New Project: Nobel Son

[eliza'snumber1fan]

cool, have a great time apollo

[Keri]

Hey Apollo, hope you enjoy it Come back and tell us what you think? Andy, the ticket prices look about the same as UK to me... where the hell do you go to the cinema lol?

[andrew r]

^Somewhere cheap! lol.

[dirrrty]

Apollo, are you going to any of Sarah's movies?

[Apollo]

Originally Posted by Keri

Hey Apollo, hope you enjoy it Come back and tell us what you think?

Absotively

Originally Posted by dirrrty

Apollo, are you going to any of Sarah's movies?

Yup..going to TAIB and Suburban Girl as well. Lucked out getting ticket for The Air I Breathe...I called on the phone and they said they had one left..

[Nobel_Son]

It's so close. Four years without any motion pictures with Eliza in them and it's finally here, two of them being released at the same week. Hopefully we'll get lots of reviews, pictures and news!

We know On Broadway is sold out, but I wonder how the sales for NS are going.

[eliza'snumber1fan]

finally the wait is nearly over, its been way to long without our eliza on the small/big screens.

[Nobel_Son]

I agree, way too long without Eliza. I'm just a bit concerned that things might get a little confusing from now on, 'cause I really can't see how they're going to push back The Alphabet Killer, Sex and Breakfast and Open Graves to 2008 so those three other movies will definitely be released this year, too. And now, there's Nurses coming up, you know. It's a lot of stuff. I hope she can handle it all and no one gets tired of seeing her.

[lovely_disaster]

Tired? I eat "Faith, Hope, and Trick" for breakfast!

But I do hope she can handle it! Yippee!!! Lots and lots of Eliza for us!!!! (Dances with you guys)

[eliza'snumber1fan]

i could never get tired of seeing eliza...

[Nobel_Son]

Tribeca Preview
25 movies that intrigued, annoyed, and greatly pleased our fest-happy critics
April 24th, 2007 4:21 PM

Nobel Son
Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman), world-renowned chemist and *******, has just won the Nobel Prize, to his colleagues' chagrin. Meanwhile, his regrettably named son Barkley (Bryan Greenberg) gets by on $35 a week while he plugs away at his thesis on cannibalism. Eli hates Barkley. Barkley hates Eli. So when Barkley is kidnapped just as his father is leaving for Stockholm, who pays the ransom? Throw an obsessive- compulsive Danny DeVito and a criminally insane Eliza Dushku into the mix, and this frenetic, ungainly L.A. story becomes what might once have been called "a madcap romp." J.W.

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/071...,76460,20.html

[lovely_disaster]

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Um...i guess what im trying to say is: is it a good review? Or just someone mentioning the movie?

[Nobel_Son]

I don't know, actually. At least they mentioned it along with other 24 movies so that means Nobel Son will be getting some attention at Tribeca

[Nobel_Son]

Review:
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDai...tStoryID=32118

A twist on the father-son conflict, and on the hostage drama, Nobel Son brings gore and some surprising humour to the dysfunctional family potboiler as it skewers academic propriety. The gag-filled comedy, which flaunts its quirkiness and improbable situations, could draw on the audience for Alan Rickman and Danny DeVito, and on the growing public for seductive Eliza Dushku.
There's enough torture to bring in some gore fans, but the elements don't blend to elevate Nobel Son to this season's comedy short list. Despite the Nobel references and the novelty of a student of anthropophagy (cannibalism) as a protagonist, foreign interest will be minimal.

The belaboured script by Miller and Jody Savin is an example of the Iron Chef approach – in which a meal (here a story) is made from unlikely ingredients – in this case, a Nobel Prize, an angry an anthropophagist son, and two young psychopaths who met at an asylum.

At the centre of Nobel Son's story is penniless black-sheep Barkley Michaelson (Greenberg), who's completing his anthropophagy thesis. After a blissful night with poetess City Hall (Dushku), Barkley is kidnapped by Thaddeus James (Hatosy) who announces a $2m ransom just as Barkley's rich father, chemist Eli Michaelson (Rickman), wins the Nobel Prize and gets a bloody thumb in the mail.

Vengeful Thaddeus claims to be the bastard son of a woman whom Michaelson knocked up decades earlier, and says the Nobel Prize was won for research actually done by his mother's late professor/husband.

Much of the action spins around the elder Michaelson's elegant Greene and Greene mission-style bungalow in Pasadena, where wife Sarah (Steenburgen) is a forensic psychiatrist and Gastner (DeVito) is an obsessive/compulsive caretaker. Human food gags add a special touch to the anthropophagy them.

Director Randall Miller (Marilynn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing And Charm School) has worked mostly in television, and he directs Nobel Son like a chase film, darting from place to place as Barkley cracks under the threat of mutilation, his parents fight over ransoming him, and an LA detective with eyes for Sarah (Bill Pullman) investigates.


In this comedy of psychopathologies, Thaddeus and City Hall are found to be in cahoots, having met as patients in a mental institution.

Alan Rickman steals the show here as a vain professor who is a cad of a father that any son would hate and a shameless philanderer who denies his student conquests good grades. Wickedly hilarious, in a script that gives him all the good lines, his character shows no sign of a conscience and relishes lording his unearned prize over colleagues.

Greenberg is believable as the wimp son of a nasty father. Steenburgen is sympathetic as the villain's longsuffering wife. Shawn Hatosy searches for the right tone as the sadistic Thaddeus, an auto mechanic turned low-tech mad engineer (taking cues from Jim Carrey's Cable Guy), who makes machines do his bidding. One of Nobel Son's wackiest moments is a scene where he programs a driver-less Austin Mini to speed around a crowded mall with the $2m ransom in its trunk.

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Great review! Can't wait to see the movie.

[lovely_disaster]

Seductive! I like the sound of that!

[Nobel_Son]

"Nobel Son" World Premiere at Tribeca -- a winner
And we have a winner...and its name is Nobel Son. This winning film, from writer/director/producer/editor Randall Miller (did he cook lunch too?), is now at the top of my list of festival favorites. "In this taut thriller spiked with droll humor," the synopsis reads, "Ph.D. candidate Barkley (Bryan Greenberg) is kidnapped the night before his father Eli (Alan Rickman) will receive the Nobel Prize. When Eli refuses to pay a ransom equal to the $2 million prize, secrets, betrayal and revenge collide."
In addition to Greenberg and Rickman, Nobel Son stars a veteran ensemble cast including Bill Pullman, Shawn Hatosy, Danny DeVito, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson, Ernie Hudson, and Eliza Dushku.
Gasps and laughs were traded back and forth in the audience at today's World Premiere, and most of the cast and crew attended and held a Q&A afterward. We photographed both the red carpet arrivals as well as the Q&A, and you can look forward to seeing them here in due time, as the day is young. I'm about to head over to the World Premiere of The Final Season, which we've written about extensively here over the past year. Stay tuned.

Some more thoughts on "Nobel Son"
Some more thoughts on Nobel Son. I was quite surprised by the film. It's much more stylized than I'd imagined it would be. Digital effects and clever camera work help take what could have been a standard caper movie (a la Oceans 11) and turn it into a psychological thriller, emphasis on the thrills. It is such a fascinating story and an amazing script.
Shawn Hatosy is one of my favorite young actors and he is chilling here. It's a bit like his portrayal of Elvis in Alpha Dog but taken to the level of a starring role. The intensity he brought to that film is in his performance here from start to finish. Nobody is better at psycho-scary. I'm sure many will be blown away by his performance. I had a chance to chat with him afterward and he couldn't be more different from his character. But that's exactly what makes him such a talented actor. If he wasn't on your radar before he will be after you see Nobel Son.
It is definitely headed for a distribution deal soon, no doubt about it. It was a hot ticket, too. Not an empty seat in the house. I took a lot of pictures at the red carpet arrivals. I also shot some pics of the Q&A after the film. As soon as I get the chance I'll be posting those plus writing a more extensive review.
http://blogs.pro-networks.org/phileysmiley/#000447

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A Nobel Prize at Tribeca Film Festival

A beautiful spring day in New York City and the Clearview Chelsea West Theater on West 23 rd was packed for the 2 p.m. screening for NOBEL SON, a tightly wound, fast paced, avant garde thriller with an equally thrilling film score that keeps the pulse racing at every twist and turn. Alan Rickman turns in a brilliant performance as the chemistry professor who wins the Nobel Prize and while accepting the award at Stockholm - his only son gets kidnapped. I had seen director Randall Miller's film MARILYN HOTCHKISS BALLROOM DANCING AND CHARM SCHOOL at another film festival and can now understand how he is able to extract and meld fine performances from such diverse and cross generational actors. It's easier said than done. Alan Rickman is such a class act and Miller keeps him totally in sync with the rest of the hipsters keeping him visually in outrageous rock and roll T-shirts underscoring his character's likewise outrageous ego. Mary Steenburgen was excellent in a well-developed mother character that's usually a downplayed and dismissive role. Nice to see her talents put into good use. There's even a clever car chase scene. Most of the actors were at the Q&A and the capacity crowd responded favorably with questions pertaining to the film's characters and as the director's father (a professor who had read the script before passing away) called it "a preposterous storyline." Nevertheless, NOBEL SON was presented by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation so, it does have scientific merit in an eccentric way - but that's how these geniuses are, aren't they?
http://www.zoom-in.com/blog/2007/04/...ibeca_film.php

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The lights dimmed and after a short TFF promo piece (funny), the film began. Honestly, I’m not even sure how to review this film. It’s kind of bizarre and crazy. It’s *very* fast paced – moving quickly from scene to scene. The music is a major, major component of this film – fantastic electronica type stuff. And it’s really an ensemble piece – it’s not just dominated by Rickman or a couple of characters. Each of them plays a large role and it’s pretty evenly distributed. It’s a complicated film – you really have to pay attention and follow the plot twists. It’s kind of gory in a number of parts – I physically flinched quite a few times. It’s very, very funny. You will *love* AR in it. He is completely loathsome. There were almost NO instances in this film in which I felt any empathy or sympathy for his character (well, one, kind of). He’s just a lech – and he is utterly and absolutely delicious in being one!
Sorry you’ll have to wait for the Nobel Son thoughts. I’m sure others will be posting more thoughts and photos soon as well.

http://catsplay.livejournal.com/146629.html

[Nobel_Son]

-Nobel Son
Randall Miller's Nobel Son pairs its genius autodidact characters with the rush of Paul Oakenfield's techno beats to make an swift but smart thriller. Whereas The Crystal Method were stuck in a slow drama (London), Nobel Son doesn't slow down for a minute, which works well in conjunction with over-the-top acting (courtesy of youngbloods like Bryan Greenberg and Shawn Hatosy).

The plot switches from kidnapping to revenge to double-cross to turnaround so fast that it'll make your head spin: will the recent Nobel laureate pay his son's ransom? Is his son in on it? Is the kidnapper more than just a villain? Is the mother? The genre switches as often as the plot, from dark romance (Eliza Dushku) to a rather one-sided car chase, and all the way to comedy (a droll Alan Rickman). If this is the result of pop-culture oversaturation and ADHD, then bring it on: it doesn't take a genius to recognize Nobel Son as an exhilarating rush of a film.

http://thatsoundscool.blogspot.com/2...-day-four.html

[Nobel_Son]

TFF - NOBEL SON

Nobel Son , showing at the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), is a dark mystery/thriller (about the kidnapping of the son of a professor on his way to receive the Nobel Prize award in Sweden) from the writing/directing/producing team of Jody Savin & Randall Miller .

Stylishly directed, with very interesting cinematography, it features exceptional acting from a large and noteworthy cast, including Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, and Ted Danson.

Nobel Son is co-presented by the Sloan Foundation as part of the Sloan Science and technology Series at Tribeca.

http://qporit.blogspot.com/2007/04/tff-nobel-son.html

[eliza'snumber1fan]

wow, im so excited about this film, i want to see it NOW!!!.

thanks nobel son for all the info,

[Apollo]

I made a clip of one of my local NYC news channels (NY1) coverage of the Nobel Son premiere.

Click for video - WMV

If you want to save clip to puter..right click/save as...you know the drill