No, you didn't misread that headline. There's a movie called "Pussy Island" in the works, and so far, MGM seems intent on releasing the film as-titled in all its uncensored glory. It's far from the first movie to enter development under an eyebrow-raising title, of course, coming after the likes of "The Cut-Whore Killings" (which was later renamed "Unforgiven"). Then there's "Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City," a film based on Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir that would ultimately release as the far-less-memorably-titled "Being Flynn." One only hopes MGM doesn't chicken out at the last minute and re-dub it something like "Paradise Island," as...
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- 7/7/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
It’s almost August and that means Netflix is about to give their content a refresh. Some of the notable titles leaving include: Family Ties: Season 1-7, Unbreakable, and Titanic. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including The Hurt Locker, White God (pictured above), and Girl Meets World season 1.
Available August 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
In this animated adventure, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore revel in their new gig at a movie theme park by wandering the grounds after hours. Among the attractions is the spooky Frankenstein’s Castle, where a real mad scientist is bringing the monster to life. But when the boys cross paths with the creature (Frank Welker), they soon learn that appearances can be deceiving, and Frankenstein is more misunderstood than malevolent.
Asylum (2005)
A...
Available August 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
In this animated adventure, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore revel in their new gig at a movie theme park by wandering the grounds after hours. Among the attractions is the spooky Frankenstein’s Castle, where a real mad scientist is bringing the monster to life. But when the boys cross paths with the creature (Frank Welker), they soon learn that appearances can be deceiving, and Frankenstein is more misunderstood than malevolent.
Asylum (2005)
A...
- 7/29/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Los Angeles — Just one glimpse of her face is followed by a flash of familiarity.
But, oh, that name just isn't coming.
Together again for the first time: filmgoers, meet veteran character actress Lili Taylor.
After 25 years making movies, Taylor said the public most regularly approaches her about work in "Mystic Pizza" (1988), "I Shot Andy Warhol" (1996) and the 1999 remake of the `60s horror classic "The Haunting."
"I feel like that's a nice spectrum, because you've got your indie, you've got your big one," the 46-year-old actress noted in a recent interview.
"Or they can't remember," she continued, "because I'm one of those who they think I either walk my dog in their neighborhood or I live in their building. And that's the kind of actor I am, which is fine."
To the stranger, she says, "`I know you think I'm in your building. It's `The Haunting' and that's where you know me from,...
But, oh, that name just isn't coming.
Together again for the first time: filmgoers, meet veteran character actress Lili Taylor.
After 25 years making movies, Taylor said the public most regularly approaches her about work in "Mystic Pizza" (1988), "I Shot Andy Warhol" (1996) and the 1999 remake of the `60s horror classic "The Haunting."
"I feel like that's a nice spectrum, because you've got your indie, you've got your big one," the 46-year-old actress noted in a recent interview.
"Or they can't remember," she continued, "because I'm one of those who they think I either walk my dog in their neighborhood or I live in their building. And that's the kind of actor I am, which is fine."
To the stranger, she says, "`I know you think I'm in your building. It's `The Haunting' and that's where you know me from,...
- 7/17/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
At a recent panel at the Boston Book Festival, five authors debated the pros and cons of having your book adapted to the big screen. Moderated by Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris, the event featured Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City/Being Flynn), Daniel Handler (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights), Rachel Cohn (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist), and Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog). The conversation ranged over a variety of topics and it was clear that there was a wide range of experiences, from the ‘Pollyanna’ experience of Rachel …...
- 11/23/2012
- by Michael Murie
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“Normally, we have radios and shit to do this with, but we’re going bare bones today,” shouts Michael Maren, author and first-time director, during the very last day of filming his debut feature, A Short History of Decay. A volunteer cast eagerly follows his direction, which consists mainly of the orders “Look up,” “Look down,” and “Get back to work!” “Work” happens to be their day job, the distinctly unfilmable act of writing.Forty-three bona fide New York authors arose as early as 4 a.m. to make this morning’s six o’clock call at Park Slope’s popular freelancer perch, the Kos Kaffe. An hour into the shoot, half of them are in the glare of the film’s single light and a rented camera. At a front table, Elissa Schappell, Darin Strauss, and Mary Morris pretend to work. Behind them are memoirist-poet Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City...
- 11/19/2012
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
Chicago – A decade ago, director Paul Weitz made a wonderful film about the unusual friendship that developed between an aging loner and a fatherless youth preoccupied with the well-being of his suicidal mother. The picture was 2002’s “About a Boy,” and it featured Hugh Grant in a performance sorely deserving of an Oscar nomination.
In some ways, “Being Flynn” has the same story to tell, but it’s told in a minor key. It lacks the sharp wit of Weitz’s earlier picture, and it mutes the humorous nuances of its source material, Nick Flynn’s beloved memoir, “Another Bulls—t Night in Suck City.” Too bad Weitz couldn’t use Flynn’s original title. It may be profane, but it’s vastly preferable to the generic “Being Flynn.” Yet the new title is indicative of this film’s utter lack of personality. It spins a sad tale reasonably well,...
In some ways, “Being Flynn” has the same story to tell, but it’s told in a minor key. It lacks the sharp wit of Weitz’s earlier picture, and it mutes the humorous nuances of its source material, Nick Flynn’s beloved memoir, “Another Bulls—t Night in Suck City.” Too bad Weitz couldn’t use Flynn’s original title. It may be profane, but it’s vastly preferable to the generic “Being Flynn.” Yet the new title is indicative of this film’s utter lack of personality. It spins a sad tale reasonably well,...
- 7/18/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
If there’s one thing that most should get out of Being Flynn it’s director Paul Weitz‘s ability to wrangle a late-career best performance out of the fading Robert De Niro, while also contributing to the long list of successful performances by Paul Dano. Being Flynn isn’t a perfect film or even a really good one at that, but it is a performance driven character drama that has a universal message worthy of being told and worthy of being watched.
Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) is a struggling young writer that is currently in between life occupations. He’s a writer, but that doesn’t pay the bills or gain him any popularity. So, he takes a job at a local homeless shelter, where he meets a girl by the name of Denise (Olivia Thirlby), who guides him in the right direction by being a friend in tough times.
Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) is a struggling young writer that is currently in between life occupations. He’s a writer, but that doesn’t pay the bills or gain him any popularity. So, he takes a job at a local homeless shelter, where he meets a girl by the name of Denise (Olivia Thirlby), who guides him in the right direction by being a friend in tough times.
- 7/15/2012
- by Jeremy Lebens
- We Got This Covered
This week: Stifler and the rest of his East Great Falls gang reunite for a wild weekend of MILFs and memories in "American Reunion," the third and final sequel in the theatrical "American Pie" comedy franchise.
Also new this week is a return to form for Robert De Niro in "Being Flynn," Anna Paquin in the long-delayed "Margaret," plus the Blu-ray debuts of "Altered States" and "Chariots of Fire."
'American Reunion'
Box Office: $57 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 43% Rotten
Storyline: The gang of East Great Falls reunites in this fourth and final theatrical "American Pie" movie. Twelve years after graduating from high school, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) have gotten married, Oz (Chris Klein) is an NFL sportscaster that grew apart from Heather (Mena Suvari), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Vicky (Tara Reid) have split, while Stifler (Seann William Scott) continues to suffer from prolonged arrested development. Meanwhile,...
Also new this week is a return to form for Robert De Niro in "Being Flynn," Anna Paquin in the long-delayed "Margaret," plus the Blu-ray debuts of "Altered States" and "Chariots of Fire."
'American Reunion'
Box Office: $57 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 43% Rotten
Storyline: The gang of East Great Falls reunites in this fourth and final theatrical "American Pie" movie. Twelve years after graduating from high school, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) have gotten married, Oz (Chris Klein) is an NFL sportscaster that grew apart from Heather (Mena Suvari), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Vicky (Tara Reid) have split, while Stifler (Seann William Scott) continues to suffer from prolonged arrested development. Meanwhile,...
- 7/9/2012
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
Moviefone's New Release Pick of the Week "American Reunion" What's It About? The gang from "American Pie" get together for their 13-year high-school reunion (because why not)? Sexual misadventures occur. See It Because: Unlike other teen sex comedies (including some installments in the "Pie" series), "Reunion" has a sweetness to it that makes these characters actually likeable; the cast clearly had a lot of fun resuming their roles and their charm creates an infectious nostalgia trip. (Also Available on Amazon Instant Video) Watch an Exclusive Outtake Reel from "American Reunion" - Moviefone's Blu-ray Pick of the Week "Chariots of Fire" What's It About? Two young men from very different backgrounds compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics, one motivated by God, the other hoping to overcome prejudices. See It Because: Watching "Chariots," the Oscar-winning Best Picture of 1981, is like completing sophomore year of "Film Buff University." Plus, you can finally...
- 7/9/2012
- by Eric Larnick
- Moviefone
While in Cannes I bumped into critic and programmer Aaron Hillis, who told me about the new Brooklyn-based endeavor he’ll be starting upon returning home — running a video store. Hillis, who already programs reRun, the independent cinema and gastropub located in Filmmaker’s building in Dumbo (and currently playing Contributing Editor Brandon Harris’s debut feature, Redlegs), recently bought the established Cobble Hill business Video Free Brooklyn. At a time when the independent film world is obsessed with VOD, downloads and streaming, Hillis is time-traveling back to the world of plastic cases, late fees, and, on the more positive side, savvy clerks who know you, your tastes, and are vocal in their recommendations. I’ll let him fill you in on the rest.
Filmmaker: So, you bought a video store?
Aaron Hillis: I did buy a video store. I have this bad habit of getting into failing industries. I...
Filmmaker: So, you bought a video store?
Aaron Hillis: I did buy a video store. I have this bad habit of getting into failing industries. I...
- 5/28/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
British filmmaker Steve McQueen continued to add to the already impressive cast for his upcoming period drama Twelve Years a Slave, his adaptation of Solomon Northup’s memoir recounting his kidnapping in 1841 and his 12-year captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation until 1853. Deadline confirmed today that Paul Dano, last seen opposite Robert De Niro in Being Flynn, an adaptation of the Nick Flynn novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, joined the film as a brutal slave owner. Chiwetel Ejiofor previously joined the film as Northup; along with Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt in key roles.
- 5/21/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
British filmmaker Steve McQueen continued to add to the already impressive cast for his upcoming period drama Twelve Years a Slave, his adaptation of Solomon Northup’s memoir recounting his kidnapping in 1841 and his 12-year captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation until 1853. Deadline confirmed today that Paul Dano, last seen opposite Robert De Niro in Being Flynn, an adaptation of the Nick Flynn novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, joined the film as a brutal slave owner. Chiwetel Ejiofor previously joined the film as Northup; along with Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt in key roles.
- 5/21/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
The drama movie Being Flynn stars three powerhouse actors: Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver), Paul Dano (Cowboys & Aliens) and Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right).
Based on the memoir by Nick Flynn, the film tells the story of a father, Jonathan (De Niro), and a son, Nick (Dano), who have not seen each other for 18 years. A writer, Nick takes a job at a homeless shelter to bring purpose to his life, and one night, Jonathan shows up looking for a bed. Reunited, Nick wrestles with whether to reach out to his father and give them both a chance at a future.
Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Lily Taylor (Brooklyn’s Finest) and Wes Studi (Avatar) also star in the movie, which is rated R. And it was directed and written by Paul Weitz, writer/director of the...
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
The drama movie Being Flynn stars three powerhouse actors: Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver), Paul Dano (Cowboys & Aliens) and Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right).
Based on the memoir by Nick Flynn, the film tells the story of a father, Jonathan (De Niro), and a son, Nick (Dano), who have not seen each other for 18 years. A writer, Nick takes a job at a homeless shelter to bring purpose to his life, and one night, Jonathan shows up looking for a bed. Reunited, Nick wrestles with whether to reach out to his father and give them both a chance at a future.
Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Lily Taylor (Brooklyn’s Finest) and Wes Studi (Avatar) also star in the movie, which is rated R. And it was directed and written by Paul Weitz, writer/director of the...
- 5/11/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
While his film Being Flynn, an adaptation of the Nick Flynn novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano, continued to play art house cinemas, filmmaker Paul Weitz added cast members to his upcoming Focus Features comedy Admission. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Sheen joined the comedy about a single woman (Tina Fey) working as a college admissions counselor who begins a romance with a man (Paul Rudd) she first met when she was a college student. Sheen, soon to be seen in Breaking Dawn Part II, the final chapter in The Twilight Saga, joined Admission as the British boyfriend to Fey’s character.
- 4/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
While his film Being Flynn, an adaptation of the Nick Flynn novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano, continued to play art house cinemas, filmmaker Paul Weitz added cast members to his upcoming Focus Features comedy Admission. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Sheen joined the comedy about a single woman (Tina Fey) working as a college admissions counselor who begins a romance with a man (Paul Rudd) she first met when she was a college student. Sheen, soon to be seen in Breaking Dawn Part II, the final chapter in The Twilight Saga, joined Admission as the British boyfriend to Fey’s character.
- 4/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Robert De Niro in “Red Lights”
Robert De Niro and his longtime producing partner Jane Rosenthal have been working together for more than 20 years at Tribeca Productions. Over that time, they have produced more than two dozen movies, ranging from indie fare like the funny but financially unsuccessful Hollywood satire “What Just Happened?” to wildly profitable franchise films, like the “Meet the Parents” trilogy.
In 2002, they started the Tribeca Film Festival as a creative response to the devastation of downtown...
Robert De Niro and his longtime producing partner Jane Rosenthal have been working together for more than 20 years at Tribeca Productions. Over that time, they have produced more than two dozen movies, ranging from indie fare like the funny but financially unsuccessful Hollywood satire “What Just Happened?” to wildly profitable franchise films, like the “Meet the Parents” trilogy.
In 2002, they started the Tribeca Film Festival as a creative response to the devastation of downtown...
- 4/6/2012
- by Rachel Dodes
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Along with the hit film "The Hunger Games," here's a sneak peek at what's opening in theaters this weekend, including the epic mythological sequel "Wrath of the Titans," and the family Snow White comedy "Mirror Mirror," starring Julia Roberts.
The blockbuster "The Hunger Games" led Friday's box office with $18.9 million, which should lead to a three-day gross above $60 million and an easy weekend win.
In Theaters Now (March 2012)'The Hunger Games' (March 23)
Who: Jennifer Lawrence,...
The blockbuster "The Hunger Games" led Friday's box office with $18.9 million, which should lead to a three-day gross above $60 million and an easy weekend win.
In Theaters Now (March 2012)'The Hunger Games' (March 23)
Who: Jennifer Lawrence,...
- 3/30/2012
- Extra
Films serve many purposes. Some movies are meant for pure simple entertainment, others provide a means of escape from reality and some are used to shine a light on the human condition. Being Flynn falls into the latter category. This film shines a light on many facets of the human condition: the relationship between fathers and sons, the problem of self medication in the form of substance abuse, and finally how quickly you can go from being fully employed with a roof over your head, to sleeping on a park bench. Being Flynn does a good job of this without senseless pandering.
Being Flynn is the story of Nick Flynn (Paul Dano). Nick is a struggling author (aren't we all) whose entire existence seems to revolve around being abandoned by his father Jonathan (Robert de Niro) at a young age.
The first act of the film is filled with imagery...
Being Flynn is the story of Nick Flynn (Paul Dano). Nick is a struggling author (aren't we all) whose entire existence seems to revolve around being abandoned by his father Jonathan (Robert de Niro) at a young age.
The first act of the film is filled with imagery...
- 3/23/2012
- by Rod Paddock
- Slackerwood
Being Flynn is the new comedy/drama that explores the unique bond ( or lack ) between father and son. Based on the memoir by Nick Flynn, ” Another Bulls**t Day in Suck City “, Paul ( About A Boy ) Weitz’s new film deals with a young man estranged from a father absent from most of his childhood. He’s angry about the missing years, but somewhat eager to get to know him, along with the fear that he may become his father. The movie deals well in presenting these conflicting emotions while also shining a light on one of the biggest problems of society. It also gives Robert DeNiro one of his most interesting film roles in years.
The opening scenes of Being Flynn introduce us to son and father. Nick Flynn is an unemployed, directionless twenty-something who flirts with the idea of being a writer. After being tossed out of the...
The opening scenes of Being Flynn introduce us to son and father. Nick Flynn is an unemployed, directionless twenty-something who flirts with the idea of being a writer. After being tossed out of the...
- 3/16/2012
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Three films are opening this weekend -- we have the big screen adaptation of the 1987 Fox Show, .21 Jump Street. starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill; the movie version of the 1997 Nick Flynn memoir .Being Flynn. starring Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, and Olivia Thirby from the .About a Boy. director Paul Weitz; and then we have the Spanish-language exploitation comedy .Casa de mi Padre. starring Will Ferrell, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Genesis Rodriguez.
Take a look at my reviews:
For my written review of "Being Flynn," click here.
Take a look at my reviews:
For my written review of "Being Flynn," click here.
- 3/16/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Based on Nick Flynn’s acclaimed memoir “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, Paul Weitz’s (“American Pie”) latest film bears the uninteresting name “Being Flynn”. The necessity for the name change is obvious—after all, you can’t put swears up on a marquee—but they went from the a great, memorable title to something completely bland and generic. There’s no way a name like “Being Flynn” will offend anyone’s delicate sensibilities, but there is no way it will stick with anyone either. Luckily for you the watering down of the title doesn’t extend to the contents of the memoir. “Being Flynn” is a film that plumbs the depths of addiction, poverty, family, and ultimately identity, doesn’t pull any punches, and approaches all of these themes from a personal angle that makes them accessible. Intense performances across the board anchor the story of a young...
- 3/16/2012
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
I.ve always been a fan of actor Paul Dano. He gave a memorable performance as a son who would not speak in .Little Miss Sunshine,. and he provoked Oscar-winner Daniel Day Lewis to deliver the iconic line .I... drink... your... milkshake!. in .There Will Be Blood..
In the new film .Being Flynn,. Dano trades verbal acumen with Robert De Niro who plays his absentee father (and a homophobe and bigot to boot!). And let me tell you, the actor match emotion for emotion, word for word with De Niro.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** His interest in working with .Being Flynn.
*** He read the script first, then he bought the book only to find out that Nick Flynn, the memoir author, left him something in the bookstore
*** Meeting his real-life counterpart
*** His biggest takeaway from the movie
*** Working with De Niro...
In the new film .Being Flynn,. Dano trades verbal acumen with Robert De Niro who plays his absentee father (and a homophobe and bigot to boot!). And let me tell you, the actor match emotion for emotion, word for word with De Niro.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** His interest in working with .Being Flynn.
*** He read the script first, then he bought the book only to find out that Nick Flynn, the memoir author, left him something in the bookstore
*** Meeting his real-life counterpart
*** His biggest takeaway from the movie
*** Working with De Niro...
- 3/15/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Miss Oliva Thirlby is a quiet, astute actor and she was also pretty much the same during this interview. She was sweet, and thoughtful, and passionate. In the film, Thirlby plays the girlfriend of Paul Dano.s character. She gives him her nurturing side.
In this interview, the .Juno. actress talks about:
*** Her interest in making the movie
*** How she fleshed out the character which did not appear on Nick Flynn.s memoir .Another Bulls.t Night in Suck City.
*** Working with Paul Dano . did she learn anything from co-starring with him?
*** She did not share scenes with Robert De Niro but how was it being in the same film with the icon?
*** How parents shape kids...
In this interview, the .Juno. actress talks about:
*** Her interest in making the movie
*** How she fleshed out the character which did not appear on Nick Flynn.s memoir .Another Bulls.t Night in Suck City.
*** Working with Paul Dano . did she learn anything from co-starring with him?
*** She did not share scenes with Robert De Niro but how was it being in the same film with the icon?
*** How parents shape kids...
- 3/15/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Writer/director Paul Weitz has explored the bond between father-and-son before in movies like .About a Boy. and .In Good Company.. With .Being Flynn,. Weitz is back to take a look at this unbreakable bond even if the relationship is a bit dysfunctional.
Based on Nick Flynn.s memoir called .Another Bulls.t Night in Suck City,. Paul Dano embodies the author and the great Robert De Niro is his homophobic, bigoted father. Julianne Moore plays the caring mother, and Olivia Thirlby (.Juno.) is his nurturing girlfriend.
In this interview, Weitz talked about:
*** Why it took 7 years to develop .Being Flynn.
*** Writing 30 drafts of the script, and which one was eventually used
*** What was his initial attraction to the film?
*** Why explore the father-son dynamic again?
*** Alcoholism, drug abuse, and the many demons in .Being Flynn.
*** Meeting the real Jonathan Flynn
*** Working with Robert De Niro...
Based on Nick Flynn.s memoir called .Another Bulls.t Night in Suck City,. Paul Dano embodies the author and the great Robert De Niro is his homophobic, bigoted father. Julianne Moore plays the caring mother, and Olivia Thirlby (.Juno.) is his nurturing girlfriend.
In this interview, Weitz talked about:
*** Why it took 7 years to develop .Being Flynn.
*** Writing 30 drafts of the script, and which one was eventually used
*** What was his initial attraction to the film?
*** Why explore the father-son dynamic again?
*** Alcoholism, drug abuse, and the many demons in .Being Flynn.
*** Meeting the real Jonathan Flynn
*** Working with Robert De Niro...
- 3/15/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Film: Being Flynn (2012) Cast includes: Robert De Niro (Goodfellas), Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine), Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right), Olivia Thirlby (Juno) Writer/Director: Paul Weitz (About a Boy) Genre: Drama, Humor (102 minutes) Based on a memoir by Nick Flynn "Don't worry, you're in the hands of a master storyteller," says Flynn... that would be Jonathan Flynn. He tells us that he's one of America's three classic storytellers, "and soon, very soon, I shall be known." In the voice of Nicholas Flynn, we're told that it's his father's story, "but he's not telling it. I am." He goes on to tell us, "All my life, my father has been manifest as an absence." Yet, "some part of me always knew he'd find me some day." About the only way Nick knew his father was from his letters -- hundreds of them. It seems that even from afar, Jonathan...
- 3/14/2012
- by Leslie Sisman
- Moviefone
Imagine putting a stranger on a pedestal and then seeing your dreams come crashing down upon meeting this person. That is exactly what happened to our hero in the new movie .Being Flynn.. The stranger in question was his own father.
Paul Dano, the actor who famously sparred with Oscar-winner Daniel Day Lewis in .There Will Be Blood,. is now trading barbs with Robert De Niro in .Being Flynn.. Dano plays the son, Nick Flynn, and De Niro is his wayward father, Jonathan Flynn.
Based on the 1997 memoir by the real Nick Flynn called .Another Bulls.t Night in Suck City,. .Being Flynn. is a thoughtful meditation on family relationships. The movie takes its time to get the message across but De Niro.s performance makes it all an ebullient experience.
Let.s be honest and admit that De Niro has not done a good movie worthy of his iconic stature in quite a while.
Paul Dano, the actor who famously sparred with Oscar-winner Daniel Day Lewis in .There Will Be Blood,. is now trading barbs with Robert De Niro in .Being Flynn.. Dano plays the son, Nick Flynn, and De Niro is his wayward father, Jonathan Flynn.
Based on the 1997 memoir by the real Nick Flynn called .Another Bulls.t Night in Suck City,. .Being Flynn. is a thoughtful meditation on family relationships. The movie takes its time to get the message across but De Niro.s performance makes it all an ebullient experience.
Let.s be honest and admit that De Niro has not done a good movie worthy of his iconic stature in quite a while.
- 3/14/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Chicago – The intensity that Robert De Niro puts into his movie characters had slackened a bit, as he bent his reputation on more commercial roles. But Director Paul Weitz has revived the old legend with a meaty, purposeful character, and De Niro delivers it with his old fire. ‘Being Flynn’ is not a comeback, but a gratefully received reboot.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This exceptional character study has De Niro playing a homeless man, accepting the fate with as much rancor and cardboard philosophy as he can muster. What is so impressive about the role is that it’s wrapped in a logical, sensitive story about the relationship between a father and son, at a point where all the signs and past encounters should add up to no relationship at all. This is the jumping off place for De Niro’s characterization, and it never devolves into sentiment or easy solutions. Paul Weitz...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This exceptional character study has De Niro playing a homeless man, accepting the fate with as much rancor and cardboard philosophy as he can muster. What is so impressive about the role is that it’s wrapped in a logical, sensitive story about the relationship between a father and son, at a point where all the signs and past encounters should add up to no relationship at all. This is the jumping off place for De Niro’s characterization, and it never devolves into sentiment or easy solutions. Paul Weitz...
- 3/9/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Being Flynn
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Cast: Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Olivia Thirlby
Running Time: 1 hr 42 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Plot: A young writer named Nick Flynn (Dano) starts working at a homeless shelter, and writes about his experience. His distant wannabe writer father Jonathan (De Niro) turns up at the shelter one night as a guest. Based on the memoir “Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City” written by Nick Flynn.
Who’S It For?: Fans of De Niro will be happy to see him truly “working” again. If you like stories about writers, it’s likely you haven’t seen this type before (unless you’ve read Flynn’s book).
Overall
Being Flynn paints a full picture of the downward spiral that leads to homelessness, using the tale of Jonathan Flynn as its primary example. For those who only understand homelessness in passing, this...
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Cast: Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Olivia Thirlby
Running Time: 1 hr 42 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Plot: A young writer named Nick Flynn (Dano) starts working at a homeless shelter, and writes about his experience. His distant wannabe writer father Jonathan (De Niro) turns up at the shelter one night as a guest. Based on the memoir “Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City” written by Nick Flynn.
Who’S It For?: Fans of De Niro will be happy to see him truly “working” again. If you like stories about writers, it’s likely you haven’t seen this type before (unless you’ve read Flynn’s book).
Overall
Being Flynn paints a full picture of the downward spiral that leads to homelessness, using the tale of Jonathan Flynn as its primary example. For those who only understand homelessness in passing, this...
- 3/9/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
In the latest movie from About A Boy director Paul Weitz, actor Paul Dano plays Nick Flynn, a young writer who starts working at a homeless shelter. Nick is forced to face himself and his background when his estranged father Jonathan, (Robert De Niro) a downward spiraling writer, comes to stay at the shelter. Being Flynn is based on Nick Flynn’s memoir “Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City.”
I spoke with director Paul Weitz in a roundtable interview to discuss what it was like to adapt this true story with the real man’s support, the chemistry of De Niro and Dano, and more.
Being Flynn opens in Chicago on March 9, 2012.
How did the Q&A go last night?
Pretty good. Quite kind.
‘Quite kind’? Is that your normal priority with Q&A’s?
Oh God, yeah. It’s funny because first they sort of bring up the...
I spoke with director Paul Weitz in a roundtable interview to discuss what it was like to adapt this true story with the real man’s support, the chemistry of De Niro and Dano, and more.
Being Flynn opens in Chicago on March 9, 2012.
How did the Q&A go last night?
Pretty good. Quite kind.
‘Quite kind’? Is that your normal priority with Q&A’s?
Oh God, yeah. It’s funny because first they sort of bring up the...
- 3/8/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Chicago – Part of the fun in watching movies is experiencing the career evolution of a particular director. One such career is Paul Weitz, who began with the memorable “American Pie,” went a bit more serious with “About a Boy” and “In Good Company,” and cements his credibility in the insightful “Being Flynn.”
In 1999 Paul and his brother Chris Weitz made their directorial debut with the sex comedy classic “American Pie,” and both have helped each other as collaborators throughout their separate careers ever since. Paul’s director credits have been a progression, becoming increasing more substantial (his pick-up in 2010 of “Little Fockers” notwithstanding). “Being Flynn” connects the director to issues regarding homelessness and the writer’s life, and he guides both subjects with a natural intuition, a respect for his characters and an unexpected depth.
Robert De Niro is Directed by Paul Weitz in “Being Flynn’
Photo credit: David Lee...
In 1999 Paul and his brother Chris Weitz made their directorial debut with the sex comedy classic “American Pie,” and both have helped each other as collaborators throughout their separate careers ever since. Paul’s director credits have been a progression, becoming increasing more substantial (his pick-up in 2010 of “Little Fockers” notwithstanding). “Being Flynn” connects the director to issues regarding homelessness and the writer’s life, and he guides both subjects with a natural intuition, a respect for his characters and an unexpected depth.
Robert De Niro is Directed by Paul Weitz in “Being Flynn’
Photo credit: David Lee...
- 3/8/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Go see Being Flynn with someone you love, and make sure it's light out when you're done. Normally, this is the kind of warning I use for horror movies. Being Flynn is not a horror movie. And I'm not trying to discourage you from seeing it because I have to say, this was an incredibly beautiful, moving film. But man, it's dark. I walked out of the theater into the dim New York morning, and shivered. Being Flynn was adapted by Oscar-nominated writer/director Paul Weitz from Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Weitz captures Flynn's fractured relationship with both his dead mother and living father with a combination of harsh lighting, crisp exposure and brutally honest dialogue. Robert DeNiro and Paul Dano play our Flynns to perfection, waffling between sanity and...
- 3/5/2012
- by Rachael Berkey
- The Daily BLAM!
London, Mar 4: Robert De Niro disguised himself as a homeless man and spent a day at a shelter in Boston as he researched his role for the movie 'Being Flynn'.
The actor's make-up was so successful that he had complete chat with regular at the shelter about himself.
"We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well," the Daily Express quoted director Paul Weitz as telling WENN.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could cover up his.
The actor's make-up was so successful that he had complete chat with regular at the shelter about himself.
"We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well," the Daily Express quoted director Paul Weitz as telling WENN.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could cover up his.
- 3/4/2012
- by Amith Ostwal
- RealBollywood.com
"Kill your idols," said Paul Dano at the red carpet event for "Being Flynn." The Focus Features release, based on the autobiographical novel "Another Bullshit Night In Suck City" by Nick Flynn, focuses on Flynn's rocky relationship with his self-proclaimed tortured genius of a father. A homeless vagabond who insisted he was purposely seeking material for his unfinished manuscript, Jonathan was a stubborn old man who frustrated Nick in adulthood but was never present in Nick's childhood, leading to Nick having no idea what to think about this walking myth. A fairly different definition of an idol, but in the directionless young Nick's eyes, the next best thing.
Seeing his own father brought to life by a household name like Robert De Niro gave author Nick Flynn pause. He says that, "Character-wise, De Niro was able to embody my father in a creepy way. I might need some therapy!" As...
Seeing his own father brought to life by a household name like Robert De Niro gave author Nick Flynn pause. He says that, "Character-wise, De Niro was able to embody my father in a creepy way. I might need some therapy!" As...
- 3/4/2012
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
London, Mar 3: Robert De Niro disguised himself as a homeless man to spent a day at a homeless shelter in Boston, Massachusetts as he researched his new role in Being Flynn.
The Actor's make under was so successful that he had complete chat with regular at the shelter about himself.
"We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well," Daily express quoted director Paul Weitz as telling WENN.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could.
The Actor's make under was so successful that he had complete chat with regular at the shelter about himself.
"We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well," Daily express quoted director Paul Weitz as telling WENN.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could.
- 3/3/2012
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Veteran actor Robert De Niro disguised himself into a homeless man for a shelter visit, while he researched for his role in .Being Flynn...We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well,. said film.s director Paul Weitz..He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could cover up his face..There was a very odd moment where somebody who worked at the shelter said, .Oh, maybe Bob De Niro could play me!. He had heard something about how we were doing a movie and he did not realise that Bob De Niro was standing seven feet from him..Bob likes to play real people so he was trying to get a sense of the reality there.
- 3/3/2012
- Filmicafe
London: Veteran actor Robert De Niro disguised himself into a homeless man for a shelter visit, while he researched for his role in "Being Flynn"."We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well," ...
- 3/3/2012
- BusinessofCinema
London, March 3: Veteran actor Robert De Niro disguised himself into a homeless man for a shelter visit, while he researched for his role in "Being Flynn".
"We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well," said film's director Paul Weitz.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could cover up his face.
"There was a very odd moment where somebody who worked at the shelter said, 'Oh, maybe Bob De Niro could play me!' He had heard something about how we were doing a movie and he did not realise that Bob De Niro was standing seven feet from.
"We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well," said film's director Paul Weitz.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could cover up his face.
"There was a very odd moment where somebody who worked at the shelter said, 'Oh, maybe Bob De Niro could play me!' He had heard something about how we were doing a movie and he did not realise that Bob De Niro was standing seven feet from.
- 3/3/2012
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Here's a preview of what's opening in theaters this weekend, including the animated family film "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," starring Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito and Ed Helms; the high-school raunchy comedy "Project X"; and the drama "Being Flynn," starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.
In Theaters Now (March 2012)'Dr. Seuss' The Lorax' (March 2)
Who: Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito, Betty WhiteWhat: A 12-year-old boy searches for the...
In Theaters Now (March 2012)'Dr. Seuss' The Lorax' (March 2)
Who: Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito, Betty WhiteWhat: A 12-year-old boy searches for the...
- 3/2/2012
- Extra
Have we all recovered from the Oscars? I'm still steamed about Billy Crystal's blackface, but really, it's the horrible, groan-inducing jokes that were the most offensive of all. I just like to fantasize about the Tilda/Charlize/Fassbender crazy Oscar party they must have had together. That would be the place to watch! But now it's March, so awards season is over, and we must move on to new and greener pastures. You know what they say about March, in like a "Lorax" out like a lamb. Right? Something like that. This weekend, "The Lorax" ushers in spring with a little ecology lesson, and "Project X" ushers in Spring Break, Woo! We've also got curiosity "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," somehow being released in theaters, Jafar Panahi's house arrest doc "This Is Not A Film" and plenty of other selections in our First Weekend of March Cornucopia.
- 3/2/2012
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Being Flynn Click here to read the review! "Odds seemed in Weitz’s favor for his latest effort, Being Flynn, based on the 2004 memoir by Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City. Unfortunately, this is one adaptation that doesn’t quite make a successful transition to the silver screen, and that’s for a few reasons. While at least the book title wasn’t subject to the deadening censorship of film and media, the original source is bound to be a much better read than its celluloid counterpart plays as a film."...
- 3/2/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
As a child growing up in Scituate, Massachusetts, Nick Flynn (pictured here at left and below with director Paul Weitz) was often left to explore on his own, and he got into varying degrees of trouble. Flynn’s parents were divorced and he had no contact with his father, living instead with his mother, who worked in a bakery. She remarried to a 21-year-old Viet Nam vet, and, after their divorce, Flynn wound up living with her and a new boyfriend — a member of one of the largest drug smuggling rings in New England. Around the age of 18 Flynn started working for the smuggler — unloading fishing boats and as an electrician’s apprentice – and he’d get high every day to make the work bearable. Eventually the boyfriend got busted and Flynn had to show up in court to speak to his character.
Just a couple of years earlier, Flynn...
Just a couple of years earlier, Flynn...
- 3/2/2012
- by Alix Lambert
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Being Flynn is a truly miserable and depressing film. Nothing about it made me want to continue watching it after about 45 minutes and it caused me to wonder just what exactly I ever find satisfying about depressing movies in the first place. Of course, while watching a film with few, if any, redeeming qualities it doesn't make for a good starting point to ask such a question. So, instead I began wondering what would have made this film better? What was it about the film that made me dislike it so much?
After some thought I came to a conclusion and just like any action film, a dramatic piece such as Being Flynn should be able to exist outside of the suffering it inflicts on its audience. Think of this in the same way any action film shouldn't necessarily depend on the action alone, but hopefully there's a story that...
After some thought I came to a conclusion and just like any action film, a dramatic piece such as Being Flynn should be able to exist outside of the suffering it inflicts on its audience. Think of this in the same way any action film shouldn't necessarily depend on the action alone, but hopefully there's a story that...
- 3/2/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
What's in a title? There's something both extremely specific and entirely universal about the one for "Another Bullshit Night In Suck City," an autobiographical book from Nick Flynn, suggesting everyday life becoming a Moebius strip of inevitability in the futile search for truth. In its film form, however, 'Suck City' has instead become "Being Flynn," which, aside from commercial suicide, means next to nothing after watching the film either. Most of this has to do with the fact that Nick Flynn, the casual junkie and sometimes poet layabout who somewhat accidentally finds his voice as a writer, is a fairly unremarkable, uninteresting guy.
Paul Dano plays Flynn, a knockabout underachiever who never quite found his calling. Falling ass-backwards into a never-once-authentic three man living arrangement, he finds himself trapped in an endless loop of odd jobs and menial labor, trapped in the shadow of his misanthropic, frequenty vanishing father. In...
Paul Dano plays Flynn, a knockabout underachiever who never quite found his calling. Falling ass-backwards into a never-once-authentic three man living arrangement, he finds himself trapped in an endless loop of odd jobs and menial labor, trapped in the shadow of his misanthropic, frequenty vanishing father. In...
- 3/1/2012
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
A heavily disguised Robert De Niro spent a day at a homeless shelter in Boston, Massachusetts as he researched his new role in Being Flynn.
His make-under was so successful, the movie star had a full conversation with a regular at the shelter - about himself.
Director Paul Weitz explains, "We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could cover up his face.
"There was a very odd moment where somebody who worked at the shelter said, 'Oh, maybe Bob De Niro could play me!' He had heard something about how we were doing a movie and he did not realise that Bob De Niro was standing seven feet from him.
"Bob likes to play real people so he was trying to get a sense of the reality there. In the shelter he observed the people staying there and their body language wasn't downtrodden. They had erect posture and didn't want to appear to be marks and get robbed or beaten up so that's how he appears in the film."
De Niro also hit New York's Financial District in disguise to get a sense of what it was like to be an invisible homeless person in the busy Big Apple.
Weitz tells WENN, "I got a weather report that it was going to be snowing the next day and I called Bob up and said, 'How would you feel about getting into costume and trudging around the streets tomorrow if it snows?' So four weeks before shooting I went with him in a car and with a camera guy and we shot Bob walking around different neighbourhoods in his homeless gear.
"We chose different places where we hoped people would ignore a huge movie star. So we went down to the Financial District when everyone is arriving at work so they don't give a damn; they'd pretty much run anyone over to get to work."...
His make-under was so successful, the movie star had a full conversation with a regular at the shelter - about himself.
Director Paul Weitz explains, "We did spend time at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, where Nick Flynn, who wrote the memoir, had worked. It was interesting to see him kind of blend into the woodwork, which he did very well.
"He had a cap pulled over his eyes and he pretended to have a cold so he could cover up his face.
"There was a very odd moment where somebody who worked at the shelter said, 'Oh, maybe Bob De Niro could play me!' He had heard something about how we were doing a movie and he did not realise that Bob De Niro was standing seven feet from him.
"Bob likes to play real people so he was trying to get a sense of the reality there. In the shelter he observed the people staying there and their body language wasn't downtrodden. They had erect posture and didn't want to appear to be marks and get robbed or beaten up so that's how he appears in the film."
De Niro also hit New York's Financial District in disguise to get a sense of what it was like to be an invisible homeless person in the busy Big Apple.
Weitz tells WENN, "I got a weather report that it was going to be snowing the next day and I called Bob up and said, 'How would you feel about getting into costume and trudging around the streets tomorrow if it snows?' So four weeks before shooting I went with him in a car and with a camera guy and we shot Bob walking around different neighbourhoods in his homeless gear.
"We chose different places where we hoped people would ignore a huge movie star. So we went down to the Financial District when everyone is arriving at work so they don't give a damn; they'd pretty much run anyone over to get to work."...
- 3/1/2012
- WENN
There's something fascinating about Paul Dano. Perhaps it's the fact that there aren't many people who walk around thinking, I've got that guy figured out. I'm always skeptical of actors who just love doing press, and Paul Dano is definitely not one of those actors. Not to say that he goes out of his way to be mysterious or secretive -- he just kind of is. And that makes him interesting. Still, I have to wonder whether his reluctance to open up has harmed his career. After all, given the financial success of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "There Will Be Blood," you'd think he'd be a household name by now. But no. Now Dano stars as Nick Flynn in "Being Flynn" -- a film based on the popular memoir "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City," about a drug abuser, Nick, and his relationship with his homeless father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro...
- 3/1/2012
- by Mike Ryan
- Moviefone
At times, "Being Flynn" is a gorgeous, compelling adaptation of Nick Flynn's gritty memoir, "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City." However, it constantly strains from attempting to do justice to its source. Flynn's experience with his deadbeat dad, a struggling alcoholic writer whose aspirations resemble Flynn's own shortcomings, takes the form of an elegant, stylized character study. But when the style belongs to the book, it shows up in the movie with choppy results. Voiceovers, as screenwriting guru Robert McKee famously observed in a hilarious meta moment in "Adaptation," can often ruin a movie. And so it's an immediate red flag in "Being Flynn" when twentysomething Nick (Paul Dano) puts his pen to a paper and gazes longingly at nothing in particular while his narration draws from Flynn's book: "What do you do if both of you are lost and you both wind up in the same place waiting?...
- 3/1/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Welcome to “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,” or perhaps more appropriately, welcome to Being Flynn, complete with its own bullshit and own suckitude. Based on writer Nick Flynn‘s memoir (you know, the one called “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,” as if you could forget such a title), Paul Weitz‘s film sets Paul Dano as Nick and Robert De Niro as his wayward papa, the irreverent and inappropriate Jonathan Flynn. Nick’s lived most of his life without his father, a man who has “manifested as an absence” for twentysomething years, and Nick’s been just fine with it. Relatively. Kind of. Fine – not really. But things are about to get much worse for Nick, because Jonathan is about to pop back into his life – and utterly ruin it in the process. Nick’s life so far hasn’t been that charmed – a directionless loner, he resembles his father perhaps even more than he...
- 3/1/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In a suite at the Waldorf Astoria, three men roam the halls who have been Flynn at one time or another. One, author Nick Flynn, skinny and frail with a long face and big eyes, will always be Flynn. After all, he is the man from which the book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City comes from and, in keeping, the film Being Flynn. The man who’s father both fictionally and, in a strange way, literally became Robert De Niro, who plays another Flynn, Nick’s father Jonathan, on screen (sadly Mr. De Niro was not present at the Waldorf). Nick describes watching his real-life father do his De Niro impersonation: “[my dad] had seen the trailer for [Being Flynn]…and he does this impersonation of De Niro doing him. It was this weird meta-moment. De Niro’s doing him then he’s doing De Niro doing him.”
Then there’s the slightly more well-fed Paul Weitz,...
Then there’s the slightly more well-fed Paul Weitz,...
- 3/1/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The movie Being Flynn, out this weekend, is based on Nick Flynn's 2004 book, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir. Paul Dano plays Flynn in the late eighties, when he reunited with his estranged father (played by Robert De Niro) while working at a homeless shelter. Director Paul Weitz, who previously explored father-son dynamics in About a Boy, went through 30 drafts over the course of seven years to adapt the book for the screen. In turn, Flynn is now turning the experience into another book, The Reenactments. Clearly, these two have a lot to talk about, so Vulture sat them down together to find out how the low-budget, New York–based shoot went, from snagging surprise cameos to stealing shots on the fly.Nick, Paul Dano says you stalked him. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around, if he's portraying you?Flynn: I stalked Paul Dano.
- 3/1/2012
- by Jennifer Vineyard
- Vulture
Deconstructing the career of director Paul Weitz can be difficult, as he's never moved in a singular direction, going from comedies ("American Pie," "Little Fockers") to satire ("American Dreamz") to dramedy ("In Good Company," "About A Boy") to fantasy ("Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assisant"). His latest is the drama "Being Flynn," an adaptation of the celebrated memoir "Another Bullshit Night In Suck City" by Nick Flynn, that centers on a young man (Paul Dano) who works at various homeless shelters in Boston, and spots his estranged father (Robert De Niro) seeking a bed one night, leading him to face his past.
The Playlist recently sat down with Weitz to talk about the film, and we discussed the title change that left the director with a "splinter in my soul," the parallels between Robert De Niro's character and Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver" and more. In case you missed it,...
The Playlist recently sat down with Weitz to talk about the film, and we discussed the title change that left the director with a "splinter in my soul," the parallels between Robert De Niro's character and Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver" and more. In case you missed it,...
- 3/1/2012
- by John Lichman
- The Playlist
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