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Fifty years after his screenwriting debut via Sydney Pollack’s The Yakuza and a mere forty-six since his directorial debut with Blue Collar, Paul Schrader is still at it. And he’s operating at a higher level than most. A household name for his Scorsese screenplays––Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ chief among them––Schrader made a compelling industry name for himself with his own projects by the late ’70s, cementing himself as one of cinema’s most divisive, most original, and most consistent directors by the late ’80s and early ’90s.

After a series of popular and critical duds from 2003-2016, Schrader re-emerged in fresh creativity with First Reformed in 2017, beginning a phase in his career with the first entry in his “Man in a Room” trilogy that would soon be filled out by The Card Counter and Master Gardener. But not before several...

The Rise of a Phenomenal Actor Few actors have had as diverse a filmography as the great Paul Dano. From comedic and lighthearted films to dark and emotionally driven roles, his ability as an actor and his performances in these movies are like no other. Alongside acting, Dano is also a director as he made his directorial debut with the 2018 film ‘Wildlife’, which is an adaptation of the Richard Ford novel of the same name and stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan. The talented actor first started out on Broadway at a young age and made his debut on screen for the film, ‘The Newcomers’ in 2000. Since then, Dano has appeared in many notable movies and television series and earned several awards for his performances. Here is a look back at his best roles and the films he has starred in. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel,...

At his home in Catalonia, Spain, last year, Labi Siffre received the latest in a series of requests to use one of his songs in a soundtrack. Based on a synopsis of the movie, set in a boarding school in New England, the singer-songwriter signed off. “The storyline was quite nice, and I thought, ‘Yeah, Ok,’” he says. “And that’s all I remembered of it. You move on with the rest of the work you are doing.”

But a few weeks ago, the British musician heard from one of...

A key music choice can really make a movie scene sing, for lack of a better word — whether it be a surprising needle drop, a song to underscore a character’s motivation or even a opening credit track that sets the tone of a film.

Four directors from this season’s biggest contenders spoke with THR about the tunes they selected for their films, some of which represent the time in which the films are set or, in one case, gives a sense of a character who is notably absent from most of the feature.

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Justine Triet’s drama about a woman (Sandra Hüller) accused of killing her husband might be the only Palme d’Or winner to feature a song co-written by American rapper 50 Cent. The director admits she’s obsessed with this steel band cover,...

Exclusive: Christian Gudegast (Den of Thieves) has closed a deal to direct the thriller Crown Vic for MadRiver Pictures.

Crown Vic is described as a too-insane-to-be-true crime story set in the early 1980s San Fernando Valley — a world where L.A. cops, mythologized by TV shows from Dragnet to CHiPs, were rock stars who operated with unchecked power. Its protagonists are Richard Ford and Robert Von Villas, two Vietnam War heroes turned superstar LAPD cops, who parlayed their positions to get rich, while cozying up to Hollywood’s biggest TV stars. The duo went on to build an underground criminal operation as thieves, gun runners and murderers for hire, until their unwilling business partner risked everything to bring them down.

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Paul Dano has been a professional actor since age 12 when he appeared in a 1996 Broadway revival of "Inherit the Wind" with Charles Durning and George C. Scott. In film, Dano broke out in 2001 playing the lead role in Michael Cuesta's hard-hitting sexual drama "L.I.E." opposite Brian Cox in a career-best performance. Since then, Dano has made a career playing intense outsiders and occasional weirdos in a long string of highly acclaimed dramas. His appearance as a mute, Nietzsche-obsessed teen in 2006's "Little Miss Sunshine" was a highlight in a film full of them, and his oddball turn as a not-so-timid preacher in Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" was gloriously off-center. As an actor, he has worked with Ang Lee, Spike Jonze, Kelly Reichardt, Paolo Sorrentino, Denis Villeneuve, Steve McQueen, and Bong Joon-ho.

To date, Dano has directed one feature film: 2018's "Wildlife," based on the 1990 novel...

Netflix is developing a miniseries based on John Steinbeck’s massive 700-page novel “East of Eden,” as reported on Tuesday. Florence Pugh is the first cast member announced, though it is unclear who she’ll be playing. (Will a modern spin change the story—a California tale loosely based on the Biblical trope of Cain and Abel—into the story of two sisters? Crazier things have happened!)

The most exciting news, however, is how this production is “keeping it in the family,” so to speak. Zoe Kazan has been announced as writer and executive producer. Her grandfather, the legendary Elia Kazan, directed the 1955 adaptation starring James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives, and Jo Van Fleet, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Kazan was nominated for Best Director, Paul Osborn was nominated for Best Screenplay, and Dean was nominated for Best Actor, posthumously.

Zoe Kazan’s last...

When Michelle Zauner lost her mother in 2014, the only thing that got her through was food. The Korean American musician, who has won acclaim for the dreamy indie rock she records as Japanese Breakfast, found that learning to cook comforting dishes like jatjuk (pine-nut porridge) and kimchi-jjigae (a savory, spicy stew) allowed her to grieve for her mother, who’d cooked for her for years but had never taught her how. “There was no sense of urgency to learning that [before],” says Zauner, 32. “I never thought I was going to have...

The beguiling short-story feel of Paul Dano’s intimate family drama makes us share the experience of a teenager whose parents are ‘going through a rough patch’ that may break up the only security he’s known. The performances of Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan and especially young Ed Oxenbould are low-key and high-intelligence; each seems a study of people we know, or people we might be. The observance of what rural America was like in 1960 Montana is acute. Highest recommendations.

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2018 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 105 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 26, 2020 / 39.95

Starring: Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Tom Huston Orr.

Cinematography: Diego Garcia

Film Editor: Louise Ford, Matthew Hannam

Original Music: David Lang

Written by Paul Dano & Zoe Kazan from the book by Richard Ford

Produced by Paul Dano, Andrew Duncan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riva Marker, Oren Moverman, Ann Ruark, Alex Saks

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Oscar winners Lady Gaga, Annie Lennox and Adele are among the 28 composers, songwriters and music editors invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year.

The three multiplatinum pop stars are probably the best-known of this year’s crop. Gaga won for “A Star Is Born,” Adele for “Skyfall,” and Lennox for her “Into the West” from the final “Lord of the Rings” movie “The Return of the King.”

Three other Oscar winners are on this year’s list: “Black Panther” composer Ludwig Goransson and Gaga’s “Shallow” co-writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. Two other nominees from last year’s movies were added to the roster: “Mary Poppins Returns” songwriter Scott Wittman and “Star Is Born” music editor Jason Ruder.

Other composers include Michael Abels (“Get Out”), Nathan Barr (“The House With a Clock in Its Walls”), Kris Bowers (“Green Card”), Jane Antonia Cornish (“Citizen...

Today we are recognizing Wildlife, as well as co-writer/director Paul Dano, plus co-writer Zoe Kazan and star Carey Mulligan. Our Hollywood Film Tributes recognize films and talent for their excellence in the art of filmmaking. In a just world, Dano and Kazan’s script for Wildlife would have been a no brainer Best Adapted Screenplay nominee. The former’s directorial debut is so well written, in addition to well directed and well acted, that it 100% was deserving of a citation. From our rave of a review back in October: 2018 has been a hell of a year for actors making their directorial debuts. Bradley Cooper is obviously getting a lot of the acclaim, but don’t sleep on Paul Dano. Along with his partner Zoe Kazan, they have adapted the Richard Ford novel Wildlife, with Dano directing. The result is something spectacular. Ever since the Sundance Film Festival, the movie has been building acclaim.

Of all the ways to describe Carey Mulligan’s riveting performance in “Wildlife,” perhaps only Paul Dano would think to call it a “weather system.” The “Wildlife” director and co-writer knows well the nexus of uneasy forces at home in Mulligan’s Jeanette Brinson. She spends the middle act of Dano’s 1960 period drama (which he adapted from a Richard Ford novel with his partner Zoe Kazan) living in a suspended reality.

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This article about Zoe Kazan first appeared in the Actors/Directors/Screenwriters issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.

Zoe Kazan is not the only actor who also wrote a movie this year, but she’s probably the only one who wrote one film that’s in the awards race and then starred in a completely different film that’s also a contender.

And she’s definitely the only person who starred in one movie, wrote another and also had her first baby in the midst of her busy year.

But that is Zoe Kazan’s 2018. She co-wrote the quietly devastating family drama “Wildlife” with the film’s director and her partner, Paul Dano; the Richard Ford adaptation premiered at Sundance, went to Cannes and then opened in October. She played one of the lead roles in the Coen brothers’ darkly comic anthology Western “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”, which premiered...

“Paul has wanted to direct a film since he first found out what a director really did.” That revelation about first-time helmsman Paul Dano (“Wildlife”) comes from a good source: his partner and frequent collaborator Zoe Kazan. With Dano prepping for his Broadway run in “True West,” the promoting on this day was left to Kazan and the film’s stars Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. “One of the things that drove me crazy about being with Paul for 11 years,” Kazan continued, “is he would read a script as an actor and say, ‘I just really don’t see the movie,’ and I’d say, ‘That’s not your job. If it’s a great part take it, pay the rent.’ But it’s always been like that.”

When I asked about any trepidation they might have had with a freshman director Gyllenhaal half-joked, “The real trepidation was from Zoe and not Paul.

Few actors are gifted the opportunity of a one-two punch quite like Carey Mulligan’s this year. At Sundance in January she premiered Wildlife, Paul Dano’s directorial debut adapted from Richard Ford’s novel by Dano and Zoe Kazan. As Jeanette, the frustrated small-town housewife who makes her own 14-year-old son complicit in her affair when her husband leaves to fight a raging wildfire, Mulligan delivers a performance to rival the Oscar-nominated turn in An Education that launched her career. She followed it up with a bravura one-woman play in Girls & Boys on the London and New York stages.

How did Wildlife come to you? Had you read the book?

No. Paul just sent it to me. I’d finished Mudbound at the end of June. I was back in London, and I remember getting it on a Friday night. He sent it to me and said, “Just read it,...

Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife won best film honors at the 36th edition of the Turin Film Festival, whose competition lineup this year featured a variety of films from around the world, including several first or second features.

The drama stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould, and the award comes with a prize of $20,000.

Based on the book by Richard Ford, with a screenplay by Dano and Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is a coming-of-age story about a teenage boy who must deal with his parent’s dissolving marriage when his father temporarily abandons them. The pic premiered in ...

Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife won best film honors at the 36th edition of the Turin Film Festival, whose competition lineup this year featured a variety of films from around the world, including several first or second features.

The drama stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould, and the award comes with a prize of $20,000.

Based on the book by Richard Ford, with a screenplay by Dano and Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is a coming-of-age story about a teenage boy who must deal with his parent’s dissolving marriage when his father temporarily abandons them. The pic premiered in ...

While “A Star is Born” is rightly being hailed as one of the best films of the year and one of the best directorial debuts ever, Bradley Cooper isn’t the only actor making his debut as a director this year. Paul Dano — an actor who has appeared in such acclaimed pictures such as “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006), “There Will Be Blood” (2007), “Prisoners” (2013) and “12 Years Slave” (2013) — helmed his first film, “Wildlife,” this year. The IFC Films follows the story of a boy witnessing his parents’ marriage fall apart after his mother falls in love with another man.

Dano and his partner, actress Zoe Kazan adapted Richard Ford‘s novel. This labor of love stars Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal as the parents and newcomer Ed Oxenbould as the boy. Critics praised this trio of talent for carrying the weight and emotional intensity of this intimate film. It merits an impressive score...

You might not know it, but you’ve likely seen Bill Camp in your favorite show. The actor is known for his understated but powerful roles in FX’s “Damages,” HBO’s “The Night Of,” and Hulu’s 9/11 drama “The Looming Tower.” He appears in Paul Dano’s recently released directorial debut “Wildlife,” and plays Gerald Ford in Adam McKay’s upcoming political dramedy, “Vice.”

How do you play a character, as in “Wildlife,” who at first glance seems unpleasant?

When I play any character, I try to find something that makes him accessible to everybody who’s watching, because every role is a little bit of me too. There’s a beautiful part of the book [by Richard Ford], and it’s in the movie, where he talks about flying his plane and describing what it’s like to be up there alone — that there’s an understanding of the universality of the world.

There are plenty of screenwriting teams that have a strong rapport and even the ability to finish each other's sentences. But get Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan in the same conversation, and the two have the type of banter that can only come from a pair that's bonded in work as well as in life.

Dano and Kazan, who have been a couple since 2007 and have an infant daughter together, collaborated on the page for the first time for Dano's directorial debut, the period melodrama Wildlife, based on the 1990 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford....

There are plenty of screenwriting teams that have a strong rapport and even the ability to finish each other's sentences. But get Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan in the same conversation, and the two have the type of banter that can only come from a pair that's bonded in work as well as in life.

Dano and Kazan, who have been a couple since 2007 and have an infant daughter together, collaborated on the page for the first time for Dano's directorial debut, the period melodrama Wildlife, based on the 1990 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford....

From the soft-spoken methodical meter KiKi Layne’s Tish Rivers uses to narrate the history of social and criminal injustices that have ruined the lives of black men and their families in writer-director Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk” to Carey Mulligan’s Jeanette Brinson, a curt and frustrated midcentury housewife who flaunts her extramarital affair in director Paul Dano’s “Wildlife” — a story he and partner Zoe Kazan adapted from the Richard Ford book — this year’s lead actress roles do not rely on stereotypes or character tropes.

“I don’t want to play such a narrow view of femininity that we have so often: that supportive wife, that supportive mother, supportive girlfriend kind of archetype,” says Keira Knightley, who stars in “Colette,” Wash Westmoreland’s biopic about the French novelist from the turn of the previous century that he co-wrote with his late husband, Richard Glatzer, and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

“I feel like I have enough hats that I’m wearing right now,” says Zoe Kazan about the possibility of directing. She’s open to it, but she has plenty on her plate at the moment as a co-writer and executive producer of “Wildlife” and as a co-star in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” both of which opened this fall. Watch our exclusive video interview with Kazan above.

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Kazan wrote “Wildlife” with Paul Dano, her partner in film and in life, but their collaboration “sort of happened by accident,” she says. The film is based on a novel by Richard Ford, and it started as a labor of love for Dano, who was also directing the film. “I could really see him in it,” she explains about the novel. “I could see his artistic sensibility. It seemed like a perfect fit.

When Phil Murphy replaced Chris Christie as New Jersey Governor last January, the New Jersey film world did a complete 180. Christie, who infamously did battle with MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” killed the state’s film and TV tax incentive program and with it production in the Garden State. By July, Murphy had signed into law a robust $75 million a year incentive program that instantly put the state in direct competition with the overcrowded New York City production world. In just four months, it brought major Hollywood projects back across the Hudson River.

For producers and distributors’ bottom line, which is now being subsidized to the tune of well over a billion dollars a year by state tax incentive programs, elections matter. Over the last 10-15 years, virtually every state has dipped its toe in the enticing waters of luring stars and moviemaking by doling out millions to major studios, but...

Carey Mulligan notices that there have been “quite strong reactions to my character” in “Wildlife,” “principally because she’s not doing the right thing. She’s not being a great mom, and she’s not being the perfect housewife.” This shows how “we hold women up differently to the way we hold men. It’s been a reminder that a lot of the things that run through ‘Wildlife’ are still pretty relevant today.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Mulligan above.

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Directed by Paul Dano, this IFC Films release centers on a boy (Ed Oxenbould) in 1960s Montana who watches his parents’ marriage slowly come unglued. Mulligan plays his mother, Jeanette Brinson, who begins dating an older, wealthier man (Bill Camp) after her husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) leaves home to fight wildfires. Dano and...

When Carey Mulligan read the script for Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, adapted from the 1990 novel by Richard Ford, she was drawn to her character Jeanette having a “freaky nostalgic moment,” telling The Hollywood Reporter, “I think she’s woken up in the body of a 34-year-old woman who has a son and a husband but can’t quite figure out how she got there.”

Jake Gyllenhaal stars alongside Mulligan in the drama about a couple whose marriage falls apart in a small Montana town in the 1960s, told through the eyes ...

When Carey Mulligan read the script for Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, adapted from the 1990 novel by Richard Ford, she was drawn to her character Jeanette having a “freaky nostalgic moment,” telling The Hollywood Reporter, “I think she’s woken up in the body of a 34-year-old woman who has a son and a husband but can’t quite figure out how she got there.”

Jake Gyllenhaal stars alongside Mulligan in the drama about a couple whose marriage falls apart in a small Montana town in the 1960s, told through the eyes ...

Writer-director Paul Dano and Ed Oxenbould on the set of ‘Wildlife’.

Ed Oxenbould rates his role in Paul Dano’s Wildlife, in which he stars alongside Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, as among his favourites.

In the film, Oxenbould plays 14-year-old Joe, who has just moved to Montana with his parents Jeannette (Mulligan) and Jerry (Gyllenhaal). The ‘60s set coming-of-age tale centres on him as their marriage slowly disintegrates.

Oxenbould tells If that Joe is a complex, interesting character, who was bolstered through the writing of Dano and partner Zoe Kazan, who adapted Richard Ford’s novel of the same name.

“It was really different to anything I’d done before. It required a lot of emotion and a lot of watching, a lot of observing. That’s what made it seem really interesting; I thought it would be a great challenge.”

Wildlife, currently in limited release via Roadshow, had...

The actors have written a film version of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, Wildlife, with Dano directing. Here they discuss giving each other notes and navigating parenthood

As soon as the actor Paul Dano read Richard Ford’s novella Wildlife, he knew he wanted to make a film of it. More than that, it was a story that took hold, would not let him go. It may be that we all have at least one book of this sort in our lives, a story that becomes an obsession, that speaks to us in an irresistibly powerful way. It is now seven years since he read it and he has written a screenplay with his partner, the actor Zoe Kazan, and made a film – his directorial debut – in which Carey Mulligan gives the performance of a lifetime as an unravelling wife and mother, Jake Gyllenhaal plays her tormented husband, and newcomer Ed Oxenbould their bewildered teenage son.

This is a re-post of our Wildlife review from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film is now playing in limited release. Wildlife is a film about faces. The face of a young boy, confused and inquisitive, attempting to untangle the mystery behind his parents’ quiet conversations. The face of a mother, resilient yet fragile, attempting to put on a façade of optimism when surrounded by impending destruction. The face of a father, embarrassed and defeated, trying to maintain a shred of dignity as he loses his job. That Paul Dano chose the Richard Ford novel Wildlife as …...

That Paul Dano the director suffuses nearly every frame of his first feature “Wildlife” with an almost stricken concern for its imploding protagonists — with scenes of frozen but engaged compassion — somehow befits a movie made by Paul Dano the actor, who over a handful of performances has made a notable career out of embodying lonely, vulnerable souls at pains with how to move forward.

“Wildlife,” an adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, is a study in domestic discontent set in Montana in the early 1960s, and it makes for a sterling filmmaking debut from Dano. Working from a screenplay he wrote with partner Zoe Kazan, he shows not just a keen way with actors — a commonly informed plus when a performer steps behind the camera, in this case facilitating Carey Mulligan’s finest film portrayal to date — but also an alert eye for deceptively charged visuals that combine surface beauty and nagging emptiness.

Wildlife IFC Films Reviewed by: Tami Smith, Film Reviewer for Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Paul Dano Screenwriter: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan; based on the novel Wildlife by Richard Ford (1990) Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Camp Release Date: October 19, 2018 Great Falls was the largest city in Montana from 1950 to […]

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Don’t miss the blaze that Carey Mulligan ignites in Wildlife. The British actress gives her considerable all to the role of Jeanette Brinson, a young housewife in Montana, circa 1960, who starts to unravel when her husband Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) heads to the mountains 40 miles away to fight wildfires and leaves her alone to raise their 14-year-old son Joe (Ed Oxenbould). In a beautifully nuanced directing debut, actor Paul Dano mines the smallest details in Richard Ford’s acclaimed 1990 novel — he and his partner Zoe Kazan wrote the emotionally-attuned script...

2018 has been a hell of a year for actors making their directorial debuts. Bradley Cooper is obviously getting a lot of the acclaim, but don’t sleep on Paul Dano. Along with his partner Zoe Kazan, they have adapted the Richard Ford novel Wildlife, with Dano directing. The result is something spectacular. Ever since the Sundance Film Festival, the movie has been building acclaim. Rightly so too, as this is one of 2018’s best works. Impeccably acted, brilliantly written, confidently directed, and full of quiet desperation, it’s rather magnificent. The film begins its theatrical run this week and is an absolute must see. Few works this year have been better. For his directorial debut, Dano has chosen Ford’s novel, which provides him ample material to explore. The film is a portrait of a family, as well as a marriage, coming apart. A period piece, we see Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal...

"I feel like I need to wake up." IFC Films has debuted a new 60-second trailer for Wildlife, the directorial debut of actor Paul Dano. This highly regarded film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, played at the Cannes Film Festival, and is now showing at the New York Film Festival after stopping by Tiff - you can see the full trailer here. And it's still getting rave reviews each time it plays at a fest. Wildlife tells the story of a young husband and wife living in the 1960s in a small town in Montana, adapted from Richard Ford's novel of the same name. Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star, and Ed Oxenbould plays their teenage son. It's a subtle film about family and the breakdown of a family by following Mulligan as the housewife who realizes she needs to be free. The cast includes Bill Camp & Zoe Margaret Colletti.

A new trailer has arrived for Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife ahead of its BFI London Film Festival premiere on the 13th of October.

An adaptation of Richard Ford’s novel of the same name, actor Paul Dano makes his debut as a filmmaker on a script co-written with Zoe Kazan.

Carey Mulligan delivers the role of a complex woman whose self-determination and self-involvement disrupts the values and expectations of the 1960s nuclear family. With precise details and textures of its specific time and place, Wildlife commits to the viewpoint of a teenage boy observing the gradual dissolution of his parents’ marriage. Jake Gyllenhaal also stars in the film.

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The film is on general release from November 9th.

Wildlife Official Synopsis

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and...

Paul Dano gave himself quite the challenge for his directorial debut, adapting — along with co-screenwriter Zoe Kazan — Richard Ford’s bleak and meticulously structured novel “Wildlife.”

The story is about a teenage boy who has moved to Montana, only to watch his parents’ marriage deteriorate. The source material doesn’t exactly lend itself to a movie, but Dano felt that it would be perfect for his directorial debut.

“I saw a tremendous amount of love and compassion in the writing, equaled by a tremendous amount of struggle, which I also just found to be true in life, these American themes, The American Dream, the nuclear family, it’s always been something I loved and have feelings about,” Dano told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “The idea of making a family portrait just seemed like the right place to start for a filmmaker.”

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The Toronto International Film Festival just closed a diverse and dazzling edition, which introduced enough Oscar contenders for Best Actress to fill the category twice over. Remember when it was a stretch to find just five worthy contenders? Time is truly up for the Hollywood attitude that women have to play mother, whore or adoring trophy to male crybabies. So long to a society that has used fear and intimation to silence women from speaking up against male predators. Women have found their voice, and movies are beginning to reflect the power of #MeToo.

Since it premiered at Sundance, Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife has been one of the more resilient titles on the festival circuit, stopping off at Cannes’ Critics Week in May before pausing in Toronto on its way to the London Film Festival next month. Set in 1960s Montana, the film stars Ed Oxenbould as Joe Brinson, a teenage boy who witnesses the breakdown of his parents’ marriage. Stopping by the Deadline studio with Carey Mulligan, who plays Joe’s mother, Dano talked about the genesis of his passion project.

“The starting point was a book called Wildlife by Richard Ford,” Dano explained. “I read it, and read it many times within a year, just sort of turning over the idea of it, [wondering] if it could be a film, because it really spoke to me and haunted me, and immediately I started just obsessing about it and thinking about it all the time.

"There comes a time when a man needs something more to hang his hat on." IFC Films has released a full-length official trailer for Wildlife, the directorial debut of actor Paul Dano. The film first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to great reviews, then went on to play at the Cannes Film Festival and is next showing at Tiff this week. Wildlife tells the story of a young husband and wife living in the 1960s in a small town in Montana, adapted from Richard Ford's novel of the same name. Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star, and Ed Oxenbould plays their teenage son. It's a subtle film about family and the breakdown of this concept by following Mulligan as the housewife who realizes she needs to break free. The cast includes Bill Camp and Zoe Margaret Colletti. If you've been following festivals, you've likely seen...

It’s always a good sign when a film drops a Trailer almost six months in advance of its theatrical release. Having seen Wildlife, I can attest to it being one of the best movies of the year so far. The flick has played at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as well as the Cannes Film Festival, stacking up on its bona fides. The directorial debut from Paul Dano has a ton going for it and could be a fall/winter awards contender. A Trailer recently debuted, highlighting a lot of what makes it so strong a work. You’ll be able to see it at the end of this article, but first…some discussion. The film is an adaptation of the Richard Ford novel of the same name. A drama centered on the Brinson family, as seen through the eyes of teenager Joe (Ed Oxenbould). Watching his father Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal...

Actor Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, a new drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan. The film is an adaptation of the Richard Ford novel of the same name. Watch the Wildlife trailer below. Wildlife Trailer Paul Dano already has an acclaimed acting career (remember when he starred in that farting corpse movie?), and now […]

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Wildlife Trailer

Paul Dano‘s Wildlife (2018) movie trailer stars Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp, and Zoe Margaret Colletti. Wildlife‘s plot synopsis: based on the novel by Richard Ford, “IFC Films presents Wildlife, the directorial debut of Paul Dano, co-written along with Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick). [...]

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"If you've got a better plan for me, tell me." IFC Films has debuted the first official trailer for Wildlife, the feature directorial debut of actor Paul Dano. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to rave reviews, and also went on to play in the Critics' Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival this summer. Wildlife tells the story of a young husband and wife living in the 1960s in a small town in Montana, adapted from Richard Ford's novel of the same name. Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star, and Ed Oxenbould plays their teenage son. It's a subtle film about family and the breakdown of this concept by following Mulligan as the housewife who realizes she needs to break free. The cast includes Bill Camp and Zoe Margaret Colletti. This is only a teaser trailer, so it's not a full reveal, but...

IFC Films has released the teaser trailer for Paul Dano’s Wildlife starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Bill Camp, Ex Oxenbould & Zoe Margaret Colletti.

The film had it’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2018 and recently at the

Cannes Film Festival 2018 – Opening Night Critics’ Week.

In their Sundance review, Indiewire praised Dano’s first film and wrote it is, “a tender, gorgeous, and exquisitely understated drama about a family that loses its faith in itself.”

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of purpose—he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe...

IFC Films has released the first trailer for Paul Dano’s directorial debut, the phenomenal family drama Wildlife. The film is based on Richard Ford’s novel of the same name, and Dano teamed up with Zoe Kazan to co-write the screenplay, who wrote and co-starred with Dano in the underrated Ruby Sparks. This is a very different kind of film, however, as it takes place in the 1960s and tells the story of a family falling apart from the point of view of a 14-year-old only child named Joe (Ed Oxenbould). Jake Gyllenhaal plays the …...

Paul Dano has been delivering excellent performances in front of the camera for over a decade now, from “Little Miss Sunshine” to “There Will Be Blood,” “Prisoners,” and “Love & Mercy,” but the 33-year-old actor is now a breakout director thanks to his feature debut “Wildlife.” The family drama premiered to critical acclaim at Sundance earlier this year and stirred up even more buzz at Cannes this month.

Written by Dano and Zoe Kazan, “Wildlife” is based on the 1990 Richard Ford novel of the same name. Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a couple whose marriage falls apart after they move to Montana and Mulligan’s Jeanette falls in love with another man. Newcomer Ed Oxenbould plays the couple’s young child who gets caught between the emotional devastation of his parents.

IndieWire’s David Ehrlich praised Dano’s directorial debut as “stunningly beautiful” in his A- review out of Sundance.

One of the best films I saw at Sundance Film Festival this year was Wildlife, the directorial debut of Paul Dano. Starring Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp, and Jake Gyllenhaal, the film, written by Dano and Zoe Kazan, is a remarkably assured look at the dissolution of a family. After recently stopping by Cannes and ahead of an October release, IFC Films have now released the beautiful first trailer.

“Dano has worked with the likes of Denis Villeneuve, Bong Joon-ho, Rian Johnson, Steve McQueen, and Paul Thomas Anderson, but the past collaborations that he seems to draw the most from for Wildlife are Ang Lee and Kelly Reichardt,” I said in my review. “Blending the emotional subtleties of a drama like the The Ice Storm and the understated appreciation for location in all of Reichardt’s films, especially Certain Women, it’s a beautifully articulated drama in which every line has captivating subtext,...

A year after heading to Cannes as one of the stars of competition title Okja, Paul Dano returns to the Croisette, this time as a director. His impressive debut turn with Wildlife, based on the 1990 novel by Richard Ford and telling the contemplative story of a family’s slow implosion in 1950s Montana, was co-written over a number of years with his partner onscreen and off, Zoe Kazan. Having bowed at Sundance (where Dano, 33, says he was “too nervous to enjoy himself”), the film is set to open Critics’ Week, bringing the sidebar competition some sizable A-list clout ...

A year after heading to Cannes as one of the stars of competition title Okja, Paul Dano returns to the Croisette, this time as a director. His impressive debut turn with Wildlife, based on the 1990 novel by Richard Ford and telling the contemplative story of a family’s slow implosion in 1950s Montana, was co-written over a number of years with his partner onscreen and off, Zoe Kazan. Having bowed at Sundance (where Dano, 33, says he was “too nervous to enjoy himself”), the film is set to open Critics’ Week, bringing the sidebar competition some sizable A-list clout ...