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Listen Up Philip (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Greece ( Italy, Greece )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alex Ross Perry

Written By:
Alex Ross Perry

Actors:
Jason Schwartzman ..... Philip Lewis Friedman
Elisabeth Moss ..... Ashley Kane
Krysten Ritter ..... Melanie Zimmerman
Joséphine de La Baume ..... Yvette Dussart
Jonathan Pryce ..... Ike Zimmerman
Jess Weixler ..... Holly Kane
Dree Hemingway ..... Emily
Keith Poulson ..... Josh Fawn
Kate Lyn Sheil ..... Nancy
Yusef Bulos ..... Norm
Maïté Alina ..... Clare
Daniel London ..... Seth
Samantha Jacober ..... Mona
Lee Wilkof ..... Uncle Jonathan
Joanne Tucker ..... Eve

Synopsis:

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.

Combining intellectual ambition with a singular comic sensibility, the third feature film by writer-director Alex Ross Perry marked a defining moment for the American independent cinema of the 2010s. As with his previous features Impolex and The Color Wheel, the blackly hilarious Listen Up Philip is distinguished as much by its literary pedigree as by its fine attunement to atmosphere, sense of place, and, enabled by the camerawork of Sean Price Williams, the texture of the image. Jason Schwartzman, in one of his most accomplished roles since such Wes Anderson collaborations as Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited, achieves the height of comic verbal violence as the novelist Philip Lewis Friedman who, having received his first taste of literary acclaim, embarks upon the publicity campaign for his soon-to-be-published second novel, Obidant. The attention of his literary hero Ike Zimmerman (played by the first-rate Jonathan Pryce), a major novelist some decades his elder, leads to an open invitation to abscond from Brooklyn and work from Zimmerman's small-town home upstate. And so the stage is set for all-out warfare between Philip's seemingly irrepressible ego and the emotionality of his talented photographer girlfriend Ashley who, in a brilliant performance by Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss, exhibits the kind of dynamism that could dull Philip's edge for good. Put into relief by a cast including Krysten Ritter, Joséphine de La Baume, Keith Poulson, Kate Lyn Sheil, and Bree Hemingway, Schwartzman-as-Friedman embodies what must be one of the most charmingly loathsome or most diabolically winning personalities in recent films.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 April, 2016.