Known for starring in TV series like Justified and Invincible, Walton Goggins is sharing the screen with the Emmy-nominated actor Pedro Pascal in his new film, The Uninvited. The movie follows Rose, whose dinner party is crashed by a stranger, leading to a night of emotional turmoil as she confronts her past, including a former flame and the sacrifices she’s made for her family.
The Uninvited
The film, which recently premiered at the SXSW, has been receiving positive reviews for the story, its direction, and the cast’s performance. And Goggins has recently shared that it is actually inspired by a real-life incident he experienced while hosting a similar party with his wife and film director Nadia Conners.
The Incident that Inspired Walton Goggins’ New Film The Uninvited
In a recent conversation with Variety, the 52-year-old actor Walton Goggins and Nadia Conners reflected on the incident that inspired their new film The Uninvited.
The Uninvited
The film, which recently premiered at the SXSW, has been receiving positive reviews for the story, its direction, and the cast’s performance. And Goggins has recently shared that it is actually inspired by a real-life incident he experienced while hosting a similar party with his wife and film director Nadia Conners.
The Incident that Inspired Walton Goggins’ New Film The Uninvited
In a recent conversation with Variety, the 52-year-old actor Walton Goggins and Nadia Conners reflected on the incident that inspired their new film The Uninvited.
- 3/24/2024
- by Laxmi Rajput
- FandomWire
One night, not so very long ago, Walton Goggins and Nadia Conners were getting ready to host a cocktail party for about 150 people when an elderly woman showed up outside their Los Angeles home. She was confused and disoriented, asking Conners to help open the garage door because her clicker wasn’t working.
“She thought she was home,” remembers Conners. “I looked through her phonebook, trying to find someone who knew her and who could help, but most of the people in it were dead. She had outlived her circle of friends.”
Later, after the police had arrived to help the woman, Conners returned to the party and shared what had happened with her guests. “I was telling this story and trying to explain to people why it had impacted me so deeply. The reaction was sort of like, ‘Great, you got her back home.'”
“People thought it was...
“She thought she was home,” remembers Conners. “I looked through her phonebook, trying to find someone who knew her and who could help, but most of the people in it were dead. She had outlived her circle of friends.”
Later, after the police had arrived to help the woman, Conners returned to the party and shared what had happened with her guests. “I was telling this story and trying to explain to people why it had impacted me so deeply. The reaction was sort of like, ‘Great, you got her back home.'”
“People thought it was...
- 3/19/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Walton Goggins made a name for himself by starring in a string of critically acclaimed television shows during the 2000s. Goggins is set to appear in the upcoming post-apocalyptic drama series Fallout, based on the role-playing video game series of the same name. To promote the series, Goggins appeared on a late-night talk show where he shared a hilarious anecdote.
Walton Goggins in Django Unchained
During his conversation with the host, Goggins shared that he had a panic attack during a trip to Paris, France. However, the reason behind Goggins’ panic attack was an exact mirror to the first season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus, which will feature Goggins in its upcoming third season. Here is what Goggins said about his experience in Paris and its co-relation with The White Lotus.
Walton Goggins Reveals He Had a Panic Attack Over His Hotel Room in The White Lotus...
Walton Goggins in Django Unchained
During his conversation with the host, Goggins shared that he had a panic attack during a trip to Paris, France. However, the reason behind Goggins’ panic attack was an exact mirror to the first season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus, which will feature Goggins in its upcoming third season. Here is what Goggins said about his experience in Paris and its co-relation with The White Lotus.
Walton Goggins Reveals He Had a Panic Attack Over His Hotel Room in The White Lotus...
- 3/15/2024
- by Pratik Handore
- FandomWire
As its title suggests, there’s a limited guest list in “The Uninvited,” a keen critique of Hollywood that will play best to the insider set that Rose (Elizabeth Reaser) and Sammy Wright (Walton Goggins) welcome into their gated villa in the hills.
Writer-director Nadia Conners clearly knows of what she speaks when throwing a party meant to impress. It isn’t hard to imagine that the real-life wife of Goggins, whose career has only thrived more as he’s gotten older, has heard something similar to the voicemail left for Rose in the early moments of Conners’ directorial debut. The message informs the actress that she’s now too old to play the mother of a 6-year-old when she’s barely into her 40s. (Never mind that her own son Wilder is around that age.) Yet unlike Conners, no one has probably told Rose that she might make a...
Writer-director Nadia Conners clearly knows of what she speaks when throwing a party meant to impress. It isn’t hard to imagine that the real-life wife of Goggins, whose career has only thrived more as he’s gotten older, has heard something similar to the voicemail left for Rose in the early moments of Conners’ directorial debut. The message informs the actress that she’s now too old to play the mother of a 6-year-old when she’s barely into her 40s. (Never mind that her own son Wilder is around that age.) Yet unlike Conners, no one has probably told Rose that she might make a...
- 3/12/2024
- by Stephen Saito
- Variety Film + TV
Upcoming Pedro Pascal Movies and Shows to Watch. ( Photo Credit – Instagram )
Pedro Pascal has become the sweetheart in the Hollywood world of entertainment. He’s undoubtedly one of the most versatile actors in the film industry. For the past few years, the Narcos star delivered back-to-back remarkable performances and rose to fame through his movies and shows. He’s the internet’s favourite, and one of the reasons is his witty interviews and cuteness. But his work has always been the reason why he’s often in the news.
For all the Pedro fans, we have listed his upcoming movies and shows that will make you more excited about what new the actor has to offer.
Upcoming Pedro Pascal Movies and Shows Upcoming Pedro Pascal Movies Gladiator 2
Recently, a BTS picture from Pedro’s upcoming movie Gladiator 2 leaked online. He’s wearing a cloak in the pic, but...
Pedro Pascal has become the sweetheart in the Hollywood world of entertainment. He’s undoubtedly one of the most versatile actors in the film industry. For the past few years, the Narcos star delivered back-to-back remarkable performances and rose to fame through his movies and shows. He’s the internet’s favourite, and one of the reasons is his witty interviews and cuteness. But his work has always been the reason why he’s often in the news.
For all the Pedro fans, we have listed his upcoming movies and shows that will make you more excited about what new the actor has to offer.
Upcoming Pedro Pascal Movies and Shows Upcoming Pedro Pascal Movies Gladiator 2
Recently, a BTS picture from Pedro’s upcoming movie Gladiator 2 leaked online. He’s wearing a cloak in the pic, but...
- 1/31/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
March fest announces multiple competition sections.
SXSW announced on Wednesday that Netflix series 3 Body Problem from Game Of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss is the festival’s opening night TV premiere, while Universal’s action comedy The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt is the centrepiece screening.
Top brass at the Austin, Texas, festival (March 8-16) also unveiled feature and short competitions and Midnighters and Global sections, as well as select titles from other categories and Xr Experience for the 31st edition.
Headliners selections include world premieres of Pamela Adlon’s Babes starring Ilana Glazer,...
SXSW announced on Wednesday that Netflix series 3 Body Problem from Game Of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss is the festival’s opening night TV premiere, while Universal’s action comedy The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt is the centrepiece screening.
Top brass at the Austin, Texas, festival (March 8-16) also unveiled feature and short competitions and Midnighters and Global sections, as well as select titles from other categories and Xr Experience for the 31st edition.
Headliners selections include world premieres of Pamela Adlon’s Babes starring Ilana Glazer,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Pedro Pascal has been a bonafide Hollywood star for years now, harking back to his earlier stints on shows like “Game of Thrones” and “Narcos.” But that has only been elevated this year, given his widely acclaimed turns on Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” and HBO’s “The Last of Us” — not to mention his magnificent hosting performance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this season. With three potential categories for Pascal to shine, it would be unfathomable to imagine an Emmy acting lineup without the inclusion of the Chilean superstar.
Three wildly different Pascal performances are available for the Television Academy to consider.
With “The Last of Us,” an adaptation of the popular videogame series, Pascal stars as Joel Miller, a hardened survivor of a global pandemic that finds a vulnerability in 14-year-old Ellie (played remarkably by lead actress drama candidate Bella Ramsey). A genre show that allows Pascal to internalize his emotions,...
Three wildly different Pascal performances are available for the Television Academy to consider.
With “The Last of Us,” an adaptation of the popular videogame series, Pascal stars as Joel Miller, a hardened survivor of a global pandemic that finds a vulnerability in 14-year-old Ellie (played remarkably by lead actress drama candidate Bella Ramsey). A genre show that allows Pascal to internalize his emotions,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Elizabeth Reaser (Impeachment: American Crime Story), Walton Goggins (The Righteous Gemstones), Lois Smith (The French Dispatch) and Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) will topline The Uninvited — the first narrative feature written and directed by Nadia Conners, which is currently in production in Los Angeles.
The film from Foton.Pictures and and Rosebud Pictures watches as a stranger interrupts a party, provoking a comedy of errors, deep reckonings and a reordering of life.
Rosie Fellner (The Trip To Italy), Carlos Cuscó (Changing the Game) and Ari Taboada (The Birthday Cake) are producing, with Cassian Elwes (Lawless) and Naomi Despres (Kill the Messenger) exec producing, and WME Independent selling global rights.
“To have such an incredibly talented cast, with strong chemistry, and dynamic producers, on my directorial debut is really a dream come true,” said Conners.
Remarked Fellner: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be embarking on this journey with Nadia, her witty and intelligent script,...
The film from Foton.Pictures and and Rosebud Pictures watches as a stranger interrupts a party, provoking a comedy of errors, deep reckonings and a reordering of life.
Rosie Fellner (The Trip To Italy), Carlos Cuscó (Changing the Game) and Ari Taboada (The Birthday Cake) are producing, with Cassian Elwes (Lawless) and Naomi Despres (Kill the Messenger) exec producing, and WME Independent selling global rights.
“To have such an incredibly talented cast, with strong chemistry, and dynamic producers, on my directorial debut is really a dream come true,” said Conners.
Remarked Fellner: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be embarking on this journey with Nadia, her witty and intelligent script,...
- 11/17/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Kate Bosworth is eyeing a starring role in 'Lost Girls and Love Hotels,' the next film from 'Young Victoria' director Jean-Marc Vallée. Bosworth is likely to land the role, should she want it, as she is also producing the project with heavyweight Hollywood backers Relativity Media. Nadia Conners wrote the screenplay, an adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel of the same name in which a woman (Bosworth) tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex-and-drug-addled oblivion by night. She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl. The Westerner in Japan theme has long intrigued Hollywood, think of Ridley Scott's 'Black Rain' and Sofia Coppola's 'Lost in Translation'...
- 1/8/2010
- The Independent - Film
Kate Bosworth will star in and co-produce director Jean-Marc Vallee.s "Lost Girls and Love Hotels." Relativity Media is also producing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nadia Conners wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel. The story centers on a woman (Bosworth) working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex-and drug-fueled world by night. She later becomes involved with the search for a missing Western girl.
- 12/9/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Kate Bosworth is attached to star in Lost Girls And Love Hotels, the next feature film from The Young Victoria director Jean-Marc Vallée.
Nadia Conners adapted the screenplay from Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel, which tells the story of woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night. She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Bosworth is also producing along with Relativity Media, and the pic is due for release next year.
Georgine Waller
>> Real the whole article | on Screenrush - Tuesday 8 December 2009...
Nadia Conners adapted the screenplay from Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel, which tells the story of woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night. She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Bosworth is also producing along with Relativity Media, and the pic is due for release next year.
Georgine Waller
>> Real the whole article | on Screenrush - Tuesday 8 December 2009...
- 12/8/2009
- Screenrush
Kate Bosworth is in talks to join the cast of "Lost Girls and Love Hotels," with Jean-Marc Vallee directing the film based on Catherine Hanrahan's novel. Nadia Conners wrote the screenplay.
The Hollywood Reporter says the film follows a troubled woman who works at a stewardess training institute in Tokyo and spends her nights in the dark world of sex and drugs until she learns about a missing girl.
Bosworth was last seen in "21," in which she delivered a relatively sexy, enjoyable performance. She also played Lois Lane in "Superman Returns," and she appeared in "Beyond the Sea" and "Bee Season."...
The Hollywood Reporter says the film follows a troubled woman who works at a stewardess training institute in Tokyo and spends her nights in the dark world of sex and drugs until she learns about a missing girl.
Bosworth was last seen in "21," in which she delivered a relatively sexy, enjoyable performance. She also played Lois Lane in "Superman Returns," and she appeared in "Beyond the Sea" and "Bee Season."...
- 12/8/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Kate Bosworth is attached to star and produce "Lost Girls and Love Hotels" for Relativity Media says The Hollywood Reporter.
Based on Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel, the story centers on a woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night.
She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Jean-Marc Vallee ("The Young Victoria," "C.R.A.Z.Y.") is directing while Nadia Conners adapted the screenplay. J.J. Harris and Bruna Papandrea also produce.
Based on Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel, the story centers on a woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night.
She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Jean-Marc Vallee ("The Young Victoria," "C.R.A.Z.Y.") is directing while Nadia Conners adapted the screenplay. J.J. Harris and Bruna Papandrea also produce.
- 12/8/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Kate Bosworth is attached to star and produce "Lost Girls and Love Hotels" for Relativity Media says The Hollywood Reporter.
Based on Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel, the story centers on a woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night.
She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Jean-Marc Vallee ("The Young Victoria," "C.R.A.Z.Y.") is directing while Nadia Conners adapted the screenplay. J.J. Harris and Bruna Papandrea also produce.
Based on Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel, the story centers on a woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night.
She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Jean-Marc Vallee ("The Young Victoria," "C.R.A.Z.Y.") is directing while Nadia Conners adapted the screenplay. J.J. Harris and Bruna Papandrea also produce.
- 12/8/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Kate Bosworth is off to lose herself in a whirl of sex and drugs in Japan! But, disappointingly for the tabloids, this isn’t her Christmas schedule but rather Lost Girls and Love Hotels, an adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan’s 2006 novel to be helmed by The Young Victoria director Jean-Marc Vallee.Bosworth plays Margaret, a Canadian woman who blots out her troubled past while working at an air stewardess training centre in Tokyo by day and playing fast and loose with sex and drugs by night. She takes interest in a missing Western girl and gradually gets pulled out of herself and into that mystery.The screenplay is written by Nadia Conners, whose only previous project to date is sharing writing/directing duties on Leonardo Di Caprio’s eco pic The 11th Hour.French-Canadian Vallee has form in getting edgy performances out of young leads, as evidenced in his 2005 coming-of-age story C.
- 12/8/2009
- EmpireOnline
"Young Victoria" director Jean-Marc Vallee has found his next project: "Lost Girls and Love Hotels."
Kate Bosworth is attached to star and is also producing with Relativity Media.
Nadia Conners wrote the screenplay, which adapts Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel.
The story centers on a woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night. She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Vallee's "Victoria," which opens Dec. 18 via Bob Berney's Apparition and Graham Kings' Gk Films, is getting attention for its style and for the strong performance of Emily Blunt.
The idea with "Lost Girls" is for Icm-repped Vallee to draw a strong female performance and marry that with a setting that is gritty yet vibrant,...
Kate Bosworth is attached to star and is also producing with Relativity Media.
Nadia Conners wrote the screenplay, which adapts Catherine Hanrahan's 2006 novel.
The story centers on a woman (Bosworth) who tries to forget her past while working in Tokyo as an English specialist at a stewardess training institute by day and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night. She finds herself on the road to redemption when she becomes interested in a missing Western girl.
Vallee's "Victoria," which opens Dec. 18 via Bob Berney's Apparition and Graham Kings' Gk Films, is getting attention for its style and for the strong performance of Emily Blunt.
The idea with "Lost Girls" is for Icm-repped Vallee to draw a strong female performance and marry that with a setting that is gritty yet vibrant,...
- 12/7/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This review was written for the theatrical release of "The 11th Hour".NEW YORK -- "The 11th Hour" is an impassioned ecology-themed documentary that ultimately is more rewarding for informational than cinematic reasons. Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, the film has the unfortunate effect of making the multiple-Oscar-nominated star seem somehow less charismatic than Al Gore. But while many might accuse it of preaching to the converted -- at least in terms of the audiences most likely to see it -- this is yet another important wake-up call that deserves respect.
Unfortunately, the vitally important message of first-time filmmakers Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners is diluted by their rather unimaginative approach. It essentially consists of having dozens of talking heads delivering thoughtful and often apocalyptic commentary, interrupted by footage of ecological disasters (Katrina, etc.) presented "Koyaanisqatsi"-style. There also are portentous direct addresses to the camera by DiCaprio, but the frequent shots of the actor staring mournfully off into the distance at significant locations are less evocative than silly.
Despite its static presentation, the film is nonetheless engrossing thanks to the articulate and often fascinating commentary provided by such figures as university professors, scientists, environmentalists, journalists, such familiar faces as Stephen Hawking, former CIA director James Woolsey and even Mikhail Gorbachev (truly a renaissance man among Russian politicos).
While the film is necessarily downbeat in its accumulation of significant warning signs that the planet is indeed on the verge of environmental disaster, it thankfully also devotes a good portion of its running time to explicating numerous technological solutions to the dilemma. In the end, though, its main point is that what's truly needed in the way of change will only come through political means.
Jean-Pascal Beintus' score, augmented by songs from such bands as Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins and Coldplay, provides suitably dire musical accompaniment.
THE 11TH HOUR
Warner Independent Pictures
Applian Way/GreenHour/Tree Media Group
Credits:
Director-screenwriters: Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
Producers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Chuck Castleberry, Brian Gerber, Pierre Andre Senizergues
Executive producers: Adam Lewis, Irmelin DiCaprio, Doyle Brunson
Director of photography: Andrew Rolands
Production designer: Nadia Conners
Music: Jean-Pascal Beintus
Co-producer: Leila Conners Petersen
Editors: Pietro Scalia, Luis Alvarez y Alvarez
Narrator: Leonardo DiCaprio
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Unfortunately, the vitally important message of first-time filmmakers Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners is diluted by their rather unimaginative approach. It essentially consists of having dozens of talking heads delivering thoughtful and often apocalyptic commentary, interrupted by footage of ecological disasters (Katrina, etc.) presented "Koyaanisqatsi"-style. There also are portentous direct addresses to the camera by DiCaprio, but the frequent shots of the actor staring mournfully off into the distance at significant locations are less evocative than silly.
Despite its static presentation, the film is nonetheless engrossing thanks to the articulate and often fascinating commentary provided by such figures as university professors, scientists, environmentalists, journalists, such familiar faces as Stephen Hawking, former CIA director James Woolsey and even Mikhail Gorbachev (truly a renaissance man among Russian politicos).
While the film is necessarily downbeat in its accumulation of significant warning signs that the planet is indeed on the verge of environmental disaster, it thankfully also devotes a good portion of its running time to explicating numerous technological solutions to the dilemma. In the end, though, its main point is that what's truly needed in the way of change will only come through political means.
Jean-Pascal Beintus' score, augmented by songs from such bands as Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins and Coldplay, provides suitably dire musical accompaniment.
THE 11TH HOUR
Warner Independent Pictures
Applian Way/GreenHour/Tree Media Group
Credits:
Director-screenwriters: Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
Producers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Chuck Castleberry, Brian Gerber, Pierre Andre Senizergues
Executive producers: Adam Lewis, Irmelin DiCaprio, Doyle Brunson
Director of photography: Andrew Rolands
Production designer: Nadia Conners
Music: Jean-Pascal Beintus
Co-producer: Leila Conners Petersen
Editors: Pietro Scalia, Luis Alvarez y Alvarez
Narrator: Leonardo DiCaprio
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 8/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- The 11th Hour is an impassioned ecology-themed documentary that ultimately is more rewarding for informational than cinematic reasons. Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, the film has the unfortunate effect of making the multiple-Oscar-nominated star seem somehow less charismatic than Al Gore. But while many might accuse it of preaching to the converted -- at least in terms of the audiences most likely to see it -- this is yet another important wake-up call that deserves respect.
Unfortunately, the vitally important message of first-time filmmakers Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners is diluted by their rather unimaginative approach. It essentially consists of having dozens of talking heads delivering thoughtful and often apocalyptic commentary, interrupted by footage of ecological disasters (Katrina, etc.) presented Koyaanisqatsi-style. There also are portentous direct addresses to the camera by DiCaprio, but the frequent shots of the actor staring mournfully off into the distance at significant locations are less evocative than silly.
Despite its static presentation, the film is nonetheless engrossing thanks to the articulate and often fascinating commentary provided by such figures as university professors, scientists, environmentalists, journalists, such familiar faces as Stephen Hawking, former CIA director James Woolsey and even Mikhail Gorbachev (truly a renaissance man among Russian politicos).
While the film is necessarily downbeat in its accumulation of significant warning signs that the planet is indeed on the verge of environmental disaster, it thankfully also devotes a good portion of its running time to explicating numerous technological solutions to the dilemma. In the end, though, its main point is that what's truly needed in the way of change will only come through political means.
Jean-Pascal Beintus' score, augmented by songs from such bands as Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins and Coldplay, provides suitably dire musical accompaniment.
THE 11TH HOUR
Warner Independent Pictures
Applian Way/GreenHour/Tree Media Group
Credits:
Director-screenwriters: Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
Producers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Chuck Castleberry, Brian Gerber, Pierre Andre Senizergues
Executive producers: Adam Lewis, Irmelin DiCaprio, Doyle Brunson
Director of photography: Andrew Rolands
Production designer: Nadia Conners
Music: Jean-Pascal Beintus
Co-producer: Leila Conners Petersen
Editors: Pietro Scalia, Luis Alvarez y Alvarez
Narrator: Leonardo DiCaprio
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Unfortunately, the vitally important message of first-time filmmakers Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners is diluted by their rather unimaginative approach. It essentially consists of having dozens of talking heads delivering thoughtful and often apocalyptic commentary, interrupted by footage of ecological disasters (Katrina, etc.) presented Koyaanisqatsi-style. There also are portentous direct addresses to the camera by DiCaprio, but the frequent shots of the actor staring mournfully off into the distance at significant locations are less evocative than silly.
Despite its static presentation, the film is nonetheless engrossing thanks to the articulate and often fascinating commentary provided by such figures as university professors, scientists, environmentalists, journalists, such familiar faces as Stephen Hawking, former CIA director James Woolsey and even Mikhail Gorbachev (truly a renaissance man among Russian politicos).
While the film is necessarily downbeat in its accumulation of significant warning signs that the planet is indeed on the verge of environmental disaster, it thankfully also devotes a good portion of its running time to explicating numerous technological solutions to the dilemma. In the end, though, its main point is that what's truly needed in the way of change will only come through political means.
Jean-Pascal Beintus' score, augmented by songs from such bands as Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins and Coldplay, provides suitably dire musical accompaniment.
THE 11TH HOUR
Warner Independent Pictures
Applian Way/GreenHour/Tree Media Group
Credits:
Director-screenwriters: Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
Producers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Chuck Castleberry, Brian Gerber, Pierre Andre Senizergues
Executive producers: Adam Lewis, Irmelin DiCaprio, Doyle Brunson
Director of photography: Andrew Rolands
Production designer: Nadia Conners
Music: Jean-Pascal Beintus
Co-producer: Leila Conners Petersen
Editors: Pietro Scalia, Luis Alvarez y Alvarez
Narrator: Leonardo DiCaprio
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 8/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Q&A with DiCaprio about 11th Hour
CANNES -- Leonardo DiCaprio wants to us to be very afraid of global warming. And then he wants us to do something about it.
In Cannes to promote his global-warming documentary The 11th Hour, DiCaprio admitted that his mega celebrity is a double-edged sword when it comes to drawing attention to the environmental issues addressed in the film.
"I'm completely aware of the fact, that my mere attachment being someone from quote-unquote Hollywood will garner certain amount of skepticism and criticism," DiCaprio said in an interview. "This is why I wanted to pose myself (in the film) as a concerned citizen, not as an expert. I ask the questions and allow these people (the environmental scientists) to give the answers."
DiCaprio co-wrote 11th Hour with directors Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen and was involved in the production "from soup to nuts," according to the directors. "Everything from what the movie is about to who is in it to the issues discussed, every frame in that film was discussed by Leonardo, Nadia and I," Leila Conners Petersen said.
CANNES -- Leonardo DiCaprio wants to us to be very afraid of global warming. And then he wants us to do something about it.
In Cannes to promote his global-warming documentary The 11th Hour, DiCaprio admitted that his mega celebrity is a double-edged sword when it comes to drawing attention to the environmental issues addressed in the film.
"I'm completely aware of the fact, that my mere attachment being someone from quote-unquote Hollywood will garner certain amount of skepticism and criticism," DiCaprio said in an interview. "This is why I wanted to pose myself (in the film) as a concerned citizen, not as an expert. I ask the questions and allow these people (the environmental scientists) to give the answers."
DiCaprio co-wrote 11th Hour with directors Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen and was involved in the production "from soup to nuts," according to the directors. "Everything from what the movie is about to who is in it to the issues discussed, every frame in that film was discussed by Leonardo, Nadia and I," Leila Conners Petersen said.
- 5/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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