Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot of the films I saw this year to be lacking, there were still plenty of noteworthy titles. Lots of attention was paid to
Sundance film Jockey lands at Sony Pictures Classics ahead of its premiere
Jockey has found a home with Sony Pictures Classics announcing it has acquired all worldwide rights.
From director Clint Bentley,
Jockey stars Clifton Collins Jr. as an aging jockey on one last run for a championship. Out of nowhere, a young jockey claiming to be his son forces him to contemplate who he’ll be once his career comes to a close.
“Filmmakers Clint Bentley (a formidable directing debut), co-writer Greg Kwedar, and producer Nancy Schafer have made such a good movie, that is engaging, satisfying, visual, and precise cinematic storytelling,” stated Sony Pictures Classics. “Anchored by a truly amazing performance by Clifton Collins Jr., an actor we have admired in so many roles for over 2 decades (from
A burnished, low-key showcase for two exceptional character actors.
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In a drama filmed among real-life horse-racing professionals, Clifton Collins Jr. portrays a middle-aged rider facing tough realities, and Molly Parker is the trainer he s worked with for years.
Against-the-odds gambles and the hope for one last chance these are the dreams that drive horse-racing movies, whether the mood is noir-bleak (
The Killing) or feel-good rousing (
Seabiscuit).
Jockey fits right into that lineage, but what sets it apart is its focus on the working-class realities of the riders, grooms and trainers who travel the smaller circuits, far from the glamour and money of the Triple Crown. Writer-director Clint Bentley is the son of a jockey, and his feel for the milieu and its denizens informs every aspect of the intimate drama. As two long-timers eyeing potential breakthroughs in middle age, Clifton Collins Jr. and Molly Parker deliver beautifully tempered turns, with fine support fr
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Clifton Collins Jr. appears in Jockey by Clint Bently, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday was “Jockey,” a portrayal of a down-on-his-luck older reinsman seeking redemption filmed at Turf Paradise in Phoenix, Ariz. According to
thewrap.com, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the film.
“Filmmakers Clint Bentley, co-writer Greg Kwedar and producer Nancy Schafer have made such a good movie, that is engaging, satisfying, visual, and precise cinematic storytelling,” Sony Pictures Classics said in a statement. “Anchored by a truly amazing performance by Clifton Collins Jr., an actor we have admired in so many roles for over 2 decades, ably supported by Molly Parker and Moses Arias, Jockey is about what happens to a professional at the end of a career with the background of horse racing, a subject of inter
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