Whiplash receives a 10th Anniversary re-release – reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at the 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival. We interviewed Damien Chazelle at Sundance back in 2014. Here is that encounter:
What Chazelle’s sophomore film has managed to do is no small feat. Won big at Sundance with the Jury and Audience awards. Crossed over into Cannes. Premiered at Telluride, TIFF and NYFF. Since opening last October 10th via the Sony Pictures Classics folks, Whiplash has steadily found its audience and is awkwardly landing noms for during awards season with Gotham and the Indie Spirits showing some love to Chazelle and the folk in the tech categories, but also the film’s star pairing of Miles Teller and J.K… Read the rest
