Heatseeking filmmaker Olmo Schnabel has signed for representation with WME, and with Black Bear for management.
Schnabel’s breakout directorial effort “Pet Shop Days” played both the Venice International Film Festival and SXSW this cycle, scoring distribution from Utopia for a 2024 theatrical release. Starring Jack Irv, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe and Peter Sarsgaard, the film tells of a drug lord scion on the run from his powerful family. Slumming it in New York in a haze of sex and drugs, he seduces an equally lost young man and pulls him into the city’s underbelly.
The provocative debut also hit festivals in Chicago, Montclair, Morelia, Santa Barbara and Sarasota. Schnabel was also awarded the Leffest Lisboa Film Festival’s Tap Revelation Award.
Schnabel just wrapped “In the Hand of Dante” for production shop Twin, which stars Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler and Gal Gadot. The film is a...
Schnabel’s breakout directorial effort “Pet Shop Days” played both the Venice International Film Festival and SXSW this cycle, scoring distribution from Utopia for a 2024 theatrical release. Starring Jack Irv, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe and Peter Sarsgaard, the film tells of a drug lord scion on the run from his powerful family. Slumming it in New York in a haze of sex and drugs, he seduces an equally lost young man and pulls him into the city’s underbelly.
The provocative debut also hit festivals in Chicago, Montclair, Morelia, Santa Barbara and Sarasota. Schnabel was also awarded the Leffest Lisboa Film Festival’s Tap Revelation Award.
Schnabel just wrapped “In the Hand of Dante” for production shop Twin, which stars Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler and Gal Gadot. The film is a...
- 4/5/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum)
Injecting a sense of delightfully unbridled frivolity to quite a dire era of studio comedy, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar marks Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig’s first project since a decade ago with Bridesmaids. Following best friends as they take their dream vacation in a town that’s being targeted for mass destruction, this is a comedy that understands being dumb doesn’t mean dumbing things down. With a radiant color palette and joke-a-minute delivery, couple with Jamie Dornan’s best performance, this will certainly be the most rewatchable film on this list in the years to come. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Hulu
Blue (Derek Jarman)
Four...
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum)
Injecting a sense of delightfully unbridled frivolity to quite a dire era of studio comedy, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar marks Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig’s first project since a decade ago with Bridesmaids. Following best friends as they take their dream vacation in a town that’s being targeted for mass destruction, this is a comedy that understands being dumb doesn’t mean dumbing things down. With a radiant color palette and joke-a-minute delivery, couple with Jamie Dornan’s best performance, this will certainly be the most rewatchable film on this list in the years to come. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Hulu
Blue (Derek Jarman)
Four...
- 7/9/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Drama played Venice in 2019, was selected for Tribeca Festival last year.
Myriad Pictures has added Grear Patterson’s coming-of-age drama Giants Being Lonely to its virtual Cannes market slate and is preparing to kick off talks with international buyers.
Mixed-media artist Patterson directed the 2019 Venice Film Festival and 2020 Tribeca Festival selection from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Stillman about a pair of high school baseball players in the American South whose seemingly tranquil existence hides dark secrets that culminate in tragedy.
Jack Irv, Ben Irving and Gabe Fazio star in the 2020 Tribeca Festival selection, produced by Olmo Schnabel.
Myriad...
Myriad Pictures has added Grear Patterson’s coming-of-age drama Giants Being Lonely to its virtual Cannes market slate and is preparing to kick off talks with international buyers.
Mixed-media artist Patterson directed the 2019 Venice Film Festival and 2020 Tribeca Festival selection from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Stillman about a pair of high school baseball players in the American South whose seemingly tranquil existence hides dark secrets that culminate in tragedy.
Jack Irv, Ben Irving and Gabe Fazio star in the 2020 Tribeca Festival selection, produced by Olmo Schnabel.
Myriad...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Awaken (Tom Lowe)
Capturing the awe-inspiring wonders of our world has been an endeavor since the dawn of image-making, and with ever-evolving advancements in technology there’s an unparalleled pristineness in one’s ability to record such beauty. In his feature debut Awaken, director Tom Lowe takes this pursuit to heart, traversing the planet with the eye of a treasure hunter, collecting only the most stunning shots imaginable to convey the splendor of where we all collectively call home. The film’s main calling card––being executive produced by Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio––inevitably also sets a perhaps unfairly high bar as the film falls short of achieving...
Awaken (Tom Lowe)
Capturing the awe-inspiring wonders of our world has been an endeavor since the dawn of image-making, and with ever-evolving advancements in technology there’s an unparalleled pristineness in one’s ability to record such beauty. In his feature debut Awaken, director Tom Lowe takes this pursuit to heart, traversing the planet with the eye of a treasure hunter, collecting only the most stunning shots imaginable to convey the splendor of where we all collectively call home. The film’s main calling card––being executive produced by Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio––inevitably also sets a perhaps unfairly high bar as the film falls short of achieving...
- 4/9/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Two Heads Are Better Than One: Patterson Paints a Teenage Wasteland in Striking Debut
In the realm of arthouse cinema, the coming-of-age melodrama is but a stone’s throw away no matter which way one turns. Every now and then, one of them manages to strike an impressionistic chord, reflecting a time and place or way of life which on the surface seems banal but eventually pulls itself apart to reveal the furious tempest of our lifeforce. Such is the case with Giants Being Lonely, the directorial debut of Grear Patterson, who wrote his first draft of the treatment at only nineteen years of age.…...
In the realm of arthouse cinema, the coming-of-age melodrama is but a stone’s throw away no matter which way one turns. Every now and then, one of them manages to strike an impressionistic chord, reflecting a time and place or way of life which on the surface seems banal but eventually pulls itself apart to reveal the furious tempest of our lifeforce. Such is the case with Giants Being Lonely, the directorial debut of Grear Patterson, who wrote his first draft of the treatment at only nineteen years of age.…...
- 4/9/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Movies about American teenage life tend to be jumpy and exuberant, as if they were unfolding in a hive. In the usual high-school comedy, even the most out-of-the-loop dweebs are right there in the jammed hallways, getting tweaked by the mean girls (or mean boys) and hanging out with their fellow quick-witted losers. There are always scenes set in the cafeteria, or at keg parties, or in the back seats of vehicles strewn with friends and enemies. But what these movies tend to leave out — what movies, almost by nature, leave out — is the part of teenage life that’s about drifting around and dreaming and being alone, not just trying to join the crowd but getting the hell away from it.
“Giants Being Lonely” gets that. It’s a drama in the unlikely form of a 73-minute slice-of-life tone poem focused on the interior world of teenage jocks. It...
“Giants Being Lonely” gets that. It’s a drama in the unlikely form of a 73-minute slice-of-life tone poem focused on the interior world of teenage jocks. It...
- 4/6/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
"Because the only way to have fun is to stick your neck out and bite the other team's head off...!" Gravitas Ventures has released an official trailer for an indie drama titled Giants Being Lonely, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Grear Patterson. This originally premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival a few years back, and it also played at the Santa Barbara Film Festival earlier this year. A pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American South. "Set in a semi-rural landscape of verdant forests and pent-up yearning, the debut feature from lauded mixed-media artist Grear Patterson is a deeply personal story of youth and young manhood, tracing the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death – as the pressure mounts to make it out alive." Damn. This stars Jack Irving, Ben Irving, Lily Gavin,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There have been plenty of coming-of-age films about high school athletes. But most of the time, those films devolve into “Rocky”-esque sports dramas about state championships. In “Giants Being Lonely,” the athletes’ lives off the field are arguably more important than what they do during the games.
As seen in the trailer for “Giants Being Lonely,” the film follows the story of a high school senior that is a star baseball player and also dealing with all the drama that affects so many kids his age.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Trailer: Grear Patterson’s Venice Debut Shows The Drama Of Being A High School Athlete at The Playlist.
As seen in the trailer for “Giants Being Lonely,” the film follows the story of a high school senior that is a star baseball player and also dealing with all the drama that affects so many kids his age.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Trailer: Grear Patterson’s Venice Debut Shows The Drama Of Being A High School Athlete at The Playlist.
- 3/26/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
A world premiere at Venice Film Festival, Grear Patterson’s acclaimed debut feature Giants Being Lonely will now arrive stateside next month, on April 6, courtesy of Gravitas Ventures. Led by Jack Irving, Ben Irving, and Lily Gavin, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer. Set in a leafy, semi-rural Southern enclave, the film follows a trio of high school seniors as they navigate their final year together through the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death––as the pressure mounts to make it out alive.
“I hoped to share a feeling of what it is to grow up,” says Grear Patterson. “To shine a light on the strings of universal loneliness. The ones that connect all of us. All of us that made it through our adolescence and finally found solace and acceptance in ourselves and the consequences of those that fray.”
“Giants Being Lonely...
“I hoped to share a feeling of what it is to grow up,” says Grear Patterson. “To shine a light on the strings of universal loneliness. The ones that connect all of us. All of us that made it through our adolescence and finally found solace and acceptance in ourselves and the consequences of those that fray.”
“Giants Being Lonely...
- 3/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Santa Barbara Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Aaron Maurer’s documentary Invisible Valley, which profiles the stories of the disparate people that make up the Coachella Valley. It kicks off a festival that will run March 31-April 10 with a hybrid edition that includes online elements and screenings at a pair of pop-up beachside drive-in venues.
The full lineup revealed Tuesday features 47 world premieres and 37 U.S. premieres from 45 countries alongside the fest’s annual tributes featuring the likes of Bill Murray, Carey Mulligan, Sacha Baron Cohen and Amanda Seyfried which will be livestreamed online.
Every film screening will be offered for free this year, with a ticketed online component that will showcase the entire film lineup along with the tributes, industry panels and filmmaker Q&As.
The fest will close with a series of short documentaries by local filmmakers.
Here’s the trailer for Invisible Valley,...
The full lineup revealed Tuesday features 47 world premieres and 37 U.S. premieres from 45 countries alongside the fest’s annual tributes featuring the likes of Bill Murray, Carey Mulligan, Sacha Baron Cohen and Amanda Seyfried which will be livestreamed online.
Every film screening will be offered for free this year, with a ticketed online component that will showcase the entire film lineup along with the tributes, industry panels and filmmaker Q&As.
The fest will close with a series of short documentaries by local filmmakers.
Here’s the trailer for Invisible Valley,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Giants Being Lonely, the coming-of-age drama that had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. The pic, which marked the feature debut for mixed media artist Grear Patterson, will now bow April 6 day-and-day in theaters and on demand.
Jack Irving, Ben Irving, and Lily Gavin star as high school seniors who navigate their final year together in a semi-rual North Carolina town through the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death as the pressure mounts to make it out alive.
The pic is also the producing debut of filmmaker-artist Julian Schnabel’s son Olmo. The ROD3O production is executive produced by Patterson, Olmo Schnabel, Dan T. Reiner, Adam Lindemann, Nick Burch, Henry Burch, Thorvald Spartan Daggenhurst, George Merck, Andres Santo Domingo, Shkumbin Jakupi, Theo Niarchos, Luka Sabbat, Patrick Finnegan, Alvaro Odriozola, David Arthur Nabet and Sterling Brownlee Brinkley.
Jack Irving, Ben Irving, and Lily Gavin star as high school seniors who navigate their final year together in a semi-rual North Carolina town through the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death as the pressure mounts to make it out alive.
The pic is also the producing debut of filmmaker-artist Julian Schnabel’s son Olmo. The ROD3O production is executive produced by Patterson, Olmo Schnabel, Dan T. Reiner, Adam Lindemann, Nick Burch, Henry Burch, Thorvald Spartan Daggenhurst, George Merck, Andres Santo Domingo, Shkumbin Jakupi, Theo Niarchos, Luka Sabbat, Patrick Finnegan, Alvaro Odriozola, David Arthur Nabet and Sterling Brownlee Brinkley.
- 3/4/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deauville will be one of the first film festivals to take place physically in France since March.
Kelly Reichardt’s period drama First Cow, Miranda July’s crime comedy caper Kajillionaire and Jonathan Nossiter’s dystopian drama Last Words will be among 14 US titles playing in competition at the Deauville American Film Festival this year.
The festival, unfolding in the upmarket beach resort of Deauville on France’s Normandy coast, will take place September 4-13.
It will be one of the first film festivals to take place physically in France since the Covid-19 pandemic hit in early March, alongside the Angouleme Francophone Festival,...
Kelly Reichardt’s period drama First Cow, Miranda July’s crime comedy caper Kajillionaire and Jonathan Nossiter’s dystopian drama Last Words will be among 14 US titles playing in competition at the Deauville American Film Festival this year.
The festival, unfolding in the upmarket beach resort of Deauville on France’s Normandy coast, will take place September 4-13.
It will be one of the first film festivals to take place physically in France since the Covid-19 pandemic hit in early March, alongside the Angouleme Francophone Festival,...
- 7/21/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
The final days of suburban American high school provide the backdrop to Giants Being Lonely, a box-fresh cut of expressionistic filmmaking from debut writer-director Grear Patterson, a visual artist whose work to date has focused on a kind of post-modern Americana–a stylistic background that translates efficiently to the screen. Produced by Olmo Schnabel and shot beautifully by Patterson himself, Giants tells of a love triangle between three of the school’s students: the gifted pitcher of the baseball team, his coach’s less talented son, and a relatively affluent girl in their class.
Patterson has stated that Giants is autobiographical to a point, although his film, for better and worse, is far less of a nostalgic blow-by-blow memoir than the likes of, say, Lady Bird, but more a sensory memory of the time–taking place, as it does, in a palpably hot, humid, and hormone-filled summer. Brothers Jack and...
Patterson has stated that Giants is autobiographical to a point, although his film, for better and worse, is far less of a nostalgic blow-by-blow memoir than the likes of, say, Lady Bird, but more a sensory memory of the time–taking place, as it does, in a palpably hot, humid, and hormone-filled summer. Brothers Jack and...
- 1/1/2020
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Beautifully filmed—but ultimately too opaque in its plotting—Grear Patterson’s debut feature “Giants Being Lonely,” which premiered in competition at Venice, is a high school coming-of-age film that ultimately forgets its protagonists in its effort to be stylish. Utilizing first-time actors and an indistinct setting, Patterson’s film is awash with the woozy, dreamlike cinematography that most will call Malick-ian.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’: A Beautiful Yet Derivative Coming-Of-Age Story [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’: A Beautiful Yet Derivative Coming-Of-Age Story [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/2/2019
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
The first thing you notice about Grear Patterson’s “Giants Being Lonely” is how unbelievably sharp it looks. Hunter Zimny’s cinematography is bright, and it’s crisp, and if you weren’t sitting in a theater you could swear that someone left the motion smoothing on. “Giants Being Lonely” may have the free-floating structure of a Terrence Malick joint, but it hasn’t been filmed through the fog of memory. It’s immediate and specific and painful and impressive.
Set in an unspecified rural alcove of the American South, “Giants Being Lonely” examines the lives in the orbit of a high school baseball team. Their team, the Giants, is talented and successful, thanks mostly to a star pitcher named Bobby (Jack Irving) and, perhaps, to their emotionally abusive Coach, whose overlooked son Adam is on the team too. Not that anyone would notice.
When he’s not pitching, Bobby...
Set in an unspecified rural alcove of the American South, “Giants Being Lonely” examines the lives in the orbit of a high school baseball team. Their team, the Giants, is talented and successful, thanks mostly to a star pitcher named Bobby (Jack Irving) and, perhaps, to their emotionally abusive Coach, whose overlooked son Adam is on the team too. Not that anyone would notice.
When he’s not pitching, Bobby...
- 9/1/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
A formally assured, dramatically wobbly coming-of-ager about golden-limbed teens playing ball, sexing it up and generally having lots of feelings, Giants Being Lonely marks a head-scratching debut from New York mixed media artist Grear Patterson.
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
A formally assured, dramatically wobbly coming-of-ager about golden-limbed teens playing ball, sexing it up and generally having lots of feelings, Giants Being Lonely marks a head-scratching debut from New York mixed media artist Grear Patterson.
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
The lineup has been unveiled for year’s edition of the Venice International Film Festival, taking place August 28 through September 7. Aside from films previously announced as coming to Tiff, some major new announcements include Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network, James Gray’s Ad Astra, Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, Ciro Guerra’s Waiting for the Barbarians, David Michôd’s The King, Benedict Andrews’ Kristen Stewart-led biopic Seberg, and Roman Polanski’s J’accuse. Only two films by female directors made into the competition lineup: Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate and Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth.
Check out the lineup below (hat tip to Mubi), which also includes other sections at the festival.
Competition
The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
A Herdade (Tiago Guedes)
Gloria Mundi (Robert Guédiguian...
Check out the lineup below (hat tip to Mubi), which also includes other sections at the festival.
Competition
The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
A Herdade (Tiago Guedes)
Gloria Mundi (Robert Guédiguian...
- 7/25/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
There are only two films by female directors in competition.
The line-up of the 76th Venice Film Festival (August 28 – September 7) has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
This year features some high-profile projects including Todd Phillips’ Joker and James Gray’s Ad Astra, a lack of female directors in competition once again, and the controversial selection of Roman Polanski’s latest film.
Australian title Babyteeth, from first-time director Shannon Murphy, and Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate are the two films in the 21-strong competition from female filmmakers. Last year festival chief Alberto Barbera was heavily...
The line-up of the 76th Venice Film Festival (August 28 – September 7) has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
This year features some high-profile projects including Todd Phillips’ Joker and James Gray’s Ad Astra, a lack of female directors in competition once again, and the controversial selection of Roman Polanski’s latest film.
Australian title Babyteeth, from first-time director Shannon Murphy, and Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate are the two films in the 21-strong competition from female filmmakers. Last year festival chief Alberto Barbera was heavily...
- 7/25/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
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