M. Leary of the marvelous new web site Filmwell.org just posted this studious and glowing review of CANARY!

The Migrating Forms Festival (formerly the New York Underground Film Festival) will screen CANARY on Thursday, April 16th at 9:30 PM at the Anthology Film Archives (Second Street and Second Avenue).

Read Karina Longworth's CANARY plug at Spout.com!

Chuck Tryon posted a very thoughtful and probing review today on his blog, The Chutry Experiment.

"Alejandro Adams' unsettling science-fiction dystopia, Canary, is one of the first films I've seen in ages that sent me scrambling to learn more, not simply because the film was 'difficult,' but because it engaged me on so many levels."

Dennis Harvey of Variety writes:

"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."

Rarely does a Variety critic endorse multiple viewings or plug a film's website. Don't be thrown by the industry jargon; this is a beyond-positive review.

It's also worth noting that Canary was one of three features at Cinequest to be selected for review by Variety (from 50 eligible features).

Read the review of Canary at Variety.

"Alejandro Adams' second feature, Canary, is a wildly ambitious and not particularly audience-friendly (in fact, you could almost call it audience-hostile) work of indie sci-fi with new-fangled digital aesthetics and old-fashioned Altman-esque dialogue patterns put to the service of an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."

Read the full interview.

CANARY is listed in the San Jose Mercury News as one of "10 films worth checking out" at Cinequest 19. See the article here or pick up a print copy!

Another great opportunity for Canary Industries to do what they do best. *chuckles and grin*

Your Kidney Folk,
Alan

I haven’t seen this movie, only still frames. Just like my heart; I think I know it but I’ve never seen nor touched it and have only seen schematics in textbooks of what other hearts look like. Am I supposed to believe mine looks similar to everyone else’s? It probably does, but I’m not 100% sure, so I’m curious. And I’ve never been curious about it before. I want to believe my heart looks exactly like the one in the Canary corporate logo. It looks healthy and glad to be where it is, in the center of it all, like a perfectly placed ruby.

Doing 4x6 test prints of a 27x40 poster image. Looks like we'll have a nice full-size Canary poster to put on the poster wall at Cinequest.

Read a very fun interview with Alejandro wherein he discusses his pathological fear of Wilford Brimley and unabashedly compares Canary with both Solaris films!