Tyler Taormina's Ham on Rye is showing exclusively on Mubi starting January 11, 2021 in the Debuts series.Ham on Rye, the feature film debut of Long Island-native, Los Angeles-beached Tyler Taormina, is one of the strangest and most discomfiting “coming-of-age” films of recent memory. I put “coming-of-age” in quotes because, yes, ostensibly it follows children between the ages of 15 and 18 becoming Something Else, Something Bigger. But both Taormina and his film are notoriously reticent about what this Something Else entails. Ham on Rye doesn’t play any of the familiar beats of similar funny films in the John Hughes/Eighth Grade (2018) ilk. There’s no single teenager we’re asked to keep close track of. Taormina is not nailing the truth of endless grade-school dances, parties, and games of gossipy Telephone so much as swirling surrealistically around them, those unexplained rejections and evasive moves that are romanticized as part of the process of growing up,...
- 1/22/2021
- MUBI
There’s a whole other layer beneath first-time director Tyler Taormina’s apparently realist coming-of-age drama
First-time feature director Tyler Taormina has dreamed his way into a very strange and intriguing film: a Gen-z reverie about life and fate, somewhere between The Prom and The Purge. The film never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist coming-of-age drama but there is something else going on.
Haley (Haley Bodell) is part of a clique of popular high-school kids in a bland suburban town who are preparing to take part in a local tradition. She and some other girls are wearing floaty dresses of sacrificial white and getting ready to go down to a local deli called Monty’s – along with a whole crowd of other kids – for what seems to be a pairing-off ritual, like a dance without music or dancing. But there is a lot riding on this,...
First-time feature director Tyler Taormina has dreamed his way into a very strange and intriguing film: a Gen-z reverie about life and fate, somewhere between The Prom and The Purge. The film never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist coming-of-age drama but there is something else going on.
Haley (Haley Bodell) is part of a clique of popular high-school kids in a bland suburban town who are preparing to take part in a local tradition. She and some other girls are wearing floaty dresses of sacrificial white and getting ready to go down to a local deli called Monty’s – along with a whole crowd of other kids – for what seems to be a pairing-off ritual, like a dance without music or dancing. But there is a lot riding on this,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Rites-of-passage comedy centres on bizarre ceremony at local delicatessen.
New York-based Factory 25 has acquired worldwide rights to Tyler Taormina’s Locarno Film Festival selection and coming-of-age comedy Ham On Rye.
Taormina’s feature directorial debut explores a suburban community where the fate of teenagers’ lives hinges on a bizarre ritual that takes place in the local deli. The film received its international premiere in Locarno on Aug. 10.
Haley Bodell, Cole Devine, Audrey Boos, Gabriella Herrera, and Adam Torres lead an ensemble of more than 100 performers, including non-actors, musicians, and Nickelodeon child stars from the 1990s.
Taormina wrote the screenplay...
New York-based Factory 25 has acquired worldwide rights to Tyler Taormina’s Locarno Film Festival selection and coming-of-age comedy Ham On Rye.
Taormina’s feature directorial debut explores a suburban community where the fate of teenagers’ lives hinges on a bizarre ritual that takes place in the local deli. The film received its international premiere in Locarno on Aug. 10.
Haley Bodell, Cole Devine, Audrey Boos, Gabriella Herrera, and Adam Torres lead an ensemble of more than 100 performers, including non-actors, musicians, and Nickelodeon child stars from the 1990s.
Taormina wrote the screenplay...
- 8/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Somewhere in the depths of the internet, there is a forty-two-minute YouTube video, uploaded in 2012, featuring a single image of a loaf of bread. Over this image, a monotone automated Czech voice—the result of extensive Google Translate abuse—is reciting what is by some known as the “longest joke”: a nonsense story about buttered bread and various pastries meeting each other in the street and agreeing to all walk together, until the inevitable non-punchline (the tomato is not allowed to join the group; it does not have legs). Besides the obvious connection with bread, Ham on Rye, the feature debut of American musician-turned-filmmaker Tyler Taormina, may engender similarly mixed feelings of confused entertainment at first glance. A group of teenagers are strolling through generic American suburbia speaking lines that might as well have been copy-pasted from an insufferable tween magazine. The way these single-use plastic dialogues are delivered...
- 8/15/2019
- MUBI
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