Plot: Soon after relocating from Texas to New York in a bid to make the big time, a 21-year-old actor enters into a turbulent relationship with a struggling singer/songwriter in writer/director Ethan Hawke's screen adaptation of his own debut novel. Read More
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My pick of the week comes from Brazil: Antonia. Directed by Tata Amaral, Antonia is an engaging, low-key pleasure about four women that live in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood in São Paolo but have dreams of fame and fortune. As I've written...
The Hottest State is one of the most inauthentic films I've seen in a long time. Written and directed by Ethan Hawke, and from his own novel no less, the film plays out like some version of hell where everyone is being forced to perform in an acting class...
Since Ethan Hawke seems to have better luck with movies than he does in the literary world, if anyone was going to make a film from his debut novel, it might as well have been him. ThinkFilm has just released the trailer for the film version of Hawke's...
One of these years, Cinematical is going to have to send someone Down Under to watch things drain the opposite way and check out the Melbourne International Film Festival. The fest, which opened Wednesday and runs through August 12, has a bonanza of...
Image fests aren't only for the big summer blockbusters. IGN has thrown up pictures for a bunch of indie films, so I thought I'd share: First, there's The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke's first directorial feature since 2001's Chelsea Walls. I was able to...

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