Eric Stoltz Unofficial Site

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

Apr 7th, 2011

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The 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

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Tagged: Allison Anders · Eric Stoltz · Grace of My Heart · Illeana Douglas

Fort McCoy at the Newport Beach Film Festival

Apr 1st, 2011

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Fort 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.

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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.

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Back on Glee

Mar 22nd, 2011

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Looks like Eric is directing more Glee this season. A group of students visited the set last week and had a Q&A with him and one of the executive producers on the show. The episode will air in May. Glee is currently on a break and the next new episode doesn’t air until April 12. Here is a brief report from the Q&A:

Each guest also stressed the importance of not only “knowing the right people,” but maintaining those relationships and building a body of work of which to be proud.

“Building a good reputation as a hardworking artist who is easy to work with is critical in sustaining a career in TV/film and stage,” Stoltz said.

Thanks to DiLoreto and Stoltz, students were given a tour of the Glee sets, the first large group that has ever done so. Students wandered the sets, and took pictures and videos of settings, culminating in a trip to the place where most of the songs on the show originate — the music classroom. Students are not allowed to post any of these pictures or video until the episode comes out in May because there might be spoilers in some of the sets.

For the complete article, visit Noozhawk.com.

Posted in: Directing, Glee, Television News.