Fiona Shaw, Katherine Waterston and Chaske Spencer have been cast in 'Park Avenue'.The trio are to star in the new indie movie from director Gaby Dellal, which has entered production in New York City.'Park Avenue' follows a mother and daughter who reveal secrets and unravel lies over the course of a fraught six weeks.Fed up with her life of wrangling cattle in Canada, Charlotte (Waterston) flees her controlling husband and returns to her childhood Park Avenue apartment where she takes refuge with her mother Kit (Shaw).Rediscovering the boy she loved – her grown doorman Andres (Spencer) – and the life she left as a teenager, Charlotte explores shared history, unshared truths and finds a way to face both love and loss.Dellal will direct from a script that she has written together with Tina Alexis Allen.Diana Phillips is producing the movie with Dorothy Berwin and Josh Blum serving as executive producers.
- 5/3/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Exclusive: Fiona Shaw (Andor), Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) and Chaske Spencer (The English) have entered production in NYC on Park Avenue, a new indie drama from Sundance alum Gaby Dellal (On a Clear Day), who directs from her script written with Tina Alexis Allen.
A production of Rimsky Productions and Washington Square Films, Park Avenue follows a mother and daughter who, over a fraught six weeks, reveal secrets, unravel lies and ultimately lay bare the ties that bind. Paralyzed by her life wrangling cattle in Alberta, Canada, Charlotte (Waterston) jumps into her Ford Bronco, flees her over-controlling husband, and lands back in her childhood Park Avenue apartment where she takes refuge with her mother Kit (Shaw). Rediscovering the boy she loved, now her grown doorman Anders (Spencer), and the life she left at 18, the mother and daughter explore shared history, unshared truths and find a way to face both love and loss.
A production of Rimsky Productions and Washington Square Films, Park Avenue follows a mother and daughter who, over a fraught six weeks, reveal secrets, unravel lies and ultimately lay bare the ties that bind. Paralyzed by her life wrangling cattle in Alberta, Canada, Charlotte (Waterston) jumps into her Ford Bronco, flees her over-controlling husband, and lands back in her childhood Park Avenue apartment where she takes refuge with her mother Kit (Shaw). Rediscovering the boy she loved, now her grown doorman Anders (Spencer), and the life she left at 18, the mother and daughter explore shared history, unshared truths and find a way to face both love and loss.
- 5/2/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Period drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara to receive UK premiere at Lff; new trailer released.
Carol, Todd Haynes’ 1950s set drama, has been selected by the 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) where it will screen as the American Express Gala.
The film will receive its UK Premiere on October 14 at the Odeon Leicester Square, attended by Haynes and stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Set in 1950s New York, Mara plays a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman, played by Blanchett.
Mara’s performance won her the best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May (tied with Emmanuelle Bercot for Mon roi), where the film received its world premiere and also won the ‘Queer Palm’.
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Price of Salt, adapted by Phyllis Nagy, Carol co-stars Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy and Sarah Paulson.
Haynes, whose...
Carol, Todd Haynes’ 1950s set drama, has been selected by the 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) where it will screen as the American Express Gala.
The film will receive its UK Premiere on October 14 at the Odeon Leicester Square, attended by Haynes and stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Set in 1950s New York, Mara plays a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman, played by Blanchett.
Mara’s performance won her the best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May (tied with Emmanuelle Bercot for Mon roi), where the film received its world premiere and also won the ‘Queer Palm’.
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Price of Salt, adapted by Phyllis Nagy, Carol co-stars Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy and Sarah Paulson.
Haynes, whose...
- 8/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Three Generations, the transgender story starring Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning and Susan Sarandon that was acquired by The Weinstein Company when they slapped down a big $6M at this year’s Cannes Film Festival just was pegged for a limited release on September 18. The Gaby Dellal-directed film was financed by Big Beach's Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf who produced it with Dorothy Berwin. Fanning plays a New York teenager who wants to transition from female to male. Watts is…...
- 6/1/2015
- Deadline
Just last week, Dorothy Berwin, Mark Lee and Tom Kirdahy announced the second winners of the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award. The Berwin Lee Award was created to foster and promote the craft of playwriting in both the United States and the United Kingdom and to encourage the writing and production of plays. Check out photos from inside the special event below...
- 3/23/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Dorothy Berwin, Mark Lee and Tom Kirdahy recently announced the second winners of the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award. The Berwin Lee Award was created to foster and promote the craft of playwriting in both the United States and the United Kingdom and to encourage the writing and production of plays. A reception will be held in their honor in New York City tonight, March 19, 2015.
- 3/19/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: Tate Donovan has joined Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning and Susan Sarandon in Three Generations, the indie drama lensing now in New York City. Fanning stars as Ray, a teenager transitioning from female to male as his mother (Watts) and grandmother (Sarandon) come to terms with the life-altering decision. Donovan will play Craig, a boyfriend of Ray’s mom who helped raise him years ago.
Gaby Dellal is directing from a script by Nikole Beckwith. Three Generations is produced by Big Beach’s Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub alongside Dorothy Berwin. Big Beach’s Daniele Melia is exec producing with Peter Pastorelli, Leah Holzer and Watts.
Donovan is coming off runs on series 24: Live Another Day, Hostages, Damages, and Deception and co-starred in the Oscar-winning Argo for director Ben Affleck. He’s repped by the Gersh Agency.
Gaby Dellal is directing from a script by Nikole Beckwith. Three Generations is produced by Big Beach’s Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub alongside Dorothy Berwin. Big Beach’s Daniele Melia is exec producing with Peter Pastorelli, Leah Holzer and Watts.
Donovan is coming off runs on series 24: Live Another Day, Hostages, Damages, and Deception and co-starred in the Oscar-winning Argo for director Ben Affleck. He’s repped by the Gersh Agency.
- 11/19/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Susan Sarandon, Naomi Watts and Elle Fanning have signed up to appear in indie drama Three Generations.
The film is being developed from a script by Nikole Beckwith and will be directed by Gaby Dellal, reports Entertainment Weekly.
Fanning will play New York City teenager Ray, who is in the process of transitioning from female to male, while Watts plays her mother Maggie, who is struggling to deal with Ray's transition.
Sarandon plays Maggie's own mother Dolly, who lives with her lesbian partner Frances. Dolly is having trouble understanding both Ray's transition and Maggie's apparent inability to move out of her childhood home.
Three Generations will be produced by Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub and Dorothy Berwin. Watts, Leah Holzer, Daniele Melia and Peter Pastorelli will serve as executive producers.
Production on the film will begin in New York in early November.
Sarandon recently said that Hollywood is more concerned with looks than politics.
The film is being developed from a script by Nikole Beckwith and will be directed by Gaby Dellal, reports Entertainment Weekly.
Fanning will play New York City teenager Ray, who is in the process of transitioning from female to male, while Watts plays her mother Maggie, who is struggling to deal with Ray's transition.
Sarandon plays Maggie's own mother Dolly, who lives with her lesbian partner Frances. Dolly is having trouble understanding both Ray's transition and Maggie's apparent inability to move out of her childhood home.
Three Generations will be produced by Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub and Dorothy Berwin. Watts, Leah Holzer, Daniele Melia and Peter Pastorelli will serve as executive producers.
Production on the film will begin in New York in early November.
Sarandon recently said that Hollywood is more concerned with looks than politics.
- 11/2/2014
- Digital Spy
• Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning, and Susan Sarandon have signed on for Three Generations. Gaby Dellal is directing the indie from a script by Nikole Beckwith. The story follows a New York City teen, Ray (Fanning), who is transitioning from female to male and her mother, Maggie (Watts), who must come to terms with Ray’s transition. Meanwhile, Maggie’s mother, Dolly (Sarandon), a music manager who lives with her lesbian partner, Frances, has trouble understanding Ray’s decision and Maggie’s inability to move out of the house she grew up in. Big Beach co-founders Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub...
- 10/31/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Naomi Watts will star alongside Susan Sarandon and Elle Fanning in the comedic drama that Im Global is bringing to the Afm.
Three Generations charts the interwoven lives of a New York teen transitioning from female to male, her single mother and lesbian music manager grandmother.
Gaby Dellal will direct from a screenplay by Nikole Beckwith. ICM Partners represents Us rights.
Big Beach co-founders Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub will produce with Dorothy Berwin of InFilm Productions.
Watts, currently shooting Demolition in New York for Jean-Marc Vallée, will serve as executive producer alongside Leah Holzer and Daniele Melia of Big Beach and Peter Pastorelli.
Three Generations charts the interwoven lives of a New York teen transitioning from female to male, her single mother and lesbian music manager grandmother.
Gaby Dellal will direct from a screenplay by Nikole Beckwith. ICM Partners represents Us rights.
Big Beach co-founders Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub will produce with Dorothy Berwin of InFilm Productions.
Watts, currently shooting Demolition in New York for Jean-Marc Vallée, will serve as executive producer alongside Leah Holzer and Daniele Melia of Big Beach and Peter Pastorelli.
- 10/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Screened
Locarno International Film Festival
LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Irish director Gaby Dellal's first feature, "On a Clear Day", is the kind of drama that British television used to do so well, a well-constructed, smartly observed story of ordinary people learning how to communicate with one another.
With a Scottish setting and a cast led by veteran experts Peter Mullan and Brenda Blethyn and featuring ex-Hobbit Billy Boyd, the story of a laid-off 55-year-old who attempts to swim the English Channel should find an appreciative audience in sports fans and baby boomers.
It's not really a sports movie, but the challenge that laid-off Glasgow shipbuilder Frank (Mullan) takes on is one that all athletes and would-be athletes will respond to, and the family drama is wryly told.
Made redundant when building at his shipyard dwindles, Frank discovers that a lifetime of hard work has left him unable to communicate with his devoted wife, Joan (Blethyn), and especially his son Robert (Jamie Sives).
Key to their alienation is the death by drowning of another son, Stuart, when he was 7. Robert is a very un-Glaswegian househusband, looking after his own two sons responsibly while his wife works, and he thinks his father looks down on him for it. He also believes his father blames him for his brother's death.
Fit and strong, Frank decides on a whim that swimming the English Channel is something he could do, and he is encouraged by his mates, stalwart co-worker Eddie (Sean McGinley), meek Norman (Ron Cook), stoic chip-shop manager Chan (Benedict Wong) and happy-go-lucky Danny (Boyd), who sees him as the father he never had.
As he goes into serious training, Frank elects not to tell his family, but that furthers the number of secrets held and makes worse his relationship with Robert. Joan, meanwhile, has a secret of her own as she tries to pass the test to become a bus driver.
Screenwriter Alex Rose crafts his portrait of working-class life with affection but without gloss. The underlying theme of Frank's guilt over being unable to save his son is played in sensible tones. The subtleties in the emotional ties between Frank and his wife, his son, his grandchildren and his friends are calibrated and portrayed with insight and humor.
There are potential pitfalls in one or two scenes in which Frank observes a handicapped child spending every ounce of determination to complete one lap of the swimming pool, but they are shrewdly navigated.
Locations in Glasgow and Dover are put to very good use, and Stephen Warbeck's music appealingly underscores the film's goodhearted intentions.
ON A CLEAR DAY
Forthcoming Prods., InFilm Prods.
Credits:
Director: Gaby Dellal
Screenwriter: Alex Rose
Producers: Dorothy Berwin, Sarah Curtis
Executive producers: Bill Allan, Steve Christian, Leonard Crooks, Nick Hill, Andy Mayson
Cinematographer: David Johnson
Production designer: Mark Leese
Editors: Robin Sales, John Wilson
Composer: Stephen Warbeck
Cast:
Frank: Peter Mullan
Joan: Brenda Blethyn
Danny: Billy Boyd
Eddie: Sean McGinley
Norman: Ron Cook
Chan: Benedict Wong
Rob: Jamie Sives
Angela: Jodhi May
Mad Bob: Paul Ritter
The Observer: Shaun Dingwall
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 98 minutes...
Locarno International Film Festival
LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Irish director Gaby Dellal's first feature, "On a Clear Day", is the kind of drama that British television used to do so well, a well-constructed, smartly observed story of ordinary people learning how to communicate with one another.
With a Scottish setting and a cast led by veteran experts Peter Mullan and Brenda Blethyn and featuring ex-Hobbit Billy Boyd, the story of a laid-off 55-year-old who attempts to swim the English Channel should find an appreciative audience in sports fans and baby boomers.
It's not really a sports movie, but the challenge that laid-off Glasgow shipbuilder Frank (Mullan) takes on is one that all athletes and would-be athletes will respond to, and the family drama is wryly told.
Made redundant when building at his shipyard dwindles, Frank discovers that a lifetime of hard work has left him unable to communicate with his devoted wife, Joan (Blethyn), and especially his son Robert (Jamie Sives).
Key to their alienation is the death by drowning of another son, Stuart, when he was 7. Robert is a very un-Glaswegian househusband, looking after his own two sons responsibly while his wife works, and he thinks his father looks down on him for it. He also believes his father blames him for his brother's death.
Fit and strong, Frank decides on a whim that swimming the English Channel is something he could do, and he is encouraged by his mates, stalwart co-worker Eddie (Sean McGinley), meek Norman (Ron Cook), stoic chip-shop manager Chan (Benedict Wong) and happy-go-lucky Danny (Boyd), who sees him as the father he never had.
As he goes into serious training, Frank elects not to tell his family, but that furthers the number of secrets held and makes worse his relationship with Robert. Joan, meanwhile, has a secret of her own as she tries to pass the test to become a bus driver.
Screenwriter Alex Rose crafts his portrait of working-class life with affection but without gloss. The underlying theme of Frank's guilt over being unable to save his son is played in sensible tones. The subtleties in the emotional ties between Frank and his wife, his son, his grandchildren and his friends are calibrated and portrayed with insight and humor.
There are potential pitfalls in one or two scenes in which Frank observes a handicapped child spending every ounce of determination to complete one lap of the swimming pool, but they are shrewdly navigated.
Locations in Glasgow and Dover are put to very good use, and Stephen Warbeck's music appealingly underscores the film's goodhearted intentions.
ON A CLEAR DAY
Forthcoming Prods., InFilm Prods.
Credits:
Director: Gaby Dellal
Screenwriter: Alex Rose
Producers: Dorothy Berwin, Sarah Curtis
Executive producers: Bill Allan, Steve Christian, Leonard Crooks, Nick Hill, Andy Mayson
Cinematographer: David Johnson
Production designer: Mark Leese
Editors: Robin Sales, John Wilson
Composer: Stephen Warbeck
Cast:
Frank: Peter Mullan
Joan: Brenda Blethyn
Danny: Billy Boyd
Eddie: Sean McGinley
Norman: Ron Cook
Chan: Benedict Wong
Rob: Jamie Sives
Angela: Jodhi May
Mad Bob: Paul Ritter
The Observer: Shaun Dingwall
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 98 minutes...
Opens Friday, March 7
Writer-director Rose Troche's third indie film ambitiously reworks several short stories by A.M. Homes into a multifaceted portrait of modern suburbia. Alas, despite an enticing cast that includes Glenn Close, Patricia Clarkson and Dermot Mulroney, "The Safety of Objects" never quite reaches the heights it shoots for. First unveiled at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, the limited IFC Films release has won over some critics, but it's destined to come and go in theaters with little fanfare.
In her desire to mold Homes' empathetic stories of troubled suburbanites and keep it as realistic as possible, Troche has some success initially, but there are four separate families and nearly two dozen characters to keep track of. With a long running time that no amount of nonlinear construction can successfully quicken, "Safety" does have sequences and whole story lines that are fresh and thoughtfully entertaining.
The movie also has an "American Beauty"-like mission to tear aside the veil of respectability and emotional stability that are cliches of clean white neighborhoods, but in this day and age there's nothing remotely shocking or particularly revelatory. Two characters and their crises of identity emerge as the headliners in "Safety": Esther (Close), who has a grown son in a coma, and lawyer Jim Train (Mulroney).
The conceit of the movie is that Esther and Jim have nothing to do with each other at first but end up fatefully connected. Passed over for a promotion and convinced that his wife (Moira Kelly) is cheating on him, Jim starts to unravel and eventually becomes obsessed with helping Esther win a car in a mall-sponsored giveaway. Esther is trying to win the car for her demanding daughter (Jessica Campbell), and the endurance contest becomes a sad spectacle of consumerism.
Meanwhile, single mom Annette Jennings (Clarkson) is toughing out a bitter divorce and thinks her daughter (Kristen Stewart) is snatched by the father. In fact, the girl is lured into a strange encounter with the neighborhood handyman (Timothy Olyphant), who is having a hard time getting past a deadly driving accident for which he was partially to blame.
Rounding out the principal players are Mary Kay Place as yet another stagnant-souled mother raising kids and trying to evolve, Robert Klein as Esther's detached husband and young Alex House as Jim's son, who has a fantasy relationship with the doll of his sister in a cute but overdone shtick involving dialogue and role playing.
Roche's direction is quietly proficient, and the production values are top-notch for a low-budget project.
Overall, one has plenty of time to ponder the often exaggerated roles in life played by things and absorb the message that we all need to have more faith in one another.
THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS
IFC Films
Clear Blue Sky Prods., Renaissance Films An InFilm/Killer Films production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Rose Troche
Based on the book of stories by: A.M. Homes
Producers: Dorothy Berwin, Christine Vachon
Executive producers: Stephen Evans, Angus Finney, Jody Patton, Pamela Koffler
Director of photography: Enrique Chediak
Production designer: Andrea Stanley
Editor: Geraldine Peroni
Costume designer: Laura Jean Shannon
Casting: Bonnie Finnegan, Steven Jacobs
Cast:
Esther: Glenn Close
Jim Train: Dermot Mulroney
Annette Jennings: Patricia Clarkson
Randy: Timothy Olyphant
Susan Train: Moira Kelly
Helen Christianson: Mary Kay Place
Julie: Jessica Campbell
Running time -- 120 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Writer-director Rose Troche's third indie film ambitiously reworks several short stories by A.M. Homes into a multifaceted portrait of modern suburbia. Alas, despite an enticing cast that includes Glenn Close, Patricia Clarkson and Dermot Mulroney, "The Safety of Objects" never quite reaches the heights it shoots for. First unveiled at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, the limited IFC Films release has won over some critics, but it's destined to come and go in theaters with little fanfare.
In her desire to mold Homes' empathetic stories of troubled suburbanites and keep it as realistic as possible, Troche has some success initially, but there are four separate families and nearly two dozen characters to keep track of. With a long running time that no amount of nonlinear construction can successfully quicken, "Safety" does have sequences and whole story lines that are fresh and thoughtfully entertaining.
The movie also has an "American Beauty"-like mission to tear aside the veil of respectability and emotional stability that are cliches of clean white neighborhoods, but in this day and age there's nothing remotely shocking or particularly revelatory. Two characters and their crises of identity emerge as the headliners in "Safety": Esther (Close), who has a grown son in a coma, and lawyer Jim Train (Mulroney).
The conceit of the movie is that Esther and Jim have nothing to do with each other at first but end up fatefully connected. Passed over for a promotion and convinced that his wife (Moira Kelly) is cheating on him, Jim starts to unravel and eventually becomes obsessed with helping Esther win a car in a mall-sponsored giveaway. Esther is trying to win the car for her demanding daughter (Jessica Campbell), and the endurance contest becomes a sad spectacle of consumerism.
Meanwhile, single mom Annette Jennings (Clarkson) is toughing out a bitter divorce and thinks her daughter (Kristen Stewart) is snatched by the father. In fact, the girl is lured into a strange encounter with the neighborhood handyman (Timothy Olyphant), who is having a hard time getting past a deadly driving accident for which he was partially to blame.
Rounding out the principal players are Mary Kay Place as yet another stagnant-souled mother raising kids and trying to evolve, Robert Klein as Esther's detached husband and young Alex House as Jim's son, who has a fantasy relationship with the doll of his sister in a cute but overdone shtick involving dialogue and role playing.
Roche's direction is quietly proficient, and the production values are top-notch for a low-budget project.
Overall, one has plenty of time to ponder the often exaggerated roles in life played by things and absorb the message that we all need to have more faith in one another.
THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS
IFC Films
Clear Blue Sky Prods., Renaissance Films An InFilm/Killer Films production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Rose Troche
Based on the book of stories by: A.M. Homes
Producers: Dorothy Berwin, Christine Vachon
Executive producers: Stephen Evans, Angus Finney, Jody Patton, Pamela Koffler
Director of photography: Enrique Chediak
Production designer: Andrea Stanley
Editor: Geraldine Peroni
Costume designer: Laura Jean Shannon
Casting: Bonnie Finnegan, Steven Jacobs
Cast:
Esther: Glenn Close
Jim Train: Dermot Mulroney
Annette Jennings: Patricia Clarkson
Randy: Timothy Olyphant
Susan Train: Moira Kelly
Helen Christianson: Mary Kay Place
Julie: Jessica Campbell
Running time -- 120 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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