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Tim Blake Nelson & Sam Waterston talk about 'Anesthesia' & mention Kristen with AOLBuild

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Tim Blake Nelson and Sam Waterston start talking about Kristen from 13 minutes.

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Video: Tim Blake Nelson & talks about 'Anesthesia' & Kristen at a Q&A w/ Sam Waterston for SAG

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Audio: Tim Blake Nelson talks about 'Anesthesia' and mentions Kristen

Tim Blake Nelson is the writer, director, producer and co-star of the new film “Anesthesia,” which following a successful run on the film festival circuit opens in theaters and on demand this Friday.  

We discussed the general theme of the film, what it’s like to be involved in every aspect of a film’s production, and the message Tim hopes we’ll take away from the movie.  Tim also talked about the strong cast, especially Kristen Stewart, whom he calls a “fantastic actor” who has a “Jodie Foster-like career ahead of her.”

Listen to 'Anesthesia' director Tim Blake Nelson's interview here. 

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Kristen on 'The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon' - 5 January 2016

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Kristen will appear on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on January 5

Tuesday, January 5: Guests include Kristen Stewart, Michael Shannon and musical guest Cage The Elephant.

Per NBC, the actress will be the lead interview guest on the January 5, 2016 “Tonight Show.”

Michael Shannon is also slated for an interview, while Cage The Elephant will perform.

The show airs at 11:35pm ET/10:35pm C on NBC and is taped in NYC.

We will post livestreams shortly.

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'Anesthesia' Trailer + Posters

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'Anesthesia' stills now in UHQ

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More stills posted earlier on our site, can be found here.

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'Anesthesia' will be released in the US on 8 January 2016

International sales agent, Cermacon: "An IFC Release - January 8, 2016."

'Anesthesia' will screen in theaters and VOD.

Cermacon will also be taking 'Anesthesia' to film festivals for potential worldwide sales.

PRESENTED BY IFC FILMS | UNITED STATES | 90 MINS | NR

Synopsis:

A snowy New York City night, a beloved teacher, a shocking crime: this provocative drama pieces together the puzzle of a man’s life just before it changes forever. While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston), a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flash back one week, as actor-director Tim Blake Nelson traces the domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault. Along the way, hidden connections between a seemingly disparate group of people—including a self-destructive student (Kristen Stewart), a hard-drinking suburban housewife (Gretchen Mol), and a desperate junkie (K. Todd Freeman)—emerge, forming a complex, engrossing mosaic of lost souls united by tragedy. The stellar ensemble cast includes Glenn Close and Michael K. Williams.

Source: 'Anesthesia' on IFC Films website.

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New 'Anesthesia' stills + BTS photo

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IFC Films acquires 'Anesthesia' in North America for a release in 2016

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to the Kristen Stewart starrer Anesthesia.

Written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, the drama also stars Glenn Close, Sam Waterston and Gretchen Mol. UTA had been selling Anesthesia at the Cannes film market.

IFC plans to give the film a day-and-date release in 2016.

The story kicks off after the violent mugging of a Columbia University professor.

The film, which premiered in April at the Tribeca Film Festival, was produced by Nelson, Julie Buck, Josh Hetzler, John Molli and Christopher J. Scott.

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Video: Tim Blake Nelson mentions Kristen at the Q&A at Tribeca Film Festival - 23 and 25 April 2015

At the 2nd screening of 'Anesthesia' at the Tribeca Film Festival on 23 April.

At the 4th screening of 'Anesthesia' at the Tribeca Film Festival on 25 April.


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First UHQ still of Kristen as Sophie in 'Anesthesia'

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'Anesthesia' will be at market in Cannes this year in May for international distribution
sales per the source. It will screen to market on May 17 at 2.00pm (CET).

Please note this is separate from the film festival and no actors attend the market screenings.

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Tim Blake Nelson talks about 'Anesthesia' and Kristen + FIRST clip (no Kristen)

While studio executives often gripe about the gamble in mounting dramas, Nelson has a knack for getting his feature ambitions off the ground, topped off with a number of notable prestigious actors. Some indie filmmakers have to wait years to get their films funded, or have to grin and bear an actor’s unavailability before rolling, however, Nelson admits, “I have not found it incredibly difficult to get my movies financed with one exception, my project Seasons of Dust. At a certain point it seemed to be financed, but then fell apart, but I intend to make it. I have a sense of how to get my indie projects off the ground.”

Nelson doesn’t wince at the industry’s whining about dramas. For Nelson, no indie drama is stigmatized when it come to financing. “I think at the right budget with the right cast, and the right vision you can make a movie. It’s not necessarily going to make a lot of money, but none of us are making money as we work for scale. But when we get our movies made, we all end up subsidizing because the market is so squeezed.”

His latest film Anesthesia was funded from all private equity, “a combination of somewhat sophisticated movie financing and first-time investors” says Nelson giving a shout out to his producers Julie Buck and Josh Hetzler who handled the money-end. Anesthesia was funded before Nelson secured his cast which doesn’t happen that often in the indie finance world . “My financiers knew because of my track record that I would deliver a good ensemble, and that made them feel safe about their investment,” says the director/actor.

In general, Nelson makes his films for seven figures. His first film Eye of God was made below seven. “My attitude is you have to make the movie for a price where investors have a good shot at making a little bit of money.  All of us working on the film are subsidizing it.  I’m not asking investors to do that. I feel very responsible, grateful and beholden to the people who invest in my movies.”

Anesthesia takes place over a 24-hour period and follows a Columbia University professor, Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterson) who is mugged on his apartment doorsteps. The film follows the chain of events that triggered the attack, while bringing together a number of people in Walter’s life including his son (played by Nelson), his daughter-in-law (Jessica Hect), a troubled student (Kristen Stewart), a cheating spouse (Corey Stoll) and a drug addict (K. Todd Freeman). Glenn Close, Michael Kenneth Williams and Gretchen Mol round out the cast.  Even though Manhattan has been a safer place since the Mayor Rudy Giuliani era, Nelson says that muggings “happen near the Columbia University area. I live on 104th Street and this film is about my neighborhood. While you can walk around New York and feel safer than than you did during the ’70s and ’80s there are still areas where you can get mugged in the city, like any city in the world.”

Casting is also a painless process for Nelson, thanks to the actors, as well as their reps, that he has gotten to know over the years. Not to mention, Nelson isn’t above cold-calling a manager or two to get who he wants. His golden rule is “I don’t go out with a script unless I know the roles are going to appeal to the sorts of actors that will attract financing.”  When it came to landing Twilight actress Stewart in his film, “it wasn’t challenging at all. I just texted her and sent her the script. She read it and texted me back ‘Yes'”, says Nelson who is an acquaintance of Stewart’s. The cast for Anesthesia was assembled in two and half months, with casting director Avy Kaufman leading the charge, particularly with the younger actors.  Nelson didn’t know Waterson, rather met him over lunch after being pursued by the actor’s manager Keith Addis.

In the past, Nelson has landed such top-shelf talent as Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Kerri Russell and Richard Dreyfus for his 2009 directorial Leaves of Grass about an Ivy League professor who returns to his Oklahoma hometown, only to contend with his pot-growing twin brother.  For his 2001 Holocaust film Grey Zone, Nelson landed Harvey Keital, Steve Buscemi, Natasha Lyonne and Mira Sorvino. It grossed $518K at domestic B.O. for Lionsgate. Nelson’s highest grossing directorial is his millennial version of William Shakespeare’s Othello, entitled O which made $16M stateside for Lionsgate in 2001 and starred Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer and Julia Stiles.

However, Nelson emphasizes again, “I will not send out a script that is going to get passed on. I’ll sit on it and write for months and months. I know when it’s not ready. I know when a script is not working. I’m very patient. You only have one chance for actors and their reps to read your material, and I let folks know that if I’m sending out a script, it’s well worth reading. Even lesser known actors can be quite choosy.”

As a filmmaker though, one thing Nelson is picky about is that “I still want my movies to be seen in movie theaters”. While Nelson understands indie distributors’ needs to make their release models work with theatrical-VOD day and date; it’s not an auteur’s ideal deal.

Says Nelson, “When we are all making the movie, the production designer, the DP — we’re all thinking of our film for the big screen where a lot of strangers have gathered for a collective experience with great sound and beautiful, immersive colors. That’s what I’m still after. I’m less interested in home viewing experience when it comes to film.”

In addition to its premiere, Anesthesia is also showing at the Regal Battery Park Stadium on Thursday, April 23; Friday, April 24; and Saturday, April 25. UTA and Gray, Krauss, Stratford, Sandler Des Rochers are handling sales.

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Tim Blake Nelson talks about 'Anesthesia' with Indiewire

What's your film about in 140 characters or less?

A disparate group of New Yorkers coalesces around the mugging of a Columbia professor on the eve of his retirement.

Now what's it REALLY about?

How each of us finds some way to anesthetize him or herself in a society plagued by callous and often blameless self-interest, and whether there's room any more for real introspection.

Biggest challenge in completing this film?

Shooting on location in New York City, often at night, for very little money, and with scant resources.

What do you want the Tribeca audience to take away from your film?

We would love for them to leave the theater seeing the city of New York and their fellow New Yorkers in a slightly different light.

What cameras did you shoot on?

Alexa.

Did you crowdfund? If so, via what platform. If not, why?

We did not crowd fund. We found private equity based on script and cast.

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Video: First look at Kristen as Sophie in 'Anesthesia'

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'Anesthesia' will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22

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First official still of Sam Waterston & Glenn Close.

Anesthesia - World Premiere - 22 April 2015
Directed and written by Tim Blake Nelson
(USA) – World Premiere, Narrative

Screenings:

9:00 PM - WED 4/22 BMCC TRIBECA PAC
3:15 PM - THU 4/23 REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK A
3:30 PM - FRI 4/24 REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK
11:45 AM - SAT 4/25 REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK

On a snowy night in New York City, a Columbia professor is brutally mugged on the doorsteps of an apartment building. Director Tim Blake Nelson’s haunting meditation of city life traces the chain of events that precipitate the attack, examining the inextricable and unforeseen forces that bring a group of disparate individuals together. Featuring a star-studded ensemble including Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Glenn Close, and Cory Stoll.

Cast and Credits:

Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Screenwriter: Tim Blake Nelson
Producer: Julie Buck, Josh Hetzler, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Scott, John Molli
Editor: Mako Kamitsuna
Cinematographer: Christina Voros
Executive Producer: Anthony J. Nicholson, Dennis Mykytyn, Houston King, Jonathan Gray
Composer: Jeff Danna
Co-Producer: Jessica Hong
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Corey Stoll, Gretchen Mol, Michael K. Williams

Length: 90 minutes

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Red Carpet: Arrivals at 8.00pm ET

1.00am BST/ 2.00am CET/ 10.00am AEST (Thursday morning)

Screening starts at 9.00pm ET

2.00amBST/ 3.00am CET/ 11.00am AEST (Thursday morning)

Where: BMCC TRIBECA PAC.

Expected to attend: Tim Blake Nelson (director), Actors: Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Ben Konigsberg, Hannah Marks, Gloria Reuben, Mickey Sumner, Jessica Hecht, Producers: Josh Hetzler and Julie Buck. (Kristen is not on the list to attend)

Additional Guests expected to attend: John Turturro, Joel & Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, James Franco.

(This is from TFF guest list announcement)

The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 15 - 26 in New York City.

For details on the festival + tickets go to 'Anesthesia' page on the Tribeca Film Festival site.

Source: Tribeca Film Festival Still Premiere details: Gossipygal

Tim Blake Nelson talks about 'Anesthesia'

Recently wrapped on his latest film, Anasthesia – which Nelson wrote, directed and also stars in – Nelson stopped by Ringling to meet the students, share stories and guest-instruct, workshopping scenes with budding artists. Before sitting with students, Nelson took a moment with SRQ to talk Anasthesia, the importance of education and why he loves James Franco.

However, it was in reaching back to his days as a student in graduate school in New York that Nelson found inspiration for Anasthesia. Starring Sam Waterston (Law & Order, The Newsroom) and Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Snow White and the Huntsman), the film follows the intersection of strangers brought together when a college professor is attacked and seeks refuge in a nearby apartment building, ringing buzzers and hoping for help. As a student, Nelson lived in a very similar building.

“I would sit often and just listen to what was going on out in the street and I wondered what would happen if one witnessed some violent episode over one of those intercoms,” said Nelson. It’s not an autobiographical film, but Nelson won’t deny that much of his own life did go into the story. Grown and a father, he wanted to explore marriage and family, just as he wanted to honestly reflect New York, where he made his home for 20 years. Still, he was careful not to force anything. “The story just built itself,” said Nelson. “That’s the way I write – I choose a central event and build from there.”

Nelson hopes to release Anasthesia in New York City in the coming months.

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