An overview of other films like butter on the latch. Josephine decker on butter on the latch and thou wast. Josephine deckers butter on the latch is a work of frayed edges and starkly. Sarah and isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the balkans, but it turns out that shared interests dont always unite them.
Each film has a fleet, concise running time, but the movies are packed with incident and action and reveal an idiosyncratic and deft personality behind the camera. Butter on the latch trailer 2014 trailer for butter on the latch. So it goes with josephine deckers butter on the latch, which had its world premiere at the festival on thursday night. The new yorker described her as the most original independent filmmaker to surface in the past few years, and her first two features, butter on the latch and thou wast mild and lovely are both sensual, impressionistic, elliptical stories, teetering on the edge of strangeness. Her two features, butter on the latch and thou wast mild and lovely, are lyrical, but this is not a calm, contemplative, conventionally poetic cinema. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper steph. In theaters october 5th, 2012 starring jennifer garner, ty burrell, olivia wilde, rob corddry. It tells the story of sarah and isolde attending a balkan music camp, the eroding friendship between them, and the budding romance between sarah and. It first screened publicly at the 20 maryland film festival before officially premiering at the 2014 berlinale in the forum section. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.
With isolde chaelawrence, emily decker, stephan goldbach, charlie hewson. Butter on the latch opens november 14th at the made in ny media center by ifp in brooklyn, new york. Butter on the latch directed and edited by josephine decker director of photography ashley connor starring sarah small, isolde chaelawrence and charlie. I waited somewhere between a year and my whole life for the berlin film festival better known as the berlinale. Josephine decker on thou wast mild and lovely and butter on. Filmmaker josephine decker discusses darkness, sexuality. Distributed by cinelicious pics, butter on the latch releases theatrically and on vod on friday, november 14, 2014, as part of a doublebill with thou wast mild and lovely. Think more along the lines of a freeform improvisation told in scattershot chronology, wafting between reality, daydreams and nightmares. Butter on the latch the relationship between two longtime female friends frays in this abstract visit to a folkmusic camp. At a balkan folk song and dance camp in the woods of mendocino, california, sarah reunites with her old friend isolde and with a song she learned years before about dragons who entwine themselves in womens hair and carry them off through the forest, burning it as they go. Latinautor, abramus digital, amra, latinautor sonyatv, cmrra, umpi, solar music rights management, umpg publishing. Skin blog celebrity nudity big boobs blog big tits and big boobs at boobie blog celebfans forum celebrity forum for pictures videos and other celebrity related topics nudecelebvideo videos with nude celebs from movies and tv shows in hd quality nudography android app nudography android client for your mobile device running on android os. The two films just opened theatrically in new york, and are now available on video on demand vod. Visit the films facebook page and the cinelicious site to learn more.
Butter on the latch is a 20 experimental psychological thrillerdrama film written, produced, and directed by josephine decker. Butter on the latch official trailer 2014 josephine. Two independent films to watch out for the new yorker. When she pursues a romance with a new camper, her nights of. Butter is a 2011 comedy film directed by jim field smith, from a screenplay by jason micallef, starring yara shahidi, jennifer garner, ty burrell, olivia wilde, rob corddry, ashley greene, alicia silverstone, and hugh jackman. The 30 best truly independent films of the 21st century.
First feature competition october 11th and 12th, 2014 torino international film festival section. Oct 18, 2018 the 30 best truly independent films of the 21st century. It wears its scant means and do it yourself aesthetic like a badge of honor, yet these inhibiting factors are completely ineffectual in restraining the ambition and artistry of deckers imagination. In iowa, a girl in foster care discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their towns annual contest. All the basic building blocks of madelines madeline were already present in deckers debut five years ago. Nov 14, 2014 verite sat down with the filmmaker behind this double decker feature, now playing a limited engagement at the made in ny media center by ifp. Madelines madeline was certainly impressive but it still wasnt an easy film to sit through. Her next film, thou wast mild and lovely, will be running through october 1. Butter on the latch 20 0509 20 us horror, drama, fantasy 1h 12m user score. Much of the occurrences in butter on the latch, the debut feature from. So after an early rise i secured a fistful of tickets and away i went. Butter follows an ambitious woman jennifer garner who is married to iowas reigning butter sculpting champ ty burrell but decides to enter the race on her own when he retires. Josephine deckers first two narrative features make for a heady, dreamy double bill for anyone patient enough to tease some meaning from their madness.
Decker appears briefly, in a nonspeaking part, in butter on the latch. Writing about deckers thou wast mild and lovely 2014, the new yorkers richard brody suggested that it offers. Josephine decker on butter on the latch and thou wast mild and lovely. Final fantasy vii remake completely reimagines classic game. Every single element of film form seems to get a playful workout in her hands. Writing about deckers thou wast mild and lovely 2014, the new yorker s richard brody suggested that it offers the primal renewal of the. Michael stuhlbarg and elisabeth moss in josephine deckers shirley 2020. While visiting the iowa state fair by herself, she wanders into the exhibit of the winning butter sculpture, a lifesized last supper, and skillfully finishes the holy grail cup, which impresses the sculptures creator, bob pickler.
Many scenes begin completely blurred, only for the image to gradually. May 10, 20 constructed entirely out of improvised dialogue, butter on the latch is a spooky portrait that shares its protagonists dwindling subjectivity without simplifying it. Butter on the latch 20 at a balkan folk song camp in california, sarah reunites with isolde, an old friend, to sing old songs. Josephine decker on butter on the latch and thou wast mild and. Her film butter on the latch 20 is set at a balkan music camp in the woods and built around completely improvised dialogue, and thou wast mild and lovely 2014 is a gripping tale of loosely related characters who act on their dark impulses. Inspired by a bulgarian folk song upcoming london bfi film festival nominee. Indie filmmaker josephine decker pulled off one of the major coups of the berlin film festivala. The films more overtly observational moments never quite fuse with the more. Destiny is a 10yearold foster child in iowa who gets placed with ethan and jill emmet. Many scenes begin completely blurred, only for the image to gradually come into focus.
Josephine decker is a terribly incompetent filmmaker who clearly has no understanding of the basic function of a camera or how it works, as. Butter was in the style of the great movie best in show and both were laugh out loud funny my only negative comment is that i did not buy the movie. Nov 10, 2014 t he most consistent visual signature josephine decker offers in her debut feature, butter on the latch, is her manipulation of focal lengths. Sarah small nude butter on the latch 20 butter on the latch nudity, butter on the latch sex scene, butter on the latch nude scene, butter on the latch actress nude, butter on the latch sexy scene. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends. Much of the occurrences in butter on the latch, the debut feature from actressperformance artist josephine decker, are of the highlyambiguous variety as the film refuses to follow any discernible path narratively speaking. Butter on the latch official trailer 2014 josephine decker horror. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when sarah. Josephine decker, starring sarah small, isolde chaelawrence. Through this, deckers film raises and visualizes the labour inherent in the. For many years, laura pickler jennifer garner has relished the prestige and admiration afforded her as the wife of iowas longtime buttercarving champion, bob ty burrell. Instead, it is full of disorientation and surprise narrative, formal, stylistic. Josephine deckers butter on the latch is playing on mubi in the us through september 30.
Butter on the latch official trailer 2014 josephine decker horror fantasy movie hd at a balkan folk song and dance camp in the woods of. Josephine deckers shirley the current the criterion. Josephine deckers butter on the latch 20 follows sarah sarah small and. October 11th and 12th, 2014 torino international film festival section.
Thats the premise of butter on the latch, the first feature by josephine decker who made last years wondrous short film. Nov, 2014 the first, butter on the latch, had its world premiere at last years maryland film festival and its international premiere at this years berlin film festival. It was released on october 5, 2012 in the united states and canada by the weinstein company through its radiustwc distribution arm. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic con sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Balkan music and horror elements are mulched together in butter on the latch. In butter on the latch, the story is deckers, though her three principal actors improvised all the dialogue.
The skeleton crew of josephine deckers first feature butter on the latch was small, even by the standards of the wave of microbudgeted films that were hitting festivals during the first half of the decade. Butter on the latch and thou wast mild and lovely seem to take place in separate but similar worlds where the boundaries between waking and dreaming, intimacy and violence, are all too permeable. Butter on the latch, a fascinating and truly original. Butter on the latch nude scenes 7 images and 2 videos including appearances from sarah small. Josephine decker on butter on the latch and thou wast mild.
It was more like the recording of a performance than a proper film while her feature debut, butter on the latch is nothing more than a series of rambling conversations filmed in a documentary style that might once have been called cinemaveritie. It tells the story of sarah and isolde attending a balkan music camp, the eroding friendship between them, and the budding romance between sarah and a male camper named steph. Similar films to watch if you like butter on the latch. Apr 28, 2014 her film butter on the latch 20 is set at a balkan music camp in the woods and built around completely improvised dialogue, and thou wast mild and lovely 2014 is a gripping tale of loosely related characters who act on their dark impulses. Le film butter on the latch 20 vostfr admin 20170430t23. Ashley greene, alicia silverstone and hugh jackman, butter follows the story of. Le film butter on the latch 20 vostfr film complet. The film takes place in and around johnson county, iowa. One viewing of decker s 20 narrative feature debut butter on the latch will dispel that assumption in just 70 brief, nerveracking minutes of fullon auteurist onslaught. Now in its second year, the festival, whose title is a tip of the cap to annie halls choice refrain, has expanded upon its foundations as a communal haven for filmmakers creating aesthetically. Decker conceived the story of butter on the latch, and wrote the script for thou wast mild and lovely, during her residency at a writing workshop in the catskills, in upstate new york.
Constructed entirely out of improvised dialogue, butter on the latch is a spooky portrait that shares its protagonists dwindling subjectivity without simplifying it. Filmmaker josephine decker discusses darkness, sexuality, and. Both films are intriguing character studies centered around the nuances within sexual and romantic. Butter on the latch thrives on its casually true snapshots of confusion and connection. With jennifer garner, yara shahidi, ty burrell, olivia wilde. T he most consistent visual signature josephine decker offers in her debut feature, butter on the latch, is her manipulation of focal lengths. These films are probably too experimental for mainstream. Born today most popular celebs most popular celebs celebrity news. Butter on the latch and thou wast mild and lovely make. I always find josephine fascinating even when i dont completely click with her work. We discussed the production, duality and future of.
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