Losing Ground is a 2005 independent film directed by Bryan Wizemann adapted from Wizemann's play of the same name. It follows seven people over the course of a single night in a Las Vegas video-poker bar, and their tangled interactions.
| Losing Ground | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bryan Wizemann |
| Written by | Bryan Wizemann |
| Produced by | Bryan Wizemann |
| Starring | Eileen O'Connell Kendall Pigg Matthew Mark Meyer |
| Cinematography | Mark Schwartzbard |
| Edited by | Brad Studstrup |
| Music by | Trevor de Clercq |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The film features the same cast as the stage performance and was filmed using high-definition video at The Gate, a bar in Park Slope.[1] Losing Ground premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival[2] on March 11, 2005, to generally favorable reviews.[3] The film was distributed to a small number of theaters in New York City.[4] It was released on DVD January 26, 2009.
Plot summary
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Cast
edit- Eileen O'Connell
- Kendall Pigg
- Matthew Mark Meyer
- Monique Vukovic
- Rhonda Keyser
- John Good
- Colm Byrne
Stage production
editThe play initially ran at Tom Noonan's Paradise Theater from March 29, 2003, to April 13, 2003.[5][6][2]
References
edit- ^ "Brooklyn Filmmaking Renaissance?", New York Press, January 25, 2006, available here.
- ^ a b Erik Childress, "CineVegas '05 Interview ('Losing Ground' Director Bryan Wizemann)", eFilmCritic, March 20, 2005, available here.
- ^ DENNIS HARVEY, "Losing Ground", Variety, March 22, 2005, available here.
- ^ Prairie Miller, "Losing Ground: Microcosm Of A Greed Culture", WBAI Arts Magazine, available here.
- ^ Les Gutman, "A CurtainUp Review: Losing Ground", CurtainUp, available here.
- ^ http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/archweb/arch2003_l.php#LOSING_GROUND
External links
edit- Official site
- Losing Ground at IMDb
- Losing Ground at AllMovie
- Losing Ground at the TCM Movie Database
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