The official poster for co-writer-director Paolo Pilladi’s comedy, ‘Last Call,’ which stars Jeremy Piven.
Returning to their hometown can often offer people the most insight on how they should move forward in their lives, and not hold them back, like they originally believe. That’s certainly the case for Jeremy Piven’s protagonist of Mick in the new comedy, ‘Last Call.’
IFC Films is set to distribute the feature in theaters and on Digital and On Demand on March 19. In honor of ‘Last Call’s upcoming release, the distributor has unveiled the official trailer and poster for the movie.
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Sometimes overshadowed in his collaborations with Martin Scorcese, writer-director Paul Schrader was a singular voice of the New Hollywood generation who managed to define a style all his own and maintain an auteurist commitment to and repetition of themes spiritual, intellectual, and macabre within the context of the commercial film to present day.
Raised in a fundamentalist Calvinist community in Grand Rapids, Michigan, film was forbidden throughout his childhood, and he relays his first film going experience at 17 as being a hallucinatory episode wrought with guilt and fear. But it didn’t take long before this forbidden pleasure asserted itself in his life and leaving behind plans to become a minister he began studying film and writing criticism, eventually attending UCLA where many of the New Hollywood generation were getting their starts, and writing Transcendental Style in Film, a study of the films of Bresson, Ozu, and Dreyer that posited a shared film structure Schrader wo
We re all of us passing for something or other. Aren t we?
This question – something Irene (Tessa Thompson) asks on the side of a dance floor – will haunt you during and well after Rebecca Hall s directorial debut, Passing, which premiered Saturday night at Sundance Film Festival.
The black-and-white film (more on that choice later) stars the aforementioned Thompson and Ruth Negga as Clare, two childhood friends who run into each other as adults in 1920s New York. The pair quickly realize they ve come to live very different lives. While both are Black women, Clare has opted to pass as white; Clare s husband John (Alexander Skarsgård) doesn t even know the truth and thinks Irene is white as well when they meet.