Mads Mikkelsen, winner of the Prix d'interprétation masculine in 2012, for Thomas Vinterberg’s The hunt, tells us how he likes to be directed on a set, his inspirations and his conception of failure. #Cannes2022 #RendezVousWith
“…. I was going back to my hotel in Toronto and a bunch of photographers mistook me for him and started shouting, “Viggo, Viggo!” There was too much noise for me to try and explain that I wasn’t Viggo and so I just let them carry on” (quote, Mads Mikkelsen, ZOO Magazine, 2016)
If you’re keeping up with all the new releases from the Sundance Film Festival, you’ve got your work cut out for you in August. With 17 films coming to theaters and streaming platforms (including a host of award winners), you could watch one every other day for the entire month, and then some. After the Wedding, featuring stars like Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore, is just one of them.
Film still courtesy of After the Wedding
Isabel (Michelle Williams) has dedicated her life to working with the children in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Julianne Moore) is the multimillionaire head of a media company who lives with her handsome artist husband (Billy Crudup) and their two adorable twin boys in New York. When word comes to Isabel of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially struggling orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor—Theresa—in person. And when Isabel is spontaneously invited to Theresa’s daughter’s wedding, Isabel discovers a connection to Theresa that takes her on an unexpected journey into her own past. Based on the Academy Award–nominated film by Susanne Bier.
Directed by Bart Fruendlich, After the Wedding isn’t the first we’ve seen of power duo Fruendlich and Moore. The two first met on the set of The Myth of Fingerprints, which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, then a few years later with World Travelerat the 2002 Sundance Film Festival (seen above celebrating Fruendlich’s 27th birthday). They married shortly after in 2003 and have been together ever since, acting and directing side by side.
SeeAfter the Wedding playing in select theaters now and more Sundance Film Festival releases here.
Let’s take a lesson from Mr. Rogers for World Kindness Day and remember that: “The greatest thing we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.”
WatchMorgan Neville’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and get inspired to do something nice for someone today on World Kindness Day.
With his gentle voice and heartfelt words of wisdom, Fred Rogers served as a compassionate surrogate father for generations of American children who tuned in to public television. He believed in love as the essential ingredient in life and was able to assist kids through difficult situations armed merely with handmade puppets suggesting tolerance and acceptance. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Mr. Rogers made speaking directly and openly to children his life’s work, both on and off his long-running show. He was at the forefront of a movement devoted to meeting the specific needs of children and was considered a radical back then for saying, “I like you just the way you are.”
Animated sequences are peppered between archival footage of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and interviews with Fred Rogers’s family, friends, and colleagues. Examining Rogers’s legacy, Academy Award–winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) offers a deliberate and beautiful tribute to an authentic human being and provides a much-needed salve for these often-fraught times.
Some pics from a movie I’m in called Thumb War. You can watch it for free at the link in my bio! ^-^ It’s a mockumentary about professional thumb wrestling hehehe It won the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative at the Portland Film Festival and Best Comedy at Flickfair Film Festival It’ll be showing at the Reedy Reels Film Festival in Greenville, South Carolina June 4th if anyone is local to the area and wants to check it out!
We combined our two favorite things, cinema and beautiful National Parks in a epic adventurous trip through Utah. We hit the Sundance Film Festival and stopped at Zion National Park on the drive up and went to Bryce Canyon National Park on our way home. We saw some amazing films on the big screen and went to our very favorite restaurant in Utah, Vertical Diner. I highly recommend the vegan Shoofly Cake from Vertical Diner, it’s a Pennsylvania Dutch crumb cake with blackstrap molasses and I love it topped with ice cream!
