GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... which Sundance is known have been bracing specimens like Joshua Marston 's Maria Full of Grace , Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden 's Half Nelson , Debra Granik 's Down to the Bone and Andrea Arnold 's Red Road . Continued reading Shorts, 5/8.... Comments (0) Comments on this Entry:
Blogging Sundance (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Filed under: Independent , Sports , Deals , Sundance , Distribution , Cinematical Indie Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Sugar , the follow-up to their critically acclaimed Half Nelson , has finally been picked up for distribution. Variety's Mike Jones reports the film has been acquired for theatrical distribution by Sony Pictures Classics, which seems like a good fit for the...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... "Sugar," this year's well-done drama about a Dominican baseball prospect (directed by the "Half Nelson" team of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden) still doesn't have a distributor. And the Dramatic Grand Jury winner from '07, "Padre Nuestro," is finally getting released next month by IFC (with a new title, "Sangre de mi Sangre").This is too bad. "Trouble the Water" was the best...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 01/28/2008
... Wackness (which rightfully and unsurprisingly took the Audience award). Written and directed by Half Nelson's Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the film tells the story of Miguel "Sugar" Santos, a Dominican Republic pitcher desperate to make it to America and the Big Show. He starts off at a baseball factory in the D.R. for the Kansas City Knights, but his blazing fastball...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
... later. My Friday started early with an 8:30 am screening of Sugar , directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who co-wrote and co-directed Half Nelson . The movie had a bit of charm but it got bogged down by a bunch of tedious plot points and ancillary characters that didn't mean much to the story. It had me wanting to go to bed, but the audience seemed to like it — but...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
From the directors of 'Half Nelson' comes a slowly paced drama about a Dominican baseball player coming to America.
Dodger Thoughts (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
... Series MVP Jose Rijo was a principal advisor and even appears here as an actor, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's follow-up to their widely admired "Half-Nelson" is no conventional success story of a young man stirringly bucking the odds to rise from obscurity to triumph. Rather, it takes stock of many the factors that can tip the balance for or against even a genuinely talented...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
"No one-hit wonders, Half Nelson writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have created another stunning, subtle achievement with Sugar, a deeply resonant story about a Dominican baseball talent recruited for America's minor leagues," writes Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE. "If...
Blogging Sundance (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
Filed under: Drama , Independent , Sundance , Theatrical Reviews , Cinematical Indie Following up their critically acclaimed film Half Nelson , Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have their newest film, Sugar , at Sundance this year. Boden and Fleck have quite the knack for tackling subjects most people wouldn't think of making a film about (a crack-addicted middle-school...
On The Scene (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
by Eugene Hernandez, Brian Brooks, James Israel (January 23, 2008) Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck returned this week to the very same podium at the Sundance Film Festival 's Racquet Club Theater where two years ago they first introduced their acclaimed " Half Nelson ." Boden and Fleck's latest film, " Sugar ," which had its world premiere Monday at the venue,...
Movies (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
by Anthony Kaufman (January 23, 2008) No one-hit wonders, " Half Nelson " writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have created another stunning, subtle achievement with " Sugar ," a deeply resonant story about a Dominican baseball talent recruited for America's minor leagues. If "Half Nelson" showed off the duo's skillful attention to character, verite...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Every night in January the Sundance Channel plays films from former Sundance Festival favorites. Tonight's movie, “Half Nelson,” is exceptional — won many, many awards including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Sunday, January 20 9:00 p.m. Half Nelson directed by Ryan Fleck Ryan Gosling earned a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of...
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
... Graham and Ben Foster.Few Sundance feature debuts in recent years have made a bigger splash than Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's "Half Nelson," which garnered acclaim for Ryan Gosling and Shareeka Epps' performances as a drug-abusing white schoolteacher and an empathetic black student. Race and cultural cross-pollination also inform "Sugar," the filmmaking couple's...
Carpetbagger (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Ryan Fleck talks up his new film.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
... Rocket Science and The Notorious Bettie Page.The irritant of late has been Sugar, the followup to Half Nelson from directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. Set for a hotly anticipated screening at Sundance, it is financed by HBO, which historically would have meant Picturehouse would be its likely home.But HBO began shopping the film to other distributors and spreading the...
