Drake Doremus
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Tribeca 2016: Five Questions for Equals Director Drake Doremus
Emotions are a disease. In the world of Equals, responsible humans have eliminated them from their daily lives. That means no more romantic hangups, no more depressive spells, no more sexual tension. People are productive; unchained from their irrational impulses, they lead quiet lives in solitude. Within this universe, director Drake Doremus explores what a budding romance might look like between two office drones, Nia (Kristen Stewart) and Silas (Nicholas Hoult). Executive produced by Ridley Scott, the film represents a leap for Doremus, who has previously directed smaller, character-driven films. Doremus speaks below about his intention to create a sci-fi film that allows […]
by Soheil Rezayazdi on Apr 18, 2016 -
Upstate Blues: Drake Doremus on Breathe In
Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy – a gauzily photographed love triangle drama that won Sundance – didn’t burn up the box office, but it opened up a number of doors for the third-time director and his atmospheric followup. By turns strident and sentimental, Breathe In feels like a step forward on a number of fronts. As the 30-year-old director told Filmmaker recently, the film was more or less not scripted, but it has the tension of a tightly wound product of a veteran screenwriter. Guy Pearce is Keith, a married music teacher full of longing for his zesty younger days who risks […]
by Brandon Harris on Mar 27, 2014 -
DSLR-Shot Films Win Prizes At Sundance
With a hat tip to Photo Cine News, here are clips from two Sundance 2011 prizewinners shot on DSLR cameras. The first, the Grand Jury Prize-winning Like Crazy, was shot on the Canon 7D. (Felicity Jones, featured in this clip, also won a Special Jury Prize for her acting.) The second, Hell and Back Again, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize as well as the World Cinema Cinematography Award. It was shot on the Canon 5D with custom-built rigs. Hell and Back Again clip from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo.
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 1, 2011 -
PARK CITY CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK #2: BEATS, RHYMES, ODDBALLS
After its first weekend has drawn to a close, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival has seen a flurry of buying activity from movies both expected to sell for significant amounts (Jesse Peretz’s My Idiot Brother, which went to the Weinstein Company for $7 million) and movies no one expected to go for as much as they did (Drake Doremus‘ Like Crazy, which without a significant movie star in it went for $4 million to Paramount). While I haven’t seen either film, they both seem to have both their admirers and detractors. In a U.S. Dramatic Competition heavy on formally ambitious […]
by Brandon Harris on Jan 25, 2011 -
“DOUCHEBAG” | co-writer-director, Drake Doremus
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 8:00 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] The shooting of this movie was insane. We shot three different times over the course of almost two years. The first time we worked with an outline and the actors completely improvising from that outline. The second time we had some scripted scenes, and the third time we went in completely scripted. With all that shooting I had a crazy amount of material to work with, and it was really hard to cut certain scenes that I loved. The hardest decision was because we shot so much, I […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2010
