Cutlass

I've been perusing the long list of interesting-looking movies scheduled for this year's Tribeca Film Festival, which continues in New York this week. It will be a while till many of the buzzworthy feature films hit theaters, so I'm excited that some of the festival's short films are online for anyone to view. One of those I was particularly curious to see is Cutlass.

The 16-minute film marks Kate Hudson's directorial debut, and she also wrote the screenplay. Compared to most shorts (at least the ones without celebrity directors), this movie has a pretty amazing cast, including Kristen Stewart, Kurt Russell, Virginia Madsen, Dakota Fanning, and Chevy Chase. The quick summary of the story: A mom (Madsen) can relate to her daughter (Fanning) about wanting to buy something really, really badly. The cinematography looks gorgeous, as does Stewart, who plays a younger version of Madsen's character and is kind of a knockout as a blonde.

You can watch the entire movie right here, so to check it out and let me know what you think about Hudson's filmmaking skills, just read more

Kate Hudson, Kirsten Dunst and Rita Wilson made it a black and white affair at the premiere of their Glamour Reel films last night in L.A. Kate's film, Cutlass co-starred her "dad" Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning and her boyfriend Dax Shepard (the latter two were no shows last night). Birthday boy Chevy Chase was also back in action as one of the stars in Kate's film. Kirsten's movie Welcome starred Winona Ryder and Rita's film called The Trap starred Jeanne Tripplehorn. All three directors looked very happy to debut their hard work. You can check out the films on Glamour's site and even better - when you download the flicks they donate some money!

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Earlier this week Kate Hudson was in Boston running with her co-star Dane Cook and yesterday she was in NYC with her main man Ryder. The twosome went for a coffee run (ya know, the usual) during the sunny city day. The actress recently took on the role of director (where she cast her "dad" Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning and her new boyfriend Dax Shepard). The premiere for her short Glamour magazine movie called, Cutlass will be October 9th in LA. For those of us not attending the premiere or in the hometown of the stories where the film were based and will be screened, we'll get to check out the flick on Glamour's website soon.

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Kate Hudson is hard at work in Pasadena on the set of her directorial debut, a short film based on a reader-submitted essay for Glamour, but unlike many first time directors making shorts, she's got some serious star power in her hands. I guess it doesn't hurt to know people in Hollywood. Her movie stars her surrogate dad Kurt Russell, the surprisingly older looking (she's growing up!) Dakota Fanning and Virginia Madsen. It must feel weird for Kate to be the boss for a change, especially to the man who raised her. Hey, she definitely looks cute doing it.

More of Kate and her crew so read more