I appreciated #LateFame even more on a second watch. Kent Jones gives a gentle, natural touch to Samy Burch’s witty script for this examination of art, celebrity, individuality, and inspiration. Edmund Donovan really stood out as a revelation this time around. Terrific NYC film.
I loved Kent Jones's LATE FAME, a film that understands how creativity adjusts to different life seasons, how genius, to borrow from Edgar Lee Masters, "is wisdom *and* youth". The film's showing at @FilmLinc--some words from Venice for @TheFilmStage: https://t.co/gVuzu5KNvw
Moderator Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones, Willem Dafoe, and Edmund Donovan at the Film at Lincoln Center Q&A for LATE FAME. I enjoyed the film even more the second time around. Dafoe, Greta Lee, and Donovan are all so good in this!
In Late Fame, Greta Lee plays the magnetic Gloria opposite Willem Dafoe's forgotten poet, reimagining Arthur Schnitzler’s 1895 novella in a SoHo that no longer exists. The two got on so well filming that when they reconnected, Lee invited herself to Dafoe’s farm in Italy.
"Dafoe and Lee raise the entire project to a higher level. It's worth seeing [the film] just to watch Dafoe fine-tune his character from one scene to the next, and to witness Lee in action. "
@mattzollerseitz reviews LATE FAME: https://t.co/u25gaI9so9
As Willem Dafoe delivers some of the best work of his career in Late Fame, the actor speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about many of his most memorable roles, from chilling villains in Wild at Heart and To Live and Die in L.A. to slow-dancing with Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse and more. https://t.co/wipYdTDzer
Here's the best films now playing in theaters, featuring the latest from Jane Schoenbrun, Kent Jones, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Matt Johnson, Claire Denis & more: https://t.co/gelgRB1mIB
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER: rare canon of mysteries that aren't who/why-dunnit, but "you looked at the wrong mystery. Everything around you is the answer." Cf. Robbe-Grillet's THE ERASERS as "a comp (but out of bare genre satisfaction we'll give you an answer)."
"Taking something that we cannot typically see and then, through its movement, being able to confirm its existence—to show us and reassure us that it’s actually there—is very much akin to cinematic expression itself."
Kiyoshi Kurosawa talks to @Nick_Newman about 'The Samurai and the Prisoner,' fusing modern and traditional, and the formal philosophies of jidaigeki in a new interview: https://t.co/iUBbtgBRtp
Read our conversation with the great Kurosawa Kiyoshi about his approach to adapting THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER, the film’s mixture of myth and historical reality, and its contemporary political resonance. https://t.co/3zbQ61qkFk
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER: Kurosawa finally embraces his unrelated namesake's throne of blood, though by carving his own richly rewarding, idiosyncratic path. Appointment viewing. https://t.co/rZOzL1zXOP