Clockwise from top left: Eileen (Neon), Sympathy For The Devil (Rlje Films), The Promised Land (Magnolia Pictures), Ferrari (Neon)Image: The A.V. Club
As the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters, Hulu highlights some A-list stars in indie films for its May calendar. In Eileen, Anne Hathaway...
As the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters, Hulu highlights some A-list stars in indie films for its May calendar. In Eileen, Anne Hathaway...
- 5/2/2024
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Jeanette Maus, an actress and acting teacher/coach whose credits include Charm City Kings and Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister and My Effortless Brilliance, died Sunday night of colon cancer. She was 39.
The news was confirmed on social media by her fiancé, Dusty Warren.
“It is with a shattered-yet grateful-heart that I inform you that Jeanette Maus passed away late last night due to complications of cancer,” Warren wrote on Facebook. “I’m really sad, but I’m super proud of her. She fought so hard, with tremendous grace and optimism, inspiring myself and I’m sure many of you.”
Maus appeared in 2020’s Charm City Kings and such other features as My Fiona and Dismissed, along with along with the late Shelton‘s Your Sister’s Sister and My Effortless Brilliance, the latter of which Maus also co-wrote. She also appeared in numerous short films and wrote and...
The news was confirmed on social media by her fiancé, Dusty Warren.
“It is with a shattered-yet grateful-heart that I inform you that Jeanette Maus passed away late last night due to complications of cancer,” Warren wrote on Facebook. “I’m really sad, but I’m super proud of her. She fought so hard, with tremendous grace and optimism, inspiring myself and I’m sure many of you.”
Maus appeared in 2020’s Charm City Kings and such other features as My Fiona and Dismissed, along with along with the late Shelton‘s Your Sister’s Sister and My Effortless Brilliance, the latter of which Maus also co-wrote. She also appeared in numerous short films and wrote and...
- 1/26/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Any professional dealing with routine levels of stress and trauma is bound to develop a morbid sense of humor–and the funny horror-comedy 12 Hour Shift might become a cult classic amongst nurses. Written and directed by Brea Grant and set in a small rural hospital in Arkansas in 1999, the film finds cynical ER nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis) about to start what she thinks is a routine twelve-hour shift. Her definition of routine involves a scheme to poison patients with bleach while shift supervisor Karen (Nikea Gamby-Turner) harvests their organs for a local black market dealer. Things don’t go as planned when Mandy’s cousin by marriage, Regina (Chloe Farnsworth), shows up loaded after partying in a parking lot and forgets to take the kidney she’s supposed to pick-up.
Things are already abnormal around the hospital after the arrival of three new patients, a familiar Od patient (Dusty Warren...
Things are already abnormal around the hospital after the arrival of three new patients, a familiar Od patient (Dusty Warren...
- 5/7/2020
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Opens
Friday, March 12 (New York)
Friday, March 26 (Los Angeles)
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is a gifted storyteller whose last film, the tender ensemble piece "Italian for Beginners", was an international hit.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself", her first English-language feature, her agile touch is in evidence as she continues to mine everyday longings and love's improbabilities. The comic drama should prove hearty at the art house boxoffice.
The Glasgow, Scotland-set tale, scripted by Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen (with Lars Von Trier as script consultant), balances black humor and naturalism, a deep ache underlying the deadpan loopiness. Trading in the anti-artifice strictures of Dogme for polished widescreen compositions and an elegant musical score, Scherfig maintains her affection for lonely characters, abetted by fine performances.
Death is an insistent fact of life in the hospital-centric "Wilbur". "It gets more and more humiliating every time I survive!" the soulful-eyed title character (Jamie Sives) complains after his latest unsuccessful suicide attempt. His fellow depressives expel him from their hospital therapy group for being a downer, and he moves in with his quiet, good-natured brother, Harbour (Adrian Rawlins), a master of equanimity.
They've just inherited their father's bookshop, a Dusty Warren of used volumes. Harbour takes a liking to Alice (Shirley Henderson), a single mother on the hospital's janitorial crew who has become a shop regular, selling books that patients have left behind. When Harbour and Alice marry, much to the delight of her 9-year-old daughter (Lisa McKinlay), their two broken families form a quartet of refugees from the mainstream. The brothers provide the first experience of birthday and holiday celebrations for the other two, and there's a new sense of safety for all of them -- even the death-courting Wilbur.
Scherfig is less interested in reasons for Wilbur's despair -- she offers information about a haunting childhood trauma but doesn't belabor the cause-and-effect angle -- than she is in his awakening to his own resilience. That awakening unfolds with realistic messiness and not a drop of sap. As the household adjusts to dark developments, roles shift and new caretakers emerge.
The central trio of actors deliver engaging, pitch-perfect work. Making impressions in supporting roles are Julia Davis and Mads Mikkelsen. Davis plays a self-righteous New Ager who pursues Wilbur, a man oblivious to his charms
Mikkelsen is the hospital's chain-smoking senior psychologist, whose bluntness belies a ready compassion.
Using a green-gray palette, DP Jorgen Johansson captures the cold light and gloom of the northern setting and casts the haven of the bookshop in sepia warmth. Joachim Holbek's lovely, judiciously used music heightens the story's plaintive mood.
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
ThinkFilm
Zentropa Entertainments/Wilbur Ltd./Danish Film Institute/TV2/Scottish Screen/Glasgow Film Fund
Credits:
Director: Lone Scherfig
Screenwriters: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Sisse Graum Olsen
Executive producer: Peter Aalbeck Jensen
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Production designer: Jette Lehmann
Music: Joachim Holbek
Co-producer: Gillian Berrie
Editor: Gerd Tjur
Cast:
Wilbur: Jamie Sives
Harbour: Adrian Rawlins
Alice: Shirley Henderson
Mary: Lisa McKinlay
Horst: Mads Mikkelsen
Moira: Julia Davis
Sophie: Susan Vidler
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, March 12 (New York)
Friday, March 26 (Los Angeles)
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is a gifted storyteller whose last film, the tender ensemble piece "Italian for Beginners", was an international hit.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself", her first English-language feature, her agile touch is in evidence as she continues to mine everyday longings and love's improbabilities. The comic drama should prove hearty at the art house boxoffice.
The Glasgow, Scotland-set tale, scripted by Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen (with Lars Von Trier as script consultant), balances black humor and naturalism, a deep ache underlying the deadpan loopiness. Trading in the anti-artifice strictures of Dogme for polished widescreen compositions and an elegant musical score, Scherfig maintains her affection for lonely characters, abetted by fine performances.
Death is an insistent fact of life in the hospital-centric "Wilbur". "It gets more and more humiliating every time I survive!" the soulful-eyed title character (Jamie Sives) complains after his latest unsuccessful suicide attempt. His fellow depressives expel him from their hospital therapy group for being a downer, and he moves in with his quiet, good-natured brother, Harbour (Adrian Rawlins), a master of equanimity.
They've just inherited their father's bookshop, a Dusty Warren of used volumes. Harbour takes a liking to Alice (Shirley Henderson), a single mother on the hospital's janitorial crew who has become a shop regular, selling books that patients have left behind. When Harbour and Alice marry, much to the delight of her 9-year-old daughter (Lisa McKinlay), their two broken families form a quartet of refugees from the mainstream. The brothers provide the first experience of birthday and holiday celebrations for the other two, and there's a new sense of safety for all of them -- even the death-courting Wilbur.
Scherfig is less interested in reasons for Wilbur's despair -- she offers information about a haunting childhood trauma but doesn't belabor the cause-and-effect angle -- than she is in his awakening to his own resilience. That awakening unfolds with realistic messiness and not a drop of sap. As the household adjusts to dark developments, roles shift and new caretakers emerge.
The central trio of actors deliver engaging, pitch-perfect work. Making impressions in supporting roles are Julia Davis and Mads Mikkelsen. Davis plays a self-righteous New Ager who pursues Wilbur, a man oblivious to his charms
Mikkelsen is the hospital's chain-smoking senior psychologist, whose bluntness belies a ready compassion.
Using a green-gray palette, DP Jorgen Johansson captures the cold light and gloom of the northern setting and casts the haven of the bookshop in sepia warmth. Joachim Holbek's lovely, judiciously used music heightens the story's plaintive mood.
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
ThinkFilm
Zentropa Entertainments/Wilbur Ltd./Danish Film Institute/TV2/Scottish Screen/Glasgow Film Fund
Credits:
Director: Lone Scherfig
Screenwriters: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Sisse Graum Olsen
Executive producer: Peter Aalbeck Jensen
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Production designer: Jette Lehmann
Music: Joachim Holbek
Co-producer: Gillian Berrie
Editor: Gerd Tjur
Cast:
Wilbur: Jamie Sives
Harbour: Adrian Rawlins
Alice: Shirley Henderson
Mary: Lisa McKinlay
Horst: Mads Mikkelsen
Moira: Julia Davis
Sophie: Susan Vidler
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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