Steve McQueen
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TRAILER WATCH: “SHAME”
Here’s the U.K. trailer for Steve McQueen’s masterful Shame, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. My interview with McQueen appears in our upcoming issue. (Click on the headline if you don’t see the video.)
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2011 -
STEVE MCQUEEN UP CLOSE
Via Nowness, here’s a video by Alison Chernick of Steve McQueen discussing his latest, Shame, appropriately (if you’ve seen the film) from the vantage point of a hotel balcony. The Confessions of Steve McQueen on Nowness.com.
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 11, 2011 -
FOX SEARCHLIGHT BUYS MCQUEEN’S “SHAME”
Last night Fox Searchlight announced from Toronto it has bought the U.S. rights to Steve McQueen‘s latest, Shame. Starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, the drama, which is screening at the fest, follows New Yorker Brandon (Fassbender) who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. However, when his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon’s insular life spirals out of control. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and according to the release Searchlight plans to open Shame before the year ends. […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 10, 2011 -
The Cinema is a Train: On Steven McQueen’s Hunger
The Cinema is the Train: Part One Economy of Narrative + Abundance of Truth = Poetry in Cinema In an earlier essay for Filmmaker, I argued that “…cinema’s ‘vocabulary of forms’ is typically under-utilized… While there are any number of cinematic languages that could exist, most of the time films tend to rely heavily upon what we could call the basics of film grammar – shot/counter-shot, close-ups, wide shots, over-the-shoulders and reverses, as well as certain editing paces and conventions of lighting and score,” and went on to praise Enter The Void for its progressive formalism. In keeping with Jean-Luc […]
by Zachary Wigon on Aug 24, 2011
