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RICHARD'S WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEWS FROM CP24! FRIDAY OCT 14, 2016.
Richard and CP24 anchor Jamie Gutfreund have a look at the weekend's new movies,"The Accountant," starring Ben Affleck as a deadly bookkeeper, "American Honey" starring Sasha Lane, "Unless" with Catherine Keener and "Christine" with Rebecca Hall!
Tags: Alan Gilsenan, American Honey, Andrea Arnold, Anna Kendrick, Antonio Campos, Arielle Holmes, Ben Affleck, Bill Dubuque, Brendan Coyle, Carol Shields, Catherine Keener, Chad McKenzie Cox, Chloe Rose, Christine, Christine Chubbuck, Christopher David Wright, Craig Shilowich, Crystal B. Ice, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Dakota Powers, Garry Howell, Gavin O'Connor, Hanna Schygulla, Hannah Gross, Isaiah Stone, J. Smith-Cameron, J.K. Simmons, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Jon Bernthal, Kathryn Greenwood, Kenneth Kory Tucker, Kim Shaw, Laura Kirk, Linda Kash, live television, Maria Dizzia, Martha Henry, Matt Craven, McCaul Lombardi, Michael C. Hall, Raymond Coalson, Rebecca Hall, Riley Keough, Sasha Lane, Shawna Rae Moseley, Shia LaBeouf, suicide, The Accountant, Timothy Simons, Toronto INternational Film Festival, Tracy Letts, Unless, Verronikah Ezell, Will Patton, Yanna McIntosh
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Metro: How Sasha Lane went from a waitress in Texas to the star of American Honey
By Richard Crouse – Metro Canada
These days Sasha Lane is waiting for her next big film role but not so long ago the twenty-one-year-old American Honey star was waiting tables at a Mexican restaurant in Texas. After a talent scout told her, "You have a face for movies," she left the eatery to embark on what she calls "the biggest blessing of my life."
With acting on her mind she answered an ad looking for people who were "wild, physical, fearless and ready for adventure. No acting experience required." Her natural charisma impressed British director Andrea Arnold, who cast her in the lead role of a two-hour-and-forty-minute faux cinema vérité road movie that sees her play Star, an eighteen-year-old from a troubled home. Her character's ticket out of the dysfunction she has grown up with is a travelling band of magazine sellers led by the charismatic Jake (Shia LaBeouf) and Krystal (Riley Keough).
For two months Lane hit the highway, travelling the dusty back roads of the American Midwest shooting a movie that was part scripted, part improvisation.
"We got sides the day before and the day of," Lane says. "The scenes between Krystal and me were more scripted. This is the word, these are the lines. Some of the scenes where I'm in the van with the kids were more like, 'I need you to mention that. Get from point 'a' to point 'b.' Go with it. Fill it out a little bit."
It was a process of discovery for the first time actress as she learned about her character as the shoot wove its way across country.
"I didn't know much about my character or much about what was happening," Lane says, "but Andrea would say to me stuff like, 'Sasha, you're representing all the girls who go through this.'
"I was thinking, don't being scared. You get to do this and in a way it's what you've always wanted to do. I was studying psychology and social work in college. This is an artistic way to do what I wanted to do. I was excited and very much nervous because I had never done it before and people were going to be watching it. I knew it was a movie but it didn't really hit me until I saw the trailer."
Life on the shoot was all encompassing—"You're in this bubble," she says. "I didn't have outside thoughts."—but not always exciting. "There was a lot of sitting in parking lots," she laughs.
Nonetheless she threw herself at the role.
"I remember when there were times I would go to Andrea and be like, 'I can't [bleeping] tell what the difference is between my life in this movie and my real life.' It was insane."
All the work paid off—"A Star is born," raved The Guardian—and she's now weighing multiple offers. Rumours suggest she'll either star in Hunting Lila, based on the popular YA books by Sarah Alderson or Shoplifters of the World, a true-life drama about the night The Smiths announced they were calling it quits.
Wherever she lands it's certain the shoot will be much different from the singular American Honey shoot.
"I just did a short," she told me in September, "and I was like, 'Oh, I get to go back home?' Nothing is like this experience."
Tags: American Honey, Andrea Arnold, Arielle Holmes, Chad McKenzie Cox, Christopher David Wright, Crystal B. Ice, Dakota Powers, Garry Howell, Isaiah Stone, Kenneth Kory Tucker, Laura Kirk, McCaul Lombardi, Raymond Coalson, Riley Keough, Sasha Lane, Shawna Rae Moseley, Shia LaBeouf, Verronikah Ezell, Will Patton
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AMERICAN HONEY: 2 STARS. "a road trip about families lost and families found."
You might want to think about your definition of what a movie is before buying a ticket for "American Honey," a new film from British director Andrea Arnold. If story is your thing, then perhaps look elsewhere. Arnold's has made a rambling two-hour-and-forty-minute faux cinema vérité road movie that is all journey and no destination.
Newcomer Sasha Lane is Star, an eighteen-year-old from a troubled home. Her ticket out of the dysfunction she has grown up with is a travelling band of magazine sellers led by the charismatic Jake (Shia LaBeouf) and Krystal (Riley Keough). She joins after a short job interview—"Do you got anyone who's going to miss you?"—jumping in the van as the team treks across the American Midwest, selling magazines door to door. "We do more than work," says Jake. "We explore. We party." Despite training from top seller Jake, who'll say anything to move the magazines, she's not the best sales person. "You don't have to read them," she says. "You can use them to wipe your ass." When not selling copies of "Trout Aficionado" the team explores, parties, tries to make money while Star and Jake embark on a covert affair.
Some will find Arnold's free form filmmaking exhilarating; some will find it exasperating. At epic length there is an emphasis on naturalism with all that entails; the mundane and the pulse racing in equal measure. It's not a traditional road flick, it's part of a sub-genre of road movies, the American travelogues by British directors armed with shaky hand held cameras.
There are some sublime moments, mostly when Star and Jake inhabit the screen, but too often we're just along for the ride, like kids banished to the backseat watching everyone else have fun while having none ourselves.
Lane is a charismatic presence and LaBeouf will forever wipe away any and all memories of his stint as a child star. The real star is Keough, a Fagin-like character, tough-as-nails with a glare that could peel the paint off the walls. She's not just Elvis Presley's granddaughter; she can act.
Set in a world where regular folks still open the door for rattily dressed kids selling magazines, "American Honey" is a road trip about families lost and families found, about poverty and disenfranchised youth. It's also about three hours long, which will be too long a trip for many people.
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