Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sitting in Movie Limbo: Towelhead website is finally up!

God knows after Pineapple Express comes out on the 8th, theaters will be pretty bored of August. So what else do we have to look forward to?

Try and get me to shut up about Towelhead. You know it won't work.

BUT if you've never heard of Towelhead, this movie will be the directorial debut of the wonderful Alan Ball, who wrote the screenplay for American Beauty and created Six Feet Under. It's based on the epononymous book by Alicia Erian, which follows a young girl in late 20th century suburbia who must, all at once, come to terms with her adolescence and budding sexual curiosity, all while under the hawkeye of her strict Lebanese father. Ball has a gift for taking really fucked-up little towns and making them almost blossom (if you're familiar with his work, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about).
You also may know how easily manipulated I am by music, and the intense beauty of the trailer's closer, "Be Still" by The Alarm, juxtaposed with the rush of the plot almost makes my heart flush.
But anywho! The website's up! There are seven great clips from the movie, so if you're as excited for this as I am, you'll be all up on that like ants at a picnic.
Towelhead comes out on September 12 in LA and New York, moving to bigger cities on the 19th and 26th. *Sigh*, the drawbacks of my little town...

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