Exclusive: Sonic the Hedgehog franchise producer Original Film is developing a feature take of the Alexis Hall novel, Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake.
Original’s Neal Moritz and Karina Rahardja are producing through their discretionary fund with Paramount.
David Mandell is adapting the Forever book, which follows a young single mother who dreams of owning a bakery. She enters Britain’s premiere baking competition. However, more than just the ovens heat up as sparks fly with not one but two of the other contestants on the show.
Cameron Fuller (Girl in The Woods) and Gregg Sulkin are executing producing. Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Kissing Booth) will executive produce as well.
Mandell co-wrote the feature project Every Note Played based on the Lisa Genova novel. Hall is the author of such novels as Boyfriend Material, A Lady for a Duke, Something Fabulous, and How to Bang a Millionaire.
Original’s Neal Moritz and Karina Rahardja are producing through their discretionary fund with Paramount.
David Mandell is adapting the Forever book, which follows a young single mother who dreams of owning a bakery. She enters Britain’s premiere baking competition. However, more than just the ovens heat up as sparks fly with not one but two of the other contestants on the show.
Cameron Fuller (Girl in The Woods) and Gregg Sulkin are executing producing. Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Kissing Booth) will executive produce as well.
Mandell co-wrote the feature project Every Note Played based on the Lisa Genova novel. Hall is the author of such novels as Boyfriend Material, A Lady for a Duke, Something Fabulous, and How to Bang a Millionaire.
- 7/14/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Sucsy is set to direct.
STXfilms has acquired worldwide rights to the film adaptation of Lisa Genova’s novel Every Note Played.
Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in the project, which will be directed by Michael Sucsy.
Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis, and Gabrielle Jerou are set to produce via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment banner.
The story follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is...
STXfilms has acquired worldwide rights to the film adaptation of Lisa Genova’s novel Every Note Played.
Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in the project, which will be directed by Michael Sucsy.
Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis, and Gabrielle Jerou are set to produce via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment banner.
The story follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is...
- 10/9/2020
- ScreenDaily
Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in “Every Note Played,” a music drama for which STXfilms has just acquired worldwide rights.
Michael Sucsy is attached to direct the film that’s based on the most recent book by “Still Alice” author Lisa Genova. And the book was optioned and adapted into a screenplay by Monet Clayton and David Mandell, whose script landed at #1 on the Black List.
“Every Note Played” follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is forced to balance reconciling his failed relationships with redefining his pursuit of greatness.
Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis and Gabrielle Jerou will all produce “Every Note Played” via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment production banner.
Jolie most recently starred in...
Michael Sucsy is attached to direct the film that’s based on the most recent book by “Still Alice” author Lisa Genova. And the book was optioned and adapted into a screenplay by Monet Clayton and David Mandell, whose script landed at #1 on the Black List.
“Every Note Played” follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is forced to balance reconciling his failed relationships with redefining his pursuit of greatness.
Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis and Gabrielle Jerou will all produce “Every Note Played” via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment production banner.
Jolie most recently starred in...
- 10/9/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are circling the lead roles in Every Note Played, a drama based on Still Alice author Lisa Genova’s latest novel.
The story follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is forced to balance reconciling his failed relationships with redefining his pursuit of greatness.
Michael Sucsy is set to direct, with Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis, and Gabrielle Jerou producing via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment. STXfilms has taken world rights to the project.
UTA and ICM represented the financing and deal.
Our sister publication Variety was first with the news.
The story follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is forced to balance reconciling his failed relationships with redefining his pursuit of greatness.
Michael Sucsy is set to direct, with Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis, and Gabrielle Jerou producing via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment. STXfilms has taken world rights to the project.
UTA and ICM represented the financing and deal.
Our sister publication Variety was first with the news.
- 10/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in “Every Note Played,” an adaptation of Lisa Genova’s contemporary romance novel. STX Films has acquired global rights to the movie.
Jolie will play Karina, the ex-wife of an accomplished concert pianist named Richard (portrayed by Waltz). He has suffered many losses, including the estrangement of his daughter, when he gets diagnosed with Als in his hands. As the disease worsens and Richard can no longer play the piano or live on his own, Karina reluctantly steps in to be his caregiver.
Michael Sucsy, whose resume includes “13 Reasons Why” and “The Vow” starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, is set to direct. Monet Clayton is producing “Every Note Played,” along with Richard Barton Lewis and Gabrielle Jerou-Tabak of Southpaw Entertainment. Clayton also adapted the screenplay with David Mandell.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing this exceptional filmmaking team together for this emotional,...
Jolie will play Karina, the ex-wife of an accomplished concert pianist named Richard (portrayed by Waltz). He has suffered many losses, including the estrangement of his daughter, when he gets diagnosed with Als in his hands. As the disease worsens and Richard can no longer play the piano or live on his own, Karina reluctantly steps in to be his caregiver.
Michael Sucsy, whose resume includes “13 Reasons Why” and “The Vow” starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, is set to direct. Monet Clayton is producing “Every Note Played,” along with Richard Barton Lewis and Gabrielle Jerou-Tabak of Southpaw Entertainment. Clayton also adapted the screenplay with David Mandell.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing this exceptional filmmaking team together for this emotional,...
- 10/9/2020
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Richard Glatzer, who wrote and directed Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning performance in Still Alice, has died after battling Als. He was 63.
Publicists say he passed away Tuesday morning only three weeks after he watched Moore win the statuette. Glatzer poured his heart and soul into the film, alongside his husband Wash Westmoreland, in spite of his debilitating condition. The pair adapted the film from Lisa Genova’s novel and proceeded to develop the project, even though he had just been diagnosed with Als.
Glatzer and Westmoreland previously made waves with 2006’s Quinceanera, a film about a pregnant 14-year-old Latina growing up in L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood, which went on win the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Westmoreland released the following statement regarding Richard’s death on Tuesday:
“I am devastated. Rich was my soulmate, my collaborator, my best friend and my life.
Publicists say he passed away Tuesday morning only three weeks after he watched Moore win the statuette. Glatzer poured his heart and soul into the film, alongside his husband Wash Westmoreland, in spite of his debilitating condition. The pair adapted the film from Lisa Genova’s novel and proceeded to develop the project, even though he had just been diagnosed with Als.
Glatzer and Westmoreland previously made waves with 2006’s Quinceanera, a film about a pregnant 14-year-old Latina growing up in L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood, which went on win the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Westmoreland released the following statement regarding Richard’s death on Tuesday:
“I am devastated. Rich was my soulmate, my collaborator, my best friend and my life.
- 3/12/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Richard Glatzer, co-writer and co-director of Still Alice, has died. The filmmaker had been battling the ravages of Als, or Lou Gehrig's disease, since his diagnosis in 2011. He was 63.Glatzer, who married his long-time co-filmmaker and partner Walsh Westmoreland in 2013, had planned to watch his star, Julianne Moore, at the Academy Awards from his hospital bed, when he was taken into an La hospital just two days before the ceremony.He'd defied his ailing health by playing an active role in the making of Still Alice, not only in working with Westmoreland to adapt Lisa Genova's novel of a successful academic's spiral into the hell of early-onset Alzheimer’s, but never missing a day of the film's shoot. By the time of his death he was able to communicate only by tapping a specially-modified iPad with his big toe.Born in New York in 1952, Glatzer segued from University Of...
- 3/12/2015
- EmpireOnline
Filmmaker Richard Glatzer, best known for co-writing and co-directing Still Alice alongside his husband Wash Westmoreland, died Tuesday from complications due to Als. He was 63.
Glatzer was first diagnosed with Als in 2011 when he began working on adapting Still Alice from a novel by Lisa Genova. As production progressed, his condition deteriorated severely, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Julianne Moore won an Oscar for her performance in the film, which tells the story of a woman suffering from degenerative Alzheimer’s.
Photos: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years
Two days before the Academy Awards ceremony, Glatzer was rushed to the hospital after suffering from respiratory problems. According to Westmoreland, he and Glatzer watched the gala event from the hospital ward.
Glatzer and Westmoreland met in 1995 and got married in 2013. During their time together, they worked on several other well-received projects including the 2001 drama The Fluffer, the 2006 family drama Quinceanera, and the 2011 Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.
Following...
Glatzer was first diagnosed with Als in 2011 when he began working on adapting Still Alice from a novel by Lisa Genova. As production progressed, his condition deteriorated severely, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Julianne Moore won an Oscar for her performance in the film, which tells the story of a woman suffering from degenerative Alzheimer’s.
Photos: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years
Two days before the Academy Awards ceremony, Glatzer was rushed to the hospital after suffering from respiratory problems. According to Westmoreland, he and Glatzer watched the gala event from the hospital ward.
Glatzer and Westmoreland met in 1995 and got married in 2013. During their time together, they worked on several other well-received projects including the 2001 drama The Fluffer, the 2006 family drama Quinceanera, and the 2011 Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.
Following...
- 3/12/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
Richard Glatzer, co-director of the critically acclaimed film Still Alice, has died following a battle with Als, People confirms. He was 63. Glatzer died less than three weeks after the 2015 Oscars ceremony, which included star Julianne Moore picking up a Best Actress trophy for her portrayal of a Columbia University professor coping with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Glatzer learned of his medical condition in 2011, just months before he began adapting Still Alice with husband and writing-directing partner Wash Westmoreland, the New York Times reported in November. Glatzer and Westmoreland adapted Still Alice together from Lisa Genova's bestselling novel of the same name,...
- 3/11/2015
- by Jacqueline Andriakos, @jandriakos
- PEOPLE.com
Richard Glatzer, co-directer of the critically acclaimed film Still Alice, has died following a battle with Als, People confirms. He was 63. Glatzer passed away less than three weeks after the 2015 Oscars ceremony, which included star Julianne Moore picking up a Best Actress trophy for her portrayal of a Columbia University professor coping with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Glatzer learned of his medical condition in 2011, just months before he began adapting Still Alice with husband and writing-directing partner Wash Westmoreland, The New York Times reported in November. Glatzer and Westmoreland adapted Still Alice together from Lisa Genova's bestselling novel of the same name,...
- 3/11/2015
- by Jacqueline Andriakos, @jandriakos
- PEOPLE.com
Still Alice co-director Richard Glatzer has died, aged 63.
The filmmaker passed away following a long battle with neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Glatzer's death came just two weeks after Julianne Moore won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a professor battling early-onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.
The writer-director was not in attendance because he was hospitalised two days before the Oscars ceremony for respiratory issues.
Glatzer was diagnosed with Als just before he and husband Wash Westmoreland began adapting Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice.
The filmmaking partners also directed the 2006 family drama Quinceañera and the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.
The filmmaker passed away following a long battle with neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Glatzer's death came just two weeks after Julianne Moore won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a professor battling early-onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.
The writer-director was not in attendance because he was hospitalised two days before the Oscars ceremony for respiratory issues.
Glatzer was diagnosed with Als just before he and husband Wash Westmoreland began adapting Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice.
The filmmaking partners also directed the 2006 family drama Quinceañera and the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.
- 3/11/2015
- Digital Spy
Still Alice co-director Richard Glatzer has died.
The filmmaker passed away following a long battle with neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Glatzer's death came just two weeks after Julianne Moore won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a professor battling early-onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.
The writer-director was not in attendance because he was hospitalised two days before the Oscars ceremony for respiratory issues.
Glatzer was diagnosed with Als while he and husband Wash Westmoreland were adapting Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice.
The filmmaking partners also directed the 2006 family drama Quinceañera and the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.
The filmmaker passed away following a long battle with neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Glatzer's death came just two weeks after Julianne Moore won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a professor battling early-onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.
The writer-director was not in attendance because he was hospitalised two days before the Oscars ceremony for respiratory issues.
Glatzer was diagnosed with Als while he and husband Wash Westmoreland were adapting Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice.
The filmmaking partners also directed the 2006 family drama Quinceañera and the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.
- 3/11/2015
- Digital Spy
Wash Westmoreland began making a film about Alzheimer’s just as his co-director husband was diagnosed with degenerative condition Als
Just over a week ago, Julianne Moore won the best actress Oscar for her role in Still Alice. The film’s two directors watched the awards from hospital. Wash Westmoreland and his husband Richard Glatzer had hoped to be at the ceremony, but shortly before, on the day they had been fitted for tuxedos, Glatzer developed breathing difficulties. In hospital, he had a cardiac arrest and had to have his heart restarted five times. “The best of times and the worst of times is the phrase I’ve been using for the last year,” says Westmoreland, “but this was extreme.” Still, Glatzer recovered to watch their lead actor take the award on the hospital TV; they had smuggled champagne in to the ward. When Moore won, they cheered so loudly...
Just over a week ago, Julianne Moore won the best actress Oscar for her role in Still Alice. The film’s two directors watched the awards from hospital. Wash Westmoreland and his husband Richard Glatzer had hoped to be at the ceremony, but shortly before, on the day they had been fitted for tuxedos, Glatzer developed breathing difficulties. In hospital, he had a cardiac arrest and had to have his heart restarted five times. “The best of times and the worst of times is the phrase I’ve been using for the last year,” says Westmoreland, “but this was extreme.” Still, Glatzer recovered to watch their lead actor take the award on the hospital TV; they had smuggled champagne in to the ward. When Moore won, they cheered so loudly...
- 3/5/2015
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland; Screenwriters: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland; Starring: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish; Running time: 101 mins; Certificate: 12A
Julianne Moore recently won her first Oscar out of four nominations for this up-close portrait of a 50-year-old woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease. It's a performance beautifully coloured with varying shades of emotion that also makes clever use of her porcelain looks to evoke the vulnerability of the eponymous Alice.
Lisa Genova, the neuroscientist on whose novel the film is based, had the advantage of being able to tell the story from Alice's own fractured perspective, but the way that inner landscape shifts isn't so easily captured on screen by co-writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. They take a neat, linear approach to Alice's mental decline that is at odds with the way she is experiencing the world around her. Essentially, Moore...
Julianne Moore recently won her first Oscar out of four nominations for this up-close portrait of a 50-year-old woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease. It's a performance beautifully coloured with varying shades of emotion that also makes clever use of her porcelain looks to evoke the vulnerability of the eponymous Alice.
Lisa Genova, the neuroscientist on whose novel the film is based, had the advantage of being able to tell the story from Alice's own fractured perspective, but the way that inner landscape shifts isn't so easily captured on screen by co-writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. They take a neat, linear approach to Alice's mental decline that is at odds with the way she is experiencing the world around her. Essentially, Moore...
- 3/5/2015
- Digital Spy
★★★☆☆ It's impossible to pinpoint the first memory embezzled under Alzheimer's rampage through the tangled web of neurons and chemical pulses of the human brain. Since even the healthiest of minds can find itself prone to moments of absent-mindedness the illness looms large over all of us, especially in an ageing society that clings to individualism. In Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice (2014) this increasingly prevalent fear is confronted head-on, sidestepping the well-trodden route of similar dramas and choosing to inhabit the deteriorating world of the sufferer, played in this instance by recent Academy Award winner Julianne Moore.
- 3/3/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
At Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, Julianne Moore could join the ranks of 10 actors and actresses who have had five or more acting nominations before their first win.
Moore earned her fifth nomination for her portrayal of a professor suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova‘s 2007 novel of the same name. She was first nominated in 1998 for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights.
In Academy history, five actors and actresses have won their first Oscar on their fifth nomination.
Gregory Peck, who was first nominated in 1946 for The Keys of the Kingdom, didn’t win until 1962 for To Kill a Mockingbird. Five years later, Peck was awarded The Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Susan Hayward won her first and only Oscar in 1959 for her leading role in I Want to Live!. She was first nominated in 1948 for Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman.
Managing Editor
At Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, Julianne Moore could join the ranks of 10 actors and actresses who have had five or more acting nominations before their first win.
Moore earned her fifth nomination for her portrayal of a professor suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova‘s 2007 novel of the same name. She was first nominated in 1998 for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights.
In Academy history, five actors and actresses have won their first Oscar on their fifth nomination.
Gregory Peck, who was first nominated in 1946 for The Keys of the Kingdom, didn’t win until 1962 for To Kill a Mockingbird. Five years later, Peck was awarded The Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Susan Hayward won her first and only Oscar in 1959 for her leading role in I Want to Live!. She was first nominated in 1948 for Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman.
- 2/18/2015
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
"Still Alice" is a moving film that showcases the immense talent of Julianne Moore; the movie is written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, a couple with a previous run of quirky Independent films like 2013's "The Last of Robin Hood" or 2008's "Pedro," which played the Toronto Film Festival that year.
The film is about characters dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, a horrifying condition when a person loses not only their faculties, but a major part of who they are as they descend into dementia.
Sounds cheery...
Well, this is indeed a tear-jerker, but to its credit the film isn't all about manipulation of emotions as we drive towards the inevitable conclusion. I can't speak to the source material, the 2007 book by Lisa Genova that Westomoreland and Glatzer based their script on, but the narrative does do more than engage in disease porn. There's some lovely character moments amongst the family members,...
The film is about characters dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, a horrifying condition when a person loses not only their faculties, but a major part of who they are as they descend into dementia.
Sounds cheery...
Well, this is indeed a tear-jerker, but to its credit the film isn't all about manipulation of emotions as we drive towards the inevitable conclusion. I can't speak to the source material, the 2007 book by Lisa Genova that Westomoreland and Glatzer based their script on, but the narrative does do more than engage in disease porn. There's some lovely character moments amongst the family members,...
- 1/29/2015
- by Jason Gorber
- Moviefone
Chicago – In one of the best film acting performances from 2014, Julianne Moore devastatingly portrays a woman in her fifties who is a victim of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. As the effects of dementia physically deteriorates her life, it is a wonder if she is “Still Alice.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The performance of Moore is brave, unforgiving and sympathetic, plus it’s also unerringly sad. As much as it’s a story of Alice, it is also a story of her family, who must endure the infamous double loss of Alzheimer’s – the disintegration of the essence of their loved one, and their eventual physical demise. Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) represent the family with virtually no tears, as their choices regarding Alice are faced by thousands of families every year. Although difficult to experience, “Still Alice” provides a glimpse into an inevitability in most people’s lives, and is a...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The performance of Moore is brave, unforgiving and sympathetic, plus it’s also unerringly sad. As much as it’s a story of Alice, it is also a story of her family, who must endure the infamous double loss of Alzheimer’s – the disintegration of the essence of their loved one, and their eventual physical demise. Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) represent the family with virtually no tears, as their choices regarding Alice are faced by thousands of families every year. Although difficult to experience, “Still Alice” provides a glimpse into an inevitability in most people’s lives, and is a...
- 1/16/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Oscar train stops here – Julianne Moore is devastatingly good, and certainly worthy of all the many awards that will certainly come her way, as a linguistics professor succumbing to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in Still Alice. Moore, who has a number of astonishing acting feats under her belt, has perhaps never been as affecting, nor as raw, as she is in the part of a woman losing the once-formidable control she had over her mind and body.
Alzheimer’s is certainly not an easy topic for any film to cover, let alone to cover well, but Moore, along with writer Lisa Genova and directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, rise to the occasion, crafting a narrative that fully communicates the disease’s creeping horror while never dissolving into cable-tv levels of melodrama. Still Alice is not only a well-made film, but also an important one in how honestly it...
Alzheimer’s is certainly not an easy topic for any film to cover, let alone to cover well, but Moore, along with writer Lisa Genova and directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, rise to the occasion, crafting a narrative that fully communicates the disease’s creeping horror while never dissolving into cable-tv levels of melodrama. Still Alice is not only a well-made film, but also an important one in how honestly it...
- 1/15/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Jose here. Why do I keep forgetting how funny Julianne Moore is? Perhaps because not counting 30 Rock and Maps to the Stars (yes, that is a funny performance) the movies always give us tragic, sad Juli.
Photo credit: Jose Solis
She is the one actress who has perfected the act of onscreen suffering, if you only knew how many times I’ve played that scene with the late night phone call in Far From Heaven to help me cleanse my soul...anyway, once you think of it, outside the movies she always seems to have a huge smile on her face and emanates ginger joy wherever she goes, which wasn’t the exception at a Still Alice press conference I attended yesterday, where she along with Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, author Lisa Genova and co-director Wash Westmoreland discussed the film.
Not one to keep my obsessive fan questions to myself,...
Photo credit: Jose Solis
She is the one actress who has perfected the act of onscreen suffering, if you only knew how many times I’ve played that scene with the late night phone call in Far From Heaven to help me cleanse my soul...anyway, once you think of it, outside the movies she always seems to have a huge smile on her face and emanates ginger joy wherever she goes, which wasn’t the exception at a Still Alice press conference I attended yesterday, where she along with Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, author Lisa Genova and co-director Wash Westmoreland discussed the film.
Not one to keep my obsessive fan questions to myself,...
- 1/15/2015
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Julianne Moore was stunning on the carpet in an ivory Alexander McQueen gown at Tuesday's Still Alice screening in New York, but she couldn't leave the house without her 12-year-old daughter Liv's approval.
"She always has an opinion," Moore joked to Et. "She liked this. She saw me before I left. She's like, 'I like that mama, yeah!'"
We liked it too – and we're not alone. Moore's Still Alice co-stars had some serious Julianne fever.
"I'm so proud of her, I can barely even begin to tell you," Kristen Stewart told Et. "The movie was made so that she can do what she does in it."
"She's just an astonishing woman," Kate Bosworth told Et. "To be able to sit there and watch her perform, she's always brilliant."
The film has already seen some serious awards buzz and is a contender for an Oscar nomination. Julianne already won a Golden Globe for her performance in the...
"She always has an opinion," Moore joked to Et. "She liked this. She saw me before I left. She's like, 'I like that mama, yeah!'"
We liked it too – and we're not alone. Moore's Still Alice co-stars had some serious Julianne fever.
"I'm so proud of her, I can barely even begin to tell you," Kristen Stewart told Et. "The movie was made so that she can do what she does in it."
"She's just an astonishing woman," Kate Bosworth told Et. "To be able to sit there and watch her perform, she's always brilliant."
The film has already seen some serious awards buzz and is a contender for an Oscar nomination. Julianne already won a Golden Globe for her performance in the...
- 1/15/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
Lisa Genova, neurologist and author of "Still Alice," is still amazed at what her self-published book has become.
"To see all the moving parts and the millions of pieces that have to come together for us to be standing here right now -- it's a miracle that this happened," Genova told Access Hollywood at the New York Premiere of the film based on her work on Tuesday night.
Equally amazing for Genova was hearing her name included in Julianne Moore's acceptance speech at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.
Watch: 'Still Alice' NYC Premiere
"I totally left my ...
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"To see all the moving parts and the millions of pieces that have to come together for us to be standing here right now -- it's a miracle that this happened," Genova told Access Hollywood at the New York Premiere of the film based on her work on Tuesday night.
Equally amazing for Genova was hearing her name included in Julianne Moore's acceptance speech at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.
Watch: 'Still Alice' NYC Premiere
"I totally left my ...
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- 1/14/2015
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Beverly Hills - Julianne Moore isn't gonna lie: she really wanted this Golden Globe. "I said to Nathan Lane, who is a friend of mine, we were doing a movie together and somebody sent me an email saying they liked what I did. And that made my heart soar. I turned to Nathan and said 'I just figured out why I do this. I crave praise,'" Moore told the press backstage after winning the Best Actress trophy for "Still Alice." "I think we all do and respond to it. It is one of those things that just sort of keeps you going." Moore also spoke to the extra-special feeling of winning an award for a film that wrapped only nine months ago - an unusually short window. "We shot it last March so the fact that I am standing here holding this talking about a movie that was very...
- 1/12/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Julianne Moore has praised her co-star Kristen Stewart for having "so much emotion available".
Moore, who plays Stewart's mother in Alzheimer's drama Still Alice, told Pop Sugar that the 24-year-old has "such a depth of feeling".
"Oh, I love her," she said. "Kristen has so much emotion available. Such a depth of feeling. Sometimes you can literally see her feelings on her skin.
"I loved working with her. She was a true partner, she's a wonderful actress, and she's a great friend."
Still Alice is an adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel of the same name, and stars Moore as a professor who discovers that she has early onset Alzheimer's.
Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish also star in the drama.
Still Alice is released in the UK in March 2015. Watch a trailer below:...
Moore, who plays Stewart's mother in Alzheimer's drama Still Alice, told Pop Sugar that the 24-year-old has "such a depth of feeling".
"Oh, I love her," she said. "Kristen has so much emotion available. Such a depth of feeling. Sometimes you can literally see her feelings on her skin.
"I loved working with her. She was a true partner, she's a wonderful actress, and she's a great friend."
Still Alice is an adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel of the same name, and stars Moore as a professor who discovers that she has early onset Alzheimer's.
Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish also star in the drama.
Still Alice is released in the UK in March 2015. Watch a trailer below:...
- 1/5/2015
- Digital Spy
Still Alice Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland Screenwriter: Richard Glatzer, Wash Wesmoreland, from Lisa Genova’s book Cast: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish Screened at: Sony, NYC, 11/7/14 Opens: January 16, 2015 As they say, old age is better than the alternative. Still, young people have an inordinate fear of going gray but really, it’s not as bad as they think. Sure, you won’t be able to play even junior-high level football at age 60 and after 40, forget full-court basketball. And the longer you live, the more chance some disease [ Read More ]
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- 12/22/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Alzheimer's is a heartbreaking disease, both for the person who has it and his or her loved ones. "Still Alice" stars Julianne Moore as a respected professor who begins experiencing lapses in memory; she's soon diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, much to the shock of her family and friends. Alec Baldwin co-stars as her husband John, alongside Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart, and Hunter Parrish as their adult children. The screenplay was adapted from the novel by neuroscientist Lisa Genova.
Moore has already scored a SAG nom for her performance as Alice, as well as Best Actress at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. We've got months of awards season madness ahead of us, which means this is probably just the beginning of "Still Alice."
"Still Alice" is already open for a qualifying Oscar run in limited cities. It opens across the country on January 16.
[Via Empire]...
Moore has already scored a SAG nom for her performance as Alice, as well as Best Actress at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. We've got months of awards season madness ahead of us, which means this is probably just the beginning of "Still Alice."
"Still Alice" is already open for a qualifying Oscar run in limited cities. It opens across the country on January 16.
[Via Empire]...
- 12/10/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Sneak Peek a new trailer from the Sony Pictures Classics drama "Still Alice", from Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, adapting author Lisa Genova's novel about Alzheimer's, starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish:
"...a brilliant linguistics professor (Moore) struggles with the early onset of 'Alzheimer’s Disease'..."
"Still Alice" expands theatrically January 16, 2014.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Still Alice"...
"...a brilliant linguistics professor (Moore) struggles with the early onset of 'Alzheimer’s Disease'..."
"Still Alice" expands theatrically January 16, 2014.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Still Alice"...
- 12/9/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Julianne Moore is looking like an Oscar winner in the trailer for "Still Alice." Awards-season watchers are already pegging Moore as the likely Best Actress winner at next year's show, and it's about time: the four-time nominee has yet to take home the gold despite turning in a slew of stunning performances over a career spanning nearly 25 years. Based on Lisa Genova's bestselling novel of the same name, the Sony Classics film centers on a cognitive psychologist (Moore) as she grapples with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Also starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, the film received a limited Oscar-qualifying run this month and is slated for wide release on Jan. 16. For the record, Moore's four Oscar nominations were for "Boogie Nights" (Supporting), "The End of the Affair" (Leading), "Far from Heaven" (Leading) and "The Hours" (Supporting) - the latter two of which came in the same year. My personal favorite?...
- 12/9/2014
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Julianne Moore has earned four Academy Award nominations — for Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, The Hours, and Far From Heaven, the last two in the same year — but the Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice is the one Oscar watchers predict will land the actress her very first little gold man. Here’s the trailer for the film directed and adapted by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland from Lisa Genova’s book. It’s the story of a cognitive psychologist dealing with the devastating effects of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on her marriage and family. Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish co-star. The film premiered at Toronto and hit limited release last weekend before rolling out wide in January.
- 12/8/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Julianne Moore is garnering plenty of awards talk for her role, and the film as a whole is getting a lot of praise for its sensitive handling of a difficult subject. The trailer for Still Alice is now online. Moore stars as Dr. Alice Howland, a happily married and highly renowned linguistics professor. But in the midst of a lecture, she starts to forget words, and her family, including her husband John (Alec Baldwin) and daughter Lydia (Kristen Stewart) begin to worry when Alice loses track of time and important dates.Alice is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and the whole family finds their bonds thoroughly tested. She’s soon struggling to stay connected to who she is and those she loves the most.Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland adapted Lisa Genova’s novel for the screen, and have co-directed this one, which also features Kate Bosworth, Seth Gilliam,...
- 12/8/2014
- EmpireOnline
In the midst of a qualifying run for awards consideration this season, Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice has already attracted a slew of good notices. Following its debut at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the core of its critical acclaim has orbited around the performance of leading lady, Julianne Moore. Now, those who were unable to catch it on the festival circuit can get a glimpse of the drama in the first full trailer.
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Still Alice follows the story of Dr. Alice Howland. A decorated linguist, mother and wife, when she discovers her memory is slipping and begins to struggle with everyday tasks, she seeks medical attention and receives a shocking diagnosis.
Moore’s research for her role – based on the lead character in Lisa Genova’s novel – shows a great attention to detail that extends far past misty-eyed outbursts. Overall,...
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Still Alice follows the story of Dr. Alice Howland. A decorated linguist, mother and wife, when she discovers her memory is slipping and begins to struggle with everyday tasks, she seeks medical attention and receives a shocking diagnosis.
Moore’s research for her role – based on the lead character in Lisa Genova’s novel – shows a great attention to detail that extends far past misty-eyed outbursts. Overall,...
- 12/8/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Each weekend a profile on a just-opened Oscar contender. Here's abstew on this weekend's new limited release, the Julianne Moore awards hopeful, Still Alice.
Kristen Stewart as Lydia Howland in Still Alice
Best Supporting Actress
Born: Kristen Jaymes Stewart was born April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, California
The Role: Adapted from Lisa Genova's bestselling novel, filmmakers and husbands Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Quinceañera, The Last of Robin Hood) wrote and direct this film about a 50 year old Columbia linguist professor (Best Actress frontrunner, Julianne Moore) that is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. Stewart plays her daughter, Lydia, the black sheep of the family that moved to La to become an actress despite her mother's frequent requests for her to go to college. When Alice's mind begins to deteriorate more rapidly, it is Lydia that takes the most responsibility for her mother's health establishing herself as caregiver.
Kristen Stewart as Lydia Howland in Still Alice
Best Supporting Actress
Born: Kristen Jaymes Stewart was born April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, California
The Role: Adapted from Lisa Genova's bestselling novel, filmmakers and husbands Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Quinceañera, The Last of Robin Hood) wrote and direct this film about a 50 year old Columbia linguist professor (Best Actress frontrunner, Julianne Moore) that is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. Stewart plays her daughter, Lydia, the black sheep of the family that moved to La to become an actress despite her mother's frequent requests for her to go to college. When Alice's mind begins to deteriorate more rapidly, it is Lydia that takes the most responsibility for her mother's health establishing herself as caregiver.
- 12/6/2014
- by abstew
- FilmExperience
Still Alice
Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
USA, 2014
In the end, our bodies betray us. Most aren’t fortunate enough to go out on their own terms, but some are dealt a crueler fate than others. While most films treat Alzheimer’s disease with overwrought melodrama and naïveté, Still Alice stares unflinchingly into the abyss. Bolstered by a haunting performance from Julianne Moore and the focused storytelling of filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, this film has the raw power to simultaneously crush and rejuvenate your spirit. Painful, required viewing for life’s brutal training ground.
The power of film is that, unlike real life, it allows us to see the beginning of the end. For Dr. Alice Howland (Moore), her precipitous decline begins with a harmless memory gaffe at her 50th birthday party. Alice, a heralded linguistics researcher at Columbia University, is the model of self-control.
Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
USA, 2014
In the end, our bodies betray us. Most aren’t fortunate enough to go out on their own terms, but some are dealt a crueler fate than others. While most films treat Alzheimer’s disease with overwrought melodrama and naïveté, Still Alice stares unflinchingly into the abyss. Bolstered by a haunting performance from Julianne Moore and the focused storytelling of filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, this film has the raw power to simultaneously crush and rejuvenate your spirit. Painful, required viewing for life’s brutal training ground.
The power of film is that, unlike real life, it allows us to see the beginning of the end. For Dr. Alice Howland (Moore), her precipitous decline begins with a harmless memory gaffe at her 50th birthday party. Alice, a heralded linguistics researcher at Columbia University, is the model of self-control.
- 12/5/2014
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
. Julianne Moore, who sits atop our Best Actress chart for "Still Alice," is to be feted by the Palm Springs Film Festival at its Jan. 3 gala. Also making the trek to the desert will be Best Actor honoree Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything"). Expect a slew more of such announcements in the coming days for this key stop on the road to the Oscars. Psiff -Break- And Tim Gray reviews Wednesday's AFI screening of "Still Alice": Moore gives a moving and nuanced performance in a smart and tender film directed and written (from Lisa Genova’s novel) by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin give excellent supporting performances and are worth some consideration. Variety Red-hot Oscar contender "Citizenfour" picked up a leading six nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors, including a bid for Best Documentary Feature. Others contend...'...
- 11/13/2014
- Gold Derby
Hollywood — It was an emotional evening at the Egyptian Theatre Wednesday night as "Still Alice" finally came "home." Co-directors and husbands Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland are longtime Los Angelinos and the latter remarked how both men had spent many nights watching films in this same venue, which is the Hollywood home of the American Cinematheque. More importantly, this AFI Fest screening afforded Glatzer, who is in advance stages of Als, to finally see the movie on the big screen with an audience. He missed the amazing reception at the Toronto Film Festival. He missed the Rome Film Festival. He missed the Hamptons Film Festival. He was not going to miss seeing "Still Alice" in his hometown. Based on Lisa Genova's bestselling novel, "Alice" chronicles the heartbreaking progression of early on set Alzheimer's disease for Dr. Alice Howard (Julianne Moore), a 50-year-old accomplished Columbia University professor and mother of three grown children.
- 11/13/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Top brass at the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will host one-day event The Power Of Words: Book To Screen on January 8.
Barbara Keller and Susan Rosser curate the event, which will kick off with a morning keynote by Chaz Ebert and end with a conversation with Still Alice author Lisa Genova and producer Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns.
The day will comprise four sessions with expected participants such as Low Down author Amy Albany, Low Down and Brokeback Mountain producer Albert Berger, Black Hawk Down: A Story Of Modern War author Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down screenwriter Ken Nolan and The Descendants (pictured) author Kaui Hart Hemmings.
Event sponsors include Spencer’s, Lulu California Bistro, Hilton Palm Springs and Barnes & Noble. For additional information click here.
The Psiff will take place from January 2-12.
Barbara Keller and Susan Rosser curate the event, which will kick off with a morning keynote by Chaz Ebert and end with a conversation with Still Alice author Lisa Genova and producer Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns.
The day will comprise four sessions with expected participants such as Low Down author Amy Albany, Low Down and Brokeback Mountain producer Albert Berger, Black Hawk Down: A Story Of Modern War author Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down screenwriter Ken Nolan and The Descendants (pictured) author Kaui Hart Hemmings.
Event sponsors include Spencer’s, Lulu California Bistro, Hilton Palm Springs and Barnes & Noble. For additional information click here.
The Psiff will take place from January 2-12.
- 11/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore is featured in this first poster for Sony Classics Pictures Still Alice. The film was an Official Selection at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
In the film, Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
Still Alice is based on the book Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
Writers-Directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland made Sundance history in 2006 when Quinceañera won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It went on to win numerous other prizes, including the Humanitas screenwriting Award, and the John Cassavettes Spirit Award in 2007. Their film The Last of Robin Hood, starring Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon and Dakota Fanning,...
In the film, Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
Still Alice is based on the book Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
Writers-Directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland made Sundance history in 2006 when Quinceañera won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It went on to win numerous other prizes, including the Humanitas screenwriting Award, and the John Cassavettes Spirit Award in 2007. Their film The Last of Robin Hood, starring Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon and Dakota Fanning,...
- 10/28/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Today the new season of Tfe begins! We're celebrating with an all top ten list day. Every few hours, a new and highly random top ten list to kick off the Fall Movie Season (our favorite time of year!). Let's start with something that's been haunting me because I forgot to post about the 25th anniversary of The Fabulous Baker Boys yesterday, one of my all time favorite films. A long time ago in a New York City that still felt like a galaxy far far away (I was a recent transplant... 1999/2000?) I attended a Jeff Bridges photography show. He's really a very good photographer and takes photos on the sets of his movies. I stared and stared at this enormous black & white photograph of Michelle Pfeiffer that Bridges had taken.
This photo is so magnificent in person
My bank account was humiliation in numeric form though I don't remember...
This photo is so magnificent in person
My bank account was humiliation in numeric form though I don't remember...
- 10/14/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Update: The 2015 Oscar race may be a twofer for Julianne Moore, with word that "Maps to the Stars" may sneak in a short release to qualify for the race. More details below. One of the major surprises out of this year's Toronto International Film Festival was Julianne Moore's heartbreaking, subdued work in "Still Alice." A film that could easily have shriveled up into a ball of schmaltz, Moore, along with directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, explore the debilitating effects of early onset Alzheimer's with confidence and familial tenderness. "Still Alice" doesn't twist its knife to illicit a sob-fest — the tears come naturally. When Sony Pictures Classics picked up "Still Alice" out of Tiff, a Best Actress campaign was a given. HitFix first broke the news that the film would get a qualifying release, but last week Sony Classics made it official: The studio will release Glatzer and Westmoreland's...
- 9/29/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Sony Pictures Classics is making good on its promise to debut its Toronto acquisition Still Alice this year to qualify the film for an Academy run, announcing this morning that it will open the picture for one week in December on both coasts before releasing the film wider on January 16, 2015.
Spc acquired the Julianne Moore-starring film about a psychologist who faces the early onset of Alzheimer’s this month at the Toronto International Film Festival in what was a low-seven-figure deal from filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Since premiering in Toronto, the film has gotten a fair amount of buzz for Moore who stars in the film with Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by author Lisa Genova and is produced by Marie Savare, Christine Vachon (Killer Films), Maria Shriver, Emilie Georges, Nicholas Shumaker, Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler.
Spc acquired the Julianne Moore-starring film about a psychologist who faces the early onset of Alzheimer’s this month at the Toronto International Film Festival in what was a low-seven-figure deal from filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Since premiering in Toronto, the film has gotten a fair amount of buzz for Moore who stars in the film with Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by author Lisa Genova and is produced by Marie Savare, Christine Vachon (Killer Films), Maria Shriver, Emilie Georges, Nicholas Shumaker, Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler.
- 9/26/2014
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline
Still Alice
Written for the screen by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
USA, 2014
Based on a popular novel by Lisa Genova, Still Alice is a weepy portrait of a linguistic professor, Dr. Alice Howland, battling early onset alzheimers shortly after turning 50 years old. Boasting a cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and the always electric Julianne Moore, above all else this is a film that leans on strong performances. This is not a film about script, ideas or even direction, it is about the intimacy of faces and the passion of performers.
Still Alice falls into the “social problem” genre, exploring the crippling and devastating effects that Alzheimer’s has. As North American society grows older, we have been told that Alzheimer’s will increasingly be a medical issue that needs to be addressed. Much like Cancer, nearly everyone is...
Written for the screen by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
USA, 2014
Based on a popular novel by Lisa Genova, Still Alice is a weepy portrait of a linguistic professor, Dr. Alice Howland, battling early onset alzheimers shortly after turning 50 years old. Boasting a cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and the always electric Julianne Moore, above all else this is a film that leans on strong performances. This is not a film about script, ideas or even direction, it is about the intimacy of faces and the passion of performers.
Still Alice falls into the “social problem” genre, exploring the crippling and devastating effects that Alzheimer’s has. As North American society grows older, we have been told that Alzheimer’s will increasingly be a medical issue that needs to be addressed. Much like Cancer, nearly everyone is...
- 9/15/2014
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
The Toronto International Film Festival ends Sunday and hundreds of films have been screened since the 11-day festival began. Throughout the years, Toronto has featured a number of Oscar hopefuls that have gone on to Oscar success. Just last year, best picture 12 Years a Slave (2013) was shown at Toronto (along with a number of other nominees). Hoping for the same success, some Tiff films have been met with instant Oscar chatter this year. Here are the top 10 films to generate buzz coming out of Tiff:
10. Maps to the Stars — Julianne Moore’s role in David Cronenberg’s dark satire of life in Hollywood won her the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, but it doesn’t look like the role is being pushed towards an Oscar nomination. Though the film might not be heading to the Academy Awards, it has generated quite the...
Managing Editor
The Toronto International Film Festival ends Sunday and hundreds of films have been screened since the 11-day festival began. Throughout the years, Toronto has featured a number of Oscar hopefuls that have gone on to Oscar success. Just last year, best picture 12 Years a Slave (2013) was shown at Toronto (along with a number of other nominees). Hoping for the same success, some Tiff films have been met with instant Oscar chatter this year. Here are the top 10 films to generate buzz coming out of Tiff:
10. Maps to the Stars — Julianne Moore’s role in David Cronenberg’s dark satire of life in Hollywood won her the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, but it doesn’t look like the role is being pushed towards an Oscar nomination. Though the film might not be heading to the Academy Awards, it has generated quite the...
- 9/12/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
We tried to be a little diplomatic. With the release of “Maps To The Stars” being pushed to 2015 and likely getting a VOD release, Julianne Moore’s Oscar chances as such are less likely, even though she won Best Actress out of Cannes for the David Cronenberg film. Thompson on Hollywood was a little bit more blunt: “Julianne Moore can kiss goodbye to any hopes she was nursing for an Oscar campaign for…Cronenberg's… ‘Maps to the Stars.’” While a mooted awards season qualifying run would not matter much, things are looking up for Julianne Moore as of last night. Sony Picture Classics has picked up her Toronto International Film Festival film “Still Alice,” co-starring Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart, and will release the movie as an awards contender this fall. Based on the book by Lisa Genova, the film tells the story of an accomplished Columbia professor, mother and wife,...
- 9/12/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Sony Pictures Classics has scooped up rights to Julianne Moore drama Still Alice, about a successful Columbia University professor coping with the early onset of Alzheimer's. The well-reviewed independent drama, based on the best-selling novel by Lisa Genova, made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival Sept. 9 and stars Moore opposite Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth. Maria Shriver is one of the film's executive producers. Moore's performance has sparked early Oscar buzz for the actress. Chronicling a harrowing disease that affects more than 36 million people worldwide, Still Alice stars Moore as a brilliant
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- 9/9/2014
- by Tatiana Siegel, Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With some five million Americans (and 36 million worldwide) living with Alzheimer’s disease, the warm, compassionate but bitingly honest Still Alice will touch home for many people. The toll the disease takes on the life of a brilliant linguistics professor is superbly detailed by Julianne Moore in a career-high performance, driving straight to the terror of the disease and its power to wipe out personal certainties and identity. Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the screenplay is faithful to Lisa Genova’s best-selling novel which has a fan base of its own. Rather than focus on
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- 9/9/2014
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto — Julianne Moore has already had quite a year. In May, she surprised many by taking the Best Actress honor at the Cannes Film Festival for David Cronenberg’s “Map to the Stars.” On Monday night, “Still Alice” premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and it may feature one of the finest performances of her already illustrious career. If you were to read a short synopsis of “Alice,” an adaptation of Lisa Genova’s 2007 novel, you might be slightly concerned. The film introduces us to Alice Howland, a Columbia University professor in linguistics who has balanced a successful career with a happy marriage and three grown children. She’s just turned 50, but notices that she’s starting to forget things. Specific words are dropping out of her mind. She’ll be in the middle of a lecture and forget a phrase or subject matter. Eventually she goes to a neurologist...
- 9/9/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Some pictures headed to the Toronto International Film Festival already with a domestic distributor — such as, The Judge (Warner Bros.) and Nightcrawler (Open Road Films) — but others are hoping to garner some bids and make some deals during the 11-day festival.
Among the recent acquisitions is The Last 5 Years, which was picked up by the Weinstein Co.’s RADiUS label.
Here are 10 acquisition titles to keep an eye on as of Monday morning:
While We’re Young
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts, along with Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, play two sets of New York couples who become unlikely friends in Noah Baumbach’s new film. These couples have similar interests — both Stiller and Driver are documentary filmmakers — but live vastly different lifestyles. The older couple is more intune with the modern world, whereas the younger couple are into the hipster lifestyle, obsessed with vinyls and vintage.
Managing Editor
Some pictures headed to the Toronto International Film Festival already with a domestic distributor — such as, The Judge (Warner Bros.) and Nightcrawler (Open Road Films) — but others are hoping to garner some bids and make some deals during the 11-day festival.
Among the recent acquisitions is The Last 5 Years, which was picked up by the Weinstein Co.’s RADiUS label.
Here are 10 acquisition titles to keep an eye on as of Monday morning:
While We’re Young
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts, along with Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, play two sets of New York couples who become unlikely friends in Noah Baumbach’s new film. These couples have similar interests — both Stiller and Driver are documentary filmmakers — but live vastly different lifestyles. The older couple is more intune with the modern world, whereas the younger couple are into the hipster lifestyle, obsessed with vinyls and vintage.
- 9/8/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
In Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova’s novel, Julianne Moore plays a Columbia University linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a diagnosis that threatens to erode her relationship with her family as well as the city she has long called her home. With a supporting cast including Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, Still Alice promises a realistic depiction of the disease by one of America’s finest actresses, and it’s a return to character-based human dramas by the directorial duo of Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, whose films include The Last of Robin Hood, the Sundance Grand Prize-winning Quinceañera […]...
- 9/8/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova’s novel, Julianne Moore plays a Columbia University linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a diagnosis that threatens to erode her relationship with her family as well as the city she has long called her home. With a supporting cast including Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, Still Alice promises a realistic depiction of the disease by one of America’s finest actresses, and it’s a return to character-based human dramas by the directorial duo of Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, whose films include The Last of Robin Hood, the Sundance Grand Prize-winning Quinceañera […]...
- 9/8/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.
Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.
Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.
We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.
Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...
Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.
Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.
We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.
Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...
- 8/29/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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