Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher

Bennett Miller, 2014
USA | Format: DCP | 133 minutes

Q&A with director Bennett Miller and actors Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Vanessa Redgrave, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, and Anthony Michael Hall on October 10

Q&A with actors Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, and Anthony Michael Hall on October 11

Bennett Miller’s quietly intense and meticulously crafted new film deals with the tragic story of billionaire John E. du Pont and the brothers and championship wrestlers Dave and Mark Schultz recruited by du Pont to create a national wrestling team on his family’s sprawling property in Pennsylvania. Miller builds his film detail by detail, and he takes us deep into the rarefied world of the delusional du Pont, a particularly exotic specimen of ensconced all-American old money and privilege. Miller’s film is a powerfully physical experience, and the simmering conflicts between his characters are expressed in their stances, their stillnesses, their physiques, and, most of all, their moves in the wrestling arena. At the core is a trio of perfectly meshed and absolutely stunning performances from Mark Ruffalo as Dave, Channing Tatum as Mark, and an almost unrecognizable Steve Carell as the fatally dissociated du Pont. Foxcatcher offers us a vivid portrait of a side of American life that has never been touched in movies. A Sony Pictures Classics release.

Bennett Miller will discuss the film in one of our free HBO Directors Dialogues on October 7.

October 10 screening sponsored by Jaeger-LeCoultre

Series: NYFF52 Main Slate

Venue: Alice Tully Hall