Tomorrow marks the halfway point in this year’s roster of awards-worthy movies. Notice I’m not restricting the parade to Oscar-worthy, because around here we don’t dismiss great films that aren’t Oscar-friendly. That’s why Sasha goes to Cannes and Telluride. That’s why we cover the Independent Spirit and Gotham Awards. It’s...
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Love how The Deep Blue Sea is shot through the perpetual smoke and haze of romantic obsession. NPR says, “Weisz is as luminous as a Pre-Raphaelite portrait, yet she brings to Hester a high-wire, modern tremulousness, as if that portrait were melting into something Impressionistic — much like the movie itself, a lyric re-imagining of Rattigan and a tone poem of...
Winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, Elena is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment–he’s a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she’s his dowdy former nurse who has clearly “married up.” Estranged from his own wild-child...
New members to the Academy include Stephen King! One of the best there is. His On Writing is a must-read. And then a must-read again after that. Also Andy Serkis, Octavia Spencer, Bryan Cranston, and more. Full list: Actors Simon Baker – “Margin Call,” “L.A. Confidential” Sean Bean – “Flightplan,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” Bérénice...
Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum are taking Magic Mike to Broadway, co-producing a musical adaptation of the film. The plan at this point is to have Magic Mike: The Musical on stage and Broadway bound by the summer of 2013. WME’s theatre head John Buzzetti is currently putting together the package. Soderbergh and Tatum will produce with partners Gregory Jacobs,...
