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New event: Grace of My Heart screening & Q&A

Apr 7th, 2011
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eric stoltz,illeana douglas,john turturro,grace of my heartThe Cinefamily (a Los Angeles based “organization of movie lovers devoted to finding and presenting interesting and unusual programs of exceptional, distinctive, weird and wonderful films”) will host an event, An Evening with Allison Anders, on April 16 and they tweet that Eric might show up too.

The event will include a Q&A with Allison Anders and a screening of Grace of My Heart, which she wrote and directed. (She also wrote and directed Things Behind the Sun.) According to Cinefamily’s twitter feed, Illeana Douglas is also expected to be there. Whether or not Eric shows up, sounds like a fun way to spend an evening, if you’re in L.A.

The reason why Eric might not attend is also pretty interesting: Cinefamily tweets that he is shooting a movie. But let’s wait for THR/Variety/other trade publication to confirm.

Some DVD/Blu-ray news for April:

The Rules of Attraction was released on Blu-ray in region 1 a couple of days ago (April 5) and The Prophecy is getting a DVD re-release later this month (April 26). Links to Amazon:

The Rules of Attraction [Blu-ray]
The Prophecy

Fort McCoy at the Newport Beach Film Festival

Apr 1st, 2011
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eric stoltz,fort mccoyFort McCoy will be shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 30 and May 5 and Eric is expected to attend.

From The Orange County Register:

Other festival highlights include the West Coast premiere April 29 of “Lucky,” a film written and directed by Gil Cates Jr. and starring Jeffrey Tambor, Colin Hanks and Mimi Rogers; “Balls to the Wall” (April 30), a comedy about a male stripper directed by Penelope Spheeris; “California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown” (April 30), a documentary executive produced by the former governor’s niece, Hilary Armstrong; “Project Nim” (April 30), a documentary directed by James Marsh, who won the 2008 Oscar for best documentary for “Man on Wire”; “Fort McCoy” (April 30), a drama starring Eric Stoltz; and “PressPausePlay” (May 1), a documentary about the digital revolution’s effects on art, culture and music. (…)

Special guests expected to attend include actors Hall, Fonda, Tambor, Colin Hanks, Stoltz and more. Emmy and Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin is scheduled to lead a screenwriting discussion on Saturday, April 30 at the Lido Theater.

For the complete program and tickets, see: program.newportbeachfilmfest.com.

Another screening and review of Fort McCoy

Mar 26th, 2011
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Fort McCoy will be shown at the Sonoma Film Festival on April 10. For showtimes and venues, go to the festival’s site.

There is a new review of the film at Sonoma News:

Frank Stirn, played excellently by Eric Stoltz who also produced the film, is a barber in 1944 who cannot join the military due to a heart murmur. Desperately seeking a way to still serve his country, he moves his family to Fort McCoy, a POW camp that is home to thousands of Germans and Japanese soldiers. The strongly character driven film offers a snapshot of daily life on the base, where the prisoners seem to run freely as they are consistently wandering into the Stirn’s home, panicking Frank’s wife and children.

Fort McCoy to be screened at WorldFest 2011

Mar 15th, 2011
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Fort McCoy will be shown at the WorldFest International Film Festival in Houston on Friday, April 15.

If you’re in Texas next month, you can get tickets here: http://worldfest-houston.ticketleap.com/fort-mccoy-usa-festival-premiere/

Code Name: Emerald is out on DVD today

Dec 22nd, 2010
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The film hit theatres in September 1985 and is finally getting a DVD release today, from Warner Archive. You can get the DVD on Amazon. Here is the description:

code name emerald,dvd cover,eric stoltz“Nazi command pulls off what could be a turning point in the war: the capture of an Overlord, one of a handful of U.S. soldiers who knows the location of the impending D-Day invasion. Will German agents be able to make him spill more than name and rank? Not if spy Gus Lang succeeds. He’s an Allied plant in the prison where the Overlord is held, a double agent posing as a Reich sympathizer. His mission: rescue the Overlord. Or failing that, kill him.

Working from his novel, Ronald Bass (Rain Man) scripts a smart, tightly wound spy thriller. Ed Harris portrays Lang, leading a superb cast in step with all the intrigue of this war behind the war, including Max von Sydow, Horst Buchholz, Eric Stoltz and Patrick Stewart.”

Fort McCoy screened at Fort Lauderdale Film Festival

Nov 9th, 2010
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Fort McCoy has had a couple of screenings at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and will be screened one more time on November 11. Follow the link to see the film’s listing.

Fort McCoy wins Best Feature Film prize at Hollywood Film Festival

Oct 26th, 2010
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Fort McCoy has won the award for Best Feature Film at the Hollywood Film Festival.

Report:

The winners of the festival’s film competition were announced Sunday night at the “Hollywood Discovery Awards® Presentation Ceremony at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. This year’s winners are: “FORT MCCOY” by Kate Connor and Michael Worth — Best Feature Film; “RECONCILIATION: MANDELA’S MIRACLE” by Michael Henry Wilson — Best Documentary; “WILD TARGET” by Jonathan Lynn — Best Comedy; “EL ARMADILLO FRONTERIZO” by Miguel Anaya — Best Animation, and “THE DESPERATE” by Ben Hur Sepehr — Best Short Subject. – Hollywood News