Cohen Media has dropped an official U.
S trailer for a documentary titled “The Storms of Jeremy Thomas,” a project from an Irish cinephile filmmaker Mark Cousins.
The film was originally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, an off-beat film takes us into a grand tour that will take in landmarks and many people connected to the producer’s life and films as they drive across France to the iconic festival.
Cousins affectionately calls him “the prince” in his voiceover, in tribute to Jeremy being Brit-cinema royalty: Jeremy was son and nephew of directors Ralph Thomas and Gerald Thomas. Cousins framed his film as something between a home movie and a road movie, Carrying shotgun mic in Thomas’s sleek Alfa Romeo as the producer brings him along on his decade long habit of five-day car journey down through France to the Cannes film festival.
And on the way, he chats to Thomas about life, the movies and everything, while interspersing this with clips from Thomas’s films, and intertwines with his many actors and colleagues, including Tilda Swinton and Debra Winger.
In 1986, Thomas produced Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic, The Last Emperor,” an independently financed project that was three years in the making. A commercial and critical triumph, the film swept the board at the 1987 Academy Awards, garnering an outstanding nine Oscars including Best Picture. His extensive output of over forty films includes Nicolas Roeg’s “Bad timing,” Nagisa Oshima’s “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence,” David Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch,” Terry Gilliam’s “Tideland,” Jonathan Glazer’s “Sexy Beast,” Takashi Miike’s “13 Assassins,” and Jim Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive.”
Director Mark previously directed the films like “The Eyes of Orson Welles,” “Women Make Film, “ The Film That Buys the Cinema,” “A Story of Children and Film,” and “The Story of Film : A New Generation.”
Cohen Media Group will release the doc a bit later in 2023. For more info, visit their official site.