We’ve done some exhaustively compressive (if we do say so ourselves) Most Anticipated 2009 film features, but lots of other movies still interest us, What You Need To Know, will be an semi-regular feature with down and dirty info on other upcoming 2009 films we’re looking forward to.
“Untitled” – TBD – Dir. Jonathan Parker
Synopsis: An intellectual relationship comedy with the New York modern art world serving as a backdrop for a commentary on what counts art.
What You Need To Know: The film, which premiered at the Palm Beach Film Festival, centers around a woman (Marley Shelton) working in an art gallery who gets caught in a love triangle with two brothers (Eion Bailey and Adam Goldberg). Bailey (he played Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner in “Almost Famous”) is the initial love interest, a commercially successful painter with questionable artistic merit. His brother is a concert pianist whose experimental approach to composing turns off the very few people who show up to his performances. Save for the fetching Shelton, Josh Brolin’s wife in “Grindhouse,” and immortalized to a generation as Wendy the lifeguard in “The Sandlot.”
She’s drawing good reviews as the only one who connects with Goldberg’s crazy music, which, along with the rest of the score, was composed by the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning David Lang. The film satirizes the art world in New York while not shying away from all the attendant questions surrounding the dichotomy of commercialism versus art for art’s sake. Because if that isn’t funny, what is? The supporting cast is intriguing, if only because Vinnie Jones as a sculptor ought to be good. Parker directed and co-wrote the film with Catherine DiNapoli, as he did his previous two efforts (“The Californians” and “Bartleby”).
Release Date: TBA 2009 ?
