Standing between Steve Buscemi’s newest directorial effort, “The Listener,” and his last time on the director’s chair for the Sienna Miller-starring drama “Interview” is a whopping 15 years. Buscemi has been open about his desire to direct again, but nothing seemed to work out until Oscar-nominated writer Alessandro Camon knocked on his door, script in hand. Timing, ever-elusive, showed its poignant hand: this story about a helpline volunteer ended up leading Buscemi to call one himself, a decision he claimed helped him process the recent death of his wife of 30 years, filmmaker and choreographer Jo Andres.
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- 9/10/2022
- by Rafaela Sales Ross
- The Playlist
In a world where politicians use mental health as mere talking points when discussing gun violence and suicide rates, Steve Buscemi’s “The Listener” addresses the crisis head-on. Written by Alessandro Camon, the Oscar-nominated scribe of “The Messenger” (2009), the film follows a helpline volunteer named Beth, played by Tessa Thompson, who is an integral part of the small army of counselors who field calls from all kinds of people who feel lonely and broken. The film unspools at the Venice Festival’s Giornate degli Autori and is the closing film of Venice Days on Sept. 9.
Buscemi can sympathize with anyone who feels lost and broken, especially as he is still reeling from losing his wife Jo Andres in January 2019; they had been married for over 30 years. While in pre-production, the director and producer called a helpline number. “At first, it was in the name of research,” Buscemi told Variety. “I...
Buscemi can sympathize with anyone who feels lost and broken, especially as he is still reeling from losing his wife Jo Andres in January 2019; they had been married for over 30 years. While in pre-production, the director and producer called a helpline number. “At first, it was in the name of research,” Buscemi told Variety. “I...
- 8/31/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Steve Buscemi is paying tribute to his late wife Jo Andres in his acceptance speech for the Icon Award at CinemaCon. Fans have grown to know and love the Boardwalk Empire star since he started his career in the '80s, but Steve says that his success wouldn't have been possible without the love of his wife and family. "I do want to thank my family that's been so supportive: my parents, my brothers, also my son, and also my wife, Jo," the Icon Award winner earnestly tells the audience at the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace. For over 30 years, the actor and his wife, who was an artist and filmmaker, lived and worked together in perfect bliss, something that even...
- 4/5/2019
- E! Online
While accepting an award at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, Steve Buscemi got personal.
During his speech to the National Association of Theater Owners, Buscemi, 61, briefly honored his late wife, Jo Andres, who passed away unexpectedly in January.
“I want to thank my family, who’s been so supportive. My parents, my brothers and also my son and also my wife,” he said while winning the Cinema Icon Award. “My wife Jo, who we knew each other going back to [1984 film] Parting Glances.”
“You know, this business can be a challenge to relationships, but you stick it out and there...
During his speech to the National Association of Theater Owners, Buscemi, 61, briefly honored his late wife, Jo Andres, who passed away unexpectedly in January.
“I want to thank my family, who’s been so supportive. My parents, my brothers and also my son and also my wife,” he said while winning the Cinema Icon Award. “My wife Jo, who we knew each other going back to [1984 film] Parting Glances.”
“You know, this business can be a challenge to relationships, but you stick it out and there...
- 4/5/2019
- by Mark Gray
- PEOPLE.com
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Bill Anagnos (1958-2019) - Stunt Performer. He was a stunt driver for Hackers, The Fisher King, Jungle Fever and the 1998 Godzilla and also performed stunts in Saturday Night Fever, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Catch Me If You Can, Doctor Strange, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Warriors and numerous other movies. He died of cancer on January 15. (Legacy) Jo Andres (1954-2019) - Filmmaker. Best known as the wife of Steve Buscemi, she also directed the shorts Black Kites and Liquid Tara and was...
- 2/1/2019
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Earlier this month, Steve Buscemi’s wife, Jo Andres, passed away at the age of 64.
Andres, who worked as a filmmaker, choreographer and visual artist throughout her career, was married to Buscemi, 61, for over 30 years. The pair lived together in New York City.
Buscemi and Andres married in 1987 and share one son together, Lucian, who was born in 1990.
While Andres’ cause of death is unclear, the couple was last photographed together in July at the New York City after party for the film Puzzle, which Buscemi executive-produced.
Here’s everything you need to know about Andres.
She was an acclaimed...
Andres, who worked as a filmmaker, choreographer and visual artist throughout her career, was married to Buscemi, 61, for over 30 years. The pair lived together in New York City.
Buscemi and Andres married in 1987 and share one son together, Lucian, who was born in 1990.
While Andres’ cause of death is unclear, the couple was last photographed together in July at the New York City after party for the film Puzzle, which Buscemi executive-produced.
Here’s everything you need to know about Andres.
She was an acclaimed...
- 1/14/2019
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Jo Andres, director of the 1996 festival circuit hit Black Kites and wife for 31 years to actor Steve Buscemi, has died. She was 64. (Some reports put Andres’ age at 65).
Neither a cause nor date of death has been disclosed, but a memorial service reportedly was held Tuesday at the couple’s home in Brooklyn.
An artist whose works combining dance, light projections and film were featured at such downtown Manhattan hot spots of the 1980s as La Mama E.T.C., The Performing Garage and P.S. 122, Andres later became a dance consultant to the acclaimed Wooster Group performing arts center. According to Andres’ website, she was, at various times over a long career, an artist in residence at numerous universities, museums and art colonies including Yaddo and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Black Kites, a 26-minute film based on the 1992 journals and drawing of Sarajevan visual artist Alma Hajric,...
Neither a cause nor date of death has been disclosed, but a memorial service reportedly was held Tuesday at the couple’s home in Brooklyn.
An artist whose works combining dance, light projections and film were featured at such downtown Manhattan hot spots of the 1980s as La Mama E.T.C., The Performing Garage and P.S. 122, Andres later became a dance consultant to the acclaimed Wooster Group performing arts center. According to Andres’ website, she was, at various times over a long career, an artist in residence at numerous universities, museums and art colonies including Yaddo and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Black Kites, a 26-minute film based on the 1992 journals and drawing of Sarajevan visual artist Alma Hajric,...
- 1/12/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jo Andres, Steve Buscemi’s wife of 31 years and a prominent filmmaker and choreographer, has died. She was 64.
Buscemi was photographed participating in her funeral, which included a wicker casket, Wednesday morning in Brooklyn, New York. Buscemi’s “Big Lebowski” co-star, John Turturro, and his cousin, “Sopranos” star Aida Turturro, were seen paying visits to the home. Firefighters from Buscemi’s ladder company also paid their respects.
The cause of death has not been released.
The couple married in 1987, and Andres drew acclaim in 1996 for her film “Black Kites,” which played at Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto and aired on PBS. Andres’ website describes the film, which is based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric, who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, as “non-linear, dreamlike and spectral.”
Andres was known for her “film/dance/light” experimental performance art through the ’80s, and was...
Buscemi was photographed participating in her funeral, which included a wicker casket, Wednesday morning in Brooklyn, New York. Buscemi’s “Big Lebowski” co-star, John Turturro, and his cousin, “Sopranos” star Aida Turturro, were seen paying visits to the home. Firefighters from Buscemi’s ladder company also paid their respects.
The cause of death has not been released.
The couple married in 1987, and Andres drew acclaim in 1996 for her film “Black Kites,” which played at Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto and aired on PBS. Andres’ website describes the film, which is based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric, who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, as “non-linear, dreamlike and spectral.”
Andres was known for her “film/dance/light” experimental performance art through the ’80s, and was...
- 1/12/2019
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
Steve Buscemi‘s wife, Jo Andres, has died. She was 64.
Andres was married to Buscemi — whose wide body of work includes The Big Lebowski, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos — for over 30 years. She was a filmmaker, choreographer and artist.
The couple married in 1987 and share one son together, Lucian, who was born in 1990.
Andres received acclaim for her 1996 film Black Kites, which played at several film festivals, including Sundance, Toronto and London. She also directed music and art videos, including her own performance works.
In an interview with the Independent in 2009, Buscemi said his favorite work of art was “probably...
Andres was married to Buscemi — whose wide body of work includes The Big Lebowski, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos — for over 30 years. She was a filmmaker, choreographer and artist.
The couple married in 1987 and share one son together, Lucian, who was born in 1990.
Andres received acclaim for her 1996 film Black Kites, which played at several film festivals, including Sundance, Toronto and London. She also directed music and art videos, including her own performance works.
In an interview with the Independent in 2009, Buscemi said his favorite work of art was “probably...
- 1/12/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez, Nick Maslow
- PEOPLE.com
Steve Buscemi's wife died earlier this week and a moving funeral was held at their NYC home ... TMZ has learned. We're told Jo Andres died either last Monday or over last weekend. On Monday, friends and family began arriving at their Brooklyn home. It appears the funeral service -- at the home -- was held last Tuesday and the burial was Wednesday. We're told there were around 20 people at the service, including Steve's co-star...
- 1/12/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Steve Buscemi is mourning the loss of his wife of more than 30 years. Jo Andres recently passed away at the age of 65, a source confirms to E! News. A cause of death has not been made public. The actor, known for his roles on Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, Fargo and The Big Lebowski, married Andres in 1987. They welcomed one child together, son Lucian, in 1990. Andres and Buscemi attended their final event together just seven months ago in New York City. A celebrated filmmaker and artist in her own right, Andres rose to prominence within the 1980s art world through what is described on her website as "film/dance/light performances." She...
- 1/12/2019
- E! Online
It's once again time to drag out the celebrity equivalent to musty yearbooks: wonderfully dated red carpet photos. With the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday Jan. 25, we dug through the archives and surfaced 20 years of gowns, power couples and confusing trends straight from the SAGs of yore. While Benedict Cumberbatch and Rosamund Pike are still relatively new to the SAG scene, most of the nominees have been walking the show's star-studded carpet for years. This means plenty of hidden treasures, from Jennifer Aniston's formal crop top to Billy Bob Thorton's inexplicable hair. See what 2015's honorees look like...
- 1/22/2015
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
Paul Shaffer accompanying Darlene Love in "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" as the holiday revelers join in. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Invited for caroling and cocktails by David Letterman's Late Show musical director Paul Shaffer and Doc NYC's Thom Powers, organised by Peggy Siegal, illustrious guests celebrated Morgan Neville's Oscar short listed documentary 20 Feet From Stardom with three of its stars - Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill.
At the Rum House in the Edison Hotel, on a Times Square already in the process of being prepared for New Year's Eve, I felt as though I entered into a scene from Woody Allen's Hannah And Her Sisters. I don't know which - an imaginary one with Glenn Close, Steve Buscemi, Jo Andres, Gretchen Mol, Robert Wuhl, and Richard Kind, directed by Paul Haggis. The evening was all about the joy of performance.
The film documents the careers...
Invited for caroling and cocktails by David Letterman's Late Show musical director Paul Shaffer and Doc NYC's Thom Powers, organised by Peggy Siegal, illustrious guests celebrated Morgan Neville's Oscar short listed documentary 20 Feet From Stardom with three of its stars - Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill.
At the Rum House in the Edison Hotel, on a Times Square already in the process of being prepared for New Year's Eve, I felt as though I entered into a scene from Woody Allen's Hannah And Her Sisters. I don't know which - an imaginary one with Glenn Close, Steve Buscemi, Jo Andres, Gretchen Mol, Robert Wuhl, and Richard Kind, directed by Paul Haggis. The evening was all about the joy of performance.
The film documents the careers...
- 12/20/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Today’s film is the 1996 short Black Kites. The film is written and directed by Jo Andres, and stars Steve Buscemi, who also produces. Buscemi has had a long and illustrious career, with a filmography ranging from the Coen Brothers’ Fargo to Michael Bay’s The Island. He has recently transitioned to television with HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and can be seen in theatres in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, which opens this weekend.
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- 3/16/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Actor Steve Buscemi will no longer be ridiculed for the odd contents of his trash can - a bizarre online blog detailing the star's waste has been taken down.
The website posts, titled What's on Steve Buscemi's Stoop, was launched by Brooklyn, New York resident Elliot Larkfield in 2009 after he walked past Buscemi's family home in the Park Slope neighbourhood and noticed a doll's head hanging off a fence.
He decided to take photos on his camera phone and upload them to the blog, which soon became a quirky read for locals and fans of the Boardwalk Empire star. Larkfield continued to snap pictures of the tossed belongings, including old cassettes, mugs and a basketball cap with a fake ponytail attached to it.
But he agreed to shut down the website after he was approached by Buscemi's son, Lucian.
In his final blog post, he writes, "I don't want to be slinking around the neighbourhood taking pictures in defiance of the Buscemi family's wishes."
And the actor's wife, artist Jo Andres, hopes the blog's closure will discourage fans from crowding their quiet neighbourhood to inspect their trash for themselves.
She tells the New York Post, "We have been good neighbours for 20 years and now we have been inundated (with fans). We'd like respect and consideration and would like to be left alone."...
The website posts, titled What's on Steve Buscemi's Stoop, was launched by Brooklyn, New York resident Elliot Larkfield in 2009 after he walked past Buscemi's family home in the Park Slope neighbourhood and noticed a doll's head hanging off a fence.
He decided to take photos on his camera phone and upload them to the blog, which soon became a quirky read for locals and fans of the Boardwalk Empire star. Larkfield continued to snap pictures of the tossed belongings, including old cassettes, mugs and a basketball cap with a fake ponytail attached to it.
But he agreed to shut down the website after he was approached by Buscemi's son, Lucian.
In his final blog post, he writes, "I don't want to be slinking around the neighbourhood taking pictures in defiance of the Buscemi family's wishes."
And the actor's wife, artist Jo Andres, hopes the blog's closure will discourage fans from crowding their quiet neighbourhood to inspect their trash for themselves.
She tells the New York Post, "We have been good neighbours for 20 years and now we have been inundated (with fans). We'd like respect and consideration and would like to be left alone."...
- 8/17/2011
- WENN
Actor Steve Buscemi's wife didn't realise he was the object of her affection until she noticed a film poster in his apartment shortly after they started dating.
Artist Jo Andres told pals she would "snag" the Reservoir Dogs star after falling for his unconventional features on a poster - but she failed to recognise him as her dream man when they first met.
Buscemi explains, "When we met, she didn't realise I was the guy on the poster. When we got to my apartment, she saw the same poster and said, 'That's you!'"
The couple wed in 1987.
Artist Jo Andres told pals she would "snag" the Reservoir Dogs star after falling for his unconventional features on a poster - but she failed to recognise him as her dream man when they first met.
Buscemi explains, "When we met, she didn't realise I was the guy on the poster. When we got to my apartment, she saw the same poster and said, 'That's you!'"
The couple wed in 1987.
- 8/17/2011
- WENN
Actor Steve Buscemi was recently nursing a bad injury after a bicycle accident in Brooklyn, New York. The "Fargo" star spent the latter part of his summer nursing a pair of broken ribs.
Buscemi was inspired to pick up his former pastime after a recent trip around the French countryside with his wife Jo Andres.
He says, "I thought, 'This is great! When I get back to Brooklyn I'm gonna get back on my bike - I haven't ridden in years - and I'm gonna get back in shape.'"
But apparently things didn't go so well with his newly-inspired exercise regime. He explains: "I come back, get the bike fixed up - second day out I fell on the handle bars. Broke two ribs. One of the most painful things."...
Buscemi was inspired to pick up his former pastime after a recent trip around the French countryside with his wife Jo Andres.
He says, "I thought, 'This is great! When I get back to Brooklyn I'm gonna get back on my bike - I haven't ridden in years - and I'm gonna get back in shape.'"
But apparently things didn't go so well with his newly-inspired exercise regime. He explains: "I come back, get the bike fixed up - second day out I fell on the handle bars. Broke two ribs. One of the most painful things."...
- 9/13/2010
- icelebz.com
Actor Steve Buscemi spent his summer nursing two broken ribs following a bicycle accident in his native Brooklyn, New York.
The Reservoir Dogs star hopped on a bike for the first time in years to tour the French countryside on holiday with his wife Jo Andres, and returned home inspired to get fit.
He says, "I thought, 'This is great! When I get back to Brooklyn I'm gonna get back on my bike - I haven't ridden in years - and I'm gonna get back in shape.'"
But his new exercise regime ground to a quick halt - and put him in the hospital with a pair of broken ribs.
He explains: "I come back, get the bike fixed up - second day out I fell on the handle bars. Broke two ribs. One of the most painful things."...
The Reservoir Dogs star hopped on a bike for the first time in years to tour the French countryside on holiday with his wife Jo Andres, and returned home inspired to get fit.
He says, "I thought, 'This is great! When I get back to Brooklyn I'm gonna get back on my bike - I haven't ridden in years - and I'm gonna get back in shape.'"
But his new exercise regime ground to a quick halt - and put him in the hospital with a pair of broken ribs.
He explains: "I come back, get the bike fixed up - second day out I fell on the handle bars. Broke two ribs. One of the most painful things."...
- 9/13/2010
- WENN
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