For all those reading with their fingers crossed for a promising fall season to counter what looks to be an underwhelming summer season coming up, here’s some hope. The Playlist Nation comes bearing gifts, as Sofia Coppola‘s much-anticipated, Stephen Dorff-led Somewhere gets a December 22nd release date while Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden‘s (Half Nelson, Sugar) next film, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, will come to a theater (kind of) near you on September 24th, pushed up from an initial November release date. Story stars Zach Galifianankis, Emma Roberts and Lauren Graham and will concern “A clinically depressed teenager (who) gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.” [IMDB]
In related news, Boden and Fleck will refer back to indie super-band Broken Social Scene (who provided the soundtrack for Half Nelson) for Funny Story. (via The Aquarian and Brendan Canning)
The band will also score Daydream Nation (which tells the story of “a disaffected high school senior who finds herself deposited along with her widowed father in a desolate Canadian hamlet where boredom leads her into an affair with a teacher and into a more promising romance with a druggie teen.”), starring Kat Dennings and Josh Lucas, which sounds like your standard Sundance-genre indie film.
Either way, the more Broken Social Scene the better (members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning has a lot to do with Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World apparently). If you haven’t gotten a hold of their new album, Forgiveness Rock Record, check it out. It’s smart, fun, impressive rock n’ roll.
Are you excited for these films? Do you listen to Broken Social Scene?