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'The Automatic Hate': A 'Romeo and Juliet' Story Turns Incestuous
56 minutes ago
Director Justin Lerner likes to pitch his effectively eerie family drama "The Automatic Hate" as a combo of Thomas Vinterberg's "The Celebration" and Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye." A shrieking Dogme95 incest drama meets a Raymond Chandler potboiler? I was intrigued. As a "Romeo and Juliet" incest tale of two cousins who face their mutual attraction, this one has headline-making potential. Writer/director Lerner and co-writer Katharine O'Brien set up a bait-and-switch mystery that then pulls us into the world of an unstable and broken family as their buried grudges of the past come into shattering present-day focus. "Automatic Hate" begins as an alluring young blonde (Adelaide Clemens) drops on the doorstep of Davis (Joseph Cross) and tells him she's his cousin. He does not know the girl, who says her name is Alexis. His curiosity titillated, Davis follows her out of his boring city life and into the Upstate New York. »
- Ryan Lattanzio
Nate Parker Gets 'Birth of a Nation' Push at CinemaCon
19 hours ago
You can count on Fox Searchlight to push their Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner and $17.5 million acquisition "Birth of a Nation" and its breakthrough first-time feature director Nate Parker, who also stars as rebel slave Nat Turner. During the award season I saw how attendees approached Parker at the Directors Guild Awards, including Fox exec Stacey Snider. He has jumped to the top of the Hollywood food chain, and now he's getting feted at the exhibitors' national convention CinemaCon at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas (April 11-14, 2016). CinemaCon will present him with its breakthrough director of the year award during its awards show on April 14th. Some 5,000 theater owners and industry professionals attend every year, and many Oscar contenders have emerged at the convention, from "Life of Pi" to "The Revenant." Written, directed and produced by Parker, “The Birth of a Nation" will get an »
- Anne Thompson
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