***Trailer for FRANKIE & ALICE Starring Halle Berry ***Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced; WINTER’S BONE Leads with 7 Nominations

Trailer for FRANKIE & ALICE Starring Halle Berry

by Ben Garman    Posted: November 30th, 2010

The trailer to Frankie & Alice, Halle Berry’s latest psychological drama is now online. It’s not an unfamiliar genre to the Bond girl having starred in both Gothika and Perfect Stranger. This time she stars as a young woman in the 70s affected by multiple personality disorder, struggling to keep her racist white alter ego at bay. The movie is directed by Geoffrey Sax (Stormbreaker) and also features Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad and Chandra Wilson, although no doubt it’ll be Berry hoping for the Oscar nod. Frankie & Alice is screening for Academy members and opens in New York and LA on December 17th.  It opens in limited release on February 4, 2011.  Hit the jump to check out the trailer.




One can’t help but feel that the premise behind Frankie & Alice has been fairly exhausted in past films, and judging by the promo, it doesn’t seem like this is a particularly fresh new take on it despite the creative input of six screenwriters. It’s not the most gripping of trailers, and I was easily distracted the first two times I watched it, but it definitely conveys the plot and tone of the movie: bleak.
Trailer via Movielicious.

http://www.collider.com/2010/11/30/frankie-and-alice-movie-trailer-halle-berry/

Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced; WINTER’S BONE Leads with 7 Nominations

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 30th, 2010

The nominations for the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards have been announced.  Here’s a quick breakdown of some interesting facts about the nominees.  After winning the top prize at the Gotham Awards last night, Winter’s Bone leads the pack with seven nominations.  And if you need more proof that the Best Actress race this year is crazy, it was the only category with a six nominees.

It’s also a good year for women filmmakers as Lisa Cholodenok (The Kids Are All Right) and Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) pick up nominations for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Nicole Holofcener also picked up a Best Screenplay nomination along with the Robert Altman Award for Please Give. Hit the jump for a full list of the nominees.  The Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 10pm ET/PT on IFC.

Best Film

• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• Greenberg
• The Kids Are All Right
• Winter’s Bone

Best Director

• Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
• Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
• Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right
• Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone
• John Cameron Mitchell – Rabbit Hole

Best Actor

• Ronald Bronstein – Daddly Longlegs
• Aaron Eckhart – Rabbit Hole
• James Franco – 127 Hours
• John C. Reilly – Cyrus
• Ben Stiller – Greenberg

Best Actress

• Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
• Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
• Greta Gerwig – Greenberg
• Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone
• Natalie Portman – Black Swan
• Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine

Best Supporting Actor

• John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone
• Samuel L. Jackson – Mother and Child
• Bill Murray – Get Low
• John Ortiz – Jack Goes Boating
• Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right

Best Supporting Actress

• Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism
• Dale Dickey – Winter’s Bone
• Allison Janney – Life During Wartime
• Daphne Rubin-Vega – Jack Goes Boating
• Naomi Watts – Mother and Child

Best Foreign Film

• The King’s Speech
• Kisses
• Mademoiselle Chambon
• Of Gods and Men
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Best Documentary

• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Marwencol
• Restrepo
• Sweetgrass
• Thunder Soul

Best First Feature

• Everything Strange and New
• Get Low
• The Last Exorcism
• Night Catches Us
• Tiny Furniture

John Cassavetes Award (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000;
award given to the writer, director, and producer)

• Daddy Longlegs
• The Exploding Girl
• Lbs.
• Lovers of Hate
• Obselidia

Best Screenplay

• Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg – The Kids Are All Right
• Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini – Winter’s Bone
• Nicole Holofcener – Please Give
• David Lindsay-Abaire – Rabbit Hole
• Todd Solondz – Life During Wartime

Best First Screenplay

• Diane Bell – Obselidia
• Lena Dunham – Tiny Furniture
• Nik Fackler – Lovely, Still
• Robert Glaudini – Jack Goes Boating
• Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener – Monogamy

Best Cinematography

• Adam Kimmel – Never Let Me Go
• Matthew Libatique – Black Swan
• Jody Lee Lipes – Tiny Furniture
• Michael McDonough – Winter’s Bone
• Harris Savides – Greenberg

Robert Altman Award (Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its
ensemble cast)

• Please Give

Piaget Producers Award

• In-Ah Lee – Au Revoir Taipei
• Adele Romanski – The Myth of the American Sleepover
• Anish Savjani – Meek’s Cutoff

Acura Someone to Watch Award

• Mike Ott – Littlerock
• Laurel Nakadate – The Wolf Knife
• Hossein Keshavarz – Dog Sweat

AVEENO Truer than Fiction Award

• Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor – Sweetgrass
• Jeff Malmberg – Marwencol
• Lynn True, Nelson Walker – Summer Pasture

http://www.collider.com/2010/11/30/film-independent-spirit-award-nominations-winters-bone/