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Keir Gilchrist, who plays Toni Collette's son on Showtime's United States of Tara, has nabbed the lead role in a coming-of-age film from the filmmakers of Half Nelson. ... Full Article
Focus is on 'Funny'
hollywoodreporter.com –
2009-08-10
Focus Features will finance, produce and distribute the next film from the writer-director team behind the 2006 pic "Half Nelson." The specialty division has boarded "It's Kind of a Funny Story," a coming-of-age dramedy that Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden... ... Full Article
This new baseball drama from the makers of 'Half Nelson' bravely goes against the genre's conventions and makes for gripping viewing.
telegraph.co.uk –
2009-06-04
Telegraph Rating: * * * * Sugar is about being a stranger in a strange land, when the strange land is America. It's about the point where ambition falters and reality kicks in. ... Full Article
Endeavor Independent head Graham Taylor will now run the independent film arm of William Morris Endeavor. The spokesman didn't reveal how the rest of the department will be staffed. ... Full Article
How do you follow the superlative Half Nelson? With the only-slightly-less-superlative Sugar, another tough, tender drama that swerves formula and ducks sentiment, its meticulous human observations and measured movie technique confirming Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck as consummate filmmakers. ... Full Article
Living the Independent Dream in Brooklyn
moviemaker.com –
2009-04-30
Goldy Moldavsky | Published April 30, 2009 A scene from Divers , directed by Paris Mavroidis It's hard to walk down a street in Brooklyn these days without stumbling across a film shoot every now and then. ... Full Article
Like A Baseball Movie, Minus the Sap: Half Nelson Filmmakers Pour Out Some Sugar
dallasobserver.com –
2009-04-24
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's debut Half Nelson was one of the highlights of 2006, a nuanced look at a young teacher in an inner-city school who dismantled the inspirational teacher-movie cliches with just a toke of his crack pipe. ... Full Article
A baseball movie, a stranger-in-a-strange-land movie, a movie about real people facing real challenges in the real world, Sugar is all that and more. From its opening scenes in a Dominican Republic training camp to its player's-eye view inside the... ... Full Article
The Half Nelson team dig up dirt on the baseball diamond for new film Sugar
eyeweekly.com –
2009-04-15
Starring Algenis Pérez Soto, Rayniel Rufino. Written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. (14A) 114 min. Opens April 17. "The movie always starts with the character and the character's journey, but the social context of anything we're talking... ... Full Article
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are ready for the majors with their follow-up to Half Nelson
moviemaker.com –
2009-04-07
Fleck and Boden's interests were piqued when they met a whole community of near-pro talents playing at a field in the Bronx. Many of these players had been through training academies and the American minor leagues, and Fleck and Boden... ... Full Article