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The Myth of the American Sleepover is now playing through Monday, September 5th, at the Brattle — where, by the way, Cameron Crowe's new rock doc, Pearl Jam Twenty, premieres Tuesday, September 20th, with a week - long engagement beginning Friday the 27th.

The movie marks the sophomore offering from the innovative director, who first made a splash five years ago with The Myth of the American Sleepover.

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(The most recent bestowal of this Ensemble award was to the cast of 2010's «The Myth of the American Sleepover,» the debut feature from David Robert Mitchell of «It Follows.»)

Mitchell had already gained respect with his first film, The Myth of the American Sleepover, and his electrifyingly scary movie made him, as they say, hotter than Georgia asphalt.

Billed as a coming of age film, The Myth of the American Sleepover by first time writer / director David Robert Mitchell shows some promise with a script that almost captures an understanding of a time most of us will fondly reme...

The Narrative Feature Competition includes: Brotherhood, directed by Will Canon, Dance With The One, directed by Mike Dolan, Earthling, directed by Clay Liford, Helena from the Wedding, directed by Joseph Ifantolino, The Myth of the American Sleepover, directed by David Robert Mitchell, Phillip The Fossil, directed by Garth Donovan, Some Days are Better than Others, directed by Matt McCormick and Tiny Furniture, directed by Lena Dunham.

The Myth of the American Sleepover Director and Screenwriter: David Robert Mitchell Four young people cross paths as they navigate the suburban wonderland of Metro - Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last night of summer.

Indie favorite David Robert Mitchell will finally compete for the Palme d'Or for the first time with «Under the Silver Lake» after being a Critics» Week darling with «The Myth of the American Sleepover» in 2010 and «It Follows» in 2014.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Teen Anomie and Angst Aplenty in Anticlimactic End of Summer Saga There's a thin line between making a Mumblecore and shooting a home movie, and in the case of The Myth of the American Sleepover it hard to discern exactly which you might be watching.

It Follows is from the American director David Robert Mitchell, whose 2010 debut movie, The Myth of the American Sleepover, was a gentle, unthreatening drama about teens and platonic crushes.

The second feature written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover),

Since Mitchell helmed the promising The Myth of the American Sleepover (2011), we're most excited to see what he's come up with.

Back in 2011, David Robert Mitchell wrote and directed a beautiful little indie called «The Myth of the American Sleepover,» which not nearly enough people saw.

Like David Robert Mitchell's The Myth of the American Sleepover, which navigates the similar summer break territory but without any scenes where a rat gets eaten to gut - churning results, it plays with the idea that this is the greatest time of our lives, but questions what happens when the setting sun of youth shines a light on something ugly and altogether strange.

This is not to claim that writer / director David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover) is copying Carpenter in any capacity like so many recent horror movies tend to do.

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After that, she appeared in both «Tiny Furniture» and «The Myth Of The American Sleepover» in the same year, as well as leading Adam Wingard «s «A Horrible Way To Die,» 2011 saw her return to producing with both Joe Swanberg «s «Silver Bullets» and the Greta Gerwig - written «The Dish & The Spoon,» before making her directorial debut in 2012 with crime tale «Sun Don't Shine,» one of the best - received films at SXSW (and edited by «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» director David Lowery).

For his second feature after the gentle teen comedy The Myth of the American Sleepover, writer - director David Robert Mitchell has produced the most unexpected and downright unnerving fright flick in years, a film that riffs smartly on the classics while adding something ineffable of its own.

The fright runs deep in a symbolically rich new horror film from the director of The Myth Of The American Sleepover.

Nonetheless, Myth of the American Sleepover, The is a solid and more realistic take on the rites of passage of American teens than we are usually offered.

The director of the fine coming - of - age movie The Myth Of The American Sleepover more than confirms the promise of that debut with an unexpected turn into horror.

Based on his own recurring nightmares, and spiked with a sense of what he terms «interactive anxiety», writer / director David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to debut drama The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2010) knows the work of Craven, Carpenter and Argento as surely as it knows what it's like to be young and afraid.

Exploring the shenanigans that a suburb full of teenagers can get up to when they collect at several separate sleepovers, Myth of the American Sleepover, The is a depressing insight into American youth and suburban culture.

Following his feature directorial debut The Myth of the American Sleepover, David Robert Mitchell tackles teen angst once more with his stylish horror flick It Follows.

His lovely, beguiling debut feature, The Myth Of The American Sleepover (which screened here four years ago in the parallel Critics» Week section — technically a separate mini-festival), wasn't explicitly set in the past, yet featured an ensemble of horny, awkward suburban teens who carry no smartphones and never check their email.

David Robert Mitchell's first film was The Myth Of The American Sleepover, a sensitive teenage relationships drama, and he has a knack for writing and directing youngsters.

The Myth of the American Sleepover DVD Review by Kam Williams DVD Features Teens Acting Out in End of Summer Saga There's a thin line between making a Mumblecore and shooting a home movie, and in the case of The Myth of the American Sleepover it hard to discern exactly which you might be watching.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

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Free Range Kids is a website created by Lenore Skenazy, an American columnist, author and reality show host, out of the desire to fight the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers and the perils of a non-organic grape.

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