Writer/director Carleton Ranney's debut feature Jackrabbit has toured the festival circuit rather extensively since last year's debut at Tribeca but I must admit this is the first I've seen and heard of the great looking thriller.
Unfolding in a post apocalyptic time after an event referred to as The Reset, Jackrabbit stars "Hell on Wheels" star Josh Caras and relative newcomer Ian Christopher Noel as Simon, an accomplished computer technician, and Max, a fringe hacker, relative strangers who come together to decipher a cryptic message left on a mysterious computer drive after a friend commits suicide.
It's a little vague and finding more on the plot requires nothing more than a quick peek at a fes [Continued ...]...
Unfolding in a post apocalyptic time after an event referred to as The Reset, Jackrabbit stars "Hell on Wheels" star Josh Caras and relative newcomer Ian Christopher Noel as Simon, an accomplished computer technician, and Max, a fringe hacker, relative strangers who come together to decipher a cryptic message left on a mysterious computer drive after a friend commits suicide.
It's a little vague and finding more on the plot requires nothing more than a quick peek at a fes [Continued ...]...
- 3/22/2016
- QuietEarth.us
As beautiful spring weather moves into New York City for the first time this year, the lines for TriBeCa movies only get longer. And, for all of the talk that TriBeCa is a festival for “indies that aren’t really indies” because of the A-list stars in their casts, the greatest masters’ films always draw the longest lines.
In this case, the great master is the late, legendary documentarian Albert Maysles, whose final film In Transit made its world premiere. Maysles had been wanting to make a movie about passenger trains for decades, but an actual opportunity to do so only appeared in the last year and a half. Over that period, Maysles and his four collaborators (Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui, and Ben Wu are listed as directors, but an opening title card announces “an Albert Maysles film”) observed the Empire Builder line between Chicago and Seattle, interviewing...
In this case, the great master is the late, legendary documentarian Albert Maysles, whose final film In Transit made its world premiere. Maysles had been wanting to make a movie about passenger trains for decades, but an actual opportunity to do so only appeared in the last year and a half. Over that period, Maysles and his four collaborators (Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui, and Ben Wu are listed as directors, but an opening title card announces “an Albert Maysles film”) observed the Empire Builder line between Chicago and Seattle, interviewing...
- 4/21/2015
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Tribeca Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During Run of Festival According to "Jackrabbit" producer-turned-amateur-game-designer Joe Stankus, the idea to create a video game tied to the film came about by accident, as the result of a joke. The production didn't have any money in the budget to put towards a game. But, as Stankus told Indiewire over email earlier this week, "the more we talked about it the more we were interested in the idea." "Even though 'Jackrabbit' was a low-budget indie," he continued. "I felt the world Carleton [Ranney] created was so rich that it deserved to spread out a little and, given the thematic importance that arcade games play in the movie, it just seemed like the right thing to do." Set in a post-apocalyptic world where everyone is under constant surveillance, "Jackrabbit" tells the story of two young hackers who come from two completely.
- 4/18/2015
- by Shipra Harbola Gupta
- Indiewire
Will Berman calls his current situation "an exciting time and place." The drummer and writer has spent a better part of the past decade on tour and making music with Mgmt, but he's stepping out as a film composer for the first time with his score to "Jackrabbit," which gets its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday. "After touring for seven years straight and not being able to polish skills in any other area, it's great to finally spread out and figure out something else that I can do," Berman told me this week. "It was such a pleasure to make music for a film, and I'm blown away people's response to it... it was a real lucky combination of factors." For six months, Berman collaborated with director Carleton Ranney's on coming up with the best versions of the sci-fi flick's "sparse," spacious sounds. To go along...
- 4/17/2015
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Set in the not-too-distant future, Carleton Ranney’s debut feature Jackrabbit observes two young hackers living in City Six, a dystopian urban environment still recovering from The Reset, an event which caused the city to literally go back to square one. Interacting with the outside world via computers and video game systems that go back to user-friendly technology’s infancy (we’re talking pre-Pong), Simon and Max attempt to uncover the secret of a mutual friend’s murder, while fighting to escape City Six and the police/surveillance state they’ve grown accustomed to. An Orwellian fable, Jackrabbit is steeped in political paranoia and a fascination with the impersonal implications of a corporatized America. […]...
- 4/17/2015
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Set in the not-too-distant future, Carleton Ranney’s debut feature Jackrabbit observes two young hackers living in City Six, a dystopian urban environment still recovering from The Reset, an event which caused the city to literally go back to square one. Interacting with the outside world via computers and video game systems that go back to user-friendly technology’s infancy (we’re talking pre-Pong), Simon and Max attempt to uncover the secret of a mutual friend’s murder, while fighting to escape City Six and the police/surveillance state they’ve grown accustomed to. An Orwellian fable, Jackrabbit is steeped in political paranoia and a fascination with the impersonal implications of a corporatized America....
- 4/17/2015
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Read More: Meet the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Filmmakers When a friend's suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, a fringe hacker and accomplished computer technician come together to decipher the message left in his wake. First-time filmmaker Carleton Ranney effortlessly combines a low-fi aesthetic with an intensely ambitious sci-fi story, creating a work that manages to satisfy as both a retro throwback and a forward-thinking indie drama. [Synopsis Courtesy of Tribeca] Read More: George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Stephen Colbert and More Set for Tribeca Film Festival Panels What's your film about in 140 characters or less? A fringe hacker and an accomplished computer technician attempt to solve a mystery surrounding their friend’s suicide. Now what's it Really about? "Jackrabbit" is about humanity's relationship with information and technology's ever-evolving role in the way we access and share that information. It is also about human being’s natural desire...
- 4/15/2015
- by Jena Keahon
- Indiewire
Andrew Renzi‘s directorial debut about a third wheel starring Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning and Theo James, Reed Morano‘s relationship testing drama featuring Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson, Onur Tukel‘s secret unleashed on the airwaves and Gregory Kohn‘s hallucinatory tale with Eléonore Hendricks topling are part of the American independent offerings at the 14th Tribeca Film Festival. Renzi’s Franny and Morano’s Meadowland will be competing in the dozen selected in the World Narrative Competition while Tukel’s Applesauce and Kohn’s Come Down Molly are among the in the Viewpoints sidebar. Here are the selected titles below sans synopsis.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
- 3/3/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Top brass at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) presented by At&T have announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition and Viewpoints selections.
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
- 3/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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