The big winners included ira sachs keep the lights on, which won best feature, and malika zouhallworrall and katherine fairfax wrights call me kuchu, which took best documentary. A russian woman living in memphis with a much older rocknroll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husbands estranged son comes to visit. In new york city in 1997, documentary filmmaker erik thure lindhardt and closeted lawyer paul zachary booth meet through a casual encounter and soon find themselves embroiled in a deeper connection. Music box acquires sundance pic keep the lights on. Ira sachs reportedly semiautobiographical romantic drama, keep the lights on, follows the nineyear relationship between a filmmaker and a. His films include love is strange, keep the lights on, the delta, and the.
Harrowing and romantic, visceral and profound, ira sachs fearlessly personal keep the lights on looks at love and all of its manifestations, from despair to grace. His short film, last address, honoring a group of nyc artists who died of aids, has been included in the permanent collections of the whitney museum and new yorks museum of. Keep the lights on is a major work of indiegay cinema. It had its world premiere at the 2019 cannes film festival on may 20, 2019. Keep the lights on tries to sell more than it invests. Keep the lights on, call me kuchu top berlins teddy. After back to back critically acclaimed films in keep the lights on and love is strange, sachs dropped the news that financing is in place and production will begin in june. Ira sachs s film, keep the lights on, which opens friday at the tiff bell lightbox, is a heartbreaking love story and call for emotional transparency in relationships. Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing im interested in, says ira sachs, director of keep the lights on. New york, ny march 12, 2012 music box films announced today that the company is acquiring all north american rights to keep the lights on, the latest film from ira sachs. The director ira sachs looks to his personal life, and the history of gay relationships on film, to inspire his new. Ira sachs, director of keep the lights on, talks about his film and its place in queer cinema.
Booth is a 2004 bfa graduate of the university of michigan. Keep the lights on is a 2012 american drama film written by ira sachs and mauricio zacharias and directed by sachs. His short film, last address, honoring a group of nyc artists who died of aids, has been included in the permanent collections of the whitney museum and. Dramatic competition at the 2012 sundance film festival. Sachs said it partly represents a projection of his current relationship with boris torres, an artist whose work is featured during the opening credits of keep the lights on. To set this templates initial visibility, the state. Telling a story that spans a decade, keep the lights on begins in 1997, when documentary filmmaker erik rothman thure lindhardt first meets paul lucy zachary booth, a closeted and. His films include the delta 1997, forty shades of blue 2005, married life 2007, keep the lights on 2012, and love is strange 2014.
In honor of museum of modern arts own retrospective on the work and career of filmmaker ira sachs, weve created one of our own. With thure lindhardt, zachary booth, julianne nicholson, souleymane sy savane. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy and most of all, love, keep the lights on takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times. Jump to navigation jump to search initial visibility. Keep the lights on original motion picture soundtrack arthur. While not filming, erik likes to telephone the citys phonesex lines, soliciting nostringsattached onenight stands with complete strangers.
Lr actor zachary booth and director ira sachs attend a keep the lights on new york screening at cinema village on december 21, 2012 in new york city. Keep the lights on won a teddy in berlin and best film at outfest. Discover the films selected by director ira sachs, to download on vod and legal. In manhattan, filmmaker erik bonds with closeted lawyer paul after a fling.
Keep the lights on chronicles an emotional and sexually charged journey of love, friendship, and addiction. A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents battle over a dress shop lease. Ira sachs describes how a past relationship served as the starting point for his striking new film, keep the lights on, in the u. Sachs s 1996 debut filmand still his bestexpands on the neorealist technique of situating a drama in, and through, a real time flow of context and milieu.
His newest film, little men, premiered at sundance in 2016. Telling a story that spans a decade, keep the lights on begins in 1997, when documentary filmmaker erik rothman thure lindhardt first meets paul lucy zachary booth, a closeted and handsome. But they have a secret that cant stay hidden inside their gorgeous. Its 1997 and new york city is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker erik rothman thure lindhardt first meets paul lucy zachary booth. Ira sachs keep the lights on was the movie, it was the summer of 2011, and we were all excited to have a gaythemed story told in a big way by. The emotional nyc premiere of keep the lights on at. Keep the lights on is not a portrait of loves object, but a study of loves zealous procedures. Others include writerdirectors ira sachs keep the lights on, julia loktev the loneliest planet and jill soloway afternoon delight. With greg kinnear, jennifer ehle, paulina garcia, theo taplitz.
Music box films has acquired north american rights for ira sachs keep the lights on, it was announced today. When i had finished the script for keep the lights on it came to me that his. He appeared in several productions with the peterborough players in peterborough, nh, before starring in the ns what goes on as openly gay teen ethan and on fxs damages, as michael hewes, the son of lawyer patty hewes glenn close. After ben and george get married, george is fired from his teaching post, forcing them to stay with friends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper housing a situation that weighs heavily on all involved. Ira sachss keep the lights on is at last his new york. As a filmmaker, ira sachs, the director of love is strange, little men, and his masterpiece keep the lights on, is like a flower that keeps sprouting new. With john lithgow, alfred molina, marisa tomei, charlie tahan. Jean christophe husson can a films website be more than promotional. As their relationship becomes one fueled by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself.
Soundtrack for the film keep the lights on, directed by ira sachs. We meet on the corner of delancey and kenmare, where the filmmakers new york. Frankie is a 2019 americanfrench drama film, directed by ira sachs, from a screenplay by sachs and mauricio zacharias. Keep the lights on tells the story of erik rothman thure lindhardt, a gay danish documentary filmmaker living in late 90s new york city. Cannes belgian screenwriter david lamberts feature directing debut, beyond the walls, continues in the vein of recent dramas like andrew haighs weekend and ira sachs keep the lights. A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents battle over a. Over a decadelong relationship defined by highs and lows, erik struggles to negotiate his personal boundaries and dignity, while paul battles the demons of drug dependence.
Ira sachs stateexpanded to show the template expanded, i. Keep the lights on ira sachs mines his own memories to sensitive if somewhat muted effect in this gay relationship drama. Intimacy, codependence in ira sachss keep the lights on. He described keep the lights on as semiautobiographical film. Music box takes ira sachs keep the lights on indiewire. Keep the lights on chronicles an emotional and sexually chared journey of love, friendship, and addiction. Sundancewinning director ira sachs hopes the site for his new film, keep the lights. No the filmmaker isnt pulling a malicklike disappearing act, but instead, it appears hell begin setting up shop for his seventh feature film. It could be described as mumbleporn, except in keep the lights on, director ira sachs has mined autobiographical material to give us a raw account of what loving in the 21st century can look like. It premiered at the 2012 sundance film festival, and was released on september 7, 2012 by music box films. As with his previous films, ira sachs keep the lights on is a wellwritten, sensitively directed relationship drama. The 12th annual film independent directors closeup. Keep the lights on chronicles an emotionally and sexually charged journey of two men in new york city through love, friendship, and addiction.
Documentary filmmaker erik thure lindhardt and closeted lawyer paul zachary. His films include love is strange, keep the lights on, the delta, and the 2005 sundance grand jury prizewinning forty shades of blue. Keep the lights on is a chronicle of life, love and art in new york city and beyond, inspired by the new film by awardwinning director ira sachs forty shades of blue, married life, the delta, last address, currently in production. Keep the lights on ira sachs mines his own memories to sensitive if.