LA Film Fest 2014 Review: LAKE LOS ANGELES, Of Loneliness And Limbo In America

LA Film Fest 2014 Review: LAKE LOS ANGELES, Of Loneliness And Limbo In America
New UTOPIA Season 2 Trailer Goes Deeper Into The Conspiracy
LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: UNCERTAIN TERMS' Actress Cindy Silver On Her Son, Director Nathan Silver

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Director Mike Ott wraps up his trilogy of films set in the Antelope Valley of Southern California with this, his beguiling fourth feature, Lake Los Angeles. Getting a lot of mileage out of a simple, near fairy tale like story, Ott and company have crafted a film that speaks to the sensitive, stubborn and inquisitive nature of childhood, as well as to identity and culture in the melting pot that is America. Francisco (Roberto Sanchez) is a forty-something Cuban exile living in a ramshackle house amidst a fruit tree grove in the otherwise barren desert town of Lake Los Angeles. Amidst day laborer gigs for near-by estates, Francisco uses his house as a holding point for illegal immigrants who have recently crossed the border. Acting...

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New UTOPIA Season 2 Trailer Goes Deeper Into The Conspiracy

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 02:30 PM PDT

One of the best television shows of last year is returning for another season! Utopia, a dark, stark thriller about a world-wide conspiracy about a graphic novel that reveals a plot to decimate the majority of the world's population, was a major hit, and deservedly so. A fantastic story, great acting, incredible cinematography and a cracking music score made it one of the most intense and frightening dramas I've seen in a long time. From my mini-review: "Blackmail, global politics, prostitution, pandemics; these are big topics, but they are handled on a human enough scale that you feel the pressure and the possibility." While the first season wrapped up in a dark yet satisfactory manner, there is still a lot more story there. The three...

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LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: UNCERTAIN TERMS' Actress Cindy Silver On Her Son, Director Nathan Silver

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT

You think running a set in general is hard? Try doing it with your mother. In an IndieWire article where filmmakers were asked what they wish someone had told them before they started shooting, Uncertain Terms writer/director Nathan Silver answered: "Don't cast your mother in one of the leading roles, have her host your cast and crew, and expect her to be happy." Silver's motivation for doing so though lies in a very obvious respect and admiration of his mother. "She's the master of confusion," he says. "Her stories go every which way, but she manages to bring life to everything she says. She knows that life is confusion. I cast her in my movies because the confusion of life is what I'm after."Cindy Silver admits that she...

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