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Shorts, 5/8. (GreenCine Daily)

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:09:20 GMT

... 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:

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'Sugar' Finally Gets Picked Up (Blogging Sundance)

Sat, 03 May 2008 11:02:00 GMT

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...

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Movie love see no color (Salt Lake Tribune)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:21:00 GMT

... "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...

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Sundance 2008 Day Three (Pajiba)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:30:53 GMT

... 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...

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Sundance Blog: It's Quiet Now (Film School Rejects)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:53:55 GMT

... 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...

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Sundance Review: ‘Sugar’ Can't Survive on Heart Alone (Film School Rejects)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:26:58 GMT

From the directors of 'Half Nelson' comes a slowly paced drama about a Dominican baseball player coming to America.

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Dodger Thoughts: Sugar (Dodger Thoughts)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:40:00 GMT

... 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...

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Sundance. Sugar. (GreenCine Daily)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:23:52 GMT

"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...

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Sundance Review: Sugar (Blogging Sundance)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:01:00 GMT

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...

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PARK CITY '08 DISPATCH | Immigration and Water Make a Sundance Splash (On The Scene)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:11:40 GMT

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,...

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PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Bittersweet Dreams: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's "Sugar" (Movies)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:17:56 GMT

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...

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Sundance Channel Tonight (Screenhead)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:42:48 GMT

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...

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Sundance Film Festival brings back directors (New York Newsday)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:34:13 GMT

... 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...

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Gimme Some Sugar (Carpetbagger)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:19:23 GMT

Ryan Fleck talks up his new film.

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Picturehouse Cuts Its Ties with HBO (ComingSoon.net)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:22:16 GMT

... 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...

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Revisiting film o-seven (If Then Else)

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:13:18 GMT

... It can be funny stupid and stupid in an inteligent way. Wha? Don't believe me? Just watch it. Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson . This neo-neorrealist film about a drug-abusing elementary school teacher had the best acting of the year. More highlights. Todd Field's Little Children had the most interesting directing - a wildlife documentary about suburbia? The Lives of Others...

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Finishing touches (Sundance Film Festival - The Salt Lake Tribune)

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:15:00 GMT

No holiday rest for filmmakers getting their work ready for the Sundance Film Festival. Here's a dispatch from a sound studio in Moline, Ill., where the final "sweetening" of the sound mix is taking place for "Sugar," the follow-up film by Ryan Fleck and Anna Bowen, the team that made "Half Nelson." The movie was filmed just over the river in Davenport, Iowa. - Sean P. Means...

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Favourite Films of 2007 (Oceans Never Listen)

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:24:00 GMT

... detail and depth the relationships between men living on the very precipice of life. Stunning. 2. Half Nelson , directed by Ryan Fleck. Ryan Gosling is startlingly good as the inner city high school teacher who reaches out to his teenage students. Thankfully, this powerful and emotional film shuns all cliche and is real to the bone in its depiction of dependency...

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IndieWIRE crix poll: American blood, blood, blood (scanners)

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:35:21 GMT

... outside-the-system films such as David Lynch's "Inland Empire," Kelly Reichart's "Old Joy," Ryan Fleck's "Half Nelson" and Andrew Bujalski's "Mutual Appreciation," the acclaimed new films from American filmmakers this year came from directly within the Hollywood and Indiewood system, starring name actors. Other poll-toppers: Best first film (Sarah Polley, "Away From...

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'Half Nelson' and the Kids (American Thinker)

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:00:08 GMT

'Half Nelson' and the KidsRecent such as and "" wear their anti-American bias on their sleeve. Others try to sneak it in the back door.Last year's critically praised, Academy Award nominee (out on ) is about a Brooklyn 8th grade teacher (Ryan Gosling) with a nasty crack habit. Not far into the film, he is discovered by one of his students (Shareeka Epps) in a bathroom stall, and...

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