Spoiler alert, but Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) was, in fact, not my favorite film of the year. I figured I should just get that out of the way at the start for those of you who feared I might have the same #1 film as Brad and Mike, both of whom listed Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's latest as their favorite film from 2014. Don't get me wrong, I really liked Birdman, but in a surprise to even myself, it didn't make my list, which I think you can pretty much chalk up to the surprisingly good year 2014 wound up being. I was certainly among the scoffers last fall about it being a bit of down year, and just a month or so ago I was of the opinion 2014 offered a lot of films to like, but very few to love. After going through and finalizing my list, I'd like to retract that statement.
- 1/27/2015
- by Jordan Benesh
- Rope of Silicon
This time of year most everyone in the film world is talking about Oscar contenders, movies like Boyhood, Birdman, and Selma, which get more press each week as awards season marches on. However, I'm here today to provide a recommendation for a film you likely haven't heard of, which you can check out right now on VOD. The film is called Layover, and it is an impressive high-concept drama that took me completely by surprise. The first outing from writer-director Joshua Caldwell, Layover is very much in the vein of Richard Linklater's Before trilogy. Driven not by traditional plot mechanics but by the characters we see on screen and the way they interact with the world around them, Caldwell's primarily French-language film centers on a Parisian woman named Simone (Nathalie Fay) as she navigates the city of Los Angeles for a night after her connecting flight to Singapore is cancelled.
- 12/16/2014
- by Jordan Benesh
- Rope of Silicon
The prevailing optimism tells us that whenever the Hollywood studio system is underserving an audience or an entire genre, indie filmmakers will appear like the cavalry to fill the gaps. If that’s true (and it probably is), it’s fitting that Joshua Caldwell‘s Layover was released the same week Warner Bros. announced its next thousand years of DC superhero movies. It’s an antidote to spandex, a movie that won’t set the world on fire that comes at a time when we should be questioning the virtue of movies that set the world on fire. What it is, is a beautifully mature work from a promising young director that calmly and confidently explores themes like the inevitability of life’s pattern and the unnecessary transformative effect of random experiences. It also does all this while being far less pretentious than that sentence is. Simone (Nathalie Fay) lands in Los Angeles after flying from Paris...
- 10/16/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
As Richard Linklater has perhaps most famously shown, a lot can happen in one night. The hours between sunset and sunrise have inspired numerous filmmakers to tell stories about the drama, comedy, and romance that can unfold, and another tale of a nighttime connection has arrived with writer/director Joshua Caldwell's "Layover." Starring Nathalie Fay, Karl E. Landler, Bella Dayne, and Hal Ozsan, the story follows Simone, a young Parisian on the way to her wedding in Singapore, whose connecting flight in cancelled, forcing her to spend the night in Los Angeles. She heads into the city to meet a friend, but is soon left on her own downtown without a ride, where she meets a motorcyclist who takes her on an adventure that makes her question the future she has waiting for her. In the clip below, you witness the encounter that takes Simone through the streets of L.
- 10/13/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This weekend, I saw a movie at the Seattle International Film Festival that had a budget of $6,000. Joshua Caldwell’s Layover, which had its world premiere here, was shot in 11 days in Los Angeles and takes place during the course of a single evening, as a itinerant frenchwoman Simone (played by Nathalie Fay) re-connects with a […]
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- 6/3/2014
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
We have added a new set of pictures from the event "FX Summer Comedies Party Arrival".Noureen DeWulf attending the FX Summer Comedies Party.Photo copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Brooke Langton attending the FX Summer Comedies Party.Photo copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Katlin Mastandrea attending the FX Summer Comedies Party.Photo copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Darius McCrary attending the FX Summer Comedies Party.Photo copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Russell Brand attending the FX Summer Comedies Party.Photo copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Nathalie Fay attending the FX Summer Comedies Party.Photo copyright by Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos. Eugene Byrd - FX Summer Comedies Party - Arrivals - Lure - Hollywood, CA, USA...
- 6/29/2012
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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