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7 articles from 2008

Garden Party Movie Trailer

19 November 2008 11:37 PM, PST | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Lionsgate recently released this brand new movie trailer for the upcoming drama “Garden Party” by director Jason Freeland and starring Willa Holland (Legion), Vinessa Shaw (The Hills Have Eyes, Stag Night), Richard Gunn (Dexter) and Erik Smith (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation). Synopsis: Garden Party is the tale of five adventurous souls attempting to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. April is an ambitious beauty in search of success, but she may not know how to reach her goals with her clothes on. Sally St. Clair is a sexy realtor with a secret past. She’s got a great eye for spotting adventurous souls and thrives on giving them direction [...]

Brian Corder

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Garden Party Movie Trailer

19 November 2008 11:37 PM, PST | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Lionsgate recently released this brand new movie trailer for the upcoming drama “Garden Party” by director Jason Freeland and starring Willa Holland (Legion), Vinessa Shaw (The Hills Have Eyes, Stag Night), Richard Gunn (Dexter) and Erik Smith (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation). Synopsis: Garden Party is the tale of five adventurous souls attempting to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. April is an ambitious beauty in search of success, but she may not know how to reach her goals with her clothes on. Sally St. Clair is a sexy realtor with a secret past. She’s got a great eye for spotting adventurous souls and thrives on giving them direction in life. One of those adventurous souls is Nathan, her [...]

Brian Corder

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"Garden Party" on DVD! Want one?

31 October 2008 1:20 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

"Come With A Dream, Leave With a Story" or a copy of this on DVD? If you missed this indie gem while it was in theatres due to being a limited release, here's your opportunity to snag a copy for your collection. The film stars Vinessa Shaw, Willa Holland, Erik Scott Smith, Richard Gunn, Patrick Fischler, Tierra Abbott, Lisa Arturo, Erik Bragg amd Candice A. Buenrostro. Writer and director Jason Freeland makes this his sophomore time at the helm after a ten year absense when first directing "Brown's Requiem" back in 1998. Talented Vinessa Shaw was also seen in previous memorable releases including the popular "3:10 to Yuma" opposite Christian Bale and Russell Crowe as well as "The Hills Have Eyes" remake of 2006.

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Opening This Week: Dot-com days, period magicians, Eddie (sigh) Murphy

15 July 2008 4:59 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This week finds the U.S. Army bringing war games to a whole other level, a '60s sex icon getting an exposé, Ron Perlman returning as the defender of small fluffy kittens everywhere and Eddie Murphy taking cinema egotism to new heights.

"August"

After the warm reception his first feature "Xx/Xy" received at Sundance in 2002, director Austin Chick returned to the snowy slopes of Park City to debut his sophomore effort, which seemed to impress our own Matt Singer when he saw it in January. Assembling an noteworthy ensemble that includes the likes of Robin Tunney, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn and David Bowie, Chick follows Tom and Josh Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott, respectively), two brothers desperately trying to right the sinking ship of their failing dot-com company in the weeks leading up to the devastating September 11th attacks.

Opens in New York.

"Days

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Neil Pedley

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Garden Party

10 July 2008 10:27 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

The plodding "Garden Party" is a slow ride to nowhere.

A cast of no-name actors portrays young Angelenos on the make in a series of interconnected vignettes. Most of the characters have some connection to porn, either producing it, posing for it or drooling over it. For example, a real-estate agent (Vinessa Shaw of "Eyes Wide Shut," whose alert performance is the film's sole bright spot) meets a painter who has been obsessing over naughty pictures of her on the Web.

Meanwhile, her assistant, Nathan, is talked into posing

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By KYLE SMITH

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Garden Party

10 July 2008 2:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

One of the major pitfalls of the everything-is-connected ensemble drama is that filmmakers get so caught up in how the various character and plot strands intertwine that they forget to account for why. By the end of Garden Party, Jason Freeland's dismal roundelay of Hollywood outsiders, the five or so major players have all met and all played some role in each other's lives. Then the movie ends, raising the question, "What the hell was that all about?" Freeland constructed the film out of a handful of short stories he'd written, and that's reflected in the narrow, particular journeys of Hollywood's young and lost. But taken together, these stories are a symphony of inconsequentiality, drained of tension and purpose until all that remains is a vague sense of collective ennui. Best known for her season-three turn as Mischa Barton's conniving little sister on The Oc, Willa Holland brings.

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Scott Tobias

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Jason Freeland - writer/director of Garden Party

9 July 2008 12:02 PM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

This Garden Party is all about marijuana, young sex, music and most importantly, Los Angeles. Writer/director Jason Freeland has crafted an intertwining tale of young people in L.A. looking to break through, escape, or just get laid. I sat down for an interview with Freeland at the Hotel Monaco in Portland and spoke about the scene (Los Angeles and Hollywood) … How did you get your start? I had made short films. We actually did a short film with James Gandolfini, he was going to be the star of Brown’s Requiem (Freeland's 1998 debut), but then the money fell out. I consider myself more of a director. If I wasn't pursuing directing, I don't know if I would pursue movie making. That's my passion. It's the ultimate challenge, putting everything together.

Jeff Bayer

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7 articles from 2008

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