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CRAZY RICH ASIANS

September 9, 2018 By Leave a Comment

CRAZY RICH ASIANS

The rom-com as a genre has suffered much in the last decade or so due to a surfeit of agonizingly insipid cinematic attempts. So when one comes along that reminds us what a good one is like, it is a cause for celebration. And so it is with CRAZY RICH ASIANS, based on Kevin Kwan’s… Read More »

Tagged With: billionaires, mother-son relationship, Singapore, super-rich

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

BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!

Guy Maddin’s BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! is such a purely, viscerally visual experience that, like trying to describe a dream, much is lost when trying to put the language of the subconscious into words. And that is what Maddin is working with here. Boasting no spoken dialogue, eccentric black-and-white exposures, he bills this as a… Read More »

Tagged With: black and white cinematography, Guy Maddin, lighthouse, memoir, memory, mother-son relationship, silent film, tortured sexuality

CYRUS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

A man, a woman, her son. It’’s a situation of jealous hostility explored many times, but never more honestly, more painfully, or with bigger laughs than in Jay and Mark Duplass’ CYRUS. Made with an improvisational style that perfectly evokes the awkward immediacy of three people working through a new relationship that changes all their… Read More »

Tagged With: Catherine Keener, Duplass Brothers, Matt Walsh, mother-son relationship, music prodigy, narrative, Single mother

Jay Duplass Creates CYRUS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jay Duplass Creates CYRUS

Filmmaker Jay Duplass channeled the close relationship he shares with brother, co-writer and co-director, Mark, into the sweet but insular relationship the 21-year-old title character of their film CYRUS shares with his mother. As part of the Mumblecore movement, their particular brand of indy filmmaking, their goal is to capture the an emotional immediacy and… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, comedy-drama, director, film, Indie, Jay Duplass, John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Mark Duplass, mother-son relationship, movie, Mumblecore, narrative, romance, sea of possibilities, writer

INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS Courtesy of Brenda Blethyn and Cherie Nowlan

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS Courtesy of Brenda Blethyn and Cherie Nowlan

The battle of the sexes takes a decidedly different turn in INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS, and so when I talked with its star, Brenda Blethyn, and its director, Cherie Nowlan on June 25, 2007, how men and women react to the film was top of my list of things to ask them. Along the way, Blethyn bragged… Read More »

Tagged With: 20-year-old virgin, Brenda Blethyn, Cherie Nowlan, cinema, comeback, comedienne, comedy-drama, director, driving a bus, gender reaction, lip gloss, lure of show biz, mother-son relationship, movie, narrative

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