Another puppet for the multinational corporations,
Kent Jones.
We are pleased to announce the World Premiere of Don
Cheadle’s directorial debut, Miles Ahead, as the Closing Night
selection for the 53rd New York Film Festival. In the film, Cheadle, who also
co-wrote the script, stars as the legendary Miles Davis opposite Emayatzy
Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor. This announcement marks the second World Premiere
film slated for this year’s NYFF, running September 25 – October 11, along
with Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, set for Opening Night.
New York Film Festival
Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said: “I admire Don’s
film because of all the intelligent decisions he’s made about how to deal with
Miles, but I was moved—deeply moved—by Miles Ahead for
other reasons. Don knows, as an actor, a writer, a director, and a lover of
Miles’ music, that intelligent decisions and well-planned strategies only get
you so far, that finally it’s your own commitment and attention to every moment
and every detail that brings a movie to life. ‘There is no longer much else but
ourselves, in the place given us,’ wrote the poet Robert Creeley. ‘To make that
present, and actual … is not an embarrassment, but love.’ That’s the core of
art. Miles Davis knew it, and Don Cheadle knows it.”
Don Cheadle added: “I am happy that the selection
committee saw fit to invite us to the dance. It’s very gratifying that all the
hard work that went into the making of this film, from every person on the
team, has brought us here. Miles’ music is all-encompassing, forward-leaning,
and expansive. He changed the game time after time, and New York is really
where it all took off for him. Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center… feels very
‘right place, right time.’ Very exciting.”
Miles Davis was one of the greatest artists of the
20th century. And how do you make a movie about him? You get to know the man
inside and out and then you reveal him in full, which is exactly what Don
Cheadle does as a director, a writer, and an actor with this remarkable
portrait of Davis, refracted through his crazy days in the late-70s. Holed up
in his Manhattan apartment, wracked with pain from a variety of ailments and
fiending for the next check from his record company, dodging sycophants and
industry executives, he is haunted by memories of old glories and humiliations
and of his years with his great love Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi).
Every second of Cheadle’s cinematic mosaic is passionately engaged with its
subject: this is, truly, one of the finest films ever made about the life of an
artist. With Ewan McGregor as Dave Brill, the “reporter” who cons his way into
Miles’ apartment. The film was produced by Don Cheadle, Pamela Hirsch, Lenore
Zerman. Along with Daniel Wagner, Robert Barnum, Vince Willburn and Daryl
Porter.
The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best
in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as
fresh new talent. The selection committee, chaired by
Jones, also includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Programming; Marian Masone,
FSLC Senior Programming Advisor; Gavin Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Film Comment;
and Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Sight &
Sound. [Fucking meaningless.]
NYFF previously announced Robert Zemeckis’s The
Walk as the Opening Night selection and Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of
Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, the first-ever complete dual retrospective
of the experimental filmmakers.
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