Richard Shepard
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Coffee, Sake and Ambien: Writer/Director Richard Shepard on His Tribeca ’17 Short Film, Tokyo Project
An unexpected pleasure at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Tokyo Project is a romantic drama with a psychological twist starring Elisabeth Moss and Ebon Moss-Bacharach and directed by Richard Shepard, whose career traverses dark comedies like The Matador and Dom Hemingway as well as some of the most memorable episodes of TV’s Girls. But what’s unexpected about this story of two American wanderers who hook up in Tokyo while both seemingly escaping their normal lives is, simply, its existence. The half-hour work is beautifully acted and shot (by Giles Nuttgens), coursing with a kind of romantic cinephilia, and, unlike other […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 26, 2017 -
Richard Shepard
Richard Shepard is back, not that you necessarily noticed he was away. Shepard is one of the most (unfairly) ignored of American independent directors. Maybe it’s because he was in “movie jail” after his debut feature flopped in 1991, or that he’s worked a lot in TV (recently helming episodes of Girls), or that he is very self-deprecating. (The New York City-based filmmaker’s official bio says that his most recent narrative feature, 2007’s The Hunting Party, “won no awards, made barely any money, but is the number one illegally ripped DVD in the Balkans.”) Shepard escaped movie jail with 2005’s […]
by Nick Dawson on Jan 17, 2014 -
In Production: Bad Words, Dom Hemingway, Two Night Stand and Felony
“In Production” is a regular column which focuses on notable independent films that are currently shooting. If you would like your film to be included in this space, please send an email to nick@filmmakermagazine.com Coming off the production of the long-awaited new season of Arrested Development (premiering Spring 2013 on Netflix), Jason Bateman has begun shooting his directorial debut, Bad Words, in Los Angeles. From Andrew Dodge’s blacklisted screenplay, Bad Words stars Bateman as a middle-aged cynic who hustles his way into the children’s National Spelling Bee, much to the dismay of one of its directors (Allison Janney). Rounding out […]
by Byron Camacho on Nov 16, 2012
