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The story of Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s War Pony, which traces the lives of members of the Oglala Lakota tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, starts on the set of another film. As she awaited filming a scene in Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Keough struck up a friendship with extras Bill Reddy and Franklin Sioux Bob from Pine Ridge. She would later visit them at the reservation with Gammell, her producing partner, and the quartet’s energy began funneling the energy of their friendship into a cinematic form.
“The spirit of that summer informed War Pony,” Keough admits. Just as American Honey’s egalitarian end credits don’t attribute hierarchical titles to the artists involved in the film, so, too, does War Pony embody a spirit of collaborative creativity. In conjunction with the wider Pine Ridge community, Bill and Franklin’s experiences and stories of growing up...
“The spirit of that summer informed War Pony,” Keough admits. Just as American Honey’s egalitarian end credits don’t attribute hierarchical titles to the artists involved in the film, so, too, does War Pony embody a spirit of collaborative creativity. In conjunction with the wider Pine Ridge community, Bill and Franklin’s experiences and stories of growing up...
- 7/29/2023
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
Often little movies come and go with great performances with established actors that get seriously overlooked. A textbook case of this is Tim Sutton’s “Donnybrook”, starring Jamie Bell, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and just hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles this weekend.
Adapted from Frank Bill‘s novel, it follows a young impoverished father (Bell) who is desperate to raise the funds to get his wife (Dara Tiller) into a drug rehab center.
Continue reading Jamie Bell On ‘Donnybrook,’ ‘Rocketman’ & Not Overcooking A Performance [Interview] at The Playlist.
Adapted from Frank Bill‘s novel, it follows a young impoverished father (Bell) who is desperate to raise the funds to get his wife (Dara Tiller) into a drug rehab center.
Continue reading Jamie Bell On ‘Donnybrook,’ ‘Rocketman’ & Not Overcooking A Performance [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 2/18/2019
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
A sizable group of Specialty films are heading into theaters over the Presidents Day weekend as distributors bring out new work beyond the glare of Awards Season. IFC Films is opening Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook with Jamie Bell, Frank Grillo and Margaret Qualley in theaters Friday, followed by on-demand platforms on February 22. Sony Pictures Classics is heading out with animated feature, Ruben Brandt, Collector. The company had become aware of the Hungarian feature after reading a review of the film out of last summer’s Locarno Film Festival. The Orchard picked up Colombia’s entry for Foreign Language Oscar consideration, Birds Of Passage by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, out of last year’s Cannes Film Festival where it opened Directors Fortnight. The title bowed Wednesday in New York and opens L.A. Friday. Also opening this weekend are Freestyle Digital Media’s The Maestro and Screen Media’s dog ‘rom-com,...
- 2/15/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
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Tim Sutton’s “Donnybrook” is like getting wasted on expired beer at a bar with no liquor license, fighting three strangers in a parking lot, and passing out in a pool of vomit — which may or may not be your own — at the end of the night. On a Monday. It’s a brutal, depressing, filthy motion picture. But for whatever it’s worth, that’s the point.
“Donnybrook” stars Jamie Bell as Jarhead Earl, a war veteran with two kids, a drug-addicted wife, no money, and only one chance of improving his circumstances: The Donnybrook, an illegal, bare-knuckle brawl with a $100,000 grand prize.
But Sutton’s film, based on a novel by Frank Bill, isn’t a conventional fight movie. This is a movie about the tragedy of getting beaten up and not about doing the victorious beating. It falls to Jarhead Earl to make a perilous journey to the Donnybrook,...
“Donnybrook” stars Jamie Bell as Jarhead Earl, a war veteran with two kids, a drug-addicted wife, no money, and only one chance of improving his circumstances: The Donnybrook, an illegal, bare-knuckle brawl with a $100,000 grand prize.
But Sutton’s film, based on a novel by Frank Bill, isn’t a conventional fight movie. This is a movie about the tragedy of getting beaten up and not about doing the victorious beating. It falls to Jarhead Earl to make a perilous journey to the Donnybrook,...
- 2/13/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
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“Donnybrook,” Tim Sutton’s poetic adaptation of Frank Bill’s novel, is a brutal movie with a soft touch. Orchestral music swells over the image of an empty fighting cage, and a few minutes later, the punches land hard. Sutton, whose mesmerizing docu-thriller “Dark Night” imagined the sleepy routines leading up to a mass shooting, excels at punctuating quiet lyricism with pain. This time, however, the observational textures have been stuffed into the mold of a pulpy survival story against the backdrop of an unforgiving rural landscape. The characters hail from familiar archetypes of impoverished loners, but their world exudes a haunting sense of loss.
The first time we see Jarhead Earl (a grim Jamie Bell), he’s coasting along a foggy river, dwarfed by murky green hills. That image epitomizes the atmosphere of desolation to come, as Earl gears up for a cage match with a $100,000 buy-in. His family...
The first time we see Jarhead Earl (a grim Jamie Bell), he’s coasting along a foggy river, dwarfed by murky green hills. That image epitomizes the atmosphere of desolation to come, as Earl gears up for a cage match with a $100,000 buy-in. His family...
- 2/13/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Writer/director Tim Sutton first made an impression with his directorial debut Pavilion (review), a mesmerizing coming-of-age story which premiered at SXSW in 2012. Sutton has made a couple of other films since then but few have caught my attention as much as his latest: Donnybrook.
Adapted by Sutton from Frank Bill's debut novel of the same name, the story follows three individuals as they prepare for Donnybrook, a brutal back-woods cage match where participants beat the living daylights out of each other for a chance at $100,000.
By many standards that's not a lot of money but for Earl (Jamie Bell), a struggling ex-marine trying to keep his family afloat,...
Adapted by Sutton from Frank Bill's debut novel of the same name, the story follows three individuals as they prepare for Donnybrook, a brutal back-woods cage match where participants beat the living daylights out of each other for a chance at $100,000.
By many standards that's not a lot of money but for Earl (Jamie Bell), a struggling ex-marine trying to keep his family afloat,...
- 1/29/2019
- QuietEarth.us
The first trailer for Donnybrook, from Memphis and Dark Night director Tim Sutton, promises a film that will be an explosive and staggering condemnation of the American Dream. The drama conveys the story of two men, played by Frank Grillo and Jamie Bell, who prepare to compete in an all-out bare-knuckle fight for the coveted prize of $100,000. The cast is rounded out by Margaret Qualley and James Badge Dale. Following a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and ahead of a release in February, the trailer has now arrived.
Tim Sutton spoke about the violence in the film with its inherent connection to America and its cinema in an interview at Tiff, saying “But you accept giant Armageddon-like movies for 20 years, and then you’re shocked when someone blows up a building. And the Ufc—the cage fighting on TV—is more popular than boxing, which I think is barbaric too.
Tim Sutton spoke about the violence in the film with its inherent connection to America and its cinema in an interview at Tiff, saying “But you accept giant Armageddon-like movies for 20 years, and then you’re shocked when someone blows up a building. And the Ufc—the cage fighting on TV—is more popular than boxing, which I think is barbaric too.
- 1/28/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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