Meta-narratives may have only recently become popular in mainstream media, but stories within stories have been a part of human culture since ancient times. From One Thousand and One Nights to Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, our fascination with the repercussions of storytelling has itself been transformed into fuel for compelling stories, and this also applies to the horror genre.
Cosmic horror yarns are chock-full of characters who go mad after reading cursed tomes, and we’ve already covered the meta-terror of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, but few movies have managed to capture the magic of being deeply disturbed by an unnaturally gripping story. One exception to this is Tom Ford’s controversial thriller Nocturnal Animals, with the fashion-designer-turned-filmmaker using the film’s Russian doll setup to explore how horror narratives can be used to communicate.
Based on a novel by Austin Wright, the 2016 film follows art...
Cosmic horror yarns are chock-full of characters who go mad after reading cursed tomes, and we’ve already covered the meta-terror of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, but few movies have managed to capture the magic of being deeply disturbed by an unnaturally gripping story. One exception to this is Tom Ford’s controversial thriller Nocturnal Animals, with the fashion-designer-turned-filmmaker using the film’s Russian doll setup to explore how horror narratives can be used to communicate.
Based on a novel by Austin Wright, the 2016 film follows art...
- 3/24/2023
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
Netflix has given a lot of titles more exposure in the last few years, with many overlooked movies receiving attention on the platform. This trend is now set to include the underrated 2016 Jake Gyllenhaal film Nocturnal Animals, which deals with the tangled relationships between an art gallery owner and a novel by her former husband Edward. Directed by Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals was well received on its release and will no doubt pick up some new fans when it hits Netflix next month.
Adapted from Austin Wright’s 1993 book Tony and Susan, the pic frequently blurs the lines between reality and the seeming-fiction of the novel, within which Amy Adams’ Susan Morrow begins to see parallels with her first marriage. Gyllenhaal plays both Edward and Tony, the lead character in the book, who goes through a traumatic series of events involving his family. Other cast members include the likes of Armie Hammer,...
Adapted from Austin Wright’s 1993 book Tony and Susan, the pic frequently blurs the lines between reality and the seeming-fiction of the novel, within which Amy Adams’ Susan Morrow begins to see parallels with her first marriage. Gyllenhaal plays both Edward and Tony, the lead character in the book, who goes through a traumatic series of events involving his family. Other cast members include the likes of Armie Hammer,...
- 11/21/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
Nearly a decade after his last feature film, Tony Kaye is returning to the director’s chair to helm the Civil Rights drama Civil. The British filmmaker, best known for his explosive 1998 debut feature American History X, will be directing a script written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, which follows two men from opposite sides […]
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- 7/17/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Exclusive: British filmmaker Tony Kaye has boarded the civil rights feature drama Civil.
Written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, Civil follows two young men from opposite sides of the racial divide in the months leading up to the movement in 1955, who discover the real meaning of equality, through the ashes of tragedy.
Tina Treadwell, former VP of Disney Channel and current president of Treadwell Entertainment Group, is producing with Dru Davis who recently produced the Netflix Aaron Sorkin feature The Trial of the Chicago 7, as well as Kim Coleman, Joshua Uduma, Wright and Knox. Civil is a Treadwell Entertainment Group & Artistic Fortune Entertainment. The movie is planning to shoot early next year. Kaye is a six-time Grammy nominated music video director whose credits include Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train”, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”, Roger Waters’ “What God Wants” and “Help Me” as well as Johnny Cash...
Written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, Civil follows two young men from opposite sides of the racial divide in the months leading up to the movement in 1955, who discover the real meaning of equality, through the ashes of tragedy.
Tina Treadwell, former VP of Disney Channel and current president of Treadwell Entertainment Group, is producing with Dru Davis who recently produced the Netflix Aaron Sorkin feature The Trial of the Chicago 7, as well as Kim Coleman, Joshua Uduma, Wright and Knox. Civil is a Treadwell Entertainment Group & Artistic Fortune Entertainment. The movie is planning to shoot early next year. Kaye is a six-time Grammy nominated music video director whose credits include Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train”, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”, Roger Waters’ “What God Wants” and “Help Me” as well as Johnny Cash...
- 7/16/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)
After a festival tour back in 2006, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday was theatrically re-released by the newly established Grasshopper Films, and now it’s arriving on DVD. The drama is another precisely calibrated, culturally specific demonstration of Farhadi’s skills in constructing empathy machines. Further in line with the director’s filmography, this story has a nesting-doll structure that combines ingrained social hierarchies, domestic drama, and a tragic intersection of misunderstandings. And while it...
Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)
After a festival tour back in 2006, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday was theatrically re-released by the newly established Grasshopper Films, and now it’s arriving on DVD. The drama is another precisely calibrated, culturally specific demonstration of Farhadi’s skills in constructing empathy machines. Further in line with the director’s filmography, this story has a nesting-doll structure that combines ingrained social hierarchies, domestic drama, and a tragic intersection of misunderstandings. And while it...
- 2/21/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The line between reality and fiction is often blurred by the author, who plumbs his or her life experiences to work through anger, grief, remorse, love, etc., pouring those experiences into thinly veiled versions of themselves. But, to use those characters as a blunt instrument in an act of revenge is something different.
Fashion designer cum part-time director Tom Ford explores those themes in his visually perfect, emotionally sterile Nocturnal Animals. He wrote, co-produced, and directed this adaptation of the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. It opened to fairly positive reviews in November but given the heady subject matter, it didn’t find its audience and vanished quickly only to remind audiences of its worthiness when Michael Shannon received an Oscar nod as a Best Supporting Actor nominee.
Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) was once married to Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal), a budding novelist. They became lovers during grad school,...
Fashion designer cum part-time director Tom Ford explores those themes in his visually perfect, emotionally sterile Nocturnal Animals. He wrote, co-produced, and directed this adaptation of the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. It opened to fairly positive reviews in November but given the heady subject matter, it didn’t find its audience and vanished quickly only to remind audiences of its worthiness when Michael Shannon received an Oscar nod as a Best Supporting Actor nominee.
Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) was once married to Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal), a budding novelist. They became lovers during grad school,...
- 2/20/2017
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Yesterday evening, the Writers Guild of America handed out their awards, marking one of the season’s final precursor stops and last guild ceremony. As with many of the guilds this year, a slight curveball was tossed our way, namely in that one potential frontrunner is nominated in a different category at Oscar. You’ll see what I mean shortly, along with a few other precursors that went down over the weekend. Ballots for the Academy Awards are due by tomorrow, so voters are making their final decisions literally as you read this. It’s very much the moment of truth, with the results of it all less than a week away now… Below you will see not just the WGA winners, but also the Cinema Audio Society, which basically predict Best Sound Mixing at the Oscars, as well as the victors from the Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists guild.
- 2/20/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Live from New York! And also Los Angeles! It’s the 2017 Writers Guild Awards, honoring the best in writing for television, film and new media. This year’s big winners included some of the season’s most lauded productions — including “Moonlight,” “Arrival,” “Atlanta” and “The Americans.”
While “Moonlight” and “Arrival” will compete against each other in the Adapted Screenplay category at the Oscars, they were entered in the WGA Awards in different categories, allowing both to make off with an award. “The Americans” pulled out a win for Drama Series, while “Atlanta” snapped up both Comedy Series and New Series. Other winners included “Command and Control,” “Saturday Night Live,” “BoJack Horseman” and “This Is Us.”
Read More: The IndieWire 2016-17 Awards Season Winners Guide
Check out our full list of winners — noted in bold — all updated live as the awards were announced at concurrent ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles this evening.
While “Moonlight” and “Arrival” will compete against each other in the Adapted Screenplay category at the Oscars, they were entered in the WGA Awards in different categories, allowing both to make off with an award. “The Americans” pulled out a win for Drama Series, while “Atlanta” snapped up both Comedy Series and New Series. Other winners included “Command and Control,” “Saturday Night Live,” “BoJack Horseman” and “This Is Us.”
Read More: The IndieWire 2016-17 Awards Season Winners Guide
Check out our full list of winners — noted in bold — all updated live as the awards were announced at concurrent ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles this evening.
- 2/20/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Eight years have passed since Michael Shannon’s first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, picked up for his performance in 2008’s “Revolutionary Road,” and in that time Shannon has become one of the busiest actors in Hollywood, starring in more than 35 feature films.
Shannon recently earned his second Best Supporting Actor nod for Tom Ford’s 2016 dramatic thriller “Nocturnal Animals,” which sees the actor playing a chain-smoking detective named Bobby Andes who’s tasked with investigating a horrific crime.
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Review: Tom Ford’s Ambitious Second Feature Is a Two-Hander With Bite
Shannon’s Andes exists in a story within a story, as “Nocturnal Animals” revolves around a manuscript sent to a wealthy art gallery owner named Susan, played by Amy Adams. The movie shifts back and forth between the events of Susan’s actual life and a live-action depiction of the contents of the manuscript.
Shannon recently earned his second Best Supporting Actor nod for Tom Ford’s 2016 dramatic thriller “Nocturnal Animals,” which sees the actor playing a chain-smoking detective named Bobby Andes who’s tasked with investigating a horrific crime.
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Review: Tom Ford’s Ambitious Second Feature Is a Two-Hander With Bite
Shannon’s Andes exists in a story within a story, as “Nocturnal Animals” revolves around a manuscript sent to a wealthy art gallery owner named Susan, played by Amy Adams. The movie shifts back and forth between the events of Susan’s actual life and a live-action depiction of the contents of the manuscript.
- 2/14/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Moana, Doctor Strange and more top our list of movies to watch at home in FebruaryMoonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Moana, Doctor Strange and more top our list of movies to watch at home in FebruaryGarrett McCormick2/7/2017 3:22:00 Pm
February is a love-fest and what better way to express your love of movies than purchasing the best films that 2016 had to offer!
New in the Cineplex Store this month is a pool of Oscar nominees, a crazy-good superhero film, and a few knee-slapping comedies, so get yourself more prepped than ever for this year's Academy Awards and get a copy of our new releases!
Check out our February New-in-Store Supercut featuring some of this months Cineplex Store releases, and find more releases below:
Nocturnal Animals - Available February 7th
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Amy Adams plays Susan Morrow, an...
February is a love-fest and what better way to express your love of movies than purchasing the best films that 2016 had to offer!
New in the Cineplex Store this month is a pool of Oscar nominees, a crazy-good superhero film, and a few knee-slapping comedies, so get yourself more prepped than ever for this year's Academy Awards and get a copy of our new releases!
Check out our February New-in-Store Supercut featuring some of this months Cineplex Store releases, and find more releases below:
Nocturnal Animals - Available February 7th
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Amy Adams plays Susan Morrow, an...
- 2/7/2017
- by Garrett McCormick
- Cineplex
Universal City, California, January 23, 2017 – Exploring the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption, Academy Award® nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in Nocturnal Animals, coming to Digital HD on February 7, 2017, and Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on February 21, 2017, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron) in his Golden Globe® Award-winning role, Nocturnal Animals on Blu-ray™ and DVD comes with an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the film including an inside look with writer/director Tom Ford.
In the haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension from acclaimed writer/director Tom Ford (A Single Man), Susan (Amy Adams) is in an unfulfilling second marriage when she receives a package containing a manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). Moved by Edward’s writing, Susan cannot...
In the haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension from acclaimed writer/director Tom Ford (A Single Man), Susan (Amy Adams) is in an unfulfilling second marriage when she receives a package containing a manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). Moved by Edward’s writing, Susan cannot...
- 1/24/2017
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
This story originally appeared on realsimple.com.
1. Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
Fun fact: the film adaptation of this New York Times-bestseller began shooting even before the book was released in September. And it’s not hard to see why: Shetterly’s meticulously-researched, inspiring story jumps off the page. The book celebrates Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, the black female mathematicians who worked as “human computers” at the Langley memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia during World War II, tabulating the calculations that would send man into space. The movie is nominated for Best Picture,...
1. Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
Fun fact: the film adaptation of this New York Times-bestseller began shooting even before the book was released in September. And it’s not hard to see why: Shetterly’s meticulously-researched, inspiring story jumps off the page. The book celebrates Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, the black female mathematicians who worked as “human computers” at the Langley memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia during World War II, tabulating the calculations that would send man into space. The movie is nominated for Best Picture,...
- 1/24/2017
- by samgillettetimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Deadly deceptions abound in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, coming out on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD on February 21st following its February 7th Digital HD debut, and we have a look at the film’s home media cover art and list of bonus features.
Press Release: Universal City, California, January 23, 2017 – Exploring the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption, Academy Award® nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in Nocturnal Animals, coming to Digital HD on February 7, 2017, and Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on February 21, 2017, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron) in his Golden Globe® Award-winning role, Nocturnal Animals on Blu-ray™ and DVD comes with an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the film including an inside look with writer/director Tom Ford.
In the haunting romantic...
Press Release: Universal City, California, January 23, 2017 – Exploring the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption, Academy Award® nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in Nocturnal Animals, coming to Digital HD on February 7, 2017, and Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on February 21, 2017, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron) in his Golden Globe® Award-winning role, Nocturnal Animals on Blu-ray™ and DVD comes with an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the film including an inside look with writer/director Tom Ford.
In the haunting romantic...
- 1/24/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Aaron Taylor-Johnson received the Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor on Sunday for his performance in “Nocturnal Animals.” The award was Taylor-Johnson’s first Golden Globe nomination and win.
Read More: 2017 Golden Globes Live Blog: Follow Along as IndieWire Riffs on the Most Entertaining Awards Ceremony of the Year
In “Nocturnal Animals,” a dramatic thriller starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon, Taylor-Johnson plays a psychopath named Ray who haunts Adams’ thoughts after she reads an unpublished novel about a horrific crime he commits in West Texas.
“Nocturnal Animals” takes place in three different worlds: present day, flashbacks, and a live-action depiction of the manuscript sent to Amy Adams’s character Susan by her ex-husband (Gyllenhaal). The second feature film from designer-turned-director Tom Ford, the movie is based on the 1993 Austin Wright novel “Tony and Susan.”
Though the manuscript in the film–also called “Nocturnal Animals...
Read More: 2017 Golden Globes Live Blog: Follow Along as IndieWire Riffs on the Most Entertaining Awards Ceremony of the Year
In “Nocturnal Animals,” a dramatic thriller starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon, Taylor-Johnson plays a psychopath named Ray who haunts Adams’ thoughts after she reads an unpublished novel about a horrific crime he commits in West Texas.
“Nocturnal Animals” takes place in three different worlds: present day, flashbacks, and a live-action depiction of the manuscript sent to Amy Adams’s character Susan by her ex-husband (Gyllenhaal). The second feature film from designer-turned-director Tom Ford, the movie is based on the 1993 Austin Wright novel “Tony and Susan.”
Though the manuscript in the film–also called “Nocturnal Animals...
- 1/9/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Ryan Reynolds meta-superhero movie among nominees for next month’s prizes, while Martin Scorsese religious drama is one of the notable omissions
Oscar contenders La La Land and Moonlight are to go head-to-head in the original screenplay category at next month’s Writers Guild of America awards. Damien Chazelle and Barry Jenkins, who both wrote the movies they also directed, are frontrunners in the field, which also includes Hell or High Water, Loving and Manchester By the Sea – all of which were also written by their directors.
Up for adapted screenplay are Arrival, which was adapted by Eric Heisserer from Story of Your Life, a short story by Ted Chiang; Fences, adapted by August Wilson from his own play; Hidden Figures by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly; Nocturnal Animals, written by director Tom Ford from the Austin Wright novel Tony and Susan; and Deadpool,...
Oscar contenders La La Land and Moonlight are to go head-to-head in the original screenplay category at next month’s Writers Guild of America awards. Damien Chazelle and Barry Jenkins, who both wrote the movies they also directed, are frontrunners in the field, which also includes Hell or High Water, Loving and Manchester By the Sea – all of which were also written by their directors.
Up for adapted screenplay are Arrival, which was adapted by Eric Heisserer from Story of Your Life, a short story by Ted Chiang; Fences, adapted by August Wilson from his own play; Hidden Figures by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly; Nocturnal Animals, written by director Tom Ford from the Austin Wright novel Tony and Susan; and Deadpool,...
- 1/5/2017
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
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Leave it to the Merc With a Mouth to muscle his way into Hollywood’s annual awards season, surprising just about everyone in one fell swoop. As the nominations begin to pour in, Tim Miller’s irreverent Deadpool has received nods from the Golden Globes, all the while being shortlisted in both the Best VFX and Makeup and Hairstyling departments ahead of the 89th Academy Awards.
That’s quite the feat for any feature film, let alone an R-rated superhero movie based on one of the lesser-known characters from the Marvel vault. No wonder Ryan Reynolds is so optimistic about the mercenary’s cinematic future.
Now, we can add another nomination to Deadpool’s collection – and it’s a doozy, for Tim Miller’s no-holds-barred actioner has scooped up a nomination for a Writer’s Guild Award, joining Arrival, Fences,...
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Leave it to the Merc With a Mouth to muscle his way into Hollywood’s annual awards season, surprising just about everyone in one fell swoop. As the nominations begin to pour in, Tim Miller’s irreverent Deadpool has received nods from the Golden Globes, all the while being shortlisted in both the Best VFX and Makeup and Hairstyling departments ahead of the 89th Academy Awards.
That’s quite the feat for any feature film, let alone an R-rated superhero movie based on one of the lesser-known characters from the Marvel vault. No wonder Ryan Reynolds is so optimistic about the mercenary’s cinematic future.
Now, we can add another nomination to Deadpool’s collection – and it’s a doozy, for Tim Miller’s no-holds-barred actioner has scooped up a nomination for a Writer’s Guild Award, joining Arrival, Fences,...
- 1/4/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
With a cluster of frontrunners and a wide-open field of potential Oscar entrants, the 2017 Writers Guild nominations provide more intelligence about where the Oscars could be heading.
The trio at the head of the pack continue to be “La La Land,” “Manchester by the Sea,” and “Moonlight.” Getting a much-needed late-inning boost are modern western “Hell or High Water” and biracial romance “Loving.” Both are critics’ faves that opened earlier in the year.
However, the WGA and the Academy differ on their categories this year. The WGA says “Moonlight” and “Loving” are original screenplays; for the Oscars, they would compete as adapted. That means that Noah Oppenheim’s “Jackie,” and scripts by writer-director Mike Mills (“20th Century Women”) and two non-signatory films that aren’t WGA-eligible, “The Lobster” and “Toni Erdmann,” might have a shot at landing an Oscar nod.
Conversely, that means some of the WGA’s Adapted Screenplay...
The trio at the head of the pack continue to be “La La Land,” “Manchester by the Sea,” and “Moonlight.” Getting a much-needed late-inning boost are modern western “Hell or High Water” and biracial romance “Loving.” Both are critics’ faves that opened earlier in the year.
However, the WGA and the Academy differ on their categories this year. The WGA says “Moonlight” and “Loving” are original screenplays; for the Oscars, they would compete as adapted. That means that Noah Oppenheim’s “Jackie,” and scripts by writer-director Mike Mills (“20th Century Women”) and two non-signatory films that aren’t WGA-eligible, “The Lobster” and “Toni Erdmann,” might have a shot at landing an Oscar nod.
Conversely, that means some of the WGA’s Adapted Screenplay...
- 1/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
With a cluster of frontrunners and a wide-open field of potential Oscar entrants, the 2017 Writers Guild nominations provide more intelligence about where the Oscars could be heading.
The trio at the head of the pack continue to be “La La Land,” “Manchester by the Sea,” and “Moonlight.” Getting a much-needed late-inning boost are modern western “Hell or High Water” and biracial romance “Loving.” Both are critics’ faves that opened earlier in the year.
However, the WGA and the Academy differ on their categories this year. The WGA says “Moonlight” and “Loving” are original screenplays; for the Oscars, they would compete as adapted. That means that Noah Oppenheim’s “Jackie,” and scripts by writer-director Mike Mills (“20th Century Women”) and two non-signatory films that aren’t WGA-eligible, “The Lobster” and “Toni Erdmann,” might have a shot at landing an Oscar nod.
Conversely, that means some of the WGA’s Adapted Screenplay...
The trio at the head of the pack continue to be “La La Land,” “Manchester by the Sea,” and “Moonlight.” Getting a much-needed late-inning boost are modern western “Hell or High Water” and biracial romance “Loving.” Both are critics’ faves that opened earlier in the year.
However, the WGA and the Academy differ on their categories this year. The WGA says “Moonlight” and “Loving” are original screenplays; for the Oscars, they would compete as adapted. That means that Noah Oppenheim’s “Jackie,” and scripts by writer-director Mike Mills (“20th Century Women”) and two non-signatory films that aren’t WGA-eligible, “The Lobster” and “Toni Erdmann,” might have a shot at landing an Oscar nod.
Conversely, that means some of the WGA’s Adapted Screenplay...
- 1/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Look, I loved Deadpool! I thought it was a great film that was solidly written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, but I didn't think it would ever be nominated for any awards! But here we are, awards season upon us, and it was just nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards, which means it could very well end up getting an Oscar nomination! How awesome is that?! The WGA nominations frequently predict what the Academy is going to recognize in their Adapted and Original Screenplay nominations.
Does it have a chance of winning? If it was nominated, then yeah... it definitely has a chance! The movie is going up against some pretty heavy hitters, though. You can see the full list of screenplay nominations below:
Original SCREENPLAYHell or High Water, Written by Taylor Sheridan; CBS FilmsLa La Land, Written by Damien Chazelle; LionsgateLoving, Written by Jeff Nichols...
Does it have a chance of winning? If it was nominated, then yeah... it definitely has a chance! The movie is going up against some pretty heavy hitters, though. You can see the full list of screenplay nominations below:
Original SCREENPLAYHell or High Water, Written by Taylor Sheridan; CBS FilmsLa La Land, Written by Damien Chazelle; LionsgateLoving, Written by Jeff Nichols...
- 1/4/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Just now, the Writers Guild of America announced their nominations, which are always an interesting precursor to take note of. They’re the next of the big guilds, potentially shaping how the Academy Award nominations will ultimately go. The nominees today were a mix of the expected frontrunners like Damien Chazelle for La La Land, Barry Jenkins for Moonlight, and Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea, but the WGA also made room for Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick for Deadpool, along with Taylor Sheridan for Hell or High Water, just to name a few. Overall, it’s a lineup that’s hard to argue with, even if there were snubs here and there. Below you will see the nominees, but first, a bit of prep. Remember that in the Original Screenplay category, Everybody Wants Some, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Lobster, Miss Sloane, and Paterson were declared ineligible. Also not...
- 1/4/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Writers Guild of America announced the nominees for the 2017 WGA Awards this morning, with “Manchester by the Sea” and “Moonlight” both landing nods for Best Original Screenplay and “Arrival” and “Nocturnal Animals” among the contenders for Best Adapted Screenplay. Patton Oswalt is hosting this year’s ceremony, which takes place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, February 19. Full list of nominees below.
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Original Screenplay
“Hell or High Water,” written by Taylor Sheridan; CBS Films
“La La Land,” written by Damien Chazelle; Lionsgate
“Loving,” written by Jeff Nichols; Focus Features
“Manchester by the Sea,” written by Kenneth Lonergan; Amazon Studios/Roadside Attractions
“Moonlight,” written by Barry Jenkins, Story by Tarell McCraney; A24
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Adapted Screenplay
“Arrival,” screenplay by Eric Heisserer...
Read More: Casey Affleck Bashes Himself and 5 Other Surprises From the New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Original Screenplay
“Hell or High Water,” written by Taylor Sheridan; CBS Films
“La La Land,” written by Damien Chazelle; Lionsgate
“Loving,” written by Jeff Nichols; Focus Features
“Manchester by the Sea,” written by Kenneth Lonergan; Amazon Studios/Roadside Attractions
“Moonlight,” written by Barry Jenkins, Story by Tarell McCraney; A24
Read More: 2017 Independent Spirit Awards: Nick Kroll and John Mulaney to Co-Host Ceremony
Adapted Screenplay
“Arrival,” screenplay by Eric Heisserer...
- 1/4/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
‘Nocturnal Animals’ (Courtesy: Merrick Morton/Focus Features)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
This year’s contenders for best adapted screenplay are quite the eclectic group based on their sources — something that can never be said for those competing for best original screenplay. When looking at this category’s past since the year 2000, can history dictate which type of adapted screenplays the Academy might be leaning toward at the 2017 Oscars?
This site’s namesake, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, honed in on nine films considered either frontrunners (the first five) or major threats (the last four) in his latest check-in on the Oscar race: Moonlight, Lion, Fences, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Nocturnal Animals, Sully, Silence, and Loving. The original sources for these films are as varied as the subject matter in the works they inspired, so let’s break them down.
As for frontrunners: Moonlight, written and directed by Barry Jenkins,...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
This year’s contenders for best adapted screenplay are quite the eclectic group based on their sources — something that can never be said for those competing for best original screenplay. When looking at this category’s past since the year 2000, can history dictate which type of adapted screenplays the Academy might be leaning toward at the 2017 Oscars?
This site’s namesake, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, honed in on nine films considered either frontrunners (the first five) or major threats (the last four) in his latest check-in on the Oscar race: Moonlight, Lion, Fences, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Nocturnal Animals, Sully, Silence, and Loving. The original sources for these films are as varied as the subject matter in the works they inspired, so let’s break them down.
As for frontrunners: Moonlight, written and directed by Barry Jenkins,...
- 12/22/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
Although he has a pretty good day job, fashion maven Tom Ford has been busy as well creating a pretty impressive screen career on the side. First there was A Single Man, and now seven years later the Hitchcock-style thriller Nocturnal Animals, which not only won him the Silver Lion when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival but also this morning he was Golden Globe nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his stylish adaptation of Austin Wright’s complex…...
- 12/12/2016
- Deadline
Director: Tom Ford Writers: Tom Ford (screenplay), Austin Wright (novel) Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Ellie Bamber, Armie Hammer, Karl Glusman, Rober Aramayo, Laura Linney From the opening sequence, featuring slo-mo footage of a variety of obese, older, scarred women dancing mostly nude in majorette uniforms with pom poms or sparklers in […]...
- 12/9/2016
- by Linc Leifeste
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
This award season features a handful of critically acclaimed films that have been written and directed by talented auteurs like Barry Jenkins, Tom Ford, Mike Mills and Jeff Nichols.
Each one of them, along with three additional directors (Damien Chazelle, Kenneth Lonergan and Andrea Arnold), were featured in T Magazine‘s “The Auteurs Changing Cinema” piece, highlighting their recent features.
Additionally, four separate videos were also shared with the article where Jenkins, Ford, Mills and Nichols discuss their favorite scene in their movie, why they decided to move forward with their projects and the difficulties that they faced.
Read More: ‘Moonlight’ Exclusive: Barry Jenkins’ Acclaimed Drama Is One Of The Year’s Essential Moviegoing Experiences
Jenkins is known for “Moonlight,” the story of a young man’s struggles, told across three defining chapters of his life, as he grapples with his sexuality and broken family. In the clip he talks...
Each one of them, along with three additional directors (Damien Chazelle, Kenneth Lonergan and Andrea Arnold), were featured in T Magazine‘s “The Auteurs Changing Cinema” piece, highlighting their recent features.
Additionally, four separate videos were also shared with the article where Jenkins, Ford, Mills and Nichols discuss their favorite scene in their movie, why they decided to move forward with their projects and the difficulties that they faced.
Read More: ‘Moonlight’ Exclusive: Barry Jenkins’ Acclaimed Drama Is One Of The Year’s Essential Moviegoing Experiences
Jenkins is known for “Moonlight,” the story of a young man’s struggles, told across three defining chapters of his life, as he grapples with his sexuality and broken family. In the clip he talks...
- 12/2/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
It was a great honor to meet and interview fashion icon Tom Ford. Besides being one of the world.s top designers, Ford is an auteur and a master at creating mood as evident in 2009.s .A Single Man. and this year.s .Nocturnal Animals.. Why did the director decide to tackle Austin Wright.s novel Tony and Susan? Take a look at my fun interview with Mr. Tom Ford.
- 11/22/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
“I’m too cynical to be an artist,” muses a character at around the midpoint of Nocturnal Animals, the second feature by the fashion designer Tom Ford, perhaps winking to the audience of this arch and self-conscious film. For Nocturnal Animals takes dilettantism as a principle; Ford, who previously directed A Single Man, is a mimic and an unapologetic aesthete, and his liberal adaptation of Austin Wright’s novel Tony And Susan operates on the cusp of satire, playing with insincerity and indulgence as it conveys the workings of a reader’s imagination. Its three interrelated stories reflect and obscure one another in equal measure: a Los Angeles drama about the ennui and mores of the modish rich, focused on a gallery owner married to a nearly bankrupt businessman; a violent thriller about a family man seeking revenge against Texas hicks, which is actually a novel manuscript by the gallery...
- 11/17/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
- 11/17/2016
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
For more from Tom Ford, watch the full episode of The Jess Cagle Interview, available now on the new People/Entertainment Weekly Network (Pen). Go to People.com/Pen, or download the Pen app on Apple TV, Roku Players, Amazon Fire TV, Xumo, Chromecast, iOS and Android devices.
Whether it’s on the runway or on the big screen, Tom Ford knows what he’s looking for.
So when casting his new film Nocturnal Animals, the acclaimed fashion designer-turned-director already had the perfect actress in mind to play its complicated lead. “Amy was the very first person I cast,” Ford,...
Whether it’s on the runway or on the big screen, Tom Ford knows what he’s looking for.
So when casting his new film Nocturnal Animals, the acclaimed fashion designer-turned-director already had the perfect actress in mind to play its complicated lead. “Amy was the very first person I cast,” Ford,...
- 11/17/2016
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
Tom Ford is drunk on movies. Like the fashion icon he is, the director brings a keen eye for style, texture and design to the images he creates. But bruised humanity and the emotions roiling underneath elegant surfaces – those are his true subjects as a filmmaker. A Single Man (2009) was a masterful debut with Colin Firth giving a career-best performance as a gay professor feeling suicidal over the death of his lover. Ford hits it out of the park again in Nocturnal Animals, a stunning film noir that resonates with ghostly,...
- 11/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
It has been seven years since Tom Ford added the job description of film director to his already famous fashion empire. That movie, A Single Man, was rightly acclaimed, and now with Nocturnal Animals he proves it was no fluke. Based on the 1993 novel Tony & Susan by Austin Wright, this adult thriller is a crazy mix of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Douglas Sirk, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick and even a bit of Sam Peckinpah thrown in for good measure. But overall it is…...
- 11/15/2016
- Deadline
Nocturnal Animals Focus Features Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Tom Ford Written by: Tom Ford, adapted from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan” Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Ellie Bamber, Laura Linney Screened at: Park Avenue, NYC, 11/1/16 Opens: November 18, 2016 During the 1988 presidential debate, when Michael Dukakis was asked by CNN’s Bernard Shaw how he would react if his wife Kitty were raped and murdered, Dukakis, a long-term enemy of the death penalty, said, “I think there are better ways of dealing with violence.” That may have cost him the election, given the mentality of [ Read More ]
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- 11/7/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
This is the Pure Movies review of Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford and starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Isla Fisher. Written by Dominic Hicks. Nocturnal Animals (based on the novel ‘Tony and Susan’ by Austin Wright) is a captivating but confused meta-thriller in which successful gallery owner and socialite Susan (a convincing but sedate Amy Adams) finds herself engrossed in the proof-copy of a novel written by Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal), the ex-partner she betrayed. The film unfolds duplicitously - Susan grows increasingly dissatisfied with her opulent but lonely lifestyle, while the protagonist of Tony’s novel (also played by Gyllenhaal, in a choice that leaves his performance somewhat uncentered) loses his wife and daughter to a gang of highway outlaws and is left adrift in the desert with only cancer-ridden Texas sheriff (Michael Shannon) to help him.
- 11/6/2016
- by Dominic Hicks
- Pure Movies
This stylish psychodrama is a skilful synthesis of the mood of Hitchcock, the skewed reality of Lynch and Kubrick’s obsessive attention to detail
Like the heavy-framed Céline glasses that Amy Adams dons to read the story-within-a-story of this interlocking psychological drama, Tom Ford’s second feature is a handsomely crafted affair, designed to within an inch of its life to combine crystal-clear vision with eye-catching style. Working from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel, Tony and Susan, writer-director Ford filters the central concerns of the source material (a cautionary tale about love, loyalty, guilt and false gods) through the precise prism of his own distinctively machined lens. Crisp editing by Joan Sobel ensures the film’s joints are supple, with finely honed narrative hinges opening and closing in pleasingly swish fashion. That the finished product should appear just a little too transparent is perhaps the price one pays for this level of polish.
Like the heavy-framed Céline glasses that Amy Adams dons to read the story-within-a-story of this interlocking psychological drama, Tom Ford’s second feature is a handsomely crafted affair, designed to within an inch of its life to combine crystal-clear vision with eye-catching style. Working from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel, Tony and Susan, writer-director Ford filters the central concerns of the source material (a cautionary tale about love, loyalty, guilt and false gods) through the precise prism of his own distinctively machined lens. Crisp editing by Joan Sobel ensures the film’s joints are supple, with finely honed narrative hinges opening and closing in pleasingly swish fashion. That the finished product should appear just a little too transparent is perhaps the price one pays for this level of polish.
- 11/6/2016
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Ford‘s Nocturnal Animals is a beautiful and nasty piece of work. Ford’s adaptation of the late Austin Wright‘s Tony & Susan has elements of a thriller, but first and foremost, it’s a love story. An often unsettling and tragic love story. Ford’s latest actually shares a few similarities with A Single Man, but it’s a much bigger and […]
The post ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Featurette: Tom Ford’s Cruel and Dark Love Story appeared first on /Film.
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- 11/4/2016
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Tensions are high with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in these new clips from Nocturnal AnimalsTensions are high with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in these new clips from Nocturnal AnimalsGarrett McCormick11/3/2016 11:57:00 Am
Arrival isn’t the only film we’ll be seeing Amy Adams in this fall. The release of Nocturnal Animals is just around the corner and her performance in these new clips is captivating.
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Adams plays Susan Morrow, an art gallery owner who comes across the manuscript of a novel her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) wrote about her. The book is filled with the essence of revenge, hatred and bitterness, leaving Susan questioning all of the choices she made in her relationship with him.
Tom Ford is back as a director for his the second time, after huge success with his 2009 Oscar nominated film A Single Man.
Arrival isn’t the only film we’ll be seeing Amy Adams in this fall. The release of Nocturnal Animals is just around the corner and her performance in these new clips is captivating.
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Adams plays Susan Morrow, an art gallery owner who comes across the manuscript of a novel her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) wrote about her. The book is filled with the essence of revenge, hatred and bitterness, leaving Susan questioning all of the choices she made in her relationship with him.
Tom Ford is back as a director for his the second time, after huge success with his 2009 Oscar nominated film A Single Man.
- 11/3/2016
- by Garrett McCormick
- Cineplex
Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams star in the gripping story of a broken-hearted ex-husband who wreaks vengeance decades later with his unpublished novel
Nocturnal Animals delivers a double shot of horror and Nabokovian despair: it’s excessive, outrageous, a story within a story about the super-rich and super-poor. Director Tom Ford has adapted Austin Wright’s 1993 novel Tony and Susan, magnifying its cruelties and ironies, and bringing to it a sheen of hardcore porn and pure provocation.
This movie had its premiere at Venice earlier this year, and it was every bit as horribly gripping and intimately upsetting this second time around. But now I was struck by its emphasis on the writer’s brooding, solitary life: the writer for whom autobiographical fiction is therapy and revenge. Watching this film, I found myself wondering how Evelyn Waugh’s first wife felt when she received her copy of A Handful of Dust,...
Nocturnal Animals delivers a double shot of horror and Nabokovian despair: it’s excessive, outrageous, a story within a story about the super-rich and super-poor. Director Tom Ford has adapted Austin Wright’s 1993 novel Tony and Susan, magnifying its cruelties and ironies, and bringing to it a sheen of hardcore porn and pure provocation.
This movie had its premiere at Venice earlier this year, and it was every bit as horribly gripping and intimately upsetting this second time around. But now I was struck by its emphasis on the writer’s brooding, solitary life: the writer for whom autobiographical fiction is therapy and revenge. Watching this film, I found myself wondering how Evelyn Waugh’s first wife felt when she received her copy of A Handful of Dust,...
- 11/3/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s taken seven years, but Tom Ford has made his return to the world of feature filmmaking. “Nocturnal Animals,” which opens in limited release this month, marks the fashion designer’s sophomore effort after “A Single Man.” Focus Features just released a new featurette for the drama starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. Watch it below.
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ New Clips Depict Tom Ford’s Criminals and Lovers — Watch All Three
Gyllenhaal discusses the film’s exploration of unrequited love, saying that “Nocturnal Animals” is about “what we sacrifice when you don’t follow your heart.” “The message is connection and loyalty,” adds Ford. “When you have someone important, someone that you love, don’t throw them away. Don’t let them go.”
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Trailer: Tom Ford Unravels Crime and Melodrama With Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal
Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer,...
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ New Clips Depict Tom Ford’s Criminals and Lovers — Watch All Three
Gyllenhaal discusses the film’s exploration of unrequited love, saying that “Nocturnal Animals” is about “what we sacrifice when you don’t follow your heart.” “The message is connection and loyalty,” adds Ford. “When you have someone important, someone that you love, don’t throw them away. Don’t let them go.”
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Trailer: Tom Ford Unravels Crime and Melodrama With Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal
Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer,...
- 11/1/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
“Nocturnal Animals” is a film that takes place in three different worlds: present day, flashbacks, and a live-action depiction of a manuscript sent to Amy Adams’s character Susan by her ex-husband, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. The second feature film from designer-turned-director Tom Ford, the movie is based on the 1993 Austin Wright novel “Tony and Susan.”
Read More: Why ‘The Accountant’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Shot on Film
Though the manuscript in the film–also called “Nocturnal Animals–is a fictional story about a horrific crime, Ford brings the unpublished novel to life within the context of the movie by having Gyllenhaal play both Adams’ ex-husband and the main character of the manuscript.
It’s been six years since Ford’s directorial debut “A Single Man,” but the beautifully interwoven narratives of the haunting “Nocturnal Animals” make it well worth the wait. The three different worlds within the movie also feel truly distinct,...
Read More: Why ‘The Accountant’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Shot on Film
Though the manuscript in the film–also called “Nocturnal Animals–is a fictional story about a horrific crime, Ford brings the unpublished novel to life within the context of the movie by having Gyllenhaal play both Adams’ ex-husband and the main character of the manuscript.
It’s been six years since Ford’s directorial debut “A Single Man,” but the beautifully interwoven narratives of the haunting “Nocturnal Animals” make it well worth the wait. The three different worlds within the movie also feel truly distinct,...
- 10/31/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
There is a lot to draw a person to theaters to see Nocturnal Animals, but the draw everyone needs to make sure is on their list is writer/director Tom Ford.
It has some of the most interesting and talented actors and actresses working today, including – Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, and Laura Linney. It’s also based on a very popular book by Austin Wright. And, even without all that, it’s a very odd, psychological thriller that turns on love gone wrong… or sideways, or something.
There all reasons that people will hopefully find their way to theaters, but Tom Ford is even more interesting, and I really hope people are taking him into account.
His other writing/directing effort, A Single Man, is a film that certainly managed a lot of attention, but even for those who didn’t love it, it has to be appreciated.
It has some of the most interesting and talented actors and actresses working today, including – Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, and Laura Linney. It’s also based on a very popular book by Austin Wright. And, even without all that, it’s a very odd, psychological thriller that turns on love gone wrong… or sideways, or something.
There all reasons that people will hopefully find their way to theaters, but Tom Ford is even more interesting, and I really hope people are taking him into account.
His other writing/directing effort, A Single Man, is a film that certainly managed a lot of attention, but even for those who didn’t love it, it has to be appreciated.
- 10/28/2016
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Tom Ford's second film, the get-under-your-skin drama, Nocturnal Animals. Here's our review.
After starting his movie directorial career in 2009 with the acclaimed A Single Man (steering Colin Firth to an Oscar nomination), Tom Ford has taken his time before returning with his engrossing second film Nocturnal Animals. Thankfully, it's been worth the wait.
Adapted by Ford from Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony And Susan, the story begins when disillusioned art curator Susan (Amy Adams) receives her ex-husband Edward Sheffield’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) novel, which he has dedicated to her. Susan is left confused: she's had no contact with Edward in decades, for reasons that aren't initially revealed. Why, then, would he dedicate the book to her?
It sets in a motion a movie that has three different threads running through it: we see Susan's unfulfilled life now with a disinterested husband (Armie Hammer...
After starting his movie directorial career in 2009 with the acclaimed A Single Man (steering Colin Firth to an Oscar nomination), Tom Ford has taken his time before returning with his engrossing second film Nocturnal Animals. Thankfully, it's been worth the wait.
Adapted by Ford from Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony And Susan, the story begins when disillusioned art curator Susan (Amy Adams) receives her ex-husband Edward Sheffield’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) novel, which he has dedicated to her. Susan is left confused: she's had no contact with Edward in decades, for reasons that aren't initially revealed. Why, then, would he dedicate the book to her?
It sets in a motion a movie that has three different threads running through it: we see Susan's unfulfilled life now with a disinterested husband (Armie Hammer...
- 10/26/2016
- Den of Geek
Tom Ford's sophomore feature scratches many itches while adapting Austin Wright's 1993 novel for the big screen. It is challenging populist entertainment, garnished with Lynchian genre elements, but done with the kind of top-shelf craft one expects out of Hollywood, and is pitched at adults instead of teenagers. It is going to be filed under art-house. Pay no attention to labels, though. This is engaging, imposing filmmaking, of the kind that usually comes from Jonathan Glazer, P.T. Anderson, or David Fincher. And while one cannot see everything at a large international film festival, I did manage to catch almost 50 films at Tiff this year, and this was the best thing I saw. An art gallery owner, Susan Morrow (Amy Adams), is haunted by her...
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- 10/21/2016
- Screen Anarchy
“When you love someone, you can’t just throw it away.” That’s an adage Jake Gyllenhaal’s wounded divorcee Edward takes to a whole new level in the latest trailer for Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford’s über-stylish romantic thriller on course for a limited release late next month.
Unlike those teasers that have come before, today’s snippet sheds some light on the calm before the storm, introducing a younger Susan (Amy Adams) and Edward (Gyllenhaal) as they fall deeply and madly in love. Something is amiss, though, and after heeding warnings from her nearest and dearest, Susan decides to break things off, eventually leading Edward to pen an intense, jet-black screenplay based on their fiery relationship, aptly titled Nocturnal Animals. Is it a threat hidden in disguise?
Citing Austin Wright novel Tony and Susan as inspiration, even from this trailer alone, writer-director Tom Ford displays a deft knack for building tension.
Unlike those teasers that have come before, today’s snippet sheds some light on the calm before the storm, introducing a younger Susan (Amy Adams) and Edward (Gyllenhaal) as they fall deeply and madly in love. Something is amiss, though, and after heeding warnings from her nearest and dearest, Susan decides to break things off, eventually leading Edward to pen an intense, jet-black screenplay based on their fiery relationship, aptly titled Nocturnal Animals. Is it a threat hidden in disguise?
Citing Austin Wright novel Tony and Susan as inspiration, even from this trailer alone, writer-director Tom Ford displays a deft knack for building tension.
- 10/21/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
“When you love someone, you have to be careful with it. You might never get it again.” The official trailer has arrived for Focus Features’ Nocturnal Animals from writer/director Tom Ford. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the haunting romantic thriller bows in theaters on November 18, in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, and expands nationwide December 9. The film, based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright, is…...
- 10/21/2016
- Deadline
The latest trailer for Tom Ford‘s festival hit “Nocturnal Animals” shows there is no shortage of conflict in the drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams. The A-list pair plays a divorced couple still at odds with each other, probably because Adams’ character admits, “I did something horrible to him. I left him in a brutal way.” What exactly she did remains a mystery — at least for those who didn’t read author Austin Wright’s novel “Tony and Susan,” which writer-director Ford based the film on. Also Read: 'Nocturnal Animals' Venice Review: Tom Ford Gambles Big...
- 10/21/2016
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
It’s quite the time to be alive for Amy Adams fans. On the heels of the final trailer for Denise Villeneuve’s “Arrival,” which has thrown Adams into the thick of the Best Actress Oscar race, a new trailer has debuted for “Nocturnal Animals.” The second feature form designer-turned-director Tom Ford, and his first since “A Single Man” six years ago, “Nocturnal Animals” is based on the 1993 Austin Wright novel “Tony and Susan.” The crime drama/melodrama hybrid divided critics at Venice and Tiff, though most agree the performances are stellar.
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Review: Tom Ford’s Ambitious Second Feature Is a Two-Hander With Bite
Adams plays a Los Angeles artist who’s unhappy with her job and marriage. She receives a manuscript from her ex-husband (Gyllenhaal), who she hasn’t seen in nearly 19 years, and begins devouring the text, which Ford brings to life in a duel storyline.
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Review: Tom Ford’s Ambitious Second Feature Is a Two-Hander With Bite
Adams plays a Los Angeles artist who’s unhappy with her job and marriage. She receives a manuscript from her ex-husband (Gyllenhaal), who she hasn’t seen in nearly 19 years, and begins devouring the text, which Ford brings to life in a duel storyline.
- 10/21/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Tom Ford’s follow-up to “A Single Man,” “Nocturnal Animals,” has been generating buzz since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Winning the festival’s Grand Jury Prize, the film received critical acclaim, with IndieWire’s Ben Croll calling it “an impressively ambitious effort…that is almost as pleasurable to reflect on as it is to actually watch,” in his A- review. Ahead of its release next month, Focus Features shared a stunning new poster which features Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams.
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Posters: Meet The Twisted Characters At The Center Of Tom Ford’s Acclaimed Thriller
The one-sheet shows a close up of Adams with a shadow of Gyllenhaal reflected on her face. The phrase “When you love someone you can’t just throw it away” is seen at the bottom.
The haunting psychological thriller is based on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan,...
Read More: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Posters: Meet The Twisted Characters At The Center Of Tom Ford’s Acclaimed Thriller
The one-sheet shows a close up of Adams with a shadow of Gyllenhaal reflected on her face. The phrase “When you love someone you can’t just throw it away” is seen at the bottom.
The haunting psychological thriller is based on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan,...
- 10/14/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Screen’s chief film critic Fionnuala Halligan notes the films that stood out from the pack at this year’s Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals.1. La-La Land
La La Land
It opened the Venice Film Festival, charged into Telluride and continued to draw queues throughout its Toronto Film Festival run where it won the coveted Audience Award. Saturation coverage for Lionsgate’s uber-romantic Damien Chazelle-directed musical was assisted by Emma Stone’s Best Actress win at Venice. Now it heads to the Zurich and London film festivals before a limited release in the Us on December 2, opening wide on the 16th. Happy Christmas for all concerned: by the end of the fall festival guzzle, La La Land seems to be the one to beat for Best Picture.
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2. Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford won Best Director at Venice for his adaptation of Austin Wright’s narratively snakey novel Tony And Susan, and deservedly...
La La Land
It opened the Venice Film Festival, charged into Telluride and continued to draw queues throughout its Toronto Film Festival run where it won the coveted Audience Award. Saturation coverage for Lionsgate’s uber-romantic Damien Chazelle-directed musical was assisted by Emma Stone’s Best Actress win at Venice. Now it heads to the Zurich and London film festivals before a limited release in the Us on December 2, opening wide on the 16th. Happy Christmas for all concerned: by the end of the fall festival guzzle, La La Land seems to be the one to beat for Best Picture.
Contact: Lionsgate
2. Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford won Best Director at Venice for his adaptation of Austin Wright’s narratively snakey novel Tony And Susan, and deservedly...
- 9/21/2016
- by finn.halligan@screendaily.com (Fionnuala Halligan)
- ScreenDaily
Kayti Burt Sep 19, 2016
Here's the trailer for director Tom Ford's acclaimed - and posh prize-winning new movie - Nocturnal Animals...
Nocturnal Animals, the latest from Tom Ford (A Single Man), took home the Grand Jury Prize Award at the Venice Film Festival and has been subtly making critical waves ever since. Now, we've got the first official trailer for the film starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, and it's not hard to see why Nocturnal Animals might be something special...
Nocturnal Animals is based on the Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony and Susan about a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from ex-husband Edward, whom she left twenty years prior. The story shows us what is happening in Susan's real life, as well as the narrative of the book.
We're getting some Gone Girl vibes from this trailer. What is the "horrible" thing that Susan has done to Edward?...
Here's the trailer for director Tom Ford's acclaimed - and posh prize-winning new movie - Nocturnal Animals...
Nocturnal Animals, the latest from Tom Ford (A Single Man), took home the Grand Jury Prize Award at the Venice Film Festival and has been subtly making critical waves ever since. Now, we've got the first official trailer for the film starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, and it's not hard to see why Nocturnal Animals might be something special...
Nocturnal Animals is based on the Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony and Susan about a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from ex-husband Edward, whom she left twenty years prior. The story shows us what is happening in Susan's real life, as well as the narrative of the book.
We're getting some Gone Girl vibes from this trailer. What is the "horrible" thing that Susan has done to Edward?...
- 9/16/2016
- Den of Geek
Wtf is going on? That is the question you will ask yourself after watching this trailer. Fresh off another successful fashion week, designer Tom Ford has another project to be excited about—his second feature film Nocturnal Animals (for those who don't remember, Ford was the mastermind behind the movie A Single Man, starring Colin Firth). The romantic thriller, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, is based on Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony and Susan, which tells the story of a successful La art-gallery owner (Adams) whose ex-husband Edward (Gyllenhaal) shows up after nearly 20 years of no contact with a violent novel that clearly seems to be written about their relationship. "I...
- 9/16/2016
- E! Online
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