Eadweard

2015
Unrated
1h 44m

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6.3/10

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A psychological drama about the turn-of-the-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who was the first to photograph subjects in movement and became the godfather of cinema. He later murdered his wife's lover and was the last British-American to receive the justifiable homicide verdict.

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Photographer Eadweard Muybridge launches his pioneering movement studies while attempting to keep his marriage intact and staving off morality forces that view the images he captures as dege... Read allPhotographer Eadweard Muybridge launches his pioneering movement studies while attempting to keep his marriage intact and staving off morality forces that view the images he captures as degenerate.Photographer Eadweard Muybridge launches his pioneering movement studies while attempting to keep his marriage intact and staving off morality forces that view the images he captures as degenerate.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

698

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 13 wins & 22 nominations total

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10akvestnes

Aesthetically pleasing to the eye

I know this movie has been out for a few years, but if you still haven't seen it yet, DO IT. Michael Eklund portrays Eadweard in an amazing way, even though we didn't know much about Eadweard himself, mostly his work. So here he got a chance to improvise a bit on how to portray Mr. Muybridge.

The movie is also very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The close-ups, the lighting. You appreciate every little detail in it. Every time I've watched this movie, I have catched myself pausing the video and just looking at the screen. It's a beautifully made film.

Sara Canning, who played his wife, was also an amazing choice. These two have a beautiful and great chemistry between eachother, and it shows on camera.

2armagecko

A-holes Aren't That Interesting

Kyle Rideout deserves applause. Not many directors can con investors & distributors out of millions of dollars based on a script with zero sympathetic characters and absolutely no character development. Anybody who can't generate audience interest with a naked Jodi Balfour, Sara Canning & Vanessa Walsh should be banished from narrative storytelling. This film plays like a music video of "Taps." He should be paying you to watch this travesty.

9yakster1

Wonderful Film!

Just saw this at our local theatre in Stratford, ON with both Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein on hand to deliver the print all the way from Vancouver! Wonderful little film that has all of the right elements working for it, script, acting, directing, music and especially cinematography! AND they made it for $150,000. 100X better then most things in theatres today. A real (reel?) gem for anyone who loves film and film history. As I write this there are bigger names trying to get other Muybridge projects off the ground (Cumberbatch, Oldman etc.) but I guarantee they won't have the passion that this has. Sure it has a fairly unknown cast but so did Citizen Kane and Star Wars.

8WoodnCat

A little Biased...

I have seen many short clips of this movie and love them all. I have yet to see the movie in it's entirety, but feel a little biased as those were my own little piglets used for this movie... One of these days I will see the whole thing in one go...

10misskatiejeanlester

Brillant film

What a film awesome story of a man, who created the moving picture, and who brought us movies and tv shows. Michael Eklund nailed the british accent awesomd actor

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Trivia
Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge. He began using the last name Muybridge in 1865 and the old English spelling, Eadweard, of his first name in 1882. He also used the pseudonym Helios for some of his early photography.

Goofs
The movie places the murder committed by Muybridge during his time doing motion studies, which occurred in the 1880s and early 1890s in Philadelphia. The murder actually occurred in 1874 in Calistoga, California and his trial took place in 1875, both years before the motion studies.