Editors Note: This story originally ran on December 22, 2016. A reminder to everyone in town: Michael Shannon has graced us with his towering, square-jawed presence for quite some time. Sure, his profile has risen exponentially in the last eight years following his Oscar-nominated supporting turn as John Givings, the…

Loving hair stylist Kenneth Walker boasts an accomplished resume, working closely with Denzel Washington from Ricochet to American Gangster. But in speaking with Walker about Jeff Nichols' latest, depicting the beautiful and historic love story between Richard and Mildred Loving, it's clear that his connection to the…

Usually when you are saying you are just trying to make a “truthful, quiet” movie, studio marketers will run the other way. But Jeff Nichols, writer-director of Focus Features’ Loving, came to the DGA theater earlier this month for the all-day The Contenders Presented By Deadline to tell a packed audience of Oscar and…

Jeff Nichols has spent the last several months struggling to explain his attraction to his latest project, Loving, the first story he has brought to film that wasn't his own invention. "But this morning I woke up with the epiphany of how to talk about it," he smiles, on a sofa at The London in West Hollywood in…

The case of Richard and Mildred Loving, who were sent to prison in 1958 for the simple sin of being married, and their subsequent effort to keep their marriage alive despite every obstacle thrown in their way by the state of Virginia, has now finally been turned into a feature film. It comes nearly 50 years after…

Editors Note: This Jeff Nichols interview originally appeared May 15, just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Loving. The dialogue seemed worth another look as the film opens this weekend to a wide audience as it continues its awards-season jaunt. There are few indie directors today ploughing their furrow…

Jeff Nichols’ brilliant Loving, which stormed Cannes in May before taking the Toronto Film Festival this weekend, seems certain to keep making noise over the coming months ahead of its November release. Quite a contradiction for a quiet, pensive film about Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple in 1960s…

EXCLUSIVE: As Jeff Nichols premieres the civil rights drama Loving here at Toronto this weekend, he’s preparing to take a less obvious look at the subject of racism. Nichols is making a deal at 20th Century Fox to write and direct a new version of Alien Nation, the 1988 science fiction thriller that took the…

Focus Features has dropped the official trailer for Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ powerful real-life story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving, portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga. Set in 1960s Virginia, the Lovings were married in Washington, DC and later arrested for violating Virginia’s…

EXCLUSIVE: If “Loving Day” didn’t already exist as it has for the past 13 years, then Focus Features just might have tried to invent it. Focus is releasing Loving on November 4, but it unveiled the 1950s- and ’60s-set interracial marriage story from writer-director Jeff Nichols at last month’s Cannes Film Festival and…

If any film has emerged from Cannes thus far as having the necessary legs to last the next nine months of Oscar conversation, it’s Jeff Nichols’ Loving, which premiered Monday night to a rapturous Palais crowd. It’s the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple in ’60s Virginia who were arrested and…

Universal Pictures shocked the indie sector with its third overhaul of prestige film division Focus Features in a relatively short time. The long-running New York-based team of James Schamus and Andrew Karpen gave way to a genre-centric operation run by Peter Schlessel from Los Angeles, and then the deck was…