Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Director: Todd Phillips Run Time: 138 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Zazie Beetz
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere, 2024 Venice Film Festival. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that’s always been inside him.
“Why do something if it doesn’t scare the shit out of you?”
—Todd Phillips on the making of Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) for Variety
About the filmmaker:
Todd Phillips is an American filmmaker. Phillips began his career in 1993 and directed films in the 2000s such as Road Trip (2000), Old School (2003), Starsky & Hutch (2004), and School for Scoundrels (2006). He came to wider prominence in the early 2010s for directing The Hangover film series. In 2019, he co-wrote and directed the psychological thriller film Joker, based on the DC Comics character of the same name, which premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival where it received the top prize, the Golden Lion. Joker went on to earn Phillips three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, with his co-writer Scott Silver, his second, third, and fourth Academy Award nominations after also being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat at the 79th Academy Awards.
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