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CYRANO

March 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

CYRANO

Joe Wright has a genius for taking the stories we know all too well and making them feel like a delightful new discovery. Seek no further than his take on ANNA KARENINA (interview here), which, pace fans of Garbo and Leigh, is my favorite adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic. Is it absolutely true to the source… Read More »

Tagged With: midget, stage to screen, unrequited love, war

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

January 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

It is as though Denzel Washington wanted his performance as the title character in Joel Coen’s THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH were conceived and executed as a tribute to the famous sleepwalking scene played by Lady Macbeth. He speaks the lines not trippingly from the tongue, but rather mumbled with little emotional affect, albeit with admirable… Read More »

Tagged With: regicide, Scotland, Shakespeare, stage to screen, Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Glamis, witches

LUCE

August 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LUCE

LUCE is less a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that. Told with a deliberate, sometimes maddening ambiguity, it challenges the audience at every turn about where the truth lies, and the limits of familial loyalty. By the end, not every… Read More »

Tagged With: child soldier, classism, high school, lying, racism, stage to screen, truth

LEN AND COMPANY

June 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LEN AND COMPANY

The eponymous Len, of LEN AND COMPANY is Len Black (Rhys Ifans), a successful record producer and towering failure of a human being, who has absented himself from the world in order the ponder the detritus of his life.  He longs for silence, or at least no music of any kind in his rustic upstate… Read More »

Tagged With: father-son, fetid swimming pool, music business, record producer, stage to screen, upstate New York

Pablo Larrain Says NO

February 18, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Pablo Larrain Says NO

Pablo Larrain talks the perspective of time, the metaphor of equality, and why politics are always personal. NO is the story of how in 1988, a group of dedicated and media-savvy people took a sham election in Chile and turned it into a bloodless coup that remains the only modern example of removing a dictator… Read More »

Tagged With: advertising, based on a true story, Cannes, Chile, elections, Pinochet, referendum, stage to screen

Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

July 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

Ken Loach has never been a filmmaker to shy away from politics. In fact, a case could be made that the reason he makes films is to explore politics, the which he has done with such strident films as BREAD AND ROSES (union organizing in contemporary Los Angeles) and LAND AND FREEDOM (the Spanish Civil… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Henry, Andrew Scott, Barry Ward, based on a true story, Donal O'Kelly, exile, Ireland, Iris Civil War, Irish Civil War, Jim Norton, Ken Loach, Marxism, narrative, Paul Laverty, Simone Kirby, stage to screen

Brian Sloan has A WTC VIEW

March 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Brian Sloan has A WTC VIEW

WTC VIEW was the first play from The New York International Fringe Festival to make the leap to the big screen in 2005, but playwright Brian Sloan resisted the temptation to fundamentally change the nature of his play by opening it up beyond the one apartment in which it takes place. The metaphor of a… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, anniversary, cinema, director, LGBT, movie, MPAA, narrative, Psychology, screenwriter, sound design, stage to screen, terrorism, Trauma, world trade center

CHICAGO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CHICAGO

Just when you thought we’’d lost the knack for producing a live-action musical film here in the States, along comes CHICAGO. Set in 1920s in that toddling town, this hard-as-nails tale of sex, politics, fame, and most of all jazz, is a big, splashy, brassy confection wrapped up in a bow with enough bugle beads… Read More »

Tagged With: courtroom, director, lawyers, murder, musical, opening up a play for the screen, rhinestone dangers, Rob Marshall, stage to screen

THE SHAPE OF THINGS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Neil LaBute starts his latest film, THE SHAPE OF THINGS, off with a sly dig at what the story is going to be about. His stars are not given character names in the credits, they’re listed as “actress” or “actor” in much the same way that credits traditionally list “director” or “writer”, both of which… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy, darwinism, gender relations, intelligence, narrative, nature of reality, Neil LaBute, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, sexual politics, stage to screen

DREAMGIRLS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DREAMGIRLS

If Jennifer Hudson never makes another movie, if she never sings another song, if she drops off the radar tomorrow, her place in cinematic history will nonetheless be cemented forever by her acting debut in DREAMGIRLS. It’s as though fate has conspired to keep the Broadway hit loosely based on the rise of Diana Ross… Read More »

Tagged With: 60s music, based on a true story, Beyonce Knowles, Bill Condon, civil rights, girl groups, Jennifer Hudson, musical, Oscar-winner, stage to screen

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