December
3
Awards Watch: The Advantages of Indie
It's worth noting that several of the films getting singled out for kudos consideration this season are from directors who have played hard ball with the studios but have figured out that in many ways, indie is better.
They include Jonathan Demme, who went from the mediocre The Manchurian Candidate and The Truth About Charlie to the more vital and nourishing Rachel Getting Married; Milk's Gus Van Sant, who has clearly sided with the indies since the days of Finding Forrester and Psycho; and Darren Aronofsky, who went from the $30-million The Fountain at Warners (arguably, as close to an indie film as any studio would ever make) to the $6 million The Wrestler.
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) has long sworn off studio big-budgets, ever since The Beach. And it's heartening to hear Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman admit that while he has been ardently wooed by Hollywood ever since Cannes (including some people who haven't even seen his movie), he recognizes that he has more freedom and control raising his own money abroad. (His movie was a hit in Israel and France.)His next animated feature is shaping up: it's based on a cool story by Stanislaw Lem about a movie star who as she starts to lose her looks, sells her digital image rights; the movie tracks her 20 years into the future.




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