"It's rare that you find a female character who is so challenging," Elisabeth Moss says of her role as writer Shirley Jackson in the deeply fictional Shirley. "Challenging as to me as an actor and challenging to the other characters in the film and has so much vulnerability and so many soft spots, but is also so…
It is not surprising to see Neon behind the indie film Shirley. The movie won acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has a sterling cast led by Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman, plus subject matter that should thrill the art house crowd. Coming on the heels of the hot distributor’s…
Shirley, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, is a fictionalized story inspired by real-life horror author Shirley Jackson and her husband Stanley Hyman.
“This is based on a work of fiction,” director Josephine Decker noted about the film, which is an adaptation of Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2014…
EXCLUSIVE:Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg have been set in the feature film Shirley about the famed horror author Shirley Jackson. The film will be the next from Madeline’s Madeline director Josephine Decker adapted by I Love Dick‘s Sarah Gubbins from Susan Scarf Merrell’s book of the same name. The film is…
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to Madeline’s Madeline, Josephine Decker’s latest pic that had its world premiere in the NEXT section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It later bowed in Europe at Berlin. A theatrical release later in the year is planned.
The film written and directed by Decker…
One of the most celebrated female directors of recent years—recognized as part of Time Warner’s OneFifty and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film—who brought her first two narrative features to the Berlinale Forum, Josephine Decker’s latest, Madeline’s Madeline, premiered at Sundance on…
As the Berlin Film Festival approaches so do ever more titles to be showcased across the sections. The Forum sidebar has now been completed at 44 films, with still others to come as Special Screenings. Among the offerings are Korean helmer Hong Sang-soo’s Grass, a cheerfully melancholy story about the guests at a…
As filmmakers and multi-talented artists, you can't get much more nakedly transparent than Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell, who bare their bodies and souls with their Tribeca-premiering documentary Flames. Shot over the course of five years, the project charts the immensely passionate and profound relationship…
