"Somebody Up There Likes Me," which recently took home the Special Jury Prize at Locarno, is a sometimes-bitter comedy that follows the vicissitudes of love and friendship over the course of several decades of its protagonists' lives. Having charmed audiences and critics alike, director Bob Byington...
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As has been the case for several years now, Indiewire is the place to get to known the AFI Fest filmmakers ahead of the annual festival in Los Angeles. Over the next few days, we'll be posting the 2012 batch of filmmaker profiles leading up to the launch of this year's edition on November 1 with the...
Read More »"Pearblossom Hwy," says director Mike Ott (whose 2010 feature "Littlerock" won the Audience Award at that year's edition of the festival), "has a mixture of fiction and nonfiction elements." A partial result, perhaps, of his self-described mild obsession with Mark Bochardt. "Pearblossom Hwy," tells ...
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