The 11th Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston kicked off last night at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. Festival Director Adam Roffman introduced the fests new Creative Advisor Casey Affleck to a packed audience. The opening night film of the festival was “The Spectacular Now,” (Read our Review Here). Director James Pondolt, and co-writer Michael …
The Independent Film Festival of Boston announced today that Casey Affleck has been named Creative Advisor to the festival. Affleck’s role will include outreach to studios, filmmakers, and talent on behalf of the festival, offer programming input, connect the festival with local charities, and advise on the festival growth. He will also make an annual …
Though it’s set in the 1880’s, Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” could have been set today. The questions it raises, namely, what is celebrity, what makes celebrity, why do people crave celebrity and, perhaps most importantly, what happens after you get celebrity?
Ridley Scott has signed on to direct and produce “The Kind One,” starring Casey Affleck. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of an amnesiac who finds himself working for a mobster. A murderous thug named “the Kind One,” Affleck’s character falls in love with the “Kind One’s” girlfriend. The film is also …