Armageddon Time director on James Gray on what he said to cinematographer Darius Khondji about Susan Sontag’s collection of essays On Photography: “I said to him, and I quoted from it many times, it’s so brilliant …” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
James Gray’s Armageddon Time, starring Anthony Hopkins, Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Jaylin Webb was the Main Slate special 60th anniversary screening event at the New York Film Festival. Gray gives thanks to Cate Blanchett (who stars in Todd Field’s Main Slate highlight TÁR with Nina Hoss and Sophie Kauer) and Robert De Niro and a very special thanks to his longtime editor John Axelrad in the end credits.
Dennis Lim with James Gray and Armageddon Time stars Anne Hathaway, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb and Jeremy Strong Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Armageddon Time, James Gray revisits ghosts of his childhood in 1980 Queens, NY. Central is...
James Gray’s Armageddon Time, starring Anthony Hopkins, Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Jaylin Webb was the Main Slate special 60th anniversary screening event at the New York Film Festival. Gray gives thanks to Cate Blanchett (who stars in Todd Field’s Main Slate highlight TÁR with Nina Hoss and Sophie Kauer) and Robert De Niro and a very special thanks to his longtime editor John Axelrad in the end credits.
Dennis Lim with James Gray and Armageddon Time stars Anne Hathaway, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb and Jeremy Strong Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Armageddon Time, James Gray revisits ghosts of his childhood in 1980 Queens, NY. Central is...
- 10/23/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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When Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, died in Paris in 1799, his friend — J.S.A. Cuvelier — wrote an affectionate obituary about him in an arts newspaper. He called Saint-Georges “the most amazing of his century by the variety and superiority of his talents.” He sprinkled adjectives like “generous,” “gallant,” “witty” and “sensitive” throughout. There was little that Saint-Georges, the child of a white Frenchman and his Guadalupian slave mistress, could not do: He was a devoted friend, a champion of the people, a skilled fencer, a dancer, an intellectual and, perhaps most famously, a brilliant composer.
You might know Saint-Georges as the Black Mozart, an inaccurate shorthand that emerged with the revival of his legacy years ago. But the master of violin concertos was much more than the shadow of his white contemporaries, a sentiment underscored in Stephen Williams’ ebullient but tottering biopic Chevalier.
When Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, died in Paris in 1799, his friend — J.S.A. Cuvelier — wrote an affectionate obituary about him in an arts newspaper. He called Saint-Georges “the most amazing of his century by the variety and superiority of his talents.” He sprinkled adjectives like “generous,” “gallant,” “witty” and “sensitive” throughout. There was little that Saint-Georges, the child of a white Frenchman and his Guadalupian slave mistress, could not do: He was a devoted friend, a champion of the people, a skilled fencer, a dancer, an intellectual and, perhaps most famously, a brilliant composer.
You might know Saint-Georges as the Black Mozart, an inaccurate shorthand that emerged with the revival of his legacy years ago. But the master of violin concertos was much more than the shadow of his white contemporaries, a sentiment underscored in Stephen Williams’ ebullient but tottering biopic Chevalier.
- 9/13/2022
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hollywood Reporter is premiering Behind the Screen: Creative Leaders at Home and the Way Back, a special two-part Roundtable series featuring filmmaking talent, who discuss the impact of Covid-19 and issues that will need to be addressed in order to get the creative community back to work.
The first Roundtable, which debuted on THR's YouTube channel Monday and can also be seen in the embedded video below, features director Kabir Akhtar (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Never Have I Ever), editor John Axelrad (Ad Astra, The Lost City of Z), costume designer Melissa Bruning (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of ...
The first Roundtable, which debuted on THR's YouTube channel Monday and can also be seen in the embedded video below, features director Kabir Akhtar (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Never Have I Ever), editor John Axelrad (Ad Astra, The Lost City of Z), costume designer Melissa Bruning (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of ...
- 5/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hollywood Reporter is premiering Behind the Screen: Creative Leaders at Home and the Way Back, a special two-part Roundtable series featuring filmmaking talent, who discuss the impact of Covid-19 and issues that will need to be addressed in order to get the creative community back to work.
The first Roundtable, which debuted on THR's YouTube channel Monday and can also be seen in the embedded video below, features director Kabir Akhtar (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Never Have I Ever), editor John Axelrad (Ad Astra, The Lost City of Z), costume designer Melissa Bruning (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of ...
The first Roundtable, which debuted on THR's YouTube channel Monday and can also be seen in the embedded video below, features director Kabir Akhtar (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Never Have I Ever), editor John Axelrad (Ad Astra, The Lost City of Z), costume designer Melissa Bruning (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of ...
- 5/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
They don’t make ’em like this any more, and the original TV spots for James Gray’s accurate retelling of history almost didn’t know how to sell it. Charlie Hunnam spends his life trying to solve a riddle of the Peruvian rainforest, in between fighting in WW1 and dealing with class prejudice. Yup, one could say the picture was filmed in a ‘classic’ style . . . can a show like that find an audience these days?
The Lost City of Z
Blu-ray
Broadgreen / Amazon Studios
2016 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 141 min. / Street Date July 11, 2017 / 34.99
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley, Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, Clive Francis, Murray Melvin.
Cinematography: Darious Khondji
Film Editor:John Axelrad, Lee Haugen
Original Music: Christopher Spelman
From the book by David Grann
Produced by Dede Gardner, James Gray, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner
Written for the Screen and Directed by James Gray
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The Lost City of Z
Blu-ray
Broadgreen / Amazon Studios
2016 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 141 min. / Street Date July 11, 2017 / 34.99
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley, Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, Clive Francis, Murray Melvin.
Cinematography: Darious Khondji
Film Editor:John Axelrad, Lee Haugen
Original Music: Christopher Spelman
From the book by David Grann
Produced by Dede Gardner, James Gray, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner
Written for the Screen and Directed by James Gray
More...
- 7/11/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
James Gray has a habit of digging up the past. Usually he does it by way of resuscitating unfashionable directorial techniques, genres, and aesthetics, but in The Lost City of Z, he’s found a subject that’s a natural fit for such treatment. Charlie Hunnam stars as Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who in the early 20th century made several expeditions to the Amazon in search of an ancient city he was certain was buried there. His archeological colleagues, steeped as they were in the idea of Western (and especially British) exceptionalism, are largely unsupportive both financially and emotionally of his endeavors, and these trips leave him estranged from his wife Nina (Sienna Miller) and son Jack (Tom Holland, for most of the film) back home. His sole sliver of support comes from the eternally indulgent Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson), a fellow adventurer who seems to have few dreams of glory,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
It is the little-stated, undeniable truth that critics are surrounded by a nearly countless number of factors when experiencing the work they’ve been assigned to review. Presentation is rarely treated as a basic on the level of form, theme, or auteurist interest, and most mentions will come only if something had gone terribly wrong. This issue sometimes being rather important, I feel compelled to say James Gray’s The Lost City of Z is a rather forceful thing when projected on 35mm, as befits the writer-director’s wishes and with which the New York Film Festival, premiering this picture as the closing title of their 54th year, complied. I can and will compliment the movie for a number of reasons not necessarily pertaining to what material it was printed on and what machine it came out of, so let it be stated upfront that this is most likely the best (only?...
- 10/17/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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Don Cheadle, before Captain America: Civil War, is bringing the story of Miles Davis to the screen. He's been telling us about it.
Don Cheadle makes his feature directorial debut with Miles Ahead this Friday, a biopic of Miles Davies. We got the chance to sit down with him, and talk about the project.
Here's how it went...
I know you described it as Miles Davis as a gangster, how many sort of different stories did you experiment with before you happened upon that take?
None.
Really?!
This was it. You know we, we figured it out and we wrote it in this way. The family was on board with what we pitched and were just kind of like being from Missouri and were like, “show me” and we came up with this narrative and they said, “okay, great.”
It’s been your baby all the way...
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Don Cheadle, before Captain America: Civil War, is bringing the story of Miles Davis to the screen. He's been telling us about it.
Don Cheadle makes his feature directorial debut with Miles Ahead this Friday, a biopic of Miles Davies. We got the chance to sit down with him, and talk about the project.
Here's how it went...
I know you described it as Miles Davis as a gangster, how many sort of different stories did you experiment with before you happened upon that take?
None.
Really?!
This was it. You know we, we figured it out and we wrote it in this way. The family was on board with what we pitched and were just kind of like being from Missouri and were like, “show me” and we came up with this narrative and they said, “okay, great.”
It’s been your baby all the way...
- 4/19/2016
- Den of Geek
The holiday season may be over, but that doesn’t mean a certain demonic creature can’t punish those on the naughty list… Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has announced an April 12th Digital HD release and April 26th Blu-ray / DVD debut for Michael Dougherty’s latest holiday horror film, Krampus:
Press Release: Universal City, California, February 23, 2016 – An ancient demonic avenger lays siege to an unsuspecting family in Krampus, a truly terrifying, darkly comedic tale coming to Digital HD on April 12, 2016, and Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand on April 26, 2016, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. From Michael Dougherty (writer and director of cult horror favorite Trick ’rTreat, writer of X-Men: Apocalypse), Krampus is “a must see film” (We Got This Covered) that delivers inventively nasty laughs as it plunges viewers into a nightmarish world ruled by a legendary monster bent on total destruction, punishing those who have lost faith.
Press Release: Universal City, California, February 23, 2016 – An ancient demonic avenger lays siege to an unsuspecting family in Krampus, a truly terrifying, darkly comedic tale coming to Digital HD on April 12, 2016, and Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand on April 26, 2016, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. From Michael Dougherty (writer and director of cult horror favorite Trick ’rTreat, writer of X-Men: Apocalypse), Krampus is “a must see film” (We Got This Covered) that delivers inventively nasty laughs as it plunges viewers into a nightmarish world ruled by a legendary monster bent on total destruction, punishing those who have lost faith.
- 2/23/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Over the weekend, the 53rd annual New York Film Festival came to a close with the World Premiere screening of Don Cheadle’s long brewing passion project Miles Ahead. This biopic of jazz musician Miles Davis has been in the works forever (with Cheadle as the star, co-writer, and director), so expectations were quite high for this one, which Nyff debuted as their 2015 Closing Night selection. A potential Academy Award player, either this year or next (more on that below), this was one of the bigger debuts in a while. Is it an Oscar contender or a pretender? Something in between, perhaps? Well, why don’t we find out below right now? Here’s a quick primer on the film itself, which of course is a look at a moment in time for legend Miles Davis. Cheadle plays Davis mostly during a period in which he had receded from public...
- 10/12/2015
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
I don’t know why any film about someone as innovative, unstoppable, and crazy as Miles Davis leaves so little impression, but to begin addressing that question would require remembering many significant things from Miles Ahead. This slip-up grates for a few reasons. First and foremost is, indeed, the obvious disconnect between what fascination a man creates and how a feature about his life pulls us in, and this nagging sense of failure extends toward the knowledge that this work is a labor of love. More than the story of a significant figure, Miles Ahead is also the crowdfunded-to-make-sure-they-can-do-it-right feature debut of Don Cheadle, who, from the first second of being onscreen, makes clear that he’s putting a lot on the table.
It’s not just the wig, the glasses, the scratchy voice, or the jittery physical presence; it’s that all of these are working in concert to...
It’s not just the wig, the glasses, the scratchy voice, or the jittery physical presence; it’s that all of these are working in concert to...
- 10/12/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Shooting has started in New York on Alcon Entertainment’s romantic comedy “Something Borrowed” starring Ginnifer Goodwin (“He’s Just Not That Into You"), Oscar nominee Kate Hudson (“Almost Famous”), Colin Egglesfield (“Melrose Place”), Steve Howey (“Bride Wars”) and John Krasinski (“The Office”).
"...'Rachel' (Goodwin) is a talented attorney at a top New York law firm, a generous and loyal friend, and, unhappily, still single…as her engaged best friend 'Darcy' (Hudson) is constantly reminding her. But after one drink too many at her 30th birthday party, perpetual good girl Rachel unexpectedly ends up in bed with the guy she’s had a crush on since law school, 'Dex' (Egglesfield)…who just happens to be Darcy’s fiancé. When Rachel and Darcy’s lifelong friendship collides with true love, it leads to unexpected complications and potentially explosive romantic revelations..."
“Something Borrowed” is directed by Luke Greenfield (“The Girl Next Door...
"...'Rachel' (Goodwin) is a talented attorney at a top New York law firm, a generous and loyal friend, and, unhappily, still single…as her engaged best friend 'Darcy' (Hudson) is constantly reminding her. But after one drink too many at her 30th birthday party, perpetual good girl Rachel unexpectedly ends up in bed with the guy she’s had a crush on since law school, 'Dex' (Egglesfield)…who just happens to be Darcy’s fiancé. When Rachel and Darcy’s lifelong friendship collides with true love, it leads to unexpected complications and potentially explosive romantic revelations..."
“Something Borrowed” is directed by Luke Greenfield (“The Girl Next Door...
- 5/27/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Chicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two run-of-engagement movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall!
The film also stars Brian Gleason, Rick Dial, William Sterchi, Richard W. Gallegos, William Marquez, LeAnne Lynch, David Manzanares, J. Michael Oliva and Ryil Adamson from writer and director Scott Cooper. “Crazy Heart” is based on the novel by the same name from Thomas Cobb.
To win your free “Crazy Heart” movie pass to any Chicago-area Landmark Theatre at the time of your choosing, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! “Crazy Heart” opened in Chicago on Dec. 25, 2009. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The film also stars Brian Gleason, Rick Dial, William Sterchi, Richard W. Gallegos, William Marquez, LeAnne Lynch, David Manzanares, J. Michael Oliva and Ryil Adamson from writer and director Scott Cooper. “Crazy Heart” is based on the novel by the same name from Thomas Cobb.
To win your free “Crazy Heart” movie pass to any Chicago-area Landmark Theatre at the time of your choosing, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! “Crazy Heart” opened in Chicago on Dec. 25, 2009. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
- 1/6/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Identical-twin filmmakers Danny and Oxide Pang make their English-language debut with "The Messengers", but there's a lot less here than meets "The Eye", the 2002 cult horror film that made them an international success.
A tepid ghost story filled with all the usual things that go bump in the night minus the somewhat crucial element of suspense, this bland effort from Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures is surprisingly devoid of the creepy, claustrophobic atmospherics that haunt the brothers' Asian work.
Instead we have an unremarkable American gothic thriller with Dylan McDermott and Penelope Ann Miller playing the novice farmer and his dutiful wife, who have traded life in the big city for anticipated tranquility on a secluded North Dakota farm.
You don't need a spooky black-and-white prelude -- though the Pangs have happily provided one -- to tell that no good can come of the creepy, long-shuttered farmhouse that the Solomon family has chosen to call home.
But Roy and Denise are too busy growing sunflowers and trying to wash away that pesky moldy blotch that keeps on appearing on their wall to notice the foreboding murder of shrieking crows (played by Czech ravens) and locked doors that suddenly open, then slam shut again, leaving their troubled teen daughter Jess (Kristen Stewart) and traumatized, mute 3-year-old Ben (played by twins Evan and Theodore Turner) to find out the terrifying truth for themselves.
And what's up with John Corbett's blissfully oblivious field hand? Why would a guy like him take on such an insignificant role? He's barely even ... whoa, didn't see that one coming!
While the Pangs, along with Hideo Nakata ("The Ring") and Takashi Shimizu ("The Grudge"), are considered the reigning masters of contemporary Asian horror, there's scant evidence of a visual style to be found here, with the exception of one belonging to Hitchcock's "The Birds".
They certainly don't get much in the way of inspiration from the generic script by Mark Wheaton, from a predictable story by Todd Farmer, leaving their appealing cast struggling to make something out of the flat dialogue that kills time in between the next spooky bit.
Although production designer Alicia Keywan gets some bright, eye-catching mileage out of all those blooming sunflowers (actually situated on a Canadian field in Regina, Saskatchewan), the real crop being harvested by "The Messengers" is your basic corn.
THE MESSENGERS
Columbia Pictures
Screen Gems and Ghost House Pictures and Columbia Pictures present
a Blue Star Pictures production
Credits:
Directors: Danny Pang & Oxide Pang
Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, William Sherak, Jason Shuman
Executive producers: Nathan Kahane, Joe Drake
Screenwriter: Mark Wheaton
Story: Todd Farmer
Director of photography: David Geddes
Production designer: Alicia Keywan
Editors: John Axelrad and Armen Minasian
Music: Joseph LoDuca
Cast:
Jess: Kristen Stewart
Roy: Dylan McDermott
Denise: Penelope Ann Miller
Burwell: John Corbett
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
A tepid ghost story filled with all the usual things that go bump in the night minus the somewhat crucial element of suspense, this bland effort from Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures is surprisingly devoid of the creepy, claustrophobic atmospherics that haunt the brothers' Asian work.
Instead we have an unremarkable American gothic thriller with Dylan McDermott and Penelope Ann Miller playing the novice farmer and his dutiful wife, who have traded life in the big city for anticipated tranquility on a secluded North Dakota farm.
You don't need a spooky black-and-white prelude -- though the Pangs have happily provided one -- to tell that no good can come of the creepy, long-shuttered farmhouse that the Solomon family has chosen to call home.
But Roy and Denise are too busy growing sunflowers and trying to wash away that pesky moldy blotch that keeps on appearing on their wall to notice the foreboding murder of shrieking crows (played by Czech ravens) and locked doors that suddenly open, then slam shut again, leaving their troubled teen daughter Jess (Kristen Stewart) and traumatized, mute 3-year-old Ben (played by twins Evan and Theodore Turner) to find out the terrifying truth for themselves.
And what's up with John Corbett's blissfully oblivious field hand? Why would a guy like him take on such an insignificant role? He's barely even ... whoa, didn't see that one coming!
While the Pangs, along with Hideo Nakata ("The Ring") and Takashi Shimizu ("The Grudge"), are considered the reigning masters of contemporary Asian horror, there's scant evidence of a visual style to be found here, with the exception of one belonging to Hitchcock's "The Birds".
They certainly don't get much in the way of inspiration from the generic script by Mark Wheaton, from a predictable story by Todd Farmer, leaving their appealing cast struggling to make something out of the flat dialogue that kills time in between the next spooky bit.
Although production designer Alicia Keywan gets some bright, eye-catching mileage out of all those blooming sunflowers (actually situated on a Canadian field in Regina, Saskatchewan), the real crop being harvested by "The Messengers" is your basic corn.
THE MESSENGERS
Columbia Pictures
Screen Gems and Ghost House Pictures and Columbia Pictures present
a Blue Star Pictures production
Credits:
Directors: Danny Pang & Oxide Pang
Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, William Sherak, Jason Shuman
Executive producers: Nathan Kahane, Joe Drake
Screenwriter: Mark Wheaton
Story: Todd Farmer
Director of photography: David Geddes
Production designer: Alicia Keywan
Editors: John Axelrad and Armen Minasian
Music: Joseph LoDuca
Cast:
Jess: Kristen Stewart
Roy: Dylan McDermott
Denise: Penelope Ann Miller
Burwell: John Corbett
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
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