Thompson on Hollywood: Interview: Ryan Coogler Talks Honoring Oscar Grant, Slain at 'Fruitvale Station' (UPDATED, TRAILER)

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Interview: Ryan Coogler Talks Honoring Oscar Grant, Slain at 'Fruitvale Station' (UPDATED, TRAILER) Jul 8th 2013, 18:57, by Anne Thompson Ryan Coogler is the real deal. There's a reason why Harvey Weinstein scooped up "Fruitvale Station" (July 12) at Sundance. He saw Oscar potential in it. This rookie Bay Area filmmaker grabbed a story he cared about and made it real. Audiences wept in Sundance and again in Cannes, where it played in Un Certain Regard and was front and center at the The Weinstein Co.'s May 17 awards season preview.  "Fruitvale Station" should have been in the main competition. Typically, Cannes director Thierry Fremaux hesitated to confer Competition status on a filmmaker who has not already been established; the festival rarely gives a Sundance film like "Precious"or "Beasts of the Southern Wild" a competition berth. They often place a lesser follow-up in the competition, like "The Paperboy." The exception that proves the rule is Steven Soderbergh's Sundance hit "sex, lies and videotape," which eventually won the Palme d'Or. And Weinstein is no slouch when it comes to taking films like "sex... Media files: RyanCoogler.jpg (image/jpeg)

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