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CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

November 17, 2018 By Leave a Comment

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Based on Lee Israel’s memoir of the same name, it is not just an intriguing character study of a talented but difficult writer of one New York Time bestseller now on the skids, but also a perceptive consideration of writing as both an art and as a business.

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, forgery, Lee Israel, New York City

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

July 7, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

As the documentary THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS opens, Bobby Shafran, one of the eponymous strangers, notes that the story he’s about to tell is unbelievable. And it is.  But the way that Tim Wardle’s dark meditation on good intentions gone very wrong unfolds, the story of how the three identical triplets separated at birth found each other at the age of 19, is the least of it.

Tagged With: adoption, documentary, New York City, stranger than fiction, triplets

THE GLASS CASTLE — Jeannette Walls Interview

August 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE GLASS CASTLE — Jeannette Walls Interview

Jeannette Walls is a larger-than-life personality, brimming with energy and a ready laugh that fills a room.  That she is still laughing after the childhood she describes in her best-selling memoir, THE GLASS CASTLE is a testament to her innate toughness, and to her ability to appreciate the wonder with which her eccentric parents imbued… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Destin Daniel Cretton, Family, father-daughter, Jeannette Walls, memoir, Naomi Watts, New York City, secret, West Virginia

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2

February 9, 2017 By 1 Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 starts with Mr. Wick doing what he does best. That would be mowing his way through a horde of adversaries with a cool precision and a lethal effect. While he is doing this, we are reminded, or introduced to, if we haven’t see the first film, just who exactly Mr. Wick… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, code of honor, debt of honor, hall of mirrors, hitman, marker, martial arts, New York City, Rome, shoot out

SULLY

September 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

SULLY

As lean and laconic as its director, Clint Eastwood’s SULLY is a gripping but (mostly) unsentimental retelling of how Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger safely landed his stricken American Airlines plane in the Hudson River after suffering a bird strike on January 15, 2009. To the public, and the lives of the passengers he saved, he was… Read More »

Tagged With: airline pilot, based on actual events, bird strike, media frenzy, New York City, NTSB, water landing

GHOSTBUSTERS

July 15, 2016 By 1 Comment

GHOSTBUSTERS

There are many, many things to love about the GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, and one of them is that it is equally good whether you are a fan of the 1984 version, or if you’ve never heard of it.  Director and co-writer (with Katie Dippold) Paul Feig, the man who brought us THE HEAT (co-written with him… Read More »

Tagged With: ghost-hunting, haunting, homage, ley lines, Manhattan, New York City, paranormal, paranormal research, reboot

Lee Daniels on PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

October 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Lee  Daniels on PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

Lee Daniels talks  about how he was able to bring his film, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE, to the screen without compromising his vision. From taking eight years to convince the author to let him transfer the story of Precious to the screen, to casting newcomer Gabourey Sibide in the title role,… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, Lee Daniels, Mariah Carey no makeup, New York City, PRECIOUS

STONEWALL

September 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

STONEWALL

STONEWALL is a sudsy, underwritten, overwrought effort that is less than the intended tribute to the unsung heroes of the eponymous riots that accelerated the gay liberation movement into the social mainstream. Instead, it is a melodrama of truly epic proportions told with every cliché of gay life as lived in less enlightened times, and with… Read More »

Tagged With: American history, based on a true story, civil rights, corruption, gay activists, Gay Liberation, LGBT, mob ties, New York City, organized crimes, Stonewall Riots, street hustlers

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

June 27, 2015 By 1 Comment

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

Click here to listen to the interview. When Shirley Clarke made PORTRAIT OF JASON, she was doing more than exercising her creative impulse. The Oscar™-winning director had been all but shut out of Hollywood, and returned to New York to pursue a career as an indie filmmaker rather than deal with being marginalized by the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, African-American, Alan Ginsberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Canada Lee, Carl Lee, cinema, civil rights, director, film, gay, Gus Van Sant, homophobia, Howl, interview, Jack Waters, James Baldwin, James Tobak, Jason Holliday, LGBT, Marion Crane, Miles Davis, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, narrative, New York City, Orson Welles, PARIS IS BURNING, PORTRAIT OF JASON, PSYCHO, racism, River Phoenix, ruthlessness, Sarah Shulman, sexism, Shirley Clark, Stephen Winter, THE TRIAL

Noah Baumbach Makes Hay WHILE WE’RE YOUNG

April 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Noah Baumbach Makes Hay WHILE WE’RE YOUNG

Noah Baumbach took a bold step in writing and directing WHILE WE’RE YOUNG. He decided not to take sides when telling this tale of youthful impatience and adult complacence meeting head-on, instead opting for the far more interesting neutral perspective that allows the audience to relish the quirks of both generations while never stooping to… Read More »

Tagged With: Adam Driver, Adam Horowitz, Amanda Seyfried, Ben Stiller, Charles Grodin, comedy-drama, director, Naomi Watts, narrative, New York City, Noah Baumbach, screenwriter

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