The 2022 EnergaCamerimage 30th International Film Festival concluded today in Toruń, Poland, with “Tár,” the first film in 16 years from Academy Award-nominated writer-director Todd Field, taking the Golden Frog, the festival’s highest honor, with kudos going to first-time winner Florian Hoffmeister, who shot the picture.
The awards further elevate the status of a number of Oscar-contender hopefuls in the coming months, as previous winners for the Golden Frog include Robbie Ryan for Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” in 2021, Joshua James Richards for Chloe Zhao’s Best Picture winner “Nomadland” in 2020, and Lawrence Sher for Todd Phillips’ “Joker” in 2019.
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The runners-up Silver Frog and Bronze Frog went respectively to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s work on filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay for Oliver Hermanus’ “Living,...
The awards further elevate the status of a number of Oscar-contender hopefuls in the coming months, as previous winners for the Golden Frog include Robbie Ryan for Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” in 2021, Joshua James Richards for Chloe Zhao’s Best Picture winner “Nomadland” in 2020, and Lawrence Sher for Todd Phillips’ “Joker” in 2019.
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The runners-up Silver Frog and Bronze Frog went respectively to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s work on filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay for Oliver Hermanus’ “Living,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Personal tales of hubris, ego and living large dominated the Camerimage International Film Festival, with the Florian Hoffmeister-shot drama “Tár,” directed by Todd Field, taking the top prize at the leading annual cinematography event.
The jury honored the elaborately constructed story of a brilliant, obsessive composer and conductor, played with gusto by Cate Blanchett, with its Golden Frog prize at the closing gala Saturday night in Torun, Poland.
The Silver Frog and Fipresci prize went to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s opulent, whimsical work in “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” the surreal story of a Mexican journalist and filmmaker’s reckoning with his past, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay’s sweeping, nostalgic imagery in “Living,” the Bill Nighy-starring story of a civil servant’s deep personal awakening, directed by Oliver Hermanus, won the Camerimage Bronze Frog.
The closing gala audience also honored...
The jury honored the elaborately constructed story of a brilliant, obsessive composer and conductor, played with gusto by Cate Blanchett, with its Golden Frog prize at the closing gala Saturday night in Torun, Poland.
The Silver Frog and Fipresci prize went to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s opulent, whimsical work in “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” the surreal story of a Mexican journalist and filmmaker’s reckoning with his past, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay’s sweeping, nostalgic imagery in “Living,” the Bill Nighy-starring story of a civil servant’s deep personal awakening, directed by Oliver Hermanus, won the Camerimage Bronze Frog.
The closing gala audience also honored...
- 11/19/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The Florian Hoffmeister lensed thriller Tár from director Todd Field topped the Camerimage main competition, collecting the Golden Frog during the closing ceremony of the cinematography film festival Saturday.
The Focus Features pic follows the fictional orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, considered one of the greatest at her craft and the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra, as her life starts to unravel after she is embroiled in a swirl of #MeToo scandals.
The Golden Frog win gives cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister a new boost in the 2023 Oscars race, with three out of the last five Golden Frog winners going on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography. Those titles include Lion (2016), Joker (2019), and Nomadland (2020).
In other main competition awards, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, lensed by Darius Khondji, took home the Silver Frog and Living from cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay and...
The Focus Features pic follows the fictional orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, considered one of the greatest at her craft and the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra, as her life starts to unravel after she is embroiled in a swirl of #MeToo scandals.
The Golden Frog win gives cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister a new boost in the 2023 Oscars race, with three out of the last five Golden Frog winners going on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography. Those titles include Lion (2016), Joker (2019), and Nomadland (2020).
In other main competition awards, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, lensed by Darius Khondji, took home the Silver Frog and Living from cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay and...
- 11/19/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Channel 4 and Peacock’s “We Are Lady Parts” and Sky Atlantic and HBO Max’s “Landscapers” led the 2022 British Academy Television Craft Awards with three wins each.
“We Are Lady Parts,” a musical comedy about a Muslim female punk band, won writer – comedy for creator Nida Manzoor; PC Williams won for costume design and Aisha Bywaters won for scripted casting.
“Landscapers,” inspired by the story of a couple whose crime of killing her parents remained undiscovered for over a decade, won original music for Arthur Sharpe; photography and lighting; fiction for Erik Wilson; and production design for Cristina Casali, Robert Wischhusen-Hayes and Fabrice Spelta.
“It’s A Sin,” the 1980s set Channel 4 drama about five friends living in the shadow of AIDS, won director – fiction for Peter Hoar and editing: fiction for Sarah Brewerton. Kayleigh Llewellyn won writer – drama for the BBC’s “In My Skin.”
The TV Craft Special Award was presented to TripleC,...
“We Are Lady Parts,” a musical comedy about a Muslim female punk band, won writer – comedy for creator Nida Manzoor; PC Williams won for costume design and Aisha Bywaters won for scripted casting.
“Landscapers,” inspired by the story of a couple whose crime of killing her parents remained undiscovered for over a decade, won original music for Arthur Sharpe; photography and lighting; fiction for Erik Wilson; and production design for Cristina Casali, Robert Wischhusen-Hayes and Fabrice Spelta.
“It’s A Sin,” the 1980s set Channel 4 drama about five friends living in the shadow of AIDS, won director – fiction for Peter Hoar and editing: fiction for Sarah Brewerton. Kayleigh Llewellyn won writer – drama for the BBC’s “In My Skin.”
The TV Craft Special Award was presented to TripleC,...
- 4/24/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Benedict Cumberbatch will be operating on two different frequencies this fall festival season. On one level, we have his villainous turn in Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog.” The other will see Cumberbatch in a more familiar, if sillier, part as the namesake eccentric genius in Will Sharpe’s quirky biopic “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.”
A childlike idealist and inventor by nature, Wain finds a modicum of success as an illustrator of adorably anthropomorphized cats in Victorian England. But because he’s never had a mind for business, a lack of copyrights enables other copycats and publishers to cash in on his ideas, draining the badly needed funds Wain could use for his ailing wife — and family governess — Emily (Claire Foy) and his estranged four sisters and mother, who separated themselves from Louis after his marriage.
While his professional and personal lives were turned upside down many times over,...
A childlike idealist and inventor by nature, Wain finds a modicum of success as an illustrator of adorably anthropomorphized cats in Victorian England. But because he’s never had a mind for business, a lack of copyrights enables other copycats and publishers to cash in on his ideas, draining the badly needed funds Wain could use for his ailing wife — and family governess — Emily (Claire Foy) and his estranged four sisters and mother, who separated themselves from Louis after his marriage.
While his professional and personal lives were turned upside down many times over,...
- 9/11/2021
- by Monica Castillo
- The Wrap
We’re all overdue for a Summer excursion, but if you’re still a bit skittish over air travel, then the multiplex has the perfect virtual Summer visit to Wales, from about nearly twenty years ago. Oh, there’s a bonus for you animal fans and sports enthusiasts, since this story, which is inspired by true events, is all about the “sport of kings”, horse racing. So, you know you’ll get to see these beautiful animals up-close in several suspense-filled tourneys. But you’ll be emotionally invested due to the film’s focus on a most unlikely group of thoroughbred backers. They’re the true heart of this tale. We’re rooting for them as much as this new equine cinema superstar, coming around the track, hot on the heels of Seabiscuit and Secretariat, is Dream Alliance, a “real-life” Dream Horse.
It’s the start of the new 21st Century,...
It’s the start of the new 21st Century,...
- 5/21/2021
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2015 Sundance-winning documentary “Dark Horse” was such an obvious candidate for an inspirational biopic that the question wasn’t whether it would be remade, but how well. Euros Lyn’s heartwarming “Dream Horse” doesn’t rewrite the genre, but it’s feel-good filmmaking of the sort many may be inclined to seek out at the moment. Although overly familiar and openly sentimental, it’s also an easy watch that’s gently appealing.
There were two breakout stars in Louise Osmond’s documentary: Jan Vokes and her racehorse, Dream Alliance. For the dramatization, Dream is played by seven horses while Jan is played by Toni Collette, so most of the movie’s focus stays on her. But that’s Ok, because Collette is charming as an initially-wan resident of Cefn Fforest, a former mining town in South Wales.
Jan works a grocery checkout line during the day, tends bar at the local pub nightly,...
There were two breakout stars in Louise Osmond’s documentary: Jan Vokes and her racehorse, Dream Alliance. For the dramatization, Dream is played by seven horses while Jan is played by Toni Collette, so most of the movie’s focus stays on her. But that’s Ok, because Collette is charming as an initially-wan resident of Cefn Fforest, a former mining town in South Wales.
Jan works a grocery checkout line during the day, tends bar at the local pub nightly,...
- 5/20/2021
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Ira thriller Borderland is set to feature an exciting cast of John Boyega (Star Wars), Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything).
The film will follow an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), who witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an Sas sergeant named Tempest (Boyega) when a border ambush goes wrong. When Tempest is sent back to London to lead a covert counter-terrorist operation, Michael joins a ruthless active service unit (Asu) wreaking havoc in the capital. For Michael, the mission is personal – to hunt down Tempest – and he’ll stop at nothing to avenge his wife’s death.
UK sales firm Rocket Science is selling and financing the film, which heralds from director duo the Guard Brothers (The Uninvited). Endeavour Content is co-repping domestic rights.
Chris Coen (Funny Games), Rebecca Brown, Felicity Jones’s Piecrust Productions and...
The film will follow an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), who witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an Sas sergeant named Tempest (Boyega) when a border ambush goes wrong. When Tempest is sent back to London to lead a covert counter-terrorist operation, Michael joins a ruthless active service unit (Asu) wreaking havoc in the capital. For Michael, the mission is personal – to hunt down Tempest – and he’ll stop at nothing to avenge his wife’s death.
UK sales firm Rocket Science is selling and financing the film, which heralds from director duo the Guard Brothers (The Uninvited). Endeavour Content is co-repping domestic rights.
Chris Coen (Funny Games), Rebecca Brown, Felicity Jones’s Piecrust Productions and...
- 7/6/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The original Dark Crystal was released on December 17th, 1982 , four days before my fifth birthday. I don’t remember exactly when my mom took me to see it. I can only tell you that when she did, the movie–and its lizard-like villains, the Skeksis—scared the crap out of me. There is a generation of kids who were similarly terrified and enthralled by the film, which was much darker than unsuspecting parents anticipated from Jim Henson, the man behind The Muppets and Sesame Street. Erik Wilson—the cinematographer of Netflix’s new 10-episode prequel The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance—was not among […]...
- 8/30/2019
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The original Dark Crystal was released on December 17th, 1982 , four days before my fifth birthday. I don’t remember exactly when my mom took me to see it. I can only tell you that when she did, the movie–and its lizard-like villains, the Skeksis—scared the crap out of me. There is a generation of kids who were similarly terrified and enthralled by the film, which was much darker than unsuspecting parents anticipated from Jim Henson, the man behind The Muppets and Sesame Street. Erik Wilson—the cinematographer of Netflix’s new 10-episode prequel The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance—was not among […]...
- 8/30/2019
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Laura Poitras' "Citizenfour" won big at the 8th annual Cinema Eye Honors! The fantastic Edward Snowden doc took home four awards including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction.
Here's the complete list of winners of the 8th annual Cinema Eye Honors:
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Citizenfour
Directed by Laura Poitras
Produced by Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Laura Poitras
Citizenfour
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Citizenfour
Outstanding Achievement in Production
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Citizenfour
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (tie)
Erik Wilson
20,000 Days on Earth
Franklin Dow and Orlando von Einsiedel
Virunga
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Films Made for Television
The Price of Gold
Directed by Nanette Burstein
Produced by Libby Geist
For Espn/30 for 30: John Dahl, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons
Audience Choice Prize
Keep On Keepin' On
Directed by Alan Hicks
Outstanding Achievement in a...
Here's the complete list of winners of the 8th annual Cinema Eye Honors:
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Citizenfour
Directed by Laura Poitras
Produced by Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Laura Poitras
Citizenfour
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Citizenfour
Outstanding Achievement in Production
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Citizenfour
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (tie)
Erik Wilson
20,000 Days on Earth
Franklin Dow and Orlando von Einsiedel
Virunga
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Films Made for Television
The Price of Gold
Directed by Nanette Burstein
Produced by Libby Geist
For Espn/30 for 30: John Dahl, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons
Audience Choice Prize
Keep On Keepin' On
Directed by Alan Hicks
Outstanding Achievement in a...
- 1/9/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Laura Poitras's Citizenfour fared very, very well at the Cinema Eye Honors presentation of its 8th annual Nonfiction Film Awards, winning best film, director, editing and production. And there were two ties at last night's ceremony in New York: Franklin Dow and Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga) and Erik Wilson (20,000 Days on Earth) for best cinematography and Syd Garon (Jodorowsky’s Dune) and MK12 (Particle Fever) for graphic design or animation. John Maloof and Charlie Siskel win best debut for Finding Vivian Maier—and we've got the full list. » - David Hudson...
- 1/8/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Laura Poitras's Citizenfour fared very, very well at the Cinema Eye Honors presentation of its 8th annual Nonfiction Film Awards, winning best film, director, editing and production. And there were two ties at last night's ceremony in New York: Franklin Dow and Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga) and Erik Wilson (20,000 Days on Earth) for best cinematography and Syd Garon (Jodorowsky’s Dune) and MK12 (Particle Fever) for graphic design or animation. John Maloof and Charlie Siskel win best debut for Finding Vivian Maier—and we've got the full list. » - David Hudson...
- 1/8/2015
- Keyframe
“Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ documentary about Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden, won four awards at the Cinema Eye Honors in New York City on Wednesday, reinforcing its position as the dominant non-fiction film of 2014.
The film swept the top categories, winning Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking as well as Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Editing and Production.
It became the second film in Cinema Eye history to win four awards, after “Waltz With Bashir,” and the second to win best feature and best director after Steve James’ “The Interrupters.”
Also read: Edward Snowden Doc Director on Taking ‘Staggering’ Risks, Angering Powerful People
In December,...
The film swept the top categories, winning Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking as well as Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Editing and Production.
It became the second film in Cinema Eye history to win four awards, after “Waltz With Bashir,” and the second to win best feature and best director after Steve James’ “The Interrupters.”
Also read: Edward Snowden Doc Director on Taking ‘Staggering’ Risks, Angering Powerful People
In December,...
- 1/8/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Further reminding us that the Academy Awards are irrelevant in year-end discussions for the best in documentary film, according to the experts at the Cinema Eye Honors’ voting committee, Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour, Steve James’ Life Itself and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s 20,000 Days on Earth would be among the best docu films of the year, leading the pack in almost all categories. Not to be overlooked, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters and Robert Greene’s Actress received kudos in Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking and Outstanding Achievement in Direction while the major surprise of the noms belongs to Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga (presented at the Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Fests) grabbing a total of three. Left completely off the scorecard, Manakamana failed to produce a single nom. The Cinema Eye Honors winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 7 at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image.
- 11/13/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Noah Taylor, Chris O’Dowd, Wallace Shawn, James Fox, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Cathy Moriarty | Written by Richard Ayoade, Avi Korine | Directed by Richard Ayoade
In only two films Richard Ayoade has proven to be one of the most talented young minds in the world of cinema today. With his first film Submarine he provided new life to the world of coming of age tales by crafting a film that was unique and heartfelt. His latest film The Double is rather a hard one to quantify. It is this roaming amalgamation of different cinematic features that should not go together, yet strangely do. There is a distinct Orwellian tone spliced with David Lynch sense of weirdness. Ayoade avoids creating too overbearing of a mood by adding in a dry comedic wit reminiscent of Wes Anderson’s fast paced humor. Within these familiar qualities is an...
In only two films Richard Ayoade has proven to be one of the most talented young minds in the world of cinema today. With his first film Submarine he provided new life to the world of coming of age tales by crafting a film that was unique and heartfelt. His latest film The Double is rather a hard one to quantify. It is this roaming amalgamation of different cinematic features that should not go together, yet strangely do. There is a distinct Orwellian tone spliced with David Lynch sense of weirdness. Ayoade avoids creating too overbearing of a mood by adding in a dry comedic wit reminiscent of Wes Anderson’s fast paced humor. Within these familiar qualities is an...
- 5/9/2014
- by Dan Clark
- Nerdly
Jesse Eisenberg and a strong cast bring Richard Ayoade's paranoid dystopia to life
Deadpan Richard Ayoade's follow-up to the terrifically spiky teen black comedy Submarine is a Dostoevsky-inspired tale of a nerdy office clerk, Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), whose life is overturned by the appearance of a gregarious doppelganger, James Simon (Eisenberg again, obviously). Horrified that no one else even notices this inexplicable doubling, Simon finds his already questionable identity being eaten away by his own worst enemy: himself or rather, a mirror image of himself, possessing all the confidence, charisma and charm that he so sorely lacks. A dab hand at dramatising absurdist paranoia, Ayoade fills the future-retro landscape with sounds and visions lifted from Terry Gilliam's Brazil and David Lynch's Eraserhead, with effective if derivative results.
Eisenberg does sterling work as the central split personality, conjuring two distinct characters who play off each other with well choreographed ease.
Deadpan Richard Ayoade's follow-up to the terrifically spiky teen black comedy Submarine is a Dostoevsky-inspired tale of a nerdy office clerk, Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), whose life is overturned by the appearance of a gregarious doppelganger, James Simon (Eisenberg again, obviously). Horrified that no one else even notices this inexplicable doubling, Simon finds his already questionable identity being eaten away by his own worst enemy: himself or rather, a mirror image of himself, possessing all the confidence, charisma and charm that he so sorely lacks. A dab hand at dramatising absurdist paranoia, Ayoade fills the future-retro landscape with sounds and visions lifted from Terry Gilliam's Brazil and David Lynch's Eraserhead, with effective if derivative results.
Eisenberg does sterling work as the central split personality, conjuring two distinct characters who play off each other with well choreographed ease.
- 4/5/2014
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The classic children's book character Paddington Bear is getting his first shot at the big screen in this December's "Paddington," and it's all veddy British and polite. Children's movies these days are a big splashy affair, with plenty of IMAX bells and 3D whistles to keep everyone entertained, but "Paddington" is a slightly more subdued offering that combines live action with animation.
Mr. Darcy himself, Colin Firth, is lending his voice to the marmalade sammich-loving bear. His human costars include Nicole Kidman as a museum taxidermist who's got her eye on Paddington; Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville as his adoptive parents, the Browns; Jim Broadbent as antique shop owner Mr. Gruber; and Julie Walters as the Browns' nanny Mrs. Bird.
In fact, the talent attached to the movie is all rather fancy and adult in an art-house sort of way. The special effects were handled by Framestore, which did the Oscar-winning special effects for "Gravity,...
Mr. Darcy himself, Colin Firth, is lending his voice to the marmalade sammich-loving bear. His human costars include Nicole Kidman as a museum taxidermist who's got her eye on Paddington; Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville as his adoptive parents, the Browns; Jim Broadbent as antique shop owner Mr. Gruber; and Julie Walters as the Browns' nanny Mrs. Bird.
In fact, the talent attached to the movie is all rather fancy and adult in an art-house sort of way. The special effects were handled by Framestore, which did the Oscar-winning special effects for "Gravity,...
- 3/5/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
The Double
Director: Richard Ayoade
Writer(s): Ayoade & Avi Korine
Producer(s): Alcove Entertainment’s Amina Dasmal and Robin C. Fox
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jesse Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Rade Serbedzija, Cathy Moriarty, Noah Taylor
Submarine was the equivalent to hitting a homer in your very first major league at bat. Sharp, witty and layered, Richard Ayoade fired up round two quickly after and employed the services of Avi Korine (co-writer) thesps Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska and cinematographer Erik Wilson (Tyrannosaur, The Imposter).
Gist: The Double is billed as a funny and frightening story about an insignificant man driven to near breakdown by the appearance of his doppelganger. This modern retelling of Dostoyevsky’s novella sees Eisenberg playing a clerk who encounters a literal facsimile of himself working at his office. The doppelganger tries to take over his life and the film will...
Director: Richard Ayoade
Writer(s): Ayoade & Avi Korine
Producer(s): Alcove Entertainment’s Amina Dasmal and Robin C. Fox
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jesse Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Rade Serbedzija, Cathy Moriarty, Noah Taylor
Submarine was the equivalent to hitting a homer in your very first major league at bat. Sharp, witty and layered, Richard Ayoade fired up round two quickly after and employed the services of Avi Korine (co-writer) thesps Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska and cinematographer Erik Wilson (Tyrannosaur, The Imposter).
Gist: The Double is billed as a funny and frightening story about an insignificant man driven to near breakdown by the appearance of his doppelganger. This modern retelling of Dostoyevsky’s novella sees Eisenberg playing a clerk who encounters a literal facsimile of himself working at his office. The doppelganger tries to take over his life and the film will...
- 1/12/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sorry Oscars. But after the Indie Spirit Awards, the number two spot in terms of Award Season importance are the Cinema Eye Honors. Seems like it was only yesterday when Aj Schnack & Thom Powers teamed up for one basic, logical concept: an event that would reward yearly output of documentary film in a rightfully sound manner. With the wind in their sails, the 6th annual edition was held last night and deservingly so, adding to its double wins at the Idfa and Sundance, it is 5 Broken Cameras that took the top honors for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking. Co-directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi – political activism via you guessed it, five video cameras. The film was released via Kino Lorber.
The night’s only double winner, could be regarded as the silver medal doc film of the year: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia grabbed the Outstanding...
The night’s only double winner, could be regarded as the silver medal doc film of the year: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia grabbed the Outstanding...
- 1/10/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
"The Imposter" and "Searching for Sugar Man" each received 5 nods from the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. 31 features and 5 shorts will vie for the best of the best in documentary filmmaking. Check out the full list of nominees below including the Audience Award and Heterodox Award.
Winners of the 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will be announced on January 9, 2013 as Cinema Eye returns for a third year to New York City.s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
5 Broken Cameras
Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Detropia
Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson
The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton
Produced by Dimitri Doganis
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
Directed by Matthew Akers
Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff...
Winners of the 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will be announced on January 9, 2013 as Cinema Eye returns for a third year to New York City.s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
5 Broken Cameras
Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Detropia
Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson
The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton
Produced by Dimitri Doganis
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
Directed by Matthew Akers
Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff...
- 12/11/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Premiering to rave reviews at the 2010 edition of Sundance, Richard Ayoade (pic above) moved from acclaimed Submarine to fielding what was probably tons of offers. Late in 2011, his sophomore project was fired up, casting was in place by February of this year and lensing began in May. My thinking is that there might be a Korine reunion under one fest, with Spring Breakers possibly being joined by The Double, which Ayoade co-wrote with Avi Korine. When you factor in that Sundance regular Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska topline the project, this is the type of film that’ll be a headline grabber and buyer must. If included at the fest, it’ll be four films in four years at the fest for Cinematographer Erik Wilson (Tyrannosaur, The Imposter). Noah Taylor reunites with the director.
Gist: The Double is billed as a funny and frightening story about an insignificant man driven...
Gist: The Double is billed as a funny and frightening story about an insignificant man driven...
- 11/20/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Keswick Film Festival
The paparazzi won't exactly be beating a path to the Lake District for this, but it's a small festival with an agreeably broad outlook. The guest of honour is John Hurt, who's in conversation and introducing a number of movies from his prolific career, including his celebrated Quentin Crisp double bill. There's also a tribute to the versatile Tony Palmer, including his seminal Leonard Cohen movie Bird On A Wire, and a complete showing of his eight-hour Wagner series (starring Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier). Also in the mix are recent releases such as Tyrannosaur and Melancholia, award-winning world cinema and uplifting films about life-changing illnesses.
Various venues, Thu to 26 Feb, keswickfilmclub.org/kff
Exposures: New Talent In Moving Image, Manchester
God knows it's not easy being a student these days, but at least you get your own film festivals. This is the UK's largest, and therefore...
The paparazzi won't exactly be beating a path to the Lake District for this, but it's a small festival with an agreeably broad outlook. The guest of honour is John Hurt, who's in conversation and introducing a number of movies from his prolific career, including his celebrated Quentin Crisp double bill. There's also a tribute to the versatile Tony Palmer, including his seminal Leonard Cohen movie Bird On A Wire, and a complete showing of his eight-hour Wagner series (starring Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier). Also in the mix are recent releases such as Tyrannosaur and Melancholia, award-winning world cinema and uplifting films about life-changing illnesses.
Various venues, Thu to 26 Feb, keswickfilmclub.org/kff
Exposures: New Talent In Moving Image, Manchester
God knows it's not easy being a student these days, but at least you get your own film festivals. This is the UK's largest, and therefore...
- 2/18/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Have you ever thought about how well you know the people you interact with each day? Perhaps the barista at your local coffee shop. The one that knows your drink by heart and you no longer have to say, "I'll have a tall, one pump, skinny, hazelnut latte with no foam." Beyond that order, however, how much do you know? They look like good enough people, but within all of us hides secrets we don't want the world to know. Innocent as some may be, they may not hurt anyone, but they're secrets nonetheless. Some of us hide even darker truths, secrets of pain; secrets of aggression; secrets we hide from the world out of shame or embarrassment.
Paddy Considine's feature directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, explores such secrets in a way that's hard to watch, but packs a wallop of a punch. And as hard as it is to endure,...
Paddy Considine's feature directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, explores such secrets in a way that's hard to watch, but packs a wallop of a punch. And as hard as it is to endure,...
- 11/28/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This is how I see it. If we are happy (and we are) to devote a whole post to the big new box of Blu-ray for Jurassic Park (a film which we’ve probably all got on one format or another) then it is our duty to do the same for a film that will have only a fraction of the budget, particularly if it’s a film we like a lot. In fact it’s one of our favourites of the year, and will probably remain so until it finds its place on our top ten of 2011.
Richard Ayoade’s feature debut Submarine is a beautiful film and deserves to be seen by everyone. Jamie’s review of the film pretty much sums up why we loved it so much and on the 1st of August the Blu-ray and DVD will be on sale, and today we have our...
Richard Ayoade’s feature debut Submarine is a beautiful film and deserves to be seen by everyone. Jamie’s review of the film pretty much sums up why we loved it so much and on the 1st of August the Blu-ray and DVD will be on sale, and today we have our...
- 6/29/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Making a self-consciously quirky and eccentric comedy without irritating viewers is a very difficult task to pull off. Hinging the entire outcome on a 15-year-old lead makes the undertaking even more daunting. Amazingly, first-time director Richard Ayoade nails the tone perfectly with Submarine and young Craig Roberts, portraying protagonist Oliver Tate, gives a relatable performance that’s equally praiseworthy.
It’s an oddball, unpredictable, poignant and, at times, hilarious coming-of-age comedy.
Oliver Tate is a precocious young man on the brink of adulthood; one who possesses a confidently distorted understanding of his hometown and social status at school as something of an outcast, as well as the daily habits and patterns of his immediate family. Told entirely from his viewpoint in a seacoast suburb of Wales, the story follows Oliver as he attempts to fulfill some major plans, which include fostering and maintaining a nearly romantic relationship with troubled classmate...
It’s an oddball, unpredictable, poignant and, at times, hilarious coming-of-age comedy.
Oliver Tate is a precocious young man on the brink of adulthood; one who possesses a confidently distorted understanding of his hometown and social status at school as something of an outcast, as well as the daily habits and patterns of his immediate family. Told entirely from his viewpoint in a seacoast suburb of Wales, the story follows Oliver as he attempts to fulfill some major plans, which include fostering and maintaining a nearly romantic relationship with troubled classmate...
- 6/17/2011
- by Glenn Kay
- newsinfilm.com
By the end of Submarine, the audience will have spent ninety minutes in the head of Oliver Tate. It is an inventive mind, one full of hypothetical situations, observations and the typical self-absorption maintained by all teenagers. Richard Ayoade’s film, adapted by Joe Dunthorne’s novel, may not be quite the new classic it is likely destined to become, but it surely deserves its praise for expressing one character’s perspective with humor and insight, using a visual approach that is sure to impress.
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a fifteen-year old growing up in Swansea. His mother Jill (Sally Hawkins) and father Lloyd (Noah Taylor) are going through a rough patch. Their neighbor Graham (Paddy Considine) is a mullet-wearing guru who claims to see the colors within people. He was Jill’s first love and she seems to be considering an affair with him, much to the chagrin...
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a fifteen-year old growing up in Swansea. His mother Jill (Sally Hawkins) and father Lloyd (Noah Taylor) are going through a rough patch. Their neighbor Graham (Paddy Considine) is a mullet-wearing guru who claims to see the colors within people. He was Jill’s first love and she seems to be considering an affair with him, much to the chagrin...
- 5/1/2011
- by Catherine Stebbins
- CriterionCast
You might just want to stop everything and get yourself a ticket to Richard Ayoade's film of Submarine. We might just be talking about this one for a long time...
Directors take note: you can all stop making films about adolescence now, because Richard Ayoade's Submarine says it all. It's funny, beautiful, imaginative and the final word on awkward, pretentious duffle-coated youth. In other words, Michael Cera's now out of a job.
Adapted from Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel of the same name, Submarine is the coming of age story of Swansea teen, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts). A brilliantly-drawn caricature of teenage self-importance, Tate is one in a long line of teenage characters who are in equal parts endearing and exasperating. Narrated by Tate's inner monologue, the film gently mocks the po-faced certainties of adolescence and gets its laughs by exposing the gaps between the real story and Tate's overblown version of events.
Directors take note: you can all stop making films about adolescence now, because Richard Ayoade's Submarine says it all. It's funny, beautiful, imaginative and the final word on awkward, pretentious duffle-coated youth. In other words, Michael Cera's now out of a job.
Adapted from Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel of the same name, Submarine is the coming of age story of Swansea teen, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts). A brilliantly-drawn caricature of teenage self-importance, Tate is one in a long line of teenage characters who are in equal parts endearing and exasperating. Narrated by Tate's inner monologue, the film gently mocks the po-faced certainties of adolescence and gets its laughs by exposing the gaps between the real story and Tate's overblown version of events.
- 3/16/2011
- Den of Geek
Certainly one of the darkest films at Sundance 2011, thespian Paddy Considine‘s directorial debut Tyrannosaur tells a simple story: girl finds boy, boy wants girl but she’s already spoken for. Only here the man who’s spoken for her is a sadistic wife-beater (Eddie Marsan) and the new man (Peter Mullan) is an old bear with a vicious, dangerous temper himself.
These are not good men to get in bed with. But Hannah (Olivia Colman) doesn’t know any better. Considine’s world is dark and dreary, full of dying friends and rabid dogs who must be put down. That Mullan’s Joseph puts down the dog with a baseball bat is more of a specific character trait than anything else. Mullan, who’s been around for years (you might remember him as the corrupt coyote in Children of Men), has never been better. He moves like a tidal wave,...
These are not good men to get in bed with. But Hannah (Olivia Colman) doesn’t know any better. Considine’s world is dark and dreary, full of dying friends and rabid dogs who must be put down. That Mullan’s Joseph puts down the dog with a baseball bat is more of a specific character trait than anything else. Mullan, who’s been around for years (you might remember him as the corrupt coyote in Children of Men), has never been better. He moves like a tidal wave,...
- 1/31/2011
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
#50. Tyrannosaur Director/Writer: Paddy ConsidineProducers: Diarmid Scrimshaw Distributor: Rights Available. The Gist: Based on a portion of the storyline and characters found in Considine's short film Dog Altogether, this tells the story of Joseph (Peter Mullan), a man who is plagued by a violence and rage that is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life. He meets Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker (Colman). Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own that has devastating results on both their lives.....(more) Cast: Eddie Marsan, Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman List Worthy Reasons...: I'm really looking forward to this film namely because of the actor who is directing it, the director of photography who lensed it and the actor who has center stage.
- 1/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
#44. Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine Sundance is a great place to start off a budding filmmaking career, just that in the case of Considine, he has been a household name in art-house cinema since appearing in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort. Erik Wilson (Submarine) lenses, and thesps Eddie Marsan and Peter Mullan star in what is an extension of Considine's award-winning short film Dog Altogether. This tells the story of a man (Mullan) plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah (Olivia Colman), a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives. Look for Tyrannosaur to be included in either the Premieres or World Cinema Dramatic Competition category and for the film to...
- 11/6/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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