Late Fame
Late Fame
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A thoughtful, melancholy drama about an aging poet who gets rediscovered. A romantic, nostalgic look at New York's mid-1980s arts scene.

Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer, Meyers, appears on the doorstep of his weathered Manhattan apartment, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Intoxicated by the attention - and by the alluring presence of Gloria, the group's "tragic heroine" who carries the grace, poise, and glamour of an actress from another era - Saxberger gradually reckons with the authenticity of his newfound poetic circle.

"The very first time I read Samy's script, so emotionally varied and knotty, so funny and so bracingly frank, the film started forming in my mind. I could see the characters. I could see the places where they hung out and where they made a living. I could see the New York of now and the New York of a now vanished past, one delicately layered over the other. And I could feel the presence of poetry, forever fragile and at its very best forever free." (Kent Jones)
Section: PANORAMA
Directed by: Kent Jones
Country, year: USA, 2025
Length: 96 minutes
Subtitles: Slovenian
Language: English

Screening in cinema:

Thu, 13.11.2025 20:00 Maribox
Thu, 13.11.2025 20:00 APT Novo mesto
Fri, 14.11.2025 21:15 Kosovel Hall
Sat, 15.11.2025 20:00 Kino Union Celje
Mon, 17.11.2025 17:00 Kosovel Hall
Sun, 23.11.2025 21:10 Kinodvor Cinema

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Screenplay:
Samy Burch
Cinematography:
Wyatt Garfield
Cast:
Willem Dafoe (Ed Saxberger), Greta Lee (Gloria), Edmund Donovan (Meyers), Luca Padovan (Winn), Arthur Langlie (Carmichael), Graham Campbell (Sherfey), Clay Singer (Brussard), Tony Torn (Paulie), Michael Everett Johnson (Mike)
Producent:
Killer Films & Fresh Fish Films
mp@killerfilms.com
Distribution:
Fivia d.o.o.
cenex@siol.net
Sales:
mk2
intlsales@mk2.com
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About director
Born in 1957 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Studied film at New York University. An internationally recognised writer and filmmaker, Jones is the author of several books of criticism and has been a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine. He has worked with Martin Scorsese on numerous documentaries. He made his fiction debut with the critically acclaimed Diane.
Filmography
2011 Letter to Elia (dok./doc.)
2015 Hitchcock/Truffaut (dok./doc.)
2018 Diane
2025 Late Fame (Pozna slava)