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Jacob Elordi keeps waiting for the day he might lose his love for acting. It hasn’t happened yet, and he hopes it never will.

In fact, the Australian actor, who most recently played a haunted prisoner of war in Justin Kurzel’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, feels like he’s just getting started.

“I’m just incredibly open to being a part of the circus right now, in a way. I really love being an actor. I don’t know, silly as that it may sound, the love for it just keeps going deeper and deeper,” he tells Deadline.

In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, adapted from Richard Flanagan’s novel, Elordi stars as Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans, a celebrated World War II hero who is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair with Amy Mulvaney...

Without knowing it, Jacob Elordi and Justin Kurzel had formed a mutual admiration society prior to collaborating on the limited series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” Elordi had been a fan of the filmmaker, a fellow Aussie, since seeing Kurzel’s gutting 2011 feature debut, “Snowtown,” when he was a young teenager. “Especially in Australia, it’s one of the first films that you find when you’re in high school that’s a little different and you have to talk to people about,” says the actor.

Kurzel, like the rest of the world, had been watching Elordi’s ascent in projects like “Euphoria,” “Priscilla” and “Saltburn.” He sent the actor an email saying he was adapting Richard Flanagan’s acclaimed novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” for television. And he wanted Elordi to play the role of Dorrigo Evans, a soldier whose passionate love affair with...

The television adaptation of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan’s epic Booker Prize-winning war novel, debuted on Amazon Prime Video on April 18. As befits the cultural importance of the book to Australians, the series stars arguably the country’s buzziest male actor Jacob Elordi and is also helmed by one of its most important filmmakers Justin Kurzel. But Narrow Road‘s decade-long journey to the screen has been a long and arduous one.

Published in 2013, Flanagan’s WWII-set book follows Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon haunted by a wartime love affair and his brutal experiences as a Pow forced to build the Thai-Burma Death Railway under Imperial Japanese command. The novel shifts between Dorrigo’s youth, including a summer affair with his uncle’s young wife, the horrors of his captivity, and his later, unfulfilled life, exploring memory, trauma, and the fragility of human dignity.

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In the last five years or so, Jacob Elordi has established himself as one of Hollywood's brightest new (male) talents. It's a wonder that Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza didn't cast him in their recent film Warfare. But perhaps he was occupied; Elordi is currently working on the long-awaited third season of HBO's Euphoria, but did you know that a fix for his fans is available right at this moment? He's headlining the Prime Video series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which debuted on April 18 to incredible reviews, but doesn't seem to have made much of a noise.

In fact, the show hasn't even hit Prime Video's domestic top 10 charts in the last three days, according to data collated by FlixPatrol. That being said, it's finding an audience in Elordi's home country of Australia. The Narrow Road to the Deep North has been averaging between 15 and 30 "points" on FlixPatrol this past week,...

It didn’t take much for Jacob Elordi to sign on for Shaun Grant and Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

In fact, one email from Kurzel was enough to seal the deal, the Euphoria star told Deadline.

“I’ve wanted to work with him for as long as I can remember,” he said. “Since I was an early teen, after seeing his film Snowtown. So for me, just getting his name in my inbox was all it really took.”

The five-part limited series, which launched Friday in the U.S. just days after Prime Video announced it had secured the U.S. distribution rights, follows Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans throughout multiple pivotal moments in his life, from his all-too-brief love affair with his uncle’s wife Amy (Odessa Young) to his time as a prisoner of war on the Thailand-Burma Railway.

The television adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s prize-winning book The Narrow Road to the Deep North brings with it a number of firsts. It is acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s first work for television and also the first time Euphoria and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi has returned home to lead a major Australian production.

Produced by Sony Pictures Television’s Curio Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios Australia, Narrow Road debuted on Amazon Prime Video on April 18, but the limited series, speaking to its feature-like qualities, premiered its first two episodes at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. In his review, The Hollywood Reporter‘s film critic David Rooney was gushing in his praise of those first two episodes, describing Narrow Road as “big, bold and strikingly cinematic.” “Based on the first 90 minutes, The Narrow Road to the Deep North has potential to stand alongside films like Peter Weir...

Plot: The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a savagely beautiful five-part series charting the life of Dorrigo Evans, through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney, his time held captive in a Pow camp, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero. An intimate character study of a complex man, a compelling portrayal of the courage and cruelty of war, and an unforgettable love story that sustains one through the darkest of times.

Review: War is hell, and I do not think a film or television series has ever deviated from that sentiment. While the horrors of battle and conflict have been central to screen productions for a century, some filmmakers still manage to find new ways to give us a glimpse of what it is like for the enlisted who have served throughout history. Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan,...

“The Order” (2024) is a brooding investigative thriller that puts another feather in director Justin Kurzel’s cap. After the chilling character portraits in “Nitram” and “The Snowtown Murders,” Kurzel returns with an equally harrowing depiction of evil in human beings. This time, he shifts his focus toward a White Supremacist terrorist group that was active in the 1980s. He paints the picture of a small American town mainly through the eyes of an FBI agent, who ends up in a cat-and-mouse chase with the terrorist group’s members. Although the plot essentially leads us toward its leader’s capture, it is more interested in interrogating the human tendencies that affect the usual order of any place, and how people react in such situations of change.

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The Order (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

“The Order” starring Jude Law offers a grim portrait of an FBI investigation in the 1980s to investigate a white supremacist group,...

The criminally underrated The Order did not gain as much attention as other titles released on the big screen in 2024. Last year provided moviegoers a number of critically acclaimed features across various genres, leaving the Justin Kurzel-directed crime thriller somewhat overshadowed. However, that doesn’t mean the film wasn’t a critical success, with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score as of this writing. Now, the movie is bound to be introduced to a much wider audience this month. The Order — starringJude Lawand Nicholas Hoult — will be added to Hulu's extensive library starting April 18, 2025.

The crime thriller boasts an ensemble cast led by Law and Hoult, both of whom have impressive acting portfolios under their belts. Law, best known for his performance in 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, has continued to prove his range as an actor time and again with a range of genres, including comedy, thriller, drama, and action.

Festival Finale

South Korean animated romance “The Square” will close the 27th Far East Film Festival (Feff) in Udine, Italy. The film will make its world premiere at the festival, which runs April 24-May 2, sharing the closing night spotlight with “Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie,” a live-action feature film adaptation of the popular comedy manga, screening out of competition.

Two additional world premieres have been added to the lineup: a restored version of hard-to-find 1979 Hong Kong cult film “The System” and the world premiere of Indonesian horror title “Mad of Madness,” which explores the intersection of fear, politics and society.

These additions bring Feff’s total to 77 films from 12 countries, with 49 titles in competition. The festival now boasts 8 world premieres, 16 international premieres, 20 European premieres and 19 Italian premieres.

The festival will open with Chinese comedy “Green Wave,” followed by South Korean supernatural horror “Dark Nuns.” Other additions include two Hong Kong short films,...

Australian horror month began with Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (listen), then tackled Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich’s 2007 creature feature Black Water (listen). For week three, Jenn and I are back in human villain territory with the “bodies in the barrels” murders depicted in Snowtown (2011) or The Snowtown Murders (2012).

In the mid to late ’90s, serial killer John Bunting groomed teenager Jamie Vlassakis to commit multiple murders under the guise of protecting their Adelaide suburb from pedophiles and queer men. Director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant adapt the horrifying true story, which explores how Bunting was able to bend a whole community of malleable minds to his will, how he inserted himself into Jamie’s life, and how this garden variety murderer targeted vulnerable communities, including victims who were developmentally disabled and addicts.

It’s an exceptionally rough film because it’s not flashy. The performances are also extremely grounded and frightening,...

Prime Video has unveiled the trailer for Justin Kurzel’s limited series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s eponymous, Man Booker Prize-winning novel and starring Jacob Elordi in a lead role as Dorrigo Evans.

The decade-spanning series filmed in New South Wales, Australia, and charts the life of Evans, a medical officer who becomes a Japanese prisoner of war and is haunted by his passionate, yet impossible love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), his uncle’s wife, for the rest of his life. Penned by Shaun Grant, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” then portrays him as a returned war hero who becomes a revered surgeon.

The buzzed about limited Australian series held its world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where Kurzel and Elordi were in town to promote the show. It garnered one of the warmest ovation of the festival.

After kicking off Australian horror month with Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (listen), Jenn and I have turned our attention to a crocodile-based creature feature. But rather than do Rogue, another film by the same Aussie director, we’re spreading the love to filmmakers Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich and their 2007 film Black Water.

The film is based on a real-life incident from 2003, when 22-year-old Brett Mann was swept away in a flooded river in the Northern Territory. His two friends, Ashley McGough and Shaun Blowers, pursued him, but when McGough spotted a crocodile in the water, the pair climbed a tree to safety. Sadly, Mann was killed, and his body was carried away by the creature.

The nightmare for his friends continued when the crocodile returned, forcing them to spend the night in the tree. It’s a harrowing story that was turned into not one, but two 2007 creature...

Assassin's Creed is one of the worst video game adaptations of all time, but it has turned into a streaming hit on Max. The 2016 flop starred Michael Fassbender, who was red-hot coming off two excellent X-Men prequels, Marion Cotillard (Inception), and Jeremy Irons (who was in the terrible adaptation of Dungeons and Dragons). It's currently at number two on Max's Top 10 movie list in the United States, and is also in the Top 10 in a few countries worldwide.

The movie is a film adaptation by director Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) and is based on the popular video game series and follows Cal Lynch / Aguilar (Fassbender), who travels back in time to learn how to be an assassin from his ancestors so he can fight the Templar Knights in the present day. The film is as ridiculous as it sounds, despite the incredible talent appearing on the screen.

It...

Australian star Jacob Elordi shared some insights into his creative process and passion for acting during a brief stop on Saturday in Berlin, Germany for the world premiere of his upcoming period series The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

“I have no real interest in making movies for the sake of entertainment or for making money,” Elordi said. “There’s a feeling that I get — that everyone gets, I think — when you watch a film and I call it cinema. When you experience cinema and you’re in a room and it does that thing to you — that kind of profound, unnameable thing that moves you and confirms you on this planet in this life — that’s what I chase, I guess, as a performer. I want to be a part of that. Usually, it stems from the filmmaker. So I’m really just a super fan who’s following his heart.

It’s officially Jacob Elordi’s year.

The rising star has a slew of projects being released in 2025, including Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant’s buzzy limited series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” which will be premiering at Berlinale 2025 as a Special Gala.

The sales title series was in development for years at Fremantle before Elordi’s casting was announced in 2022; the project was a Sony Pictures Television production. The official logline reads: “A celebrated World War II hero is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair that took place just before the war in this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2013 Booker Prize-winning novel.”

Elordi plays lead character Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon imprisoned at a Pow camp. The original novel jumps across multiple periods of Evans’ life, from his affair as a young man with his uncle...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Between the Temples (Nathan Silver)

In a state of arrested development after his wife unexpectedly died from a freak accident, Ben Gottlieb (Jason Schwartzman) is suicidal, pleading to a truck to just run him over and begging that he be fired from his job as cantor at the local Jewish temple in upstate New York. While this set-up may not scream comedy, Between the Temples is in fact hilarious, packed with endless jokes and adoration for physical gags while we witness Ben find new meaning in life through an unexpected acquaintance. Above all, Nathan Silver’s feature, from a script he co-wrote with C. Mason Wells,is a thrillingly alive, nimble piece of filmmaking: shot on 16mm by Sean Price Williams with...

Director Justin Kurzel knows how to get under your skin. His 2011 debut, Snowtown, almost immediately started making it on lists of the most disturbing movies ever made; 2019’s True History of the Kelly Gang took an almost hallucinatory look at the legendary Ned Kelly gang; and 2021’s Nitram created a sense of slow, unnerving anticipated that couldn’t be shaken. But underneath Kurzel’s best work, there’s this underlying understanding that haunts the entire film: this really happened, and even though these are clearly fictionalized accounts of what happened, it’s still terrifying that such horrors can actually exist in this world.

Starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, and directed by Justin Kurzel, tense thriller The Order is one of 2024’s last must-see films. Our review:

Director Justin Kurzel has a certain way of depicting death. Where most filmmakers might serve up an aesthetised, cinematic version of what dying looks and feels like, Kurzel captures it in what feels unsettlingly real: the shock, the gasping for air, the sensation of drowning in blood. It’s something he brought to his startling debut Snowtown, and continued into his later work, whether it’s his Technicolor adaptation of Macbeth (2015) or his disturbing 2021 drama, Nitram.

Like much of Kurzel’s earlier work, The Order, written by Zach Baylin, is based on real events: the FBI’s hunt for a white supremacist militia group in the early 1980s. Between 1983 and 1984, the group – which called itself The Order – waged a terror campaign across Colorado and Washington, bombing buildings,...

After breaking out in 2020 with Relic and helming this year’s Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A, filmmaker Natalie Erika James is now filming supernatural body horror movie Saccharine, per Deadline.

Midori Francis will play the lead.

Saccharine follows “Hana (Francis), a lovelorn medical student who becomes terrorised by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes.”

Opposite Francis are Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$) playing Josie, Hana’s best friend, and Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time) as Alanya, a personal trainer and fitness influencer.

“There is so much toxic messaging around weight and appearance that permeates every corner of our culture. Saccharine is an intimate look into one woman’s struggle with body image, self-worth, and shame-driven compulsion, told through a supernatural body-horror with a queer lens and an edge of the absurd,” Natalie Erika James said of the project.

In other words, it...

Exclusive: Filming is underway in Australia on Saccharine, with Grey’s Anatomy and The Sex Lives of College Girls star Midori Francis in the lead role.

The under-the-radar project marks the third film from writer-director Natalie Erika James, following Julia Garner horror Apartment 7A and breakout horror hit Relic with Emily Mortimer.

James again partners with producers Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films, whose credits include Relic, Run Rabbit Run and Snowtown.

The movie follows Hana (Francis), a lovelorn medical student who becomes terrorised by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes.

Starring alongside Francis are Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$) playing Josie, Hana’s best friend, and Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time) as Alanya, a personal trainer and fitness influencer.

The project is a Carver Films and Thrum Films production. Production investment comes from Screen Australia, XYZ in conjunction with Ipr.Vc,...

Director Justin Kurzel was not at all familiar with the story of Bob Mathews until he started reading the script for “The Order” written by Zach Baylin. “I’d sort of read the first 15 pages and I was like, oh wow, this reminds me of these great seventies films that Friedkin and Lumet used to kind of do,” he reveals to Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the video interview above).

As he read the script he found himself more and more captivated by the subject of American extremism. “I wasn’t aware of ‘The Turner Diaries.’ I wasn’t aware of this sort of organization such as The Order. I was curious. I’ve been interested in the past with films that I’ve done here about how communities can be influenced by figures that can manipulate them to believe in their own kind of ideology.”

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The True Story of a Racist Gang: Kurzel Explores Formative Chapter of American Domestic Terrorism

There’s a brooding, sinister quality to Justin Kurzel’s filmmaking, whose body of work almost always deals with, either directly or indirectly, the dangerous combination of bruised masculinity and/or wounded nationality entitling men to engage in violence. This was evident in his formidable breakout debut Snowtown (2011), about an Australian serial killer, and continued through his exploration of the mythic in The True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) before he turned to one of Australia’s most infamous incidents of mass shooting in Nitram (2021). Based on his interests, Kurzel seems a perfect fit for wading into the violence which defines and supports America’s belief systems, and soberingly does so in The Order.…...

On June 18th, 1984, Alan Berg was assassinated outside of his home in Denver, Colorado. The confrontational talk-radio host had made a name for himself by arguing on-air with, among others, anti-Semites and white supremacists. A group known as “The Order,” who had taken their name from the fictional hate-mongers in the novel The Turner Diaries, had been responsible for Berg’s murder. They were also behind a series of bank robberies throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as stealing $3.6 million from a brinks truck in Ukiah, California. The goal was...

Macbeth and The Order director Justin Kurzel wants to make a pre-apocalypse Mad Max prequel, and even hopes to pitch it to George Miller.

George Miller’s Mad Max (1979)presented a such bold take on a post-apocalyptic dystopia, presenting many of our fears about the breakdown of civilisation with such absorbing style, it formed a template that was developed in every film afterwards. While this year’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga may not have set the world alight commercially, that hasn’t stopped Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel from wanting to add his own take to Miller’s Wasteland saga.

Speaking to Collider, Kurzel – director of, among other things, Snowtown, Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed and this year’s The Order – outlined his vision for a prequel film that would establish how the world we recognise fell into ruin… and what’s more, he’s keen to pitch his take it to Miller himself.

Justin Kurzel started touring festivals with neo-Nazi thriller The Order – starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan – in Venice in September where the film world premiered in Competition to strong reviews.

Directed from a screenplay by Zach Baylin based on the 1989 book, The Silent Brotherhood, the film follows the real-life 1980s white supremacist group The Order, led by Robert Jay Mathews, which turned to counterfeiting and heists to fund its activities.

Law stars as a jaded FBI agent alongside Sheridan as an eager young police detective, who are on the tail of the gang, and Mathews, played by Hoult.

Since Venice, the film has played at Toronto and opened the Zurich Film Festival as well as Marrakech over this weekend. Its resonance has also evolved in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential elections in November.

Talking to Deadline in Marrakech, the Australian director...

As 2024 comes to a close, much of the month will be dedicated to wrapping up the year in cinema with a plethora of year-end features (bookmark here for those), but let’s take a deeper look at the December line-up. Featuring some of the most-praised films of the year, including my favorite shortest and longest works, and much more, it’s a great time for holiday movie-going.

We should note also that a number of notable films are getting Oscar-qualifying runs before the end of the year, which we’ll feature on this in proper when they get their official releases.

15. A Complete Unknown (James Mangold; Dec. 25)

Nabbing the last spot on this for sheer fascination with Bob Dylan alone and not much else, James Mangold in biopic mode is often far less interesting than some of his other work. However, with what seems to be a committed Timothée Chalamet...

While at the Marrakech Film Festival where he’s serving on Luca Guadagnino‘s jury alongside Jacob Elordi, Andrew Garfield said he’s “had to work very hard to have less people ask questions about “Spider-Man.”

“I’m still working on it, obviously. It’s an imperfect process,” he quipped, as he had just been asked a question about his work on the superhero franchise.

Garfield said he was nevertheless “grateful for that time” because “it allowed [him] to maybe have an easier shot at working with people like Martin Scorsese straight after.”

“I think Marty probably was able to get a passion project made with a guy who played Spider-Man in the lead to play a Jesuit priest in the 1600s of Japan. The fact that that film got made with the help of Spider-Man is a beautiful thing,” Garfield said, referring to Scorsese’s 2016 film “Silence.”

Guadagnino, who kicked...

Justin Kurzel’s neo-Nazi thriller The Order opened the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival on Friday evening, with the director jetting over from Australia where he recently wrapped WWII drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North with Jacob Elordi.

Kurzel told Deadline that the Moroccan festival had been a special place for him ever since he made the 24-hour trip from Australia in 2011 to compete with first feature, true crime drama Snowtown, which won the jury prize and best actor for Daniel Henshall.

“The French distributor pleaded for me to come. It’s a long away… she said, ‘You better come… the festival will change you.’ I did… and just the city, it’s really quite magical. It was the first time I was with first-time filmmakers, so I was able to establish a bit of a posse, a bit of tribe,” he said.

Kurzel was joined by AGC boss Stuart Ford,...

Luca Guadagnino, who serves as jury president of the Marrakech Film Festival, spoke in fluent French about his North African heritage during the opening gala ceremony on Friday.

On stage with fellow jurors, including Jacob Elordi and Andrew Garfield, Guadagnino delivered a lyrical speech in which he revealed he had a personal bond to Morocco.

“My Algerian mother grew up in Casablanca. She was half-Moroccan, so I am half-Moroccan too,” said Guadagnino, whose jury will watch first and second features in competition during the week-long festival to award the Etoile d’Or Prize.

“For me, Marrakech and cinema are the same thing. The mystery of the image, the power of editing, of contrast, the beauty and devouring force that animates the cinema I love, it embodies Marrakech and Morocco,” the filmmaker continued.

He reminisced about his first trip to Marrakech in 2002, when he came to accompany a friend who was...

Justin Kurzel is a filmmaker who always tackles interesting topics. It’s always intriguing to find out what he is working on in the future. And in an upcoming The Playlist interview about his new film, “The Order,” filmmaker Justin Kurzel gives us an update about what film projects he has coming up, including a new horror film called “Mice.”

“I’m developing a horror film with Nicole and made up stories that Sean Grant, a collaborator that did ‘The Snowtown Murders,’ ‘Nitram‘ and ‘True History of the Kelly Gang‘ is writing,” said Kurzel.

Continue reading Justin Kurzel Says ‘Mice’ Movie Starring Nicole Kidman Will Be “Straight Horror” & Is Developing FBI/Marijuana Thriller ‘Burning Rainbow Farm’ at The Playlist.

For its upcoming edition, the Marrakech Film Festival is pulling out all the stops.

After a more subdued edition last year due to the Israel-Hamas conflict and the effects of a disastrous earthquake, the event — which has close ties with the crème de la crème of global auteurs — can boast a talent roster on the scale of top international festivals such as Cannes or Venice for its 21st iteration, set to run Nov. 29 to Dec. 7 in the ancient Moroccan city.

Big names set to make the trek to Morocco include Sean Penn, Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci, Alfonso Cuarón, Justine Triet, Ava DuVernay and David Cronenberg. Luca Guadagnino is presiding over the competition jury, which includes hotshot actors Jacob Elordi and Andrew Garfield.

Below, Variety speaks with the fest’s artistic director Rémi Bonhomme – a former driving force behind Cannes’ Critics Week – about how he pulled it off and...

Justin Kurzel is an acclaimed Australian director known for his gritty and atmospheric films such as Snowtown, The True History of the Kelly Gang, and Nitram. In his first documentary, Kurzel shifts his focus to the musical talents and charitable efforts of Warren Ellis.

Ellis has had a long and storied career as a composer and multi-instrumentalist, notably collaborating with Nick Cave and founding the acclaimed group The Dirty Three. The film provides an intimate look into Ellis’s life and music while also chronicling his involvement with the Sumatran wildlife sanctuary that bears his name.

Through footage of Ellis both onstage and off, we learn about the experiences that shaped him as an artist. We also witness his journey to visit the amazing animal refuge of Ellis Park for the very first time. There, a dedicated team works tirelessly to rehabilitate trafficked creatures and provide them with love and care.

Exclusive: The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales (excluding Australia) on Justin Kurzel’s documentary Ellis Park, his upcoming film about musician Warren Ellis.

A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Ellis has cut an unorthodox figure in music for more than three decades. The film will see the Australian musician give a guided tour through his world and an animal sanctuary dear to his heart in the forests of Sumatra. The sanctuary was co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health.

Having debuted at the Melbourne Film Festival in August, the movie is next set to play at the London Film Festival on October 19.

Pic is written, directed and executive produced by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel,...

For a film that Oscar-nominated writer Zach Baylin (King Richard) describes as "challenging to get made right now," it takes a cast and crew of driven individuals to execute a timely crime thriller like The Order. Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt's bestseller and true story The Silent Brotherhood, Baylin and director Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) brought on an A-list cast to breathe life into this dark moment of history that remains relevant to this day and they did it in under 40 days.

At long last, the official trailer for Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 has arrived, offering a delightfully bizarre first look at the 3x Academy Award-winning director's upcoming sci-fi film starring The Batman star Robert Pattinson in the lead role as a disposable employee who repeatedly killed and cloned, during an effort to colonize a mysterious new ice world.

As per the trailer, the seventeenth iteration wll take center stage in the film, and there's plenty of twists and turns heading our way as he finds himself face to face with a multiple...

In addition to Pattinson, the cast features Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody), Steven Yeun (Minari; The Walking Dead), Toni Collette (Hereditary; The Sixth Sense), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight; Avengers: Endgame), Holliday Grainger (The Borgias; Animals), Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening; My Revolution), Thomas Turgoose (This Is England...

Jude Law's latest film, The Order, received a seven-minute standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival and promises to be one of the best movies of the year. While much of the attention went to the film's leading man, Law's co-stars and director also enjoyed the celebration-like reception of the crime thriller, which is based on a true story. The Order is director Justin Kurzel's latest drama and stars Law alongside Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Sebastian Pigott, Jurnee Smollett, Huxley Fisher, and Marc Maron, among others.

Per a report from the event via Variety, the premiere in Venice resonated with the audience, who cheered for the director and cast for seven whole minutes (some reports put the number as high as eight), during a standing ovation that would likely have lasted longer if the cast and crew hadn't exited the theater. Other films that received standing ovations...

It’s fall 1983 in the Pacific Northwest, a historical hotbed for white poverty and white-power mobilization. Flannels flow like wine, backcountry bowl cut-adjacent male fringes mark burgeoning leadership, and there isn’t a shiny new car for 100 miles in any direction. On both sides of the law we find ourselves in the company of brawny mustachios and brazenly retreating widows’ peaks that form trenches of balding. The tremoring strings, blue-gray haze in the coloring, and heavy fog set the stage for something awful: the brief dawn of The Order.

Terry Husk (Jude Law)––an FBI agent with ample experience infiltrating and taking down white-supremacy hate groups within the Aryan Nations from Colorado to Washington state––comes to the tiny Idaho town of Coeur d’Alene to quiet down, the sole federal agent stationed in his region. But after serious counterfeiting reports and a string of horrifyingly captured bank robberies and armored-car heists,...

Justin Kurzel’s The Order opens with a sound familiar to podcast aficionados: a Marc Maron monologue. Deploying a slightly more nasally voice to embody the late Denver talk radio host Alan Berg, Maron delivers a searing broadside against far-right agitators as “too inept to be in the world” and thus “get by on the curtailing of others’ enjoyment.” Zach Baylin’s script uses the shock jock as The Order’s equivalent to a Greek chorus, loudly screaming its condemnation of anti-Semitism as exhibited by the eponymous domestic terrorist group.

Mercifully, this isn’t the extent of political dialogue in The Order—especially given the recent lack of efficacy in simply trying to yell “Nazis bad” to stop the rise of the far right. The version of white separatism on display here is less alarming because of signifiers like skinheads and swastikas. Rather, it’s terrifying because the film clarifies...

Jude Law will follow his earlier 2024 film, Firebrand, with a dark and potentially controversial thriller which just screened at the Venice Film Festival. The Order follows the FBI's investigation into a Neo-Nazi crime group in the '80s and is based on the true story of the titular white supremacist terrorist organization, also known as The Silent Brotherhood. The American group were responsible for a variety of heists in order to fund their movement and a war against the government, and were ultimately involved in murder. As reported by Variety, in a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Law discussed the importance of The Order and the parallels the film has with current events and extreme right-wing groups across the world. He stated:

Sadly, the relevance speaks for itself. It felt like a piece of work that needed to be made now. Its always interesting finding a piece from...

Venice film festival

Law is commanding opposite an icy Nicholas Hoult in true-crime story about the takedown of a far right militia in the 1980s

You wouldn’t want to spend time with the kind of people you meet in the films of Australian director Justin Kurzel: the deranged loner of Nitram or the killers of his peerlessly disturbing debut Snowtown. Now, in The Order, Kurzel turns his attention to American neo-Nazis, and the people who hunt them – and, in the shape of Jude Law’s profoundly damaged FBI agent, the latter are not the cuddliest characters either. Premiering in competition at the Venice film festival, true-crime drama The Order is about the most dynamic thing seen on the Lido in the event’s first few days, and affirms Kurzel’s status as a formidable auteur, especially when it comes to the dark stuff.

Scripted by Zach Baylin and...

If you think heavily armed white supremacists are some kind of new threat to America, you should take a look at The Order, a gripping, superbly made historical thriller about a neo-Nazi gang that terrorized the Pacific Northwest nearly four decades ago, robbing banks and armored cars to fund their plans for a full-scale insurrection.

A nail-biter from start to finish, Australian director Justin Kurzel’s bleak and brawny true story stars Jude Law as an FBI agent trying to take down the film’s titular faction, which he tracks over several years, from one hold-up and killing to the next. Backed by a cast that includes Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett, The Order is the kind of tense reflection on American violence that Hollywood rarely puts on the big screen anymore. After launching in Venice’s main competition, it will hopefully find supporters stateside, with Law’s...

If three makes a trend, then take “The Order” as a proof of fact: Nobody delivers true crime quite like Justin Kurzel. Following 2011’s “Snowtown” and 2021’s “Nitram,” the filmmaker’s latest factual thriller confirms the Australian auteur as an expert of the form, a skilled technician at ease and at the peak of his abilities when conveying ambient unease. Premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival, “The Order” might be the filmmaker’s most accomplished work to date, offsetting a kind of broody fatalism against natural splendor, and punctuating the bloody affair with an action beat.

While both “Snowtown” and “Nitram” played as slow builds towards specific tragedies – tallying the institutional and personal failings that led to the Snowtown murders and the Port Arthur massacre – this latest film hews a more rolling timeline, tracking a white-supremacist splinter group responsible for a handful of murders and a string of heists,...

Justin Kurzel directs with a scalpel that cuts everywhere except the heart. The Australian filmmaker, who memorialized two mass killing events in his own country with his coldly compelling debut “The Snowtown Murders” and 2021 Cannes winner “Nitram,” peeks this time into the American psyche behind similar happenings with his latest, “The Order.” But he needs fresher material, as this based-on-a-true-story portrait of a radicalized white supremacy faction being hunted by the FBI in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s feels too close to Kurzel’s previous outings, which also include the Aussie bushranger historical biopic “True History of the Kelly Gang.” He already depicted a white, manifesto-wielding killer the last time. And that other time. And the time before that. While it’s one thing for a director to present variations on a theme throughout their career, it’s another when they stop surprising us or finding a new way into the same story.

Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and director Justin Kurzel, were among the team at The Order‘s Venice press conference this afternoon where they discussed the crime-drama’s resonance with extremism today.

The Order charts how a series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest during the 1980s. It alights on a lone FBI agent (Law) who believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, namely the white supremacist gang known as The Order (led in the film by Hoult). The film explores the ensuing battle between law enforcement and the far-right group.

Hoult told the press how he and Law – adversaries in the film – didn’t speak or interact with each other for the first four weeks of filming in a bid to build distance between them. He was...

The world still has “a lot of work to do” to combat far-right ideologies of the kind shown in Venice title The Order, according to its lead actor Jude Law.

“You could’ve said 10 years ago that perhaps the world was in a slightly different state,” said Law. “In fact we’ve still got a lot of work to do.”

In Justin Kurzel’s Venice Competition entry, Law stars as Terry Husk, an FBI agent in Idaho in 1983 who investigates a series of bombings and robberies, which he learns may be linked to a far-right uprising.

The film is written by Zach Baylin,...

Australian film director Justin Kurzel has adopted fresh perspectives on directing after undertaking two recent documentary films. Kurzel directed Ellis Park, a documentary about musician Warren Ellis and the animal sanctuary he co-founded in Indonesia. He has also worked on the thriller The Order.

Kurzel found the experience of filming Ellis Park to be profoundly impactful. “Going there changed me, I was not the same person when I left,” he said afterward. Observing the sanctuary required Kurzel to adapt his methods. Rather than following a strict plan, he learned to let the people and animals guide the story organically. “I had to be open to what emerged,” Kurzel noted.

This experience shaped Kurzel’s approach to The Order. The film tells the true story of bank robberies in 1980s America. Though the settings contrasted drastically, Kurzel applied the same flexibility. He collaborated more with actors to allow scripts to freely evolve throughout production.

Straight off the plane from New York, where he is mid-production on the Netflix series “Black Rabbit,” director Justin Kurzel debuted his new documentary “Ellis Park” at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

“Ellis Park” follows the eventful life of composer Warren Ellis and the wildlife sanctuary he co-founded on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Combining Ellis’ irreverent humor and unbounded creativity with the moving story of the sanctuary’s role as a home for animals rescued from the black market, “Ellis Park” is set to be one of the most impactful Australian documentaries of recent years.

Following the film’s premiere at Melbourne’s Astor Theatre, Kurzel said making the documentary has profoundly influenced his forthcoming productions. Alongside “Black Rabbit” these include “The Order” — a wintry thriller starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and Marc Maron set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival — and the series...

Justin Kurzel’s film about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician, and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic

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For his first documentary, the Australian auteur Justin Kurzel – whose oeuvre includes Snowtown, True History of the Kelly Gang and Nitram – was never going to direct a paint-by-numbers talking heads fest. Hence it came as no surprise that his portrait of the musician Warren Ellis, a member of the Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is a richly cinematic affair, opening with a blurry shot of a field that wouldn’t look out of place in any of his narrative productions. It quickly evolves into a work with a living, breathing, morphing energy, as if the film – which is drifty and amorphous, in a good way – is swelling and shrinking, expanding and contracting,...

Somehow, 10 years have already passed since the release of writer/director Jennifer Kent’s horror film The Babadook (watch it Here) – and to mark the occasion, IFC Films is teaming up with Iconic Events Releasing to give the film a theatrical re-release on September 19th! Fans who attend this re-release will also get to see an exclusive Q&a with writer/director Jennifer Kent. Tickets will be available to purchase at This Link as of August 14th. In the meantime, IFC Films and Iconic Events Releasing have put together a 10th anniversary re-release trailer, which can be seen in the embed above.

The Babadook has the following synopsis: Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her ‘out of control’ 6 year-old, Samuel, a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel’s dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both.