Monday, April 19, 2010

Dennis Grunes Writes About UPTOWN

Dennis Grunes calls Brian Ackley's Uptown "the best American film in 2009."

Here is a little of what he had to say:



"'Maybe love wasn’t what you thought it was when you started.'

We are plunged into a pair’s first date in the pre-title sequence of Brian Ackley’s exquisitely sensitive Uptown. What do Ben, (like Ackley) a filmmaker/actor, and Isabel, a paid dog-walker, whom (he tells her—and himself) he wants in his new film, hear? When finally they emerge from the restaurant, the sound volume ratio of couple-to-traffic noise matches that of the couple-to-inside restaurant noise, suggesting that the world that is too much with us is pretty much irrelevant to them."

Read his full piece HERE:

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