Tag: A Ghost Story
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10 Highest-Grossing A24 Movies of All Time
Production company A24 was founded in 2012, and over the last ten years it has produced many intriguing, stylish movies across a range of genres. These include terrific sci-fis like Under the Skin and Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy; dramas like Locke, Eighth Grade, and 20th Century Women; and wacky genre hybrids Swiss Army Man and A…
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I called it ‘post-horror’ – and now I’ve created a monster
When I coined the term for scary films that broke the rules, gore fans showered me with abuse. Now it has been adopted by a festival – and I feel vindicatedFive years ago, in this paper, I coined a term to describe what I saw as a new trend in horror movies: “post-horror”. Bad idea.…
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The Green Knight review – a rich and wild fantasy
Dev Patel works his subtle magic in David Lowery’s enthralling take on the medieval tale of the questing GawainWhat a strange and peculiarly powerful film this is. An ambitious adaptation of the chivalric poem about the adventures of an Arthurian knight, written in Middle English by an unknown author (and most famously translated in the…
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David Lowery Almost Quit Filmmaking Before ‘Green Knight’ Release: ‘It Was a Very Existential Year’
[The following post contains spoilers for “The Green Knight.”]Ten years ago, David Lowery was a virtually unknown Texan filmmaker pushing his short film “Pioneer” at Sundance. Since then, he has gone on to work on studio projects like Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon” and the upcoming “Peter Pan and Wendy,” as well as the Robert Redford romance…
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Producer Adam Donaghey Had Pattern of Abuse Before Sexual Assault Charge — Report
Texas-based independent film producer Adam Donaghey made headlines last month when a woman came forward to say the filmmaker sexually assaulted her when she was 16. While Donaghey (best known for producing David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story”) was arrested and charged, he was released from custody on $25,000 bail on April 28. A new report…
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Tribeca Film Review: ‘The Place of No Words’
You can almost envision a conventional rendering of Mark Webber’s enchanting “The Place of No Words,” the writer-director’s fifth and most ambitiously scoped feature. In that scenario, the magical journey through which a three-year-old grapples with his father’s terminal illness — something he is too young to make sense of in real-world terms — would…
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Tiff Review: ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ is a Tender Swan Song for Robert Redford
There’s a strange, unspoken melancholy that hangs over the otherwise loose and endearing The Old Man & the Gun, a collective acknowledgement of the passage of time inherent in seeing an aged Robert Redford passing through a convincingly rendered aesthetic we familiarize with the actor’s younger self. It’s a simple (if a touch cloying) conceit…
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A24 Lands Rights to Sundance and SXSW Drama ‘Never Goin’ Back’ (Exclusive)
In anticipation of its SXSW premiere on Friday, A24 has acquired worldwide rights to Augustine Frizzell’s feature directorial debut, “Never Goin’ Back.”The movie, featuring breakout performances from Maia Mitchell and Cami Morrone, and co-starring Kyle Mooney, made its world premiere to enthusiastic response at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.Frizzell also wrote the script. Toby Halbrooks,…
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David Lowery’s ‘Peter Pan’ Will Be a ‘Rollicking Adventure’ Film With ‘Grounded Emotion’
Sooner or later, Disney will get around to remaking all of their animated films as live-action. Their 1953 Peter Pan is one of many animated titles in the process of being remade, and they’ve hired A Ghost Story director David Lowery to get the job done. Producer Jim Whitaker recently provided an update on the…