Focus Features has bought international rights to Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn, Variety has learned.
Corbet, who sits on the Berlinale jury, penned the film with Mona Fastvold (“The World to Come”), a Norwegian filmmaker who is also his wife. The film charts 30 years in the lives of visionary architect László Toth and his wife, Erzsébet, who flee post-war Europe in 1947 and witness the birth of modern America. László initially endures poverty and indignity, but the architect’s genius soon catches the attention of charming industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, whose dark influence threatens to destroy everything László and his wife have built.
The cast is completed by Raffey Cassidy (“White Noise”), Isaach De Bankolé (“Casino Royale”), Alessandro Nivola (“The Many Saints of Newark”), Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac Vol I”), Emma Laird (“Mayor of Kingstown”), Jonathan Hyde (“Titanic”) and Peter Polycarpou...
Corbet, who sits on the Berlinale jury, penned the film with Mona Fastvold (“The World to Come”), a Norwegian filmmaker who is also his wife. The film charts 30 years in the lives of visionary architect László Toth and his wife, Erzsébet, who flee post-war Europe in 1947 and witness the birth of modern America. László initially endures poverty and indignity, but the architect’s genius soon catches the attention of charming industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, whose dark influence threatens to destroy everything László and his wife have built.
The cast is completed by Raffey Cassidy (“White Noise”), Isaach De Bankolé (“Casino Royale”), Alessandro Nivola (“The Many Saints of Newark”), Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac Vol I”), Emma Laird (“Mayor of Kingstown”), Jonathan Hyde (“Titanic”) and Peter Polycarpou...
- 2/17/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
2023 may not have been an excellent year for movies, but in spite of everything stacked against it (read: greedy conglomerates run amok), it turned out to be an excellent year of movies. While the fallout of the recent work stoppages will be felt for time to come, some of 2023’s losses will prove to be 2024’s gains, as much-anticipated but strike-delayed films like “Dune: Part Two,” “Drive-Away Dolls,” and Luca Guadagnino’s horny tennis drama “Challengers” have all secured fresh release dates in the first half of the new year.
Those titles will be joined by some of the most promising Hollywood blockbusters in recent memory, must-see work from some of the world’s greatest auteurs, and huge swings from essential artists ranging from new voices like Jane Schoenbrun (“I Saw the TV Glow”) and Duke Johnson (“The Actor”) to venerated masters like Francis Ford Coppola (“Megalopolis”) and Mike Leigh...
Those titles will be joined by some of the most promising Hollywood blockbusters in recent memory, must-see work from some of the world’s greatest auteurs, and huge swings from essential artists ranging from new voices like Jane Schoenbrun (“I Saw the TV Glow”) and Duke Johnson (“The Actor”) to venerated masters like Francis Ford Coppola (“Megalopolis”) and Mike Leigh...
- 12/29/2023
- by IndieWire Staff
- Indiewire
Michele Civetta is the director of feature films “Agony” and “The Gateway” and music videos for Lou Reed, Sean Lennon, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.
We came from a generation…
With aspirations of what cinema is as an art form, what it can do to provoke change, illuminate dreams of individual stories, and propel cultural narratives. Inspired by the American New Wave of Cinema, living under the banner of the Cahiers du Cinema auteur theory, a world where writers, directors, and producers created stories in the emerging screen revolution colliding between world cinema and the 90s independent film boom. Looking inside the cinematic kaleidoscope, imagining how to penetrate the dream factory, Kevin Turen was born to be a maverick as he surmounted this unpaved road for our generation of friends and filmmaking talent. As New York City Kids, we crossed the threshold into our professional years. Kevin helped out...
We came from a generation…
With aspirations of what cinema is as an art form, what it can do to provoke change, illuminate dreams of individual stories, and propel cultural narratives. Inspired by the American New Wave of Cinema, living under the banner of the Cahiers du Cinema auteur theory, a world where writers, directors, and producers created stories in the emerging screen revolution colliding between world cinema and the 90s independent film boom. Looking inside the cinematic kaleidoscope, imagining how to penetrate the dream factory, Kevin Turen was born to be a maverick as he surmounted this unpaved road for our generation of friends and filmmaking talent. As New York City Kids, we crossed the threshold into our professional years. Kevin helped out...
- 11/21/2023
- by Michele Civetta
- Indiewire
It goes without saying that movie music has come a mighty long way in the last 100 years or so, but the first two decades of the 21st century have nevertheless been an extraordinarily active and evolutionary stretch of time for film scores. Without discounting the bold and formative achievements of old masters like Bernard Hermann and Toru Takemitsu, it’s fair to say that the rise of independent cinema and the challenge of the digital age have provoked a true paradigm shift in how we think about musical accompaniment.
Rock and avant-garde musicians like Jonny Greenwood and Mica Levi have used narrative projects as inspiration to explore new facets of their genius, while more traditional composers such as Alexandre Desplat and Carter Burwell have risen to the challenge by delivering the most beautiful work of their careers. Indeed, some of the very best movie scores in recent memory (including the...
Rock and avant-garde musicians like Jonny Greenwood and Mica Levi have used narrative projects as inspiration to explore new facets of their genius, while more traditional composers such as Alexandre Desplat and Carter Burwell have risen to the challenge by delivering the most beautiful work of their careers. Indeed, some of the very best movie scores in recent memory (including the...
- 8/10/2023
- by Wilson Chapman, David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Viaplay Content Distribution has closed the first raft of deals for its ambitious action drama film “Stockholm Bloodbath” directed by Mikael Håfström.
Ahead of Viaplay’s official streaming premiere in 2024, “Stockholm Bloodbath” will be distributed in the Nordics by Scanbox Entertainment. It will roll out in Denmark on Jan. 18th and in Sweden and Norway on Jan. 19. Splendid Film, meanwhile, has acquired all rights for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.
“Stockholm Bloodbath” is part of Viaplay Content Distribution’s roster which will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival to international buyers. The company will present new and exclusive material from the film.
Set in 1520, “Stockholm Bloodbath” explores a dark chapter in Sweden’s history, which saw the infamous massacre of nearly 100 nobles and civilians in the Swedish capital. The film follows Anne (Sophie Cookson) and her foster sister Freja (Alba August) as they seek revenge on the men who...
Ahead of Viaplay’s official streaming premiere in 2024, “Stockholm Bloodbath” will be distributed in the Nordics by Scanbox Entertainment. It will roll out in Denmark on Jan. 18th and in Sweden and Norway on Jan. 19. Splendid Film, meanwhile, has acquired all rights for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.
“Stockholm Bloodbath” is part of Viaplay Content Distribution’s roster which will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival to international buyers. The company will present new and exclusive material from the film.
Set in 1520, “Stockholm Bloodbath” explores a dark chapter in Sweden’s history, which saw the infamous massacre of nearly 100 nobles and civilians in the Swedish capital. The film follows Anne (Sophie Cookson) and her foster sister Freja (Alba August) as they seek revenge on the men who...
- 5/11/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
We knew there was a cosmetic change in terms of who might be part of the ensemble, but who and how the new lego pieces fit has finally been revealed. Deadline confirms that Brady Corbet’s long-awaited third feature (which is currently being filmed in Hungary) will be comprised of Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde, Peter Polycarpou, (with a re-teaming with) Raffey Cassidy and Stacy Martin. The Brutalist also sees Crobet reteam with his The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux cinematographer Lol Crawley. we imagine that filming will conclude in late April or early May with the team moving to the US for the second half of the shoot.…...
- 4/11/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Following his pair of directorial features, The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux, we’ve been waiting a few years for new updates on Brady Corbet’s third film, The Brutalist. Initially announced back in the fall of 2020 with the cast of Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Mark Rylance, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Raffey Cassidy, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, and Stacy Martin, production has now finally kicked off albeit with a new ensemble.
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce will now lead the film, co-written by Corbet and his partner Mona Fastvold, which chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. “Amidst a revamped cycle of populism and prejudice in the 21st Century, The Brutalist is a film which celebrates the triumphs of the most daring and accomplished visionaries; our ancestors. It is the project which is so far the closest to my heart and family history,...
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce will now lead the film, co-written by Corbet and his partner Mona Fastvold, which chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. “Amidst a revamped cycle of populism and prejudice in the 21st Century, The Brutalist is a film which celebrates the triumphs of the most daring and accomplished visionaries; our ancestors. It is the project which is so far the closest to my heart and family history,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
French sales agency Elle Driver is giving a Cannes Market launch to “Kid Snow,” a West Australian-produced tale of redemption set in the 1970s world of tent boxing. Production starts on Monday in Australia’s Goldfields-Esperance region, making it the first feature film to kick off production in the state since its border re-opened.
Boxing tents toured Australia’s small towns from the early 1900s until the 1970s, and were venues where professional fighters faced off against local challengers. The troupes criss-crossed the outback, boasted a carnival-like atmosphere and were places where Indigenous fighters could become heroes.
Penned by writers John Brumpton and Stephen Cleary, the story involves a washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow who is finally given a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a rematch against the man he fought a decade prior, on a night that changed his life forever. When Kid Snow meets single mother Sunny,...
Boxing tents toured Australia’s small towns from the early 1900s until the 1970s, and were venues where professional fighters faced off against local challengers. The troupes criss-crossed the outback, boasted a carnival-like atmosphere and were places where Indigenous fighters could become heroes.
Penned by writers John Brumpton and Stephen Cleary, the story involves a washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow who is finally given a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a rematch against the man he fought a decade prior, on a night that changed his life forever. When Kid Snow meets single mother Sunny,...
- 5/22/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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There's a dysfunctional mother and child relationship at the heart of Brady Corbet's debut chiller, a fable about fascism that unfolds episodically in moments from a young boy's life in rural France. The focus is the youngster's tantrums, which spiral increasingly as the film progresses, with Corbet careful to show that the kid (Tom Sweet) is as much of a victim as he is a villain, steeping in isolation and the stress of a household that is kept strictly in line by his father (Liam Cunningham). As Corbet told us: "He’s just a bit blank and I think that people find that incredibly unsettling." Featuring often disorienting camerawork from British cinematographer Lol Crawley and an emotionally turbulent score from Scott Walker, the film loops destructively forward, dragging us in its wake. You can also read what...
There's a dysfunctional mother and child relationship at the heart of Brady Corbet's debut chiller, a fable about fascism that unfolds episodically in moments from a young boy's life in rural France. The focus is the youngster's tantrums, which spiral increasingly as the film progresses, with Corbet careful to show that the kid (Tom Sweet) is as much of a victim as he is a villain, steeping in isolation and the stress of a household that is kept strictly in line by his father (Liam Cunningham). As Corbet told us: "He’s just a bit blank and I think that people find that incredibly unsettling." Featuring often disorienting camerawork from British cinematographer Lol Crawley and an emotionally turbulent score from Scott Walker, the film loops destructively forward, dragging us in its wake. You can also read what...
- 5/16/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘The World To Come’, ‘Riders Of Justice’ also hit cinemas.
M. Night Shyamalan’s ageing thriller Old heads the new openers at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, as new releases persist despite concerns over rising Covid-19 cases.
The UK and Ireland reported a combined 41,094 new cases on Thursday, July 22. This is up 565% from 6,180 on May 17, the day cinemas reopened in England.
The vaccine rollout should reduce the spread and potency of the virus, with all UK adults now offered a first dose. However there are still concerns that the third wave will affect box office releases; yesterday Entertainment Film Distributors...
M. Night Shyamalan’s ageing thriller Old heads the new openers at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, as new releases persist despite concerns over rising Covid-19 cases.
The UK and Ireland reported a combined 41,094 new cases on Thursday, July 22. This is up 565% from 6,180 on May 17, the day cinemas reopened in England.
The vaccine rollout should reduce the spread and potency of the virus, with all UK adults now offered a first dose. However there are still concerns that the third wave will affect box office releases; yesterday Entertainment Film Distributors...
- 7/23/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Two wives fall in love amid the grinding exhaustion and violence of pioneer life, hoping to build a future for themselves
The World to Come is a tragedy and a love story – and also a puzzle, courtesy of the title. Does it mean the afterlife, the entry into paradise that will be recompense for all the hardship and injustice we’ve suffered here? Or does it mean the future: that progressive yearned-for place in which current bigotries will be abolished, and in fact the place from which we, in the 21st century, are looking back on this tale from the 19th, confident that we are freed from these bygone characters’ constraints, content that we understand what is going on and they may not?
The director is Mona Fastvold – who also wrote and directed The Sleepwalker and wrote the script for The Childhood of a Leader – working from a screenplay by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard,...
The World to Come is a tragedy and a love story – and also a puzzle, courtesy of the title. Does it mean the afterlife, the entry into paradise that will be recompense for all the hardship and injustice we’ve suffered here? Or does it mean the future: that progressive yearned-for place in which current bigotries will be abolished, and in fact the place from which we, in the 21st century, are looking back on this tale from the 19th, confident that we are freed from these bygone characters’ constraints, content that we understand what is going on and they may not?
The director is Mona Fastvold – who also wrote and directed The Sleepwalker and wrote the script for The Childhood of a Leader – working from a screenplay by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard,...
- 7/23/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Federal funding body Screen Australia confirmed its backing for a trio of Australian film projects that will now move forward into production. Director Robert Connolly (“The Dry”) is behind two of them as producer.
The funding decisions ensure that a steady stream of local films move into production, alongside the large volume of international films and TV series that are currently in Australia, taking advantage of generous incentives and good coronavirus control conditions.
Set in 1970’s Western Australia, “Kid Snow” is a drama about a washed-up Irish boxer who is offered a rematch against a man he fought 10 years ago, on a night that changed his life forever. He is faced with a chance to redeem himself when he meets a single mother and is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing.
The film is directed by Paul Goldman (“Suburban Mayhem”) and written by John Brumpton (“Life”), Phillip Gwynne (“Australian Rules...
The funding decisions ensure that a steady stream of local films move into production, alongside the large volume of international films and TV series that are currently in Australia, taking advantage of generous incentives and good coronavirus control conditions.
Set in 1970’s Western Australia, “Kid Snow” is a drama about a washed-up Irish boxer who is offered a rematch against a man he fought 10 years ago, on a night that changed his life forever. He is faced with a chance to redeem himself when he meets a single mother and is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing.
The film is directed by Paul Goldman (“Suburban Mayhem”) and written by John Brumpton (“Life”), Phillip Gwynne (“Australian Rules...
- 5/17/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Screen Australia has announced $5.6 million of production funding for three feature films and returning seasons of Stan’s Bump and 10’s The Secret She Keeps.
The films include two Arenamedia projects: an new animation from the Oscar-winning Adam Elliot and a second feature from writer/director Alena Lodkina (Strange Colours), titled Petrol. The other film is Paul Goldman’s Western Australian feature film Kid Snow, produced by Unicorn Films.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said: “We have been blown away by the volume of applications for production funding and are heartened at the breadth of distinct Australian stories that continue to come through.
“Adam Elliot is set to delight audiences around the world with a remarkable new drama in his signature claymation style; and we’re thrilled to support writer/director Alena Lodkina whose 2017 feature Strange Colours premiered at the Venice Film Festival, as she expands on her unique voice with striking follow up Petrol.
The films include two Arenamedia projects: an new animation from the Oscar-winning Adam Elliot and a second feature from writer/director Alena Lodkina (Strange Colours), titled Petrol. The other film is Paul Goldman’s Western Australian feature film Kid Snow, produced by Unicorn Films.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said: “We have been blown away by the volume of applications for production funding and are heartened at the breadth of distinct Australian stories that continue to come through.
“Adam Elliot is set to delight audiences around the world with a remarkable new drama in his signature claymation style; and we’re thrilled to support writer/director Alena Lodkina whose 2017 feature Strange Colours premiered at the Venice Film Festival, as she expands on her unique voice with striking follow up Petrol.
- 5/16/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of her partner’s features in The Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux and The Brutalist. With Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby toplining, Mona Fastvold‘s sophomore film was in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival. Bleecker Street Media landed the rights to The World to Come and have pegged it with a February 12th release which means Sundance could be the lieu of the North American premiere. In his review, our Nicholas Bell called this “a period piece which blazes with fierce intelligence and intention as much as it waxes poetically before dangling precariously into despair.”…...
- 11/26/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Liam Cunningham reveals in the new “Game of Thrones” oral history book “Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon” that he pushed back against the creative team’s pitch to have his character, Ser Davos Seaworth, crush on Missandei of Naath (via Insider). The two characters come face to face in the series’ seventh season. According to Cunningham, an idea was floated around to have Davos attempt to be romantic with Nathalie Emmanuel’s character. Cunningham would’ve been around 56 years old at the time, while Emmanuel was 28.
“There’s a streak in Benioff that’s willful,” Cunningham said. “He likes to stir the shit. When we first meet Daenerys, Benioff and [director Mark Mylod] wanted Davos to have a crush on Missandei. And I fought them. I’m not fucking doing it. It’s the only thing I ever stood up to them on. The woman is a goddess, but with Davos...
“There’s a streak in Benioff that’s willful,” Cunningham said. “He likes to stir the shit. When we first meet Daenerys, Benioff and [director Mark Mylod] wanted Davos to have a crush on Missandei. And I fought them. I’m not fucking doing it. It’s the only thing I ever stood up to them on. The woman is a goddess, but with Davos...
- 10/13/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Bleecker Street has bought U.S. rights to Mona Fastvold’s “The World to Come,” a period romance with Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby, rolling off its critically acclaimed premiere in competition at the 77th Venice Film Festival.
Repped in the U.S. by UTA Independent Film Group, Endeavor Content and ICM Partners, the Venice breakout was being circled by four bidders beginning the night of its premiere on Sept. 6.
Based on the stellar reviews and strong buzz that “The World to Come” garnered in Venice, it will likely be a serious Oscar contender if Bleecker Street is able to release it on time. There is no release date planned yet.
Kirby, whose performance has been unanimously praised, was on double duty at Venice where she starred in another competition film, Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman.”
“The World to Come” marks the sophomore outing of actress-turned-filmmaker Mona Fastvold,...
Repped in the U.S. by UTA Independent Film Group, Endeavor Content and ICM Partners, the Venice breakout was being circled by four bidders beginning the night of its premiere on Sept. 6.
Based on the stellar reviews and strong buzz that “The World to Come” garnered in Venice, it will likely be a serious Oscar contender if Bleecker Street is able to release it on time. There is no release date planned yet.
Kirby, whose performance has been unanimously praised, was on double duty at Venice where she starred in another competition film, Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman.”
“The World to Come” marks the sophomore outing of actress-turned-filmmaker Mona Fastvold,...
- 9/17/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“The Devil All the Time,” debuting Sept. 16 on Netflix, plunges viewers into the darkest recesses of damaged souls. There are blood sacrifices and serial killers, sexual deviants and false prophets, deranged fathers and murderous sons. Think Flannery O’Connor with a much higher body count. Director Antonio Campos, the acclaimed auteur behind “Christine,” returns with a cast of heavy hitters that includes Tom Holland as an orphan who can’t seem to escape his family’s violent past; Sebastian Stan as a cop on the take; Riley Keough and Jason Clarke as a couple with a sadistic hobby; and Robert Pattinson as a perverse priest. Campos spoke with Variety about why he adapted Donald Ray Pollock’s novel and what he’s missing about the movie business in the age of Covid-19.
What attracted you to “The Devil All the Time”? When I read the book, it had all the elements...
What attracted you to “The Devil All the Time”? When I read the book, it had all the elements...
- 9/16/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In the fall festival derby, everyone was expecting the Kate Winslet-Saoirse Ronan romance “Ammonite” to follow up “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” as the next must-see Sapphic bodice-ripper. (It plays Toronto later this week.) But the lesbian love story to break out first in Venice is actress-writer-director Mona Fastvold’s second movie, “The World to Come,” a grim yet achingly beautiful 1850s pioneer drama about two isolated farm wives (Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby) who escape from their domestic drudgery with each other.
After struggling to move forward with several projects as her follow-up feature to 2014’s “The Sleepwalker,” Norway-born Fastvold fell in love with someone else’s story instead. She usually writes movies for herself and her creative and life partner Brady Corbet as well as other filmmakers (“The Mustang” and Antonio Campos’ “Homemade” episode).
As Fastvold worried about how to make the story her own,...
After struggling to move forward with several projects as her follow-up feature to 2014’s “The Sleepwalker,” Norway-born Fastvold fell in love with someone else’s story instead. She usually writes movies for herself and her creative and life partner Brady Corbet as well as other filmmakers (“The Mustang” and Antonio Campos’ “Homemade” episode).
As Fastvold worried about how to make the story her own,...
- 9/7/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
In the fall festival derby, everyone was expecting the Kate Winslet-Saoirse Ronan romance “Ammonite” to follow up “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” as the next must-see Sapphic bodice-ripper. (It plays Toronto later this week.) But the lesbian love story to break out first in Venice is actress-writer-director Mona Fastvold’s second movie, “The World to Come,” a grim yet achingly beautiful 1850s pioneer drama about two isolated farm wives (Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby) who escape from their domestic drudgery with each other.
After struggling to move forward with several projects as her follow-up feature to 2014’s “The Sleepwalker,” Norway-born Fastvold fell in love with someone else’s story instead. She usually writes movies for herself and her creative and life partner Brady Corbet as well as other filmmakers (“The Mustang” and Antonio Campos’ “Homemade” episode).
As Fastvold worried about how to make the story her own,...
After struggling to move forward with several projects as her follow-up feature to 2014’s “The Sleepwalker,” Norway-born Fastvold fell in love with someone else’s story instead. She usually writes movies for herself and her creative and life partner Brady Corbet as well as other filmmakers (“The Mustang” and Antonio Campos’ “Homemade” episode).
As Fastvold worried about how to make the story her own,...
- 9/7/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
In The World to Come, an unlikely romance blossoms against the rugged rural backdrop of the American Northeast. The action plays out during the year 1856 somewhere in the region of Syracuse, a few years shy of the American Civil War. The setting could hardly be more isolated; the living much further from easy. On January 1st, our lonesome protagonist welcomes the changing of the calendar with the bleakest of resolutions: “With little pride and less hope, we begin the new year.”
Directed by Mona Fastvold, a Norwegian filmmaker now based in Brooklyn, the film marks her follow-up to The Sleepwalker, which followed another isolated couple whose marriage was set to crumble––albeit in the present day and with much more dancing. After co-writing The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux with partner Brady Corbet, it is with great anticipation that Fastvold returns to the director’s seat. It’s...
Directed by Mona Fastvold, a Norwegian filmmaker now based in Brooklyn, the film marks her follow-up to The Sleepwalker, which followed another isolated couple whose marriage was set to crumble––albeit in the present day and with much more dancing. After co-writing The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux with partner Brady Corbet, it is with great anticipation that Fastvold returns to the director’s seat. It’s...
- 9/7/2020
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton, Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and Oscar winner Mark Rylance are set to headline the cast of ‘The Brutalist’, the third film from director Brady Corbet.
Sebastian Stan, Isaach De Bankolé, and Vanessa Kirby will also star in the ensemble alongside Alessandro Nivola, Raffey Cassidy, and Stacy Martin.
The film chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. When visionary architect László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance).
Also in news – Adam Driver set to star in Sam Raimi’s ’65’
Corbet returns with an epic saga and an unconventional love story that will take László and Erzsébet to both monumental heights and devastating lows.
Andrew Lauren and D.J. Gugenheim are producing for Andrew Lauren Productions...
Sebastian Stan, Isaach De Bankolé, and Vanessa Kirby will also star in the ensemble alongside Alessandro Nivola, Raffey Cassidy, and Stacy Martin.
The film chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. When visionary architect László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance).
Also in news – Adam Driver set to star in Sam Raimi’s ’65’
Corbet returns with an epic saga and an unconventional love story that will take László and Erzsébet to both monumental heights and devastating lows.
Andrew Lauren and D.J. Gugenheim are producing for Andrew Lauren Productions...
- 9/3/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Brady Corbet’s upcoming film “The Brutalist” will be a star-studded affair: Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton, Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, and Oscar winner Mark Rylance will headline the film’s cast and star alongside a variety of other celebrated actors.
Rounding out the film’s cast are Sebastian Stan, Issach De Bankolé, Vanessa Kirby, Alessandro Nivola (“American Hustle”), Raffey Cassidy, and Stacy Martin.
“The Brutalist” will chronicle 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. The film’s synopsis reads: When visionary architect László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance). What follows is an epic saga and an unconventional love story that will take László and Erzsébet to both monumental heights and devastating lows.
The project has set a...
Rounding out the film’s cast are Sebastian Stan, Issach De Bankolé, Vanessa Kirby, Alessandro Nivola (“American Hustle”), Raffey Cassidy, and Stacy Martin.
“The Brutalist” will chronicle 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. The film’s synopsis reads: When visionary architect László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance). What follows is an epic saga and an unconventional love story that will take László and Erzsébet to both monumental heights and devastating lows.
The project has set a...
- 9/3/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
While he hasn’t acted in six years, Brady Corbet has been staying busy behind the camera. With two directorial features under his belt, The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux, he’s now preparing for this third feature, The Brutalist, and he has secured an impressive cast.
The drama will star Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Mark Rylance, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Raffey Cassidy, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, and Stacy Martin. Co-written with his partner Mona Fastvold, Corbet’s film chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. When visionary architect László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance).
“Amidst a revamped cycle of populism and prejudice in the 21st Century, The Brutalist is a film which celebrates...
The drama will star Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Mark Rylance, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Raffey Cassidy, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, and Stacy Martin. Co-written with his partner Mona Fastvold, Corbet’s film chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. When visionary architect László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance).
“Amidst a revamped cycle of populism and prejudice in the 21st Century, The Brutalist is a film which celebrates...
- 9/2/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Joel Edgerton (Loving), Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies), Sebastian Stan (Captain America) and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) are among the all-star cast set for Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux) sweeping immigrant drama The Brutalist, we can reveal.
Also among the impressive ensemble will be Isaach De Bankolé (Black Panther), Alessandro Nivola (American Hustle), Raffey Cassidy (The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) and Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac).
Co-written with his partner Mona Fastvold, whose latest movie The World To Come unspools this week at the Venice Film Festival, Corbet’s film will chronicle 30 years in the life of a visionary architect named László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) who flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America. However, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance).
The project, which is due...
Also among the impressive ensemble will be Isaach De Bankolé (Black Panther), Alessandro Nivola (American Hustle), Raffey Cassidy (The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) and Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac).
Co-written with his partner Mona Fastvold, whose latest movie The World To Come unspools this week at the Venice Film Festival, Corbet’s film will chronicle 30 years in the life of a visionary architect named László Toth (Edgerton) and his wife Erzsébet (Cotillard) who flee post-war Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America. However, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Rylance).
The project, which is due...
- 9/2/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
French Argentine actor Bérénice Bejo discussed her early career, breaking into French cinema and starring in a silent film, as part of the 2020 Sarajevo Film Festival masterclass series, hosted by Variety Streaming Room.
The conversation and subsequent audience Q&a, moderated by film critic Peter Debruge, covered the actor’s performance in “After Love” and “The Artist,” as well as advice for aspiring filmmakers.
Bejo made her screen debut through a newspaper advertisement in 1998. She called director Abdelkrim Bahlo’s number in her local paper and auditioned over the phone for her role in “Les Soeurs Hamlet.” Since her early 20s, Bejo has starred in over 50 films and two theatrical productions.
“For me, it was always onscreen. Every Saturday, [my dad] would show us like critics and decide what we will see, so while my friends were watching TV or things like that, I was not allowed to watch. I was watching John Wayne,...
The conversation and subsequent audience Q&a, moderated by film critic Peter Debruge, covered the actor’s performance in “After Love” and “The Artist,” as well as advice for aspiring filmmakers.
Bejo made her screen debut through a newspaper advertisement in 1998. She called director Abdelkrim Bahlo’s number in her local paper and auditioned over the phone for her role in “Les Soeurs Hamlet.” Since her early 20s, Bejo has starred in over 50 films and two theatrical productions.
“For me, it was always onscreen. Every Saturday, [my dad] would show us like critics and decide what we will see, so while my friends were watching TV or things like that, I was not allowed to watch. I was watching John Wayne,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: CAA has inked filmmaker and actor Brady Corbet.
Corbet recently wrote and directed the Natalie Portman-Jude Law critically acclaimed movie Vox Lux which after making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, was promptly acquired by Neon at the Toronto Film Festival 2018, as Deadline first reported.
In Vox Lux, Portman starred as a female pop star who survives a school shooting and becomes famous for writing and performing a tribute song to the victims. However, she evolves into a broken woman. Law played her manager, and Raffey Cassidy played the singer as a teenager.
Corbet’s next feature is The Brutalist, a drama about a Hungarian-born Jewish architect in post-wwii America. Andrew Lauren Productions’ Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, and Brian Young are producing with Christine Vachon of Killer Films executive producing. Filming is scheduled to begin early 2021.
In 2015, Corbet won the Best Debut Feature and Best Director awards...
Corbet recently wrote and directed the Natalie Portman-Jude Law critically acclaimed movie Vox Lux which after making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, was promptly acquired by Neon at the Toronto Film Festival 2018, as Deadline first reported.
In Vox Lux, Portman starred as a female pop star who survives a school shooting and becomes famous for writing and performing a tribute song to the victims. However, she evolves into a broken woman. Law played her manager, and Raffey Cassidy played the singer as a teenager.
Corbet’s next feature is The Brutalist, a drama about a Hungarian-born Jewish architect in post-wwii America. Andrew Lauren Productions’ Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, and Brian Young are producing with Christine Vachon of Killer Films executive producing. Filming is scheduled to begin early 2021.
In 2015, Corbet won the Best Debut Feature and Best Director awards...
- 8/11/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The Ira thriller from directors the Guard Brothers is also set to star Jack Reynor and Jodie Turner-Smith. John Boyega (Star Wars) will join an exciting cast of Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) in Borderland, a 1970s-set thriller based around the British-ira conflict. It will mark the second feature by Tom and Charles Guard, commonly known as the Guard Brothers. Chris Coen and Rebecca Brown are producing, with Jones as executive producer. The film follows an Irish paramilitary soldier (Reynor), whose pregnant wife is accidentally murdered by a British Sas sergeant (Boyega) in a border ambush. Reynor’s character is then deployed to head up a new armed-attack cell in London, and uses the opportunity to exact revenge on his wife’s killer. With the movie described as being in the vein of Michael Mann’s...
Star Wars alum and BAFTA winner John Boyega is set to star alongside Jack Reynor (Midsommer), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and BAFTA and Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (Star Wars: Rogue One, The Theory of Everything) in the high-octane thriller Borderland.
The Guard brothers (The Uninvited) will direct, while Chris Coen (The Childhood of a Leader), Rebecca Brown and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. Piecrust Productions will also produce. The film will shoot on location in the U.K. in early 2021. Rocket Science is arranging the financing and handling international sales. Endeavor Content are co-repping ...
The Guard brothers (The Uninvited) will direct, while Chris Coen (The Childhood of a Leader), Rebecca Brown and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. Piecrust Productions will also produce. The film will shoot on location in the U.K. in early 2021. Rocket Science is arranging the financing and handling international sales. Endeavor Content are co-repping ...
Star Wars alum and BAFTA winner John Boyega is set to star alongside Jack Reynor (Midsommer), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and BAFTA and Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (Star Wars: Rogue One, The Theory of Everything) in the high-octane thriller Borderland.
The Guard brothers (The Uninvited) will direct, while Chris Coen (The Childhood of a Leader), Rebecca Brown and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. Piecrust Productions will also produce. The film will shoot on location in the U.K. in early 2021. Rocket Science is arranging the financing and handling international sales. Endeavor Content are co-repping ...
The Guard brothers (The Uninvited) will direct, while Chris Coen (The Childhood of a Leader), Rebecca Brown and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. Piecrust Productions will also produce. The film will shoot on location in the U.K. in early 2021. Rocket Science is arranging the financing and handling international sales. Endeavor Content are co-repping ...
Film music has come a long way in the 100+ years since moving images were first accompanied with sound (synchronized or otherwise), but seldom has it ever evolved more radically or aggressively than it did over the last decade. Spurred on by digital technology and/or a general tone of cosmic dissonance, rock and avant-garde musicians like Jonny Greenwood and Mica Levi used narrative projects as inspiration to explore new facets of their genius, while more traditional composers such as Alexandre Desplat and Carter Burwell rose to the challenge by delivering the most beautiful work of their careers. Hans Zimmer went deep into outer space, while Trent Reznor and Atticus Rose plunged head-first into the abyss of being extremely online.
It was a great time to go to the movies, even with your eyes closed.
Earlier this week, IndieWire revealed our list of the 100 Best Movies of the Decade. Now, we...
It was a great time to go to the movies, even with your eyes closed.
Earlier this week, IndieWire revealed our list of the 100 Best Movies of the Decade. Now, we...
- 7/26/2019
- by David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland, Chris O'Falt and Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)
Over the past decade, Robert Greene has carved out a place as one of the most vital American documentarians working today, and with Bisbee ’17, he has produced perhaps his most accomplished work to date. A chronicle of the centennial reenactment of the forced deportation of mining workers that occurred in the eponymous Arizona town, the film emerges as a clear-eyed, blistering look into contemporary political divisions through an entire spectrum of viewpoints, while still possessing some of the most lucid and impressive filmmaking of the year. – Ryan S.
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime
The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet)
The feature debut from...
Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)
Over the past decade, Robert Greene has carved out a place as one of the most vital American documentarians working today, and with Bisbee ’17, he has produced perhaps his most accomplished work to date. A chronicle of the centennial reenactment of the forced deportation of mining workers that occurred in the eponymous Arizona town, the film emerges as a clear-eyed, blistering look into contemporary political divisions through an entire spectrum of viewpoints, while still possessing some of the most lucid and impressive filmmaking of the year. – Ryan S.
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime
The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet)
The feature debut from...
- 7/5/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The filmmaker was in town with his sophomore feature ’Light Of My Life’.
Oscar-winning Us actor and filmmaker Casey Affleck has predicted a “huge upswing” in the quality of independent film in the near future thanks to a new generation of content creators, in a discussion at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Sunday June 30.
Despite noting that “there have been better times” than the past 10 years in the independent sector, Affleck said, “the new wave of filmmakers who are now 18, 19, 20 – those kids are making great stuff, and there’s going to be a huge upswing.”
“We’re going...
Oscar-winning Us actor and filmmaker Casey Affleck has predicted a “huge upswing” in the quality of independent film in the near future thanks to a new generation of content creators, in a discussion at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Sunday June 30.
Despite noting that “there have been better times” than the past 10 years in the independent sector, Affleck said, “the new wave of filmmakers who are now 18, 19, 20 – those kids are making great stuff, and there’s going to be a huge upswing.”
“We’re going...
- 7/2/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Hulu is out with its list of new content coming in July, and highlights include the “Veronica Mars” revival and the series premiere of the new “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” We also have the list of everything that’s being removed from the streaming service at the end of July.
Season 1-3 of the original “Veronica Mars” series will be available starting July 1, so you can brush up on all the background knowledge you’ll need to fully enjoy Season 4 when it drops July 26, with Kristen Bell returning the starring role as the title character after almost 15 years. Here’s everything we know about the revival so far.
The new Mindy Kaling-produced “Four Weddings and a Funeral” series comes July 31, with “Game of Thrones” star Nathalie Emanuel in the lead role. Original star Andie MacDowell will return as a guest star.
Also Read: Summer TV Premiere Dates: Here's...
Season 1-3 of the original “Veronica Mars” series will be available starting July 1, so you can brush up on all the background knowledge you’ll need to fully enjoy Season 4 when it drops July 26, with Kristen Bell returning the starring role as the title character after almost 15 years. Here’s everything we know about the revival so far.
The new Mindy Kaling-produced “Four Weddings and a Funeral” series comes July 31, with “Game of Thrones” star Nathalie Emanuel in the lead role. Original star Andie MacDowell will return as a guest star.
Also Read: Summer TV Premiere Dates: Here's...
- 6/17/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Natalie Portman stars in the thrilling, chilling tale of a teenager who becomes a sensation after a horrific event at her school
A dark star is born in this intriguing if weirdly anticlimactic and undeveloped new film from Brady Corbet. It has a stunning and genuinely disturbing premise, but no equally strong third-act ideas. There certainly isn’t anything like the killer punch of his previous picture and as the pop star herself, Natalie Portman goes into a pretty broad “In Bed With Madonna” routine that doesn’t deliver anything overwhelmingly insightful.
As an actor, Corbet has worked with Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke and Olivier Assayas, and, as a director himself, he found a great deal of their icy elegance and formal provocation in his debut The Childhood of a Leader (2016), working with partner and co-writer Mona Fastvold: an extraordinarily audacious and mysterious study of fascism in its cradle.
A dark star is born in this intriguing if weirdly anticlimactic and undeveloped new film from Brady Corbet. It has a stunning and genuinely disturbing premise, but no equally strong third-act ideas. There certainly isn’t anything like the killer punch of his previous picture and as the pop star herself, Natalie Portman goes into a pretty broad “In Bed With Madonna” routine that doesn’t deliver anything overwhelmingly insightful.
As an actor, Corbet has worked with Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke and Olivier Assayas, and, as a director himself, he found a great deal of their icy elegance and formal provocation in his debut The Childhood of a Leader (2016), working with partner and co-writer Mona Fastvold: an extraordinarily audacious and mysterious study of fascism in its cradle.
- 5/1/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Curzon has released the official UK trailer for the Natalie Portman lead ‘Vox Lux’ from ‘The Childhood of a Leader’ helmer Brady Corbett.
Directed by Corbett, the film stars Jude Law, Stacy Martin, Jennifer Ehle, and Raffey Cassidy alongside Portman. Pop star Sia contributes to the score with original songs she composed.
Also in trailers – First trailer released for Luc Besson’s female assassin thriller ‘Anna’
The film is released in Cinemas and VOD May 3rd.
Vox Lux Synopsis
Vox Lux begins in 1999 when teenage sisters Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) and Eleanor (Stacy Martin) survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste (Natalie Portman) is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act...
Directed by Corbett, the film stars Jude Law, Stacy Martin, Jennifer Ehle, and Raffey Cassidy alongside Portman. Pop star Sia contributes to the score with original songs she composed.
Also in trailers – First trailer released for Luc Besson’s female assassin thriller ‘Anna’
The film is released in Cinemas and VOD May 3rd.
Vox Lux Synopsis
Vox Lux begins in 1999 when teenage sisters Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) and Eleanor (Stacy Martin) survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste (Natalie Portman) is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act...
- 4/12/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ten years ago, no one would believe — of all the franchises in Hollywood — the blockbuster movie series that would yield the most compelling actors would end up being “The Twilight Saga.” We all know about Kristen Stewart’s extraordinary arthouse endeavors, but the Edward to her Bella is every bit as committed to diving deep into character and working with visionary directors. Robert Pattinson made legions of young women swoon, but the roles he’s chosen since the Stephenie Meyer franchise ended have been as colorful as his romantic vampire was pale.
Like Robert Redford and Brad Pitt before him, Pattinson exudes a profound ambivalence about his heartthrob status and a desire to be thought of as far more than a handsome face. And, like his predecessors, he’s done the work to prove it. Even going back to his Ya origins as Cedric Diggory in the “Harry Potter” films or as Edward in “Twilight,...
Like Robert Redford and Brad Pitt before him, Pattinson exudes a profound ambivalence about his heartthrob status and a desire to be thought of as far more than a handsome face. And, like his predecessors, he’s done the work to prove it. Even going back to his Ya origins as Cedric Diggory in the “Harry Potter” films or as Edward in “Twilight,...
- 4/5/2019
- by Christian Blauvelt, Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich, Michael Nordine, Eric Kohn and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Horses and men have been mythic companions as long as movies have been around, so why does it feel as if within only the last couple of years, with “The Rider,” “Lean on Pete,” and now French filmmaker Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s touching drama “The Mustang,” have we gotten a fuller examination of this relationship?
Maybe because we’re finally seeing horses treated as flesh-and-blood characters and not simply beautiful accessories or four-legged extensions of the rider’s personality (or just vehicles for transport). Which is surely why de Clermont-Tonnerre was drawn to the stories coming out of prison programs around the world that utilized animals as therapy — living, breathing, loving creatures who could help resocialize those coarsened by incarceration.
But “The Mustang” — which de Clermont-Tonnerre wrote with Mona Fastvold (“The Childhood of a Leader”) and Brock Norman Brock (“Yardie”), and which recently premiered at Sundance — isn’t just about...
Maybe because we’re finally seeing horses treated as flesh-and-blood characters and not simply beautiful accessories or four-legged extensions of the rider’s personality (or just vehicles for transport). Which is surely why de Clermont-Tonnerre was drawn to the stories coming out of prison programs around the world that utilized animals as therapy — living, breathing, loving creatures who could help resocialize those coarsened by incarceration.
But “The Mustang” — which de Clermont-Tonnerre wrote with Mona Fastvold (“The Childhood of a Leader”) and Brock Norman Brock (“Yardie”), and which recently premiered at Sundance — isn’t just about...
- 3/15/2019
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Charades has come on board to handle international rights, launching the project at this year’s Efm.
Casey Affleck’s Sea Change Media has unveiled its new feature film project The World To Come, about two frontierswomen who become close against the backdrop of an isolated pioneer community in mid-19th century America.
French sales and production company Charades has come on board to handle international rights, launching the project at this year’s Efm. Endeavor Content, ICM Partners and UTA Independent are handling domestic rights
Academy Award-winning Affleck, who is at the Berlinale this year with his lost-in-the-forest drama...
Casey Affleck’s Sea Change Media has unveiled its new feature film project The World To Come, about two frontierswomen who become close against the backdrop of an isolated pioneer community in mid-19th century America.
French sales and production company Charades has come on board to handle international rights, launching the project at this year’s Efm. Endeavor Content, ICM Partners and UTA Independent are handling domestic rights
Academy Award-winning Affleck, who is at the Berlinale this year with his lost-in-the-forest drama...
- 2/7/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
A while back, struggling with the frustrating task of year-end list-making, I jotted down a top ten of the scenes I enjoyed the most from the year. Scenes, not films–for as the task soon made clear, the alternative ranking did not necessarily reflect the top ten features I had begun curating way too early for its own good. The list expanded, and eventually turned into a tradition of sorts: a means to patch together, remember and celebrate some of the year’s best moments in film. Minor spoilers abound, and there’s no guarantee as to whether the order will stay the same after subsequent viewings. But at the time of writing, these are the 18 moments from 2018 I will be treasuring in the months and years to come, and here’s to a 2019 blessed with new great films, and plenty more scenes to marvel at.
18. “Does it matter?” in...
18. “Does it matter?” in...
- 12/29/2018
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
"All that matters is that you have an angle." Playing in theaters now is an indie film titled Vox Lux, the second feature made by actor-filmmaker Brady Corbet (his first was The Childhood of a Leader). Natalie Portman and Raffey Cassidy both play a pop star named Celeste, and the film tells her story and follows her into fame. Mike and I have really wanted to talk about Vox Lux, and we finally recorded this episode - it's an intense back & forth discussion about the good, the bad, what it all means, what it doesn't mean, and everything else about the film. We also chat about a few new trailers including Avengers: Endgame and the new Men in Black. Friends Alex Billington (@firstshowing) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) team up to bring you a podcast providing in-depth discussion, analysis, and interviews about the latest movies, and some old ones too. This...
- 12/26/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Review by Stephen Tronicek
Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux feels like something of an artistic confession. The film, primarily about the relation of a mentally unhealthy person (in this case an artist) to a culture that perpetuates that illness, illustrates a deep emotional understanding of its material. Celeste (Raffey Cassidy and Natalie Portman) is a young woman who is shot in a school shooting by one of her classmates (Logan Riley Bruner). Instead of this being constructively dealt with, this event soon makes a celebrity out of her, launching a career that we, in the second half of the movie, will see a day in the life of.
That’s a lot to cover in the 110 minutes, but Corbet is up to it. After starring in films directed by Michael Haneke (Funny Games) and Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) Corbet exploded onto the screen with a fascinating and scary piece of work,...
Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux feels like something of an artistic confession. The film, primarily about the relation of a mentally unhealthy person (in this case an artist) to a culture that perpetuates that illness, illustrates a deep emotional understanding of its material. Celeste (Raffey Cassidy and Natalie Portman) is a young woman who is shot in a school shooting by one of her classmates (Logan Riley Bruner). Instead of this being constructively dealt with, this event soon makes a celebrity out of her, launching a career that we, in the second half of the movie, will see a day in the life of.
That’s a lot to cover in the 110 minutes, but Corbet is up to it. After starring in films directed by Michael Haneke (Funny Games) and Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) Corbet exploded onto the screen with a fascinating and scary piece of work,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
David Crow Dec 17, 2018
Vox Lux writer-director Brady Corbet unpacks his own history with pop music and Columbine, and how it informed the Natalie Portman film.
Vox Lux is a challenging film by design, yet it’s also one of the best. With the ambitious subtitle of “A Portrait of the 21st Century,” the movie attempts to draw a bright, blood-hued line between a culture of celebrity and the growing culture of infamy. Natalie Portman is Celeste in the film, a pseudo-intellectual and decadent pop star whose evolved with the times since her first hit in 1999: It was a song she wrote in tribute to classmates murdered in a school shooting back when that was a national tragedy instead of a seeming weekly occurrence. Once the angelic survivor of a nightmare (played by Raffey Cassidy), she’s grown up to be pop diva always on the verge of reckoning—especially...
Vox Lux writer-director Brady Corbet unpacks his own history with pop music and Columbine, and how it informed the Natalie Portman film.
Vox Lux is a challenging film by design, yet it’s also one of the best. With the ambitious subtitle of “A Portrait of the 21st Century,” the movie attempts to draw a bright, blood-hued line between a culture of celebrity and the growing culture of infamy. Natalie Portman is Celeste in the film, a pseudo-intellectual and decadent pop star whose evolved with the times since her first hit in 1999: It was a song she wrote in tribute to classmates murdered in a school shooting back when that was a national tragedy instead of a seeming weekly occurrence. Once the angelic survivor of a nightmare (played by Raffey Cassidy), she’s grown up to be pop diva always on the verge of reckoning—especially...
- 12/17/2018
- Den of Geek
“Vox Lux” isn’t a musical, but it certainly is musical. Brady Corbet’s pop-star drama stars Natalie Portman as a singer who’s been compared to everyone from Lady Gaga to Kanye West, though the actual score comes courtesy of Scott Walker (who also worked on Corbet’s “The Childhood of a Leader”) with original songs by Sia. Like the film itself, their collaboration is a memorable mix of catchy beats and dissonant tones — and can now be streamed on Spotify. Listen below.
The film begins with a Columbine-esque school shooting set in 1999, which Celeste (played by Raffey Cassidy as a child and Portman as an adult) survives despite suffering life-threatening injuries. She writes a song about her experience, launching an unexpected career that makes her a global superstar — so much so, in fact, that terrorists eventually carry out a shooting of their own while donning masks made famous...
The film begins with a Columbine-esque school shooting set in 1999, which Celeste (played by Raffey Cassidy as a child and Portman as an adult) survives despite suffering life-threatening injuries. She writes a song about her experience, launching an unexpected career that makes her a global superstar — so much so, in fact, that terrorists eventually carry out a shooting of their own while donning masks made famous...
- 12/15/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Whatever one thinks of Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, at least in the way we tend to think of movies — one big piece broken down into smaller parts trading places of importance at a moment’s notice — its musical component has marked, well, a point of contention. I have witnessed a debate quite like this year’s other, somewhat-less-rooted-in-terrorism pop-star-being-born story, left to wonder whether the diegetic cues are simply good, are meant to be bad as some sort of commentary on the vapidity of its genre, or are just… you get the idea. Or don’t! I think I know exactly what Corbet is saying with Vox Lux but can’t be certain he has a grip on it, which is part of why the thing isn’t boring for one second.
So while I would suggest seeing the film for oneself, I will say that its soundtrack is...
So while I would suggest seeing the film for oneself, I will say that its soundtrack is...
- 12/14/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
As an actress, Natalie Portman has never been short of audaciousness, from her breakthrough role aged 12 as a precocious assassin in Léon: The Professional, to the role that won her the Oscar, as a masochistic ballerina in Black Swan, to her turn as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie. She builds on this repertoire of complex protagonists with Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, in which she plays Celeste, the survivor of a brutal school shooting who becomes a pop superstar after she writes and records a heartfelt anthem for the victims. The film is a commentary on the loss of innocence, set against the backdrop of our nation’s tragic gun culture and obsession with celebrity.
Did you know Brady Corbet before this project? Were you looking to do a musically-themed movie?
I watched his film [The Childhood of a Leader] and was really impressed by his work. His writing [in Vox Lux] was so specific and great.
Did you know Brady Corbet before this project? Were you looking to do a musically-themed movie?
I watched his film [The Childhood of a Leader] and was really impressed by his work. His writing [in Vox Lux] was so specific and great.
- 12/14/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
On this episode of Adjust Your Tracking, Joe and I search for meaning in the thematic concerns of two surprisingly connected films from different times. We look at the new movie, “Vox Lux,” starring Natalie Portman and directed by actor turned serious auteur Brady Corbet, and compare it to my Hold Up of “25th Hour” by Spike Lee.
Continue reading In ‘Vox Lux’ & Spike Lee’s ’25th Hour,’ Real-World Tragedies Are Boldly Weaved Through Fictional Narratives [Ayt Podcast] at The Playlist.
Continue reading In ‘Vox Lux’ & Spike Lee’s ’25th Hour,’ Real-World Tragedies Are Boldly Weaved Through Fictional Narratives [Ayt Podcast] at The Playlist.
- 12/11/2018
- by Erik McClanahan
- The Playlist
A Star is Worn: Corbet Confirms his Talent with Daring Sophomore Effort
2015’s The Childhood of a Leader (review) was a surprising debut in many ways, not only for director Brady Corbet’s ambitious assuredness, but for the introduction of his ‘foretold fictional history’ mode of storytelling, which contrasted the detailed upbringing of a seemingly normal child with the nebulous, ominous promise of what he would become in the future. Vox Lux largely follows the same structure, though it intriguingly swaps the past for the contemporary by chronicling the origin story of a future pop star from the turn of the millennium until now.…...
2015’s The Childhood of a Leader (review) was a surprising debut in many ways, not only for director Brady Corbet’s ambitious assuredness, but for the introduction of his ‘foretold fictional history’ mode of storytelling, which contrasted the detailed upbringing of a seemingly normal child with the nebulous, ominous promise of what he would become in the future. Vox Lux largely follows the same structure, though it intriguingly swaps the past for the contemporary by chronicling the origin story of a future pop star from the turn of the millennium until now.…...
- 12/6/2018
- by Tommaso Tocci
- IONCINEMA.com
Brady Corbet’s knockout of a second feature (following 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader, about the growing pains of a fascist tyrant) damn near explodes off the screen. Yes, a movie about the traumatic childhood that formed a formidable pop diva might be too much for some people. But this actor-turned-director doesn’t use Vox Lux to show off … though there is admittedly a little of that. And you should prepared to be wowed by Natalie Portman, who delivers a take-no-prisoners performance as Celeste, a swaggering rock diva who...
- 12/5/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Following his harrowing directorial debut The Childhood of a Leader, Brady Corbet is stepping up his scope with Vox Lux. Telling the story of Natalie Portman’s character on her pop stardom journey, from 1999 to 2017, Neon has now released a second trailer, this time spotlighting original music from Sia, whose tunes accompany an original score by Scott Walker. The specific song featured in the preview is “Wrapped Up,” performed by Raffey Cassidy & Natalie Portman, and written by Sia & Greg Kurstin.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “It’s pleasing to note that the actor-turned-director seems to have forgone none of Childhood‘s aesthetic swagger and misanthropic bite in the process of making his second feature. He has, however, significantly fine-tuned his nose for satire in that time and what we have as a result is not only a thrilling examination of fame and violence in the 21st century and...
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “It’s pleasing to note that the actor-turned-director seems to have forgone none of Childhood‘s aesthetic swagger and misanthropic bite in the process of making his second feature. He has, however, significantly fine-tuned his nose for satire in that time and what we have as a result is not only a thrilling examination of fame and violence in the 21st century and...
- 11/29/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Tonight... we're going to bring it back to where it all began!" Neon has debuted a second full-length trailer for Vox Lux, the highly provocative, brilliant film by American actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet (his second film after The Childhood of a Leader). This premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals this year to some divisive reactions, with plenty of effusive praise. Vox Lux stars Raffey Cassidy and Natalie Portman (both) as a popstar named Celeste, profiling her rise to fame and fortune and glory. It spans 18 years, showing us her origin story and what she has become later in life. It's essentially the anti-a Star is Born movie, and it's incredibly bold in its message about how cyclical and connected everything (good & bad) in this world is. The cast includes Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle, Stacy Martin, Matt Servitto, Fred Hechinger, and Allison Winn. I saw this in Venice and loved...
- 11/28/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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