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THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

April 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

Having starred in a deliciously odd self-portrait by and of Charlie Kaufman, ADAPTATION, Nicolas Cage has waited two decades to take the surreal meta-plunge again and waiting for just the right script has paid off for him and for us. In THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, he plays a fictionalized version of himself, hamstrung… Read More »

Tagged With: acid trip, CIA, egregious product placement, kidnapping, Majorca, meta story, parody, superfan

SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)

February 3, 2019 By Leave a Comment

SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)

Palme d’Or winner SHOPLIFTERS is a radical deconstruction of family values in a world of dubious ethics. Set amid the throwaways of society, in this case Japan, it finds warmth and togetherness where we would least expect it, and from a family that is not so much scamming the system as they are a family… Read More »

Tagged With: family values, Japan, kidnapping, petty crime, shoplifting, underclass

ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD

December 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD

The rich, as the oft-quoted saw goes, are different. That is the central premise of ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, a cautionary tale of money and family. The moving force, though only a supporting player in the proceedings, J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), who at one point reminisces about a book he wrote entitled… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Getty family, kidnapping, mother-son relationship, ransom, Rome, stinginess

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT — Ross Adam Interview

September 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT — Ross Adam Interview

Rob Cannan was stuck in London traffic as my phone interview time with him and his filmmaker partner, Ross Adam began, but Adam did a terrific job doing double-duty, as it were, talking about their stranger-than-fiction documentary, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT. The two spent years pursuing the movie rights to one of the most… Read More »

Tagged With: Choi Eun-hee, documentary, espionage, film industry, kidnapping, Kim Jung Il, North Korea, Shin Sang-ok, South Korea

TALLULAH — Sian Heder

July 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TALLULAH — Sian Heder

I try to steer clear of questions that others have asked when conducting an interview, but when it came to the remarkable timing of Sian Heder’s giving birth a mere three hours after locking down her film, TALLULAH, I was curious about what deal she may or may not have made with the universe to… Read More »

Tagged With: Allison Janney, Berlin, childbirth, Ellen Page, framing shots, Heather Rae, homelessness, kidnapping, mothering, trauma of motherhood, Uzo Aduba, Zachary Quinto

HAIL, CAESAR!

February 5, 2016 By 1 Comment

HAIL, CAESAR!

If Douglas Sirk had directed a film noir written by Billy Wilder, it might have looked something like HAIL, CAESAR!, the latest thoughtful tangle of philosophy and whimsy from the Coen Brothers. Taking place in a 1951 Hollywood not entirely unlike the one that actually existed, it mixes Cold War paranoia, carefully managed studio PR… Read More »

Tagged With: aquatic ballet, biblical epic, choreography, film business, Hollywood, kidnapping, studio fixer, studio system

ROOM

October 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment

ROOM

ROOM is a profound meditation on the human condition, a meditation as bittersweet as life itself, and as uplifting as a child’s innocence.  Based on the novel by Emma Donoghue, it confronts the barbaric simplicity of captivity, by contrasting it with the confusing complexity of freedom. What should be easy is not. Happiness is elusive.… Read More »

Tagged With: abduction, book to screen, kidnapping, mother-child, rape

RED EYE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

RED EYE

Most horror films are dedicated to the proposition that females are prey and little else.

Tagged With: airplane, Brian Cox, horror, Jack Scalia, kidnapping, Rachel McAdams, thriller, Wes Craven

BURIED

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BURIED

It would be easy, and a huge mistake, to dismiss BURIED as a stunt film. Sure, Ryan Reynolds spends the entire 94 minutes of the running time buried underground in a box, but such is the imaginative take on the subject by screenwriter Chris Sparling and director Roderigo Cortes, that the struggle of one confined… Read More »

Tagged With: buried alive, cell phone, government contractor, kidnapping, narrative, terrorism

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