Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sci-fi film "Blade Runner 2049" is a worthy follow-up to Ridley Scott's 1982 flick "Blade Runner." Both presented unique and beautifully photographed sci-fi landscapes that were unique to the genre, and gorgeous to behold. They were the kinds of sci-fi landscapes that college-aged cineastes love to use as their laptop wallpapers. Additionally, both "Blade Runners" contained a few notably punchy action setpieces nestled in between steamroller-paced scenes of sorrowful contemplation. Also, both were infused with the same flavor of navel-gazing angst that feels incredibly profound when you're 16. Villeneuve's film outstripped Scott's in that it was a full 46 minutes longer.
"Blade Runner 2049" was Villenueve's ninth feature film as a director, having established his aesthetic in Canada with films like "Polytechnique" and "Incendies," and who became an international superstar with the success of films like "Prisoners" and "Sicario." Villeneuve's films tend to feature a very particular type of hazy,...
"Blade Runner 2049" was Villenueve's ninth feature film as a director, having established his aesthetic in Canada with films like "Polytechnique" and "Incendies," and who became an international superstar with the success of films like "Prisoners" and "Sicario." Villeneuve's films tend to feature a very particular type of hazy,...
- 3/3/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Fernando Meirelles’ epic crime drama ‘City of God’ is returning to cinemas to mark the movie’s 21st anniversary.Over two decades on from its original release, this visually stunning and gripping reflection of life on the mean streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is back on the big screen – courtesy of Paris-based distributor The Festival Agency partnering with sales company Wild Bunch - for a new generation to experience.The film is an adaptation of Paulo Lins’ 1997 novel of the same name – which is based on real events – that weaves together the compelling stories of a group of kids growing up in the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio from the 1960s to the 1980s. Narrator Rocket – played by Alexandre Rodrigues - tries to avoid being drawn into the spiral of violence and crime to become a photographer and win over the beautiful Angélica (Alicia Braga), whilst gun-toting L’il Zé...
- 1/26/2024
- by Philip Hamilton
- Bang Showbiz
In the span of less than a decade, Denis Villeneuve has managed to ascend the ranks of recognizable, name-brand writer/directors to become one of the most reliable, challenging, and consistent visionary filmmakers around ... but it's safe to say he wouldn't have made it this far if it weren't for a much lesser-known thriller that helped put him on the map. 2013's "Enemy," based on José Saramago's novel "The Double," has incited all sorts of fascinating discussions and analysis across film circles, mostly for its utterly confounding imagery, difficult and disturbing themes, and perhaps one of the most terrifying and controversial final shots of any movie made this century. Viewers who've seen "Enemy" for the first time typically come away with strong opinions about the very last scene, which we'll get to in a moment, but every second preceding that chilling conclusion demands just as much attention and focus.
- 9/18/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Infectious disease has been a concern of humankind ever since we first began cooperating in large settlements, so it makes sense that this horrific fact of life has also become the basis for many of our scary stories. And while Covid and the Black Plague are scary enough on their own, some stories rely on much stranger (and often absurd) diseases in order to terrify audiences – especially when horror movies are concerned.
And with so many viral scares out there, we’ve decided to come up with a list recommending six of the strangest infection horror flicks for your viewing pleasure. After all, it might do horror fans some good to remember that things could still have been much worse after living through a very real pandemic.
Naturally, the films on this list aren’t the only strange viral horror flicks out there, so don’t forget to comment below...
And with so many viral scares out there, we’ve decided to come up with a list recommending six of the strangest infection horror flicks for your viewing pleasure. After all, it might do horror fans some good to remember that things could still have been much worse after living through a very real pandemic.
Naturally, the films on this list aren’t the only strange viral horror flicks out there, so don’t forget to comment below...
- 6/28/2023
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
While many Hollywood films and TV shows have been shot in Canada to take advantage of tax credits and other incentives, they usually use cities like Toronto to stand in for U.S. cities like New York. French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve bucked this trend with "Enemy," his first English-language movie and his first collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal.
In "Enemy," Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a professor who discovers that he has a doppelgänger — an actor named Anthony Claire — after spotting him in the background of a movie. While it may be cliché to say Toronto is as much a character as Adam and Anthony are in "Enemy," Villeneuve and cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc do fetishize the city's skyline with aerial shots of clogged freeways, towering apartment blocks, and the surreal sight of a giant spider walking among them. Shots of Toronto are also the last thing viewers see during the closing credits.
In "Enemy," Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a professor who discovers that he has a doppelgänger — an actor named Anthony Claire — after spotting him in the background of a movie. While it may be cliché to say Toronto is as much a character as Adam and Anthony are in "Enemy," Villeneuve and cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc do fetishize the city's skyline with aerial shots of clogged freeways, towering apartment blocks, and the surreal sight of a giant spider walking among them. Shots of Toronto are also the last thing viewers see during the closing credits.
- 12/30/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Denis Villeneuve rarely misses. The director has a penchant for crafting thrillingly intricate character studies, incorporated in a range of films from "Prisoners," to "Blade Runner 2049." However, his 2013 psychological drama, "Enemy," is perhaps Villeneuve's most psychologically dense work, which takes on an extremely Kafkaesque tint and is more concerned with the subconscious, as opposed to objective reality. With an ending that warrants reactions along the lines of "what the heck does that even mean?" "Enemy" directly challenges the viewer to exercise their ability to parse and interpret the film's text and subject. Most of what happens to the film's dual (?) protagonists Adam and Anthony (both played by Jake Gyllenhaal) is up to interpretation, along their journeys and whether these dual identities truly exist.
Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the film's central twins is nothing short of brilliant, with the actor having to switch his demeanor in extremely subtle, yet telling ways.
Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the film's central twins is nothing short of brilliant, with the actor having to switch his demeanor in extremely subtle, yet telling ways.
- 12/23/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
It’s always interesting, at the beginning of any Nadav Lapid film, to note the myriad Israeli institutions that have backed the project. Since Emile’s Girlfriend (2006), Lapid’s work has sought to make sense of Israeli society—his criticisms a byproduct of attempting to articulate the confusion and warring arguments in his own head. Having won Berlin’s Golden Bear with Synonyms in 2019, Lapid could claim to be the most renowned Israeli filmmaker of his generation. That his work is at risk of falling afoul of that same state speaks volumes about the country’s ever-increasing authoritarianism as a whole. Further confirmation of that renown came with news that his latest would compete for the Palme...
Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
It’s always interesting, at the beginning of any Nadav Lapid film, to note the myriad Israeli institutions that have backed the project. Since Emile’s Girlfriend (2006), Lapid’s work has sought to make sense of Israeli society—his criticisms a byproduct of attempting to articulate the confusion and warring arguments in his own head. Having won Berlin’s Golden Bear with Synonyms in 2019, Lapid could claim to be the most renowned Israeli filmmaker of his generation. That his work is at risk of falling afoul of that same state speaks volumes about the country’s ever-increasing authoritarianism as a whole. Further confirmation of that renown came with news that his latest would compete for the Palme...
- 7/15/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“I’m afraid nobody will like me at my new school,” says the protagonist of “Mean Boys” at the beginning of its trailer.
Growing up is never easy. But it’s especially challenging if you’re old man’s God, you’re a teen Jesus, and you’ve got to control your good works at your new school or you could be identified as the Messiah and be carted off for a premature crucifixion.
So, in a attempt to fit in – and a homage to cult U.S. movie “Mean Girls,” – best pal Lazarus comes up with the idea of Jesus trying to go against his best nature and become a mean boy at school.
That’s the basic set-up of “Mean Boys,” the 2021 Christmas Special from Brazil’s Porta dos Fundos whose trailer Paramount Plus has shared in exclusivity with Variety.
The Special is unlikely to go unnoticed by more conservative groups in Brazil.
Growing up is never easy. But it’s especially challenging if you’re old man’s God, you’re a teen Jesus, and you’ve got to control your good works at your new school or you could be identified as the Messiah and be carted off for a premature crucifixion.
So, in a attempt to fit in – and a homage to cult U.S. movie “Mean Girls,” – best pal Lazarus comes up with the idea of Jesus trying to go against his best nature and become a mean boy at school.
That’s the basic set-up of “Mean Boys,” the 2021 Christmas Special from Brazil’s Porta dos Fundos whose trailer Paramount Plus has shared in exclusivity with Variety.
The Special is unlikely to go unnoticed by more conservative groups in Brazil.
- 12/13/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
As coronavirus cases continue to decline across the U.S. and President Joe Biden vows to disperse 200 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses by his 100th day in office, Hollywood is inching closer to reopening.
Entertainment is among the industries most crippled by the pandemic. Nationwide lockdowns forced the shutdowns of television and film productions, delayed movie premieres, shifted release strategies and closed movie theaters.
California is set to fully reopen its economy on June 15 if vaccinations remain widely available and hospitalizations continue to stabilize. It will relinquish the four-tiered, color-coded system that has guided the state’s reopening process during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, California allows indoor concerts, theater performances and other gatherings as of April 15. Attendees have to either show a negative Covid-19 test result or proof of full vaccination. Three counties in northern California can hold concerts and other indoor events at 75% of capacity.
Los Angeles and Orange moved...
Entertainment is among the industries most crippled by the pandemic. Nationwide lockdowns forced the shutdowns of television and film productions, delayed movie premieres, shifted release strategies and closed movie theaters.
California is set to fully reopen its economy on June 15 if vaccinations remain widely available and hospitalizations continue to stabilize. It will relinquish the four-tiered, color-coded system that has guided the state’s reopening process during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, California allows indoor concerts, theater performances and other gatherings as of April 15. Attendees have to either show a negative Covid-19 test result or proof of full vaccination. Three counties in northern California can hold concerts and other indoor events at 75% of capacity.
Los Angeles and Orange moved...
- 5/3/2021
- by Maane Khatchatourian
- Variety Film + TV
New York theater is tiptoeing its way through the dark with tonight’s Off Broadway opening of the actor-free technological and storytelling marvel Blindness, a sound-and-light excursion into the dystopian hellscape of Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s great allegory of humanity in lockdown.
With (masked) audience members scattered in socially distanced, arranged-just-so pairs of seats across the otherwise empty floor of the Daryl Roth Theatre, Saramago’s thriller, adapted for this Donmar Warehouse production by Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and directed by Walter Meierjohann, slides up beside you like a whisper and, when necessary, a scream.
The hyper-realistic story-soundscape is relayed through what must be the most effective noise-canceling headphones this side of NASA. The play is not so much narrated as performed by Olivier Award winning actress Juliet Stevenson, who guides the listening audience – a significant portion of the...
With (masked) audience members scattered in socially distanced, arranged-just-so pairs of seats across the otherwise empty floor of the Daryl Roth Theatre, Saramago’s thriller, adapted for this Donmar Warehouse production by Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and directed by Walter Meierjohann, slides up beside you like a whisper and, when necessary, a scream.
The hyper-realistic story-soundscape is relayed through what must be the most effective noise-canceling headphones this side of NASA. The play is not so much narrated as performed by Olivier Award winning actress Juliet Stevenson, who guides the listening audience – a significant portion of the...
- 4/7/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
We’re not saying this is inspired by recent events that fill us with terror and insomnia, but we are saying that if you happen to relate to that feeling, here’s a list of very cathartic movies about virus outbreaks to get you through it. Whether you want realism, fantasy, horror, or maybe computer stuff, we have you covered. Feel free to take a personal day and not leave the house while you watch.
And, before you ask: This whole gallery could have been nothing but zombie movies, so we decided to limit things to just Zombie movies that make the disease aspect front and center.
“Cabin Fever” (2002) – Eli Roth’s directorial debut follows a group of recent college graduates who become infected with a flesh eating virus during a camping trip. It was remade in 2016 but neither version makes camping look any more appealing.
“Outbreak” (1995) – When a new...
And, before you ask: This whole gallery could have been nothing but zombie movies, so we decided to limit things to just Zombie movies that make the disease aspect front and center.
“Cabin Fever” (2002) – Eli Roth’s directorial debut follows a group of recent college graduates who become infected with a flesh eating virus during a camping trip. It was remade in 2016 but neither version makes camping look any more appealing.
“Outbreak” (1995) – When a new...
- 2/29/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
With Netflix only recently announcing it would give Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman” a nearly four-week exclusive theatrical release before it becomes available to stream, Hollywood is watching closely as the streamer continues to hone its distribution strategy, especially for awards contenders. The growing heavyweight recently confirmed it would give nine other fall movies a similar theaters-first rollout, and of the nine, only “The Two Popes” is receiving the same nearly four-week theatrical as “The Irishman.” Netflix recently released the first trailer for the religious drama, and it could spell Oscar campaigns for lead actors Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce.
The two heavyweights play Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, respectively, in this intimate look at a historic turning point in the Catholic Church. From the trailer, the drama appears to be a two-hander revolving around conversations between the two men who would come to symbolize the tension...
The two heavyweights play Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, respectively, in this intimate look at a historic turning point in the Catholic Church. From the trailer, the drama appears to be a two-hander revolving around conversations between the two men who would come to symbolize the tension...
- 8/29/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
When it comes to the movie “Jaws,” there’s a myth so often repeated that hardly anyone stops to question it anymore: The story goes that because Spielberg couldn’t get his giant mechanical shark to work, he was forced to shoot around it, resulting in a more effective film. That’s true up to a point. Sharks are scary, and the mere suggestion of one — coupled with the sight of a giant fin slicing through water, menacing p.o.v. shots, and the most menacing score ever written — is certainly more frightening than the sight of a malfunctioning rubber dummy. But there are countless examples, from Freddy Krueger to the clown from “It,” of horror-movie nightmares that are terrifying precisely because we do see them.
And then there’s “Bird Box,” a not-inexpensive Netflix thriller which pushes things to the other extreme, conjuring some kind of deadly phenomenon the...
And then there’s “Bird Box,” a not-inexpensive Netflix thriller which pushes things to the other extreme, conjuring some kind of deadly phenomenon the...
- 11/13/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Battle of the Sexes (Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton)
The 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs captured the imagination of not only tennis enthusiasts, but of the whole world. There has always been the persistent rumor that Riggs threw the match to settle debts with the mob. Whether or not that is true seems highly irrelevant to directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan...
Battle of the Sexes (Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton)
The 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs captured the imagination of not only tennis enthusiasts, but of the whole world. There has always been the persistent rumor that Riggs threw the match to settle debts with the mob. Whether or not that is true seems highly irrelevant to directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan...
- 7/20/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Miguel Gomes’s docu-fantasy hybrid is an epic, experimental compendium of stories reflecting on austerity politics and Portugal
British audiences now have a chance to sample the exotic and mysterious miscellany in the first of three feature-length movie episodes from Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes: a docu-fantasy hybrid, epically and experimentally proportioned and very loosely inspired by The Arabian Nights. Volume 1, entitled The Restless One, is an opaque compendium of stories – like the ones Scheherazade told to stave off her own death – all responding in indirect ways to the miseries forced on Portugal by austerity, as if by a social-realist Buñuel with a bit of the novelist José Saramago’s existential musing; the same kind of absurdism and deadly serious political scepticism.
Gomes’s previous movies, Our Beloved Month of August (2008) and Tabu (2012), were eccentric hothouse flowers of cinema, and rather joyful in intent. The Arabian Nights looks darker and sadder and angrier.
British audiences now have a chance to sample the exotic and mysterious miscellany in the first of three feature-length movie episodes from Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes: a docu-fantasy hybrid, epically and experimentally proportioned and very loosely inspired by The Arabian Nights. Volume 1, entitled The Restless One, is an opaque compendium of stories – like the ones Scheherazade told to stave off her own death – all responding in indirect ways to the miseries forced on Portugal by austerity, as if by a social-realist Buñuel with a bit of the novelist José Saramago’s existential musing; the same kind of absurdism and deadly serious political scepticism.
Gomes’s previous movies, Our Beloved Month of August (2008) and Tabu (2012), were eccentric hothouse flowers of cinema, and rather joyful in intent. The Arabian Nights looks darker and sadder and angrier.
- 4/21/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆Adapted from Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago's The Double, Denis Villeneuve's Enemy (2013) employs the familiar narrative device of the doppelgänger to explore the duality of human nature. From Richard Ayodade's recent Dostoevsky adaptation The Double (2013), to Cronenberg's menacing tale of identical twin plastic surgeons Dead Ringers (1988), the alarming yet intriguing thought of seeing your own body reflected in the guise of another remains a fascinating conceit. However, in a world where social media allows us to construct an idealised image of ourselves, the concept of losing your individuality remains a genuine fear for many.
- 1/4/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Jake Gyllenhaal is a great double act in Denis Villeneuve’s eerie adaptation of José Saramago’s novel
You can usually count on Jake Gyllenhaal for a magnetically odd performance: before Nightcrawler it was Prisoners, last year’s collaboration with Canadian director Denis Villeneuve. By comparison, in Villeneuve’s Enemy Gyllenhaal is altogether reasonable – compelling, though, and you get two Jakes for the price of one. Counterintuitively representing an island of understatement in an altogether barmy film, Gyllenhaal plays a timid academic who discovers that he has an exact double, a failed movie actor, and makes the mistake of contacting him.
Based – with considerable modifications, by all accounts – on José Saramago’s novel The Double, Enemy is set in an otherworldly version of Toronto and laced with menacing arachnid imagery. Cloaked in acrid yellow hues, it might have been dreamed up in committee by David Cronenberg, Luis Buñuel and the...
You can usually count on Jake Gyllenhaal for a magnetically odd performance: before Nightcrawler it was Prisoners, last year’s collaboration with Canadian director Denis Villeneuve. By comparison, in Villeneuve’s Enemy Gyllenhaal is altogether reasonable – compelling, though, and you get two Jakes for the price of one. Counterintuitively representing an island of understatement in an altogether barmy film, Gyllenhaal plays a timid academic who discovers that he has an exact double, a failed movie actor, and makes the mistake of contacting him.
Based – with considerable modifications, by all accounts – on José Saramago’s novel The Double, Enemy is set in an otherworldly version of Toronto and laced with menacing arachnid imagery. Cloaked in acrid yellow hues, it might have been dreamed up in committee by David Cronenberg, Luis Buñuel and the...
- 1/4/2015
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Denis Villeneuve; Screenwriters: Javier Gullón; Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini; Running time: 90 mins; Certificate: 15
Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve teamed up to good effect in the tense thriller Prisoners, but before that they made the arty character study Enemy. Based on José Saramago's novel The Double, it sees Gyllenhaal play a college professor whose life gets flipped when he spots his doppelgänger as a background extra in an old movie.
Disinterested in his work and even more so in his long-suffering girlfriend (Mélanie Laurent), Gyllenhaal's Adam pursues his lookalike and discovers he's an actor called Daniel Saint Claire (now known as Anthony). This outgoing, charismatic alter ego lies in sharp contrast to the meek, internal Adam. The two lives eventually intertwine amid tarantulas, matching scars and swapped identities.
It all feels like a dark, surreal twist on a Twilight Zone segment - a sort...
Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve teamed up to good effect in the tense thriller Prisoners, but before that they made the arty character study Enemy. Based on José Saramago's novel The Double, it sees Gyllenhaal play a college professor whose life gets flipped when he spots his doppelgänger as a background extra in an old movie.
Disinterested in his work and even more so in his long-suffering girlfriend (Mélanie Laurent), Gyllenhaal's Adam pursues his lookalike and discovers he's an actor called Daniel Saint Claire (now known as Anthony). This outgoing, charismatic alter ego lies in sharp contrast to the meek, internal Adam. The two lives eventually intertwine amid tarantulas, matching scars and swapped identities.
It all feels like a dark, surreal twist on a Twilight Zone segment - a sort...
- 1/2/2015
- Digital Spy
After a summer season of blockbusters that gave the cinematic landscape of jewels and gems worthy of inspection a shake, “awards season,” from which some worthy contenders showed themselves, came roaring. Likewise, a backlog of more movies in the thick of this holiday season growing, certain timely realities proved elusive, in terms of getting to see everything 2014 — a year with more discoveries on my part than planned anticipation — had to offer. For that reason, potential favorites may turn up by the time some people, including myself, get to see those.
Yet, among the larger blockbusters (Interstellar, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy) and widely lauded releases (Gone Girl, Boyhood, Whiplash, Birdman), surveying every crevice of that landscape, there were a lot of movies that were released, watched, podcasted about and reviewed here on Sound on Sight.
(Look for Sound on Sight’s finalized, staff-wide list of this year’s best on December 28.)
In fact,...
Yet, among the larger blockbusters (Interstellar, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy) and widely lauded releases (Gone Girl, Boyhood, Whiplash, Birdman), surveying every crevice of that landscape, there were a lot of movies that were released, watched, podcasted about and reviewed here on Sound on Sight.
(Look for Sound on Sight’s finalized, staff-wide list of this year’s best on December 28.)
In fact,...
- 12/26/2014
- by Fiman Jafari
- SoundOnSight
George Sluizer, the Dutch filmmaker behind The Vanishing and River Phoenix's final film Dark Blood, has died at the age of 82.
The director passed away in Amsterdam on Saturday (September 20) after a long illness, according to local media reports. Sluizer's relatives told Dutch broadcaster Nos that his health had "remained fragile" after suffering a ruptured artery in 2007.
Sluizer shot to fame in the late '80s when his Dutch-language thriller Spoorloos (later known as The Vanishing) - about a man doggedly searching to find his kidnapped girlfriend - became a hit with critics and mainstream audiences.
In 1993, he directed the Hollywood remake of the film with Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock.
Later that year, Sluizer began filming Dark Blood with River Phoenix, but the young actor died during production, leaving the film unfinished.
Dark Blood was never completed, but after years of legal disputes (involving...
The director passed away in Amsterdam on Saturday (September 20) after a long illness, according to local media reports. Sluizer's relatives told Dutch broadcaster Nos that his health had "remained fragile" after suffering a ruptured artery in 2007.
Sluizer shot to fame in the late '80s when his Dutch-language thriller Spoorloos (later known as The Vanishing) - about a man doggedly searching to find his kidnapped girlfriend - became a hit with critics and mainstream audiences.
In 1993, he directed the Hollywood remake of the film with Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock.
Later that year, Sluizer began filming Dark Blood with River Phoenix, but the young actor died during production, leaving the film unfinished.
Dark Blood was never completed, but after years of legal disputes (involving...
- 9/22/2014
- Digital Spy
Dutch director was best known for The Vanishing and River Phoenix’s last film, Dark Blood.
George Sluizer, the Dutch director best known for The Vanishing and Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s last film, died in Amsterdam on Saturday (Sept 20) following a long illness, according to Dutch media. He was 82.
“Sluizer had been ill for a long time. In 2007 he barely survived a ruptured artery and after that his health remained fragile,” according to Dutch public broadcaster Nos, quoting relatives.
The director, producer and screenwriter was born in Paris, where he attended the Idhec film academy.
He made his first film in 1961, Hold Back the Sea, a documentary that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Up until the early 1980s, Sluizer produced and directed many documentaries and TV specials. He also worked as a producer on numerous films, including Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Cancer Rising with Rutger Hauer.
As a writer...
George Sluizer, the Dutch director best known for The Vanishing and Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s last film, died in Amsterdam on Saturday (Sept 20) following a long illness, according to Dutch media. He was 82.
“Sluizer had been ill for a long time. In 2007 he barely survived a ruptured artery and after that his health remained fragile,” according to Dutch public broadcaster Nos, quoting relatives.
The director, producer and screenwriter was born in Paris, where he attended the Idhec film academy.
He made his first film in 1961, Hold Back the Sea, a documentary that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Up until the early 1980s, Sluizer produced and directed many documentaries and TV specials. He also worked as a producer on numerous films, including Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Cancer Rising with Rutger Hauer.
As a writer...
- 9/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sitting on my couch watching the credits roll on Denis Villeneuve’s mind-bending Enemy, I found myself in a state of mild catatonia, internally racing to piece it all together but externally still transfixed, eyes glued to the screen and ears keenly listening for any clues as to the film’s greater meaning within the cheery strains of The Walker Brothers’ “After the Lights Go Out.” Now, hours later, I’m still not completely out of Enemy – there’s a part of me still absorbed in its narrative, still puzzling over that bizarre ending and all the almost-as-strange stuff that came before. And what’s more, I have a feeling that’s exactly what Villeneuve and writer Javier Gullón (providing his own spin on the late, great José Saramago’s novel The Double) intended.
There aren’t many recent films that have challenged me as boldly and as ruthlessly as Enemy.
There aren’t many recent films that have challenged me as boldly and as ruthlessly as Enemy.
- 7/11/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
It is that time again as 2014 is already half over. Wow, time flies when you are watching movies. The year being half over brings my annual, “Top 10 Movies of the Year…So Far” list, and without question this is my strongest list by a long shot. One big reason is the increase of great titles that have been released On Demand. Half of my list in fact is made up of films I saw On Demand. Now I am all for supporting your local Art House Theater as much as possible, but certain films don’t make it outside of La and New York so On Demand is a great tool to experience some great Independent movies. I feel like geek culture is far too obsessed with franchises that stick to the same format over and over again. I enjoy franchise movies as well, as you will see on this list,...
- 6/22/2014
- by Dan Clark
- Nerdly
The thriller “Enemy” is in limited release today in New York! The film is directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Javier Gullón (screenplay), José Saramago (novel). The cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini. The thriller focuses on a university lecturer who meets his double. “Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen [ Read More ]
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- 3/14/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
Jake Gyllenhaal and director Denis Villeneuve re-team for Enemy (review), which is currently available exclusively on DirecTV, and right now we have yet another behind-the-scenes featurette for you cats!
You can also find the film in limited theatres starting today, March 14th.
Written by Javier Gullón and based on a novel by José Saramago, the film also stars Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini.
Synopsis
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal), who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife, Helen (Gadon), and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle. The film is a haunting and provocative psychosexual thriller about duality and identity, where in the...
You can also find the film in limited theatres starting today, March 14th.
Written by Javier Gullón and based on a novel by José Saramago, the film also stars Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini.
Synopsis
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal), who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife, Helen (Gadon), and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle. The film is a haunting and provocative psychosexual thriller about duality and identity, where in the...
- 3/14/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The film industry lives to surprise us, but if I were to compile a list right now of Directors Least Likely To Direct A Romantic Comedy In The Near Or Distant Future, I'd feel comfortable placing Québécois atmosphere merchant Denis Villeneuve in the top five. For better or worse, Villeneuve's cinema thrives on a kind of precision-cut, cultivatedly fetid dourness. At its worst, it produces damp, philosophically aspirational melodrama like the abhorrent, Oscar-nominated "Incendies"; last year's gorgeous, luxuriantly trashy thriller "Prisoners" suggested he's better suited to material that knows its own daftness, even if Villeneuve himself doesn't. Or perhaps not. Shot back-to-back with "Prisoners," the equally sombre but very differently scaled "Enemy" practically begs for charges of pretension from its opening onscreen epigraph: "Chaos is order yet undeciphered." It's a red flag signalling that we may be back in lugubrious "Incendies" territory -- certainly, José Saramago's thoughtful source novel...
- 3/13/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
In a culture of cellphone-snapped selfies it’s hard to imagine a time when people might have been afraid of their own image. But Facebook walls and Instagram feeds to the contrary, for the vastly longer portion of human history, to see a perfect replica of yourself was an uncanny event, impossible even, exemplified by the belief shared by some native tribes in the early days of photography, that it could take away your soul. Or perhaps they were just being super cautious about ownership of their brand image. Whatever the case, there’s a broad term given to the phenomenon—which, like all the best terminology is a loan word from German—doppelganger theory, which haunts this week’s release, Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy” (our stellar Tiff review here) as thoroughly as it did the José Saramago source novel. Because while occasionally the doppleganger can be of a mischievous or trickster-ish bent,...
- 3/13/2014
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
As Denis Villeneuve's transfixing psychothriller "Enemy" heads to theaters, one thing that perhaps has been forgotten in coverage about the film is that it's based on the novel by José Saramago. Indeed, the Nobel Prize winning Portuguese writer's excellent "The Double" is the source material for the film, which takes the concept of a man discovering his exact double in a movie, and transplants it to Toronto for a tale of identity, sexuality and much more. And in this new, exclusive featurette we see how that transition came about. Producer Niv Fichman takes the center of this behind-the-scenes look, explaining that Saramago had initially declined to give the film rights to any more of his books, at least until he saw how Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of "Blindness" turned out. The good news is that Fichman produced movie was well received by Saramago, and following that success, he was...
- 3/12/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Title: Enemy Director: Denis Villeneuve Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon. Denis Villeneuve had bewildered audiences with his harrowing ‘Prisoners,’ focusing on child abduction. The movie that preceded it, is ‘Enemy,’ presented at 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, that adapted the novel ‘The Double’ by Nobel Laureate José Saramago, which will be out in cinemas on March 14th. In this flick, Jake Gyllenhaal handles quite well the interpretation of the doubles: the university professor, Adam Bell, who seeks his exact look-alike, Anthony Clair, after spotting him in a movie. The female actresses inertly weave in the plot, as they portray two different kinds of supercilious partners: Mary [ Read More ]
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- 3/9/2014
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
After proving themselves to be one hell of a team with last year's Prisoners, Jake Gyllenhaal and director Denis Villeneuve re-team for Enemy, which is currently available exclusively on DirecTV.
While we wait for the March 14th theatrical release date, check out a brand new featurette for the flick, which features interviews with Gyllenhaal, Villeneuve, and co-star Melanie Laurent!
Written by Javier Gullón and based on a novel by José Saramago, the film also stars Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini.
Synopsis
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal), who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife, Helen (Gadon), and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle.
While we wait for the March 14th theatrical release date, check out a brand new featurette for the flick, which features interviews with Gyllenhaal, Villeneuve, and co-star Melanie Laurent!
Written by Javier Gullón and based on a novel by José Saramago, the film also stars Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini.
Synopsis
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal), who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife, Helen (Gadon), and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle.
- 3/6/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve made a formidable team for last year's Prisoners, and now they've joined up again for the psychosexual thriller Enemy. Here are a Nsfw teaser and a pair of featurettes to get you acquainted with the film.
We're also throwing in several stills and the official trailer since we missed it when it was released a few weeks ago.
Enemy, which is now available exclusively on DirecTV, will be opening in Southern California theaters March 21st courtesy of A24 Films (see the locations below).
The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, and Isabella Rossellini. It's directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Javier Gullón based on the novel The Double (O Homem Duplicado) by José Saramago.
Synopsis:
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film,...
We're also throwing in several stills and the official trailer since we missed it when it was released a few weeks ago.
Enemy, which is now available exclusively on DirecTV, will be opening in Southern California theaters March 21st courtesy of A24 Films (see the locations below).
The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, and Isabella Rossellini. It's directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Javier Gullón based on the novel The Double (O Homem Duplicado) by José Saramago.
Synopsis:
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film,...
- 3/3/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Catch a new clip as well as a featurette from Denis Villeneuve's "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Villeneuve of course helmed the excellent thriller "Prisoners" which Gyllenhaal starred in alongside Hugh Jackman. Javier Gullón wrote the screenplay for "Enemy" which is actually based on the novel by José Saramago. The story follows a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen (Gadon) and engages him in a complex...
- 2/27/2014
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A24 has dropped an edgy, new trailer for "Enemy," a psychological thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The film is an adaptation of José Saramago's 2002 novel "The Double" and re-teams Gyllenhaal with "Prisoners" director Dennis Villeneuve. "Enemy" centers on Adam Bell, a university professor who, while watching a film, happens to notice that one of the actors onscreen possesses a striking resemblance to his own. Bell becomes consumed with his doppelgänger -- an actor by the name of Anthony Claire -- and decides to seek him out. Worlds collide, and, of course, chaos ensues. For more indie film trailers check out Indiewire's trailer page, sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics. The trailer consists of a montage that strings together what appears to be a string of small climaxes -- both sexual and dramatic -- occurring at various points throughout the film. The editing, along with the use of backlighting, evoke a surreal...
- 2/26/2014
- by Shipra Gupta
- Indiewire
We've already seen a suspenseful trailer for Denis Villeneuve's thriller Enemy, the director's first collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal before Prisoners even hit theaters. In addition, a cool featurette showed off how the filmmaker had Gyllenhaal act with himself. Now we have one more sexy promo spot that is chock full of some nudity and sex with Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), so it's certainly Nsfw. However, it does offer a glimpse into the madness of Gyllenhaal's character after he comes into contact with his doppelgänger, changing both of their lives for better or worse. Looks pretty intense and worth a glimpse. Here's the sexy new promo for Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, direct from A24 Films: Brilliantly adapted from the late Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's 2002 novel The Double, the latest from Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners) breathes new life into the doppelgänger tradition, with a hypnotic, haunting, surreal approach that...
- 2/26/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Wait, what? Two movies about a man who discovers he has an identical double, and the identical double is up to no good. Is someone trying to drive us movie lovers crazy?
It gets weirder: Richard Ayoade’s The Double is based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky called The Double. Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy is based on a novel by José Saramago called — are you ready? — The Double.
This could only be creepier if either Jesse Eisenberg or Jake Gyllenhaal starred in both of them. Although… have we ever seen both men together? Hmmm…..
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The Double
Us/Canada release date: May 9 2014 (VOD same day) | UK release date: Apr 4 2014
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Us/Canada release date: Mar 14 2014 (VOD Feb 6 2014)
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It gets weirder: Richard Ayoade’s The Double is based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky called The Double. Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy is based on a novel by José Saramago called — are you ready? — The Double.
This could only be creepier if either Jesse Eisenberg or Jake Gyllenhaal starred in both of them. Although… have we ever seen both men together? Hmmm…..
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- 2/26/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A24 Films' "Enemy" directed by Denis Villeneuve has a new clip up for the film which reunites the director with his "Prisoners" star Jake Gyllenhaal. In the film which is based on the novel by José Saramago, a man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie. Also in the film are Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini. Javier Gullón wrote the script for "Enemy," produced by f M.A. Faura and Niv Fichman. This clip is called "The Double" and can be seen below. Also be sure to check out the final trailer for the film here...
- 2/26/2014
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It’s double day in Movie Newsland (twinned with Little Infoshire), as the new trailer for Richard Ayoade’s film, The Double, about a doppelganger is being followed by a look at Denis Villeneuve’s reunion with his Prisoners actor Jake Gyllenhaal for duplicate drama Enemy. Gyllenhaal plays a strung-out history professor called Adam Bell, who encounters an identical man named Anthony St. Claire (also Gyllenhaal) bearing a sinister threat. Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini and Sarah Gadon join him in his hellish struggle for survival in academe.Aiming to be a notch above your average Epk gush-fest, this featurette explores the themes of the film, charting Adam’s struggles with his inner demons and demonstrates how they went about making sure the shots featuring both Gyllenhaals lined up. Spoiler alert: it involved a tennis ball on a stand.The film, loosely adapted from José Saramago’s book by Javier Gullon,...
- 2/18/2014
- EmpireOnline
We've already seen the trailer for Enemy, the first collaboration between director Denis Villeneuve and actor Jake Gyllenhaal, before last year's Prisoners was even made. Now a new featurette dives deeper into the story based on Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's 2002 novel The Double, hitting theaters this spring. While part of it focuses on the plot and how that unfolds, there's also a focus on how Villeneueve made it possible for Gyllenhaal to act opposite himself. Between this film and Jesse Eisenberg in The Double, there's a lot of "twins" on the big screen this year, and fortunately they all look good. Watch now! Here's the new making of featurette for Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, originally from IGN: Brilliantly adapted from the late Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's 2002 novel The Double, the latest from Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners) breathes new life into the doppelgänger tradition, with a hypnotic,...
- 2/14/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Enemy Trailer. Denis Villeneuve‘s Enemy (2013) movie trailer stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini, and Stephen R. Hart. Enemy‘s plot synopsis: based on the novel by José Saramago: “Adam (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in sex with his beautiful girlfriend, [...]
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- 2/6/2014
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Sometimes, we're all our own worst enemies. In, "Enemy," an adaptation of José Saramago's novel "The Double," Jake Gyllenhaal plays doppelgangers Adam Bell and Anthony St. Claire.
Adam, a history professor in Toronto, is just trying to relax and watch a movie when he notices an actor, Anthony St. Claire, that looks exactly like him. It seems like an interesting project to try and figure out more about his look-alike, but as Adam begins digging up information, both of their lives start to go off the rails. The women in their lives also get sucked into the mystery. Sarah Gadon ("Cosmopolis") appears as Anthony's pregnant wife, and Melanie Laurent ("Inglourious Basterds") plays Adam's girlfriend. And then there's Adam's mom, played by the wonderful Isabella Rossellini. What's she hiding, anyway?
Reviews from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival were quite positive, although it seems nearly impossible to reveal too many details about this thriller.
Adam, a history professor in Toronto, is just trying to relax and watch a movie when he notices an actor, Anthony St. Claire, that looks exactly like him. It seems like an interesting project to try and figure out more about his look-alike, but as Adam begins digging up information, both of their lives start to go off the rails. The women in their lives also get sucked into the mystery. Sarah Gadon ("Cosmopolis") appears as Anthony's pregnant wife, and Melanie Laurent ("Inglourious Basterds") plays Adam's girlfriend. And then there's Adam's mom, played by the wonderful Isabella Rossellini. What's she hiding, anyway?
Reviews from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival were quite positive, although it seems nearly impossible to reveal too many details about this thriller.
- 2/4/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Sneak Peek more footage and images from director Denis Villeneuve's 'erotic thriller' "Enemy", starring Jake Gyllenhaal in a dual role, with Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart and Jane Moffat, adapting author José Saramago's Nobel prize-winning 2002 novel "The Double" :
"...college history professor 'Adam Bell' (Gyllenhaal) is a detached, terminally unhappy guy living in a darkly lit Toronto apartment, drifting through life by day, with passionless sex with his girlfriend (Melanie Laurent) by night.
"One day during lunch, an intrusive colleague recommends that Bell rent the movie "Where There's a Will, There's a Way", described as a comedy with a happy ending.
"Adam picks up a DVD copy, pops it into his laptop one night after grading papers, and notices something odd: the anonymous background performer playing 'Bellhop #3' in the film, looks exactly like him.
"Gradually becoming obsessed with their similarities, Adam...
"...college history professor 'Adam Bell' (Gyllenhaal) is a detached, terminally unhappy guy living in a darkly lit Toronto apartment, drifting through life by day, with passionless sex with his girlfriend (Melanie Laurent) by night.
"One day during lunch, an intrusive colleague recommends that Bell rent the movie "Where There's a Will, There's a Way", described as a comedy with a happy ending.
"Adam picks up a DVD copy, pops it into his laptop one night after grading papers, and notices something odd: the anonymous background performer playing 'Bellhop #3' in the film, looks exactly like him.
"Gradually becoming obsessed with their similarities, Adam...
- 2/2/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Before making Prisoners together, director Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal teamed up to develop a big screen adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's 2002 novel The Double. The movie is called Enemy, and it looks like a pretty intense psychological thriller. Here's the description from the book:
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the Vcr is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double.
The movie will be released in theaters on March 14th,...
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the Vcr is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double.
The movie will be released in theaters on March 14th,...
- 2/1/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
A new trailer has been released for Enemy.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Enemy stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a dual role of a teacher and actor. The story follows a teacher who is convinced that an actor looks exactly like him and tracks down the person to figure out who he is.
Enemy also stars Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini and Sarah Gadon.
The film is based on José Saramago's 2002 novel The Double.
Gyllenhaal and Villeneuve previously worked together in last year's Prisoners, also starring Hugh Jackman and Viola Davis.
Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in 2005's Brokeback Mountain, which has now been adapted into an opera.
Enemy opens in Us cinemas on March 14. No UK date has been announced.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Enemy stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a dual role of a teacher and actor. The story follows a teacher who is convinced that an actor looks exactly like him and tracks down the person to figure out who he is.
Enemy also stars Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini and Sarah Gadon.
The film is based on José Saramago's 2002 novel The Double.
Gyllenhaal and Villeneuve previously worked together in last year's Prisoners, also starring Hugh Jackman and Viola Davis.
Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in 2005's Brokeback Mountain, which has now been adapted into an opera.
Enemy opens in Us cinemas on March 14. No UK date has been announced.
- 2/1/2014
- Digital Spy
At last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Jake Gyllenhaal gave three great performances in two great movies for one great director. The more high-profile film was Prisoners, the critically-acclaimed thriller from director Denis Villeneuve. The other was an eerie, Kafkaesque tale called Enemy, based on José Saramago’s 2002 novel The Double and also directed by Villeneuve. Now, we have the first trailer for the film and it is just as tense and mysterious as the final product is.
In what may be the finest performance (or performances) of his career, Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a tired history professor who spots his doppelgänger in a movie he rents. Haunted by this double’s appearance, Bell sets out to find this man, Anthony St. Claire (also played by Gyllenhaal). Both Adam and Anthony are going through their own personal conflicts: Adam is having trouble connecting to his girlfriend, Mary (Melanie Laurent), while Anthony’s pregnant wife,...
In what may be the finest performance (or performances) of his career, Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a tired history professor who spots his doppelgänger in a movie he rents. Haunted by this double’s appearance, Bell sets out to find this man, Anthony St. Claire (also played by Gyllenhaal). Both Adam and Anthony are going through their own personal conflicts: Adam is having trouble connecting to his girlfriend, Mary (Melanie Laurent), while Anthony’s pregnant wife,...
- 1/31/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Earning rave reviews for last year’s acclaimed thriller, Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal will soon be back in cinemas for the former’s upcoming film, Enemy.
Previously titled An Enemy, the film was actually shot before Prisoners, with both making their debut on the festival circuit last year, with Prisoners officially bowing at Tiff after an appearance at Telluride, and Enemy launching out in Toronto as well.
With the film about to get an early on-demand release, ahead of its theatrical release in the Us in March, Yahoo Movies have launched a new trailer, with A24 also releasing a great new poster for the doppelganger film.
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by...
Previously titled An Enemy, the film was actually shot before Prisoners, with both making their debut on the festival circuit last year, with Prisoners officially bowing at Tiff after an appearance at Telluride, and Enemy launching out in Toronto as well.
With the film about to get an early on-demand release, ahead of its theatrical release in the Us in March, Yahoo Movies have launched a new trailer, with A24 also releasing a great new poster for the doppelganger film.
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by...
- 1/31/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The first poster has arrived for director Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor and director also worked together on last year’s Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman.
Watch the new trailer below, followed by a conversation with Toronto International Film Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey, where they will discussed the inspiration for the thriller, working methods and the distance between Hollywood and Toronto.
Adapted from the novel “The Double” by Nobel Laureate José Saramago, Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent).
One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen (Gadon) and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle.
The film is a...
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor and director also worked together on last year’s Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman.
Watch the new trailer below, followed by a conversation with Toronto International Film Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey, where they will discussed the inspiration for the thriller, working methods and the distance between Hollywood and Toronto.
Adapted from the novel “The Double” by Nobel Laureate José Saramago, Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent).
One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen (Gadon) and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle.
The film is a...
- 1/31/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
What starts as a simple vanity quest turns sinister when a low-key history professor spots his mirror image in a film and eventually tracks him down. Jake Gyllenhaal takes on double duty as the actor and professor in director Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. Based on Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s novel The Double, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, and Isabella Rossellini round out Villeneuve’s cast as the women in the lives of the lookalikes.
Check out Jeff Labrecque’s interview with Villeneuve, and watch the hypnotizing, minimalist trailer after the jump.
Enemy premieres on DirecTV on Feb.
Check out Jeff Labrecque’s interview with Villeneuve, and watch the hypnotizing, minimalist trailer after the jump.
Enemy premieres on DirecTV on Feb.
- 1/31/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
A24 Films has released a new trailer & poster from Enemy, based on José Saramago’s novel “The Double”. The upcoming thriller re-teams director Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal (Prisoners). Enemy also co-stars Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, and Isabella Rossellini.
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen (Gadon) and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle. The film is a haunting and provocative psychosexual thriller about duality and identity, where in the end only one man will survive.
Enemy is available on Direct TV on-demand Feb. 6, and enters limited theatrical release on March 14, 2014.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
Enemy tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen (Gadon) and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle. The film is a haunting and provocative psychosexual thriller about duality and identity, where in the end only one man will survive.
Enemy is available on Direct TV on-demand Feb. 6, and enters limited theatrical release on March 14, 2014.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
- 1/31/2014
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
The cover story of our current issue, Enemy is Denis Villeneuve’s brooding adaptation of José Saramago’s The Double, his second collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal following last year’s Prisoners. Today, the busy bees over at A24 debuted a trailer in advance of the film’s March 14th release that also showcases an impressive supporting cast in Isabella Rosselini, Melanie Laurent and recent Cronenberg favorite, Sarah Gadon. The film, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, is another entry in cinema’s long-running fascination with doppelgängers, and apparently, a rather successful one at that. Prior to interviewing Villeneuve for the Winter issue, Brandon Harris raved the film in his […]...
- 1/31/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The cover story of our current issue, Enemy is Denis Villeneuve’s brooding adaptation of José Saramago’s The Double, his second collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal following last year’s Prisoners. Today, the busy bees over at A24 debuted a trailer in advance of the film’s March 14th release that also showcases an impressive supporting cast in Isabella Rosselini, Melanie Laurent and recent Cronenberg favorite, Sarah Gadon. The film, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, is another entry in cinema’s long-running fascination with doppelgängers, and apparently, a rather successful one at that. Prior to interviewing Villeneuve for the Winter issue, Brandon Harris raved the film in his […]...
- 1/31/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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