Sundance 2016 is fast approaching. Last week we posted the movie lineup of Midnight and Competition film selections. We now have the complete lineup for the premieres in both the feature film and documentary categories. We also have their selections for the Spotlight and Kid films. I've also included a list of special events.
There are a lot of great films on this list that I'm excited about seeing because of the incredible talent involved. Viggo Mortensen and Frank Langella star in Captain Fantastic; Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams star in Certain Women; Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover star in Complete Unknown; Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez star in The Fundamentals of Caring; John Krasinski directed a film called The Hollars which he stars in with Anna Kendrick, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, and Charlie Day; Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has made a new...
There are a lot of great films on this list that I'm excited about seeing because of the incredible talent involved. Viggo Mortensen and Frank Langella star in Captain Fantastic; Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams star in Certain Women; Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover star in Complete Unknown; Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez star in The Fundamentals of Caring; John Krasinski directed a film called The Hollars which he stars in with Anna Kendrick, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, and Charlie Day; Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has made a new...
- 12/13/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Kate Plays ChristineThe lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 21 -31, has been announced.U.S. Dramatic COMPETITIONAs You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, USA): As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation. Cast: Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson. World Premiere The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, USA): Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Mark Boone Jr. World PremiereChristine (Antonio Campos,...
- 12/7/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Top brass at the Park City festival have rounded out the feature line-up with a dazzling selection on paper that includes new work from Asif Kapadia and other returning alumni such as Todd Solondz, Taika Waititi and Joshua Marston.Scroll Down For Full List
Road movie The Fundamentals Of Caring by Rob Burnett starring Paul Rudd will close the festival, while Maggie Greenwald’s Sophie And The Rising Sun is the Salt Lake City Gala Film. Heid Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You is a Day One Film.
The Premieres line-up introduces Indignation, the feature directorial debut from former Focus Features CEO and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon screenwriter James Schamus, and the latest world premieres from John Carney, Kenneth Lonergan, Ira Sachs and Diego Luna.
The Documentary Premieres section encompass latest films from Werner Herzog, Spike Lee, Liz Garbus and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
The Spotlight...
Road movie The Fundamentals Of Caring by Rob Burnett starring Paul Rudd will close the festival, while Maggie Greenwald’s Sophie And The Rising Sun is the Salt Lake City Gala Film. Heid Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You is a Day One Film.
The Premieres line-up introduces Indignation, the feature directorial debut from former Focus Features CEO and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon screenwriter James Schamus, and the latest world premieres from John Carney, Kenneth Lonergan, Ira Sachs and Diego Luna.
The Documentary Premieres section encompass latest films from Werner Herzog, Spike Lee, Liz Garbus and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
The Spotlight...
- 12/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the Park City festival have rounded out the feature line-up with a dazzling selection on paper that includes new work from Asif Kapadia and other returning alumni such as Todd Solondz, Taika Waititi and Joshua Marston.Scroll Down For Full List
Road movie The Fundamentals Of Caring by Rob Burnett starring Paul Rudd will close the festival, while Maggie Greenwald’s Sophie And The Rising Sun is the Salt Lake City Gala Film. Heid Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You is a Day One Film.
The Premieres line-up introduces Indignation, the feature directorial debut from former Focus Features CEO and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon screenwriter James Schamus, and the latest world premieres from John Carney, Kenneth Lonergan, Ira Sachs and Diego Luna.
The Documentary Premieres section encompass latest films from Werner Herzog, Spike Lee, Liz Garbus and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
The Spotlight...
Road movie The Fundamentals Of Caring by Rob Burnett starring Paul Rudd will close the festival, while Maggie Greenwald’s Sophie And The Rising Sun is the Salt Lake City Gala Film. Heid Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You is a Day One Film.
The Premieres line-up introduces Indignation, the feature directorial debut from former Focus Features CEO and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon screenwriter James Schamus, and the latest world premieres from John Carney, Kenneth Lonergan, Ira Sachs and Diego Luna.
The Documentary Premieres section encompass latest films from Werner Herzog, Spike Lee, Liz Garbus and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
The Spotlight...
- 12/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Ever since Rolling Stone Brian Jones stumbled through Morocco in a hash haze, only to come upon the Master Musicians of Jajouka in a small village in 1968, there's been an interconnectedness between Western rock stars and Eastern mysticism. From the Beatles and the Beach Boys holed up in Rishikesh with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to the Beastie Boys making a "Bodhisattva Vow" and raising consciousness about Tibet, there's been a quest for enlightenment amid the flash of rock stardom, a search for ancient roots deep inside of modern music.
But when...
But when...
- 12/1/2015
- Rollingstone.com
In short, in 1961, jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley - remembered for his 1966 single "Mercy Mercy Mercy," and for his work with on one of Miles Davis' most appreciated albums, "Kind of Blue" (1959) - narrated a children’s introduction to jazz music, titled "A Child’s Introduction to Jazz." While it was made for the kiddies, I think it can also be appreciated by adults who need an intro to the art form. Documenting the major styles and great performers that launched in New Orleans during the turn of the 20th century, when an exceedingly vibrant, celebratory...
- 11/9/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
I recently had a chance to speak to Joshua Fialkov (Last of the Greats, The Bunker) about his newest project, Pacific Rim: Tales From The Drift. Join us as we talk about this book of giant robots and monsters with a very intimate tale of two people at its core.
Matt Mueller: To start off, what drew you to create something in this universe? Were you a big fan of the film?
Josh Fialkov: I am. It has been about 6 months since I’ve taken on any work for hire, so I haven’t been working for anyone else, I’ve got all my creator-owned books that I am doing all over the place, and they keep me super busy. I made an active decision that I’ve gotten to play with every toy I wanted to, I’m good, now I want to play with my toys,...
Matt Mueller: To start off, what drew you to create something in this universe? Were you a big fan of the film?
Josh Fialkov: I am. It has been about 6 months since I’ve taken on any work for hire, so I haven’t been working for anyone else, I’ve got all my creator-owned books that I am doing all over the place, and they keep me super busy. I made an active decision that I’ve gotten to play with every toy I wanted to, I’m good, now I want to play with my toys,...
- 11/6/2015
- by Matthew Mueller
- GeekTyrant
Diane Lane, Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren - New York Trumbo premiere Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Bryan Cranston (Dalton Trumbo), Helen Mirren (Hedda Hopper), Diane Lane, Michael Stuhlbarg, Louis C.K., producers Michael London, Kevin Kelly Brown, Monica Levinson, Shivani Rawat, Nimitt Mankand, Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen, Trumbo director Jay Roach and writer John McNamara were joined by Niki Trumbo, Mitzi Trumbo, Taylor Hackford, Dana Delany, Chuck Scarborough, Elle MacPherson, Tony Bennett, Susan Crow, Julie Taymor, Robert Wuhl, Ruben Blades, Tim Daly, Jean Shafiroff and Kathleen Turner at the Museum of Modern Art.
Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) Cleo Trumbo (Diane Lane)
Diane Lane, great in Amy Berg's Every Secret Thing, where she worked with Dakota Fanning, is teamed with Elle Fanning in Trumbo. Michael Stuhlbarg is Edward G. Robinson. Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, and Don Cheadle's Miles Davis biopic, Miles Ahead, the Centerpiece and...
Bryan Cranston (Dalton Trumbo), Helen Mirren (Hedda Hopper), Diane Lane, Michael Stuhlbarg, Louis C.K., producers Michael London, Kevin Kelly Brown, Monica Levinson, Shivani Rawat, Nimitt Mankand, Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen, Trumbo director Jay Roach and writer John McNamara were joined by Niki Trumbo, Mitzi Trumbo, Taylor Hackford, Dana Delany, Chuck Scarborough, Elle MacPherson, Tony Bennett, Susan Crow, Julie Taymor, Robert Wuhl, Ruben Blades, Tim Daly, Jean Shafiroff and Kathleen Turner at the Museum of Modern Art.
Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) Cleo Trumbo (Diane Lane)
Diane Lane, great in Amy Berg's Every Secret Thing, where she worked with Dakota Fanning, is teamed with Elle Fanning in Trumbo. Michael Stuhlbarg is Edward G. Robinson. Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, and Don Cheadle's Miles Davis biopic, Miles Ahead, the Centerpiece and...
- 11/6/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Over the weekend, the 53rd annual New York Film Festival came to a close with the World Premiere screening of Don Cheadle’s long brewing passion project Miles Ahead. This biopic of jazz musician Miles Davis has been in the works forever (with Cheadle as the star, co-writer, and director), so expectations were quite high for this one, which Nyff debuted as their 2015 Closing Night selection. A potential Academy Award player, either this year or next (more on that below), this was one of the bigger debuts in a while. Is it an Oscar contender or a pretender? Something in between, perhaps? Well, why don’t we find out below right now? Here’s a quick primer on the film itself, which of course is a look at a moment in time for legend Miles Davis. Cheadle plays Davis mostly during a period in which he had receded from public...
- 10/12/2015
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Miles Davis was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. And how do you make a movie about him? You get to know the man inside and out and then you reveal him in full, which is exactly what Don Cheadle does as a director, a writer, and an actor with this remarkable portrait of Davis, refracted through his crazy days in the late ’70s. Holed up in his Manhattan apartment, wracked with pain from a variety of ailments and sweating for the next check from his record company, dodging sycophants and industry executives, he is haunted by memories of old glories and humiliations and of his years [ Read More ]
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- 10/12/2015
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
Read More: Nyff Review: Don Cheadle's 'Miles Ahead' Isn't Really a Miles Davis Biopic Don Cheadle made quite the bold debut as a director at the New York Film Festival this weekend with "Miles Ahead," his highly anticipated drama about famed jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. While not unanimously praised, Cheadle's unorthodox approach to the biopic genre and ambitious storytelling earned a ton of respect from critics. In his B review of the drama, Indiewire Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn wrote, "Co-written by Steve Baigelman, who worked on the script for last year's James Brown biopic 'Get on Up,' Cheadle trades the standard biographical details of that earlier film for an intermittently enjoyable and wacky farce examining the conditions under which Davis returned to music late in his career." The movie co-stars Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield and Emayatzy Corinealdi. Watch a clip from the film above,...
- 10/12/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
"Don Cheadle’s been involved in his fair share of biographical films (Hotel Rwanda, Talk to Me, The Rat Pack, Rebound)," begins Flavorwire's Jason Bailey. "His feature directorial debut, Miles Ahead, [is] a film about Miles Davis—and not about him, as it manufactures situations from whole cloth, jettisons huge swaths of his life, and basically focuses (much like last spring’s Love & Mercy) on two moments in his life, interspersed. This unconventional approach is both the movie’s blessing and its curse; it’s what makes it unique, while simultaneously blunting its effect." We're gathering reviews and we've got a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 10/12/2015
- Keyframe
"Don Cheadle’s been involved in his fair share of biographical films (Hotel Rwanda, Talk to Me, The Rat Pack, Rebound)," begins Flavorwire's Jason Bailey. "His feature directorial debut, Miles Ahead, [is] a film about Miles Davis—and not about him, as it manufactures situations from whole cloth, jettisons huge swaths of his life, and basically focuses (much like last spring’s Love & Mercy) on two moments in his life, interspersed. This unconventional approach is both the movie’s blessing and its curse; it’s what makes it unique, while simultaneously blunting its effect." We're gathering reviews and we've got a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 10/12/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Fact: Everyone loves Don Cheadle. That said, his directorial debut—“Miles Ahead”—probably did itself a disservice premiering at the New York Film Festival on Saturday. The Nyff has certainly been known to elevate movies that might otherwise have been overlooked and give them the attention they deserve. The downside? The festival’s Lincoln Center locations and reputation for highly distilled cinema deliver such a high degree of scrutiny and level of expectation that the flaws in a film are cruelly magnified. There are things to like in “Miles Ahead,” but things to laugh at, too (there are moments, during the car-chase scenes – yes, car-chase scenes in a jazz bio-pic —that suggest Cheadle was out to make an homage to “The In-Laws”). Cheadle himself is a bit outré as Miles Davis, the trumpeter, composer, band leader, taste-maker and one of the more influential figures in American music, just Fyi. The movie itself,...
- 10/11/2015
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The volatile, creatively restless, and stormy life of jazz giant Miles Davis is rendered in vibrant, kaleidoscopic, and seemingly unconventional fashion in actor Don Cheadle’s directorial debut, “Miles Ahead.” Attempting to eschew customary cradle-to-grave biopic narrative, Cheadle’s drama, which he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, takes a collage-y approach to linear form, mixing and matching music from disparate, chronologically anachronistic periods, and hopscotches around in time mercurially. It’s a film that almost dares you to describe it as a straight-up biopic. But for all its confidence in this method, plus surface and stylistic attempts to create a story that feels like it’s filtered through a fractured glass of memory, “Miles Ahead” is actually akin to a traditional jazz played, or disguised even, in a would-be wilder key. Built around a standard framing device of a (invented) Rolling Stone writer, Dave Brill (Ewan McGregor), trying to score an interview with the.
- 10/10/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Don Cheadle deftly sidesteps the pedestrian potholes of the biographical drama in his debut as writer-director, Miles Ahead, also taking on the role of mercurial 20th century jazz innovator Miles Davis. "If you're gonna tell a story, man, come with some attitude," the reclusive protagonist instructs a bamboozling reporter on the trail of a comeback piece. "Don't be all corny with this shit." Cheadle honors that advice in a film that's loose often to the point of messiness. But its freeform riffs on highs and lows from the musician's life are a fine example of structure emulating the ever-
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- 10/10/2015
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Nyff Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item From the Festival "If you're going to tell a story, come with an attitude," declares Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) in the opening minutes of "Miles Ahead," during an interview leading up to a comeback performance. The musician proceeds to do just that, giving Cheadle — who also handles co-writing and directing duties — full license to craft a subjective riff on Davis' troubled relationship to his own mythology. Erratic, unpredictable and constantly intriguing, "Miles Ahead" plays more like one of Davis' compositions than a traditional biopic, stumbling around with flashes of insight and a brilliant central performance. Co-written by Steve Baigelman, who worked on the script for last year's James Brown biopic "Get on Up," Cheadle's trades the standard biographical details of that earlier film for an intermittently enjoyable and wacky farce examining the conditions...
- 10/10/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Some might be shocked that Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic opens with the 1975 track “Agharta,” rather than something from the musician’s early career. Yet the director and star told reporters ahead of the New York Film Festival's closing-night title that he wanted the film to be more experiential for the listener rather than accurate for the historian. “I wanted to be able to put all of Miles’ music into the film,” explained Cheadle, who is making his directorial debut with Miles Ahead. “I didn't want to be stuck with one period of his music. I think
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- 10/10/2015
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
No release date has been set for the Don Cheadle directed Miles Davis biopic 'Miles Ahead' but what we did get was a peek at Don Cheadle's transformation. Wow. Don Cheadle has nailed Miles' iconic voice. Also it looks like Cheadle is "playing" trumpet in the scene too, his embouchure looks spot on. I'm excited for this flick. To get a feel for that signature Miles Davis voice check out this awesome interview from the original Arsenio Hall Show.
- 10/9/2015
- by Matt Perez-Mora
- Hitfix
Read More: Don Cheadle's Directorial Debut 'Miles Ahead' to Close 53rd New York Film Festival It's rare that a film slated for a major film festival debut doesn't show off at least a bit of marketing before its premiere, but such is the case with the Don Cheadle's directorial debut, "Miles Ahead." The film, which will serves as the New York Film Festival's Closing Night Film this weekend, hasn't released a full trailer yet, and most clips have been decidedly short, but Yahoo! Movies has now revealed our longest look at the film yet, in the form of a dizzyingly (and appropriately) musical new clip. The Oscar-nominated actor ("Hotel Rwanda") also stars in the biopic as Miles Davis, one of the 20th century's greatest and most fascinating artists. Cheadle's film will focus on the legendary jazz musician's crazed years in the late 1970s, during which he...
- 10/8/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sneak Peek the new "Fortune" magazine profile on 'Alexander Joseph Luthor Jr.', aka 'Lex Luthor', the arch enemy of 'Superman' in director Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice", opening March 2016:
"...'Lex' is a 31-year-old wunderkind who transformed an aging petrochemical and heavy machinery dinosaur into a tech darling of the 'Fortune 500' in what some call a superhuman feat.
"This jeans-wearing genius is equally at ease rappelling the climbing wall in his employee 'inspiration station' and coding in 'the crucible', the cutting-edge 'R & D' lab where the baby-faced billionaire verbally extemporizes computer code like Miles Davis improvising a trumpet solo.
"Taking the reins of the family business after the untimely death of his indomitable father, the prodigal son boldly changed the direction of the firm from oil and heavy machinery to tech...
"...with 'LexCorp' quickly becoming the second largest emerging technology corporation in...
"...'Lex' is a 31-year-old wunderkind who transformed an aging petrochemical and heavy machinery dinosaur into a tech darling of the 'Fortune 500' in what some call a superhuman feat.
"This jeans-wearing genius is equally at ease rappelling the climbing wall in his employee 'inspiration station' and coding in 'the crucible', the cutting-edge 'R & D' lab where the baby-faced billionaire verbally extemporizes computer code like Miles Davis improvising a trumpet solo.
"Taking the reins of the family business after the untimely death of his indomitable father, the prodigal son boldly changed the direction of the firm from oil and heavy machinery to tech...
"...with 'LexCorp' quickly becoming the second largest emerging technology corporation in...
- 10/8/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
14 years ago today, Derek Zoolander and his unforgettable Blue Steel pose catwalked into theaters when “Zoolander" had its big screen debut on Sept. 28, 2001. Created by Stiller and stand-up comedian/TV writer Drake Sather, the dimwitted model character was first introduced to audiences back in 1996 in a sketch at the VH1 Fashion Awards. Watch the original VH1 skit below and see if you can discern the nuances in Zoolander’s Blue Steel and Ferrari looks: A sequel for “Zoolander” is set to open in theaters on Feb. 12, 2016. Other notable Sept. 28 happenings in pop culture history: • 1963: The Beach Boys’ “Little Deuce Coupe” peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. It spent a total of 11 weeks on the chart. • 1968: The manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company announced that Janis Joplin would be leaving the band at the end of that year. • 1968: The Beatles began their longest reign at...
- 9/28/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
The 53rd edition of the New York-based event will give world premieres to big-budget efforts such as The Walk and Bridge of Spies, but also finds room for some of the best arthouse fare
The New York film festival, like the city in which it’s hosted, is large, glitzy and fiercely individualistic. For the better part of its 53 years, the event has screened award-season bait (Life of Pi, The Social Network and Gone Girl all world-premiered as opening-night films), alongside artier selections that make no effort to cater to mainstream sensibilities.
This year is no different. Blockbuster director Robert Zemeckis opens the festival with The Walk, an eye-popping 3D awards contender, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit, the man who crossed the Twin Towers on a high-wire in 1974 and was the subject of James Marsh’s Oscar-winning documentary, Man on Wire. Closing out the event is the world premiere...
The New York film festival, like the city in which it’s hosted, is large, glitzy and fiercely individualistic. For the better part of its 53 years, the event has screened award-season bait (Life of Pi, The Social Network and Gone Girl all world-premiered as opening-night films), alongside artier selections that make no effort to cater to mainstream sensibilities.
This year is no different. Blockbuster director Robert Zemeckis opens the festival with The Walk, an eye-popping 3D awards contender, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit, the man who crossed the Twin Towers on a high-wire in 1974 and was the subject of James Marsh’s Oscar-winning documentary, Man on Wire. Closing out the event is the world premiere...
- 9/25/2015
- by Nigel M Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
Read More: 13 Events You Won't Want to Miss at This Year's Nyff The New York Film Festival generates plenty of attention for some of its flashier titles. This year, that means opening selection "The Walk" will hog the spotlight during the first weekend, while "Steve Jobs" and Steven Spielberg’s "Bridge of Spies" take over the following one, and Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic "Miles Ahead" lands on closing night. In between, Matt Damon will battle for survival in Ridley Scott’s "The Martian." But these selections barely get to the essence of Nyff, a uniquely curated three-week event that begins its 53rd edition on Friday. With a selection committee comprised of five people, the Nyff lineup emphasizes quality more than any other high profile American festival. Cherry picking some of the highlights from Cannes and other festivals from earlier in the year, the program brings fresh eyes to...
- 9/25/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
When Miles Ahead, directed by and starring Don Cheadle, premieres at the New York Film Festival in October, it’ll mark the first time that the jazz genius Miles Davis has been the subject of a non-documentary film. It wasn’t a lack of interest that has kept Davis from movie theaters till now. Nor was it lack of material: Davis, who died in 1991, lived a dynamic and controversial life, both personally and musically. (Multiple biopics wound up in development hell.) Cheadle’s film focuses on a period when the trumpeter was living in seclusion, so here’s a broader overview of one of American music’s true giants. 1. What to Know About His Sound Grammy-nominated trumpeter and jazz educator Jon Faddis explains: “The thing that is special about his sound is economy when he was improvising. Before Miles, most people thought of the trumpet as a very extroverted instrument.
- 9/25/2015
- by Greg Cwik,David Marchese
- Vulture
Read More: Advice to Doc Filmmakers from Albert Maysles: Establish an Empathizing Relationship The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced it will co-host a tribute to the late Albert Maysles ("Grey Gardens," "Gimme Shelter") at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, October 4 at 10am. The event, co-hosted by the Maysles family, will coincide with the 53rd New York Film Festival and will include special in-person appearances and a selection of clips to celebrate the work of the iconic documentarian. All tickets will be free to the public. "Al Maysles's touch with the camera is as distinctive as Richter’s on the piano or Miles Davis’s with his horn," said New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. "And his sensitivity to human energies is inseparable from his fierce love for the people he filmed—all those faces over all those years...It was always great to see Al, to hang out with him.
- 9/21/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
In the past couple years the trailer for the New York Film Festival has been a nice little thing to look forward to. Each Nyff trailer is usually very well cut, and also features some glimpse of footage for a film we otherwise haven’t seen yet. This year, that film is Miles Ahead, the Miles […]
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- 9/15/2015
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
With only a few days left of Tiff, Toronto is starting to empty out, but poutine-bloated, sleep-deprived critics aren’t going to have much time to recover: in just ten days, the New York Film Festival gets underway. Film Society Lincoln Center’s fest, now in its 53rd year, has a long reputation for combining the best of auteurist festival cinema with some glitzy Oscar-season premieres, and it looks to be continuing that this year. The festival kicks off on September 25th, and EW have nabbed the festival’s official trailer, which you can watch below. The promo includes some footage we’ve seen before, but plenty that we haven’t, including the first glimpse of Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” which closes the festival, snippets from Rebecca Miller’s “Maggie’s Plan” starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, and more. Opener “The Walk,” premiere “Bridge Of Spies,...
- 9/15/2015
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
More than three decades after Charlie “Bird” Parker, nearly three decades after Thelonious Monk and just a couple of weeks before Miles Davis, the jazz great whose trumpet style his own owed something to, West Coast jazzman Chet Baker is brought to the screen in Robert Budreau’s appropriately intimate biographical drama, Born to be Blue. I write “appropriately intimate” because the constricted scale of Budreau’s picture, in which Baker’s troubled life is evoked through scenes set at and in the beaches, cafes, apartments, recording studios and even film sets of California’s “cool jazz” scene, scales the trumpeter’s life just right. […]...
- 9/14/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
More than three decades after Charlie “Bird” Parker, nearly three decades after Thelonious Monk and just a couple of weeks before Miles Davis, the jazz great whose trumpet style his own owed something to, West Coast jazzman Chet Baker is brought to the screen in Robert Budreau’s appropriately intimate biographical drama, Born to be Blue. I write “appropriately intimate” because the constricted scale of Budreau’s picture, in which Baker’s troubled life is evoked through scenes set at and in the beaches, cafes, apartments, recording studios and even film sets of California’s “cool jazz” scene, scales the trumpeter’s life just right. […]...
- 9/14/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
From twin towers tightrope walks to the Lance Armstrong story, ‘based on the acclaimed documentary’ is Hollywood’s latest short cut to an Oscar
Just as the only blockbusters now made in any number are those that form part of a franchise, so too most serious dramas require prior brand identification in order to be greenlit. This means biopics of people the audience have either already heard of, or behind-the-scenes yarns about newsy subjects so familiar they won’t feel out of their comfort zone (three Boston Marathon movies are currently in the pipeline).
For this year’s awards contenders, then, it’s the same old story – which is to say: very few original stories. There are biopics of Steve Jobs and Dalton Trumbo, Hank Williams and Edward Snowden, Whitey Bulger and Miles Davis. Of the first person to undergo gender reassignment (The Danish Girl) and the woman who invented...
Just as the only blockbusters now made in any number are those that form part of a franchise, so too most serious dramas require prior brand identification in order to be greenlit. This means biopics of people the audience have either already heard of, or behind-the-scenes yarns about newsy subjects so familiar they won’t feel out of their comfort zone (three Boston Marathon movies are currently in the pipeline).
For this year’s awards contenders, then, it’s the same old story – which is to say: very few original stories. There are biopics of Steve Jobs and Dalton Trumbo, Hank Williams and Edward Snowden, Whitey Bulger and Miles Davis. Of the first person to undergo gender reassignment (The Danish Girl) and the woman who invented...
- 9/7/2015
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
It will be a fall calendar filled with music biopics. Tom Hiddleston will be strumming the guitar as Hank Williams in "I Saw The Light," Don Cheadle will take on the legendary Miles Davis in "Miles Ahead," and Ethan Hawke channels Chet Baker in "Born To Be Blue." And today we get the first taste of the latter in action. Directed by Robert Budreau, who previously made a short about the jazz musician, "The Deaths Of Chet Baker," "Born To Be Blue" celebrates Baker's life, mixing fact and fiction to detail his comeback journey following a personal and public fall. Here's the official synopsis: Read More: Review: Heartwarming And Funny 'Ten Thousand Saints' Staring Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawke is an utterly magnetic screen presence as Chet Baker, the legendary trumpeter and singer who, after becoming a jazz icon in the 1950s, became equally famous for his drug addiction.
- 9/3/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Don Cheadle is up for the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy, but he thinks the award should go to someone else in the category. “Jeffrey Tambor probably should win,” the “House of Lies” star told TheWrap in an interview. Cheadle also says fellow nominee Louis C.K deserves to win for his work on the FX series “Louie.” Cheadle also discussed his thoughts on awards in general, what song he would choose as an Emmy victory song, and “Captain America: Civil War.” Also Read: Don Cheadle's Miles Davis Movie 'Miles Ahead' Sells to Sony...
- 8/27/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
After revealing its centerpieces earlier this month, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the full slate for the 2015 New York Film Festival and the big news is Steven Spielberg is back. That's right, after debuting “Lincoln” at the fest just three years ago, America’s greatest living filmmaker returns with his latest thriller, “Bridge of Spies." “Spies” finds Tom Hanks portraying James B. Donovan, a lawyer who was recruited to negotiate the release of an U.S. pilot whose U2 spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union in 1962. If there was any question previously, this certainly puts the Touchstone Pictures release in the awards season conversation. As for the rest of the slate there is only one new world premiere, “Don’t Blink: Robert Frank” (the entire festival only has four at the moment), and lots of movies that originally debuted at Cannes. In fact, 13 of...
- 8/13/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
The 53rd New York Film Festival starts September 25 - October 11 at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center, and boy are they packing a punch this year.Their Main Slate was announced today, leading with the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies, a cold war thriller starring Tom Hanks. But what's got me really intrigued is Don Cheadle's Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, Tabu director Miguel Gomes' full three volumes of Arabian Nights, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest, Journey To The Shore, as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery Of Splendour. Then we've got the much buzzed about The Lobster and The Assassin, plus two personal Sundance favorites in Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room and Michael Almerayda's Experimenter. And that's just the tip of the...
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- 8/12/2015
- Screen Anarchy
This fall, it seems two musical biopics will be slugging it out. Don Cheadle takes on jazz legend Miles Davis in "Miles Ahead," while Tom Hiddleston goes country as Hank Williams in "I Saw The Light." And the first look at Thor's brother in a ten gallon hat is here. Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson, and Wren Schmidt co-star in the Marc Abraham ("Flash Of Genius") directed movie about the musician who hit the top of the charts and the depths of despair. Here's the official synopsis: I Saw The Light, the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life. "I Saw The Light" opens on November 27th.
- 8/12/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Happy birthday to Pat Metheny (born August 12, 1954), one of the few jazz superstars of the past four decades to combine commercial success and critical plaudits. After paying his dues in Gary Burton's band (which he joined at age 19), Metheny put out his first album in 1976 and by the time of his third release two years later was gaining crossover radio play. Though the style of his eponymous band was smooth and tuneful, Metheny had a firm basis in jazz and straight-ahead guitarist gods such as Jim Hall (with whom he eventually recorded a fine duo album).
With success came the challenge of avoiding complacency, which Metheny has met masterfully with a wide-ranging series of albums in a variety of stylistic bags, from atonal skronk to mellow Brazilian, from thorny Ornette Coleman covers to mercurial bebop. Along the way he has lent his prestige to both respected elders (Hall, Burton, Coleman,...
With success came the challenge of avoiding complacency, which Metheny has met masterfully with a wide-ranging series of albums in a variety of stylistic bags, from atonal skronk to mellow Brazilian, from thorny Ornette Coleman covers to mercurial bebop. Along the way he has lent his prestige to both respected elders (Hall, Burton, Coleman,...
- 8/12/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk and Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead to open and close 53rd New York Film Festival. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Three world premières about three men - Steve Jobs, Miles Davis and Philippe Petit - anchor the 53rd New York Film Festival.
Announced yesterday, Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle's biopic, written by Aaron Sorkin, will be the Centerpiece. Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston and Michael Stuhlbarg comprise the all-star cast.
The Walk in 3D, based on Philippe Petit's To Reach The Clouds, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit with Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon and Ben Schwartz, will open the festival. In 2012, Ang Lee’s majestic Life Of Pi was the first 3D movie screened as an Opening Night Gala.
Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle's directorial debut, in which he stars as Miles Davis, opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor and Michael Stuhlbarg,...
Three world premières about three men - Steve Jobs, Miles Davis and Philippe Petit - anchor the 53rd New York Film Festival.
Announced yesterday, Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle's biopic, written by Aaron Sorkin, will be the Centerpiece. Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston and Michael Stuhlbarg comprise the all-star cast.
The Walk in 3D, based on Philippe Petit's To Reach The Clouds, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit with Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon and Ben Schwartz, will open the festival. In 2012, Ang Lee’s majestic Life Of Pi was the first 3D movie screened as an Opening Night Gala.
Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle's directorial debut, in which he stars as Miles Davis, opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor and Michael Stuhlbarg,...
- 7/28/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Last week, the 2015 New York Film Festival gave us potentially another piece of the awards season puzzle when they announced their Closing Night selection for the fest. In a bit of a surprise, it’s Don Cheadle’s directorial debut Miles Ahead, a biopic about musician Miles Davis. Cheadle co-wrote the screenplay and stars as Davis as well, making this not just a passion project of his, but the sort of film that Academy members can sometimes really gravitate to. The fact that Nyff put it in the super prestigious Closing Night spot only makes it more of a movie we really need to pay attention to… Getting to be the closer at Nyff is a big deal for a flick. Unless this year is an anomaly, it more or less launches you straight into the heart of the Oscar race. Over the past 15 years, almost nothing in this slot...
- 7/27/2015
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
It's official. The New York Film Festival has announced the film that will be playing as the Closing Night Feature at this year's 53rd festival, beginning this fall. The film is Don Cheadle's directorial debut, Miles Ahead, in which Cheadle plays legendary musician Miles Davis. We posted a first look photo last year, and have been waiting for an update ever since. The opening night film was selected as Robert Zemeckis' The Walk, and the rest of the line-up will be revealed closer to the opening on September 25th. Don Cheadle stated: "I am happy that the selection committee saw fit to invite us to the dance. It's very gratifying that all the hard work that went into the making of this film, from every person on the team, has brought us here." Below is a new photo from Nyff promoting Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead at the 53rd New York Film Festival.
- 7/22/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Miles Ahead
The Film Society of Lincoln Centre have announced today that Don Cheadle's directorial debut "Miles Ahead," a biopic of legendary musician Miles Davis (played by Cheadle), will make its World Premiere as the Closing Night selection of the upcoming 53rd New York Film Festival. Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor also star in the film, and the festival runs September 25th to October 11th. [Source: Deadline]
Balls
Amy Poehler will star in and produce the sports comedy "Balls" for Universal Pictures and Paper Kite Productions. Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark will also produce.
Poehler will play a once-promising basketball coach who is asked to lead an NBA team. Ike Barinholtz will co-write the script with David Stassen and have a supporting role. [Source: Variety]
LeBron James
NBA superstar LeBron James and his SpringHill Entertainment label are partnering with Warner Bros. Entertainment in an agreement covering projects in TV, film and original digital content.
The Film Society of Lincoln Centre have announced today that Don Cheadle's directorial debut "Miles Ahead," a biopic of legendary musician Miles Davis (played by Cheadle), will make its World Premiere as the Closing Night selection of the upcoming 53rd New York Film Festival. Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor also star in the film, and the festival runs September 25th to October 11th. [Source: Deadline]
Balls
Amy Poehler will star in and produce the sports comedy "Balls" for Universal Pictures and Paper Kite Productions. Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark will also produce.
Poehler will play a once-promising basketball coach who is asked to lead an NBA team. Ike Barinholtz will co-write the script with David Stassen and have a supporting role. [Source: Variety]
LeBron James
NBA superstar LeBron James and his SpringHill Entertainment label are partnering with Warner Bros. Entertainment in an agreement covering projects in TV, film and original digital content.
- 7/22/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Miles Ahead, the actor’s directorial debut, enters the awards race with a prime spot in the 53rd film festival based at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan
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Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s biopic of the trumpeter Miles Davis, has been named as closing night movie at this year’s New York film festival. The spot is a prestigious one on the fall festival calendar; Oscar heavy-hitters Birdman, Her, Flight and The Descendants all closed the event in past years, boding very well for the awards prospects of Cheadle’s directorial debut.
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Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s biopic of the trumpeter Miles Davis, has been named as closing night movie at this year’s New York film festival. The spot is a prestigious one on the fall festival calendar; Oscar heavy-hitters Birdman, Her, Flight and The Descendants all closed the event in past years, boding very well for the awards prospects of Cheadle’s directorial debut.
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- 7/22/2015
- by Nigel M Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
Walking a tightrope with their opening film "The Walk," directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the New York Film Festival are going to play things out in style with their closing film. The festival has announced that Don Cheadle's directorial debut "Miles Ahead" will make its world premiere as the closing film of the 53rd New York Film Festival. The actor leads the movie as the legendary jazz artist, with Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor also starring in supporting roles. It'll be fascinating to see how Cheadle attempts to capture the mythic life of Miles Davis on film, but given he has been carrying along this passion project for years, he should be able to do it justice. The New York Film Festival runs from September 25th to November 11th. Check out the full press release below. ---------- New York, NY (July 22, 2015) – The Film Society of Lincoln...
- 7/22/2015
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Skip Lievsay is one of the most talented men in Hollywood. He has created audioscapes for Martin Scorsese and is the only sound man the Coen brothers go to. But the key to this work is more than clever effects, it is understanding the human mind
Skip Lievsay, an unassuming-looking guy in his mid-60s with highly trained ears, stood before the stacks of speakers and giant movie screen in his office, fussing quietly. Lievsay is one of the preeminent sound designers working in film today, and whatever he does – whether it’s fussing or making jokes or padding down the hall of his New York offices to murmur instructions to employees – he does it quietly, as if his personal volume dial operates in inverse correlation to the often noisy task at hand.
On this midwinter afternoon, he was meeting with one of his effects editors, a similarly soft-spoken young man named Larry Zipf,...
Skip Lievsay, an unassuming-looking guy in his mid-60s with highly trained ears, stood before the stacks of speakers and giant movie screen in his office, fussing quietly. Lievsay is one of the preeminent sound designers working in film today, and whatever he does – whether it’s fussing or making jokes or padding down the hall of his New York offices to murmur instructions to employees – he does it quietly, as if his personal volume dial operates in inverse correlation to the often noisy task at hand.
On this midwinter afternoon, he was meeting with one of his effects editors, a similarly soft-spoken young man named Larry Zipf,...
- 7/22/2015
- by Jordan Kisner
- The Guardian - Film News
At 19-years-old, Michigan native Luke Jaden is already working on his fourth film, with his third, “Wolf Who Cried Boy" (featured on this site in May, with a cast that includes Torrey Wigfield, Oscar nominee Barkhad Abdi, and Dwight Henry), currently in post-production. Titled "King Ripple," and starring other names you'd be familiar with, like Keith Stanfield ("Short Term 12," "Selma," and Don Cheadle's upcoming Miles Davis film), as well as the previously mentioned Torrey Wigfield (“Lost River”), Allie DeBerry (“A.N.T. Farm”), newcomer Callaghan Belle, and Luke Jaden himself, the film is described as a "post-apocalyptic,...
- 7/4/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Ewan McGregor is a busy man. In addition to making his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing” last year, the actor shot three films: the upcoming John le Carré adaptation “Our Kind of Traitor,” Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic “Miles Ahead,” and “Last Days in the Desert,” in which he plays both Jesus and Satan. Directed by Colombian veteran Rodrigo García, Sundance debutant “Last Days in the Desert” received its UK premiere at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival on Father’s Day—an inspired programming choice given the familial theme of the film, which sees Jesus journeying alone across a desert in search of God, tormented all along by His cunning counterpart Lucifer, who He imagines is following him. Interviewed on stage by his fellow Scot, the radio and TV presenter Edith Bowman, for a generous 90 minutes at Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre, McGregor—a dad...
- 6/22/2015
- by Michael Pattison
- Thompson on Hollywood
In the recent film Love and Mercy, a studio musician recording during the Pet Sounds sessions explains to Brian Wilson (Paul Dano) that he’s broken a fundamental rule of music, in that it sounds wrong if you have one person playing in one key and another instrument playing in another. “It sounds right in my head,” he replies.
Back in September, Scott Tobias wrote in The Dissolve something of a manifesto about biopics, “Five simple rules for making biopics about geniuses”: (1) Don’t try and tell a person’s entire life story, (2) show us, don’t just tell us why they’re a genius, (3) don’t tell a genius’s story just because he or she was a great person, (4) find a compelling visual style that matches their genius, (5) and “find the saint in the asshole, find the asshole in the saint.”
Music biopics however are a genre unto themselves,...
Back in September, Scott Tobias wrote in The Dissolve something of a manifesto about biopics, “Five simple rules for making biopics about geniuses”: (1) Don’t try and tell a person’s entire life story, (2) show us, don’t just tell us why they’re a genius, (3) don’t tell a genius’s story just because he or she was a great person, (4) find a compelling visual style that matches their genius, (5) and “find the saint in the asshole, find the asshole in the saint.”
Music biopics however are a genre unto themselves,...
- 6/17/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Avant-garde jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 85, his family told the New York Times on Thursday. Coleman's lengthy improvisational suites inspired the "free jazz" movement of the 1960s, and his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation gave the genre its name. Early in his career, Coleman's disdain for traditional chords and melody made him a pariah in the mid-century jazz scene, to the point that he was once beaten outside a club in Los Angeles. (His saxophone was smashed in the assault, and its replacement, a white plastic sax, soon became his trademark.) "I don't know what he's playing, but it's not jazz," Dizzy Gillespie told the press during Coleman's career-making residency at New York's Five Spot Café, while Miles Davis claimed, "The man is all screwed up inside." The residency, along with Coleman's groundbreaking album The Shape of Jazz to...
- 6/11/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
When Miles Davis moved to the Upper West Side in 1958, backyard jams with visiting musicians transformed the small block. His residency lasted about 25 years, so he was long gone by the time I moved in to the building next door. But I was there for the block party last year when the street was renamed in his honor. In spite of the loudspeaker recordings, I got to hear the street on jazz. And immersed in the throngs of his friends and relatives, I felt transported. The next day, walking past a new 24hr Cvs on the nearby corner, […]...
- 6/9/2015
- by Taylor Hess
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
When Miles Davis moved to the Upper West Side in 1958, backyard jams with visiting musicians transformed the small block. His residency lasted about 25 years, so he was long gone by the time I moved in to the building next door. But I was there for the block party last year when the street was renamed in his honor. In spite of the loudspeaker recordings, I got to hear the street on jazz. And immersed in the throngs of his friends and relatives, I felt transported. The next day, walking past a new 24hr Cvs on the nearby corner, […]...
- 6/9/2015
- by Taylor Hess
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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