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Best of What's Next: Zoe Lister Jones

Zoe Lister Jones was understandably hesitant to share intimate details of her love-life with movie-goers...  read more

Fox Searchlight Picks Up Zoe Lister-Jones Comedy

Paste recently named Zoe Lister-Jones one of our Best of What’s Next, and indeed, it seems the promising actress-filmmaker is filling the role quite nicely. Fox Searchlight has just bought her comedy pitch Motherfucker, which filmmaking-partner Daryl Wein will direct....  read more

Breaking Upwards Review

Release Date: Out Now Director: Daryl Wein Writers: Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones Starring: Wein, Lister-Jones, Julie White, Andrea Martin Studio/Run Time: Mister Lister, 88 min. Longest. Break-up. Ever. The first 40 seconds of Breaking Upwards are the film’s most tortuous. Daryl (Daryl Wein) lays horizontally over Zoe (Zoe Lister-Jones), and can barely muster the energy for coital thrusts. Zoe, sighing, tells him to go ahead and come: “Really, it’s fine.” Based on the true story of the co-stars’ relationship, this SXSW selection follows the twenty-something New Yorkers as they ease out of their shared yoga classes and into a break-up...  read more

Little Rock Film Festival 2009: More Films

LRFF organizers say attendance numbers have more than doubled over last year's festival. Part of the reason has to be the high quality of films screening. Here are some of my favorites.Daryl Wein (Breaking Upwards) & Logan Miller (Touching Home) at LRFF PicnicTouching HomeThink about this scenario: You've never written a screenplay. You've never directed a film. You've never acted in a film. Heck, you've never even been a grip. Try taking that resume and making a film with it, starring veteran actor Ed Harris. That is exactly what co-directors Logan and Noah Miller have done with Touching Home. Based...  read more