Before praising the 2024 Oscars and their approach to sex, we need to acknowledge one truth. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences completely ignored one of the best movies of the year, and a movie that features one of the most frank and vulnerable sexual scenes committed to film. It, of course, involves a bathtub, where one man’s desire for another becomes clear in a way that not even he had heretofore acknowledged.
What? No, not Saltburn. I said a good movie, not a loud nothing that approaches sex like a 12-year-old who just learned a few rude words.
I’m referring to the beautiful Andrew Haigh film All of Us Strangers, which received no Oscar attention, not even for its outstanding leads Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. The scene in question occurs after screenwriter Adam (Scott) returns from his parents’ home, where he just came out to his mother,...
What? No, not Saltburn. I said a good movie, not a loud nothing that approaches sex like a 12-year-old who just learned a few rude words.
I’m referring to the beautiful Andrew Haigh film All of Us Strangers, which received no Oscar attention, not even for its outstanding leads Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. The scene in question occurs after screenwriter Adam (Scott) returns from his parents’ home, where he just came out to his mother,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
The powerful emotions of loneliness, loss and the spirit of memory that run through “All of Us Strangers” spoke volumes to cinematographer Jamie Ramsay.
Written and directed by Andrew Haigh, the movie stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a gay screenwriter who lives alone. A chance encounter with Harry (Paul Mescal) leads to a relationship and triggers memories for Adam, who finds himself in a fantastical world when he visits his childhood home and sees his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) 30 years after they died in a car accident.
Ramsay needed to represent the concept of isolation and loneliness of Adam’s character, while maintaining warmth.
Ramsay lit Adam’s day-to-day world in a straightforward manner.
“But when he goes back to his parents, that’s when the lighting starts to develop this ethereal sense, and the ghost of the past starts to affect his real life.”
In scenes with Adam’s parents,...
Written and directed by Andrew Haigh, the movie stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a gay screenwriter who lives alone. A chance encounter with Harry (Paul Mescal) leads to a relationship and triggers memories for Adam, who finds himself in a fantastical world when he visits his childhood home and sees his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) 30 years after they died in a car accident.
Ramsay needed to represent the concept of isolation and loneliness of Adam’s character, while maintaining warmth.
Ramsay lit Adam’s day-to-day world in a straightforward manner.
“But when he goes back to his parents, that’s when the lighting starts to develop this ethereal sense, and the ghost of the past starts to affect his real life.”
In scenes with Adam’s parents,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
"It feels that we're given an opportunity to kind of fully immerse into Andrew's old life, and get to play these parts that he's written so beautifully for us." Searchlight Pictures has debuted an extensive behind-the-scenes promo video for All of Us Strangers, the new film by acclaimed British filmmaker Andrew Haigh. The film has already opened in theaters and can be seen nationwide now - check your local listings to find where it's playing near you. This romantic fantasy is the story of a screenwriter in London who, after an encounter with his neighbor, is pulled back to his own childhood home where he discovers that his late parents are somehow living and look the same age as the day that they died. This full making of featurette includes conversations with the entire cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Along with director Andrew Haigh and his crew,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This post contains light spoilers for "All of Us Strangers."
Andrew Haigh's "All of Us Strangers" is one of the most beautiful films of the year. Andrew Scott plays Adam, a screenwriter living in a largely empty London high-rise, who forms an unexpected romance with a fellow tenant named Harry (Paul Mescal). Adam is trying to write a story about his parents, who died before Adam was a teenager, but when he visits his suburban childhood home, something extraordinary happens: His parents are still living in the house, and they're the same age they were when they died. In this surrealist part of the story, Adam, now older than his own parents, gets the opportunity to have the conversations with them he always wanted to, but never could.
That premise may sound slightly convoluted, but it's a testament to Haigh's fantastic script and his patient filmmaking style that it's...
Andrew Haigh's "All of Us Strangers" is one of the most beautiful films of the year. Andrew Scott plays Adam, a screenwriter living in a largely empty London high-rise, who forms an unexpected romance with a fellow tenant named Harry (Paul Mescal). Adam is trying to write a story about his parents, who died before Adam was a teenager, but when he visits his suburban childhood home, something extraordinary happens: His parents are still living in the house, and they're the same age they were when they died. In this surrealist part of the story, Adam, now older than his own parents, gets the opportunity to have the conversations with them he always wanted to, but never could.
That premise may sound slightly convoluted, but it's a testament to Haigh's fantastic script and his patient filmmaking style that it's...
- 12/25/2023
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Weekly Commentary: The National Board of Review, New York Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose three different cinematographers for their picks as the best of the year.
Rodrigo Prieto won a combination prize from NBR for his work on “Barbie...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Weekly Commentary: The National Board of Review, New York Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose three different cinematographers for their picks as the best of the year.
Rodrigo Prieto won a combination prize from NBR for his work on “Barbie...
- 12/10/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
“All of Us Strangers”, del director Andrew Haigh, la gran ganadora de la noche.
Ayer tuvo lugar la ceremonia de los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor Guion
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor ACTUACIÓN
Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Shaun Thomas, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Conjunta
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett & George MacKay, Femme
Premio Douglas Hickox (Debut De DIRECCIÓN)
Savanah Leaf, Earth Mama
Mejor PRODUCCIÓN REVELACIÓN
Theo Barrowclough, Scrapper
Mejor ACTUACIÓN REVELACIÓN
Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane
Mejor Guion Debut
Nida Manzoor,...
Ayer tuvo lugar la ceremonia de los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor Guion
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor ACTUACIÓN
Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Shaun Thomas, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Conjunta
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett & George MacKay, Femme
Premio Douglas Hickox (Debut De DIRECCIÓN)
Savanah Leaf, Earth Mama
Mejor PRODUCCIÓN REVELACIÓN
Theo Barrowclough, Scrapper
Mejor ACTUACIÓN REVELACIÓN
Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane
Mejor Guion Debut
Nida Manzoor,...
- 12/4/2023
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” was the big winner at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with seven wins.
“All of Us Strangers” won best British independent film, Haigh won best director and best screenplay and Paul Mescal won best supporting performance, adding to its three craft awards, announced in November, for cinematography, editing and music supervision.
Best lead performance went to Mia McKenna-Bruce in Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature “How to Have Sex” and the film also won the other best supporting performance BIFA for Shaun Thomas, adding to its best casting win.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay won best joint lead performance for “Femme,” which also won for make-up and hair design and costume design.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning “Anatomy of a Fall” won best international independent film. Best debut director went to Savanah Leaf for “Earth Mama,” while best debut screenwriter...
“All of Us Strangers” won best British independent film, Haigh won best director and best screenplay and Paul Mescal won best supporting performance, adding to its three craft awards, announced in November, for cinematography, editing and music supervision.
Best lead performance went to Mia McKenna-Bruce in Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature “How to Have Sex” and the film also won the other best supporting performance BIFA for Shaun Thomas, adding to its best casting win.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay won best joint lead performance for “Femme,” which also won for make-up and hair design and costume design.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning “Anatomy of a Fall” won best international independent film. Best debut director went to Savanah Leaf for “Earth Mama,” while best debut screenwriter...
- 12/3/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The ceremony commences at 20:00 GMT, with ’Rye Lane’, ‘Scrapper’, ‘All Of Us Strangers’ and ‘How To Have Sex’ among the hot contenders.
The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) will be unveiling the 2023 winners today (December 3) from a ceremony at London’s Old Billingsgate, kicking off at 20:00 GMT.
Screen will be updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced, so refresh this page for the latest winners.
Scroll down for the winners - live
Raine Allen-Miller’s south London-set romantic comedy Rye Lane leads the nominations, followed closely by Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Andrew Haigh...
The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) will be unveiling the 2023 winners today (December 3) from a ceremony at London’s Old Billingsgate, kicking off at 20:00 GMT.
Screen will be updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced, so refresh this page for the latest winners.
Scroll down for the winners - live
Raine Allen-Miller’s south London-set romantic comedy Rye Lane leads the nominations, followed closely by Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Andrew Haigh...
- 12/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara¬Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Paul Mescal (‘All of Us Strangers’) on ‘trying to get at something that feels authentic, true, sexy’
“He gives off a kind of air of mystery or forwardness that is potentially unsettling a bit for Adam, but as the film unravels and as you get to know Harry a bit more, there’s something kind of surprising in his kindness and tenderness,” explains actor Paul Mescal about the “duality” that drew him to the role of Harry in “All of Us Strangers.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Loosely adapted from the novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada, “All of Us Strangers” stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a screenwriter who nervously begins a relationship with his neighbor Harry while still reckoning with the loss of his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy), who seem to have returned 30 years after they died in a car accident when Adam was a child. “There’s kind of two concurrent love stories happening at the same time,” Mescal observes, “one of familial...
Loosely adapted from the novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada, “All of Us Strangers” stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a screenwriter who nervously begins a relationship with his neighbor Harry while still reckoning with the loss of his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy), who seem to have returned 30 years after they died in a car accident when Adam was a child. “There’s kind of two concurrent love stories happening at the same time,” Mescal observes, “one of familial...
- 11/27/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Andrew Haigh’s critically lauded All of Us Strangers has won three awards in the craft categories of the 2023 British Independent Film Awards, putting it in the lead going into the main ceremony on Dec. 3.
The film — starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott and which amassed a total of 14 BIFA nominations — won best cinematography for Jamie D. Ramsay, best editing for Jonathan Alberts and best music supervision for Connie Farr (who won a BIFA for her work on Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava in 2021).
Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s “queer noir” thriller, won two awards — best costume design for Buki Ebiesuwa and best makeup and hair design for Marie Deehan — as did Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’ dystopian drama The Kitchen, which won best production design for Nathan Parker and best effects for Richard Baker and the late Jonathan Gales.
Elsewhere, Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane (which garnered 16 nominations,...
The film — starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott and which amassed a total of 14 BIFA nominations — won best cinematography for Jamie D. Ramsay, best editing for Jonathan Alberts and best music supervision for Connie Farr (who won a BIFA for her work on Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava in 2021).
Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s “queer noir” thriller, won two awards — best costume design for Buki Ebiesuwa and best makeup and hair design for Marie Deehan — as did Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’ dystopian drama The Kitchen, which won best production design for Nathan Parker and best effects for Richard Baker and the late Jonathan Gales.
Elsewhere, Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane (which garnered 16 nominations,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Femme’, ‘The Kitchen’ take two prizes each.
Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama All Of Us Strangers led the craft winners for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), converting three of its craft nominations to wins.
The Searchlight Pictures film, which is backed by Film4, took prizes in best cinematography, for Jamie D. Ramsay; best editing for Jonathan Alberts; and best music supervision for Connie Farr – her second Bifa, following a win for Ali & Ava in 2021.
Scroll down for the full list of craft winners
All Of Us Strangers has a further seven nominations in five categories at the 26th Bifa ceremony on Sunday,...
Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama All Of Us Strangers led the craft winners for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), converting three of its craft nominations to wins.
The Searchlight Pictures film, which is backed by Film4, took prizes in best cinematography, for Jamie D. Ramsay; best editing for Jonathan Alberts; and best music supervision for Connie Farr – her second Bifa, following a win for Ali & Ava in 2021.
Scroll down for the full list of craft winners
All Of Us Strangers has a further seven nominations in five categories at the 26th Bifa ceremony on Sunday,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Rye Lane”, “Scrapper”, “All of Us Strangers”, “How to Have Sex” y “Femme” encabezan las nominaciones a los premios BIFA.
El jueves se anunciaron los nominados a los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2023 se darán a conocer el 3 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Femme, Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping
How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker
Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller
Scrapper, Charlotte Regan
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Fallen Leaves, Aki Kauriskmäki
Fremont, Babak Jalali
Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Past Lives, Celine Song
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane
Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, Femme
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers...
El jueves se anunciaron los nominados a los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2023 se darán a conocer el 3 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Femme, Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping
How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker
Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller
Scrapper, Charlotte Regan
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Fallen Leaves, Aki Kauriskmäki
Fremont, Babak Jalali
Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Past Lives, Celine Song
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane
Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, Femme
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers...
- 11/4/2023
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
The first look images of “William Tell,” the epic story of the crossbow-wielding warrior, have been released. The feature film is in its last week of principal photography in Italy. Beta Cinema is representing international sales rights with WME Independent handling North American rights.
Nick Hamm directs, based on his screenplay, adapted from Friedrich Schiller’s play. Hamm’s credits include “Driven,” which was selected as the closing film at the Venice Film Festival 2018 and released by Universal; “Gigi & Nate” (2022); the Netflix series “White Lines” (2020); and “The Journey,” which premiered at Venice and Toronto in 2016.
The film stars Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham, Academy-Award nominee Jonathan Pryce and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.
The story unfolds in the 14th century amid the waning days of the Holy Roman Empire, when Europe’s nations fiercely vie for supremacy and the ambitious Austrians,...
Nick Hamm directs, based on his screenplay, adapted from Friedrich Schiller’s play. Hamm’s credits include “Driven,” which was selected as the closing film at the Venice Film Festival 2018 and released by Universal; “Gigi & Nate” (2022); the Netflix series “White Lines” (2020); and “The Journey,” which premiered at Venice and Toronto in 2016.
The film stars Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham, Academy-Award nominee Jonathan Pryce and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.
The story unfolds in the 14th century amid the waning days of the Holy Roman Empire, when Europe’s nations fiercely vie for supremacy and the ambitious Austrians,...
- 10/24/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Beta Cinema and the UK’s Free Turn Films and Tempo Productions have officially announced Nick Hamm’s epic drama William Tell, as its under-the-radar shoot enters its final week in Italy.
The partners have unveiled a first-look image of Claes Bang in the role of the legendary crossbow-wielding warrior (scroll down to check it out).
Bang is joined in the cast by Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham, Jonathan Pryce and Oscar winner Ben Kingsley.
“As a filmmaker I couldn’t ask for a more exceptional cast to bring this story to life,” said Hamm.
Beta Cinema, which represents worldwide sales rights while WME Independent handles domestic rights, will debut a first sales teaser to buyers at the AFM next week.
Claes Bang as William Tell
Hamm wrote the screenplay, adapting German writer Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 classic play of the same name.
The...
The partners have unveiled a first-look image of Claes Bang in the role of the legendary crossbow-wielding warrior (scroll down to check it out).
Bang is joined in the cast by Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham, Jonathan Pryce and Oscar winner Ben Kingsley.
“As a filmmaker I couldn’t ask for a more exceptional cast to bring this story to life,” said Hamm.
Beta Cinema, which represents worldwide sales rights while WME Independent handles domestic rights, will debut a first sales teaser to buyers at the AFM next week.
Claes Bang as William Tell
Hamm wrote the screenplay, adapting German writer Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 classic play of the same name.
The...
- 10/24/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Cast also includes Ellie Bamber, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham, Jonathan Pryce and Ben Kingsley.
Beta Cinema has boarded international sales on Nick Hamm’s English-language feature William Tell, based on the classic story of the crossbow warrior who shot an arrow through an apple on his son’s head and launched the struggle for Swiss independence.
Written and directed by Hamm, William Tell stars Claes Bang as Tell alongside Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham as well as Jonathan Pryce and Ben Kingsley.
Beta Cinema and production companies Free Turn Films and...
Beta Cinema has boarded international sales on Nick Hamm’s English-language feature William Tell, based on the classic story of the crossbow warrior who shot an arrow through an apple on his son’s head and launched the struggle for Swiss independence.
Written and directed by Hamm, William Tell stars Claes Bang as Tell alongside Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham as well as Jonathan Pryce and Ben Kingsley.
Beta Cinema and production companies Free Turn Films and...
- 10/24/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Cast also includes Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham, Jonathan Pryce and Ben Kingsley.
Beta Cinema has boarded international sales on Nick Hamm’s English-language feature William Tell, based on the classic story of the Swiss crossbow warrior.
Written and directed by Hamm, William Tell stars Claes Bang as Tell alongside Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham as well as Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.
Beta Cinema and production companies Free Turn Films and Tempo Productions have also released a first look of...
Beta Cinema has boarded international sales on Nick Hamm’s English-language feature William Tell, based on the classic story of the Swiss crossbow warrior.
Written and directed by Hamm, William Tell stars Claes Bang as Tell alongside Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham as well as Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.
Beta Cinema and production companies Free Turn Films and Tempo Productions have also released a first look of...
- 10/24/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival announced a trio of films that will join this year’s main competition lineup: El Conde, Filip and Ferrari.
Michael Mann’s Ferrari was lensed by Oscar-winning Dp Erik Messerschmidt (Mank); Pablo Larraín’s El Condo was photographed by Academy-Award nominated cinematographer Edward Lachman, who won the Camerimage Golden Frog in 2015 for Carol; and Michal Kwiecinski’s Filip was lensed by Dp Michal Sobocinski (The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka).
As previously announced, the main competition also includes Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Dp’d by Robbie Ryan, which will be the opening night film; Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, lensed by Rodrigo Prieto; Black Flies, directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and lensed by David Ungaro; and All of Us Strangers, helmed by Andrew Haigh and photographed by Jamie Ramsay.
The festival also announced this week that Krzysztof Zanussi (The Constant Factor,...
Michael Mann’s Ferrari was lensed by Oscar-winning Dp Erik Messerschmidt (Mank); Pablo Larraín’s El Condo was photographed by Academy-Award nominated cinematographer Edward Lachman, who won the Camerimage Golden Frog in 2015 for Carol; and Michal Kwiecinski’s Filip was lensed by Dp Michal Sobocinski (The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka).
As previously announced, the main competition also includes Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Dp’d by Robbie Ryan, which will be the opening night film; Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, lensed by Rodrigo Prieto; Black Flies, directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and lensed by David Ungaro; and All of Us Strangers, helmed by Andrew Haigh and photographed by Jamie Ramsay.
The festival also announced this week that Krzysztof Zanussi (The Constant Factor,...
- 10/19/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused film festival set for Torun, Poland, for Nov. 11-18, has announced that high-profile award contenders “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Black Flies” and “All of Us Strangers” will be featured in its main competition.
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” the latest pic from director Martin Scorsese, takes audiences on a journey through 1920s Oklahoma to tell a heartbreaking tale of love, greed and betrayal. Based on a true story and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, it centers on the suspicious murders of members of native American tribe Osage Nation, who became wealthy overnight after oil was discovered beneath their land.
This is the eighth Camerimage main competition nomination for Scorsese’s cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto. He previously won the fest’s Golden Frog for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Amores Perros” (2000) and Silver Frog for Oliver Stone’s “Alexander” (2004).
“Black Flies,” a suspenseful story directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,...
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” the latest pic from director Martin Scorsese, takes audiences on a journey through 1920s Oklahoma to tell a heartbreaking tale of love, greed and betrayal. Based on a true story and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, it centers on the suspicious murders of members of native American tribe Osage Nation, who became wealthy overnight after oil was discovered beneath their land.
This is the eighth Camerimage main competition nomination for Scorsese’s cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto. He previously won the fest’s Golden Frog for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Amores Perros” (2000) and Silver Frog for Oliver Stone’s “Alexander” (2004).
“Black Flies,” a suspenseful story directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
In 2022, then-Vox writer Emily St. James coined a catchy phrase to describe an emerging cinematic trend: the “millennial parental apology fantasy.” Daniels’s Everything Everywhere All at Once and Domee Shi’s Turning Red represented the tip of the spear for a cohort of films, usually with explicitly or understood queer themes, that sought to reverse the tide of intergenerational trauma by demanding expiation from its source. Just a year later, however, All of Us Strangers proves that St. James’s term has already outlived its usefulness, what with 1970s-born writer-director Andrew Haigh and star Andrew Scott demonstrating that the dream isn’t exclusively the provenance of a single generation.
Haigh transposes and queers Yamada Taichi’s 1987 novel Strangers to contemporary London, where Scott’s reserved screenwriter, Adam, dwells in a new and largely unoccupied tower block. From outside the building one evening, he peers curiously into the only other tenanted unit.
Haigh transposes and queers Yamada Taichi’s 1987 novel Strangers to contemporary London, where Scott’s reserved screenwriter, Adam, dwells in a new and largely unoccupied tower block. From outside the building one evening, he peers curiously into the only other tenanted unit.
- 9/25/2023
- by Ed Gonzalez
- Slant Magazine
Searchlight Pictures’ theatrical trailer for All of Us Strangers teases the fantasy/drama without completely spoiling the storyline. Following the film’s successful festival run – it currently sits at 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – All of Us Strangers is set to open in theaters on December 22, 2023.
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
- 9/21/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Andrew Scott sees dead people, but he could also see an Oscar nomination come his way with his heartbreaking and tenderly emotional turn as a gay screenwriter in Andrew Haigh’s drama “All of Us Strangers.”
Loosely based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers,” the film follows screenwriter Adam (Scott), who, after an encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), is mysteriously pulled back into his childhood home, where it appears his long-dead parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are actually alive — and haven’t aged in 30 years.
Emmy nominee Scott (guest drama actor in 2020 for “Black Mirror”) has been seamlessly maneuvering back and forth between film and television, notably garnering massive attention for his “hot priest” role on “Fleabag.” He absorbs the underlying pain of losing parents, while also grappling with the lingering question of whether they would approve of you or not. It may sound like...
Loosely based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers,” the film follows screenwriter Adam (Scott), who, after an encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), is mysteriously pulled back into his childhood home, where it appears his long-dead parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are actually alive — and haven’t aged in 30 years.
Emmy nominee Scott (guest drama actor in 2020 for “Black Mirror”) has been seamlessly maneuvering back and forth between film and television, notably garnering massive attention for his “hot priest” role on “Fleabag.” He absorbs the underlying pain of losing parents, while also grappling with the lingering question of whether they would approve of you or not. It may sound like...
- 9/3/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Haigh wants to caress your spirit with his delicate and unassumingly poetic “All Of Us Strangers.” It is an otherworldly rumination on grief, love, loneliness and trauma, as well as a sophisticated ghost story that takes a page out of Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter” for anyone carrying around a baggage of unspoken sorrow.
Caress your sprit Haigh does, for a while, with the kindness we come to expect from the lyrical British filmmaker of “45 Years”—a swelling account of the blind spots of a marriage—and “Lean on Pete,” an aching meditation on Americana on the fringes which, in a just world, would have been as widely celebrated as its closest thematic companion, the Oscar-winning “Nomadland.”
One of the most tender storytellers of our time, Haigh then pulls something else out of his magical sleeve in due course. Just like he did with those former aforesaid gems,...
Caress your sprit Haigh does, for a while, with the kindness we come to expect from the lyrical British filmmaker of “45 Years”—a swelling account of the blind spots of a marriage—and “Lean on Pete,” an aching meditation on Americana on the fringes which, in a just world, would have been as widely celebrated as its closest thematic companion, the Oscar-winning “Nomadland.”
One of the most tender storytellers of our time, Haigh then pulls something else out of his magical sleeve in due course. Just like he did with those former aforesaid gems,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
Bill Nighy gives the performance of his career in Living as a man facing impending death with the knowledge that he’s never truly lived. His work is so good that, on its own, it’s enough to justify remaking a classic. The fact that Oliver Hermanus’ resulting film isn’t too bad itself is its own sort of miracle.
Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952) has long topped many lists of the best films ever made. A moving and perceptive story about a government bureaucrat examining his life during his final days, it has much on its mind about not only the purpose of life, but also Japanese society in the 1950s. That specificity, along with Kurosawa’s masterful direction and Takashi Shimura’s compelling performance, makes it the definitive “rage against the dying of the light” movie. And while it’s inspired many other films about protagonists grappling with their mortality,...
Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952) has long topped many lists of the best films ever made. A moving and perceptive story about a government bureaucrat examining his life during his final days, it has much on its mind about not only the purpose of life, but also Japanese society in the 1950s. That specificity, along with Kurosawa’s masterful direction and Takashi Shimura’s compelling performance, makes it the definitive “rage against the dying of the light” movie. And while it’s inspired many other films about protagonists grappling with their mortality,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Chris Williams
- CinemaNerdz
Bill Nighy as Mr. Williams in Living. Photo credit: Jamie D. Ramsay. Courtesy of Number 9 films / Sony Pictures Classics.
Bill Nighy gives a striking performance as colorless taciturn bureaucrat whose his rigid, repetitive life is transformed by a terminal diagnosis, in Living. Director Oliver Hermanus, working with a script by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (“Remains of the Day”), re-tells Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru by transporting it to 1950s London, with its armies of buttoned-down businessmen in identical conservative dark suits, bowler hats and umbrellas, moving through the same drab routines day-to-day. The change works amazing well, and is aided by a perfect script, evocative period-style photography, nice period flourishes and, of course, a remarkable performance by Bill Nighy, which certainly ranks among his best in his long career. Living is a moving drama about living a meaningful life, a film well worth seeing.
Living opens with credits that completely recreate the look of 1950s dramas,...
Bill Nighy gives a striking performance as colorless taciturn bureaucrat whose his rigid, repetitive life is transformed by a terminal diagnosis, in Living. Director Oliver Hermanus, working with a script by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (“Remains of the Day”), re-tells Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru by transporting it to 1950s London, with its armies of buttoned-down businessmen in identical conservative dark suits, bowler hats and umbrellas, moving through the same drab routines day-to-day. The change works amazing well, and is aided by a perfect script, evocative period-style photography, nice period flourishes and, of course, a remarkable performance by Bill Nighy, which certainly ranks among his best in his long career. Living is a moving drama about living a meaningful life, a film well worth seeing.
Living opens with credits that completely recreate the look of 1950s dramas,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This interview with “Living” cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay first appeared in the Below-the-Line issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Oliver Hermanus’s “Living,” a 1950s-set remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film “Ikiru,” translates the Japanese master’s backdrop to the same time frame in which the earlier film was released (with a screenplay adapted by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro), only this time with a mild-mannered British bureaucrat (shatteringly played by Bill Nighy) battling mortality.
“Stepping into the shoes of Kurosawa was both an honor and quite a frightening journey,” said cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay, who won the Bronze Frog at Camerimage this year for his striking work in the film. “And I believe the only way to do it justice was to depart from a direct homage and allow his filmic hero to sit in the background in our subconscious, so that we were allowed to go on...
Oliver Hermanus’s “Living,” a 1950s-set remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film “Ikiru,” translates the Japanese master’s backdrop to the same time frame in which the earlier film was released (with a screenplay adapted by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro), only this time with a mild-mannered British bureaucrat (shatteringly played by Bill Nighy) battling mortality.
“Stepping into the shoes of Kurosawa was both an honor and quite a frightening journey,” said cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay, who won the Bronze Frog at Camerimage this year for his striking work in the film. “And I believe the only way to do it justice was to depart from a direct homage and allow his filmic hero to sit in the background in our subconscious, so that we were allowed to go on...
- 1/6/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
From the moment the opening credits start rolling over an overhead view of London’s Piccadilly Square, in all of its mid-20th century glory, Oliver Hermanus’ Living whisks you into a bygone era of Britain. Or, to be more specific, a lost heyday of British cinema, when names like Powell and Pressburger were synonymous with vibrancy and verve, Ealing comedies sold a vision of postwar England that prized both stiff upper lips and smirks, and movies like Brief Encounter pitted emotional repression against raging passion. The vintage font, the...
- 12/24/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Remakes don’t have to suffer from a dearth of ideas. Sometimes, material is strong enough to be fortified by new players, a different setting and judicious alterations. Theater has always thrived on this, but with the longevity of movies affecting our memories differently and exerting a kind of precious permanence, any new film of something — especially a beloved something — naturally has a harder road toward acceptance.
The uphill scenario for “Moffie” filmmaker Oliver Hermanus’ stately post–World War II English drama “Living” is that the original is a humanist classic from a film giant: Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 “Ikiru” (“To Live”), the story of an aged bureaucrat who, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, faces the emptiness of his life and takes on one final, affirming task.
What “Living” has going for it — which is more than enough to matter and to allow it to still have impact — is...
The uphill scenario for “Moffie” filmmaker Oliver Hermanus’ stately post–World War II English drama “Living” is that the original is a humanist classic from a film giant: Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 “Ikiru” (“To Live”), the story of an aged bureaucrat who, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, faces the emptiness of his life and takes on one final, affirming task.
What “Living” has going for it — which is more than enough to matter and to allow it to still have impact — is...
- 12/20/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
The 2022 EnergaCamerimage 30th International Film Festival concluded today in Toruń, Poland, with “Tár,” the first film in 16 years from Academy Award-nominated writer-director Todd Field, taking the Golden Frog, the festival’s highest honor, with kudos going to first-time winner Florian Hoffmeister, who shot the picture.
The awards further elevate the status of a number of Oscar-contender hopefuls in the coming months, as previous winners for the Golden Frog include Robbie Ryan for Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” in 2021, Joshua James Richards for Chloe Zhao’s Best Picture winner “Nomadland” in 2020, and Lawrence Sher for Todd Phillips’ “Joker” in 2019.
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The runners-up Silver Frog and Bronze Frog went respectively to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s work on filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay for Oliver Hermanus’ “Living,...
The awards further elevate the status of a number of Oscar-contender hopefuls in the coming months, as previous winners for the Golden Frog include Robbie Ryan for Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” in 2021, Joshua James Richards for Chloe Zhao’s Best Picture winner “Nomadland” in 2020, and Lawrence Sher for Todd Phillips’ “Joker” in 2019.
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The runners-up Silver Frog and Bronze Frog went respectively to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s work on filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay for Oliver Hermanus’ “Living,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
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Florian Hoffmeister’s lensing of Tár, the Todd Field drama starring Cate Blanchett as an Egot-winning German conductor in a downward spiral, topped the EnergaCamerimage main competition by winning its Golden Frog.
Also Saturday in Toruń, Poland, during the closing ceremony of the 30th edition of the international cinematography film festival, runners-up were Dp Darius Khondji, who won the Silver Frog for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s personal Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Dp Jamie Ramsay, who collected the Bronze Frog for Oliver Hermanus-helmed drama Living, which premiered in January during Sundance.
Hoffmeister was filming in Iceland and accepted the award via video. He saluted director Field for his “passion about cinematography.”
During the ceremony, Bardo claimed the Fipresci critics prize, and the Audience Award went to Mandy Walker’s bold lensing of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
Festival director...
Florian Hoffmeister’s lensing of Tár, the Todd Field drama starring Cate Blanchett as an Egot-winning German conductor in a downward spiral, topped the EnergaCamerimage main competition by winning its Golden Frog.
Also Saturday in Toruń, Poland, during the closing ceremony of the 30th edition of the international cinematography film festival, runners-up were Dp Darius Khondji, who won the Silver Frog for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s personal Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Dp Jamie Ramsay, who collected the Bronze Frog for Oliver Hermanus-helmed drama Living, which premiered in January during Sundance.
Hoffmeister was filming in Iceland and accepted the award via video. He saluted director Field for his “passion about cinematography.”
During the ceremony, Bardo claimed the Fipresci critics prize, and the Audience Award went to Mandy Walker’s bold lensing of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
Festival director...
- 11/19/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Personal tales of hubris, ego and living large dominated the Camerimage International Film Festival, with the Florian Hoffmeister-shot drama “Tár,” directed by Todd Field, taking the top prize at the leading annual cinematography event.
The jury honored the elaborately constructed story of a brilliant, obsessive composer and conductor, played with gusto by Cate Blanchett, with its Golden Frog prize at the closing gala Saturday night in Torun, Poland.
The Silver Frog and Fipresci prize went to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s opulent, whimsical work in “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” the surreal story of a Mexican journalist and filmmaker’s reckoning with his past, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay’s sweeping, nostalgic imagery in “Living,” the Bill Nighy-starring story of a civil servant’s deep personal awakening, directed by Oliver Hermanus, won the Camerimage Bronze Frog.
The closing gala audience also honored...
The jury honored the elaborately constructed story of a brilliant, obsessive composer and conductor, played with gusto by Cate Blanchett, with its Golden Frog prize at the closing gala Saturday night in Torun, Poland.
The Silver Frog and Fipresci prize went to cinematographer Darius Khondji’s opulent, whimsical work in “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” the surreal story of a Mexican journalist and filmmaker’s reckoning with his past, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay’s sweeping, nostalgic imagery in “Living,” the Bill Nighy-starring story of a civil servant’s deep personal awakening, directed by Oliver Hermanus, won the Camerimage Bronze Frog.
The closing gala audience also honored...
- 11/19/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The Florian Hoffmeister lensed thriller Tár from director Todd Field topped the Camerimage main competition, collecting the Golden Frog during the closing ceremony of the cinematography film festival Saturday.
The Focus Features pic follows the fictional orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, considered one of the greatest at her craft and the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra, as her life starts to unravel after she is embroiled in a swirl of #MeToo scandals.
The Golden Frog win gives cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister a new boost in the 2023 Oscars race, with three out of the last five Golden Frog winners going on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography. Those titles include Lion (2016), Joker (2019), and Nomadland (2020).
In other main competition awards, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, lensed by Darius Khondji, took home the Silver Frog and Living from cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay and...
The Focus Features pic follows the fictional orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, considered one of the greatest at her craft and the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra, as her life starts to unravel after she is embroiled in a swirl of #MeToo scandals.
The Golden Frog win gives cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister a new boost in the 2023 Oscars race, with three out of the last five Golden Frog winners going on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography. Those titles include Lion (2016), Joker (2019), and Nomadland (2020).
In other main competition awards, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, lensed by Darius Khondji, took home the Silver Frog and Living from cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay and...
- 11/19/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Best actor Oscar contender Bill Nighy is front and center in the Variety exclusive trailer debut for the drama “Living” from Sony Pictures Classics, celebrating its 30-year anniversary.
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, the film is an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” (1952), and it is set in 1953 London, following Mr. Williams (Nighy), a bureaucrat who is facing a fatal illness. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, making multiple stops at nearly every major fall festival including Telluride, Venice and Toronto.
Nighy, one of the great British character actors of our time, is given one of the richest roles of his career, showcasing tender and deeply moving moments throughout the film. A BAFTA winner for “Love Actually” (2003), he’s never received an Oscar nomination. However, similar to other great veteran actors being recognized during the last 20 years by the Academy...
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, the film is an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” (1952), and it is set in 1953 London, following Mr. Williams (Nighy), a bureaucrat who is facing a fatal illness. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, making multiple stops at nearly every major fall festival including Telluride, Venice and Toronto.
Nighy, one of the great British character actors of our time, is given one of the richest roles of his career, showcasing tender and deeply moving moments throughout the film. A BAFTA winner for “Love Actually” (2003), he’s never received an Oscar nomination. However, similar to other great veteran actors being recognized during the last 20 years by the Academy...
- 11/18/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Living review: Bill Nighy delivers an almost startling transformation in this beautiful period drama
Dir: Oliver Hermanus. Starring: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke. 12A, 102 minutes.
Ikiru, in its plaintive modernity, may not be the most widely recognisable of Akira Kurosawa’s films. It can’t be slotted so neatly beside the savage violence and heroic ideals of his historical films, Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957) or Ran (1985). But the 1952 drama’s message, that a worthy legacy can be built from the tiniest and most fleeting of things, has endured. It’s encapsulated in the single image of a dying bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) singing to himself as he sits on the swingset of the playground he helped build. Decades later, it’s an image that’s been reframed but barely rethought by South African director Oliver Hermanus, Nobel Prize-winning screenwriter Ishiguro Kazuo and actor Bill Nighy with Living. But, like the bureaucrat’s cherished swingset, that vague feeling of...
Ikiru, in its plaintive modernity, may not be the most widely recognisable of Akira Kurosawa’s films. It can’t be slotted so neatly beside the savage violence and heroic ideals of his historical films, Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957) or Ran (1985). But the 1952 drama’s message, that a worthy legacy can be built from the tiniest and most fleeting of things, has endured. It’s encapsulated in the single image of a dying bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) singing to himself as he sits on the swingset of the playground he helped build. Decades later, it’s an image that’s been reframed but barely rethought by South African director Oliver Hermanus, Nobel Prize-winning screenwriter Ishiguro Kazuo and actor Bill Nighy with Living. But, like the bureaucrat’s cherished swingset, that vague feeling of...
- 11/2/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
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The EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival has unveiled its main competition lineup, including Elvis, White Noise, Top Gun: Maverick and Empire of Light, which is set to open the 30th edition.
Camerimage, held annually in Poland, has also booked into its main competition the cinematographic work for All Quiet on the West Front, War Sailor, Tár, The Perfect Number and The Angel in the Wall. The international festival has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race.
Camerimage earlier announced that Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, which was lensed by Roger Deakins, will open the 2022 edition set to be held Nov. 12-19 in Toruń, Poland. Mendes will also receive the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Director during the festival.
Also previously announced, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Stephen Burum (Hoffa) will accept the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award during this year’s festival.
The EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival has unveiled its main competition lineup, including Elvis, White Noise, Top Gun: Maverick and Empire of Light, which is set to open the 30th edition.
Camerimage, held annually in Poland, has also booked into its main competition the cinematographic work for All Quiet on the West Front, War Sailor, Tár, The Perfect Number and The Angel in the Wall. The international festival has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race.
Camerimage earlier announced that Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, which was lensed by Roger Deakins, will open the 2022 edition set to be held Nov. 12-19 in Toruń, Poland. Mendes will also receive the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Director during the festival.
Also previously announced, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Stephen Burum (Hoffa) will accept the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award during this year’s festival.
- 10/21/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What happens to the spirits of the witches burned at the stake? For “She Will,” the power of supernatural womanhood rights the wrongs against women. Artist Charlotte Colbert’s directorial debut “She Will” won the Golden Leopard for Best First Feature at Locarno Film Festival before drawing the attention of famed “Suspiria” filmmaker Dario Argento, who signed on to executive produce the film after its world premiere. “She Will” premieres in theaters and on demand July 15 from IFC Midnight, followed by a Shudder launch October 14. Exclusive to IndieWire, watch the trailer below.
The gothic psychological thriller captures the dark tale of declining movie star Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige), who enters a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt) to recover from a difficult surgery. As Veronica’s body rests, she focuses on her own emotional healing after being haunted by past traumas on movie sets...
The gothic psychological thriller captures the dark tale of declining movie star Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige), who enters a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt) to recover from a difficult surgery. As Veronica’s body rests, she focuses on her own emotional healing after being haunted by past traumas on movie sets...
- 6/7/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Odessa Young as Jane Fairchild, Josh O’Connor as Paul Sheringham in Mothering Sunday. Image by Jamie D. Ramsay (Sasc). Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
What looks at first like period drama, a steamy “Downton Abbey,” set in England in the wake of World War I, morphs into something deeper and more far-reaching, as Mothering Sunday follows the changing life of a young maid, tracing the awful legacy of that devastating war and the transformations it wrought, and also depicting a literary awakening and three stages in an artist’s life.
Mothering Sunday starts out in1924 at a British country manor house on Mother’s Day, known there as Mothering Sunday, when aristocrats traditionally gave their servants the day off to visit their mothers. Young Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) was raised in an orphanage so she has no mother to visit. However, she has other, secret plans, to visit her lover,...
What looks at first like period drama, a steamy “Downton Abbey,” set in England in the wake of World War I, morphs into something deeper and more far-reaching, as Mothering Sunday follows the changing life of a young maid, tracing the awful legacy of that devastating war and the transformations it wrought, and also depicting a literary awakening and three stages in an artist’s life.
Mothering Sunday starts out in1924 at a British country manor house on Mother’s Day, known there as Mothering Sunday, when aristocrats traditionally gave their servants the day off to visit their mothers. Young Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) was raised in an orphanage so she has no mother to visit. However, she has other, secret plans, to visit her lover,...
- 4/11/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Mothering Sunday,” director Eva Husson’s film of Graham Swift’s novel, begins with the words, “Once upon a time,” which are repeated by the heroine Jane Fairchild as we see her open face in close-up.
She eventually begins furiously scrubbing something with a cloth, which lets us know that she is a servant, and a title lets us know that it is supposed to be Mother’s Day in England in 1924. But not everything is as it seems here.
The tone of “Mothering Sunday” is faintly absurd at first in a way that feels deliberate. There are static and pretty shots of grand interiors by cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (“Moffie”) and some extremely flattering lighting on Young and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”), who plays Jane’s lover Paul Sheringham; there is one shot of them together near some white roses that is particularly swoon-worthy because of the way the light...
She eventually begins furiously scrubbing something with a cloth, which lets us know that she is a servant, and a title lets us know that it is supposed to be Mother’s Day in England in 1924. But not everything is as it seems here.
The tone of “Mothering Sunday” is faintly absurd at first in a way that feels deliberate. There are static and pretty shots of grand interiors by cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (“Moffie”) and some extremely flattering lighting on Young and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”), who plays Jane’s lover Paul Sheringham; there is one shot of them together near some white roses that is particularly swoon-worthy because of the way the light...
- 3/23/2022
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) with Godfrey Niven (Colin Firth) in Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday
Eva Husson’s prepossessing Mothering Sunday, based on the 2016 novel by Graham Swift, with a screenplay by Alice Birch, produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, stars Odessa Young with Josh O’Connor (Prince Charles in The Crown), Colin Firth, Olivia Colman, Patsy Ferran, Sope Dirisu, Emma D’Arcy, and Glenda Jackson.
Eva Husson with Odessa Young and Anne-Katrin Titze on the Bloomsbury Group inspiring the costumes: “Virginia Woolf and her friends, because I was obsessed with them.”
Costumes by the great Sandy Powell, production design by Helen Scott, editing by Emilie Orsini, and the cinematography of Jamie Ramsay...
Eva Husson’s prepossessing Mothering Sunday, based on the 2016 novel by Graham Swift, with a screenplay by Alice Birch, produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, stars Odessa Young with Josh O’Connor (Prince Charles in The Crown), Colin Firth, Olivia Colman, Patsy Ferran, Sope Dirisu, Emma D’Arcy, and Glenda Jackson.
Eva Husson with Odessa Young and Anne-Katrin Titze on the Bloomsbury Group inspiring the costumes: “Virginia Woolf and her friends, because I was obsessed with them.”
Costumes by the great Sandy Powell, production design by Helen Scott, editing by Emilie Orsini, and the cinematography of Jamie Ramsay...
- 3/22/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Update: SPC has confirmed Deadline’s scoop on the Living deal. Find the release below our original break.
Exclusive: Living, one of the Sundance buzz titles since its January 21 premiere, has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for around $5 million for North American and some international territories, Deadline hears. This after a brisk auction involving the likes of Neon, Bleecker Street, and Focus Features.
The Oliver Hermanus-directed drama stars Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp and Tom Burke. Pic takes place in 1952 London, where veteran civil servant Williams has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England post WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Coaxed by a vivacious colleague, he begins his quest to find some meaning in his life before it slips away.
Scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro, the film is based on the Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru.
Exclusive: Living, one of the Sundance buzz titles since its January 21 premiere, has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for around $5 million for North American and some international territories, Deadline hears. This after a brisk auction involving the likes of Neon, Bleecker Street, and Focus Features.
The Oliver Hermanus-directed drama stars Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp and Tom Burke. Pic takes place in 1952 London, where veteran civil servant Williams has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England post WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Coaxed by a vivacious colleague, he begins his quest to find some meaning in his life before it slips away.
Scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro, the film is based on the Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru.
- 1/25/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Let us then use this space to celebrate Bill Nighy. The Surrey-born performer made a name for himself in the National Theater in the ’80s & ’90s before exploding on the worldwide film stage in the early 2000s with scene-stealing turns in Love Actually, Underworld, and the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. In the decades since he’s only widened his scope of performance and general recognition. Which makes Living, written by the great Kazuo Ishiguro and directed by Oliver Hermanus, a quite lovely inflection point for the lifelong thespian. It’s quite possible he’s never been better.
Working from Akira Kurosawa’s eternal Ikiru, all involved give themselves a steep hill to climb. The film concerns Mr. Williams (Nighy), a living (ahem) personification of clogged bureaucracy who is told he only has months to live. Regarded as boring and old-fashioned by all who surround him, Williams is forced to...
Working from Akira Kurosawa’s eternal Ikiru, all involved give themselves a steep hill to climb. The film concerns Mr. Williams (Nighy), a living (ahem) personification of clogged bureaucracy who is told he only has months to live. Regarded as boring and old-fashioned by all who surround him, Williams is forced to...
- 1/25/2022
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
In Akira Kurosawa’s 1982 autobiography (Something Like an Autobiography) his film Ikiru only gets a passing mention in a chapter dealing with the filming of his cinematic masterpiece, Rashomon. Ikiru, which roughly translates as “To Live”, is one of the director’s most loved masterpieces. Roger Ebert himself claimed that he loved the film so much that he would revisit it every five years; each time, becoming more and more empathetic to the plight of Ikiru’s male protagonist (originally played by Takashi Shimura). However, as good as this 1952 classic may be, it is also a film that is more beloved by extreme cinephiles and graduate level film professors than anyone else. After all, who wants to sit through a two hour plus tale dealing with existential musings on the nature of morality and human decency?
It seems that Hollywood would much rather sit through violent re-renderings of films like Yojimbo or Seven Samurai.
It seems that Hollywood would much rather sit through violent re-renderings of films like Yojimbo or Seven Samurai.
- 1/24/2022
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
I have always had a philosophy that if you are going to do a remake, remake a movie that didn’t work the first time like Howard the Duck, not a classic by a great filmmaker. Well, the latter is exactly what director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie) and Nobel Prize-winning screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro have had the audacity to do in “reimagining” (the popular term for remakes today) iconic Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s highly praised 1952 drama Ikiru. And they haven’t even bothered to change the early ’50s era in which it takes place, only the location and language, moving from Japan to England. Despite my reservations I am happy to say Living, which has its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, works very well and that is solely thanks to the loving care these filmmakers have put into...
- 1/21/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Searchlight Pictures announced today the full cast and crew for the recently completed feature production See How They Run, directed by BAFTA award-winning director Tom George (This Country) from producers Damian Jones and Gina Carter, based on an original screenplay by Mark Chappell. Shot in historic London locations earlier this year including the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road, St. Martin’s Theatre in the West End, and the Old Vic Theatre in Waterloo,
See How They Run features Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody and David Oyelowo as part of an ensemble of acclaimed stage and screen talent.
See How They Run will debut in theaters in 2022.
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case,...
See How They Run features Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody and David Oyelowo as part of an ensemble of acclaimed stage and screen talent.
See How They Run will debut in theaters in 2022.
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Rocket Science is launching world sales ahead of the Cannes market on under-the-radar UK psychological thriller She Will, the debut film from UK artist and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert with an original score from Black Swan and Requiem For A Dream composer Clint Mansell.
Starring are Alice Krige (Carnival Row), Kota Eberhardt (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince), Jon McCrea (Cruella) and Amy Manson (The Nevers).
Currently in the final stages of post-production, the Brit List screenplay charts the story of Veronica Ghent (Krige) who after a double mastectomy, goes to a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Eberhardt). There she discovers that the process of such surgery opens up questions about her very existence, leading her to start to question and confront past traumas. The two develop an unlikely bond as mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Starring are Alice Krige (Carnival Row), Kota Eberhardt (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince), Jon McCrea (Cruella) and Amy Manson (The Nevers).
Currently in the final stages of post-production, the Brit List screenplay charts the story of Veronica Ghent (Krige) who after a double mastectomy, goes to a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Eberhardt). There she discovers that the process of such surgery opens up questions about her very existence, leading her to start to question and confront past traumas. The two develop an unlikely bond as mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
- 6/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
There is no more delicious agony than the one felt when you’re sitting millimeters from your crush, wondering who’s going to make the first move, or if someone will at all. That unbearable, painful erotic tension is more or less the sustained mood of Oliver Hermanus’ shimmering and sensual military drama “Moffie,” which is Set in 1981 South Africa at the apex of the South African Border War, the film’s story of gay unrequited desire turns out to be a casing for something far more lethal in its marrow.
“Moffie” is Afrikaans slang for “faggot,” and the film, which is based on André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel of the same name, attempts a bold gesture in reclaiming epithet as an emblem of power. It’s 1981, South Africa, which means it’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effeminacy is a sign of weakness, and being gay is also illegal.
“Moffie” is Afrikaans slang for “faggot,” and the film, which is based on André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel of the same name, attempts a bold gesture in reclaiming epithet as an emblem of power. It’s 1981, South Africa, which means it’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effeminacy is a sign of weakness, and being gay is also illegal.
- 4/9/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Production has wrapped on Eva Husson’s star-studded “Mothering Sunday,” which was among the first crop of major features to start rolling cameras amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The film has now completed principal photography in the U.K., producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films confirmed to Variety. Rocket Science is handling international sales and is presenting the film to buyers at the American Film Market (AFM) this week.
The film — whose title references the U.K.’s loose equivalent of Mother’s Day, which takes place in March — is set in 1924. It follows Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), a maid in the wealthy Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman) attend a lunch to mark the engagement of their neighbor’s only remaining son, Paul (Josh O’Connor).
The day is particularly significant for Jane,...
The film has now completed principal photography in the U.K., producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films confirmed to Variety. Rocket Science is handling international sales and is presenting the film to buyers at the American Film Market (AFM) this week.
The film — whose title references the U.K.’s loose equivalent of Mother’s Day, which takes place in March — is set in 1924. It follows Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), a maid in the wealthy Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman) attend a lunch to mark the engagement of their neighbor’s only remaining son, Paul (Josh O’Connor).
The day is particularly significant for Jane,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics have acquired rights to “Mothering Sunday” starring Odessa Young and Colin Firth, the studio announced on Wednesday. The rights extend to North America, Latin America, India, Pan Asia (excluding Japan), the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Turkey, and airlines and ships worldwide.
The film, directed by Eva Husson, also stars Josh O’Connor, Olivia Colman, and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù.
“Mothering Sunday” is written by Alice Birch (“Succession”), who adapted the screenplay from Graham Swift’s novel of the same name.
“Mothering Sunday” centers on March 30, 1924 in Beechwood, England. Jane Fairchild (Young), a maid in the Niven household, has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Firth and Colman) attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbor’s only remaining son, Paul (O’Connor). Although Jane rejoices at her freedom on an unseasonably hot, beautiful spring day, she has no mother to go to...
The film, directed by Eva Husson, also stars Josh O’Connor, Olivia Colman, and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù.
“Mothering Sunday” is written by Alice Birch (“Succession”), who adapted the screenplay from Graham Swift’s novel of the same name.
“Mothering Sunday” centers on March 30, 1924 in Beechwood, England. Jane Fairchild (Young), a maid in the Niven household, has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Firth and Colman) attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbor’s only remaining son, Paul (O’Connor). Although Jane rejoices at her freedom on an unseasonably hot, beautiful spring day, she has no mother to go to...
- 9/23/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Olivia Colman and Colin Firth will star in “Mothering Sunday” for director Eva Husson. Rocket Science is handling sales.
Alice Birch penned the screenplay from the bestselling novel by Graham Swift.
Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films will produce the film, with financing from Film4 and Ingenious. The film has been developed with the support of Film4 and the BFI awarding National Lottery funding. It will shoot on location in the U.K. this Autumn.
The project has already attracted a stellar set of head of departments with Sandy Powell on board as costume designer, cinematographer Jamie Ramsay, make-up designer Nadia Stacey (“The Favourite”), production designer Helen Scott and editor Emilie Orsini.
The film is set in 1924 at Beechwood, England. Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch...
Alice Birch penned the screenplay from the bestselling novel by Graham Swift.
Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films will produce the film, with financing from Film4 and Ingenious. The film has been developed with the support of Film4 and the BFI awarding National Lottery funding. It will shoot on location in the U.K. this Autumn.
The project has already attracted a stellar set of head of departments with Sandy Powell on board as costume designer, cinematographer Jamie Ramsay, make-up designer Nadia Stacey (“The Favourite”), production designer Helen Scott and editor Emilie Orsini.
The film is set in 1924 at Beechwood, England. Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch...
- 6/25/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Rising actress Odessa Young (Assassination Nation), BAFTA-nominee Josh O’Connor (The Crown), Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) and Oscar-winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) are set to star in drama Mothering Sunday for Carol producers Number 9 Films.
The blue chip period-drama becomes one of the hottest UK projects at the Cannes virtual market where Rocket Science is launching world sales.
Eva Husson (Girls Of The Sun) will direct from Succession and Normal People scribe Alice Birch’s adaptation of Graham Swift’s acclaimed novel.
Set over a day in 1924, the story follows Jane Fairchild (Young), a maid in the Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr and Mrs Niven (Firth and Colman) attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbor’s only remaining son, Paul (O’Connor), to Emma Hobday. Jane rejoices at her freedom on an unseasonably hot, beautiful spring day.
The blue chip period-drama becomes one of the hottest UK projects at the Cannes virtual market where Rocket Science is launching world sales.
Eva Husson (Girls Of The Sun) will direct from Succession and Normal People scribe Alice Birch’s adaptation of Graham Swift’s acclaimed novel.
Set over a day in 1924, the story follows Jane Fairchild (Young), a maid in the Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr and Mrs Niven (Firth and Colman) attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbor’s only remaining son, Paul (O’Connor), to Emma Hobday. Jane rejoices at her freedom on an unseasonably hot, beautiful spring day.
- 6/25/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
For over twenty years, the government of South Africa fought a bitter war of attrition against the Cuba-backed People’s Liberation Army of Namibia, based for most of the conflict in neighbouring Angola. Thousands died for the cause of driving out Communist elements from South Africa’s periphery, and bolstering the Apartheid state’s claim to Western legitimacy.
Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer) has very little interest in all that, nor the heterosexual porno magazine given to him by his estranged father before he leaves for the Angolan border. Like every white boy over 16, Nick is expected to enrol, in much the same way as he is expected to enjoy the porn.
Based on the autobiographical novel by André Carl van der Merwe, Moffie (whose title refers to a homophobic slur in Afrikaans) is a neat enough telling of Nick’s experiences in the uber-macho training camp and...
Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer) has very little interest in all that, nor the heterosexual porno magazine given to him by his estranged father before he leaves for the Angolan border. Like every white boy over 16, Nick is expected to enrol, in much the same way as he is expected to enjoy the porn.
Based on the autobiographical novel by André Carl van der Merwe, Moffie (whose title refers to a homophobic slur in Afrikaans) is a neat enough telling of Nick’s experiences in the uber-macho training camp and...
- 4/28/2020
- by Adam Solomons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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