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. 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. 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. All the basic building blocks of madelines madeline were already present in deckers debut five years ago. Butter on the latch directed and edited by josephine decker director of photography ashley connor starring sarah small, isolde chaelawrence and charlie. Think more along the lines of a freeform improvisation told in scattershot chronology, wafting between reality, daydreams and nightmares.
Butter on the latch nude scenes 7 images and 2 videos including appearances from sarah small. Many scenes begin completely blurred, only for the image to gradually. Inspired by a bulgarian folk song upcoming london bfi film festival nominee. 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. 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. Josephine deckers shirley the current the criterion. Ashley greene, alicia silverstone and hugh jackman, butter follows the story of. 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. When she pursues a romance with a new camper, her nights of. 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. 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 opens november 14th at the made in ny media center by ifp in brooklyn, new york. October 11th and 12th, 2014 torino international film festival section.
Butter on the latch thrives on its casually true snapshots of confusion and connection. 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. Balkan music and horror elements are mulched together in butter on the latch. Destiny is a 10yearold foster child in iowa who gets placed with ethan and jill emmet. Josephine deckers butter on the latch 20 follows sarah sarah small and. Instead, it is full of disorientation and surprise narrative, formal, stylistic. 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.
Josephine decker on butter on the latch and thou wast mild and. Decker appears briefly, in a nonspeaking part, in butter on the latch. Writing about deckers thou wast mild and lovely 2014, the new yorker s richard brody suggested that it offers the primal renewal of the. Butter on the latch 20 0509 20 us horror, drama, fantasy 1h 12m user score. 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. Through this, deckers film raises and visualizes the labour inherent in the. With jennifer garner, yara shahidi, ty burrell, olivia wilde.
I waited somewhere between a year and my whole life for the berlin film festival better known as the berlinale. Butter on the latch is a 20 experimental psychological thrillerdrama film written, produced, and directed by josephine decker. 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. Butter on the latch the relationship between two longtime female friends frays in this abstract visit to a folkmusic camp. The two films just opened theatrically in new york, and are now available on video on demand vod. Many scenes begin completely blurred, only for the image to gradually come into focus. In butter on the latch, the story is deckers, though her three principal actors improvised all the dialogue. 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. 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. Her next film, thou wast mild and lovely, will be running through october 1.
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. First feature competition october 11th and 12th, 2014 torino international film festival section. Butter on the latch and thou wast mild and lovely make. Josephine decker on thou wast mild and lovely and butter on. Josephine deckers first two narrative features make for a heady, dreamy double bill for anyone patient enough to tease some meaning from their madness. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. An overview of other films like butter on the latch. 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. It first screened publicly at the 20 maryland film festival before officially premiering at the 2014 berlinale in the forum section. Similar films to watch if you like butter on the latch. Much of the occurrences in butter on the latch, the debut feature from. T he most consistent visual signature josephine decker offers in her debut feature, butter on the latch, is her manipulation of focal lengths. The films more overtly observational moments never quite fuse with the more.
Madelines madeline was certainly impressive but it still wasnt an easy film to sit through. 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. So after an early rise i secured a fistful of tickets and away i went. Constructed entirely out of improvised dialogue, butter on the latch is a spooky portrait that shares its protagonists dwindling subjectivity without simplifying it. Both films are intriguing character studies centered around the nuances within sexual and romantic. Writing about deckers thou wast mild and lovely 2014, the new yorkers richard brody suggested that it offers. Le film butter on the latch 20 vostfr admin 20170430t23.
Thats the premise of butter on the latch, the first feature by josephine decker who made last years wondrous short film. Filmmaker josephine decker discusses darkness, sexuality, and. Le film butter on the latch 20 vostfr film complet. Indie filmmaker josephine decker pulled off one of the major coups of the berlin film festivala. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Butter on the latch trailer 2014 trailer for butter on the latch. 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.
Every single element of film form seems to get a playful workout in her hands. The film takes place in and around johnson county, iowa. Butter on the latch 20 at a balkan folk song camp in california, sarah reunites with isolde, an old friend, to sing old songs. 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.
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. 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. Butter on the latch, a fascinating and truly original. In theaters october 5th, 2012 starring jennifer garner, ty burrell, olivia wilde, rob corddry. Final fantasy vii remake completely reimagines classic game.
Latinautor, abramus digital, amra, latinautor sonyatv, cmrra, umpi, solar music rights management, umpg publishing. Visit the films facebook page and the cinelicious site to learn more. These films are probably too experimental for mainstream. It was released on october 5, 2012 in the united states and canada by the weinstein company through its radiustwc distribution arm.
Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper steph. 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. But thats also what makes the discovery of a movie completely obscured by more. Michael stuhlbarg and elisabeth moss in josephine deckers shirley 2020.
Josephine decker, starring sarah small, isolde chaelawrence. 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 butter on the latch is a work of frayed edges and starkly. 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. With isolde chaelawrence, emily decker, stephan goldbach, charlie hewson. Josephine decker on butter on the latch and thou wast.
A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when sarah. 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. Josephine decker on butter on the latch and thou wast mild and lovely. 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. Butter on the latch official trailer 2014 josephine. 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. Filmmaker josephine decker discusses darkness, sexuality. The 30 best truly independent films of the 21st century. Two independent films to watch out for the new yorker. Oct 18, 2018 the 30 best truly independent films of the 21st century. Born today most popular celebs most popular celebs celebrity news. I always find josephine fascinating even when i dont completely click with her work.
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