Austrian television is awash with crime, mystery and historical drama, and the country’s biggest hits and new productions are heading to MipTV.
Among this year’s most anticipated titles is the upcoming “Kafka,” starring Swiss actor Joel Basman as the famed Bohemian writer.
The six-part series is currently shooting in Vienna and Salzburg and is set to premiere on Austrian pubcaster Orf and Germany’s Ard early next year, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death.
“Kafka” is produced by Ard, Orf and John Lueftner and David Schalko’s Vienna-based Superfilm. Schalko is directing and co-writing the series with bestselling author and screenplay writer Daniel Kehlmann (“Measuring the World”), based on the Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, who is also
advising the production.
Sold internationally by Orf-Enterprise, the public broadcaster’s commercial subsidiary, the series’ ensemble cast includes David Kross (“Davos”), Nicholas Ofczarek (“Pagan Peak”) and Liv Lisa Fries...
Among this year’s most anticipated titles is the upcoming “Kafka,” starring Swiss actor Joel Basman as the famed Bohemian writer.
The six-part series is currently shooting in Vienna and Salzburg and is set to premiere on Austrian pubcaster Orf and Germany’s Ard early next year, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death.
“Kafka” is produced by Ard, Orf and John Lueftner and David Schalko’s Vienna-based Superfilm. Schalko is directing and co-writing the series with bestselling author and screenplay writer Daniel Kehlmann (“Measuring the World”), based on the Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, who is also
advising the production.
Sold internationally by Orf-Enterprise, the public broadcaster’s commercial subsidiary, the series’ ensemble cast includes David Kross (“Davos”), Nicholas Ofczarek (“Pagan Peak”) and Liv Lisa Fries...
- 4/17/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Maren Eggert won Berlin’s Silver Bear for her performance in Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy.
Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy I’m Your Man and Daniel Brühl’s dark comedy Next Door in a brace of deals with Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema.
Both German features received their world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in March, where Maren Eggert won the Berlinale’s first gender-neutral Silver Bear acting prize for her leading performance in I’m Your Man.
Curzon will release I’m Your Man, which also stars Dan Stevens,...
Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy I’m Your Man and Daniel Brühl’s dark comedy Next Door in a brace of deals with Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema.
Both German features received their world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in March, where Maren Eggert won the Berlinale’s first gender-neutral Silver Bear acting prize for her leading performance in I’m Your Man.
Curzon will release I’m Your Man, which also stars Dan Stevens,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Many of us have, at one point or another, been stuck in a bar argument that went on a bit too long, that got a bit too hostile, with someone we didn’t know too well — and it’s rarely a memory to be treasured. Would it help if the guy at the other end of the beery debate was the handsome, accomplished, generally likable German-Spanish thespian Daniel Brühl? “Next Door,” in which Brühl puts a thinly disguised version of himself through the psychological wringer, suggests not. The actor’s slender, self-reflexive directorial debut transitions from a low-key meditation on the privileges and perils of stardom to a far-fetched stalker drama in the time it takes to down a few pints, all while rarely leaving the confines of one scruffy Berlin dive bar. Yet the film’s games of genre-shuffling and celebrity self-satire can’t override the essential tedium of its core conflict.
- 3/4/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
In the black comedy thriller “Next Door,” the directorial debut of actor Daniel Brühl, the main character, Daniel, is a successful actor living in an old quarter of Berlin. His day is about to be ruined, and his life too. Variety spoke to Brühl – whose upcoming acting credits include “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and Matthew Vaughn’s “The King’s Man” – about the film, which plays in competition this week at the Berlin Film Festival.
Daniel, played by Brühl, seems to be remarkably similar to Brühl in real life – he is of German-Spanish heritage, the hit that launched his career was a “Stasi comedy,” and since then he has acted in Hollywood movies and series. But this is not Brühl, but a “heightened” version of him, the actor-director says.
The film starts with Daniel sitting in his beautiful Berlin apartment, preparing to fly to London to audition for a Hollywood super-hero movie.
Daniel, played by Brühl, seems to be remarkably similar to Brühl in real life – he is of German-Spanish heritage, the hit that launched his career was a “Stasi comedy,” and since then he has acted in Hollywood movies and series. But this is not Brühl, but a “heightened” version of him, the actor-director says.
The film starts with Daniel sitting in his beautiful Berlin apartment, preparing to fly to London to audition for a Hollywood super-hero movie.
- 3/2/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
With a strong showing at this year’s Berlin Film Festival that includes the directorial debut of Daniel Brühl and new works by Maria Schrader and Dominik Graf in competition, German films are set to garner much of the spotlight at the accompanying European Film Market.
Brühl, who is set to reprise his role as the vengeful Helmut Zemo in the upcoming Marvel series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” explores the contradictions of present-day Berlin in “Next Door.” The seemingly self-referential story has Brühl playing Daniel, a successful actor living in the city’s Prenzlauer Berg district, who is about to jet off to audition for a role in a superhero movie. His life suddenly changes when he is confronted by a disgruntled neighbor, played by Peter Kurth (“Babylon Berlin”), a victim of gentrification in former East Berlin and one of the many losers of German reunification.
Written by bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann,...
Brühl, who is set to reprise his role as the vengeful Helmut Zemo in the upcoming Marvel series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” explores the contradictions of present-day Berlin in “Next Door.” The seemingly self-referential story has Brühl playing Daniel, a successful actor living in the city’s Prenzlauer Berg district, who is about to jet off to audition for a role in a superhero movie. His life suddenly changes when he is confronted by a disgruntled neighbor, played by Peter Kurth (“Babylon Berlin”), a victim of gentrification in former East Berlin and one of the many losers of German reunification.
Written by bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Two fine actors volley for advantage across 90 minutes in the tastily insidious little melodrama Next Door (Nebenan). Stepping behind the camera for the first time while also remaining in front of it, Daniel Bruhl shows a sure grip on this mostly two-handed bar room encounter between an international film star (played by Bruhl himself) and a portly older fellow (Babylon Berlin’s Peter Kurth in a terrific turn) who knows far too much about the actor’s private life for comfort. This sharp-minded and engrossing drama of wits and secrets succeeds both in keeping the audience keen to know what’s really going on here and achieving lift-off for Bruhl’s directorial career if he seeks one.
A smart, crowd-pleasing choice (albeit remotely) for the 2021 Berlin Film Festival competition, this is an unusual film in that you’d swear was originally written as...
A smart, crowd-pleasing choice (albeit remotely) for the 2021 Berlin Film Festival competition, this is an unusual film in that you’d swear was originally written as...
- 3/1/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Next Door’ Review: Daniel Brühl’s Directorial Debut Is a Sly Thriller About a Doomed Movie Audition
A hoppy and vaguely Hitchcockian two-hander about a famous German-Spanish actor named Daniel who stops for a drink in the wrong bar on his way to an audition for the Hollywood superhero movie that could elevate his career to new heights, Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut — in which the artist formerly known as Baron Zemo also stars as the aforementioned German-Spanish actor — is never sharper or more assured than when it leans into the meta element and takes the piss out of self-obsessed stars. Though shot with a clear sense of tone that allows the film to straddle dark comedy and light thriller, “Next Door” finds itself on much shakier ground whenever the focus switches to the sour boomer our hero meets in the pub that fateful Berlin afternoon.
Daniel fails to recognize the man sitting on the stool across from him, despite the fact that he and Bruno (“Babylon...
Daniel fails to recognize the man sitting on the stool across from him, despite the fact that he and Bruno (“Babylon...
- 3/1/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
‘Next Door’ is directed by Daniel Brühl and Dan Stevens stars in ‘In Your Man’.
World sales agent Beta Cinema has swooped on international rights to Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut Next Door and Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man, which will both premiere in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
The Munich-based outfit will introduce the features to buyers at the European Film Market (EFM), which will run alongside this year’s industry-focused, online-only event.
Next Door marks the directing debut of Brühl, who also stars in the black comedy alongside Peter Kurth and Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps.
World sales agent Beta Cinema has swooped on international rights to Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut Next Door and Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man, which will both premiere in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
The Munich-based outfit will introduce the features to buyers at the European Film Market (EFM), which will run alongside this year’s industry-focused, online-only event.
Next Door marks the directing debut of Brühl, who also stars in the black comedy alongside Peter Kurth and Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps.
- 2/15/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The film will star Jannis Niewöhner, Liv Lisa Fries and David Kross. Filmmaker Detlev Buck, best known to German audiences for having directed the Bibi & Tina series of children’s films, is currently readying an adaptation of Thomas Mann’s unfinished 1954 novella Confessions of Felix Krull. With a screenplay adapted by Daniel Kehlmann, the upcoming feature will centre on a young man of modest origins who doesn’t hesitate to leave his old life behind when he gets the opportunity to work as a liftboy in a luxury Parisian hotel. Taking advantage of the circumstances, he quickly gets promoted to the position of head waiter. When Felix meets the infatuated Marquis de Venosta, he soon agrees to swap identities with him, so as to enable the latter to be with the prostitute Zaza. Felix thus gives up his great love, prioritising his ambition. His skill in charming people and deceiving them.
- 10/27/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Stir of Echoes star Kevin Bacon and director David Koepp reunite for the new Blumhouse horror film You Should Have Left (based on Daniel Kehlmann's novella of the same name), and following its premium VOD release in June, You Should Have Left is coming to DVD and Digital on July 28th via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment:
From the Press Release: Universal City, California, July 21, 2020 – The mind-bending psychological thriller, You Should Have Left, from writer/director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes), becomes available to own for the first time on Digital and DVD on July 28, 2020 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star in this terrifying tale where a father fights to save his family from a sinister force that demands a reckoning for secrets of the past based on the novel from prize-winning German literary sensation, Daniel Kehlmann. Produced by grandmaster of terror Jason Blum,...
From the Press Release: Universal City, California, July 21, 2020 – The mind-bending psychological thriller, You Should Have Left, from writer/director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes), becomes available to own for the first time on Digital and DVD on July 28, 2020 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star in this terrifying tale where a father fights to save his family from a sinister force that demands a reckoning for secrets of the past based on the novel from prize-winning German literary sensation, Daniel Kehlmann. Produced by grandmaster of terror Jason Blum,...
- 7/21/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Stars: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Essex, Colin Blumenau, Joshua C. Jackson, Lowri Ann Richards, Eli Powers | Written and Directed by David Koepp
Kevin Bacon reunites with Stir of Echoes director writer-director David Koepp for You Should Have Left, a haunted holiday home horror produced by BlumHouse and based on the novel by Daniel Kehlmann. As such, it’s an entertaining and enjoyable picture that makes up for its relatively simple plot with striking direction, a strong sense of atmosphere and a trio of terrific performances.
Bacon plays Theo Conroy, a wealthy former banker who’s now married to his much younger second wife, Hollywood actress Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), with whom he has an adorable five year old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). Struggling with jealousy issues (he keeps a feelings journal and listens to self-help recordings), Theo suggests the family take a vacation before Susanna’s next movie starts shooting in London.
Kevin Bacon reunites with Stir of Echoes director writer-director David Koepp for You Should Have Left, a haunted holiday home horror produced by BlumHouse and based on the novel by Daniel Kehlmann. As such, it’s an entertaining and enjoyable picture that makes up for its relatively simple plot with striking direction, a strong sense of atmosphere and a trio of terrific performances.
Bacon plays Theo Conroy, a wealthy former banker who’s now married to his much younger second wife, Hollywood actress Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), with whom he has an adorable five year old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). Struggling with jealousy issues (he keeps a feelings journal and listens to self-help recordings), Theo suggests the family take a vacation before Susanna’s next movie starts shooting in London.
- 6/24/2020
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
German cinema looks set for an exciting year with forthcoming works that include a high-profile Cannes selection celebrating one of Germany’s most iconic filmmakers, an expressionistic thriller set in 1920s Vienna, a tale of Nazi seduction and a new Thomas Mann adaptation.
The Covid-19 pandemic dashed the excitement of a splashy Cannes premiere for Oskar Roehler’s “Enfant Terrible,” part of the festival’s Official Selection, but the film is nevertheless certain to generate buzz with its portrayal of legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and his turbulent film career that spanned 1969 to 1982.
In making the film, Roehler found inspiration in Fassbinder’s own work.
“We didn’t want to do your standard biopic,” says producer Markus Zimmer, managing director of Bavaria Filmproduktion. “I think we did come very close to what Fassbinder would have made out of his own life. We tried to be in line with the artistic...
The Covid-19 pandemic dashed the excitement of a splashy Cannes premiere for Oskar Roehler’s “Enfant Terrible,” part of the festival’s Official Selection, but the film is nevertheless certain to generate buzz with its portrayal of legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and his turbulent film career that spanned 1969 to 1982.
In making the film, Roehler found inspiration in Fassbinder’s own work.
“We didn’t want to do your standard biopic,” says producer Markus Zimmer, managing director of Bavaria Filmproduktion. “I think we did come very close to what Fassbinder would have made out of his own life. We tried to be in line with the artistic...
- 6/24/2020
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
Jason Blum needs no introduction to horror fans. His company, Blumhouse Productions, has produced or been associated with some of the biggest and most effective horror titles of the last 15 years: Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, The Purge, Unfriended, Happy Death Day, and the recent Halloween reboot are all standouts on the Blumhouse slate.
Like every other studio in Hollywood, Blumhouse had to shutdown nearly all production in March as the coronavirus pandemic sank its teeth into the world. The company’s last two projects, The Invisible Man and The Hunt, were just beginning their theatrical runs when movie theaters closed down. But Blumhouse’s distributor, Universal Pictures, responded quickly, making both titles available on premium VOD–which it has done now with Blumhouse’s new horror outing, You Should Have Left.
Based on a novella by Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left reunites star Kevin Bacon and writer/director David...
Like every other studio in Hollywood, Blumhouse had to shutdown nearly all production in March as the coronavirus pandemic sank its teeth into the world. The company’s last two projects, The Invisible Man and The Hunt, were just beginning their theatrical runs when movie theaters closed down. But Blumhouse’s distributor, Universal Pictures, responded quickly, making both titles available on premium VOD–which it has done now with Blumhouse’s new horror outing, You Should Have Left.
Based on a novella by Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left reunites star Kevin Bacon and writer/director David...
- 6/22/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
The horror genre has always been good to Kevin Bacon, starting with his breakout role–and shockingly memorable death scene–in 1980’s classic Friday the 13th. That appearance made him a permanent part of one of horror’s most legendary franchises while roles in other films like Tremors (which launched a genre brand of its own), Flatliners, Hollow Man and even genre-adjacent offerings such as TV’s The Following have made him a steady presence in the field.
One of his best genre outings was 1999’s Stir of Echoes, an old-fashioned ghost story set in a haunted Chicago home that Bacon made with writer-director David Koepp, based on a novel by the famed horror and sci-fi author, Richard Matheson. While Koepp has directed other films and written screenplays for some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, the smaller, more intimate Stir of Echoes remains a cult hit on its own.
That...
One of his best genre outings was 1999’s Stir of Echoes, an old-fashioned ghost story set in a haunted Chicago home that Bacon made with writer-director David Koepp, based on a novel by the famed horror and sci-fi author, Richard Matheson. While Koepp has directed other films and written screenplays for some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, the smaller, more intimate Stir of Echoes remains a cult hit on its own.
That...
- 6/19/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
David Koepp’s You Should Have Left commits the cinematic sin of embracing boredom with the utmost forgettability. Damned if I’m writing this review at 1:00 Am with droopy eyelids because by morning, I’ll have retained maybe a minute’s worth of Koepp’s unhaunted house snoozer. It’s “Creepy Hallways: The Movie,” except subtract the “Creepy” and have Kevin Bacon’s greatest adversarial face-off be with a staircase. I wish something happened, anything happened, worth retreating into a curled, protective audience position. Instead, a romantic quarrel “intensifies” with supposed “twists” that couldn’t be more unenthusiastic or without tension. To quote a more favorable 2020 film, “Terrifically competent, there’s no excuse for that.”
Except remove “Terrifically” and put another set of question marks around “competent” for emphasis.
Bacon plays sixty-something Theo Conroy, a husband with jealously issues to thirties starlet Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) and father to the...
Except remove “Terrifically” and put another set of question marks around “competent” for emphasis.
Bacon plays sixty-something Theo Conroy, a husband with jealously issues to thirties starlet Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) and father to the...
- 6/18/2020
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Kevin Bacon deserves better. I write this knowing full well that the actor is considered a star, one whose output in the 1980s and ‘90s made him a generational touchstone for Gen-x and older Millennials. He even became a meme before that was a thing. With a slightly different career, the Footloose leading man who always enjoyed a side of ham with his bacon might’ve become a renowned scenery-chewer. Think of the latter day love you see for Nicolas Cage in Mandy or Jeff Goldblum in a Disney+ TV show simply about him “Goldblum-ing” around the world. Yet Bacon never quite achieved that attention. And it’s left him in movies as bland as You Should Have Left.
To be fair, this is a fairly serviceable blandness, erring closer to the thriller side of the horror-thriller movie paradigm. In fact, it has a few sequences that even vaguely unnerve,...
To be fair, this is a fairly serviceable blandness, erring closer to the thriller side of the horror-thriller movie paradigm. In fact, it has a few sequences that even vaguely unnerve,...
- 6/18/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Haunted-house stories occupy a lot of prime real estate in horror — they’re easy narrative structures for four-walling tales of things that go bump in the night and the psyche, the perfect go-to Gothic settings for letting literal ghosts of the past come out to play (or slay). They’re also such a fixture in the public imagination that someone had better bring more than just the same old spooky cobwebs and creaky staircases to the party, or at the very least, construct a superior model of the retro-macabre. According to author Stephen Graham Jones,...
- 6/18/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Arriving on digital platforms today is writer/director David Koepp’s mind-bending domestic thriller You Should Have Left, which follows an ill-suited couple (played by Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried) to a remote vacation home that puts their family in jeopardy when ghosts of the past come calling.
Daily Dead recently spoke with Koepp about his latest directorial effort, and he discussed reteaming with Kevin Bacon after several decades for You Should Have Left, and his thoughts on adapting Daniel Kehlmann’s book for the big screen. Koepp also chatted about trends in the horror genre and how he’s excited to get a second chance at working on the upcoming Bride of Frankenstein remake after the project was previously shelved in the fallout from Universal’s Dark Universe implosion a few years ago.
Great to speak with you, David. You are no stranger to the world of great stories,...
Daily Dead recently spoke with Koepp about his latest directorial effort, and he discussed reteaming with Kevin Bacon after several decades for You Should Have Left, and his thoughts on adapting Daniel Kehlmann’s book for the big screen. Koepp also chatted about trends in the horror genre and how he’s excited to get a second chance at working on the upcoming Bride of Frankenstein remake after the project was previously shelved in the fallout from Universal’s Dark Universe implosion a few years ago.
Great to speak with you, David. You are no stranger to the world of great stories,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Home is hell. It might feel that way for some living under quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, but this concept of a domestic hellscape is also the basis for Blumhouse’s latest horror offering You Should Have Left, which makes its way to VOD today. Based on the novella by Daniel Kehlmann, and written and directed by David Koepp, You Should Have Left follows a middle-aged man, Theo (Kevin Bacon), his much younger wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), a successful actor, and their daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex) who book a vacation home in Wales that gives them more than they bargained for....
- 6/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Home is hell. It might feel that way for some living under quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, but this concept of a domestic hellscape is also the basis for Blumhouse’s latest horror offering You Should Have Left, which makes its way to VOD today. Based on the novella by Daniel Kehlmann, and written and directed by David Koepp, You Should Have Left follows a middle-aged man, Theo (Kevin Bacon), his much younger wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), a successful actor, and their daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex) who book a vacation home in Wales that gives them more than they bargained for....
- 6/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In a good haunted-house thriller, architecture is destiny. Early on in “You Should Have Left,” when Theo (Kevin Bacon), a wealthy retired banker with a tabloid scandal in his past, shows up with his movie-actress wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex), at the vacation home they’ve rented for a getaway in the Welsh countryside, you know in your bones that you’re watching a variation on “The Shining.”
The creepy originality of the home design is part of it. Just as the fantastic, gargantuan, ski-lodge-gone-Native-American set for the Overlook Hotel was such a major dimension of Stanley Kubrick’s film, here we’re sucked in by the eccentric contours of a place that looks, from the outside, like a gray designer modernist Bauhaus Monopoly house. Inside, it’s a vast airy network of light gray brick and Scandinavian wood, with flickers of pastel, and...
The creepy originality of the home design is part of it. Just as the fantastic, gargantuan, ski-lodge-gone-Native-American set for the Overlook Hotel was such a major dimension of Stanley Kubrick’s film, here we’re sucked in by the eccentric contours of a place that looks, from the outside, like a gray designer modernist Bauhaus Monopoly house. Inside, it’s a vast airy network of light gray brick and Scandinavian wood, with flickers of pastel, and...
- 6/18/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
There’s something wrong with Theo Conroy. A meditation app can’t quiet his mind, which is prone to jealous fantasies and out-there suspicions. Small annoyances rattle him. People look at him askance, his name jarring loose uncomfortable memories, even for seeming strangers. His wife’s success pisses him off. Even his kid knows that something is not quite right with her “Baba.” A vacation can’t solve everything, but it certainly can’t hurt. Or can it? Stepping back from the blockbusters on which he’s built his career — for better and worse — “Jurassic Park” writer and “Mortdecai” director David Koepp turns his attention to the small-scale chills of “You Should Have Left,”
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Thompson on Hollywood
There’s something wrong with Theo Conroy. A meditation app can’t quiet his mind, which is prone to jealous fantasies and out-there suspicions. Small annoyances rattle him. People look at him askance, his name jarring loose uncomfortable memories, even for seeming strangers. His wife’s success pisses him off. Even his kid knows that something is not quite right with her “Baba.” A vacation can’t solve everything, but it certainly can’t hurt. Or can it? Stepping back from the blockbusters on which he’s built his career — for better and worse — “Jurassic Park” writer and “Mortdecai” director David Koepp turns his attention to the small-scale chills of “You Should Have Left,”
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
For this review round-up, I’ll be digging into two films coming out this week, the delightfully meta horror anthology Scare Package and You Should Have Left, which features a reunion between writer/director David Koepp and star Kevin Bacon, who last teamed up on Stir of Echoes back in 1999.
Scare Package: Like most horror fans, I absolutely adore horror anthologies because when they’re done right, they can be the perfect showcase for innovative storytelling that celebrates everything we love about the genre. And in the case of Scare Package, that’s exactly what makes this project so special: you can feel the pure, unfettered admiration for horror pulsing through every single segment and the various wraparound segments to boot. It’s hilarious, gory, sometimes a little weird, but as a whole, Scare Package delivers everything you could want out of an anthological horror movie, and so much more.
Scare Package: Like most horror fans, I absolutely adore horror anthologies because when they’re done right, they can be the perfect showcase for innovative storytelling that celebrates everything we love about the genre. And in the case of Scare Package, that’s exactly what makes this project so special: you can feel the pure, unfettered admiration for horror pulsing through every single segment and the various wraparound segments to boot. It’s hilarious, gory, sometimes a little weird, but as a whole, Scare Package delivers everything you could want out of an anthological horror movie, and so much more.
- 6/18/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The first words we hear Kevin Bacon say in “You Should Have Left” are “goddamn nightmares,” a phrase his character spits out after waking from some feverish visions that include long dark hallways, spooky music and a sinister, bedraggled guy threatening a little girl.
There are lots more of those nightmares to come over the next 90 minutes in this psychological thriller – oh, let’s scratch that and call it a horror movie – from writer-director David Koepp, best known as the screenwriter of “Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “War of the Worlds” and “Spider-Man.” Working from a novella by German writer Daniel Kehlmann, Koepp has joined forces with Blumhouse Productions to make a film that’s much closer in scale to his previous directing jobs like “Stir of Echoes” and “The Trigger Effect” than to his blockbuster screenplays, and not nearly as gripping as Blumhouse’s last spin on horror, “The Invisible Man.
There are lots more of those nightmares to come over the next 90 minutes in this psychological thriller – oh, let’s scratch that and call it a horror movie – from writer-director David Koepp, best known as the screenwriter of “Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “War of the Worlds” and “Spider-Man.” Working from a novella by German writer Daniel Kehlmann, Koepp has joined forces with Blumhouse Productions to make a film that’s much closer in scale to his previous directing jobs like “Stir of Echoes” and “The Trigger Effect” than to his blockbuster screenplays, and not nearly as gripping as Blumhouse’s last spin on horror, “The Invisible Man.
- 6/18/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Stir of Echoes star Kevin Bacon and director David Koepp reunite for the new Blumhouse horror film You Should Have Left, and in a new featurette, Bacon and co-star Amanda Seyfried reflect on the mind-bending scares of the new movie.
Below, you can watch the new featurette and previously released trailer for the film, which is coming to VOD on June 18th from Universal:
"In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave.
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna...
Below, you can watch the new featurette and previously released trailer for the film, which is coming to VOD on June 18th from Universal:
"In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave.
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna...
- 6/16/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions has launched the first trailer for their latest PVOD offering, thriller ‘You Should Have Left.
Based on Daniel Kehlmann’s 2017 novel, the story follows a screenwriter who travels to a secluded cabin in the Alps to write the sequel to his hit movie, but a severe case of writer’s block sends him spiralling into a mental breakdown.
Directed by David Koepp who also wrote the script, the film stars Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
Also in trailers – “What is reality?” new trailer lands for Jordan Peele’s series ‘Lovecraft Country’
The film is available on-demand, June 19.
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Based on Daniel Kehlmann’s 2017 novel, the story follows a screenwriter who travels to a secluded cabin in the Alps to write the sequel to his hit movie, but a severe case of writer’s block sends him spiralling into a mental breakdown.
Directed by David Koepp who also wrote the script, the film stars Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
Also in trailers – “What is reality?” new trailer lands for Jordan Peele’s series ‘Lovecraft Country’
The film is available on-demand, June 19.
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- 6/9/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
David Koepp wrote screenplay.
Universal has set another digital-first debut for a film whose theatrical release has been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic, planting a June 19 premium VoD launch for Blumhouse Productions’ Wales-set You Should Have Left starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
David Koepp directed from his screenplay about a successful man and his younger actress wife who take a trip to Wales with their young daughter in a bid to repair their crumbling marriage.
After they arrive, the man believes a sinister force occupies the house and knows the secrets the couple has hidden from each other. Avery Essex also stars.
Universal has set another digital-first debut for a film whose theatrical release has been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic, planting a June 19 premium VoD launch for Blumhouse Productions’ Wales-set You Should Have Left starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
David Koepp directed from his screenplay about a successful man and his younger actress wife who take a trip to Wales with their young daughter in a bid to repair their crumbling marriage.
After they arrive, the man believes a sinister force occupies the house and knows the secrets the couple has hidden from each other. Avery Essex also stars.
- 6/9/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Directed by David Koepp and starring Kevin Bacon (who previously worked together on Stir of Echoes) and Amanda Seyfried, the official trailer for Blumhouse's You Should Have Left takes viewers inside a seemingly idyllic home that harbors a sinister secret.
Universal will release You Should Have Left on VOD beginning June 19th:
"In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave.
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past.
Universal will release You Should Have Left on VOD beginning June 19th:
"In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave.
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past.
- 6/8/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Available to rent on many streaming services – perfect during these warm days of summer 2020 – comes the film You Should Have Left.
In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
Check out the trailer now and rent the movie on June 19.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave.
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past.
(from left) Susanna Conroy (Amanda Seyfried) and Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) in You Should Have Left,...
In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
Check out the trailer now and rent the movie on June 19.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave.
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past.
(from left) Susanna Conroy (Amanda Seyfried) and Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) in You Should Have Left,...
- 6/8/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Vacationing to distant places can be tricky. The more history a place has, the more exciting it can be to stay there, right? But do you really want to know all of the dark secrets in an old house? Or, even more unsettling, would you want that house to know yours? This is the setup of You Should Have Left, a new Blumhouse horror movie with a mysterious premise.
The latest film from screenwriting adaptation chief extraordinaire, David Koepp, You Should Have Left begins on a marriage that already seems to be preternaturally doomed: successful and very middle-aged Conroy (Kevin Bacon) has started a family with the much younger Susanna (Amanda Seyfried). But there’s a hidden history for each party before their May-December nuptials, with Susanna being a movie actress with dark secrets, and Conroy carrying the baggage of being accused of murder in his past. But they don’t talk about those things…...
The latest film from screenwriting adaptation chief extraordinaire, David Koepp, You Should Have Left begins on a marriage that already seems to be preternaturally doomed: successful and very middle-aged Conroy (Kevin Bacon) has started a family with the much younger Susanna (Amanda Seyfried). But there’s a hidden history for each party before their May-December nuptials, with Susanna being a movie actress with dark secrets, and Conroy carrying the baggage of being accused of murder in his past. But they don’t talk about those things…...
- 6/8/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have opted to launch the supernatural thriller “You Should Have Left” on premium video-on-demand instead of its planned debut in theaters.
The movie, starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried, will be available to rent starting June 19. Along with the release shakeup, the studio also unveiled a new trailer.
It’s the latest revamp in Universal’s schedule in the wake of mass shuttering of multiplexes due to the coronavirus pandemic. Though movie theaters in some states have started to reopen, the majority of cinema chains are still closed.
Judd Apatow’s “The King of Staten Island,” a comedy starring Pete Davidson, will also debut on digital rental services on June 12 in lieu of a traditional theatrical rollout. In April, the studio dropped “Trolls World Tour” on video-on-demand and in drive-ins. Meanwhile, “Fast and Furious” installment “F9,” the next “Minions” sequel, and “Sing 2” were all...
The movie, starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried, will be available to rent starting June 19. Along with the release shakeup, the studio also unveiled a new trailer.
It’s the latest revamp in Universal’s schedule in the wake of mass shuttering of multiplexes due to the coronavirus pandemic. Though movie theaters in some states have started to reopen, the majority of cinema chains are still closed.
Judd Apatow’s “The King of Staten Island,” a comedy starring Pete Davidson, will also debut on digital rental services on June 12 in lieu of a traditional theatrical rollout. In April, the studio dropped “Trolls World Tour” on video-on-demand and in drive-ins. Meanwhile, “Fast and Furious” installment “F9,” the next “Minions” sequel, and “Sing 2” were all...
- 6/8/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
"What is this place?!" Universal has unveiled the first official trailer for a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse titled You Should Have Left, based on the novel of the same name by German writer Daniel Kehlmann. In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave. A screenwriter heads to a house in Wales to start working on a new script, but begins to notice strange things going on. Starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried, with Geoff Bell. If this reminds you of Secret Window at all, then guess what! It's from the same writer / director as that film, too. Lots of creepy shadow shots in this, the rest of it almost looks like a contemporary remake of The Shining - a family going mad in a place that won't let them leave. Check out the trailer below.
- 6/8/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The idea of a haunted house takes on terrifying new meaning in “You Should Have Left,” David Koepp’s upcoming horror film that Universal is surprise releasing this month on demand. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star in the film, which centers on a couple who vacation in a beautiful but isolated house. Their serene home quickly gives way to psychological horrors as it becomes apparent the house contains some sort of twisted, malevolent force.
The official synopsis from Universal reads: “Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried), is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at...
The official synopsis from Universal reads: “Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried), is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at...
- 6/8/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Universal and Blumhouse are taking their Kevin Bacon-Amanda Seyfried psychological thriller You Should Have Left straight into homes on Friday, June 19 for a North America PVOD release.
The pic was directed by Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible scribe David Koepp which he adapted from the German novel by Daniel Kehlmann.
Bacon and Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world in the Welsh countryside only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning and travel with them. Their marriage is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. At first their vacation with their six year old daughter seems like a perfect retreat, but distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s (Bacon) grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna (Seyfried) have revealed,...
The pic was directed by Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible scribe David Koepp which he adapted from the German novel by Daniel Kehlmann.
Bacon and Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world in the Welsh countryside only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning and travel with them. Their marriage is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. At first their vacation with their six year old daughter seems like a perfect retreat, but distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s (Bacon) grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna (Seyfried) have revealed,...
- 6/8/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Universal will be releasing the Kevin Bacon psychological thriller “You Should Have Left” from Blumhouse Productions on premium on-demand this month, the company announced on Monday. Watch the trailer above.
The film will be released on June 19. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning.
The film is based on the novel by best-selling German Daniel Kehlmann. David Koepp directed the project from a spec script he wrote. Koepp and Bacon optioned the book together, and Blumhouse picked up the project. The film was produced by Jason Blum, Bacon and Dean O’Toole and is executive produced by Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Derek Ambrosi.
Also Read: Kevin Bacon, David Koepp to Team Up for Blumhouse's 'You Should Have Left'
“You Should Have Left” centers on a father who...
The film will be released on June 19. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning.
The film is based on the novel by best-selling German Daniel Kehlmann. David Koepp directed the project from a spec script he wrote. Koepp and Bacon optioned the book together, and Blumhouse picked up the project. The film was produced by Jason Blum, Bacon and Dean O’Toole and is executive produced by Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Derek Ambrosi.
Also Read: Kevin Bacon, David Koepp to Team Up for Blumhouse's 'You Should Have Left'
“You Should Have Left” centers on a father who...
- 6/8/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
David Koepp wrote screenplay.
Universal has set another digital-first debut for a film whose theatrical release has been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic, planting a June 19 premium VOD launch for Blumhouse Productions’ Wales-set You Should Have Left starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
David Koepp directed from his screenplay about a successful man and his younger actress wife who take a trip to Wales with their young daughter in a bid to repair their crumbling marriage.
After they arrive, the man believes a sinister force occupies the house and knows the secrets the couple has hidden from each other. Avery Essex also stars.
Universal has set another digital-first debut for a film whose theatrical release has been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic, planting a June 19 premium VOD launch for Blumhouse Productions’ Wales-set You Should Have Left starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
David Koepp directed from his screenplay about a successful man and his younger actress wife who take a trip to Wales with their young daughter in a bid to repair their crumbling marriage.
After they arrive, the man believes a sinister force occupies the house and knows the secrets the couple has hidden from each other. Avery Essex also stars.
- 6/8/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Germany’s Amusement Park Film is developing an English-language remake of the French-Italian movie “Les Aventuriers,” with Edward Berger on board to direct, and “Next Door,” a Berlin-set dark comedy that will mark the directorial debut of actor Daniel Bruhl.
Berger, who is known for helming “Deutschland 83″ and Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer “Patrick Melrose,” is co-developing the remake of “Les Aventuriers.” Gregory Burke, the BAFTA-nominated writer of “71” and “7 Days in Entebbe,” is writing the screenplay.
“Les Aventuriers” is a 1967 movie directed by Robert Enrico and starring Alain Delon and Lino Ventura. Based on a novel by José Giovanni, the story revolves around two likable underachievers who are best friends and set off to go treasure-hunting off the coast of Africa.
Amusement Park, which has offices in Berlin and Hamburg, is set to produce the remake and will be casting some prominent actors in the lead roles, producer Malte Grunert told...
Berger, who is known for helming “Deutschland 83″ and Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer “Patrick Melrose,” is co-developing the remake of “Les Aventuriers.” Gregory Burke, the BAFTA-nominated writer of “71” and “7 Days in Entebbe,” is writing the screenplay.
“Les Aventuriers” is a 1967 movie directed by Robert Enrico and starring Alain Delon and Lino Ventura. Based on a novel by José Giovanni, the story revolves around two likable underachievers who are best friends and set off to go treasure-hunting off the coast of Africa.
Amusement Park, which has offices in Berlin and Hamburg, is set to produce the remake and will be casting some prominent actors in the lead roles, producer Malte Grunert told...
- 9/28/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
German-Spanish actor Daniel Bruhl, most known for his roles in Good Bye Lenin! and as racing driver Niki Lauda in Rush, is set to make his directing debut on the German-language dark comedy Next Door.
Bruhl’s own production shingle Amusement Park Films is behind the project, with Warner Bros Germany part-financing and taking German-speaking territories.
Amusement Park co-founder Malte Grunert revealed the news during a panel at the Zurich Summit, which takes place today (September 28) as part of the Zurich Film Festival.
Speaking to Deadline, Grunert said the team were lining up a shoot in Berlin for next spring. The film is a two-hander with Bruhl and another actor, who is currently being cast. Financing is now being completed.
Exact plot details are being kept under-wraps but the film will explore the subjects of gentrification and social inequality in Berlin. Daniel Kehlmann is writing the screenplay.
Amusement Park is...
Bruhl’s own production shingle Amusement Park Films is behind the project, with Warner Bros Germany part-financing and taking German-speaking territories.
Amusement Park co-founder Malte Grunert revealed the news during a panel at the Zurich Summit, which takes place today (September 28) as part of the Zurich Film Festival.
Speaking to Deadline, Grunert said the team were lining up a shoot in Berlin for next spring. The film is a two-hander with Bruhl and another actor, who is currently being cast. Financing is now being completed.
Exact plot details are being kept under-wraps but the film will explore the subjects of gentrification and social inequality in Berlin. Daniel Kehlmann is writing the screenplay.
Amusement Park is...
- 9/28/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Amanda Seyfried has signed on to portray the spouse of Kevin Bacon’s character in “You Should Have Left,” a supernatural thriller from Jason Blum.
David Koepp will direct from his own script for Blumhouse Productions. The company is planning to start shooting later this year.
The project is based on Daniel Kehlmann’s 2017 novel, which centers on a screenwriter in a remote house in the Alps working on a sequel to his hit film along with his younger wife and a six-year-old. The writer begins to lose his bearings thanks to unexplained occurrences.
Bacon brought the project to Koepp and the duo optioned it to Blumhouse earlier this year. Bacon and Koepp previously collaborated on the 1999 supernatural thriller “Stir of Echoes.” Koepp has writing credits on “Jurassic Park” and “Spider-Man” and directing credits on “The Trigger Effect” and “Secret Window.”
Seyfried will be seen next be seen in Universal’s “Mamma Mia!
David Koepp will direct from his own script for Blumhouse Productions. The company is planning to start shooting later this year.
The project is based on Daniel Kehlmann’s 2017 novel, which centers on a screenwriter in a remote house in the Alps working on a sequel to his hit film along with his younger wife and a six-year-old. The writer begins to lose his bearings thanks to unexplained occurrences.
Bacon brought the project to Koepp and the duo optioned it to Blumhouse earlier this year. Bacon and Koepp previously collaborated on the 1999 supernatural thriller “Stir of Echoes.” Koepp has writing credits on “Jurassic Park” and “Spider-Man” and directing credits on “The Trigger Effect” and “Secret Window.”
Seyfried will be seen next be seen in Universal’s “Mamma Mia!
- 6/7/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Boss Level: Naomi Watts (above in Twin Peaks) is in negotiations to costar in Boss Level. If things work out, she will join confirmed cast members Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson and Will Sasso; Grillo will star as a retired military veteran who is stuck in a time loop and dies every day. Joe Carnahan (Stretch; The Grey) will direct. [Variety] You Should Have Left: Kevin Bacon and director David Koepp, who first teamed up on the supernatural thriller A Stir of Echoes (above), will reunite for You Should Have Left. Drawn from a novel by Daniel Kehlmann, it will follow a wealthy man who is having marital difficulties with his young wife. They travel to a remote location with their young child, only to learn that the physical laws of the universe may be in question there...
- 3/27/2018
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Kevin Bacon is teaming back up with the director of Stir of Echoes, David Koepp, for a new horror thriller project called You Should Have Left. The film will be an adaptation of a book by Daniel Kehlmann and the story is akin to Stephen King's The Shining.
The story follows a screenwriter who is writing a sequel to his big hit film in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter and in the process he starts to lose his mind. The book was written in the first-person and was praised for its mind-bending and hall-of-mirrors scares.
Bacon, who picked up the rights to the film, will take on the role of the screenwriter and Koepp will write and direct it. In their take, "the story will jettison the screenwriting occupation and instead focus on telling the unsettling tale of a wealthy man with a...
The story follows a screenwriter who is writing a sequel to his big hit film in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter and in the process he starts to lose his mind. The book was written in the first-person and was praised for its mind-bending and hall-of-mirrors scares.
Bacon, who picked up the rights to the film, will take on the role of the screenwriter and Koepp will write and direct it. In their take, "the story will jettison the screenwriting occupation and instead focus on telling the unsettling tale of a wealthy man with a...
- 3/27/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Blumhouse Productions’ horror/thriller You Should Have Left will reunite Stir of Echoes collaborators Kevin Bacon and David Koepp, reports Deadline.
Directed and adapted by Koepp from German author Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, You Should Have Left traces a similar vein to Stephen King’s horror classic The Shining. Following a screenwriter seeking seclusion alongside his family while slowly going mad, the film, which will star Bacon, should begin production at some point later this year.
Having first worked together on the adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel, Koepp and Bacon will now reunite nearly twenty-years later. Their 1999 effort, the supernatural horror Stir of Echoes, saw Bacon portray Tom Witzky, a man haunted by frightening visions of a dead girl. The film didn’t receive overwhelming critical or financial praise due to the release of the much more famed Sixth Sense, but we imagine Koepp and Bacon will see at...
Directed and adapted by Koepp from German author Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, You Should Have Left traces a similar vein to Stephen King’s horror classic The Shining. Following a screenwriter seeking seclusion alongside his family while slowly going mad, the film, which will star Bacon, should begin production at some point later this year.
Having first worked together on the adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel, Koepp and Bacon will now reunite nearly twenty-years later. Their 1999 effort, the supernatural horror Stir of Echoes, saw Bacon portray Tom Witzky, a man haunted by frightening visions of a dead girl. The film didn’t receive overwhelming critical or financial praise due to the release of the much more famed Sixth Sense, but we imagine Koepp and Bacon will see at...
- 3/27/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
Kevin Bacon and David Koepp are partnering for Blumhouse Productions’ supernatural thriller “You Should Have Left,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Bacon will star, while Koepp will direct from a spec script he wrote. Bacon and Jason Blum will produce the feature, which is looking at a production start date later this year. The book, written by German author Daniel Kehlmann, tells the story of a wealthy man with a younger wife and a six-year-old child. While in a remote location, mistrust and suspicion arise. Also Read: Upcoming 'Purge' Prequel Announces a Title Koepp and Bacon optioned the book...
- 3/26/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
David Koepp is writing and directing the feature adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left for Blumhouse with Kevin Bacon set to star. Book, akin to Stephen King’s The Shining, follows a screenwriter who is writing a sequel to his big hit film in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter contending with his writer’s dilemma. Bacon brought the source material to Koepp who directed the actor in 1999’s Stir of Echoes. Blumhouse acquired the…...
- 3/26/2018
- Deadline
Kevin Bacon and David Koepp are teaming up with Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions to adapt You Should Have Left, based on the novel by the same name.
Bacon will star and produce with Blum. Koepp wrote the script and will direct the feature, which is eyeing a production start later this year.
The book, by German author Daniel Kehlmann, tells of a screenwriter who holes up in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter so he can work on a sequel to his big hit. But in shades of The Shining, the classic Stephen King novel...
Bacon will star and produce with Blum. Koepp wrote the script and will direct the feature, which is eyeing a production start later this year.
The book, by German author Daniel Kehlmann, tells of a screenwriter who holes up in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter so he can work on a sequel to his big hit. But in shades of The Shining, the classic Stephen King novel...
- 3/26/2018
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Award Winning Director Wolfgang Becker (“Good Bye Lenin!”) will open the festival at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre with “Me and Kaminski” bringing outstanding German cinema and its stars to Los Angeles from October 20 to 23rd.
Full Program Line Up Announced with a selection of the best new German, Austrian and Swiss Cinema
Celebrating its 10th year, German Currents features an expanded program including screenings of ten La premieres, conversations with prolific German directors, writers and actors, as well as the return of the free family matinee film screening for local schools.
“Me and Kaminski” starring Daniel Brühl and directed by Wolfgang Becker
2016 has been a successful year for German language cinema, not only in Europe, but across the globe. Beginning on Thursday, October 20th 2016 German Currents will open this year’s 4 day festival with the red carpet event Los Angeles premiere of Wolfgang Becker’s (“Goodbye Lenin”) five-time...
Full Program Line Up Announced with a selection of the best new German, Austrian and Swiss Cinema
Celebrating its 10th year, German Currents features an expanded program including screenings of ten La premieres, conversations with prolific German directors, writers and actors, as well as the return of the free family matinee film screening for local schools.
“Me and Kaminski” starring Daniel Brühl and directed by Wolfgang Becker
2016 has been a successful year for German language cinema, not only in Europe, but across the globe. Beginning on Thursday, October 20th 2016 German Currents will open this year’s 4 day festival with the red carpet event Los Angeles premiere of Wolfgang Becker’s (“Goodbye Lenin”) five-time...
- 10/4/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
#SDCC14: Knopf Doubleday Bringing Anne Rice, Chuck Palahniuk, Daniel H. Wilson, and More to the Show
Random House’s Knopf Doubleday group returns to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, and they'd love for attendees to visit them at Booth #1515. Read on to see which authors will be there!
There will other Random House groups at the 2014 Sdcc as well, included Pantheon & Schocken Books and Vintage Anchor Books.
This year’s appearing authors include:
• Knopf author Anne Rice, author of Prince Lestat (October 2014) - Ms. Rice's signing will take place on Saturday, July 26, from 3-5 pm (location Tbd). And watch for a fun giveaway at the Random House booth (#1515) while supplies last.
• Doubleday novelist Chuck Palahniuk, author of Beautiful You (October 2014) - Palahniuk will appear on the Fight Club panel on Saturday, July 26, at 7 pm (Room 25Abc), and he will sign books at the Random House booth (#1515) during the convention.
• Doubleday novelist Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robogenesis (June 2014) - Wilson will speak on the Sf/Robots author panel on Saturday,...
There will other Random House groups at the 2014 Sdcc as well, included Pantheon & Schocken Books and Vintage Anchor Books.
This year’s appearing authors include:
• Knopf author Anne Rice, author of Prince Lestat (October 2014) - Ms. Rice's signing will take place on Saturday, July 26, from 3-5 pm (location Tbd). And watch for a fun giveaway at the Random House booth (#1515) while supplies last.
• Doubleday novelist Chuck Palahniuk, author of Beautiful You (October 2014) - Palahniuk will appear on the Fight Club panel on Saturday, July 26, at 7 pm (Room 25Abc), and he will sign books at the Random House booth (#1515) during the convention.
• Doubleday novelist Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robogenesis (June 2014) - Wilson will speak on the Sf/Robots author panel on Saturday,...
- 6/27/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Cologne, Germany -- Prominent German celebrities, politicians and intellectuals have come out publicly in favor of offering asylum to Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden amid allegations the Nsa illegally spied on several German public figures, including Chancellor Angela Merkel. Actor Daniel Bruhl, who plays former Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg in Bill Condon's Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate, is among the group that has stepped up to support Snowden. Others include Heiner Geissler, the former general secretary of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, the novelist Daniel Kehlmann (The Measuring of the World), the feminist activist Alice Schwarzer, and Reinhard Rauball, the president
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- 11/4/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hosted at one of Hollywood's most iconic venues, The Egyptian Theater, the German Currents Film Festivals brings to Los Angeles an outstanding selection of new cinematic works screening here for the first time. Now in its 7th edition this annual celebration of German-Language is co-presented by the Goethe Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque, in cooperation with Austrian Consulate General and the Consulate General of Switzerland; with support of German Films, Deutsche Welle (Dw), The Friends of Goethe and Elma.
The festival includes narrative feature, documentaries, shorts, and family-friendly films that form part of the 4 day celebration from October 4th-7th. One of the highlights of the program is More Than Honey, which was recently chosen as the Swiss entry for the Foreign Language Academy Award, read more Here, which will be closing the festival on Monday night.
To discuss the film and interact with La audiences some of the filmmakers will also be in attendance:
Rayna Campbell - lead actress, Layla Fourie (North American Premiere)
Matt Sweetwood - director, Beerland (La Premiere)
Jan Ole Gerster - director, Oh Boy
Ennis Rotthoff - composer, Measuring The World (Us Premiere)
For more information click Here
For tickets and information about the Egyptian Theater click Here
Gala Opening Night - Us Premiere
Friday, October 4, At 7:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Measuring The World (Die Vermessung Der Welt)
Directed by Detlev Buck
Two of the greatest minds of the 19th century, mathematician Carl Friederich Gauss (Florian David Fritz) and scientist Alexander von Humboldt (Albrecht Abraham Schuch), dedicate their studies to measuring and comprehending the world they live in. Based on Daniel Kehlmann's best-selling novel of the same name, this visually stunning epic is a playful re-imagining of the great men’s lives. Humboldt, a man with a passion for global exploration, is contrasted with Gauss, a man who experiences his world through mathematical theories and figures. Humboldt, aided by his colleague, Aimé Bonpland, travels the globe physically engaging the world he wishes to understand, applying modern, scientific thinking to comparatively unknown regions. Though he remains in the same destitute community for much of his life, Gauss’ interior journey of mathematical discovery proves to be just as rich and visually stunning as Humboldt’s adventures in remote areas of the world. Fact and fiction are mixed, often to humorous effect, to chronicle the findings of two very different men who nevertheless sought the same answers. Measuring The World was nominated for two German Film Awards in 2013, and the film has won Best Costume Design and Best Make-up Design awards at the 2013 Austrian Film Awards.
In Person: Composer Enis Rotthoff
Germany / Austria (2012), 123 min. In German, French, Spanish with English Subtitles
Saturday, October 5, At 7:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature
Oh Boy
Directed by Jan Ole Gerster
Jan Ole Gerster's wry and vibrant feature debut Oh Boy, which swept the 2013 German Film Awards, paints a day in the life of Niko, a twenty-something college dropout going nowhere fast. Niko lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes: his girlfriend rebuffs him, his father cuts off his allowance, and a strange psychiatrist dubiously confirms his 'emotional imbalance'. Meanwhile, a former classmate insists she bears no hard feelings toward him for his grade-school taunts when she was “Roly Poly Julia,” but it becomes increasingly apparent that she has unfinished business with him. Unable to ignore the consequences of his passivity any longer, Niko finally concludes that he has to engage with life. Shot in timeless black and white and enriched with a snappy jazz soundtrack, this slacker dramedy is a love letter to Berlin and the Generation Y experience.
In Person: Director Jan Ole Gerster
Germany (2012), 85 min. In German with English subtitles
Us Distributor: Music Box Films
Saturday, October 5 At 9:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - L.A. Premiere
Beerland
Directed by Matt Sweetwood
Matt Sweetwood hails from the Midwest. Though he has lived in Germany for over ten years, the people and their culture remain a mystery to him. He undertakes a last-ditch attempt to figure the place out: by exploring the heart of German culture, their beer. If he delves into their rites and rituals, explores all the contradictions and stereotypes, will that make him, finally, a part of them? The infinite variety of beers, breweries and beer fests, the age-old history of beer, is more overwhelming than the American ever imagined. The trail of his research leads him to places far off the beaten tourist path, light-years away from the Oktoberfest. He encounters people whose dialect he barely understands. Amazingly, he finds that a country as small a Germany is subdivided into a thousand different tongues and customs, with beer as the common thread. He discovers a land full of oddities and contradictions. The Germans are deathly serious and silly at the same time, tradition-bound and weirdly visionary. Ultimately, he forms a real bond with them, finding friends where he least expected them.
In Person: Director Matt Sweetwood
Germany (2012), 85 min. In German and English with English Subtitles
Kindermatinee
Sunday, October 6 - 2:00 Pm Egyptian Theatre
The Adventures of Huck Finn (Die Abenteuer Des Huck Finn)
Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth
A lively German language adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic satire. Huck Finn, having found treasure with his best friend Tom Sawyer, is now chafing in the shoes and starched shirts that come with his new wealthy lifestyle. He’d like nothing more than to kick off his shoes and run wild along the river. He gets his chance when his drunken father (August Diehl) arrives and demands a share of Huck’s money. Huck decides to escape downriver and he brings along Jim, the house slave who has recently discovered that he will be handed over to a slave trader. The two travel the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft, hoping to outrun Huck’s violent father and find a place where Jim can be accepted as a free man. Twain’s timeless adventure is exuberantly brought to the screen in a film that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Germany (2012), 101 min. In German with English Subtitles
Film Workshops
Sunday, October 6 - 1:00 - 1:50 Pm & 4:00 - 4:50 Pm
Join the Echo Park Film Center for an afternoon of cinematic exploration and education with the Epfc "Filmcicle" in the courtyard of the Egyptian Theatre. The "Filmcicle" is a bicycle powered cinema and school on 3 wheels. Using traditional analog motion picture film we encourage audience members - young and old - to spend some time with us creating cinematic wonder.
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
Sunday, October 6 At 5:00 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - Us Premiere
Gold
Directed by Thomas Arslan; starring Nina Hoss
Official selection (competition) at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, Gold is a Western about seven German immigrants who set out in search of gold in the backwoods of British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. Each have their motives: an older couple seeking security, a father (Lars Rudolph) hoping to help his impoverished family, an unpleasant newspaperman (Uwe Bohm) chronicling the journey, and a mysterious packer (Marko Mandic) with a past to outrun. The last to join is Emily Mayer (Nina Hoss), a metropolitan woman whose delicate demeanor masks a steely determination to survive. Assembled by a deceptively confident businessman of questionable motives, the settlers must travel through a relatively uncharted stretch of Canadian wilderness to reach their goal, the gold fields of Dawson. As the path grows more treacherous, betrayals come to light and desperate choices are made. Following in the footsteps of McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Meek’s Cutoff, Gold is an epic that offers an unconventional take on the well-worn Western genre.
Germany (2013), 101 min. In German with English Subtitles
Sunday, October 6, At 7:00 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - North American Premiere
Layla Fourie
Directed by Pia Marais
Winner of the Jury Special Mention at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, Layla Frourie is a film about Layla, who is a single mother living with her son in Johannesburg and getting by with casual work. After training as a polygraph operator she manages to secure a job with a company specialising in lie detectors and security. On her way to her new workplace she is involved in an accident which will fundamentally change her life. Layla becomes entangled in a web of lies and deceit. The truth could lead to the loss of her son. For her third feature film Pia Marais - who has lived in Berlin for many years - returned to South Africa where she grew up to make this classic thriller. She uses the genre to take a look at a country which still bears the scars of apartheid. In this way, everyday life in South Africa enhances the tension in the screenplay which she co-wrote with Horst Markgraf. Almost casually, Layla Fourie develops into a political thriller which takes the audience into the paranoia, fear and mistrust of a society that is still profoundly affected by racial conflict.
Germany (2013), 108 min. In English
In Person: lead actress Rayna Campbell
Monday, October 7 At 7:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - L.A. Premiere
The Shine of the Day (Der Glanz Des Tages)
Directed by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
Philip (Philip Hochmair) is is a young and successful actor working for the most important theatres in Vienna and Hamburg with a committed and single-minded approach to his craft. During a season in which he is busy with a production of Buchner’s Woyzeck, Philip is visited by the elderly Walter (Walter Saabel), who introduces himself as the uncle he’s never met. Walter is a former circus artist and the two men soon bond over stories of their careers. These two entertainers, both at different stages in their lives, learn from each other’s experiences. As his conversations with Walter grow more philosophical, Philip slowly emerges from his once isolated lifestyle. He is even inspired to enlist Walter’s assistance in helping a Moldavian neighbor with an immigration issue. The actors, though not related, essentially play themselves and the largely improvised script was developed around their personal experiences. The result is a rare onscreen friendship that feels warm and sincere. Co-directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel draw on their documentary filmmaking background to create a naturalistic atmosphere in which these performances can flourish.
Austria (2012), 101 min. In German with English Subtitles
Monday, October 7 At 9:15 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature
More Than Honey
Directed by Markus Imhoof
Winner of multiple awards, including 2013 German Film Award (Lola) for Best Documentary film, More Than Honey, directed by Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With the tenacity of a man out to solve a world-class mystery, he investigates this global phenomenon, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia. Exquisite macro-photography of the bees (reminiscent of Microcosmos) in flight and in their hives reveals a fascinating, complex world in crisis. Writes Eric Kohn in Indiewire: "Imhoof captures the breeding of queen bees in minute detail, ventures to a laboratory to witness a bee brainscan, and discovers the dangerous prospects of a hive facing the infection of mites. In this latter case, the camera's magnifying power renders the infection in sci-fi terms, as if we've stumbled into a discarded scene from David Cronenberg's The Fly." This is a strange and strangely moving film that raises questions of species survival in cosmic as well as apiary terms.
Switzerland/Germany/Austria (2012), 90 min. In English and German w/English subtitles
Us Distributor: Kino Lorber...
The festival includes narrative feature, documentaries, shorts, and family-friendly films that form part of the 4 day celebration from October 4th-7th. One of the highlights of the program is More Than Honey, which was recently chosen as the Swiss entry for the Foreign Language Academy Award, read more Here, which will be closing the festival on Monday night.
To discuss the film and interact with La audiences some of the filmmakers will also be in attendance:
Rayna Campbell - lead actress, Layla Fourie (North American Premiere)
Matt Sweetwood - director, Beerland (La Premiere)
Jan Ole Gerster - director, Oh Boy
Ennis Rotthoff - composer, Measuring The World (Us Premiere)
For more information click Here
For tickets and information about the Egyptian Theater click Here
Gala Opening Night - Us Premiere
Friday, October 4, At 7:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Measuring The World (Die Vermessung Der Welt)
Directed by Detlev Buck
Two of the greatest minds of the 19th century, mathematician Carl Friederich Gauss (Florian David Fritz) and scientist Alexander von Humboldt (Albrecht Abraham Schuch), dedicate their studies to measuring and comprehending the world they live in. Based on Daniel Kehlmann's best-selling novel of the same name, this visually stunning epic is a playful re-imagining of the great men’s lives. Humboldt, a man with a passion for global exploration, is contrasted with Gauss, a man who experiences his world through mathematical theories and figures. Humboldt, aided by his colleague, Aimé Bonpland, travels the globe physically engaging the world he wishes to understand, applying modern, scientific thinking to comparatively unknown regions. Though he remains in the same destitute community for much of his life, Gauss’ interior journey of mathematical discovery proves to be just as rich and visually stunning as Humboldt’s adventures in remote areas of the world. Fact and fiction are mixed, often to humorous effect, to chronicle the findings of two very different men who nevertheless sought the same answers. Measuring The World was nominated for two German Film Awards in 2013, and the film has won Best Costume Design and Best Make-up Design awards at the 2013 Austrian Film Awards.
In Person: Composer Enis Rotthoff
Germany / Austria (2012), 123 min. In German, French, Spanish with English Subtitles
Saturday, October 5, At 7:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature
Oh Boy
Directed by Jan Ole Gerster
Jan Ole Gerster's wry and vibrant feature debut Oh Boy, which swept the 2013 German Film Awards, paints a day in the life of Niko, a twenty-something college dropout going nowhere fast. Niko lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes: his girlfriend rebuffs him, his father cuts off his allowance, and a strange psychiatrist dubiously confirms his 'emotional imbalance'. Meanwhile, a former classmate insists she bears no hard feelings toward him for his grade-school taunts when she was “Roly Poly Julia,” but it becomes increasingly apparent that she has unfinished business with him. Unable to ignore the consequences of his passivity any longer, Niko finally concludes that he has to engage with life. Shot in timeless black and white and enriched with a snappy jazz soundtrack, this slacker dramedy is a love letter to Berlin and the Generation Y experience.
In Person: Director Jan Ole Gerster
Germany (2012), 85 min. In German with English subtitles
Us Distributor: Music Box Films
Saturday, October 5 At 9:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - L.A. Premiere
Beerland
Directed by Matt Sweetwood
Matt Sweetwood hails from the Midwest. Though he has lived in Germany for over ten years, the people and their culture remain a mystery to him. He undertakes a last-ditch attempt to figure the place out: by exploring the heart of German culture, their beer. If he delves into their rites and rituals, explores all the contradictions and stereotypes, will that make him, finally, a part of them? The infinite variety of beers, breweries and beer fests, the age-old history of beer, is more overwhelming than the American ever imagined. The trail of his research leads him to places far off the beaten tourist path, light-years away from the Oktoberfest. He encounters people whose dialect he barely understands. Amazingly, he finds that a country as small a Germany is subdivided into a thousand different tongues and customs, with beer as the common thread. He discovers a land full of oddities and contradictions. The Germans are deathly serious and silly at the same time, tradition-bound and weirdly visionary. Ultimately, he forms a real bond with them, finding friends where he least expected them.
In Person: Director Matt Sweetwood
Germany (2012), 85 min. In German and English with English Subtitles
Kindermatinee
Sunday, October 6 - 2:00 Pm Egyptian Theatre
The Adventures of Huck Finn (Die Abenteuer Des Huck Finn)
Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth
A lively German language adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic satire. Huck Finn, having found treasure with his best friend Tom Sawyer, is now chafing in the shoes and starched shirts that come with his new wealthy lifestyle. He’d like nothing more than to kick off his shoes and run wild along the river. He gets his chance when his drunken father (August Diehl) arrives and demands a share of Huck’s money. Huck decides to escape downriver and he brings along Jim, the house slave who has recently discovered that he will be handed over to a slave trader. The two travel the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft, hoping to outrun Huck’s violent father and find a place where Jim can be accepted as a free man. Twain’s timeless adventure is exuberantly brought to the screen in a film that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Germany (2012), 101 min. In German with English Subtitles
Film Workshops
Sunday, October 6 - 1:00 - 1:50 Pm & 4:00 - 4:50 Pm
Join the Echo Park Film Center for an afternoon of cinematic exploration and education with the Epfc "Filmcicle" in the courtyard of the Egyptian Theatre. The "Filmcicle" is a bicycle powered cinema and school on 3 wheels. Using traditional analog motion picture film we encourage audience members - young and old - to spend some time with us creating cinematic wonder.
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
Sunday, October 6 At 5:00 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - Us Premiere
Gold
Directed by Thomas Arslan; starring Nina Hoss
Official selection (competition) at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, Gold is a Western about seven German immigrants who set out in search of gold in the backwoods of British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. Each have their motives: an older couple seeking security, a father (Lars Rudolph) hoping to help his impoverished family, an unpleasant newspaperman (Uwe Bohm) chronicling the journey, and a mysterious packer (Marko Mandic) with a past to outrun. The last to join is Emily Mayer (Nina Hoss), a metropolitan woman whose delicate demeanor masks a steely determination to survive. Assembled by a deceptively confident businessman of questionable motives, the settlers must travel through a relatively uncharted stretch of Canadian wilderness to reach their goal, the gold fields of Dawson. As the path grows more treacherous, betrayals come to light and desperate choices are made. Following in the footsteps of McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Meek’s Cutoff, Gold is an epic that offers an unconventional take on the well-worn Western genre.
Germany (2013), 101 min. In German with English Subtitles
Sunday, October 6, At 7:00 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - North American Premiere
Layla Fourie
Directed by Pia Marais
Winner of the Jury Special Mention at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, Layla Frourie is a film about Layla, who is a single mother living with her son in Johannesburg and getting by with casual work. After training as a polygraph operator she manages to secure a job with a company specialising in lie detectors and security. On her way to her new workplace she is involved in an accident which will fundamentally change her life. Layla becomes entangled in a web of lies and deceit. The truth could lead to the loss of her son. For her third feature film Pia Marais - who has lived in Berlin for many years - returned to South Africa where she grew up to make this classic thriller. She uses the genre to take a look at a country which still bears the scars of apartheid. In this way, everyday life in South Africa enhances the tension in the screenplay which she co-wrote with Horst Markgraf. Almost casually, Layla Fourie develops into a political thriller which takes the audience into the paranoia, fear and mistrust of a society that is still profoundly affected by racial conflict.
Germany (2013), 108 min. In English
In Person: lead actress Rayna Campbell
Monday, October 7 At 7:30 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature - L.A. Premiere
The Shine of the Day (Der Glanz Des Tages)
Directed by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
Philip (Philip Hochmair) is is a young and successful actor working for the most important theatres in Vienna and Hamburg with a committed and single-minded approach to his craft. During a season in which he is busy with a production of Buchner’s Woyzeck, Philip is visited by the elderly Walter (Walter Saabel), who introduces himself as the uncle he’s never met. Walter is a former circus artist and the two men soon bond over stories of their careers. These two entertainers, both at different stages in their lives, learn from each other’s experiences. As his conversations with Walter grow more philosophical, Philip slowly emerges from his once isolated lifestyle. He is even inspired to enlist Walter’s assistance in helping a Moldavian neighbor with an immigration issue. The actors, though not related, essentially play themselves and the largely improvised script was developed around their personal experiences. The result is a rare onscreen friendship that feels warm and sincere. Co-directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel draw on their documentary filmmaking background to create a naturalistic atmosphere in which these performances can flourish.
Austria (2012), 101 min. In German with English Subtitles
Monday, October 7 At 9:15 Pm Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature
More Than Honey
Directed by Markus Imhoof
Winner of multiple awards, including 2013 German Film Award (Lola) for Best Documentary film, More Than Honey, directed by Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With the tenacity of a man out to solve a world-class mystery, he investigates this global phenomenon, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia. Exquisite macro-photography of the bees (reminiscent of Microcosmos) in flight and in their hives reveals a fascinating, complex world in crisis. Writes Eric Kohn in Indiewire: "Imhoof captures the breeding of queen bees in minute detail, ventures to a laboratory to witness a bee brainscan, and discovers the dangerous prospects of a hive facing the infection of mites. In this latter case, the camera's magnifying power renders the infection in sci-fi terms, as if we've stumbled into a discarded scene from David Cronenberg's The Fly." This is a strange and strangely moving film that raises questions of species survival in cosmic as well as apiary terms.
Switzerland/Germany/Austria (2012), 90 min. In English and German w/English subtitles
Us Distributor: Kino Lorber...
- 10/4/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
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