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Tuesday 4 sepTember 2018

In Venice hit 'First Man,' another day of sun for Chazelle

By JAKE COYLE didn't live up to his aggran-
Associated Press dized view of the presti-
NEW YORK (AP) — Damien gious ceremony.
Chazelle's last movie, "La "They never feel as big as
La Land," was about a in your mind maybe built
man clinging to nostalgia. them up to be as a kid or
His new one, "First Man," leading up to them," he
doesn't merely flirt with the says. "There are so many of
past. It throttles back in these awards shows that by
time. the time you get to the last
But Chazelle's reason for one, you've kind of been
revisiting NASA's 1969 mis- through some iteration of
sion to the moon isn't to the pattern. You can feel a
polish the shining legend little like 'Groundhog Day'
of Neil Armstrong. It's to jolt with the same events re-
our collective memory of it This image released by Universal Pictures shows Ryan Gosling in a scene from "First Man." peated over and over, with
— to rip it out of the history Associated Press slight alterations."
books and plunge us back Or, ahem, some big alter-
into the harsh, anxious real- how unlikely it was, how for the war movie. cost $70 million to make) nations. In the year and half
ity of what at the time was close to failure." The response reconfirms and returned to the early following The Flub, Chazelle
far from a fait accompli. "It was a much more com- Chazelle's status as a film- awards season prediction stayed out of the public
"Our generation grows plicated thing than I think making wunderkind who is lists. eye almost entirely, giving
up in a world where peo- today we tend to remem- likely to again have a mov- But while Chazelle ac- one interview the morning
ple have walked on the ber it as," he adds. "I think ie in the center of Oscar knowledges he has some after the Oscars but other-
moon and you see the that's because we have season, two years after he trepidation about reen- wise plunging himself into
photos. They're all kind of the benefit of living in the so memorably and chaoti- tering the Oscar season work on "First Man." ''Which I
glossy and burnished and aftermath of the success." cally exited the 2017 Acad- fray, he says his Academy guess was good for my san-
we think of this idealized "First Man" debuted this emy Awards. In "First Man," Awards experience (Cha- ity," he says. Chazelle also
past and there's a sort of week at the Venice Film Fes- Chazelle has seamlessly zelle's "Whiplash" was also got engaged to actress Ol-
pure nostalgia that comes tival where it was promptly stepped up to a bigger nominated for five Oscars, ivia Hamilton. For Chazelle,
with that," Chazelle, the hailed a groundbreaking budget studio film (the Uni- including best picture, and there are also other ties be-
33-year-old director, said in space movie for its visceral, versal Pictures production won three) in some ways tween the two films.q
an interview. "But the more boots-on-the-ground rec-
I dug into the research the reation of the high-stakes
more fascinating it was to mission. Variety said it does Hamilton's 'Dead Man
find out, A, just out hard it for the space movie what
Running' a compelling thriller
was to pull this off, and B, "Saving Private Ryan" did

for a prolonged period of in person, and while Liver-
time after their deaths be- more knows everything in-
fore he leaves them to be cluding extremely personal
found by authorities. Now details about him, McK-
they have caught a break night has never seen Liver-
when a man on vacation more in his life. So why is he
discovers on his webcam obsessed with McKnight?
that an intruder left a dead The trek to the hiding place
body on his bed. A trap is of his next victim sets up a
set, and they capture the horrible chain of circum-
madman, Martin Liver- stances that will shake
more, who claims there is McKnight to the core. What
another woman, and she's he and the FBI don't realize
still alive. He will take the is that Livermore knew the
FBI to her on one condition: house had a video cam-
they bring along Alex McK- era and his plan was to get
This book cover image re- night. caught and take revenge
leased by G. P. Putnam’s Sons
shows "Dead Man Running," McKnight lives in a tiny on everyone, most espe-
by Steve Hamilton. Michigan town, and he cially McKnight.
Associated Press hardly thinks at all about his Hamilton has won numer-
past as a Detroit cop. He ous awards for his myster-
By JEFF AYERS helps out with bail jumpers ies, and his first Alex McK-
Associated Press every once in a while, but night novel in five years is
"Dead Man Running" (Put- otherwise his life is serenity not only one of the best
nam), by Steve Hamilton and peace. He's about to featuring this iconic char-
Former Detroit police offi- capture another fugitive acter, but also one of Ham-
cer Alex McKnight tangles from justice when he's liter- ilton's best. A truly diaboli-
with the FBI in Steve Ham- ally grabbed by men in suits cal villain, a baffling puzzle
ilton's compelling thriller and taken to a waiting pri- and growing personal
"Dead Man Running." vate plane. When they ar- stakes make for a well-writ-
The FBI has been tracking a rive in Scottsdale, Arizona, ten and amazing reading
killer who keeps his victims McKnight sees the prisoner experience.q