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The French actor Clémence Poésy, 34, is best known for her roles in The Tunnel, In Bruges and as Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films. In Stanley Tucci’s film of the life of artist Alberto Giacometti she plays opposite Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer. She lives in Paris and east London, and earlier this year gave birth to her first child, Liam.
Your character in Final Portrait is Giacometti’s mistress and muse, Caroline. She’s full of life and colour, but is very temperamental and often skittish. How did you want to play her?
I was constantly scared of her being too much. But Stanley had his film very clear in his head, and knew that the story needed that burst of energy at some points.
The French actor Clémence Poésy, 34, is best known for her roles in The Tunnel, In Bruges and as Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films. In Stanley Tucci’s film of the life of artist Alberto Giacometti she plays opposite Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer. She lives in Paris and east London, and earlier this year gave birth to her first child, Liam.
Your character in Final Portrait is Giacometti’s mistress and muse, Caroline. She’s full of life and colour, but is very temperamental and often skittish. How did you want to play her?
I was constantly scared of her being too much. But Stanley had his film very clear in his head, and knew that the story needed that burst of energy at some points.
- 8/6/2017
- by Alex Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Zehra Phelan
After its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival back in February 2017, where it received rave reviews, Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait has finally released an endearing trailer.
Related: Final Portrait Review
Starring Geoffrey Rush as the eccentric and procrastinating artist Alberto Giacometti and Armie Hammer as the American writer James Lord, Final Portrait is written and directed by the exceptional Stanley Tucci.
In the trailer, Rush with an odd resemblance to Bob Dylan portrays the artistic genius with utter believability as his own self-doubt turns him into a grumpy perfectionist behind the canvas as Armie Hammer’s Lord becomes impatient at the amount of time it takes the man to create his portrait. Graced with light-hearted humour, Giacometti struggles with alcohol and dabbles in an extramarital affair in order to let loose.
“That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture,
The...
After its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival back in February 2017, where it received rave reviews, Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait has finally released an endearing trailer.
Related: Final Portrait Review
Starring Geoffrey Rush as the eccentric and procrastinating artist Alberto Giacometti and Armie Hammer as the American writer James Lord, Final Portrait is written and directed by the exceptional Stanley Tucci.
In the trailer, Rush with an odd resemblance to Bob Dylan portrays the artistic genius with utter believability as his own self-doubt turns him into a grumpy perfectionist behind the canvas as Armie Hammer’s Lord becomes impatient at the amount of time it takes the man to create his portrait. Graced with light-hearted humour, Giacometti struggles with alcohol and dabbles in an extramarital affair in order to let loose.
“That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture,
The...
- 7/10/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"It's like he's determined to remain completely unsatisfied." Vertigo has unveiled an official UK trailer for the film Final Portrait, an intriguing look at the work of acclaimed Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. The film stars Geoffrey Rush as Giacometti, an eccentric painter and sculptor who lived in Paris for the the last years of his life. The story is all about his friendship with an American journalist named James Lord, played by Armie Hammer, who visited in the 1960s. Giacometti asked Lord to sit down for a portrait, to be finished in only a few days, but it ends up going on and on for months - his final portrait. Also starring Clémence Poésy and Tony Shalhoub. I saw this film at the Berlin Film Festival and wrote in my review that: "Rush gives such an outstanding performance, it's compelling and thoroughly enjoyable to watch him." Here's the official UK...
- 7/5/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Although he’s best known for his acting career, Stanley Tucci also gets behind the camera every so often and he’s now done so for the first time in a decade with Final Portrait. The film follows American writer James Lord (Armie Hammer) as he sits for the final portrait by artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush). Following a premiere at this year’s Berlinale and ahead of a U.K. release this summer, the first trailer has now arrived.
“Enough footage of Alberto Giacometti exists to suggest that Geoffrey Rush is quite uncanny as the renowned surrealist sculptor in Final Portrait, a depiction of the seventeen days it took him to paint his last portrait, that of the American writer James Lord (played here by Armie Hammer),” we said in our review. “Based on Lord’s resulting 1965 book A Giacometti Portrait, it’s an elegant if somewhat unambitious piece...
“Enough footage of Alberto Giacometti exists to suggest that Geoffrey Rush is quite uncanny as the renowned surrealist sculptor in Final Portrait, a depiction of the seventeen days it took him to paint his last portrait, that of the American writer James Lord (played here by Armie Hammer),” we said in our review. “Based on Lord’s resulting 1965 book A Giacometti Portrait, it’s an elegant if somewhat unambitious piece...
- 7/5/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North America to Stanley Tucci’s latest directorial outing, “Final Portrait,” from Riverstone Pictures. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year in an out of competition gala screening.
Written and directed by Tucci, the film stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub and Sylvie Testud and is produced by Gail Egan, Nik Bower and Ilann Girard and executive produced by Deepak Nayar, Fred Hogge and Ted Blumberg.
Read More: ‘Final Portrait’ Review: Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush Star in Stanley Tucci’s Engaging Biopic — Berlinale 2017
The historical feature is billed as “the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process.
Written and directed by Tucci, the film stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub and Sylvie Testud and is produced by Gail Egan, Nik Bower and Ilann Girard and executive produced by Deepak Nayar, Fred Hogge and Ted Blumberg.
Read More: ‘Final Portrait’ Review: Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush Star in Stanley Tucci’s Engaging Biopic — Berlinale 2017
The historical feature is billed as “the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process.
- 5/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Film premiered out of competition in Berlin. HanWay handles international sales.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait
The Riverstone Pictures film premiered out of competition in Berlin and tells the story of an offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti.
The story takes place in 1964 as Lord is asked by Giacometti to sit for a portrait while on a short trip to Paris.
Tucci wrote and directed Final Portrait, which stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub and Sylvie Testud.
Gail Egan, Nik Bower and Ilann Girard produced and executive producers are Deepak Nayar, Fred Hogge and Ted Blumberg.
“Giacometti’s work and life and Lord’s poignant memoir have fascinated me for years,” Tucci said. “To finally bring my adaptation to the screen with this extraordinary cast and crew has been indeed a pleasure and to have Sony Classics distributing is a great...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait
The Riverstone Pictures film premiered out of competition in Berlin and tells the story of an offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti.
The story takes place in 1964 as Lord is asked by Giacometti to sit for a portrait while on a short trip to Paris.
Tucci wrote and directed Final Portrait, which stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub and Sylvie Testud.
Gail Egan, Nik Bower and Ilann Girard produced and executive producers are Deepak Nayar, Fred Hogge and Ted Blumberg.
“Giacometti’s work and life and Lord’s poignant memoir have fascinated me for years,” Tucci said. “To finally bring my adaptation to the screen with this extraordinary cast and crew has been indeed a pleasure and to have Sony Classics distributing is a great...
- 5/17/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Vertigo acquires project starring Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer and Clémence Poésy.
Vertigo Releasing has acquired Final Portrait, a biopic of Alberto Giacometti directed by Stanley Tucci, for the UK and Ireland.
Geoffrey Rush plays the Swiss painter and sculptor with Armie Hammer and Clémence Poésy co-starring.
Adapted from U.S. writer James Lord’s memoir A Giacometti Portrait, the film offers a window into the chaotic life of the artist in 1960s Paris.
Ed Caffrey from Vertigo Releasing and Nicole Mackey of Hanway Films struck the deal.
The film, a labour of love for Beauty And The Beast and Hunger Games star Tucci, premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Vertigo are planning a summer 2017 release to coincide with Tate Modern’s Giacometti retrospective and are exploring opportunities to cross promote.
Gail Egan produces for Potboiler alongside Nik Bower for Riverstone Pictures and Ilann Girard for Arsam International. Riverstone Pictures fully financed...
Vertigo Releasing has acquired Final Portrait, a biopic of Alberto Giacometti directed by Stanley Tucci, for the UK and Ireland.
Geoffrey Rush plays the Swiss painter and sculptor with Armie Hammer and Clémence Poésy co-starring.
Adapted from U.S. writer James Lord’s memoir A Giacometti Portrait, the film offers a window into the chaotic life of the artist in 1960s Paris.
Ed Caffrey from Vertigo Releasing and Nicole Mackey of Hanway Films struck the deal.
The film, a labour of love for Beauty And The Beast and Hunger Games star Tucci, premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Vertigo are planning a summer 2017 release to coincide with Tate Modern’s Giacometti retrospective and are exploring opportunities to cross promote.
Gail Egan produces for Potboiler alongside Nik Bower for Riverstone Pictures and Ilann Girard for Arsam International. Riverstone Pictures fully financed...
- 4/28/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
“The Other Side of Hope”
Winsome, sweet, and often very funny, the second chapter of Aki Kaurismäki’s unofficial trilogy about port cities is a delightful story about the power of kindness that unfolds like a slightly more somber riff on 2011’s “Le Havre.” The Finnish auteur’s latest refugee story begins with a twentysomething Syrian man named Khaled (terrific newcomer Sherwan Haji), who escapes from Aleppo after burying most of his family and sneaks into Finland by stowing away in the cargo hold of a coal freighter. His path eventually crosses with Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen), a newly single restauranteur who could use a helping hand. Part Roy Andersson and part Frank Capra, “The Other Side of Hope” deepens the director’s recognition of how immigrants and refugees are victimized by their invisibility, and its timeliness could help it strike a chord with domestic audiences. “Le Havre” grossed more than...
Winsome, sweet, and often very funny, the second chapter of Aki Kaurismäki’s unofficial trilogy about port cities is a delightful story about the power of kindness that unfolds like a slightly more somber riff on 2011’s “Le Havre.” The Finnish auteur’s latest refugee story begins with a twentysomething Syrian man named Khaled (terrific newcomer Sherwan Haji), who escapes from Aleppo after burying most of his family and sneaks into Finland by stowing away in the cargo hold of a coal freighter. His path eventually crosses with Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen), a newly single restauranteur who could use a helping hand. Part Roy Andersson and part Frank Capra, “The Other Side of Hope” deepens the director’s recognition of how immigrants and refugees are victimized by their invisibility, and its timeliness could help it strike a chord with domestic audiences. “Le Havre” grossed more than...
- 2/20/2017
- by David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Nothing like watching artists work. Final Portrait is a film directed by Stanley Tucci (of Blind Date, The Impostors, Big Night previously) starring actor Geoffrey Rush playing the famed Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. If you don't know who Giacometti is, it's better to get acquainted with him and his incredible sculpture work before getting into this film. Final Portrait tells the story of, literally, his final portrait as an artist - a painting he did of an American novelist who was visiting Paris, where his studio was, in the 1960s. The film has a small, intimate feel to it exploring the pained life and quirky antics of a great artist, which is becoming increasingly common these days (e.g. Inside Llewyn Davis, Maudie, Mr. Turner, Love & Mercy). Armie Hammer plays James Lord, an American novelist who has been profiling Giacometti and is already friends with him at the start. Giacometti...
- 2/18/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Author: Stefan Pape
Though renowned primarily for his work in front of the screen, Final Portrait marks the fifth directorial outing for Stanley Tucci, with that spanning across two decades – and you’d have to go back half of that time for the last one, which was Blind Date back in 2007. This is the first time Tucci has opted not to star in one of his productions however, leaving all of his focus on the narrative at hand – and it’s a sacrifice that has paid off, as tonally this production was one presented with many obstacles, and yet it’s exactly here where the endeavour thrives.
Armie Hammer plays James Lord, a journalist, and close friend of the venerable, eccentric Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush), who has agreed to pose for a portrait, promising to sit for the renowned post-impressionist painter one afternoon. If only that was the case,...
Though renowned primarily for his work in front of the screen, Final Portrait marks the fifth directorial outing for Stanley Tucci, with that spanning across two decades – and you’d have to go back half of that time for the last one, which was Blind Date back in 2007. This is the first time Tucci has opted not to star in one of his productions however, leaving all of his focus on the narrative at hand – and it’s a sacrifice that has paid off, as tonally this production was one presented with many obstacles, and yet it’s exactly here where the endeavour thrives.
Armie Hammer plays James Lord, a journalist, and close friend of the venerable, eccentric Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush), who has agreed to pose for a portrait, promising to sit for the renowned post-impressionist painter one afternoon. If only that was the case,...
- 2/12/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Used up your vacation days? The news got you burned out, battered and blue? Well, let director Stanley Tucci offer this balm for frayed nerves, whisking you off to France with the amiable, shaggy-dog of a film that is “Final Portrait.” The story of artist Alberto Giacometti towards the end of his life, the film is less a biopic than it is a long ramble with an engaging eccentric, all set in Paris, 1964.
If this sounds appealing and oddly familiar, hey, you’re right on both counts. With his fifth directorial feature, Tucci returns to territory he previously explored with his 2000 outing, “Joe Gould’s Secret.” Both films tell of the relationship between a young writer and an older oddball, treading lightly on narrative to instead focus on the textures, settings and details that make up the older man’s vie bohème. Swap out Greenwich Village of the ’40s for...
If this sounds appealing and oddly familiar, hey, you’re right on both counts. With his fifth directorial feature, Tucci returns to territory he previously explored with his 2000 outing, “Joe Gould’s Secret.” Both films tell of the relationship between a young writer and an older oddball, treading lightly on narrative to instead focus on the textures, settings and details that make up the older man’s vie bohème. Swap out Greenwich Village of the ’40s for...
- 2/11/2017
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
Enough footage of Alberto Giacometti exists to suggest that Geoffrey Rush is quite uncanny as the renowned surrealist sculptor in Final Portrait, a depiction of the seventeen days it took him to paint his last portrait, that of the American writer James Lord (played here by Armie Hammer). Based on Lord’s resulting 1965 book A Giacometti Portrait, it’s an elegant if somewhat unambitious piece of biographical work from writer-director Stanley Tucci, who has created — along with cinematographer Danny Cohen and art designer David Hindle (who worked with Rush before on Tom Hooper’s The Kings Speech) — a chicly grim vision of some of the shadier corners of the 1960s Parisian art scene.
It must be said that Hammer looks right at home smoking a cigarette in a beige trench and black-tie suit (had he been born ten years earlier he might have given Jon Hamm a run for his...
It must be said that Hammer looks right at home smoking a cigarette in a beige trench and black-tie suit (had he been born ten years earlier he might have given Jon Hamm a run for his...
- 2/11/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Starting today at 8:10Am Et/5:10Am Pt, you can watch a live stream of the Berlinale press conference featuring the cast and crew of “Final Portrait.” Filmmaker Stanley Tucci is expected to attend the conference, as well as cast members including Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush and Clémence Poésy.
Tucci’s latest venture behind the camera follows a decidedly offbeat story related to the waning days of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti (Rush).
Read More: Paul Verhoeven to Serve as Berlin Film Festival Jury President
Per the film’s official synopsis, “Alberto Giacometti is the one who decides when it is time for work, drink, doubt, destruction, flirtation or laughter in his studio. An established artist whose works fetch record prices, he hides his earnings in his studio. This is just one of the causes of many an argument with his wife Annette, another being the fact that...
Tucci’s latest venture behind the camera follows a decidedly offbeat story related to the waning days of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti (Rush).
Read More: Paul Verhoeven to Serve as Berlin Film Festival Jury President
Per the film’s official synopsis, “Alberto Giacometti is the one who decides when it is time for work, drink, doubt, destruction, flirtation or laughter in his studio. An established artist whose works fetch record prices, he hides his earnings in his studio. This is just one of the causes of many an argument with his wife Annette, another being the fact that...
- 2/11/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival marks the first major film market of the year, and is one of the few events where nearly everyone from the global movie business comes together to network and launch new projects.
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
This year’s Efm will draw more than 1,600 buyers from roughly 70 countries into a deal-making bonanza for films in every stage of development and production, much like the American Film Market in Los Angeles and the Marché du Film in Cannes. Efm will include around 730 screenings this year, more than 600 of which will be market premieres.
What are the movies and screenplays already on executives’ radars? Here are 10 hot projects that could be prime targets.
“Borg/McEnroe”
Summary: This sports drama stars Shia Labeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg. The movie focuses on the pair’s 1980 Wimbledon tennis championship,...
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
This year’s Efm will draw more than 1,600 buyers from roughly 70 countries into a deal-making bonanza for films in every stage of development and production, much like the American Film Market in Los Angeles and the Marché du Film in Cannes. Efm will include around 730 screenings this year, more than 600 of which will be market premieres.
What are the movies and screenplays already on executives’ radars? Here are 10 hot projects that could be prime targets.
“Borg/McEnroe”
Summary: This sports drama stars Shia Labeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg. The movie focuses on the pair’s 1980 Wimbledon tennis championship,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush are set to star in Stanley Tucci's nee drama "Final Portrait" for Riverstone Pictures. Shooting begins later this month.
The story focuses on the end of Swiss painter and surreal sculpturist Alberto Giacometti's life. At the time Lord, a young American writer, was studying him as the artist painted Lord's picture in 1964.
Giacometti died two years later in Switzerland. Tucci directs from his own script, based on James Lord's book "A Giacometti Portrait". Gail Egan, Nik Bower and Ilann Girard will produce.
Source: Variety...
The story focuses on the end of Swiss painter and surreal sculpturist Alberto Giacometti's life. At the time Lord, a young American writer, was studying him as the artist painted Lord's picture in 1964.
Giacometti died two years later in Switzerland. Tucci directs from his own script, based on James Lord's book "A Giacometti Portrait". Gail Egan, Nik Bower and Ilann Girard will produce.
Source: Variety...
- 2/2/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Armie Hammer has largely been seen in bigger dramas or action adventures such as J. Edgar or The Lone Ranger, so it’s nice to see him taking a crack at other things too. He’s signed on for a role in Stanley Tucci’s The Final Portrait opposite Geoffrey Rush.Tucci is once more on writing and directing duty for the film, which will chronicle the friendship between American art critic James Lord (Hammer) who agrees to sit for a portrait by his friend, noted Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti (Rush). Unfortunately, though the two knew each other socially, Lord wasn’t quite prepared for the demanding nature of the artist at work and the experience tests their relationship to the limit.The script has been adapted from Lord’s writing on the experience, A Giacometti Portrait. Tucci’s producers are still rounding up the funding, and he should be shooting this year.
- 5/14/2015
- EmpireOnline
Armie Hammer is the latest cast member to be added to Final Portrait, the upcoming biopic from Stanley Tucci in his first major feature as director since 2007’s Blind Date. The Lone Ranger star with join Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, who will take the lead as Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Tucci is working from his own script based on the novel A Giacometti Portrait by the artist’s friend, the American critic James Lord, who in 1960s Paris sat down for 18 days, studying Giacometti as he painted his picture using oils. Gail Egan, Potboiler Productions, Ilann Girard, Fred
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- 5/14/2015
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Armie Hammer is joining Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait opposite Geoffrey Rush. The film follows the relationship between legendary Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti (Rush) and American art critic James Lord (Hammer), who decides to sit for a portrait by his friend. He is unprepared, however, for the painter's demanding intensity, and the experience tests their relationship to the core. The script is based on Lord's own work A Giacometti Portrait. Gail Egan of…...
- 5/14/2015
- Deadline
Maggie's Plan
Travis Fimmel ("Vikings") is set to join Greta Gerwig, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore in Rebecca Miller's rom-com "Maggie’s Plan" for Round Films.
Fimmel will play the role of Gary about a young woman tries to make it on her own in New York City. Filming is slated to begin this month. [Source: Deadline]
Snowden
Scott Eastwood will join Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley in Oliver Stone's untitled film about Nsa leaker Edward Snowden for Open Road and Endgame. Eastwood will play an Nsa agent who leads the group. [Source: Deadline]
The Taliban Shuffle
Christopher Abbott ("Girls," "James White") has scored a role in Tina Fey's untitled project based on Kim Barker’s wartime memoir "The Taliban Shuffle" at Paramount Pictures. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are directing and shooting begins in New Mexico this month.
The dark comedy is fish-out-of-water experience about the...
Travis Fimmel ("Vikings") is set to join Greta Gerwig, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore in Rebecca Miller's rom-com "Maggie’s Plan" for Round Films.
Fimmel will play the role of Gary about a young woman tries to make it on her own in New York City. Filming is slated to begin this month. [Source: Deadline]
Snowden
Scott Eastwood will join Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley in Oliver Stone's untitled film about Nsa leaker Edward Snowden for Open Road and Endgame. Eastwood will play an Nsa agent who leads the group. [Source: Deadline]
The Taliban Shuffle
Christopher Abbott ("Girls," "James White") has scored a role in Tina Fey's untitled project based on Kim Barker’s wartime memoir "The Taliban Shuffle" at Paramount Pictures. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are directing and shooting begins in New Mexico this month.
The dark comedy is fish-out-of-water experience about the...
- 2/3/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Stanley Tucci hasn’t written and directed a film since 2007’s Blind Date, as the acting side of his career has kept him busy. But he’s headed back behind the camera for a drama called Final Portrait. And Tucci has hired Geoffrey Rush to star.Tucci is once more pulling double duty for the film, which will chronicle the friendship between American art critic James Lord who agrees to sit for a portrait by his friend, noted Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti. Unfortunately, though the two knew each other socially, Lord wasn’t quite prepared for the demanding nature of the artist at work and the experience tests their relationship to the limit.The script has been adapted from Lord’s writing on the experience, A Giacometti Portrait, and Tucci’s producers will be busy rustling up distributors at the Berlin International Film Festival this week. Rush is, as ever,...
- 2/2/2015
- EmpireOnline
HanWay to launch project in Berlin.
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine) is to star as artist Alberto Giacometti in Stanley Tucci-directed drama Final Portrait, which HanWay will launch this week at Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13).
CAA represents Us rights.
The film will recount Giacometti’s life as told by his old friend and Us art critic, James Lord as he sits to have his portrait painted. The film is based on Lord’s book about Giacometti.
Gail Egan’s Potboiler will produce with Ilann Girard, Fred Hogg and Olive Productions. Additional casting is underway.
The Hunger Games star Tucci has written and will direct.
Tucci said: “I am thrilled to bring this story of Giacometti and his dear friend James Lord to the screen based on one of the great books of our time.
“I cannot imagine anyone better to play the extraordinary artist than the extraordinary Geoffrey Rush.”
Mr. Turner exec Egan...
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine) is to star as artist Alberto Giacometti in Stanley Tucci-directed drama Final Portrait, which HanWay will launch this week at Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13).
CAA represents Us rights.
The film will recount Giacometti’s life as told by his old friend and Us art critic, James Lord as he sits to have his portrait painted. The film is based on Lord’s book about Giacometti.
Gail Egan’s Potboiler will produce with Ilann Girard, Fred Hogg and Olive Productions. Additional casting is underway.
The Hunger Games star Tucci has written and will direct.
Tucci said: “I am thrilled to bring this story of Giacometti and his dear friend James Lord to the screen based on one of the great books of our time.
“I cannot imagine anyone better to play the extraordinary artist than the extraordinary Geoffrey Rush.”
Mr. Turner exec Egan...
- 2/2/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive- Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech) is set to star in Final Portrait, a drama written and directed by Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games).
The film follows the relationship between American art critic James Lord who decides to sit for a portrait by his friend, the legendary Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti. He is unprepared, however, for the painter’s demanding intensity, and the experience tests their relationship to the core.
The script is based on Lord’s own work A Giacometti Portrait.
Gail Egan of Potboiler Productions (Our Kind of Traitor) is producing, along with Ilan Girard, Fred Hogg and Olive Productions.
The multi-talented Tucci, who stars in Sky Atlantic’s eagerly anticipated TV series Fortitude, has previously directed a number of features, including Big Night and Blind Date.
Hanway Films is selling international rights and will be introducing it to buyers at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival,...
The film follows the relationship between American art critic James Lord who decides to sit for a portrait by his friend, the legendary Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti. He is unprepared, however, for the painter’s demanding intensity, and the experience tests their relationship to the core.
The script is based on Lord’s own work A Giacometti Portrait.
Gail Egan of Potboiler Productions (Our Kind of Traitor) is producing, along with Ilan Girard, Fred Hogg and Olive Productions.
The multi-talented Tucci, who stars in Sky Atlantic’s eagerly anticipated TV series Fortitude, has previously directed a number of features, including Big Night and Blind Date.
Hanway Films is selling international rights and will be introducing it to buyers at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival,...
- 2/2/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs The Museum of Modern Art Through February 8, 2015
In the early months of 1945, Matisse wrote to his daughter that he had gone as far as he could with painting in oil, intending instead to focus his efforts on a large-scale decorative project using the cut-out paper technique he had employed to make sketches and maquettes for his mural and theater projects in the early Thirties ("Red Dancer" [1937-38], and "Two Dancers" [1937–38] for Diaghilev's Rouge et Noir). "Painting seems to be finished for me for now… I'm for decoration -- there I give myself everything I can. I put into it all the efforts of my life." Although he had already been employing this technique for years as an adjunct to his paintings, it was not until the mid-Forties that he turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium, introducing a radically new operation that came to be called a cut-out.
In the early months of 1945, Matisse wrote to his daughter that he had gone as far as he could with painting in oil, intending instead to focus his efforts on a large-scale decorative project using the cut-out paper technique he had employed to make sketches and maquettes for his mural and theater projects in the early Thirties ("Red Dancer" [1937-38], and "Two Dancers" [1937–38] for Diaghilev's Rouge et Noir). "Painting seems to be finished for me for now… I'm for decoration -- there I give myself everything I can. I put into it all the efforts of my life." Although he had already been employing this technique for years as an adjunct to his paintings, it was not until the mid-Forties that he turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium, introducing a radically new operation that came to be called a cut-out.
- 12/15/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Allison Schulnik: Eager
ZieherSmith Gallery, NYC
Through February 22, 2014 And it's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal no prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey and goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight Mathilda, too.
Tom Waits, "Waltzing Mathilda"
"The Hobo, as a visual trope, represents the last truly transgressive figure in art… kitsch paintings of clown-like characters with bindlestiffs and colorful handkerchiefs camouflage a predatory underclass of thieves, pedophiles, rapists, and murderers."
Dr. Hope Ardizzone, Oblivion and Contingency in Post-Modern Painting
Allison Schulnik's second exhibition at ZieherSmith presents drawings, sculpture, paintings, and installation pieces surrounding and supporting her most recent animated film, Eager (2013). Schulnik, drawing from a variety of sources (Busby Berkeley, Lewis Carroll, her former teachers Jules Engel and Corny Cole, Bob Ross, and Antoine Watteau) choreographs a stop-motion,...
ZieherSmith Gallery, NYC
Through February 22, 2014 And it's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal no prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey and goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight Mathilda, too.
Tom Waits, "Waltzing Mathilda"
"The Hobo, as a visual trope, represents the last truly transgressive figure in art… kitsch paintings of clown-like characters with bindlestiffs and colorful handkerchiefs camouflage a predatory underclass of thieves, pedophiles, rapists, and murderers."
Dr. Hope Ardizzone, Oblivion and Contingency in Post-Modern Painting
Allison Schulnik's second exhibition at ZieherSmith presents drawings, sculpture, paintings, and installation pieces surrounding and supporting her most recent animated film, Eager (2013). Schulnik, drawing from a variety of sources (Busby Berkeley, Lewis Carroll, her former teachers Jules Engel and Corny Cole, Bob Ross, and Antoine Watteau) choreographs a stop-motion,...
- 1/17/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Jenny Dubnau: Head On Aldrich Museum Ridgefield, Ct Through June 5, 2011
There were those who once believed that Alberto Giacometti pissed away a flourishing career as a leading Surrealist sculptor for what some saw as the seemingly futile pursuit of trying to paint a nose convincingly affixed to a face. Because it was Giacometti, we trust his judgment and agree that it was a good idea after all. His project for portraiture, which he pursued for the next 30-odd years, was of vital importance. Similarly, Jenny Dubnau's exhibition at the Aldrich, of simple faces portrayed against a blank ground, shows how compelling that idea still is.
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There were those who once believed that Alberto Giacometti pissed away a flourishing career as a leading Surrealist sculptor for what some saw as the seemingly futile pursuit of trying to paint a nose convincingly affixed to a face. Because it was Giacometti, we trust his judgment and agree that it was a good idea after all. His project for portraiture, which he pursued for the next 30-odd years, was of vital importance. Similarly, Jenny Dubnau's exhibition at the Aldrich, of simple faces portrayed against a blank ground, shows how compelling that idea still is.
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- 2/5/2011
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
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