Monday, September 04, 2017
VARIETY - 10 ACTORS TO WATCH 2017
VARIETY
10 ACTORS TO WATCH - 2017
HIFF 25
OCT 5-9 2017
OCT 5-9 2017
The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) has long been honoring young talent at special events during the Festival.
For many years, along with inviting great American actors such as Kate and Mara Rooney, and Emmy Rossum, they partnered with European Film Promotions (EFP), and had some of the leading young European actors, such as Alicia Vikander from Sweden, come to HIFF,. More recently, they have partnered with Variety to bring honorees of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch to HIFF.
Here’s Academy Award winner Brie Larsen, one of Variety’s honorees in 2013, at HIFF a few years ago. (In 3D – best to watch with Daydream! Or Cardboard!)
Video by QPORIT
Last year Mahershala Ali (of Moonlight, House of Cards, and Hidden Figures) was one of the honorees who came to HIFF.
at HIFF 2016
Video from Variety
Here is Variety’s selection of the 10 actors to watch for 2017, some of whom are likely to visit the Hamptons and participate in a special panel discussion (usually on Saturday) and other events at HIFF.
We’ve included some of their current and future credits, and links to their IMDB info.
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3154303/
“Call Me By Your Name,”
Untitled Woody Allen project in 2018
“Hostiles” with Christian Bale
“Lady Bird” with Saorise Ronan.
HONG CHAU
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2186865/
“Inherent Vice,”
Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” opposite Matt Damon.
KIERSEY CLEMONS
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4169922/
“Dope,”
“The Only Living Boy In New York”
“Justice League.”
DAVEED DIGGS
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4377526/
Tony winner in “Hamilton,”
“Wonder” opposite Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay
“Black-ish”
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
Producer on the upcoming ABC series “The Mayor.”
ALI FAZAL
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3170495/
Bollywood films “Fukrey” and “Khamoshiyan,”
“Furious 7,”
Fazal stars opposite Judi Dench in the upcoming Stephen Frears film “Victoria & Abdul.”
DANIEL KALUUYA
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2257207
“Sicario”
“Get Out,”
“Black Panther”
“Widows” from director Steve McQueen.
BARRY KEOGHAN
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4422686/
“Dunkirk,”
Terrorizes Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.”
DANIELLE MACDONALD
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4359664/
“Patti Cake$” and the upcoming
“Lady Bird,”
“Dumplin'”
“White Girl Problems.”
KUMAIL NANJIANI
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3529685/
“Silicon Valley,”
Oscar buzz as co-writer and star of “The Big Sick.”
GRACE VAN PATTEN
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2665105/
“Tramps,”
Noam Baumbach’s Cannes hit “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”
“Under the Silver Lake” with Andrew Garfield.
Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch will be featured in the Oct 3, 2017 issue of Variety
OTHER LINKS
HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
hamptonsfilmfest.org
EFP – SHOOTING STARS
http://www.shooting-stars.eu/en/shootingstars.php
Labels: Brie Larsen, David Diggs, EFP, Hamptons International Film Festival, HIFF, Kumail Nanjiani, Love Sick, Shooting Stars, Variety, Variety 10 Actors to Watch
Thursday, November 15, 2012
GLEESON AND VIKANDER FROM ANNA KARENINA
Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson and Swedish actress Alicia Vikander were honored this year as two of The Variety 10 Top Actors to Watch, and they were both at the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF 2012). Alicia with A ROYAL AFFAIR (an important film set in the 1700's about today's current politics), and Domhnall with SHADOW DANCER (a spy thriller).
As it happens, the two actors already knew each other before they came to the Hamptons, since they were on-screen lovers in ANNA KARENINA.
Here are some snapshots of Alicia and Domhnall from HIFF 2012. Both actors are rising stars with great careers! Some links to their work are listed below after the pix.
Alicia Vikander at HIFF 2012
A ROYAL AFFAIR
ANNA KARENINA
Photo by Eric Roffman - QPORIT
Domhnall Gleeson at HIFF 2012
SHADOW DANCER
ANNA KARENINA
Photo by Eric Roffman - QPORIT
Alicia Vikander at HIFF 2012
A ROYAL AFFAIR
ANNA KARENINA
Photo by Eric Roffman - QPORIT
ALICIA VIKANDER – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2539953/
ALICIA VIKANDER IN A ROYAL AFFAIR - QPORIT
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-royal-affair.html
ALICIA VIKANDER ON AMAZON
DOMHNALL GLEESON - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1727304/
Domhnall is well known in the US for his films, including...
Harry Potter (Bill Weasley)
True Grit (Moon, the kid)
Never Let Me Go (Rodney)
and Broadway theater, including a Tony nomination for...
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
DOMHNALL GLEESON ON AMAZON
Labels: A ROYAL AFFAIR, Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina, Domhnall Gleeson, Hamptons International Film Festival, Harry Potter, HIFF, Shadow Dancer, True Grit, Variety, Variety 10 Actors to Watch
Sunday, June 03, 2007
SICKO IS SOCKO; SHOOTOUT IS BOFFO; CANNES CAN & DOES
I've been enjoying Sunday Morning Shootout more and more each time I watch it. Last week they presented a great show from the Cannes Film Festival.
Sunday Morning Shootout on AMC TV is a joint effort from Peter Bart, editor of Variety, and Peter Guber, a producer and former Chairman of Columbia Pictures.
Interviewing Michael Moore, currently promoting his new film Sicko, about the health care system, Bart commented that Variety (famed for its headlines, and newly coined words) had proclaimed "Sicko is socko," to which Moore replied that "Shootout is boffo". [**]
Also interviewed was Sarah Polley, from the jury at Cannes, an actress, and now director of Away From Her with Julie Christy. Not quite 30, Polley has more than 50 acting credits on IMDB, starting at the age of about 6, plus numerous writing and directing credits. Though she was soft spoken, it would be interesting to have someone like her, an actress, director, and film jurist as a guest judge On The LOT.
[**] For those unfamiliar with Variety slanguage, socko is a compliment suggesting a successful box office. It may derive from "sock" as in sock it out of the park. Boffo is a similar compliment with a similar meaning whose derivation I can only guess at. As it usually refers to Box Office results, the BO in BOffo may derive from that.
Labels: Michael Moore, Peter Bart, Peter Guber, Sicko, Sunday Morning Shootout, Variety
