An outstanding performance from emerging actor Alice Foulcher takes this lean and plucky film about stymied ambition to another level
Could Gregory Erdstein and Alice Foulcher become Australia’s Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig? If the married couple and Victorian College of the Arts alumni continue collaborating and get a couple more notches on their belt as impressive as their feature film debut – directed by Erdstein, starring Foulcher and written by both – that will be not so much a question as a certainty.
The cheap-as-chips That’s Not Me was reportedly shot for a paltry $60,000 – one of those call-in-favours figures that would skyrocket if proper wages were factored in. A young and spunky cast and crew have installed in this smart and sassy dramedy a highly disciplined, tonally cohesive style that reminded me, in its pluckiness and penny-pinching verve, of director Emma-Kate Croghan’s similarly cut-price 1996 debut Love and Other Catastrophes.
Could Gregory Erdstein and Alice Foulcher become Australia’s Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig? If the married couple and Victorian College of the Arts alumni continue collaborating and get a couple more notches on their belt as impressive as their feature film debut – directed by Erdstein, starring Foulcher and written by both – that will be not so much a question as a certainty.
The cheap-as-chips That’s Not Me was reportedly shot for a paltry $60,000 – one of those call-in-favours figures that would skyrocket if proper wages were factored in. A young and spunky cast and crew have installed in this smart and sassy dramedy a highly disciplined, tonally cohesive style that reminded me, in its pluckiness and penny-pinching verve, of director Emma-Kate Croghan’s similarly cut-price 1996 debut Love and Other Catastrophes.
- 9/6/2017
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Emma-Kate Croghan’s indie flick has the verbal ping pong of a Kevin Smith joint crossed with the good-natured repartee of a Nora Ephron movie
Film history is dotted with stories of immensely talented people who launched their careers with a bang then disappeared from the scene far too quickly. What a shame we haven’t seen more from writer/director Emma-Kate Croghan, who rose to acclaim in the 90s and has made only two feature films: 1999’s Strange Planet (with Claudia Karvan and Naomi Watts) and 1996’s Love and Other Catastrophes.
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Film history is dotted with stories of immensely talented people who launched their careers with a bang then disappeared from the scene far too quickly. What a shame we haven’t seen more from writer/director Emma-Kate Croghan, who rose to acclaim in the 90s and has made only two feature films: 1999’s Strange Planet (with Claudia Karvan and Naomi Watts) and 1996’s Love and Other Catastrophes.
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- 11/14/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Lightning Entertainment, the Santa Monica-based sales, production and distribution company, has acquired international rights to the hit South by Southwest Film Festival comedy, Gus, starring Michelle Monaghan (Source Code, Gone Baby Gone) Radha Mitchell (Olympus Has Fallen, Silent Hill) and Michael Weston (Fox’s “House,” HBO’s “Six Feet Under”), it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning.
The film, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival to rave reviews in March, marks the feature film debut of Jessie McCormack, who directed from her own script.
McCormack is also a producer alongside Kathryn Himoff, Kevin Fitzmaurice Comer and Erik Van Wyck. The film is executive produced by Richard N. Gladstein (Finding Neverland, The Cider House Rules, The Bourne Identity). The deal was negotiated by Lightning Entertainment’s Joseph Dickstein and ICM Partners on behalf of the filmmakers. ICM Partners represents Monaghan and Mitchell and is also...
The film, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival to rave reviews in March, marks the feature film debut of Jessie McCormack, who directed from her own script.
McCormack is also a producer alongside Kathryn Himoff, Kevin Fitzmaurice Comer and Erik Van Wyck. The film is executive produced by Richard N. Gladstein (Finding Neverland, The Cider House Rules, The Bourne Identity). The deal was negotiated by Lightning Entertainment’s Joseph Dickstein and ICM Partners on behalf of the filmmakers. ICM Partners represents Monaghan and Mitchell and is also...
- 5/1/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Screen Australia has announced a new round of funding for 18 filmmaking teams to develop feature projects including teams led by producer Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech), director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) and director Gillian Armstrong.
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
- 12/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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