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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

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  • United Kingdom
  • 2021
  • · 94m

Director Mark Cousins
Cast Mark Cousins, Jeremy Thomas, Tilda Swinton, Debra Winger
Genre Documentary

A yearly drive with the famous British producer Jeremy Thomas from London to Cannes, on his way to the... Festival de Cannes. A life in the service of cinema, a journey towards the discovery of new films and talents in the company of the cinephile director and author Mark Cousins.

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RogerEbert.com by Matt Zoller Seitz

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, about the career of one of the most important film producers of the last 50 years, is one of Cousins' best and most entrancing films.

80

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

As always, I find myself considering that in a world where everyone’s a cynic and an ironist, Cousins’s unaffected rapture is unique and refreshing. And there is an odd-couple comedy here, with Cousins as the unstoppably garrulous super-fan and Thomas as the reticent English gentleman, almost like a charismatic Cambridge don on the long vacation, who has picked up a voluble hitchhiker.

78

TheWrap by Jason Solomons

With Cousins’ wry thoughts on the films and some reflection of the meaning of it all, The Storms of Jeremy Thomas provides a colorful and entertaining canvas for some beautiful and beautifully set-up movie clips — you want to rush out and watch all of them again.

70

Los Angeles Times by Mark Olsen

More discursive than comprehensive, the film does seem to capture Thomas’ fierce, swashbuckling spirit.

70

Variety by Guy Lodge

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas persuasively makes the case for closer scrutiny of a producer’s career, though it leaves viewers with some homework to do.

63

Washington Post by Mark Jenkins

British documentarian Mark Cousins’s The Storms of Jeremy Thomas is a fine introduction to the 70 or so films produced by the titular London-born impresario. It’s barely an introduction at all, however, to Thomas himself.

60

The New York Times by Claire Shaffer

The whole effort comes across more as an advertisement for Thomas’s genius — and Cousins’s obsession with him — than a true portrait of a discerning producer of outsider cinema.