The Nest
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A Process of Subtraction: Sean Durkin on His Disquieting Family Drama, The Nest
A man in a quiet suburban home makes a phone call. He stands by the window and holds the phone to his ear. The light on his face, the reflections from the window…. It’s morning. No one else is up. This seemingly innocuous moment could lead to any number of things, but, in Sean Durkin’s The Nest, an early-dawn overseas call prompts a life-changing shift for Rory, played to the hilt by a frightfully self-possessed and seemingly effortless Jude Law, his wife Allison (a remarkably calculated Carrie Coon), and their two children, the adolescent Sam and prepubescent Benjamin, (Oona Roche […]
by Evan Louison on Jan 18, 2021 -
Back to One, Episode 126: Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon has quietly built a reputation as an acting powerhouse though a collection of phenomenal performances in television shows like The Leftovers, Fargo, and The Sinner, and movies such as Gone Girl, The Post, and her latest, The Nest. In this episode, she talks about the paramount importance of breath work, using “touchstones” for emotional connection, her first experience on the New York stage in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the quarantine film education she’s getting with her husband, Tracy Letts, and much more! Back To One can be found wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Google […]
by Peter Rinaldi on Sep 15, 2020 -
Sundance 2020 Dispatch 8: Time, The Nest
In 1999, Fox and Rob Rich, desperate to shore up the finances of their business (Shreveport’s first urban clothing store) robbed a bank; she got 12 years, he got 60. The throughline of Garrett Bradley’s Time—a compact epic spanning 21 years in 87 minutes—tracks Fox’s ceaseless efforts to get her husband home. Her website describes her as a “realist speaker”: a motivational lecturer transmuting her difficult experiences for higher ends than the usual conference room guest, as well as a “prospective Nobel Peace Prize winner” who “is both a teacher and servant, entrepreneur, business owner and most of all a humanitarian.” This […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jan 31, 2020 -
Watch: David Cronenberg’s NSFW New Short The Nest
“David Cronenberg — The Exhibition” launched in Toronto last year and is currently on display at Amsterdam’s EYE Film Institute until September 14. Cronenberg directed The Next for the show, and from now until the closing date you can watch it online. It’s NSFW, unless your workplace doesn’t object to topless women, so perhaps bookmark this suggestively creepy one-shot short for later viewing. In a dirty cleaning supplies closet, a surgeon (psychiatrist? lunatic kidnapper? janitor?) with a camera strapped to his head questions a young woman convinced that her left breast contains an insect colony and needs to be amputated. […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jun 27, 2014
