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Gary Oldman on Inspiration, Stillness, and Bedroom Acting.

April 13, 2016 By 1 Comment

Gary Oldman on Inspiration, Stillness, and Bedroom Acting.

Click here to listen to the interview. Gary Oldman is an actor known for disappearing into his roles, and playing George Smiley, a spymaster known for being able to disappear into the background is a tour de force for him. When I spoke to him on November 16, 2011, I was most interested in asking… Read More »

Tagged With: book to film, cold war, espionage, remake

I SMILE BACK — Sarah Silverman Lives in the Moment

November 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

I SMILE BACK — Sarah Silverman Lives in the Moment

Sarah Silverman is someone who has proved over and over again that she thrives on risk. Her stand-up challenges its audience while also making it laugh. Her starring turn in I SMILE BACK, based on the Amy Koppelman novel of the same name, will also challenge its audience. In a performance that is raw, visceral,… Read More »

Tagged With: addiction, Amy Koppelman, Bernie Sanders, book to film, chemical imbalance, depression, Gary Shandling, Howard Stern, Liberty University, Sarah Silverman, synchronicity, The Bedwetter

Julianne Moore is STILL ALICE

January 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Julianne Moore is STILL ALICE

It starts with a slip so small, so subtle, that it goes unremarked by everyone present. At the birthday celebration for Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), her rejoinder to a question about the sibling rivalry between her two daughters concerns her relationship with her own sister, now deceased.  It is a moment that evokes what is… Read More »

Tagged With: Alzheimer's, book to film, brain function, degenerative disease, drama, Early onset Alzheimer's, memory loss, narrative, neurological disorder

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 — Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Dean Deblois & Bonnie Arnold

January 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 — Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Dean Deblois & Bonnie Arnold

Interviewing four people at once can be daunting when it comes to getting everyone to join in the conversation, but the gang from the Dreamworks animated film HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 had spent so much time together since the making of DRAGON 1, that they were almost a single entity. When I spoke… Read More »

Tagged With: America Ferrara, Animated film, Bonnie Arnold. fantasy, book to film, cinema, Dead DeBlois, dragon, film, Jay Baruchel, movie, sequel

David Burris — THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

January 8, 2015 By Leave a Comment

David Burris — THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

When I spoke with David Burris on December 18, 2014, one of the things I most wanted to talk to him about was getting the accents right in THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT. It’s set in North Carolina, and he used actors from such far-flung places as Australia, England, and Los Angeles. We went on to… Read More »

Tagged With: Adelaide Clemens, book to film, cinema, Civil War, David Burris, director, grits, Haley Joel Osment, history, Jane Rash, Jeremy Irvine, MInka Kelley, movie, music, narrative, New Zealand, Noah Wylie, regional music, Ron Rash, Shane Danielsen, Steve Earl, Survivor, West Virginia, WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

SOLARIS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SOLARIS

In a move as audacious as it is disastrous, Steve Soderbergh has decided to push the edges of what filmmaking can be and created in SOLARIS not so much a motion picture as a still life. One that is more sleep-inducing than a warm glass of milk and a bottle of Seconal. It is remarkable… Read More »

Tagged With: book to film, dreck outer space paranormal romance, George Clooney's tush, remake, Stanislav Lem

THE HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOURS begins with a suicide, a famous one at that. Virginia Woolf with a fierce deliberateness puts a heavy stone in her pocket and walks into a river. We see her head duck silently into the water and then her body floating delicately away, pulled by the current with a gentle urgency. By the… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, book to film, Feminism, LGBT, literature, suicide, Virginia Woolf

HOLES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HOLES

There is an attitude among some filmmakers that children’s films should be anything but sophisticated, rather, they should be simple in theme and execution and excruciating for anyone over the age of five. Not just the flicks for little kids, either, as evidenced by such recent mush as WHAT A GIRL WANTS. And for those… Read More »

Tagged With: Andrew Davis, author, book to film, buried treasure, casting, cinema, curses, desert, digging holes, director, fantasy, filling in holes, film, HOLES, lizards, Louis Sachar, movie, mystery, narrative, poisonous lizards, racism, screenwriter, Shia LeBeouf, sun screen, UNDER SIEGE 3, YA literature, young adult

THE CONSTANT GARDENER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE CONSTANT GARDENER

The difference in outlooks between Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) and his late wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), can be summed up in a conversation they have while driving on the squalid streets of Kenya’s capital where Justin, a British diplomat, is stationed. Tessa wants him to stop and give a lift back to her village to… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, book to film, cinema, colonialism, drama, film, foreign service, global responsibility, Hugh Jackman, human rights, metaphysical love story, movie, narrative, Oxford, politics, Rachel Weisz, THE FOUNTAIN, time travel

CHILDREN OF MEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CHILDREN OF MEN

In a here-and-now where the primacy of children is given ample lip service by proponents of any and all social issues, it is refreshing, and not a little thought-provoking, to see in Alfonso Cuaron’s CHILDREN OF MEN, based on the P.D. James novel of the same name, a world in which this is actually the case.… Read More »

Tagged With: Alfonso Cuaron, book to film, CHILDREN OF MEN, Clive Owen, dystopian future, immigration, infertility, Julianne Moore, Margaret Atwood, paranoia, pregnancy, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, terrorism

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