Check out the brand new trailer for director Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders, in theaters June 21.
The film stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist with Norman Reedus.
The Bikeriders follows the rise of a midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group’s unique way of life.
Nichols and Shannon worked together on the terrific, but overlooked sci-fi film Midnight Special. Read the review here and check out our list of the 5 reasons we thought the 2016 film was one of the best of the year.
For his new film, the director has once again assembled what has come to be known as his “film family” for the shoot, a core group of behind-the-scenes talent, many...
The film stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist with Norman Reedus.
The Bikeriders follows the rise of a midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group’s unique way of life.
Nichols and Shannon worked together on the terrific, but overlooked sci-fi film Midnight Special. Read the review here and check out our list of the 5 reasons we thought the 2016 film was one of the best of the year.
For his new film, the director has once again assembled what has come to be known as his “film family” for the shoot, a core group of behind-the-scenes talent, many...
- 2/29/2024
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
When we think about the cultural upheaval of the United States in the 1960s as depicted on screen, the focus tends to be on one of three places: Los Angeles, New York, and the American South. These places were where change regarding politics, race relations, societal mores, and art were most visible. But change was happening all over the country. It just was manifesting itself in different ways, even amongst groups of people you wouldn't expect to be going through any kind of evolution.
Jeff Nichols' last film, 2016's "Loving," tackled one of the most consequential events during this time period, chronicling the couple at the center of the Supreme Court case that made anti-miscegenation laws illegal. While that sounds like it could head straight into a pool of sentimentality and pandering inspirational drama, Nichols makes that film a true character piece about two people who just really love each...
Jeff Nichols' last film, 2016's "Loving," tackled one of the most consequential events during this time period, chronicling the couple at the center of the Supreme Court case that made anti-miscegenation laws illegal. While that sounds like it could head straight into a pool of sentimentality and pandering inspirational drama, Nichols makes that film a true character piece about two people who just really love each...
- 11/3/2023
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Film cameras strike big time as it seems that Dp chose celluloid to shoot the Oscar 2024 (96th Academy Awards) contenders. The most used camera is the Arricam (Lt and St) which, you have to admit, is an amazing fact. Additionally, there are new cameras on that list. Explore the camera charts below based on the IndieWire Cinematography Survey.
Oscar 2024: Camera Manufacturers Chart Oscar 2024 contenders: Cameras and lenses
IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose films are among the most critically acclaimed of the year, in order to explore which cameras and lenses they used (Make sure to read the IndieWire’s article where you can find Dp’s explanation of how they used their gear). As the tradition calls, we took the data to build friendly charts, trying to find a significant tendency and segmentation. Surprisingly, the most used camera is the Arricam. First,...
Oscar 2024: Camera Manufacturers Chart Oscar 2024 contenders: Cameras and lenses
IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose films are among the most critically acclaimed of the year, in order to explore which cameras and lenses they used (Make sure to read the IndieWire’s article where you can find Dp’s explanation of how they used their gear). As the tradition calls, we took the data to build friendly charts, trying to find a significant tendency and segmentation. Surprisingly, the most used camera is the Arricam. First,...
- 10/20/2023
- by Yossy Mendelovich
- YMCinema
Director Jeff Nichols’ clear admiration for the work of photojournalist Danny Lyon and his 1968 book The Bikeriders that chronicles the lives of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, is evident in a new drama of the same name about a fictitious motorcycle gang called the Vandals. Nichols has teamed up once more with long-time collaborator and cinematographer Adam Stone to recreate the film-grainy look and feel of 1965’s Chicago by bringing Lyon’s black-and-white photos into full, colourful and vibrant life.
Katy (Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer with a thick and rather amusing northwestern dialect that casts doubt on her casting) is the battle-worn and cynical narrator of the film, as she explains to the Danny Lyon character in the film (played by Mike Faist) how she first got into the gang, married the most eligible bikerider, Danny, and eventually found herself forced into a ‘love triangle’ for Danny’s affections...
Katy (Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer with a thick and rather amusing northwestern dialect that casts doubt on her casting) is the battle-worn and cynical narrator of the film, as she explains to the Danny Lyon character in the film (played by Mike Faist) how she first got into the gang, married the most eligible bikerider, Danny, and eventually found herself forced into a ‘love triangle’ for Danny’s affections...
- 10/20/2023
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
At five of the last 10 Oscars, Best Cinematography has gone hand-in-hand with Best Director: Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuaron for “Gravity” (2014); Lubezki and Alejandro G. Inarritu for both “Birdman” (2015) and “The Revenant” (2016); Linus Sandgren and Damien Chazelle for “La La Land” (2017); and Cuaron doing double duty on “Roma” (2019). Will that trend hold true this year? (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2024 Oscar predictions for Best Cinematography.)
The academy usually regards award-winning cinematography as pretty pictures within an epic technical feat of filmmaking. While great lighting and framing are laudable on their own, having a movie that looks like it was difficult to shoot goes a long way to snagging an Oscar. Recent lensing winners “Avatar” (2009), “Inception” (2010), “Hugo” (2011), “Life of Pi” (2012), “Gravity” (2013), “Blade Runner 2049” (2018) and “1917” (2020) also took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
While the lensers of “Inception” and “Gravity” first prevailed at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards,...
The academy usually regards award-winning cinematography as pretty pictures within an epic technical feat of filmmaking. While great lighting and framing are laudable on their own, having a movie that looks like it was difficult to shoot goes a long way to snagging an Oscar. Recent lensing winners “Avatar” (2009), “Inception” (2010), “Hugo” (2011), “Life of Pi” (2012), “Gravity” (2013), “Blade Runner 2049” (2018) and “1917” (2020) also took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
While the lensers of “Inception” and “Gravity” first prevailed at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards,...
- 9/12/2023
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Jeff Nichols spent two decades considering how to approach what would become his new film The Bikeriders because he did not want to glamorize motorcycle culture.
That’s a hard road to travel when the finished movie stars Austin Butler (Elvis), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), and Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road), who aren’t exactly lacking in screen charisma.
Nichols has based his movie on the seminal work of photojournalist Danny Lyon, who rode with and snapped the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club for two years beginning in 1963. His book chronicling his devilish association with the Outlaws was first published in 1968.
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders. Photo courtesy of Jackson Fine Art.
Front and center are Butler as devastatingly handsome biker Benny; Comer as down-to-earth Kathy, unvarnished and clear-eyed, she sees through the biker bullshit; and Hardy as Johnny, the leader who kinda wants to be Benny.
“Well, you don...
That’s a hard road to travel when the finished movie stars Austin Butler (Elvis), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), and Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road), who aren’t exactly lacking in screen charisma.
Nichols has based his movie on the seminal work of photojournalist Danny Lyon, who rode with and snapped the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club for two years beginning in 1963. His book chronicling his devilish association with the Outlaws was first published in 1968.
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders. Photo courtesy of Jackson Fine Art.
Front and center are Butler as devastatingly handsome biker Benny; Comer as down-to-earth Kathy, unvarnished and clear-eyed, she sees through the biker bullshit; and Hardy as Johnny, the leader who kinda wants to be Benny.
“Well, you don...
- 9/7/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Some films merely offer you a clockwork plot. Others, like Jeff Nichols’ smokin’ cool “The Bikeriders,” whisk you away with a roar of mood and atmosphere.
That’s no surprise coming from the versatile director of “Mud,” “Loving” and “Midnight Special,” all seemingly different (but equally wondrous) films with one common denominator: a precise, wistful sense of place and tone. As soon as we spot Austin Butler on a bar stool sporting a badass Vandals Chicago jacket on his back, that exacting disposition is evident here, too. With appealingly greased and molded hair, Butler looks like he just stepped away from the “Elvis” set for a swift cigarette break, wearing the invincible aura of a movie star like it’s his second skin. Vandals is the name of the motorbike clique Butler’s terse Benny is a part of. And to get him to take that jacket off—like a...
That’s no surprise coming from the versatile director of “Mud,” “Loving” and “Midnight Special,” all seemingly different (but equally wondrous) films with one common denominator: a precise, wistful sense of place and tone. As soon as we spot Austin Butler on a bar stool sporting a badass Vandals Chicago jacket on his back, that exacting disposition is evident here, too. With appealingly greased and molded hair, Butler looks like he just stepped away from the “Elvis” set for a swift cigarette break, wearing the invincible aura of a movie star like it’s his second skin. Vandals is the name of the motorbike clique Butler’s terse Benny is a part of. And to get him to take that jacket off—like a...
- 9/6/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
Using photographer Danny Lyon’s iconic The Bikeriders’ imagery as a jumping-off point, Jeff Nichols’ latest feature imagines a fictionalized Chicago motorcycle club, the Vandals. Motorcycle club culture might be a distinctly American phenomenon, but Nichols casts two Brits in the lead, with varying returns: Jodie Comer as Kathy narrates the story in a clear Goodfellas conceit, adopting a Midwest accent flashy (and divisive) enough to ensure sustained awards-season chatter; Tom Hardy is Johnny, a truck driver who gets the idea to start a motorcycle club while watching Marlon Brando’s The Wild One. This low-stakes “why not?” starting point for founding the club works early in the film, until, following the Goodfellas trajectory, it all comes crashing down. Without Thelma Schoonmaker’s editing prowess, The Bikeriders’ rise-and-fall narrative ultimately plays too conventional.
Fresh off Elvis, newly minted megastar Austin Butler stars as Benny, a pensive biker prone to reckless...
Fresh off Elvis, newly minted megastar Austin Butler stars as Benny, a pensive biker prone to reckless...
- 9/5/2023
- by Caleb Hammond
- The Film Stage
The latest film from acclaimed director Jeff Nichols, ‘The Bikeriders’, has received a perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the popular review aggregator website. The film, which stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon and Mike Faist, is a thrilling drama about a group of motorcycle enthusiasts who embark on a cross-country road trip in the 1960s.
The film is inspired by the iconic photography book of the same name by Danny Lyon, who documented the lives and culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Nichols, who also wrote the screenplay, said he wanted to explore the themes of freedom, rebellion and identity that Lyon captured in his images.
The Bikeriders First Look
‘The Bikeriders’ features stunning cinematography by Adam Stone, who collaborated with Nichols on his previous films such as ‘Mud’, ‘Take Shelter’ and ‘Loving’. The film also boasts an original score by David Wingo, who composed...
The film is inspired by the iconic photography book of the same name by Danny Lyon, who documented the lives and culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Nichols, who also wrote the screenplay, said he wanted to explore the themes of freedom, rebellion and identity that Lyon captured in his images.
The Bikeriders First Look
‘The Bikeriders’ features stunning cinematography by Adam Stone, who collaborated with Nichols on his previous films such as ‘Mud’, ‘Take Shelter’ and ‘Loving’. The film also boasts an original score by David Wingo, who composed...
- 9/2/2023
- by amalprasadappu
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
Jeff Nichols’ filmography is still young, and still showing no signs of settling in to a stylistic signature — or rut. Through such distinctive features as Take Shelter, Loving, Midnight Special and Mud, the writer-helmer has, though, established a certain directorial integrity. Valuing mood and gesture over plot or formula, his stories are propelled by an openhearted but unsentimental tenderness toward his characters, and invigorated by electrifying grace notes.
With his latest offering, the gloves, at first, seem to be off. The Bikeriders is set within a testosterone-fueled counterculture where brute stupidity frequently prevails, and many viewers will find its violence and code-of-honor brotherhood distancing, or at least familiar movie territory. But what resonates beyond the brawls and blood is a profound affection for the people onscreen — those grace notes provided by a fine cast, with Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy stirring undercurrents that are particularly affecting precisely because they’re never explicitly examined or explained.
With his latest offering, the gloves, at first, seem to be off. The Bikeriders is set within a testosterone-fueled counterculture where brute stupidity frequently prevails, and many viewers will find its violence and code-of-honor brotherhood distancing, or at least familiar movie territory. But what resonates beyond the brawls and blood is a profound affection for the people onscreen — those grace notes provided by a fine cast, with Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy stirring undercurrents that are particularly affecting precisely because they’re never explicitly examined or explained.
- 9/2/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jeff Nichols brings pure Americana to the Telluride Film Festival with his luscious period drama “The Bikeriders,” which feels like the distant older cousin of “The Outsiders.” It stands as his single best directorial outing, and in tow are a trio of invigorating performances from Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy, all putting their stamp on an awards season that will be undoubtedly competitive.
Based on the 1968 photo and interview book by Danny Lyon, “The Bikeriders” tells a fictional story inspired by a Midwestern motorcycle club, seen through its members’ lives over a decade.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
Nichols, who writes and directs, has carved out a special lane of talented American filmmakers who are able to wrangle honest and moving performances from the likes of Michael Shannon (“Take Shelter”) and Matthew McConaughey (“Mud”). He does it once again with his actors including Butler,...
Based on the 1968 photo and interview book by Danny Lyon, “The Bikeriders” tells a fictional story inspired by a Midwestern motorcycle club, seen through its members’ lives over a decade.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
Nichols, who writes and directs, has carved out a special lane of talented American filmmakers who are able to wrangle honest and moving performances from the likes of Michael Shannon (“Take Shelter”) and Matthew McConaughey (“Mud”). He does it once again with his actors including Butler,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
A documentary collection of five “story behind the story” looks at compelling chapters from the world of sports doesn’t happen by accident. Particularly in a corner of the entertainment world driven by injecting drama into events in whatever sport happens to be on display, athletes are no stranger to the process of seeing how stories are written in real time.
So when the filmmaking duo of Maclain and Chapman Way set out to collect a handful of sports world reevaluations for the Netflix series “Untold,” they knew exactly what they were looking for in potential subjects. After an enlightening conversation with former tennis pro Mardy Fish — the main participant in “Breaking Point,” the volume’s last chapter — the Ways met with around 20 different former sports stars before honing in on the five that would come to make up “Untold.”
“We talked to a lot of athletes and looked at...
So when the filmmaking duo of Maclain and Chapman Way set out to collect a handful of sports world reevaluations for the Netflix series “Untold,” they knew exactly what they were looking for in potential subjects. After an enlightening conversation with former tennis pro Mardy Fish — the main participant in “Breaking Point,” the volume’s last chapter — the Ways met with around 20 different former sports stars before honing in on the five that would come to make up “Untold.”
“We talked to a lot of athletes and looked at...
- 9/8/2021
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Director Derek Doneen wanted to bring “more fun” to the typically grim world of true crime in his newest docuseries, “Heist,” which recounts real-life heists from the perspectives of the criminals that pulled them off.
“I’ve just been feeling a little fatigued by the darkness by most of the fare in the true-crime universe,” Doneen told TheWrap. “I was craving something a little bit more fun.”
When his wife pointed out the lack of heist stories in the documentary space, Doneen made it his mission to transport the high-stakes robbery story to the documentary genre.
“What really interested me was, can I access to the people who pulled them off?” Doneen recounted.
Turns out he could.
In Season 1, the docuseries follows three heist plots: “Sex Magick Money Murder,” “The Money Plane” and “The Bourbon King,” with each story told in two parts for a total of six episodes. And...
“I’ve just been feeling a little fatigued by the darkness by most of the fare in the true-crime universe,” Doneen told TheWrap. “I was craving something a little bit more fun.”
When his wife pointed out the lack of heist stories in the documentary space, Doneen made it his mission to transport the high-stakes robbery story to the documentary genre.
“What really interested me was, can I access to the people who pulled them off?” Doneen recounted.
Turns out he could.
In Season 1, the docuseries follows three heist plots: “Sex Magick Money Murder,” “The Money Plane” and “The Bourbon King,” with each story told in two parts for a total of six episodes. And...
- 7/14/2021
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Jeff Nichols‘ very first music video is both new and familiar for the filmmaker. The director behind Mud, Take Shelter, and Loving reunited with a slew of his frequent collaborators, including actor Michael Shannon and cinematographer Adam Stone, to create a music video/short film for Lucero’s new album, “Among the Ghosts.” It isn’t Nichols’ first collaboration with his brother (and Lucero frontman) […]
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- 10/16/2018
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
There’s a troubling trend on TV these days: shows that way overextend their storylines in order to fill out a full season’s worth of episodes. With Peak TV competing for our eyeballs by throwing hundreds of hours of TV at us, we’re facing an epidemic of storytelling bloat, and Hulu’s The First is just the latest glaring example. It’s a high-minded, immaculately shot drama that takes a potentially exciting premise — the first manned space mission to Mars — and stretches it to the point where all the excitement is slowly drained out of it.
Twenty years ago,...
Twenty years ago,...
- 9/4/2018
- TVLine.com
In today’s film news roundup, Jeff Nichols makes his first music video with his brother’s band Lucero and the films “Brampton’s Own” and “Take Light” have gotten distribution.
Music Video
“Loving” writer-director Jeff Nichols has moved into the music video world with the release of his short film “Long Way Back Home,” starring Michael Shannon, Garrett Hedlund, Scoot McNairy and Paul Sparks.
The seven-minute film, released Tuesday, is based on the eponymous track from Memphis band Lucero’s new album “Among The Ghosts.” The members of Lucero — Nichols’ brother Ben Nichols, Brian Venable, Roy Berry and John C. Stubblefield — also appear in the film.
Sarah Green, who produced Jeff Nichols’ “Loving,” “Midnight Special” and “Mud,” and Erin Freeman produced the film, which was shot by longtime Nichols collaborator Adam Stone. The video was filmed in both the band’s hometown of Memphis, Tenn. and the Nichols brothers’ home state of Arkansas.
Music Video
“Loving” writer-director Jeff Nichols has moved into the music video world with the release of his short film “Long Way Back Home,” starring Michael Shannon, Garrett Hedlund, Scoot McNairy and Paul Sparks.
The seven-minute film, released Tuesday, is based on the eponymous track from Memphis band Lucero’s new album “Among The Ghosts.” The members of Lucero — Nichols’ brother Ben Nichols, Brian Venable, Roy Berry and John C. Stubblefield — also appear in the film.
Sarah Green, who produced Jeff Nichols’ “Loving,” “Midnight Special” and “Mud,” and Erin Freeman produced the film, which was shot by longtime Nichols collaborator Adam Stone. The video was filmed in both the band’s hometown of Memphis, Tenn. and the Nichols brothers’ home state of Arkansas.
- 8/22/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Pattinson in Damsel, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
In the weird Western indie comedy Damsel, Robert Pattinson plays Samuel Alabaster, a nattily dressed young man who walks out of the Pacific surf with a guitar, a gun and a miniature horse. He is headed for a seedy, strange Western town in search of a preacher (David Zellner), who he intends to take along to officiate at his wedding to his beloved at the end of a trek into the frontier wilderness.
Damsel does indeed have a damsel, played by Mia Wasikowska, but her distress mostly comes from the various men who have ideas of rescuing her from dangers they mostly create.
Damsel is the front runner for weirdest movie of the year, in this writer’s opinion. It seems to want to be a cross between Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man and The Princess Bride,...
In the weird Western indie comedy Damsel, Robert Pattinson plays Samuel Alabaster, a nattily dressed young man who walks out of the Pacific surf with a guitar, a gun and a miniature horse. He is headed for a seedy, strange Western town in search of a preacher (David Zellner), who he intends to take along to officiate at his wedding to his beloved at the end of a trek into the frontier wilderness.
Damsel does indeed have a damsel, played by Mia Wasikowska, but her distress mostly comes from the various men who have ideas of rescuing her from dangers they mostly create.
Damsel is the front runner for weirdest movie of the year, in this writer’s opinion. It seems to want to be a cross between Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man and The Princess Bride,...
- 7/6/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
David Zellner and Nathan Zellner with Anne-Katrin Titze: "We love Westerns and we always wanted to do one but we didn't want to just copy what's been done before." Photo: Ally Navolio
The Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter creators are back this time with a Western. David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's latest, shot by Adam Stone, stars Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, and a horse named Butterscotch with Robert Forster, Joseph Billingiere, and a Barrel Of Laughs cameo by Nichols' longtime composer David Wingo.
David Zellner (Parson Henry) and Nathan Zellner (Rufus Cornell) sat down with me for a Damsel conversation that took us through Sophie Fiennes' The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (in which Slavoj Žižek says that Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a remake of John Ford's The Searchers), Hayao Miyazaki's Totoro, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, a scene from Jane Campion's The Piano, the Zen-like Butterscotch played by Daisy,...
The Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter creators are back this time with a Western. David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's latest, shot by Adam Stone, stars Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, and a horse named Butterscotch with Robert Forster, Joseph Billingiere, and a Barrel Of Laughs cameo by Nichols' longtime composer David Wingo.
David Zellner (Parson Henry) and Nathan Zellner (Rufus Cornell) sat down with me for a Damsel conversation that took us through Sophie Fiennes' The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (in which Slavoj Žižek says that Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a remake of John Ford's The Searchers), Hayao Miyazaki's Totoro, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, a scene from Jane Campion's The Piano, the Zen-like Butterscotch played by Daisy,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It's hard to figure out where this whatzit Western is going exactly. David and Nathan Zellner, the brothers who wrote and directed Damsel, aren't trying to scare the horses or rattle your nerves – but they clearly like springing surprises. Their deadpan tone makes the stately pace of, say, Dead Man director Jim Jarmusch look positively manic in comparison. This warped horse opera begins with a great scene of two men talking in the desert, one of them an old-coot preacher (Robert Forster) who ends up pulling off his clothes and running for salvation.
- 6/20/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Beau Willimon is following up “House of Cards” with a series of the opposite intent.
“In a lot of ways, it’s a 180-degree departure from ‘House of Cards’ for me,” Willimon told Atx TV Festival attendees during a first look at his upcoming Hulu drama, “The First.” He said the Netflix series he developed asked, ‘When the worst of humanity assumes power, what does that look like?’ Well, we know. It’s happening before our very eyes and not just on television.”
“The First” takes on a separate point of view
“[It’s] a story I hope reflects a lot of the facets [of life] we’re all going through, whatever we’re trying to accomplish, whatever we’re striving for,” Willimon said, adding that he dares to hope it could inspire viewers. “There’s no guns in this. There’s no murder. […] I think we’re in a time now, seeing those...
“In a lot of ways, it’s a 180-degree departure from ‘House of Cards’ for me,” Willimon told Atx TV Festival attendees during a first look at his upcoming Hulu drama, “The First.” He said the Netflix series he developed asked, ‘When the worst of humanity assumes power, what does that look like?’ Well, we know. It’s happening before our very eyes and not just on television.”
“The First” takes on a separate point of view
“[It’s] a story I hope reflects a lot of the facets [of life] we’re all going through, whatever we’re trying to accomplish, whatever we’re striving for,” Willimon said, adding that he dares to hope it could inspire viewers. “There’s no guns in this. There’s no murder. […] I think we’re in a time now, seeing those...
- 6/9/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Two men sit on a bench in the vast desert of the American west waiting for a stagecoach that’s nowhere to be found. One, a grizzled preacher (Robert Forster), is fed up with the ways of the great unknown and headed back east; the other, Parson Henry (David Zellner), is headed west and eager to start a new life. “Things are going to be shitty in new and interesting ways,” Forster’s character warns the newcomer, dashing his hopes that what awaits isn’t the land of his dreams. For the beautiful Penelope (Mia Wasikowska), however, this terrain is far more dangerous. Surrounded by desperate men at every turn, the mission of the west is not just to survive, but live by her own romantic means.
Before we get to know her, though, Damsel introduces us to Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson), who travels with his gun, guitar, and a miniature pony named Butterscotch.
Before we get to know her, though, Damsel introduces us to Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson), who travels with his gun, guitar, and a miniature pony named Butterscotch.
- 1/24/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The mad science behind the filmmaking trickery of Austin sibling directors David and Nathan Zellner is that they make wise movies that seem like superficial larks. From their outrageous suburban comedy “Goliath” all the way through the surreal meta “Fargo” riff “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter,” the Zellners excel at transforming absurd circumstances into trenchant observations of human behavior. With the wildly adventurous “Damsel,” they conjure a kooky Old West setting with antics straight out of “Blazing Saddles,” unearthing a poetic vision of desperate men and the woman who wants nothing to do with them.
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That’s Penelope (Mia Wasikowska, in a wonderfully spunky performance), a fierce-minded pioneer incapable of evading various attempts to woo her. However, the exact nature of her situation remains shrouded in mystery for the meandering first act, when it seems as...
See More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
That’s Penelope (Mia Wasikowska, in a wonderfully spunky performance), a fierce-minded pioneer incapable of evading various attempts to woo her. However, the exact nature of her situation remains shrouded in mystery for the meandering first act, when it seems as...
- 1/24/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The story of Mildred and Richard Loving could easily have become a sledgehammer epic about social injustice. Writer-director Jeff Nichols instead sticks to the facts and recounts their ordeal with a quiet subjectivity that neither exaggerates nor sanctifies. The result is a marvelously affecting demonstration of how a civilized, progressive America rights a wrong. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton are terrific as just plain folks oppressed by an obsolete law.
Loving
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / 34.99
Starring : Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Terri Abney, Marton Csokas, David Jensen, Nick Kroll, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon.
Cinematography: Adam Stone
Film Editor: Julie Monroe
Original Music: David Wingo
Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Marc Turtletaub
Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols
Growing up in the 1950s, interracial marriage was a strange subject, and major entertainments handled it with kid gloves.
Loving
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / 34.99
Starring : Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Terri Abney, Marton Csokas, David Jensen, Nick Kroll, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon.
Cinematography: Adam Stone
Film Editor: Julie Monroe
Original Music: David Wingo
Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Marc Turtletaub
Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols
Growing up in the 1950s, interracial marriage was a strange subject, and major entertainments handled it with kid gloves.
- 2/15/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
There’s a special bond that exists between Director Jeff Nichols and cinematographer Adam Stone. Loving sees the duo working together again after their acclaimed collaboration on Mud, Midnight Special,...
- 1/9/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Adam Stone and Chad Keith are no strangers to working with Loving director, Jeff Nichols, having worked with him on several projects including this year’s Midnight Special. I caught...
- 12/7/2016
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Ruth Negga (left) stars as Mildred and Joel Edgerton (right) stars as Richard in Jeff
Nichols Loving, a Focus Features release. Photo credit: Ben Rothstein / Focus Features. © Focus Features
Loving is wonderful, warmly romantic drama about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, whose Supreme Court case struck down laws that prevented interracial couples from marrying. Although the court case is part of the story, the film is really about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, childhood sweethearts whose deeply romantic love story is the heart of this excellent, touching film.
Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special) directs this fine, realistic, gentle romance story, with fine performances by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as the couple. The couple’s beautiful love story is the heart of this film.
Audiences expecting a courtroom drama and in-depth legal discussions about the pivotal Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case may be surprised by Loving.
Nichols Loving, a Focus Features release. Photo credit: Ben Rothstein / Focus Features. © Focus Features
Loving is wonderful, warmly romantic drama about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, whose Supreme Court case struck down laws that prevented interracial couples from marrying. Although the court case is part of the story, the film is really about the couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, childhood sweethearts whose deeply romantic love story is the heart of this excellent, touching film.
Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special) directs this fine, realistic, gentle romance story, with fine performances by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as the couple. The couple’s beautiful love story is the heart of this film.
Audiences expecting a courtroom drama and in-depth legal discussions about the pivotal Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case may be surprised by Loving.
- 11/18/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ever since the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, pundits like myself have had the biopic Loving doing some damage in the Oscar race. I currently don’t have it dominating like I once did, but this is certainly one of the bigger prestige titles of 2016. This week, Focus Features finally releases it into theaters, after its successful festival run. Without too many other biopics in the race this year, there’s a clear spot for something like this to make a dent. There are plenty of fans for the movie, so it’s going to be noticed on the precursor circuit. The question is just, to what degree? The film is a look at Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), an interracial couple in 1958 Virginia, back during the time of anti-miscegenation laws. When the Loving marriage is discovered, Richard and Mildred are jailed, eventually having to move out of state.
- 11/2/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
After five films, director Jeff Nichols and cinematographer Adam Stone have become adept at capturing a sparse, unconventional vision of life sparked by the bonds that keep people together. And in “Loving,” the historical drama about the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that legalized the interracial marriage of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga) in Virginia, the filmmaking duo take their vision to another level.
Shot anamorphically on 35mm film, which is their preferred format, Nichols and Stone emphasize love as an inalienable right for this simple, rural couple that changed the history of race relations in this country.
Visually, the director and cinematographer achieve a pastoral beauty in many of the actual locations in and around Richmond, Virginia. This helps authenticate the period and the love story, which eschews conventional conflict and even a climax.
“‘Loving’ was shot mostly outside during golden hour, and we didn’t latch...
Shot anamorphically on 35mm film, which is their preferred format, Nichols and Stone emphasize love as an inalienable right for this simple, rural couple that changed the history of race relations in this country.
Visually, the director and cinematographer achieve a pastoral beauty in many of the actual locations in and around Richmond, Virginia. This helps authenticate the period and the love story, which eschews conventional conflict and even a climax.
“‘Loving’ was shot mostly outside during golden hour, and we didn’t latch...
- 10/29/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Last week, we got two big Oscar friendly Trailers. The one I’m going to be talking about today is Loving, coming to us from filmmaker Jeff Nichols. He’s a writer/director who has been growing in stature the last few years, though this is his first overt play at awards. From the look of Loving, it’s a true life civil rights drama/biopic that should have real appeal across the board, and undoubtedly will be of interest to the Academy and its voters. Reviews were very strong out of the Cannes Film Festival and this Trailer debut was excellent as well. You’ll see it below, but first…let’s discuss it a bit. The film is a biopic of the Loving family, Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga). An interracial couple living in the south in the 1950’s, they run into even more bigotry when they decide to get married.
- 7/18/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
In the summer of 2005, with roughly $50,000 scraped together from friends and family, Jeff Nichols made his directorial debut Shotgun Stories not far from where he grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. Two things haven’t changed since – Michael Shannon has been in front of the camera for every Nichols movie and cinematographer Adam Stone has been behind it. That includes Take Shelter, Mud, and now Midnight Special, which elevates Nichols to the studio realm with a tale of a father (Shannon) and his “special” son (Jaeden Lieberher) on the run from the government and a religious cult with […]...
- 6/30/2016
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton deliver remarkably nuanced performances in Loving, a late ’50s- / early ‘60s-set true life story of a mixed-race couple whose illegal marriage became a landmark case in the United States Supreme Court. Having tried his hand at the coming-of-age drama (Mud) and both small- and large-scale science fiction (Take Shelter and Midnight Special, respectively), the increasingly prolific Jeff Nichols branches out once more here to the awards season period drama. This heartwarming and wonderfully refined film might not do a whole lot of things we haven’t seen before in the civil rights-era picture, but it does the familiar stuff with enormous care and control.
As they say about these sorts of things: you just couldn’t write it. In June 1958, at the age of 18, Mildred Delores Jeter — of African American and Native American descent — became pregnant with the child of Richard Loving, a 24-year-old white man.
As they say about these sorts of things: you just couldn’t write it. In June 1958, at the age of 18, Mildred Delores Jeter — of African American and Native American descent — became pregnant with the child of Richard Loving, a 24-year-old white man.
- 5/16/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Every line in the poster above is correct about the film Midnight Special. It’s gripping, emotional and imaginative.
This film contains layers of depth and a mystifying tenor and has an extraordinary surprise reveal at the climax. (Review)
It’s an engaging and entertaining story and so far, one the best films this year.
Following impressive critical and audience response, the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, from acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, earned an outstanding $38,000 per-screen average across only five theaters in its March 18th debut in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, for an approximate opening weekend total of $190,000 in only five theaters, making it one of the year’s most successful limited openings.
The film, starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher and Sam Shepard, first played to overwhelming acclaim at its February 12th world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival,...
This film contains layers of depth and a mystifying tenor and has an extraordinary surprise reveal at the climax. (Review)
It’s an engaging and entertaining story and so far, one the best films this year.
Following impressive critical and audience response, the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, from acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, earned an outstanding $38,000 per-screen average across only five theaters in its March 18th debut in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, for an approximate opening weekend total of $190,000 in only five theaters, making it one of the year’s most successful limited openings.
The film, starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher and Sam Shepard, first played to overwhelming acclaim at its February 12th world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival,...
- 4/21/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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From the director of Take Shelter comes Midnight Special, starring Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton. Our review of a great sci-fi movie...
Science fiction can take in monumental events and big ideas, but the genre’s just as powerful when it deals with the quiet and the intimate. Director Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special owes a certain debt to Sf films of the 70s and 80s - among them John Carpenter’s Starman, a film he himself has cited as an inspiration - but it’s also told with the poetic intensity of a Ray Bradbury short story.
Michael Shannon (who previously starred in Nichols’ earlier films Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud - all excellent) plays Roy, a father on the run with his eight-year-old son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher). With Joel Edgerton’s tough state trooper in tow, the three flee across Texas from government forces and...
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From the director of Take Shelter comes Midnight Special, starring Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton. Our review of a great sci-fi movie...
Science fiction can take in monumental events and big ideas, but the genre’s just as powerful when it deals with the quiet and the intimate. Director Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special owes a certain debt to Sf films of the 70s and 80s - among them John Carpenter’s Starman, a film he himself has cited as an inspiration - but it’s also told with the poetic intensity of a Ray Bradbury short story.
Michael Shannon (who previously starred in Nichols’ earlier films Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud - all excellent) plays Roy, a father on the run with his eight-year-old son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher). With Joel Edgerton’s tough state trooper in tow, the three flee across Texas from government forces and...
- 3/31/2016
- Den of Geek
Slowly but surely, filmmaker Jeff Nichols is becoming one of the more popular names in independent cinema. In fact, some pundits already claim that he’s one of the new masters of the medium. This week, he takes his first step towards the mainstream with the science fiction film Midnight Special, a unique movie that could introduce him to a wider audience. Nichols makes hard to define cinema, and this is certainly the case as well. There are genre trappings, but this is as much about the nature of faith and fatherhood as it is a sci-fi tale. It’s not perfect, but Midnight Special is one of the more interesting releases of 2016 so far. The film is a strange animal, but certainly doesn’t lack for ambition. As it begins, we’re introduced to Roy (Michael Shannon), who is in a hotel room with Lucas (Joel Edgerton) and young...
- 3/17/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
A young boy who possesses strange and difficult-to-explain powers makes his way towards a mysterious rendezvous with his father doing everything he can to protect him from anyone who might stop him. That's it. That's the basic plot of Midnight Special, and when you boil it down that far, it sounds like something familiar, something we've seen many times before. What makes the film sing is the extraordinary control exhibited by Jeff Nichols as a filmmaker at this point, especially when he's working with Michael Shannon, who has given some of his finest performances when working with Nichols. That continues here. Michael Shannon plays Roy, and when we meet him, he's on the road with his childhood best friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton) and his little boy Alton (Jaeden Lieberher). It's not clear at first why they're running, where they're coming from, or where they're going, and Nichols does a very...
- 3/15/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
With id Software's revival of Doom on the horizon, these Funko Doom Pop! figures couldn't arrive at a better time. Read further for more details on this story. Also in today's round-up: a new trailer for Midnight Special starring Michael Shannon and details on the limited edition Kiss Demon Mask by HalloweenCostumes.com.
Doom Pop! Vinyl Figures: From Funko: "The seminal PC game Doom is now part of the Funko gaming library!
You’ll need as many Doom Marine Pop! figures as you can get to navigate the harsh terrain found in each Doom level!
Make sure you come with as much firepower as possible when facing the classic Doom enemies like the Cyberdemon!
Coming in March!"
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Midnight Special: Press Release: "In the sci-fi thriller “Midnight Special,” writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father...
Doom Pop! Vinyl Figures: From Funko: "The seminal PC game Doom is now part of the Funko gaming library!
You’ll need as many Doom Marine Pop! figures as you can get to navigate the harsh terrain found in each Doom level!
Make sure you come with as much firepower as possible when facing the classic Doom enemies like the Cyberdemon!
Coming in March!"
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Midnight Special: Press Release: "In the sci-fi thriller “Midnight Special,” writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father...
- 2/16/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Ambiguity might be the most useful item in the science fiction toolbox. Blade Runner’s mysteries still rob people of sleep, and you’d need a wall chart to work out Shane Carruth’s Primer. However, when used in rash abundance — as in this latest film from Mud and Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols — the results can leave the viewer in a rather less complimentary state of bafflement. The details in Midnight Special, Nichols’ homage-heavy sci-fi thriller set in his signature Deep South locale, are sometimes so scant as to be jarring. Yes, less is often more in Hollywood, but it can also be just plain less.
We open on a police broadcast as, from a motel room, two men (Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton) and a boy named Alton (Jaeden Lieberher, decked out in blue goggles) speed away in a car. The newscaster reports that the child has been abducted,...
We open on a police broadcast as, from a motel room, two men (Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton) and a boy named Alton (Jaeden Lieberher, decked out in blue goggles) speed away in a car. The newscaster reports that the child has been abducted,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Check out the first trailer for the highly anticipated Midnight Special.
In the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father (Michael Shannon) goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers. What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government. Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever in this genre – defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.
Midnight Special stars Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher and Oscar nominee Sam Shepard. Rounding out the main cast are Bill Camp, Scott Haze and Paul Sparks.
In the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father (Michael Shannon) goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers. What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government. Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever in this genre – defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.
Midnight Special stars Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher and Oscar nominee Sam Shepard. Rounding out the main cast are Bill Camp, Scott Haze and Paul Sparks.
- 11/20/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Inciting both outrage from audience members and an outpouring of critical praise at Sundance last year, Craig Zobel’s Compliance is an audacious and shocking depiction of submission to figures of authority under duress. Inspired by the true events that occurred at fast food joints across the Us and the famed obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram that took place during the 1960s, the film chronicles a single day in which a faux police officer phones a fast food manager and convinces her that a young, female employee has stolen money from a customer and needs to questioned and held until the authorities arrive, but as common sense subsides, the situation goes way further than that.
Held down by a trio of exquisite performances by Ann Dowd (as Sandra, the restaurant manager), Dreama Walker (as Becky, the accused employee), and Great World of Sound‘s Pat Healy (as the silver tongued creeper,...
Held down by a trio of exquisite performances by Ann Dowd (as Sandra, the restaurant manager), Dreama Walker (as Becky, the accused employee), and Great World of Sound‘s Pat Healy (as the silver tongued creeper,...
- 1/15/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Following our looks at actors, actresses, screenwriters and directors to watch in recent months, when the time came to put together a list of cinematographers (as we did two years ago), we went in with an open mind. But what was interesting is realizing, after the fact, that in an era where 35mm film is allegedly being phased out, that all five have done perhaps their most distinctive work on old-fashioned celluloid, rather than digital.
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
- 6/26/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
#49. Compliance Director/Writer: Craig ZobelProducers: Zobel, Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin, Lisa Muskat and Theo SenaDistributor: Rights Available The Gist: Based on actual events, when a prank caller convinces a fast food restaurant manager to interrogate an innocent young employee, no one is left unscathed...(more) Cast: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker and Pat Healy List Worthy Reasons...: Winner of the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, Craig Zobel has been attached to about a half dozen projects the moment 2007's Great World of Sound became a part of the collective consciousness, and my thinking that this unfathomable true story is a culmination of going with your gut, going micro and being pro-active in the creation department rather than wait it out any further. Zobel works with Dp Adam Stone (amazing resume includes works with David Gordon Green, Jeff Nichols and Zobel's debut film) in what I'm thinking might be a modern day horror film.
- 1/6/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
Brit Marling, Another Earth
Best Film
* The Artist
Drive
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
The Tree Of Life
Best Foreign Language Film
* Le Quattro Volte
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Happy Happy
Of Gods And Men
The Double Hour
Best Director
* Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
Best Actress
* Brit Marling, Another Earth
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Actor
* Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Best Supporting Actress
* Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Carey Mulligan, Shame
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Mélanie Laurent, Beginners
Best Supporting Actor
* Nick Nolte, Warrior
Albert Brooks, Drive
Andy Serkis, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Christopher Plummer,...
Best Film
* The Artist
Drive
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
The Tree Of Life
Best Foreign Language Film
* Le Quattro Volte
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Happy Happy
Of Gods And Men
The Double Hour
Best Director
* Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
Best Actress
* Brit Marling, Another Earth
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Actor
* Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Best Supporting Actress
* Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Carey Mulligan, Shame
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Mélanie Laurent, Beginners
Best Supporting Actor
* Nick Nolte, Warrior
Albert Brooks, Drive
Andy Serkis, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Christopher Plummer,...
- 12/15/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
Best Film
Drive
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
The Artist
The Tree Of Life
Best Foreign Language Film
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Happy Happy
Le Quattro Volte
Of Gods And Men
The Double Hour
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
Best Actress
Brit Marling, Another Earth
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Actor
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Best Supporting Actress
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Carey Mulligan, Shame
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Mélanie Laurent, Beginners
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive
Andy Serkis, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Christopher Plummer,...
Best Film
Drive
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
The Artist
The Tree Of Life
Best Foreign Language Film
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Happy Happy
Le Quattro Volte
Of Gods And Men
The Double Hour
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
Best Actress
Brit Marling, Another Earth
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Actor
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Best Supporting Actress
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Carey Mulligan, Shame
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Mélanie Laurent, Beginners
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive
Andy Serkis, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Christopher Plummer,...
- 12/13/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Take Shelter, the latest pairing of director Jeff Nichols and actor Michael Shannon, arrives in UK Cinemas this week. The film is a fascinating and often moving story of a practical man, Curtis, going through an emotionally and psychologically difficult time.
A large percentage of the film rests heavily on the shoulders of Michael Shannon in this central role of Curtis and Shannon turns in a truly remarkable and powerful performance.
Myself and four other journalists were lucky enough to speak to him about the film at a roundtable junket last month and you can find the fruits of that interview below.
What attracted you to take the part in Take Shelter?
I worked with Jeff [Nichols] on Shotgun Stories, his first movie, and I just really think he’s unique. I can’t really think of any other director, young director in America today, who is as focused as he is,...
A large percentage of the film rests heavily on the shoulders of Michael Shannon in this central role of Curtis and Shannon turns in a truly remarkable and powerful performance.
Myself and four other journalists were lucky enough to speak to him about the film at a roundtable junket last month and you can find the fruits of that interview below.
What attracted you to take the part in Take Shelter?
I worked with Jeff [Nichols] on Shotgun Stories, his first movie, and I just really think he’s unique. I can’t really think of any other director, young director in America today, who is as focused as he is,...
- 11/22/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Take Shelter
Directed by Jeff Nichols
Screenplay by Jeff Nichols
2011, USA
Take Shelter, director Jeff Nichols’s sophomore feature and second collaboration with actor Michael Shannon (after Shotgun Stories), ranks among the year’s best. A study of paranoia plaguing rural America, this psychological thriller hints at the director’s admiration of genre filmmaking, particularly in horror and natural disaster pics. Emotionally authentic and poignant, Take Shelter recalls the best of William Friedkin and Roman Polanski, tapping into inescapable anxiety as acutely as Friedkin’s Bug and Polanski’s Repulsion.
This is the story of an everyman, Curtis Laforche, who lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who happens to be deaf. Curtis is haunted by visions of an encroaching, apocalyptic storm on the horizon. He tries to resolve his problems with sedatives and counseling, but during a visit to his mother, we...
Directed by Jeff Nichols
Screenplay by Jeff Nichols
2011, USA
Take Shelter, director Jeff Nichols’s sophomore feature and second collaboration with actor Michael Shannon (after Shotgun Stories), ranks among the year’s best. A study of paranoia plaguing rural America, this psychological thriller hints at the director’s admiration of genre filmmaking, particularly in horror and natural disaster pics. Emotionally authentic and poignant, Take Shelter recalls the best of William Friedkin and Roman Polanski, tapping into inescapable anxiety as acutely as Friedkin’s Bug and Polanski’s Repulsion.
This is the story of an everyman, Curtis Laforche, who lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who happens to be deaf. Curtis is haunted by visions of an encroaching, apocalyptic storm on the horizon. He tries to resolve his problems with sedatives and counseling, but during a visit to his mother, we...
- 10/14/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
"Standing outside his small-town Ohio home, his wife and child busy preparing breakfast inside, Curtis Laforche (Michael Shannon) looks up at the ominous slate-gray sky in the first scene of Take Shelter," begins Melissa Anderson in the Voice. "The clouds open, raining down oily piss-colored droplets. It's end-of-days weather, a phenomenon that only Curtis seems to witness, and the first of many private, impressively CGI'd apocalyptic visions to come. Like Carol White, the central, unglued character of Todd Haynes's Safe (1995) who is 'allergic to the 20th century,' blue-collar worker Curtis is haunted by one of the looming terrors of the 21st: financial ruin. This unarticulated fear triggers Curtis's mental illness, and despite a few missteps, Take Shelter powerfully lays bare our national anxiety disorder — a pervasive dread that Curtis can define only as 'something that's not right.'"
"Convinced the end is coming," writes James Rocchi at the Playlist,...
"Convinced the end is coming," writes James Rocchi at the Playlist,...
- 9/30/2011
- MUBI
Take Shelter
Directed by Jeff Nichols
Screenplay by Jeff Nichols
2011, USA
Take Shelter, director Jeff Nichols’s sophomore feature and second collaboration with actor Michael Shannon (after Shotgun Stories) ranks among the year’s best. A study of paranoia plaguing rural America – this psychological thriller hints at the director’s admiration in genre filmmaking, particularly in horror and natural disaster pics. Emotionally authentic, and poignant, Take Shelter recalls the best of William Friedkin and Roman Polanski, tapping into inescapable anxiety as acutely as Friedkin’s Bug and Polanski’s Repulsion.
This is the story of an everyman, Curtis Laforche, who lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who happens to be deaf. Curtis is haunted by visions of an encroaching, apocalyptic storm on the horizon. He tries to resolve his problems with sedatives and counseling, but during a visit to his mother, we...
Directed by Jeff Nichols
Screenplay by Jeff Nichols
2011, USA
Take Shelter, director Jeff Nichols’s sophomore feature and second collaboration with actor Michael Shannon (after Shotgun Stories) ranks among the year’s best. A study of paranoia plaguing rural America – this psychological thriller hints at the director’s admiration in genre filmmaking, particularly in horror and natural disaster pics. Emotionally authentic, and poignant, Take Shelter recalls the best of William Friedkin and Roman Polanski, tapping into inescapable anxiety as acutely as Friedkin’s Bug and Polanski’s Repulsion.
This is the story of an everyman, Curtis Laforche, who lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who happens to be deaf. Curtis is haunted by visions of an encroaching, apocalyptic storm on the horizon. He tries to resolve his problems with sedatives and counseling, but during a visit to his mother, we...
- 9/22/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
“I like the concept of a film that can try to operate on two levels. One, it has to operate on an extremely personal level because you have to find some direct link to an emotion or a feeling you’ve had. I think it has to be a direct link – a palpable feeling that you’ve had otherwise it won’t translate to the audience. Then at the same time, you need to find a bigger topic or idea that you need to talk about. I’m a big believer in trying to balance those two things. It’s tricky, it’s hard, it doesn’t always happen, but it’s the goal.”
That is what director Jeff Nichols said to me in a recent interview about the visual style of his upcoming film Take Shelter. The link or emotion he’s referring to is anxiety and the anxiety throughout the film is palpable.
That is what director Jeff Nichols said to me in a recent interview about the visual style of his upcoming film Take Shelter. The link or emotion he’s referring to is anxiety and the anxiety throughout the film is palpable.
- 9/20/2011
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Michael Shannon, Katy Mixon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker and Ray McKinnon
A torrential rainstorm is coming. Motor oil is falling from the sky. People and dogs alike have gone mad with rage. These are the visions that Curtis (Michael Shannon) can’t shake. His fear may be irrational, but once he accepts it as reality, the only thing to do is panic.
“Take Shelter” is about the part of going crazy during which you can still sense you’re going crazy. Shannon carries the weight of this insanity in a remarkable performance that encapsulates all the fear, shame and paranoia of mental illness. Curtis is aware that his behavior is unusual and irresponsible, but he can’t stop himself.
He has feared this could happen for some time: His schizophrenic mother was put...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Michael Shannon, Katy Mixon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker and Ray McKinnon
A torrential rainstorm is coming. Motor oil is falling from the sky. People and dogs alike have gone mad with rage. These are the visions that Curtis (Michael Shannon) can’t shake. His fear may be irrational, but once he accepts it as reality, the only thing to do is panic.
“Take Shelter” is about the part of going crazy during which you can still sense you’re going crazy. Shannon carries the weight of this insanity in a remarkable performance that encapsulates all the fear, shame and paranoia of mental illness. Curtis is aware that his behavior is unusual and irresponsible, but he can’t stop himself.
He has feared this could happen for some time: His schizophrenic mother was put...
- 1/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Michael Shannon, Katy Mixon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker and Ray McKinnon
A torrential rainstorm is coming. Motor oil is falling from the sky. People and dogs alike have gone mad with rage. These are the visions that Curtis (Michael Shannon) can’t shake. His fear may be irrational, but once he accepts it as reality, the only thing to do is panic.
“Take Shelter” is about the part of going crazy during which you can still sense you’re going crazy. Shannon carries the weight of this insanity in a remarkable performance that encapsulates all the fear, shame and paranoia of mental illness. Curtis is aware that his behavior is unusual and irresponsible, but he can’t stop himself.
He has feared this could happen for some time: His schizophrenic mother was put...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Michael Shannon, Katy Mixon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker and Ray McKinnon
A torrential rainstorm is coming. Motor oil is falling from the sky. People and dogs alike have gone mad with rage. These are the visions that Curtis (Michael Shannon) can’t shake. His fear may be irrational, but once he accepts it as reality, the only thing to do is panic.
“Take Shelter” is about the part of going crazy during which you can still sense you’re going crazy. Shannon carries the weight of this insanity in a remarkable performance that encapsulates all the fear, shame and paranoia of mental illness. Curtis is aware that his behavior is unusual and irresponsible, but he can’t stop himself.
He has feared this could happen for some time: His schizophrenic mother was put...
- 1/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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