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Oct 13, 2014 · Damien Chazelle is on fire. The 29-year-old writer/director is receiving some of the year’s best reviews for his second feature effort, “ Whiplash ,” an overwhelmingly powerful picture that defies the typical genre categorization of “drama” or “thriller.”. It won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s ...
Dec 9, 2014 · Harvard grad Damien Chazelle got Jason Reitman and Jason Blum's attention with his tale of a brilliant young jazz drummer and his shockingly abusive music teacher — and then powered through a ...
Feb 13, 2023 · Chazelle and Blumhouse first made "Whiplash" as an 18-minute short film and when that earned raves at Sundance, they plowed ahead with making a feature that, in turn, earned similar acclaim ...
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Oct 8, 2014 · the Limits of Perfection. By Emma Brown. October 8, 2014. ABOVE: DAMIEN CHAZELLE ON THE SET OF WHIPLASH. PHOTO COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSIC. “It’s an existential rage,” explains writer-director Damien Chazelle of Fletcher, the demanding, abusive, music school jazz band conductor in Whiplash. “He loves the music so much that he ...
Dec 18, 2014 · Before writing and directing ‘Whiplash,’ Damien Chazelle lived it. “Whiplash” director Damien Chazelle drew on his own experiences as a jazz drummer. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) By ...
Whiplash is a 2014 American psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, and Melissa Benoist.It focuses on an ambitious music student and aspiring jazz drummer (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor (Simmons) at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory in New York City.
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Oct 15, 2014 · Damien Chazelle still isn’t 30 years old, and he’s written and directed a Sundance sensation. Whiplash, his second feature film (after 2009’s black-and-white indie jazz musical Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench), won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the Dramatic category in Park City earlier in 2014, and a significant Oscar buzz has followed it ever since.
