Putty Hill

Synopsis: A young man’s untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss. [Synopsis provided by SXSW]

Reviews

REVIEW | One Death, Many Lives in Matt Porterfield's "Putty Hill"

The first impression created by Matt Porterfield's "Putty Hill" is that of an abandoned world. Against a silent backdrop, the filmmaker displays the vacant rooms of a creaky house in suburban Maryland, where a young man has recently died. In subsequent scenes, Porterfield builds on that haunting dis...
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Cinema Guild Takes "Putty Hill"

The Cinema Guild has announced the acquisition of U.S. distribution rights to Matt Porterfield's "Putty Hill," which had its world premiere earlier this year at the Berlin International Film Festival and its North American premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival the following month. The dea...
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FUTURES | "Putty Hill" Director Matthew Porterfield

A beguiling amalgamation of documentary and fictional narratives, Matthew Porterfield's second feature "Putty Hill" has been making waves on the film festival circuit since debuting at the Berlin International Film Festival last year.
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Matthew Porterfield On His Beguiling Hybrid Doc "Putty Hill," Our DVD Pick of the Week

A beguiling amalgamation of documentary and fictional narratives, Matthew Porterfield’s second feature “Putty Hill” has been making waves on the film festival circuit since debuting at the Berlin International Film Festival last year. It lands on DVD and Blu-ray this week and it...
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SXSW '10 | "Putty Hill" Director Matt Porterfield's Circuitous Journey to SXSW

Matt Porterfield, like many SXSW filmmakers, came to his film, "Putty Hill," in a roundabout way. A slice-of-life piece, largely improvised, "Putty Hill unfolds as "[a] young man dies of a heroin overdose in an abandoned house in Baltimore. On the eve of his funeral, family and friends gather to co...
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Jeff Blake | November 15, 2011 11:49 PMReply

This was an interesting one. It kinda reminds me of this film that's going to come out soon - Your Good Friend. http://www.yourgoodfriendmovie.com/