Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... got right -- chief among them the two nods for Frozen River 's Melissa Leo (Best Actress) and Courtney Hunt (Best Original Screenplay) -- there were at least two things the voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got wrong.How, for example, could The Curious Case of Benjamin Button score a whopping 13 nominations (just one short of the record shared by Titanic...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... between the territories and giving the film, written and directed by debutant Tennessean Courtney Hunt, a chilly flavour all its own. I didn't always believe in the plot, but I always believed in Leo's character, free of any hint of "acting". DVD and video reviews Drama Rob Mackie guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is...
SalvoNEWS (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Unbelievably nearly 8 billion clothes hangers are being sent to landfill sites per year. Industrial designers Alex Witko and Courtney Hunt have devised an ingenious way to reuse unwanted coat hangers, they call them 'Hangeliers'. These are chandeliers made from off-the-shelf plastic and wood hangers. inhabit
Touching Base (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Clothes hangers are clogging our landfills at a rate of nearly 8 billion per year. We’ve recently brought you designers who have been developing brilliant ways to tackle the problem through eco-friendly materials and innovative new designs . Now industrial designers Alex Witko and Courtney Hunt at Organelle Design have hit upon another great idea — Hangeliers , wonderful chandeliers...
Inhabitat (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Clothes hangers are clogging our landfills at a rate of nearly 8 billion per year. We’ve recently brought you designers who have been developing brilliant ways to tackle the problem through eco-friendly materials and innovative new designs. Now industrial designers Alex Witko and Courtney Hunt at Organelle Design have hit upon another great idea — [...]
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Courtney Hunt's tough-hearted indie debut admirably detours from the buddy-chick-flick route well-travelled by Thelma & Louise.
FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
DVD & BLU-RAY PICKS Frozen River (Axiom Films): An deservedly acclaimed American indie drama about a desperate single mother ( Melissa Leo ) living in upstate New York who resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet. Written and directed by first-timer Courtney Hunt , it co-stars Misty Upham and Charlie McDermott. Winner of the Grand Jury...
Final Cut (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... for Best Director and Best Picture for Lost in Translation (2003) and won Best Screenplay Courtney Hunt (writer/director) nominated for Best Screenplay for Frozen River (2009) Julie Delpy (writer/director) nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Before Sunset (2004) Sarah Polley (writer/director) nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Away From Her (2006) Barbara Kopple (director)...
Final Cut (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... Jennifer Chambers Lynch An Education, Lone Scherfig Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor Wood Frozen River, Courtney Hunt The Vintner's Luck, Niki Caro Sunshine Cleaning, Christine Jeffs The Countess, Julie Delpy (released in most of Europe but no UK release date as of yet) Sugar, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt Jennifer's Body, Karyn Kusama Whip It, Drew Barrymore Phwoar!...
