It's been seven years since Alex Holdridge directed the Independent Spirit Award winning film In
Search of a Midnight Kiss.
Reminiscent of all - night encounter movies like Before Sunrise or In
Search of a Midnight Kiss, this British drama has a terrific blast of honest humour and sharp music to undercut its somewhat sad tone.
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Best Feature: «The Wrestler» Best Director: Tom McCarthy, «The Visitor» Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, «The Wrestler» Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, «Frozen River» Best Supporting Male: James Franco, «Milk» Best Supporting Female: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Cinematography: «The Wrestler» Best First Feature: «Synecdoche, New York» Best First Screenplay: «Milk» Best Foreign Film: «The Class» Best Documentary: «Man on Wire» Robert Altman Award: «Synecdoche, New York» John Cassavetes Award: «In
Search of a Midnight Kiss» Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award: Margaret Brown, «The Order of Myths» Piaget Producers Award: Heather Rae, «Frozen River» Someone to Watch Award: Lynn Shelton, «My Effortless Brilliance»
Parts in the ensemble drama «Bobby» and Terry Zwigoff's «Art School Confidential» followed, as well as guest roles on «Six Feet Under» and the sitcom «Jake In Progress» and an appearance in the video for Regina Spektor «s «Fidelity,» but it was as the lead in the well - regarded «In
Search of a Midnight Kiss» that the actor started to get noticed.
The actor had a minor indie hit a few years back with «In
Search Of A Midnight Kiss,» but it was his turn in last year's lo - fi genre smash «Monsters» that really started to turn heads.
The star of «In
Search Of A Midnight Kiss» finally turned heads in a big way with Gareth Edwards «2010 low - budget spectacular «Monsters,» and ever since then he's been the toast of the town: he met for roles in «Prometheus» and «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,» but ended up going down more grounded routes, with parts in Ben Affleck «s «Argo ``; in Gus Van Sant «s «Promised Land «with Matt Damon; in Lynn Shelton «s «Touchy Feely ``; and in Andrew Dominik «s «Killing Them Softly,» for which McNairy earned rave reviews at Cannes this morning (read ours right here).
Vertigo, who distributed «In
Search of a Midnight Kiss» in Britain, were backing a low - budget monster movie from Gareth Edwards, who was looking for a real - life American couple to play the leads in his picture.
If you didn't see Monsters or In
Search of a Midnight Kiss (or aren't a dedicated fan of Bones) your first thought here might be «who the hell is Scoot McNairy?»
To see a trailer for In
Search of a Midnight Kiss, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQ-QGtegUI
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Since everyone else is doing what they do best (and what we've seen them do many times before), the real pleasures here are the performances of two relative newcomers: Mendelsohn was memorably chilling in Animal Kingdom and goes to the other end of the criminal spectrum here; and the similarly versatile McNairy shows us a different side from his more romantic roles in Monsters and In
Search of a Midnight Kiss.
Impeccably acted, well - known names Pitt, Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, and Ben Mendelsohn all give strong performances, but it's Scoot McNairy (a favourite of mine since Monster and In
Search of a Midnight Kiss) that steals the film.
In
Search of a Midnight Kiss is an indie comedy romance story shot on a shoestring budget that was written and directed by Alex Holdridge.
In
Search of a Midnight Kiss is a wonderfully written film that isn't quite your typical Hollywood chick flick because it is much more relatable and believable than those are.
Not exact matches
Speculative metaphysics sometimes seem, as another put it, like a
search at
midnight in a dark room for a black cat that is not there, but your knowledge
of your father is not like that.
Arsène will assure us he will be working until
midnight on 31st August to reinforce the squad but will depart for a cup
of cocoa and a read
of L'Equipe at 5.30 pm as Sky Sports
search in vain for him.
Tired
of midnight diaper runs and frustrated
searches for the right products, our founding fathers resolved to create a better way for parents to shop.
I can still remember
searching through the whole house at
midnight, hours before the deadline, the feeling
of absolute anxiety and the need to uncover its whereabouts turning me into a sobbing wreck.
The
search for neutron stars has intensified because
of a relatively small area, low in the northern
midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.
Between listening to musicians in the Gothic Quarter at the
midnight, walking down Las Ramblas in
search of perfect postcards or getting lost in the narrow streets
of the old city, I seriously can't pick a favorite moment.
In
Search of Masculinity: Martin Ritt's Hud and John Schlesinger's
Midnight Cowboy.
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They happen maybe once in a series» run: Peggy and Don sitting in the office late at night in Mad Men; Walt and Jesse
searching for a fly in the meth lab; a bus tour
of the planet
Midnight in Doctor Who.
In «Haunting Olivia,» two young boys make
midnight trips to a boat graveyard in
search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton
of a giant crab.
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Uncertain
of what to do, she dove into PACER in
search of examples and burned the
midnight oil cobbling together a plan.
With apologies to Patsy (since we're pretty sure she wasn't walkin» after
midnight in
search of pizza), you won't just
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Consumers who
searched between the hours
of midnight and 6 a.m. mostly did their
searches from their smartphones.