Slipstream (Drama Thriller / Completed)

Slipstream is the debut into independent filmmaking by Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins. If it is ever possible to sense the liberation and creative passion unleashed by such a newfound freedom, we can experience it with Hopkins's inventive and multilayered work. The film features a sterling ensemble cast, including Christian Slater, John Turturro, Stella Arroyave, Jeffrey Tambor, and Hopkins himself. Aided by acclaimed cinematographer Dante Spinotti and celebrated costume designer Julie Weiss, Hopkins takes on us an incredible journey into the combustion of a writer's mind and the nature of the creative process.

At times, this film appears to be a conventional, concrete, and straightforward tale about a screenwriter, Felix Bonhoffer. Then it turns riotously hallucinogenic, taking off on tangents and down rabbit holes into dream worlds and streams of consciousness. As the characters from the writer's fictional universe begin to appear in his "real" world, the audience starts questioning the limits of the human brain. We are given an opportunity to see into the vortex of a creative mind fulminating in "madness."

With a structured elegance, at times an overwhelmingly visceral kinesthesia, overflowing with film and artistic references, Hopkins announces he is a filmmaker with an unwaveringly artistic vision on a mission into the ineffable.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro, Fionnula Flannigan, Kevin McCarthy, Stella Arroyave, Gavin Grazer, Lisa Pepper, Lana Antonova (Credits may not be contractual)

Writer / Director: Anthony Hopkins

Producer: Robert Katz

Slipstream Cast and Crew Awards

Some hard facts about awards and nominations received by SLIPSTREAM's filmmakers, cast and crew: an unbelievable 72 award wins, 205 award nominations and 17 non competition awards.

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Robert Koehler, Variety.com:

"... An A-team of technical masters has been assembled by Hopkins, led by the sun-tinged cinematography by Dante Spinotti. Like Eastwood, Hopkins composes his own score..."

Alex Billington, FirstShowing.net:

"... The film is wickedly experimental, and hardly boring... What I'll tell you is that it's much less coherent than Tideland, but certainly much more thrilling..."

"... Slipstream itself is a very interesting outlook on cinema and artistic vision, but in such an experimental way. Like David Lynch and sometimes like Terry Gilliam, you just have to respect the artistic values that Hopkins was going for and what he did achieve in the end..."

Pam Grady, FilmStew.com:

"... It might seem odd that an Academy Award winner more closely associated with mainstream fare, whether it be a Merchant-Ivory production, a Shakespeare play or The Silence of the Lambs, should have an entry in the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier section, the portion of the festival reserved for the experimental and the avant garde. But it is entirely appropriate, as Slipstream belongs there..."

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