curated: Oscar Isaac and Timothée Chalamet on playing father and son
I don’t often discuss, in my reviews, actors’ performances, because I’m often aiming to get at the larger cultural impact of movies, but I am fascinated by actors’ craft…
film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
I don’t often discuss, in my reviews, actors’ performances, because I’m often aiming to get at the larger cultural impact of movies, but I am fascinated by actors’ craft…
Everything we learned from the Where Are the Women? project. (Spoiler: It’s not pretty, but there is hope…) [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.
Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…
This is really hard to take when it’s supposedly the work of people who think Jesus has their back.
Is it doing something in the spirit of their work? Is it not deifying them by pretending they were more or other than they were?
Stuff I found on the Net today.
You want to reinforce the idea that women are a minority with niche interests that could not possibly be appreciated or understood by default normal human beings (ie, men)? This is the perfect way to do it.
The original ending, much of which was apparently actually shot, is a lot darker and much closer in tone to the book…
That seems to be what Tim Goodman at The Hollywood Reporter is saying. Fuck that shit…