Vinton Studios, Portland, Ore., has signed Claire Worch of Claire & Company, Manhattan Beach, Calif., for West Coast representation….Douglas Howell, Jamie Scalera and Radha Agrawal have formed a new company, White Hart Lane LLC, representing Believe Media, Go Film, Food Chain Films and Digital Domain on the East Coast….Nikki Weiss & Co., Chicago, has added Santa Monica-based Untitled to its roster for representation in the Midwest….Kitty Monaghan and Kelly Halpine of monaghan+ halpine, Chicago, are now handling Midwest sales for Los Angeles-based Pictures in a Row….Jared Shapiro of bicoastal Headquarters Films will be handling the East Coast for music house Endless Noise, Santa Monica….Trevor King has been promoted to head of sales at The Blue Rock Editing Company, New York. Additionally, Blue Rock has signed Carolyn Hill for East Coast representation….Minneapolis-based Fischer Edit and Modern Music have brought J. Matt Keil on staff as a marketing/sales rep….Cinematographer John Stanier has joined The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation…. Production designer Trae King has signed with Innovative Artists, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation in commercials and music videos….
Review: “His Three Daughters” From Writer-Director Azazel Jacobs
Death isn't like it is in the movies, a character explains in "His Three Daughters." Elizabeth Olsen's Christina is telling her sisters, Katie (Carrie Coon) and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne), a story about their father, who became particularly agitated one evening while watching a movie on television in the aftermath of his wife's passing.
It's not exactly a fun memory, or present, for any of them. This is, after all, also a movie about death.
The three women have gathered in their father's small New York apartment for his final days. He's barely conscious, confined to a room that they take shifts monitoring as they wait out this agonizingly unspecific clock. But even absent the stresses of hospice, tensions would be high for Christina, Katie and Rachel, estranged and almost strangers who are about to lose the one thread still binding them. Taken together, it's a pressure cooker and a wonderful showcase for three talented actors.
Writer-director Azazel Jacobs has scripted and filmed "His Three Daughters," streaming Friday on Netflix, like a play. The dialogue often sounds more scripted than conversational (except for Lyonne, who makes everything sound her own); the locations are confined essentially to a handful of rooms in the apartment, with the communal courtyard providing the tiniest bit of breathing room.
Jacobs drops the audience into the middle of things, dolling out background and information slowly and purposefully. Coon's Katie gets the first word, a monologue really, about the state of things as she sees it and how this is going to work. She's the eldest, a type-A ball of anxiety, the mother of a difficult teenage daughter and the type of person who can barely conceal either disappointment or deep resentment. Katie also lives in... Read More