Jordan Beswick, C.S.A.

by Eric Kohn (June 24, 2008)

The arrival of “Full Grown Men” in limited release this week marks a belated emergence for a film not unlike the delayed maturity of the film’s downtrodden protagonist. Directed by David Munro, “Full Grown Men” (the winner of this year’s indieWIRE: Undiscovered Gems audience award, sponsored by Sundance Channel and presented by The New York Times and Emerging Pictures) tracks the psychological progress of Alby (Matt McGrath), a thirty-year-old stargazer woefully nostalgic for his salad days. Abandoning his wife before the opening credits, Alby finds his old childhood pal Elias (Judah Friedlander of “30 Rock”) and together they take a road trip that allows both to work through their various neuroses.

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by  Leo Goldsmith (June 19, 2008)

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

It’s an incontrovertible truth that Samantha Morton is among the best actresses in the world, a fact somehow aided and not obscured by her insistence on playing, from “Sweet and Lowdown” to “Mister Lonely,” the same character: the innocent, all-forgiving punching bag of a self-obsessed, self-hating asshole. And in Cecilia Miniucchi’s “Expired,” Morton once again owns this self-abnegation, here in its most socially and municipally abject form: that of the meter maid. Reluctantly writing up parking tickets to the ever irate and incredulous population of Santa Monica, Morton’s Claire, in voice over, identifies herself as “one of the most hated people in the world.” A brutally funny and relentlessly squirm-inducing film about neuroses, loneliness, and love, “Expired” posits the traffic cop as the nadir of self-esteem and the constant recipient of abuse and disgust.

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Tell us what you love about New York State in a 60 second short film and you could win prizes, travel and more!

The winning film will be part of a commercial during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast, appear on IFC, jetBlue Airway’s in-flight entertainment system, nypost.com and at several NYS film festivals. 

Judges panel includes Tina Fey, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Doug Liman.

Submissions due by July 15, 2008.
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Just back from Paris and ready for the summer fun to begin! 

I’ve heard reports that the reading of my play YOUTH IN ASIA went extremely well for Diverse City Theatre Company’s Green Room Series in New York.  What with the director and actors involved I’m not at all surprised.  Laila Robins, T. Scott Cunningham, Thomas Guiry, Lois Markle, John Speredakos and Ron Cohen are all brilliant actors and I can easily imagine them breathing extraordinary life into my imaginary world! 

And Victor Maog was an absolute dream director to collaborate with from the other side of the world! 

I want to thank Natasha Marco and Victor Lirio for their belief and support.  What a pleasure to be involved in any way with such an exciting new theatre company.