The Play Is Not the Thing: Anthony Drazan directs"Hurlyburly"
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Read More »by Anthony KaufmanNoted video distributor Fox Lorber is set to release an array ofdomestic festival favorites and foreign films this year. Among thelist are a handful of movies that made indieWIRE's list of favoriteunaquired films of 1998.Theatrical rights to three films from the list have in fact beennabbed by Fox Lorber, representatives confirmed recently: Mark Daniels'"Melvin Van Peebles' Classified X," Tsai Ming-liang's "The Hole" andHal Hartley's "Book of Life." The latter two were just grabbed as partof a collection of end-of-the-millennium films called "2000 Seen By."Other films in the recently purchased package include Alain Berlin...
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Read More »by Anthony KaufmanAs 1998 nears completion, and critics' groups announce their picksfor the best films of the year, indieWIRE decided to offer analternative to the traditional year-end list. Given that our editorial teamhas had the unique opportunity to see a whole slew of films that have not beenacquired for U.S. distribution, we decided to conduct a survey of the staffand regular contributors, asking the question: "What were yourfavorite films of 1998 that have yet to be acquired for theatricaldistribution."From Sundance to Seattle, the LAIFF to Cannes, Toronto to Thessaloniki,indieWIRE has been on the scene over the course of the year, sc...
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