While crafting the documentary Sr. chronicling the life of writer, director and actor Robert Downey Sr., filmmaker Chris Smith found himself, much like Downey’s films themselves, setting aside advance notions and following where the story took him.
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“The donkey is cute, but this is not a Disney movie,” said Jonathan Sehring, the former IFC Films head whose young distribution outlet Sideshow, with Janus Films, presents Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Jury Prize winning EO at two NYC theaters this weekend. “We launched Sideshow for great movies that would otherwise get overlooked to give them the best release that they can possibly get,” he told Deadline.
EO hits the big screen a year after the partners opened Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, tenderly leading the three hour-long Japanese film about a bereft theater director overseeing a production of Uncle Vanya through a decorated awards season expansion that garnered three Oscar nominations, a win for Best International Feature and some solid box office coin.
“It’s not something we invented. It was a very traditional platform release for, what we hoped when we acquired it, would be a critically acclaimed film. We didn’t know what the response would be. You never know,” he said.
EO reviews so far have been nothing short of phenomenal. Deadline’s Cannes review here.
Skolimowski will be in NYC for select screenings and Q&As. EO heads to four theaters in LA Dec. 2 before expanding to 12-15 markets thereafter. Bookings are actually up from Drive My Car. Despite a crowded arthouse market, more theaters are open this year than last. And Poland’s Oscar submission is a “vibrant, fresh and different film than anything you are going to see,” said Sehring.
EO is a vision of modern Europe seen through the eyes of a donkey on a stoic journey through a world where disaster and despair alternate with unexpected bliss. It’spresented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas. Screenplay by Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski. EO stars Sandra
While crafting the documentary Sr. chronicling the life of writer, director and actor Robert Downey Sr., filmmaker Chris Smith found himself, much like Downey’s films themselves, setting aside advance notions and following where the story took him.
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Husband-and-wife writing and producing partners Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska had the Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles crowd doubled over in laughter with their charming back and forth banter. The pair behid EO joined Saturday’s event via video and discussed their choice to create a film from a donkey’s point of view.
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