'Slow Machine' Review: What Do Paranoid Actresses Dream Of?
Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten craft a mysterious New York thriller with mumblecore sensibilities.
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Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten craft a mysterious New York thriller with mumblecore sensibilities.
Photo: Grasshopper Film If all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, then it stands to reason that “acting” is neither a craft nor an occupation, but rather a state of being. It’s certainly true for Stephanie (Stephanie Hayes), the elusive protagonist of Joe Denardo and Paul Felten’s Slow Machine, a struggling actress who is always performing regardless of whether she’s on the clock. She glides in and out of various environments, speaking in different accents and spinning detailed yarns about her background that are the stuff of exaggerated literary trage...
Rolling Stone Menu Chloe Sevigny, Eleanor Friedberger Star in ‘Slow Machine’ Trailer Film partially depicts recording of Friedberger’s “Your Word” By Slow Machine, a thriller film co-directed by Joe Denardo and Paul Felten that saw its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last year. The film also screened at the New York Film Festival last October. Slow Machine centers on Stephanie (played by Hayes), a disillusioned actress whose tumultuous breakup with an intelligence agent, Gerard (Scott Shepherd), leads her to wanting an escape. Stephanie decides to hi...
"What's her deal?" Grasshopper Film has unveiled a trailer for an intriguing, experimental indie film titled Slow Machine, the feature directorial debut of filmmakers Joe Denardo & Paul Felten. This premiered at the 2020 Rotterdam Film Festival last year, and also played at the New York Film Festival and Vienna Film Festival. After a brief relationship with intelligence agent Gerard ends terribly, tired & disillusioned actress Stephanie hides in a house where a band is working on a record, which proves to be less of an escape than she imagined. This one stars Stephanie Hayes, Eleanor Fried...
Chloë Sevigny has been the picture of a doting mother when she's been seen out in public with her nine-month-old son Vanja. And on Wednesday the Golden Globe-winning actress spent some quality time with her boy during a stroll with friends in the SoHo neighborhood in Downtown New York City. The Boys Don't Cry star, 46, pushed him down the sidewalk in a stroller as the day gave way to night, along with the plunging winter temperatures. Bonding time: Chloë Sevigny, 46, spent some quality time with her son during a walk with friends in the SoHo neighborhood of Downtown New York City on Wedn...