Not that we read the New York Post (ahem), but we couldn’t help but notice Melissa Leo’s beautiful face smiling back at us in a blurb that describes her as perhaps “the hardest working actress in showbiz,” and namechecks TRUE ADOLESCENTS!]]>
Not that we read the New York Post (ahem), but we couldn’t help but notice Melissa Leo’s beautiful face smiling back at us in a blurb that describes her as perhaps “the hardest working actress in showbiz,” and namechecks TRUE ADOLESCENTS!
We couldn’t be more excited for Melissa Leo, whose film FROZEN RIVER won the Grand July Prize at Sundance earlier this year.Not only is she on the cover of this season’s Filmmaker Magazine, but they’ve included a terrific Q&A. There’s also a great interview with Mark Duplass and his brother Jay about their new film BAGHEAD (acquired by Sony Pictures Classics at Sundance ‘08). Check it out on newsstands!
This is not to mention a lovely profile in this Sunday’s New York Times.
There is even a little Oscar buzz about her extraordinary, uncompromising performance.
BAGHEAD has been getting awesome reviews and is now in limited release across the country. Be sure to check it out!
You can see trailers for FROZEN RIVER and BAGHEAD on the Apple Trailers website.
Tuesday afternoon at about 5pm, we stepped at last over the finish line. We couldn’t believe that after months of a combination of editing, screenings and weather-induced hiatus, we had finally locked picture.
It has been a long road, but a very satisfying one. We have seen the film change shape many times and find a form that is in some ways superficially different from the script we shot, but feels to all of us that it hews very closely to the spirit of the script and Craig’s germinal i