a character study as Brown is a character, the film was born out of Russo-Young's desire to do something with Schnabel, a friend since elementary school, and developed from a three-hour interview where Schnabel first portrayed the wild, eternally frustrated Shelly into a loose-knit...
As refreshingly tough-minded a character study as Brown is a character, the film was born out of Russo-Young's desire to do something with Schnabel, a friend since elementary school, and developed from a three-hour interview where Schnabel first portrayed the wild, eternally frustrated Shelly into a loose-knit...
- 12/8/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Winner of the "best film not playing at a theater near you" award at last year's Gotham Awards, Ry Russo-Young's "You Wont Miss Me" opens in theaters this Friday, December 10. In anticipation of the film's release, Russo-Young shared an exclusive scene from her film with indieWIRE, and discussed her filmmaking background. The Film A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a 23-year-old alienated urban misfit. Shelly Brown is released ...
- 12/7/2010
- Indiewire
Winner of the "best film not playing at a theater near you" award at last year's Gotham Awards, Ry Russo-Young's "You Wont Miss Me" opens in theaters this Friday, December 10. In anticipation of the film's release, Russo-Young shared an exclusive scene from her film with indieWIRE, and discussed her filmmaking background. The Film A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a 23-year-old alienated urban misfit. Shelly Brown is released ...
- 12/7/2010
- indieWIRE - People
This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
"You Wont Miss Me" is all about Shelly Brown, a girl with the kind of problems plenty of 20-somethings dream of moving to New York for the express purpose of having: substance abuse, reckless hookups in her bedraggled Williamsburg apartment with shaggy boys who mistreat her, sudden fights with friends and strangers, an unseen actress mother who doesn't pay her enough attention, and no job beyond auditioning for roles herself. But the film, the second from director Ry Russo-Young, isn't your average chronicle of dabblings in urban self-destruction, because Shelly, as she's begun to realize herself, can't turn down the volume. She's not crazy -- the film is structured around fractions of her exit interview with the psychiatrist tossing from a mental hospital because she doesn't belong there -- but she's the kind of person who...
"You Wont Miss Me" is all about Shelly Brown, a girl with the kind of problems plenty of 20-somethings dream of moving to New York for the express purpose of having: substance abuse, reckless hookups in her bedraggled Williamsburg apartment with shaggy boys who mistreat her, sudden fights with friends and strangers, an unseen actress mother who doesn't pay her enough attention, and no job beyond auditioning for roles herself. But the film, the second from director Ry Russo-Young, isn't your average chronicle of dabblings in urban self-destruction, because Shelly, as she's begun to realize herself, can't turn down the volume. She's not crazy -- the film is structured around fractions of her exit interview with the psychiatrist tossing from a mental hospital because she doesn't belong there -- but she's the kind of person who...
- 12/6/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. We cap off the year with Ry Russo-Young, whose Sundance Film Festival selected and Gotham Award winner You Wont Miss Me finally receives a December 10th release followed by a nationwide roll out. Here are Ry's Top 10 Films. Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami (1990) "This film articulates the complex dialogue between art and life. Part documentary, part staged re-enactment with real subjects, it’s about the trial of a man who impersonates the filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf." The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974) "The way sound is used, the paranoia and the incredible use of Gene Hackman’s grey raincoat." Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick (1978) "I know a lot of...
- 12/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I thought we'd take a closer look at the five films selected in the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You category a.k.a the "fringe" titles that receive a helping hand and some extra love just by being nominated and have very little to do with batch of other films mentioned in yesterday's Gotham award nominations announcement. Previous winners in the section include 2009's You Wont Miss Me, 2008's Sita Sings the Blues, 2007's Frownland, 2006's Choking Man and 2005's I Am a Sex Addict, but this year a documentary could win with a ratio that sees three docs and a pair of narratives. I was only familiar with two of the five in Robert Greene's Kati with an i and Mike Ott's Littlerock, so logically I thought about whipping up breakdown of the section and presenting the mentioned pair and Francine Cavanaugh and...
- 10/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Ry Russo-Young's pseudo fictional experimental account (a breath of fresh air in the context of the 30 odd films I saw at 2009's Sundance Film Festival) will finally receive some a theatrical release via the Factory 25 folks. Albeit it'll be a short two weeks and then a DVD release - which could be read as a derogatory remark of sorts, but instead I'm glad that a new Palm Pictures type of label have emerged. The Brooklyn based company are taking on low budget doc films and indie features such You Wont Miss Me and providing filmmakers to at least have a vehicle it's Doa. The pic starring Stella Schnabel will be released on November 12th at the Cinema Village - which is about 3 weeks before her father's film (Miral) from Julian is released via the Weinstein Co. We recently reported that Russo-Young recently paired up with Tiny Furniture's creator...
- 7/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Factory 25, the Brooklyn-based indie film and music distribution company, has announced that it has acquired rights to "You Wont Miss Me," the Gotham Award-winning film by Ry Russo-Young. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was on indieWIRE's year-end poll of the best undistributed films. It also screened at SXSW, and as the recipient of the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Award for "Best Film Not Playing At ...
- 7/19/2010
- Indiewire
Brooklyn-based indie distribution company Factory 25 has acquired Ry Russo-Young’s "You Wont Miss Me," starring Stella Schnabel.
The film, which debuted at Sundance, will launch theatrically prior to a national roll-out Nov. 12 at New York City’s Cinema Village and will be released on DVD on Nov. 23.
The story of a 23-year-old urban misfit, which mixes non-actors with professionals, "Miss" was the recipient of the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Award for "Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You."
Factory 25 founder Matt Grady brokered the deal directly with Russo-Young.
The film, which debuted at Sundance, will launch theatrically prior to a national roll-out Nov. 12 at New York City’s Cinema Village and will be released on DVD on Nov. 23.
The story of a 23-year-old urban misfit, which mixes non-actors with professionals, "Miss" was the recipient of the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Award for "Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You."
Factory 25 founder Matt Grady brokered the deal directly with Russo-Young.
- 7/19/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Today's Sundance Institute announcement on the make-up of this Summer's Directors and Screenwriters Labs offers some insight on the projects we should be seeing in future editions of the festival but also updates us on the progression of some projects we've already got our eyes on -- as is the case with Sean Durkin's upcoming first feature film and Ondi Timoner's (see pic) fictional debut. - Today's Sundance Institute announcement on the make-up of this Summer's Directors and Screenwriters Labs offers some insight on the projects we should be seeing in future editions of the festival but also updates us on the progression of some projects we've already got our eyes on -- as is the case with Sean Durkin's upcoming first feature film and Ondi Timoner's (see pic) fictional debut. Almost all projects that were are included in the Director's Lab were a part of the Screenwriter's...
- 4/26/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Today the Sundance Institute announced the 13 projects selected for this year’s Director and Screenwriting Labs. Talking place in Park City, Utah June 1-25, the Labs will be filled with many familiar names to Filmmaker readers. 2008 25 New Faces alum Myna Joseph will be attending; as will Ondi Timoner, whose doc We Live In Public won the doc Grand Prize at Sundance in 2009; Ry Russo-Young, who was awarded our Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award for You Wont Miss Me at last year’s Gothams, will be attending with her latest screenplay; and ‘09 25 New Face Steph Green. Read the full list of projects below. Director Labs: 40 Days of Silence by Saodat Ismailova (writer/director), Uzbekistan: Four generations...
- 4/26/2010
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Today's Sundance Institute announcement on the make-up of this Summer's Directors and Screenwriters Labs offers some insight on the projects we should be seeing in future editions of the festival but also updates us on the progression of some projects we've already got our eyes on -- as is the case with Sean Durkin's upcoming first feature film and Ondi Timoner's (see pic) fictional debut. Almost all projects that were are included in the Director's Lab were a part of the Screenwriter's January Lab earlier this year, so among the newly mentioned projects in the screenwriting portion of the camp we find indie filmmaker starlets Ry Russo-Young (You Wont Miss Me) and Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture - freshly picked up by IFC) are co-writing a project called Nobody Walks with Russo-Young directing the project. Here's the complete press release below -- look for Ioncinema.com to keep tabs on several of these projects.
- 4/26/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
In case you missed the live-Tweeting and live-blogging from last night's Gotham Independent Awards at NYC's Cipriani, we're here to help. Indie favorite The Hurt Locker took home the two big awards, Best Feature and Best Ensemble Performance, although The Maid's Catalina Saavedra snagged the award for Best Breakthrough Actor, beating out The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner, Ben Foster (The Messenger), Patton Oswalt (Big Fan), and Souleymane Sy Savane (Goodbye Solo). Robert Siegel, who also wrote The Wrestler and wrote and directed Big Fan, snatched the Breakthrough Director award from The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and the Coens.
Meanwhile, the stomach-churningly fascinating Food Inc. won best doc for its close look at how what's on our plates really got there, and how big biz helped (or harmed, as the case may be). And the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award went to You Wont Miss Me,...
Meanwhile, the stomach-churningly fascinating Food Inc. won best doc for its close look at how what's on our plates really got there, and how big biz helped (or harmed, as the case may be). And the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award went to You Wont Miss Me,...
- 12/1/2009
- by Jenni Miller
- Cinematical
Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker won Best Ensemble Performance and Best Feature at Ifp's Gotham Independent Film Awards, which was held last night in downtown Manhattan at Cipriani Wall Street. Bigelow was also given one of the evening's Tribute awards. Also receiving Tributes were Natalie Portman, Stanley Tucci and Working Title Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Other winners include Ry Russo-Young's You Wont Miss Me, which received the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Award (which is chosen by Filmmaker Magazine); Robert Siegel, director of Big Fan, won Breakthrough Director and Robert Kenner's Food, Inc. won Best Documentary. The full list of winners are below: Best Feature The Hurt Locker Directed and produced by...
- 12/1/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
"The Hurt Locker" won big at the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at a ceremony held at New York City.s Cipriani Wall Street. The film beat "Amreeka," "Big Fan," "The Maid," and "A Serious Man" for the Best Feature Trophy.
"The Hurt Locker" also won the Best Ensemble Performance Award beating "Adventureland," "Cold Souls," "A Serious Man," and "Sugar."
(For the complete list of nominees, click here)
Presented by Ifp (Independent Filmmaker Project), the Gotham Independent Film Awards. is one of the leading awards for independent film and the first major honors of the film awards season.
A total of 22 films received nominations in six competitive categories, including: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.
For the second year, the recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award will...
"The Hurt Locker" also won the Best Ensemble Performance Award beating "Adventureland," "Cold Souls," "A Serious Man," and "Sugar."
(For the complete list of nominees, click here)
Presented by Ifp (Independent Filmmaker Project), the Gotham Independent Film Awards. is one of the leading awards for independent film and the first major honors of the film awards season.
A total of 22 films received nominations in six competitive categories, including: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.
For the second year, the recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award will...
- 12/1/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Year: 2009
Release date: Unknown
Directors: Ry Russo-Young
Writers: Ry Russo-Young & Stella Schnabel
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: quietearth
Rating: 3 out of 10
[Editor's note: Ywmm premiered at Sundance and just played SXSW]
Without the kaleidoscopic input and non-linear meanderings, I would call this nothing more than arthouse fluff. Set in an environment of red toilets and signed campbell soup cans, this would probably do well, but all of the things which made it really interesting like the flashbacks, different camera experimentation, and inner dialog filled with explanation (or rationalisation) took a backseat to the linear portion of the storyline. The cacophony, the experimental noise I would call the "dream state". was the good part.
Director Ry Russo-Young makes films in the "mumblecore" genre. For those who don't know what mumblecore is, wikipedia defines it as: "primarily characterized by ultra-low budget production (often employing digital video cameras), focus on personal relationships between twenty-somethings, improvised scripts, and non-professional actors". The actual storyline...
Release date: Unknown
Directors: Ry Russo-Young
Writers: Ry Russo-Young & Stella Schnabel
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: quietearth
Rating: 3 out of 10
[Editor's note: Ywmm premiered at Sundance and just played SXSW]
Without the kaleidoscopic input and non-linear meanderings, I would call this nothing more than arthouse fluff. Set in an environment of red toilets and signed campbell soup cans, this would probably do well, but all of the things which made it really interesting like the flashbacks, different camera experimentation, and inner dialog filled with explanation (or rationalisation) took a backseat to the linear portion of the storyline. The cacophony, the experimental noise I would call the "dream state". was the good part.
Director Ry Russo-Young makes films in the "mumblecore" genre. For those who don't know what mumblecore is, wikipedia defines it as: "primarily characterized by ultra-low budget production (often employing digital video cameras), focus on personal relationships between twenty-somethings, improvised scripts, and non-professional actors". The actual storyline...
- 3/27/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Dreamy, moody, and as haunted as the film she stars in, Stella Schnabel’s portrayal of a recently released psychiatric hospital patient named “Shelly” is simultaneously: funny, annoying, unpredictable, solipsistic, direct as a child, bullying, and so fragile it seems as if she might shatter on screen. With an unadulterated, multiple-format gaze, director Ry Russo-Young may have discovered, in only her second feature, her Klaus Kinski. “You Wont Miss Me” feels like a knowing ode to the bohemian downtown New York of the 1980’s—the time and place in which both Schnabel and Russo-Young grew up. Feminine and frankly sexual images from this era were captured indelibly by photographer Nan Goldin and in Bette Gordon’s peerless 1985 film,...
- 3/17/2009
- by James Ponsoldt
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For good reasons — like the fact that all of Joe Swanberg's features have played here — the annual South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, has a reputation as the adopted home of mumblecore. The dreaded M-word is used more and more negatively these days, but any term that labels films as diverse as Frownland, Lol, and Mutual Appreciation is a coinage looking for a definition. It was bound to fizzle at some point.
The terminology may be disintegrating, but the filmmakers behind these movies are still collaborating and still growing. This year, Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation) is back with his third feature, Beeswax, and Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs) is back with Alexander the Last. Swanberg's film features (among others) Justin Rice who starred in Bujalski's previous film, and the wardrobe is credited to Ry Russo-Young, whose latest film You Wont Miss Me played...
The terminology may be disintegrating, but the filmmakers behind these movies are still collaborating and still growing. This year, Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation) is back with his third feature, Beeswax, and Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs) is back with Alexander the Last. Swanberg's film features (among others) Justin Rice who starred in Bujalski's previous film, and the wardrobe is credited to Ry Russo-Young, whose latest film You Wont Miss Me played...
- 3/16/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
We reported on this Sundance premier back in the middle of January and I've been looking forward to it since. Shot in multiple styles, the story revolves around a girl released from a psychiatric hospital and it looks nothing short of experimentally fantastic.
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, You Wont Miss Me mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Trailer after the break.
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, You Wont Miss Me mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Trailer after the break.
- 2/19/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The Sundance Film Festival had it's first major deal go down Saturday night as young distributor Senator Entertainment (in a co-venture with Sony Pictures Worldwide) picked up North American rights to Antoine Fuqua's admittedly unfinished Brooklyn's Finest for a price tag of less than $5 million (with a marketing commitment of $10 million). Other acquisitions made just before and since the festival began include the following: Visit Films purchased worldwide rights to Ry Russo-Young's You Won't Miss Me, N.C. Heikin's Korean War documentary Kimjongilia and David Russo's comedy <a href=" ...
- 1/19/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- Spout
Stella Schnabel previously appeared in two films directed by her father, Basquiat and Before Night Falls, but in Ry Russo-Young's You Won't Miss Me, Schnabel makes her debut as a leading lady. And it's a hell of a debut; I concur with Michael Tully, who recently confessed, "I cannot figure out how she manages to make Shelly so excruciating, so tender, so pathetic, so brave, so weak, and so hilarious all at once." The magic of the performance is that Schnabel's acting is invisible: you never see the gears turning, you never see her do anything that looks calculated. Shortly before the festival began, I spoke with Stella (who is also credited as co-writer on Miss Me< ...
- 1/18/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
- Capping off my a full day of movie watching, I attended a late night screening for Ry-Russo Young's You Wont Miss Me. The best way to describe Young's feature length film debut, is as a distant cousin to the mumblecore wave of indie films of the past five years and as the grandchild of American independent cinema's granddaddy John Cassavetes. Young (see pic taken from the screening's Q&A) employs a total of five different filmmaking standards not for the sake of seeing how many formats one can add to a film but rather use the technologies in an effort to avoid going the psycho-babble route in the narrative and favor a naturalism that explores the deep insecurities instead. It's a stylistic approach and model that I imagine will be verified by more filmmakers (Todd Haynes shaped I'm not There in the same manner). What I found was that
- 1/18/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
I read about this over on indiewire and what caught my eye was the "kaleidoscopic film portrait" and the fact the film is about a girl just released from a psychiactric hospital. While we don't currently have any footage, it's supposed to be done in a variety of styles and formats, and I'm hoping for something wonderfully experimental. As Russo's work has been varied with shorts, different jobs including writer and director of one feature under her belt, this might just get her the breakout she needs.
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, You Wont Miss Me mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging,...
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, You Wont Miss Me mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging,...
- 1/13/2009
- QuietEarth.us
This post is part of a series of brief, email interviews that we're conducting with select filmmakers who are showing work at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. All of our Sundance 2009 coverage lives here. Ry Russo-Young, whose first feature Orphans was recently released on DVD by Carnivalesque Films, makes her first trip to Sundance next week with You Won't Miss Me. Described as a "kaleidoscopic narrative", this New Frontiers section selection stars Stella Schnabel (daughter of Julian) and incorporates a wide variety of formats, including 16mm film and 1-chip video. You can check out the <a ...
- 1/6/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
This post is part of a series of brief, email interviews that we're conducting with select filmmakers who are showing work at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. All of our Sundance 2009 coverage lives here. Ry Russo-Young, whose first feature Orphans was recently released on DVD by Carnivalesque Films, makes her first trip to Sundance next week with You Won't Miss Me. Described as a "kaleidoscopic narrative", this New Frontiers section selection stars Stella Schnabel (daughter of Julian) and incorporates a wide variety of formats, including 16mm film and 1-chip video. You can check out the <a href=" ...
- 1/6/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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