Tag: 20th Century Women
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This is Apple TV+’s Best Star Right Now
Billy Crudup’s smile is one that audiences remember. The Emmy-winning actor has proven his skills on the stage and screen over the years, being associated with films such as Almost Famous, Big Fish, Watchmen, and 20th Century Women. It seems like he has always been there and reminds us of some kind of acting chameleon,…
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C’mon C’mon Director Mike Mills On Joaquin Phoenix’s Hair & His Therapist’s Filmmaking Advice [Interview]
Mike Mills’ movies are vivid portraits of a time and place. “Beginners,” “20th Century Women,” and Mills’ latest film, “C’Mon C’Mon,” are almost like time capsules. They’re about people looking back, especially at the figures and days that defined them. “I have to do more therapy about why memory trips me out so much,” Mills told…
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‘C’mon C’mon’ Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix Leads Mike Mills’ Latest in Gorgeous Black and White
A24 has released the official trailer for “C’mon, C’mon,” the latest feature from Mike Mills, who has proven himself a master of stories about everyday heartbreaks of the human condition in films like “Beginners” and “20th Century Women.” Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gaby Hoffman in an elegant black and white framing, “C’mon C’mon” follows a…
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‘C’mon C’mon’ Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix Travels Cross-Country Interviewing Kids
A24 released a trailer for “C’mon C’mon,” which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and will open in theaters later this year.Helmed by Mike Mills, the Oscar-winning director behind “20th Century Women,” the films stars Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny, a middle-aged radio journalist who, when left to take care of his nephew (Woody Norman), embarks…
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‘C’mon C’mon’: Joaquin Phoenix Shines & Empathy Flows In Mike Mills’ Sublime, Micro-Traumatic Family Drama [Telluride Review]
Having already excavated his personal experiences to tell intimate, insightful, and emotionally translucent stories about fathers and sons (“Beginners”), matriarchs raising boys (“20th Century Women”), and the way we’re all amateurs fumbling through life, sensitively attuned writer/director Mike Mills turns his tender filmmaking gaze towards children and the adult/child relationship in his latest film, the…
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‘C’mon C’mon’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix Goes Back to Normal in Mike Mills’ Sweet and Shaggy Mood Piece
Mike Mills makes sweet and ineffably gracious movies about how people don’t know what the future holds or how the fuck they’re supposed to get there, and “C’mon C’mon” is definitely one of them. A shaggy black-and-white mood piece about an unmarried radio journalist (Joaquin Phoenix) who unexpectedly finds himself on a cross-country assignment with…
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‘To the Stars’ Movie Casts Tony Hale, Malin Akerman
Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Malin Akerman, Shea Whigham and Tony Hale are starring in the independent coming-of-age story “To the Stars.”Producers announced Wednesday that production has wrapped in Oklahoma for “To The Stars,” with “Land Ho!” director Martha Stephens helming from a script by Shannon Bradley-Colleary. The story, set in the 1960s, centers on the…
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Miranda July Sets Family Drama Movie With Plan B, Annapurna
Miranda July will start production on an untitled family drama in late May with Plan B and Annapurna producing.The companies made the announcement Thursday. The film follows the story of a character named Old Dolio and how her world is turned upside-down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join their biggest heist yet.The…