John Lurie is putting away his watercolors.
The actor, musician and painter revealed that his show Painting with John will end with its third season on HBO.
The series, which is part meditative tutorial and part fireside chat, sees Lurie shares his philosophical thoughts while honing his watercolor techniques.
Lurie revealed the news on social media, saying that he is “sad about it, but it is a miracle that it ever happened at all”.
The series launched in January 2021, the second season premiered in February 2022 and the third season launched in June 2023.
Lurie, who co-founded the jazz ensemble Lounge Lizards, has starred in films including Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law and was behind the Grammy nominated soundtrack for Get Shorty. He is also well known for Fishing with John, a cult series that aired on IFC and Bravo in the early 90s.
Written and directed by Lurie, who also did the music,...
The actor, musician and painter revealed that his show Painting with John will end with its third season on HBO.
The series, which is part meditative tutorial and part fireside chat, sees Lurie shares his philosophical thoughts while honing his watercolor techniques.
Lurie revealed the news on social media, saying that he is “sad about it, but it is a miracle that it ever happened at all”.
The series launched in January 2021, the second season premiered in February 2022 and the third season launched in June 2023.
Lurie, who co-founded the jazz ensemble Lounge Lizards, has starred in films including Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law and was behind the Grammy nominated soundtrack for Get Shorty. He is also well known for Fishing with John, a cult series that aired on IFC and Bravo in the early 90s.
Written and directed by Lurie, who also did the music,...
- 8/16/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“Painting with John” has been canceled at HBO after three seasons.
Series creator and host John Lurie made the announcement via Twitter. “I am sorry to say that season 3 of Painting with John will be the last,” he wrote. “I am sad about it, but it is a miracle that it ever happened at all. Thanks to HBO, Adam McKay, Todd Schulman, Erik Mockus, Nesrin Wolf and AnnMary James. Show is still on Max if you haven’t seen it.”
Season 3 of the series aired between June and July this year. The show originally debuted on HBO in 2021.
Lurie starred in the series along with Nesrin Wolf and Ann Mary James. Lurie also wrote and directed the series in addition to providing the music. Erik Mockus was the cinematographer and editor. Wolf was a producer on the series, with Matt Dwyer co-producing. Adam McKay and Todd Schulman executive produced via Hyperobject Industries.
Series creator and host John Lurie made the announcement via Twitter. “I am sorry to say that season 3 of Painting with John will be the last,” he wrote. “I am sad about it, but it is a miracle that it ever happened at all. Thanks to HBO, Adam McKay, Todd Schulman, Erik Mockus, Nesrin Wolf and AnnMary James. Show is still on Max if you haven’t seen it.”
Season 3 of the series aired between June and July this year. The show originally debuted on HBO in 2021.
Lurie starred in the series along with Nesrin Wolf and Ann Mary James. Lurie also wrote and directed the series in addition to providing the music. Erik Mockus was the cinematographer and editor. Wolf was a producer on the series, with Matt Dwyer co-producing. Adam McKay and Todd Schulman executive produced via Hyperobject Industries.
- 8/16/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
In 1984 John Lurie had three films at Cannes but couldn’t afford a plane ticket. For a few indelible moments in Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas, as a high-end pimp he moves through the shadows of a brothel in a purple suit. He composed a nocturnal jazz score for Bette Gordon’s Variety. And in Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise the world first got a load of his austere, trickster visage. For that film he also created a soundtrack first conceived on cocktail napkins and originally recorded with two handheld tape recorders. Stranger Than Paradise would take home the Caméra d’Or; Paris, Texas won the Palme d’Or. In Lurie’s memoir The History of Bones, published last August, he claims Jarmusch was supposed to take him to Cannes but took his girlfriend instead. This anecdote feels perfectly illustrative of Lurie’s career. Pervasively influential, a creative force of various fields,...
- 2/15/2022
- by M.R. Allan
- The Film Stage
“Welcome to ‘Painting with John’ Season Two, the show where I do not teach you how to paint,” John Lurie deadpans in the trailer for his hit HBO series, returning February 18. Watch the full trailer for Season 2, exclusive to IndieWire, below.
Lurie — who writes, directs, and stars in “Painting with John” from somewhere in the Caribbean — may seem to be joking, but the multi-hyphenate talent is being serious. Dead serious.
“When season one of the show came out, I got so many people saying, ‘Oh you live in paradise. You’re so lucky.’ And I’m thinking, ‘It is paradise,'” Lurie says in a close-up. “But we didn’t show you the bad stuff.”
The horrors of Lurie’s day-to-day life? Well, let’s start with his eerie washing machine, before discussing the downside of spring. “During the rainy season, there’s these little gnat things,” Lurie explains. “They...
Lurie — who writes, directs, and stars in “Painting with John” from somewhere in the Caribbean — may seem to be joking, but the multi-hyphenate talent is being serious. Dead serious.
“When season one of the show came out, I got so many people saying, ‘Oh you live in paradise. You’re so lucky.’ And I’m thinking, ‘It is paradise,'” Lurie says in a close-up. “But we didn’t show you the bad stuff.”
The horrors of Lurie’s day-to-day life? Well, let’s start with his eerie washing machine, before discussing the downside of spring. “During the rainy season, there’s these little gnat things,” Lurie explains. “They...
- 1/26/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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