Spurred by a snappy score, the trailer crackles with energy and makes the film feel both intimate and epic all at once. The film reunites In Bruges stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, two actors with a delightful contrast in the trailer, one threatens to cut off a finger on his own hand every time the other speaks to him. The gifted writer-director returns to theaters this fall with a dark comedy about two longtime friends who feel the weight of consequences when one of them abruptly ends their friendship. Martin McDonagh doesn’t quite receive the accolades he deserves but he’s every bit an important filmmaker, having proved it over the last decade-and-a-half between In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, and the Oscar-winning Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, not to mention Six Shooter, his other Oscar winner-for Best Live Action Short. Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Courtesy IMDb) Expect this film to be among the frontrunners at next year’s Oscars. Given the personal nature of the project, the stakes for Spielberg are high, so it’s no surprise he reunited with lauded cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and asked John Williams to score it. He’ll be aided in that mission by a fantastic cast with Paul Dano and Michelle Williams as Sammy’s parents, Seth Rogen as his favorite uncle, and none other than Twin Peaks auteur David Lynch as director John Ford.
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Sammy is portrayed from age 7 to 18 and Spielberg apparently went to painstaking detail to recreate this period of his youth. Of course, in The Fabelmans, the young actor’s real romance will be with The Movies, which famously helped young Spielberg cope with the trials and tribulations of teenage life- including a shattering family secret. Sammy Fabelman is his semi-autobiographical stand-in he’s played by rising star Gabriel LaBelle, who will soon be seen in Showtime’s American Gigolo series.
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Not only is this the latest film from director Steven Spielberg, but this is actually based on Spielberg’s own childhood in Arizona following World War II. Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord in “The Fabelmans” (Courtesy IMDb) Some effectively wrote off Aronofsky following Mother! but they must have forgotten that he happens to be the filmmaker of Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler -the latter of which boasts one of the all-time greatest screen performances, from Mickey Rourke. The two always create powerful images and the makeup and prosthetic work on Fraser is simply remarkable. Hong Chau and Samantha Morton co-star in the A24-distributed film, which sees Aronofsky reunite with his longtime director of photography, Matthew Libatique. Stranger Things sensation Sadie Sink co-stars as said daughter, and I’ve heard she’s also great, as is Ty Simpkins, it seems too, as the newcomer has been named one of TIFF’s Rising Stars.
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Hunter’s acclaimed play of the same name and finds Fraser playing Charlie, a man trying to reconnect with the 17-year-old daughter he abandoned while pursuing a relationship with a man.
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Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” (Courtesy A24)įor months, I’ve been hearing about Brendan Fraser’s performance in this Darren Aronofsky drama, and sure enough, the veteran actor took the September film festival circuit by storm in Venice and Toronto, where he was handed the Toronto International Film Festival Tribute Award for Performance, indicating that he’s a formidable contender this awards season. Expect all of this and more from the dozen films we’ve previewed below, which LAMag is very much anticipating seeing this coming season. Now is when thousands flock to Venice, Toronto, and Telluride for film festivals, when the blockbusters and August also-rans are jettisoned from multiplexes, and our attention spans expand, even if slightly, to allow in a sharp, off-the-wall story, a “revelation” of a performance or perhaps, we’ll all go see a foreign language hit. Sure, but the best time of the year has no ties to a holiday or weather-it’s all about the movies and it happens to be right now, just after Labor Day. Others say springtime puts a spirit of youth in everything. Some would have you believe that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year- so much so that they even wrote a song about it.