Richard Jenkins is one of the most consistent actors working in Hollywood. With a back catalogue that boasts an incredible array of films, ranging from Burn After Reading, to Step Brothers to The Shape of Water, he moves seamlessly between genres, with nuanced, empathetic turns. His latest is no different, playing Stanley in Andrew Cohn’s The Last Shift, a man who is nearing the end of a stint at a fast-food chain that has spanned four decades.
To mark the film’s release, we had the pleasure of speaking to Jenkins, as we discussed his role, and working alongside relative newcomer Shane Paul McGhie. The actor looks back over his own life too, and jobs he’s taken in the past. We also take a trip down memory lane in regards to his career, and specifically Step Brothers, as we discuss his time shooting that cult-favourite comedy. We also ask,...
To mark the film’s release, we had the pleasure of speaking to Jenkins, as we discussed his role, and working alongside relative newcomer Shane Paul McGhie. The actor looks back over his own life too, and jobs he’s taken in the past. We also take a trip down memory lane in regards to his career, and specifically Step Brothers, as we discuss his time shooting that cult-favourite comedy. We also ask,...
- 3/22/2021
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jenkins stars as a career fast-food cook forced to train his unwilling young successor in Andrew Cohn’s undercooked small-town drama
In writer-director Andrew Cohn’s deceptively modest drama The Last Shift, fast-food worker Stanley (Richard Jenkins) is finally calling it quits. He has worked the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish for 38 years, but now he’s moving from Michigan to Florida to take care of his elderly mother; grease be gone.
He’s proud of his tenure, slickly handling the drunks and the teens who ridicule him, rarely putting a foot wrong. But when he’s forced to train his replacement, the opinionated twentysomething Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), Stanley starts to reconsider his life’s work and whatever meaning he might have attached to it. Jevon is dismissive of the job, forced into it while on probation after defacing a federal monument, and aiming to return...
In writer-director Andrew Cohn’s deceptively modest drama The Last Shift, fast-food worker Stanley (Richard Jenkins) is finally calling it quits. He has worked the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish for 38 years, but now he’s moving from Michigan to Florida to take care of his elderly mother; grease be gone.
He’s proud of his tenure, slickly handling the drunks and the teens who ridicule him, rarely putting a foot wrong. But when he’s forced to train his replacement, the opinionated twentysomething Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), Stanley starts to reconsider his life’s work and whatever meaning he might have attached to it. Jevon is dismissive of the job, forced into it while on probation after defacing a federal monument, and aiming to return...
- 3/4/2021
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Sony Pictures UK has debuted a new trailer for ‘The Last Shift’ featuring Richard Jenkins.
The story is about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an ageing fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble.
These two who share little in common are brought together through circumstance. Stanley, a high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, proudly details the nuances of the job. While Jevon, a columnist who’s too smart to be flipping patties, contends their labour is being exploited. A flicker of comradery sparks during the long overnight hours in a quiet kitchen.
Directed by Andrew Cohn,...
The story is about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an ageing fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble.
These two who share little in common are brought together through circumstance. Stanley, a high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, proudly details the nuances of the job. While Jevon, a columnist who’s too smart to be flipping patties, contends their labour is being exploited. A flicker of comradery sparks during the long overnight hours in a quiet kitchen.
Directed by Andrew Cohn,...
- 10/20/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The common ground between American film consumers and critics is when the two get to converge at a film festival. Equally measured in their “first look” at a film that has yet to open in a theater near you, the two get to take in the spectacle of a movie, sharing in those experiences and reacting to it on Film Twitter or with one another outside a theater. With the Covid-19 pandemic, that loss has yet to be quantified. It’s hard to execute a plan of “word of mouth” when no mouths are present. The Toronto, Telluride and New York film festivals all did their best with their combined effort to go virtual.
The regional festival circuit doesn’t usually get the glitz of world premieres for awards season kickoffs, and has tried to navigate the pandemic with the new virtual screenings setting. While this opens their market up...
The regional festival circuit doesn’t usually get the glitz of world premieres for awards season kickoffs, and has tried to navigate the pandemic with the new virtual screenings setting. While this opens their market up...
- 10/19/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
With more than two dozen movies releasing a week — the vast majority of them still straight to streaming — we’re narrowing the focus of our curation somewhat, spotlighting those of sufficiently high profile or merit.
Audiences could hardly hope for a more exciting or timely option than “The Trial of the Chicago 7” from “The West Wing’s” Aaron Sorkin, who’s taken audiences to court before (he wrote “A Few Good Men”). The trial may have been a case of late-’60s political theater, as the U.S. Attorney General prosecuted eight activists who’d organized outside the 1968 Republican National Convention, but it directly speaks to the mood of protest gripping the country in advance of the 2020 election. The defendants might still be known as the “Chicago 8,” had Bobby Seale been given a fair trial — although Sorkin doesn’t shy away from that mishandling, presenting the treatment of Seale...
Audiences could hardly hope for a more exciting or timely option than “The Trial of the Chicago 7” from “The West Wing’s” Aaron Sorkin, who’s taken audiences to court before (he wrote “A Few Good Men”). The trial may have been a case of late-’60s political theater, as the U.S. Attorney General prosecuted eight activists who’d organized outside the 1968 Republican National Convention, but it directly speaks to the mood of protest gripping the country in advance of the 2020 election. The defendants might still be known as the “Chicago 8,” had Bobby Seale been given a fair trial — although Sorkin doesn’t shy away from that mishandling, presenting the treatment of Seale...
- 9/25/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Fascinated with the unseen men and women of forgotten America, Andrew Cohn, proud Midwestern and versatile filmmaker, has created a body of documentary work that witnesses modest, real lives without condescension or pity. Features like Medora or Night School engage with their subjects—a teenage basketball team in small-town Indiana or adult students juggling economic and personal struggles—in a compassionate and collaborative manner. Translating that honesty to fiction now with The Last Shift, his first scripted film, Cohn continues to give voice to the working poor, in this case two fast food employees in Michigan, where he’s from, whose relationship exemplifies […]...
- 9/25/2020
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Fascinated with the unseen men and women of forgotten America, Andrew Cohn, proud Midwestern and versatile filmmaker, has created a body of documentary work that witnesses modest, real lives without condescension or pity. Features like Medora or Night School engage with their subjects—a teenage basketball team in small-town Indiana or adult students juggling economic and personal struggles—in a compassionate and collaborative manner. Translating that honesty to fiction now with The Last Shift, his first scripted film, Cohn continues to give voice to the working poor, in this case two fast food employees in Michigan, where he’s from, whose relationship exemplifies […]...
- 9/25/2020
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Stuck in Neutral: Cohn Cooks Up Sensitive (and Hilarious) Fast Food Tragedy
Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and guilt. In a superb of-the-moment character study, Richard Jenkins is perfect as longtime fast-food worker Stanley, the quintessential put-upon everyman (even his character’s laugh sounds desperate); promising newcomer Shane Paul McGhie plays Jevon, an ex-con father and new employee whom Stanley has to train. For those expecting a cheerful odd couple dramedy, think again: while The Last Shift dishes plenty of unexpected laughter, it’s no escapist fantasy; instead, Cohn (a documentary filmmaker) has the guts to examine economic and racial bias, contradictions and chaos included.…...
Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and guilt. In a superb of-the-moment character study, Richard Jenkins is perfect as longtime fast-food worker Stanley, the quintessential put-upon everyman (even his character’s laugh sounds desperate); promising newcomer Shane Paul McGhie plays Jevon, an ex-con father and new employee whom Stanley has to train. For those expecting a cheerful odd couple dramedy, think again: while The Last Shift dishes plenty of unexpected laughter, it’s no escapist fantasy; instead, Cohn (a documentary filmmaker) has the guts to examine economic and racial bias, contradictions and chaos included.…...
- 9/21/2020
- by Dylan Kai Dempsey
- IONCINEMA.com
The complexities and ultimate similarities of American life play out in “The Last Shift.” A 2020 Sundance selection, the film became a buzzworthy project thanks to outstanding lead actors along with a carefully crafted storyline for these times. Its overall sensibilities and emphasis on realism is evidence of a director and writer with deep roots in documentary filmmaking. Andrew Cohn assumes both key duties on the upcoming release—his first attempt at feature-length fictional narratives.
Continue reading ‘The Last Shift’ Trailer: Richard Jenkins Is An Aging Fast Food Worker In This Sundance Standout at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Last Shift’ Trailer: Richard Jenkins Is An Aging Fast Food Worker In This Sundance Standout at The Playlist.
- 9/17/2020
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
"Do you honestly think that this whole free-loading universe is out to get you? You're stuck in here, same as me." Sony Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie dramedy titled The Last Shift, which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The film is directed by Emmy-winning doc filmmaker Andrew Cohn, making his first narrative feature, and is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Richard Jenkins co-stars as a fast food worker who plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar's Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon, played by Shane Paul McGhie. The cast includes Ed O'Neill, Allison Tolman, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Birgundi Baker. This looks like a humble, honest story of two people just trying to live and enjoy life. Here's...
- 9/16/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
While the number of movies available in wide release right now is limited, one new film hitting about 800 theaters on September 25 from Sony is “The Last Shift,” documentary-turned-narrative-feature director Andrew Cohn’s Sundance favorite. A minor-key seriocomedy set in the world of fast food work and led by Richard Jenkins as an aging worker and Shane Paul McGhie as his young protege, “The Last Shift” also stars Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Ed O’Neil. IndieWire shares the exclusive first trailer. Watch below.
Here’s the synopsis: “‘The Last Shift’ is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an aging fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative...
Here’s the synopsis: “‘The Last Shift’ is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an aging fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative...
- 9/15/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Sony has set moderate theatrical fall releases for two independent features, Diane Paragas’ narrative feature debut Yellow Rose and Andrew Cohn’s comedy The Last Shift which made its global premiere at Sundance. Last Shift, which Sony Pictures World Acquisitions picked up, will debut on Sept. 25, while Yellow Rose which the label’s Stage 6 Films acquired last year sans Philippines, will open on Oct. 9.
In Last Shift, two-time Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins stars as Stanley, an aging fast-food worker, who plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble. The men are worlds apart. A high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, Stanley proudly details the nuances of the job.
In Last Shift, two-time Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins stars as Stanley, an aging fast-food worker, who plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble. The men are worlds apart. A high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, Stanley proudly details the nuances of the job.
- 9/5/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures revealed on Friday that The Last Shift and Yellow Rose now have release dates.
The Last Shift, a comedy from Stage 6 Films and Emmy winning writer Andrew Cohn, will release this year on Sept. 25. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired the film, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie star in the film, which follows an aging fast-food worker who plans to call it quits after 38 years working the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker, Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill also ...
The Last Shift, a comedy from Stage 6 Films and Emmy winning writer Andrew Cohn, will release this year on Sept. 25. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired the film, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie star in the film, which follows an aging fast-food worker who plans to call it quits after 38 years working the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker, Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill also ...
Sony Pictures revealed on Friday that The Last Shift and Yellow Rose now have release dates.
The Last Shift, a comedy from Stage 6 Films and Emmy winning writer Andrew Cohn, will release this year on Sept. 25. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired the film, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie star in the film, which follows an aging fast-food worker who plans to call it quits after 38 years working the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker, Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill also ...
The Last Shift, a comedy from Stage 6 Films and Emmy winning writer Andrew Cohn, will release this year on Sept. 25. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired the film, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie star in the film, which follows an aging fast-food worker who plans to call it quits after 38 years working the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker, Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill also ...
Ryan Kampe screening all three in the market.
Visit Films heads to the Efm in Berlin this week with a slate bolstered by Sundance acquisitions The Last Shift and Feels Good Man, and Berlin Panorama selection Minyan.
Ryan Kampe and his team will screen all three in Berlin, alongside previously announced punk rock documentary and Generations selection White Riot, Park City premieres Summer White and Dinner In America, and Toronto title Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
The Last Shift stars Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie and screened in the Premieres section. Jenkins plays a fast food worker about...
Visit Films heads to the Efm in Berlin this week with a slate bolstered by Sundance acquisitions The Last Shift and Feels Good Man, and Berlin Panorama selection Minyan.
Ryan Kampe and his team will screen all three in Berlin, alongside previously announced punk rock documentary and Generations selection White Riot, Park City premieres Summer White and Dinner In America, and Toronto title Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
The Last Shift stars Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie and screened in the Premieres section. Jenkins plays a fast food worker about...
- 2/17/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
“Maybe it’s time to let go,” sighs Stanley (Richard Jenkins), with typical last-to-the-party obliviousness. After 38 years working his way up to $13 per hour flipping burgers and cleaning grease traps in the same dingy fast food restaurant in Albion Michigan, by any measure, the time to go passed a long, long while back. Andrew Cohn‘s “The Last Shift” begins as Stanley’s lifetime at Oscar’s Fast Food ends.
Continue reading ‘The Last Shift’ With Richard Jenkins: A Dramedy With Its Heart In Slightly The Wrong Place [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Last Shift’ With Richard Jenkins: A Dramedy With Its Heart In Slightly The Wrong Place [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
- 2/4/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
There is a scene in the middle of The Last Shift in which our two main characters–Stanley (Richard Jenkins) and Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie)–get into an argument regarding the tragic fate of a young African-American student who was killed many years before at the local high school. It’s the scene that seems to encapsulate the movie best. Jevon is a young, African-American man himself with dreams of being a writer. Stanley is quite a bit older, saddled with a sick mother down in Florida. He’s very proud of the work he does at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish, a fast-food joint in the middle of this small town of Albion, Michigan. After thirty-eight years, Stanley is retiring and passing off the reins of the graveyard shift to Jevon, who at first can’t be bothered to care.
It’s a promising premise that never really cashes in.
It’s a promising premise that never really cashes in.
- 2/3/2020
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
A good performance from Richard Jenkins can’t save The Last Shift, a languid fast food drama that has aspirations of exploring class and race in middle America, but lacks the tools to effectively do so. Documentary filmmaker Andrew Cohn makes the jump to narrative features here, telling the story of a fast food veteran tasked […]
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- 2/1/2020
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
(Shane Paul McGhie) after 38 years behind the counter of Albion, Michigan’s shittiest “burger” joint, Andrew Cohn’s “The Last Shift” has all the hallmarks of an insufferably pat story about the search for common ground in America. And the evidence only continues to mount throughout the first half of the film, as each new plot detail conspires to flatter your cynicism.
Stanley is an old-fashioned sort who acts like he’s the mayor of Oscar’s Chicken and Fish, mistakes his new trainee for a criminal, and does everything in his limited power to be “Ok, boomer”-ed into oblivion. Jevon is a rebellious parolee who disrespects authority, hangs with a “difficult” crowd, and doesn’t seem the least bit interested in supporting his ex-girlfriend (Birgundi Baker) or their young son. What are the odds that such wildly different people — crossing paths as they circle the same drain — might...
Stanley is an old-fashioned sort who acts like he’s the mayor of Oscar’s Chicken and Fish, mistakes his new trainee for a criminal, and does everything in his limited power to be “Ok, boomer”-ed into oblivion. Jevon is a rebellious parolee who disrespects authority, hangs with a “difficult” crowd, and doesn’t seem the least bit interested in supporting his ex-girlfriend (Birgundi Baker) or their young son. What are the odds that such wildly different people — crossing paths as they circle the same drain — might...
- 1/31/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It's easy to see why documentary and TV director Andrew Cohn's first narrative feature, The Last Shift, was at one time considered as a project for Alexander Payne, who remains on board as executive producer. Empathy for aging men navigating complicated crossroads in their unfulfilled lives has often shaped Payne's films and very much applies to the terminal under-achiever played here with characteristic dimension and heart by the ever-reliable Richard Jenkins. This funny-sad chamber piece is underwhelming in cinematic terms, but its perceptive script and the incisively etched characterizations of a sterling ensemble make it warmly satisfying.
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- 1/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's easy to see why documentary and TV director Andrew Cohn's first narrative feature, The Last Shift, was at one time considered as a project for Alexander Payne, who remains on board as executive producer. Empathy for aging men navigating complicated crossroads in their unfulfilled lives has often shaped Payne's films and very much applies to the terminal under-achiever played here with characteristic dimension and heart by the ever-reliable Richard Jenkins. This funny-sad chamber piece is underwhelming in cinematic terms, but its perceptive script and the incisively etched characterizations of a sterling ensemble make it warmly satisfying.
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Stanley ...
- 1/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Bmi is announcing its annual programs at the Sundance Film Festival, with a substantially packed composer/director panel set for the afternoon of Sunday, January 26 and a “Snowball” headlined by singer Lisa Loeb two nights later.
The Sunday “Music & Film: The Creative Process” roundtable will include nine filmmaker/scorer pairs with movies at the festival, with moderating duties handled by Sundance Institute Film Music Program director Peter Golub and Bmi’s primary liaison to the film world, VP of creative relations Doreen Ringer-Ross.
Happening at Sundance for the 22nd year, the panel will bring together composers and directors from these festival entries: “Uncle Frank” (composer Nathan Barr and director Alan Ball; “Four Good Days” (Ed Shearmur and Rodrigo García; “The Night House” (Ben Lovett and David Bruckner); “Shirley” (Tamar-kali and Josephine Decker); “Promising Young Woman” ( Anthony Willis and Emerald Fennell); “Boys State” (T. Griffin and Amanda McBaine; “Us Kids” (composer...
The Sunday “Music & Film: The Creative Process” roundtable will include nine filmmaker/scorer pairs with movies at the festival, with moderating duties handled by Sundance Institute Film Music Program director Peter Golub and Bmi’s primary liaison to the film world, VP of creative relations Doreen Ringer-Ross.
Happening at Sundance for the 22nd year, the panel will bring together composers and directors from these festival entries: “Uncle Frank” (composer Nathan Barr and director Alan Ball; “Four Good Days” (Ed Shearmur and Rodrigo García; “The Night House” (Ben Lovett and David Bruckner); “Shirley” (Tamar-kali and Josephine Decker); “Promising Young Woman” ( Anthony Willis and Emerald Fennell); “Boys State” (T. Griffin and Amanda McBaine; “Us Kids” (composer...
- 1/9/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
“The Shape of Water” star Richard Jenkins and “What Men Want” actor Shane Paul McGhie have been cast in the independent comedy “The Last Shift.”
The two will appear alongside Ed O’Neill, Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“High Fidelity”), Birgundi Baker (“The Chi”) and Allison Tolman (“Fargo”). Andrew Cohn is directing from his own script. “The Last Shift” is currently shooting in Chicago.
Jenkins portrays an aging fast food worker, who’s approaching his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he’s asked to train his young replacement (McGhie), his final weekend takes an unexpected turn.
“‘The Last Shift,’ I wanted to update an old and familiar genre in a fresh and surprising way,” Cohn said in a statement. “I’m grateful that Park Pictures and Bona Fide saw the same opportunity to explore these complex issues of race, class and authority in an honest and authentic manner.”
Park Pictures...
The two will appear alongside Ed O’Neill, Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“High Fidelity”), Birgundi Baker (“The Chi”) and Allison Tolman (“Fargo”). Andrew Cohn is directing from his own script. “The Last Shift” is currently shooting in Chicago.
Jenkins portrays an aging fast food worker, who’s approaching his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he’s asked to train his young replacement (McGhie), his final weekend takes an unexpected turn.
“‘The Last Shift,’ I wanted to update an old and familiar genre in a fresh and surprising way,” Cohn said in a statement. “I’m grateful that Park Pictures and Bona Fide saw the same opportunity to explore these complex issues of race, class and authority in an honest and authentic manner.”
Park Pictures...
- 7/18/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
“The Shape of Water” star Richard Jenkins and “What Men Want” actor Shane Paul McGhie are set to star in a comedy about working the graveyard shift at a fast food restaurant called “The Last Shift,” the producers announced Thursday.
Jenkins and McGhie will star alongside Ed O’Neill, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker and Allison Tolman all joining the cast of the film written and directed by Andrew Cohn.
“The Last Shift” follows Stanley (Jenkins), an aging fast food worker, who’s approaching his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he’s asked to train his young replacement Jevon (McGhie), Stanley’s final weekend takes an unexpected turn.
Also Read: 'Shape of Water' Oscar Nominee Richard Jenkins Tells Us His Good Luck Ritual: 'I Don't Wear Pants'
Park Pictures and Bona Fide Productions, along with Whitewater Films are producing “The Last Shift.” The film is produced by Albert Berger,...
Jenkins and McGhie will star alongside Ed O’Neill, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker and Allison Tolman all joining the cast of the film written and directed by Andrew Cohn.
“The Last Shift” follows Stanley (Jenkins), an aging fast food worker, who’s approaching his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he’s asked to train his young replacement Jevon (McGhie), Stanley’s final weekend takes an unexpected turn.
Also Read: 'Shape of Water' Oscar Nominee Richard Jenkins Tells Us His Good Luck Ritual: 'I Don't Wear Pants'
Park Pictures and Bona Fide Productions, along with Whitewater Films are producing “The Last Shift.” The film is produced by Albert Berger,...
- 7/18/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Birgundi Baker are starring in The Last Shift, an Andrew Cohn-directed comedy that is shooting in Chicago. Also in the cast are Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill. Pic is a co-production between Park Pictures, Bona Fide Productions and Whitewater Films, latter of which produced O’Neill’s series Modern Family. Cohn (Medora) wrote the script.
Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Sam Bisbee, Alex Lipschultz and Bert Kern produce.
The Last Shift follows Stanley (Jenkins), an aging fast food worker, who’s approaching his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he’s asked to train his young replacement Jevon (McGhie), Stanley’s final weekend takes an unexpected turn.
“In writing The Last Shift, I wanted to update an old and familiar genre in a fresh and surprising way,” Cohn said. “I’m grateful that Park Pictures and Bona Fide saw...
Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Sam Bisbee, Alex Lipschultz and Bert Kern produce.
The Last Shift follows Stanley (Jenkins), an aging fast food worker, who’s approaching his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he’s asked to train his young replacement Jevon (McGhie), Stanley’s final weekend takes an unexpected turn.
“In writing The Last Shift, I wanted to update an old and familiar genre in a fresh and surprising way,” Cohn said. “I’m grateful that Park Pictures and Bona Fide saw...
- 7/18/2019
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
The Shape of Water star Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie (What Men Want) are set to star in indie comedy The Last Shift.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Allison Tolman, Birgundi Baker and Ed O'Neill are also boarding the indie about an aging fast food worker nearing his final graveyard shift after 38 years. Written and directed by Emmy- winning filmmaker Andrew Cohn, the film follows Stanley, played by Jenkins, as a retiring worker asked to train his young replacement (McGhie), which steers his final weekend of work toward an unexpected turn.
Park Pictures, Bona Fide Productions and Whitewater Films ...
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Allison Tolman, Birgundi Baker and Ed O'Neill are also boarding the indie about an aging fast food worker nearing his final graveyard shift after 38 years. Written and directed by Emmy- winning filmmaker Andrew Cohn, the film follows Stanley, played by Jenkins, as a retiring worker asked to train his young replacement (McGhie), which steers his final weekend of work toward an unexpected turn.
Park Pictures, Bona Fide Productions and Whitewater Films ...
- 7/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Shape of Water star Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie (What Men Want) are set to star in indie comedy The Last Shift.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Allison Tolman, Birgundi Baker and Ed O'Neill are also boarding the indie about an aging fast food worker nearing his final graveyard shift after 38 years. Written and directed by Emmy- winning filmmaker Andrew Cohn, the film follows Stanley, played by Jenkins, as a retiring worker asked to train his young replacement (McGhie), which steers his final weekend of work toward an unexpected turn.
Park Pictures, Bona Fide Productions and Whitewater Films ...
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Allison Tolman, Birgundi Baker and Ed O'Neill are also boarding the indie about an aging fast food worker nearing his final graveyard shift after 38 years. Written and directed by Emmy- winning filmmaker Andrew Cohn, the film follows Stanley, played by Jenkins, as a retiring worker asked to train his young replacement (McGhie), which steers his final weekend of work toward an unexpected turn.
Park Pictures, Bona Fide Productions and Whitewater Films ...
- 7/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Theatrically released in the summer of 2017, Andrew Cohn’s heart-rending documentary “Night School” is a compassionately observed account of the onerous ordeal a group of underprivileged adults in Indianapolis weathers to obtain their GEDs. Cohn’s film is a stirring demonstration of the power of second chances.
“Girls Trip” director Malcolm D. Lee’s newest comedy, also called “Night School” and boasting a nearly identical premise, is similarly persuasive in its quest to preach the gospel of never giving up. The core distinction between these two effective approaches is that Lee’s uses laugh-our-loud gags in its delivery. Tonally different but thematically synced, the movies’ intentions are thoughtful.
2018’s “Night School” brings Kevin Hart back to high school as a grown man with unfinished business from his teenage past, not unlike his character in “Central Intelligence.” As Teddy, Hart is leaning onto the slightly maniacal and humorously vulnerable trope we...
“Girls Trip” director Malcolm D. Lee’s newest comedy, also called “Night School” and boasting a nearly identical premise, is similarly persuasive in its quest to preach the gospel of never giving up. The core distinction between these two effective approaches is that Lee’s uses laugh-our-loud gags in its delivery. Tonally different but thematically synced, the movies’ intentions are thoughtful.
2018’s “Night School” brings Kevin Hart back to high school as a grown man with unfinished business from his teenage past, not unlike his character in “Central Intelligence.” As Teddy, Hart is leaning onto the slightly maniacal and humorously vulnerable trope we...
- 9/26/2018
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
Jordan Peele’s The Last O.G to screen in Independent Episodic; Timur Bekmambetov’s Profile among SXSW line-up.
Source: Paramount Pictures
SXSW top brass on Wednesday (January 31) said the world premiere of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will open the 25th edition of the festival, which runs in Austin, Texas, from March 9-18.
Krasinski directed and stars in horror-thriller A Quiet Place alongside his wife Emily Blunt in the tale of an isolated family living in silence for fear of attack by an unknown force than tracks sound. Platinum Dunes produced the feature, which opens in the Us through on April 6 through Paramount.
SXSW launches the inaugural Independent Episodic section this year, an expansion on the Episodic section launched in 2014. Overall, the festival will screen 132 features, with additional titles to be announced.
The full line-up will include 44 films from first-time filmmakers, 86 world premieres, 11 North American premieres and five Us premieres. The films were culled...
Source: Paramount Pictures
SXSW top brass on Wednesday (January 31) said the world premiere of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will open the 25th edition of the festival, which runs in Austin, Texas, from March 9-18.
Krasinski directed and stars in horror-thriller A Quiet Place alongside his wife Emily Blunt in the tale of an isolated family living in silence for fear of attack by an unknown force than tracks sound. Platinum Dunes produced the feature, which opens in the Us through on April 6 through Paramount.
SXSW launches the inaugural Independent Episodic section this year, an expansion on the Episodic section launched in 2014. Overall, the festival will screen 132 features, with additional titles to be announced.
The full line-up will include 44 films from first-time filmmakers, 86 world premieres, 11 North American premieres and five Us premieres. The films were culled...
- 1/31/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Night School Oscilloscope Pictures Director: Andrew Cohn Written by: Andrew Cohn Cast: Greg Henson, Shynika Jakes, Melissa Lewis Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/16/17 Opens: June 9, 2017 In President Trump’s cabinet we have a labor secretary who supports business; an energy secretary who will to let the coal and oil industries do what they […]
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- 6/21/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Focusing on a year in the life of three adult students — Melissa, Greg and Shynika — enrolled in Indianapolis’ Excel Center, a publicly-funded high school for those seeking a second chance, Andrew Cohn’s Night School has only grown more vital since its premiere at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Like For Ahkeem and this year’s Step, Night School offers a frank examination of inner-city poverty and the extra burden faced by those without the kinds of advantages that many take for granted. Its subjects make every attempt to buck the trend of poverty for themselves and their children, despite systemic constraints.
Cohn’s vérité-style documentary observes the lives of its three characters in and out of the classroom as they navigate self-doubt and oppressive systematic poverty, from employers who aren’t quick to grant second chances to those that can’t seem to understand why someone wouldn’t...
Cohn’s vérité-style documentary observes the lives of its three characters in and out of the classroom as they navigate self-doubt and oppressive systematic poverty, from employers who aren’t quick to grant second chances to those that can’t seem to understand why someone wouldn’t...
- 6/16/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
“I don’t want a job, I need a career,” declares one of the subjects of Night School. The statement effectively sums up the emotional impact of Andrew Cohn’s (Medora) documentary chronicling three African-American adults working over the course of a year to earn their high school diplomas. Feeling particularly relevant these days because of the ever-growing obstacles faced by less-educated people struggling for economic gains, the moving film depicts the American dream in action.
The cinema verite-style documentary introduces us to 31-year-old Greg, a former drug dealer and single father to an epilepsy-afflicted young girl; 26-year-old Shynika, reduced to...
The cinema verite-style documentary introduces us to 31-year-old Greg, a former drug dealer and single father to an epilepsy-afflicted young girl; 26-year-old Shynika, reduced to...
- 6/9/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With a title like Night School, one may not quite know what they’re getting into. Is it the latest in bland, perversion-for-perversion’s sake teen comedy? Is it another slasher picture with its mind set on aping the aesthetic that would have been popular about 30-plus years ago? Or is it a captivating look at an issue that is far too rarely discussed in today’s society, in the guise of a gorgeous verite documentary?
If you have the latter option, you’re the lucky winner. From director Andrew Cohn comes Night School, a documentary that, like it’s subject, likely won’t get the respect it so rightly deserves. Very much rooted in the style and structure of today’s typical issue documentary, this gorgeous and intimate picture introduces us to a group of men and women currently progressing through the process of getting their high school diploma...
If you have the latter option, you’re the lucky winner. From director Andrew Cohn comes Night School, a documentary that, like it’s subject, likely won’t get the respect it so rightly deserves. Very much rooted in the style and structure of today’s typical issue documentary, this gorgeous and intimate picture introduces us to a group of men and women currently progressing through the process of getting their high school diploma...
- 6/9/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
With Oscilloscope releasing his latest documentary, Night School, this Friday in New York at the IFC Center and June 23 at the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles (with nationwide roll-out to follow), filmmaker Andrew Cohn posts this guest essay about his choice to make films largely in America’s heartland. Here he recounts his experience making his previous film, Medora, and how it made him question the motives and strategies many non-fiction filmmakers bring to their depiction of Midwestern subjects. Oscilloscope will donate a portion of all proceeds from ticket sales to educational initiatives at Goodwill Industries’ McClelland Scholars, the organization […]...
- 6/7/2017
- by Andrew Cohn
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Here’s a tough reality of American life: Entire futures hinge on a thin scrap of paper, rolled up and handed out to teenagers. Stranger still, this particular scrap of paper, so crucial to so many career paths, can only be acquired at an age when the brain is almost comically resistant to thinking ahead. Well, at least that’s historically when you could get one. With Night School, documentarian Andrew Cohn (Medora) takes his camera behind the walls of the Excel Center in Indianapolis, where high school dropouts can enroll for free in an intensive adult-education program. If they pass all their final exams, these returning students earn a diploma—not a Ged, but the real deal, basically indistinguishable from what they would have received if they had graduated the first time around. It’s like an accelerated version of high school, minus the dances and the extracurricular activities...
- 6/7/2017
- by A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
Eddie Rosenstein’s latest, “The Freedom to Marry” follows one of the greatest civil rights stories of our time as it chronicles the marriage equality movement throughout its ongoing campaign to win the right to same-sex marriage in the United States.
The film picks up with a number of key figures, including Evan Wolfson (known to many as the architect of the marriage movement) attorney Mary Bonauto, and other members of their team as they make their way through a decades-long battle. It all ends with a dramatic turn at the United States Supreme Court, capping off an inspiring and insightful look at one of history’s most important fights for justice.
Read More: ‘Night School’: Andrew Cohn’s Timely Documentary Explores Americans Pushing for Better Lives — Watch
On the heels of its spring theatrical run, the film will now be available digitally this month, all timed to national Lgbt pride celebrations this summer.
The film picks up with a number of key figures, including Evan Wolfson (known to many as the architect of the marriage movement) attorney Mary Bonauto, and other members of their team as they make their way through a decades-long battle. It all ends with a dramatic turn at the United States Supreme Court, capping off an inspiring and insightful look at one of history’s most important fights for justice.
Read More: ‘Night School’: Andrew Cohn’s Timely Documentary Explores Americans Pushing for Better Lives — Watch
On the heels of its spring theatrical run, the film will now be available digitally this month, all timed to national Lgbt pride celebrations this summer.
- 6/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
‘Night School’: Andrew Cohn’s Timely Documentary Explores Americans Pushing for Better Lives — Watch
Emmy-winning director Andrew Cohn’s latest documentary, “Night School,” takes its audience inside the lives of a trio of American dreamers as they struggle to overcome conditions outside their control and a system that hasn’t made things any easier for them to achieve something incredible: earning an education.
Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.”
Read More: Oscilloscope Rounds Out Growing Documentary Slate with ‘Night School’ and ‘Santoalla’ — Exclusive
The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.” Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the...
Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.”
Read More: Oscilloscope Rounds Out Growing Documentary Slate with ‘Night School’ and ‘Santoalla’ — Exclusive
The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.” Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the...
- 6/5/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The subject of Patrick Shen’s “In Pursuit of Silence” doesn’t sound particularly revelatory on paper — the new documentary explores the history and current state of silence, yes, silence around the world — but the final result is one of the most truly mediative and deeply inventive films of the year.
“In Pursuit of Silence” aims to takes its viewer “on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe — from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, the loudest city on the planet — and inspires us to both experience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world.” Combining stunning footage with compelling anecdotal and historical evidence, the result is a film that pushes its audience to reflect on the world around them in ways that aren’t so easy to shake.
Read More: ‘Abu’ Trailer: Lgbtq Documentary Explores One Man’s Quest to Understand His Devout Muslim...
“In Pursuit of Silence” aims to takes its viewer “on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe — from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, the loudest city on the planet — and inspires us to both experience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world.” Combining stunning footage with compelling anecdotal and historical evidence, the result is a film that pushes its audience to reflect on the world around them in ways that aren’t so easy to shake.
Read More: ‘Abu’ Trailer: Lgbtq Documentary Explores One Man’s Quest to Understand His Devout Muslim...
- 6/5/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
“Wonder Women” is currently basking in the glory of its $100.5 million debut weekend, proving it shouldn’t have taken 75 years for the superhero to make her first standalone trip to the big screen. While critics and audiences continue to embrace Patty Jenkins’ superhero movie, Annapurna Pictures are getting ready to introduce the real origin story of Wonder Woman in the upcoming drama “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.”
Read More: ‘Wonder Woman’: What Does One Great Female Superhero Mean For the Future of the Genre?
From director Angela Robinson, “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” tells the true story of Dr. William Moulton Marston, whose relationships with his wife Elizabeth and domestic partner Olive Byrne led to the creation of the iconic superhero in 1941. Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcoate are playing the three lead characters, while Frank L. Ridley, Connie Britton and Oliver Platt will take on supporting roles.
Read More: ‘Wonder Woman’: What Does One Great Female Superhero Mean For the Future of the Genre?
From director Angela Robinson, “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” tells the true story of Dr. William Moulton Marston, whose relationships with his wife Elizabeth and domestic partner Olive Byrne led to the creation of the iconic superhero in 1941. Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcoate are playing the three lead characters, while Frank L. Ridley, Connie Britton and Oliver Platt will take on supporting roles.
- 6/5/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Before Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman get to work on the much anticipated “Edge of Tomorrow” sequel, the duo will bring one of the CIA’s most infamous true stories to the big screen this fall. “American Made” stars Cruise as Barry Seal, an airline pilot turned drug smuggler turned CIA informant who worked with the Medellin Cartel and was assassinated at age 46. It’s not going to have the alien combat of “Edge of Tomorrow,” but it’s surely going to be just as wild.
Read More: Doug Liman Has a Title In Mind For An ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel, And It’s Not ‘Edge of Tomorrow 2’
“American Made” marks Liman’s return to Universal Pictures for the first time since “The Bourne Identity.” Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are producing through their Imagine Entertainment banner, while Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Jesse Plemons and Lola Kirke are staring in supporting roles.
Read More: Doug Liman Has a Title In Mind For An ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel, And It’s Not ‘Edge of Tomorrow 2’
“American Made” marks Liman’s return to Universal Pictures for the first time since “The Bourne Identity.” Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are producing through their Imagine Entertainment banner, while Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Jesse Plemons and Lola Kirke are staring in supporting roles.
- 6/5/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
"Here I am still trying to get my life together..." Oscilloscope Labs has debuted a trailer for Andrew Cohn's documentary Night School, about struggling adults in Indianapolis, Indiana who have decided to get their high school diploma by attending night school. The doc follows three different adults, profiling their lives and choice to return to school, as well as their struggles and daily challenges. This seems like a powerful film about the will to succeed and the belief that education can change the world. This also goes nicely with a few other recent docs about education in troubled areas, including Step and For Ahkeem. We also just featured a trailer for another school doc titled School Life, about teachers. This looks like it's definitely worth a watch. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Andrew Cohn's documentary Night School, direct from YouTube: Indianapolis has one of the lowest high...
- 6/2/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Opening in a court room, For Ahkeem finds its protagonist Daje, an African American girl from the inner city of North St. Louis, sentenced to Judge Jimmy Edwards’ Inner City Academy (Ica), an alternative high school for those with violent and troubling records, providing one-on-one academic counseling and services. It would appear her path to college seems blocked again by an upbringing in a rough, economically disadvantaged neighborhood, although she does have a support network in her mother and well-meaning administrators at Ica.
Set partly during the Ferguson turmoil in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, For Ahkeem is a film in the classic cinéma vérité tradition, shinning a light on the plight of our inner cities. The film is a great deal less hopeful than the post-Freddie Gray Baltimore-set Step, destined to be a crowdpleaser this summer. For Ahkeem chooses to follow one young African American struggling to...
Set partly during the Ferguson turmoil in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, For Ahkeem is a film in the classic cinéma vérité tradition, shinning a light on the plight of our inner cities. The film is a great deal less hopeful than the post-Freddie Gray Baltimore-set Step, destined to be a crowdpleaser this summer. For Ahkeem chooses to follow one young African American struggling to...
- 5/7/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Breaking Glass, O-Scope, Big World Pictures, Factory 25 also cut deals.
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited theatrical release...
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited theatrical release...
- 3/30/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Distribution Round-up: Breaking Glass, O-Scope, Big World Pictures, Factory 25 also in action.
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited...
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited...
- 3/30/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oscilloscope Laboratories has rounded out their ever-growing documentary slate with the recent purchase of Andrew Cohn’s “Night School” and Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer’s “Santoalla,” and the indie distributor is planning summer releases for both features.
Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.” The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.”
Oscilloscope will open the film theatrically on June 9 at the IFC Center in New York, with national expansion in the following weeks.
Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.” The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.”
Oscilloscope will open the film theatrically on June 9 at the IFC Center in New York, with national expansion in the following weeks.
- 3/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Best Film
Winner: "Moonlight"
Runner-up: "Hell or High Water"
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
"American Honey.
.Arrival.
.Deadpool.
.Everybody Wants Some!!.
.La La Land.
.The Lobster.
.Manchester by the Sea.
.Sing Street.
Best Animated Feature
Winner: "Kubo and the Two Strings"
Runner-Up: "Sausage Party.
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: "The Handmaiden.
Runner-Up: "A Man Called Ove.
Best Documentary
Winner: "O.J.: Made in America.
Runner-Up: "Weiner"
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Taylor Sheridan, .Hell or High Water.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Barry Jenkins, .Moonlight.
Runner-up: Eric Heisserer, .Arrival.
Best Director
Winner: Damien Chazelle, .La La Land.
Runner-up: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Best Actress
Winner: Rebecca Hall, .Christine.
Runner-up: Natalie Portman, .Jackie.
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Viola Davis, .Fences.
Runner-up: Naomie Harris, .Moonlight.
Best Actor
Winner: Casey Affleck, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Ethan Hawke, "Born to Be Blue"
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mahershala Ali,...
Winner: "Moonlight"
Runner-up: "Hell or High Water"
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
"American Honey.
.Arrival.
.Deadpool.
.Everybody Wants Some!!.
.La La Land.
.The Lobster.
.Manchester by the Sea.
.Sing Street.
Best Animated Feature
Winner: "Kubo and the Two Strings"
Runner-Up: "Sausage Party.
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: "The Handmaiden.
Runner-Up: "A Man Called Ove.
Best Documentary
Winner: "O.J.: Made in America.
Runner-Up: "Weiner"
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Taylor Sheridan, .Hell or High Water.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Barry Jenkins, .Moonlight.
Runner-up: Eric Heisserer, .Arrival.
Best Director
Winner: Damien Chazelle, .La La Land.
Runner-up: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Best Actress
Winner: Rebecca Hall, .Christine.
Runner-up: Natalie Portman, .Jackie.
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Viola Davis, .Fences.
Runner-up: Naomie Harris, .Moonlight.
Best Actor
Winner: Casey Affleck, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Ethan Hawke, "Born to Be Blue"
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mahershala Ali,...
- 12/21/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
We’ve heard a lot about the crisis of education in America – about poverty, about the dropout rate, about prohibitive testing measures, about charter schools and teacher salaries and the slow decline of American education having any sort of claim to intellectual ascendancy. And while politicians can shout that no child should be left behind, they still are, they have been, and they will be. But there are some children who have now become adults and who, for a multitude of reasons, long to finish their education. Night School, a documentary from Andrew Cohn, seeks to tell at least a few of their stories.
Night School focuses on three people attending a high school for adult learners in inner-city Indianapolis, a city that, in 2005, had one of the lowest high school graduation rates of any large American metropolis.
All three students come from differing circumstances: Greg, a single father, left...
Night School focuses on three people attending a high school for adult learners in inner-city Indianapolis, a city that, in 2005, had one of the lowest high school graduation rates of any large American metropolis.
All three students come from differing circumstances: Greg, a single father, left...
- 4/16/2016
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Top brass at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T have announced selections in the Us Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary Competition strands.
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
- 3/2/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
It’s been a couple months since the last edition of What’s Up Doc? placed Michael Moore’s surprise world premiere of Where To Invade Next at the top of this list and in the meantime much shuffling has taken place and much time has been spent on various new endeavors (namely my Buffalo-based film series, Cultivate Cinema Circle). Finally taking its rightful place at the top, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hagedus’ Unlocking the Cage is in the midst of being scored by composer James Lavino, according to Lavino’s own personal site. Though the project has been taking shape at its own leisurely pace, I’d expect to see the film making its festival debut in early 2016.
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
- 11/5/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The fall festival rush is upon us. Locarno is currently ramping up. Venice has released their line-up and Thom Powers and the Toronto International Film Festival team have dropped a bomb with a previously unannounced new feature from powerhouse docu-provocateur Michael Moore. It is truly a miracle that the production of a film such as Moore’s upcoming Where To Invade Next (see still above) managed to go completely undetected by the filmmaking community until it was literally announced to world premiere at one of the largest film festivals in the world. Programmed as a one of the key films in the Special Presentations section at Tiff, the film sees Moore telling “the Pentagon to ‘stand down’ — he will do the invading for America from now on.” Also announced to premiere at Tiff was Avi Lewis’ This Changes Everything, which has slowly been rising up this list, as well as...
- 8/7/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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