This Savage Art » ronald bronstein http://www.thissavageart.com a steady diet of obsessive cinema and screenwriting in the dark Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Copyright © This Savage Art 2010 wsperuzzi@gmail.com (This Savage Art) wsperuzzi@gmail.com (This Savage Art) http://www.thissavageart.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg This Savage Art http://www.thissavageart.com 144 144 a steady diet of obsessive cinema and screenwriting in the dark This Savage Art This Savage Art wsperuzzi@gmail.com no no Frownland Screens In NYC Again http://www.thissavageart.com/2008/03/04/frownland-screens-in-nyc-again/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frownland-screens-in-nyc-again http://www.thissavageart.com/2008/03/04/frownland-screens-in-nyc-again/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:03:17 +0000 William Speruzzi http://www.thissavageart.com/2008/03/04/frownland-screens-in-nyc-again/ A minimal wordpress theme by Jared Erickson

]]> Go see Ronald Bronstein’s Frownland this weekend at the IFC Center. It is probably the best representation of the freedom of what was and what is truly missing in the independent film scene now. Relentless and unapologetically pained, its characters and audience are in sync with the same level of discomfort. Frownland has all the makings of a midnight movie – an institution that no longer exists. It’s the antithesis of what typically and theoretically makes a commercial film “work.”

If you believe the film community has lost it’s individual voice for the offbeat, the dangerous or the button-pushing type of filmmaking that some may be hesitant to get behind go to this screening even if just to see what the buzz is all about and while you’re at it, support a true independent vision. It might make you angry, it might give you hope that films this weird and fucked up can still get made with a little persistence. At the least you will take away one simple fact; Juno it ain’t.

Related:

The New Yorker review.

An endorsement from Filmmaker Magazine.

The Village Voice review.

[This Savage Art] review of Frownland.

Jeremiah Kipp [ aka my AD on The Face of the Earth ] interviews Frownland writer/director Ronald Bronstein.

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]]> If you missed the recent NYC screening of Frownland you have another chance. [via Tully] Matt Zoller Seitz gives a review at The House Next Door.

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