Chicago – “A Dog Year” flew under everyone’s radar when it debuted on HBO in September 2009, mere months before its lead actor went on to win the Oscar for Best Actor. Now headlining two of the most anticipated films of the 2010 winter movie season, Jeff Bridges is bigger than ever. But will that make audiences any more interested in checking out this forgotten “Dog”?
It’s difficult to believe this gentle drama was originally televised on HBO, since it’s hardly up to the channel’s formidable quality standards. This picture would feel more at home on a “Lifetime for Men” channel featuring feel-good bromances, tear-jerking sports dramas, and the occasional dose of Betty White. With its overly polished cinematography and blatantly manipulative score, this project could’ve become a mawkish dud in the hands of a lesser actor.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
Though Bridges has turned in decades of great work,...
It’s difficult to believe this gentle drama was originally televised on HBO, since it’s hardly up to the channel’s formidable quality standards. This picture would feel more at home on a “Lifetime for Men” channel featuring feel-good bromances, tear-jerking sports dramas, and the occasional dose of Betty White. With its overly polished cinematography and blatantly manipulative score, this project could’ve become a mawkish dud in the hands of a lesser actor.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
Though Bridges has turned in decades of great work,...
- 12/8/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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Directed by Matt Jaissle
Released by Midnight Releasing
A police chief (Johnny Andrews) who sees his city falling under the thumb of a ruthless drug dealer and sends out his best detective (Anthony Tomei) to put a stop to it in Matt Jaissle's action film.
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"Cronos" (1993)
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Released by Criterion Collection
After years of being out of print, Guillermo del Toro's feature debut is getting the Criterion treatment and del Toro has gone all out to make it one of the best discs ever with new interviews, his 1987 short "Geometria," two audio commentaries, a video tour of his home office, and more.
"300 Killers" (2010)
Directed by Matt Jaissle
Released by Midnight Releasing
A police chief (Johnny Andrews) who sees his city falling under the thumb of a ruthless drug dealer and sends out his best detective (Anthony Tomei) to put a stop to it in Matt Jaissle's action film.
"Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright" (2010)
Directed by R. Ellis Frazier
Released by Maya Home Entertainment
Aidan Quinn stars as a billionaire who flees to Tijuana after he's on the run...
- 12/5/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
In A Dog Year, the feature film directed by George Lavoo from Jon Katz's memoir, Jeff Bridges plays Katz, a midlife crisis-stricken writer who, impulsively and in an act of near-deliberate emotional self-destruction, adopts a rambunctious and unsocialized border collie, flying him cross country to his family's split-level home and their two other dogs. And while Lavoo's movie has its share of Beethoven-esque moments as the collie sprints down suburban streets or mischievously jumps rides on passing automobiles, the film is less about canine hijinks and more about the complex and unexpected emotional roles that dogs play in our lives. Bridges brings his customary outsized warmth to the character, but there's also a damaged and emotionally...
- 9/4/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
In A Dog Year, the feature film directed by George Lavoo from Jon Katz’s memoir, Jeff Bridges plays Katz, a midlife crisis-stricken writer who, impulsively and in an act of near-deliberate emotional self-destruction, adopts a rambunctious and unsocialized border collie, flying him cross country to his family’s split-level home and their two other dogs. And while Lavoo’s movie has its share of Beethoven-esque moments as the collie sprints down suburban streets or mischievously jumps rides on passing automobiles, the film is less about canine hijinks and more about the complex and unexpected emotional roles that dogs play in our lives. Bridges brings his customary outsized warmth to the character, but there’s also a...
- 9/4/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
"Real Women Have Curves" playwright Josefina Lopez has signed with Intellectual Property Group.
In addition, Lopez has inked with Grand Central Publishing to pen a follow-up to her debut novel, "Hungry Woman in Paris," published last month.
Lopez has written many plays and co-wrote, with George Lavoo, the teleplay adaptation of "Curves," which HBO aired in 2002. The screenplay earned Lopez the Humanitas Prize, and the film won two awards that year at Sundance.
Lopez also is an activist who brings arts to Boyle Heights' minority and economically disadvantaged communities through Casa 0101, a theater she founded and is expanding.
Lopez remains repped by Marilyn Atlas Management.
In addition, Lopez has inked with Grand Central Publishing to pen a follow-up to her debut novel, "Hungry Woman in Paris," published last month.
Lopez has written many plays and co-wrote, with George Lavoo, the teleplay adaptation of "Curves," which HBO aired in 2002. The screenplay earned Lopez the Humanitas Prize, and the film won two awards that year at Sundance.
Lopez also is an activist who brings arts to Boyle Heights' minority and economically disadvantaged communities through Casa 0101, a theater she founded and is expanding.
Lopez remains repped by Marilyn Atlas Management.
- 4/27/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Yesterday’s Top Ten (Foreign Femme Fatales of 2007) saw a fine selection of international thesps that dominated the silver screen in some form or another, today's 10 focuses on those who had their talents featured in mostly American independent films. Enjoy! 10: Emma Stone and Martha MacIsaac (girls of Super Bad) The real girls of the Greg Mottola comedy are just one of the many charms of Super Bad. MacIsaac is a television actress who made her big screen break with this vechicle, while Emma Stone also comes from the TV background and has Peter Wolf’s I Know What Boys Like and Peter Cattaneo’s The Rocker coming out in 2008. 9. Sienna Miller2007: Like a fine whisky, she keeps getting better with age and is getting tons of work sent her way. She definitely caught our attention with Interview and had a studio part in Stardust. 2008: We should
- 12/29/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Jeff Bridges will star in A Dog Year, an HBO Films production that will be distributed by Picturehouse. Producer George LaVoo is making his directorial debut on the movie, being produced by Liz Manne via her Duopoly shingle. Based on the memoir by Jon Katz and adapted by LaVoo, the story centers on a man having a midlife crisis whose life is turned upside down when he takes in a border collie crazier than he is. The film is scheduled to go before cameras in July in New York.
- 5/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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