For his feature directorial debut, Day of the Fight, Jack Huston has reteamed with his former Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt to tell the story a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first bout since leaving prison.
Huston also wrote and produces the movie which premiered to a warm and extended reception in the Horizons Extra section of Venice on Tuesday night. An experienced and award-winning actor, Huston was effusive in his excitement for the process of making Day of the Fight when we spoke ahead of the festival.
In the interview below, which has been condensed and edited for clarity, he tells me why lightning had to strike in order for him to get behind the camera, how he “called in every favor” to pull together a cast that also includes Joe Pesci, and why he’s...
Huston also wrote and produces the movie which premiered to a warm and extended reception in the Horizons Extra section of Venice on Tuesday night. An experienced and award-winning actor, Huston was effusive in his excitement for the process of making Day of the Fight when we spoke ahead of the festival.
In the interview below, which has been condensed and edited for clarity, he tells me why lightning had to strike in order for him to get behind the camera, how he “called in every favor” to pull together a cast that also includes Joe Pesci, and why he’s...
- 9/6/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Jack Huston says two creative sparks convinced him to make his feature directing debut with boxing drama Day of the Fight. The first concerned the premise; the second, his star.
“Several years ago, I was watching Stanley Kubrick’s first film, a documentary short he shot in 1951, also called Day of the Fight,” Huston says. The film famously follows the great Irish American boxer Walter Cartier over the course of an ordinary day as he prepares for a 10 p.m. title bout.
“It’s this amazing glimpse into the real life of a boxer,” Huston explains. “He eats breakfast, he goes to church, he visits his twin brother, he goes around town — and it’s all leading up to a big prize fight. I remember thinking, ‘What a wonderful premise for a deeper narrative to develop.’ As we follow our boxer through his day and meet the people in his world,...
“Several years ago, I was watching Stanley Kubrick’s first film, a documentary short he shot in 1951, also called Day of the Fight,” Huston says. The film famously follows the great Irish American boxer Walter Cartier over the course of an ordinary day as he prepares for a 10 p.m. title bout.
“It’s this amazing glimpse into the real life of a boxer,” Huston explains. “He eats breakfast, he goes to church, he visits his twin brother, he goes around town — and it’s all leading up to a big prize fight. I remember thinking, ‘What a wonderful premise for a deeper narrative to develop.’ As we follow our boxer through his day and meet the people in his world,...
- 8/30/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gerald Fried, who scored five of the director’s films, on the auteur’s insecurities as a boy and demanding working methods
They were childhood friends who collaborated on five films, including one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, Paths of Glory. But Stanley Kubrick refused to pay Gerald Fried for the music he wrote for their first film, the composer has now revealed.
That film was the 1951 Day of the Fight, a short documentary following a day in the life of middleweight Irish boxer Walter Cartier.
They were childhood friends who collaborated on five films, including one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, Paths of Glory. But Stanley Kubrick refused to pay Gerald Fried for the music he wrote for their first film, the composer has now revealed.
That film was the 1951 Day of the Fight, a short documentary following a day in the life of middleweight Irish boxer Walter Cartier.
- 10/20/2018
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
Even the greatest auteurs have to start somewhere.
Before he ventured into the far reaches of space and consciousness with “2001: A Space Odyssey,” probed the dark heart of humanity with “The Shining” or “A Clockwork Orange,” and chronicled the pageantry and brutality of the Roman Empire with “Spartacus,” Stanley Kubrick was a lowly staff photographer for Look magazine. It would be a decade before Hollywood came calling, but even in his early days behind a camera, Kubrick had a talent for capturing a revealing exchange or a sly glance that speaks volumes. His time at Look is the subject of a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, titled “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs.” The show runs from May 3 through next October.
“You cannot look at photographs without knowing he’s going to be a filmmaker,” said Donald Albrecht, curator of architecture and design at the museum.
Before he ventured into the far reaches of space and consciousness with “2001: A Space Odyssey,” probed the dark heart of humanity with “The Shining” or “A Clockwork Orange,” and chronicled the pageantry and brutality of the Roman Empire with “Spartacus,” Stanley Kubrick was a lowly staff photographer for Look magazine. It would be a decade before Hollywood came calling, but even in his early days behind a camera, Kubrick had a talent for capturing a revealing exchange or a sly glance that speaks volumes. His time at Look is the subject of a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, titled “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs.” The show runs from May 3 through next October.
“You cannot look at photographs without knowing he’s going to be a filmmaker,” said Donald Albrecht, curator of architecture and design at the museum.
- 4/2/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Watch: Ikea Spoofs 'The Shining' In New Ad Plus Watch 3 Early Short Documentaries By Stanley Kubrick
It’s been fifteen years since his death, but we can’t seem to stop talking about Stanley Kubrick. Just yesterday we saw a brand new trailer cut for the forthcoming U.K. theatrical re-release of his landmark “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and now we have an entirely different sort of tribute to the iconic director. In honor of Halloween, the Singapore division of Swedish furniture chain Ikea has released a minute and a half long commercial-cum-tribute (via Reddit) to Kubrick’s peerless horror classic “The Shining.” It’s a cute little recreation of the famous scene of Danny riding his tricycle throughout the Overlook Hotel, but with a new twist, of course. If you need more of a Kubrick fix, you can check out the director’s earliest films, a trio of short documentaries (via Open Culture). His first film was “Day of the Fight,” a twelve-minute long doc...
- 10/22/2014
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
(Stanley Kubrick, 1953, Eureka!, 12)
Virtually unseen since its limited initial showing in New York, and at last available in a carefully restored print from the Library of Congress, Stanley Kubrick's first feature film, the 62-minute Fear and Desire, completes the availability of one of cinema's greatest oeuvres. Made by the 24-year-old Kubrick when he'd established himself as a photojournalist on Look, and financed on a shoestring by his wealthy uncle, Fear and Desire is an anti-war allegory set in an unnamed country, where a young lieutenant, a battle-hardened sergeant, a tough GI and a nervous young recruit find themselves stranded in enemy territory after a plane crash. An old schoolfriend (future Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Howard Sackler) wrote the somewhat pretentious, poetic script for a film Kubrick directed, edited and photographed using a silent camera in a forest outside Los Angeles. The sound was added in New York with considerable complication,...
Virtually unseen since its limited initial showing in New York, and at last available in a carefully restored print from the Library of Congress, Stanley Kubrick's first feature film, the 62-minute Fear and Desire, completes the availability of one of cinema's greatest oeuvres. Made by the 24-year-old Kubrick when he'd established himself as a photojournalist on Look, and financed on a shoestring by his wealthy uncle, Fear and Desire is an anti-war allegory set in an unnamed country, where a young lieutenant, a battle-hardened sergeant, a tough GI and a nervous young recruit find themselves stranded in enemy territory after a plane crash. An old schoolfriend (future Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Howard Sackler) wrote the somewhat pretentious, poetic script for a film Kubrick directed, edited and photographed using a silent camera in a forest outside Los Angeles. The sound was added in New York with considerable complication,...
- 2/3/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Time Magazine posted the following video and an essay from Jon Dieringer, which takes a look at the short film spawned from Stanley Kubrick's 1949 photo-essay "Prizefighter" for Look magazine. Here's a snippet from Dieringer's piece: Alexander Singer and Kubrick had forged a bond over shared scholastic apathy and mutual respect of each other's extracurricular achievements -- Singer as editor of the school literary arts magazine, and Kubrick as the kid with a camera around his neck: "almost a caricature of what you'd imagine a teenage cameraman would look like," as Singer describes. When plans to photograph a feature-length cinematic adaptation of Homer's Iliad written and directed by Singer proved too ambitious, Kubrick struck upon the idea to instead translate one of his own photographic essays to the big screen. That essay was Prizefighter, published by Look in January 1949, and described by Kubrick biographer Vincent LoBrutto as the moment he...
- 11/4/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
On this Check This... is Stanley Kubrick's first film the short documentary 'Day of the Fight.'
Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James.
This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout.
After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for.
Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James.
This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout.
After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for.
- 4/12/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
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