La cinta se describe como perversamente irónica e inesperadamente conmovedora.
De acuerdo con Variety, Sandra Hüller (“Anatomía de una Caída”) y Willem Dafoe (“The Florida Project”) coprotagonizarán la película “Late Fame”, del director Kent Jones (“Diane”) y la coguionista Samy Burch (“May December”).
“Late Fame” cuenta la historia de Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), que escribió hace mucho tiempo un libro de poesía que nunca interesó a nadie. Cuando un grupo de jóvenes artistas redescubre su obra, debe replantearse su genialidad. El comodín del grupo es Gloria (Hüller), una talentosa y mercurial actriz de teatro que juega con los afectos y que está dispuesta a dejarse admirar por Saxberger, esa figura legendaria de una descarnada edad de oro neoyorquina.
La película ha sido descrita como “perversamente irónica e inesperadamente conmovedora” y explora el “efecto ilusorio de los elogios en el alma, y la persistente presencia fantasmal del pasado, ya sea imaginado o...
De acuerdo con Variety, Sandra Hüller (“Anatomía de una Caída”) y Willem Dafoe (“The Florida Project”) coprotagonizarán la película “Late Fame”, del director Kent Jones (“Diane”) y la coguionista Samy Burch (“May December”).
“Late Fame” cuenta la historia de Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), que escribió hace mucho tiempo un libro de poesía que nunca interesó a nadie. Cuando un grupo de jóvenes artistas redescubre su obra, debe replantearse su genialidad. El comodín del grupo es Gloria (Hüller), una talentosa y mercurial actriz de teatro que juega con los afectos y que está dispuesta a dejarse admirar por Saxberger, esa figura legendaria de una descarnada edad de oro neoyorquina.
La película ha sido descrita como “perversamente irónica e inesperadamente conmovedora” y explora el “efecto ilusorio de los elogios en el alma, y la persistente presencia fantasmal del pasado, ya sea imaginado o...
- 5/10/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
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- 5/8/2024
- MUBI
Exclusive: Academy Award nominated writer Samy Burch has signed with WME. Burch is the writer behind May December, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, in addition to WGA and Critics Choice Awards nominations. Burch won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay.
Most recently, Burch wrote script for Cannes package Late Fame, starring Sandra Hüller and Willem Dafoe from director Kent Jones for producer Killer Films. Burch also wrote the screenplay for Coyote vs. Acme for director Dave Green at Warner Bros.
Burch continues to be repped by Grandview, and Andrew Howard at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
Most recently, Burch wrote script for Cannes package Late Fame, starring Sandra Hüller and Willem Dafoe from director Kent Jones for producer Killer Films. Burch also wrote the screenplay for Coyote vs. Acme for director Dave Green at Warner Bros.
Burch continues to be repped by Grandview, and Andrew Howard at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
- 5/6/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
In the six years since his accomplished narrative directorial debut Diane, we’ve been wondering when Kent Jones would announce his follow-up. As he continues to work with Martin Scorsese on scripting his two upcoming Jesus projects, Jones’ next directorial feature has now been unveiled.
Variety reports Sandra Hüller and Willem Dafoe will lead Jones’ drama Late Fame, scripted by Samy Burch (May December) and produced by Killer Films. The film follows Dafoe as Ed Saxberger, “who wrote a book of poetry a long time ago that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work, he must reassess his genius. The wild card in the group is Gloria (Hüller), a talented and mercurial theatre actress who toys with affections and who is all set to be admired by Saxberger, this legendary figure from a gritty New York golden age.” Described as “wickedly ironic and unexpectedly poignant,...
Variety reports Sandra Hüller and Willem Dafoe will lead Jones’ drama Late Fame, scripted by Samy Burch (May December) and produced by Killer Films. The film follows Dafoe as Ed Saxberger, “who wrote a book of poetry a long time ago that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work, he must reassess his genius. The wild card in the group is Gloria (Hüller), a talented and mercurial theatre actress who toys with affections and who is all set to be admired by Saxberger, this legendary figure from a gritty New York golden age.” Described as “wickedly ironic and unexpectedly poignant,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Sandra Hüller, the Oscar-nominated actor of “Anatomy of a Fall,” and four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (“At Eternity’s Gate”) are set to co-star in Kent Jones’ “Late Fame,” reteaming “May December” co-screenwriter Samy Burch and producer Killer Films.
One of the hottest packages set for a Cannes Launch, “Late Fame” has been boarded by MK2 Films which is hot off an Oscar win for “Anatomy of a Fall” and will represent worldwide sales outside of North America. WME Independent, UTA Independent Film Group and Cinetic Media will co-represent North American rights. Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon will serve as producers for Killer Films (“Past Lives,” “May December”). The film will start shooting in NYC in the fall.
“Late Fame” “tells the story of Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), who wrote a book of poetry a long time ago that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work,...
One of the hottest packages set for a Cannes Launch, “Late Fame” has been boarded by MK2 Films which is hot off an Oscar win for “Anatomy of a Fall” and will represent worldwide sales outside of North America. WME Independent, UTA Independent Film Group and Cinetic Media will co-represent North American rights. Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon will serve as producers for Killer Films (“Past Lives,” “May December”). The film will start shooting in NYC in the fall.
“Late Fame” “tells the story of Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), who wrote a book of poetry a long time ago that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The nearly year-long span from discovering Janet Planet‘s existence to seeing a single frame was fraught with worry. What if the extraordinarily talented Annie Baker fumbled her transition into filmmaking? Nothing catastrophic, surely––no sane person’s faulting Michael Jordan for his minor-league stint––but to paraphrase Kent Jones on John Carpenter: America doesn’t have so many great directors to spare that it can afford Annie Baker failing.
From frame one it was clear no such thing would happen. Janet Planet‘s a case study in a genius trying a new medium––base understanding of its what and how and why, but lack of precedent or traditional method yielding something rather new. Ahead of the film’s June 21 limited release, A24 have released a first trailer, albeit one that sells a different movie: scored by the Roches’ “Hammond Song” and cut to emphasize some wittier dialogue, it...
From frame one it was clear no such thing would happen. Janet Planet‘s a case study in a genius trying a new medium––base understanding of its what and how and why, but lack of precedent or traditional method yielding something rather new. Ahead of the film’s June 21 limited release, A24 have released a first trailer, albeit one that sells a different movie: scored by the Roches’ “Hammond Song” and cut to emphasize some wittier dialogue, it...
- 4/4/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Martin Scorsese is set to both host and produce a new religious documentary series for Fox Nation. Titled Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, the eight-part series will chronicle the lives of (you guessed it) eight different saints and will debut on November 16th.
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints will cover the stories of figures like Joan of Arc and John the Baptists through re-enactments and on-camera discussions between Scorsese and historical experts. Created by Matti Leshem, the show features direction from Elizabeth Chomko and writing by Kent Jones. With the announcement, Scorsese joins the likes of Kevin Costner, Rob Lowe, and Dan Aykroyd, who have all fronted projects for the Fox News-run streaming service in recent years.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set,...
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints will cover the stories of figures like Joan of Arc and John the Baptists through re-enactments and on-camera discussions between Scorsese and historical experts. Created by Matti Leshem, the show features direction from Elizabeth Chomko and writing by Kent Jones. With the announcement, Scorsese joins the likes of Kevin Costner, Rob Lowe, and Dan Aykroyd, who have all fronted projects for the Fox News-run streaming service in recent years.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Jonah Krueger
- Consequence - Film News
Martin Scorsese is partnering with Fox Nation for an eight-part docudrama series, “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.” Hosted, narrated and executive produced by Scorsese, the series will encompass eight one-hour episodes exploring the stories of eight figures on their journey to sainthood.
The docudrama will premiere in two parts, with the first four episodes set to release on Nov. 16 and the final set to conclude in May 2025. Each episode focuses on a singular saint, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set,” Scorsese said in a statement. “These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different...
The docudrama will premiere in two parts, with the first four episodes set to release on Nov. 16 and the final set to conclude in May 2025. Each episode focuses on a singular saint, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set,” Scorsese said in a statement. “These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different...
- 3/27/2024
- by Selena Kuznikov
- Variety Film + TV
Not feeling conflicted enough today? Martin Scorsese is making and hosting a show on Fox News Channel’s streaming service Fox Nation.
The series is an eight-part docudrama slated for November 2024. May we present: “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.”
Each hour-long episode will explore “the remarkable stories of eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith,” in Fox Nation’s words. Them’s the saints.
“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” was developed by Scorsese for Lionsgate Alternative Television. It was created by Matti Leshem. The docuseries is written by the frequent Scorsese collaborator Kent Jones; it will be directed by Elizabeth Chomko.
Scorsese and Leshem executive produce, as do Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly, Yoshi Stone, Craig Piligian, David Ellender, and Matt Loze. In addition to Lionsgate, the series was produced by Sikelia Productions, Weimaraner Republic Pictures, Lbi Entertainment, and Halcyon Studios.
The series is an eight-part docudrama slated for November 2024. May we present: “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.”
Each hour-long episode will explore “the remarkable stories of eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith,” in Fox Nation’s words. Them’s the saints.
“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” was developed by Scorsese for Lionsgate Alternative Television. It was created by Matti Leshem. The docuseries is written by the frequent Scorsese collaborator Kent Jones; it will be directed by Elizabeth Chomko.
Scorsese and Leshem executive produce, as do Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly, Yoshi Stone, Craig Piligian, David Ellender, and Matt Loze. In addition to Lionsgate, the series was produced by Sikelia Productions, Weimaraner Republic Pictures, Lbi Entertainment, and Halcyon Studios.
- 3/27/2024
- by Tony Maglio
- Indiewire
Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese is bringing his talents to Fox Nation, the streaming service of Fox News Channel.
The Killers of the Flower Moon director will host, narrate and executive produce for an eight-episode docudrama called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.
The series will debut on Nov. 16 and run through May 2025. Each episode will focus on a singular saint, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe, “examining these extraordinary figures and their extreme acts of kindness, selflessness and sacrifice,” per Fox.
The series was created by Matti Leshem and developed by Scorsese for Lionsgate Alternative Television and was written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko. Other executive producers include Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly, Yoshi Stone and Craig Piligian.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life,...
The Killers of the Flower Moon director will host, narrate and executive produce for an eight-episode docudrama called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.
The series will debut on Nov. 16 and run through May 2025. Each episode will focus on a singular saint, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe, “examining these extraordinary figures and their extreme acts of kindness, selflessness and sacrifice,” per Fox.
The series was created by Matti Leshem and developed by Scorsese for Lionsgate Alternative Television and was written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko. Other executive producers include Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly, Yoshi Stone and Craig Piligian.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Scorsese is exploring the journeys of eight men and women toward sainthood in a new docudrama series for Fox Nation.
The Killers of the Flower Moon director is launching Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints on the streaming service in November 2024.
He will host, narrate and exec produce the eight-part series.
Developed by Scorsese for Lionsgate Alternative Television, the series was created by Matti Leshem, written by Scorsese’s collaborator Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko.
Scorsese and Leshem exec produce alongside Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly, Yoshi Stone, Craig Piligian, David Ellender and Matt Loze. It is produced by Lionsgate, Sikelia Productions, Weimaraner Republic Pictures, Lbi Entertainment and Halcyon Studios.
The series will premiere in two parts, with the first four episodes to air on Sunday, November 16, and the final set to air in May 2025.
Each episode focuses on a singular Saint, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi,...
The Killers of the Flower Moon director is launching Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints on the streaming service in November 2024.
He will host, narrate and exec produce the eight-part series.
Developed by Scorsese for Lionsgate Alternative Television, the series was created by Matti Leshem, written by Scorsese’s collaborator Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko.
Scorsese and Leshem exec produce alongside Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly, Yoshi Stone, Craig Piligian, David Ellender and Matt Loze. It is produced by Lionsgate, Sikelia Productions, Weimaraner Republic Pictures, Lbi Entertainment and Halcyon Studios.
The series will premiere in two parts, with the first four episodes to air on Sunday, November 16, and the final set to air in May 2025.
Each episode focuses on a singular Saint, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Last May, after “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Martin Scorsese traveled to Rome with his wife, Helen Morris, to attend a conference titled “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination.” There, the director announced that he had responded to an appeal by Pope Francis to artists “in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.”
The conference was organized by Jesuit publication “La Civiltà Cattolica.” It took place after the journal’s editor, Father Antonio Spadaro, held a series of one-on-one conversations with Scorsese that have just come out in Italy in a book published by La nave di Teseo titled “Dialoghi sulla fede” (“Dialogues on Faith”).
The final chapter of this book is titled, as translated from Italian, “Screenplay for a Possible Film on Jesus” by Scorsese. Spadaro, in the book’s introduction, specifies...
The conference was organized by Jesuit publication “La Civiltà Cattolica.” It took place after the journal’s editor, Father Antonio Spadaro, held a series of one-on-one conversations with Scorsese that have just come out in Italy in a book published by La nave di Teseo titled “Dialoghi sulla fede” (“Dialogues on Faith”).
The final chapter of this book is titled, as translated from Italian, “Screenplay for a Possible Film on Jesus” by Scorsese. Spadaro, in the book’s introduction, specifies...
- 3/27/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Good things come to those who wait. No, five-ish years isn’t nearly the craziest gap in a director’s filmography, but Joel and Ethan Coen sure seemed ready to take their leave after The Ballad of Buster Scruggs––Joel for The Tragedy of Macbeth, Ethan to the (so I’ve heard) very funny Drive-Away Dolls. Whether you consider the duo geniuses, sadists, pseuds, or absolutely essential, to paraphrase Kent Jones on John Carpenter: America doesn’t have so many great directors to spare that it can afford to let the Coen brothers fall through the cracks.
Great news, then, that the last handful of years are more respite than severance. Speaking to the Tromsø International Film Festival (a different kind of TIFF) in promotion of Dolls, Ethan Coen said he and Joel have already scripted their reunion: “a pure horror film, and it gets very bloody.” One, he adds,...
Great news, then, that the last handful of years are more respite than severance. Speaking to the Tromsø International Film Festival (a different kind of TIFF) in promotion of Dolls, Ethan Coen said he and Joel have already scripted their reunion: “a pure horror film, and it gets very bloody.” One, he adds,...
- 1/30/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Adaptation of book by Shūsaku Endō, who wrote the source novel for 2016’s Silence, is understood to be set mostly in the present day
Martin Scorsese is to follow up his triumphant true-crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon with an 80-minute film about Jesus designed to “take away the negative[s] … associated with organised religion”.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Scorsese explained the thinking behind the project, an adaptation of A Life of Jesus by writer Shūsaku Endō (a Japanese Catholic whose 1966 novel Silence was previously adapted by Scorsese). Scorsese said he and his writing collaborator Kent Jones had finished the screenplay and were “swimming in inspiration” for a film reportedly set largely in the present day that “focus[es] on Jesus’s core teachings in a way that explores the principles but doesn’t proselytise”.
Martin Scorsese is to follow up his triumphant true-crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon with an 80-minute film about Jesus designed to “take away the negative[s] … associated with organised religion”.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Scorsese explained the thinking behind the project, an adaptation of A Life of Jesus by writer Shūsaku Endō (a Japanese Catholic whose 1966 novel Silence was previously adapted by Scorsese). Scorsese said he and his writing collaborator Kent Jones had finished the screenplay and were “swimming in inspiration” for a film reportedly set largely in the present day that “focus[es] on Jesus’s core teachings in a way that explores the principles but doesn’t proselytise”.
- 1/9/2024
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Martin Scorsese is making a(nother) film about Jesus Christ, and he intends it to be shorter than his last couple of movies.
We learned back in May of last year that Martin Scorsese intended to make another film about Jesus once he was finished with Killers Of The Flower Moon, his epic tale of love and betrayal that takes place in the heart of the Osage Nation during the 1920s.
Of course, Scorsese has tackled the topic of Jesus Christ before, in 1988’s The Last Temptation Of Christ, which reshaped some of the events laid out in the gospels depicting the life of Christ. Religion was also a key theme in his more recent movie, Silence.
What’s more, themes that are tangential to religion such as guilt, sin, forgiveness and redemption are never far from the surface in the filmmaker’s work. Still, Scorsese has stated that with...
We learned back in May of last year that Martin Scorsese intended to make another film about Jesus once he was finished with Killers Of The Flower Moon, his epic tale of love and betrayal that takes place in the heart of the Osage Nation during the 1920s.
Of course, Scorsese has tackled the topic of Jesus Christ before, in 1988’s The Last Temptation Of Christ, which reshaped some of the events laid out in the gospels depicting the life of Christ. Religion was also a key theme in his more recent movie, Silence.
What’s more, themes that are tangential to religion such as guilt, sin, forgiveness and redemption are never far from the surface in the filmmaker’s work. Still, Scorsese has stated that with...
- 1/9/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
Martin Scorsese has completed his screenplay for the film about Jesus he first teased in May, the director told Los Angeles Times in a story that published Monday. Scorsese said his project will film later this year and is expected to be only 80 minutes long.
“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,” Scorsese said. The film does not yet appear to have a distributor.
Scorsese co-wrote the new project with critic and filmmaker Kent Jones. It is based on Shūsaku Endō’s book A Life of Jesus — Endo also wrote Silence, which Scorsese adapted for the screen in 2016 with actors Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson.
“I responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus,...
“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,” Scorsese said. The film does not yet appear to have a distributor.
Scorsese co-wrote the new project with critic and filmmaker Kent Jones. It is based on Shūsaku Endō’s book A Life of Jesus — Endo also wrote Silence, which Scorsese adapted for the screen in 2016 with actors Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson.
“I responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Zoe G Phillips
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways.”
Martin Scorsese does not intend to take much time off after awards season promotional duties on Killers Of The Flower Moon and is planning to shoot his next film about the core teachings of Jesus later this year.
The indefatigable filmmaker told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Monday that he and filmmaker and critic Kent Jones have completed the screenplay for what he envisions will run to around 80 minutes – well under half the 206-minute run...
Martin Scorsese does not intend to take much time off after awards season promotional duties on Killers Of The Flower Moon and is planning to shoot his next film about the core teachings of Jesus later this year.
The indefatigable filmmaker told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Monday that he and filmmaker and critic Kent Jones have completed the screenplay for what he envisions will run to around 80 minutes – well under half the 206-minute run...
- 1/8/2024
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
While Martin Scorsese is celebrating his latest epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” on the awards circuit, the filmmaker is already teasing what could be his next movie, based on Shūsaku Endō’s book “A Life of Jesus.”
Scorsese revealed in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times that his next religious film will be set mostly in the present day, but, according to the paper, “Scorsese doesn’t want to be locked into a certain period, because he wants the film to feel timeless.” Plus, he envisions the film will clock in at around 80 minutes, a stark contrast to “Flower Moon’s” 206-minute runtime. Per the L.A. Times, the movie will focus on “Jesus’ core teachings in a way that explores the principles but doesn’t proselytize.”
“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what...
Scorsese revealed in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times that his next religious film will be set mostly in the present day, but, according to the paper, “Scorsese doesn’t want to be locked into a certain period, because he wants the film to feel timeless.” Plus, he envisions the film will clock in at around 80 minutes, a stark contrast to “Flower Moon’s” 206-minute runtime. Per the L.A. Times, the movie will focus on “Jesus’ core teachings in a way that explores the principles but doesn’t proselytize.”
“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what...
- 1/8/2024
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
If there’s one thing that’s certain about the prolific career of Martin Scorsese, he’s never shied from swinging for the fences, and his latest undertaking is no exception. After confirming his next project would center around none other than Jesus Christ himself last May, the filmmaker has now shared how he intends to subvert viewers’ perceptions of religion.
In a recent profile for the Los Angeles Times, Scorsese shared his vision for the movie, which is set to begin shooting later this year. “I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,” he said.
Scorsese added that he wants to get back to the “initial impulse” behind the institution. “Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways,...
In a recent profile for the Los Angeles Times, Scorsese shared his vision for the movie, which is set to begin shooting later this year. “I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,” he said.
Scorsese added that he wants to get back to the “initial impulse” behind the institution. “Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Emma Carey
- Consequence - Film News
Martin Scorsese is 81 years old, but thankfully has no plans to retire. Last year he released the massive crime-drama "Killers of the Flower Moon," and it looks like he's gearing up to shoot his next film (or picture, as he'd call it) sometime this year. In 2023, Scorsese visited the Vatican and came away announcing that he was planning a new film about the life of a guy you might have heard of — Jesus H. Christ, or Jesus, as he's commonly known. We now know more about this project thanks to a profile in the L.A. Times.
Per the profile, Scorsese has put together a script with Kent Jones, the director of the documentary "Hitchcock/Truffaut." Scorsese says he and Jones are "swimming in inspiration" and still "figuring things out," but the plan is to shoot the film sometime this year. Scorsese has, of course, made a movie about Jesus before — his...
Per the profile, Scorsese has put together a script with Kent Jones, the director of the documentary "Hitchcock/Truffaut." Scorsese says he and Jones are "swimming in inspiration" and still "figuring things out," but the plan is to shoot the film sometime this year. Scorsese has, of course, made a movie about Jesus before — his...
- 1/8/2024
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
While enjoying a deluge of praise for his latest awards contender, Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese is already teasing his next project. Last summer, after attending the Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination conference in Italy, Scorsese said he met with Pope Francis and intended to make a film about Jesus Christ. A portion of Scorsese’s loyal fanbase rejoiced at the idea, and now new details about his plans have come to light. Speaking with the LA Times, the legendary filmmaker says he’s rolling cameras on the film A Life of Jesus later this year.
A Life of Jesus is based on Shūsaku Endō’s book of the same name. The story focuses on a simple and powerful retelling of the life of Christ as seen through the eyes of a Japanese novelist. Kent Jones, a critic, filmmaker, and former mainstay of the New York Film Festival,...
A Life of Jesus is based on Shūsaku Endō’s book of the same name. The story focuses on a simple and powerful retelling of the life of Christ as seen through the eyes of a Japanese novelist. Kent Jones, a critic, filmmaker, and former mainstay of the New York Film Festival,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Martin Scorsese Says His 80-Minute Jesus Film Shoots This Year & Will Be Co-Directed With Kent Jones
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s been talking about making a new film about Jesus in recent months, and many have asked, does this mean a drama, something in the vein of “The Last Temptation Of Christ” or “Silence,” and we basically have our answer now: likely not.
To recap, after Cannes last year, Scorsese traveled to Italy to attend a Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination seminar, where he met briefly with Pope Francis.
Continue reading Martin Scorsese Says His 80-Minute Jesus Film Shoots This Year & Will Be Co-Directed With Kent Jones at The Playlist.
To recap, after Cannes last year, Scorsese traveled to Italy to attend a Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination seminar, where he met briefly with Pope Francis.
Continue reading Martin Scorsese Says His 80-Minute Jesus Film Shoots This Year & Will Be Co-Directed With Kent Jones at The Playlist.
- 1/8/2024
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Martin Scorsese officially has two new films in the works.
Apple Original film “The Wager” was already announced, marking Scorsese’s second adaptation of a David Grann non-fiction book following “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and now the Oscar winner has also confirmed the script for “A Life of Jesus” has been completed.
Scorsese said in an interview with The Los Angeles Times that he co-wrote the adaptation of “Silence” author Shūsaku Endō’s “A Life of Jesus” with critic and filmmaker Kent Jones. According to the L.A. Times, Scorsese “plans to shoot it later this year” in 2024. Where exactly that leaves production on “The Wager” starring Leonardo DiCaprio remains to be seen. IndieWire has reached out to Scorsese’s representatives for comment.
“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,...
Apple Original film “The Wager” was already announced, marking Scorsese’s second adaptation of a David Grann non-fiction book following “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and now the Oscar winner has also confirmed the script for “A Life of Jesus” has been completed.
Scorsese said in an interview with The Los Angeles Times that he co-wrote the adaptation of “Silence” author Shūsaku Endō’s “A Life of Jesus” with critic and filmmaker Kent Jones. According to the L.A. Times, Scorsese “plans to shoot it later this year” in 2024. Where exactly that leaves production on “The Wager” starring Leonardo DiCaprio remains to be seen. IndieWire has reached out to Scorsese’s representatives for comment.
“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Orders from the Pope make a Catholic work quick: right after Killers of the Flower Moon‘s Cannes premiere Martin Scorsese visited Pope Francis and, in his own words, “responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.” In just eight months’ time it’s come to light, via an LA Times profile, that Scorsese penned a script with frequent collaborator Kent Jones, of many documentaries and forthcoming Marilynne Robinson adaptations, taking as source Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus, wherein the Silence author’s stated intent was “to make Jesus understandable in terms of the religious psychology of my non-Christian countrymen and thus to demonstrate that Jesus is not alien to their religious sensibilities.” Shooting is expected to commence this year.
If that sounds rather first-person, Scorsese and Jones haven’t...
If that sounds rather first-person, Scorsese and Jones haven’t...
- 1/8/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Criterion Channel is closing the year out with a bang––they’ve announced their December lineup. Among the highlights are retrospectives on Yasujiro Ozu (featuring nearly 40 films!), Ousmane Sembène, Alfred Hitchcock (along with Kent Jones’ Hitchcock/Truffaut), and Parker Posey. Well-timed for the season is a holiday noir series that includes They Live By Night, Blast of Silence, Lady in the Lake, and more.
Other highlights are the recent restoration of Abel Gance’s La roue, an MGM Musicals series with introduction by Michael Koresky, Helena Wittmann’s riveting second feature Human Flowers of Flesh, the recent Sundance highlight The Mountains Are a Dream That Call To Me, the new restoration of The Cassandra Cat, Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, and more.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1988
An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli,...
Other highlights are the recent restoration of Abel Gance’s La roue, an MGM Musicals series with introduction by Michael Koresky, Helena Wittmann’s riveting second feature Human Flowers of Flesh, the recent Sundance highlight The Mountains Are a Dream That Call To Me, the new restoration of The Cassandra Cat, Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, and more.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1988
An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
After last year’s triumphant return of Todd Field after a 16-year absence behind the camera, all eyes have been on what the Tár director may do next. He teased a collaboration with Adam Sandler but also said his Cate Blanchett-led drama is “highly likely” his final film. Now, we have the most concrete news yet on what Field is currently developing, thanks to Martin Scorsese himself.
A few months ago the Killers of the Flower Moon director revealed he is developing an adaptation of Home, part of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novel series, also including Gilead, Lila, and Jack. While Scorsese recently confirmed The Wager is next on the docket, he’s now revealed rather ambitious plans for the Robinson adaptations, which includes Field.
“I’d like to try and make another picture if I can. I’d like to move on. Well, we’ve come up with a script on Home,...
A few months ago the Killers of the Flower Moon director revealed he is developing an adaptation of Home, part of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novel series, also including Gilead, Lila, and Jack. While Scorsese recently confirmed The Wager is next on the docket, he’s now revealed rather ambitious plans for the Robinson adaptations, which includes Field.
“I’d like to try and make another picture if I can. I’d like to move on. Well, we’ve come up with a script on Home,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
A growing list of 300 film professionals, including Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, Joanna Hogg, and Radu Jude, have signed an open letter calling for the contract of outgoing Berlinale Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian to be reinstated and extended beyond 2024.
Late last week, Chatrian released a statement via the Berlinale website announcing his intention to step down following next year’s edition of the German festival. In his statement, Chatrian pointed to the German Ministry for Culture and Media’s decision to scrap the Berlinale’s dual management structure as the main catalyst for his departure.
Last month, German Culture Minister Claudia Roth announced that she wants the Berlinale to be placed back under the control of a single director. Roth is reported to have told a meeting on Thursday of the supervisory board of federal cultural events in Berlin (Kbb), which oversees the festival, that her conclusion was the film should be led by one person.
Late last week, Chatrian released a statement via the Berlinale website announcing his intention to step down following next year’s edition of the German festival. In his statement, Chatrian pointed to the German Ministry for Culture and Media’s decision to scrap the Berlinale’s dual management structure as the main catalyst for his departure.
Last month, German Culture Minister Claudia Roth announced that she wants the Berlinale to be placed back under the control of a single director. Roth is reported to have told a meeting on Thursday of the supervisory board of federal cultural events in Berlin (Kbb), which oversees the festival, that her conclusion was the film should be led by one person.
- 9/6/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
More than 200 international filmmakers have rallied in support of ousted Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, pledging their names to an open letter imploring the cultural organization to keep the artist director in place. Among the first signatories were Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Joanna Hogg, “Corsage” director Marie Kreutzer, Andrew Ross Perry, and Olivier Assayas. Over the course of the day on Wednesday, another 130 directors joined them, the list swelling to include M. Night Shyamalan, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tilda Swinton, and Claire Denis. 260 filmmakers have now signed the open letter.
“We, a diverse group of filmmakers from all over the world, who have deep respect for Berlin International Film Festival as a place for great cinema of all kinds, protest the harmful, unprofessional, and immoral behavior of state minister Claudia Roth in forcing the esteemed Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian to step down despite promises to prolong his contract,” says the letter.
Chatrian...
“We, a diverse group of filmmakers from all over the world, who have deep respect for Berlin International Film Festival as a place for great cinema of all kinds, protest the harmful, unprofessional, and immoral behavior of state minister Claudia Roth in forcing the esteemed Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian to step down despite promises to prolong his contract,” says the letter.
Chatrian...
- 9/6/2023
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
Martin Scorsese, Radu Jude, Joanna Hogg, Claire Denis, Bertrand Bonello, M. Night Shyamalan, Kristen Stewart, Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Margarethe von Trotta are among the international filmmakers and talents who have signed an open letter in support of Carlo Chatrian whose mandate as artistic director of the Berlinale will come to an end next year. The number of signatories has now exceeded 400 names and keeps growing.
As we reported last week, Chatrian had been expected to stay on beyond 2024, and was surprised to learn that the German body which oversees the festival, Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (Kbb), announced that it would no extend his contract. The org had previously said it would abandon the model of having an executive director and an artistic director and return instead to having a single director, following the next edition. The festival’s executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek will also be leaving her post after the next edition.
As we reported last week, Chatrian had been expected to stay on beyond 2024, and was surprised to learn that the German body which oversees the festival, Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (Kbb), announced that it would no extend his contract. The org had previously said it would abandon the model of having an executive director and an artistic director and return instead to having a single director, following the next edition. The festival’s executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek will also be leaving her post after the next edition.
- 9/6/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
On January 10, 2013, The New York Times published a story by Stephen Rodrick titled “Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie.” The article was a detailed account of what happened when director Paul Schrader, writer Bret Easton Ellis, and producer Braxton Pope teamed up to make “The Canyons,” a low-budget feature starring troubled former child star Lindsay Lohan and porn actor James Deen that was in danger of falling apart nearly every day thanks to Lohan’s erratic behavior. The piece was thorough, well-researched, and extremely entertaining. It also had nothing to do with the actual movie that emerged from the chaos.
Nevertheless, by the time “The Canyons” was released in August 2013 it was clear that the article and the gossip had created a sense that Schrader’s film couldn’t possibly be any good — how could the conditions described by Rodrick lead to anything coherent?...
Nevertheless, by the time “The Canyons” was released in August 2013 it was clear that the article and the gossip had created a sense that Schrader’s film couldn’t possibly be any good — how could the conditions described by Rodrick lead to anything coherent?...
- 8/28/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Somewhere in the middle of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, the eponymous young character (Asa Butterfield) dreams of a catastrophe in which a steam train runs over him, careens through the Gare Montparnasse railway terminal, and takes a nosedive into the street outside. While it isn’t made clear, or mentioned at all after he wakes up, the disaster he dreams about is based on a real crash at the same station that happened in 1895, mere months before the public exhibition of the Lumière brothers’ seminal actuality film Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.
As the persistent but largely embellished filmic chestnut has it, audience members who first witnessed the Lumières’ cinematographic train fled the screening room in Paris in a panic, reacting as if they were in real danger of being run over. If you “print the legend” regarding these perhaps apocryphal, panicking spectators, it’s not too much...
As the persistent but largely embellished filmic chestnut has it, audience members who first witnessed the Lumières’ cinematographic train fled the screening room in Paris in a panic, reacting as if they were in real danger of being run over. If you “print the legend” regarding these perhaps apocryphal, panicking spectators, it’s not too much...
- 7/10/2023
- by Jaime N. Christley
- Slant Magazine
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is eyeing a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, potentially giving the annual celebration of cinema one of the glitziest red carpet bows of its eight-decade history.
The Apple movie, which was pursued by both Venice and Cannes toppers, may ultimately be unveiled in the South of France. Of course, there could still be a last minute change of plans by the time the lineup is unveiled in April, but it’s looking promising enough that Scorsese has reserved a suite at one of the posh hotels along the Croisette, sources tell Variety.
Thierry Fremaux, Cannes’ director, is preparing a massive 2023 edition and traveled to L.A. earlier this month to screen Scorsese’s movie and discuss other potential Hollywood titles. Alberto Barbera, Venice’s artistic director, was in town at the same time taking meetings with studio bosses,...
The Apple movie, which was pursued by both Venice and Cannes toppers, may ultimately be unveiled in the South of France. Of course, there could still be a last minute change of plans by the time the lineup is unveiled in April, but it’s looking promising enough that Scorsese has reserved a suite at one of the posh hotels along the Croisette, sources tell Variety.
Thierry Fremaux, Cannes’ director, is preparing a massive 2023 edition and traveled to L.A. earlier this month to screen Scorsese’s movie and discuss other potential Hollywood titles. Alberto Barbera, Venice’s artistic director, was in town at the same time taking meetings with studio bosses,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Titane (2021).Actor Vincent Lindon has been announced as the president of this year's Cannes competition jury, leading a group that includes Rebecca Hall, Deepika Padukone, Jeff Nichols, and Joachim Trier. The festival has also added several pleasant surprises to the lineup: films by Serge Bozon, Albert Serra, Louis Garrel, Patricio Guzmán, and more.Subscribe to our limited-edition, print-only Notebook magazine by April 30 to secure your copy of Issue 1, featuring a conversation between Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Yoshitomo Nara, a carte blanche contribution by Christopher Doyle, and much more.Recommended VIEWINGAbove: I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) .Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation has launched a virtual screening room for restored films, called the Restoration Screening Room. The fun begins with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going!, which will be available for...
- 4/27/2022
- MUBI
While his personal filmmaking career alone is more than enough to enrich the history of film culture, Martin Scorsese also dedicates his knowledge and resources to restoring and preserving cinema from around the world with his nonprofit The Film Foundation. They’ve now launched a new initiative to bring new restorations to a wider audience.
Deadline reports they will be launching a new free virtual screening room beginning May 9, featuring a new restoration in a 24-hour window, with subsequent films to launch on the second Monday of each month. First up is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1945 classic I Know Where I’m Going!, while additional selections, co-curated by Scorsese and Kent Jones, include Federico Fellini’s La Strada; G. Aravindan’s Kummatty; Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour paired with Arthur D. Ripley’s The Chase; Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga; Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks, John Huston’s Moulin Rouge...
Deadline reports they will be launching a new free virtual screening room beginning May 9, featuring a new restoration in a 24-hour window, with subsequent films to launch on the second Monday of each month. First up is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1945 classic I Know Where I’m Going!, while additional selections, co-curated by Scorsese and Kent Jones, include Federico Fellini’s La Strada; G. Aravindan’s Kummatty; Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour paired with Arthur D. Ripley’s The Chase; Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga; Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks, John Huston’s Moulin Rouge...
- 4/22/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Martin Scorsese’s nonprofit The Film Foundation is officially launching a free virtual screening room to showcase film restorations. The Film Foundation Restoration Screening Room, which will showcase both foundation restorations as well as those from partners, will launch on Monday, May 9, with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1945 romantic comedy “I Know Where I’m Going!” starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey. The restoration was overseen by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive, in association with ITV and Park Circus.
The film and subsequent titles will be available for a 24-hour window and will feature introductions and conversations with filmmakers and archivists, providing an inside look at the restoration process. The Film Foundation Restoration Screening Room will offer “appointment viewing,” with screenings starting at a set time and available for a limited period, which is unlike other classic streaming options.
The restoration of “I Know Where I’m Going,...
The film and subsequent titles will be available for a 24-hour window and will feature introductions and conversations with filmmakers and archivists, providing an inside look at the restoration process. The Film Foundation Restoration Screening Room will offer “appointment viewing,” with screenings starting at a set time and available for a limited period, which is unlike other classic streaming options.
The restoration of “I Know Where I’m Going,...
- 4/22/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Martin Scorsese’s nonprofit The Film Foundation is launching a free virtual screening room to showcase restored films starting May 9 with I Know Where I’m Going!.
The 1945 film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and restored by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive, in association with ITV and Park Circus, will be available for a 24 -hour window. Subsequent features will debut on the second Monday of each month. Events will start at a set time with introductions and conversations with filmmakers and archivists providing an inside look at the restoration process.
The lineup from co-curators Scorsese and Kent Jones includes Federico Fellini’s 1954 La Strada; G. Aravindan’s 1979 Indian film Kummatty; a film noir double feature of Detour and The Chase; Sambizanga; One-Eyed Jacks; Moulin Rouge; Lost Lost Lost and others Tba.
The 1945 film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and restored by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive, in association with ITV and Park Circus, will be available for a 24 -hour window. Subsequent features will debut on the second Monday of each month. Events will start at a set time with introductions and conversations with filmmakers and archivists providing an inside look at the restoration process.
The lineup from co-curators Scorsese and Kent Jones includes Federico Fellini’s 1954 La Strada; G. Aravindan’s 1979 Indian film Kummatty; a film noir double feature of Detour and The Chase; Sambizanga; One-Eyed Jacks; Moulin Rouge; Lost Lost Lost and others Tba.
- 4/22/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Film at Lincoln Center has promoted two key members of its leadership team and also confirmed September 30 to October 16 as the dates for the New York Film Festival.
Dennis Lim has been elevated to artistic director of the festival, becoming the first person to hold that title since the first edition in 1963. Eugene Hernandez has been upped to SVP of Flc and executive director of the festival. He will continue to steer strategy for the organization, including as publisher of Film Comment.
Both execs are longtime fixtures of the New York film and cultural scene. Lim arrived in 2013 as director of programming for Flc and began in that same role for the festival in 2020. Following his promotion, he will focus his energies on the festival and Flc will conduct a search for a year-round programming chief.
Hernandez, a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Deadline’s sister site, IndieWire, joined Flc...
Dennis Lim has been elevated to artistic director of the festival, becoming the first person to hold that title since the first edition in 1963. Eugene Hernandez has been upped to SVP of Flc and executive director of the festival. He will continue to steer strategy for the organization, including as publisher of Film Comment.
Both execs are longtime fixtures of the New York film and cultural scene. Lim arrived in 2013 as director of programming for Flc and began in that same role for the festival in 2020. Following his promotion, he will focus his energies on the festival and Flc will conduct a search for a year-round programming chief.
Hernandez, a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Deadline’s sister site, IndieWire, joined Flc...
- 3/4/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deception director Arnaud Desplechin tells Anne-Katrin Titze about the Emmanuelle Devos Kings & Queen connection to Andrew Wylie that led to a phone call from Philip Roth.
Arnaud Desplechin’s adaptation with Julie Peyr of Philip Roth’s Deception (Tromperie), starring Denis Podalydès, Léa Seydoux (Bruno Dumont’s France), Emmanuelle Devos, and Anouk Grinberg, is a highlight of the 27th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York. Claire Denis’s Fire (Avec Amour Et Acharnement), starring Juliette Binoche (in a Free Talk with Constance Meyer’s Robust star Déborah Lukumuena), Grégoire Colin (Nora Martirosyan’s Should The Wind Drop), and Vincent Lindon is the Opening Night selection. Jim Jarmusch is the Guest of Honour of this year’s festival.
An in-person Q&a with Kent Jones and Arnaud Desplechin will follow a screening of Diane at the French Institute Alliance Française Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Our Love Affairs: Arnaud Desplechin...
Arnaud Desplechin’s adaptation with Julie Peyr of Philip Roth’s Deception (Tromperie), starring Denis Podalydès, Léa Seydoux (Bruno Dumont’s France), Emmanuelle Devos, and Anouk Grinberg, is a highlight of the 27th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York. Claire Denis’s Fire (Avec Amour Et Acharnement), starring Juliette Binoche (in a Free Talk with Constance Meyer’s Robust star Déborah Lukumuena), Grégoire Colin (Nora Martirosyan’s Should The Wind Drop), and Vincent Lindon is the Opening Night selection. Jim Jarmusch is the Guest of Honour of this year’s festival.
An in-person Q&a with Kent Jones and Arnaud Desplechin will follow a screening of Diane at the French Institute Alliance Française Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Our Love Affairs: Arnaud Desplechin...
- 2/23/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of 2001 (on 70mm), Full Metal Jacket, and The Right Stuff have screenings; The Young Girls of Rochefort has a matinee screening on Friday, while Thief plays Sunday to kick off this year’s Caan Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai continues, while the great Simone Barbes or Virtue shows through the weekend.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine, and 8½ continue, while a print of Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar begins a week-long run; Kent Jones will conduct a Q & A on Friday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of 2001 (on 70mm), Full Metal Jacket, and The Right Stuff have screenings; The Young Girls of Rochefort has a matinee screening on Friday, while Thief plays Sunday to kick off this year’s Caan Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai continues, while the great Simone Barbes or Virtue shows through the weekend.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine, and 8½ continue, while a print of Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar begins a week-long run; Kent Jones will conduct a Q & A on Friday.
- 7/8/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader are responsible for some of the most iconic and controversial films of all time, from “Taxi Driver” to “Raging Bull” and “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and now the pair are working together once again for a streaming series about the origins of Christianity. Schrader let the existence of the series slip during a new interview with critic Richard Brody of The New Yorker. The bulk of the interview concerns Schrader’s thoughts on streaming giants like Netflix, a platform Scorsese has wholly embraced thanks to his 10-time Oscar nominee “The Irishman.” When asked if he ever entertained the thought of making a streaming project, Schrader said it’s already in the works.
“Yeah. Well, Scorsese and I are planning something,” the “First Reformed” filmmaker said. ‘And it is . . . it would be a three-year series about the origins of Christianity.”
Schrader then pulled back the...
“Yeah. Well, Scorsese and I are planning something,” the “First Reformed” filmmaker said. ‘And it is . . . it would be a three-year series about the origins of Christianity.”
Schrader then pulled back the...
- 4/23/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.”
A decade earlier, filmmaker-critic Kent Jones wrote that “anything written in America about Monte Hellman … cinema’s most under-appreciated great director … must be a defense.”
Decades before Jones’ astute assessment, film critic David Thomson had noted, “No system could digest the willful arbitrariness of Monte Hellman’s best films,” which is probably as clear an explanation of why Hellman made only one Hollywood Studio film in a directing career that stretched from 1959 to 2011 and included stints as Jack Nicholson’s filmmaking partner and Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut enabler-producer.
That assessment of Hellman’s importance, that notion that a defensive posture is the inevitable position of the Hellman fan and the idea that Hellman’s Hollywood Failure was his greatest success, all...
A decade earlier, filmmaker-critic Kent Jones wrote that “anything written in America about Monte Hellman … cinema’s most under-appreciated great director … must be a defense.”
Decades before Jones’ astute assessment, film critic David Thomson had noted, “No system could digest the willful arbitrariness of Monte Hellman’s best films,” which is probably as clear an explanation of why Hellman made only one Hollywood Studio film in a directing career that stretched from 1959 to 2011 and included stints as Jack Nicholson’s filmmaking partner and Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut enabler-producer.
That assessment of Hellman’s importance, that notion that a defensive posture is the inevitable position of the Hellman fan and the idea that Hellman’s Hollywood Failure was his greatest success, all...
- 4/22/2021
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
As the great Mank wars of 2020 spill into 2021, David Fincher is looking ahead as to what he’ll tackle next, and it’s a mightily enticing project.
Deadline reports he is developing an adaptation of The Killer graphic novel series from Alexis Nolent. Marking a reteam for Fincher with his Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, Michael Fassbender is also circling the feature film following a cold-blooded assassin, which is set up at Netflix as part of the director’s four-year deal.
After a prolific streak, Fassbender has been mostly absent from the screen the last few years, but will be returning with Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins and David Sandberg’s Kung Fury 2. See a synopsis for the assassin story below via Amazon.
A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits,...
Deadline reports he is developing an adaptation of The Killer graphic novel series from Alexis Nolent. Marking a reteam for Fincher with his Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, Michael Fassbender is also circling the feature film following a cold-blooded assassin, which is set up at Netflix as part of the director’s four-year deal.
After a prolific streak, Fassbender has been mostly absent from the screen the last few years, but will be returning with Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins and David Sandberg’s Kung Fury 2. See a synopsis for the assassin story below via Amazon.
A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits,...
- 2/24/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Listen To A 1-Hour Conversation With David Fincher & Filmmaker Kent Jones About The Making Of ‘Mank’
If you’re a fan of films, it’s always fascinating to hear David Fincher talk. No matter if you enjoy his work or not, he’s one of those creators that are just so knowledgeable and precise, he’s endlessly interesting when discussing just anything to do with the industry and creating films. So to get a full hour of him talking on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast? Yes, please!
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Over the course of the hour-long conversation, where Fincher spoke to Kent Jones about “Mank” and the creation of his acclaimed black and white feature, he discussed inspirations, Old Hollywood, and all the technical wizardry you expect from someone that is such a perfectionist (in the best possible way).
Continue reading Listen To A 1-Hour Conversation With David Fincher & Filmmaker Kent Jones...
Read More: Amanda Seyfried Talks ‘Mank,’ ‘Mean Girls,’ Working With David Fincher & The Benefits Of 100 Takes [Interview]
Over the course of the hour-long conversation, where Fincher spoke to Kent Jones about “Mank” and the creation of his acclaimed black and white feature, he discussed inspirations, Old Hollywood, and all the technical wizardry you expect from someone that is such a perfectionist (in the best possible way).
Continue reading Listen To A 1-Hour Conversation With David Fincher & Filmmaker Kent Jones...
- 2/3/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Joyce Carol Oates on Smooth Talk: “Our species is so impressionable, we’re very vulnerable to any kind of mesmerising person …”
Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk, starring Laura Dern with Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place (Diane in Kent Jones’s award-winning début feature Diane), Levon Helm, Elizabeth Berridge, Margaret Welsh, Sara Inglis, and Geoff Hoyle, is a highlight in the Revivals programme of the 58th New York Film Festival. The screenplay by Tom Cole is based on Joyce Carol Oates’ short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Dern’s Connie, a giggly 16-year old when out at the beach or the mall with her girlfriends Laura (Margaret Welsh) and Jill (Sara Inglis), is more sombre and a different kind of unruly at home with her parents and well-behaved sister June (Elizabeth Berridge).
Joyce Carol Oates: “I think also the movie is a brilliant, poetic work of...
Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk, starring Laura Dern with Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place (Diane in Kent Jones’s award-winning début feature Diane), Levon Helm, Elizabeth Berridge, Margaret Welsh, Sara Inglis, and Geoff Hoyle, is a highlight in the Revivals programme of the 58th New York Film Festival. The screenplay by Tom Cole is based on Joyce Carol Oates’ short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Dern’s Connie, a giggly 16-year old when out at the beach or the mall with her girlfriends Laura (Margaret Welsh) and Jill (Sara Inglis), is more sombre and a different kind of unruly at home with her parents and well-behaved sister June (Elizabeth Berridge).
Joyce Carol Oates: “I think also the movie is a brilliant, poetic work of...
- 9/25/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The New York Film Festival exudes tradition. Since 1963, its Lincoln Center commingling of culturati, Oscar hopefuls and cinephiliacs has been a mainstay of the city’s fall calendar and the global festival circuit.
This year, though, Covid-19 has thrown tradition to the wind and New York movie theaters and arts venues remain stuck in a lengthy, agonizing suspension. “We had no choice but to reinvent this year,” NYFF director Eugene Hernandez told Deadline in an interview. “It’s a 58-year-old festival, but it also feels like the first.”
Kicking off Thursday with drive-in screenings of Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, New York will become the biggest U.S.-based festival thus far to test the pandemic waters. It will join Venice and Toronto in forging ahead, with altered logistics, in a year when Cannes, Telluride and other film destinations had to regroup and look toward 2021.
In place of Alice Tully Hall,...
This year, though, Covid-19 has thrown tradition to the wind and New York movie theaters and arts venues remain stuck in a lengthy, agonizing suspension. “We had no choice but to reinvent this year,” NYFF director Eugene Hernandez told Deadline in an interview. “It’s a 58-year-old festival, but it also feels like the first.”
Kicking off Thursday with drive-in screenings of Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, New York will become the biggest U.S.-based festival thus far to test the pandemic waters. It will join Venice and Toronto in forging ahead, with altered logistics, in a year when Cannes, Telluride and other film destinations had to regroup and look toward 2021.
In place of Alice Tully Hall,...
- 9/16/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Easily one of the most anticipated movies of the year, and probably the most anticipated indie finished during the quarantine, is Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter.” Shooting on the film, starring Oscar Isaac as a gambler and former soldier who sets out to help a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past, was halted back in March — with just five days of production left. But Schrader and his crew were able to finish the film safely in Mississippi in mid-July, when Focus Features scooped up the film for U.S. release. Schrader spoke with the Los Angeles Times about racing the clock to complete the movie, and what to expect from his follow-up to “First Reformed.”
For one, Schrader said he consulted with a number of colleagues and collaborators on the finished product, including Martin Scorsese, who directed his screenplay of “Taxi Driver.”
“Here’s what happened.
For one, Schrader said he consulted with a number of colleagues and collaborators on the finished product, including Martin Scorsese, who directed his screenplay of “Taxi Driver.”
“Here’s what happened.
- 9/12/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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“They Don’T Make Concierges Like Him Anymore”
By Raymond Benson
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel was this reviewer’s favorite film of 2014, and what a delight it is. The brilliant and amazing cast. The gorgeous colors and production design and engaging music. The wit and “history.” The subtle stream of melancholy that runs through the subtext. In short, this is a Wes Anderson picture to the Nth Degree, a masterwork that defines the director’s output after, at the time of release, nearly twenty years in the business.
As expected, The Criterion Collection does a bang-up job in presenting this marvelous movie in a superb product that contains the film in a 2K digital transfer supervised by Anderson with a 5.1 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack, tons of supplements, and cool pieces of ephemera in a nifty package.
In case you...
“They Don’T Make Concierges Like Him Anymore”
By Raymond Benson
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel was this reviewer’s favorite film of 2014, and what a delight it is. The brilliant and amazing cast. The gorgeous colors and production design and engaging music. The wit and “history.” The subtle stream of melancholy that runs through the subtext. In short, this is a Wes Anderson picture to the Nth Degree, a masterwork that defines the director’s output after, at the time of release, nearly twenty years in the business.
As expected, The Criterion Collection does a bang-up job in presenting this marvelous movie in a superb product that contains the film in a 2K digital transfer supervised by Anderson with a 5.1 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack, tons of supplements, and cool pieces of ephemera in a nifty package.
In case you...
- 5/30/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The New York Film Festival will move forward in late September for its 58th edition, and the festival is considering both in-person and digital options for events as circumstances due to the coronavirus pandemic allow, Film at Lincoln Center announced Friday.
The festival will run September 25 through October 11, and it will also feature an overhauled programming structure shaped by the festival’s new director for 2020 Eugene Hernandez, as well as the newly appointed director of programming Dennis Lim.
The changes to Nyff were in the works prior to the coronavirus and come after long-time director Kent Jones stepped down following last year’s festival to become a full time filmmaker. The new selection committee for the main slate and other sections will also include a wider roster of Film at Lincoln Center’s programmers and advisors involved.
Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Considers Onsite and Online 'Digital Innovations' for September...
The festival will run September 25 through October 11, and it will also feature an overhauled programming structure shaped by the festival’s new director for 2020 Eugene Hernandez, as well as the newly appointed director of programming Dennis Lim.
The changes to Nyff were in the works prior to the coronavirus and come after long-time director Kent Jones stepped down following last year’s festival to become a full time filmmaker. The new selection committee for the main slate and other sections will also include a wider roster of Film at Lincoln Center’s programmers and advisors involved.
Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Considers Onsite and Online 'Digital Innovations' for September...
- 5/8/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
In the next few years, I predict someone is going to make a staggering drama about the opioid crisis — a filmmaker like, say, Debra Granik, or maybe Kent Jones or Kathryn Bigelow or Steven Soderbergh. It will, of course, be a film about something much larger than drug addiction, one that confronts the disappearance of jobs, the cycles of hopelessness and rage, the gambits of pharmaceutical companies, and the loss of faith in the system (and the future) that has hollowed out the heartland. That’s a story that needs telling, and if it touches on the reasons so many Middle Americans have embraced a fascist used-car salesman as their political savior, then all the better.
“Shooting Heroin,” an indie drama written and directed by Spencer T. Folmar with some feeling and skill, is like a rough compelling sketch for that movie. It’s set in the Pennsylvania backwater of Whispering Pines,...
“Shooting Heroin,” an indie drama written and directed by Spencer T. Folmar with some feeling and skill, is like a rough compelling sketch for that movie. It’s set in the Pennsylvania backwater of Whispering Pines,...
- 4/3/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Lesli Klainberg on the appointment of Eugene Hernandez as Director of the New York Film Festival and Dennis Lim, Director of Programming: “This is a very exciting new chapter in the story of the New York Film Festival and Film at Lincoln Center.” Photo: Henny Garfunkel
Film at Lincoln Center’s Executive Director Lesli Klainberg announced this morning that Eugene Hernandez has been appointed Director of the New York Film Festival, succeeding Kent Jones, who stepped down on September 19, 2019. Dennis Lim has been named Director of Programming for the festival.
Eugene Hernandez: "I had just moved to the city and saw Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, opening night of the 32nd Nyff, and was immediately under the spell of the festival's prestige and singular programming." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
“I'll never forget my first experience at the New York Film Festival,” said Eugene Hernandez. “I had just moved to the city...
Film at Lincoln Center’s Executive Director Lesli Klainberg announced this morning that Eugene Hernandez has been appointed Director of the New York Film Festival, succeeding Kent Jones, who stepped down on September 19, 2019. Dennis Lim has been named Director of Programming for the festival.
Eugene Hernandez: "I had just moved to the city and saw Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, opening night of the 32nd Nyff, and was immediately under the spell of the festival's prestige and singular programming." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
“I'll never forget my first experience at the New York Film Festival,” said Eugene Hernandez. “I had just moved to the city...
- 2/19/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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