Exclusive: Following their work together on Ted Melfi’s acclaimed coming-of-age drama St. Vincent, Naomi Watts (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) and Bill Murray (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) have been set to topline The Friend, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s New York Times bestselling novel, from writer-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (Montana Story).
Others set to star in the indie include Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians), Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale), and Noma Dumezweni (The Watcher).
David Siegel and Scott McGehee
Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, The Friend follows a New York writer in the aftermath of her lifelong friend and mentor’s unexpected death. Thereafter, she’s left to deal with his complicated literary legacy, three eccentric ex-wives — and a massive, brokenhearted Great Dane named Apollo.
Currently in production on the film in New York,...
Others set to star in the indie include Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians), Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale), and Noma Dumezweni (The Watcher).
David Siegel and Scott McGehee
Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, The Friend follows a New York writer in the aftermath of her lifelong friend and mentor’s unexpected death. Thereafter, she’s left to deal with his complicated literary legacy, three eccentric ex-wives — and a massive, brokenhearted Great Dane named Apollo.
Currently in production on the film in New York,...
- 2/26/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Disney original animation is looking at a comeback this Thanksgiving. The princess pic Wish is looking at as much as $45M-$50M over five days after the studio suffering a setback over last year’s holiday with Strange World, which did $18.8M.
With the strikes over and Thanksgiving week a primetime for moviegoing with K-12 schools off all week and colleges off Thursday and Friday, there’s a lot of hope from Hollywood for a bountiful box office. All movies combined to gross $134M during the Wednesday-Sunday period in 2022. Remember, Black Friday is one of the richest days of the year at the domestic box office.
The overseas release for Wish is a staggered approach a la Disney/Pixar’s Elemental, with only 43% of the foreign marketplace going this week including major markets UK, Spain, Mexico, China, as well as India, Benelux, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines. All in, $25M is expected from abroad,...
With the strikes over and Thanksgiving week a primetime for moviegoing with K-12 schools off all week and colleges off Thursday and Friday, there’s a lot of hope from Hollywood for a bountiful box office. All movies combined to gross $134M during the Wednesday-Sunday period in 2022. Remember, Black Friday is one of the richest days of the year at the domestic box office.
The overseas release for Wish is a staggered approach a la Disney/Pixar’s Elemental, with only 43% of the foreign marketplace going this week including major markets UK, Spain, Mexico, China, as well as India, Benelux, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines. All in, $25M is expected from abroad,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Late last week, Deadline broke the news that Warner Bros. has partnered with Scott McGehee and David Siegel (“Uncertainty,” “What Maisie Knew”) to create an all-female “Lord of the Flies” movie. The proposed drama marks a third adaptation of William Golding’s classic 1953 novel. The first two adaptations premiered in 1963 (dir. Peter Brook) and 1990 (dir.
Continue reading All-Female ‘Lord of the Flies’ Vies for Coveted Title Of Least Desirable Hollywood Project at The Playlist.
Continue reading All-Female ‘Lord of the Flies’ Vies for Coveted Title Of Least Desirable Hollywood Project at The Playlist.
- 9/7/2017
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
Exclusive: This seems to be the season for client migration. In a day where several agencies saw prominent players move, filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee have just signed with ICM Partners. The duo most recently helmed What Maisie Knew, the film that premiered in Toronto and was released by Millennium Entertainment, with Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, Alexander Skarsgard and Onata Aprile starring. They also helmed the Richard Gere-Juliette Binoche starrer Bee Season, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt starrer Uncertainty and their breakout film was the dark Tilda Swinton starrer The Deep End. The duo most recently was repped by Wme.
- 2/11/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
★★★☆☆An adaptation of Henry James' bestselling 1897 novel - uprooted to modern New York - Scott McGehee and David Siegel's What Maisie Knew (2012) is a poignant tale of the gruelling pangs of divorce and how the separation of two mismatched, deeply insensitive individuals has both a positive and negative effect on its titular central character. Tackling such perennial and commonplace themes and subjects, McGehee and Siegel's latest collaboration, following the tepid Uncertainty (2009), is thought-provoking but unmemorable, assembling a fine cast who make the most of weighty yet transitory material.
- 1/6/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Filmmaker duo David Siegel and Scott McGehee have been making movies since 1993 and their black-and-white thriller Suture, starring Dennis Haysbert as a car bomb survivor who fights to regain his memory and rebuild his damaged face while figuring out the person responsible for the blast. Their filmography is unique, a diverse collection of dramas including The Deep End, a mother/son thriller starring Tilda Swinton; Bee Season, about a father (Richard Gere) obsessed with his 11-year-old daughter’s training to win the national spelling bee and the twisty romance Uncertainty, two distinct parallel stories featuring the same characters played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. For their highest profile movie to date, the family-in-crisis drama What Maisie Knew, Siegel and McGehee tackle the 1897 Henry James novel, their first adaptation of a literary classic.
- 5/28/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Chicago – The story of “What Maisie Knew” may be unusual, but the reflection of the subject matter fits perfectly within the patterns of contemporary family culture. Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel create a scenerio in which a custody battle for a little girl named Maisie becomes more about the parent’s egos than her care.
“What Maisie Knew” is amazingly based on a novel by Henry James (“The Turn of the Screw,” “The Bostonians”) written in 1897. Two screenwriters adapted the story into contemporary times 18 years ago, and the co-directors McGehee and Siegel brought it up to date in the post technological age. They worked with a stellar cast, including Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan and Alexander Skarsgard, plus a child actor named Onata Aprile, who brings Maisie to life with heartbreaking sensitivity.
Julianne Moore and Onata Aprile in ‘What Maisie Knew’
Photo credit: Millennium Entertainment
Scott McGehee and David Siegel...
“What Maisie Knew” is amazingly based on a novel by Henry James (“The Turn of the Screw,” “The Bostonians”) written in 1897. Two screenwriters adapted the story into contemporary times 18 years ago, and the co-directors McGehee and Siegel brought it up to date in the post technological age. They worked with a stellar cast, including Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan and Alexander Skarsgard, plus a child actor named Onata Aprile, who brings Maisie to life with heartbreaking sensitivity.
Julianne Moore and Onata Aprile in ‘What Maisie Knew’
Photo credit: Millennium Entertainment
Scott McGehee and David Siegel...
- 5/27/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
While the works of Henry James wouldn't necessarily seem to lend themselves well to being contemporized, it's still surprising that his "What Maisie Knew" has never had a major film adaptation before, as it remains a pretty unflinching look at post-divorce child upbringing through the eyes of the title character. But now "Bee Season" and "Uncertainty" co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel are bringing James' novel into the twenty first century, with newcomer Onata Aprile as the titular six year old, observing the bitter custody battle between her aging rocker mom (Julianne Moore) and art dealer dad (Steve Coogan). The film played at Toronto last year, where the acting of everyone involved was praised, which isn't surprising given the on-screen talent. "What Maisie Knew" will be released in May by Millenium Entertainment and you can check out the first trailer below.
- 3/7/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
Kramer vs. Kramer continues to stand as one of the most memorable, heart-wrenching dramas about divorce and the battle for child custody. But way before the Dustin Hoffman/Meryl Streep-starrer, there was What Maisie Knew, a 1897 book by Henry James about a child shuffled back and forth between her two divorced parents every six months. That turn-of-the-century novel has now been updated for a modern retelling on the big screen, in a film starring Julianne Moore and Alexander Skarsgård.
EW has the exclusive poster for the movie that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. On the new one-sheet,...
EW has the exclusive poster for the movie that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. On the new one-sheet,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Emily Rome
- EW - Inside Movies
"What Maisie Knew," directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel ("Bee Season," "Uncertainty"), has gone to Millennium Entertainment for Us distribution. Starring Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård and Steve Coogan, the film is a contemporary adaptation of Henry James' 1897 novel, about a young girl stuck between the drama of her divorcing parents. "What Maisie Knew" debuted at Toronto. Here are early reviews from THR, Indiewire and The Guardian. The screenplay was adapted by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne; Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Daniel Crown, William Teitler and Charles Weinstock produced.
- 9/12/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Chance Encounters Is Directed by Young Memphis Filmmaker Justin Gullett
I came across this short film trailer the other day when a local Memphis reader pointed me to director, Justin Gullett. I couldn’t believe that this kid lived in the same city as me, Memphis. The short film trailer is for a movie called “Chance Encounters,” a concept that is somewhat similar to a recent Joseph Gordon-Levitt indie called, “Uncertainty,” however made way before that film. The short follows a man named Guy, who is tired of making choices and is cynical of their insignificance, he struggles to move in the face of fate when confronted with two choices that could change his life. In one encounter he meets a wild, sexy girl that loves having fun with him only to see her cheat on him. In the other encounter he meets a girl that he falls in love with,...
I came across this short film trailer the other day when a local Memphis reader pointed me to director, Justin Gullett. I couldn’t believe that this kid lived in the same city as me, Memphis. The short film trailer is for a movie called “Chance Encounters,” a concept that is somewhat similar to a recent Joseph Gordon-Levitt indie called, “Uncertainty,” however made way before that film. The short follows a man named Guy, who is tired of making choices and is cynical of their insignificance, he struggles to move in the face of fate when confronted with two choices that could change his life. In one encounter he meets a wild, sexy girl that loves having fun with him only to see her cheat on him. In the other encounter he meets a girl that he falls in love with,...
- 10/27/2011
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Alexander Skarsgård has joined the cast of the comedy-drama What Maisie Knew. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Skarsgård will join both Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in the film, an adaptation of American author Henry James's popular novel. Uncertainty directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel will co-direct from a script by Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright. The film will follow 6 year-old Maisie as she tries to cope with the tumultuous divorce of her eccentric (more)...
- 5/12/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
[1] Up to this point, Baz Luhrmann's been filling his 3D [2] adaptation of The Great Gatsby with well-known talents: Carey Mulligan [3], Tobey Maguire, and of course, Leonardo DiCaprio [4] as the titular Gatsby. So it's surprising and intriguing that the latest addition to his cast is a newcomer -- Elizabeth Debicki, who comes straight out of Australia's Victorian College of the Arts. Debicki will play golfer Jordan Baker, who in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel is a friend of Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan) and the love interest of Nick Carraway (Maguire). In an interview, Luhrmann acknowledged the unusual nature of his selection: It was a surprising result, but Elizabeth's grasp of the material and her chemical connectivity to Tobey Maguire, in addition to her striking, athletic appearance, had us in a place where we were fully confident and ready to take the leap of giving the role of Jordan Baker to what,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Winter, 1994. Today, most of our Filmmaker covers are original photography, but back in the day, we didn’t have the budget and were forced to work with supplied art from distributors. Scott McGehee and David Siegel, who went on to The Deep End, Bee Season, and, most recently, Uncertainty, made their debut with Suture, a formally challenging meta-thriller with a wobbly poster that produced for us a somewhat inscrutable cover. We took their key art, cropped it, colorized it yellow and produced a kind of newsstand Rorschach test. I wonder how many people remember this film? It told the story of two half brothers, one...
- 8/7/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
One of the most sought after actors right now has got to be Joseph Gordon-Levitt after his turn from child/teen actor turned indie film king and damn good character actor, roles are going his way. Will he be a sought after leading man in the likes of Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans one day?sure thing but right now his name is going to be attached to a lot of stuff.
He has recently attached himself to two really cool sounding thrillers that will be making our way soon.
Heat Vision says that Gordon-Levitt will star in Premium Rush written and will be directed by screenwriter David Koepp. He is also “in talks” to star in Brick director Rian Johnson’s new time travel sci-fi thriller project Looper.
Premium Rush is a thriller where he will play a New York City bike messenger who picks up an envelope at Columbia University,...
He has recently attached himself to two really cool sounding thrillers that will be making our way soon.
Heat Vision says that Gordon-Levitt will star in Premium Rush written and will be directed by screenwriter David Koepp. He is also “in talks” to star in Brick director Rian Johnson’s new time travel sci-fi thriller project Looper.
Premium Rush is a thriller where he will play a New York City bike messenger who picks up an envelope at Columbia University,...
- 5/4/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Chicago – It’s been awhile since the ultra-useful DVD Round-Up brought you a wave of recently released DVDs that slipped below the mainstream radar but we’re back with a very star-powered installment of your favorite column and you can now expect us to return with monthly editions. Russell Crowe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt lead the way for this revamped list of synopses, cast info, tech specs, and special features. Pick your favorites from the quartet below.
“Tony” was released on April 6th, 2010.
“Tenderness” was released on April 13th, 2010.
“Neowolf” was released on April 20th, 2010.
“Uncertainty” will be released on April 27th, 2010.
“Tenderness”
Photo credit: Lionsgate Home Video
Synopsis: “A career-hardened detective (Oscar winner Russell Crowe) becomes obsesses with the early release of Eric, a teenaged serial killer he helped send to prison. While the detective trails the young psychopath, Eric is joined by a troubled girl who knows the predator’s darkest secrets and desires.
“Tony” was released on April 6th, 2010.
“Tenderness” was released on April 13th, 2010.
“Neowolf” was released on April 20th, 2010.
“Uncertainty” will be released on April 27th, 2010.
“Tenderness”
Photo credit: Lionsgate Home Video
Synopsis: “A career-hardened detective (Oscar winner Russell Crowe) becomes obsesses with the early release of Eric, a teenaged serial killer he helped send to prison. While the detective trails the young psychopath, Eric is joined by a troubled girl who knows the predator’s darkest secrets and desires.
- 4/23/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Uncertainty is the most recent in a long line of films that demonstrate how one decision can alter the course of a life. However, the film takes a new twist on this concept as the audience gets to see what would happen in either scenario. In one reality, Bobby (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt of (500) Days of Summer) and Kate (Lynn Collins from X-Men Origins: Wolverine), a young couple living in New York City, discover a cell phone in the back of a cab and opt to return it to the original owner, resulting in a dangerous chase through the city. In the other, Kate and Bobby attend a 4th of July party thrown by Kate’s parents at their Brooklyn home.
The transitions between the two storylines are well done, as the bottom of the screen carefully denotes “yellow” for any scenes that occur in Manhattan (as Kate and Bobby...
The transitions between the two storylines are well done, as the bottom of the screen carefully denotes “yellow” for any scenes that occur in Manhattan (as Kate and Bobby...
- 4/22/2010
- by Jessica Guerrasio
- JustPressPlay.net
DVD Playhouse—April 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
- 4/16/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
By Christopher Stipp
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The Basketball Diaries - Blu-ray Review
I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t believe it but this is without question the best film Leonardo DiCaprio has ever done.
A story about the young life of Jim Carroll, the film is an abrasive, dark, evocative portrait that showcases DiCaprio as an actor that seamlessly blends into the background of a story that is nothing short of compelling. Now in Blu-ray this is a wonderful chance to revisit a movie that helped Leo be known as an actor to contend with but, I think, the real joy in re-watching this movie is its dealing with drug culture that wasn’t proselytizing in nature but exposed it for what it was.
There was...
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The Basketball Diaries - Blu-ray Review
I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t believe it but this is without question the best film Leonardo DiCaprio has ever done.
A story about the young life of Jim Carroll, the film is an abrasive, dark, evocative portrait that showcases DiCaprio as an actor that seamlessly blends into the background of a story that is nothing short of compelling. Now in Blu-ray this is a wonderful chance to revisit a movie that helped Leo be known as an actor to contend with but, I think, the real joy in re-watching this movie is its dealing with drug culture that wasn’t proselytizing in nature but exposed it for what it was.
There was...
- 4/16/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
Newmarket Films has snapped up domestic rights to the Natalie Portman-produced film, Hesher which stars Sundance King, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and directed by Spencer Susser. Gordon-Levitt plays the title role in the film. He is described as “an intrusive, greasy-haired mayhem-seeker” that plants himself into the lives of a troubled 13-year-old boy and his pill-popping father.
The movie reportedly sold for around $1 million. There is no word on when Newmarket plans on releasing Hesher, but the deal is said to include “a significant P&A commitment.”
Other Sundance news is that Joel Schumaker’s Twelve has been picked up by
Hannover House which paid about $2 million for the film directed by Joel Schumacher’s. The story follows a high school dropout-turned-drug dealer. His lucrative life sours when the dealer’s cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime. It is...
The movie reportedly sold for around $1 million. There is no word on when Newmarket plans on releasing Hesher, but the deal is said to include “a significant P&A commitment.”
Other Sundance news is that Joel Schumaker’s Twelve has been picked up by
Hannover House which paid about $2 million for the film directed by Joel Schumacher’s. The story follows a high school dropout-turned-drug dealer. His lucrative life sours when the dealer’s cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime. It is...
- 1/29/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is on a roll. A year ago he charmed Sundance in (500) Days of Summer, which went on to be a summer hit and earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He displayed his comedy—and dancing—chops on Saturday Night Live. He swung between studio and indie fare, playing a weird villain in G.I. Joe and a man in love in two alternative narratives in indie title Uncertainty. He completed work on Chris Nolan’s Inception. And at Sundance, while response to for-sale title Hesher has been mixed, Gordon-Levitt won raves in the title role of a long-haired, tattooed, violent anarchist hedonist who acts like he doesn’t care about anything. At this year’s fest, the actor is also functioning as a producer. He explains that and why he wanted to star in Hesher in a two-part interview, below: Here’s the Hit Records link:...
- 1/25/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
It might be unreasonable to suggest that any actor can have a career year at 28, but you can't say 2009 wasn't a whopper for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In addition to his spunky anti-romcom hit (500) Days of Summer and presence in the tentpole G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, he won a role in Christopher Nolan's mega-anticipated Inception, will host Saturday Night Live this weekend, and saw his tiny indie Uncertainty break $12,000 on one screen over the weekend in New York. The film tracks Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins), young lovers at odds over what to do for the Fourth of July. So they flip a coin, commencing a wild riff on identity, family, NYC culture and genre as one version of the couple spends the holiday evading gangsters in Manhattan, and the other visits an awkward family gathering in Brooklyn.
- 11/16/2009
- Movieline
Our buddies over at Cinematical recently got to talk with Joseph Gordon-Levitt about his new movie, Uncertainty. And like the good journalists that they are, they poked him about his role in Inception. Here’s what they got out of him:
Cinematical: [Inception] looks amazing. What is your character Arthur about?
I think it looks amazing too. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out. I can’t wait to talk to you about it, too, but Chris is one of my favorite artists alive today, and it’s important to him — and this project, Inception, is really his baby, it’s something he wrote all by himself, and having done The Dark Knight, which is, I think, one of the great movies of the decade, he now has the liberty to do whatever he wants, whatever he can think of, and this is what he’s doing.
Cinematical: [Inception] looks amazing. What is your character Arthur about?
I think it looks amazing too. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out. I can’t wait to talk to you about it, too, but Chris is one of my favorite artists alive today, and it’s important to him — and this project, Inception, is really his baby, it’s something he wrote all by himself, and having done The Dark Knight, which is, I think, one of the great movies of the decade, he now has the liberty to do whatever he wants, whatever he can think of, and this is what he’s doing.
- 11/14/2009
- by TeddyBlass
- Nolan Fans
Uncertainty features Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins as a couple who, at a critical point in their relationship, accidentally come to possess a cell phone that puts them in some serious danger. Gordon-Levitt is the star of such awesome films as The Lookout and Brick, as well as our own James Wallace’s most personal and body oil-heavy dreams (bring up Joseph Gordon-Levitt to him and you will not doubt it). Collins played Silverfox, Wolverine’s love interest in X-men Origins: Wolverine, and has also probably been in a few body oil dreams.
Read more on Intense Uncertainty clip…...
Read more on Intense Uncertainty clip…...
- 11/13/2009
- by Rusty Gordon
- GordonandtheWhale
Gordon-Levitt the one guarantee about stumbling 'Uncertainty' After playing the romantic lead in the sweet love story "500 Days of Summer" as well as a villainous role in the action blockbuster "GI Joe," Joseph Gordon-Levitt returns to the world of indie cinema with "Uncertainty," a dual drama experiment from San Francisco-based filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee. It's a welcome move, as Gordon-Levitt's best dramatic work remains the specialty dramas "Brick" and "Mysterious Skin." "Uncertainty" offers the 28-year-old actor a chance to play the same character in two different stories and his believable performances are the main reasons to watch the interesting but stumbling film. Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Cate (Lynn Collins) make up a young NY couple experiencing an encyclopedic range of emotions via two radically different dramas that unfold on July 4. In Manhattan, their adventure revolves around a found mobile phone and the dangerous people who will kill to get it back.
- 11/13/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Whether as a fast-talking high schooler in a film noir (Brick) or a disfigured soldier in a big budget blockbuster (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), Joseph Gordon-Levitt has proven himself to be one of the most talented young actors. His new movie, Uncertainty, takes the viewer on a journey into two different worlds, where a flip of a coin takes a young couple (Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins) into an innocuous visit to her family and decisions about their future and another takes them into a strange criminal underworld where everyone is after a cell phone they found in a cab. Directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee, Uncertainty was filmed on the fly with hand-held cameras in S16m and HD as the couple race towards their different futures. In this interview, we discuss the freedom of improvising within a structured world, his favorite movies, and what he can't say about G.
- 11/13/2009
- by Jenni Miller
- Cinematical
A coin flip splits the new movie "Uncertainty" in two. That's how a young couple (played by Lynn Collins and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) at a turning point in their relationship decide which way to go on the Brooklyn Bridge. Who picks heads over tails ultimately isn't important, because the film follows both paths -- in one storyline, the two head to Manhattan, find a cell phone in a cab and become embroiled in a thriller, while in the other, they go to a family barbecue in Brooklyn and navigate more personal dramas. Which reality is the "real" one? The title should give you a clue.
"Uncertainty"'s not the first film to explore those what-if musings we've all indulged in, the ones that every holiday season drive George Bailey to an angelic vision of what the world would be like if he'd never existed. But it is one of a select...
"Uncertainty"'s not the first film to explore those what-if musings we've all indulged in, the ones that every holiday season drive George Bailey to an angelic vision of what the world would be like if he'd never existed. But it is one of a select...
- 11/13/2009
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is simply one of the most exciting twentysomething actors working at the moment. Whether he's playing a moody hustler in Mysterious Skin, his breakout role, or a lovestruck boyfriend in this summer's absolute pleasure, 500 Days of Summer, his performances are all united by an authentic intelligence and actorly committment. It makes him a joy to watch on screen, even when he's unrecognizable (save for that excellent, resonant voice!) as Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, or a goofy teenage alien in the long-running sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. Who knows what will happen when he's in Christopher Nolan's next film, the hotly-anticipated Inception. In Gordon-Levitt's latest film, Uncertainty, directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (The Deep End), have created an intriguing world for him and actress Lynn Collins (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), playing a couple called Bobby and Kate. They start their day on...
- 11/13/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s Uncertainty returns the filmmaking team to the dualities of their 1993 debut feature Suture, a science-fiction oddity about the reunion between two brothers who are told they look similar, even though one is black and the other is white. McGehee and Siegel have remained icy clinicians, given to arms-length deconstructions like the thriller The Deep End or the runaway mysticism of Bee Season. Uncertainty finds them indulging their most academic instincts, fiddling with a bifurcated structure without bothering to flesh out their thin ideas about choices made and deferred, and the hand of destiny ...
- 11/12/2009
- avclub.com
After the record-breaking success of "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" over the weekend, I'm more hopeful for films starting out in limited release. This week's recommendations may not have the distinction of being championed by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, so if you find any of them worth seeing based on my recommendation, it may be more necessary for you to make the effort to get them to play near you.
"The Messenger"
What it is: A skewed romantic drama about a young Iraq War vet (Ben Foster) who is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service, where he's partnered with a captain played by Woody Harrelson. While delivering the bad news, he falls for one of the notified widows (Samantha Morton).
Reasons to see it: The film has won awards at the Berlin and Deauville film festivals and as of this writing has a perfect critical score at Rotten Tomatoes.
"The Messenger"
What it is: A skewed romantic drama about a young Iraq War vet (Ben Foster) who is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service, where he's partnered with a captain played by Woody Harrelson. While delivering the bad news, he falls for one of the notified widows (Samantha Morton).
Reasons to see it: The film has won awards at the Berlin and Deauville film festivals and as of this writing has a perfect critical score at Rotten Tomatoes.
- 11/10/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
We make millions of decisions everyday, any one of which might prove to be the linchpin of some unexpected outcome that changes everything forever. Life is full of those moments which, upon reflection, make you think: what if...? Or: if only...? David Siegel and Scott McGehee's Uncertainty, (opening in limited release and via VOD Friday, 11.13.09) comes at the idea in an ingenious and engaging way. A partially improvised film, this intriguing drama follows a young couple on a day when they might have chosen one of two courses of action -- and takes them through the twists and turns of each decision. Kate (Lynn Collins) and Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are a couple undecided on what to do on one particular day in New York. So they stand in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge and flip a coin. When it lands,...
- 11/9/2009
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
One of the perks of writing for a movie blog is being kept up to date on of the newest trailers. Blockbusters, Independent and everything in between normally makes the news on one site or another. But every once in a while however, a surprise lurks around the corner. This is one of those surprises.
I was watching the latest episode of a movie trailer show, and they showed a trailer to a film called Uncertainty. After watching the trailer I went to look for more information, and came across the trailer on Yahoo. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins and the synopsis according to Yahoo is this:
What if? A couple at a crossroads in their relationship, facing, one fateful July 4, the seemingly simple decision between a family barbecue or dim sum in Chinatown. Splitting the tale in two, exploring what happens as the couple follow both...
I was watching the latest episode of a movie trailer show, and they showed a trailer to a film called Uncertainty. After watching the trailer I went to look for more information, and came across the trailer on Yahoo. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins and the synopsis according to Yahoo is this:
What if? A couple at a crossroads in their relationship, facing, one fateful July 4, the seemingly simple decision between a family barbecue or dim sum in Chinatown. Splitting the tale in two, exploring what happens as the couple follow both...
- 11/5/2009
- by Tracy Ladd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
On Demand
IFC Films (with whom, full disclosure, we obviously share a parent company) will be delivering new films all holiday season to homes across the country through their Festival Direct and Sundance Selects labels. These include the cross-cultural romantic dramedy "I'll Come Running" (Nov. 4), Josiane Balasko's farce "A French Gigolo" (Nov. 6), the Inuit tribal drama "Necessities of Life" (Nov. 11), the Brit crime thriller "Adulthood" (Nov. 18), the Indian love story "Return to Rajapur" (Nov. 25), the Christopher Masterson-Bijou Phillips celibacy satire "Made for Each Other" (Dec. 2), "Harry Potter" helmer David Yates' gritty two-part drama "Sex Traffic" (Dec. 2 and 9), the Korean comedy "Night and Day" (Dec. 23) and "The Ghost" (Dec. 30).
Meanwhile, in the newly launched Sundance Selects series, there's a pair of harrowing documentaries VOD premieres: Kief Davidson's coming-of-age boxing doc "Kassim the Dream" (Nov. 27) and the unvarnished biopic "Nick Nolte: No Exit" (Dec.
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
On Demand
IFC Films (with whom, full disclosure, we obviously share a parent company) will be delivering new films all holiday season to homes across the country through their Festival Direct and Sundance Selects labels. These include the cross-cultural romantic dramedy "I'll Come Running" (Nov. 4), Josiane Balasko's farce "A French Gigolo" (Nov. 6), the Inuit tribal drama "Necessities of Life" (Nov. 11), the Brit crime thriller "Adulthood" (Nov. 18), the Indian love story "Return to Rajapur" (Nov. 25), the Christopher Masterson-Bijou Phillips celibacy satire "Made for Each Other" (Dec. 2), "Harry Potter" helmer David Yates' gritty two-part drama "Sex Traffic" (Dec. 2 and 9), the Korean comedy "Night and Day" (Dec. 23) and "The Ghost" (Dec. 30).
Meanwhile, in the newly launched Sundance Selects series, there's a pair of harrowing documentaries VOD premieres: Kief Davidson's coming-of-age boxing doc "Kassim the Dream" (Nov. 27) and the unvarnished biopic "Nick Nolte: No Exit" (Dec.
- 11/4/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
For all of you girls out there that are obsessed with indie heart throb Joseph Gordon-Levitt, today is your day. We have a new trailer to show you from his upcoming thriller Uncertainty. Watching the trailer you can only make assumptions to what its about, so watch below and You tell me because I am pretty clueless… it does look good though.
- 10/23/2009
- by Scott
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After a one-week break for bad behavior, Indie Roundup returns, refreshed and ready to sum up what's new and what's been happening in the independent film community.
Deals. Multiple deals have been made in the last two weeks, indieWIRE reports, notably involving higher-profile directors Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard, based on a classic fairy tale, will hit theaters next spring, courtesy of Strand Releasing) and Atom Egoyan (Chloe, starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried, due in the first half of 2010 through Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group). Of the latter, an erotic thriller, Monika Bartyzel wrote: "Chloe might not connect on a personal level, it does trap you into these lurid lives that flirt with every notion of bad behavior. I just wish they were characters I could love or hate, or simply feel for."
Director Chris Smith may be lower-profile, but fans of American Movie and The Yes Men (me!
Deals. Multiple deals have been made in the last two weeks, indieWIRE reports, notably involving higher-profile directors Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard, based on a classic fairy tale, will hit theaters next spring, courtesy of Strand Releasing) and Atom Egoyan (Chloe, starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried, due in the first half of 2010 through Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group). Of the latter, an erotic thriller, Monika Bartyzel wrote: "Chloe might not connect on a personal level, it does trap you into these lurid lives that flirt with every notion of bad behavior. I just wish they were characters I could love or hate, or simply feel for."
Director Chris Smith may be lower-profile, but fans of American Movie and The Yes Men (me!
- 10/21/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
- 10/21/2009
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
- 10/21/2009
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
- 10/21/2009
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
- 10/21/2009
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 101 min
MPAA Rating: Nr
Distributor: IFC Films
- - -
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing team that brought us The Deep End, and Bee Season, have come together once again to create a strange, but compelling piece starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins. Uncertainty is their third directing credit and certainly their most bizarre, with a narrative that is neither linear, nor easily understood.
The film begins with a young couple, Bobby (Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Collins) standing on a bridge in New York, apparently trying to decide what to do on this particular July 4th. They leave it up to the flip of a coin which tears the film into two separate plots, green, and yellow. In one, the two find a cell phone in the back of a cab that apparently...
- 10/21/2009
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
Established 1974! Our news column takes up skywriting.
Updates
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Yes, actually it Is a plane! And what will it be doing but skywriting the letter “V” in the air above beginning this Friday (and continuing numerous times daily through November 3). Where? At 26 national landmarks, all undisclosed locations so far. Why? To promote ABC’s new V mini-series incarnation. Wtf? This doesn’t sound like the saaviest of ideas when it comes to landmarks in the Greater NYC Metropolitan Area. It’s more likely to sow fear, cause confusion and prompt unpleasant reminders for New Yorkers who don’t know it’s only an ad. Just as the aliens planned! And who revealed this? The Hollywood Reporter! For more, see this link
And if you happen to be in NYC and haven’t been scared silly by big white Vs in the sky,...
Updates
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Yes, actually it Is a plane! And what will it be doing but skywriting the letter “V” in the air above beginning this Friday (and continuing numerous times daily through November 3). Where? At 26 national landmarks, all undisclosed locations so far. Why? To promote ABC’s new V mini-series incarnation. Wtf? This doesn’t sound like the saaviest of ideas when it comes to landmarks in the Greater NYC Metropolitan Area. It’s more likely to sow fear, cause confusion and prompt unpleasant reminders for New Yorkers who don’t know it’s only an ad. Just as the aliens planned! And who revealed this? The Hollywood Reporter! For more, see this link
And if you happen to be in NYC and haven’t been scared silly by big white Vs in the sky,...
- 10/20/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
The film Uncertainty is all about making decisions and dealing with the consequences. After a couple - played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins toses a coin in the Brooklyn bridge, they began to see two parallel realities over the course of one 4th of July. - - -
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The story begins with Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) standing on a bridge spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan, trying to decide what to do. In one direction lies a day of family obligation at Kate's parents' holiday party, while the other offers the couple a day of freedom roaming the city. The film follows both courses of action, inter-cutting the unfolding of two very different stories.
It was shown at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas, it was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Watch the trailer right after the jump!
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The story begins with Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) standing on a bridge spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan, trying to decide what to do. In one direction lies a day of family obligation at Kate's parents' holiday party, while the other offers the couple a day of freedom roaming the city. The film follows both courses of action, inter-cutting the unfolding of two very different stories.
It was shown at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas, it was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Watch the trailer right after the jump!
- 10/18/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
The film Uncertainty is all about making decisions and dealing with the consequences. After a couple - played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins toses a coin in the Brooklyn bridge, they began to see two parallel realities over the course of one 4th of July. - - -
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The story begins with Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) standing on a bridge spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan, trying to decide what to do. In one direction lies a day of family obligation at Kate's parents' holiday party, while the other offers the couple a day of freedom roaming the city. The film follows both courses of action, inter-cutting the unfolding of two very different stories.
It was shown at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas, it was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Watch the trailer right after the jump!
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The story begins with Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) standing on a bridge spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan, trying to decide what to do. In one direction lies a day of family obligation at Kate's parents' holiday party, while the other offers the couple a day of freedom roaming the city. The film follows both courses of action, inter-cutting the unfolding of two very different stories.
It was shown at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas, it was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Watch the trailer right after the jump!
- 10/18/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
The film Uncertainty is all about making decisions and dealing with the consequences. After a couple - played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins toses a coin in the Brooklyn bridge, they began to see two parallel realities over the course of one 4th of July. - - -
- -
The story begins with Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) standing on a bridge spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan, trying to decide what to do. In one direction lies a day of family obligation at Kate's parents' holiday party, while the other offers the couple a day of freedom roaming the city. The film follows both courses of action, inter-cutting the unfolding of two very different stories.
It was shown at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas, it was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Watch the trailer right after the jump!
- -
The story begins with Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) standing on a bridge spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan, trying to decide what to do. In one direction lies a day of family obligation at Kate's parents' holiday party, while the other offers the couple a day of freedom roaming the city. The film follows both courses of action, inter-cutting the unfolding of two very different stories.
It was shown at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas, it was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Watch the trailer right after the jump!
- 10/18/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
My high school reunion wound up being not at all traumatic, so I'm not certainly not going to let the week's movies get me down.
This week marks the long-awaited premiere of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, adapted (by Jonze and novelist Dave Eggers) from the beloved children's book by gay author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. I can imagine audiences being widely divided over this movie — after all, even the book has had its detractors over the years — and I can say that I definitely liked it without ever really loving it.
Max Records stars as Max, the wolf-suited boy who misbehaves and runs off to an island inhabited by monsters who make him their king. The movie offers delightful visuals, a sweetly plaintive score by Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Carter Burwell, and terrific performances by Records and Catherine Keener, along with the voices of James Gandolfini,...
This week marks the long-awaited premiere of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, adapted (by Jonze and novelist Dave Eggers) from the beloved children's book by gay author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. I can imagine audiences being widely divided over this movie — after all, even the book has had its detractors over the years — and I can say that I definitely liked it without ever really loving it.
Max Records stars as Max, the wolf-suited boy who misbehaves and runs off to an island inhabited by monsters who make him their king. The movie offers delightful visuals, a sweetly plaintive score by Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Carter Burwell, and terrific performances by Records and Catherine Keener, along with the voices of James Gandolfini,...
- 10/16/2009
- by ADuralde
- The Backlot
I have no idea what is going on in this new trailer for IFC's Uncertainty starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins, but I am definitely intrigued.
The film follows Bobby Thompson and Kate Montero (Gordon-Levitt and Collins) into two alternate realities on the day in New York City. With the flip of a coin, the couple are sent in opposite directions - a delicate drama set in Brooklyn examines familial love, self-discovery, loss and the ordinary choices we make everyday, while Manhattan offers a vastly different tale of intrigue, suspense and murder on the streets of Chinatown.
How this will be played out is beyond me, but after watching the trailer you have to admit you are at least slightly interested in learning more.
The film hits New York theaters on November 20 and on demand on the 18th. I have added seven stills from the film right here.
The film follows Bobby Thompson and Kate Montero (Gordon-Levitt and Collins) into two alternate realities on the day in New York City. With the flip of a coin, the couple are sent in opposite directions - a delicate drama set in Brooklyn examines familial love, self-discovery, loss and the ordinary choices we make everyday, while Manhattan offers a vastly different tale of intrigue, suspense and murder on the streets of Chinatown.
How this will be played out is beyond me, but after watching the trailer you have to admit you are at least slightly interested in learning more.
The film hits New York theaters on November 20 and on demand on the 18th. I have added seven stills from the film right here.
- 10/13/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Uncertainty merges the elements of both a drama and a thriller in a pretty unique way. As you'll see by the trailer, the film starts with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Olivia Thirlby standing on the Brooklyn Bridge. When they toss a coin to make a crucial life decision, the movie splits and tells the storiws of both possible outcomes simultaneously. One seems to be a Eagle Eye type voice-on-the-end-of-the-cell phone type thriller and the other a quaint indie-drama. Not sure how it'll turn out but
Synopsis:
A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Uncertainty is directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas and was first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Trailer (via: firstshowing) after the break.
Synopsis:
A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Uncertainty is directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegelwas and was first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and was eventually picked up by IFC Films for Us distribution.
Trailer (via: firstshowing) after the break.
- 10/13/2009
- QuietEarth.us
I hadn't heard of this film before today, but it actually looks pretty good. Uncertainty is co-directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (from 500 Days of Summer), Lynn Collins (from Wolverine), and Olivia Thirlby (from Juno). That cast alone is enough to convince me to see this, but you have to check out the trailer as well. I can't tell if this is some sort of cell phone thriller, about a big turning point in their relationship, or about a girl trying to come out of the closet. I'm hoping it will all make more sense once I actually see it. Thanks to MSN for debuting the trailer today. You can check it out below. Watch the official trailer for Uncertainty: Video: Exclusive: 'Uncertainty' Trailer A young couple (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins), in love and facing a life-changing decision, find...
- 10/13/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
I can't quite decide what I just watched after viewing the trailer for Uncertainty. The film stars 500 Days Of Summer's Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Wolverine.s Lynn Collins and Juno.s Olvia Thirlby, and follows a young couple (Levitt and Collins) who make a life decision based on a coin flip. Now what I believe happens next is two separate stories of different events had they decided to live in Manhattan (they find a cell phone worth $500K that causes them to get shot at) or Brooklyn (Collins gets...
- 10/13/2009
- by Paul Tassi
- JoBlo.com
IFC Films has picked up U.S. rights to "Uncertainty," a thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("(500) Days of Summer") and Lynn Collins ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine"). David Siegel and Scott McGehee's screenplay is set in two alternate realities in New York. The film was shot hand-held and improvisationally. The film directed by McGehee and Siegel, will debut at IFC Center in New York on November 13th and on video-on-demand starting November 11th. The directing duo's other credits include "The Deep End" back in 2001 and 2005 drama "Bee Season"...
- 10/12/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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