Lee Stobby has joined Silent R Management as a literary manager, TheWrap has learned. Stobby, who was previously a manager at Caliber Media, began his career at Industry Entertainment after working at several production companies, including Double Feature Films and Misher Films. Clients who will be traveling with Stobby to Silent R include filmmaker Rodney Ascher (“Room 237″), director Kaare Andrews (“Cabin Fever: Patient Zero”), writer Emil Stern (“Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole”), writer Lindsay Stidham (“Douchebag”), director Tomasz Thomson (“Snowman’s Land”) and writer Kate Trefry, whose script “Pure O” was voted to the 2013 Black List.
- 1/31/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Chicago – The art of deadpan humor looks deceptively simple to the untrained eye. It’s fairly easy to say ridiculous things while maintaining a straight face. What separates the amateurs from the professionals is a mastery of timing as well as a keen understanding of a character’s interior life. The best deadpan laughs are the ones that allow an inside peek into the human psyche.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Tomasz Thomson’s 2010 crime thriller, “Snowman’s Land,” evokes forgotten memories of weak Coen Brothers vehicles like “Intolerable Cruelty” and “The Ladykillers.” There’s plenty of remarkable craft on display but little to stoke an audience’s involvement. The film is so deadpan at times that it barely has a pulse, though cinematographer Ralf M. Mendle provides the viewer with so much hauntingly desolate and gorgeously frostbitten imagery that it nearly redeems the naggingly empty experience.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of...
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Tomasz Thomson’s 2010 crime thriller, “Snowman’s Land,” evokes forgotten memories of weak Coen Brothers vehicles like “Intolerable Cruelty” and “The Ladykillers.” There’s plenty of remarkable craft on display but little to stoke an audience’s involvement. The film is so deadpan at times that it barely has a pulse, though cinematographer Ralf M. Mendle provides the viewer with so much hauntingly desolate and gorgeously frostbitten imagery that it nearly redeems the naggingly empty experience.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of...
- 9/27/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Walter is in trouble. He killed the wrong man, and then had to kill the right man, and now his boss is mad at him for creating a mess, and so Walter is sidelined for the moment. His friend Francois suggests that Walter fill in for him on a job that will take him away to a mountain retreat, where he can enjoy the peace and quiet and build snowmen, one week tops, good money. But things are never quite that easy for professional assassins. Snowman's Land features oddball characters and an unusual narrative trajectory, coupled with a great sense of visual style. Tomasz Thomson, who wrote and directed, apparently only has one feature film to his credit -- 2001's Silent Storm (Stiller Sturm)...
- 9/19/2012
- Screen Anarchy
It’s the folksy guitar score that early on reveals that the poker face of Tomasz Thomson’s “Snowman’s Land” is a put-on. First, it’s the twinkly strumming over scenes of muted violence, and then monotonous boredom, that reveals that “Snowman’s Land” wants you to like it, it wants you to consider that this might be a genius low key comedy: a contemporary hip hop mixing of one guitar theme helps illuminate this clearer. It’s a fairly inorganic request from a film like this, one which, when it works, affects a faint smile at best. But it’s a small world, and there simply isn’t a lot of room for that many quiet German hitman comedies. There’s no harm in picking this moment to grade on a curve. Walter (Jurgen Ribmann) is exactly the type of guy you’d see as a low level...
- 9/14/2012
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
By MoreHorror.com
Starting next week, on May 4th through May, 20th, Porto Alegre will be the Latin American Capital of Genre Cinema as Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 unleashes.
Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, the biggest genre film festival of Latin America will be back for its 8th edition, with 17 days of pure cinephilia, exhibiting 150 films – including 87 features from 32 countries: 5 having their world première, 12 in national première and 43 in their Latin America première. The festival will also bring more than 35 guests, including the duo that will be getting a Career Achievement Award: David Schmoeller and Stuart Gordon. Schmoeller, in the occasion, will also have the première of his first feature in 14 years: “Little Monsters”.
The festival will open and close with two world premières: “Nervo Craniano Zero”, directed by Paulo Biscaia Filho will open the festival and “Cell Count”, directed by Todd E. Freeman will close it.
Starting next week, on May 4th through May, 20th, Porto Alegre will be the Latin American Capital of Genre Cinema as Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 unleashes.
Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, the biggest genre film festival of Latin America will be back for its 8th edition, with 17 days of pure cinephilia, exhibiting 150 films – including 87 features from 32 countries: 5 having their world première, 12 in national première and 43 in their Latin America première. The festival will also bring more than 35 guests, including the duo that will be getting a Career Achievement Award: David Schmoeller and Stuart Gordon. Schmoeller, in the occasion, will also have the première of his first feature in 14 years: “Little Monsters”.
The festival will open and close with two world premières: “Nervo Craniano Zero”, directed by Paulo Biscaia Filho will open the festival and “Cell Count”, directed by Todd E. Freeman will close it.
- 5/1/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
29 more days to go until Fantastic Fest 2011 takes over Austin Texas! I cannot wait. 17 more films were announced late last week. Only one of those 17 films was on our “Film Guestimation” list for Fantastic Fest 2011. They still have yet to announce Opening & Closing films along with other Gala screenings so hopefully we won’t look like total fools. All we need is maybe half of our films that we listed to show up. Anyway, beyond the break, you can check out what is playing.
Apparently, more films will be announced this week. We will try to get those out as soon as we hear about it.
Events & Contests
100 Best Kills
One of the greatest long-running traditions of Fantastic Fest is the 100 Best Kills Party, where we sit in a theater together and turn the spotlight on the Grim Reaper of movieland as he disembowels, detonates and decapitates again and again and again.
Apparently, more films will be announced this week. We will try to get those out as soon as we hear about it.
Events & Contests
100 Best Kills
One of the greatest long-running traditions of Fantastic Fest is the 100 Best Kills Party, where we sit in a theater together and turn the spotlight on the Grim Reaper of movieland as he disembowels, detonates and decapitates again and again and again.
- 8/23/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Fresh off a successful opening salvo of films, Fantastic Fest is proud to announce the second wave of pictures for the week of September 22-29 in Austin, Texas. As always, it looks like an impressive line-up.
And seeing how this is the film festival that has launched such films as Zombieland, Trollhunter and The Human Centipede, you'll just have to trust them. They've proven time and again they know what's good.
In addition to the line-up of 17 new films making their world, North American or Us premieres, Fantastic Fest has some great contests and one hottie of a new director in Kristen Bell.
So, without further ado, here's the info for Fantastic Fest, Second Sequence.
From the Press Release
Fantastic Fest is proud to announce the second wave of programming for the seventh edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 22-29 in Austin, Texas. The second wave includes 17 new World, North American and Us premiere films,...
And seeing how this is the film festival that has launched such films as Zombieland, Trollhunter and The Human Centipede, you'll just have to trust them. They've proven time and again they know what's good.
In addition to the line-up of 17 new films making their world, North American or Us premieres, Fantastic Fest has some great contests and one hottie of a new director in Kristen Bell.
So, without further ado, here's the info for Fantastic Fest, Second Sequence.
From the Press Release
Fantastic Fest is proud to announce the second wave of programming for the seventh edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 22-29 in Austin, Texas. The second wave includes 17 new World, North American and Us premiere films,...
- 8/18/2011
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Earlier we shared the first group of films slated to be at Fantastic Fest this year in Austin, TX. Today we have the second group that includes: Nacho Vigalondo‘s Extraterrestrial, Ti West‘s The Innkeepers, Lars Von Trier‘s Melancholia and Adam Wingard‘s You’re Next.
Here are the descriptions of the films from the press release:
Movies On Fire: Hong Kong Action Classics- presented by Agfa
The amazing Grady Hendrix of the famous New York Asian Film Festival will join us and introduce four surprise 35mm screenings of classic Hong Kong grindhouse gems (most not available on DVD) from Hong Kong’s exploitation heyday of the late 80’s and early 90’s, these movies are cinematic crystal meth: cheap n’crazy, they’ll spoil you for everything else. Designed to play to rowdy audiences who threatened mayhem if they weren’t delivered a dose of gonzo delirium every five minutes,...
Here are the descriptions of the films from the press release:
Movies On Fire: Hong Kong Action Classics- presented by Agfa
The amazing Grady Hendrix of the famous New York Asian Film Festival will join us and introduce four surprise 35mm screenings of classic Hong Kong grindhouse gems (most not available on DVD) from Hong Kong’s exploitation heyday of the late 80’s and early 90’s, these movies are cinematic crystal meth: cheap n’crazy, they’ll spoil you for everything else. Designed to play to rowdy audiences who threatened mayhem if they weren’t delivered a dose of gonzo delirium every five minutes,...
- 8/18/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
If you're a fan of genre film, you've had September 22-29 circled on your calendar for months. That's when one of the most fun, depraved and intimate film festivals in the country once again invades Austin, Texas. It's called Fantastic Fest and it features a huge blend of action, horror and sci-fi movies that most people haven't heard of at the time, but we all hear about after. This year is no different. They announced the first wave of films [1] in July and today we've got the second wave. Most of them are new to many of us, but then there are a few that we've covered in the past: Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial, Ti West's The Innkeepers, Lars Von Trier's Melancholia and Adam Wingard's You're Next just to name a few. After the jump, read the full breakdown of the second wave of films. Slashfilm will...
- 8/18/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Official Us Poster For Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’; VOD Debut In October After Fantastic Fest Bow
VOD must be quite a profitable avenue for Magnet, as they will debut Lars von Trier‘s highly-anticipated Cannes hit Melancholia on the digital platform over a month before its theatrical release in November. Vulture has the official Us poster premiere (using the same key art as the rest) as well as the news of an October 7th, 2011 VOD release date for the drama starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgard, Stellan Skarsgard and Udo Kier.
It will then debut in theaters on November 11th, but it has also just been announced as part of the Fantastic Fest line-up. Check out their second wave of titles after the poster for the fest that runs from September 22nd to the 29th.
Aardvark (2010)
Texas Premiere
Director Kitao Sakurai live in person
Director: Kitao Sakurai, Japan, 80 minutes
Larry (Aardvark’s blind-since-birth protagonist) has an innate curiosity that...
It will then debut in theaters on November 11th, but it has also just been announced as part of the Fantastic Fest line-up. Check out their second wave of titles after the poster for the fest that runs from September 22nd to the 29th.
Aardvark (2010)
Texas Premiere
Director Kitao Sakurai live in person
Director: Kitao Sakurai, Japan, 80 minutes
Larry (Aardvark’s blind-since-birth protagonist) has an innate curiosity that...
- 8/18/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Fantastic Fest is an annual film festival in Austin, Texas, founded in 2005 by Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse, Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, and Tim McCanlies, writer of The Iron Giant and Secondhand Lions. The festival which focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult takes place in September at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, filling three screens for eight days and hosting many writers, directors and actors, both well established and unknown. We’ve already posted the first wave of films which was pretty impressive. Now the fest has announced the second wave which includes Ahn Sang-hoon’s Blind, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia and aume Balaguero’s Sleep Tight. See the press release below.
Austin, TX–Thursday, August 18th, 2011– Fantastic Fest is proud to announce the second wave of programming for the seventh edition of Fantastic Fest,...
Austin, TX–Thursday, August 18th, 2011– Fantastic Fest is proud to announce the second wave of programming for the seventh edition of Fantastic Fest,...
- 8/18/2011
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
The 3rd Annual Arizona Underground Film Festival, bigger and better than ever this year, kicks off their screening schedule tonight with a film I have been eagerly awaiting as much as any film in this year's lineup. At The Screening Room tonight, 8:00Pm showtime, Snowman's Land, a dark, violent, comedic thriller directed and written by German filmmaker Tomasz Thomson will be making its U.S. Premiere at Azuff. Snowman's Land follows bumbling killer for hire Walter who has just botched his most recent gig, forcing his quick exit from town. Trying to blend in and keep...
- 9/18/2010
- by ericshla
- Examiner Movies Channel
Tucson and Phoenix: Prepare to be rocked, shocked and defiled. Blasting its way into its third — and biggest — year on Sept. 18-25, the Arizona Underground Film Festival is a cacophonous concoction of angry transsexuals, bumbling hit men, slacker superheroes, living dolls, aliens, dead hookers, adventure-seeking blondes and other crazies.
This year the fest is screening 30 feature films, some of which are making their U.S. and even world debuts. The opening night film is the U.S. premiere of the German hit man comedy Snowman’s Land, directed by Tomasz Thomson,while closing the fest is the controversial and violent A Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic, which you have to be over-18 to get into.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of homebrewed films as well, such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska; Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Joseph Guzman; 1,001 Ways to Enjoy the...
This year the fest is screening 30 feature films, some of which are making their U.S. and even world debuts. The opening night film is the U.S. premiere of the German hit man comedy Snowman’s Land, directed by Tomasz Thomson,while closing the fest is the controversial and violent A Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic, which you have to be over-18 to get into.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of homebrewed films as well, such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska; Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Joseph Guzman; 1,001 Ways to Enjoy the...
- 9/13/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Arizona Underground Film Festival has just revealed the names of six feature films chosen to screen at its third annual edition that will run on Sept. 18 to 25 in Tucson and Tempe, Az. The selections are an exciting mix of genre-bending films from all over the world, several of which are making their North American and World Premieres.
Azuff began as a modest three-day affair back in 2008 and has now grown into a full-blown eight-day affair in 2010. The sampling of titles that have been announced are a good sampling of the overall tone of the fest. The films range from black comedy to western to horror to one of the most controversial films of the year, A Serbian Film. Countries that some of the other films come from include Germany and Brazil.
Listed below are the six titles that have been announced so far and the full lineup will be released on Sept.
Azuff began as a modest three-day affair back in 2008 and has now grown into a full-blown eight-day affair in 2010. The sampling of titles that have been announced are a good sampling of the overall tone of the fest. The films range from black comedy to western to horror to one of the most controversial films of the year, A Serbian Film. Countries that some of the other films come from include Germany and Brazil.
Listed below are the six titles that have been announced so far and the full lineup will be released on Sept.
- 8/20/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
I came across this movie trailer for Tomasz Thomson's Snowman's Land on FirstShowing. although it was originally found on Twitch. The German-language hitman dark comedy does have a Coen Brothers-vibe to it, but that might just be the subgenre itself. The movie tells the story of a professional killer who takes up an offer to protect the house of a crime boss in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains.But when the crime bosses wife is accidentally killed, the glorified vacation "becomes a fight for survival for all parties involved." Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: Hapless contract killer Walter has screwed up a hit badly, and he has to leave town Fast. Intent on keeping a very low profile, he agrees to take a job guarding Mr Berger's (a former underworld boss) house, in...
- 7/6/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Sometimes a trailer is enough to convince you that a movie is worth seeing, even if you don’t have a clue what the actors are talking about when you watch it…and no, this isn’t about Chris Nolan’s Inception. Instead, we turn our eyes to Germany, home of relatively unknown writer/director Tomasz Thomson and his second film Snowman’S Land. Although this first trailer is entirely in German, with no subtitles to be seen, a quick look over film’s summary will help to clear everything up:
Read more on Check out this awesome German trailer for Snowman’S Land…...
Read more on Check out this awesome German trailer for Snowman’S Land…...
- 7/6/2010
- by Jon Davis
- GordonandtheWhale
When did the Coen Brothers become German? An official trailer for the upcoming German hitman comedy Snowman's Land has made its debut on the internet on the film's official website (via Twitch). This looks like a beautifully shot, very dark hitman comedy inspired by the Coen Brothers, and I can't wait to see it. It just showed at the Edinburgh Film Fest a couple of weeks ago, but other than we're not sure when we'll see it show up again. I wish it had subtitles, and I'm sorry we have to keep featuring good foreign trailers without subs (or a dub), but this was just too good to pass up. I still suggest checking it out anyway, so watch below. Watch the official trailer (with subtitles) for Tomasz Thomson's Snowman's Land: Luckless contract killer Walter (Jürgen Rißmann) takes a job for former underworld boss Berger (Reiner Schöne) who...
- 7/5/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A thriller, a comedy, a crime caper….it’s hard to pin down just exactly what you’d tag German director Tomasz Thomson’s latest work - Snowman’s Land - as. One thing’s for certain the full length (alas it’s not subbed) trailer on the now live official site, starts with a bang. Two actually! The film received “ok” reviews at its screening at this years Edinburgh film festival, so if off the wall comedy is your thing, it might well be worth a watch. Synopsis: Hapless contract killer Walter has screwed up a hit badly, and he has to leave town Fast. Intent on keeping a very low profile, he agrees to take a job guarding Mr Berger’s (a former underworld boss) house, in a remote area of the Carpathian Mountains, with his pal Mickey. Berger’s wife Sybille turns up at the house unannounced,...
- 7/4/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Edinburgh International Film Festival this afternoon published their full line-up for 2010, and it’s looking good. Check out the website - www.edfilmfest.org.uk
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
- 6/1/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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