Drafthouse Screening Sells Out… Adds 2 Screens!
To our and Alamo’s complete shock, the 7:15 Friday premiere at Alamo South Lamar sold out. They bumped a studio pic to add a 7:20 showtime and then sold THAT screening out. So then they added a 7:25 screening and sold it out as well.
We noticed that tonight (Saturday) they added a 7:20 screening as well.
“The Unforeseen” In Austin News.
Robert Redford came to Austin to help promote the opening of The Unforeseen. (He flew in from Houston where he was promoting Mat Hames’ new documentary “Fighting Goliath.” Woot!)
Here are the recent Austin writeups:
- KVUE News
- Austin American-Statesman’s Michael Barnes (Strangely the film received no review)
- Austin Chronicle Review (pick of the week)
The Unforeseen plays Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse South
The movie comes home to Austin’s Alamo South Lamar this Friday. Tim and Carrie League have been supportive of Laura’s work since GREEN. With The Unforeseen, they’ve had the trailer playing in front of movies like IN BRUGES and THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Anyways, you can pick up your tickets online by clicking here.
Hope to see you there.
Many new screenings….
In addition to our upcoming theatrical openings, there are several new screenings just announced including film festival, art museum and environmental non-profit special events:
3/21/08 Washington, DC Environmental Film Festival
3/27/08 New York, NY Fordham University Urban Studies Dept
4/03/08 Madison, WI Wisconsin Film Festival
4/05/08 Worcester, MA Eco Film Festival/Massbay Film Project
4/07/08 Round Rock, TX Round Rock Public Library/TX State
4/09/08 San Antonio, TX AGUA/Trinity University
4/14/08 Riverdale, NY Sierra Club/Catskill Heritage Alliance
4/18/08 Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma City Museum of Art
4/27/08 Nevada City, CA Nevada Cinemas
UPCOMING THEATRICAL OPENINGS:
Austin, TX Alamo South Lamar 3/28/08
Seattle, WA Varsity 4/04/08
Denver, CO Landmark 4/11/08
Philadelphia, PA Ritz Theater 4/18/08
San Diego, CA Ken Cinema 4/18/08
Portland, OR, Cinema 21 4/25/08
Chicago, IL Gene Siskel Film Center 5/02/08
Vancouver, BC Vancity Theater 5/02/08
Columbus, OH Wexner Center for the Arts 5/17/08
Madison, WI Sundance Cinemas 5/30/08
Edmonton, Alberta, CA Metro Cinema 5/30/08
Cleveland, OH Cleveland Cinematheque 6/12/08
Film plays the DC Environmental Film Fest Friday
This isn’t part of the official theatrical run so it’s one night, one screening only. But if you’re in or near the nation’s capital and want to catch the film, this might be the closest option.
Details here.
NPR’s Morning Edition reviews The Unforeseen
An audio distillation of Turan’s LA Times review landed on Morning Edition. Check it out here.
San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Unforeseen
Here’s another one.
What’s unforeseen in “Unforeseen,” a superior documentary by Laura Dunn, are the consequences of a certain mind-set about mankind’s relationship to the world and, finally, to itself. The particulars of the story cover a political battle over a suburban development near Austin, Texas, but the filmmaker clearly has broader issues in mind…
…director Dunn makes the proceeding considerably more palatable by featuring interviews with many participants and observers, including Bradley, who comes across as a nearly broken man. Also speaking on camera is Robert Redford, who as a boy spent summers in Austin and says he learned to swim in Barton Springs. (Redford and filmmaker Terrence Malick, a Texan, are executive producers of the film.)
Full review here.
LA Times also has a feature on Redford / The Unforeseen
In addition to the recent review, a separate feature highlights Redford’s pioneering environmental work.
BEFORE Hollywood went green, there was Robert Redford.
Before Arianna Huffington could have imagined a Prius, before Laurie David recycled, when the words “Al Gore“and “Oscar” in the same sentence would have seemed . . . well, outlandish, there was Redford, who made a cause of the natural world back when environmentalism was still called “ecology,” decades before “green” was anything but a color.
Now, as an executive producer of a new film, “The Unforeseen,” the leading man turned director turned Sundance Film Festival impresario has combined his longtime environmental advocacy with an ongoing passion: documentary cinema.
The full text is here.
LA Times reviews The Unforeseen
The LA Times’ senior film critic Kenneth Turan reviewed the film and he liked it.
“The Unforeseen” has the title of a science fiction thriller, not a thoughtful documentary on the environment, but there’s truth in that packaging. As directed by Laura Dunn, this unusual film unfolds like a mournful whodunit, with the Earth itself being the victim of the crime.
Taking its title from the poem “Santa Clara Valley,” read in voice-over by the poet Wendell Berry in his best angry, Old Testament prophet style, “The Unforeseen” skirts the danger of being simply a tree-hugger movie, of reflexively coming out for clean air and water the way conservatives used to come out for motherhood, the flag and apple pie.
Instead this film, which took the Truer Than Fiction prize at Film Independent’s recent Spirit Awards, honors the intricacies of a complex subject. It depicts the battle between the competing interests of developers and environmentalists as it played out over a 30-year period in the area around Austin, Texas, and turns it into a convincing microcosm for land use issues everywhere.
The full review is available here.
Los Angeles, San Fran and Berkeley open Tomorrow
So we open in 3 California theaters tomorrow. If you’re in any of these cities and want to see the film, you can catch them at:
- Nuart Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 3/14/08
- Lumiere, San Francisco, CA 3/14/08
- Shattuck, Berkeley,CA 3/14/08
Next stop… Austin.
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About The Unforeseen
The Unforeseen, executive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Called "the best film at the festival, hands down" by Film Comment's Gavin Smith, the film documents the struggles between development and preservation of Austin Texas.