In the winter of 2013, just a few days after turning 28, Damien Chazelle slogged through the snow in Park City for his first visit to the Sundance Film Festival. He brought his 18-minute movie about a brilliant young jazz
The drama “Whiplash,” filmed in 19 days on a shoestring budget, starring J.K. Simmons, and considered a contender for best screenplay, found itself in a pickle on Monday, when it was discovered that the Academy had
The impulse and need to give all for your art is both idealized and questioned in Whiplash, the potent and obviously very personal second film from writer-director Damien Chazelle.
EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle's Sundance-winning Whiplash, an admittedly largely autobiographical screenplay he wrote, has been mysteriously classified as an adapted script by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
According to the Academys e-ballot, Whiplash has been deemed an adapted screenplay for the purposes of Oscar consideration.