“Harley” director Jean-Cosme Delaloye has wrapped production on a documentary celebrating pioneering Detroit techno music producer Carl Craig.
“Desire: The Carl Craig Story” is structured as an intimate portrait of Craig and an ode to his beloved Detroit. With Detroit’s decline and recovery as a backdrop, the film follows the career of producer whose genre-defying techno has been performed to jazz enthusiasts at the Montreux Jazz Festival and in the premier classical auditoriums around the world, including Carnegie Hall. The film features artists including Gilles Peterson, Roni Size, Laurent Garnier, DJ Minx, Kenny Larkin, Moritz von Oswald and James Lavelle, who worked with Craig and played a major role in bringing techno and electronic music to the masses over the years.
The globe-hopping documentary moves from dance floor to dance floor with stops in Detroit, the Montreux Jazz Festival, London, Bristol, Chicago, New York and Ciudad Juarez among many other places.
“Desire: The Carl Craig Story” is structured as an intimate portrait of Craig and an ode to his beloved Detroit. With Detroit’s decline and recovery as a backdrop, the film follows the career of producer whose genre-defying techno has been performed to jazz enthusiasts at the Montreux Jazz Festival and in the premier classical auditoriums around the world, including Carnegie Hall. The film features artists including Gilles Peterson, Roni Size, Laurent Garnier, DJ Minx, Kenny Larkin, Moritz von Oswald and James Lavelle, who worked with Craig and played a major role in bringing techno and electronic music to the masses over the years.
The globe-hopping documentary moves from dance floor to dance floor with stops in Detroit, the Montreux Jazz Festival, London, Bristol, Chicago, New York and Ciudad Juarez among many other places.
- 2/13/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
It's almost time for DesignerCon! The annual art and design convention is hitting the Anaheim Convention Center in California from November 18 through November 20 with over 300,000 square feet packed with over 700 vendors, art and custom collectible shows, live demonstrations, and tons more. Of course, that's the perfect place for our friends at Mondo to release a bunch of cool new exclusives that fans will want to get their hands on.
/Film is proud to debut every single one of the exclusives that Mondo will be bringing to DesignerCon 2022, including "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting," a vinyl record and book bundle featuring exclusive essays, original recollections, contributions from cultural luminaries, and art and visual ephemera. There's also plenty for Godzilla fans, including an assortment of collectible figures featuring the King of Monsters and a few of his adversaries from over the years, as well as some fantastic artwork. "Masters of the Universe...
/Film is proud to debut every single one of the exclusives that Mondo will be bringing to DesignerCon 2022, including "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting," a vinyl record and book bundle featuring exclusive essays, original recollections, contributions from cultural luminaries, and art and visual ephemera. There's also plenty for Godzilla fans, including an assortment of collectible figures featuring the King of Monsters and a few of his adversaries from over the years, as well as some fantastic artwork. "Masters of the Universe...
- 11/16/2022
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
Roland may be best known for their synthesizers and keyboards, but the DJ-approved brand is making noise in the fashion space as well.
After launching a series of hypebeast-worthy apparel pieces through its Roland Lifestyle site (think retro-inspired T-shirts and sweats), the brand is teaming up LA streetwear company Pleasures on a new capsule collection that pays tribute to the legendary UK record label Mo’Wax and the electronic group, Unkle.
Roland and Pleasures worked directly with Mo’Wax and Unkle founder James Lavelle on the collection, which features T-shirts,...
After launching a series of hypebeast-worthy apparel pieces through its Roland Lifestyle site (think retro-inspired T-shirts and sweats), the brand is teaming up LA streetwear company Pleasures on a new capsule collection that pays tribute to the legendary UK record label Mo’Wax and the electronic group, Unkle.
Roland and Pleasures worked directly with Mo’Wax and Unkle founder James Lavelle on the collection, which features T-shirts,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Even in the current golden age of innovative television, the popular British crime drama “Peaky Blinders” has set a daring standard for its use of music, with original songs by Nick Cave, Laura Marling, Johnny Cash, the White Stripes and many more. Composer, music director, producer and artist Antony Genn, whose sprawling career has included stints with Pulp, Joe Strummer, Elastica and his own group The Hours, is responsible for the show’s music since season four, and brings a refreshingly punk attitude to an often sedate musical form that adds even more grit to the already gritty Cillian Murphy-starring show.
Genn’s musical career began in his teens when schoolfriend Jarvis Cocker asked him, “Do you fancy playing bass in our band?” “I don’t know how to play bass,” Genn replied. “Don’t worry about that, none of us can really play.” As is shown by this...
Genn’s musical career began in his teens when schoolfriend Jarvis Cocker asked him, “Do you fancy playing bass in our band?” “I don’t know how to play bass,” Genn replied. “Don’t worry about that, none of us can really play.” As is shown by this...
- 6/5/2019
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit
For some, this weekend is the craziest of awards season, as the travel crunch is on from events in L.A. to NYC to London, as nominees have to figure out where to be from the Asc and USC awards to the Grammys to the BAFTAs. The latter two are on Sunday, so at least one nominee up for major awards at both had to make a Solomon-like decision. That would be Lady Gaga, whose A Star Is Born music is expected to score big for her at the Grammys and where she will be performing. Nominated for Lead Actress and Original Music at the BAFTAs, she could be a winner there as well (at least in the music category), but she won’t be in London to accept.
That will have to go to co-music nominees Lukas Nelson and Bradley Cooper,...
For some, this weekend is the craziest of awards season, as the travel crunch is on from events in L.A. to NYC to London, as nominees have to figure out where to be from the Asc and USC awards to the Grammys to the BAFTAs. The latter two are on Sunday, so at least one nominee up for major awards at both had to make a Solomon-like decision. That would be Lady Gaga, whose A Star Is Born music is expected to score big for her at the Grammys and where she will be performing. Nominated for Lead Actress and Original Music at the BAFTAs, she could be a winner there as well (at least in the music category), but she won’t be in London to accept.
That will have to go to co-music nominees Lukas Nelson and Bradley Cooper,...
- 2/9/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In his latest podcast/interview, hos Stuart Wright talks The Man From Mo’Wax with the films director Matthew Jones.
James Lavelle played his first DJ set at 14, launched pioneering record label Mo’Wax at 18 and released the genre defining Unkle album Psyence Fiction at 22. His phenomenally rapid rise seemed limitless, but it’s only when you’re going so fast that the wheels fall off. The Man from Mo’Wax tells the remarkable story of one of the most enigmatic yet influential figures in contemporary British culture. Unearthed from over 700 hours of footage including exclusive personal archive spanning three decades, we get the rare opportunity to watch a boy become a man in the world of music. The result is an exhilarating, no holds-barred ride into the life of an extraordinary man and an equally extraordinary era, taking in some decidedly flawed decision-making (both personal and professional), Lavelle emerges...
James Lavelle played his first DJ set at 14, launched pioneering record label Mo’Wax at 18 and released the genre defining Unkle album Psyence Fiction at 22. His phenomenally rapid rise seemed limitless, but it’s only when you’re going so fast that the wheels fall off. The Man from Mo’Wax tells the remarkable story of one of the most enigmatic yet influential figures in contemporary British culture. Unearthed from over 700 hours of footage including exclusive personal archive spanning three decades, we get the rare opportunity to watch a boy become a man in the world of music. The result is an exhilarating, no holds-barred ride into the life of an extraordinary man and an equally extraordinary era, taking in some decidedly flawed decision-making (both personal and professional), Lavelle emerges...
- 9/1/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Theatre moguls launch UK group Trafalgar Entertainment; exclusive interview with distribution CEO.
Fledgling UK distribution outfit Trafalgar Releasing is eyeing growth in the gaming and international distribution markets.
Little has been publicly known about the structure and growth plan of the new player until now but the company is officially launching today after theatre impresarios Sir Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire OBE acquired Lyn Goleby’s Picturehouse distribution assets in a multi-million-pound deal earlier this year.
Former Picturehouse MD Goleby had previously bought out Picturehouse’s distribution assets from Cineworld, taking a number of key staff in the process.
Panter and Squire,...
Fledgling UK distribution outfit Trafalgar Releasing is eyeing growth in the gaming and international distribution markets.
Little has been publicly known about the structure and growth plan of the new player until now but the company is officially launching today after theatre impresarios Sir Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire OBE acquired Lyn Goleby’s Picturehouse distribution assets in a multi-million-pound deal earlier this year.
Former Picturehouse MD Goleby had previously bought out Picturehouse’s distribution assets from Cineworld, taking a number of key staff in the process.
Panter and Squire,...
- 6/22/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Man from Mo’Wax is a very strange music documentary. Most films of this ilk are glowing accounts of an individual or band’s inexorable rise to the top of the charts, demonstrating their musical virtuosity, inherent genius and the growing adoration of their fans. Here that curve is inverted, director Matthew Jones painstakingly dissecting a person with next to no discernible musical talent as his career crashes and burns.
That person is producer and DJ James Lavelle – hardly a household name – yet kind of an icon to dance music aficionados. His career spans three distinct periods: the first is that of a musically teenage wunderkind who sets up his own cooler than cool record label, Mo’Wax Records. The second is as creative leader of Unkle, where he collaborated with various musical legends to create a series of increasingly poorly received and badly selling albums. The third follows...
That person is producer and DJ James Lavelle – hardly a household name – yet kind of an icon to dance music aficionados. His career spans three distinct periods: the first is that of a musically teenage wunderkind who sets up his own cooler than cool record label, Mo’Wax Records. The second is as creative leader of Unkle, where he collaborated with various musical legends to create a series of increasingly poorly received and badly selling albums. The third follows...
- 10/18/2016
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Calvary
Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh
Ireland/UK, 2014
Director John Michael McDonagh wastes no time in establishing the stakes of Calvary. In a darkened confessional, Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) is told that he is going to die in a week. The man planning to kill the priest explains it is exactly because Father Lavelle has done nothing wrong that he is going to die. Of the two McDonagh brothers, John Michael is known for his irreverent comedy The Guard, but with this latest release he joins the ranks of the most fatalistic of Irish artists.
With the seven days allotted to the father, he seeks to sort out his affairs while attending to his parish. The locals in question are made up of Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, M. Emmet Walsh and Isaach De Bankolé all existing at varying levels of disillusionment with the church...
Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh
Ireland/UK, 2014
Director John Michael McDonagh wastes no time in establishing the stakes of Calvary. In a darkened confessional, Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) is told that he is going to die in a week. The man planning to kill the priest explains it is exactly because Father Lavelle has done nothing wrong that he is going to die. Of the two McDonagh brothers, John Michael is known for his irreverent comedy The Guard, but with this latest release he joins the ranks of the most fatalistic of Irish artists.
With the seven days allotted to the father, he seeks to sort out his affairs while attending to his parish. The locals in question are made up of Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, M. Emmet Walsh and Isaach De Bankolé all existing at varying levels of disillusionment with the church...
- 8/25/2014
- by Colin Biggs
- SoundOnSight
In Calvary, a priest, Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson), spends what might be the last week of his life with his faith under incessant, bitter assault. I mean, this guy puts up with one insult to his piety after another. The movie begins with Lavelle hearing a confession from an unseen man who says that for seven years, beginning at age five, he was raped by a priest, now dead, and that he’ll take revenge by killing a “good priest” — Lavelle — in a week’s time. In a different sort of film, Lavelle would jump out of the confessional and confront the man, or else go to the police and spell out the threat. In this one, Lavelle wanders moodily around the Irish West Coast as various other characters and possibly God Himself remind him of the corruption, impotence, and general irrelevance of the Catholic Church. It’s a...
- 8/1/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Calvary. The place of the skull, wound through Latin into English from the ancient Aramaic name Golgotha. This is the place, outside the walls of Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified. It’s not exactly a light title for a movie, but writer/director John Michael McDonagh isn’t interested in levity. He opens with a quote from St. Augustine: “Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.” Referring to the two men crucified next to Christ, it’s an ominous declaration of ambiguity. This film does not aim to end on a note of simple closure. That said, this is not a sober and humorless cry of despair from the heart of Catholicism. That St. Augustine quote has cropped up once before in the work of an iconoclastic Irishman, Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot, in its god-killing irreverence, evokes the two thieves as an example of the...
- 7/31/2014
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Calvary director/writer John Michael McDonagh with Kelly Reilly at the Explorers Club: "Well, in Ireland, 'dirty little whore', it's almost like endearing."
John Michael McDonagh's Calvary stars Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, Chris O'Dowd, Isaach De Bankolé, Domhnall Gleeson, Dylan Moran with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly's Marie-Josée Croze, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, M Emmet Walsh and David Wilmot. Fox Searchlight Pictures celebrated with a luncheon at the Explorers Club in New York with guests including Jimmy Breslin, Dana Delany, Jodi Applegate, Annette Insdorf, Eugene Hernandez, Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross.
I spoke with Kelly Reilly and what started out with Monica Vitti in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert and Tippi Hedren's style in Hitchcock's The Birds, quickly turned to themes of forgiveness which brought us to develop a quick theory of a Holy Female Trinity holding Calvary together, before lunch was served.
Brendan Gleeson...
John Michael McDonagh's Calvary stars Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, Chris O'Dowd, Isaach De Bankolé, Domhnall Gleeson, Dylan Moran with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly's Marie-Josée Croze, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, M Emmet Walsh and David Wilmot. Fox Searchlight Pictures celebrated with a luncheon at the Explorers Club in New York with guests including Jimmy Breslin, Dana Delany, Jodi Applegate, Annette Insdorf, Eugene Hernandez, Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross.
I spoke with Kelly Reilly and what started out with Monica Vitti in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert and Tippi Hedren's style in Hitchcock's The Birds, quickly turned to themes of forgiveness which brought us to develop a quick theory of a Holy Female Trinity holding Calvary together, before lunch was served.
Brendan Gleeson...
- 7/25/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, Isaach De Bankolé, M. Emmet Walsh, Marie-Josée Croze, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot | Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh
In 2012 writer and director John Michael McDonagh broke out worldwide with the indie action-comedy The Guard. It’s story of an unapologetic Irish policemen teaming up with a fish out of water FBI Agent had all the initial makings of a classic 80’s buddy cop film. It took that cliché format and added some sharp orthodox absurdity to make something refreshing original.
In his latest film Calvary he is once again teaming up with veteran actor Brendan Gleeson to tell a story of a benevolent priest trying to come to terms with the ever-increasing cynical world around him. McDonagh blends his dark sense of humor with melancholic storytelling to craft an enduring tale about the hardships faith sustains...
In 2012 writer and director John Michael McDonagh broke out worldwide with the indie action-comedy The Guard. It’s story of an unapologetic Irish policemen teaming up with a fish out of water FBI Agent had all the initial makings of a classic 80’s buddy cop film. It took that cliché format and added some sharp orthodox absurdity to make something refreshing original.
In his latest film Calvary he is once again teaming up with veteran actor Brendan Gleeson to tell a story of a benevolent priest trying to come to terms with the ever-increasing cynical world around him. McDonagh blends his dark sense of humor with melancholic storytelling to craft an enduring tale about the hardships faith sustains...
- 7/25/2014
- by Dan Clark
- Nerdly
When you become a priest, and you’ve done so for purely innocent reasons, you’re probably under the impression that you’re in the clear for the rest of your life. You’re doing the lord’s work and keeping to yourself, so there’s really no reason to be in fear for your safety or think that anyone would want to target you for a crime. But them’s the brakes, Father. Anyone who studies the Bible should have a firm grasp on knowing that life isn’t fair. The first trailer for Calvary presents Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) attempting to do his job, listening to confessions of the weary and the sinning all day long. For those unfamiliar with the Catholic practice, the priest sits on one side of the confession booth, shrouded from view of the “sinner” on the other side of the panel (and that person remains anonymous to the priest...
- 5/16/2014
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
A priest is told he will be killed for a crime he didn't commit in the new trailer for the black comedy “Calvary.” Brendan Gleeson plays Father James Lavelle, a hard-working and good-natured priest in a tiny Irish county. Everything seems normal until a member of his church confesses that he is going to kill Lavelle next Sunday, claiming that a priest raped him when he was seven. Since that priest is now dead, Lavelle is a target just because of his holy position. Also read: ‘Godzilla’ Screenwriter Explains Why There's So Little Godzilla in ‘Godzilla’ The movie also stars Brendan's son,...
- 5/14/2014
- by Matthew Bramlett
- The Wrap
Following a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Calvary, the latest film from John Michael McDonagh (The Guard) is coming to theaters late this summer, and the theatrical trailer has just arrived. Brendan Gleeson, who also starred in The Guard, leads the film as Father James, a good priest in a small town who only wants to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral and even amusing problems. However, for some reason he still feels some kind of dark forces closing in on his life. This looks like another dark sort of comedy in the same vein as The Guard, but maybe not as good. Watch! Here's the theatrical trailer for John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, originally from Apple: Calvary is written and directed by John Michael McDonagh (The Guard), brother of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths director Martin McDonagh. The film follows Brendan Gleeson as Father James Lavelle,...
- 5/14/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
It’s hard not to view the works of John Michael McDonagh in the context of his younger brother Martin. Both of their debut features rejoiced in anti-pc humour and swearisms, and both heavily featured the stoic, ham-faced charm of Brendan Gleeson. John Michael’s The Guard managed to hold its own in the end, with its clever take on the Old Hat buddy cop sub-genre distancing itself from the younger McDonagh’s purgatorious masterpiece In Bruges. Calvary is a different story, though, and the older McDonagh’s difficult second film treads very close indeed to the theater work of his younger sibling, but never quite manages to match it.
Gleeson is back once more, this time as Father James Lavelle, a Catholic priest in a rural Irish village. Things aren’t going too well for the Father, and the film kicks off with a member of his congregation threatening to murder him mid-Confession.
Gleeson is back once more, this time as Father James Lavelle, a Catholic priest in a rural Irish village. Things aren’t going too well for the Father, and the film kicks off with a member of his congregation threatening to murder him mid-Confession.
- 4/27/2014
- by Dominic Mill
- We Got This Covered
For his feature debut, writer/director John Michael McDonagh delivered the supremely dark and funny The Guard, which featured one of Brendan Gleeson's best performances as Sergeant Jerry Boyle. Gleeson is back in the lead role for McDonagh's follow up, Calvary, playing Father James Lavelle, a character who is Boyle's opposite in every way. The film itself is also the polar opposite to The Guard, with more of a heavy dramatic tone peppered with humour so black, it's almost Obsidian. The only good man in a village of spiteful degenerates who delight in taunting him at every turn, Lavelle fruitlessly spends his days trying to find and coax out some good in his parishioners. You get the feeling he's a broken man already from the opening shot of his face staring off into the distance during confession, but soon he is sent even lower when threatened with death, given...
- 4/12/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Review Simon Brew 11 Apr 2014 - 08:40
Brendon Gleeson gives a career-best performance in John Michael McDonagh's Calvary. Here's our review...
The first pairing of Brendon Gleeson with writer/director John Michael McDonagh resulted in something of a treat: the hugely entertaining, occasionally bumpy The Guard. Bustling with brilliant lines and grounded by an excellent turn from Gleeson, it's a film that holds more than steady on repeated viewings.
The pair's reunion, in Calvary, finds neither looking to retread old ground. Whilst not short of sprinkles of wit, this is a darker piece of work, but no less well told. Gleeson this time takes the role of a priest, Father James Lavelle, who we discover is a heart of good in a society of troubled people. In fact, one of them, right at the start of the film, reveals that he's going to kill Father Lavelle during confession. We don't...
Brendon Gleeson gives a career-best performance in John Michael McDonagh's Calvary. Here's our review...
The first pairing of Brendon Gleeson with writer/director John Michael McDonagh resulted in something of a treat: the hugely entertaining, occasionally bumpy The Guard. Bustling with brilliant lines and grounded by an excellent turn from Gleeson, it's a film that holds more than steady on repeated viewings.
The pair's reunion, in Calvary, finds neither looking to retread old ground. Whilst not short of sprinkles of wit, this is a darker piece of work, but no less well told. Gleeson this time takes the role of a priest, Father James Lavelle, who we discover is a heart of good in a society of troubled people. In fact, one of them, right at the start of the film, reveals that he's going to kill Father Lavelle during confession. We don't...
- 4/11/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
In John Michael McDonagh's exhilarating and angry satirical drama, a priest faces a deadly high noon with a murderous, damaged parishioner
John Michael McDonagh could yet be the Anthony Mann or the Fred Zinnemann of modern Irish cinema. He is at home in Ireland's Wild West, and makes the Knocknarea mountain of County Sligo look like northern Europe's answer to Monument Valley. His lawman here is Brendan Gleeson, playing Father James Lavelle, an embattled priest facing a high-noon confrontation with one of his flock. Gleeson is craggy, troubled, burdened, drolly resentful part Gary Cooper, part Pat O'Brien, part Clement Freud.
Calvary is a different proposition from his black comedy The Guard, from 2011, in which Gleeson played a highly unconventional cop. It's bleaker and dourer and less anti-clerical than you might expect. There are fewer laugh lines and zingers. Occasionally it looks as if it is straining for maturity. The...
John Michael McDonagh could yet be the Anthony Mann or the Fred Zinnemann of modern Irish cinema. He is at home in Ireland's Wild West, and makes the Knocknarea mountain of County Sligo look like northern Europe's answer to Monument Valley. His lawman here is Brendan Gleeson, playing Father James Lavelle, an embattled priest facing a high-noon confrontation with one of his flock. Gleeson is craggy, troubled, burdened, drolly resentful part Gary Cooper, part Pat O'Brien, part Clement Freud.
Calvary is a different proposition from his black comedy The Guard, from 2011, in which Gleeson played a highly unconventional cop. It's bleaker and dourer and less anti-clerical than you might expect. There are fewer laugh lines and zingers. Occasionally it looks as if it is straining for maturity. The...
- 4/10/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Having taken on a starring role in John Michael McDonagh’s debut feature The Guard, Irish actor Brendan Gleeson returns in the filmmaker’s sophomore endeavour, playing Father James Lavelle in Calvary.
We were fortunate enough to discuss the role with the man himself, and how he went about combining the affable, endearing qualities to the character, with the more brutal. He also speaks about the film’s somewhat shocking opening line, and why he would like to complete the unofficial ‘Glorified Suicides’ trilogy of films with the man in the director’s chair.
Calvary is released on April 11th, and you can read our review here.
The post The HeyUGuys Interview: Brendan Gleeson talks Calvary appeared first on HeyUGuys.
We were fortunate enough to discuss the role with the man himself, and how he went about combining the affable, endearing qualities to the character, with the more brutal. He also speaks about the film’s somewhat shocking opening line, and why he would like to complete the unofficial ‘Glorified Suicides’ trilogy of films with the man in the director’s chair.
Calvary is released on April 11th, and you can read our review here.
The post The HeyUGuys Interview: Brendan Gleeson talks Calvary appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 4/10/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exhaustion is settling in but the movies have been consistently good to great. Four movies in a row that variably thrilled or entertained me but definitely left with strong impressions of unforgettable characters. And one of them may be a masterpiece.
We’ll start at the top. John Michael McDonagh, brother of Martin (“In Bruges”), who wrote and directed “The Guard,” has done something truly special with “Calvary”, a fascinating dissection of religion and its impact on an Irish community, or rather lack thereof. Brendan Gleeson gives us another amazing performance and McDonagh’s script challenges in unexpected ways. It’s a film that’s dense with dialogue and philosophical conversation that truly takes its time to come together. Like when you’re going home. As I watched “Calvary,” I had some difficult digging through its themes to the point that I wasn’t sure it worked at all until the very end,...
We’ll start at the top. John Michael McDonagh, brother of Martin (“In Bruges”), who wrote and directed “The Guard,” has done something truly special with “Calvary”, a fascinating dissection of religion and its impact on an Irish community, or rather lack thereof. Brendan Gleeson gives us another amazing performance and McDonagh’s script challenges in unexpected ways. It’s a film that’s dense with dialogue and philosophical conversation that truly takes its time to come together. Like when you’re going home. As I watched “Calvary,” I had some difficult digging through its themes to the point that I wasn’t sure it worked at all until the very end,...
- 1/22/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Park City - From the first line of dialogue in John Michael McDonaugh's second feature "Calvary," it's clear we're in for a very compromised comedy indeed: as rural Irish priest Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) sits impassively in his dim confession booth, an unseen male parishioner bluntly says, "I first tasted semen when I was seven years old." The words are so ugly, so out of step with their serene surroundings, that a large proportion of the Sundance audience responded with a queasy laugh, as if it were a dirty joke cracked at a funeral. But it's no joke at a holy...
- 1/21/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
John Michael McDonagh's 2011 directorial debut The Guard was one of the stronger debut films of recent years, combining as it did McDonagh's fabulous script, a strong but not overwhelming sense of visual style and a blazing performance from leading man Brendan Gleeson. Three years later McDonagh is back with his sophomore effort, Calvary, and as strong as his debut picture already was this is a massive step forward, a complex and emotionally devastating picture shot through with wry dark humor and - once again - an utterly arresting performance from Gleeson. Clearly the is a creative collaboration with the potential to yield remarkable fruit for many years yet to come.Gleeson is Father James Lavelle, parish priest to a small coastal village. Lavelle is a...
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- 1/21/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Welcome to the seventh installment of Trailer Park, our regular look at the latest trailers to hit the interwebs. This “volume” is packed with trailers for a whole host of new movies including: Interstellar, Edge of Tomorrrow, Calvary, How To Make Money Selling Drugs, Devil’s Due, Pompeii 3D, 300: Rise of an Empire, and The Devil’s Bargain.
Interstellar
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Edge of Tomorrrow
The epic action of ‘Edge of Tomorrrow’ unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously...
Interstellar
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Edge of Tomorrrow
The epic action of ‘Edge of Tomorrrow’ unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously...
- 12/14/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
John Michael McDonagh made his feature directorial debut with 2011’s acclaimed The Guard. In the spring, he returns with his sophomore feature, Calvary, recently announced as making its debut at Sundance next month.
Brendan Gleeson reunites with McDonagh following his Golden Globe-nominated performance in The Guard. And now eOne has released the first trailer, teasing what’s to come from the comedy-drama.
After being told he will be murdered in one week’s time Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) finds himself with seven days to determine his would be killer and put his affairs in order. Prevented by the “seal of confessional” from going to the police, Father Lavelle opts to engage with and tries to understand his small minded and morally scurrilous parishioners with the hope of dissuading the one amongst them intent on his death.
Gleeson is joined by a very impressive cast, led by Kelly Reilly, his son Domhnall Gleeson,...
Brendan Gleeson reunites with McDonagh following his Golden Globe-nominated performance in The Guard. And now eOne has released the first trailer, teasing what’s to come from the comedy-drama.
After being told he will be murdered in one week’s time Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) finds himself with seven days to determine his would be killer and put his affairs in order. Prevented by the “seal of confessional” from going to the police, Father Lavelle opts to engage with and tries to understand his small minded and morally scurrilous parishioners with the hope of dissuading the one amongst them intent on his death.
Gleeson is joined by a very impressive cast, led by Kelly Reilly, his son Domhnall Gleeson,...
- 12/12/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With his second film, director John Michael McDonagh has quite a task in trying to create something that was half as memorable as his first: 2011.s howlingly funny comedy The Guard. And it probably didn.t help that his brother, Martin, followed up In Bruges with last year.s excellent ensemble crime comedy, Seven Psychopaths. Judging from the above trailer, though, McDonagh is headed in a more introspective direction with the dark comedy Calvary, and I can.t wait to be a part of its flock. For Calvary, Brendan Gleeson reteams with the director to play Father James Lavelle, a priest with nothing but inspiration and hope to pass to his overly troubled parishioners without appearing sanctimonious. Trouble comes to him in the oddest of ways when someone walks into the other side of the confession window and threatens to murder him for being too kind to people, giving him...
- 12/12/2013
- cinemablend.com
After being told he will be murdered in one week’s time, Father Lavelle has to find out who his would be killer is.
After being told he will be murdered in one week’s time Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) finds himself with seven days to determine his would be killer and put his affairs in order. Prevented by the “seal of confessional” from going to the police, Father Lavelle opts to engage with and tries to understand his small minded and morally scurrilous parishioners with the hope of dissuading the one amongst them intent on his death.
Calvary is released in the UK on 11 April 2014.
After being told he will be murdered in one week’s time Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) finds himself with seven days to determine his would be killer and put his affairs in order. Prevented by the “seal of confessional” from going to the police, Father Lavelle opts to engage with and tries to understand his small minded and morally scurrilous parishioners with the hope of dissuading the one amongst them intent on his death.
Calvary is released in the UK on 11 April 2014.
- 12/12/2013
- by admin
- Pure Movies
The premiere category was just announced for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival featuring films like A Most Wanted Man with Philip Seymour Hoffman and the promising action-packed sequel The Raid 2. Another exciting entry to the festival in this special category is the newest film from The Guard director John Michael McDonagh. Reateaming with Brendan Gleeson, the story follows the In Bruges star as Father James Lavelle, a priest who has just found himself threatened during a private confession and is unsure what to do. It has some dark dry comedy helped along by Chris O'Dowd, Dylan Moran and more in this first trailer, and we'll definitely be checking it out at the festival next month. Watch the trailer now! Here's the first trailer for John Michael McDonagh's Calvary from eOne (via YouTube): Calvary is written and directed by John Michael McDonagh (The Guard), brother of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths director Martin McDonagh.
- 12/10/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
If you go into John Michael McDonagh's Calvary expecting the same sorts of laughs as the director's previous Brendan Gleeson starring The Guard (trailer), you might find yourself a tidbit disappointed.
The Sundance selected Calvary stars Gleeson as a priest who is told he will be murdered in a week's time but is prevented by "seal of confessional" from telling anyone about the threat – including the police. The priest then spends the remainder of his last week on earth to set his affairs in order. There's a hint here that Gleeson's Father James Lavelle character might be hiding something nasty and there are a few chuckles here and t [Continued ...]...
The Sundance selected Calvary stars Gleeson as a priest who is told he will be murdered in a week's time but is prevented by "seal of confessional" from telling anyone about the threat – including the police. The priest then spends the remainder of his last week on earth to set his affairs in order. There's a hint here that Gleeson's Father James Lavelle character might be hiding something nasty and there are a few chuckles here and t [Continued ...]...
- 12/10/2013
- QuietEarth.us
Brendan Gleeson and The Guard's writer-director John Michael McDonagh have reunited for Calvary, another tale of a tortured soul but one who's a good bit more morally sound. The first trailer for the film has arrived online. As opposed to the drunken, corrupt cop of The Guard, the new dark comedy will follow Gleeson’s Father James Lavelle, a priest with a good heart whose mission in life is to make the world a better place. But he’s constantly disappointed by the hateful, argumentative and downright bitter attitudes of the other inhabitants in his small county town. Events take a turn into even darker territory when his life is threatened during confession…McDonagh has gathered quite the cast around his main man, with Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Riley, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran and Domhnall Gleeson among those who populate the tiny location. From the looks of this, it...
- 12/10/2013
- EmpireOnline
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs will perform at a music event on the day the ancient Mayan civilisation predicts the world will end. A host of the world's biggest DJ acts will play at Playa del Carmen in Mexico on December 20-21, 2012 to coincide with the planets aligning. The event - which is being organised by Crosstown Rebels - will mark the end-date of a 25,625-year-long cycle and fifth and final cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Massive Attack's Robert '3D' Del Naja will perform alongside Unkle's James Lavelle to include live recreations and re-workings of Massive Attack's music. Danish DJ Trentemøller, Jamie (more)...
- 9/24/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Brendan Gleeson and John Michael McDonagh, riding high on the phenomenal success of The Guard, are joining forces again for Calvary. Written and to be directed by McDonagh, Gleeson will play Father James Lavelle. A priest whose mission in life, is to make the world a better place. Complete with small country village hatred and bitterness and a threat to his life in a confession box, this could well be something to keep an eye out for. Chris O Dowd and Aidan Gillen are also pencilled in to star alongside Gleeson. Watch this space!
- 2/9/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Brendan Gleeson and his Guard director John Michael McDonagh had such a fine old time working together that they’ve been making plans to reunite on a film ever since that one wrapped. Now, the new movie is actually in the works, with Gleeson set for Calvary alongside Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly and Aidan Gillen.As opposed to the drunken, corrupt cop of The Guard, the new dark comedy will follow Father James Lavelle, a priest with a good heart whose mission in life is to make the world a better place. But he’s constantly disappointed by the hateful, argumentative and downright bitter attitudes of the other inhabitants in his small county town. And then events take a turn into even darker territory when his life is threatened during confession…With Gleeson as Lavelle, there’s no word on who the rest of the cast will play. McDonagh...
- 2/9/2012
- EmpireOnline
The Jonas Brothers have a very clear, straight-ahead sound, but the individual members have more esoteric aspirations that come alive in their individual work. Last year's album by Nick Jonas and the Administration traded in power pop for a throwback brand of synthed-up funk rock, and Joe Jonas' upcoming solo project promises to dive headlong into a more electronic place. In a recent conversation with MTV News, Joe revealed that his biggest inspirations lately have been acts like Daft Punk and Justice. "Artists you can dance to, electro stuff, DJs in Europe — they're all very exciting to me," he explained while sitting next to producer Danja.
Of course, dance music crossed over into the pop world in a big way in 2010, with a handful of DJs grabbing mainstream attention (like David Guetta and the members of Swedish House Mafia) and many high-profile stars (including Usher, whose "Omg" was declared...
Of course, dance music crossed over into the pop world in a big way in 2010, with a handful of DJs grabbing mainstream attention (like David Guetta and the members of Swedish House Mafia) and many high-profile stars (including Usher, whose "Omg" was declared...
- 1/19/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
The Cult frontman Ian Astbury is hoping to add documentarian to his resume by making a movie based on Nobel Prize-winning author Andrea Smith's book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
The rocker, who has always been fascinated by Native American culture, has teamed up with filmmaker Lorna Love to develop the hard-hitting movie.
He tells Billboard.com, "It's (film) to do with matricide and how our culture destroys women, and how society still isn't working for the woman.
"We haven't been in a place where women have been in charge for thousands of years. That's one of the underlying things of the documentary."
And Astbury admits that making the movie with Lavelle, the wife of Unkle hitmaker James Lavelle, has made him realise what a better U.S. President Michelle Obama would make than her husband Barack.
The Brit adds, "It's great that Obama is the President, but he's not a woman. I think Michelle would make a much better president, personally... I think a woman could do a much better job. Men just f**k things up."
Meanwhile, Astbury is also behind the camera on two short film projects, including one he describes as "almost a Romeo and Juliet story set on a (Indian) reservation."...
The rocker, who has always been fascinated by Native American culture, has teamed up with filmmaker Lorna Love to develop the hard-hitting movie.
He tells Billboard.com, "It's (film) to do with matricide and how our culture destroys women, and how society still isn't working for the woman.
"We haven't been in a place where women have been in charge for thousands of years. That's one of the underlying things of the documentary."
And Astbury admits that making the movie with Lavelle, the wife of Unkle hitmaker James Lavelle, has made him realise what a better U.S. President Michelle Obama would make than her husband Barack.
The Brit adds, "It's great that Obama is the President, but he's not a woman. I think Michelle would make a much better president, personally... I think a woman could do a much better job. Men just f**k things up."
Meanwhile, Astbury is also behind the camera on two short film projects, including one he describes as "almost a Romeo and Juliet story set on a (Indian) reservation."...
- 6/2/2009
- WENN
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