Late Fame
Asian Premiere
Kent Jones US 2025 96 min NC16 (Some Drug References)
Obscure poet and post office worker Ed finds himself unexpectedly revered by a group of young artists, including a charismatic actress.
Ed Saxberger’s routine life as a post office worker is interrupted when a young poet, Meyers, shows up one day outside his apartment. Gushing about a poetry collection of Saxberger’s from the 1970s, Meyers believes he never got the praise it deserved and convinced him to meet his friends from an emerging literary salon, including working actress Gloria. Intoxicated by her alluring presence and the group’s wave of adulation, Saxberger nevertheless must reckon with the authenticity of his newfound community.
A clear-eyed examination of nostalgia for a lost downtown New York art scene, Late Fame gently pokes fun at the idealisation of struggling artists and the all too human feeling of simply being seen.
Synopsis Writer: Ryan Pagdanganan
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30 Nov, Sun 2:00PM / 96 min
Golden Village Bugis, Hall 5
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5 Dec, Fri 4:30PM / 96 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 1
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Late Fame
Kent Jones
US
2025
English
96 min
NC16 (Some Drug References)
Asian Premiere
Kent Jones
Kent Jones is an American film critic, filmmaker and the director of the New York Film Festival from 2012 to 2019. He is known for his work with Martin Scorsese on numerous film documentaries and for directing his own features, including Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) and Diane (2018). Late Fame premiered in Orizzonti at Venice.
Willem Dafoe,
Greta Lee,
Edmund Donovan
Pamela Koffler,
Mason Plotts,
Christine Vachon,
Danny Roberts,
H.S. Naji,
Jackie Langelier
