High concept independent fare is hard to pull off. That kind of goes without saying. Inherently, science fiction cinema does tend to require a budget. The exception is when the entire concept is something that doesn’t need to be shown. Ideas can be expanded upon by actors and dialogue. This week, an interesting example of this particular type of indie film is hitting theaters in Marjorie Prime. The fact that the flick was even attempted is a testament to the talented cast assembled, including veteran actress Lois Smith, who could find herself in the Oscar conversation if things break the right way for her. The movie is an adaptation of the play of the same name, with Smith reprising her portrayal of the title role. Essentially, this is a bit of a sci-fi tale, though the human emotion is what’s on full display. In the future, a service...
- 8/18/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
"She's nicer to that thing than she is to me." FilmRise has unveiled an official trailer for the film Marjorie Prime, the latest feature by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, which premiered at Sundance. This subtle sci-fi film is set in the near future in a time where intelligent AI can recreate a perfect holographic version of a deceased person. The story involves a family figuring out what to make of these lifelike recreations of people who aren't around anymore. It's a meditation on "memory and identity, love and loss." Jon Hamm stars, with Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, Stephanie Andujar, Hannah Gross, and Lois Smith as Marjorie. This seems like a cool concept, but unfortunately never lives up to its potential, and it's a very dull film. I saw this at Sundance and wanted to like it, but there's just not much to like about it. But that's only my take. Here's...
- 7/26/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
If you ever wanted to see an episode of “Black Mirror” on the big screen, “Marjorie Prime” might be the perfect indie movie for you this summer. The latest from Michael Almereyda (“Experimenter”) is an adaptation Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play of the same name.
‘Marjorie Prime’ Review: Jon Hamm as a Hologram Can’t Save This Lifeless Adaptation
Set in the future, “Marjorie Prime” tells the story of an elderly woman (Lois) who uses a service that creates holographic projections of late family members in order to reconnect with her deceased husband (Jon Hamm). The two revisit their most intimate memories, but the relationship between human and artificial intelligence creates surprising results for all involved, including the women’s children. Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, and Stephanie Andujar co-star.
“Marjorie Prime” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. FilmRise will be releasing the movie in New York...
‘Marjorie Prime’ Review: Jon Hamm as a Hologram Can’t Save This Lifeless Adaptation
Set in the future, “Marjorie Prime” tells the story of an elderly woman (Lois) who uses a service that creates holographic projections of late family members in order to reconnect with her deceased husband (Jon Hamm). The two revisit their most intimate memories, but the relationship between human and artificial intelligence creates surprising results for all involved, including the women’s children. Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, and Stephanie Andujar co-star.
“Marjorie Prime” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. FilmRise will be releasing the movie in New York...
- 7/26/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Yesterday at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Michael Almereyda’s new film “Marjorie Prime” won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Feature Film Prize. The Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to outstanding feature films focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character. The jury presented the award to “Marjorie Prime” for its “imaginative and nuanced depiction of the evolving relationship between humans and technology, and its moving dramatization of how intelligent machines can challenge our notions of identity, memory and mortality.” As a result, the film will receive a $20,000 cash award from the foundation.
Read More: ‘Marjorie Prime’ Exclusive Photo: First Look at Jon Hamm and Lois Smith in Michael Almereyda’s New Film
“We are thrilled to partner with Sundance for the 14th year in a row and award the 2017 Sloan...
Read More: ‘Marjorie Prime’ Exclusive Photo: First Look at Jon Hamm and Lois Smith in Michael Almereyda’s New Film
“We are thrilled to partner with Sundance for the 14th year in a row and award the 2017 Sloan...
- 1/25/2017
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Though the end of the year is already upon us, the Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner, which will feature new work from Alex Ross Perry, Marti Noxon and Michael Almereyda, who will premiere his latest sci-fi film “Marjorie Prime.”
Read More: ‘Marjorie Prime’ Exclusive Teaser: Lois Smith And Jon Hamm Star In New Sci-Fi Drama About Artificial Intelligence
Based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play by the same name, the film focuses on a futuristic service that creates holographic projections of deceased family members. In the film, the elderly Marjorie (Lois Smith) spends time with a younger version of her late husband (Jon Hamm) only for complications to arise when she tries to peace her life together. It co-stars Tim Robbins (“The Shawshank Redemption”), Geena Davis (“Thelma and Louise”) and Stephanie Andujar (“A Walk Among The Tombstones”). See an exclusive photo from the film below.
Almereyda...
Read More: ‘Marjorie Prime’ Exclusive Teaser: Lois Smith And Jon Hamm Star In New Sci-Fi Drama About Artificial Intelligence
Based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play by the same name, the film focuses on a futuristic service that creates holographic projections of deceased family members. In the film, the elderly Marjorie (Lois Smith) spends time with a younger version of her late husband (Jon Hamm) only for complications to arise when she tries to peace her life together. It co-stars Tim Robbins (“The Shawshank Redemption”), Geena Davis (“Thelma and Louise”) and Stephanie Andujar (“A Walk Among The Tombstones”). See an exclusive photo from the film below.
Almereyda...
- 12/16/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
'Yesterday' movie: Leleti Khumalo and Lihle Mvelase. 'Yesterday' movie review: Fantastic central performance in South African AIDS drama To date, nowhere has the AIDS pandemic been felt more strongly than in Sub-Saharan Africa, home to approximately 10 percent of the world's population and two-thirds of the planet's 30-35 million AIDS cases. In the past thirty years, it is estimated that more than 20 million Sub-Saharan Africans have died from complications of the disease.* Even today, drug cocktails that are relatively accessible in other parts of the globe are still beyond the means of the vast majority of Africans. Writer-director Darrell Roodt's South African drama Yesterday is set in this catastrophic scenario. The film depicts the effects of AIDS in the life of a young Zulu woman who contracts HIV from her husband. Although Roodt's narrative maintains its focus on the plight of one particular individual, the (for non-Zulus) quirkily named Yesterday represents millions of other women,...
- 6/1/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Though reasonably quiet throughout the first season, Miss Rosa Cisneros (Barbara Rosenblat) steals the show in season 2’s “Appropriately Sized Pots.” Through flashbacks in the season’s eighth episode, we learn about Rosa’s life as a bank robber, which ultimately landed her in Litchfield Penitentiary. We’re introduced to a young Rosa, played wonderfully by Stephanie Andujar, who’s in love with the thrill of robbing banks and the smell of money. Back then, Rosa was a member of a four-man robbing crew after being introduced to robbery by her boyfriend Marco (Alfredo De Quesada) who tells her they must kiss before and after a robbery. She believes she’s cursed because all of the men she kisses post-robbery die. The only member of the group to survive is Tony, who she doesn’t kiss after a robbery because she finally gets arrested.
Rosa became one of the most...
Rosa became one of the most...
- 7/11/2014
- Uinterview
Clips and interviews from Dee Rees-directed Pariah, starring Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans The winner of the Cinematography Award and Grand Jury Prize nominee at this year's Sundance Film Festival opens December 28th via Focus Features. We've added 6 new clips as well as interviews with Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, director Dee Rees and producer Nekisa Cooper. Also in the cast are Stephanie Andujar, Nina Daniels, Raymond Anthony Thomas and Chanté Lewi. Adepero Oduye, who had earlier starred in the short film, portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes...
- 12/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clips and interviews from Dee Rees-directed Pariah, starring Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans The winner of the Cinematography Award and Grand Jury Prize nominee at this year's Sundance Film Festival opens December 28th via Focus Features. We've added 6 new clips as well as interviews with Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, director Dee Rees and producer Nekisa Cooper. Also in the cast are Stephanie Andujar, Nina Daniels, Raymond Anthony Thomas and Chanté Lewi. Adepero Oduye, who had earlier starred in the short film, portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes...
- 12/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clips and interviews from Dee Rees-directed Pariah, starring Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans The winner of the Cinematography Award and Grand Jury Prize nominee at this year's Sundance Film Festival opens December 28th via Focus Features. We've added 6 new clips as well as interviews with Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, director Dee Rees and producer Nekisa Cooper. Also in the cast are Stephanie Andujar, Nina Daniels, Raymond Anthony Thomas and Chanté Lewi. Adepero Oduye, who had earlier starred in the short film, portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes...
- 12/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Prior to his appointment as Assistant City Manager on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, Adam Scott already has had grabbed people’s attention with roles in High Crimes, Torque and The Aviator, and easily turned himself into a viable action hero in last summer’s Piranha 3D.
He has just seized two roles in two upcoming projects, My Mother’s Curse and See Girl Run.
My Mother’s Curse is based on Seth Rogen‘s character, an inventor who plans to take his mother (Barbra Streisand) on a road trip to try to market and sell his latest invention. He also has a learned motive to rejoin her with a long-lost love. It isn’t known with certainty what role Scott will play. Colin Hanks and Yvonne Strahovski are also starring. Anne Fletcher is helming My Mother’s Curse from a script by Dan Fogelman.
See Girl Run comes...
He has just seized two roles in two upcoming projects, My Mother’s Curse and See Girl Run.
My Mother’s Curse is based on Seth Rogen‘s character, an inventor who plans to take his mother (Barbra Streisand) on a road trip to try to market and sell his latest invention. He also has a learned motive to rejoin her with a long-lost love. It isn’t known with certainty what role Scott will play. Colin Hanks and Yvonne Strahovski are also starring. Anne Fletcher is helming My Mother’s Curse from a script by Dan Fogelman.
See Girl Run comes...
- 6/12/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
This is a review of Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Stephanie Andujar and Chyna Layne, and directed by Lee Daniels. Despite being executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and featuring Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz and talk show host Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, is no glitzy Hollywood outing. In fact, if anything, this is more Ken Loach by way of Harlem.
- 5/29/2010
- by David Hudson
- Pure Movies
This is a Pure Movies UK competition to win the Blu-ray of of Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Stephanie Andujar and Chyna Layne, and directed by Lee Daniels). Despite being executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and featuring Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz and talk show host Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, is no glitzy Hollywood outing. In fact, if anything, this is more Ken Loach by way of Harlem.
- 5/29/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
'An Education'"An Education" is a wonderfully bittersweet coming-of-age story featuring a top-notch ensemble. Set in 1961 London, the film recounts what happens when Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a bright but bored high school student, falls in love with David (Peter Sarsgaard), an urbane older man who introduces her to chamber music, art auctions, late-night concerts, and sex. He is also a bit of a con man.Mulligan doesn't hit a false note, conveying the emotional life of a highly intelligent yet profoundly innocent 17-year-old girl. In Jenny's eyes, David is the romantic outsider, more so as he slyly seduces Jenny's reluctant parents—especially Jack, her irascible, buffoonish dad (Alfred Molina). Conceived in broad comic strokes, Jack borders on caricature, yet Molina makes him plausible and, in the end, sympathetic. Jack is misguided but he loves his daughter. Sarsgaard is fine as a warm and loving guy who can't help being a bastard as well.
- 1/7/2010
- backstage.com
See images from "Push," 2009 Sundance Film Festival winner of the grand jury prize and the audience award. The Lee Daniels helmed film stars Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd, Nealla Gordon and Stephanie Andujar. Daniels, produced and made his directorial debut on 2005's "Shadowboxer" starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren. His other producing credits include "Monster's Ball" and "The Woodsman." It's great news for first-timer Damien Paul who made his writing debut, adapting the novel by Sappphore and Ramona Lofton. Check out the gallery now.
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See images from "Push," 2009 Sundance Film Festival winner of the grand jury prize and the audience award. The Lee Daniels helmed film stars Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd, Nealla Gordon and Stephanie Andujar. Daniels, produced and made his directorial debut on 2005's "Shadowboxer" starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren. His other producing credits include "Monster's Ball" and "The Woodsman." It's great news for first-timer Damien Paul who made his writing debut...
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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