When Toddy Haynes’s May December was released last year, it prompted a worldwide (or at least Twitter-wide) reckoning with the meaning of camp. There were furious debates as to the exact parameters of the term and which works fell within them. For Mothers’ Instinct, this matter becomes a kind of existential crisis, because celebrated cinematographer Benoît Delhomme’s 1960s-set directorial debut can’t decide whether it wants to be considered camp or not, as it awkwardly pitches itself between a somber drama and antic melodrama.
Like May December, this remake of the Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 film Duelles is a domestic drama that throws two women into the same space and steadily ratchets up the tension between them. Alice (Jessica Chastain) and Céline (Anne Hathaway) live in neighboring homes in the suburbs. Alice’s son Theo (Eamon Patrick O’Connell) and Céline’s son Max (Baylen D. Bielitz) are best friends,...
Like May December, this remake of the Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 film Duelles is a domestic drama that throws two women into the same space and steadily ratchets up the tension between them. Alice (Jessica Chastain) and Céline (Anne Hathaway) live in neighboring homes in the suburbs. Alice’s son Theo (Eamon Patrick O’Connell) and Céline’s son Max (Baylen D. Bielitz) are best friends,...
- 4/13/2024
- by Ross McIndoe
- Slant Magazine
Ariana DeBose in I.S.S.Image: Bleecker Street
Ever since Georges Méliès sent audiences out of orbit in 1902 with A Trip To The Moon, filmmakers have been busy crafting distinctly textured space-themed stories, ranging from tender to terrifying. It’s a setting that provides claustrophobic tension and awe-inducing wonder,...
Ever since Georges Méliès sent audiences out of orbit in 1902 with A Trip To The Moon, filmmakers have been busy crafting distinctly textured space-themed stories, ranging from tender to terrifying. It’s a setting that provides claustrophobic tension and awe-inducing wonder,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Courtney Howard
- avclub.com
Early in music supervisor Lucy Bright’s career, she worked at Warner Classics and managed composer Michael Nyman. In 2020 she started Bright Notion Music, her own music publishing company, which has signed composers such as Hildur Guðnadóttir, Oliver Coates, and Anne Nikitin. She is known for critically acclaimed British films such as The Arbor and Slow West and more recently Tár, where her classical understanding and personal familiarity with the composers referenced in the script, helped create the movie that was named Best Picture by several major critics associations. Bright was also awarded the first ever prize for music supervision […]
The post “I Wish Film Schools Would Teach Directors and Producers More About Music Rights”: Music Supervisor Lucy Bright first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Wish Film Schools Would Teach Directors and Producers More About Music Rights”: Music Supervisor Lucy Bright first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 12/19/2023
- by Arrow Peretz
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Early in music supervisor Lucy Bright’s career, she worked at Warner Classics and managed composer Michael Nyman. In 2020 she started Bright Notion Music, her own music publishing company, which has signed composers such as Hildur Guðnadóttir, Oliver Coates, and Anne Nikitin. She is known for critically acclaimed British films such as The Arbor and Slow West and more recently Tár, where her classical understanding and personal familiarity with the composers referenced in the script, helped create the movie that was named Best Picture by several major critics associations. Bright was also awarded the first ever prize for music supervision […]
The post “I Wish Film Schools Would Teach Directors and Producers More About Music Rights”: Music Supervisor Lucy Bright first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Wish Film Schools Would Teach Directors and Producers More About Music Rights”: Music Supervisor Lucy Bright first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 12/19/2023
- by Arrow Peretz
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Hollywood Music in Media Awards, known for recognizing music in film, TV, video games commercials and trailers, announced its 2019 nominees. Among the nominated films are “Joker” (composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is pictured), “Little Women,” “Us,” “Rocketman” and more.
Past honorees include Ludwig Goransson (“Black Panther”), Alexandre Desplat (“Shape of Water”), songs from “La La Land” and “A Star is Born.”
For the 10th anniversary concert & gala, the organization will host past winners. In addition to Jakob Dylan (“The Wallflowers”) and Kris Bowers (“Green Book”), composers and songwriters from The Society of Composers & Lyricists, The Alliance of Female Composers and the Guild of Music Supervisors will present and/or perform.
With over 500 submissions globally, Hmma nominations are selected by an advisory board and selection committee that includes journalists, music executives and music-media industry professionals comprised of select members of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, Television Academy, the AMPAS Music Branch and Naras.
Past honorees include Ludwig Goransson (“Black Panther”), Alexandre Desplat (“Shape of Water”), songs from “La La Land” and “A Star is Born.”
For the 10th anniversary concert & gala, the organization will host past winners. In addition to Jakob Dylan (“The Wallflowers”) and Kris Bowers (“Green Book”), composers and songwriters from The Society of Composers & Lyricists, The Alliance of Female Composers and the Guild of Music Supervisors will present and/or perform.
With over 500 submissions globally, Hmma nominations are selected by an advisory board and selection committee that includes journalists, music executives and music-media industry professionals comprised of select members of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, Television Academy, the AMPAS Music Branch and Naras.
- 11/5/2019
- by LaTesha Harris
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar winners Lady Gaga, Annie Lennox and Adele are among the 28 composers, songwriters and music editors invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year.
The three multiplatinum pop stars are probably the best-known of this year’s crop. Gaga won for “A Star Is Born,” Adele for “Skyfall,” and Lennox for her “Into the West” from the final “Lord of the Rings” movie “The Return of the King.”
Three other Oscar winners are on this year’s list: “Black Panther” composer Ludwig Goransson and Gaga’s “Shallow” co-writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. Two other nominees from last year’s movies were added to the roster: “Mary Poppins Returns” songwriter Scott Wittman and “Star Is Born” music editor Jason Ruder.
Other composers include Michael Abels (“Get Out”), Nathan Barr (“The House With a Clock in Its Walls”), Kris Bowers (“Green Card”), Jane Antonia Cornish (“Citizen...
The three multiplatinum pop stars are probably the best-known of this year’s crop. Gaga won for “A Star Is Born,” Adele for “Skyfall,” and Lennox for her “Into the West” from the final “Lord of the Rings” movie “The Return of the King.”
Three other Oscar winners are on this year’s list: “Black Panther” composer Ludwig Goransson and Gaga’s “Shallow” co-writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. Two other nominees from last year’s movies were added to the roster: “Mary Poppins Returns” songwriter Scott Wittman and “Star Is Born” music editor Jason Ruder.
Other composers include Michael Abels (“Get Out”), Nathan Barr (“The House With a Clock in Its Walls”), Kris Bowers (“Green Card”), Jane Antonia Cornish (“Citizen...
- 7/1/2019
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
A lads’ hunting weekend begins with beers and banter, only to swiftly sober up when two Edinburgh townies wind up shooting entirely the wrong prey. But getting out of the woods isn’t even close to getting in the clear in “Calibre,” a sensationally well-executed nerve-mangler that ought to do for the majestic Scottish Highlands what “Deliverance” did for Appalachia. That is, if smart genre fiends seek out Matt Palmer’s majorly promising debut feature on Netflix — where it’s set to bow globally on June 29, just one week after its home-turf premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival. That’s a mixed blessing for a film that certainly deserves the broad exposure of international streaming, but whose natural habitat is the midnight-movie circuit: Its jackknife shocks, clammy atmospherics and head-filling soundscape would best be enjoyed in the immersive darkness of a cinema.
Not that you need a big screen to...
Not that you need a big screen to...
- 6/23/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Surely the 21st century equivalent to the old Hollywood trope “Let’s put on a show!” is, judging by the movies that get made, “Let’s pull off a heist!” What that says about the evolution of our wish-fulfillment fantasies is a tad worrisome, so it’s refreshing that “American Animals,” which recreates and dissects a real 2004 robbery committed by a quartet of thrill-seeking college kids, grasps that there’s something singularly regrettable in how our popular art glorifies criminality.
And yet, for a good deal of its running time, writer-director Bart Layton’s slick, music-fueled assemblage of recreated narrative and documentary manages to be as deftly comic and suspenseful as the bank job movies from which Layton, and the incident’s perpetrators, took inspiration. Until, that is, the reality of bad decisions and corrosive entitlement act as an all-too-necessary dampener.
The crime was known as the “Transy Book Heist.
And yet, for a good deal of its running time, writer-director Bart Layton’s slick, music-fueled assemblage of recreated narrative and documentary manages to be as deftly comic and suspenseful as the bank job movies from which Layton, and the incident’s perpetrators, took inspiration. Until, that is, the reality of bad decisions and corrosive entitlement act as an all-too-necessary dampener.
The crime was known as the “Transy Book Heist.
- 5/31/2018
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Composer Anne Nikitin talks to Awards Daily about scoring the buzzy Sundance premiere American Animals, a fact-based heist thriller. Composer Anne Nikitin enters the Sundance Film Festival world for the...
- 1/19/2018
- by Clarence Moye
- AwardsDaily.com
Murtagh stars with newcomer Woody Norman.
Diarmaid Murtagh, whose credits include Vikings and Dracula Untold, has completed shooting on Bruno, the fifth feature from director Karl Golden.
Source: Ipso Facto
Bruno
The film tells the story of a homeless man who, after his faithful dog Bruno goes missing following an assault, teams up with a young boy (newcomer Woody Norman, set to appear in The Current War) to find the lost animal.
Director Golden’s previous credits include Weekender and The Honeymooners. The project’s producer is Katie Hodgkin and the executive producer is Christine Alderson (This Beautiful Fantastic) of Ipso Facto.
Crew include DoP Jalaludin Trautmann, editor Martin Brinkler, production designer Niina Topp, and composer Anne Nikitin.
Bruno shot over 17 days in the Hackney area of London.
Diarmaid Murtagh, whose credits include Vikings and Dracula Untold, has completed shooting on Bruno, the fifth feature from director Karl Golden.
Source: Ipso Facto
Bruno
The film tells the story of a homeless man who, after his faithful dog Bruno goes missing following an assault, teams up with a young boy (newcomer Woody Norman, set to appear in The Current War) to find the lost animal.
Director Golden’s previous credits include Weekender and The Honeymooners. The project’s producer is Katie Hodgkin and the executive producer is Christine Alderson (This Beautiful Fantastic) of Ipso Facto.
Crew include DoP Jalaludin Trautmann, editor Martin Brinkler, production designer Niina Topp, and composer Anne Nikitin.
Bruno shot over 17 days in the Hackney area of London.
- 12/22/2017
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Murtagh stars with newcomer Woody Norman.
Diarmaid Murtagh, whose credits include Vikings and Dracula Untold, has completed shooting on Bruno, the fifth feature from director Karl Golden.
Source: Ipso Facto
Bruno
The film tells the story of a homeless man who, after his faithful dog Bruno goes missing following an assault, teams up with a young boy (newcomer Woody Norman, set to appear in The Current War) to find the lost animal.
Director Golden’s previous credits include Weekender and The Honeymooners. The project’s producer is Katie Hodgkin and the executive producer is Christine Alderson (This Beautiful Fantastic) of Ipso Facto.
Crew include DoP Jalaludin Trautmann, editor Martin Brinkler, production designer Niina Topp, and composer Anne Nikitin.
Bruno shot over 17 days in the Hackney area of London.
Diarmaid Murtagh, whose credits include Vikings and Dracula Untold, has completed shooting on Bruno, the fifth feature from director Karl Golden.
Source: Ipso Facto
Bruno
The film tells the story of a homeless man who, after his faithful dog Bruno goes missing following an assault, teams up with a young boy (newcomer Woody Norman, set to appear in The Current War) to find the lost animal.
Director Golden’s previous credits include Weekender and The Honeymooners. The project’s producer is Katie Hodgkin and the executive producer is Christine Alderson (This Beautiful Fantastic) of Ipso Facto.
Crew include DoP Jalaludin Trautmann, editor Martin Brinkler, production designer Niina Topp, and composer Anne Nikitin.
Bruno shot over 17 days in the Hackney area of London.
- 12/22/2017
- by Tom Grater
- Screen Daily Test
Dark Horse – this year’s extraordinary new documentary about a pub barmaid from a poor Welsh mining town who takes on the “elite sport of kings” and breeds herself an improbable racehorse champion – crosses the DVD & Digital finish line August 23 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The Sony Pictures Classics release, a 2015 Sundance Film Festival winner directed by Louise Ormond (BAFTA nominated for Richard III: The King In The Car Park), won the Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and was also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The film received an outstanding reception from audiences and critics alike, capturing a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and lauded as “heartwarming,” “irresistible,” “exhilarating,” “stirring,” “moving,” “delightful” and “inspiring.” Screendaily’s Allan Hunter concluded, “A heartwarming true story that has been expertly crafted into an irresistible, emotion-charged documentary.”
Dark Horse begins in 2000 in Cefn Forest, a small town in Wales, when Jan...
Dark Horse begins in 2000 in Cefn Forest, a small town in Wales, when Jan...
- 8/10/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A funny thing happens in the opening moments of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winning doc “Dark Horse.” The movie swells with unusual pride, inspiration and hope. Well-crafted visuals, homespun wistful folk songs by Anne Nikitin, and sanguine testimonials tug on your heartstrings. Before the opening credits roll, the subjects of the documentary discuss their faded dreams, […]
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- 5/4/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
A funny thing happens in the opening moments of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winning doc “Dark Horse.” The movie swells with unusual pride, inspiration and hope. Well-crafted visuals, homespun wistful folk songs by Anne Nikitin and sanguine testimonials tug on your heartstrings. Before the opening credits roll, the subjects of the documentary discuss their faded dreams, depressed town and the unlikely animal that transformed their lives, and so “Dark Horse” lays out the emotional building blocks for what appears will be a moving, triumphant come-from-behind story. It’s disarming how the doc, without having revealed its full story or earned its emotional stripes yet, hooks you in…or hoofs you in. Then “Dark Horse” hits reset and begins properly as a fairy tale about small-town hopefulness rescued by an unlikely source of inspiration. In an impoverished ex-mining town in Wales, unassuming townsfolk go about their day. Through fate, barmaid Jan.
- 2/6/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
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The Imposter
As with all the best true stories, this one offers a premise that you just couldn't make up – it would be considered too far fetched. After Texan teen Nicholas Barclay disappeared in 1994, his family slowly grew to accept they'd almost definitely never see him again, certainly not alive. But three years and four months later they received news that the boy had been located in Spain. What they found wasn't Nicholas but a completely different person, a confidence trickster called Frédéric Bourdin, who was seven years older and with different colour hair and looks from the person he was impersonating. You'd expect this sad story to end there, but there's more. A lot more. Rather than turn away such an obvious fraud, the Barclay family took Bourdin in. They had lost...
The Imposter
As with all the best true stories, this one offers a premise that you just couldn't make up – it would be considered too far fetched. After Texan teen Nicholas Barclay disappeared in 1994, his family slowly grew to accept they'd almost definitely never see him again, certainly not alive. But three years and four months later they received news that the boy had been located in Spain. What they found wasn't Nicholas but a completely different person, a confidence trickster called Frédéric Bourdin, who was seven years older and with different colour hair and looks from the person he was impersonating. You'd expect this sad story to end there, but there's more. A lot more. Rather than turn away such an obvious fraud, the Barclay family took Bourdin in. They had lost...
- 1/5/2013
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Nicholas Barclay disappeared from his family home in San Antonio, Texas at the tender age of thirteen. Three years and four months later, an unaccompanied 16-year-old boy is found in France. When circumstances lead French authorities to believe he is Nicholas Barclay, he’s swiftly returned to a concerned family who welcome him all too easily. However, as the FBI and a sole private investigator notice subtle differences that, for some reason, have been overlooked by the family, it soon becomes clear that so-called Nicholas Barclay is in fact impostor Frédéric Bourdin (portrayed in interviews and dramatisations by Adam O’Brian).
The real-life story of Bourdain who was, at the time of his eventual imprisonment, dubbed by many sources “The Chameleon”, The Imposter mixes a concoction of styles and elements synonymous with the documentary genre in bold and interesting new ways. It’s a technique that, through writer and director...
The real-life story of Bourdain who was, at the time of his eventual imprisonment, dubbed by many sources “The Chameleon”, The Imposter mixes a concoction of styles and elements synonymous with the documentary genre in bold and interesting new ways. It’s a technique that, through writer and director...
- 6/21/2012
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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