{"id":147322,"date":"2025-09-10T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/147322\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:20:11","slug":"harris-dickinsons-star-making-directorial-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/147322\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Dickinson’s Star-Making Directorial Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFear the Walking Dead\u201d actor Frank Dillane becomes a star thanks to Harris Dickinson<\/a> and his writing\/directing debut, \u201cUrchin<\/a>.\u201d Rising distributor 1-2 Special\u2019s flagship release<\/a> started its journey at the 2025 Cannes Film<\/a> Festival, where Dillane won best actor out of Un Certain Regard for his portrayal of a London rough sleeper circling the drain of his own self-destruction. After Cannes, Dickinson and Dillane brought \u201cUrchin\u201d to the Telluride Film Festival as an Oscar-hopeful bid. \u201cUrchin\u201d opens in theaters October 10 from 1-2 Special. Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n

Starring Dillane as an unhoused, drug-chasing drifter in London, and in the vein of Mike Leigh\u2019s \u201cNaked\u201d in terms of toxic emotional candor, \u201cUrchin\u201d follows Mike (Dillane) as he stumbles through addiction, and London\u2019s correctional and reformatory systems, trying to build his life back up again. In addition to the Un Certain Regard acting prize, the devastating \u201cUrchin\u201d also won the FIPRESCI prize. (IndieWire\u2019s Anne Thompson\u00a0even deemed Dillane a potential Oscar contender<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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From IndieWire\u2019s review of Urchin<\/a>: \u201cDickinson\u2019s lithe and tetchy script only feigns at a clean hero\u2019s journey in order to undercut it with the chaos of human behavior, and what might have been a nice three-act story about a moppet on the mend sours into something far less digestible or instructive\u2026 Of course, \u2018Urchin\u2019 is all the more rewarding for its messy approach to Mike\u2019s disarray, which rejects a clear diagnosis in favor of honoring a character who feels like he can\u2019t even afford to understand himself. Dickinson\u2019s film \u2014 shaped by people he knew growing up, and further informed by his work with a variety of social outreach charities \u2014 reflects a mature, and frequently\u00a0harrowing, recognition of how people can be held captive by the centrifugal force of their own behavioral patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cast also includes Megan Northam and Dickinson himself, who will soon be shipped off to Beatles land to play John Lennon for Sam Mendes\u2019 upcoming Apple quadrilogy. \u201cThe Beast\u201d and \u201cPassages\u201d cinematographer Jos\u00e9e Deshaies is the director of photography on \u201cUrchin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Started this past February ahead of the Berlinale by Sideshow co-founding executive Jason Hellerstein, 1-2 Special has picked up a handful of festival movies this year. The distributor is firmly in the Radu Jude business, with North American rights to the Romanian director\u2019s Silver Bear winner \u201cKontinental 25\u201d and upcoming Locarno premiere \u201cDracula.\u201d There\u2019s also Christian Petzold\u2019s \u201cMiroirs No. 3,\u201d bought for the U.S. from Metrograph Pictures, which paused theatrical releases<\/a> this year, and Sim\u00f3n Mesa Soto\u2019s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner \u201cA Poet\u201d coming up.<\/p>\n

\u201cUrchin\u201d opens in New York and Los Angeles October 10 before a nationwide release October 17.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFear the Walking Dead\u201d actor Frank Dillane becomes a star thanks to Harris Dickinson and his writing\/directing debut,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,2695,91219,206,9552,91220],"class_list":{"0":"post-147322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-film","10":"tag-harris-dickinson","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-trailers","13":"tag-urchin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}