Deadline: Anchor Bay Acquires Leland Orser’s ‘Morning’
By Mike Fleming Jr. for Deadline Hollywood EXCLUSIVE: Anchor Bay Films acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to Leland Orser’s directorial debut Morning. Pic’s not playing Sundance, but the deal just closed here. The film, which stars Big Love‘s Jeanne...
Psychology Today: Stunning Look At How A Husband and Wife Each Deal With their Child’s Death
by Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D. for Psychology Today In mourning, are men really from Mars, women from Venus? On April 19, 1995, I was called in to the Hollywood studios of CNN to be an on-air guest psychologist to take calls from anxious parents. It was the...
The Wire: Denver Film Festival: Emotional & a ‘Kick in the Ass,’ Event Returns as a Mile High Star
by Mark Rabinowitz for The Wire (November 11, 2010) It seems like there is a film festival in almost every city and large town in the world and there may very well be. Sure, it makes sense that cities like New York, London, Los Angeles and Berlin would...
Denver Post: In Denver film festival’s 33rd year, one opening isn’t enough
When the 33rd Starz Denver Film Festival begins next month, it will boast two opening nights: one at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, the other at the Denver Film Society’s new triplex on East Colfax Avenue. (The festival runs Nov. 3-14.) Consider...
Rutgers: PsycCRITQUES, Vol 55(35), 2010 Morning: A preface to mourning
Reviews the film, Morning directed by Leland Orser (2009). This is an excellent film that contrasts the commonplace of morning in the city with the desperate crisis caused by sudden death in the home is a useful dramatic device. It leads viewers to...
USA Today: Film Heads-Up: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Jason Ritter star in ‘Morning’
If you’ve been to any of the Comic-Con meetups, you’ve probably seen San Diego reader Chris C., who has been instrumental in planning the events. Chris e-mailed me to say he just attended the San Diego Film Festival and discovered some cool...
The Wrap: Top Picks at the San Diego Film Festival
By Suzette Valle, The Wrap The San Diego Film Festival, currently in its ninth year, took over the Gaslamp Theatres in downtown San Diego for five days last week, and remained true to its original concept of providing an intimate setting for filmmakers...
City Beat: New Dawn for Cincinnati Film Festival
By Jason Gargano Leland Orser’s Morning is the type of film that often falls through the cracks in today’s depressed distribution landscape: a small, challenging passion project that makes no concessions to commercial cinema. It needs to find...
San Diego Beat: Morning Has Broken
The name Leland Orser might not be familiar to you, but it’s likely that his face is. He’s the consummate character actor, whose interesting look and talent has translated into memorable characters in dozens of films and TV shows, including Se7en,...
Deauville 36th American Film Festival
Morning is competing in the Deauville 36th American Film Festival (September 3 to 12, 2010) alongside Cyrus, Winter’s Bone and other already critically acclaimed films. Since its creation in 1975, the Deauville American Film Festival has been showcasing...
IndieWire: SFIFF 53 Day Five: The Way of Nature, Between Two Worlds, Morning, Wholphin Waters
San Francisco’s Meredith Brody reviews The Way of Nature, meets Leland Orser and goes Wholphin. The festival begins at 1 p.m. today, with only one film on offer, The Way of Nature, and I’m so there: it’s a languid, beautifully-photographed documentary...
SFGate: Arion Press is all about the fine print
By Catherine Bigelow, Social City, San Francisco Chronicle Big screen: The home team turned out in force on Monday at the S.F. International Film Festival to cheer on the world premiere of “Morning.” Directed by EssEff native Leland Orser,...
SFGate: At the Kabuki: star, filmmaker cameos
By Ruthe Stein, Chronicle Movie Correspondent All day long, people pass by an oversize white poster in the Kabuki lobby listing all screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival. A red dot indicates that an entry has sold out. Look more...
Haute Living: Morning Makes World Premiere in San Francisco
Posted By Damion Matthews on April 28th, 2010 with Photography by Araya Diaz for Wireimage.com The Sundance Kabuki Theatre in San Francisco was packed on Monday night for the world premiere of Leland Orser’s new feature film, Morning. The emotionally...
San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. native Orser opens dark door as director
By Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, April 24, 2010 Jeanne Tripplehorn had no idea what Leland Orser’s screenplay was about. She only knew that her spouse of 10 years, a San Francisco native and established Hollywood actor for...
Wire Image: Photos from SF International Film Festival – “Morning” Premiere After Party
25 all new photos of stars Jason Ritter, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leland Orser and Todd Traina at the After Party for the Morning premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Check out the photo gallery here: http://www.wireimage.com/ItemListings.aspx?igi=429573&nbc1=1.
San Francisco Chronicle: Morning
By Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle Pop Culture Critic Leland Orser makes a powerful directing debut, which features the veteran character actor and his real-life wife, Jeanne Tripplehorn, as a couple negotiating an emotional wasteland after the...
San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. native Orser opens dark door as director
By Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle Pop Culture Critic Jeanne Tripplehorn had no idea what Leland Orser’s screenplay was about. She only knew that her spouse of 10 years, a San Francisco native and established Hollywood actor for more than...
San Francisco Luxury Living: Morning To Premiere in San Francisco
From San Francisco Luxury Living, April 10, 2010 Readers of San Francisco Luxury Living are invited to attend the world premiere of “Morning,” a new feature film written and directed by Leland Orser, on Monday April 26, 2010. What: Worldwide premiere...