I didn’t know that filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, mother!, Black Swan, The Wrestler) was attached to the documentary Some Kind of Heaven when I sat to down to watch it for this review. All I knew was that this movie was about life in Florida retirement community the Villages, but soon I discovered…
EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures have acquired worldwide rights excluding Canada to the Sundance breakout Some Kind of Heaven. The documentary marks the documentary feature debut of Lance Oppenheim and puts a Floridian sun-kissed spotlight on the surreal world of The Villages, the nation's largest retirement community. Som…
The Sundance Film Festival has launched the careers of some extraordinary directors—among them, Steven Soderbergh in 1989 with Sex, Lies and Videotape, Quentin Tarantino in 1992 with Reservoir Dogs, and Darren Aronofsky in 1998 with Pi.
Aronofsky returned to Sundance this year as producer of Some Kind of Heaven, a…