Video Version of this Article Photo: 'Nocturnal Animals'/Focus Features/Hollywood Insider YouTube Channel The incredibly talented, multi-faceted and popular fashion designer Tom Ford has also dabbled in filmmaking. ‘Nocturnal Animals’ is his second directorial venture, after his 2009 film ‘A Single Man’, and is also written by him. Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) is a rich art gallery owner, filled with a deep dissatisfaction with her supposedly charmed life. One day, out of the blue, she receives a package with a book from her ex-husband from twenty years ago, Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal), which he has written and dedicated to her. The movie switches between the book’s story and real-life as Susan reads it; there are two parallel stories running at the same time. The book is about a small family whose vacation takes a tragic turn. Related article: The Complete List of 2021 Oscar Nominations – Celebrations, Surprises & Snubs | The Show...
- 4/19/2021
- by Mirhan Tariq
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Netflix has given a lot of titles more exposure in the last few years, with many overlooked movies receiving attention on the platform. This trend is now set to include the underrated 2016 Jake Gyllenhaal film Nocturnal Animals, which deals with the tangled relationships between an art gallery owner and a novel by her former husband Edward. Directed by Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals was well received on its release and will no doubt pick up some new fans when it hits Netflix next month.
Adapted from Austin Wright’s 1993 book Tony and Susan, the pic frequently blurs the lines between reality and the seeming-fiction of the novel, within which Amy Adams’ Susan Morrow begins to see parallels with her first marriage. Gyllenhaal plays both Edward and Tony, the lead character in the book, who goes through a traumatic series of events involving his family. Other cast members include the likes of Armie Hammer,...
Adapted from Austin Wright’s 1993 book Tony and Susan, the pic frequently blurs the lines between reality and the seeming-fiction of the novel, within which Amy Adams’ Susan Morrow begins to see parallels with her first marriage. Gyllenhaal plays both Edward and Tony, the lead character in the book, who goes through a traumatic series of events involving his family. Other cast members include the likes of Armie Hammer,...
- 11/21/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
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By Doug Oswald
An all star cast features in the adaptation of Leon Uris’ “Battle Cry,” available on Blu-ray via the Warner Archive Collection. The granddaddy of contemporary WWII melodramas like “The Winds of War” and “Band of Brothers,” “Battle Cry” was one of the first big dramatic war stories which followed multiple characters through boot camp, romance, heartbreak, the battlefield, death and homecoming. One of my favorite movies in this genre is Otto Preminger’s “In Harms Way” from 1965 which teamed John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. “Battle Cry” was first a best selling novel released in 1953 and quickly adapted to the big screen. Some people criticize these types of military themed melodramas as being light on action and heavy on romance, but there’s certainly a place for both.
“Battle Cry” begins with the narrator setting the stage. It’s...
By Doug Oswald
An all star cast features in the adaptation of Leon Uris’ “Battle Cry,” available on Blu-ray via the Warner Archive Collection. The granddaddy of contemporary WWII melodramas like “The Winds of War” and “Band of Brothers,” “Battle Cry” was one of the first big dramatic war stories which followed multiple characters through boot camp, romance, heartbreak, the battlefield, death and homecoming. One of my favorite movies in this genre is Otto Preminger’s “In Harms Way” from 1965 which teamed John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. “Battle Cry” was first a best selling novel released in 1953 and quickly adapted to the big screen. Some people criticize these types of military themed melodramas as being light on action and heavy on romance, but there’s certainly a place for both.
“Battle Cry” begins with the narrator setting the stage. It’s...
- 8/26/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The first five minutes of ‘Nocturnal Animals‘ begins with an opening credits sequence involving several rotund, garish and grotesque naked women, celebratory dancing around with such items as fireworks and pom-poms, along with a chin-strapped patriotic hat, as their bodies are on display, showcasing their gigantic breasts flopping in all directions on top of their bigger, muffintop midsections that flop around in even more directions. It’s-, well, it’s an eye-opener to say the least. It turns out, these women are apart of a performance art piece at a museum, but so, thankfully, there’s an in-universe reason for them, I guess. (Shrugs)
Honestly, I’m not exactly sure what to make of ‘Nocturnal Animals‘. It’s one of those movies that I suspect, overall, is more about emotion than it is, the actual events of the movie. Of course, the only real actual events of the movie, is...
Honestly, I’m not exactly sure what to make of ‘Nocturnal Animals‘. It’s one of those movies that I suspect, overall, is more about emotion than it is, the actual events of the movie. Of course, the only real actual events of the movie, is...
- 1/28/2018
- by David Baruffi
- Age of the Nerd
Move over James Jones — Leon Uris clobbers the big screen with a sprawling adaptation of his WW2 combat novel, loaded down with roles for promising young actors. This is the one where twice as much time is spent on love affairs than fighting. War may be hell, but if Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, Dorothy Malone and Allyn McLerie are going to be there for comfort, sign me up.
Battle Cry
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 148 min. / Street Date , 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, William Campbell, Fess Parker, Justus E. McQueen (L.Q. Jones), Perry Lopez, Jonas Applegarth, Tommy Cook, Felix Noriego, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young, Rhys Williams, Allyn Ann McLerie, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Sarah Selby, Willis Bouchey, Victor Milian.
Cinematography: Sidney Hickox
Film Editor: William H. Zeigler
Original Music: Max Steiner...
Battle Cry
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 148 min. / Street Date , 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, William Campbell, Fess Parker, Justus E. McQueen (L.Q. Jones), Perry Lopez, Jonas Applegarth, Tommy Cook, Felix Noriego, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young, Rhys Williams, Allyn Ann McLerie, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Sarah Selby, Willis Bouchey, Victor Milian.
Cinematography: Sidney Hickox
Film Editor: William H. Zeigler
Original Music: Max Steiner...
- 11/7/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What filmmaker would you most like to see try their hand at a horror movie?
Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko), Pajiba/Riot Material
I struggled with this question, because a lot of the directors I have adored have worked in horror, be it Tim Burton (“Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands”), Robert Zemeckis (“Death Becomes Her”), Edgar Wright (“Shawn of the Dead”), Frank Oz (“Little Shop of Horror”), Guillermo del Toro (“Crimson Peak”), Bong-Joon Ho (“The Host”), Jim Jarmusch (“Only Lovers Left Alive”), or Taika Waititi (“What We Do In the Shadows”). Part of what I love about the genre is the way is can be reshaped with vision, color,...
This week’s question: What filmmaker would you most like to see try their hand at a horror movie?
Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko), Pajiba/Riot Material
I struggled with this question, because a lot of the directors I have adored have worked in horror, be it Tim Burton (“Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands”), Robert Zemeckis (“Death Becomes Her”), Edgar Wright (“Shawn of the Dead”), Frank Oz (“Little Shop of Horror”), Guillermo del Toro (“Crimson Peak”), Bong-Joon Ho (“The Host”), Jim Jarmusch (“Only Lovers Left Alive”), or Taika Waititi (“What We Do In the Shadows”). Part of what I love about the genre is the way is can be reshaped with vision, color,...
- 10/30/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)
After a festival tour back in 2006, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday was theatrically re-released by the newly established Grasshopper Films, and now it’s arriving on DVD. The drama is another precisely calibrated, culturally specific demonstration of Farhadi’s skills in constructing empathy machines. Further in line with the director’s filmography, this story has a nesting-doll structure that combines ingrained social hierarchies, domestic drama, and a tragic intersection of misunderstandings. And while it...
Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)
After a festival tour back in 2006, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday was theatrically re-released by the newly established Grasshopper Films, and now it’s arriving on DVD. The drama is another precisely calibrated, culturally specific demonstration of Farhadi’s skills in constructing empathy machines. Further in line with the director’s filmography, this story has a nesting-doll structure that combines ingrained social hierarchies, domestic drama, and a tragic intersection of misunderstandings. And while it...
- 2/21/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The line between reality and fiction is often blurred by the author, who plumbs his or her life experiences to work through anger, grief, remorse, love, etc., pouring those experiences into thinly veiled versions of themselves. But, to use those characters as a blunt instrument in an act of revenge is something different.
Fashion designer cum part-time director Tom Ford explores those themes in his visually perfect, emotionally sterile Nocturnal Animals. He wrote, co-produced, and directed this adaptation of the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. It opened to fairly positive reviews in November but given the heady subject matter, it didn’t find its audience and vanished quickly only to remind audiences of its worthiness when Michael Shannon received an Oscar nod as a Best Supporting Actor nominee.
Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) was once married to Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal), a budding novelist. They became lovers during grad school,...
Fashion designer cum part-time director Tom Ford explores those themes in his visually perfect, emotionally sterile Nocturnal Animals. He wrote, co-produced, and directed this adaptation of the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. It opened to fairly positive reviews in November but given the heady subject matter, it didn’t find its audience and vanished quickly only to remind audiences of its worthiness when Michael Shannon received an Oscar nod as a Best Supporting Actor nominee.
Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) was once married to Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal), a budding novelist. They became lovers during grad school,...
- 2/20/2017
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Moana, Doctor Strange and more top our list of movies to watch at home in FebruaryMoonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Moana, Doctor Strange and more top our list of movies to watch at home in FebruaryGarrett McCormick2/7/2017 3:22:00 Pm
February is a love-fest and what better way to express your love of movies than purchasing the best films that 2016 had to offer!
New in the Cineplex Store this month is a pool of Oscar nominees, a crazy-good superhero film, and a few knee-slapping comedies, so get yourself more prepped than ever for this year's Academy Awards and get a copy of our new releases!
Check out our February New-in-Store Supercut featuring some of this months Cineplex Store releases, and find more releases below:
Nocturnal Animals - Available February 7th
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Amy Adams plays Susan Morrow, an...
February is a love-fest and what better way to express your love of movies than purchasing the best films that 2016 had to offer!
New in the Cineplex Store this month is a pool of Oscar nominees, a crazy-good superhero film, and a few knee-slapping comedies, so get yourself more prepped than ever for this year's Academy Awards and get a copy of our new releases!
Check out our February New-in-Store Supercut featuring some of this months Cineplex Store releases, and find more releases below:
Nocturnal Animals - Available February 7th
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Amy Adams plays Susan Morrow, an...
- 2/7/2017
- by Garrett McCormick
- Cineplex
2016 was chock-full of big blockbuster releases, many of which either failed to make a sizable profit or were incredibly divisive among audiences. But out of the ashes rose a beautiful flower: the indie film. Yes, independent movies had a wonderful year, some even breaking per-theater records and making their way onto my favorites of 2016 list, which also includes a Denis Villeneuve film, a comic book series, collectibles, an excellent comprehensive horror documentary, and more.
Arrival: Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is a beautiful take on language and how communication (or the lack of proper communication) can either doom or ensure our survival as human beings on this planet. The way Villeneuve tells a story is the perfect fit for a film like Arrival because its focus is small but the ideas are big, much like his previous works, Enemy, Sicario, and Prisoners.
My hope is that the takeaway from Arrival...
Arrival: Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is a beautiful take on language and how communication (or the lack of proper communication) can either doom or ensure our survival as human beings on this planet. The way Villeneuve tells a story is the perfect fit for a film like Arrival because its focus is small but the ideas are big, much like his previous works, Enemy, Sicario, and Prisoners.
My hope is that the takeaway from Arrival...
- 1/7/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Tom Ford is drunk on movies. Like the fashion icon he is, the director brings a keen eye for style, texture and design to the images he creates. But bruised humanity and the emotions roiling underneath elegant surfaces – those are his true subjects as a filmmaker. A Single Man (2009) was a masterful debut with Colin Firth giving a career-best performance as a gay professor feeling suicidal over the death of his lover. Ford hits it out of the park again in Nocturnal Animals, a stunning film noir that resonates with ghostly,...
- 11/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Ever since his feature debut A Single Man, cinema fans have been anxious to see more from fashion designer turned filmmaker Tom Ford. This week, they get their wish, as his sophomore outing Nocturnal Animals opens. It seeks to follow in the footsteps of A Single Man and appeal to Academy voters. Personally, I don’t think it’s quite up to that level, but others certainly disagree. Oscar will have its say before long, so let’s see if we can figure out what might happen then. If nothing else, this is a distinctive movie, one that shows Ford to be an auteur that’s not going away anytime soon. The film is an adaptation of the novel Tony and Susan, by Evan Wright. It follows Susan Morrow (Amy Adams), an art gallery owner who is sent a manuscript by her ex husband Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal). It’s...
- 11/14/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Tensions are high with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in these new clips from Nocturnal AnimalsTensions are high with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in these new clips from Nocturnal AnimalsGarrett McCormick11/3/2016 11:57:00 Am
Arrival isn’t the only film we’ll be seeing Amy Adams in this fall. The release of Nocturnal Animals is just around the corner and her performance in these new clips is captivating.
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Adams plays Susan Morrow, an art gallery owner who comes across the manuscript of a novel her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) wrote about her. The book is filled with the essence of revenge, hatred and bitterness, leaving Susan questioning all of the choices she made in her relationship with him.
Tom Ford is back as a director for his the second time, after huge success with his 2009 Oscar nominated film A Single Man.
Arrival isn’t the only film we’ll be seeing Amy Adams in this fall. The release of Nocturnal Animals is just around the corner and her performance in these new clips is captivating.
Based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, Adams plays Susan Morrow, an art gallery owner who comes across the manuscript of a novel her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) wrote about her. The book is filled with the essence of revenge, hatred and bitterness, leaving Susan questioning all of the choices she made in her relationship with him.
Tom Ford is back as a director for his the second time, after huge success with his 2009 Oscar nominated film A Single Man.
- 11/3/2016
- by Garrett McCormick
- Cineplex
Tom Ford's sophomore feature scratches many itches while adapting Austin Wright's 1993 novel for the big screen. It is challenging populist entertainment, garnished with Lynchian genre elements, but done with the kind of top-shelf craft one expects out of Hollywood, and is pitched at adults instead of teenagers. It is going to be filed under art-house. Pay no attention to labels, though. This is engaging, imposing filmmaking, of the kind that usually comes from Jonathan Glazer, P.T. Anderson, or David Fincher. And while one cannot see everything at a large international film festival, I did manage to catch almost 50 films at Tiff this year, and this was the best thing I saw. An art gallery owner, Susan Morrow (Amy Adams), is haunted by her...
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- 10/21/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Nocturnal Animals treats its central themes – regret, revenge and human experience – with a malleable blend of cold apathy and raw emotion. Though packaged as a hyper-stylised thriller, director Tom Ford has crafted a nuanced, multi-layered narrative that prioritises tragic catharsis over satisfaction or resolution. There’s a simple story at the heart of Nocturnal Animals, told in vignettes alternating between present, past and outright fiction, each directed with a subtle, though specific approach. However, for all its meta-mystery and multiple layers, it succeeds its maintaining relentless tension throughout. Reinforced with stunning performances from both its leads and its regrettably underused supporting players, Nocturnal Animals is an astonishing, intensely gripping thriller that will gratify and devastate in equal measure. Despite owning a successful Los Angeles art-gallery, Susan Morrow’s (Amy Adams) life is marred by professional dissatisfaction and a constantly...
- 10/21/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Macnamara)
- www.themoviebit.com
Tom Ford is back at the Lff.
From writer/director Tom Ford comes Nocturnal Animals starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles art dealer (portrayed by Ms. Adams), lives an incredibly privileged yet unfulfilled life with her husband Hutton Morrow (Armie Hammer). One weekend, as Hutton departs on one of his too-frequent business trips, Susan receives an unsolicited package that has been left in her mailbox. It is a novel, Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Mr. Gyllenhaal), with whom she has had no contact for years. Edward’s note accompanying the manuscript encourages Susan to read the work and then to contact him during his visit to the city.
From writer/director Tom Ford comes Nocturnal Animals starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles art dealer (portrayed by Ms. Adams), lives an incredibly privileged yet unfulfilled life with her husband Hutton Morrow (Armie Hammer). One weekend, as Hutton departs on one of his too-frequent business trips, Susan receives an unsolicited package that has been left in her mailbox. It is a novel, Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Mr. Gyllenhaal), with whom she has had no contact for years. Edward’s note accompanying the manuscript encourages Susan to read the work and then to contact him during his visit to the city.
- 10/4/2016
- by admin
- Pure Movies
Love, revenge and masculinity run deep in Nocturnal Animals, the latest film made by fashion designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford. His previous film was 2009's A Single Man, the elegant and subtle tale of a closeted gay man at odds with himself. Now he's returned to play with those same themes in two different ways, melodrama and pulp. Nocturnal Animals is based on Austin Wright's 1993 novel "Tony and Susan" and among our first character introductions is Susan Morrow (played by Amy Adams). Her demeanor is ice cold and extremely calculating, the type of behavior that suggests deep sorrow and unnamed guilt. Both of these assumptions turn out to be true the more we learn about her nature as the film progresses. She has traded in ambition for a dead-end marriage with a philandering businessman named Hutton (played by Armie Hammer), the art gallery she runs isn't fulfilling her and to top...
- 9/15/2016
- by Marco Cerritos
- firstshowing.net
Few movies this year will be more aesthetically satisfying than Tom Ford’s thriller, Nocturnal Animals. Lavishly enriched with moody shades and sensual talent, the fashion designer’s second feature obtains a stranglehold on your attention from the opening sequence. Even there, he manages to transfix you by making sexual the grotesque, by juxtaposing the obscene with the erotic. And while the overall tonality of the movie at times suffers from this heavy hand, it is overall a seductive piece that will both be seared into your memory and become unmemorable.
The focus is on Susan Morrow, an insomniac depressive woman played with her signature sad big eyes and her characteristic aplomb by Amy Adams. Susan embodies the life of the tragic rich and famous, the kind that speaks of psycho-pharmacologists and weekends on the country while downing one too many a stiff cocktail. Caught between a loveless marriage to Walker,...
The focus is on Susan Morrow, an insomniac depressive woman played with her signature sad big eyes and her characteristic aplomb by Amy Adams. Susan embodies the life of the tragic rich and famous, the kind that speaks of psycho-pharmacologists and weekends on the country while downing one too many a stiff cocktail. Caught between a loveless marriage to Walker,...
- 9/13/2016
- by J Don Birnam
- LRMonline.com
When we think of capital-g, capital-a Great Acting, we go right to the grand displays of force: Marlon Brando howling for Stella, Vivien Leigh swearing to God that she'll never go hungry again, Daniel Day-Lewis theatrically slurping up that milk shake. There's something electric about watching go-for-broke performances such as these, a sort of contact high emanating from the emotional extremes onscreen.
Amy Adams does not tend to do things like this, and Friday morning at the Toronto International Film Festival, she reminded audiences why she doesn't need to. In...
Amy Adams does not tend to do things like this, and Friday morning at the Toronto International Film Festival, she reminded audiences why she doesn't need to. In...
- 9/10/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Clothing impresario/film director Tom Ford has returned to the director's chair with a new film called Nocturnal Animals, which is based on a book by Austin Wright. Before we go any further, here's the book's synopsis:
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says.
As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past,...
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says.
As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past,...
- 9/9/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
“You have to learn to enjoy the absurdity of our world,” says Michael Sheen’s L.A. socialite to Amy Adams‘ disillusioned art gallery owner at the after party of her latest flash contemporary vernissage. It’s the kind of line that suggests we might be in for some sort of highbrow Hollywood satire, but there’s so much more to Nocturnal Animals than that.
Based on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan,” and helmed by fashion designer turned polymath Tom Ford (A Single Man), Animals is the sort of narratively bold exercise in page-turning suspense and cinematic class that used to be synonymous with Hollywood. Adams stars as Susan Morrow, a wealthy gallery proprietor working in the upper echelons of the L.A. art scene, currently lost in a loveless second marriage to a dashing, younger art dealer named Walker (Armie Hammer). Susan’s past resurfaces when a...
Based on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan,” and helmed by fashion designer turned polymath Tom Ford (A Single Man), Animals is the sort of narratively bold exercise in page-turning suspense and cinematic class that used to be synonymous with Hollywood. Adams stars as Susan Morrow, a wealthy gallery proprietor working in the upper echelons of the L.A. art scene, currently lost in a loveless second marriage to a dashing, younger art dealer named Walker (Armie Hammer). Susan’s past resurfaces when a...
- 9/3/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Gather round, fashionistas, because I have news for you. For his follow-up to 2009’s “A Single Man,” Tom Ford hasn’t just made one film – he’s sort of made two. “Nocturnal Animals” is an impressively ambitious effort, one part mean Texas thriller, one part middle-age melodrama, and makes for a meta-textual riddle that is almost as pleasurable to reflect on as it to actually watch.
Let’s take it slow. Amy Adams (her again!) plays Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles high society maven with a successful art gallery and a failing marriage. While distant husband Armie Hammer jets between L.A. and New York for business (and, you know, business), Susan lounges in their beautifully adorned house, contemplating her many pieces of modern art, and wondering where it all went wrong.
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She gets...
Let’s take it slow. Amy Adams (her again!) plays Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles high society maven with a successful art gallery and a failing marriage. While distant husband Armie Hammer jets between L.A. and New York for business (and, you know, business), Susan lounges in their beautifully adorned house, contemplating her many pieces of modern art, and wondering where it all went wrong.
Read More: ‘Arrival’ Review: Amy Adams Steals Spotlight In Denis Villeneuve’s Deep-Thinking Alien Invasion Story
She gets...
- 9/2/2016
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
After a seven-year gap, fashion designer and director Tom Ford is following up the success of his directorial debut A Single Man with Nocturnal Animals, which has just been given a first look. The thriller follows an art gallery owner, Susan Morrow (Amy Adams), who reads deeply (perhaps too deeply) into the words of her ex-husband’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) latest novel, one she believes is a threat and tool of revenge against her. Paranoia and fear ensue as Susan must discover whether or not words are just words.
Ford told EW that, in penning the adaptation of Austin Wright‘s Tony and Susan, he added much to Adams’ character — including by casting lookalike Isla Fisher as her story-within-the-story double. Ford is a man certainly interested in aesthetics, and Animals is lensed by Seamus McGarvey, whose back catalogue includes Godzilla, Atonement, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Ford told EW that, in penning the adaptation of Austin Wright‘s Tony and Susan, he added much to Adams’ character — including by casting lookalike Isla Fisher as her story-within-the-story double. Ford is a man certainly interested in aesthetics, and Animals is lensed by Seamus McGarvey, whose back catalogue includes Godzilla, Atonement, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
See the first...
- 7/25/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
True Blood‘s Kristin Bauer Van Straten has joined the cast of Nocturnal Animals, joining Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, along with Kim Basinger, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ellie Bamber and Robert Aramayo. Based on the book Tony and Susan by Austen Wright, the film follows Susan Morrow, a woman whose life is changed after she receives the manuscript for her ex-husband’s new novel in the mail. Reading about the life of its protagonist, Tony Hastings, Susan is forced to confront…...
- 10/31/2015
- Deadline
Following up his starring role in Gaspar Noé’s sexually explicit romantic drama Love, Karl Glusman has joined the cast of Focus Features’ Nocturnal Animals, based on Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony And Susan. Written and directed by Tom Ford, the story follows Susan Morrow, whose life is changed when she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. Reading it pulls her into the life of fictional character Tony Hastings, an ordinary man…...
- 10/5/2015
- Deadline
Armie Hammer is the latest star to join Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals.
The Man from Uncle star will appear opposite the likes of Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in the adaptation of Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony and Susan.
Nocturnal Animals features a two-part storyline, with the first following Susan, who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband of 20 years.
The second story involves the main character from the book manuscript (Gyllenhaal), whose family holiday turns violent.
Deadline reports that Hammer will play Walker Morrow, the husband of Susan Morrow (Amy Adams).
Kim Basinger recently signed on to appear as Susan's wealthy mother Anne, while Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Michael Shannon are also attached.
Nocturnal Animals is Ford's first film since his 2009 directorial debut A Single Man.
Watch the trailer for 'A Single Man' below:...
The Man from Uncle star will appear opposite the likes of Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in the adaptation of Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony and Susan.
Nocturnal Animals features a two-part storyline, with the first following Susan, who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband of 20 years.
The second story involves the main character from the book manuscript (Gyllenhaal), whose family holiday turns violent.
Deadline reports that Hammer will play Walker Morrow, the husband of Susan Morrow (Amy Adams).
Kim Basinger recently signed on to appear as Susan's wealthy mother Anne, while Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Michael Shannon are also attached.
Nocturnal Animals is Ford's first film since his 2009 directorial debut A Single Man.
Watch the trailer for 'A Single Man' below:...
- 8/30/2015
- Digital Spy
Ever since his walk-on, one-line bit-part in a second season episode of Arrested Development, Armie Hammer has been seeking his niche. Momentum has built in fits and starts, with notable turns in The Social Network and J. Edgar particularly providing an opportunity to flex dramatic muscle. However, it is only now – with The Man From U.N.C.L.E in cinemas – that Hammer has truly come into his own, delivering a performance as a Russian agent that is utterly flawless. It is therefore unsurprising that high profile jobs are now flowing his way, and the latest is confirmed as a supporting role in Nocturnal Animals.
Written and directed by Tom Ford (A Single Man), the film will be an adaptation of the 1993 novel Tony And Susan, by Austin Wright. Nocturnal Animals is the name of the book-within-the-book, which drives the action of the story – as part-time English teacher and...
Written and directed by Tom Ford (A Single Man), the film will be an adaptation of the 1993 novel Tony And Susan, by Austin Wright. Nocturnal Animals is the name of the book-within-the-book, which drives the action of the story – as part-time English teacher and...
- 8/29/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amy Adams is currently in talks for the lead role in fashion designer/film director Tom Ford's sophomore feature Nocturnal Animals, with Jake Gyllenhaal attached to play Adams' male counterpart. Further, Joaquin Phoenix and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are also being sought for key roles in the film, a bit of casting that would reunite Phoenix with Adams, whom he acted opposite in 2013's Her. With Adams, Gyllenhaal, and Phoenix potentially working together in the same film, I'd say that alone makes this worth keeping an eye on, but the fact it is a thriller, my favorite genre of film, piques my interest even more. Add in George Clooney and Grant Heslov (The Ides of March) as producers and you've basically got me stashing away funds for a ticket to the film, which Ford adapted from Austin Wright's 1993 novel "Tony and Susan". Below is the synopsis of Wright's novel,...
- 3/26/2015
- by Jordan Benesh
- Rope of Silicon
Several weeks back we reported that Tom Ford, the acclaimed fashion designer and director of the 2009 film A Single Man, had hinted at his next film project, a two-part thriller based on a then un-revealed book. Now THR is reporting the details behind the project, titled Nocturnal Animals.
Nocturnal Animals will be based on a 1993 novel by Austin Wright called Tony and Susan and will be produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov under their Smokehouse Pictures banner. The title Nocturnal Animals actually refers to a story within Tony and Susan. Susan is a professor reading the Nocturnal Animals manuscript from her ex-husband and weighing her past with her husband, while Tony is the character within Nocturnal Animals, a man dealing with the challenges of a vacation turned violent and deadly. Here’s a plot description of Tony and Susan via Amazon and Publisher’s Weekly:
In this intriguing accomplished novel,...
Nocturnal Animals will be based on a 1993 novel by Austin Wright called Tony and Susan and will be produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov under their Smokehouse Pictures banner. The title Nocturnal Animals actually refers to a story within Tony and Susan. Susan is a professor reading the Nocturnal Animals manuscript from her ex-husband and weighing her past with her husband, while Tony is the character within Nocturnal Animals, a man dealing with the challenges of a vacation turned violent and deadly. Here’s a plot description of Tony and Susan via Amazon and Publisher’s Weekly:
In this intriguing accomplished novel,...
- 3/24/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Tom Ford is more than just a fashion designer, he's also the director of the movie A Single Man, which should have won Colin Firth an Oscar over Jeff Bridges in 2010 and would have even been a better film for Julianne Moore to receive an Oscar instead of Still Alice. But it wasn't meant to be, despite how great that film and its performances were. Ford, however, hasn't been quick to make a follow-up to the 2009 feature, but it appears it's time for a sophomore effort. amz asin="0446582905" size="small"Ford is ready to begin work on Nocturnal Animals an adaptation of the Austin Wright novel "Tony and Susan". Ford wrote the screenplay for what's described as a postmodern noir thriller with George Clooney and Grant Heslov producing through Smokehouse Pictures. Here's a description of the book via Amazon: Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield,...
- 3/24/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Tom Ford has been doing his best to keep the details of his upcoming movie under wraps, but with plans to shoot this fall, he could only keep it completely under lock and key for so long. Today we have a title, plot details, and more about his followup to "A Single Man." Titled "Nocturnal Animals," the film is an adaptation of the book "Tony and Susan" by Austin Wright. The novel boasts an interesting narrative twist, which finds the main character reading the manuscript for a thriller that becomes part of the main plot thread. Here's the synopsis: Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic,...
- 3/24/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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