Day Of The Fight, the directorial debut of actor Jack Huston, has been set as the opening film of the 31st edition of the Raindance Film Festival, running October 25 — November 4.
The film will screen as part of the opening ceremony at Curzon Mayfair Cinema in London.
Directed by Huston from a screenplay he also wrote, the pic follows Mikey, a once-celebrated boxer, who, on the day of his first fight since leaving prison, takes a redemptive journey through his past and present, putting his own life at risk due to a medical condition only he knows about. Over the course of the day, Mikey visits influential figures from his life, encouraging him to overcome his checkered past.
Synopsis reads: After a fight for the ages at Madison Square Garden, a twist of events reveals that this day was never really about boxing for Mikey. This is an underdog story built on introspection,...
The film will screen as part of the opening ceremony at Curzon Mayfair Cinema in London.
Directed by Huston from a screenplay he also wrote, the pic follows Mikey, a once-celebrated boxer, who, on the day of his first fight since leaving prison, takes a redemptive journey through his past and present, putting his own life at risk due to a medical condition only he knows about. Over the course of the day, Mikey visits influential figures from his life, encouraging him to overcome his checkered past.
Synopsis reads: After a fight for the ages at Madison Square Garden, a twist of events reveals that this day was never really about boxing for Mikey. This is an underdog story built on introspection,...
- 9/13/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s been a lot of jealous talk about nepotism in the film world lately, but who would really want to come into the movie world as a, what, fourth-generation Huston? There are likely swords already being sharpened for Jack Huston, the handsome, charming, 40-year-old nephew of Anjelica, grandson of John and great-grandson of Walter. But his directing debut, Day of the Fight, which premiered this week in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra section, is certainly worthy of the family name. It’s a little earnest, sometimes a bit too style-conscious, and Huston is inclined to put performance before story every time. But the emotional input really earns its payoff in a confident, imaginatively mounted calling card.
For many, Huston is off to a flying start with the casting of Michael Pitt, a terrific actor rescued from a life of Dawson’s Creek himbo-dom by Larry Clark in his...
For many, Huston is off to a flying start with the casting of Michael Pitt, a terrific actor rescued from a life of Dawson’s Creek himbo-dom by Larry Clark in his...
- 9/8/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Singer-guitarist Steve Gunn has been making refined, laidback folk-rock for over a decade, music that fits squarely alongside Stephen Malkmus and Kurt Vile in the “beardly guitar jams by guys who don’t actually have beards” section of your local record shop. He’s versed in Grateful Dead-style cosmic country, English traditionalism a la Jackson C. Frank and Richard Thompson and jazz-influenced improv (“Seagull For Chuck Berry,” from last year’s Bay Head, a collaboration with drummer John Truscinski, was like a Sonny Sharrock vision of “Havana Moon.”
Gunn has...
Gunn has...
- 10/29/2018
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
“I’m like everyone else,” writes about himself Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), the working class hero at the center of Affonso Uchoa and João Dumans’ Araby, “It’s just my life that was a little bit different.” Calling that an understatement would be a euphemism. An average-sized and average-looking factory worker in the Southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Cristiano is an everyman par excellence. Neither charismatic nor particularly striking – at least not on a first look – he seems so ordinary it takes us twenty minutes to understand he’s Araby’s protagonist, and not some flickering extra. When we first meet him, he is given a lift to his steel factory; up until then, Uchoa and Dumans had followed Andre (Murilo Caliari), a pensive and bookish teenage boy living with his aunt Márcia (Gláucia Vandeveld) in a derelict house close to the hellish steel mill. By the time we next hear about him,...
- 6/23/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Standin’ at the station, don’t know what to say? Starin’ out the window as you’re rollin’ away? Don’t worry — we can always come back to TVLine Mixtape: This Is Us edition.
RelatedThis Is Us @ PaleyFest: The Cast on That Finale Fight and Jack’s Death
In a single season, NBC’s hit drama managed to deliver a wide range of heart-wrenching, gut-punching emotions. We laughed, we cried, we obsessively searched for fan theories. And the show’s music played an integral role in warming our hearts (and exhausting our Kleenex reserves).
If you’re ready to...
RelatedThis Is Us @ PaleyFest: The Cast on That Finale Fight and Jack’s Death
In a single season, NBC’s hit drama managed to deliver a wide range of heart-wrenching, gut-punching emotions. We laughed, we cried, we obsessively searched for fan theories. And the show’s music played an integral role in warming our hearts (and exhausting our Kleenex reserves).
If you’re ready to...
- 4/8/2017
- TVLine.com
Jackson C. Frank’s “Blues Run the Game” serves as the emotional centerpiece of This Is Us, providing the thread running through William’s tragic tale. Making two appearances on the NBC hit series, we hear it first in a flashback as William meets Randall’s mother Laurel on a city bus, and again during his final days as he travels back to Memphis and reflects on his life as he knows it’s reaching its end. Though gut-wrenching, Frank’s tragic true story rivals any drama that Hollywood could ever hope to dream up.
He released just one album,...
He released just one album,...
- 2/23/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
Need to catch up? Check out the previous This Is Us recap here.
This Is Us‘ Randall was almost a Kyle.
While that trivia is nowhere near the biggest revelation of this week’s (thankfully) twist-free episode, the story of how Jack and Rebecca’s second son wound up with his name provides important insight into the family’s past at the same time it illuminates the tragic courtship of Randall’s biological parents and addresses the pilot’s too-easy handling of the grief over losing a baby.
In short: This Is Us feels like it’s settling into itself,...
This Is Us‘ Randall was almost a Kyle.
While that trivia is nowhere near the biggest revelation of this week’s (thankfully) twist-free episode, the story of how Jack and Rebecca’s second son wound up with his name provides important insight into the family’s past at the same time it illuminates the tragic courtship of Randall’s biological parents and addresses the pilot’s too-easy handling of the grief over losing a baby.
In short: This Is Us feels like it’s settling into itself,...
- 10/12/2016
- TVLine.com
Mubi is showing Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny (2003) May 14 - June 13, 2016 in the UK.And I know that I won’t ever change’Cause we’ve been friendsThrough rain or shineFor such a long, long time— Gordon Lightfoot, “Beautiful” Autumn’s leaving and winter’s comingI think that I’ll be moving alongI’ve got to leave her and find anotherI’ve got to sing my heart’s true song— Jackson C. Frank, “Milk and Honey”Never mind length, feel the width. At just less than 90 minutes, The Brown Bunny is small enough for its many minutiae to grow big, sink deep, burn permanent imprints on the brain. Not a great deal happens in Vincent Gallo’s second feature. Motorcycle racer Bud Clay (Gallo) drives a van from New Hampshire, where he’s just failed to win a race, to Los Angeles, where he hopes to rekindle the seemingly...
- 5/19/2016
- MUBI
One of the standout films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is the musical drama Greetings From Tim Buckley, a study of the legendary folk singer and his son Jeff Buckley.
We sat down with Imogen Poots, whose character Allie helps Jeff (Penn Badgley) cope with the unresolved issues he still harbors towards his father’s absence from his childhood. Hear what she had to say about the film below, as well as the upcoming Need For Speed film with Aaron Paul.
Also be sure to check out our review of Greetings From Tim Buckley right here!
So are you a big Jeff Buckley/Tim Buckley fan?
Yeah, for sure. I’m obviously a big Jeff Buckley fan. Tim Buckley I wasn’t so aware of. It’s amazing when you have that bunch of musicians like Karen Dalton too. I’m a really big fan of people Tim Buckley...
We sat down with Imogen Poots, whose character Allie helps Jeff (Penn Badgley) cope with the unresolved issues he still harbors towards his father’s absence from his childhood. Hear what she had to say about the film below, as well as the upcoming Need For Speed film with Aaron Paul.
Also be sure to check out our review of Greetings From Tim Buckley right here!
So are you a big Jeff Buckley/Tim Buckley fan?
Yeah, for sure. I’m obviously a big Jeff Buckley fan. Tim Buckley I wasn’t so aware of. It’s amazing when you have that bunch of musicians like Karen Dalton too. I’m a really big fan of people Tim Buckley...
- 4/26/2013
- by Damen Norton
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The 2011 RopeofSilicon Movie Awards I know the Oscars are still a little over a month away, but for me the RopeofSilicon Awards are the moment I begin putting the old year behind me and truly begin focusing on the new one. This is the fourth year I've done this and to celebrate the year's films I gained inspiration from one of the movie posters I declared one of the best of the year and put together my own poster for just this occasion, taking images from several of 2011's films and creating the collage you see below. The poster is made up of films and performances I enjoyed on one level or another, and while you'll find a couple of duplicates here and there, all-in-all there are 61 films represented and I've included a high resolution version should you want to give it a closer look. How many of the films can you name?...
- 1/18/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If you’re (un)fortunate enough to live in New York, you had the opportunity to see around 600 new features come and go; the rest of us didn’t get that many fewer. That means that anyone who’s been put in a position to make a top 10 (or top 15, or top 20…) had to make some sad cuts. So we thought it appropriate to highlight some of the year’s most memorable individual moments, scenes, and sequences, from movies that may or may not have made our individual year-end lists. Some were from movies we didn’t love; some are from movies we didn’t even like, but all stood out. Which is no small feat considering just how insane the release calendar has become.
We are keeping out credit sequences since we feel it is an artform in itself,...
We are keeping out credit sequences since we feel it is an artform in itself,...
- 12/22/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Ricky D scored an interview with Sean Durkin, the writer-director of one of the year’s most acclaimed films, Martha Marcy May Marlene. In this episode, we included the whole conversation, as well as a review of Afterschool, the Durkin-produced 2008 feature from director Antonio Campos (who, in turn, produced Mmmm). Finally, in case you missed it, there’s also a reprise of our Tiff review of Mmmm, just so you know what all the hubbub’s about.
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Deerhunter – “Little Kids”
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- 11/21/2011
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Directed by: Sean Durkin
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: R
Release Date: October 28, 2011 (Chicago)
Plot: A young woman (Olsen) has difficulty determining what is real or imaginary after she escapes from a cult.
Who’S It For?: This movie might move a little slower than your typical American horror movie, but it’s even more terrifying. If Inception can hook in any audience with its gray areas of dream/reality, so should Martha Marcy May Marlene. If you just let this quiet movie play out, it will grab hold of you, and intimidate you. Prepare to join the Martha Marcy May Marlene cult.
Expectations: A wordy title and some festival buzz, that’s all I had to go on before sitting down for this one. Oh, and the debut of a third Olsen.
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Elizabeth Olsen as...
Directed by: Sean Durkin
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: R
Release Date: October 28, 2011 (Chicago)
Plot: A young woman (Olsen) has difficulty determining what is real or imaginary after she escapes from a cult.
Who’S It For?: This movie might move a little slower than your typical American horror movie, but it’s even more terrifying. If Inception can hook in any audience with its gray areas of dream/reality, so should Martha Marcy May Marlene. If you just let this quiet movie play out, it will grab hold of you, and intimidate you. Prepare to join the Martha Marcy May Marlene cult.
Expectations: A wordy title and some festival buzz, that’s all I had to go on before sitting down for this one. Oh, and the debut of a third Olsen.
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Elizabeth Olsen as...
- 10/28/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
"Martha Marcy May Marlene," about a teenager named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) who escapes a cult and helplessly tries to integrate herself back into normal society, is easily one of the most powerful films of the year and a breakthrough performance for its young star. But it's the dangerous intensity of the group's leader Patrick (John Hawkes), that drives the film nearly as much as anything else.
One particularly key scene from the film takes place in a barn, where the group's members are seated around Patrick. Eying Marcy May (as he renamed Martha), Patrick begins to play a song dedicated to his new "favorite," and it's in that moment that a switch is triggered in the mind of Elizabeth Olsen's character where she not only accepts her situation, but embraces it. In other words, the brainwashing is complete.
"Marcy's Song" -- originally recorded in the 60s by folk singer...
One particularly key scene from the film takes place in a barn, where the group's members are seated around Patrick. Eying Marcy May (as he renamed Martha), Patrick begins to play a song dedicated to his new "favorite," and it's in that moment that a switch is triggered in the mind of Elizabeth Olsen's character where she not only accepts her situation, but embraces it. In other words, the brainwashing is complete.
"Marcy's Song" -- originally recorded in the 60s by folk singer...
- 10/26/2011
- by Brian Jacks
- ifc.com
Watch Academy Award-nominee John Hawkes sing a cover of Jackson C. Frank’s “Marcy’s Song” from the film Martha Marcy May Marlene.
Wamg is giving away passes to see Martha Marcy May Marlene. The screening will take place on November 3rd at 7 Pm at Plaza Frontenac.
Synopsis:
Elizabeth Olsen stars in director Sean Durkin’s psychological thriller, Martha Marcy May Marlene, about a young woman who undergoes an explosive crisis of identity after escaping the confines of a rural cult-like farming community. Trapped by unsettling flashes of memories from the past and visions of a perilous future, she becomes taken over by an unsettling sense of fear, leaving her consumed by paranoia and a mysterious burden of guilt.
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Wamg is giving away passes to see Martha Marcy May Marlene. The screening will take place on November 3rd at 7 Pm at Plaza Frontenac.
Synopsis:
Elizabeth Olsen stars in director Sean Durkin’s psychological thriller, Martha Marcy May Marlene, about a young woman who undergoes an explosive crisis of identity after escaping the confines of a rural cult-like farming community. Trapped by unsettling flashes of memories from the past and visions of a perilous future, she becomes taken over by an unsettling sense of fear, leaving her consumed by paranoia and a mysterious burden of guilt.
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Day Of The Screening.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3. Answer The Following Question:...
- 10/25/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"She's just a picture... that's all." Fox Searchlight has posted what they're referring to as a music video for Jackson C. Frank's "Marcy's Song", the very eerie yet beautiful song from Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, which just hit the art house circuit. In the film, and in this video, the song is sung by actor John Hawkes, who plays one of the cult leaders in the indie drama also starring Elizabeth Olsen as one of his followers, that he sings this to one night. This is the original cover of the song sung by Hawkes, but it's only just him with a guitar the whole time, nonetheless it's great to listen to. You can watch the video below! Martha Marcy May Marlene stars newcomer Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a damaged woman haunted by her memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to reassimilate with her family after fleeing a cult.
- 10/25/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Marcy's Song Music Video. Music video from Martha Marcy May Marlene, starring Elizabeth Olsen. The drama helmed and scripted by Sean Durkin follows Martha (Olsen), a damaged woman haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to reassimilate with her family after fleeing a cult. Also in the cast are Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet and Hugh Dancy. This is the piece by folk artist Jackson C. Frank that inspired the film - this video features the original cover of the song, as performed by John Hawkes!
- 10/25/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Marcy's Song Music Video. Music video from Martha Marcy May Marlene, starring Elizabeth Olsen. The drama helmed and scripted by Sean Durkin follows Martha (Olsen), a damaged woman haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to reassimilate with her family after fleeing a cult. Also in the cast are Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet and Hugh Dancy. This is the piece by folk artist Jackson C. Frank that inspired the film - this video features the original cover of the song, as performed by John Hawkes!
- 10/25/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
If you went to see Sean Durkin‘s haunting debut Martha Marcy May Marlene over the weekend you’re probably still digesting Durkin’s dark story, the exhausting performance by Elizabeth Olsen and the beautiful cinematography from the film’s Dp Jody Lee Lipes.
But tucked away in all this is a soothing song delivered by John Hawkes titled “Marcy’s Song.” Playing Patrick, the manipulative leader of the “community,” he wins over Martha with an acoustic guitar and a song from a little-known ’60s folk singer.
Jackson C. Frank only released one album in his career, but his life is ripe for a biopic filled with strange behavior in recording studios, bouts with paranoid schizophrenia and an unfortunate encounter with a pellet gun. But 12 years after his death, Frank’s music is finding an audience.
When interviewing Durkin and Olsen for our Fall issue I asked how Durkin came across “Marcy’s Song.
But tucked away in all this is a soothing song delivered by John Hawkes titled “Marcy’s Song.” Playing Patrick, the manipulative leader of the “community,” he wins over Martha with an acoustic guitar and a song from a little-known ’60s folk singer.
Jackson C. Frank only released one album in his career, but his life is ripe for a biopic filled with strange behavior in recording studios, bouts with paranoid schizophrenia and an unfortunate encounter with a pellet gun. But 12 years after his death, Frank’s music is finding an audience.
When interviewing Durkin and Olsen for our Fall issue I asked how Durkin came across “Marcy’s Song.
- 10/25/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
On a cold Friday morning in Seattle, overcast skies and still groggy from sleep, I sat down with writer/director Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen, the breakout star of his first feature film, Martha Marcy May Marlene. The film tells the story of a few paranoid weeks after Martha (Olsen) has runaway from a cult in upstate New York as she finds refuge in her sister and brother-in-law's lakeside home in Connecticut. Despite asking, Martha either won't or can't tell her sister where she's been as she is quickly swallowed up by paranoia of what will happen now that she's left. The lines of what's real and what's imagined begin to blur and the audience is left to decide for themselves. What exactly could have drawn Durkin to such a project?
"I wanted to tell a story about a cult," he said, almost testing me to find out whether or...
"I wanted to tell a story about a cult," he said, almost testing me to find out whether or...
- 10/17/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
On a cold Friday morning in Seattle, overcast skies and still groggy from sleep, I sat down with writer/director Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen, the breakout star of his first feature film, Martha Marcy May Marlene. The film tells the story of a few paranoid weeks after Martha (Olsen) has runaway from a cult in upstate New York as she finds refuge in her sister and brother-in-law's lakeside home in Connecticut. Despite asking, Martha either won't or can't tell her sister where she's been as she is quickly swallowed up by paranoia of what will happen now that she's left. The lines of what's real and what's imagined begin to blur and the audience is left to decide for themselves. What exactly could have drawn Durkin to such a project?
"I wanted to tell a story about a cult," he said, almost testing me to find out whether or...
"I wanted to tell a story about a cult," he said, almost testing me to find out whether or...
- 10/17/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
April 13-18
Fifty years after Jean-Luc Godard, Serge Bozon and the .young turks. of Cahiers du cinéma resolved that the best way to criticize movies was to make their own films. The result was the creation of another exciting .new wave. of critic-filmmakers, hailing from the iconoclastic film magazine La lettre du cinéma(1997-2005), boldly storming the gates of the French film establishment.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center brings writer, director, actor and DJ, Serge Bozon to New York to present this first major North American survey of films by the Lettre du cinéma circle as well as to curate and present a series of screenings of rarities (along with Anthology Film Archives) that have influenced his work. Also introducing and discussing their films will be his fellow filmmakers, Jean-Charles Fitoussi and Aurélia Georges. And if that weren.t enough, Bozon will also put his DJ skills on display,...
Fifty years after Jean-Luc Godard, Serge Bozon and the .young turks. of Cahiers du cinéma resolved that the best way to criticize movies was to make their own films. The result was the creation of another exciting .new wave. of critic-filmmakers, hailing from the iconoclastic film magazine La lettre du cinéma(1997-2005), boldly storming the gates of the French film establishment.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center brings writer, director, actor and DJ, Serge Bozon to New York to present this first major North American survey of films by the Lettre du cinéma circle as well as to curate and present a series of screenings of rarities (along with Anthology Film Archives) that have influenced his work. Also introducing and discussing their films will be his fellow filmmakers, Jean-Charles Fitoussi and Aurélia Georges. And if that weren.t enough, Bozon will also put his DJ skills on display,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rough Trade has announced the details of Laura Marling's upcoming single for Jack White's Third Man Records label. The double A-side 7" features Marling's covers of Jackson C. Frank's 'Blues Run The Game' and Neil Young's 'The Needle And The Damage Done' and will be released on August 9. As previously revealed, the songs were recorded by White at his own Nashville studio. (more)...
- 7/14/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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