Edward Albee Video Tribute

A first glimpse at the Video Tribute for Edward Albee as part of the 20th Anniversary of the Lark Theater Company. It has been an honor directing this celebration of one of our great American playwrights. Our full premiere is next month. In the meantime, here is brilliant Academy Award winning actress Mercedes Ruehl (from THE FISHER KING) sharing the intensity of her thoughts...



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New Project - PAINKILLER

I am so incredibly proud of this promo trailer for PAINKILLER. Please take 5 minutes and check out the awesome work done by executive producer/writer/actor Jerry Janda, cinematographers Jeffrey Scott Gould & Steve Adams, associate producer and resident godfather Rob Dimension, actors Kelly Rae LeGault, Thomas Mendolia, and BTS work by Kristen Adams. You'll learn more about the story, get a sneak peek of the film, hear from cast and crew, and see cool behind-the-scenes footage. And if you like the trailer, please visit painkillerfilm.com and find out how you can help make the film possible. Thanks in advance for your support. Special additional thanks to Jill Di Donato and Adam Ginsberg for being part of the team!

Check it out here:
https://vimeo.com/87375413

Dennis Cozzalio responds to The Days God Slept

“The push-and-pull spirituality reminded me of early Scorsese, without the 'satisfaction' of release, and the way it's melded with the expression of the (trustworthy? untrustworthy?) narrators is compelling-- it made me want to scratch under the surface to find out more, or maybe more satisfyingly, to speculate on what might be true, what might come of the various fantasies being played out.

'Of the two, love is what I want, but it's the pain I trust..' That seems to me like an accurate summation of the crucial visual structure of the movie, and it's very sensitively revealed and sustained.

This is a really strong piece of work.” - Dennis Cozzalio, film critic – Sergio Leone and the Infield Flight Rule

Review & Interview at Idea Fountain

Kipp charges his films with visual and psychological depth [and] has a special knack for getting under our skin. While the work he’s done runs the gamut from slasher to zombie to cerebral thriller, there’s a beauty underlying much of his work that is unnerving to say the least. The seductive persuasion of darkness, the erotic undertow of pure surrender, the edge where disgust gives way to submission, are masterfully played out in films like Crestfallen, Drool, and Contact." - from a review & interview at Idea Fountain 

http://www.ideafountain.ca/blog.html

Walter Chaw Praises THE DAYS GOD SLEPT

"THE DAYS GOD SLEPT is all of dread, the existential kind, the kind that speaks to compulsions that spur men to ask questions they don't want the answers to of women that they idealize.  It's wise about how men formulate scenarios and tableaux; smart as hell about the demons of sexual jealousy and self-loathing - and it's all of those things without a hint of the pulpit.  Kipp is smart, moral, meticulous and THE DAYS GOD SLEPT is proof that the short film format is vital, still, when wielded with heat." – Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central