Indie
Film’s Top Pin-Up Girls
Debuting on Blu-ray and DVD
Oct. 30
Writer/actress
Zoe Kazan stars in Ruby Sparks -- her
first feature film as a screenwriter as well -- as the title character that is
created out of Calvin’s (Paul Dano) mind as he is writing his latest novel.
Here, we’ll outline our other favorite “Indie Film Ladies” including Brit
Marling, Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Chastain.
From the directors
of Little Miss Sunshine comes a “charming and delightful” (Marshall
Fine,Huffingtonpost.com) romantic comedy starring Paul Dano and writer-actress
Zoe Kazan. Struggling with writer’s block and a lackluster love life,
once-famous novelist Calvin (Dano) creates a beautiful fictitious character
named Ruby (Kazan) who inspires him. But not only does this bring his work to
life- it also brings Ruby to life- literally! Face-to-face with an actual
relationship with his once virtual girlfriend, Calvin must now decide whether
to pen this love story or let it write itself. Also starring Annette Bening,
Antonio Banderas and Elliott Gould, Ruby Sparks is a smart
coming-of-age story that proves true love can be remarkably magical.
Brit
Marling
This blonde-haired beauty has written
and starred in two sci-fi-esque Fox Searchlight films: Sound of My Voice and Another
Earth. In the latter, she stars as Rhoda Williams, a young girl whose
entire life is thrown for a loop when she crosses paths with a composer in a
tragic accident. In Sound of My Voice,
she portrays the mysterious Maggie, a cult leader who claims to be from the
future. Now, she’s working on her latest outing with Voice director Zal Batmanglij, The
East, which stars Marling alongside Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgard and
Patricia Clarkson.
Every life is death, and most deaths are suicides. Some are
just more gradual than others.--Maggie
Zooey
Deschanel
Zooey
turned heads when she starred in the hit romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer alongside Joseph Gordon–Levitt as Summer, a
girl not sold on true love. The bright-eyed comic talent is now starring in the
popular sitcom New Girl on Fox as
another quirky and offbeat chick with a sense of humor trying to figure out
life in her early thirties.
You weren't wrong, Tom. You were just
wrong about me. -- Summer
Elizabeth
Olsen
The
other Olsen sister has been busy making a name for herself with smaller,
critically acclaimed films, like the tense and dramatic Martha Marcy May Marlene. In the film, Olsen plays Martha, a traumatized
ex-member of an abusive cult trying to separate her past’s memories from her
current day-to-day. Olsen has several films in the works including Theresa Raquin and Very Good Girls.
I am a teacher and a leader. -- Martha
Jessica
Chastain
2011 was
the year of Jessica Chastain as she starred in seven films, including The Help, The Debt and The Tree of Life. In The
Tree of Life, Chastain stars opposite Brad Pitt as Mrs. O’Brien the
matriarch of a family in Texas in 1956. Told through the eyes of her eldest
son, Jack, the story revolves around the family’s struggles and hardships that
leave lasting impressions on their children. Chastain has not slowed down since
last year and can be seen in next year’s Mama
and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.
Grace doesn't try to please itself.
Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. –
Mrs. O’Brien
Zoe
Kazan
The
granddaughter of famed filmmaker Elia Kazan, Zoe Kazan had movie making in her
blood at a young age. After acting in several movies like It’s Complicated and Happythankyoumoreplease,
Kazan wrote her first feature film this year with Ruby Sparks. Kazan also stars as the title character in the movie
that tells the story of famed writer Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) as he
creates the love of his life on paper, and she miraculously comes appears in
his apartment. Kazan has several films in the works that she stars in,
including the newest from Joss Whedon – In
Your Eyes.
Just don't tell me how it ends, okay? -- Ruby
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