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SORRY, THANKS is now live on IFC’s Sundance Selects VOD (video-on-demand) cable system as of June 2nd.  Nationwide, round the clock, in June & July – all summer long. (https://www.sundanceselects.com/).

And our DVD pre-sales are now available on SorryThanksFilm.com - will ship in September – thanks.

Sorry, Thanks

IFC Films has picked up “Sorry, Thanks,” for on-demand distribution nationwide.  Deal was  negotiated by Ira Deutchman and Ryan Kampe of Visit Films. 

Full article in Variety here.

Eric Rohmer, the French critic and filmmaker who was one of the founding figures of the French New Wave and the director of more than 50 films, including the Oscar-nominated “My Night at Maud’s,” died on Monday in Paris. He was 89.

Rohmer was also the long time editor of La Cahiers du Cinema.  I now think only Jean-Luc Godard remains?

It’s hard to find on DVD,  but Rohmer’s 1972 film, Chloe In The Afternoon, is my favorite film  by him – so smart and full of the New Wave energy.  Don’t miss seeing it sometime.  One-of-a-kind.

Link to great  NY Times obituary article.

IndieWire

Los Angeles Times/Film Comment critic Mark Olsen picks “SORRY, THANKS” as 2009’s “BEST FIRST FEATURE” and ranks it #2 among the year’s “BEST UNDISTRIBUTED FILMS” in his Indiewire “Annual Critics Survey”! 

To top it off, “Sorry, Thanks” co-star Andrew Bujalski’s film “BEESWAX” was picked by Mark Olsen as one of the Best Films of 2009, alongside other films such as The Hurt Locker, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Inglorius Bastards.  Wow!  Congratulations, Mr. B.

Thanks, Mr. Olsen!  Full list link here from IndieWire online.

Indie Spirit Awards

Nominations for the 25th annual Independent Spirit Awards were announced earlier this month and “Sorry, Thanks” director/writer Dia Sokol was nominated for the prestigious Piaget Producer’s Award for her work on Beeswax (written & directed by Sorry, Thanks’s own beloved Andrew Bujalski) and Nights and Weekends. 

Indiewire’s coverage online  is located here “Spirit Awards: the Nominees.”   Also, watch Matt Dillon announce the nominations here online.  Congratulations to Dia for recognition of her outstanding contribution to independent film.

This week in the The Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen praises Andrew Bujalski’s latest film, Beeswax, as being one of the best independent films of 2009, saying it captured the ”new spirit of independent film.”