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Todd Solondz’s next feature film, Dark Horse, has been spending recent months screening at film festivals around the world, including the London Film Festival last month, where Craig was lucky enough to catch it (you can read his review of the film here). We got a the first poster and clip for the film back [...]
Todd Solondz’s seventh feature length film finds the writer/director swimming in familiar waters but in this blackly comic tale Solondz has crafted perhaps his most complete and restrained film since Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1995. Solondz first introduces us to protagonist Abe, a hard to like schlub played with skill and conviction by Broadway and television regular [...]
Premiering at the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival in June to – mostly – rapturous applause, Albatross is a coming-of-age comedy-drama centring on verbose, would-be writer Emilia’s incendiary effect on a struggling author, Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), and his respective family, including wife Joa (Julia Ormond) and daughter Beth (Felicity Jones. Last week, HeyUGuys had the opportunity to [...]
We got a great first look at the upcoming, Dark Horse, written directed by indie auteur Todd Solondz, at the end of last month, and they gave us a taste of what looks to be a pretty dark and excellent film from him. We now have the first short clip from the film and a [...]
Some imagines have cropped up online (via TIFF website) from the next film of celebrated, yet controversial indie auteur Todd Solondz. It’s called Dark Horse and it’s yet another black comedy from the New York filmmaker, which tells for story of a romance between two emotionally-stunted thirty-somethings, one an avid toy collector (TV actor Jordan [...]
The US distributor behind Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or – winning ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ have scored somewhat of a coup by procuring the talents of celebrated writer/artist Chris Ware to design the film’s poster (see below). Ware is perhaps best known for his 2000 graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid [...]
Robin Williams dips his toe into indie territory once again with this darkly comedic tale from stand-up comic and former Police Academy cadet, Bobcat Goldthwait. Lance (Williams) is a mild-mannered high school teacher who dreams of becoming a popular and respected writer. In reality, his books keep getting rejected and the under-appreciated poetry class he [...]
In what looks like an actor-director match made in heaven, The Hollywood Reporter brings news that Christopher Walken has been cast in Todd Solondz’s latest feature. He’ll be joining Mia Farrow and Selma Blair in the Happiness auteur’s next feature (entitled Dark Horse), which focuses on a man in his thirties (theatre and TV actor [...]
Life During Wartime is Todd Solondz’s sequel of sorts to his 1998 film Happiness, returning to the same characters ten years on. If you are familiar with Solondz’s films then you will expect a certain type of sick and twisted humour and savage attack on Modern America and Life During Wartime does not disappoint. Although [...]
