According to The Playlist, the Madonna-directed movie about the Wallis Simpson scandal. It will share time with a destined-to-be unbearable story of “Wally Winthrop, with romantic problems of her own in addition to an obsession with the life of the Duchess of Windsor.” The film stars Vera Farmiga, Abbie Cornish, Ewan McGregor and Lourdes, Madonna’s...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
I first saw this on Variety’s site, but it was the smaller version. The HR has posted the larger version of the new poster for the Cannes Film Fest: Meanwhile, there is lots of chatter about potential titles for the 63rd fest, including Terrence Malick’s eagerly anticipated Tree of Life, Woody Allen’s latest, and Wall Street 2. The fest opens on May...
It really takes a special combination of skills to draw in a TV audience to watch critics review movies. It’s been an odd development over the past decade watching the critics recede. I’m one of the hold-outs who believes that critics, educated ones who can write well, have never been more necessary than they are now. Mine is not the popular opinion among...
A day or so ago the news broke that Robin Hood will open the Cannes Film Fest on May 12. Interestingly, Cannes hasn’t been an Oscar platform. But I’ve formed a notion that I will test as a concept and then maybe formulate into an idea that it is the best platform because there is ample opportunity for the film to fail thereafter. If it fails big no one...
Nominated for 6 Asian Film Awards and for Best Foreign Language Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Many critics felt Hye-ja Kim delivered one of the best performances of the year. Andrew O’Hehir at Salon says Bong Joon-ho’s Mother is “a slippery, marvelously crafted drama that suggests the psychological thrillers of Hitchcock or Henri-Georges Clouzot...
Animal Kingdom is a psychological crime drama set in the Melbourne underworld and tells the story of seventeen-yea-old “J” (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him. Gripping, mesmerizing and intriguing, Animal Kingdom is the debut feature of writer/director David Michod. Winner of...
Praise for How to Train Your Dragon from many top critics impressed by 3D utilized to thrilling effect. (I suspect some credit is due to Roger Deakins as well, serving as visual consultant.) Owen Gleiberman, EW: How to Train Your Dragon, the new 3-D digital fable from DreamWorks Animation, has a kinetically dreamy, soaring-through-the-air effervescence… but it’s...
