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Tribeca Films has partnered with Kanopy and Kinema to stream the label’s catalog of independent films which have been featured at top festivals. Tribeca is the first festival to license films with Kanopy and Kinema.
The first collection of films under the agreement with Kanopy include: the 2022 Tribeca Festival Best Narrative winner, “Good Girl Jane;” “Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads, & Hallucinations;” “A Bronx Tale;” “In Her Name;” and others. New label releases are also available on Kinema, among these are favorites like “Listen Up Philip” and “My Awkward Sexual Adventure.”
Kanopy is an educational library for streaming as it collaborates with public libraries and universities to feature its content without requiring a fee or including commercials. Kinema is a direct-to-consumer platform that delivers live screenings to audiences in person or virtually on demand. They work through a “Pay What You Wish” feature.
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Tribeca Films has partnered with Kanopy and Kinema to stream the label’s catalog of independent films which have been featured at top festivals. Tribeca is the first festival to license films with Kanopy and Kinema.
The first collection of films under the agreement with Kanopy include: the 2022 Tribeca Festival Best Narrative winner, “Good Girl Jane;” “Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads, & Hallucinations;” “A Bronx Tale;” “In Her Name;” and others. New label releases are also available on Kinema, among these are favorites like “Listen Up Philip” and “My Awkward Sexual Adventure.”
Kanopy is an educational library for streaming as it collaborates with public libraries and universities to feature its content without requiring a fee or including commercials. Kinema is a direct-to-consumer platform that delivers live screenings to audiences in person or virtually on demand. They work through a “Pay What You Wish” feature.
Glenn Close to Receive AARP’s...
- 10/22/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay and Emiliana Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Arthouse streamer Mubi has secured the rights to Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements following its world premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice International Film Festival.
Mubi nabbed the portrait of the influential ’90s indie band in all rights deals for the U.K, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, and Canada. It also scooped up exclusive SVOD rights in the U.S., where Utopia is releasing the film theatrically.
Perry, known for features like Her Smell and Listen Up Philip, is also a prolific music video director and helmed Pavement’s video for Harness Your Hopes in 2022. For Pavements, he uses different formats and genres — from documentary to musical comedy to museum exhibition — to present the work of the alt-rock band whose reputation has only grown since their ’90s heyday.
Calling the two-hour-plus result both “exhaustive and enthusiastic,” THR reviewer Jordan Mintzer noted “You don’t have to be a major fan of Pavement,...
Mubi nabbed the portrait of the influential ’90s indie band in all rights deals for the U.K, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, and Canada. It also scooped up exclusive SVOD rights in the U.S., where Utopia is releasing the film theatrically.
Perry, known for features like Her Smell and Listen Up Philip, is also a prolific music video director and helmed Pavement’s video for Harness Your Hopes in 2022. For Pavements, he uses different formats and genres — from documentary to musical comedy to museum exhibition — to present the work of the alt-rock band whose reputation has only grown since their ’90s heyday.
Calling the two-hour-plus result both “exhaustive and enthusiastic,” THR reviewer Jordan Mintzer noted “You don’t have to be a major fan of Pavement,...
- 9/30/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the music videos and films that Alex Ross Perry made for Ghost and Pavement. Alex Ross Perry is a rock and roll scholar. He knows his stuff when it comes to the history of music videos, recorded live shows and music-image-hybrids. This might be partly why after a string of successful indie-films in a diverse array of styles, like The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of the Earth and Golden Exits, he has been carving a niche that is all about the intertwinement of sound and vision. This niche started in earnest right around the release of Golden Exits. Alex Ross Perry directed his first...
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- 9/9/2024
- Screen Anarchy
You don’t have to be a major fan of Pavement, or director Alex Ross Perry, to enjoy his exhaustive and enthusiastic two-hour-plus love letter to the beloved ’90s alt-rock band. But it certainly helps.
This multifaceted meta-movie is at once documentary, musical comedy, faux biopic and real museum exhibition. In its attempts to capture the quintessence of a much appreciated but never all that famous indie group, it throws in everything but the kitchen sink — including vintage muddied t-shirts from Lollapalooza 1995.
And yet, with its onslaught of footage both old and new, staged and captured live, split-screened, chopped and screwed, Pavements oftentimes seems to be preaching to the choir more than trying to win over or welcome new admirers. It’s something of a sincere if self-indulgent inside joke about a band that always had a strong undercurrent of irony, whether about itself or the music business. At some point,...
This multifaceted meta-movie is at once documentary, musical comedy, faux biopic and real museum exhibition. In its attempts to capture the quintessence of a much appreciated but never all that famous indie group, it throws in everything but the kitchen sink — including vintage muddied t-shirts from Lollapalooza 1995.
And yet, with its onslaught of footage both old and new, staged and captured live, split-screened, chopped and screwed, Pavements oftentimes seems to be preaching to the choir more than trying to win over or welcome new admirers. It’s something of a sincere if self-indulgent inside joke about a band that always had a strong undercurrent of irony, whether about itself or the music business. At some point,...
- 9/4/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When Alex Ross Perry set out to make a film about Pavement, he wanted it to be as absurd as some of the ’90s slacker band’s lyrics. For the indie director, known for “Listen Up Philip” and “Her Smell,” that meant pushing the very boundaries of what a film could be.
“Pavements,” premiering on Wednesday in the Horizons section of Venice Film Festival, is a documentary-musical-biopic hybrid that imagines a world where Pavement has achieved Rolling Stones-level success. The film follows the group on its 2022 reunion tour, tracks the progress of Perry’s “Slanted! Enchanted!” musical that also premiered that year, takes the audience inside a pop-up museum dedicated to the band and pitches a tongue-in-cheek biopic starring “Stranger Things” breakout Joe Keery as lead singer Stephen Malkmus and Nat Wolff as guitarist Scott Kannberg, aka Spiral Stairs. If it seems like that’s a lot for one film,...
“Pavements,” premiering on Wednesday in the Horizons section of Venice Film Festival, is a documentary-musical-biopic hybrid that imagines a world where Pavement has achieved Rolling Stones-level success. The film follows the group on its 2022 reunion tour, tracks the progress of Perry’s “Slanted! Enchanted!” musical that also premiered that year, takes the audience inside a pop-up museum dedicated to the band and pitches a tongue-in-cheek biopic starring “Stranger Things” breakout Joe Keery as lead singer Stephen Malkmus and Nat Wolff as guitarist Scott Kannberg, aka Spiral Stairs. If it seems like that’s a lot for one film,...
- 9/3/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Alex Moffat (Saturday Night Live), Joel David Moore (Avatar franchise), Lizze Broadway (Gen V), Urzila Carlson (upcoming Ozi: Voice of the Forest), and Francis Benhamou (Arranged) are the final additions to the cast of Netflix and Happy Madison’s rom-com Kinda Pregnant, starring Amy Schumer.
Details as to their roles are under wraps. Directed by Tyler Spindel (The Out-Laws), the film’s ensemble also includes Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Damon Wayans Jr., Brianne Howey, and Chris Geere, as we were first to report.
In the film written by Julie Paiva, we follow Lainy (Schumer), who given jealousy over her best friend’s pregnancy, begins wearing a fake baby bump… then accidentally meeting the man of her dreams. In addition to Schumer, producers on the project include Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Judit Maull, Kevin Grady and Eli Thomas for Happy Madison, Molly Sims for Something Happy Productions, and Alex Saks for Saks Picture Company.
Details as to their roles are under wraps. Directed by Tyler Spindel (The Out-Laws), the film’s ensemble also includes Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Damon Wayans Jr., Brianne Howey, and Chris Geere, as we were first to report.
In the film written by Julie Paiva, we follow Lainy (Schumer), who given jealousy over her best friend’s pregnancy, begins wearing a fake baby bump… then accidentally meeting the man of her dreams. In addition to Schumer, producers on the project include Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Judit Maull, Kevin Grady and Eli Thomas for Happy Madison, Molly Sims for Something Happy Productions, and Alex Saks for Saks Picture Company.
- 3/19/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
He might be technically retired from what we consider regular fiction filmmaking, but since his TIFF premiered Her Smell back in 2018 Alex Ross Perry‘s output has been fruitful, plentiful and now we this hybrid we can say imaginative and not trapped by conformity. Announced late last year, the project as Perry called it will be a mix of items tossed into a blender. Putting together the members of Pavement, Zoe Lister-Jones, Michael Esper and Kathryn Gallagher, the behind the line crew folk include cinematography Robert Kolodny and editor Robert Greene. Perry first visited Park City for Listen Up Philip in 2014.…...
- 11/17/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Her Smell” director Alex Ross Perry is developing two nonfiction projects, including the as-yet-untitled doc about video stores.
“I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,” he tells Variety at Poland’s American Film Festival, where he also picked the Indie Star Award and treated the audience to work-in-progress footage.
“I’m trying to tell this story while it’s still within our grasp. You only have so much time when something is both a present tense memory for one half of your audience and a completely new experience for another. In another decade, everything I’m talking about will be ancient history.”
Perry, who has been working on the project for 10 years, is also putting finishing touches on “Pavements,” about an indie rock band.
“I think both this video store movie and the Pavement movie are examinations of the unexamined era,” he says.
“It was something...
“I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,” he tells Variety at Poland’s American Film Festival, where he also picked the Indie Star Award and treated the audience to work-in-progress footage.
“I’m trying to tell this story while it’s still within our grasp. You only have so much time when something is both a present tense memory for one half of your audience and a completely new experience for another. In another decade, everything I’m talking about will be ancient history.”
Perry, who has been working on the project for 10 years, is also putting finishing touches on “Pavements,” about an indie rock band.
“I think both this video store movie and the Pavement movie are examinations of the unexamined era,” he says.
“It was something...
- 11/12/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
More than 90 feature films showcasing the best in U.S. moviemaking will take center stage next month at Poland’s American Film Festival (Aff), whose 14th edition takes place Nov. 7 – 12 in Wrocław, Poland.
Founded in 2010 as the sister event of the long-running New Horizons Film Festival, the Aff bills itself as the first film event in Central Europe solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema.
In putting together the program for the 14th edition, festival director Ula Śniegowska says she and the programming team spent the past year “scouting the festivals and trying to get our hands on the pulse of what’s happening in American auteur and independent film.” The festival, which includes titles that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes and other leading fests, is similar in spirit to France’s long-running Deauville American Film Festival, which mounted its 49th edition this year.
Founded in 2010 as the sister event of the long-running New Horizons Film Festival, the Aff bills itself as the first film event in Central Europe solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema.
In putting together the program for the 14th edition, festival director Ula Śniegowska says she and the programming team spent the past year “scouting the festivals and trying to get our hands on the pulse of what’s happening in American auteur and independent film.” The festival, which includes titles that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes and other leading fests, is similar in spirit to France’s long-running Deauville American Film Festival, which mounted its 49th edition this year.
- 10/24/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
It’s not much of a spoiler to say that the final image of Sean Price Williams’s solo feature directorial debut, The Sweet East, is that of Talia Ryder’s Lillian nonchalantly strolling toward and past the camera, a smirk on her face. That’s effectively the whole vibe of the film, an odyssey that traipses through the world of white supremacist academics, PizzaGate conspiracy theorists, self-satisfied filmmakers, mixed-media artists of questionable talent, and religious zealots. And as these various figure heads of a post-whatever world aspire to approximate, at once, political and social fragmentation, reactionaryism, delusion, provocation, and apathy, there Lilian is, eyes like butterfly knives being toyed with by a bored teenager.
As a cinematographer, Price Williams made a name for himself working with filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry and Josh and Benny Safdie, lending their films an earthy sense of immediacy. On 16mm, his images burn...
As a cinematographer, Price Williams made a name for himself working with filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry and Josh and Benny Safdie, lending their films an earthy sense of immediacy. On 16mm, his images burn...
- 9/27/2023
- by Kyle Turner
- Slant Magazine
This year marks 30 years since Bob Byington’s first feature, though it’s only during the last 15 of those — since SXSW midnight-movie breakout “Rso: Registered Sex Offender” — that the Austin-based director has enjoyed “indie darling” status. During that same stretch, the cultural discourse has changed a great deal, while Byington’s voice remains remarkably (if somewhat frustratingly) consistent, churning out self-deprecating feature-length sitcoms about flaccid man-babies. Those aren’t the kind of movies American festivals are looking for so much anymore, which could explain why his latest, “Lousy Carter,” wound up premiering abroad, at the Locarno Film Festival.
Locarno’s programmers typically gravitate toward austere, experimental and/or formally audacious works of cinema. “Lousy Carter” is none of these things, but neither is it lousy. That unfortunate moniker belongs to the film’s lead character, a lumpy failed animator turned tenured literature professor, who’s rendered all the more pathetic...
Locarno’s programmers typically gravitate toward austere, experimental and/or formally audacious works of cinema. “Lousy Carter” is none of these things, but neither is it lousy. That unfortunate moniker belongs to the film’s lead character, a lumpy failed animator turned tenured literature professor, who’s rendered all the more pathetic...
- 8/9/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
This Barbie is part film programmer.
Hari Nef makes history at Mubi with the Hand-Picked by Hari Nef curated series, the first of its kind for the streaming and distribution platform.
The “Barbie” and “And Just Like That” actress selected Todd Haynes’ “Safe” and “Velvet Goldmine,” Alex Ross Perry’s “Listen Up Philip,” the fashion documentary “Martin Margiela: In His Own Words,” Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise,” the coming-of-age day-in-the-life “The African Desperate,” Maurice Pialata’s “Loulou” with Isabelle Huppert, Robert Greene’s “Actress,” Shirley Clarke’s documentary “Portrait of Jason,” and cult classic “Center Stage” from the Mubi vault for the inaugural program.
Check out Nef’s full selection, ready to stream, here.
“I was thinking about what resonates with me in film, and it starts with ideas of spectacle, performance, and queerness,” Nef said in a press statement. “I love films about performers, and the confrontation that happens between a person,...
Hari Nef makes history at Mubi with the Hand-Picked by Hari Nef curated series, the first of its kind for the streaming and distribution platform.
The “Barbie” and “And Just Like That” actress selected Todd Haynes’ “Safe” and “Velvet Goldmine,” Alex Ross Perry’s “Listen Up Philip,” the fashion documentary “Martin Margiela: In His Own Words,” Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise,” the coming-of-age day-in-the-life “The African Desperate,” Maurice Pialata’s “Loulou” with Isabelle Huppert, Robert Greene’s “Actress,” Shirley Clarke’s documentary “Portrait of Jason,” and cult classic “Center Stage” from the Mubi vault for the inaugural program.
Check out Nef’s full selection, ready to stream, here.
“I was thinking about what resonates with me in film, and it starts with ideas of spectacle, performance, and queerness,” Nef said in a press statement. “I love films about performers, and the confrontation that happens between a person,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
In all the hubbub around Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming updates this week, nobody bothered to note that we’ve been here before. This isn’t first time a version of the company — or at least a version of it — killed off a finished project for the sake of a write-off with no regard for its creators.
Of course, it’s hard to look at the past when much there is to ponder in the present: “Batgirl” won’t come out but the scandal-ridden “Flash” somehow will; older HBO Max titles have been quietly booted from the service; executives on the earnings call proclaimed confidence in plans to jam together two vastly different streaming services into an amorphous new entity that still has no name.
But let’s step back for a moment and recall some recent history: Remember HBO Go?
Launched in the primordial streaming-war era of 2010, HBO Go...
Of course, it’s hard to look at the past when much there is to ponder in the present: “Batgirl” won’t come out but the scandal-ridden “Flash” somehow will; older HBO Max titles have been quietly booted from the service; executives on the earnings call proclaimed confidence in plans to jam together two vastly different streaming services into an amorphous new entity that still has no name.
But let’s step back for a moment and recall some recent history: Remember HBO Go?
Launched in the primordial streaming-war era of 2010, HBO Go...
- 8/6/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Dree Hemingway (The Unicorn) is the latest addition to the cast of Yale Entertainment’s darkly comedic thriller The Kill Room, from writer Jonathan Jacobson and director Nicol Paone. She joins an ensemble that also includes Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar and Larry Pine, as previously announced.
The Kill Room centers on hitman, Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Hemingway will play Anika, the owner of a successful art gallery that rivals Thurman’s.
Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, and William Rosenfeld of Such Content. Executive producers include Robert Kapp,...
The Kill Room centers on hitman, Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and their money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Hemingway will play Anika, the owner of a successful art gallery that rivals Thurman’s.
Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment, and William Rosenfeld of Such Content. Executive producers include Robert Kapp,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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.
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
In the first hour of Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Dogs, we see the title character running around 1920s Berlin, bumping into eccentric characters at bars and nightclubs while the camera moves and cuts at a whirlwind pace. It’s a time of indulgence and recklessness for Fabian and other young people in Germany, and then he finds himself standing face to face with a young woman in the back of a club. The camera cuts to a rapid-fire montage of both characters together and in love, scenes from later in the film we haven’t gotten to yet. Up to this point, Fabian was living in the present; without warning he begins to see a future,...
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
In the first hour of Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Dogs, we see the title character running around 1920s Berlin, bumping into eccentric characters at bars and nightclubs while the camera moves and cuts at a whirlwind pace. It’s a time of indulgence and recklessness for Fabian and other young people in Germany, and then he finds himself standing face to face with a young woman in the back of a club. The camera cuts to a rapid-fire montage of both characters together and in love, scenes from later in the film we haven’t gotten to yet. Up to this point, Fabian was living in the present; without warning he begins to see a future,...
- 4/15/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Jason Schwartzman, the award-winning actor, writer, director, producer and musician who will next be seen as the lead in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City opposite Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Liev Schreiber, Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie and many more, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas.
Schwartzman has featured in almost all of Anderson’s films, including Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and his recently-released anthology, The French Dispatch. He co-wrote 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited with Anderson and Roman Coppola and shared “Story By” credit on The French Dispatch with Anderson, Coppola and Hugo Guinness, sharing that credit on Isle of Dogs with Anderson, Coppola and Kunichi Nomura.
Schwartzman has also worked with such notable filmmakers as Judd Apatow, David O. Russell, Amy Poehler, Tim Burton, Sofia Coppola and Alex Ross Perry, among others. His film credits also include Sing 2,...
Schwartzman has featured in almost all of Anderson’s films, including Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and his recently-released anthology, The French Dispatch. He co-wrote 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited with Anderson and Roman Coppola and shared “Story By” credit on The French Dispatch with Anderson, Coppola and Hugo Guinness, sharing that credit on Isle of Dogs with Anderson, Coppola and Kunichi Nomura.
Schwartzman has also worked with such notable filmmakers as Judd Apatow, David O. Russell, Amy Poehler, Tim Burton, Sofia Coppola and Alex Ross Perry, among others. His film credits also include Sing 2,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Marlon Brando and Willy Kurant on the set of The Night of the Following Day (1969). The great Belgian cinematographer Willy Kurant has died. During his illustrious career, Kurant worked on films including Agnès Varda's The Creatures, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin, and Orson Welles' The Immortal Story. David Cronenberg has confirmed the title of his next feature film, Crimes of the Future. Sharing the same title as his film from 1970, the film is set to star Kristen Stewart, Lea Seydoux, and Viggo Mortensen.Robert Haller, the Anthology Film Archives Director of Libraries, has also died. As Afa points out in its tribute to Haller, "with 35 years at Anthology all told, only Afa’s founder Jonas Mekas could claim seniority over Haller!" After more than 100 years, Technicolor Post has announced its integration into Streamland Media's postproduction services,...
- 5/5/2021
- MUBI
M-Appeal secures sales at the virtual Cannes market.
Berlin-based M-Appeal has closed Us and UK deals for Berlinale queer award-winner No Hard Feelings.
The romantic drama has been acquired by leading LGBT distributor Tla Releasing, which will represent the film in North American and work with London-based outfit Compulsory on distribution in the UK and Ireland. It is the first move into distribution for London-based production company Compulsory.
The film, which marks the directorial debut of Faraz Shariat, received its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in February, where it won two Teddy Awards including best...
Berlin-based M-Appeal has closed Us and UK deals for Berlinale queer award-winner No Hard Feelings.
The romantic drama has been acquired by leading LGBT distributor Tla Releasing, which will represent the film in North American and work with London-based outfit Compulsory on distribution in the UK and Ireland. It is the first move into distribution for London-based production company Compulsory.
The film, which marks the directorial debut of Faraz Shariat, received its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in February, where it won two Teddy Awards including best...
- 6/26/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
If one were to think of the cinematographers that defined the medium in the last decade, Sean Price Williams would be near the top. From his collaborations with the Safdies to Alex Ross Perry to Kate Plays Christine to Marjorie Prime, his dexterity and kineticism are virtually unparalleled in the field. While he briefly stepped into the director’s chair for the short Sean’s Beach in 2004 and co-directed 2011’s Eyes Find Eyes with Jean-Manuel Fernandez, he’s now eying his solo helming debut.
“There’s a script and some people who are excited about,” Price Williams tells Independent Magazine (via Moviemaker). “It’s a little like Terry Southern’s Candy—[which was] a fun book, a bad movie. It’s about a high school girl, her journey up the East Coast of America encountering one bozo after another… It’s a great script, Nick Pinkerton wrote it.”
Published in 1958, Terry Southern...
“There’s a script and some people who are excited about,” Price Williams tells Independent Magazine (via Moviemaker). “It’s a little like Terry Southern’s Candy—[which was] a fun book, a bad movie. It’s about a high school girl, her journey up the East Coast of America encountering one bozo after another… It’s a great script, Nick Pinkerton wrote it.”
Published in 1958, Terry Southern...
- 2/26/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Carlo Chatrian’s rapid rise to becoming Berlin’s artistic director stems from the steely resolve of a soft-spoken film lover with smarts and a clear sense of what he considers meaningful in contemporary cinema today.
The Italian film critic and curator previously served a five-year stint as artistic director of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. He is considered a bold choice on the part of German culture minister Monika Gruetters, who led the search team for a new Berlinale topper after
longtime director Dieter Kosslick exited last year. Chatrian is tasked with rebooting the Berlinale’s lineup, which Kosslick critics said was too large and favored quantity over quality.
Chatrian says that in his job interview with the culture minister and the selection committee, he “told them what cinema means for me and what I think festivals are.” His vision for Berlin and also what he achieved at Locarno motivated their choice,...
The Italian film critic and curator previously served a five-year stint as artistic director of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. He is considered a bold choice on the part of German culture minister Monika Gruetters, who led the search team for a new Berlinale topper after
longtime director Dieter Kosslick exited last year. Chatrian is tasked with rebooting the Berlinale’s lineup, which Kosslick critics said was too large and favored quantity over quality.
Chatrian says that in his job interview with the culture minister and the selection committee, he “told them what cinema means for me and what I think festivals are.” His vision for Berlin and also what he achieved at Locarno motivated their choice,...
- 2/17/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Actress/model Dree Hemingway ("Starlet"), the daughter of Mariel Hemingway ("Star 80") poses for the December 2019 issue of "Elle" (Spain) magazine, wearing Paco Rabanne fashion, photographed by Xavi Gordo:
The great-granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, Dree first played 'Jane', the lead in the feature "Starlet" (2012).
She was a 'Playboy Playmate' in the first 'non-nude' issue of Playboy magazine (March 2016).
Specializing in independent features, Hemingway had a supporting role in "Listen Up Philip" (2014)...
...and leading roles in "The People Garden" and "Live Cargo".
In 2017, Hemingway appeared in "It Happened in L.A.", "Love After Love", with upcoming films including "7x7", "In a Relationship"...
..."Wanderland", "Run With the Hunted", "The Unicorn" and "Violet".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dree Hemingway...
The great-granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, Dree first played 'Jane', the lead in the feature "Starlet" (2012).
She was a 'Playboy Playmate' in the first 'non-nude' issue of Playboy magazine (March 2016).
Specializing in independent features, Hemingway had a supporting role in "Listen Up Philip" (2014)...
...and leading roles in "The People Garden" and "Live Cargo".
In 2017, Hemingway appeared in "It Happened in L.A.", "Love After Love", with upcoming films including "7x7", "In a Relationship"...
..."Wanderland", "Run With the Hunted", "The Unicorn" and "Violet".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dree Hemingway...
- 12/9/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
“This was definitely the hardest thing I think I’ve ever had to do,” said Elisabeth Moss about her role in “Her Smell,” which she discussed in New York on November 20 after a screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Watch some of her Q&a with writer-director Alex Ross Perry above.
Moss stars as Becky Something, the lead singer of the fictional band Something She whose drug addiction throws her into a personal and career meltdown. This is the actress’s third collaboration with Perry, following “Listen Up Philip” (2014) and “Queen of Earth” (2015), but he keeps finding ways to push her to new extremes. “He can write something that is so challenging for me to do that I feel like maybe I can’t do it,” she explained. “He just believes in me so blindly that I can do it.”
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Moss stars as Becky Something, the lead singer of the fictional band Something She whose drug addiction throws her into a personal and career meltdown. This is the actress’s third collaboration with Perry, following “Listen Up Philip” (2014) and “Queen of Earth” (2015), but he keeps finding ways to push her to new extremes. “He can write something that is so challenging for me to do that I feel like maybe I can’t do it,” she explained. “He just believes in me so blindly that I can do it.”
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- 12/1/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Alex Ross Perry is aware the “Her Smell” awards campaign lacks the money to give his punk rock character study a full blown media blitz, so he’s taking matters into his own hands. Perry has released an open letter campaigning for his leading actress Elisabeth Moss, calling her work as destructive musician Becky Something one of the finest performances of her career.
“Her Smell” landed Moss both a Gotham Award and Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress, but her performance is still considered to be a distant long shot when it comes to the Oscar race. The film is the third collaboration between Perry and Moss after “Listen Up Philip” and “Queen of Earth.” Critics showered Moss with universal praise when the film launched at Tiff 2018. Gunpowder & Sky released the film theatrically in April.
“We weren’t released by a company who would send you a bottle of...
“Her Smell” landed Moss both a Gotham Award and Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress, but her performance is still considered to be a distant long shot when it comes to the Oscar race. The film is the third collaboration between Perry and Moss after “Listen Up Philip” and “Queen of Earth.” Critics showered Moss with universal praise when the film launched at Tiff 2018. Gunpowder & Sky released the film theatrically in April.
“We weren’t released by a company who would send you a bottle of...
- 11/27/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Most times, when a movie or TV show features a fictional band, it takes months or even years for an enterprising artist to design fake merchandise for sale on an unaffiliated third-party apparel outfit. For “Her Smell,” the recent indie drama starring Elisabeth Moss, that wait is a lot closer to non-existent.
As the film makes its way through various theaters across the country, “Her Smell” now has an official merch store, complete with music and apparel from the world of the movie. Directed by screenwriter (and burgeoning awards pundit) Alex Ross Perry, the film follows the trajectory of fictional punk singer Becky Something (Moss). As she navigates the twin burdens of addiction and artistic expectations, the movie tracks Becky’s evolution, as well as those of her band Something She and ascending colleagues The Akergirls.
The collection is a mirror of the merch design in the film. There’s...
As the film makes its way through various theaters across the country, “Her Smell” now has an official merch store, complete with music and apparel from the world of the movie. Directed by screenwriter (and burgeoning awards pundit) Alex Ross Perry, the film follows the trajectory of fictional punk singer Becky Something (Moss). As she navigates the twin burdens of addiction and artistic expectations, the movie tracks Becky’s evolution, as well as those of her band Something She and ascending colleagues The Akergirls.
The collection is a mirror of the merch design in the film. There’s...
- 5/5/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
My first encounter with the work of Alex Ross Perry came in the fall of 2009, at a small festival of extremely low-budget and experimental movies in Chicago. Some friends, long since moved away and lost touch with, had talked me to going into the sole screening of a feature with an odd title. If memory serves, it was the only one in the program to have been shot and projected on film. The movie turned out to be Perry’s debut, Impolex, and though I dread the thought of revisiting whatever it is that I wrote about it at the time, this Thomas Pynchon-inspired surrealist comedy about a narcoleptic World War II soldier who wanders a forest in search of a V-2 rocket left a substantial impression. To be honest, it was probably just as important back then that Perry seemed like one of us. That is, video store people,...
- 4/21/2019
- MUBI
Writer/director Alex Ross Perry (“Listen Up Philip,” “Queen of Earth”) is not interested in making movies the way Hollywood wants him to. He has a very respectable and dense creative process, one that would likely be undermined by the corporate chain of studio hegemony. Clearly, he puts a lot of care into writing his films, and the typical screenplay model, no doubt, does not suit his style.
Continue reading ‘Her Smell’ Director Alex Ross Perry Talks His Writing Process & Why We All Need To Listen To Steven Soderbergh [Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Her Smell’ Director Alex Ross Perry Talks His Writing Process & Why We All Need To Listen To Steven Soderbergh [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 4/19/2019
- by Andrew Bundy
- The Playlist
Alex Ross Perry is definitely a filmmaker that doesn’t like to be put in any sort of box. His early films were these odd, but really fun, comedies like “The Color Wheel” and “Listen Up Philip.” Perry came back with “Queen of Earth,” which is a thriller. He’s also a credited writer on the recent Disney film, “Christopher Robin.” And just last week, his punk rock musical drama “Her Smell” hit theaters.
Continue reading Alex Ross Perry To Write & Direct Feature Film Adaptation Of Stephen King’s ‘Rest Stop’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Alex Ross Perry To Write & Direct Feature Film Adaptation Of Stephen King’s ‘Rest Stop’ at The Playlist.
- 4/19/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Legendary Pictures has tapped Alex Ross Perry to write and direct a new film adaptation of the Stephen King short story “Rest Stop,” Variety is reporting. The short story follows an author who flees the scene after overhearing and breaking up a domestic spat at a rest stop. Initially published in a 2003 issue of Esquire, “Rest Stop” won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2004. It also appears in King’s 2008 story collection “Just After Sunset.”
According to Variety, the film will be a cat-and-mouse thriller following the twisted journey of two women after an encounter at a rest stop. If that is the case, Perry’s script will evidently diverge from the source material in some ways, including swapping the genders of the main character and focusing on two characters instead of one.
Perry is coming off of a critical highlight of his career with “Her Smell,” a dizzying...
According to Variety, the film will be a cat-and-mouse thriller following the twisted journey of two women after an encounter at a rest stop. If that is the case, Perry’s script will evidently diverge from the source material in some ways, including swapping the genders of the main character and focusing on two characters instead of one.
Perry is coming off of a critical highlight of his career with “Her Smell,” a dizzying...
- 4/18/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Alex Ross Perry will write and direct Legendary’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s short story “Rest Stop.”
King’s short, first published in Esquire magazine in 2003, won the national magazine award for fiction in 2004, and was later included in King’s 2008 collection, “Just After Sunset.” The movie is described as a propulsive cat-and-mouse thriller that follows the twisted journey of two women after a fateful encounter at a highway rest stop.
Craig Flores will produce through his Bread & Circuses banner, while Alex Garcia and Ali Mendes will oversee the pic for Legendary.
Another King property, “Pet Sematary,” starring Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz and John Lithgow, opened earlier this month to $25 million. The legendary author also has “It: Chapter Two” and “The Shining” sequel, “Doctor Sleep,” bowing soon.
Perry’s “Her Smell,” with Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne and Dan Stevens, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and opened...
King’s short, first published in Esquire magazine in 2003, won the national magazine award for fiction in 2004, and was later included in King’s 2008 collection, “Just After Sunset.” The movie is described as a propulsive cat-and-mouse thriller that follows the twisted journey of two women after a fateful encounter at a highway rest stop.
Craig Flores will produce through his Bread & Circuses banner, while Alex Garcia and Ali Mendes will oversee the pic for Legendary.
Another King property, “Pet Sematary,” starring Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz and John Lithgow, opened earlier this month to $25 million. The legendary author also has “It: Chapter Two” and “The Shining” sequel, “Doctor Sleep,” bowing soon.
Perry’s “Her Smell,” with Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne and Dan Stevens, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and opened...
- 4/18/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
The cosmos somehow aligned for this to be the weekend in which two headlining actors star as singers in two limited releases that open in the same frame — albeit with quite different stories… In the end, it seems both Gunpowder & Sky’s Her Smell and Bleecker Street’s Teen Spirit mostly split the audiences — or shared them. Her Smell took the edge with the highest per theater average of a crowded weekend. The title grossed $39,058 in the Sunday morning estimate, averaging $13,019 in three locations. Teen Spirit has the second-best PTA. The Bleecker Street release played one more gig than Her Smell. In four theaters, the title starring Elle Fanning grossed $44,361, averaging $11,090.
Only slightly below Teen Spirit in the Sunday estimate is Greenwich Entertainment’s Wild Nights With Emily with Molly Shannon starring as Emily Dickinson. The 2018 SXSW premiere by filmmaker Madeleine Olnek played to $33K in three New York and L.
Only slightly below Teen Spirit in the Sunday estimate is Greenwich Entertainment’s Wild Nights With Emily with Molly Shannon starring as Emily Dickinson. The 2018 SXSW premiere by filmmaker Madeleine Olnek played to $33K in three New York and L.
- 4/14/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
It would appear that “Us” won’t be Elisabeth Moss’ only collaboration with powerhouse production company Blumhouse. The Emmy-winning “Mad Men” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” star has joined “The Invisible Man,” a reboot of the classic monster movie that Jason Blum’s genre-centric studio is producing alongside Universal. Leigh Whannell is helming the project, which was originally announced as part of Universal’s Dark Universe — a venture that was scrapped after the rocky reception to 2017’s “The Mummy.”
It’s been a good month for both Moss and Blumhouse, with “Us” already raking in more than $220 million worldwide against a $20 million budget; its opening-weekend haul of $71 million is the highest ever for a horror film not based on an existing property. The studio behind “Get Out” partnered with director Jordan Peele once again on their continued fruitful collaboration, and Blumhouse may hope to begin a similar relationship with Moss...
It’s been a good month for both Moss and Blumhouse, with “Us” already raking in more than $220 million worldwide against a $20 million budget; its opening-weekend haul of $71 million is the highest ever for a horror film not based on an existing property. The studio behind “Get Out” partnered with director Jordan Peele once again on their continued fruitful collaboration, and Blumhouse may hope to begin a similar relationship with Moss...
- 4/12/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
There’s a temptation to call “Her Smell” a greatest-hits compilation of the films of writer-director Alex Ross Perry. After all, it’s got the pitch-black humor of “The Color Wheel,” the narcissism of artists behaving badly from “Listen Up Philip” and the spectacle of Elisabeth Moss as a character spiraling out of control, just like “Queen of Earth.”
There’s more than a little nihilism in these films, delivered with those laughs that get caught in your throat, and Perry couldn’t be less interested in how likable or redeemable his characters might be. Something of a cult filmmaker until now, Perry calls things as he sees them, and he would appear to see them through the bleakest perspective possible.
But this is new material from the challenging auteur, one that reflects a deeper sense of maturity, displayed mainly in the idea of the possibility of redemption. Moss’ Becky Something,...
There’s more than a little nihilism in these films, delivered with those laughs that get caught in your throat, and Perry couldn’t be less interested in how likable or redeemable his characters might be. Something of a cult filmmaker until now, Perry calls things as he sees them, and he would appear to see them through the bleakest perspective possible.
But this is new material from the challenging auteur, one that reflects a deeper sense of maturity, displayed mainly in the idea of the possibility of redemption. Moss’ Becky Something,...
- 4/12/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
When Robert Greene first looked at the raw footage his longtime friend and collaborator Alex Ross Perry had brought him from the set of “Her Smell,” a familiar feeling began to bubble up in the editing room: They were about to make the greatest goddamn movie of all time. Greene, Perry’s regular editor, laughed at the way they characterized it at the time: “‘People are gonna compare this to “Boogie Nights,” but when we’re done, people are gonna forget how to even say the words ‘Boogie’ and ‘Nights.’ We’re gonna erase that shit from history because of what we’re doing!’”
Speaking over the phone from his house in Missouri, the editor remembered being preemptively stoked for post-production: “We had this incredible Elisabeth Moss performance, we had these amazing shots from [cinematographer] Sean Price Williams, the art direction was fucking spectacular, the lighting was gorgeous, the whole team had come together and delivered.
Speaking over the phone from his house in Missouri, the editor remembered being preemptively stoked for post-production: “We had this incredible Elisabeth Moss performance, we had these amazing shots from [cinematographer] Sean Price Williams, the art direction was fucking spectacular, the lighting was gorgeous, the whole team had come together and delivered.
- 4/12/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald and Jeremy Ford have signed onto the Fear Street movie trilogy from 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.
Leigh Janiak is set to direct the trio of films based on the Fear Street novels by R.L. Stein. The newly cast members join Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch and Benjamin Flores Jr.
Alex Ross Perry, the writer-director behind Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, was earlier attached to helm the Fear Street 2 sequel.
Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and ...
Leigh Janiak is set to direct the trio of films based on the Fear Street novels by R.L. Stein. The newly cast members join Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch and Benjamin Flores Jr.
Alex Ross Perry, the writer-director behind Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, was earlier attached to helm the Fear Street 2 sequel.
Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and ...
- 3/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald and Jeremy Ford have signed onto the Fear Street movie trilogy from 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.
Leigh Janiak is set to direct the trio of films based on the Fear Street novels by R.L. Stein. The newly cast members join Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch and Benjamin Flores Jr.
Alex Ross Perry, the writer-director behind Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, was earlier attached to helm the Fear Street 2 sequel.
Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and ...
Leigh Janiak is set to direct the trio of films based on the Fear Street novels by R.L. Stein. The newly cast members join Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch and Benjamin Flores Jr.
Alex Ross Perry, the writer-director behind Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, was earlier attached to helm the Fear Street 2 sequel.
Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and ...
- 3/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elisabeth Moss has carved out a successful career in both film and television. On the television side, she’s received critical acclaim for her work on Mad Men, Top of the Lake, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Cinema wise she has a long standing collaboration with director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip, Queen of [...]
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- 3/26/2019
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Publicist Adam Kersh has left Brigade Marketing, the marketing firm he co-founded in 2010. Kersh headed up the traditional publicity division and will continue to work on a freelance basis with many of the filmmakers for whom he spearheaded campaigns in the past, including Mark and Jay Duplass, Lynn Shelton, and Sean Baker.
No successor has been announced at the company, but co-founder Tom Cunha will continue to oversee the digital marketing division along with the publicity side of the firm for the foreseeable future.
“I am moving in a new direction professionally,” Kersh wrote to industry peers in an email today, but declined to offer further details on his next moves. Other sources confirmed that he would continue to work with his roster of clients at the SXSW Film Festival this year while exploring new opportunities beyond publicity.
“Since Brigade’s founding, Adam has played an instrumental role in Brigade’s growth and success,...
No successor has been announced at the company, but co-founder Tom Cunha will continue to oversee the digital marketing division along with the publicity side of the firm for the foreseeable future.
“I am moving in a new direction professionally,” Kersh wrote to industry peers in an email today, but declined to offer further details on his next moves. Other sources confirmed that he would continue to work with his roster of clients at the SXSW Film Festival this year while exploring new opportunities beyond publicity.
“Since Brigade’s founding, Adam has played an instrumental role in Brigade’s growth and success,...
- 2/28/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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.
Border (Ali Abbasi)
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” At a glance, you might conclude that that line from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has provided the foundations for pretty much every decent monster movie since James Whale adapted the text back in 1931; perhaps even before. This delightfully grungy and ethereal contemporary horror from Iranian-born, Denmark-based Ali Abbasi concerns a romance between two creatures who happen to be feeling out those opposite warring sides. One is attempting to satisfy a...
Border (Ali Abbasi)
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” At a glance, you might conclude that that line from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has provided the foundations for pretty much every decent monster movie since James Whale adapted the text back in 1931; perhaps even before. This delightfully grungy and ethereal contemporary horror from Iranian-born, Denmark-based Ali Abbasi concerns a romance between two creatures who happen to be feeling out those opposite warring sides. One is attempting to satisfy a...
- 2/22/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"You're a mess." "No, you're a mess." Gunpowder & Sky has released a new, full-length trailer for Alex Ross Perry's latest, titled Her Smell, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. This received some rave reviews from critics, another music film following so many others from the festival circuit last year. Elisabeth Moss (who also starred in Alex Ross Perry's films Queen of Earth and Listen Up Philip) plays a self-destructive punk rocker named Becky Something who struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. The impressive cast includes Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Dylan Gelula, Amber Heard, Eric Stoltz, with Virginia Madsen. This looks like a wild 'n crazy punk rock drama with all the usual punk nonsense. Here's the full-length official trailer for Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell, direct from G&S's YouTube...
- 2/21/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Elisabeth Moss plays guitar and sings a grungy anthem about flirting with death in the trailer for Her Smell, a new film by Alex Ross Perry. Her blonde hair and the tone of the song, a cover of the Only Ones’ “Another Girl Another Planet,” recall Hole and Courtney Love. But despite the glee she feels onstage, the clip shows that Moss’ character, Becky Something, has a darker side.
“Becky Something, she’s a woman,” Agyness Deyn’s character, Marielle, tells her. Something rejoins, “She’s a user.” “You’re a mother.
“Becky Something, she’s a woman,” Agyness Deyn’s character, Marielle, tells her. Something rejoins, “She’s a user.” “You’re a mother.
- 2/21/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Elisabeth Moss has become one of television’s most powerhouse performers thanks to her Emmy-winning role on Hulu’s drama series “The Handmaid’s Tale” — not to mention seven previous Emmy nominations (six for “Mad Men” and one for “Top of the Lake”) — and now she’s about to become the same on the big screen thanks to “Her Smell.” The punk music drama reunites Moss with her “Listen Up Philip” and “Queen of Earth” director Alex Ross Perry, but never has the actress gotten this volatile and monstrous of a role to sink her teeth into.
“Her Smell” stars Moss as Becky Something, the lead singer of the all-female punk group Something She. Perry’s script uses a five-act structure that tells Becky’s entire story through fiv extended scenes that match the character’s drug-raddled claustrophobia and emotional release. Becky has a young daughter but has not given up her hardcore punk edge,...
“Her Smell” stars Moss as Becky Something, the lead singer of the all-female punk group Something She. Perry’s script uses a five-act structure that tells Becky’s entire story through fiv extended scenes that match the character’s drug-raddled claustrophobia and emotional release. Becky has a young daughter but has not given up her hardcore punk edge,...
- 2/21/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Alex Ross Perry, best known for such independent films as “Listen Up Philip” and “Queen of Earth,” has been announced as the director of “Fear Street 2.” The second in a trilogy of adaptations based on “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine’s spooky book series of the same name, this new project isn’t Perry’s first brush with studio fare — that would be last year’s “Christopher Robin,” which he co-wrote. 20th Century Fox is producing and distributing the “Fear Street” triptych, with Leigh Janiak directing the first and third installments.
Here’s the synopsis: ” In 1978, Camp Nightwing is divided by the campers and counselors who hail from the of prosperous town of Sunnyvale and the campers and maintenance staffers from the downtrodden town of Shadyside, but when horrors from their towns’ shared history come alive, they must band together to solve a terrifying mystery before it’s too late.”
Perry...
Here’s the synopsis: ” In 1978, Camp Nightwing is divided by the campers and counselors who hail from the of prosperous town of Sunnyvale and the campers and maintenance staffers from the downtrodden town of Shadyside, but when horrors from their towns’ shared history come alive, they must band together to solve a terrifying mystery before it’s too late.”
Perry...
- 1/25/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Writer-director Alex Ross Perry (“Listen Up Philip”) has signed on to direct “Fear Street 2,” the second film in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming planned trilogy of films based on the R.L. Stine book series of the same name, individuals with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Leigh Janiak (“Honeymoon”), who penned the screenplays and was previously reported to be directing all three films, is still directing the first and third films. Chernin Entertainment is producing.
The trilogy had been targeted for release next year as a series, with each film coming out in theaters a month apart. One insider said the second film is slated to shoot this summer.
A rep for the studio declined to comment.
Also Read: Elisabeth Moss Drama 'Her Smell' Lands at Gunpowder & Sky
R.L. Stine wrote the “Fear Street” book about three years prior to writing the “Goosebumps” novels. While the “Goosebumps...
Leigh Janiak (“Honeymoon”), who penned the screenplays and was previously reported to be directing all three films, is still directing the first and third films. Chernin Entertainment is producing.
The trilogy had been targeted for release next year as a series, with each film coming out in theaters a month apart. One insider said the second film is slated to shoot this summer.
A rep for the studio declined to comment.
Also Read: Elisabeth Moss Drama 'Her Smell' Lands at Gunpowder & Sky
R.L. Stine wrote the “Fear Street” book about three years prior to writing the “Goosebumps” novels. While the “Goosebumps...
- 1/25/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Indie mainstay Alex Ross Perry, the writer-director behind Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, has signed on to direct Fear Street 2 for 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.
The sequel is the second in a planned trilogy of films based on R.L. Stine's teen horror book series of the same name. Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and was also markedly adult and more violent).
The stories in the books were set in the fictional town of Shadyside, Ohio, spanned different ...
The sequel is the second in a planned trilogy of films based on R.L. Stine's teen horror book series of the same name. Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and was also markedly adult and more violent).
The stories in the books were set in the fictional town of Shadyside, Ohio, spanned different ...
- 1/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indie mainstay Alex Ross Perry, the writer-director behind Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, has signed on to direct Fear Street 2 for 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.
The sequel is the second in a planned trilogy of films based on R.L. Stine's teen horror book series of the same name. Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and was also markedly adult and more violent).
The stories in the books were set in the fictional town of Shadyside, Ohio, spanned different ...
The sequel is the second in a planned trilogy of films based on R.L. Stine's teen horror book series of the same name. Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumps series and was aimed at older teens (and was also markedly adult and more violent).
The stories in the books were set in the fictional town of Shadyside, Ohio, spanned different ...
- 1/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Now that the Los Angeles Film Festival is no more, AFI Fest is more important than ever. It was the premier event of its kind even before its crosstown rival announced its permanent closure late last month, but now that it’s the only game in town, it’s unmissable. This year’s edition of the last major festival of the calendar year comes with a handful world premieres — “On the Basis of Sex,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” and “Bird Box” — and a robust slate of offerings from the likes of Berlin, Cannes, and Venice.
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
- 11/8/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Van Toffler’s Gunpowder & Sky has acquired domestic rights to Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, the punk-rock ode chronicling the fall and rise of a ’90s riot grrrl played by Emmy-winning actress Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Mad Men).
The film marks the third collaboration between Moss and Perry, whose credits include Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth. The deal comes on the heels of the pic’s opening-weekend screening at the New York Film Festival and follows its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Co-founded by Floris Bauer, Gunpowder & Sky is planning a theatrical release ...
The film marks the third collaboration between Moss and Perry, whose credits include Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth. The deal comes on the heels of the pic’s opening-weekend screening at the New York Film Festival and follows its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Co-founded by Floris Bauer, Gunpowder & Sky is planning a theatrical release ...
- 10/4/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Van Toffler’s Gunpowder & Sky has acquired domestic rights to Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, the punk-rock ode chronicling the fall and rise of a ’90s riot grrrl played by Emmy-winning actress Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Mad Men).
The film marks the third collaboration between Moss and Perry, whose credits include Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth. The deal comes on the heels of the pic’s opening-weekend screening at the New York Film Festival and follows its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Co-founded by Floris Bauer, Gunpowder & Sky is planning a theatrical release ...
The film marks the third collaboration between Moss and Perry, whose credits include Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth. The deal comes on the heels of the pic’s opening-weekend screening at the New York Film Festival and follows its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Co-founded by Floris Bauer, Gunpowder & Sky is planning a theatrical release ...
- 10/4/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elisabeth Moss puts it all out there as the strung-out rock star at the center of “Her Smell.”
The Alex Ross Perry drama earned raves for the Emmy winner when it screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with many critics noting that the drug-addled, hard-partying singer is a change of pace role for Moss who tends to portray more outwardly composed characters in shows such as “Mad Men.” Moss learned to play the guitar and does her own singing in the film, a stretch that she found alternately terrifying and exhilarating.
“Her Smell” is Moss’s third collaboration with Perry — the two previously worked together on “Listen Up Philip” and “Queen of Earth.” On the eve of the film’s Toronto debut, Moss spoke with Variety about drawing on Axl Rose for inspiration, the feminist side of punk rock, and why she thinks her Hulu hit “The...
The Alex Ross Perry drama earned raves for the Emmy winner when it screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with many critics noting that the drug-addled, hard-partying singer is a change of pace role for Moss who tends to portray more outwardly composed characters in shows such as “Mad Men.” Moss learned to play the guitar and does her own singing in the film, a stretch that she found alternately terrifying and exhilarating.
“Her Smell” is Moss’s third collaboration with Perry — the two previously worked together on “Listen Up Philip” and “Queen of Earth.” On the eve of the film’s Toronto debut, Moss spoke with Variety about drawing on Axl Rose for inspiration, the feminist side of punk rock, and why she thinks her Hulu hit “The...
- 9/17/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In “Her Smell,” Elisabeth Moss tears into the role of Becky Something, a strung-out hellion indie rock star of the early ’90s, like an angry lioness ripping through a slab of raw meat. Just taking on the part of a rock ‘n’ roller represents a major change of pace for Moss, who has tended to play cautious and pensive characters. But in “Her Smell,” Moss doesn’t just “let loose”. She dives headfirst into crazy, abandoned, fuck-it-all grunge narcissism. She plays Becky as a walking train wreck of borderline personality disorder who has elevated herself into a theatrically self-destructive druggie dominatrix. Becky may be an unholy terror, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a star. The stardom and the rancid solipsism are two sides of the same spectacularly damaged coin, and Moss herself has the star quality, and the fearlessness, to pull that off.
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- 9/16/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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