David O. Russell delights in supreme disorder – every movie the director has ever made bears a signature sense of organized chaos, of big personalities clashing with one another so loudly and violently they threaten to escape the edges of his carefully composed frame. Russell’s willingness to simply roll the camera and document that mayhem, trusting his actors to do the heavy lifting and only bringing in stylistic flourishes when the material calls for it, is a rare trait in a Hollywood director. But in Joy, it backfires on him catastrophically – after expertly traversing three distinctly tricky thematic tightropes in The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, Russell loses his balance in his latest film, and the chaos he’s usually so adept at orchestrating instead overwhelms both him and the picture.
The movie, a very shaggy biopic, is Russell’s third (and unquestionably least fruitful) collaboration with lead...
The movie, a very shaggy biopic, is Russell’s third (and unquestionably least fruitful) collaboration with lead...
- 12/15/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
People Places Things director James C. Strouse Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jim Strouse's sleeper summer hit features an agile, very funny Jemaine Clement sparring with Stephanie Allynne, Jessica Williams, Michael Chernus (of Noah Baumbach's Mistress America), Regina Hall, Gia Gadsby and Aundrea Gadsby.
Virginia and Alessandro Nivola, The Elephant Man, playwrights Will Eno and Alan Ayckbourn with a touch of Alain Resnais and a John Singer Sargent portrait, form a frame to our conversation. I connect Jim's composer Mark Orton (out of Alexander Payne's Nebraska) to Walter Slezak in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Silence De La Mer, Marlene Dietrich in Stanley Kramer's Judgement at Nuremberg and Madeline Kahn in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, and he connects Chernus and Clement to Men In Black 3.
Jemaine Clement as Will Henry: "He is very present and open…"
People Places Things, a sly comedy of parental manners,...
Jim Strouse's sleeper summer hit features an agile, very funny Jemaine Clement sparring with Stephanie Allynne, Jessica Williams, Michael Chernus (of Noah Baumbach's Mistress America), Regina Hall, Gia Gadsby and Aundrea Gadsby.
Virginia and Alessandro Nivola, The Elephant Man, playwrights Will Eno and Alan Ayckbourn with a touch of Alain Resnais and a John Singer Sargent portrait, form a frame to our conversation. I connect Jim's composer Mark Orton (out of Alexander Payne's Nebraska) to Walter Slezak in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Silence De La Mer, Marlene Dietrich in Stanley Kramer's Judgement at Nuremberg and Madeline Kahn in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, and he connects Chernus and Clement to Men In Black 3.
Jemaine Clement as Will Henry: "He is very present and open…"
People Places Things, a sly comedy of parental manners,...
- 8/13/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Studio picks up all territories outside the Us, except Australia and New Zealand, on Sundance premiere starring Jemaine Clement.
Visit Films and Sony have struck a major deal for the bulk of international rights on recent Sundance premiere People, Places, Things starring Jemaine Clement from Flight Of The Conchords.
The studio picked up all territories outside the Us except Australia and New Zealand, where Madman acquired rights.ICM and Cinetic represent Us rights.
Jim Strouse of Grace Is Gone fame directed the story of a cuckolded Brooklyn-based artist and professor who must come to grips with single fatherhood and dating.
Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, Jessica Williams, Gia Gadsby and Aundrea Gadsby round out the cast on the first film from La-based Beachside Films.
“People Places Things was a joy to make,” said Strouse. “And it’s been incredibly fun and gratifying to share it with audiences at Sundance. I can’t wait to share it with...
Visit Films and Sony have struck a major deal for the bulk of international rights on recent Sundance premiere People, Places, Things starring Jemaine Clement from Flight Of The Conchords.
The studio picked up all territories outside the Us except Australia and New Zealand, where Madman acquired rights.ICM and Cinetic represent Us rights.
Jim Strouse of Grace Is Gone fame directed the story of a cuckolded Brooklyn-based artist and professor who must come to grips with single fatherhood and dating.
Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, Jessica Williams, Gia Gadsby and Aundrea Gadsby round out the cast on the first film from La-based Beachside Films.
“People Places Things was a joy to make,” said Strouse. “And it’s been incredibly fun and gratifying to share it with audiences at Sundance. I can’t wait to share it with...
- 2/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
People, Places, Things
Directed and written by James C. Strouse
USA, 2015
Light laughs, heartwarming moments, and a slightly snarky commentary make up the majority of James C. Strouse’s adorable People, Places, Things. This is the perfect vehicle for the expertly awkward comedic timing of Jermaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows). His stilted mannerisms and witty line deliveries make him a lovingly believable oddball. It focuses on a good man who has to make tough choices after his life is thrown into chaos.
Following his wife’s infidelity, Will Henry (Clement) is left to pick up the tattered pieces of his ego. It’s rare to see a man as the protagonist in a romantic comedy, and while Clement is just as hapless as any woman in the same situation, it’s notable that his career enhances his character instead of it just being...
Directed and written by James C. Strouse
USA, 2015
Light laughs, heartwarming moments, and a slightly snarky commentary make up the majority of James C. Strouse’s adorable People, Places, Things. This is the perfect vehicle for the expertly awkward comedic timing of Jermaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows). His stilted mannerisms and witty line deliveries make him a lovingly believable oddball. It focuses on a good man who has to make tough choices after his life is thrown into chaos.
Following his wife’s infidelity, Will Henry (Clement) is left to pick up the tattered pieces of his ego. It’s rare to see a man as the protagonist in a romantic comedy, and while Clement is just as hapless as any woman in the same situation, it’s notable that his career enhances his character instead of it just being...
- 2/2/2015
- by Lane Scarberry
- SoundOnSight
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