Martin Scorsese is readying the release of his forthcoming epic Killers of the Flower Moon, and during a rare wide-ranging, sit-down feature, he was once again quizzed on his opinions about comic book films.
“The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” Scorsese said of comic book films during a GQ interview. “Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”
The Taxi Driver filmmaker continued to add that as a result, it is down to contemporary filmmakers to “fight back stronger” to maintain a more robust film culture.
“It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides,” he said. “Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got.
“The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” Scorsese said of comic book films during a GQ interview. “Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”
The Taxi Driver filmmaker continued to add that as a result, it is down to contemporary filmmakers to “fight back stronger” to maintain a more robust film culture.
“It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides,” he said. “Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got.
- 9/25/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Archipelago (2010).On a pleasant afternoon in the Isles of Scilly, a family stand to have a photograph taken. Of the two grown-up children, their mother, and her friend, only the blond, curly-haired son has his face fully in the sunshine; he squints in the light. Edward, one of the central characters in Joanna Hogg’s second feature Archipelago (2010), is different from his mother Patricia and her sister Cynthia. He has “too much empathy,” according to his mother, and “always in an accusatory way,” his sister adds with a sneer. Virtuous Edward is about to go on a gap year to Africa, in that vague way that a gap year so often seems to be blithely to the continent rather than a particular place within it. Until then, he is spending some time with his family in an agreeably beige and blue country retreat, which is complete with a professional cook,...
- 1/23/2023
- MUBI
There’s always been a haunted mood in Joanna Hogg’s films, felt both in the deceptively mundane domestic rhythms of the likes of “Exhibition” and “Archipelago,” and in the exquisite memory pieces, “The Souvenir” and “The Souvenir Part II.” Like the best and most personal of storytellers—Chantal Akerman comes to mind as a creator with akin sensibilities—Hogg is a filmmaker possessed by the slivers of her recollections.
Continue reading ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Tilda Swinton Carries Dual Roles With Ease In Joanna Hogg’s Atmospheric Drama [Venice] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Tilda Swinton Carries Dual Roles With Ease In Joanna Hogg’s Atmospheric Drama [Venice] at The Playlist.
- 9/6/2022
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Watch an exclusive clip above.
Their differences are plenty. Her heritage is Irish; his is Pakistani. She lives in a part of Britain where he knows to worry about getting stones thrown at him; he lives amongst a diaspora of immigrants from Europe and Asia. She has four kids and five grandkids; he has a wife with whom he’s separated yet still unable to admit it to his family, for they wouldn’t approve of letting her stay while she finishes school. The one thing Ava (Claire Rushbrook) and Ali (Adeel Akhtar) do have in common is a little girl named Sofia (Ariana Bodorova). Ava provides educational assistance during her schooling as an aide. Ali employs the...
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Watch an exclusive clip above.
Their differences are plenty. Her heritage is Irish; his is Pakistani. She lives in a part of Britain where he knows to worry about getting stones thrown at him; he lives amongst a diaspora of immigrants from Europe and Asia. She has four kids and five grandkids; he has a wife with whom he’s separated yet still unable to admit it to his family, for they wouldn’t approve of letting her stay while she finishes school. The one thing Ava (Claire Rushbrook) and Ali (Adeel Akhtar) do have in common is a little girl named Sofia (Ariana Bodorova). Ava provides educational assistance during her schooling as an aide. Ali employs the...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
An under-the-radar project that saw Joanna Hogg reteam with muse Tilda Swinton, the filmmaker also brought back cinemtaographer Ed Rutherford (they worked on Archipelago (2010) and Exhibition (2013) together), Hogg fanboy Martin Scorsese (once again an executive producer) and the A24 folks (the distributor who backed both The Souvenir films) into the fold. Filmed in late 2020 in Wales and also starring first time thesp Carly-Sophia Davies and Joseph Mydell, The Eternal Daughter unpacks a story about a dwelling that is restless. A24 have so many items ready for 2022, and while the chances are low, Hogg did have a great premiere for The Souvenir.…...
- 11/24/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s early morning in LA and Joanna Hogg is looking back. It is a process the filmmaker has grown accustomed to in recent years, not least with her latest film. Less a sequel to its acclaimed predecessor than a mirror––even a Matryoshka––and examination of how people remember things, or how they might choose for them to be remembered, The Souvenir Part II reintroduces the viewer to Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne), now deep in mourning for her doomed lover Anthony, an enigma to whom she has devoted her graduation film. Layers beget layers: “I got so many ideas from that first shoot,” Hogg says over Zoom, “and the second part is a response to that shoot. It’s almost like I’m making some kind of documentation of that experience that I had had, not just the characters within the story.”
Born in London in 1960, Hogg studied at...
Born in London in 1960, Hogg studied at...
- 10/28/2021
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
While it is a warranted opinion to bemoan the endless output of sequels, an exception can certainly be made for Joanna Hogg’s follow-up The Souvenir Part II––not only one of the best films of the year, but also one of the best sequels of all-time, layering upon what came before while expanding the story in moving, daring ways. Picking up right after the previous film left off, the cast features a mix of familiar faces and new players, including Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Charlie Heaton, Harris Dickinson, Joe Alwyn, Ariane Labed, and James Spencer Ashworth. Following its Cannes and NYFF premieres, A24 will release the film in theaters on October 29 and now the first trailer has landed.
Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “At the end of The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg filmed a film in the process of being made. She returns with The Souvenir Part II,...
Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “At the end of The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg filmed a film in the process of being made. She returns with The Souvenir Part II,...
- 9/29/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
At the end of The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg filmed a film in the process of being made. She returns with The Souvenir Part II, a film all about filmmaking and its layered realities and projections. One of the best British directors to emerge this century, Hogg first made her name as a brilliant examiner of the British middle-classes, a fine-comber of their vagaries and mores. One of the most interesting things about her earlier films—Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010), and Exhibition (2013)—was the rigor with which she kept her distance: shooting from afar, fragments of conversations, few close-ups. For The Souvenir, a candid work of autofiction, she went the opposite direction and had her biggest success while also making her most conventional work.
The Souvenir Part II is anything but: a daring work of meta-filmmaking in which Hogg loops backwards to re-reexamine her own past (in some ways it is more a...
The Souvenir Part II is anything but: a daring work of meta-filmmaking in which Hogg loops backwards to re-reexamine her own past (in some ways it is more a...
- 7/9/2021
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Arthouse sequels are a rare breed, as is British director Joanna Hogg, who brings her distinctive vision to Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight with The Souvenir Part II. A follow up to 2019’s lauded, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir, it once again stars Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie, now mourning the loss of her boyfriend Anthony (Tom Burke), a drug addict who claimed to work for the Foreign Office. His spectre looms large as Julie drifts through film school, eventually making a film about her experiences with Anthony with the help of her peers.
Like Hogg films Unrelated, Archipelago and The Souvenir, this favors long takes and understated dialogue and explores the world of the privileged. Julie only has to ask her mother once, meekly, for £10,000 so she can make her film. Byrne’s real-life mother and Cannes stalwart Tilda Swinton puts in a generous, gently amusing turn as one half of a...
Like Hogg films Unrelated, Archipelago and The Souvenir, this favors long takes and understated dialogue and explores the world of the privileged. Julie only has to ask her mother once, meekly, for £10,000 so she can make her film. Byrne’s real-life mother and Cannes stalwart Tilda Swinton puts in a generous, gently amusing turn as one half of a...
- 7/8/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
The Annency International Animation Film Festival announced Saturday evening the winners of its major awards.
Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s hand-drawn animation telling the true story of a man’s extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan, won top honors by nabbing the Annency Cristal for a feature film. Deadline’s Todd McCarthy said Rasmussen “puts you through it in a way that illustrates, instructs, makes you look inward and ask whether you’d have what it takes, if you could tough it out and survive in a cold, hostile world.”
Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will voice the lead roles in an English language version of the film, which will debut later this year, and the pair are also executive producers on the pic.
My Sunny Maad, the debut feature of Oscar-nominated director Michaela Pavlátová, won this year’s Jury Award. The film follows a young Czech woman...
Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s hand-drawn animation telling the true story of a man’s extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan, won top honors by nabbing the Annency Cristal for a feature film. Deadline’s Todd McCarthy said Rasmussen “puts you through it in a way that illustrates, instructs, makes you look inward and ask whether you’d have what it takes, if you could tough it out and survive in a cold, hostile world.”
Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will voice the lead roles in an English language version of the film, which will debut later this year, and the pair are also executive producers on the pic.
My Sunny Maad, the debut feature of Oscar-nominated director Michaela Pavlátová, won this year’s Jury Award. The film follows a young Czech woman...
- 6/19/2021
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley to develop TV drama alongside ‘Patrick Melrose’ producer Rachael Horovitz.
Number 9 Films, the London-based production company whose credits include Carol, and Rachael Horovitz’ West Fourth Films have acquired the television rights to the memoirs of iconic punk musician Viv Albertine.
Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley and Horovitz will develop and adapt Albertine’s bestsellers for a limited TV series.
Number 9 has previously worked on developing TV projects, such as an adaptation of Henry James’ Portrait Of A Lady, but have yet to go into production on a series. Horovitz is perhaps best known as a...
Number 9 Films, the London-based production company whose credits include Carol, and Rachael Horovitz’ West Fourth Films have acquired the television rights to the memoirs of iconic punk musician Viv Albertine.
Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley and Horovitz will develop and adapt Albertine’s bestsellers for a limited TV series.
Number 9 has previously worked on developing TV projects, such as an adaptation of Henry James’ Portrait Of A Lady, but have yet to go into production on a series. Horovitz is perhaps best known as a...
- 9/1/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
América
Their bittersweet music box of a film is enamored with its title character, a 93-year-old Mexican woman caught in an unwilling limbo. Her son has been sent to prison for failing to take care of her, elder neglect, leaving her unprepared adult grandsons to look after her, perhaps in the same way she looked after them when they were children. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: iTunes
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra)
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to suggest that fans of...
América
Their bittersweet music box of a film is enamored with its title character, a 93-year-old Mexican woman caught in an unwilling limbo. Her son has been sent to prison for failing to take care of her, elder neglect, leaving her unprepared adult grandsons to look after her, perhaps in the same way she looked after them when they were children. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: iTunes
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra)
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to suggest that fans of...
- 11/15/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Every year, at the New York Film Festival, the event’s director Kent Jones sits down with a filmmaker, for the On Cinema conversation, to discuss the important movies that influence them. And this year, Jones had legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese join him to feature four films that stand out as important works to the director.
Scorsese, of course, is attending Nyff this year to help debut his new film “The Irishman,” but you would be hard-pressed to find a mafia drama among the projects that the filmmaker wanted to discuss.
Continue reading Martin Scorsese Talks ‘Hereditary,’ Joanna Hogg’s ‘Archipelago’ & More In 40-Minute Nyff Talk at The Playlist.
Scorsese, of course, is attending Nyff this year to help debut his new film “The Irishman,” but you would be hard-pressed to find a mafia drama among the projects that the filmmaker wanted to discuss.
Continue reading Martin Scorsese Talks ‘Hereditary,’ Joanna Hogg’s ‘Archipelago’ & More In 40-Minute Nyff Talk at The Playlist.
- 10/1/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Martin Scorsese on Saturday revealed why he doesn't like to know a director's identity before watching their work and more about his love of film before giving New York Film Festival director and collaborator Kent Jones a sentimental sendoff during a packed panel discussion at the event.
Held at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and hosted less than a day after the high-profile premiere of his latest film, The Irishman, Scorsese took a few minutes during the nearly hourlong event to touch on his experience viewing Joanna Hogg's directorial debut Archipelago. While elaborating on his admiration for ...
Held at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and hosted less than a day after the high-profile premiere of his latest film, The Irishman, Scorsese took a few minutes during the nearly hourlong event to touch on his experience viewing Joanna Hogg's directorial debut Archipelago. While elaborating on his admiration for ...
- 9/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Martin Scorsese on Saturday revealed why he doesn't like to know a director's identity before watching their work and more about his love of film before giving New York Film Festival director and collaborator Kent Jones a sentimental sendoff during a packed panel discussion at the event.
Held at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and hosted less than a day after the high-profile premiere of his latest film, The Irishman, Scorsese took a few minutes during the nearly hourlong event to touch on his experience viewing Joanna Hogg's directorial debut Archipelago. While elaborating on his admiration for ...
Held at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and hosted less than a day after the high-profile premiere of his latest film, The Irishman, Scorsese took a few minutes during the nearly hourlong event to touch on his experience viewing Joanna Hogg's directorial debut Archipelago. While elaborating on his admiration for ...
- 9/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tom Burke and Honor Swinton Byrne star in this tender tale of a relationship built on deceit
Joanna Hogg has never been afraid of the dark – the vast empty spaces that exist between people in apparently intimate relationships. In Archipelago she painted a portrait of a family as fractured as the scattered land masses of Scilly; lonely islands separated by treacherous choppy waters. In Exhibition she put a fractious couple in an up-for-sale London townhouse that seemed specifically designed to keep them apart; the architecture of isolation.
The Souvenir, on which Martin Scorsese served as an executive producer, continues Hogg’s unflinching examination of personal distance, focusing on a couple who seem to live in an atmosphere of silent deceit and highly choreographed concealment.Yet this autobiographically inspired drama is also her most intimate film to date, boasting scenes that play like pages torn from an experiential diary.
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Joanna Hogg has never been afraid of the dark – the vast empty spaces that exist between people in apparently intimate relationships. In Archipelago she painted a portrait of a family as fractured as the scattered land masses of Scilly; lonely islands separated by treacherous choppy waters. In Exhibition she put a fractious couple in an up-for-sale London townhouse that seemed specifically designed to keep them apart; the architecture of isolation.
The Souvenir, on which Martin Scorsese served as an executive producer, continues Hogg’s unflinching examination of personal distance, focusing on a couple who seem to live in an atmosphere of silent deceit and highly choreographed concealment.Yet this autobiographically inspired drama is also her most intimate film to date, boasting scenes that play like pages torn from an experiential diary.
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- 9/1/2019
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
New releases include ‘The Souvenir’, ’Mrs Lowry & Son’, and ‘Bait’.
There is a flurry of intriguing indie title releases in the UK this weekend, while the top end of the chart looks like to be largely dominated by holdovers Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood and Angel Has Fallen.
In the indie space, Curzon is handling the release of Joanna Hogg’s fourth feature, The Souvenir, which stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tom Burke in the story of a young film student who becomes romantically involved with a complicated man in 1980s London. Martin Scorsese was an executive producer...
There is a flurry of intriguing indie title releases in the UK this weekend, while the top end of the chart looks like to be largely dominated by holdovers Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood and Angel Has Fallen.
In the indie space, Curzon is handling the release of Joanna Hogg’s fourth feature, The Souvenir, which stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tom Burke in the story of a young film student who becomes romantically involved with a complicated man in 1980s London. Martin Scorsese was an executive producer...
- 8/30/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options–not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
One of the best coming-of-age films of the decade, what begins as a fairly standard, but intimately captured story of young passion quickly blossoms to one of the most mature takes on such an event thanks to Mia Hansen-Løve’s remarkably natural style and a script that’s conscious of time and its effects on love. Praise must also go to Lola Creton and Sebastian Urzendowsky for seemingly organic chemistry from such material. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days)
The Man From London (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky)
Upon the release of The Man from London, one might...
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
One of the best coming-of-age films of the decade, what begins as a fairly standard, but intimately captured story of young passion quickly blossoms to one of the most mature takes on such an event thanks to Mia Hansen-Løve’s remarkably natural style and a script that’s conscious of time and its effects on love. Praise must also go to Lola Creton and Sebastian Urzendowsky for seemingly organic chemistry from such material. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days)
The Man From London (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky)
Upon the release of The Man from London, one might...
- 8/2/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Tom Burke as Anthony and Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie in The Souvenir. Photograph by Agatha A. Nitecka. Courtesy of A24.
Many women, early in their romantic lives, have an experience with a “bad boy,” a charming rogue who just is not good for them. The Souvenir, director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical drama, presents a particularly dangerous version of that romantic experience. What really boosted this British drama into a Sundance hit, winning the Grand Jury Prize, was the breakout performance of Honor Swinton Byrne, the daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also appears in the film) and her ex, Scottish playwright and artist John Byrne.
Honor Swinton Byrne plays Julie, a shy, ambitious British film student. Julie is from a wealthy, aristocratic family and has led a very sheltered and privileged life. Living in a London apartment in upscale Knightsbridge, she is struggling to establish her own adult identity and...
Many women, early in their romantic lives, have an experience with a “bad boy,” a charming rogue who just is not good for them. The Souvenir, director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical drama, presents a particularly dangerous version of that romantic experience. What really boosted this British drama into a Sundance hit, winning the Grand Jury Prize, was the breakout performance of Honor Swinton Byrne, the daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also appears in the film) and her ex, Scottish playwright and artist John Byrne.
Honor Swinton Byrne plays Julie, a shy, ambitious British film student. Julie is from a wealthy, aristocratic family and has led a very sheltered and privileged life. Living in a London apartment in upscale Knightsbridge, she is struggling to establish her own adult identity and...
- 5/31/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Tilda Swinton and daughter Honor Swinton Byrne play mother and daughter in writer-director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, which took the World Cinema – Dramatic prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where it debuted in January. In fact, the filmmaking team already is readying their follow-up even as the first installment heads to several theaters this weekend via A24. Roadside Attractions took rights to Telluride premiere Trial by Fire last fall. Starring Laura Dern and Jack O’Connell, the title takes on the death penalty, based on a true story. Amazon Studios is heading out with Sundance debut Photograph by Ritesh Batra in over a half-dozen markets, while Magnolia Pictures is going day-and-date with sci-fi title Aniara, which it acquired out of last year’s Toronto. Samuel Goldwyn Films is “counterprogramming” the early-summer blockbuster season with All Creatures Here Below starring Karen Gillan and David Dastmalchian.
Other limited releases this weekend...
Other limited releases this weekend...
- 5/17/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Remember the name Honor Swinton Byrne — her star is born. In The Souvenir, she plays Julie, a film student in 1980s London who’s being set up to learn a lot of things the hard way. Written and directed by the bracingly brilliant Joanna Hogg, this delicate, dazzling memoir traces her own origin story, and there is something superheroic about her struggle to look back without hitting the brick wall of formula and weepy nostalgia. In her fourth feature, following Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010) and Exhibition (2013), Hogg refuses to hand-hold her audience,...
- 5/16/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
In British auteur Joanna Hogg’s exquisitely composed fourth feature “The Souvenir” — winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition — a beguiling layer of innocence surrounds its central character, Julie. It’s a sweet, translucent shell actor Honor Swinton-Byrne almost can’t help but wear on behalf of the 20-something Londoner she plays, while she teeters on the brink of breaking out of it.
Seen from the other side of one’s mid-40s, it’s a recognizable shield of youthfulness, one that rips open and vanishes when you least expect it to. In Julie’s case, immense, life-defining endeavors have already been chipping away at it. She has been feeling her way through film school with ambition, searching for her creative voice in the 1980s and trying humbly to reconcile her socioeconomic privilege with her lefty worldview and artistic interests.
But it’s the kind of tragic,...
Seen from the other side of one’s mid-40s, it’s a recognizable shield of youthfulness, one that rips open and vanishes when you least expect it to. In Julie’s case, immense, life-defining endeavors have already been chipping away at it. She has been feeling her way through film school with ambition, searching for her creative voice in the 1980s and trying humbly to reconcile her socioeconomic privilege with her lefty worldview and artistic interests.
But it’s the kind of tragic,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
Martin Scorsese Talks With Joanna Hogg About Their History & How He Got Involved With ‘The Souvenir’
There is nothing better than two incredible artists discussing their shared love of art. And in film, it’s always great when two filmmakers are able to not only discuss their own work, but give commentary on the state of the industry and films that stand out. That’s exactly what happens in the new A24 podcast with directors Martin Scorsese and Joanna Hogg.
Read More: ‘The Souvenir’: Suffering Yields Reinvention For a Young Artist in Joanna Hogg’s Exquisitely Personal Drama [Sundance Review]
At first, you may wonder why the director of films like “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull” would find himself in a room with a British filmmaker known for her intensely dramatic films like “Archipelago” and the upcoming A24 release “The Souvenir.” Well, Scorsese is actually a fan of Hogg’s and is one of the executive producers on the latter film, as well as its forthcoming sequel.
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Read More: ‘The Souvenir’: Suffering Yields Reinvention For a Young Artist in Joanna Hogg’s Exquisitely Personal Drama [Sundance Review]
At first, you may wonder why the director of films like “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull” would find himself in a room with a British filmmaker known for her intensely dramatic films like “Archipelago” and the upcoming A24 release “The Souvenir.” Well, Scorsese is actually a fan of Hogg’s and is one of the executive producers on the latter film, as well as its forthcoming sequel.
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- 5/15/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
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.
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
Most love affairs don’t start when girl finds boy dancing on top of a K-Mart checkout counter to Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” but it’s a fitting start for Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, a sprawling, over-sized epic road trip following a magazine crew’s tour of the midwest. Anchored by a flawless performance from first-time actress Sasha Lane (who holds her own in scenes with movie stars like Shia Labeouf and Riley Keough), it’s a funny, heartbreaking, and tense drama with boundless energy and enthusiasm as Arnold examines culture conditions from wealthy Kansas City suburbs, a rust belt town...
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
Most love affairs don’t start when girl finds boy dancing on top of a K-Mart checkout counter to Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” but it’s a fitting start for Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, a sprawling, over-sized epic road trip following a magazine crew’s tour of the midwest. Anchored by a flawless performance from first-time actress Sasha Lane (who holds her own in scenes with movie stars like Shia Labeouf and Riley Keough), it’s a funny, heartbreaking, and tense drama with boundless energy and enthusiasm as Arnold examines culture conditions from wealthy Kansas City suburbs, a rust belt town...
- 5/3/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Read the latest on four recent stories including a new initiative between the Annecy Animation Festival and Cannes, Isabel Coixet casting her upcoming HBO España series, Robbie Williams leaving “X Factor” and Danish drama “New Nurses” selling in the U.S.
Marché du Film, Annecy Partner on Animation Day at Cannes
The Annecy Festival has joined forces once again with fellow French institution, the Cannes Film Market, to create Animation Day, a day dedicated to the increasingly important industry sector, taking place on Sunday, May 19.
The initiative builds on the popular Annecy Goes to Cannes event, in dented ring its 4th edition, in which five animated feature films in production are pitched to an industry audience. This year’s line-up is mouth-watering: Anticipated Spain-Chain co-pro “Dragonkeeper,” Canada’s “Archipelago; Folivari and Studiocanal-backed “Samsam”; Brazilian Nsfw claymation “Bob Spit – We Do Not Like People”; and French-German-Belgian “Yakari.”
New to this year...
Marché du Film, Annecy Partner on Animation Day at Cannes
The Annecy Festival has joined forces once again with fellow French institution, the Cannes Film Market, to create Animation Day, a day dedicated to the increasingly important industry sector, taking place on Sunday, May 19.
The initiative builds on the popular Annecy Goes to Cannes event, in dented ring its 4th edition, in which five animated feature films in production are pitched to an industry audience. This year’s line-up is mouth-watering: Anticipated Spain-Chain co-pro “Dragonkeeper,” Canada’s “Archipelago; Folivari and Studiocanal-backed “Samsam”; Brazilian Nsfw claymation “Bob Spit – We Do Not Like People”; and French-German-Belgian “Yakari.”
New to this year...
- 4/12/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, starring Honor Swinton Byrne and her mother Tilda Swinton, not only took the the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize but quickly spurred talk of a sequel. Today distributor A24 released the film’s first trailer, offering a look at what prompted all that buzz.
Tom Burke also stars. Set against the background of the film industry, The Souvenir focuses on a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who meets a mysterious man (Burke). Within days the two are in what will be her first serious love affair, even as she ignores the concerns of her mother (Swinton) and friends. The student borrows large amounts of money from her parents, surrendering to the relationship and her new love’s needs. The film is based on Hogg’s actual experience.
A24 acquired North American rights to The Souvenir in December, prior to Sundance. By that point,...
Tom Burke also stars. Set against the background of the film industry, The Souvenir focuses on a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who meets a mysterious man (Burke). Within days the two are in what will be her first serious love affair, even as she ignores the concerns of her mother (Swinton) and friends. The student borrows large amounts of money from her parents, surrendering to the relationship and her new love’s needs. The film is based on Hogg’s actual experience.
A24 acquired North American rights to The Souvenir in December, prior to Sundance. By that point,...
- 2/19/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
While there’s only been a few major film festivals this year thus far with Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, one clear highlight to emerge is Joanna Hogg’s much-anticipated return with The Souvenir. A transfixing tale of a relationship in peril (and early days of film school), A24 picked up both this film and Hogg’s sequel, shooting this summer and which has Avengers-esque anticipation around this parts. Ahead of a release of the first part this May, they’ve now debuted the first trailer.
I said in my review, “The Souvenir melds two well-trodden subgenres and through Joanna Hogg’s refreshingly unique vision makes each feel entirely original. Her much-anticipated return after 2013’s Exhibition tells both a painful addiction story and a behind-the-scenes look at film school struggles as we follow Julie (a beautiful debut performance by Honor Swinton Byrne). The daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also briefly turns...
I said in my review, “The Souvenir melds two well-trodden subgenres and through Joanna Hogg’s refreshingly unique vision makes each feel entirely original. Her much-anticipated return after 2013’s Exhibition tells both a painful addiction story and a behind-the-scenes look at film school struggles as we follow Julie (a beautiful debut performance by Honor Swinton Byrne). The daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also briefly turns...
- 2/19/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Murtada Elfadl reporting from Sundance
“Show don’t tell” is how Joanna Hogg directs The Souvenir. Hogg is the former photographer and experimental filmmaker behind Archipelago (2010), and Exhibition (2013). Those films made a splash on the European indie scene but not many waves on this side of the Atlantic. Here she withholds the narrative to only slowly reveals what her film is about. We first meet a young film student Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) in 1980s London, trying to make it in film school. Perhaps this is a character study somewhat based on Hogg’s own life? Only later do we discover that it’s about an intense all consuming co-dependent relationship between our lead and a sweet but drug-addicted snobbish man who works for the foreign office (Tom Burke)...
“Show don’t tell” is how Joanna Hogg directs The Souvenir. Hogg is the former photographer and experimental filmmaker behind Archipelago (2010), and Exhibition (2013). Those films made a splash on the European indie scene but not many waves on this side of the Atlantic. Here she withholds the narrative to only slowly reveals what her film is about. We first meet a young film student Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) in 1980s London, trying to make it in film school. Perhaps this is a character study somewhat based on Hogg’s own life? Only later do we discover that it’s about an intense all consuming co-dependent relationship between our lead and a sweet but drug-addicted snobbish man who works for the foreign office (Tom Burke)...
- 2/1/2019
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
From Parker Posey to Timothée Chalamet, the Sundance breakout is a tradition. Young talent is trotted up and down Park City’s Main Street to face an onslaught of interviews and offers for major new projects. But one of the most exciting new performers at the 2019 festival has stayed out of the spotlight: Honor Swinton-Byrne, daughter of Tilda and Scottish playwright John Byrne, has been generating a steady stream of raves for her extraordinary performance in “The Souvenir,” British Joanna Hogg’s intimate drama about a young love turned sour.
Conceived as the first installment in a two-part saga, “The Souvenir” stars Swinton-Byrne as Julie, a film student who falls for heroin user Anthony (Tom Burke) and faces devastating consequences as she comes to terms with his addiction. Appearing in nearly every scene, Swinton-Byrne is a quiet revelation, commanding many of the movie’s understated scenes with a combination of intellectual curiosity and wide-eyed naiveté.
Conceived as the first installment in a two-part saga, “The Souvenir” stars Swinton-Byrne as Julie, a film student who falls for heroin user Anthony (Tom Burke) and faces devastating consequences as she comes to terms with his addiction. Appearing in nearly every scene, Swinton-Byrne is a quiet revelation, commanding many of the movie’s understated scenes with a combination of intellectual curiosity and wide-eyed naiveté.
- 1/30/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Souvenir melds two well-trodden subgenres and through Joanna Hogg’s refreshingly unique vision makes each feel entirely original. Her much-anticipated return after 2013’s Exhibition tells both a painful addiction story and a behind-the-scenes look at film school struggles as we follow Julie (a beautiful debut performance by Honor Swinton Byrne). The daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also briefly turns up), Swinton Byrne is in every scene, and steals them all. Akin to the revelatory introduction to Tom Hiddleston in Hogg’s first two films, Unrelated and Archipelago, she is the lifeblood of The Souvenir, which follows doomed lovers in a story that is conveyed with feels mined from achingly personal memories.
Through her abstract, painterly compositions and improvisational approach, the British director has a keen desire to remove all artifice from her films, stripping away clichés to get to the emotional essence of each scene. Her latest film finds...
Through her abstract, painterly compositions and improvisational approach, the British director has a keen desire to remove all artifice from her films, stripping away clichés to get to the emotional essence of each scene. Her latest film finds...
- 1/29/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A24 has bought the North American rights to Tilda Swinton’s romance-drama “The Souvenir – Part 2,” closing the deal on the eve of the Sundance Film Festival.
“The Souvenir” is set to make its world premiere at Sundance on Jan. 27, followed by playing in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival in February. The sequel will shoot in the summer.
A24 bought rights to “The Souvenir” last month. The film introduces Honor Swinton Byrne — Swinton’s daughter in real life — and also stars Tom Burke (“Only God Forgives”). Swinton Byrne plays a quiet film student who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship.
British writer/director Joanna Hogg directs from her own script for Protagonist Pictures and 30West.
“The Souvenir” is set to make its world premiere at Sundance on Jan. 27, followed by playing in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival in February. The sequel will shoot in the summer.
A24 bought rights to “The Souvenir” last month. The film introduces Honor Swinton Byrne — Swinton’s daughter in real life — and also stars Tom Burke (“Only God Forgives”). Swinton Byrne plays a quiet film student who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship.
British writer/director Joanna Hogg directs from her own script for Protagonist Pictures and 30West.
- 1/24/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
A24 has bought North American rights Tilda Swinton’s romance-drama “The Souvenir” ahead of its premiere next month at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film introduces Honor Swinton Byrne — Swinton’s daughter in real life — and also stars Tom Burke (“Only God Forgives”). Swinton Byrne plays a quiet film student who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
British writer/director Joanna Hogg directs from her own script for Protagonist Pictures and 30West. Martin Scorsese came on as executive producer of “The Souvenir” after he saw Hogg’s second film, “Archipelago.”
“Each of Joanna’s films has a mesmerizing power and uncommon intimacy, and ‘The Souvenir’ shows a...
The film introduces Honor Swinton Byrne — Swinton’s daughter in real life — and also stars Tom Burke (“Only God Forgives”). Swinton Byrne plays a quiet film student who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
British writer/director Joanna Hogg directs from her own script for Protagonist Pictures and 30West. Martin Scorsese came on as executive producer of “The Souvenir” after he saw Hogg’s second film, “Archipelago.”
“Each of Joanna’s films has a mesmerizing power and uncommon intimacy, and ‘The Souvenir’ shows a...
- 12/3/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
A24 has acquired North American rights to The Souvenir, the latest film from British writer-director Joanna Hogg that has just set its world premiere slot at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton star in the drama, which is now aiming for a 2019 theatrical release date.
The pic centers on a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
Martin Scorsese, impressed by Hogg’s second feature, 2010’s Archipelago, is an executive producer. Hogg and Luke Schiller, who previously worked with Hogg on Archipelago, are producers. Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Lizzie Francke, Rose Garnett, Andy Starke and Dave Bishop also executive produce.
The pic centers on a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
Martin Scorsese, impressed by Hogg’s second feature, 2010’s Archipelago, is an executive producer. Hogg and Luke Schiller, who previously worked with Hogg on Archipelago, are producers. Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Lizzie Francke, Rose Garnett, Andy Starke and Dave Bishop also executive produce.
- 12/3/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Scorsese served as executive producer.
A24 has acquired North American right from Protagonist Pictures and 30West to Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, which will receive its world premiere in Sundance next month.
Newcomer Honor Swinton Byrne stars alongside Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton in the story of a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who finds her artistic voice while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke).
The youngster defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
A24 has acquired North American right from Protagonist Pictures and 30West to Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, which will receive its world premiere in Sundance next month.
Newcomer Honor Swinton Byrne stars alongside Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton in the story of a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who finds her artistic voice while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke).
The youngster defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
- 12/3/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A24 has acquired the North American rights to the Sundance-bound “The Souvenir,” starring Tilda Swinton and directed by British writer and director Joanna Hogg.
Martin Scorsese executive produces the film that also stars Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke. A24 will release the film theatrically in 2019 and acquired it from Protagonist Pictures and 30West.
“The Souvenir” follows a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
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Scorsese came on as an executive producer after seeing Hogg’s second film, “Archipelago,” and then cold-called Hogg to set a meeting. This is her fourth film.
Martin Scorsese executive produces the film that also stars Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke. A24 will release the film theatrically in 2019 and acquired it from Protagonist Pictures and 30West.
“The Souvenir” follows a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Burke). She defies her protective mother (Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
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Scorsese came on as an executive producer after seeing Hogg’s second film, “Archipelago,” and then cold-called Hogg to set a meeting. This is her fourth film.
- 12/3/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
A24 has picked up British writer-director Joanna Hogg's romance drama The Souvenir, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, ahead of the Sundance Film Festival.
A24 nabbed North American rights to the indie from Protagonist Pictures and 30West. The pic, which was announced last week as part of the Sundance lineup, stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton and will be released theatrically in 2019.
Scorsese boarded the project as an executive producer after the veteran Hollywood director saw Hogg's second film, Archipelago. The Souvenir follows a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice ...
A24 nabbed North American rights to the indie from Protagonist Pictures and 30West. The pic, which was announced last week as part of the Sundance lineup, stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton and will be released theatrically in 2019.
Scorsese boarded the project as an executive producer after the veteran Hollywood director saw Hogg's second film, Archipelago. The Souvenir follows a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice ...
- 12/3/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A24 has picked up British writer-director Joanna Hogg's romance drama The Souvenir, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, ahead of the Sundance Film Festival.
A24 nabbed North American rights to the indie from Protagonist Pictures and 30West. The pic, which was announced last week as part of the Sundance lineup, stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton and will be released theatrically in 2019.
Scorsese boarded the project as an executive producer after the veteran Hollywood director saw Hogg's second film, Archipelago. The Souvenir follows a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice ...
A24 nabbed North American rights to the indie from Protagonist Pictures and 30West. The pic, which was announced last week as part of the Sundance lineup, stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton and will be released theatrically in 2019.
Scorsese boarded the project as an executive producer after the veteran Hollywood director saw Hogg's second film, Archipelago. The Souvenir follows a quiet film student (Swinton Byrne) who begins to find her voice ...
- 12/3/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here’s an exciting pairing that probably never occurred to you: Martin Scorsese and Joanna Hogg. “The Souvenir,” the “Archipelago” and “Exhibition” writer/director’s latest, will be produced by executive-produced by Scorsese; Robert Pattinson is set to star in the two-part romantic mystery, which begins shooting this summer.
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Screen Daily first announced the news, as well as the synopsis: “Spanning the decade of the 1980s, the film will chart the story of a young film student, involved in her first serious love affair, who tries to disentangle fact from fiction in a relationship with a complicated and untrustworthy man.” Ariane Labed, Tom Burke and Richard Ayoade will co-star.
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“This story has been in my head for a few years,...
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Screen Daily first announced the news, as well as the synopsis: “Spanning the decade of the 1980s, the film will chart the story of a young film student, involved in her first serious love affair, who tries to disentangle fact from fiction in a relationship with a complicated and untrustworthy man.” Ariane Labed, Tom Burke and Richard Ayoade will co-star.
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“This story has been in my head for a few years,...
- 5/20/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Robert Pattinson is set to star in The Souvenir, a romantic mystery from Joanna Hogg (Archipelago) that Martin Scorsese has boarded as an executive producer. The film also stars Ariane Labed, Tom Burke and Richard Ayode and Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide sales. Luke Schiller produces with Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff. The project, which will be made in two parts, is being developed with the BFI and backed by BBC Films. Spanning the decade of the 1980s…...
- 5/20/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: Tom Burke, Ariane Labed and Richard Ayoade also aboard two-part movie due to shoot this summer.
Robert Pattinson, Tom Burke, Ariane Labed and Richard Ayoade are due to star in British filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s (Archipelago) next film The Souvenir, which will be executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.
Scorsese will serve as executive producer on the romantic mystery alongside his Sikelia Productions partner Emma Tillinger Koskoff.
The Souvenir, developed with the BFI and backed by BBC Films, will be made in two parts, the first feature set to shoot this summer and the second in summer 2018.
Robert Pattinson, Tom Burke, Ariane Labed and Richard Ayoade are due to star in British filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s (Archipelago) next film The Souvenir, which will be executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.
Scorsese will serve as executive producer on the romantic mystery alongside his Sikelia Productions partner Emma Tillinger Koskoff.
The Souvenir, developed with the BFI and backed by BBC Films, will be made in two parts, the first feature set to shoot this summer and the second in summer 2018.
- 5/20/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Stop us if you've heard this one before: A group of criminals meet up for a gun deal. It goes bad – very bad. And the rest of the story, you ask? "Doesn't matter!" Martin Scorsese exclaims, laughing. "You don't need it. We're beyond that now." The burly, bearded man sitting next to him – British director Ben Wheatley – wholeheartedly agrees. "There's only, like, 12 characters in this movie anyway," he adds. "There are no twists, because it's either going to be that one or that one or that one. So what's the point?...
- 4/24/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Damian Lewis’s puritanical minister and Andrea Riseborough’s terrorised wife must deal with an unexpected arrival
Stunning views of the Isle of Mull lend much-needed beauty to this sternly overwrought tale of puritanical minister Balor McNeil (Damian Lewis) terrorising his outsider wife Aislin (Andrea Riseborough) on an increasingly deserted Scottish island. When young offender Fionn (Ross Anderson) is dumped on his doorstep, the minister’s perpetual seething enters a new register, so it’s a relief to everyone when he sets sail on a boat full of church pews, leaving wife and incomer to fend for themselves. Cinematographer Ed Rutherford, who worked wonders for Joanna Hogg on Archipelago and Exhibition, skilfully marks the tonal shift from shadowy storm clouds to hallucinogenic sunshine, leaving Riseborough and Anderson to frolic briefly in this fragile new Eden, awaiting the returning tempest. Writer-director Corinna McFarlane counterposes Bergmanesque interiors with gaping exteriors, while Alastair Caplin’s eerie,...
Stunning views of the Isle of Mull lend much-needed beauty to this sternly overwrought tale of puritanical minister Balor McNeil (Damian Lewis) terrorising his outsider wife Aislin (Andrea Riseborough) on an increasingly deserted Scottish island. When young offender Fionn (Ross Anderson) is dumped on his doorstep, the minister’s perpetual seething enters a new register, so it’s a relief to everyone when he sets sail on a boat full of church pews, leaving wife and incomer to fend for themselves. Cinematographer Ed Rutherford, who worked wonders for Joanna Hogg on Archipelago and Exhibition, skilfully marks the tonal shift from shadowy storm clouds to hallucinogenic sunshine, leaving Riseborough and Anderson to frolic briefly in this fragile new Eden, awaiting the returning tempest. Writer-director Corinna McFarlane counterposes Bergmanesque interiors with gaping exteriors, while Alastair Caplin’s eerie,...
- 5/22/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Ahrc-funded report also finds that only 1.5% of key personnel on UK film productions in 2015 were Bame women.
An Ahrc-funded (Arts and Humanities Research Council) report conducted by the University of Southampton has concluded that only 20% of production personnel on UK films in 2015 were women.
Calling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK analysed the numbers of directors, writers, producers, executive producers, cinematographers and editors, and concluded that the “vast majority of key production personnel in the UK film industry are still men”.
Furthermore, the report states that of those women, only 7% were Bame (Black, Asian and minority ethnic), making Bame women less than 1.5% of all key personnel on UK film productions last year.
Of the roles analysed, women were best represented as producers (27%), while only 7% of all cinematographer were women, none of whom were Bame.
The study follows last week’s Directors UK report, which cited “unconscious, systemic bias” towards...
An Ahrc-funded (Arts and Humanities Research Council) report conducted by the University of Southampton has concluded that only 20% of production personnel on UK films in 2015 were women.
Calling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK analysed the numbers of directors, writers, producers, executive producers, cinematographers and editors, and concluded that the “vast majority of key production personnel in the UK film industry are still men”.
Furthermore, the report states that of those women, only 7% were Bame (Black, Asian and minority ethnic), making Bame women less than 1.5% of all key personnel on UK film productions last year.
Of the roles analysed, women were best represented as producers (27%), while only 7% of all cinematographer were women, none of whom were Bame.
The study follows last week’s Directors UK report, which cited “unconscious, systemic bias” towards...
- 5/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
David Farr’s tale of a young couple and their peculiar neighbours downstairs oozes anxiety and paranoia
This home-grown psychological chiller starts with an ultrasound image of an unborn baby’s face and a la-la-la theme which evokes Krzysztof Komeda’s lullaby from Rosemary’s Baby. The spirit of Polanski looms large as young middle-class couple Kate (Clémence Poésy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) find their expectant anxieties mirrored by the new couple in the downstairs flat, with whose barely repressed “otherness” they become inextricably, guiltily intertwined. Playwright and theatre director David Farr (who co-wrote Joe Wright’s Hanna and scripted TV’s The Night Manager) makes a solid fist of his big-screen debut as writer/director, generating some small-scale chills which are undiminished by the occasionally creaky dialogue. Cinematographer Ed Rutherford, who did such brilliant work for Joanna Hogg on Archipelago and Exhibition, uses woozy camera moves to capture...
This home-grown psychological chiller starts with an ultrasound image of an unborn baby’s face and a la-la-la theme which evokes Krzysztof Komeda’s lullaby from Rosemary’s Baby. The spirit of Polanski looms large as young middle-class couple Kate (Clémence Poésy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) find their expectant anxieties mirrored by the new couple in the downstairs flat, with whose barely repressed “otherness” they become inextricably, guiltily intertwined. Playwright and theatre director David Farr (who co-wrote Joe Wright’s Hanna and scripted TV’s The Night Manager) makes a solid fist of his big-screen debut as writer/director, generating some small-scale chills which are undiminished by the occasionally creaky dialogue. Cinematographer Ed Rutherford, who did such brilliant work for Joanna Hogg on Archipelago and Exhibition, uses woozy camera moves to capture...
- 3/13/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Highly respected producer worked on Joanna Hogg’s Archipelago and Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil.
British producer Gayle Griffiths has died following a battle with cancer. She was 49.
Griffiths, who died on Friday (Oct 23) in London, was perhaps best known for producing Joanna Hogg films Archipelago (2010) and Exhibition (2013), which both starred Tom Hiddleston, as well as urban drama My Brother The Devil (2012).
Sally El Hosani, director of My Brother The Devil, wrote on Facebook: “I can honestly say that the film wouldn’t have been what it was without her input and wisdom. She had real vision and believed in the film when many others in the industry didn’t. She was a fighter with a truly generous heart and empathy for the underdog.
“She was never one to make a fuss about her health and all through the filming of My Brother The Devil nobody would have guessed she was also having cancer...
British producer Gayle Griffiths has died following a battle with cancer. She was 49.
Griffiths, who died on Friday (Oct 23) in London, was perhaps best known for producing Joanna Hogg films Archipelago (2010) and Exhibition (2013), which both starred Tom Hiddleston, as well as urban drama My Brother The Devil (2012).
Sally El Hosani, director of My Brother The Devil, wrote on Facebook: “I can honestly say that the film wouldn’t have been what it was without her input and wisdom. She had real vision and believed in the film when many others in the industry didn’t. She was a fighter with a truly generous heart and empathy for the underdog.
“She was never one to make a fuss about her health and all through the filming of My Brother The Devil nobody would have guessed she was also having cancer...
- 10/27/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The British Film Institute (BFI) has named actor Tom Hiddleston as its first BFI Ambassador.
According to the BFI, Hiddleston’s new Ambassador role will be “a life-cause to advocate for British film and the BFI’s vital work in building the next generation of film talent and film lovers in the UK”.
The British actor is best known for roles in blockbusters including Thor, The Avengers and War Horse as well as well as working with British filmmakersincluding Joanna Hogg (Archipelago), Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea) and Ben Wheatley, who’s upcoming film High-Rise stars Hiddleston and will screen as part of the BFI London Film Festival on Oct 9.
Hiddleston said: “Film is an art form - one of the most powerful, accessible, democratic and transformative in our society. It allows us to see the world around us, and the lives of others. It plays a vital role in establishing our national identity and gives...
According to the BFI, Hiddleston’s new Ambassador role will be “a life-cause to advocate for British film and the BFI’s vital work in building the next generation of film talent and film lovers in the UK”.
The British actor is best known for roles in blockbusters including Thor, The Avengers and War Horse as well as well as working with British filmmakersincluding Joanna Hogg (Archipelago), Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea) and Ben Wheatley, who’s upcoming film High-Rise stars Hiddleston and will screen as part of the BFI London Film Festival on Oct 9.
Hiddleston said: “Film is an art form - one of the most powerful, accessible, democratic and transformative in our society. It allows us to see the world around us, and the lives of others. It plays a vital role in establishing our national identity and gives...
- 10/6/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Changeling Chronicles: Farr’s Eerie Debut a Duel of Deserving Motherhood
Screenwriter and playwright David Farr makes his directorial debut with The Ones Below, a psychological quartet examining class issues, motherhood as a rite of passage, and the vulnerability of guilt. Tonally comparable to Polanski’s trio of horrific happenings in urban apartments, Farr channels the innate awkwardness of adult interactions and the unnamed tensions of familial competitions and contrived intermingling. As a genre film, the narrative plays out with almost disappointing predictability. But under the guise of a socioeconomic thriller operating as a nightmare of the privileged, Farr manages a striking portrait of the perverse relationship of building family vs. building community.
Kate (Clemence Poesy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) have been happily married for quite some time and are finally expecting their first child, the perfect addition to their life in the comfortably affluent suburbs of London. New...
Screenwriter and playwright David Farr makes his directorial debut with The Ones Below, a psychological quartet examining class issues, motherhood as a rite of passage, and the vulnerability of guilt. Tonally comparable to Polanski’s trio of horrific happenings in urban apartments, Farr channels the innate awkwardness of adult interactions and the unnamed tensions of familial competitions and contrived intermingling. As a genre film, the narrative plays out with almost disappointing predictability. But under the guise of a socioeconomic thriller operating as a nightmare of the privileged, Farr manages a striking portrait of the perverse relationship of building family vs. building community.
Kate (Clemence Poesy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) have been happily married for quite some time and are finally expecting their first child, the perfect addition to their life in the comfortably affluent suburbs of London. New...
- 9/13/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
New York Film Critics Circle
Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" swept the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced this morning. The feature scored best film, director, and supporting actress for Patricia Arquette's role. Also nabbing acting honors were Marion Cotillard for "Two Days, One Night," Timothy Spall for "Mr. Turner" and J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash".
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" scored best screenplay, "The Babadook" won best first film, "The Immigrant" nabbed best cinematography, "Ida" won best foreign language film, "The Lego Movie" scored best animated feature, and "Citizenfour" won best documentary. [Source: Nyfcc]
Hunter's Prayer
Allen Leech ("Downton Abbey," "In Fear," "The Imitation Game") will join Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush in Jonathan Mostow's "Hunter’s Prayer" based on Kevin Wignall's novel "For the Dogs".
Worthington plays a hired assassin sent to target a woman whom he instead bonds with and together they go on the run. Leech will play the assassin's former employer.
Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" swept the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced this morning. The feature scored best film, director, and supporting actress for Patricia Arquette's role. Also nabbing acting honors were Marion Cotillard for "Two Days, One Night," Timothy Spall for "Mr. Turner" and J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash".
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" scored best screenplay, "The Babadook" won best first film, "The Immigrant" nabbed best cinematography, "Ida" won best foreign language film, "The Lego Movie" scored best animated feature, and "Citizenfour" won best documentary. [Source: Nyfcc]
Hunter's Prayer
Allen Leech ("Downton Abbey," "In Fear," "The Imitation Game") will join Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush in Jonathan Mostow's "Hunter’s Prayer" based on Kevin Wignall's novel "For the Dogs".
Worthington plays a hired assassin sent to target a woman whom he instead bonds with and together they go on the run. Leech will play the assassin's former employer.
- 12/1/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
For someone who's still to lead a big movie on his own, Tom Hiddleston is remarkably famous. The British actor has, of course, been in some huge films: he was the bad guy in the third-biggest movie of all time, "The Avengers," as well as two blockbusting "Thor" pictures. But outside the Marvel-verse, Hiddleston has mostly focused on smaller indies, like "Archipelago," "The Deep Blue Sea" and "Only Lovers Left Alive." Hiddleston, who has time away from Loki for a while, may soon test his solo blockbuster mettle with "Ben Hur." But first up, the star is sticking to the indie world, playing the unlikely role of country superstar Hank Williams in a new biopic, and a first glimpse of how that might turn out has arrived. The actor starts shooting the project, "I Saw The Light," soon, but MTV dug up a video of him making an impromptu appearance at the Wheatland Music Festival,...
- 9/8/2014
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
"British filmmaker Joanna Hogg has made three intimate, sympathetic features in which vulnerable friends and family members attempt to hide secrets from each other within large houses and open frames," writes Aaron Cutler, who interviews Hogg for Artforum. Today we gather fresh reviews of Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2009) and Exhibition (2013), all of which are screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. » - David Hudson...
- 6/27/2014
- Keyframe
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