For his third feature (in a row), László Nemes is going back into the history books for his next project set to month into production this June. Set in 1957’s Budapest, Orphan follows a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him in the hope that his father will return from the camps. These hopes are shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back. Variety reports that the project sees Nemes reteam with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and his co-writer partner in Clara Royer. Producers onboard include Pioneer Pictures’ Ildiko Kemeny and Ferenc Szale, Good Chaos’ Mike Goodridge and Nemes himself.…...
- 4/24/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Charades and New Europe Films are joining forces to co-sell Oscar-winning Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes’ long-awaited new feature Orphan, as the production gears up to commence shooting in and around Budapest this June.
Orphan will be Nemes’ third film after Sunset, which world premiered in Venice in 2018, and his Oscar-winning breakthrough Son of Saul, which debuted in Cannes in 2015, winning the Grand Prize of the Jury before clinching Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards the following year.
The new film is set in Budapest in 1957, twelve years after the end of WWII and one year after the uprising against the Communist regime.
The story follows a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him in the hope that his father will return from the camps. These hopes are shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.
Nemes co-wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer,...
Orphan will be Nemes’ third film after Sunset, which world premiered in Venice in 2018, and his Oscar-winning breakthrough Son of Saul, which debuted in Cannes in 2015, winning the Grand Prize of the Jury before clinching Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards the following year.
The new film is set in Budapest in 1957, twelve years after the end of WWII and one year after the uprising against the Communist regime.
The story follows a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him in the hope that his father will return from the camps. These hopes are shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.
Nemes co-wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Iron Claw is full of bruises. The family at the center of writer-director Sean Durkin’s film, the Von Erichs (a stage name much different than their surname Adkisson), revels in ring-induced contusions. The bodies of the boys in the ring take a collective beating, a constant amount of pressure and pleasure from winning wrestling bouts often organized by their father and coach, Jack (Holt McCallany). Durkin’s biopic initially celebrates the glory in the ring, but as time passes and the young men fall one-by-one, the filmmaker focuses on the moments before and after each match, on muscles about to break, on psyches hanging by a thread, on the sheer weight of generational masculinity forcing its way into their heads.
Kevin Von Erich (a stoic Zac Efron) and his brothers, David (Harris Dickinson), Kerry (Jeremy Allen White), and Mike (Stanley Simons) battle inside and outside the ring, pushed by their promoter,...
Kevin Von Erich (a stoic Zac Efron) and his brothers, David (Harris Dickinson), Kerry (Jeremy Allen White), and Mike (Stanley Simons) battle inside and outside the ring, pushed by their promoter,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
I was shocked to learn from writer-director Sean Durkin that he hadn’t watched Raging Bull’s legendary commentary track with Martin Scorsese and his longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, before stepping into the ring himself to direct his third feature, the sports drama The Iron Claw. Durkin’s concern with masculine melodrama, sullenly repressed in life and violently expressed in competition, has the aura of true discipleship. But, it turns out, absorbing the lessons of a film without intensely studying it is more in line with Durkin’s style of feeling his way through a project, as he described in our interview.
In The Iron Claw, Durkin locates the story of a gender and a nation within the story of wrestling’s Von Erichs. The quartet of brothers, anchored by Zac Efron’s eldest Kevin, strive to rise to the top of their sport as well as out of their domineering father’s shadow.
In The Iron Claw, Durkin locates the story of a gender and a nation within the story of wrestling’s Von Erichs. The quartet of brothers, anchored by Zac Efron’s eldest Kevin, strive to rise to the top of their sport as well as out of their domineering father’s shadow.
- 12/22/2023
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
If any obsession straddles writer-director Sean Durkin’s three feature films to date, it’s family. The filmmaker’s cinematic gaze fixates with laser-like intensity on a structure that’s long stood as a key organizing unit of American society. While Durkin’s previous examinations tended toward the extremes, such as cultish devotion in Martha Marcy May Marlene and consumerist corrosion in The Nest, focusing on a more traditional nuclear family in The Iron Claw reveals a no less entropic force gnawing away at the structure.
Durkin’s tale of the Von Erich wrestling dynasty splits the difference between the psychological subjectivity of his debut feature and the chilly remove of its follow-up. In The Iron Claw, the filmmaker melds the reverence of a ringside fanatic with the rigor of someone who very clearly took the themes of Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull to heart. From tribulations and triumphs to tragedies,...
Durkin’s tale of the Von Erich wrestling dynasty splits the difference between the psychological subjectivity of his debut feature and the chilly remove of its follow-up. In The Iron Claw, the filmmaker melds the reverence of a ringside fanatic with the rigor of someone who very clearly took the themes of Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull to heart. From tribulations and triumphs to tragedies,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
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Weekly Commentary: The National Board of Review, New York Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose three different cinematographers for their picks as the best of the year.
Rodrigo Prieto won a combination prize from NBR for his work on “Barbie...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Weekly Commentary: The National Board of Review, New York Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose three different cinematographers for their picks as the best of the year.
Rodrigo Prieto won a combination prize from NBR for his work on “Barbie...
- 12/10/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Could professional wrestling be headed back into the Oscars race for the first time since 2008’s The Wrestler? That was one of the questions swirling throughout Dallas last night following the world premiere of The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s drama about the tragic rise and fall of the Texas-based Von Erich wrestling family. The film stars Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Stanley Simons, Harris Dickinson, Holt McCallany, Maura Tierney, and Lily James, with possible accolades following the principle cast.
We were lucky enough to attend the world premiere on Wednesday evening, and the mood was electric, particularly because of one important piece of breaking news. Literally moments before curtains lifted on The Iron Claw, news broke about the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, sending the crowd into an uproar. The film had received an interim agreement so that stars Efron, White, Simons, and Dickinson could be on hand for the festivities.
We were lucky enough to attend the world premiere on Wednesday evening, and the mood was electric, particularly because of one important piece of breaking news. Literally moments before curtains lifted on The Iron Claw, news broke about the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, sending the crowd into an uproar. The film had received an interim agreement so that stars Efron, White, Simons, and Dickinson could be on hand for the festivities.
- 11/9/2023
- by Travis Hopson
- JoBlo.com
Film cameras strike big time as it seems that Dp chose celluloid to shoot the Oscar 2024 (96th Academy Awards) contenders. The most used camera is the Arricam (Lt and St) which, you have to admit, is an amazing fact. Additionally, there are new cameras on that list. Explore the camera charts below based on the IndieWire Cinematography Survey.
Oscar 2024: Camera Manufacturers Chart Oscar 2024 contenders: Cameras and lenses
IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose films are among the most critically acclaimed of the year, in order to explore which cameras and lenses they used (Make sure to read the IndieWire’s article where you can find Dp’s explanation of how they used their gear). As the tradition calls, we took the data to build friendly charts, trying to find a significant tendency and segmentation. Surprisingly, the most used camera is the Arricam. First,...
Oscar 2024: Camera Manufacturers Chart Oscar 2024 contenders: Cameras and lenses
IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose films are among the most critically acclaimed of the year, in order to explore which cameras and lenses they used (Make sure to read the IndieWire’s article where you can find Dp’s explanation of how they used their gear). As the tradition calls, we took the data to build friendly charts, trying to find a significant tendency and segmentation. Surprisingly, the most used camera is the Arricam. First,...
- 10/20/2023
- by Yossy Mendelovich
- YMCinema
In a landscape marred by ecological hardships and shrouded in dystopian shades, Foe, directed by Garth Davis and adapted from Iain Reid’s novel of the same name, attempts to paint a panorama of anguish, mystery and existential dread. With Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre at the forefront, the film navigates through a terrain of domesticity entangled with environmental and interpersonal discord. The film does excel in the visual space, but meanders through its scenic wasteland in search of a connection with characters so despondent they repel more than engage.
Foe starts with Hen (Ronan) crying in the shower. Her voice-over provides some commentary as she talks about her dull life with her husband Junior (Mescal). Earth is in disarray as tornado systems are wreaking havoc all over the planet, while famine and drought decimate this dystopian future. In the evening, Junior wakes to bright headlights peering through...
Foe starts with Hen (Ronan) crying in the shower. Her voice-over provides some commentary as she talks about her dull life with her husband Junior (Mescal). Earth is in disarray as tornado systems are wreaking havoc all over the planet, while famine and drought decimate this dystopian future. In the evening, Junior wakes to bright headlights peering through...
- 10/1/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Foe’s potential is immense. The new sci-fi drama from director Garth Davis, who garnered acclaim after 2016’s Lion, stars beloved under-30 actors in Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan. It’s adapted from a book by Iain Reid (I’m Thinking of Ending Things). The two Irish stars play an American couple, Henrietta and Junior, living in the Midwest later this century, existing in a world ravaged by a climate crisis that’s caused an unending drought. An unknown man named Terrance (Aaron Pierre) visits their farm, claiming that Junior must go to space to help save the human species while Henrietta stays behind with a clone of her husband. Foe has a solid director, a great cast, and a good-enough premise. The movie, considered against its potential, borders on laughable and cements itself as inane.
The movie thrives when the mystery hasn’t been unraveled and Reid’s script remains amorphous.
The movie thrives when the mystery hasn’t been unraveled and Reid’s script remains amorphous.
- 10/1/2023
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
Sean Durkin‘s The Iron Claw has found its patriarch. Deadline reports that Holt McCallany has been added to the Von Erich clan and current cast of Zac Efron, Harris Dickinson and Jeremy Allen White. Production begins this month. We’re really excited to see Durkin reteam with Mátyás Erdély – we can just imagine what kind of moving camera aesthetic we might find here. Just think of his work in Son of Saul.
Based on the true story of the Von Erichs, the film follows the rise and fall of the Von Erich family, a dynasty of wrestlers who made a huge impact on the sport from the 1960s to the present day.…...
Based on the true story of the Von Erichs, the film follows the rise and fall of the Von Erich family, a dynasty of wrestlers who made a huge impact on the sport from the 1960s to the present day.…...
- 10/5/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
In his arresting, thought-provoking directorial debut The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year, Australian Director Harry Windsor takes a nuanced journey into the feelings of dissatisfaction which push some people to hit the reset button. Through the eyes of a young mother whose home and life seem to brim with the supposed markers for happiness, we see what happens when the question of how satisfied you truly are is given the chance to develop into life-altering action. It’s a feeling that many of us entertain in idle ‘what if’ thought experiments but rarely follow through with and one which echoes Windsor’s own hesitant move from the world of film journalism to helming his first directorial project. Ahead of today’s online premiere of The Most Wonderful Day of the Year we had the opportunity to probe Windsor about his detailed and studied prep work for the script, how...
- 8/15/2022
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
It’s our favourite night of the year! The 2021 BIFA awards took place this evening at Old Billingsgate in London. Hosted by People Just Do Nothing’s Asim Chaudhry, those attending include Emma Corrin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton, Jude Law, Harris Dickinson, Paapa Essiedu, Caitriona Balfe, Morfydd Clark, Riz Ahmed, Wumni Mosaku, Ruth Wilson, Stephen Graham and James Norton.
The 24th British Independent Film Awards saw Joanna Scanlan’s After Love take home a handful of awards, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava also did well – and there’s something wonderful in championing the very best in British Independent film – so, hey – we’re all winners here.*
David Sztypuljak and Scott Davis were our men at the event, asking questions.
You can see our interviews below, as well as a full list of tonight’s winners and nominees.
*Actual winners are below.
The 2021 BIFA Red Carpet Interviews
The...
The 24th British Independent Film Awards saw Joanna Scanlan’s After Love take home a handful of awards, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava also did well – and there’s something wonderful in championing the very best in British Independent film – so, hey – we’re all winners here.*
David Sztypuljak and Scott Davis were our men at the event, asking questions.
You can see our interviews below, as well as a full list of tonight’s winners and nominees.
*Actual winners are below.
The 2021 BIFA Red Carpet Interviews
The...
- 12/6/2021
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Following our top 50 films of 2020 and more year-end coverage, we’re pleased to share personal top 10s of 2020 from our contributors.
Oh, where to begin? There’s usually so much to complain about. Yes, 2020 was rough. It was like if the second half of mother! was directed by three minions in a trench coat posing as McGruff the Crime Dog and then came to life. Even the film world was odd. Stuff got pushed to VOD. Studios delayed tent poles a year back in some cases. In what has to be the longest record since I was three years old, I haven’t been to a theater since March 12. I’m all but sure it’ll be more than a few months before it’s safe (or even possible) to see something again on the big screen, but getting this handful of movies is more than a nice consolation prize.
Oh, where to begin? There’s usually so much to complain about. Yes, 2020 was rough. It was like if the second half of mother! was directed by three minions in a trench coat posing as McGruff the Crime Dog and then came to life. Even the film world was odd. Stuff got pushed to VOD. Studios delayed tent poles a year back in some cases. In what has to be the longest record since I was three years old, I haven’t been to a theater since March 12. I’m all but sure it’ll be more than a few months before it’s safe (or even possible) to see something again on the big screen, but getting this handful of movies is more than a nice consolation prize.
- 12/31/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
Somehow, Sean Durkin made his breakthrough movie Martha Marcy May Marlene nearly a decade ago. Even harder to believe, sadly, is that it has taken him nine years to get a follow-up feature made. Well, at the very least, that wait is now over, as The Nest is out in release. A definite left-turn in some ways from his prior outing, it’s another acting showcase and slow burn that mixes drama and thriller elements. The psychology of his characters remains Durkin’s main concern, and that’s what makes this work so well. Well, that and a pair of terrific actors relishing the opportunity to lay into each other, of course. The film is a drama, set in the 1980s. On the surface, entrepreneur Rory O’Hara (Jude Law) and his wife Allison O’Hara (Carrie Coon) seem to have the perfect life. They have a daughter in Samantha (Oona Roche...
- 9/22/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Carrie Coon’s filmography ranges from Gone Girl to The Leftovers to Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town. Jude Law’s in recent years has been as idiosyncratic as to include Vox Lux and Captain Marvel. Put the two together as a married couple and out comes an almost disturbing ease in which they bring their roles to life. In the first Sean Durkin-directed feature since Martha Marcy May Marlene, Allison and Rory are on the ropes. She’s endured four moves in a decade; he’s dragging her and their two kids (Charlie Shotwell and Oona Roche) back to his native England for a new job. Alas, things don’t turn out too well.
Written by Durkin and shot by Mátyás Erdély, The Nest looks at a wife and husband as they navigate their disintegrating marriage in the middle of the Reagan Era. How they deal with...
Written by Durkin and shot by Mátyás Erdély, The Nest looks at a wife and husband as they navigate their disintegrating marriage in the middle of the Reagan Era. How they deal with...
- 9/17/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
One of Sundance’s most stunning break-outs in the past decade was Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin’s remarkably crafted, psychologically deft exploration of an upstate New York cult starring Elizabeth Olsen. After nearly a decade, the director finally returns to the festival with his feature follow-up The Nest, another exquisitely mounted drama that revels in letting minute character details slowly become elucidated as Durkin puts trust into his audience to pick up the pieces along the way. In peeling back the layers of a fractured family and the soulless drive for wealth, the emptiness underneath is patently revealed, so much so that it backs itself into a heavy-handed corner.
Set in 1986, the O’Hara family seemingly enjoy their nice life in a New York suburb. Rory (Jude Law) and Allison (Carrie Coon) raise their children Benjamin (Charlie Shotwell) and Samantha (Oona Roche)–Allison’s daughter from a previous...
Set in 1986, the O’Hara family seemingly enjoy their nice life in a New York suburb. Rory (Jude Law) and Allison (Carrie Coon) raise their children Benjamin (Charlie Shotwell) and Samantha (Oona Roche)–Allison’s daughter from a previous...
- 1/27/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Nest
Eight years after the success of his 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin resurfaces with sophomore feature The Nest, a Canadian-u.K. production, rather than the Janis Joplin biopic he’s been developing for most of the decade. Produced by Ed Guiney, Derrin Schlesinger, Rose Garnett, Amy Jackson and Christina Piovesan, the film stars Jude Law, Carrie Coon and Anne Reid. U.K. Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and film editor Matthew Hannam who teamed with Josh Mond on James White, return to the Borderline Films original crew here. Durkin won the Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, which he followed with the 2013 British television mini-series “Southcliffe.”…...
Eight years after the success of his 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin resurfaces with sophomore feature The Nest, a Canadian-u.K. production, rather than the Janis Joplin biopic he’s been developing for most of the decade. Produced by Ed Guiney, Derrin Schlesinger, Rose Garnett, Amy Jackson and Christina Piovesan, the film stars Jude Law, Carrie Coon and Anne Reid. U.K. Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and film editor Matthew Hannam who teamed with Josh Mond on James White, return to the Borderline Films original crew here. Durkin won the Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, which he followed with the 2013 British television mini-series “Southcliffe.”…...
- 1/2/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
László Nemes is a filmmaker who keeps his friends close and his cameras closer. The Hungarian director’s devastating 2015 debut, Son of Saul, distinguished itself not just by sticking right next to its main character but virtually breathing down his neck — the fact that our guide was a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, grimly trying to survive a waking nightmare, only heightened the effect. The actor Geza Rohrig’s face took up most of the frame’s real estate and blocked out the horror you could hear happening offscreen; it also made...
- 3/23/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
A few years ago, filmmaker László Nemes blew festival audiences away with his Holocaust tale Son of Saul. Starting with an award winning debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie more or less swept the awards season, culminating in an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Feature. Nemes was immediately a new name to watch on the international cinema stage. Now, after screening a bit last year, his follow up effort Sunset hits theaters this week. Unfortunately, he’s not able to repeat the success from last time out. This is a definite letdown of an experience and a real big disappointment. Alas. The film is a drama set in Budapest during the year 1913, before World War I would devastate Europe. When Irisz Leiter (Juli Jakab) first arrives in the Hungarian capital, she aims to work at a special hat store that once belonged to her late parents. Despite the desire to become a milliner,...
- 3/21/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
László Nemes (looking at Martin Scorsese) on the stiff collar worn by Írisz in Sunset, costumes by Györgyi Szakács: "And it goes down with the film." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Sunset (Napszállta) is cinema at its astute and enchanting finest. Max Ophüls and Jean Renoir may come to mind and the scene in the shoe department of Romanze in Moll, Helmut Käutner's take on Guy De Maupassant. In a similar mode to the way László Nemes chained us to the back of the neck of Géza Röhrig's Saul Ausländer in his groundbreaking, Oscar-winning Son Of Saul (also shot by Mátyás Erdély), he attaches us firmly to his Sunset heroine Írisz Leiter (Juli Jakab), a young woman who returns, after years of apprenticeship in Trieste, to her native Budapest in hopes of working as a milliner at the famous Leiter department store her deceased parents used to own.
László...
Sunset (Napszállta) is cinema at its astute and enchanting finest. Max Ophüls and Jean Renoir may come to mind and the scene in the shoe department of Romanze in Moll, Helmut Käutner's take on Guy De Maupassant. In a similar mode to the way László Nemes chained us to the back of the neck of Géza Röhrig's Saul Ausländer in his groundbreaking, Oscar-winning Son Of Saul (also shot by Mátyás Erdély), he attaches us firmly to his Sunset heroine Írisz Leiter (Juli Jakab), a young woman who returns, after years of apprenticeship in Trieste, to her native Budapest in hopes of working as a milliner at the famous Leiter department store her deceased parents used to own.
László...
- 3/14/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Nest
It appeared that after winning the first one out of the gate contest, Sean Durkin would finally be moving into a Janice Joplin biopic project, but to our surprise, The Nest was announced last April as the filmmaker’s official sophomore film – a full eight years since his other psychological thriller in Martha Marcy May Marlene (here is our interview with the filmmaker). Starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon and Anne Reid, The Nest was shot in Toronto, Canada around the same time as Tiff, this also moved to the U.K. Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and film editor Matthew Hannam who teamed with Josh Mond on James White, return to the Borderline Films crew here.…...
It appeared that after winning the first one out of the gate contest, Sean Durkin would finally be moving into a Janice Joplin biopic project, but to our surprise, The Nest was announced last April as the filmmaker’s official sophomore film – a full eight years since his other psychological thriller in Martha Marcy May Marlene (here is our interview with the filmmaker). Starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon and Anne Reid, The Nest was shot in Toronto, Canada around the same time as Tiff, this also moved to the U.K. Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and film editor Matthew Hannam who teamed with Josh Mond on James White, return to the Borderline Films crew here.…...
- 2/8/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”—Virginia Woolf, OrlandoLike any article of clothing, a hat is never simply just a hat. Embedded in it brim, woven into its form are codes and symbols, hints and meanings. The size of the hat, the color of its fabric, the shape of its crown can signify wealth, pride, modesty; it radiates belonging to one social group or another, delivering a message of the wearer’s status, class, vocation, country or city of origin. These nuances, embedded in European society at the turn of the 20th century, become more difficult to decipher from the hatless world in which we live in, for its codes were swept away by the destruction that was the Great War.It is on the...
- 9/9/2018
- MUBI
Béla Tarr may have retired, but Hungarian cinema has found a worthy standard-bearer in László Nemes. “Sunset” confirms the Oscar-winning “Son of Saul” director as a major talent, one whose sophomore feature is both astonishingly beautiful and profoundly sorrowful: It unfolds like a cross between a memory and a dream, the kind so vivid you’ll swear it was real as you hang on to every half-remembered detail. Nemes displays flashes of his mentor’s formal mastery even as he emerges as a unique cinematic voice in his own right, one that may only grow louder and more prominent in the years to come.
His new film tells of Írisz Leiter, a 20-year-old orphan who returns to her hometown of Budapest for the first time since childhood and discovers that, not only does she have a brother, but he’s said to have murdered a count five years earlier and gone into hiding.
His new film tells of Írisz Leiter, a 20-year-old orphan who returns to her hometown of Budapest for the first time since childhood and discovers that, not only does she have a brother, but he’s said to have murdered a count five years earlier and gone into hiding.
- 9/3/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Expectations were always going to be too high for “Sunset,” László Nemes’ follow-up to his extraordinary Oscar-winning “Son of Saul.” Given how his first feature re-invented the Holocaust film genre, jettisoning the usual sentimentality for a terrifyingly immersive plunge into hell, it was natural to think he’d take his next subject, Budapest on the brink of World War I, and show a refined world careening towards chaos. Alas, the chaos is there but without the coherence necessary to balance sensorial turmoil with genuine meaning.
In terms of pure visual impact, Mátyás Erdély’s 35mm camera impresses with bravura agility, wandering through the impressive sets with Kubrickian urgency, yet the befuddling story of a young woman encountering seething violence while searching for her brother destabilizes without making any situation or character either real or interesting. Sales have been brisk in the lead-up to the Venice premiere, yet distributors like Sony Picture Classics (who has U.
In terms of pure visual impact, Mátyás Erdély’s 35mm camera impresses with bravura agility, wandering through the impressive sets with Kubrickian urgency, yet the befuddling story of a young woman encountering seething violence while searching for her brother destabilizes without making any situation or character either real or interesting. Sales have been brisk in the lead-up to the Venice premiere, yet distributors like Sony Picture Classics (who has U.
- 9/3/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
If you thought the first footage from László Nemes’s “Sunset” was impressive, just wait until you see the dazzling first official trailer below. The movie is Nemes’ second directorial effort after his breakout debut “Son of Saul,” which earned him the Oscar for best foreign language film. The director has reunited with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély for what looks like another intense 35mm gem.
“Sunset” stars Nemes’ “Son of Saul” actress Juli Jakab, who plays a young woman named Írisz Leiter. The woman travels to Budapest in 1913 to work at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. When she is turned away by the new owner, Írisz sets out on a mission to uncover her lost past.
Nemes will be competing at the Venice Film Festival with “Sunset” later this month. The drama will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. Watch the first official trailer below.
“Sunset” stars Nemes’ “Son of Saul” actress Juli Jakab, who plays a young woman named Írisz Leiter. The woman travels to Budapest in 1913 to work at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. When she is turned away by the new owner, Írisz sets out on a mission to uncover her lost past.
Nemes will be competing at the Venice Film Festival with “Sunset” later this month. The drama will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. Watch the first official trailer below.
- 8/8/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
‘Son Of Saul’ won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2016.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first full trailer for Sunset, the sophomore feature from Son Of Saul director László Nemes.
A Hungary-France co-production, the film will play in competition at Venice Film Festival, before screening as a special presentation at Toronto Film Festival.
Playtime is handling international sales.
Set in Budapest in 1913, the film focuses on Irisz Leiter (played by Juli Jakab), a young woman who arrives in the Hungarian capital hoping to work at a legendary hat store previously owned by her late parents. When she is turned away,...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first full trailer for Sunset, the sophomore feature from Son Of Saul director László Nemes.
A Hungary-France co-production, the film will play in competition at Venice Film Festival, before screening as a special presentation at Toronto Film Festival.
Playtime is handling international sales.
Set in Budapest in 1913, the film focuses on Irisz Leiter (played by Juli Jakab), a young woman who arrives in the Hungarian capital hoping to work at a legendary hat store previously owned by her late parents. When she is turned away,...
- 8/8/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 2018 Venice Film Festival competition lineup includes heavyweights like Alfonso Cuarón, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Luca Guadagnino, but one director everyone should be looking out for is László Nemes. The Hungarian filmmaker is returning to festival season over two years after winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with “Son of Saul.” The Holocaust drama made Nemes a new household name on the international film circuit, and now we’re getting the first footage from his follow-up, “Sunset.”
“Sunset” marks only the second directorial feature of Nemes’ career. The drama stars his “Son of Saul” actress Juli Jakab as a young woman named Írisz Leiter, who travels to Budapest in 1913 to work at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. When she is turned away by the new owner, Írisz sets out on a mission to uncover her lost past, all while pre-wwi Hungary prepares for the chaos of war.
“Sunset” marks only the second directorial feature of Nemes’ career. The drama stars his “Son of Saul” actress Juli Jakab as a young woman named Írisz Leiter, who travels to Budapest in 1913 to work at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. When she is turned away by the new owner, Írisz sets out on a mission to uncover her lost past, all while pre-wwi Hungary prepares for the chaos of war.
- 7/26/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
László Nemes exploded onto the international film scene two years ago with his Holocaust drama “Son of Saul,” which debuted to unanimous acclaim at Cannes and went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He’s been slowly gearing up for his second feature, and now it appears the cameras are finally set to begin rolling on pre-wwi drama “Sunset” this June.
Read More: László Nemes on Why ‘Son of Saul’ is a ‘Completely Unique’ Holocaust Film
In an interview with Hungarian radio station Radio Tilos (via The Playlist), Nemes confirmed he’ll be reteaming with “Son of Saul” actress Juli Jakab for his new film. She’ll play the lead character Írisz Leiter, a young woman in 1913 who travels to Budapest to pursue a career as a seamstress. When she arrives at her late parents’ hat store, she meets their former associate, Oszkar, and learns of...
Read More: László Nemes on Why ‘Son of Saul’ is a ‘Completely Unique’ Holocaust Film
In an interview with Hungarian radio station Radio Tilos (via The Playlist), Nemes confirmed he’ll be reteaming with “Son of Saul” actress Juli Jakab for his new film. She’ll play the lead character Írisz Leiter, a young woman in 1913 who travels to Budapest to pursue a career as a seamstress. When she arrives at her late parents’ hat store, she meets their former associate, Oszkar, and learns of...
- 5/1/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The American Society Of Cinematographers (Asc) on Wednesday unveiled its nominees in the theatrical release and Spotlight categories for the 31st Annual Asc Awards For Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography.
Winners will be announced on February 4 at the Society’s awards gala in Hollywood.
Theatrical release nominees
Greig Fraser, Lion
James Laxton Moonlight
Rodrigo Prieto, Silence
Linus Sandgren, La La Land
Bradford Young, Arrival
Prieto has earned two Asc nominations prior to this for Frida and Brokeback Mountain. The remaining contenders are first-time nominees.
The Asc also recognises outstanding cinematography in feature that screened at festivals, internationally or in limited theatrical release.
Spotlight Award nominees
Lol Crawley, Childhood Of A Leader
Gorka Gomez Andreu, House Of Others
Ernesto Pardo, Tempestad
Juliette van Dormael, Mon Ange (My Angel)
“Each of the nominated films offers a unique vision on the part of the director of photography,” said Asc president Kees van Oostrum. “These movies also represent a less formulaic or traditional...
Winners will be announced on February 4 at the Society’s awards gala in Hollywood.
Theatrical release nominees
Greig Fraser, Lion
James Laxton Moonlight
Rodrigo Prieto, Silence
Linus Sandgren, La La Land
Bradford Young, Arrival
Prieto has earned two Asc nominations prior to this for Frida and Brokeback Mountain. The remaining contenders are first-time nominees.
The Asc also recognises outstanding cinematography in feature that screened at festivals, internationally or in limited theatrical release.
Spotlight Award nominees
Lol Crawley, Childhood Of A Leader
Gorka Gomez Andreu, House Of Others
Ernesto Pardo, Tempestad
Juliette van Dormael, Mon Ange (My Angel)
“Each of the nominated films offers a unique vision on the part of the director of photography,” said Asc president Kees van Oostrum. “These movies also represent a less formulaic or traditional...
- 1/11/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Considering his background studying under Béla Tarr, László Nemes was on our radar when it was announced his debut feature, Son of Saul, would premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. While it would go on to win the Grand Prix there, and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year, the signs of a promising career were apparent even earlier. Back at the 2007 Venice International Film Festival, he debuted his first short film, With a Little Patience, and today one can watch it in full.
Shot by cinematographer Mátyás Erdély, who would go on to capture Son of Saul, the WWII-set film follows an office worker’s daily routine as horrors occur right outside of her window. Very much a precursor to his feature debut, the one-take film also utilizes the Academy aspect ratio as we follow our lead in tight close-ups as the intensity slowly builds.
“I was an assistant director for years,...
Shot by cinematographer Mátyás Erdély, who would go on to capture Son of Saul, the WWII-set film follows an office worker’s daily routine as horrors occur right outside of her window. Very much a precursor to his feature debut, the one-take film also utilizes the Academy aspect ratio as we follow our lead in tight close-ups as the intensity slowly builds.
“I was an assistant director for years,...
- 5/26/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's new on Netflix and TV, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Ride Along 2"
Are you ready for another ride with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube? In "Ride Along 2," the comedy duo return as partners (and brothers-in-law-to-be) to tackle a new crime in Miami. The movie comes out on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on Tuesday, April 26. The DVD and Blu-ray both include deleted scenes, a gag reel, feature commentary, and several featurettes; the Blu-ray also includes five other special features.
Watch this funny exclusive behind-the-scenes clip illustrating the real-life odd couple dynamic between Kevin Hart and Ice Cube:
"Jane Got a Gun"
This film has a rather labored history to the big screen, but you can see the results for yourself on DVD/Blu-ray April 26. Natalie Portman plays...
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Ride Along 2"
Are you ready for another ride with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube? In "Ride Along 2," the comedy duo return as partners (and brothers-in-law-to-be) to tackle a new crime in Miami. The movie comes out on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on Tuesday, April 26. The DVD and Blu-ray both include deleted scenes, a gag reel, feature commentary, and several featurettes; the Blu-ray also includes five other special features.
Watch this funny exclusive behind-the-scenes clip illustrating the real-life odd couple dynamic between Kevin Hart and Ice Cube:
"Jane Got a Gun"
This film has a rather labored history to the big screen, but you can see the results for yourself on DVD/Blu-ray April 26. Natalie Portman plays...
- 4/25/2016
- by Gina Carbone
- Moviefone
Oscar-winning director also planning an English-language feature.
Hungarian filmmaker Laszlo Nemes, whose Oscar-winning debut Son Of Saul opens in the UK later this month, has revealed plans to shoot his second feature next year.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Nemes said he hoped to shoot Sunset in Budapest in spring 2017 and that he would work with the same crew, including cinematographer Matyas Erdely, from Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
“We’ve already started testing and I’m looking forward to working with the same crew,” said the 39 year-old director.
Sunset will centre on a young woman in Budapest before the First World War and will be produced by Gabor Sipos and Gabor Rajna of Hungary’s Laokoon Filmgroup, the production company behind Son Of Saul.
In a previous interview with Screen, Nemes said the film will be set in 1910, when the city was cosmopolitan, tolerant and full of inhabitants from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
“[The Nazis] killed all of...
Hungarian filmmaker Laszlo Nemes, whose Oscar-winning debut Son Of Saul opens in the UK later this month, has revealed plans to shoot his second feature next year.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Nemes said he hoped to shoot Sunset in Budapest in spring 2017 and that he would work with the same crew, including cinematographer Matyas Erdely, from Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
“We’ve already started testing and I’m looking forward to working with the same crew,” said the 39 year-old director.
Sunset will centre on a young woman in Budapest before the First World War and will be produced by Gabor Sipos and Gabor Rajna of Hungary’s Laokoon Filmgroup, the production company behind Son Of Saul.
In a previous interview with Screen, Nemes said the film will be set in 1910, when the city was cosmopolitan, tolerant and full of inhabitants from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
“[The Nazis] killed all of...
- 4/13/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Mad Max: Fury Road director, George Miller and crew.
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Arri digital and film cameras played a crucial role in the creation of many of the films that dominated this year's Academy Awards.
Best Picture honours went to Spotlight, directed by Thomas McCarthy and lensed by cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi on Alexa Xt..
The drama, based on the true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation, also won for Original Screenplay.
Following victories at the Asc and BAFTA Awards, Emmanuel 'Chivo' Lubezki Asc, AMC won his third consecutive Oscar for The Revenant — an unprecedented achievement in the Best Cinematography category..
Lubezki won last year for Birdman and in 2014 for Gravity.
The Revenant used Alexa Xt, Alexa M and Master Primes, as well as Alexa 65 cameras and Prime 65 lenses for selected sequences..
This is the fifth year in a row that the Best Cinematography winner relied on an Alexa camera..
The Revenant...
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Arri digital and film cameras played a crucial role in the creation of many of the films that dominated this year's Academy Awards.
Best Picture honours went to Spotlight, directed by Thomas McCarthy and lensed by cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi on Alexa Xt..
The drama, based on the true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation, also won for Original Screenplay.
Following victories at the Asc and BAFTA Awards, Emmanuel 'Chivo' Lubezki Asc, AMC won his third consecutive Oscar for The Revenant — an unprecedented achievement in the Best Cinematography category..
Lubezki won last year for Birdman and in 2014 for Gravity.
The Revenant used Alexa Xt, Alexa M and Master Primes, as well as Alexa 65 cameras and Prime 65 lenses for selected sequences..
This is the fifth year in a row that the Best Cinematography winner relied on an Alexa camera..
The Revenant...
- 3/3/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan might have claimed Cannes most coveted prize, but the Palme d’Or moment belongs to Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes. Truly a groundbreaking masterpiece that takes the audience into the heart of the darkness of the Holocaust, his Grand Jury Prize winning feature debut immerses the viewer into a visceral, hellish nightmare. Nominated for and tipped as the heavy favorite in the Academy Award’s Best Foreign film category, sturdy and stellar sound and camerawork aided by Géza Röhrig’s praiseworthy performance, Nemes’ Son of Saul is a wallop of a sensorial experience. Here is my brief sit down with the helmer and lead.
Yama Rahimi: How did this project came about?
László Nemes: I read these writings by the Sonderkommando members that were put in the ground before the rebellion that triggered the project. These writings were giving incredible insight into the here and now of the extermination.
Yama Rahimi: How did this project came about?
László Nemes: I read these writings by the Sonderkommando members that were put in the ground before the rebellion that triggered the project. These writings were giving incredible insight into the here and now of the extermination.
- 2/28/2016
- by Yama Rahimi
- IONCINEMA.com
Theatrical Motion Picture: “Bridge of Spies” (Janusz Kaminski) “Carol” (Ed Lachman) “Mad Max: Fury Road” (John Seale) Winner: “The Revenant” (Emmanuel Lubezki) “Sicario” (Roger Deakins) Asc Spotlight Award: Winner (Tie!
- 2/15/2016
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
There are two types of films that allow or force the viewer to be entirely consumed by what they are watching and simply experience what is happening on screen. The first, and most obvious, type is the formulaic action film or comedy; the types of films that require very little, if any, effort to watch. The second type, however, is so immersive that you simply cannot think, despite the plethora of ideas raised by whatever unfolds. László Nemes’ Son of Saul (Saul fia) is a prime example of the latter.
Throughout the film, we (literally) follow Saul (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian prisoner in Auschwitz who is forced to work in the gas chambers as a Sonderkommando. When he discovers the still-alive body of a boy whom he believes to be his son, he goes on a sort of haunting Odyssey throughout the camp looking for a rabbi to perform the proper burial for the boy.
Throughout the film, we (literally) follow Saul (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian prisoner in Auschwitz who is forced to work in the gas chambers as a Sonderkommando. When he discovers the still-alive body of a boy whom he believes to be his son, he goes on a sort of haunting Odyssey throughout the camp looking for a rabbi to perform the proper burial for the boy.
- 2/13/2016
- by Rocco Tenaglia
- CinemaNerdz
Géza Röhrig: "This is kind of when my childhood was over." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
László Nemes' trenchant Son Of Saul (Saul Fia), co-written with Clara Royer, cinematography by Mátyás Erdély, sound design Tamás Zányi and an unforgettably unsettling performance by Géza Röhrig as Saul Ausländer, clothed by Edit Szücs, today received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang, Naji Abu Nowar's Theeb, Ciro Guerra's Embrace Of The Serpent and Tobias Lindholm's A War were also honoured.
Son Of Saul director László Nemes at the New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Slavoj Žižek, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List impacting Stanley Kubrick's The Aryan Papers, what Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has in common with The Sound Of Music, the profound impact of a visit to Auschwitz at age 17, the fragility of civilisation,...
László Nemes' trenchant Son Of Saul (Saul Fia), co-written with Clara Royer, cinematography by Mátyás Erdély, sound design Tamás Zányi and an unforgettably unsettling performance by Géza Röhrig as Saul Ausländer, clothed by Edit Szücs, today received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang, Naji Abu Nowar's Theeb, Ciro Guerra's Embrace Of The Serpent and Tobias Lindholm's A War were also honoured.
Son Of Saul director László Nemes at the New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Slavoj Žižek, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List impacting Stanley Kubrick's The Aryan Papers, what Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has in common with The Sound Of Music, the profound impact of a visit to Auschwitz at age 17, the fragility of civilisation,...
- 1/14/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The American Society of Cinematographers has nominated the cinematographers of “Son of Saul,” “Beasts of No Nation” and “Macbeth” for the Asc’s 2016 Spotlight Award, which goes to films that screened at film festivals or in limited release. Mátyás Erdély received the Spotlight Award nomination for “Son of Saul,” Adam Akapaw for “Macbeth” and Cary Joji Fukunaga for “Beasts of No Nation,” which Fukunaga also directed. Asc members submit films for consideration for the Spotlight Award, and a blue-ribbon panel chooses the nominees. Also Read: Powerhouse American Society of Cinematographers Nominations Include 'Carol,' 'The Revenant' and 'Sicario' The Spotlight Award was first handed.
- 1/13/2016
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Son Of Saul director László Nemes: "We wanted to convey something that goes against the perception through films, that it is a mixture of organisation and chaos." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Son Of Saul (Saul Fia), this year's Grand Prix du Jury winner at the Cannes Film Festival, will première in New York tonight at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, featuring a post screening discussion with Géza Röhrig (Saul), moderated by Anne-Katrin Titze, following the 6:00pm show.
When László Nemes was in New York, he discussed with me his work with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and the garments by Edit Szücs, the stature of Claude Lanzmann, looking at the natural elements in Auschwitz, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick's abandoned Holocaust film, Kristina Söderbaum and what's up next for the Son Of Saul director.
Géza Röhrig as Saul Ausländer: "These are marked people."
Anne-Katrin Titze: Fairly late in the film, you...
Son Of Saul (Saul Fia), this year's Grand Prix du Jury winner at the Cannes Film Festival, will première in New York tonight at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, featuring a post screening discussion with Géza Röhrig (Saul), moderated by Anne-Katrin Titze, following the 6:00pm show.
When László Nemes was in New York, he discussed with me his work with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and the garments by Edit Szücs, the stature of Claude Lanzmann, looking at the natural elements in Auschwitz, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick's abandoned Holocaust film, Kristina Söderbaum and what's up next for the Son Of Saul director.
Géza Röhrig as Saul Ausländer: "These are marked people."
Anne-Katrin Titze: Fairly late in the film, you...
- 12/18/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When it comes to the documentary and especially foreign film contenders for Oscar, it can be hard to, you know…actually find them. Usually, the frontrunner for a nomination and in turn a win tends to be what’s actually been seen and enjoyed by audiences in addition to critics. Well, opening this weekend in limited release is Son of Saul, the clear frontrunner at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Feature. In fact, I might go so far as to say that it’s not only clearly the one to beat, but it’s one that almost assuredly won’t be beaten. There are very few locks right now, but this could be one of them. For those unaware, the film is a Holocaust drama centered on Saul (Géza Röhrig), a prisoner in 1944 at the Auschwitz death camp. Saul is tasked with burning the bodies of his fellow detained citizens,...
- 12/15/2015
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Hell on Earth: Nemes’ Impressive, Unsettling Debut Plunges into the Darkness of WWII
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes makes an impressive debut with Son of Saul, a fixed perspective account of the last throes of Auschwitz in World War II as seen from the eyes of a Sonderkommando (Jews forced to aid in the assistance of the operations of the gas chambers). Needless to say, this is incredibly challenging material to sit through, a type of examination that does not serve to entertain or explain, but defines a particular experience rarely examined this closely. This particular recollection of the concentration camps is bound to aggravate some, and repel others. But Nemes, who once served as an assistant director for fellow Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr, doesn’t seem interested in any sort of placating. Instead, his film is representative of an incomprehensible horror told through the experience of sensory perception. There...
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes makes an impressive debut with Son of Saul, a fixed perspective account of the last throes of Auschwitz in World War II as seen from the eyes of a Sonderkommando (Jews forced to aid in the assistance of the operations of the gas chambers). Needless to say, this is incredibly challenging material to sit through, a type of examination that does not serve to entertain or explain, but defines a particular experience rarely examined this closely. This particular recollection of the concentration camps is bound to aggravate some, and repel others. But Nemes, who once served as an assistant director for fellow Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr, doesn’t seem interested in any sort of placating. Instead, his film is representative of an incomprehensible horror told through the experience of sensory perception. There...
- 12/14/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Son Of Saul (Saul Fia) director László Nemes with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Sophie Gluck
Claude Lanzmann's The Patagonian Hare, Shoah and The Last Of The Unjust, working with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély, the clothing choices of Edit Szücs, Stanley Kubrick's influence from Barry Lyndon to The Shining, the chaos of language and sound design by Tamás Zányi, were among the insights culled from my conversation with László Nemes on the making of his extraordinary, uncompromising film, Son Of Saul (Saul Fia), co-written with Clara Royer and starring Géza Röhrig.
Danny Boyle with Géza Röhrig and László Nemes at the brunch for Steve Jobs Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
I caught up with the director in New York a couple of weeks before the Us theatrical release and ran into him and Géza during the brunch for Danny Boyle's unorthodox take on Steve Jobs with Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels, organized by Peggy Siegal,...
Claude Lanzmann's The Patagonian Hare, Shoah and The Last Of The Unjust, working with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély, the clothing choices of Edit Szücs, Stanley Kubrick's influence from Barry Lyndon to The Shining, the chaos of language and sound design by Tamás Zányi, were among the insights culled from my conversation with László Nemes on the making of his extraordinary, uncompromising film, Son Of Saul (Saul Fia), co-written with Clara Royer and starring Géza Röhrig.
Danny Boyle with Géza Röhrig and László Nemes at the brunch for Steve Jobs Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
I caught up with the director in New York a couple of weeks before the Us theatrical release and ran into him and Géza during the brunch for Danny Boyle's unorthodox take on Steve Jobs with Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels, organized by Peggy Siegal,...
- 12/7/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Two months after seeing it at the New York Film Festival, I haven’t budged much in my conviction that László Nemes‘ Son of Saul — as praised as any debut feature in recent years — is of little note, even with its occasional inventiveness being recognized. But many will disagree, some rather strongly, and it’s (I suppose) to this movie’s credit that one really should see it for themselves. No matter the feelings that end up emerging, you’ll at least know you’ve experienced something different.
You’ll also be witness to a burgeoning career. As is to be expected of a director who makes waves right out of the gate Nemes has started setting up his sophomore feature, Sunset, a thriller which Screen Daily tells us is “among several titles to win funding at this week’s 8th TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event.” (Is said event like a cinematic Running Man?...
You’ll also be witness to a burgeoning career. As is to be expected of a director who makes waves right out of the gate Nemes has started setting up his sophomore feature, Sunset, a thriller which Screen Daily tells us is “among several titles to win funding at this week’s 8th TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event.” (Is said event like a cinematic Running Man?...
- 12/2/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Other winners include Rams, Son of Saul, The Look of Silence and Gaspar Noé’s Love.Scroll down for full list of winners
Cinematographer Ed Lachman has won the prestigious Golden Frog at the 23rd Camerimage (Nov 14-21) for his work on Todd Haynes’ period drama Carol.
A total of 15 films were in the running for the prize, awarded to titles representing the greatest achievements in cinematography at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz.
The Silver Frog went to Sturla Brandt Grøvlen for his cinematography on Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams.
The Bronze Frog was won by Mátyás Erdély for his cinematography on László Nemes’ Holocaust drama, Son Of Saul.
Other prizes saw The Look Of Silence cinematographer Lars Skree pick up the Golden Frog in the feature-length documentary films competition.
Gaspar Noé’s hardcore sex drama Love won Best 3D Film for cinematographer Benoît Debie.
Camerimage 2015Main Competition
Golden Frog: Carol
cin. Ed Lachman
dir. Todd Haynes...
Cinematographer Ed Lachman has won the prestigious Golden Frog at the 23rd Camerimage (Nov 14-21) for his work on Todd Haynes’ period drama Carol.
A total of 15 films were in the running for the prize, awarded to titles representing the greatest achievements in cinematography at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz.
The Silver Frog went to Sturla Brandt Grøvlen for his cinematography on Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams.
The Bronze Frog was won by Mátyás Erdély for his cinematography on László Nemes’ Holocaust drama, Son Of Saul.
Other prizes saw The Look Of Silence cinematographer Lars Skree pick up the Golden Frog in the feature-length documentary films competition.
Gaspar Noé’s hardcore sex drama Love won Best 3D Film for cinematographer Benoît Debie.
Camerimage 2015Main Competition
Golden Frog: Carol
cin. Ed Lachman
dir. Todd Haynes...
- 11/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Carol, lensed by director of photography Ed Lachman, won the Golden Frog Saturday at Camerimage, the international film festival of the art of cinematography in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The Oscar contender was directed by Todd Haynes. The runner-up, receiving the Silver Frog, was Rams cinematographer Brandt Grolen; it was directed by Grimu Hakonarson. Son of Saul and cinematographer Matyas Erdely won the Bronze Frog; the film was helmed by Laszlo Nemes. Accepting the award, Erdely noted that "film is very important to us" and urged the community to help to keep it alive. { "nid": 796093, "type": "review", "title": "'Rams': Cannes Review",
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- 11/21/2015
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This story first appeared in a special awards season issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. On the very first day they visited the set of Son of Saul — before the bustle of filming, before the crew arrived to set up lights and before extras were called to take their places — production designer Laszlo Rajk led director Laszlo Nemes and cinematographer Matyas Erdely through his re-creation of a crematorium from the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp that he had built in an old warehouse on the outskirts of Budapest. As they walked through the foreboding rooms, a heavy
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- 11/16/2015
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After producing (as one-third of the Borderline Films crew) such seminal films as Antonio Campos’ Afterschool and Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, its with a certain trepidation, high expectations and immense anticipation that might awaited James White‘s unveiling during January’s Sundance Film Festival. Simply put, Josh Mond‘s directorial outing will be regarded as one of the best debuts from an American independent filmmaker circa 2015. Viscerally involving, emotionally gut-wrenching, non-exploitatively judgemental, Mond’s deeply personal film wears a certain fragility on its disheveled sleeve with major props going to the direction of one of the best paired performances of the year. Stripped to core, this NYC infused drama demands that the viewer Live Through This.
I sat down with Josh at the Sundance Film Festival where we swiftly touched upon his working process with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély (Son of Saul), we discussed how he fine-tuned the...
I sat down with Josh at the Sundance Film Festival where we swiftly touched upon his working process with cinematographer Mátyás Erdély (Son of Saul), we discussed how he fine-tuned the...
- 11/13/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
This story first appeared in the Nov. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. AFI Fest, which kicks off Nov. 5 with the world premiere of Angelina Jolie's By the Sea, isn't only about awards-season debuts. It also serves as a homecoming for nearly four dozen filmmakers who have graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory and who will be returning to show off their work. Three grads who've made good: Matyas Erdely, Class Of '05 Cinematographer Erdely, 39, will be represented by two films: Josh Mond's widescreen mother-son drama James
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- 11/5/2015
- by Carolyn Giardina, Gregg Kilday, Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Carol, Suffragette and Rams also among 15 titles in competition at cinematography festival.
The titles in the running for the main competition at the 23rd Camerimage (Nov 14-21), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, have been revealed.
A total of 15 films will vie for the Golden Frog, Silver Frog and Bronze Frog awards, to be awarded to those titles representing the greatest achievements in cinematography at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz.
13 Minutes (Ger)
dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, cin. Judith Kaufmann
The 33 (Chile)
dir. Patricia Riggen, cin. Checco Varese
Brooklyn (Can-uk-Ire)
dir. John Crowley, cin. Yves Belanger
Carol (UK-us)
dir. Todd Haynes, cin. Ed Lachman
I Saw The Light (Us)
Marc Abraham, cin. Dante Spinotti
Mad Max: Fury Road (Aus)
dir. George Miller, cin. John Seale
The Midwife (Fin)
dir. Antti J. Jokinen’, cin. Rauno Ronkainen
Rams (Den-Ice)
dir. Grímur Hákonarson, cin. Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
The Red Spider (Cze-Slo-Pol)
dir. Marcin Koszałka...
The titles in the running for the main competition at the 23rd Camerimage (Nov 14-21), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, have been revealed.
A total of 15 films will vie for the Golden Frog, Silver Frog and Bronze Frog awards, to be awarded to those titles representing the greatest achievements in cinematography at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz.
13 Minutes (Ger)
dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, cin. Judith Kaufmann
The 33 (Chile)
dir. Patricia Riggen, cin. Checco Varese
Brooklyn (Can-uk-Ire)
dir. John Crowley, cin. Yves Belanger
Carol (UK-us)
dir. Todd Haynes, cin. Ed Lachman
I Saw The Light (Us)
Marc Abraham, cin. Dante Spinotti
Mad Max: Fury Road (Aus)
dir. George Miller, cin. John Seale
The Midwife (Fin)
dir. Antti J. Jokinen’, cin. Rauno Ronkainen
Rams (Den-Ice)
dir. Grímur Hákonarson, cin. Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
The Red Spider (Cze-Slo-Pol)
dir. Marcin Koszałka...
- 10/28/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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