Kill Your Darlings (Director: John Krokidas, Screenwriters: Austin Bunn, John Krokidas) — A story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation – their Beat revolution.
Indie-darling directors Andrew Bujalski and Kyle Patrick Alvarez will also unveil films in dramatic competition -- the gym-set dramedy "Results" and fact-based period drama "The Stanford Prison Experiment," respectively.
The party's just beginning, folks; come get caught up in the 11-day whirlwind of hot up-and-comers (don't miss Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol), indie-meets-Hollywood darlings (including director Danny Boyle of Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting and 127 Hours) and silver-screen legends (such as Elliott Gould) alike.
Years ago, Judi Dench told me, "Don't argue with the director, darling; just say yes and then do it in whatever way you were thinking of anyway".
Others such as Darling, Blair McDougall, campaign director of Better Together, and Alistair Carmichael, the Scottish secretary, may each have enjoyed a higher profile than Lamont, but the Labour leader's role has of necessity been a more complex and delicate one.
It was also the basis for the 1946 film, My Darling Clementine, by director John Ford.
Blue Is the Warmest Color is shaping up to be this year's indie darling, while gay director John Krokidas Killl Your Darlings gets lost in the shuffle.
But if Jackson was still the directors' darling as the season began, he was distinctly out of favour by its conclusion.
The film made Kovacs the darling of the directors who came to fame in the 1970s: Bogdanovich (for whom he shot eight films), Bob Rafelson, Richard Rush and Paul Mazursky.
It's an impressive list, and one that might lead rivals to view the 38-year-old as a darling of artistic directors – but Eldridge has experienced spectacular knockbacks.
While I was there Zelda Fichandler mentored me and finally said, 'Well, darling, you're a director.' Having this icon of the American theater sort of anoint me as a director — I didn't even question her".
