Manhattan, Season 2, Episode 2, “Fatherland”
Written by Scott Brown
Directed by Dan Attias
Airs Tuesdays at 9pm (Et) on Wgn
A major theme of Manhattan‘s season premiere “Damnatio Memoriae” was “Where is Frank Winter?”. This week’s “Fatherland” answers that question but now asks, “Who is Frank Winter?”. Or more specifically, what role does the erstwhile leader of the implosion team play in the grand scheme of things?
When Frank told his wife Liza about the gadget during Manhattan‘s first season finale, “Perestroika,” he said the weapon is so powerful it will stop all future wars. “We’re writing the prologue to a new era: The history of peace,” he said. It wasn’t clear if he was simply telling her what he thought she wanted to hear, or if perpetual peace was a fairytale he told himself at night to lull his demons to sleep. But if Frank...
Written by Scott Brown
Directed by Dan Attias
Airs Tuesdays at 9pm (Et) on Wgn
A major theme of Manhattan‘s season premiere “Damnatio Memoriae” was “Where is Frank Winter?”. This week’s “Fatherland” answers that question but now asks, “Who is Frank Winter?”. Or more specifically, what role does the erstwhile leader of the implosion team play in the grand scheme of things?
When Frank told his wife Liza about the gadget during Manhattan‘s first season finale, “Perestroika,” he said the weapon is so powerful it will stop all future wars. “We’re writing the prologue to a new era: The history of peace,” he said. It wasn’t clear if he was simply telling her what he thought she wanted to hear, or if perpetual peace was a fairytale he told himself at night to lull his demons to sleep. But if Frank...
- 10/21/2015
- by A.R. Wilson
- SoundOnSight
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Tribeca Bible Writer-director Stephen Fingleton's first feature, "The Survivalist," takes place in a bleak, ruthless post-apocalyptic world that, with its small cast of stone-faced characters in a lawless land, recalls "Mad Max" and its sequels. But Fingleton swaps the barren desert of those movies for lush terrain and equally textured storytelling driven more by tense glances than words. Exclusively set in an unnamed countryside, Irish filmmaker Fingleton's debut builds on his short film "Magpie," a similarly dreary story of nameless characters battling to survive against dicey odds. While "Magpie" offered a snapshot of that grim existence, "The Suvivalist" stretches it out to feature-length with some difficulty — at 109 minutes, the minimalist tale of three characters living through the seasons in a ramshackle cabin in the woods often feels like a pileup of grimy vignettes. Nevertheless, Fingleton's...
- 4/20/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Black List and Brit List script was developed with Northern Ireland Screen.
Writer/director Stephen Fingleton, a 2013 Screen International Star of Tomorrow, has started principal photography on his debut feature, dystopian thriller The Survivalist.
The shoot for the Fyzz Facility production started on June 9.
Martin McCann, Olwen Fouere and Barry Ward star alongside a 2014 Screen Star of Tomorrow, Mia Goth.
Fingleton developed the script through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme. The hot property appeared on the 2012 Us Black List and topped the 2013 Brit List of unproduced screenplays.
The story is set in a world where the grid has gone down and humanity is starving. A loner in a forest meets a woman and her teenage daughter, who must work together to survive.
Producers of The Survivalist are Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones and David Gilbery.
The Fyzz Facility earlier this year produced the short Magpie as an “introduction to the world of [link...
Writer/director Stephen Fingleton, a 2013 Screen International Star of Tomorrow, has started principal photography on his debut feature, dystopian thriller The Survivalist.
The shoot for the Fyzz Facility production started on June 9.
Martin McCann, Olwen Fouere and Barry Ward star alongside a 2014 Screen Star of Tomorrow, Mia Goth.
Fingleton developed the script through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme. The hot property appeared on the 2012 Us Black List and topped the 2013 Brit List of unproduced screenplays.
The story is set in a world where the grid has gone down and humanity is starving. A loner in a forest meets a woman and her teenage daughter, who must work together to survive.
Producers of The Survivalist are Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones and David Gilbery.
The Fyzz Facility earlier this year produced the short Magpie as an “introduction to the world of [link...
- 6/16/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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