Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Andrew Haigh’s romantic fantasy All of Us Strangers. Haigh directs and wrote the film that’s loosely inspired by Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers.
One night in his empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) that punctures the rhythms of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
The film premiered to acclaim at Telluride and has gone on to play myriad festivals including New York, London and AFI.
When Haigh’s longtime editor Jonathan Alberts first read the script, he saw that the writer-director was entering into new territory.
One night in his empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) that punctures the rhythms of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
The film premiered to acclaim at Telluride and has gone on to play myriad festivals including New York, London and AFI.
When Haigh’s longtime editor Jonathan Alberts first read the script, he saw that the writer-director was entering into new territory.
- 12/22/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Zone of Interest” gana el premio a la Mejor Película y puede dar la sorpresa en los premios.
Ayer, se anunciaron los ganadores a los Premios de La Asociación de Críticos de Cine de Los Ángeles (Lafca), una organización conformada por críticos de cine con sede en Los Ángeles. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores:
Mejor PELÍCULA
The Zone of Interest
Subcampeón: Oppenheimer
Mejor PELÍCULA Internacional
Anatomy of a Fall
Subcampeón: Tótem
Mejor Director
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Subcampeón: Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Protagonista
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall & The Zone of Interest & Emma Stone, Poor Things
Subcampeones: Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers & Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
Rachel McAdams, Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret & Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Subcampeones: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon & Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mejor Guion
Andrew Haigh,...
Ayer, se anunciaron los ganadores a los Premios de La Asociación de Críticos de Cine de Los Ángeles (Lafca), una organización conformada por críticos de cine con sede en Los Ángeles. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores:
Mejor PELÍCULA
The Zone of Interest
Subcampeón: Oppenheimer
Mejor PELÍCULA Internacional
Anatomy of a Fall
Subcampeón: Tótem
Mejor Director
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Subcampeón: Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Protagonista
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall & The Zone of Interest & Emma Stone, Poor Things
Subcampeones: Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers & Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
Rachel McAdams, Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret & Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Subcampeones: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon & Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mejor Guion
Andrew Haigh,...
- 12/11/2023
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca) announced the winners of their 49th annual awards on Sunday, December 10. These California-based reviewers are the second major critics group to reveal their list of 2023 honorees, as their New York counterparts went first on November 30. While the East Coast critics chose “Killers of the Flower Moon” as Best Picture, the Westerners totally shut out Martin Scorsese’s film in favor of Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.”
Last year, the Empire State crew gave their highest honor to “Tár.” While the L.A. gang concurred, they also decided to award “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in a rare tie. In 2021, both organizations went with Japanese import “Drive My Car” as their pick for best pic.
Like the New York Film Critics Circle, the 60 Lafca members met for a marathon voting session involving multiple ballots for each race. Below is the full list of...
Last year, the Empire State crew gave their highest honor to “Tár.” While the L.A. gang concurred, they also decided to award “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in a rare tie. In 2021, both organizations went with Japanese import “Drive My Car” as their pick for best pic.
Like the New York Film Critics Circle, the 60 Lafca members met for a marathon voting session involving multiple ballots for each race. Below is the full list of...
- 12/11/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is revealing its 2023 awards today, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. See the latest tally below.
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron took the Best Animation prize, just as it posted a record North American debut with $12.8 million. Laurent Sénéchal took Best Editing for Anatomy of a Fall, and the Production Design prize went to Barbie’s Sarah Greenwood.
Mica Levi won Best Music/Score for The Zone of Interest, and awards-season favorite Poor Things picked up the day’s first award, Best Cinematography for Robbie Ryan. Barbie was the group’s runner-up in both of those categories.
Awards will be presented at the group’s banquet on January 13.
Oscar-nominated Europa Europa screenwriter and Emmy-nominated Treme director Agnieszka Holland will receive this year’s Lafca Career Achievement Award.
“Few directors have been as fearlessly confrontational with...
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron took the Best Animation prize, just as it posted a record North American debut with $12.8 million. Laurent Sénéchal took Best Editing for Anatomy of a Fall, and the Production Design prize went to Barbie’s Sarah Greenwood.
Mica Levi won Best Music/Score for The Zone of Interest, and awards-season favorite Poor Things picked up the day’s first award, Best Cinematography for Robbie Ryan. Barbie was the group’s runner-up in both of those categories.
Awards will be presented at the group’s banquet on January 13.
Oscar-nominated Europa Europa screenwriter and Emmy-nominated Treme director Agnieszka Holland will receive this year’s Lafca Career Achievement Award.
“Few directors have been as fearlessly confrontational with...
- 12/10/2023
- by Erik Pedersen and Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscars Predictions: Best Film Editing – ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Picking Up Momentum From Critics’ Groups
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Film Editing All of Us Strangers
Weekly Commentary: Lafca has only been handing out prizes for editing since 2012. Out of the past 11 winners, six became Oscar nominees with one winner among them – “Gravity” (2013). Interestingly, last year’s Lafca recipient “Aftersun,” was the first narrative...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Film Editing All of Us Strangers
Weekly Commentary: Lafca has only been handing out prizes for editing since 2012. Out of the past 11 winners, six became Oscar nominees with one winner among them – “Gravity” (2013). Interestingly, last year’s Lafca recipient “Aftersun,” was the first narrative...
- 12/10/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted on the best films of 2023 on Sunday, announcing the winners of the annual LA Film Critics Awards on the organization’s official social media channels. In keeping with tradition, the winners were selected by members of the Lafca via an online voting process with winners and runners up being announced one at a time.
This year’s wide open Oscar race means that an eclectic group of films competed for the top prizes. Major blockbusters like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” established themselves as early frontrunners by delighting critics on their way to becoming cultural phenomena, but they quickly faced stiff competition from the traditional slate of buzzy arthouse premieres that emerged from the festival circuit. Films like Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” and Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” could just as easily follow their Golden Lion and Palme d’Or wins with a strong American award season showing.
This year’s wide open Oscar race means that an eclectic group of films competed for the top prizes. Major blockbusters like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” established themselves as early frontrunners by delighting critics on their way to becoming cultural phenomena, but they quickly faced stiff competition from the traditional slate of buzzy arthouse premieres that emerged from the festival circuit. Films like Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” and Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” could just as easily follow their Golden Lion and Palme d’Or wins with a strong American award season showing.
- 12/10/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Andrew Haigh wins best screenplay for ’All Of Us Strangers’
A wide open awards season saw the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca) award The Zone Of Interest best film and Jonathan Glazer best director, while Sandra Huller, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph dominated the gender-neutral acting categories.
The Lafca best film picks are a strong bellwether of Oscar best picture nominations, with only five winners since 2000 missing out on a nod. Last year’s winner for example, Everything Everywhere All At Once, went on to win best picture at the Academy Awards.
Anatomy Of A Fall...
A wide open awards season saw the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca) award The Zone Of Interest best film and Jonathan Glazer best director, while Sandra Huller, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph dominated the gender-neutral acting categories.
The Lafca best film picks are a strong bellwether of Oscar best picture nominations, with only five winners since 2000 missing out on a nod. Last year’s winner for example, Everything Everywhere All At Once, went on to win best picture at the Academy Awards.
Anatomy Of A Fall...
- 12/10/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named The Zone of Interest as its choice for the best picture of the year.
Oppenheimer is the runner-up in the voting, which took place Sunday.
The critics association named Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star Sandra Hüller and Poor Things actress Emma Stone as the lead performances of the year. Rachel McAdams and Da’Vine Joy Randolph received the best supporting performances prizes for Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret and The Holdovers, respectively.
Last year, the organization voted on two films for its top award of the year: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Tár. The former went on to win best picture at the 95th Academy Awards in March. This year’s winners will be feted at the organization’s annual banquet on Jan. 13, 2024.
The association previously announced that Agnieszka Holland will be honored at the...
Oppenheimer is the runner-up in the voting, which took place Sunday.
The critics association named Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star Sandra Hüller and Poor Things actress Emma Stone as the lead performances of the year. Rachel McAdams and Da’Vine Joy Randolph received the best supporting performances prizes for Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret and The Holdovers, respectively.
Last year, the organization voted on two films for its top award of the year: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Tár. The former went on to win best picture at the 95th Academy Awards in March. This year’s winners will be feted at the organization’s annual banquet on Jan. 13, 2024.
The association previously announced that Agnieszka Holland will be honored at the...
- 12/10/2023
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“All of Us Strangers”, del director Andrew Haigh, la gran ganadora de la noche.
Ayer tuvo lugar la ceremonia de los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor Guion
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor ACTUACIÓN
Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Shaun Thomas, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Conjunta
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett & George MacKay, Femme
Premio Douglas Hickox (Debut De DIRECCIÓN)
Savanah Leaf, Earth Mama
Mejor PRODUCCIÓN REVELACIÓN
Theo Barrowclough, Scrapper
Mejor ACTUACIÓN REVELACIÓN
Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane
Mejor Guion Debut
Nida Manzoor,...
Ayer tuvo lugar la ceremonia de los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor Guion
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Mejor ACTUACIÓN
Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Shaun Thomas, How to Have Sex
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Conjunta
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett & George MacKay, Femme
Premio Douglas Hickox (Debut De DIRECCIÓN)
Savanah Leaf, Earth Mama
Mejor PRODUCCIÓN REVELACIÓN
Theo Barrowclough, Scrapper
Mejor ACTUACIÓN REVELACIÓN
Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane
Mejor Guion Debut
Nida Manzoor,...
- 12/4/2023
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” was the big winner at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with seven wins.
“All of Us Strangers” won best British independent film, Haigh won best director and best screenplay and Paul Mescal won best supporting performance, adding to its three craft awards, announced in November, for cinematography, editing and music supervision.
Best lead performance went to Mia McKenna-Bruce in Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature “How to Have Sex” and the film also won the other best supporting performance BIFA for Shaun Thomas, adding to its best casting win.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay won best joint lead performance for “Femme,” which also won for make-up and hair design and costume design.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning “Anatomy of a Fall” won best international independent film. Best debut director went to Savanah Leaf for “Earth Mama,” while best debut screenwriter...
“All of Us Strangers” won best British independent film, Haigh won best director and best screenplay and Paul Mescal won best supporting performance, adding to its three craft awards, announced in November, for cinematography, editing and music supervision.
Best lead performance went to Mia McKenna-Bruce in Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature “How to Have Sex” and the film also won the other best supporting performance BIFA for Shaun Thomas, adding to its best casting win.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay won best joint lead performance for “Femme,” which also won for make-up and hair design and costume design.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning “Anatomy of a Fall” won best international independent film. Best debut director went to Savanah Leaf for “Earth Mama,” while best debut screenwriter...
- 12/3/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The ceremony commences at 20:00 GMT, with ’Rye Lane’, ‘Scrapper’, ‘All Of Us Strangers’ and ‘How To Have Sex’ among the hot contenders.
The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) will be unveiling the 2023 winners today (December 3) from a ceremony at London’s Old Billingsgate, kicking off at 20:00 GMT.
Screen will be updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced, so refresh this page for the latest winners.
Scroll down for the winners - live
Raine Allen-Miller’s south London-set romantic comedy Rye Lane leads the nominations, followed closely by Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Andrew Haigh...
The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) will be unveiling the 2023 winners today (December 3) from a ceremony at London’s Old Billingsgate, kicking off at 20:00 GMT.
Screen will be updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced, so refresh this page for the latest winners.
Scroll down for the winners - live
Raine Allen-Miller’s south London-set romantic comedy Rye Lane leads the nominations, followed closely by Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Andrew Haigh...
- 12/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara¬Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Andrew Haigh’s critically lauded All of Us Strangers has won three awards in the craft categories of the 2023 British Independent Film Awards, putting it in the lead going into the main ceremony on Dec. 3.
The film — starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott and which amassed a total of 14 BIFA nominations — won best cinematography for Jamie D. Ramsay, best editing for Jonathan Alberts and best music supervision for Connie Farr (who won a BIFA for her work on Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava in 2021).
Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s “queer noir” thriller, won two awards — best costume design for Buki Ebiesuwa and best makeup and hair design for Marie Deehan — as did Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’ dystopian drama The Kitchen, which won best production design for Nathan Parker and best effects for Richard Baker and the late Jonathan Gales.
Elsewhere, Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane (which garnered 16 nominations,...
The film — starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott and which amassed a total of 14 BIFA nominations — won best cinematography for Jamie D. Ramsay, best editing for Jonathan Alberts and best music supervision for Connie Farr (who won a BIFA for her work on Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava in 2021).
Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s “queer noir” thriller, won two awards — best costume design for Buki Ebiesuwa and best makeup and hair design for Marie Deehan — as did Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’ dystopian drama The Kitchen, which won best production design for Nathan Parker and best effects for Richard Baker and the late Jonathan Gales.
Elsewhere, Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane (which garnered 16 nominations,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andrew Haigh's All Of Us Strangers garnered four nominations The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) has announced the winners of its ten film craft categories.
Andrew Haigh's tale of a writer drawn back to his past and towards a mysterious new relationship received 16 BIFA nominations and has won the wards for Best Cinematography, for Jaime D Ramsay, Best Editing for Jonathan Alberts and Best Music Supervision for Connie Farr.
Revenge thriller Femme, won craft awards for Buki Ebiesuwa's Costume Design and Marie Deehan's Make Up & Hair. Two awards also went to The Kitchen, which saw Nathan Parker win Best Production Design, and Richard Baker pick up the prize for Best Effects.
Best Original Music went to Kwes for his work on debut director Raine Allen-Miller’s Peckham-set love story Rye Lane.
Mark Jenkin won Best Sound supported by Halo for his 1970s-set remote island mystery Enys Men.
Andrew Haigh's tale of a writer drawn back to his past and towards a mysterious new relationship received 16 BIFA nominations and has won the wards for Best Cinematography, for Jaime D Ramsay, Best Editing for Jonathan Alberts and Best Music Supervision for Connie Farr.
Revenge thriller Femme, won craft awards for Buki Ebiesuwa's Costume Design and Marie Deehan's Make Up & Hair. Two awards also went to The Kitchen, which saw Nathan Parker win Best Production Design, and Richard Baker pick up the prize for Best Effects.
Best Original Music went to Kwes for his work on debut director Raine Allen-Miller’s Peckham-set love story Rye Lane.
Mark Jenkin won Best Sound supported by Halo for his 1970s-set remote island mystery Enys Men.
- 11/20/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Femme’, ‘The Kitchen’ take two prizes each.
Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama All Of Us Strangers led the craft winners for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), converting three of its craft nominations to wins.
The Searchlight Pictures film, which is backed by Film4, took prizes in best cinematography, for Jamie D. Ramsay; best editing for Jonathan Alberts; and best music supervision for Connie Farr – her second Bifa, following a win for Ali & Ava in 2021.
Scroll down for the full list of craft winners
All Of Us Strangers has a further seven nominations in five categories at the 26th Bifa ceremony on Sunday,...
Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama All Of Us Strangers led the craft winners for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), converting three of its craft nominations to wins.
The Searchlight Pictures film, which is backed by Film4, took prizes in best cinematography, for Jamie D. Ramsay; best editing for Jonathan Alberts; and best music supervision for Connie Farr – her second Bifa, following a win for Ali & Ava in 2021.
Scroll down for the full list of craft winners
All Of Us Strangers has a further seven nominations in five categories at the 26th Bifa ceremony on Sunday,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Rye Lane”, “Scrapper”, “All of Us Strangers”, “How to Have Sex” y “Femme” encabezan las nominaciones a los premios BIFA.
El jueves se anunciaron los nominados a los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2023 se darán a conocer el 3 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Femme, Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping
How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker
Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller
Scrapper, Charlotte Regan
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Fallen Leaves, Aki Kauriskmäki
Fremont, Babak Jalali
Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Past Lives, Celine Song
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane
Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, Femme
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers...
El jueves se anunciaron los nominados a los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2023 se darán a conocer el 3 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA
All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
Femme, Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping
How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker
Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller
Scrapper, Charlotte Regan
Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional
Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
Fallen Leaves, Aki Kauriskmäki
Fremont, Babak Jalali
Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Past Lives, Celine Song
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane
Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, Femme
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers...
- 11/4/2023
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Andrew Haigh says that when it came to casting for All of Us Strangers, his romantic fantasy inspired by Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, it was important that his lead — played in the film by actor Andrew Scott — be gay.
The writer-director opened up about his approach to casting and talked about shooting the movie in his childhood home and capturing its intimacy scenes alongside editor Jonathan Alberts during a post-screening discussion at the New York Film Festival on Sunday. The film follows a gay man in London who, after having a chance encounter with his neighbor, develops a relationship with the man at the same time he begins convening with the ghosts of his dead parents during brief visits to his childhood home.
During the Q&a at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Haigh explained how he thought about casting for Adam, the quiet gay screenwriter at the center of his ghostly drama.
The writer-director opened up about his approach to casting and talked about shooting the movie in his childhood home and capturing its intimacy scenes alongside editor Jonathan Alberts during a post-screening discussion at the New York Film Festival on Sunday. The film follows a gay man in London who, after having a chance encounter with his neighbor, develops a relationship with the man at the same time he begins convening with the ghosts of his dead parents during brief visits to his childhood home.
During the Q&a at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Haigh explained how he thought about casting for Adam, the quiet gay screenwriter at the center of his ghostly drama.
- 10/2/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 2022, then-Vox writer Emily St. James coined a catchy phrase to describe an emerging cinematic trend: the “millennial parental apology fantasy.” Daniels’s Everything Everywhere All at Once and Domee Shi’s Turning Red represented the tip of the spear for a cohort of films, usually with explicitly or understood queer themes, that sought to reverse the tide of intergenerational trauma by demanding expiation from its source. Just a year later, however, All of Us Strangers proves that St. James’s term has already outlived its usefulness, what with 1970s-born writer-director Andrew Haigh and star Andrew Scott demonstrating that the dream isn’t exclusively the provenance of a single generation.
Haigh transposes and queers Yamada Taichi’s 1987 novel Strangers to contemporary London, where Scott’s reserved screenwriter, Adam, dwells in a new and largely unoccupied tower block. From outside the building one evening, he peers curiously into the only other tenanted unit.
Haigh transposes and queers Yamada Taichi’s 1987 novel Strangers to contemporary London, where Scott’s reserved screenwriter, Adam, dwells in a new and largely unoccupied tower block. From outside the building one evening, he peers curiously into the only other tenanted unit.
- 9/25/2023
- by Ed Gonzalez
- Slant Magazine
Searchlight Pictures’ theatrical trailer for All of Us Strangers teases the fantasy/drama without completely spoiling the storyline. Following the film’s successful festival run – it currently sits at 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – All of Us Strangers is set to open in theaters on December 22, 2023.
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
- 9/21/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with Apple TV+, for this edition, we look at how the editing, cinematography, and sound created the pulsing drama “Black Bird.”
Adapted from the book “In with the Devil” by James Keene and Hillel Levin, the Apple TV+ limited series “Black Bird” shines a disturbing light on murderer, rapist, and suspected serial killer Larry Hall, who preyed on girls and women during the 1980s and ‘90s. Show creator Dennis Lehane (“Gone Baby Gone”) unravels the story, based on actual events, through a gripping, character-driven six episodes that redefine the psychological crime thriller genre.
The narrative examines the male psyche through the eyes of Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) and Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton), a high school football star turned con serving 10 years without parole...
Adapted from the book “In with the Devil” by James Keene and Hillel Levin, the Apple TV+ limited series “Black Bird” shines a disturbing light on murderer, rapist, and suspected serial killer Larry Hall, who preyed on girls and women during the 1980s and ‘90s. Show creator Dennis Lehane (“Gone Baby Gone”) unravels the story, based on actual events, through a gripping, character-driven six episodes that redefine the psychological crime thriller genre.
The narrative examines the male psyche through the eyes of Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) and Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton), a high school football star turned con serving 10 years without parole...
- 5/17/2023
- by Daron James
- Indiewire
It would be nice to report that Wash Westmoreland’s “Earthquake Bird” was, well, anything really.
It’s almost a romantic melodrama, but it’s emotionally inert. It’s almost a biting statement about cultural appropriation, but it barely shows its fangs. It’s almost a murder mystery, but it abandons the plot for vast periods of time. It’s almost a good film except, no, that’s really stretching it. At its best it’s an unfocused plod.
Alicia Vikander stars as Lucy Fly, a translator working in Tokyo in 1989, who appears to be working on the subtitles for Ridley Scott’s “Black Rain.” Her friend Lily (Riley Keough) has gone missing and a piece of her may have just been discovered in the river. That’s when detectives bring Lucy in for questioning and wind up hearing her side of a very long, yet surprisingly uneventful story.
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It’s almost a romantic melodrama, but it’s emotionally inert. It’s almost a biting statement about cultural appropriation, but it barely shows its fangs. It’s almost a murder mystery, but it abandons the plot for vast periods of time. It’s almost a good film except, no, that’s really stretching it. At its best it’s an unfocused plod.
Alicia Vikander stars as Lucy Fly, a translator working in Tokyo in 1989, who appears to be working on the subtitles for Ridley Scott’s “Black Rain.” Her friend Lily (Riley Keough) has gone missing and a piece of her may have just been discovered in the river. That’s when detectives bring Lucy in for questioning and wind up hearing her side of a very long, yet surprisingly uneventful story.
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- 11/14/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Andrew Haigh’s quiet, two-person relationship tale won a lot of friends last year. A revelation from the past changes everything in the marriage of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. We read the faces, read the gestures — just like we do in our own close relationships.
45 Years
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 861
2015/ Color / 1:85 widescreen / 95 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date March 7, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley.
Cinematography: Lol Crawley
Film Editor: Jonathan Alberts
Production Designer: Sarah Finlay
From the short story by David Constantine
Produced by Tristan Goligher
Written and Directed by Andrew Haigh
Most filmmakers must find a way to chop down 800-page novels and still retain some semblance of the original. Others have the opposite problem, fleshing a short story to fill a feature length movie. The classic example is Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers, which is less than three thousand words in length.
45 Years
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 861
2015/ Color / 1:85 widescreen / 95 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date March 7, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley.
Cinematography: Lol Crawley
Film Editor: Jonathan Alberts
Production Designer: Sarah Finlay
From the short story by David Constantine
Produced by Tristan Goligher
Written and Directed by Andrew Haigh
Most filmmakers must find a way to chop down 800-page novels and still retain some semblance of the original. Others have the opposite problem, fleshing a short story to fill a feature length movie. The classic example is Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers, which is less than three thousand words in length.
- 3/7/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Last month, The Criterion Collection finally announced their forthcoming release of Richard Linklater‘s The Before Trilogy and now with the announcement of their March titles, a few more highly-requested titles will be coming to the collection. Perhaps the most sought-after, Michelangelo Antonioni‘s English-language debut and counterculture landmark Blow-Up, will be arriving on the line-up.
Also coming is the previously teased 45 Years from Andrew Haigh, one of the finest films of last year (featuring an incredible, outside-the-box cover), as well as Hal Ashby‘s Being There, John Waters‘ Multiple Maniacs, which recently got a restored theatrical run, and Felipe Cazals‘ Canoa: A Shameful Memory.
Notable special features include a new documentaries on Blow-Up, Being There, and 45 Years, audio commentaries from Haigh and Waters, as well as a Guillermo del Toro introduction for Canoa, and a talk between the director and Alfonso Cuarón. Check out the full details for each release after the artwork.
Also coming is the previously teased 45 Years from Andrew Haigh, one of the finest films of last year (featuring an incredible, outside-the-box cover), as well as Hal Ashby‘s Being There, John Waters‘ Multiple Maniacs, which recently got a restored theatrical run, and Felipe Cazals‘ Canoa: A Shameful Memory.
Notable special features include a new documentaries on Blow-Up, Being There, and 45 Years, audio commentaries from Haigh and Waters, as well as a Guillermo del Toro introduction for Canoa, and a talk between the director and Alfonso Cuarón. Check out the full details for each release after the artwork.
- 12/15/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or in a couple of titles below have been shooting since July). This August we’ve got a good number of projects that will start surfacing as early as next year’s Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Fests. With Dakota Johnson having been just announced, we’ve got Luca Guadagnino’s long awaited (remake) A Bigger Splash, getting ready for a poolside shoot. Gus Van Sant comes out of the woodworks to move into the woods for Sea of Trees. Sundance alumni Rick Alverson is wrapping up Entertainment, Reed Morano is set to make her directorial debut this mid-August with Meadowland, while Douchebag, Like Crazy, Breathe In‘s Drake Doremus is stationed in Japan for a weighty cast and futuristic tale in Equals. Here are some...
- 8/6/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The touching, beautiful and romantic drama Like Crazy debuts May 28, 2012 on DVD from Paramount Home Media Distribution.
We have 3 copies of the DVD to give away to our readers.
Director Drake Doremus expertly captures the thrilling exuberance and heartbreaking fragility of first love. Featuring the incandescent Felicity Jones—who was given Breakthrough Awards by the National Board of Review and the Gotham Awards, as well as a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her performance—and the terrifically earnest Anton Yelchin—who received a Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Film Festival and Special Recognition for a Breakthrough Performance at the Hamptons International Film Festival— Like Crazy explores how a young couple faces the very real challenges of being apart…and of being together.
The Like Crazy DVD includes commentary by director Drake Doremus, editor Jonathan Alberts and cinematographer John Guleserian, deleted scenes with optional commentary and alternate scenes with optional commentary.
We have 3 copies of the DVD to give away to our readers.
Director Drake Doremus expertly captures the thrilling exuberance and heartbreaking fragility of first love. Featuring the incandescent Felicity Jones—who was given Breakthrough Awards by the National Board of Review and the Gotham Awards, as well as a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her performance—and the terrifically earnest Anton Yelchin—who received a Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Film Festival and Special Recognition for a Breakthrough Performance at the Hamptons International Film Festival— Like Crazy explores how a young couple faces the very real challenges of being apart…and of being together.
The Like Crazy DVD includes commentary by director Drake Doremus, editor Jonathan Alberts and cinematographer John Guleserian, deleted scenes with optional commentary and alternate scenes with optional commentary.
- 5/24/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
To mark the release of Like Crazy on DVD this coming Monday 28th May, Paramount Home Entertainment have given us 5 copies of the romantic movie to give away.
Director Drake Doremus expertly captures the thrilling exuberance and heartbreaking fragility of first love. Featuring the incandescent Felicity Jones—who was given Breakthrough Awards by the National Board of Review and the Gotham Awards, as well as a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her performance—and the terrifically earnest Anton Yelchin—who received a Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Film Festival and Special Recognition for a Breakthrough Performance at the Hamptons International Film Festival— Like Crazy explores how a young couple faces the very real challenges of being apart…and of being together.
The Like Crazy DVD includes commentary by director Drake Doremus, editor Jonathan Alberts and cinematographer John Guleserian, deleted scenes with optional commentary and alternate scenes with optional commentary.
Director Drake Doremus expertly captures the thrilling exuberance and heartbreaking fragility of first love. Featuring the incandescent Felicity Jones—who was given Breakthrough Awards by the National Board of Review and the Gotham Awards, as well as a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her performance—and the terrifically earnest Anton Yelchin—who received a Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Film Festival and Special Recognition for a Breakthrough Performance at the Hamptons International Film Festival— Like Crazy explores how a young couple faces the very real challenges of being apart…and of being together.
The Like Crazy DVD includes commentary by director Drake Doremus, editor Jonathan Alberts and cinematographer John Guleserian, deleted scenes with optional commentary and alternate scenes with optional commentary.
- 5/22/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Chicago – Young love isn’t just crazy, it’s also often pretty stupid. How else to explain a decision to break the law just to spend more time with the man you love? Such is the decision made by Anna (gorgeous newcomer Felicity Jones) when she sends her young love spiralling in “Like Crazy,” recently released on Blu-ray and DVD. The talented young cast elevate a daring-but-often-frustrating script. Whatever problems the film may have, see it for Jones, Anton Yelchin, and Jennifer Lawrence, giving three of the best performances of their generation in 2011.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Yelchin plays Jacob, the American who falls in love with the Brit college student studying in the States. When she decides to stay past her visa to enjoy a summer of young love, their potential affair is turned upside down. She’s not allowed to return after going back to England and gets caught up in neverending red tape.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Yelchin plays Jacob, the American who falls in love with the Brit college student studying in the States. When she decides to stay past her visa to enjoy a summer of young love, their potential affair is turned upside down. She’s not allowed to return after going back to England and gets caught up in neverending red tape.
- 3/8/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 6, 2012
Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Long-distance love is the subject of the 2011 romance film Like Crazy.
The movie stars Felicity Jones (The Tempest) and Anton Yelchin (Fright Night) as, respectively, Anna and Jacob, who meet at university in Los Angeles and fall in love. The problem is, Anna is British and in the U.S. on a school visa. When her time is up, she stays in America illegally. But when she goes back to England for a family visit, she isn’t allowed to come back, and Anna and Jacob must decide what their love is worth.
Like Crazy, which is rated PG-13, also stars Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Alex Kingston (TV’s ER) and Chris Messina (Devil).
The film was released in a limited number of theaters in the U.S. in October 2011, grossing $3.4 million. But its biggest audience is on DVD and Blu-ray.
Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Long-distance love is the subject of the 2011 romance film Like Crazy.
The movie stars Felicity Jones (The Tempest) and Anton Yelchin (Fright Night) as, respectively, Anna and Jacob, who meet at university in Los Angeles and fall in love. The problem is, Anna is British and in the U.S. on a school visa. When her time is up, she stays in America illegally. But when she goes back to England for a family visit, she isn’t allowed to come back, and Anna and Jacob must decide what their love is worth.
Like Crazy, which is rated PG-13, also stars Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Alex Kingston (TV’s ER) and Chris Messina (Devil).
The film was released in a limited number of theaters in the U.S. in October 2011, grossing $3.4 million. But its biggest audience is on DVD and Blu-ray.
- 1/10/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
In his 4 out of 5 stars review of Like Crazy, Wamg writer Jim Batts said the film ”is an emotional rollercoaster and a great showcase for two very gifted young actors.” Like Crazy is not so much a love story as a story about what we experience when we.re in love . the excitement, the inspiration, the communion, the angst and the all-out craziness that envelop us, shake us and leave us wondering what on earth just happened to us. Rather than spin another ethereal fairy tale about the ideal of love, director Drake Doremus decided to get down into the dirt with the sheer emotional reality of falling into it .- and then battling to sustain it, especially in a world in which geography, technology and individuality seem to conspire against it at every turn.
Wamg is giving away passes to a screening of this very special film – Thursday (11/10) at Plaza Frontenac at 7Pm.
Wamg is giving away passes to a screening of this very special film – Thursday (11/10) at Plaza Frontenac at 7Pm.
- 11/8/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Film Independent Forum (formerly known as the Filmmaker Forum) kicks off tonight at the DGA with a screening of Drake Doremus's Sundance hit Like Crazy. The screening will feature a panel discussion with Doremus, producers Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling, cinematographer John Guleserian, editor Jonathan Alberts and co-writer Ben York Jones. And if panel discussions are right down your alley, boy do the fine folks at Film Independent have quite a weekend in store for you. Taking place at Los Angeles's DGA, the annual forum is a place for independent filmmakers to network with other filmmakers and industry types and to learn the ins and outs of making their movies work. From raising money to landing distribution (and what happens if you don't),...
- 10/22/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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