Mike Mills’ latest film “20th Century Women” follows Dorothea (Annette Bening), a single mother who runs a boarding house in Southern California in 1979, who tries to raise her teenage son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) right. She enlists the help of tenant Abbie (Greta Gerwig) and the precocious Julie (Elle Fanning) to provide wisdom to the young Jamie so he can fly straight in a changing world. The film garnered critical acclaim since its late-year run on the festival circuit, with IndieWire’s own David Ehrlich claiming it’s “Mills’ best film” and the “most moving and mature of the four films he’s made to date.” Watch an exclusive featurette from the film below featuring Mills and Bening discussing the film and its origins at length.
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Mills has previously directed two features and a documentary short: “Paperboys,...
Read More: ’20th Century Women’ Trailer: Annette Bening and Greta Gerwig Star in Mike Mills’ Latest Family Drama
Mills has previously directed two features and a documentary short: “Paperboys,...
- 12/7/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Chicago – What would be the circumstance if after a mother dies, the father suddenly comes out as a gay? Writer/director Mike Mills had that situation occur, and created the new film “Beginners,” featuring Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor.
The highly personal but unusual story is sublimely handled by the two leads, and given sure guidance both through Mill’s story and direction. His resume includes graphic designer, filmmaker and artist. In 1996 he co-founded The Directors Bureau with Roman Coppola, which included Sofia Coppola.
He then directed advertising campaigns and music videos, and worked in the short documentary form with “Deformers” (2000) and “Paperboys” (2001). His first feature film was the highly acclaimed indie favorite “Thumbsucker” (2005), which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. He is married to another indie film director, Miranda July [”You and Me and Everyone We Know”].
The Father (Christopher Plummer) and the Son (Ewan McGregor) in ‘Beginners’
Photo credit: Focus Features
Mike Mills was...
The highly personal but unusual story is sublimely handled by the two leads, and given sure guidance both through Mill’s story and direction. His resume includes graphic designer, filmmaker and artist. In 1996 he co-founded The Directors Bureau with Roman Coppola, which included Sofia Coppola.
He then directed advertising campaigns and music videos, and worked in the short documentary form with “Deformers” (2000) and “Paperboys” (2001). His first feature film was the highly acclaimed indie favorite “Thumbsucker” (2005), which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. He is married to another indie film director, Miranda July [”You and Me and Everyone We Know”].
The Father (Christopher Plummer) and the Son (Ewan McGregor) in ‘Beginners’
Photo credit: Focus Features
Mike Mills was...
- 6/6/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"With his Bud Cort haircut and morbid sensibility, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is too smart for Swansea, Wales, an industrial city mired in some seriously mid-80s Thatcherite doldrums," begins Vadim Rizov at GreenCine Daily. "The trouble with Oliver is that he knows he's clever, which could justify anything: surreptitiously monitoring his parents' sex life, taunting an overweight girl to make local cutie Jordana (Yasmin Paige) notice him as a real livewire, or trying to trash the house of downhill neighbor Graham Purvis (Paddy Considine) who may be having an affair with mom (Sally Hawkins). Fortunately, Submarine, Richard Ayoade's feature debut, is aware of Oliver's self-justifying nature and the ways it could warp him…. Acutely aware of the long tradition of films about disaffected young men coming to terms with themselves, Ayoade doesn't duck the precedent: instead, like Oliver…, he nods to seemingly every single precursor. There's a 400 Blows-quoting dash across the beach,...
- 6/3/2011
- MUBI
- “The suburbs are a land of appearances. They’re ruled by the need to put on a good show for the boss, the church, the neighbors. […] It’s the mismatch between the surface and the depths that really makes them interesting and a sort of heartbreaking places”.- Walter Kirn (Author of “Thumbsucker”) It’s not difficult to understand why Mike Mills, author of award-winning shorts (The Architecture of Reassurance), documentaries (Paperboys), commercials (Gap, Adidas) and music videos (Moby, Air) chose to adapt and bring to the screen the novel Thumbsucker as his feature film directorial debut.The eerie fascination for the suburban neighborhood, the portrait of youth in a small town, the struggles they endure in finding an authentic identity amidst such a controlling, judgemental environment and the collision between their interests and the life they live are themes that have always haunted Mike Mills. His first short,
- 9/12/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
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