Rachel Weisz in ‘Dead Ringers’ (Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise/Prime Video)
As a horror fan, I was delighted that 2023 not only delivered some top-notch genre films but also that there were enough directed by women to create a 10 best list. Women created a diverse array of horror from psychological thrillers to over-the-top gore comedy to creature features. They looked beyond just final girls to create fascinating, flawed, and sometimes deeply disturbed characters.
I measure progress not by how many positive female characters we get on screen but rather by the diversity and depth of the women driving the stories we see. Kudos to the female talent in front of and behind the camera that created these bold, original works in 2023.
2023’s Top 10 Horror Projects Directed By Women
1. Dead Ringers
Key women creatives: Executive producer/star: Rachel Weisz; showrunner: Alice Birch; directors: Lauren Wolkstein, Karena Evans, Karyn Kusama; writers: Miriam Battye,...
As a horror fan, I was delighted that 2023 not only delivered some top-notch genre films but also that there were enough directed by women to create a 10 best list. Women created a diverse array of horror from psychological thrillers to over-the-top gore comedy to creature features. They looked beyond just final girls to create fascinating, flawed, and sometimes deeply disturbed characters.
I measure progress not by how many positive female characters we get on screen but rather by the diversity and depth of the women driving the stories we see. Kudos to the female talent in front of and behind the camera that created these bold, original works in 2023.
2023’s Top 10 Horror Projects Directed By Women
1. Dead Ringers
Key women creatives: Executive producer/star: Rachel Weisz; showrunner: Alice Birch; directors: Lauren Wolkstein, Karena Evans, Karyn Kusama; writers: Miriam Battye,...
- 1/20/2024
- by Beth Accomando
- Showbiz Junkies
On Aug. 3, Prime Video and Variety collaborated to host Master Crafts at Nya Studios East, an event featuring the Emmy-nominated artisans behind Prime Video’s shows.
Moderated by Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay, the five panels included “Music to Our Ears,” with music supervisors, sound editors and mixers; “World Building” with cinematographers, production designers and a VFX supervisor; “Looking the Part,” with costume designers and makeup artists; “Names and Faces” with casting directors; and “The Final Cut” with producers.
The creatives behind critically acclaimed shows such as “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Daisy Jones and the Six,” “Jury Duty,” “Swarm,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” “Judy Blume Forever,” and “Dead Ringers” participated in the event. Speaking on a wide range of topics, the panelists drew back the curtain on some of this year’s most popular shows and explained how they brought them to life on screen.
Moderated by Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay, the five panels included “Music to Our Ears,” with music supervisors, sound editors and mixers; “World Building” with cinematographers, production designers and a VFX supervisor; “Looking the Part,” with costume designers and makeup artists; “Names and Faces” with casting directors; and “The Final Cut” with producers.
The creatives behind critically acclaimed shows such as “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Daisy Jones and the Six,” “Jury Duty,” “Swarm,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” “Judy Blume Forever,” and “Dead Ringers” participated in the event. Speaking on a wide range of topics, the panelists drew back the curtain on some of this year’s most popular shows and explained how they brought them to life on screen.
- 8/16/2023
- by Jaden Thompson and Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
With Earth Mama, writer-director Savanah Leaf seems to be taking up James Baldwin’s evergreen adage that “anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” As the pregnant Gia (Tia Nomore) fights a foster care system on multiple fronts, Leaf throws us, head-first and in anxiety-inducing fashion, into the middle of an interlocking system of structural inequality seemingly designed to keep people trapped in cycles of hopelessness, in the process tearing families apart.
When we meet the single mother of two in Oakland’s backwater streets, Gia has already been stripped of most of her parental rights thanks to, we learn, a history of drug addiction. Though steadfast in her determination to prove to the courts that she’s a committed mother, Gia is hamstrung by the impossible and incompatible expectations that she somehow work enough to pay off child support, fit...
When we meet the single mother of two in Oakland’s backwater streets, Gia has already been stripped of most of her parental rights thanks to, we learn, a history of drug addiction. Though steadfast in her determination to prove to the courts that she’s a committed mother, Gia is hamstrung by the impossible and incompatible expectations that she somehow work enough to pay off child support, fit...
- 6/30/2023
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes says that shooting an actor playing twins is like learning a new filmmaking language. By now, he’s fluent. Lipes lensed all six episodes of the 2020 HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True, with Mark Ruffalo playing identical twins. As an added complication, the coverage of each brother was shot months apart as Ruffalo took a hiatus to gain 30 pounds to physically transform himself into the other sibling. On the new Amazon series Dead Ringers, it’s Rachel Weisz starring as twin New York City gynecologists who meet a tragic end. The show is a […]
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- 5/31/2023
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes says that shooting an actor playing twins is like learning a new filmmaking language. By now, he’s fluent. Lipes lensed all six episodes of the 2020 HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True, with Mark Ruffalo playing identical twins. As an added complication, the coverage of each brother was shot months apart as Ruffalo took a hiatus to gain 30 pounds to physically transform himself into the other sibling. On the new Amazon series Dead Ringers, it’s Rachel Weisz starring as twin New York City gynecologists who meet a tragic end. The show is a […]
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- 5/31/2023
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
On “Dead Ringers,” the Amazon Prime Video series based on David Cronenberg’s 1988 film, Rachel Weisz stars as twin Ob-GYNs Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who share everything from drugs and lovers to ethically questionable methods for pushing women’s health forward. They also share the frame in an enormous number of scenes over the course of all six episodes of “Dead Ringers,” which created significant challenges for both Weisz and visual effects supervisor Eric Pascarelli.
Pascarelli, who was tasked with creating seamless images in which Weisz could act opposite herself as the twins, had previous experience from the 2020 HBO limited series “I Know This Much Is True,” starring Mark Ruffalo as twins that guided him on “Dead Ringers.” “The secret of the visual effects is a great actor,” Pascarelli told IndieWire. “Acting itself is a visual effect.”
Because Pascarelli knew “Dead Ringers” would live or die on the strength of Weisz’s performances,...
Pascarelli, who was tasked with creating seamless images in which Weisz could act opposite herself as the twins, had previous experience from the 2020 HBO limited series “I Know This Much Is True,” starring Mark Ruffalo as twins that guided him on “Dead Ringers.” “The secret of the visual effects is a great actor,” Pascarelli told IndieWire. “Acting itself is a visual effect.”
Because Pascarelli knew “Dead Ringers” would live or die on the strength of Weisz’s performances,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
This is turning into a banner year for movies shot on Kodak film, led by such Oscar hopefuls as Christopher Nolan’s IMAX’d “Oppenheimer” biopic, Martin Scorsese’s first Western, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein film, “Maestro,” Wes Anderson’s latest, “Asteroid City,” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ subversive “Frankenstein” re-imagining “Poor Things.”
And those are just the prestige films.
Likewise, Cannes Film Festival boasted 29 features and shorts shot on Kodak film, including such Oscar hopefuls as Martin Scorsese’s first Western “Killers of the Flower Moon,” (shot by Rodrigo Prieto), Wes Anderson’s ’50s sci-fi comedy-drama, “Asteroid City” (shot by Robert Yeoman) Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak,” about a pub in tension-filled Northeast England, (shot by Robbie Ryan), and Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II (shot by Lennert Hillege).
Four on-film entries compete for the Palme d’Or.
And those are just the prestige films.
Likewise, Cannes Film Festival boasted 29 features and shorts shot on Kodak film, including such Oscar hopefuls as Martin Scorsese’s first Western “Killers of the Flower Moon,” (shot by Rodrigo Prieto), Wes Anderson’s ’50s sci-fi comedy-drama, “Asteroid City” (shot by Robert Yeoman) Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak,” about a pub in tension-filled Northeast England, (shot by Robbie Ryan), and Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II (shot by Lennert Hillege).
Four on-film entries compete for the Palme d’Or.
- 4/7/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Taking place between March 29 and April 9 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center, the 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films will commence with Savanah Leaf’s superb debut (and Sundance stand-out) Earth Mama, close with Vuk Lungolov-Klotz’s Mutt (winner of Best Actor at Sundance), and in-between showcase films from 41 directors––27 features, 11 shorts, and (I just counted) most continents.
So says La Frances Hui, Curator at MoMA’s Department of Film and Nd/Nf’s Co-chair: “This geographically diverse lineup brings together new directors from all over the world presenting works that make bold and creative statements on everything from identity and family to political repression and postcolonial discourse. The power of cinema to inspire imagination and explore perspectives is evident in the wide range of styles, ideas, and voices in the selection.”
See the full lineup below, including links to our reviews where available,...
So says La Frances Hui, Curator at MoMA’s Department of Film and Nd/Nf’s Co-chair: “This geographically diverse lineup brings together new directors from all over the world presenting works that make bold and creative statements on everything from identity and family to political repression and postcolonial discourse. The power of cinema to inspire imagination and explore perspectives is evident in the wide range of styles, ideas, and voices in the selection.”
See the full lineup below, including links to our reviews where available,...
- 2/28/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
BAFTA and SAG Award nominee Eddie Redmayne (“The Good Nurse”) recently chatted with Gold Derby’s Denton Davidson about his process for portraying serial killer nurse Charles Cullen. Redmayne goes to truly dark depths for this role in the Netflix psychological drama. It’s a noticeable change of pace for the popular British actor who normally plays heroic figures on the big screen, including when he won the Best Actor Oscar for “The Theory of Everything” (2014).
Redmayne takes us behind the scenes on how the script for “The Good Nurse” first came to him, what it was like working with director Tobias Lindholm and co-star Jessica Chastain, and the film’s wild success on Netflix. As for what enticed him to do the project, he tells us, “It had this sort of label of true crime, but as it unraveled, it seemed almost genreless. It refused to be boxed.”
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Redmayne takes us behind the scenes on how the script for “The Good Nurse” first came to him, what it was like working with director Tobias Lindholm and co-star Jessica Chastain, and the film’s wild success on Netflix. As for what enticed him to do the project, he tells us, “It had this sort of label of true crime, but as it unraveled, it seemed almost genreless. It refused to be boxed.”
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- 2/15/2023
- by Latasha Ford and Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
IndieWire has published its extensive survey regarding the cameras and lenses that shot 40 narrative films at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. We took the data and organize it in order to find a segmentation and tendency, by also comparing it to the previous years. The Arri Alexa Mini remains the king. However, diversity is significantly reduced. No Red, no Blackmagic, and no mirrorless. That’s unfortunate.
Sundance 2023: Camera manufacturers’ chart Sundance Film Festival 2023
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016 (yeah – that’s insane). It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort, and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films,...
Sundance 2023: Camera manufacturers’ chart Sundance Film Festival 2023
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016 (yeah – that’s insane). It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort, and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Yossy Mendelovich
- YMCinema
Conceived with a remarkable amount of filmmaking confidence, Savanah Leaf’s directorial debut Earth Mama follows the trials and tribulations of a pregnant single mother struggling to get by day-to-day, restricted to seeing her other two children, currently in foster care, only one hour per week during supervised visits. With a history of drug addiction, she must find her way through a system that stacks the odds against her, exploring the possibilities of adoption and the pain of knowing the court may immediately take away her soon-to-be-born baby. It’s a difficult, demanding portrait of a life in shambles, susceptible to being relegated to poverty porn or a social-realistic bent that surrenders to one-note misery. It’s a miracle, then, that Olympian-turned-director Leaf finds both the humanity and beauty of every frame, bringing empathy to an impossible situation and delivering an abundance of grace notes.
Drawing from her previous documentary short The Heart Still Hums,...
Drawing from her previous documentary short The Heart Still Hums,...
- 1/22/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Savanah Leaf’s Earth Mama is a melancholic story transformed into a precious portrait by the director’s generous and nurturing eye. She digs into the familiar landscape of a Black mother facing an oppressive legal system and pulls from it the most unexpected and humanizing details. She observes them with a loving curiosity, and then asks viewers to do the same.
The opening scenes of Earth Mama sketch out the life of 24-year-old Gia (an arresting Tia Nomore), who is pregnant with her third child while trying to regain custody of her first two. We see her at her job as a photographer’s assistant in those portrait studios in the mall that deal in passport photos and tropical vacation backgrounds. The sound of a shuttering camera soundtracks Gia’s gaze — she stares longingly at a couple posing with their newborn. In the next scene Gia’s debit card...
The opening scenes of Earth Mama sketch out the life of 24-year-old Gia (an arresting Tia Nomore), who is pregnant with her third child while trying to regain custody of her first two. We see her at her job as a photographer’s assistant in those portrait studios in the mall that deal in passport photos and tropical vacation backgrounds. The sound of a shuttering camera soundtracks Gia’s gaze — she stares longingly at a couple posing with their newborn. In the next scene Gia’s debit card...
- 1/21/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film hasn’t often been kind to young Black mothers like Gia in “Earth Mama.” Too often, women who are struggling to do the best they can by their children are blamed for their own circumstances. The presumption is they have squandered their opportunities to live and do better, but the problem, as “Earth Mama” illustrates, is too often they haven’t been given shoes, let alone bootstraps.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Gia (played by Tia Nomore) is a young mother whose two children have been taken by the state. That means she gets to see them only an hour a week during supervised visits. On top of that, she is weeks from delivering another child. Still, despite being on the brink of labor, she makes those visits, and as the film shows, that is, in and of itself, a feat that should be applauded, even as...
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Gia (played by Tia Nomore) is a young mother whose two children have been taken by the state. That means she gets to see them only an hour a week during supervised visits. On top of that, she is weeks from delivering another child. Still, despite being on the brink of labor, she makes those visits, and as the film shows, that is, in and of itself, a feat that should be applauded, even as...
- 1/21/2023
- by Ronda Racha Penrice
- The Wrap
As movie titles go, “Earth Mama” has a nice ring to it, though “Birth Mother” probably would have been a better fit for former Olympian turned filmmaker Savanah Leaf’s feature debut. Building on questions asked in her award-winning 2020 short “The Heart Still Hums” — an artful inquiry into the social challenges that made possible her sister’s adoption — the helmer turns an empathetic spotlight on the kind of woman society judges most harshly: a single Black mother on the brink of poverty who gives in to her addictions while pregnant.
The system is clear in such cases. Drug use counts as child abuse when a fetus is involved, and automatic protections kick in to separate a newborn that tests positive for methamphetamines from its mother. That’s what happened to Leaf’s sister, Corinna. Ergo, you might expect the director to approach the phenomenon from the adopted kid’s point of view.
The system is clear in such cases. Drug use counts as child abuse when a fetus is involved, and automatic protections kick in to separate a newborn that tests positive for methamphetamines from its mother. That’s what happened to Leaf’s sister, Corinna. Ergo, you might expect the director to approach the phenomenon from the adopted kid’s point of view.
- 1/20/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
“The Good Nurse” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11, 2022 and is available to stream on Netflix on October 26. Critics are giving high marks to the film from director Tobias Lindholm, cementing its place in the Oscar conversation this awards season. The cast is led by Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne and tells the true story of Amy Loughren, a nurse suspicious that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths. With a score of 77 on Rotten Tomatoes, let’s look at what some critics are saying.
According to Gold Derby’s odds, Redmayne is in the best position to return to the Oscars for playing against type in this sinister role. He ranks ninth in our Best Supporting Actor odds with support of four experts: Christopher Rosen, Wilson Morales, Andrea Mandell and Shawn Edwards (who currently predicts the “Theory...
According to Gold Derby’s odds, Redmayne is in the best position to return to the Oscars for playing against type in this sinister role. He ranks ninth in our Best Supporting Actor odds with support of four experts: Christopher Rosen, Wilson Morales, Andrea Mandell and Shawn Edwards (who currently predicts the “Theory...
- 10/25/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
Writer, director, show runner Tobias Lindholm discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Tobias Lindholm
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Good Nurse (2022)
1917 (2019) – Dennis Cozzalio on the films of 2109
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Another Round (2020)
The Hunt (2012)
A Hijacking (2012)
A War (2015)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Beat Street (1984)
Style Wars (1983)
*Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960)
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (1962)
Pretty Woman (1990) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
*Klute (1971) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
*A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
*One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary
The Godfather (1972) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
*The Verdict (1982)
Tar (2022)
The Celebration (1998)
*Sea Of Love (1989)
Clockers (1995)
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
M (1931)
*Se7en (1995)
Citizen Kane (1941) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson...
Tobias Lindholm
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Good Nurse (2022)
1917 (2019) – Dennis Cozzalio on the films of 2109
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Another Round (2020)
The Hunt (2012)
A Hijacking (2012)
A War (2015)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Beat Street (1984)
Style Wars (1983)
*Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960)
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (1962)
Pretty Woman (1990) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
*Klute (1971) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
*A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
*One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary
The Godfather (1972) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
*The Verdict (1982)
Tar (2022)
The Celebration (1998)
*Sea Of Love (1989)
Clockers (1995)
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
M (1931)
*Se7en (1995)
Citizen Kane (1941) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson...
- 10/25/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Amy Loughren is a good nurse — she must be, since that's the title of "The Good Nurse," Tobias Lindholm's disappointingly flat serial killer drama. Based on a true story and featuring a script by "1917" scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, "The Good Nurse" follows Amy (Jessica Chastain) as she comes to the horrific realization that one of her co-workers and friends is murdering patients.
When we first meet Amy, Lindholm and Wilson-Cairns make it clear that she goes above and beyond for her patients. This isn't just some job for her — she really cares, and wants to do everything she can to make the sick people at her hospital feel better. But Amy has medical problems of her own — she's diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, and advised to go on sick leave, because if she exerts herself too much she could die. But it's not that simple — Amy hasn't been at her current hospital...
When we first meet Amy, Lindholm and Wilson-Cairns make it clear that she goes above and beyond for her patients. This isn't just some job for her — she really cares, and wants to do everything she can to make the sick people at her hospital feel better. But Amy has medical problems of her own — she's diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, and advised to go on sick leave, because if she exerts herself too much she could die. But it's not that simple — Amy hasn't been at her current hospital...
- 9/12/2022
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne passed through the Toronto Film Festival Monday morning where they discussed their true-crime thriller The Good Nurse.
The film centers on Amy Loughren (Chastain), a nurse who starts to believe that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths and risks her own life to uncover the truth.
“The thing I liked so much about the film is that we see so often films about a serial killer or a story and its fetishized,” Chastain said while discussing why she joined the project. “You’d see him injecting the bags and I’ve always felt a little dirty watching that stuff. I don’t wanna celebrate or have the media glorify what happened to another human being. I wanna celebrate humanity, which is why I was excited about this.”
Discussing her collaboration with Redmayne, she added: “I’ve always...
The film centers on Amy Loughren (Chastain), a nurse who starts to believe that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths and risks her own life to uncover the truth.
“The thing I liked so much about the film is that we see so often films about a serial killer or a story and its fetishized,” Chastain said while discussing why she joined the project. “You’d see him injecting the bags and I’ve always felt a little dirty watching that stuff. I don’t wanna celebrate or have the media glorify what happened to another human being. I wanna celebrate humanity, which is why I was excited about this.”
Discussing her collaboration with Redmayne, she added: “I’ve always...
- 9/12/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
In the fall of 2003, a new nurse arrived at a quiet hospital in the middle of New Jersey. He was mild-mannered and affable, with an impressive resume of former gigs. His name was Charles Cullen. Call him Charlie. He quickly became friends with fellow nurse Amy Loughren, who was also good at her job and kind to those who came into her orbit. Both were hiding secrets: Amy had recently learned she had a disease that required a heart transplant, one she could not afford until she had finished up six months at her new-ish gig at the hospital; Charlie was a serial killer.
What happened when Amy met Charlie, and then discovered his horrifying secret and helped bring him to justice, is well-dramatized in Tobias Lindholm’s “The Good Nurse.” Based on Charles Graeber’s book “The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder” and exactingly adapted by “1917” screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns,...
What happened when Amy met Charlie, and then discovered his horrifying secret and helped bring him to justice, is well-dramatized in Tobias Lindholm’s “The Good Nurse.” Based on Charles Graeber’s book “The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder” and exactingly adapted by “1917” screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns,...
- 9/12/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
First a little warning. I had the good fortune to see The Good Nurse knowing absolutely nothing about it except it was a Netflix movie starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne. I had no idea which one was even “the good nurse” of the title, and I was not familiar with the book it is based on, or even the fact it is actually a true story. For all I knew it was like a female version of Freddie Highmore in The Good Doctor. Netflix set up a screening for me at a local screening room. I sat by myself for two hours stunned by what I was seeing slowly take place, a turn of events I did not see coming as I realized I had the same experience in some ways as a viewer as Chastain’s character, Amy Loughren, had in real life.
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- 9/12/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The Nest is a familial drama about wealth and lies, but this isn’t some earnest bore. It is a film of tone – thick, resonant tone. Each sequence is loaded with doubt and foreboding, which are hallmark sensibilities of director Sean Durkin, a filmmaker with a special flair for reality.
The camera is an important part of this naturalistic aura, and like Martha Marcy May Marlene, his debut feature from 2011, The Nest is a visually stunning piece of work. Durkin uses not Jody Lee Lipes, his cinematographer from Martha, but the Hungarian Dop Matya Erdely, who framed the nightmarish Holocaust drama Son of Saul. Erdely’s images are wide, colourful and flooded with natural light, making good use of the impressive locations that are mocked up to emulate 1980s England.
We know that it is the 1980s because of refreshingly subtle cues, such as news bulletins, boxy German saloons, and...
The camera is an important part of this naturalistic aura, and like Martha Marcy May Marlene, his debut feature from 2011, The Nest is a visually stunning piece of work. Durkin uses not Jody Lee Lipes, his cinematographer from Martha, but the Hungarian Dop Matya Erdely, who framed the nightmarish Holocaust drama Son of Saul. Erdely’s images are wide, colourful and flooded with natural light, making good use of the impressive locations that are mocked up to emulate 1980s England.
We know that it is the 1980s because of refreshingly subtle cues, such as news bulletins, boxy German saloons, and...
- 7/27/2021
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Movies might be sequestered inside and or delayed, due to Covid-19, but TV is really having a hell of a year in terms of content, regardless. One of those series, easily the best of the year so far is Derek Cianfrance’s emotionally bruising “I Know This Much is True” starring Mark Ruffalo as a pair of emotionally and psychically-damaged identical twins. ’Iktmis’ follows Dominick Birdsey who struggles to care for his schizophrenic twin brother Thomas (Ruffalo x2) while discovering the truth about his family history.
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- 5/14/2020
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Without question, Jody Lee Lipes is one of the most underrated cinematographers in the business. Just looking at his resume, which consists of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Bluebird, Manchester by the Sea, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Tiny Furniture, and Trainwreck on the big screen, as well as episodes of episodes of Girls and The Sinner (also directing) on the small screen. Lipes is a uniquely diverse talent, seen even more so this weekend when his work shooting the new Derek Cianfrance project I Know This Much Is True hits HBO. All this made a chance to jump on the phone with him for an interview an easy choice. For those not aware, I Know This Much Is True is a high profile miniseries, based on the novel of the same name by Wally Lamb. The IMDb synopsis, which does not do it justice, at all, is as follows:...
- 5/9/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
With “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes wanted to capture the “feeling” of the classic children’s series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” “Getting it as accurate and honest” as they could was “the starting point” for every other decision he and director Marielle Heller made. Watch our exclusive video interview with Lipes above.
See Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue Interview: ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ screenwriters
The TriStar release tells the true story of the friendship that developed between Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) and journalist Tom Junod (here fictionalized as Lloyd Vogel and played by Matthew Rhys), who in 1998 wrote a profile on the children’s TV star for Esquire.
The quest for authenticity started with “spending as much time as possible watching how they made the show.” So Lipes watched the entire 1998 season, when the movie takes place. While watching individual installments, “I would be...
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The TriStar release tells the true story of the friendship that developed between Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) and journalist Tom Junod (here fictionalized as Lloyd Vogel and played by Matthew Rhys), who in 1998 wrote a profile on the children’s TV star for Esquire.
The quest for authenticity started with “spending as much time as possible watching how they made the show.” So Lipes watched the entire 1998 season, when the movie takes place. While watching individual installments, “I would be...
- 12/12/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
We need Mr. Rogers now more than ever. One look at the news not only confirms that, but can easily lead to despair. Last May, when I gave a rave review to the biographical documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, I included this notion on social media: “Television gave us the Kardashians and Trump, but it also gave us Fred Rogers.” The yin to the yang that is the awfulness in this world, Rogers has a special and unsullied place in our culture. To capture him in a narrative film would take an incredibly soft touch. Not every filmmaker could do it. Luckily, everyone involved in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was more than up to the task. In just a few days, you’ll all be able to see just how amazing it is. This is one of the year’s very best works. The film is a drama,...
- 11/19/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is designed to sneak up on you. In the hands of a lesser storyteller, the saga of a bitter reporter who learns to appreciate life after forging a friendship with Fred Rogers would resort to cheap, maudlin devices. With iconic everyman Tom Hanks as the smiling children’s television host, the formula writes itself, and most people will probably assume they know every beat of the movie sight unseen.
Director Marielle Heller, however, excels at pulling heartstrings from sturdy foundations, injecting smart and insightful details into material that could easily default to sentimentality. While her first big studio effort lacks the edginess of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,”
Nearly two decades after his death, Rogers remains the great enigma of modern American media, an unassailable object of good intentions whose influence spanned generations. Rogers’ gentle tone and...
Director Marielle Heller, however, excels at pulling heartstrings from sturdy foundations, injecting smart and insightful details into material that could easily default to sentimentality. While her first big studio effort lacks the edginess of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,”
Nearly two decades after his death, Rogers remains the great enigma of modern American media, an unassailable object of good intentions whose influence spanned generations. Rogers’ gentle tone and...
- 9/8/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Unlike Sundance or Cannes, the SXSW Film Festival has undergone rapid changes over the past decade. Tied in with the swirling chaos of its Interactive and Music sections, the Austin-based event is known for the discovery of low-budget features and as a launch pad for edgy studio projects favored by the city’s hipsters.
Much of SXSW’s identity took shape during the early aughts, when current iTunes independent film coordinator Matt Dentler brought a range of new American talent into the program. When he left in 2008 for a job in New York, incoming SXSW film producer Janet Pierson was a programming newcomer but a veteran of scene. With her husband, John Pierson, she shepherded the careers of independent filmmakers like Kevin Smith, Spike Lee, and Errol Morris. With SXSW, she was tasked with funneling that experience into the ever-changing ecosystem of film and television.
To commemorate her 10th year...
Much of SXSW’s identity took shape during the early aughts, when current iTunes independent film coordinator Matt Dentler brought a range of new American talent into the program. When he left in 2008 for a job in New York, incoming SXSW film producer Janet Pierson was a programming newcomer but a veteran of scene. With her husband, John Pierson, she shepherded the careers of independent filmmakers like Kevin Smith, Spike Lee, and Errol Morris. With SXSW, she was tasked with funneling that experience into the ever-changing ecosystem of film and television.
To commemorate her 10th year...
- 3/9/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Now in its eighth year, the American Film Festival offers a unique perspective on recent developments in U.S. indie filmmaking. That’s because it happens in Poland, staged at the stylish Kino Nowe Horyzonty film center in Wroclaw, also home to the summer New Horizons festival, which has more of a European tilt.
Although the festival, which recently concluded, surveys many favorites from Sundance and South by Southwest, the curation doesn’t merely transpose selections to a new setting. It imports a lively assortment of filmmakers, as well, and creates a cozy, engaged atmosphere more akin to the communal vibe of the Maryland Film Festival. Indeed, to rub shoulders in a crowd that included Jody Lee Lipes, Noel Wells, Dustin Guy Defa, Nathan Silver, producer Mike Ryan, Jessica Oreck and Mike Ott is to experience a deep dive into the creative bustle of current indie ferment.
That spirit is...
Although the festival, which recently concluded, surveys many favorites from Sundance and South by Southwest, the curation doesn’t merely transpose selections to a new setting. It imports a lively assortment of filmmakers, as well, and creates a cozy, engaged atmosphere more akin to the communal vibe of the Maryland Film Festival. Indeed, to rub shoulders in a crowd that included Jody Lee Lipes, Noel Wells, Dustin Guy Defa, Nathan Silver, producer Mike Ryan, Jessica Oreck and Mike Ott is to experience a deep dive into the creative bustle of current indie ferment.
That spirit is...
- 11/14/2017
- by Steve Dollar
- Indiewire
Dubbed a millennial’s answer to Sex and the City when it premiered, Girls proved itself to be much more than that. Created by Lena Dunham, the show started out as a spotlight on a group of 20-something women -- Hannah (Dunham), Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) -- who were as lost as they were indignant about perceived notions of what it means to be an adult, with Hannah proclaiming herself to be a voice of a generation in the pilot episode.
Over the course of six seasons and 62 episodes, the HBO series expanded its world to include as many men -- Adam (Adam Driver), Ray (Alex Karpovsky), Elijah (Andrew Rannells) and Desi (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) -- as there were women while addressing issues of adulthood, addiction, rape, sexism and idealism.
More: The Cast of 'Girls' Looks Ahead to Final Season and a Long Goodbye
Every season, fans followed...
Over the course of six seasons and 62 episodes, the HBO series expanded its world to include as many men -- Adam (Adam Driver), Ray (Alex Karpovsky), Elijah (Andrew Rannells) and Desi (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) -- as there were women while addressing issues of adulthood, addiction, rape, sexism and idealism.
More: The Cast of 'Girls' Looks Ahead to Final Season and a Long Goodbye
Every season, fans followed...
- 4/13/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Manchester by the Sea
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 137 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / 39.99
Starring – Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Liam McNeill, C.J. Wilson, Gretchen Mol, Michelle Williams, Matthew Broderick.
Cinematography – Jody Lee Lipes
Film Editor – Jennifer Lame
Original Music – Lesley Barber
Produced by Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward
Written and Directed by Kenneth Lonergan
A major Oscar contender, Kenneth Longergan’s Manchester by the Sea is certainly sobering, yet is nowhere near as depressing as the initial word on the street would have had us believe. We all know of tragedies that happen all the time, things that we go to sleep at night praying won’t happen to us. Bad things happen to people and not all of it is their own fault — accidents, weather-related calamities, sudden catastrophic health issues. The rule of positive thinking tells us to continue onward like herd animals,...
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 137 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / 39.99
Starring – Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Liam McNeill, C.J. Wilson, Gretchen Mol, Michelle Williams, Matthew Broderick.
Cinematography – Jody Lee Lipes
Film Editor – Jennifer Lame
Original Music – Lesley Barber
Produced by Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward
Written and Directed by Kenneth Lonergan
A major Oscar contender, Kenneth Longergan’s Manchester by the Sea is certainly sobering, yet is nowhere near as depressing as the initial word on the street would have had us believe. We all know of tragedies that happen all the time, things that we go to sleep at night praying won’t happen to us. Bad things happen to people and not all of it is their own fault — accidents, weather-related calamities, sudden catastrophic health issues. The rule of positive thinking tells us to continue onward like herd animals,...
- 2/11/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
If the Budweiser Super Bowl ad “Born The Hard Way” reminded you of the work of Paul Thomas Anderson, that’s not a coincidence. The 60-second commercial that tells the story of Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch’s emigration from Germany to St. Louis, Missouri was inspired by Anderson’s “The Master” and “There Will Be Blood,” according to director of photography Jody Lee Lipes.
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The cinematographer of “Manchester by the Sea” and “Trainwreck,” Lipes and the commercial’s director, Chris Sargent, also drew inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” Sargent hired Lipes for the Budweiser ad after the pair worked together on commercials for Asics and Acura.
Set in...
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The cinematographer of “Manchester by the Sea” and “Trainwreck,” Lipes and the commercial’s director, Chris Sargent, also drew inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” Sargent hired Lipes for the Budweiser ad after the pair worked together on commercials for Asics and Acura.
Set in...
- 2/6/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
(Courtesy: Kimberley French/20th Century Fox)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
One of the jobs that the general public doesn’t pay that much attention to — but probably should — is that of the cinematographer. If you think a film looks gorgeous and you’re able to get swept away by what you’re seeing on the screen, that’s all thanks to this man or woman’s work behind the scenes. Turns out, though, you can even see these folks showcase their talent on social media.
Since the role of cinematographer is often referred to as the director of photography — shortened to Dp or Dop — it only makes sense that we hone in Instagram as that’s one popular online platform dedicated specifically to photos. Let’s take a look at 16 of the cinematographers who are utilizing Instagram to showcase more of their work and giving us a glimpse of...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
One of the jobs that the general public doesn’t pay that much attention to — but probably should — is that of the cinematographer. If you think a film looks gorgeous and you’re able to get swept away by what you’re seeing on the screen, that’s all thanks to this man or woman’s work behind the scenes. Turns out, though, you can even see these folks showcase their talent on social media.
Since the role of cinematographer is often referred to as the director of photography — shortened to Dp or Dop — it only makes sense that we hone in Instagram as that’s one popular online platform dedicated specifically to photos. Let’s take a look at 16 of the cinematographers who are utilizing Instagram to showcase more of their work and giving us a glimpse of...
- 2/4/2017
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
Opening on intricately hand-painted, colorful postcards featuring Los Angeles sights, the distinct eye of Michelle Morgan immediately emerges. Her directorial debut, which she also wrote and leads, takes inspiration from a variety of sources, from these Wes Anderson-esque opening credits to the Whit Stillman-styled dialogue, but as the film progresses and a comedic rhythm clicks into place, L.A. Times blazes its own distinct, disenchanted trail of romance in the modern age.
Annette (Morgan) couldn’t ask for a nicer boyfriend than Elliot (Jorma Taccone, flexing more than capable dramatic muscles alongside the comedy), a TV writer for a Game of Thrones rip-off who pays all their bills. However, as Annette looks at the seemingly happier couples in their friend cricle and begins to nitpick Elliot’s actions — limited to making her walk uphill, help with taking in the garbage cans, and inquiring about the acting gig of a...
Annette (Morgan) couldn’t ask for a nicer boyfriend than Elliot (Jorma Taccone, flexing more than capable dramatic muscles alongside the comedy), a TV writer for a Game of Thrones rip-off who pays all their bills. However, as Annette looks at the seemingly happier couples in their friend cricle and begins to nitpick Elliot’s actions — limited to making her walk uphill, help with taking in the garbage cans, and inquiring about the acting gig of a...
- 1/21/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The American Society of Cinematographers nominees for the 31st annual Asc Awards (February 4) boost Oscar frontrunners “La La Land” and “Moonlight” as well as Rodrigo Prieto’s 35 mm work on “Silence,” Greig Fraser’s “Lion” and “Arrival,” whose cinematographer Bradford Young would be the first African-American Oscar nominee.
“Arrival,” “La La Land” and “Lion” also landed BAFTA nods.
Left out by the Asc but still vying for Oscar nominations are Charlotte Bruus Christensen (“Fences”), Roger Deakins (“Hail, Caesar!”), Stephane Fontaine (“Jackie”), Jody Lee Lipes (“Manchester By the Sea”), Seamus McGarvey (“Nocturnal Animals”), Giles Nuttgens (“Hell or High Water”) and Mandy Walker (“Hidden Figures”).
The Asc nominees below are all first-timers except for third-timer Prieto, who was also nominated “Frida” (2002) and “Brokeback Mountain” (2005). All other nominees this year are first-time contenders (see my Oscar predictions in this category):
Greig Fraser, Asc, Acs for “Lion”
James Laxton for “Moonlight”
Rodrigo Prieto,...
“Arrival,” “La La Land” and “Lion” also landed BAFTA nods.
Left out by the Asc but still vying for Oscar nominations are Charlotte Bruus Christensen (“Fences”), Roger Deakins (“Hail, Caesar!”), Stephane Fontaine (“Jackie”), Jody Lee Lipes (“Manchester By the Sea”), Seamus McGarvey (“Nocturnal Animals”), Giles Nuttgens (“Hell or High Water”) and Mandy Walker (“Hidden Figures”).
The Asc nominees below are all first-timers except for third-timer Prieto, who was also nominated “Frida” (2002) and “Brokeback Mountain” (2005). All other nominees this year are first-time contenders (see my Oscar predictions in this category):
Greig Fraser, Asc, Acs for “Lion”
James Laxton for “Moonlight”
Rodrigo Prieto,...
- 1/11/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The American Society of Cinematographers nominees for the 31st annual Asc Awards (February 4) boost Oscar frontrunners “La La Land” and “Moonlight” as well as Rodrigo Prieto’s 35 mm work on “Silence,” Greig Fraser’s “Lion” and “Arrival,” whose cinematographer Bradford Young would be the first African-American Oscar nominee.
“Arrival,” “La La Land” and “Lion” also landed BAFTA nods.
Left out by the Asc but still vying for Oscar nominations are Charlotte Bruus Christensen (“Fences”), Roger Deakins (“Hail, Caesar!”), Stephane Fontaine (“Jackie”), Jody Lee Lipes (“Manchester By the Sea”), Seamus McGarvey (“Nocturnal Animals”), Giles Nuttgens (“Hell or High Water”) and Mandy Walker (“Hidden Figures”).
The Asc nominees below are all first-timers except for third-timer Prieto, who was also nominated “Frida” (2002) and “Brokeback Mountain” (2005). All other nominees this year are first-time contenders (see my Oscar predictions in this category):
Greig Fraser, Asc, Acs for “Lion”
James Laxton for “Moonlight”
Rodrigo Prieto,...
“Arrival,” “La La Land” and “Lion” also landed BAFTA nods.
Left out by the Asc but still vying for Oscar nominations are Charlotte Bruus Christensen (“Fences”), Roger Deakins (“Hail, Caesar!”), Stephane Fontaine (“Jackie”), Jody Lee Lipes (“Manchester By the Sea”), Seamus McGarvey (“Nocturnal Animals”), Giles Nuttgens (“Hell or High Water”) and Mandy Walker (“Hidden Figures”).
The Asc nominees below are all first-timers except for third-timer Prieto, who was also nominated “Frida” (2002) and “Brokeback Mountain” (2005). All other nominees this year are first-time contenders (see my Oscar predictions in this category):
Greig Fraser, Asc, Acs for “Lion”
James Laxton for “Moonlight”
Rodrigo Prieto,...
- 1/11/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Read More: 2017 Oscar Predictions
Several newcomers could break into the ranks of nominated cinematographers this year, including “Arrival” Dp Bradford Young and Charlotte Bruus Christensen of “Fences.” Both would mark firsts for an African American or a woman landing an Oscar nomination in this category.
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(Listed in alphabetical order.)
Frontrunners
Greig Fraser (“Lion”)
James Laxton (“Moonlight”)
Rodrigo Prieto (“Silence”)
Linus Sandgren (“La La Land”)
Bradford Young (“Arrival”)
Contenders
Charlotte Bruus Christensen (“Fences”)
Roger Deakins (“Hail, Caesar!”)
Stephane Fontaine (“Jackie”)
Jody Lee Lipes (“Manchester By the Sea”)
Seamus McGarvey (“Nocturnal Animals”)
Giles Nuttgens (“Hell or High Water”)
Mandy Walker (“Hidden Figures”)
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Several newcomers could break into the ranks of nominated cinematographers this year, including “Arrival” Dp Bradford Young and Charlotte Bruus Christensen of “Fences.” Both would mark firsts for an African American or a woman landing an Oscar nomination in this category.
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(Listed in alphabetical order.)
Frontrunners
Greig Fraser (“Lion”)
James Laxton (“Moonlight”)
Rodrigo Prieto (“Silence”)
Linus Sandgren (“La La Land”)
Bradford Young (“Arrival”)
Contenders
Charlotte Bruus Christensen (“Fences”)
Roger Deakins (“Hail, Caesar!”)
Stephane Fontaine (“Jackie”)
Jody Lee Lipes (“Manchester By the Sea”)
Seamus McGarvey (“Nocturnal Animals”)
Giles Nuttgens (“Hell or High Water”)
Mandy Walker (“Hidden Figures”)
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- 1/10/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
And the winners are…
Awfj Best Of Awards
These awards are presented to women and/or men without gender consideration.
Best Film: Moonlight
Best Director: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Best Screenplay, Original: Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
Best Screenplay, Adapted: Moonlight – Barry Jenkins
Best Documentary: 13th – Ava DuVernay
Best Animated Film: Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush
Best Actress: Ruth Negga – Loving
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Viola Davis – Fences
Best Actor: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Best Ensemble Cast – Casting Director: Moonlight – Yesi Ramirez
Best Cinematography: Moonlight – James Laxton
Best Editing: Moonlight – Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders
Best Non-English-Language Film: The Handmaiden – Chan-Wook Park, South Korea
Eda Female Focus Awards
These awards honor women only.
Best Woman Director: Ava DuVernay – 13th
Best Woman Screenwriter: Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women
Best Animated Female: Judy in Zootopia – Ginnifer Goodwin And...
Awfj Best Of Awards
These awards are presented to women and/or men without gender consideration.
Best Film: Moonlight
Best Director: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Best Screenplay, Original: Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
Best Screenplay, Adapted: Moonlight – Barry Jenkins
Best Documentary: 13th – Ava DuVernay
Best Animated Film: Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush
Best Actress: Ruth Negga – Loving
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Viola Davis – Fences
Best Actor: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Best Ensemble Cast – Casting Director: Moonlight – Yesi Ramirez
Best Cinematography: Moonlight – James Laxton
Best Editing: Moonlight – Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders
Best Non-English-Language Film: The Handmaiden – Chan-Wook Park, South Korea
Eda Female Focus Awards
These awards honor women only.
Best Woman Director: Ava DuVernay – 13th
Best Woman Screenwriter: Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women
Best Animated Female: Judy in Zootopia – Ginnifer Goodwin And...
- 12/22/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists have announced the nominees for the 2016 Awfj Eda Awards.
In their 10th annual awards season, the 25 categories are divided into three sections, the Best Of Awards, Female Focus Awards and Eda Special Mention Awards.
Andrea Arnold, Ava DuVernay, Rebecca Miller, Mira Nair and Lorene Scafaria were among the filmmakers nominated in this year’s awards.
Nominees in each category are determined by Awfj members who submit nominating ballots. There are currently 76 voting Awfj members.
The winners will be announced on December 21.
2016 Awfj Eda Awards Nominees
Awfj Best Of Awards
These awards are presented to women and/or men without gender consideration.
Best Film
Arrival
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Best Director
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water
Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
Best Screenplay, Original...
In their 10th annual awards season, the 25 categories are divided into three sections, the Best Of Awards, Female Focus Awards and Eda Special Mention Awards.
Andrea Arnold, Ava DuVernay, Rebecca Miller, Mira Nair and Lorene Scafaria were among the filmmakers nominated in this year’s awards.
Nominees in each category are determined by Awfj members who submit nominating ballots. There are currently 76 voting Awfj members.
The winners will be announced on December 21.
2016 Awfj Eda Awards Nominees
Awfj Best Of Awards
These awards are presented to women and/or men without gender consideration.
Best Film
Arrival
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Best Director
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water
Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
Best Screenplay, Original...
- 12/16/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Manchester By The Sea is simply stunning. From capturing the light and atmosphere of a small fishing town through the cinematography of Jody Lee Lipes, to capturing the frozen crunch...
- 12/7/2016
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Casey Affleck Lee Chandler and Lucas Hedges as Patrick Chandler, in Manchester By The Sea. Photo credit: Claire Folger. Copyright: K Period Media. Courtesy of Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions.
Casey Affleck delivers a career-making performance in writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, one of the year’s best films. Manchester By The Sea blends heartbreak and humor as Affleck’s working-class New Englander and his teenage nephew struggle to remake their lives after the death of the boy’s father. Aided by beautiful photography and outstanding acting, this brilliant film offers a natural and realistic slice of life in a small New England town, life with all its strange turns and unexpected humor, as these two move forward from their tragic loss.
Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is called back to his hometown on the Massachusetts coast by the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler...
Casey Affleck delivers a career-making performance in writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, one of the year’s best films. Manchester By The Sea blends heartbreak and humor as Affleck’s working-class New Englander and his teenage nephew struggle to remake their lives after the death of the boy’s father. Aided by beautiful photography and outstanding acting, this brilliant film offers a natural and realistic slice of life in a small New England town, life with all its strange turns and unexpected humor, as these two move forward from their tragic loss.
Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is called back to his hometown on the Massachusetts coast by the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler...
- 12/2/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The grief-wrought drama Manchester by the Sea is a broadside for cinema in the on-going debate over the engrossing pleasures of long-form television supposedly exclusive to that medium. An emotionally flush, simmering melodrama of sorrow surrounding a death in small Massachusetts family that echoes and underlines older trauma, Manchester by the Sea is director Kenneth Lonergan’s eagerly awaited follow-up to his tremendous epic of post 9/11 New York emotions, Margaret, whose release was sabotaged by its distributor, spawning a fervent cult of admirers who keep discovering its considerable riches.Less long and less sprawling, and focusing on a male melodrama whose plot points are nothing if not obvious, Manchester by the Sea is not so much a story as it is a sensitive immersion into the dynamics of the Chandler family after the early death by heart failure of eldest brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) in the eponymous small Massachusetts town.
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
Flashback memories can be tricky, but director Kenneth Lonergan decided with his crew to embrace them head-on in the Oscar- contending “Manchester By the Sea,” in which Casey Affleck’s repressed, grief-stricken handyman returns to his hometown to confront his demons.
Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes (shooting digitally with the Alexa and older lenses for softness) wrapped the movie around the New England coldness. “But the problem we ran into was that even though that winter set a record for snowfall, by the time we started it was disappearing, and it was a struggle to include as much snow as we could. There were times we had to bring in snow,” he told IndieWire.
By contrast, the scenes at sea were shot to convey a sense of refuge. “It always felt like we were on the edge of not getting to the finish line. But something I learned from Kenny and...
Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes (shooting digitally with the Alexa and older lenses for softness) wrapped the movie around the New England coldness. “But the problem we ran into was that even though that winter set a record for snowfall, by the time we started it was disappearing, and it was a struggle to include as much snow as we could. There were times we had to bring in snow,” he told IndieWire.
By contrast, the scenes at sea were shot to convey a sense of refuge. “It always felt like we were on the edge of not getting to the finish line. But something I learned from Kenny and...
- 11/18/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Right at the top, I’ll put this out there…Manchester by the Sea is one of my absolute favorite films of the year. This week, audiences will finally understand what my colleagues at the Sundance Film Festival first went over the moon for. From Park City to the Telluride Film Festival to the New York Film Festival, Kenneth Lonergan’s latest has been amassing admirers. It’s well founded love too, as this is just a stupendously great and moving motion picture. Without question, it’s one of 2016’s very best and a surefire Oscar contender. Even if the Academy wasn’t likely to fawn over it, it would be a must see. Being a potential frontrunner in at least one category is just a happy bonus. The movie, at its most simple, is the story of an uncle called upon to care for his teenaged nephew when his brother/the boy’s father,...
- 11/17/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
You can't really prepare yourself for the emotional powerhouse that is Manchester by the Sea. And you shouldn't let big-mouth critics and friends tell you too much about what's ahead in writer-director Kenneth Lonergan's transcendent benchmark. No film this year has moved me more with its humor, heart and humanity.
I will say this much: Lonergan's script – a model of exceptional screenwriting without being tidy, timid or tactful – concerns the ramifications of a family tragedy, one that extends from those directly involved to the community that alternately offers and withholds nurturing support.
I will say this much: Lonergan's script – a model of exceptional screenwriting without being tidy, timid or tactful – concerns the ramifications of a family tragedy, one that extends from those directly involved to the community that alternately offers and withholds nurturing support.
- 11/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
NocturamaDear Fern,296 feature films, 101 shorts—are you ready? Could anyone be? I can assure you, as someone lucky enough to travel to several other festivals this year before Toronto, there are many, many great films here, among them Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle (as you've already discovered), Albert Serra’s The Death of Louis Xiv, Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, and Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion. All easily among the year’s most surprising, most beautiful, most complex works of cinema. Don’t miss them. But what I’ve already seen is a drop in the bucket, and I have the bounty of the short films of the adventurous Wavelengths section (which Michael Sicinski has wonderfully and extensively covered for us) to come; along with not one but two Terrence Malick films (really two cuts of the same film), not one but two Werner Herzog movies...
- 9/11/2016
- MUBI
For his feature debut Another Evil, writer/animator Carson D. Mell tackles the risky horror-comedy genre. A husband and wife discover that their vacation home may be populated by malign spirits, bringing in two separate exorcists to deal with the problem. Comedy is courtesy of a cast of familiar TV presences (including Togetherness‘ Steve Zissis and Veep‘s Dan Bakkedahl), horror courtesy of the tone established by Mell and Dp Drew Bienemann. Prior to the film’s SXSW premiere, Bienemann talked about being guided style-wise by My Dinner with Andre, getting a recommendation for the job from Jody Lee Lipes and the importance of shooting on an Alexa. […]...
- 3/15/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With his unassuming, quietly affecting films leaving such a distinctly indelible impact long after the credits roll, we may only have three films from Kenneth Lonergan across sixteen years, but they provide a lifetime’s worth of human experience. His latest, Manchester By the Sea, finds him in the quaint northeastern Massachusetts town as he immaculately constructs a layered, non-linear exploration of the ripple effects of loss and grief.
Appearing in nearly every scene of the drama is Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler, living out his lonely life in Boston working as a handyman for a group of four apartment buildings. A phone call from his hometown informs him that his brother Joe’s (Kyle Chandler) long-diagnosed congestive heart failure finally caught up with him. Passing away before Lee makes it home, he must now deal with the aftermath of his brother’s death and the ocean of grief that it brings,...
Appearing in nearly every scene of the drama is Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler, living out his lonely life in Boston working as a handyman for a group of four apartment buildings. A phone call from his hometown informs him that his brother Joe’s (Kyle Chandler) long-diagnosed congestive heart failure finally caught up with him. Passing away before Lee makes it home, he must now deal with the aftermath of his brother’s death and the ocean of grief that it brings,...
- 1/24/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2015 discoveries”.
Anna Rose Holmer: Kiah Victoria. Choreographer Lin Hwai-min & Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. Mad Max: Fury Road.
Lavallee: You served as a producer on Jody Lee Lipes’ Ballet 422, did spending time in the world of ballet inform some of your visual decisions you’d make on your debut?
Holmer: I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a few ballet-on-film collaborations with Ellen Bar and New York City Ballet. What was special about working on Ballet 422 was having regular exposure to the choreographic process. I was fascinated with how choreography was transferred from body to body, and how dancers learn movement through mirroring. There is this great line when a corps dancer is struggling with part of the sequence, “It’s just not in my body yet.” I thought about that concept a lot when workshopping The Fits.
Anna Rose Holmer: Kiah Victoria. Choreographer Lin Hwai-min & Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. Mad Max: Fury Road.
Lavallee: You served as a producer on Jody Lee Lipes’ Ballet 422, did spending time in the world of ballet inform some of your visual decisions you’d make on your debut?
Holmer: I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a few ballet-on-film collaborations with Ellen Bar and New York City Ballet. What was special about working on Ballet 422 was having regular exposure to the choreographic process. I was fascinated with how choreography was transferred from body to body, and how dancers learn movement through mirroring. There is this great line when a corps dancer is struggling with part of the sequence, “It’s just not in my body yet.” I thought about that concept a lot when workshopping The Fits.
- 1/22/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
On the eve of the world premiere screening to Antonio Campos’ Christine and the soon to be launched theatrically Creative Control, producers Melody C. Roscher and Craig Shilowich have launched a new prod company in Wonder Club and have announced that Roscher will direct her feature debut. Deadline reports that their next venture will be Our Band Is Forever. We imagine there’ll be casting announcements sometime in ’16.
Gist: This revolves around a sequestered American family folk band attempting to tour in Bavaria.
Worth Noting: Melody C. Roscher’s first major cred is as producer on Henry Joost, Jody Lee Lipes’ 2010 film NY Export: Opus Jazz.
Do We Care?: Nashville meets National Lampoon meets Funny Games. We’re not sure what to expect in this debut — but this producer pairing have exquisite taste in film.
Gist: This revolves around a sequestered American family folk band attempting to tour in Bavaria.
Worth Noting: Melody C. Roscher’s first major cred is as producer on Henry Joost, Jody Lee Lipes’ 2010 film NY Export: Opus Jazz.
Do We Care?: Nashville meets National Lampoon meets Funny Games. We’re not sure what to expect in this debut — but this producer pairing have exquisite taste in film.
- 1/14/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
For our final year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2015. We’ve asked our contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions — those can all be seen on the last page — and, after tallying the votes, a top 50 has been assembled.
It should be noted that, unlike our previous year-end features, we placed no requirement on a selection being a U.S theatrical release, so you may see some repeats from last year and a few we’ll certainly be discussing more during the next year. So, without further ado, check out our most comprehensive rundown of 2015 below, our complete year-end coverage here (including where to stream many of the below picks), and return in the coming weeks as we look towards 2016. For those on Letterboxd, one can find the list here.
50. The Big Short (Adam McKay)
Co-writer / director Adam McKay...
It should be noted that, unlike our previous year-end features, we placed no requirement on a selection being a U.S theatrical release, so you may see some repeats from last year and a few we’ll certainly be discussing more during the next year. So, without further ado, check out our most comprehensive rundown of 2015 below, our complete year-end coverage here (including where to stream many of the below picks), and return in the coming weeks as we look towards 2016. For those on Letterboxd, one can find the list here.
50. The Big Short (Adam McKay)
Co-writer / director Adam McKay...
- 12/30/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
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