Love Is Blind centers on Bess (Shannon Tarbet), a 24-year-old who is suffering from “selective perception,” a condition that makes her unable to see her own Carolyn (Chloe Sevigny). Although a suicidal construction worker named Russell (Aidan Turner) becomes smitten with her, she is also unable to acknowledge his presence.
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- 11/11/2019
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Directors Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom’s “Love Is Blind” should perhaps be titled “Love Is Arbitrary.” There’s no reasoning to how and why love manifests or dissipates in relationships, in much the same way the film’s character motivations flip and flop as script convenience calls. who struggles to recognize the broken people who populate her purview. Her ability to see only what she wants directly correlates to the film’s selective reasoning when it comes to contrivance and cloying poignancy.
Elizabeth Krafft (Shannon Tarbet), known to her friends as “Bess,” lives in an idyllic small town in upstate New York with her ailing father Murray (Matthew Broderick) and an albino peacock named Argus. She suffers from a rare disorder that affects her ability to see people who physically exist. Her discriminating blindness has caused a rift between Bess and her caring mother Carolyn (Chloë Sevigny). Ten years prior,...
Elizabeth Krafft (Shannon Tarbet), known to her friends as “Bess,” lives in an idyllic small town in upstate New York with her ailing father Murray (Matthew Broderick) and an albino peacock named Argus. She suffers from a rare disorder that affects her ability to see people who physically exist. Her discriminating blindness has caused a rift between Bess and her caring mother Carolyn (Chloë Sevigny). Ten years prior,...
- 11/8/2019
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
"What if none of this is real after all?" Uncork'd has debuted an official Us trailer for an indie dark comedy titled Love Is Blind, marking the feature directorial debut of two veteran music video directors - Monty Whitebloom & Andy Delaney. A woman with selective perception, who cannot see her mother, is prescribed by her wacky psychiatrist to spend time with a suicidal man that has fallen in love with her - but she cannot see either of them. The eccentric psychiatrist is trying to help them both – is he though? Starring Shannon Tarbet, with Aidan Turner, Benjamin Walker, Matthew Broderick, and Chloë Sevigny. "Seductive and surreal; stylish and a little dark, Love Is Blind is a modern-day fairytale about choosing to see only what you want to see – from your very own mother to the beauty of how connected we all are." An odd little film. Here's the official...
- 10/9/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In a casting coup for the indie production, Benjamin Walker has signed on to star opposite up-and-coming UK actress Shannon Tarbet in the dark comedy “Look Away,” TheWrap has learned. Matthew Broderick and Chloe Sevigny co-star in the film, which Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom are directing from a script by Jennifer Schuur. Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry of Locomotive Media are producing the movie, which is being executive produced by Alexis Alexanian, Peter Friedlander and Lizzie Nastro. Also Read: 'Girls' Star Zosia Mamet to Workshop Reese Witherspoon Role in 'American Psycho' Musical (Exclusive) New Regency is co-financing and executive producing along with.
- 6/18/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Warrior’s Gate, Look Away, Ghostbusters, and other films have made recent film casting, screenwriting, and director news. These films come from movie studios primarily based in the United States. The castings, screenwriters, and directors are subject to change.
Ghostbusters
Chris Hemsworth has been cast in Ghostbusters as the receptionist for the female-led ghostbusting organization.
The Water Man
Oprah Winfrey and actor David Oyelowo are in discussions to produce “The Water Man” for Disney
Emma Needell… penned the script. The story follows a young boy who seeks the title character, a mythical man who is said to have the secret to immortality, in an effort to help his ailing mother.
Oyelowo would star in the project as well, playing the young man’s father who slowly comes to understand his son.
Look Away
Matthew Broderick and Chloë Sevigny will star with up and coming UK actress Shannon Tarbet in Look Away…...
Ghostbusters
Chris Hemsworth has been cast in Ghostbusters as the receptionist for the female-led ghostbusting organization.
The Water Man
Oprah Winfrey and actor David Oyelowo are in discussions to produce “The Water Man” for Disney
Emma Needell… penned the script. The story follows a young boy who seeks the title character, a mythical man who is said to have the secret to immortality, in an effort to help his ailing mother.
Oyelowo would star in the project as well, playing the young man’s father who slowly comes to understand his son.
Look Away
Matthew Broderick and Chloë Sevigny will star with up and coming UK actress Shannon Tarbet in Look Away…...
- 6/11/2015
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Matthew Broderick and Chloë Sevigny are set to star in the upcoming dark comedy, Look Away. Starring as the lead of the film, Look Away introduces U.K.’s up-and-coming actress, Shannon Tarbet, in the role of ‘Bess Kraft.’ Broderick will play Bess’s father,Murray Kraft, and Sevigny as Bess’s mother, Carolyn Kraft. The film, directed by Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom of BigTV! and written by Variety’s Top Ten Writers to Watch Jennifer Schuur, is an exploration of love, relationships, family and the human condition. Alexis Alexanian, Peter Friedlander and Lizzie Nastro will executive produce the film with New Regency also on board as an executive producer and co-financier. Production will begin on June 8th in New York’s Hudson Valley. Locomotive Media, in addition to this project, is working on a development deal with New Regency to create a fund to develop and produce smart,...
- 6/11/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Exclusive: Matthew Broderick and Chloë Sevigny will star with up-and-coming UK actress Shannon Tarbet in Look Away, a dark comedy being produced by Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry of Locomotive Media. Tarbet plays the lead, and Broderick and Sevigny her parents. Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom of BigTV! are directing a script by Jennifer Schuur. Tarbet's character is an offbeat young woman who is unable to physically see her mother due to a fictional affliction…...
- 6/11/2015
- Deadline
UK newcomer Shannon Tarbet will also star in Locomotive Media’s upcoming dark comedy.
Look Away follows a young woman who cannot see her mother due to a fictitious affliction called selective blindness and enlists the help of an eccentric psychiatrist and a love interest.
Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom of BigTV! will direct from a screenplay by Jennifer Schuur. Production will begin on June 8 in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Producers Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry of Locomotive Media announced the casting on Thursday.
Alexis Alexanian, Peter Friedlander and Lizzie Nastro will serve as executive producers.
New Regency, with whom Locomotive is setting up a development fund, are also on board as executive producer and co-financier.
Look Away follows a young woman who cannot see her mother due to a fictitious affliction called selective blindness and enlists the help of an eccentric psychiatrist and a love interest.
Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom of BigTV! will direct from a screenplay by Jennifer Schuur. Production will begin on June 8 in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Producers Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry of Locomotive Media announced the casting on Thursday.
Alexis Alexanian, Peter Friedlander and Lizzie Nastro will serve as executive producers.
New Regency, with whom Locomotive is setting up a development fund, are also on board as executive producer and co-financier.
- 6/11/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or in a couple of titles below have been shooting since July). This August we’ve got a good number of projects that will start surfacing as early as next year’s Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Fests. With Dakota Johnson having been just announced, we’ve got Luca Guadagnino’s long awaited (remake) A Bigger Splash, getting ready for a poolside shoot. Gus Van Sant comes out of the woodworks to move into the woods for Sea of Trees. Sundance alumni Rick Alverson is wrapping up Entertainment, Reed Morano is set to make her directorial debut this mid-August with Meadowland, while Douchebag, Like Crazy, Breathe In‘s Drake Doremus is stationed in Japan for a weighty cast and futuristic tale in Equals. Here are some...
- 8/6/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Pitch Perfect 2
Danish actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen ("Borgen") has joined Elizabeth Banks' a cappella singing sequel "Pitch Perfect 2" at Universal and Gold Circle Films.
Sorensen will play a member of a competing a cappella group alongside recently cast German YouTube star Flula Borg. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, and Adam DeVine also star. [Source: Deadline]
Black Mass
Kevin Bacon will join Johnny Depp in the film adaptation of the Whitey Bulger book "Black Mass".
Bacon will play FBI special agent Charles McGuire who is in charge of the Boston field office and the boss of Bulger's childhood friend John Connelly. [Source: Boston Globe]
Red Oaks
Craig Roberts ("Submarine," "Being Human") has scored the lead role of twenty-year-old college student David Myers in the Amazon Studios pilot "Red Oaks". Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green will produce.
Roberts plays a young man trying to work out what he wants to...
Danish actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen ("Borgen") has joined Elizabeth Banks' a cappella singing sequel "Pitch Perfect 2" at Universal and Gold Circle Films.
Sorensen will play a member of a competing a cappella group alongside recently cast German YouTube star Flula Borg. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, and Adam DeVine also star. [Source: Deadline]
Black Mass
Kevin Bacon will join Johnny Depp in the film adaptation of the Whitey Bulger book "Black Mass".
Bacon will play FBI special agent Charles McGuire who is in charge of the Boston field office and the boss of Bulger's childhood friend John Connelly. [Source: Boston Globe]
Red Oaks
Craig Roberts ("Submarine," "Being Human") has scored the lead role of twenty-year-old college student David Myers in the Amazon Studios pilot "Red Oaks". Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green will produce.
Roberts plays a young man trying to work out what he wants to...
- 6/27/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Even though they lost, the United States soccer team is moving up to the next round at the World Cup, and Will Ferrell didn't even have to bite anyone. So now he can get back to the business of making movies, and the always-busy actor has yet another project brewing. Steve Pink ("Hot Tub Time Machine," "About Last Night") has ben hired to helm "Overnight," which is being produced by Ferrell's Gary Sanchez Productions as a potential vehicle for the funnyman. The plot is said to be like "Home Alone" but set in a toy store. Not the most original idea, but hey, put Ferrell in it and we'll be there. That said, currently he's only set to produce and not star. [Variety] Nick Frost, Hope Davis and Adelaide Clemens will star in the black comedy "Look Away." Monty Whitebloom and Andy Delaney — aka BigTV! — are directing this one about "a...
- 6/27/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
• Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan may reunite on screen for the actress’ directorial debut Ithaca. Hanks would have a cameo role in the World War II coming-of-age drama based on William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy and already serves as an executive producer. Erik Jendresen (Killing Lincoln) adapted the script that will also feature Ryan onscreen, as well as the previously announced Sam Shepard (August: Osage County), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), and Jack Quaid, Ryan’s son with actor Dennis Quaid. This would be the fourth time the pair has appeared on screen together after Joe Versus the Volcano,...
- 6/26/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Nick Frost (The World’s End), Hope Davis (Louder Than Words) and Adelaide Clemens (Rectify) have been set to star in the black comedy Look Away, in which Clemens will play a young woman suffering from so-called “selective blindness” that leaves her unable to see her own mother (Davis). In search of a cure, she sees a therapist (Frost), who’s in love with her and, having Asperger’s, is unable to empathize. Music video and commercial vets Monty Whitebloom and Andy Delaney, who go by the directing duo moniker of Big TV!, are helming from a script by Jennifer Schuur (Big Love). […]...
- 6/26/2014
- Deadline
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