Deep Focus Film Festival, April 19th in Columbus, Ohio.
Also, the film will be screening at the Hawaii International Film Festival, April 23 and 24.
UPDATE 03/30/07: Even more festivals! WAITRESS has been selected as one of the non-competition films for the 2007 Phoenix Film Festival in Phoenix, AZ. This festival also takes place in April.
And also in April, are the Palm Beach Film Fest and the Minneapolis/St. Paul Film Festival!!!
And the last item I found on my March 30th search? A special AFI Director's Screening of WAITRESS at the ArcLight in Hollywood, CA (same place I saw NOW YOU KNOW 2 years ago!!!)
UPDATE 03/28/07: WAITRESS is also screening at the 2007 Sarasota Film Festival in Sarasota, FL!
UPDATE 03/21/07: For those of you in Australia who have MOVIE EXTRA, the channel will be having a special program next month about SUNDANCE '07 and its films. Go to EBroadcast.com/au for more info.
UPDATE 03/20/07: WAITRESS has been selected to screen at the 2007 Sonoma Valley Film Festival in April!
Also, the 2007 Philidelphia Film Festival has chosen WAITRESS as their closing night celebration film. The PFF gets underway in April as well.
UPDATE 03/18/07: WAITRESS will be screening as the opening film for this year's Method Fest later this month. Click on the link for info!
UPDATE 03/11/07: The limited theatre release date has been moved to May 2, 2007, according to box office mojo and the official site at Fox Searchlight.
UPDATE 02/27/07: According to the IMDb, WAITRESS will be in a limited release in both USA and France April 27, 2007!!!
UPDATE 02/17/07: THANK YOU to VFBHENRM for this great new info!!! WAITRESS will be the opening film for the 2007 HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, CO. For more info go to the main site for the festival.
UPDATE 01/22/07: WAITRESS premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was received with love and enthusiasm, and quickly picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures!!!
UPDATE 01/18/07: Thank you to wilsonmorales at the IMDb for this link!!! Blackfilm.com New info and new PIX!!!
UPDATE 12/29/06: The SUNDANCE '07 site now has detailed info about the film, including screening times next month at the festival!!! Once you get to the site, go to the correct alphabet section for W, then click on "Waitress".
Also, here is the link to the Adrienne Shelly Foundation
UPDATE 12/01/06: WAITRESS has been accepted as one of the films in the noncompetition lineup at Sundance 2007 this January! For more info, click here.
UPDATE 11/16/06: Though many of us are looking foreward to the release of this film, it is with a degree of sadness. As you know, the director, Adrienne Shelly, was found murdered earlier this month. No matter that her killer is now in custody. The terrrible loss and pain her family is facing is immeasurably worse than we fans having lost a great actress and director in the indie film world. Please visit Film Maker Magazine for info about the Adrienne Shelly Foundation.
WAITRESS had been submitted to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival shortly before Shelly's death.
Raves:
"Waitress is a light, breezy romantic comedy with a crackerjack cast and a certain degree of faux-Southern charm that never descends to cornpone mawkisness, and also has a whip-smart comedic sensibility in every scene." James Rocchi, Cinematical
"...Waitress is a delight, a refreshing comedy that mixes a bunch of familiar ingredients in offbeat ways that pay off every time, much in the way that its title character Jenna (the fabulous Keri Russell)blends, say, blackberries with bittersweet chocolate in her universally beloved pies." Glenn Kenny, Premiere Magazine
"Adrienne Shelly's film is a fun but sincere exploration of this conundrum, full of off-kilter characters who don't talk like anyone in real life, but sound a truthful chord." Jeremy Mathews, Film Threat
"Funny, tender, quirky and sad...{WAITRESS has}
homespun charms and Southern small-town setting...the characters are always believable." Patricia Chui, Cinematical
"...director Adrienne Shelly boldly defies convention with her radiant and gorgeously stylized feature film, Waitress...Russell delivers a wonderful, complex performance as Jenna, a repressed woman reaching for happiness, while Shelly infuses the film with a luminous magical sensibility and an endearing sense of humor. Confident and clear in vision, Waitress makes delicious upside-down cake of the Cinderella myth." Shari Frilot, Sundance Film Festival 2007
"Waitress is a real actor’s movie, with each part written with great elan to have its own psychology and even its own dialect. Each player gets to be fully dimensional and has bright and defining moments that crystallize into an affectionate if gently satirical ensemble portrait of a certain kind of working-class Southern-ness." Ray Greene, BoxOffice.com
"...Adrienne Shelly's final film is an untrammeled delight, with sunny good humor and perfectly pitched performances." Sam Adams, Philadelphia City Paper
"In her third film as director and writer, Shelly scores a personal triumph...Waitress is her buoyant legacy." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"WAITRESS serves up a sweet, sassy and delicious slice of life tale -- as it reveals the power of friendship, motherhood and the willingness to take a chance...[a]vibrantly different romantic comedy..." Pam and George Singleton, Reel Movie Critic
"I’ll state unequivocally that this is a chick flick. But it’s a chick flick with an edge. A lot of the edge is due to the powerful performance from Jeremy Sisto. Earl easily could have been a cookie-cutter bad guy but subtle layers of insecurity and fear often surface and you understand him as the person and as the monster." Maura Reilly, Monsters & Critics
"[WAITRESS is] the kind of sly, witty independent gem that rolls through every few years, lighting up crowds and forcing men to admit they were wrong when they thought they were being dragged to another chick flick. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that it could be a sleeper hit with good word-of-mouth and fanfare upon a wider release." Bill Clark, From The Balcony
"Similar in spirit to Little Miss Sunshine, this movie will steal your heart and send you on your way rejoicing..." Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice
"Heartfelt and intelligent, with a pinch of whimsy..." Lisa Rose, The Star-Ledger
"One of the most brilliant aspects of Waitress is how well drawn out the characters are. None of the characters are perfectly good or bad. Even Earl, the man we are supposed to hate is given some deserved layers of sympathy and pity...the biggest praises have to go to Jeremy Sisto as Earl. He is our villain but a character full of condolence. The audience goes from hating him to empathizing with him in a single scene. Finding the right balance in a role so extreme is rare and finding an actor who can do it is even rarer." G Murray, Pop Syndicate
"... a romantic comedy that leads with a passion and honesty few in the genre even bother to pursue. It's candy, but with a deliciously sour center." Brian Orndorf, Axcess News
"...a gentle, lovely film...Keri Russell is a revelation...[Jeremy Sisto gives a] slimy, uncompromising performance..." Eugene Novikov, Film Blather
"If "Waitress" was one of Jenna's pies, it would be a sky-high lemon meringue -- light, airy, not too sweet, with a tart, satisfying, filling." Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
"'Waitress' is a beautifully designed, tenderly written and sensitively acted film about the bitter and sweet moments of daily life. With insight and humor, Adrienne Shelly's cinematic swansong is, much like Jenna's pies, a masterful creation you will not forget." Richard Propes, Independent Critics.com
"With offbeat humor, deadpan dialogue and heartfelt honesty, "Waitress" moves the romantic comedy to new grounds." James Adams Smith, University of Delaware Reviewer
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