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Video: Emily Blunt and Mark Duplass talk love and loss in YOUR SISTER’S SISTER

Sundance Channel — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:58:21 +0000

YOUR SISTER'S SISTER tells the story of a different kind of love triangle. Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt and director Lynn Shelton (HUMPDAY) stopped by to talk about how the process of collaborative filmmaking differs from your average studio fare. Watch more to learn more:

The Sundance Review Revue: SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED

Matt Singer — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:26:57 +0000

Nothing in this world is guaranteed, especially not a positive response at the Sundance Film Festival. SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED came to Sundance with a great premise and a better cast, but films with more impressive pedigrees riding bigger waves of buzz have crashed and burned in Park City.

Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, and Rosemarie DeWitt at Sundance Channel HQ see photos inside

Sundance Channel — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:27:28 +0000

Aamer Haleem interviews Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, and Rosemarie DeWitt of YOUR SISTER'S SISTER for Festival Insider. Click below to see the full gallery!

SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED – Traveling through time with Mark Duplass and Aubrey Plaza

Matt Singer — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:31:57 +0000

The September/October 1997 issue of Backwoods Home Magazine featured a curious classified ad. It read:

"WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322, Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before."

She’s a dude of a filmmaker…sigh

Annie and Lisa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:52:02 +0000

Two recent articles in the New York Times caught my eye. Michelle Orange’s piece about Lynn Shelton’s film HUMPDAY, “She’s a Director Who’s Just another Dude” and “Action!” Manohla Dargis’s profile of Kathryn Bigelow and her film THE HURT LOCKER. Both articles made much of the fact that these female directors are working with male stories and male actors. Dargis describes how Bigelow “steered clear of the industry ghetto to which female directors are usually consigned, bypassing the dreaded chick flick for stories and archetypes traditionally if reductively seen as the province of men.” Orange quoted one of HUMPDAY’s actors Mark Duplass who described “…her greater affinity for men": “You know those girls who are closer with dudes, in general? She’s got a little bit of that going on, so that obviously plays into it.” Is it just me… or does this is all feel a bit grating that at this point in time when a female filmmaker makes a good film, the angle of the story still ends up being about how she’s not a guy?