From Oscilloscope:

“All of this would seem to set Fessenden up as the ideal director for a horror movie about a topic that, for all its reeling apocalyptic sweep, is generally lived in the present through a series of picayune partisan skirmishes. The question is whether such a movie could in fact be made, and why there have been so few attempts. The most obvious reason why there have not been any good, scary movies about climate change also happens to be the most compelling: it’s just too fucking scary. The bigger studio features that have taken on the topic have been goofy both because they are bad, and because a less-goofy approach would make them something significantly darker than a big studio feature should be.“

Read the full essay HERE…

From Deadline:

Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have set a November 3 release date in select cities for the SXSW Grand Jury Award-winning film Most Beautiful Island from filmmaker Ana Asensio. The psychological thriller was picked up this summer by Orion and Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Read full article here…

GEP pal Jenn Wexler will be on the advisory board at the inaugural North Bend Film Festival.
The event will focus on what is being described as “standout vanguard programming”
and provide a platform for emerging filmmakers.

Entertainment Weekly has the full scoop HERE

GEP pal James Siewert talks The Past Inside the Present with Discover Film.
Watch the film and listen to the podcast here.

Kelly Reichardt: Powerfully Observant

The Museum of Modern Art

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

7:00 p.m.
River of Grass
Presented in 35mm
Post-screening discussion with Reichardt & Fessenden

Tix on sale

Fessenden’s 2008 feature THE LAST WINTER is in very good company
in the  series of 8 films curated out of Juneau, Alaska for Film Struck’s Criterion Collection Channel. 

REICHARDT AT MoMA
September 12–25, 2017

Fessenden joins Reichardt for Q&A after RIVER OF GRASS screening
September 12th

This mid-career retrospective includes the six feature films Reichardt has made since 1994—a seemingly modest filmography for more than 20 years of work. But these intricately produced and fiercely independent are well worth the wait. As Catherine Wheatley wrote of the characters in Certain Women, “They know to keep their counsel, these women: know the importance of restraint, silence, of knowing when to speak and when to act and when to stay still.” These same qualities characterize the graceful, intensely perceptive films of Kelly Reichardt.

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HABIT UNSPOOLS AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE
October 4, 2017
Q&A with Fessenden!

 Larry Fessenden’s lo-fi vampire film HABIT from 1996 is the crown jewel in a decade that saw fantastic, creative, low budget spins on the vampire narrative – including Abel Ferrara’s THE ADDICTION, Guillermo Del Toro’s CRONOS and Holly Dale’s BLOOD & DONUTS. Serving as writer, director as well as leading actor, Fessenden’s film takes place in an autumnal NYC (a setting oft used in vampire films of the 90s), in a period of grief and substance abuse for Sam (Fessenden) who begins a passionate relationship with a vampire. A romantic drama brought to the screen through genre conventions (as well as defiance of them), it uses its early Giuliani era NY – before the character of the city was lost – as a bustling backdrop for the intimacy of its horror. 

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THE STRANGERS
(Dalton Salisbury on guitar and vocals,
Jack Fessenden on drums and Talia Rosenthal on bass)
release their 4th EP today!

YOU WIN IN THE END. Find it on iTunes now!

All albums available on CD through CDBaby!

Started in 2013 when the musicians were 13 years old and before their voices broke, The Strangers is a Rock Punk trio serving up original tunes in the vein of Nirvana, The Ramones, and The Strokes. Featured in Glass Eye Pix films, on the radio at WFMU, and on two albums and two EPs, The Strangers continue to evolve their fresh and familiar sound with their latest release YOU WIN IN THE END, now available on iTunes and on CD through CDBaby.