I say this as someone who has fully respect for the guy — Tony Kaye is one odd bird. He left the filmmaking scene for eight years (following an editing fiasco on American History X), came back with a 2 1/2 hour abortion documentary, Lake of Fire, and will now follow-up his feature comeback, Detachment, with the fittingly-titled Attachment.
Oh, and he has two other projects — both of which were shot years and years ago — sitting in an editing room somewhere.
To be fair, this lengthy reprise from screens can be heavily attributed to the legal and creative troubles that have plagued these works, Black Water Transit and Lobby Lobster. The former of those, a Katrina-based drama that starred Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Dorff, Karl Urban, and Britanny Snow, played at Cannes in 2009, got caught in some court cases, and hasn’t been seen since.
A dire situation that Kenneth Lonergan knows all too well — and yet,...
Oh, and he has two other projects — both of which were shot years and years ago — sitting in an editing room somewhere.
To be fair, this lengthy reprise from screens can be heavily attributed to the legal and creative troubles that have plagued these works, Black Water Transit and Lobby Lobster. The former of those, a Katrina-based drama that starred Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Dorff, Karl Urban, and Britanny Snow, played at Cannes in 2009, got caught in some court cases, and hasn’t been seen since.
A dire situation that Kenneth Lonergan knows all too well — and yet,...
- 3/17/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Tony Kaye's first film this decade is "Detachment" -- and his follow-up is called "Attachment." Though they're not part of the same story, the two projects are related, the director told The Playlist.
"Both films are about love," Kaye explained. "It's the journey from detachment to attachment in 'Detachment,' and it's about the love of mankind. And 'Attachment' is about love for the self alone, with no interest in how the other person feels, and how that is damaging."
"Detachment" follows a substitute teacher as he learns to engage with his high school students as well as a fourteen-year-old runaway, while "Attachment" revolves around a college-age student (Tom Felton, who just joined the cast today) who is obsessed with and starts stalking an older woman (Sharon Stone) after they have a one-night stand. "It's a continuation of my exploration of love," Kaye said. "Maybe all my films are.
"Both films are about love," Kaye explained. "It's the journey from detachment to attachment in 'Detachment,' and it's about the love of mankind. And 'Attachment' is about love for the self alone, with no interest in how the other person feels, and how that is damaging."
"Detachment" follows a substitute teacher as he learns to engage with his high school students as well as a fourteen-year-old runaway, while "Attachment" revolves around a college-age student (Tom Felton, who just joined the cast today) who is obsessed with and starts stalking an older woman (Sharon Stone) after they have a one-night stand. "It's a continuation of my exploration of love," Kaye said. "Maybe all my films are.
- 3/14/2012
- by Jen Vineyard
- The Playlist
Tony Kaye doesn.t work nearly as much as we.d prefer. His tremendous documehtary Laqke of Fire still lingers after its 2006 release, though I haven.t ben able to catch up with his last two efforts, Lobby Lobster or Black Water Transit. So I.m eagerly anticipating Kaye.s Detachment, a drama set in the education field that reaches theaters in 2012. An international trailer has been posted to Trailer Addict. We have it below: We haven.t had a commendable Stand And Deliver-type teaching drama in years. The closest we.ve come was the sobering Waiting For Superman documentary that shined a blinding light on the discrepancies plaguing our nation.s school system. Detachment looks like a gritty, art-house Dead Poet.s Society, with Adrien Brody playing a substitute teacher wrestling with his own demons that he tries to leave outside of the classroom (as long as he...
- 12/23/2011
- cinemablend.com
British director Tony Kaye has had relatively steady, non-mainstream work since famously trying to yank his name off of the powerful, Edward Norton-starring American History X in 1998. After a dispute with the studio, the star recut the film (either to give himself more screentime or to mold the film into more of a commercial feature), and Kaye tried to remove his name from the credits and replace it with the pseudonym ”Humpty-Dumpty.” But, according to unnamed sources, Mr. Dumpty objected, since he himself was trying to remove his name from every Rob Schneider movie ever made.
Now, Variety says that Kaye is circling Attachment, an indie thriller written by Christopher Denham that “centers on a married woman’s one night stand with a student coming back to haunt her when the lover begins to date her daughter and stalk her family.” It’s reported ed that the film will...
Now, Variety says that Kaye is circling Attachment, an indie thriller written by Christopher Denham that “centers on a married woman’s one night stand with a student coming back to haunt her when the lover begins to date her daughter and stalk her family.” It’s reported ed that the film will...
- 12/14/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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