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THE LOST CITY

March 25, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE LOST CITY

Let us praise the genius of Sandra Bullock’s gift for physical comedy. It makes even the small business of teetering on a stool in a fuchsia-sequined jumpsuit an epic of determination, embarrassment, grit, and uncertainty. It is in no small part that THE LOST CITY, on which she was also an executive producer, is such… Read More »

Tagged With: book tour, jungle, male model, mercenary, novelist, sequins, volcano

THE LOST CITY OF Z — James Gray Interview

April 21, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE LOST CITY OF Z — James Gray Interview

James Gray had his work cut out for him with THE LOST CITY OF Z. He had to find a way to include World War I, upper-crust Edwardian Society, and the jungles of Bolivia, in his adaptation of David Grann’s book about Percy Fawcett’s obsession with finding a lost city in the wilds of Amazonia.… Read More »

Tagged With: Amazonia, based on a true story, Battle of Somme, Bolivia, book to screen, Brazil, Charles Man, civilization, Darius Khondji, exploration, Gavin Menzies, global politics, Goodbye to All That, jungle, lightning strike, Percy Fawcett, Robert Graves, social class, South America, trench warfare, World War I

THE LOST CITY OF Z

April 13, 2017 By 2 Comments

THE LOST CITY OF Z

THE LOST CITY OF Z opens in the darkness of the jungle. Natives stand in silhouette outlined against fires burning in warning or in welcome. It’s a fitting start to James Gray’s suitably literate adaptation of David Grann’s book of the same name, telling the true story of the obsessions that drove British Major Percy… Read More »

Tagged With: Amazonia, based on a true story, Bolivia, book to screen, indians, jungle, lost, lost civilization, military, natives, rubber plantation

SANCTUM

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SANCTUM

James Cameron neither wrote nor directed SANCTUM, but his fingerprints as the executive producer of same are all over it. Visually, it’’s an exhilarating experience. As for the storytelling, the word lugubrious comes to mind. The writing is stiff and ridden with clichés, with cheese-ish motifs overwhelmed by swelling, overwrought music cues that forge straight… Read More »

Tagged With: 3-D, cave diving, eco-tourism. adrenaline junkie, father-son relationship, jungle, Papua New Guinea

BASIC

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The first words we hear Tom Hardy say in BASIC is in a conversation this ex-Army and currently DEA agent in Panama is having with a colleague, the gist of which is that if he doesn’t have the trust of those around him, he can’t function. Those are words that will figure greatly in the… Read More »

Tagged With: Army Ranger, drugs, James McTiernan, John Travolta, jungle, military, Panama

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