Quiet City is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 film

Film

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 directed by Aaron Katz

Aaron Katz (filmmaker)

Aaron Katz is an award-winning independent American filmmaker from Portland, Oregon.-High school and college:Aaron began his artistic career while attending Pacific Crest Community School in Portland from 1994 to 2000...

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It premiered at the 2007 South by Southwest

South by Southwest

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 Film Festival in the Emerging Visions category. Subsequently the film played at the Sarasota Film Festival

Sarasota Film Festival

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, Stockholm Film Festival and Milano Film Festival among others, before premiering theatrically in New York on August 31, 2007.

Plot

Jamie (Erin Fisher) arrives in New York City looking for a friend, who isn't answering her cell phone. Missing her stop on the subway, she asks Charlie (Cris Lankenau) for directions. Unable to articulate them properly, he escorts her to a diner where she is supposed to meet her friend but the friend never shows. Charlie invites Jamie back to his apartment, which kick starts a 24 hour period of hanging out and getting to know each other.

Cast

• Erin Fisher as Jamie
• Cris Lankenau as Charlie
• Sarah Hellman as Robin
• Joe Swanberg
  Joe Swanberg
  Joe Swanberg is an American independent filmmaker. He is a member of the "Mumblecore" movement. His films include Kissing on the Mouth , LOL , Hannah Takes the Stairs , Nights and Weekends and Alexander the Last...
  
   as Adam
• Tucker Stone as Kyle

Critical reception

The film received a largely favorable response from critics. As of March 17, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes

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 reported that 86% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 14 reviews. Stephen Holden in The New York Times called the film, "Beautiful! A Fully Realized Work of Mumblecore

Mumblecore

Mumblecore is an American independent film movement that arose at the turn of the 21st century. Filmmakers associated with the movement include Andrew Bujalski, Lynn Shelton, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Aaron Katz, Joe Swanberg, and Barry Jenkins....

 Poetry."

The film was nominated for the John Cassavetes award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards

Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards , founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit...

 for features made for less than $500,000. It also won Best Director and Best Cinematography at the 2007 Bend Film Festival.