We take our lessons where we find them. Too many of mine, I find at the movies. Maybe it's a generational fault; like others who came of age in the ’60s and early ’70s, I learned to think and talk in film lines. "I know it was you, Fredo." "Who are those guys?" "Hey, I'm walkin' here!" That sort of thing.
Lately, I've…
During today’s HBOTCA panel for The Plot Against America, actress Zoe Kazan gave an emotional response when asked about her grandfather Elia Kazan and his actions during the McCarthy era, when the two-time Oscar winning filmmaker named former colleagues before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
The Plot Again…
Zoe Kazan(The Plot Against America, The Deuce),Betty Gabriel (Get Out, Counterpart), Adrian Grenier (Entourage, Affairs of State) and Phoenix Raei (Stateless, The Heights) are set as leads in Clickbait,Netflix’s eight-episode character-based thriller series from Tony Ayres (The Slap), David Heyman (Once Upon A Time…
In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – the Coen brothers' series of six comedy vignettes – Tim Blake Nelson plays the titular role, and onstage recently at Deadline's The Contenders New York, he described Scruggs as "a great friend, but you wouldn't want him as an enemy.”
In classically quirky Coen style, Scruggs "lives by…
In the wake of the fires that have been affecting Los Angeles, Netflix announced Sunday that they have decided to cancel the red carpet for the AFI Fest screening of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Deadline has learned. However, the screening will go on as scheduled.
The western…
Joel and Ethan Coen’s Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs spans a series of distinct tales from the American frontier, weaving a narrative tapestry that tells the story of the Old West. During Deadline’s recent The Contenders London awards-season event, four of the film’s stars — Harry Melling, Bill Heck…
Showcasing just three movies, today's Netflix panel was a fascinating insight into the wide-ranging tastes of a company fast changing the landscape of the film industry.
First up was the Coen brothers' portmanteau western, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, which was represented by an all-actor line-up comprising Zoe…
Since it premiered at Sundance, Paul Dano's directorial debut Wildlife has been one of the more resilient titles on the festival circuit, stopping off at Cannes' Critics Week in May before pausing in Toronto on its way to the London Film Festival next month. Set in 1960s Montana, the film stars Ed Oxenbould as Joe…
Based on Richard Ford's 1990 novel, Wildlife marks Paul Dano's first feature film as a writer and director. The call of Ford's book was undeniable for Dano, who worked with Zoe Kazan to adapt it for the screen. Its tale of a family in turmoil in 1960s Montana is seen through the eyes of the 16-year-old son, Joe (Ed Oxe…
Paul Dano has been a Sundance fixture since his first trip to the festival when he was 16. He returns this year for the first time as a director, with his adaptation of Richard Ford’s Wildlife, co-written by Zoe Kazan. At Deadline’s Sundance Studio he expounded on his love of Ford’s work. When he picked up Wildlife…
“A Pakistani stand-up comedian falls in love with a young woman who promptly falls into a coma.” This kind of elevator pitch would feel contrived, if it weren’t also based on a true story. But truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.
As Emily V. Gordon drafted her screenplay for The Big Sick with husband Kumail Nanjian…
Is it odd that someone as prodigiously talented as Zoe Kazan has a thing for avatars of human consciousness? In 2012’s Ruby Sparks, the film she also wrote, she played a blocked novelist’s idealized woman come to life. It was a male-chauvinist fantasy – Ruby is beautiful, submissive, empty – that morphed into a…
