Uri Singer’s Passage Pictures has acquired the rights to the Rich Cohen nonfiction book The Fish that Ate the Whale about America’s “banana king” and the implications that his reign had on multiple Latin American countries.
Cohen’s book, which was published in 2013 via Macmillan imprint Picador, tells the story of Samuel Zemurray who, according to the book’s synopsis, “rises through the banana trade to become America’s Banana King and the president of United Fruit. As a businessman and power broker, Zemurray’s story led to the origin of the phrase ‘Banana Republic’ and influenced the political future of several Latin American countries, including working with the CIA to lead the 1954 coup in Guatemala.”
Passage previously worked on an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, directed by Noah Baumbach for Netflix. Singer is also set to produce the DeLillo adaptation Underworld, with Ted Melfi attached the direct for Netflix.
Cohen’s book, which was published in 2013 via Macmillan imprint Picador, tells the story of Samuel Zemurray who, according to the book’s synopsis, “rises through the banana trade to become America’s Banana King and the president of United Fruit. As a businessman and power broker, Zemurray’s story led to the origin of the phrase ‘Banana Republic’ and influenced the political future of several Latin American countries, including working with the CIA to lead the 1954 coup in Guatemala.”
Passage previously worked on an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, directed by Noah Baumbach for Netflix. Singer is also set to produce the DeLillo adaptation Underworld, with Ted Melfi attached the direct for Netflix.
- 5/7/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: UK director Jon Amiel has signed to direct upcoming feature Sands of Fortune which explores the story behind the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia and the birth of the country’s petroleum and natural gas giant Aramco.
The feature, being put together by producer Uri Singer under his L.A.-based Passage Pictures banner, revolves around the real-life partnership between American geologist Max Steineke and Bedouin Khamis Bin Rimthan, who together discovered the country’s first oil well in 1938.
The script is written by Bernie Campbell, a long-time strategist and speechwriter who has spent years living in Saudi Arabia and was the first American to write for its ruling royal family.
Prolific director, writer and producer Amiel is best known internationally for the multi-award-winning series The Singing Detective as well as movies such as Sommersby, with Jodie Foster and Richard Gere; Copycat with Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter,...
The feature, being put together by producer Uri Singer under his L.A.-based Passage Pictures banner, revolves around the real-life partnership between American geologist Max Steineke and Bedouin Khamis Bin Rimthan, who together discovered the country’s first oil well in 1938.
The script is written by Bernie Campbell, a long-time strategist and speechwriter who has spent years living in Saudi Arabia and was the first American to write for its ruling royal family.
Prolific director, writer and producer Amiel is best known internationally for the multi-award-winning series The Singing Detective as well as movies such as Sommersby, with Jodie Foster and Richard Gere; Copycat with Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2022, Dan Lin, the producer of “The Lego Movie” and “It,” was in negotiations to become head of DC Studios. It was a singular opportunity to reimagine the company behind Superman, Batman and other costumed heroes. But talks broke down. Among the reported reasons was that David Zaslav, the head of DC’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lin could not agree on a way to properly compensate him for leaving his production company Rideback for the new gig.
So why, less than two years later, has Lin decided to take a different corporate job, overseeing Netflix’s film division? And what kinds of obstacles will he need to overcome if Netflix is going to raise the quality of the movies it makes?
For Lin, Netflix offers a vast consumer base, one that overshadows those of rivals like Max or Disney+. It’s also more stable than other media companies.
So why, less than two years later, has Lin decided to take a different corporate job, overseeing Netflix’s film division? And what kinds of obstacles will he need to overcome if Netflix is going to raise the quality of the movies it makes?
For Lin, Netflix offers a vast consumer base, one that overshadows those of rivals like Max or Disney+. It’s also more stable than other media companies.
- 3/1/2024
- by Brent Lang, Matt Donnelly and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Tucked deep into Don DeLillo’s Underworld is an exchange between the novel’s protagonist, Nick Shay, and one of his teachers, a Jesuit priest. It concerns language. The priest, to make a point about the boy’s abysmally poor vocabulary, taunts him to name the parts that make up his shoe. Aglet, grommet, vamp, quarter; Nick has never heard of them, but instead of shrugging it off, he turns the lecture into a wake-up call. He runs back to his dorm wanting to look up words, memorize them, spell them, learn them––for this, DeLillo quips in one of his most fulminating sentences, “is the only way in the world you can escape the things that made you.” Time and again during Nele Wohlatz’s Sleep with Your Eyes Open, I found myself going back to that line. Language serves in Wohlatz’s cinema the same function it plays...
- 2/19/2024
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez’s first feature, 1997’s Dial H-i-s-t-o-r-y, intertwined news footage of plane hijackings with voiceover readings of passages from Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Mao II—he’s no stranger to rendering sweeping diagnoses within unorthodox historical frameworks. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat re-examines the assassination of Patrice Lumumba; the Soundtrack portion of the title points to the film’s other main strand, the political roles of American jazz musicians during the period, ranging from unwittingly complicit—Louis Armstrong performed a show in the Congo unaware that he was providing cover for CIA actions—to actively dissident, with the film bookended by vocalist […]
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- 1/23/2024
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez’s first feature, 1997’s Dial H-i-s-t-o-r-y, intertwined news footage of plane hijackings with voiceover readings of passages from Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Mao II—he’s no stranger to rendering sweeping diagnoses within unorthodox historical frameworks. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat re-examines the assassination of Patrice Lumumba; the Soundtrack portion of the title points to the film’s other main strand, the political roles of American jazz musicians during the period, ranging from unwittingly complicit—Louis Armstrong performed a show in the Congo unaware that he was providing cover for CIA actions—to actively dissident, with the film bookended by vocalist […]
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- 1/23/2024
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
George Clooney and Adam Sandler will team up in a new Noah Baumbach movie for Netflix that’s still untitled, Variety has confirmed.
Baumbach co-wrote the script with actor Emily Mortimer, who also created the series “Doll and Em.” Baumbach is producing with Amy Pascal and David Heyman.
Under his exclusive deal with Netflix, Baumbach has already made “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” in which Sandler also starred, as well as the best picture nominee “Marriage Story,” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and “White Noise,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel and starring Drive and Greta Gerwig.
Clooney most recently directed “The Boys in the Boat,” which bows in theaters on Dec. 25, starring Joel Edgerton and Calum Turner. He’ll star with Brad Pitt and Amy Adams in Apple’s “Wolfs,” which is planned for a 2024 release with Jon Watts directing.
Netflix had no comment. The company’s...
Baumbach co-wrote the script with actor Emily Mortimer, who also created the series “Doll and Em.” Baumbach is producing with Amy Pascal and David Heyman.
Under his exclusive deal with Netflix, Baumbach has already made “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” in which Sandler also starred, as well as the best picture nominee “Marriage Story,” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and “White Noise,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel and starring Drive and Greta Gerwig.
Clooney most recently directed “The Boys in the Boat,” which bows in theaters on Dec. 25, starring Joel Edgerton and Calum Turner. He’ll star with Brad Pitt and Amy Adams in Apple’s “Wolfs,” which is planned for a 2024 release with Jon Watts directing.
Netflix had no comment. The company’s...
- 12/15/2023
- by Pat Saperstein and J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
When Rumaan Alam released his third novel, Leave the World Behind, the world was six months into a deeply traumatizing — and claustrophobic — pandemic. The book opens on a white family vacationing at a rural Long Island Airbnb as the Black family who owns the home knocks at the door asking for refuge from a citywide blackout back in Manhattan, and deftly transitions between a provocative exploration of race and class into a new kind of disaster tale. As the two families navigate the politics within their four walls, the world outside is slowly nearing apocalypse; that blackout turns out to be much more serious. The book’s prescience struck a chord with audiences and critics, but months before its release its success was cemented further by Sam Esmail and Netflix, who scooped up the rights for a reported seven-figure sum.
Now, three years later, the final form of the thriller...
Now, three years later, the final form of the thriller...
- 10/25/2023
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In Don DeLillo's pivotal postmodern classic, "White Noise," professor Jack Gladney contemplates the inevitability of death, musing, "All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots ... We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot." As a novel that functions as the cornerstone of postmodern literature, "White Noise" situates death anxieties at the heart of its remarkably absurdist core, a theme that is interconnected with late-20th century socio-political and cultural shifts, including rampant consumerism and the obsession with television screens. DeLillo's novel is pretty heavy and saturated with too many themes, and a film adaptation of such a tonally wild text is as tricky as it gets.
Director Noah Baumbach rose to the challenge and created a faithful reflection of DeLillo's world in his "White Noise,...
Director Noah Baumbach rose to the challenge and created a faithful reflection of DeLillo's world in his "White Noise,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Uri Singer’s Passage Pictures has announced new feature Sands of Fortune, delving into the story behind the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia and the birth of the country’s petroleum and natural gas giant Aramco.
The historic drama revolves around the true story of the partnership between American geologist Max Steineke and Bedouin Khamis Bin Rimthan, who together discovered the country’s first oil well in 1938, today known as Dammam No. 7.
Oregon-born, Stanford-educated Steineke was renowned for his expertise in geology as well as his determined nature and adventurous spirit, while Rimthan was a member of the nomadic Al-Amjan tribe with a deep knowledge of the desert, who worked as a guide for the American geologists prospecting for oil in the 1930s.
“The story of Aramco is a testament to human ingenuity and the incredible impact that a single discovery can have on the world. This is...
The historic drama revolves around the true story of the partnership between American geologist Max Steineke and Bedouin Khamis Bin Rimthan, who together discovered the country’s first oil well in 1938, today known as Dammam No. 7.
Oregon-born, Stanford-educated Steineke was renowned for his expertise in geology as well as his determined nature and adventurous spirit, while Rimthan was a member of the nomadic Al-Amjan tribe with a deep knowledge of the desert, who worked as a guide for the American geologists prospecting for oil in the 1930s.
“The story of Aramco is a testament to human ingenuity and the incredible impact that a single discovery can have on the world. This is...
- 8/22/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Ron Bernstein, a veteran rights agent who has brokered adaptive deals for modern classics like “No Country for Old Men” and “Blackhawk Down,” has joined the Agency for the Performing Arts.
He will serve as senior vice president of media rights, a mantle he will take up after a 23-year run at ICM Partners. Bernstein joins APA partners Steve Fisher and Debbie Deuble Hill in the publishing and media rights group. APA president Jim Osbourne announced Bernstein’s hire, effective Thursday. The addition is another big score for APA as the representation business continues to shift amid consolidation.
Over a long and enviable career, Bernstein has represented some of the most acclaimed novelists, authors and journalists in the marketplace and sold the rights to countless feature films, limited series and shows to major buyers.
Clients expected to join Bernstein at APA include Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Mark Bowden, John Burdett,...
He will serve as senior vice president of media rights, a mantle he will take up after a 23-year run at ICM Partners. Bernstein joins APA partners Steve Fisher and Debbie Deuble Hill in the publishing and media rights group. APA president Jim Osbourne announced Bernstein’s hire, effective Thursday. The addition is another big score for APA as the representation business continues to shift amid consolidation.
Over a long and enviable career, Bernstein has represented some of the most acclaimed novelists, authors and journalists in the marketplace and sold the rights to countless feature films, limited series and shows to major buyers.
Clients expected to join Bernstein at APA include Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Mark Bowden, John Burdett,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
A slew of new movies celebrate the boardroom mavericks of the 1980s and 90s – as well as the products they flogged. What’s behind this corporate nostalgia?
Steam trains, tuberculosis, sexual repression, the shadow of a coming war and Colin Firth: the stuff of a period piece was once unchanging. But history is not what it was. Now conjuring the past on screen means 8-bit graphics and Money for Nothing. And Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig will do a synchronised bop before the vintage logos of Pringles and Pepsi.
That last detail comes from the credits of White Noise, Noah Baumbach’s recent adaptation of the 1985 Don DeLillo novel. The book was, among other things, a droll study of the godly place of brands in the US during the 80s. But two giggly new movies now spotlight the same moment with hindsight. In Air, Ben Affleck directs himself and...
Steam trains, tuberculosis, sexual repression, the shadow of a coming war and Colin Firth: the stuff of a period piece was once unchanging. But history is not what it was. Now conjuring the past on screen means 8-bit graphics and Money for Nothing. And Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig will do a synchronised bop before the vintage logos of Pringles and Pepsi.
That last detail comes from the credits of White Noise, Noah Baumbach’s recent adaptation of the 1985 Don DeLillo novel. The book was, among other things, a droll study of the godly place of brands in the US during the 80s. But two giggly new movies now spotlight the same moment with hindsight. In Air, Ben Affleck directs himself and...
- 3/31/2023
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix viewers have drawn uncanny parallels between a recent film and the chemical spill that took place in Ohio earlier this month.
On 3 Febuary, a 50-car train derailment in the small town of East Palestine caused a leak of chemicals including vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
More than 2,000 residents were ordered to evacuate nearby buildings due to health concerns over the leak but have since been allowed to return.
White Noise, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, was released on the Netflix late last year.
Adapted from the acclaimed 1985 novel by American writer Don DeLillo, the film follows a death-obsessed academic (Driver), and his family.
One of the biggest plot points in both the book and film concerns a train crash which release a huge cloud of toxic chemicals into the air, referred to somewhat euphemistically as the Airbourne Toxic Event.
Viewers have pointed...
On 3 Febuary, a 50-car train derailment in the small town of East Palestine caused a leak of chemicals including vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
More than 2,000 residents were ordered to evacuate nearby buildings due to health concerns over the leak but have since been allowed to return.
White Noise, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, was released on the Netflix late last year.
Adapted from the acclaimed 1985 novel by American writer Don DeLillo, the film follows a death-obsessed academic (Driver), and his family.
One of the biggest plot points in both the book and film concerns a train crash which release a huge cloud of toxic chemicals into the air, referred to somewhat euphemistically as the Airbourne Toxic Event.
Viewers have pointed...
- 2/15/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
"White Noise" is written, directed by Noah Baumbach, adapting the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo, following the 'Airborne Toxic Event', as a result of a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over a town, starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, André Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle, now streaming on Netflix:
"...'Jack Gladney', a professor at the 'College-on-the-Hill', husband to 'Babette' ...
"...and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by 'the Airborne Toxic Event', a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over his town..."
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"...'Jack Gladney', a professor at the 'College-on-the-Hill', husband to 'Babette' ...
"...and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by 'the Airborne Toxic Event', a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over his town..."
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- 2/14/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The novel White Noise by Don DeLillo is a landmark work of literary fiction. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction when it was released in 1985, and DeLillo’s poetic satire of American society remains as vital now as it was when the book was first released.
Hollywood loves to mine the world of literature for new IP, but early attempts to turn White Noise into a movie were unsuccessful. Barry Sonnenfeld was set to direct an adaptation in 2004, and Michael Almereyda was announced as the writer and director of a different version in 2016.
Adam Driver as Jack, Greta Gerwig as Babette, and Don Cheadle as Murray | Wilson Webb/Netflix
These false starts contributed to the idea that White Noise was an “unfilmable” book, but the third time’s a charm. Noah Baumbach created a film version of the novel for Netflix, bringing together a talented cast...
Hollywood loves to mine the world of literature for new IP, but early attempts to turn White Noise into a movie were unsuccessful. Barry Sonnenfeld was set to direct an adaptation in 2004, and Michael Almereyda was announced as the writer and director of a different version in 2016.
Adam Driver as Jack, Greta Gerwig as Babette, and Don Cheadle as Murray | Wilson Webb/Netflix
These false starts contributed to the idea that White Noise was an “unfilmable” book, but the third time’s a charm. Noah Baumbach created a film version of the novel for Netflix, bringing together a talented cast...
- 1/26/2023
- by Produced by Digital Editors
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” “Living,” “She Said,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Women Talking are among the film nominees for this year’s USC Libraries Scripter Awards. In addition, television episodes of “The Crown,” “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” “Slow Horses,” “Tokyo Vice” and “Under the Banner of Heaven” were also recognized.
A strong bellwether for the Oscars’ best adapted screenplay category, previous Scripter winners that have matched the Academy in the last decade include “Argo” (2012), “12 Years a Slave” (2013), “The Imitation Game” (2014), “The Big Short” (2015), “Moonlight” (2016), “Call Me by Your Name” (2017) and “Nomadland” (2020). Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” (2019) is the only Scripter-eligible film to win the Academy Award without being nominated by the organization.
The inclusion of “Pinocchio” is particularly noteworthy since it’s been picking up awards steam over the last few weeks. It’s a dark horse for one of the five coveted adapted screenplay spots, which could point...
A strong bellwether for the Oscars’ best adapted screenplay category, previous Scripter winners that have matched the Academy in the last decade include “Argo” (2012), “12 Years a Slave” (2013), “The Imitation Game” (2014), “The Big Short” (2015), “Moonlight” (2016), “Call Me by Your Name” (2017) and “Nomadland” (2020). Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” (2019) is the only Scripter-eligible film to win the Academy Award without being nominated by the organization.
The inclusion of “Pinocchio” is particularly noteworthy since it’s been picking up awards steam over the last few weeks. It’s a dark horse for one of the five coveted adapted screenplay spots, which could point...
- 1/18/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Taissa Farmiga (The Gilded Age) will exec produce and star in the Ukrainian drama Anna, from producer Uri Singer (White Noise).
The film written and to be directed by Dekel Berenson is inspired by his same-name 2019 short, which premiered in competition at Cannes before going on to screen at TIFF and other major festivals. It’s a contemporary coming-of-age drama that follows Anna (Farmiga), a Ukrainian immigrant who is training to become a sergeant in the U.S. Army. After weeks at the military base, and as the Russian forces prepare to invade her home country, she’s sexually assaulted by another army officer. After returning to the base, she struggles to complete her course as she reconsiders her values, identity and place in an American army and society that’s not fighting for her, too.
Farmiga is a Ukrainian-American actress best known on the film side for her work...
The film written and to be directed by Dekel Berenson is inspired by his same-name 2019 short, which premiered in competition at Cannes before going on to screen at TIFF and other major festivals. It’s a contemporary coming-of-age drama that follows Anna (Farmiga), a Ukrainian immigrant who is training to become a sergeant in the U.S. Army. After weeks at the military base, and as the Russian forces prepare to invade her home country, she’s sexually assaulted by another army officer. After returning to the base, she struggles to complete her course as she reconsiders her values, identity and place in an American army and society that’s not fighting for her, too.
Farmiga is a Ukrainian-American actress best known on the film side for her work...
- 1/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
For Noah Baumbach’s latest feature, the writer-director adapted Don DeLillo’s award-winning 1985 novel of existentialism and malaise, White Noise. Reteaming with frequent collaborators Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig (also Baumbach’s life partner) in lead roles, Baumbach brought the novel, previously considered unfilmable, to the screen — resulting in a darkly funny and beguiling disaster film that, despite its ’80s setting, feels fresh in its examination of American culture.
Set in the 1980s, the film centers on Driver’s Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies at a small liberal arts college in New England. Gladney’s world is turned upside-down after a cataclysmic accident wreaks havoc on his hometown and when it unleashes an ominous “toxic airborne event” — sending his wife Babette (Gerwig) and their blended family into an emotional tailspin.
Baumbach spoke with THR about his love for DeLillo’s language and its impact on his own work,...
Set in the 1980s, the film centers on Driver’s Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies at a small liberal arts college in New England. Gladney’s world is turned upside-down after a cataclysmic accident wreaks havoc on his hometown and when it unleashes an ominous “toxic airborne event” — sending his wife Babette (Gerwig) and their blended family into an emotional tailspin.
Baumbach spoke with THR about his love for DeLillo’s language and its impact on his own work,...
- 1/14/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dance rock sensation LCD Soundsystem hasn’t released an album since 2017, but the band more than made up for lost time with a single track that gave one of the year’s most ambitious new American movies its greatest sequence.
At the very end of “White Noise,” writer/director Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, the main characters walk into a supermarket as the entire room breaks into dance. “New Body Rhumba,” the latest composition by LCD frontman James Murphy, provides yet another example of the energizing synths and bass combo that the band has done so well since they first dominated the New York indie rock scene two decades ago. Set to a dizzying arrangement of dances across aisles and checkout counters, it transforms the entire movie into a surreal modernist musical of the highest order.
Murphy’s eccentric lyrics are at once satirical and sincere,...
At the very end of “White Noise,” writer/director Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, the main characters walk into a supermarket as the entire room breaks into dance. “New Body Rhumba,” the latest composition by LCD frontman James Murphy, provides yet another example of the energizing synths and bass combo that the band has done so well since they first dominated the New York indie rock scene two decades ago. Set to a dizzying arrangement of dances across aisles and checkout counters, it transforms the entire movie into a surreal modernist musical of the highest order.
Murphy’s eccentric lyrics are at once satirical and sincere,...
- 1/14/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Andy Warhol (Paul Bettany) filming Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeremy Pope) in Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah Photo: Jeremy Daniel
In the second instalment with Anthony McCarten we discuss A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, starring Will Swenson and Mark Jacoby as Diamond (now and then respectively), directed by Michael Mayer and The Collaboration with Jeremy Pope (terrific in Elegance Bratton’s impressive The Inspection) as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol and Erik Jensen as Bruno Bischofberger, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Michael Stewart and Defacement, Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein, Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait, Alexander Hall’s Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, and an imagined production of Anthony’s play The Two Popes with Whitney Houston playing and a Warhol on the wall of the Pope’s quarters inhabiting the “same sort of eerie.
In the second instalment with Anthony McCarten we discuss A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, starring Will Swenson and Mark Jacoby as Diamond (now and then respectively), directed by Michael Mayer and The Collaboration with Jeremy Pope (terrific in Elegance Bratton’s impressive The Inspection) as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol and Erik Jensen as Bruno Bischofberger, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Michael Stewart and Defacement, Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein, Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait, Alexander Hall’s Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, and an imagined production of Anthony’s play The Two Popes with Whitney Houston playing and a Warhol on the wall of the Pope’s quarters inhabiting the “same sort of eerie.
- 1/8/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Writer George S. Kaufman once said that “satire is what closes on Saturday night.” But nearly a century later, as real life has grown more absurd than most art, satire is everywhere — from popular franchises such as the “Knives Out” films and “The White Lotus” to hits including “Parasite.”
Why now? In our post-Trump world, where truth is subject to debate and issues like racism are impossible for anyone to ignore, talk-show monologues and “Saturday Night Live” skits became some of the only critiques able to break through the noise of political squabbling and call out lies, arguably paving the way for more films dealing in satire.
“Satire always puts events into a societal context, often dealing with hierarchies and economic influences. So if you want to examine the times we are living in, it’s a good starting place,” says writer-director Ruben Östlund, whose “Triangle of Sadness” skewers influencers,...
Why now? In our post-Trump world, where truth is subject to debate and issues like racism are impossible for anyone to ignore, talk-show monologues and “Saturday Night Live” skits became some of the only critiques able to break through the noise of political squabbling and call out lies, arguably paving the way for more films dealing in satire.
“Satire always puts events into a societal context, often dealing with hierarchies and economic influences. So if you want to examine the times we are living in, it’s a good starting place,” says writer-director Ruben Östlund, whose “Triangle of Sadness” skewers influencers,...
- 1/8/2023
- by Gregg Goldstein
- Variety Film + TV
The curtain is being raised Thursday night on what looks to be an idiosyncratic festival awards season, as organizers of the Palm Springs Gala to kick off the Palm Springs Film Festival with a hope that audiences somewhere, somehow, will start talking about movies.
Attendees are aware that their kids are lining up for the Avatar sequel but they themselves likely have not paid to see a movie this year — any movie. The customary excuse: There aren’t any new “grown up” movies around.
In fact, two heralded, big-budget (80 million each), non-franchise movies aimed at grown-ups, Babylon and White Noise, are box office fizzles at year end.
Both shared a demanding theme for the holiday season. The characters in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise are obsessed about death. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is about the death of the silent film era.
While both delivered memorable moments and outstanding performances, studies...
Attendees are aware that their kids are lining up for the Avatar sequel but they themselves likely have not paid to see a movie this year — any movie. The customary excuse: There aren’t any new “grown up” movies around.
In fact, two heralded, big-budget (80 million each), non-franchise movies aimed at grown-ups, Babylon and White Noise, are box office fizzles at year end.
Both shared a demanding theme for the holiday season. The characters in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise are obsessed about death. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is about the death of the silent film era.
While both delivered memorable moments and outstanding performances, studies...
- 1/5/2023
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
No year in review would be complete without a thank-you to our writers. Time and again, they reminded us that cinema is not only alive and well, but it is also always transforming; the filmmakers and festivals covered here push the boundaries of what we took for granted about the medium.Here’s a quick overview of what we published in 2022—and, for many more excellent pieces, we encourage you to browse our archive using the “explore” tab on the homepage.ESSAYSContemporary Cinema:When Propaganda Fails: Adam McKay's Don't Look Up by Ryan MeehanThe Horse in Motion: Jordan Peele's Nope by Blair McClendonThe Many Faces of Michelle Yeoh by Sean GilmanHall of Mirrors: James Gray's Armageddon Time and Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans by Kelli WestonNameless Energies: Don DeLillo at the Movies by Leonardo GoiThe Voice of a Generation: The Trope of the "Complex Female Character" by Rafaela BassiliHong...
- 1/4/2023
- MUBI
James Cameron, you’ve got company. Turns out, the “Avatar” filmmaker isn’t the only go-to movie franchise-creator who enjoyed some big success over New Years weekend (“Avatar: The Way of Water” has taken in 446 million so far with a lot to go). Rian Johnson, whose “Star Wars” episode “The Last Jedi” grossed 539 million at lower ticket prices during this same weekend five years ago, now boasts two movies that also got heavy viewing over the weekend.
His Netflix original “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” leads for the second weekend on the streamer’s top ten (and has already cracked the streamer’s all-time top films), while franchise-starter “Knives Out” (Lionsgate/3.99) is #1 at both iTunes and Google Play, while taking the #7 spot at revenue-tabulating Vudu (which favors higher-priced releases). Meanwhile, the 2009 “Avatar” (Disney/3.99) is #8 at both iTunes and Google Play.
The reign of “Glass Onion” at Netflix was assumed,...
His Netflix original “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” leads for the second weekend on the streamer’s top ten (and has already cracked the streamer’s all-time top films), while franchise-starter “Knives Out” (Lionsgate/3.99) is #1 at both iTunes and Google Play, while taking the #7 spot at revenue-tabulating Vudu (which favors higher-priced releases). Meanwhile, the 2009 “Avatar” (Disney/3.99) is #8 at both iTunes and Google Play.
The reign of “Glass Onion” at Netflix was assumed,...
- 1/3/2023
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Stars: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola | Written and Directed by Noah Baumbach
College professor Jack Gladney and his family’s comfortable suburban life is upended when a nearby chemical leak causes “The Airborne Toxic Event,” releasing a noxious black cloud over the region that forces the Gladney family to evacuate.
It’s been a long three years since Noah Baumbach has blessed us with an incredibly deep, intricately-layered, and sweeping comedy-drama about everyday people living their everyday lives that just so happen to be extremely fascinating given the circumstance.
I was hoping that his latest film White Noise was going to blow me away like every single one of his other movies but that sadly wasn’t the case here. Baumbach’s new film is an absurdist comedy-drama film that is adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, which is famously said to have been unfilmable.
College professor Jack Gladney and his family’s comfortable suburban life is upended when a nearby chemical leak causes “The Airborne Toxic Event,” releasing a noxious black cloud over the region that forces the Gladney family to evacuate.
It’s been a long three years since Noah Baumbach has blessed us with an incredibly deep, intricately-layered, and sweeping comedy-drama about everyday people living their everyday lives that just so happen to be extremely fascinating given the circumstance.
I was hoping that his latest film White Noise was going to blow me away like every single one of his other movies but that sadly wasn’t the case here. Baumbach’s new film is an absurdist comedy-drama film that is adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, which is famously said to have been unfilmable.
- 1/2/2023
- by Caillou Pettis
- Nerdly
Supermarkets are miraculous places, though usually, we only see what we need to buy. Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” wants its audience to see both the quotidian, smarmy consumerist side of them and the wondrous cornucopia of abundance and possibility underneath. The A&p in the fictional college town Blacksmith is a hub for the professors of the College On The Hill, including Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), his wife (Greta Gerwig) and their family, and the film honors it with the kind of aggressive whites, soft lighting, and riots of colors that wouldn’t be out of place in a medieval cathedral.
The A&p is a heightened space, both sacred and profane, and it’s inside the supermarket where Baumbach can embrace the themes of the Don DeLillo novel and take them even further. It’s hard for prose to capture 150 people all dancing in unison to an LCD Soundsystem song.
The A&p is a heightened space, both sacred and profane, and it’s inside the supermarket where Baumbach can embrace the themes of the Don DeLillo novel and take them even further. It’s hard for prose to capture 150 people all dancing in unison to an LCD Soundsystem song.
- 1/2/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Chicago – Lists are very arbitrary, but the exercise in determining a personal 10 Best Films list of any year is a celebration of what I love, and there ain’t nothing wrong with that. The filtering of experiences that form our opinions is a great gift, and the journey I’ve had with film criticism and reporting has been the greatest of my life.
So begins my* list of the 10 Best Films Of 2022, in a reflective time I guess. There were more films seen this year on the big screen since the pandemic era began, with a shout out to Avatar: The Way Of Water, Top Gun: Maverick and the Superhero genre for really bringing movie fans back to the theaters.
*The Über Critic, Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Wbgr-fm & Wssr-fm.
For the second year in a row, I’m formatting this 10 Best to reflect the on-air reviews I do weekly on Wbgr-fm and Wssr-fm.
So begins my* list of the 10 Best Films Of 2022, in a reflective time I guess. There were more films seen this year on the big screen since the pandemic era began, with a shout out to Avatar: The Way Of Water, Top Gun: Maverick and the Superhero genre for really bringing movie fans back to the theaters.
*The Über Critic, Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Wbgr-fm & Wssr-fm.
For the second year in a row, I’m formatting this 10 Best to reflect the on-air reviews I do weekly on Wbgr-fm and Wssr-fm.
- 12/30/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
As 2022 comes to a close, Noah Baumbach‘s latest film, “White Noise,” adapted from Don Delillo‘s 1985 novel of the same name, finally premieres on Netflix. That’s after the movie’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September and limited theatrical run earlier this month. So is “White Noise” worth the wait for Netflix subscribers? That’s a difficult question to answer.
Continue reading New ‘White Noise’ Clip: Check Out The Final Credits Sequence To Noah Baumbach’s Latest, Featuring New Music By LCD Soundsystem at The Playlist.
Continue reading New ‘White Noise’ Clip: Check Out The Final Credits Sequence To Noah Baumbach’s Latest, Featuring New Music By LCD Soundsystem at The Playlist.
- 12/30/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Following a November 25, 2022 limited release, the highly anticipated “White Noise” receives its Netflix launch on December 30. The dark comedy, written and directed by Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach, dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. It was adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo.
See ‘White Noise’: Will Oscar’s literary love affair extend to Noah Baumbach’s Netflix film?
Adam Driver has received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Film Comedy/Musical Actor for his starring role as Jack. Oscar nominees Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle are among the ensemble cast. The movie currently holds a freshness rating of 64 on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics consensus reading, “White Noise may occasionally struggle with its allegedly unfilmable source material,...
See ‘White Noise’: Will Oscar’s literary love affair extend to Noah Baumbach’s Netflix film?
Adam Driver has received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Film Comedy/Musical Actor for his starring role as Jack. Oscar nominees Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle are among the ensemble cast. The movie currently holds a freshness rating of 64 on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics consensus reading, “White Noise may occasionally struggle with its allegedly unfilmable source material,...
- 12/30/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
Let's dance!! Netflix has finally released Noah Baumbach's new film White Noise for streaming on Netflix today, after playing in select theaters for the last month. One of the best scenes in the film is actually at the end of the film - the credits play over a dance scene that takes place inside of a big American supermarket. It's a reference to all of the mindless consumerism commentary stuffed into the film, based on Don DeLillo's book of the same name. Netflix has released the scene online for everyone to enjoy, in hopes of getting more people to watch now that it's on Netflix. Wes Anderson's iconic stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox also features a stellar dance scene finale in a supermarket at the end. This dance scene in White Noise is set to the song "New Body Rhumba" by LCD Soundsystem, and it includes the...
- 12/30/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
(L to R) Adam Driver as Jack, Greta Gerwig as Babette, and Don Cheadle as Murray in White Noise. Cr. Wilson Webb/Netflix © 2022
Noah Baumbach, the director whose previous films include dramas like The Squid And The Whale, offers audiences an absurdist comic fantasy with White Noise. In White Noise, a couple played by Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig live in a pleasant bubble of late 20th century clueless consumerism in a small idyllic-looking college town, until trouble comes to town.
Jack Gladney (Driver) is a college professor and his present and fourth wife Babette (Gerwig) is a stay-at-home mother raising their three children from previous marriages and a toddler of their own. It is the era of station wagons (the family vehicle fav before the minivan that had its peak in the ’70s), and the town is celebrating the parade of family station wagons bearing students like the return of swallows to Capistrano.
Noah Baumbach, the director whose previous films include dramas like The Squid And The Whale, offers audiences an absurdist comic fantasy with White Noise. In White Noise, a couple played by Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig live in a pleasant bubble of late 20th century clueless consumerism in a small idyllic-looking college town, until trouble comes to town.
Jack Gladney (Driver) is a college professor and his present and fourth wife Babette (Gerwig) is a stay-at-home mother raising their three children from previous marriages and a toddler of their own. It is the era of station wagons (the family vehicle fav before the minivan that had its peak in the ’70s), and the town is celebrating the parade of family station wagons bearing students like the return of swallows to Capistrano.
- 12/30/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
What exactly is Noah Baumbach up to in White Noise? The movie, which received a very limited theatrical release ahead of premiering December 30 on Netflix, is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s canonical postmodern novel from 1985. It’s been an intriguing prospect since it was announced because the celebrated writer/director would, at face value, seem to be a mismatch for the material. Baumbach’s milieu has tended to belong less to the eerily affected, consumerist crisis-world of DeLillo’s book than to the world of people who’d feel...
- 12/30/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
First Love (A.J. Edwards)
Following The Better Angels and Age Out, A.J. Edwards’ third feature, First Love, is both a tender tale of blossoming romance and nuanced depiction of the pride and human frailties that can disrupt a decades-long bond. The writer-director, who got his start working with Terrence Malick on The Tree of Life, The New World, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, and Song to Song, displays an immense amount of grace in this recession-era portrait of family and romance. Led by Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Diane Kruger, Jeffrey Donovan, and Sydney Park, the film got a quiet release earlier this summer, but certainly deserves to find an audience in coming years.
Where to Stream: Hulu
The Legend of Molly Johnson...
First Love (A.J. Edwards)
Following The Better Angels and Age Out, A.J. Edwards’ third feature, First Love, is both a tender tale of blossoming romance and nuanced depiction of the pride and human frailties that can disrupt a decades-long bond. The writer-director, who got his start working with Terrence Malick on The Tree of Life, The New World, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, and Song to Song, displays an immense amount of grace in this recession-era portrait of family and romance. Led by Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Diane Kruger, Jeffrey Donovan, and Sydney Park, the film got a quiet release earlier this summer, but certainly deserves to find an audience in coming years.
Where to Stream: Hulu
The Legend of Molly Johnson...
- 12/30/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In spite of my never having seen a recent Star Wars film, I must confess that my absolute favourite line-reading by two-time Academy Award nominee Adam Driver – lest we forget, an idiosyncratic deliverer of lines par excellence across the board – comes from an SNL skit in which he reprises his character from those movies, Kylo Ren. Ren, who I understand to be some kind of gothic space dictator, is appearing on the reality TV series Undercover Boss, and the joke is that the already dubious concept of a corporate fat cat bonding with the very staff he is oppressing is made even more absurd when the titular boss is an intergalactic despot.
Driver – pale, ruby-lipped, and looking like a horrid little prince about to throw a dangerous tantrum – puts his characteristically atypical approach to stress and scansion to extraordinarily good use as he monologues to camera about Ren’s enthusiasm vis-à-vis meeting his underlings.
Driver – pale, ruby-lipped, and looking like a horrid little prince about to throw a dangerous tantrum – puts his characteristically atypical approach to stress and scansion to extraordinarily good use as he monologues to camera about Ren’s enthusiasm vis-à-vis meeting his underlings.
- 12/30/2022
- by Philippa Snow
- The Independent - Film
In spite of my never having seen a recent Star Wars film, I must confess that my absolute favourite line-reading by two-time Academy Award nominee Adam Driver – lest we forget, an idiosyncratic deliverer of lines par excellence across the board – comes from an SNL skit in which he reprises his character from those movies, Kylo Ren. Ren, who I understand to be some kind of gothic space dictator, is appearing on the reality TV series Undercover Boss, and the joke is that the already dubious concept of a corporate fat cat bonding with the very staff he is oppressing is made even more absurd when the titular boss is an intergalactic despot.
Driver – pale, ruby-lipped, and looking like a horrid little prince about to throw a dangerous tantrum – puts his characteristically atypical approach to stress and scansion to extraordinarily good use as he monologues to camera about Ren’s enthusiasm vis-à-vis meeting his underlings.
Driver – pale, ruby-lipped, and looking like a horrid little prince about to throw a dangerous tantrum – puts his characteristically atypical approach to stress and scansion to extraordinarily good use as he monologues to camera about Ren’s enthusiasm vis-à-vis meeting his underlings.
- 12/30/2022
- by Philippa Snow
- The Independent - Film
White Noise is directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.
White Noise is a respectful adaption of a novel by the irreverent and respected author Don DeLillo, who in a way has spent decades challenging the idea of perceived stability.
Do not be surprised by this dystopia that at times seems surreal, at others uneven, dark and hilarious in its all its farcical glory.
Premise
A toxic cloud covers the placid town. Jack is a university professor who is well contented with his life, until he finds himself in the midst of an apocalyptic scenario, and is forced to confront his ingrained notions of his own existence.
White Noise (2022) Movie Review
Irony and ambition are contained in what would be expected to be an impossible adaptation that nevertheless, manages to convey not only the story in the novel, but also DeLillo’s leitmotiv. And it does so...
White Noise is a respectful adaption of a novel by the irreverent and respected author Don DeLillo, who in a way has spent decades challenging the idea of perceived stability.
Do not be surprised by this dystopia that at times seems surreal, at others uneven, dark and hilarious in its all its farcical glory.
Premise
A toxic cloud covers the placid town. Jack is a university professor who is well contented with his life, until he finds himself in the midst of an apocalyptic scenario, and is forced to confront his ingrained notions of his own existence.
White Noise (2022) Movie Review
Irony and ambition are contained in what would be expected to be an impossible adaptation that nevertheless, manages to convey not only the story in the novel, but also DeLillo’s leitmotiv. And it does so...
- 12/30/2022
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
One of Netflix's last releases of 2022 is an adaptation of the 1984 novel "White Noise" by Don DeLillo. The movie, also named "White Noise," stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig as Jack and Babette Gladney, who deal with a toxic chemical threat, among other life struggles. The film is directed and written by Noah Baumbach, Gerwig's partner. "White Noise" was released in theaters earlier this month and hits Netflix on Dec. 30 and follows the postmodernist novel, though it does make some changes. Ahead, here's what happens in the book - with many spoilers!
What Happens in "White Noise"?
"White Noise" is based on the life of Jack Gladney, a college professor who created a Hitler Studies Department, and his sometimes dysfunctional blended family. The book's main plot follows the Gladneys as they're forced to face their own mortality when an airborne toxic chemical threatens the small town of Blacksmith, where they live.
What Happens in "White Noise"?
"White Noise" is based on the life of Jack Gladney, a college professor who created a Hitler Studies Department, and his sometimes dysfunctional blended family. The book's main plot follows the Gladneys as they're forced to face their own mortality when an airborne toxic chemical threatens the small town of Blacksmith, where they live.
- 12/28/2022
- by Caroline Rowland
- Popsugar.com
As the saying goes, I’m not mad at these movies as much as I expected much, much better from the artists involved. In alphabetical order:
Amsterdam
I’ve been onboard for David O. Russell’s wildest swings over the course of his career (Team “I Heart Huckabee’s” for life), and a story about a real-life attempted fascist coup in the United States certainly couldn’t be more timely. But boy, was this all-star tonal pile-up the hottest of messes that not all of the production design in the world could save.
“Avatar: The Way of Water”: Whatever script shortcomings the first movie had – and it had them – seeing the movie projected in 3D was an immersive experience that felt absolutely new. (The magic of Pandora remained stunning even in the 2022 reissue.) But with high-frame-rate and other visual choices reducing this sequel into pixelated cacophony, the movie’s one reason to exist,...
Amsterdam
I’ve been onboard for David O. Russell’s wildest swings over the course of his career (Team “I Heart Huckabee’s” for life), and a story about a real-life attempted fascist coup in the United States certainly couldn’t be more timely. But boy, was this all-star tonal pile-up the hottest of messes that not all of the production design in the world could save.
“Avatar: The Way of Water”: Whatever script shortcomings the first movie had – and it had them – seeing the movie projected in 3D was an immersive experience that felt absolutely new. (The magic of Pandora remained stunning even in the 2022 reissue.) But with high-frame-rate and other visual choices reducing this sequel into pixelated cacophony, the movie’s one reason to exist,...
- 12/23/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Despite all their self-mythologisation, filmmakers are still ultimately mortal. So it’d be entirely forgivable if they’d spent the past few years preoccupied with death. Why else would Noah Baumbach have been so drawn to make White Noise? This is, after all, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s supposedly “unfilmable” novel that positions fear of the grave as the driving force behind every American ideal, from station wagons to Elvis Presley.
DeLillo’s language is severe and enchantingly precise; every individual in his world is a philosopher lecturing to no one but themselves. His book is set in the Eighties and concerns a miniaturised apocalypse triggered by a cloud of chemicals – not an obvious fit, then, for Baumbach, whose films (Marriage Story; The Meyerowitz Stories) largely concern the most intricate neuroses of modern-day, self-branded intellectuals. But there is nothing more self-centred, perhaps, than a fear of death. And even...
DeLillo’s language is severe and enchantingly precise; every individual in his world is a philosopher lecturing to no one but themselves. His book is set in the Eighties and concerns a miniaturised apocalypse triggered by a cloud of chemicals – not an obvious fit, then, for Baumbach, whose films (Marriage Story; The Meyerowitz Stories) largely concern the most intricate neuroses of modern-day, self-branded intellectuals. But there is nothing more self-centred, perhaps, than a fear of death. And even...
- 12/23/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
How do you define a “big” movie? By impressive box office numbers? Enthusiastic critical reception? The highest-profile stars, boldest headlines, brightest debuts?
No matter which method you choose, it’s nice to note that the year’s biggest films were, overall, also among its best. So this list assumes you’ve already seen the ones that fit into all of the above categories: movies like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” but also “The Fabelmans,” “Nope” and “Tár.” Now it’s time to look a little deeper, think a little smaller: foreign films, documentaries, indies, and even kid flicks. Turns out, 2022 was blessed with an absolute abundance of hidden gems. Here are some that shined the brightest”
“Return to Seoul“
A gorgeous portrait of a messy life, “Return to Seoul” is simultaneously dazzling and delicate, intimate and immense. First-time actor Park Ji-Min turns in a truly stunning, tour-de-force performance as Freddie,...
No matter which method you choose, it’s nice to note that the year’s biggest films were, overall, also among its best. So this list assumes you’ve already seen the ones that fit into all of the above categories: movies like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” but also “The Fabelmans,” “Nope” and “Tár.” Now it’s time to look a little deeper, think a little smaller: foreign films, documentaries, indies, and even kid flicks. Turns out, 2022 was blessed with an absolute abundance of hidden gems. Here are some that shined the brightest”
“Return to Seoul“
A gorgeous portrait of a messy life, “Return to Seoul” is simultaneously dazzling and delicate, intimate and immense. First-time actor Park Ji-Min turns in a truly stunning, tour-de-force performance as Freddie,...
- 12/22/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
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Adam Driver is facing off against dinosaurs in the first full trailer for Sony Pictures’ sci-fi thriller 65.
Set 65 million years in the past, the film centers on a spacecraft pilot named Mills who realizes he and a child, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), are the only two survivors of a crash on a mysterious planet. The two of them soon find themselves battling dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures as they attempt to return home.
Hitting theaters March 10, 2023, 65 is written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who co-wrote the 2018 horror hit A Quiet Place. The film counts Beck, Woods, Sam Raimi, Deborah Liebling and Zainab Azizi as producers, while Doug Merrifield, Jason Cloth and Aaron L. Gilbert are executive producers.
The trailer, which calls to mind the Jurassic Park franchise, shows Mills and Koa doing their best to band together and outlast their unlikely foes.
Adam Driver is facing off against dinosaurs in the first full trailer for Sony Pictures’ sci-fi thriller 65.
Set 65 million years in the past, the film centers on a spacecraft pilot named Mills who realizes he and a child, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), are the only two survivors of a crash on a mysterious planet. The two of them soon find themselves battling dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures as they attempt to return home.
Hitting theaters March 10, 2023, 65 is written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who co-wrote the 2018 horror hit A Quiet Place. The film counts Beck, Woods, Sam Raimi, Deborah Liebling and Zainab Azizi as producers, while Doug Merrifield, Jason Cloth and Aaron L. Gilbert are executive producers.
The trailer, which calls to mind the Jurassic Park franchise, shows Mills and Koa doing their best to band together and outlast their unlikely foes.
- 12/14/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.
Noah Baumbach brings his idiosyncratic sensibilities to Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, the Netflix film that marks the first adaptation Baumbach has also directed. The two-time Original Screenplay Oscar nominee also adapted Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox for Wes Anderson.
White Noise centers on a family in 1984. Jack (Adam Driver) is a professor of Hitler Studies at College on the Hill. Jack’s wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) is having memory episodes and taking a mysterious pill called Dylar. When an accident releases a chemical cloud nearby, Jack tries to convince their kids it’s nothing to worry about. Soon they are evacuating, putting Jack’s intellectual crisis management to the test.
Baumbach says he read DeLillo’s book when he was in college in the ‘80s.
Noah Baumbach brings his idiosyncratic sensibilities to Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, the Netflix film that marks the first adaptation Baumbach has also directed. The two-time Original Screenplay Oscar nominee also adapted Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox for Wes Anderson.
White Noise centers on a family in 1984. Jack (Adam Driver) is a professor of Hitler Studies at College on the Hill. Jack’s wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) is having memory episodes and taking a mysterious pill called Dylar. When an accident releases a chemical cloud nearby, Jack tries to convince their kids it’s nothing to worry about. Soon they are evacuating, putting Jack’s intellectual crisis management to the test.
Baumbach says he read DeLillo’s book when he was in college in the ‘80s.
- 12/14/2022
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
Don DeLillo’s tome “White Noise” has frequently been a title thrown into the “unfilmable novel” sweepstakes due to its massively descriptive, interior, dreamy prose, but adaptor/director Noah Baumbach and cinematographer Lol Crawley not only found a palatable visual modus to reintroduce DeLillo’s 1985 characters into the 2020s, but put the most bliss-out cherry-on-top imaginable, a nearly 10-minute, expressive dance number featuring the film’s entire cast traversing the aisles of the production designer Jess Gonchor’s impressively-mounted A&p supermarket set, set to an infectious new tune by LCD Soundsystem.
“I think we probably did that dance sequence in a day, but had three different scenes [in that supermarket] so I can’t remember where we landed,” says Crawley, collaborating with the usually more demure Baumbach for their first-ever project. “We followed them around to the pace of somebody pushing a shopping trolley, so it’s fairly controlled. By the end of it,...
“I think we probably did that dance sequence in a day, but had three different scenes [in that supermarket] so I can’t remember where we landed,” says Crawley, collaborating with the usually more demure Baumbach for their first-ever project. “We followed them around to the pace of somebody pushing a shopping trolley, so it’s fairly controlled. By the end of it,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
“White Noise” director Noah Baumbach called on costume designer Ann Roth to bring the film’s characters to life. The movie marked a reunion for Roth and Baumbach, who had collaborated on “Margot at the Wedding.”
It also marked a reunion for Oscar-winning hair department head Mia Neal and Roth, whom Neal calls “a mentor.”
The all-star cast features Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and Don Cheadle in an adaptation of Don Delillo’s novel. Driver is Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. He lives with his wife, Babette (Gerwig), and their four children, but when an “airborne toxic event” takes place in their community, the family must grapple with the universal mysteries of love, death and uncertainty.
“Noah was very specific about all the individual characters’ looks. Working with him and Ann Roth to create the looks for everyone can only be described as taking a master class,...
It also marked a reunion for Oscar-winning hair department head Mia Neal and Roth, whom Neal calls “a mentor.”
The all-star cast features Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and Don Cheadle in an adaptation of Don Delillo’s novel. Driver is Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. He lives with his wife, Babette (Gerwig), and their four children, but when an “airborne toxic event” takes place in their community, the family must grapple with the universal mysteries of love, death and uncertainty.
“Noah was very specific about all the individual characters’ looks. Working with him and Ann Roth to create the looks for everyone can only be described as taking a master class,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Noah Baumbach with The New York Times culture reporter Reggie Ugwu at Live from Nypl on the final scene in White Noise: “I reached out to James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), a close friend of mine. We worked together on Greenberg …” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Noah Baumbach’s firm grip on White Noise, Don DeLillo’s masterpiece, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola (Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children), Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, and Barbara Sukowa, with costumes by Oscar-winner (for Anthony Minghella's The English Patient) Ann Roth (Baumbach ’s While We're Young), is vibrantly disturbing and joyously faithful to the source. The uproarious finale, an all-encompassing supermarket dance number, visually part Stepford Wives and Jacques Demy musical, is set to new body rhumba, a new song by LCD Soundsystem, all ready to show the Grim Reaper what we humans are up to.
Noah Baumbach’s firm grip on White Noise, Don DeLillo’s masterpiece, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola (Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children), Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, and Barbara Sukowa, with costumes by Oscar-winner (for Anthony Minghella's The English Patient) Ann Roth (Baumbach ’s While We're Young), is vibrantly disturbing and joyously faithful to the source. The uproarious finale, an all-encompassing supermarket dance number, visually part Stepford Wives and Jacques Demy musical, is set to new body rhumba, a new song by LCD Soundsystem, all ready to show the Grim Reaper what we humans are up to.
- 12/11/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise was for years considered too difficult to bring to the screen. With its jaundiced view of academia, intimate domestic melodrama, obsessions with cults and an eerily prescient pandemic, the novel spans genres and styles. Working for the first time in his career on an adaptation, writer and director Noah Baumbach started shooting primarily in the Midwest in June 2021. Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle, White Noise premiered at Venice and opened this year’s New York Film Festival. This is the first collaboration between Baumbach and cinematographer Lol Crawley, Bsc. They faced enormous […]
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The post “Blue Screen? Process Trailer? LED Screens?” Dp Lol Crawley on White Noise first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 12/9/2022
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise was for years considered too difficult to bring to the screen. With its jaundiced view of academia, intimate domestic melodrama, obsessions with cults and an eerily prescient pandemic, the novel spans genres and styles. Working for the first time in his career on an adaptation, writer and director Noah Baumbach started shooting primarily in the Midwest in June 2021. Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle, White Noise premiered at Venice and opened this year’s New York Film Festival. This is the first collaboration between Baumbach and cinematographer Lol Crawley, Bsc. They faced enormous […]
The post “Blue Screen? Process Trailer? LED Screens?” Dp Lol Crawley on White Noise first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Blue Screen? Process Trailer? LED Screens?” Dp Lol Crawley on White Noise first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 12/9/2022
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Illustration by Leonardo Goi.Early into Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Jack Gladney joins his colleague Murray for a trip to the Most Photographed Barn in America. Jack, in DeLillo’s satire of academia and its improbable residents, is America’s foremost Hitler expert and Advanced Nazism professor at the fictional College-on-the-Hill; Murray an ex-sportswriter with an Amish beard and full corduroy outfit, determined to be to Elvis what Jack is to the Führer. It’s Murray who suggests the two should pay a visit to the barn. What that looks like, however, DeLillo never says. Jack and Murray arrive at a makeshift loft besieged by buses and cars and walk up to a hilltop where throngs of people surround the building, snapping pictures of it. There are no descriptors; for all we know the stable could all be an illusion, a hologram, a black hole. “No one sees the barn,...
- 12/5/2022
- MUBI
In an uncertain world, cinema has chosen to look inwards. Perhaps there’s a dose of narcissism there. But so many of this year’s films have been propelled by natural, vulnerable impulses: to return home, to think back on youth, to reconsider art’s purpose. They’re present in James Gray’s autobiographical Armageddon Time, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s self-reflective Bardo, the dark comedy The Banshees of Inisherin, and Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Even the biggest blockbusters, Top Gun: Maverick and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, seem weighted with self-reflection. My own favourite 15 films, all released in the UK over the past year, have each themselves proven that the medium still has the power to heal the soul.
15. Happening
Audrey Diwan’s Happening tore into cinemas this April on the back of an oracle’s cry. The film follows Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei), a student...
15. Happening
Audrey Diwan’s Happening tore into cinemas this April on the back of an oracle’s cry. The film follows Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei), a student...
- 12/5/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Jason Makos on Wbgr-fm on December 1st, 2022, reviewing “Emancipation,” featuring Will Smith and set in the Civil War period and within the eradication of slavery, in theaters on December 2nd.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) is a renown professor of Adolf Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, living with his fourth wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and the father to their collective of curious step siblings. The household is challenged by an “airborne toxic event,” a train crash disaster that releases a chemical cloud over their town. As the area goes into a panic evacuation, Jack finds out that Babette is taking a drug that supposedly eradicates the fear of death. Can the family survive and stay together?
”White Noise” is currently in select theaters (including Chicago’s Music Box Theatre), and will stream on Netflix beginning December 30th. Featuring Adam Driver,...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) is a renown professor of Adolf Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, living with his fourth wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and the father to their collective of curious step siblings. The household is challenged by an “airborne toxic event,” a train crash disaster that releases a chemical cloud over their town. As the area goes into a panic evacuation, Jack finds out that Babette is taking a drug that supposedly eradicates the fear of death. Can the family survive and stay together?
”White Noise” is currently in select theaters (including Chicago’s Music Box Theatre), and will stream on Netflix beginning December 30th. Featuring Adam Driver,...
- 12/3/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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