After crafting a number of compelling film history-related documentaries (not to mention heading up the New York Film Festival), writer-director Kent Jones made his narrative feature with the tender character study Diane. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Mary Kay Place, the story of a woman questioning her life picked up the top prize at Tribeca Film Festival (among other places), and will now arrive in March via IFC Films.
John Fink said in his review, ‘The narrative directorial debut of film scholar, curator, and documentary filmmaker Kent Jones elicits an awful lot of anticipation. Often, first features contain raw emotions and boundless pent-up ideas often toned down in future efforts. Diane, written and directed by Jones–known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, along with his previous theatrical feature which aimed to recapture the spirit of Hitchcock/Truffaut’s conversations by engaging with the best filmmakers working in...
John Fink said in his review, ‘The narrative directorial debut of film scholar, curator, and documentary filmmaker Kent Jones elicits an awful lot of anticipation. Often, first features contain raw emotions and boundless pent-up ideas often toned down in future efforts. Diane, written and directed by Jones–known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, along with his previous theatrical feature which aimed to recapture the spirit of Hitchcock/Truffaut’s conversations by engaging with the best filmmakers working in...
- 2/15/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"I just want to now for once and for all: do you forgive me or not?" IFC Films has unveiled the trailer for an indie drama titled Diane, the feature directorial debut of doc filmmaker + cinephile Kent Jones. This premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and stopped by the Locarno, Deauville, Vancouver, Chicago, Denver, and St. Louis Film Festivals last year. Diane, played by Mary Kay Place, fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addict son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she'd sooner forget than face. Featuring a supporting cast including Jake Lacy, Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O'Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Gallagher, Glynnis O'Connor, and Paul McIsaac. This is an impressive trailer, throwing some creative twists into the usual format. Worth a look. Here's the first official Us trailer (+ poster) for Kent Jones' ...
- 2/15/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Diane, you need some peace.” And how. Here’s the first trailer for Diane, starring Mary Kay Place as a selfless but tortured soul trying to cope with a life of curveballs. Martin Scorsese executive produced the film from first-time writer-director Kent Jones, which won Best Narrative Feature and two other prizes at Tribeca last year.
Here’s the logline: For Diane, who lives alone in western Massachusetts, everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son (Jake Lacy) from himself. But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by a past she can’t forget and which threatens to tear her increasingly chaotic world apart.
The cast also includes Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Deirdre O’Connell,...
Here’s the logline: For Diane, who lives alone in western Massachusetts, everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son (Jake Lacy) from himself. But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by a past she can’t forget and which threatens to tear her increasingly chaotic world apart.
The cast also includes Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Deirdre O’Connell,...
- 2/14/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The 17th Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30 – Dec 08) has set a jury comprising Suspiria star Dakota Johnson, Indian actress Ileana D’Cruz (Barfi!), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (I Want To See), Brit director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Moroccan director Tala Hadid (House In The Fields), French director Laurent Cantet (The Class), German actor Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Mexican director Michel Franco (April’s Daughter). As previously revealed, director James Gray will serve as jury president.
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Distributor plans early 2019 theatrical launch.
IFC Films has acquired Us rights to Diane, which receives its international premiere this week in Locarno and features Martin Scorsese as executive producer.
Mary Kay Place stars in the drama about a family-oriented woman in western Massachusetts who watches her life pass by.
The cast also features Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O’Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Sommerville, Glynnis O’Connor, and Paul McIsaac. Kent Jones directed from his screenplay.
Diane premiere in Tribeca earlier in the year where it won Best Narrative Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography awards.
IFC is aiming...
IFC Films has acquired Us rights to Diane, which receives its international premiere this week in Locarno and features Martin Scorsese as executive producer.
Mary Kay Place stars in the drama about a family-oriented woman in western Massachusetts who watches her life pass by.
The cast also features Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O’Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Sommerville, Glynnis O’Connor, and Paul McIsaac. Kent Jones directed from his screenplay.
Diane premiere in Tribeca earlier in the year where it won Best Narrative Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography awards.
IFC is aiming...
- 8/2/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Kent Jones’ Diane, the Martin Scorsese-exec produced drama starring Mary Kay Place. IFC’s announcement comes as the film makes its international premiere at the Locarno Film Festival this week.
Diane won the Best Narrative Film prize at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest, along with Best Screenplay and Cinematography. IFC plans a theatrical release in early 2019.
“For me, IFC Films has always been a kind of gold standard in film distribution,” said Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut). “Over the years, as the business has changed in so many ways and on so many levels, they’ve stayed true to the art of cinema: in other words, they buy movies not because they think they’re ‘distributable’ but because they believe in them. I’m so proud that they will be the ones to bring Diane out into the world.”
The film’s synopsis: Diane (Place), whose life,...
Diane won the Best Narrative Film prize at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest, along with Best Screenplay and Cinematography. IFC plans a theatrical release in early 2019.
“For me, IFC Films has always been a kind of gold standard in film distribution,” said Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut). “Over the years, as the business has changed in so many ways and on so many levels, they’ve stayed true to the art of cinema: in other words, they buy movies not because they think they’re ‘distributable’ but because they believe in them. I’m so proud that they will be the ones to bring Diane out into the world.”
The film’s synopsis: Diane (Place), whose life,...
- 8/2/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to “Diane,” an acclaimed indie drama from New York Film Festival director Kent Jones.
The film features a bravura turn by Mary Kay Place (“The Big Chill”) as a woman struggling to help her drug-addicted son while dealing with a simmering guilt that stems from an old transgression. It was executive produced by no less a cinematic light than Martin Scorsese. “Diane” debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it earned the top prize for best narrative film and picked up screenplay and cinematography awards.
In a rave review, Variety’s Owen Gleiberman praised Place’s performance and called the film “haunting.”
“It’s a tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie, and part of what’s revelatory about it is that it’s a story of boomers who are confronting the ravages of old age, yet they’re doing it with...
The film features a bravura turn by Mary Kay Place (“The Big Chill”) as a woman struggling to help her drug-addicted son while dealing with a simmering guilt that stems from an old transgression. It was executive produced by no less a cinematic light than Martin Scorsese. “Diane” debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it earned the top prize for best narrative film and picked up screenplay and cinematography awards.
In a rave review, Variety’s Owen Gleiberman praised Place’s performance and called the film “haunting.”
“It’s a tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie, and part of what’s revelatory about it is that it’s a story of boomers who are confronting the ravages of old age, yet they’re doing it with...
- 8/2/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
IFC has picked up the U.S. rights to Diane, director Kent Jones' first narrative feature that stars Mary Kay Place and debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Place plays a selfless widow burdened by guilt, with Jake Lacy in the role of her drug-addicted son. The ensemble cast also includes Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O'Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Sommerville, Glynnis O'Connor and Paul McIsaac.
IFC plans to release the film in theaters in early 2019. Before that, Diane will screen at Locarno as the Tribeca title continues on the festival circuit. "[Diane] is a moving portrait and ...
Place plays a selfless widow burdened by guilt, with Jake Lacy in the role of her drug-addicted son. The ensemble cast also includes Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O'Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Sommerville, Glynnis O'Connor and Paul McIsaac.
IFC plans to release the film in theaters in early 2019. Before that, Diane will screen at Locarno as the Tribeca title continues on the festival circuit. "[Diane] is a moving portrait and ...
IFC has picked up the U.S. rights to Diane, director Kent Jones' first narrative feature that stars Mary Kay Place and debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Place plays a selfless widow burdened by guilt, with Jake Lacy in the role of her drug-addicted son. The ensemble cast also includes Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O'Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Sommerville, Glynnis O'Connor and Paul McIsaac.
IFC plans to release the film in theaters in early 2019. Before that, Diane will screen at Locarno as the Tribeca title continues on the festival circuit. "[Diane] is a moving portrait and ...
Place plays a selfless widow burdened by guilt, with Jake Lacy in the role of her drug-addicted son. The ensemble cast also includes Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O'Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Sommerville, Glynnis O'Connor and Paul McIsaac.
IFC plans to release the film in theaters in early 2019. Before that, Diane will screen at Locarno as the Tribeca title continues on the festival circuit. "[Diane] is a moving portrait and ...
After a nearly ten-year sojourn from the States, U.S.-born filmmaker Robert Kramer came back in 1987 with actor Paul McIsaac to create what one might call a semi-fictional documentary. With McIsaac embodying "Doc," a created friend of Kramer who, in this film's story, had been working in the Third World while Kramer himself was based in Paris, Kramer set out on a trek to rediscover America, as it were. Rather than take off from where their ship came in—New York City—they head north, the better to traveling down the film's eponymous highway from the top of Maine to the Florida Keys. At first the duo's mission seems to be merely to make a film—"We're going back, not going home," Kramer announces early on—but as Doc's character comes to the fore, and perhaps Kramer's own aims change, Doc begins to actively seek a place and a...
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