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The Canyons” doesn’t engender much sympathy for its characters — even nice-guy Ryan (convincingly played by Funk as just another pretty, none-too-bright face in the crowd) ultimately comes across as a cipher, to say nothing of Gina, who seems less concerned about her boyfriend’s infidelities than about the possibility of losing her credit on Christian’s movie. The major exception is Lohan, who gives one of those performances, like Marlon Brando’s in “Last Tango in Paris,” that comes across as some uncanny conflagration of drama and autobiography. Lohan may not go as deep or as far as Brando, but with her puffy skin, gaudy hoop earrings and thick eye makeup, there’s a little-girl-lost quality to the onetime Disney teen princess that’s very affecting. Whenever she’s onscreen, she projects a sense of just barely holding on to that precarious slide area in the shadow of the Hollywood sign. - Variety
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Lohan plays Tara, a lost soul who's made herself the live-in plaything of a sex-addict trust-fund sociopath named Christian. He's played by James Deen, the real-life star of 4,000 adult videos — and for once a figure from the **** world reveals true acting talent. Deen makes Christian a rivetingly ice-cold game player. The movie is about how he degrades and controls Tara, recruiting sex partners for her, and also about how she tries to escape him by falling for Ryan (Nolan Funk), a boy toy who's the lead in a bad horror movie Christian is bankrolling. There is much more noirish kink and duplicity on hand. But Schrader tries to find the human side of it all, and he scores with Lohan, who taps a vulnerability beneath her dissolution to remind you why she's still a movie star. B+ Entertainment Weekly
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IFC unspooled “The Canyons” on only one New York City screen this weekend, where it earned $15,200. While VOD streaming numbers won’t be available until mid-week, the film topped out at number two on iTunes’ indie films chart and fluctuated just outside the top 10 over the course of the weekend.
Helmer Paul Schrader has dubbed his film a piece of “post-theatrical cinema.” Though not the first to open simultaneously on the VOD market, “The Canyons” is one of the highest profile films and brings again to the forefront a reconsideration of the traditional rules of distribution.
To promote the online bow, IFC Films engaged in a number of marketing efforts tailored to an Internet-age consumer. Schrader and renowned novelist Bret Easton Ellis, who penned the script, held a live opening night Twitter conversation with audiences enjoying the film in real time.
SEE ALSO: Film Review: ‘The Canyons’
Also, IFC commissioned rapper Kanye West to re-cut and re-score the film’s trailer, playing to two millennial loves: remixing and West. Other online trailers played up the noir elements of the film and focused on star Lindsay Lohan.
The film targets “a community of film lovers who live and breathe in the online world,” said Sundance Selects and IFC topper Jonathan Sehring. “We believe that the film will do most of its business in the digital realm.”
“The Canyons” cost under $1 million to produce, partially funded by the same connected crowd that is the film’s target demo via Kickstarter.
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The movie will be show at the Monstra Di Venize.
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It can't be worse than Liz & Dick
the movie was interesting even if the plot was a bit meh.
