Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element" might be the daffiest Hollywood sci-fi flick ever made (at least until Besson made the even daffier "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" 20 years later). The film had movie-star insurance in Bruce Willis, and the trailers promised a surfeit of futuristic eye candy, but what exactly was this zany-looking movie about?
The film may be visually cluttered, but its premise is fairly simple. Every 5,000 years, a force of tremendous evil emerges out of space and tries to destroy Earth. Fortunately, an alien race known as the Mondoshawns and a clandestine religious order are in possession of the only weapon that can repel this evil. This weapon consists of four stones which represent the five classical elements of earth, wind, fire, water, and Philip Bailey. Actually, the fifth element is a humanoid named Leelo, and, as embodied by Milla Jovovich, she is a lethal warrior,...
The film may be visually cluttered, but its premise is fairly simple. Every 5,000 years, a force of tremendous evil emerges out of space and tries to destroy Earth. Fortunately, an alien race known as the Mondoshawns and a clandestine religious order are in possession of the only weapon that can repel this evil. This weapon consists of four stones which represent the five classical elements of earth, wind, fire, water, and Philip Bailey. Actually, the fifth element is a humanoid named Leelo, and, as embodied by Milla Jovovich, she is a lethal warrior,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Thirty or so minutes into Angela Schanelec’s Music, a character makes a startling discovery. We’re inside a prison on the outskirts of an unidentified Greek town, where Jon (Aliocha Schneider) is to spend a manslaughter sentence. And we’re watching him bathed in the cell’s cold light when he suddenly opens his mouth and starts to sing. It’s a moment that shatters the film, one of the loudest in a tale otherwise marked by wistful silences. Jon’s stuck a grocery list of classical composers to the wall, and he intones an aria from Vivaldi’s Il Giustino, “Vedrò con mio diletto.” It’s the first time we hear him sing and it amounts to an otherworldly revelation, both for the young man crooning and those of us who listen: a human being waking up to a superpower.
There’s a tendency to write off Schanelec’s cinema in medical terms.
There’s a tendency to write off Schanelec’s cinema in medical terms.
- 3/6/2023
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, the maxim goes. And writing about “Music,” the latest beautiful and strange deep-niche arthouse artifact from uncompromising formalist Angela Schanelec, feels like a similarly doomed proposition. The limitations of language are seldom as apparent as when grappling with the silvery elisions and crisp, cryptic omissions of this glancing take on Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex.” Schanelec is unlikely to vastly expand her fanbase here, but the tiny, fervent following she has accrued over the course of now 10 fantastically intricate features may be more than ever entranced by the fertile illogic of “Music,” a postmodern expression of a premodern text.
Quite what a viewer who doesn’t go in knowing that Schanelec is interpreting Sophocles would make of this film is impossible to imagine. And it’s not like the writer-director-editor is going to make her inspiration explicit. Indeed, the Greek myth most recalled by...
Quite what a viewer who doesn’t go in knowing that Schanelec is interpreting Sophocles would make of this film is impossible to imagine. And it’s not like the writer-director-editor is going to make her inspiration explicit. Indeed, the Greek myth most recalled by...
- 2/21/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
After the edgy crime comedy “The World Is Yours,” Romain Gavras is back with thriller “Athena.” Produced by Paris-based Iconoclast for Netflix, the ambitious, €15 million film (15 million) unfolds in the aftermath of the tragic killing of a young boy in what appears to be an act of police brutality. An all-out war sparks in an imaginary community called Athena. It’s the first French movie that Netflix is presenting in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
“Athena” tells the story of the boy’s three siblings, who are responding to the tragedy in different ways and clashing with one another. French star Dali Benssalah plays the older brother, Abdel, a devoted French soldier. Faced with an impossible moral dilemma, Abdel is called back from the frontline to help diffuse the all-out war that has been sparked by his younger brother Karim (Sami Slimane), who wants revenge. Athena becomes the backdrop...
“Athena” tells the story of the boy’s three siblings, who are responding to the tragedy in different ways and clashing with one another. French star Dali Benssalah plays the older brother, Abdel, a devoted French soldier. Faced with an impossible moral dilemma, Abdel is called back from the frontline to help diffuse the all-out war that has been sparked by his younger brother Karim (Sami Slimane), who wants revenge. Athena becomes the backdrop...
- 9/2/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
, Jeff Orlowski’s “The Social Dilemma” does for Facebook what his previous documentaries “Chasing Ice” and “Chasing Coral” did for climate change (read: bring compelling new insight to a familiar topic while also scaring the absolute shit out of you). And while the film covers — and somehow manages to contain — a staggering breadth of topics and ramifications, one little sentence is all it takes to lay out the means and ends of the crisis at hand: Russia didn’t hack Facebook, Russia used Facebook.
That may not be a mind-blowing idea for anyone who’s been raised on the internet, but it would be wrong to think that Orlowski’s film is only speaking to the back of the class. While “The Social Dilemma” is relevant to every person on the planet, and should be legible enough to even the most technologically oblivious types, its target demographic is very online...
That may not be a mind-blowing idea for anyone who’s been raised on the internet, but it would be wrong to think that Orlowski’s film is only speaking to the back of the class. While “The Social Dilemma” is relevant to every person on the planet, and should be legible enough to even the most technologically oblivious types, its target demographic is very online...
- 1/29/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The very idea of a modern reworking of a classical text itself gets a modern reworking in Sophie Deraspe’s supple and impassioned “Antigone,” Further electrified by a performance of immense self-possession and dignity from revelatory new star Nahéma Ricci, the clever screenplay (the film is also written and crisply shot by Deraspe) injects these ancient archetypes directly into the bloodstream of the modern-day immigration debate. So while the up-to-the-minute Quebecois setting ought to guarantee significant Francophone interest, its selection as Canada’s Oscar entry should by rights ensure it finds an audience in other territories divided by the immigration issue: namely, almost every developed nation on the planet.
But justifiable rage at the callous institutional mistreatment of foreign-born citizens and residents is only one of “Antigone’s” topical concerns. Deraspe’s last film was the documentary “The Amina Profile,” which investigated the global catfishing incident that was the...
But justifiable rage at the callous institutional mistreatment of foreign-born citizens and residents is only one of “Antigone’s” topical concerns. Deraspe’s last film was the documentary “The Amina Profile,” which investigated the global catfishing incident that was the...
- 10/7/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
When Sophocles' Oedipus Rex was first performed over 400 years B.C., the Greek chorus that opened the play wore the traditional identical masks. But in Luis Alfaro's contemporary adaptation, Oedipus El Rey, the unifying costume piece for the Latino men who make up the choro is the orange jumpsuits worn by inmates of the California State Prison in Delano.
- 10/29/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Mubi's retrospective Bertrand Mandico's Cinema is showing July 26 - October 7, 2017 in many countries around the world.The cinema of French filmmaker and animator Bertrand Mandico is unique in its approach to depicting the human body. For Mandico, the body’s status as a film subject is comparable to and interchangeable with that of any other film subject. That is, ‘animate objects’—such as human characters or animals—occupy the same cinematic roles as ‘inanimate’ ones—such as housewares or artificial structures, collapsing the binary that exists between the two. Mandico’s films time and again blur the line between binaries—animate and inanimate, male and female—and in doing so demonstrate their arbitrary nature as film subjects. Bodies and objects in Mandico’s cinema often appear abstracted and juxtaposed vis-a-vis each other, such as when women portray lamps and men portray statues in Our Lady of Hormones (2014). At first glance,...
- 8/28/2017
- MUBI
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died Sunday at the age of 73.
Shepard, who suffered from Als in recent years, died at his home in Kentucky from complications from the disease, his rep told The Hollywood Reporter.
The winner of 13 Obie Awards, Shepard won his first six for plays he penned between 1966 and 1968. After his success on the off-Broadway stage, Shepard segued to screenwriting with credits on films like Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriske Point and Robert Frank's Me and My Brother.
During this time, Shepard also...
Shepard, who suffered from Als in recent years, died at his home in Kentucky from complications from the disease, his rep told The Hollywood Reporter.
The winner of 13 Obie Awards, Shepard won his first six for plays he penned between 1966 and 1968. After his success on the off-Broadway stage, Shepard segued to screenwriting with credits on films like Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriske Point and Robert Frank's Me and My Brother.
During this time, Shepard also...
- 7/31/2017
- Rollingstone.com
In today’s roundup, act in the classics this season and tour the U.K. in “Oedipus” and “Antigone” with Beyond the Horizon Theatre Company! There are also roles available in a crossover period drama, a collaborative musical, and a hyper-realistic drama. “Oedipus” And “Antigone” Following its critically-acclaimed 2017 tour of “Richard III,” Beyond the Horizon Theatre Company is seeking actors for its upcoming touring productions of Sophocles’ “Oedipus” and “Antigone.” Male and female talent aged 18 and older are needed for all roles in the productions. Performances run in Spring 2018. Equity minimum pay will be provided. Apply here! “The Chairman” “The Chairman,” a feature film from the creators of “Ask the Cheat,” is looking to cast local actors for the crossover period drama set in the Middle Ages that juxtaposes two parallel and interconnecting stories. A male actor aged 29–39 is needed to play the lead role of Tim, a sedan chair...
- 7/21/2017
- backstage.com
[Warning: This story contains spoilers for Universal and Illumination Entertainment's Despicable Me 3.]
With any film series, sometimes a misstep is inevitable — and for Despicable Me 3, it's misstep surprisingly involves a trope from the soap opera world.
And that’s not to say that the movie contains poor lighting or schmaltzy over-the-top acting. Rather, the plot hinges on the long-overused trope of the “long-lost relative,” a cliche so old that Sophocles was writing about it in ancient Greece with Oedipus Rex and has been parodied in the form of All My Circuits on Futurama, Moody’s...
With any film series, sometimes a misstep is inevitable — and for Despicable Me 3, it's misstep surprisingly involves a trope from the soap opera world.
And that’s not to say that the movie contains poor lighting or schmaltzy over-the-top acting. Rather, the plot hinges on the long-overused trope of the “long-lost relative,” a cliche so old that Sophocles was writing about it in ancient Greece with Oedipus Rex and has been parodied in the form of All My Circuits on Futurama, Moody’s...
- 7/2/2017
- by Josh Weiss
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Since the days of Shakespeare, theater has welcomed politics to the stage. For that reason, it’s been an acting medium that “Orange Is the New Black” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Samira Wiley has visited time and again. This Sunday, April 30, she’ll reunite with Theater of War Productions for a stirring, empowering take on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final sermon, “The Drum Major Instinct,” as part of the Bric Open theater festival in Brooklyn, New York. The dramatic reading will take place from 1 p.m.–3 p.m. at the Bric House Ballroom. “[Theater of War is] a company I would literally drop everything, schedule-permitting, to go and work with,” Wiley told Backstage on a recent phone interview. “I believe that they are a theater for change, [and] they’re a theater company that is really in touch with what’s going on in the world.” Wiley previously worked with the company,...
- 4/28/2017
- backstage.com
Halloween is officially over which means the holiday season is around the corner (whether you like it or not). Luckily, today’s casting notices may help get you into the Christmas spirit, as Fox’s upcoming sketch show, “White Hot Christmas in New York,” is casting several background roles. We also have three more projects that are decidedly less festive, but just as fantastic. See them below! Fox’S “White Hot Christmas In New York”Union talent is sought for a variety of background roles in Fox’s holiday special “White Hot Christmas in New York.” Seeking actors to portray parts including child visitors to Santa, parents and, yes, “sexy Santa’s helper,” the project will shoot Nov. 3 in New York City. “Riot Antigone”“Riot Antigone,” a new musical based on the Sophocles tragedy “told from the perspective of a Chorus Leader and her all-female punk band,” is casting nonunion talent for several roles.
- 11/1/2016
- backstage.com
Andrea Demetriades and Louisa Mignone in Latte e Miele, which they both also directed.
Latte e Miele (Milk and Honey), Andrea Demetriades.s first outing as a director, is currently screening as part of the Greek Film Festival.
Demetriades directed the short along with her .partner in crime., fellow actress Louisa Mignone, and both star as the leads.
Set in the early 1950s, Latte e Miele is the story of two sisters who.ve left war-torn Italy on the promise of a better life in rural Australia.
On arrival they meet their husbands, whom they.ve married by proxy, for the first time. However, neither the men nor the country turn out quite like the. women expect.
.It.s a comedy,. Demetriades told If. .But I feel as if comedy can sometimes amplify the tragedy of the situation and really force people to listen..
Mignone wrote the screenplay, but she...
Latte e Miele (Milk and Honey), Andrea Demetriades.s first outing as a director, is currently screening as part of the Greek Film Festival.
Demetriades directed the short along with her .partner in crime., fellow actress Louisa Mignone, and both star as the leads.
Set in the early 1950s, Latte e Miele is the story of two sisters who.ve left war-torn Italy on the promise of a better life in rural Australia.
On arrival they meet their husbands, whom they.ve married by proxy, for the first time. However, neither the men nor the country turn out quite like the. women expect.
.It.s a comedy,. Demetriades told If. .But I feel as if comedy can sometimes amplify the tragedy of the situation and really force people to listen..
Mignone wrote the screenplay, but she...
- 10/14/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Hiddlebatch is the British bromance of our dreams. Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston first met while filming the 2010 drama War Horse, and have been delighting us all with their mutual adoration ever since. For proof that their Hollywood friendship is the real deal, look no further than these too-cute bestie moments: When Cumberbatch was protective of his bro's personal lifeThe Sherlock star recently interviewed Hiddleston for an Interview Magazine cover story, and made a point of declaring any questions about his headline-fueling former romance to be off-limits. "And there's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that,...
- 9/28/2016
- by Lydia Price, @lydsprice
- PEOPLE.com
Hiddlebatch is the British bromance of our dreams. Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston first met while filming the 2010 drama War Horse, and have been delighting us all with their mutual adoration ever since. For proof that their Hollywood friendship is the real deal, look no further than these too-cute bestie moments: When Cumberbatch was protective of his bro's personal lifeThe Sherlock star recently interviewed Hiddleston for an Interview Magazine cover story, and made a point of declaring any questions about his headline-fueling former romance to be off-limits. "And there's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that,...
- 9/28/2016
- by Lydia Price, @lydsprice
- PEOPLE.com
Theban Plays Created by Ryan Pater, Eliza McKelway and Deidrea Hamid Directed by Asa Horvitz The Brick, Brooklyn, NY January 22-30, 2016
Anyone expecting from Theban Plays a straightforward modernized retelling of Sophoclean tragedies should abandon that idea. This highly experimental work, conceived and directed by Asa Horvitz and created by its performers, uses its ancient Greek antecedents, short pieces of which are read at several points, as a jumping-off point for a tapestry of monologues, video, audio and music, and even painting. Taken together, these elements bring lines of thought inspired by its sources to bear on an interrogation of aspects of the modern condition.
Theban Plays is structured as three main sections, each centered on a version of a character from Sophocles. All three, "Oedcast," "Jocasta/Colonus," and "Antigone," decontextualize their speakers as residents of contemporary NYC. The Oedipus figure (Ryan Pater) in "Oedcast" arrived in the city with...
Anyone expecting from Theban Plays a straightforward modernized retelling of Sophoclean tragedies should abandon that idea. This highly experimental work, conceived and directed by Asa Horvitz and created by its performers, uses its ancient Greek antecedents, short pieces of which are read at several points, as a jumping-off point for a tapestry of monologues, video, audio and music, and even painting. Taken together, these elements bring lines of thought inspired by its sources to bear on an interrogation of aspects of the modern condition.
Theban Plays is structured as three main sections, each centered on a version of a character from Sophocles. All three, "Oedcast," "Jocasta/Colonus," and "Antigone," decontextualize their speakers as residents of contemporary NYC. The Oedipus figure (Ryan Pater) in "Oedcast" arrived in the city with...
- 2/5/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Happy Birthday, Ralph Fiennes Fiennes' 2006 performance in the play Faith Healer gained him a nomination for a 2007 Tony Award. In 2008, Fiennes worked with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kent to play the title role in Sophocles's Oedipus the King at The National Theatre in London. He has appeared in films such as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days and Maid in Manhattan. He is also well known for his portrayals of three infamous villains Nazi war criminal Amon Goth in Schindler's List, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in the 2002 film Red Dragon, and Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series. Most recently, he appeared in The Reader 2008, The Hurt Locker 2009 and as Hades in Clash of the Titans 2010.
- 12/22/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ivo van Hove brings his stripped-down, damn-all-conventions approach to Sophocles, in this case “Antigone,” which opened Sunday at Bam’s Harvey Theater and stars Juliette Binoche. (It runs through Oct. 4.) Fans of the Belgian director won’t be disappointed by this modern-dress production, first performed in February 2015 at Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg, which turns the ruler Kreon (Patrick O’Kane) into a 21st-century fascist who brags, “First let me say/Our city is safe again.” Kreon hails Antigone’s dead brother Eteokles and buries him with honors. He damns her other brother, Polyneikes, as a traitor in the civil war,...
- 9/28/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The Belgian director Ivo van Hove almost always has the term avant-garde attached to his name, but with four major New York productions this season, including two on Broadway, he probably needs a new adjective. Not that he’s completely abandoned the techniques and tics that make the style so recognizable, and thus faintly ridiculous, to regular theatergoers. Murky video, drony music, indeterminate or clashing settings are all still part of the vocabulary. His production of Sophocles’s Antigone, now at Bam, takes place both in a desert outside ancient Thebes and, downstage, on a lower level of the set, in some sort of contemporary municipal office, with a leather sofa and file cabinets. The costumes, mostly black of course, would not be unwelcome in a Soho shop window, and look particularly terrific on his star, Juliette Binoche. But unlike some of van Hove’s earlier productions, which seemed almost...
- 9/28/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Theater Mania Juliette Binoche to return to the stage with Sophocles' Antigone
Playbill interviews Laura Benanti
Variety the charming animated fable Song of the Sea takes Best Picture at the Irish Film Awards. Have you seen it yet? It was very nearly my favorite of last year's animated pictures.
Guardian interviews Vincent Cassell on his disturbing Australian drama Partisan with a look back at his now-classic breakthrough in La Haine (which might get a sequel)
Variety critics hash out the best and worst of Cannes together with the most fascinating split being on Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Assassin which Debruge finds "impenetrable" and for which Chang expresses rapturous love. (Note: they also seem to admire Carol more than love it - which is why I've always been less bullish than most early Oscar prognosticators in assuming AMPAS's future love for it)
Nick Davis, Tim Brayton, Ivan Albertson and...
Playbill interviews Laura Benanti
Variety the charming animated fable Song of the Sea takes Best Picture at the Irish Film Awards. Have you seen it yet? It was very nearly my favorite of last year's animated pictures.
Guardian interviews Vincent Cassell on his disturbing Australian drama Partisan with a look back at his now-classic breakthrough in La Haine (which might get a sequel)
Variety critics hash out the best and worst of Cannes together with the most fascinating split being on Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Assassin which Debruge finds "impenetrable" and for which Chang expresses rapturous love. (Note: they also seem to admire Carol more than love it - which is why I've always been less bullish than most early Oscar prognosticators in assuming AMPAS's future love for it)
Nick Davis, Tim Brayton, Ivan Albertson and...
- 5/26/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Musicals Collection Blu-ray set from Warner Home Video contains four Hollywood classics of the genre, at least two of them among the greatest of all time: Kiss Me Kate, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, and Singin’ in the Rain. And all except for Singin’ in the Rain are making their Blu-ray debut. While the films may not rank equal in terms of quality—those latter two titles are the all-time greats—each of the transfers are outstanding, the movies themselves are still nevertheless enjoyable, and the set is a terrific bargain.
Kiss Me, Kate
Written by Dorothy Kingsley
Directed by George Sidney
USA, 1953
Kiss Me, Kate is offered in 2-D and 3-D versions. Though the 3-D is certainly not the best to grace a Blu-ray, it’s still the version to watch, even with the clichéd, though occasionally amusing gimmick of characters throwing things at the camera. However, it...
Kiss Me, Kate
Written by Dorothy Kingsley
Directed by George Sidney
USA, 1953
Kiss Me, Kate is offered in 2-D and 3-D versions. Though the 3-D is certainly not the best to grace a Blu-ray, it’s still the version to watch, even with the clichéd, though occasionally amusing gimmick of characters throwing things at the camera. However, it...
- 3/17/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Happy Birthday, Ralph Fiennes Fiennes' 2006 performance in the play Faith Healer gained him a nomination for a 2007 Tony Award. In 2008, Fiennes worked with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kent to play the title role in Sophocles's Oedipus the King at The National Theatre in London. He has appeared in films such as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days and Maid in Manhattan. He is also well known for his portrayals of three infamous villains Nazi war criminal Amon Goth in Schindler's List, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in the 2002 film Red Dragon, and Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series. Most recently, he appeared in The Reader 2008, The Hurt Locker 2009 and as Hades in Clash of the Titans 2010.
- 12/22/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
It might be wise to reread Oedipus the King before seeing A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), now receiving its American premiere courtesy of the Signature Theatre. Sam Shepard's aptly titled theatrical meditation on Sophocles' Greek tragedy is like a series of jazzy riffs on its inspiration, plumbing the existential emotions of the work while loosely adapting it to modern-day times. This oblique intellectual exercise is likely to prove off-putting to all but the most adventurous audiences, although Shepard completists will no doubt want to catch the latest offering from the playwright's ever-restless imagination. Originally presented by
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- 11/24/2014
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Further cementing a fruitful professional partnership after their successful collaborations on The Seagull, Betrayal and Old Times in London and New York, Kristin Scott Thomas and director Ian Rickson come up with the goods again for Electra, a powerhouse rendition of Sophocles’ classic tragedy. Staged in the round at London's Old Vic using Frank McGuinness’ 1997 adaptation of the text, the production strikes a smart balance between antiquity and modernity. Sparse, period-suggestive but not literal design and eerie music (by rock star Pj Harvey) rub up against instantly accessible performances, stippled with surprisingly effective moments of humor. Thomas rightly
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- 10/2/2014
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Raro Video resurrects an excitingly obscure title this month with Liliana Cavani’s 1967 film, The Year of the Cannibals, a counter culture art house film modernizing Sophocles’ play Antigone to explore modern political unrest, here in the streets of Milan. Cavani, perhaps best known for her notorious 1974 film The Night Porter, posing star Charlotte Rampling in one of her most iconic roles, has crafted a stunningly photographed and arresting film in this early work that’s ripe for rediscovery. Shown in art houses and retrospectives after receiving favorable reaction upon domestic release and major film festival play (Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes), the title never secured distribution in the Us, though this is mostly due to Cavani’s refusal to change the bleak finale when a major studio approached her to buy the film.
Set in a dystopic Milan, corpses litter the bustling streets after the government has squashed a vicious rebellion.
Set in a dystopic Milan, corpses litter the bustling streets after the government has squashed a vicious rebellion.
- 1/28/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
What more has Courtney Love possibly got to share with us, and how will Steve McQueen fare at the Oscars? These are just a few of the topics that will set tongues wagging in the new year
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Courtney Love's memoir
The question is not so much "what will be in Courtney Love's book?" as "what could possibly be in Courtney Love's book that she hasn't already spoken/ranted/raved about?" Still, her self-titled autobiography has been described as "too crazy not to be true" and should provide her definitive take on her time with Hole and her doomed relationship with Kurt Cobain. It will also, hopefully, spill previously unspilled beans on her relationships with Billy Corgan and Steve Coogan. Oh, and according to an interview she did with Rolling Stone, it was inspired by Russell Brand's My Booky Wook. The mind boggles. Tj
Everything to...
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Courtney Love's memoir
The question is not so much "what will be in Courtney Love's book?" as "what could possibly be in Courtney Love's book that she hasn't already spoken/ranted/raved about?" Still, her self-titled autobiography has been described as "too crazy not to be true" and should provide her definitive take on her time with Hole and her doomed relationship with Kurt Cobain. It will also, hopefully, spill previously unspilled beans on her relationships with Billy Corgan and Steve Coogan. Oh, and according to an interview she did with Rolling Stone, it was inspired by Russell Brand's My Booky Wook. The mind boggles. Tj
Everything to...
- 1/1/2014
- by Mark Lawson, Andrew Dickson, Lyn Gardner, Oliver Wainwright, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Tim Jonze, Henry Barnes, Stuart Heritage, Judith Mackrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Happy Birthday, Ralph Fiennes Fiennes' 2006 performance in the play Faith Healer gained him a nomination for a 2007 Tony Award. In 2008, Fiennes worked with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kent to play the title role in Sophocles's Oedipus the King at The National Theatre in London. He has appeared in films such as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days and Maid in Manhattan. He is also well known for his portrayals of three infamous villains Nazi war criminal Amon Goth in Schindler's List, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in the 2002 film Red Dragon, and Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series. Most recently, he appeared in The Reader 2008, The Hurt Locker 2009 and as Hades in Clash of the Titans 2010.
- 12/22/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The heroine’s name is Antigone, but the myths at work in “Standing Aside, Watching,” are those of the American western, a western one whose heroine has more cojones than a dozen Gary Coopers. The film? A model of urgent, contemporary storytelling by Greek director Yorgos Servetas, with a sometimes spare, sometimes epic visual take on modern Greece and a story that synthesizes past and present, while creating its own drama. The empowered female seldom arrives more empowered than Antigone, or creates such an captivating dust storm of righteous anger. Played with delicious ferocity by Marina Symeou, Antigone returns to her backwater home town after a failed acting career in Athens, and finds the place the way Wyatt Earp found Tombstone. Antigone – in Greek myth, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, and, a la Sophocles, the plague of male injustice – gets a job as an English teacher, finds a much younger lover,...
- 9/11/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
New York — Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad will star on Broadway this fall in a modern take on William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," a revival that will add an intriguing element of racial contrast to the classic tale of two star-crossed lovers.
"The last thing we wanted to do was to do a sort of pompous, classic version of `Romeo and Juliet,'" said director David Leveaux, a five-time Tony Award nominee. "I'm just taking away all the wallpaper and mantelpieces, all the kind of pompous stuff we associate with grand Shakespeare productions, and try to go as simple as possible."
Producers said Monday that previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre will begin Aug. 24 with an opening night set for Sept. 19. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on April 8.
The production will also star two-time Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell as the Nurse and Tony nominee Joe Morton as Lord Capulet.
"The last thing we wanted to do was to do a sort of pompous, classic version of `Romeo and Juliet,'" said director David Leveaux, a five-time Tony Award nominee. "I'm just taking away all the wallpaper and mantelpieces, all the kind of pompous stuff we associate with grand Shakespeare productions, and try to go as simple as possible."
Producers said Monday that previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre will begin Aug. 24 with an opening night set for Sept. 19. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on April 8.
The production will also star two-time Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell as the Nurse and Tony nominee Joe Morton as Lord Capulet.
- 4/1/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
When "The Following" premieres tonight (Monday, January 21 at 9 p.m. Est on Fox), viewers will meet the charismatic serial killer known as Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), a man who has somehow been able to inspire an army of loyal followers to carry out untold grisly crimes in his name, even from his cell on Death Row.
Retired FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) is always one step behind, working to predict Joe's next move before anyone else is killed. The cat-and-mouse relationship between the two is a large part of what makes the new drama so compelling.
At the recent Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, HuffPost TV sat down with James Purefoy to discuss what drew him to playing a killer, whether violence on TV is contributing to the violence we see in America today, and the "bizarre love story" at the center of the show.
What drew you to the project initially?...
Retired FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) is always one step behind, working to predict Joe's next move before anyone else is killed. The cat-and-mouse relationship between the two is a large part of what makes the new drama so compelling.
At the recent Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, HuffPost TV sat down with James Purefoy to discuss what drew him to playing a killer, whether violence on TV is contributing to the violence we see in America today, and the "bizarre love story" at the center of the show.
What drew you to the project initially?...
- 1/21/2013
- by Laura Prudom
- Huffington Post
I always felt an icky attraction-repulsion, more slanted towards repulsion, for Liliana Cavani's most celebrated film, The Night Porter. But thinking about it now, I have to give her credit for boldly delving into the psychology of the persecutor-victim relationship in a way that no previous filmmaker quite had.
If that movie still makes me uncomfortable, I was nevertheless instantly psyched to see I cannibali (The Cannibals, 1970), a sci-fi hippy version of Antigone starring Britt Ekland. Maybe I'm shallow.
(Hippy science fiction movies go all the way from the super-respectable and respect-worthy 2001 at one extreme, past Silent Running somewhere in the middle, all the way to Jim McBride's 1971 post-atomic Adam and Eve story Glen and Randa. It's a sub-genre that can get a bit embarrassing, what with Bruce Dern lecturing us about "the simple beauty of a leaf" and all, but having been entered the world in 1967 maybe...
If that movie still makes me uncomfortable, I was nevertheless instantly psyched to see I cannibali (The Cannibals, 1970), a sci-fi hippy version of Antigone starring Britt Ekland. Maybe I'm shallow.
(Hippy science fiction movies go all the way from the super-respectable and respect-worthy 2001 at one extreme, past Silent Running somewhere in the middle, all the way to Jim McBride's 1971 post-atomic Adam and Eve story Glen and Randa. It's a sub-genre that can get a bit embarrassing, what with Bruce Dern lecturing us about "the simple beauty of a leaf" and all, but having been entered the world in 1967 maybe...
- 1/17/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
New York – Fiona Shaw will return to Broadway for the first time since her Tony-nominated tour de force as Medea ten years ago, this time playing the mother of Jesus near the end of her life in The Testament of Mary. Produced by Scott Rudin, the project reunites Shaw with her Medea director Deborah Warner. Their long and distinguished creative association also spans the work of T.S. Eliot, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Ibsen and Beckett, including critically lauded productions of The Wasteland, Electra, Titus Andronicus, The Good Person of Szechwan, Hedda Gabler, Mother Courage and Her Children, Happy
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- 1/8/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Happy Birthday, Ralph Fiennes Fiennes' 2006 performance in the play Faith Healer gained him a nomination for a 2007 Tony Award. In 2008, Fiennes worked with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kent to play the title role in Sophocles's Oedipus the King at The National Theatre in London. He has appeared in films such as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days and Maid in Manhattan. He is also well known for his portrayals of three infamous villains Nazi war criminal Amon Gth in Schindler's List, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in the 2002 film Red Dragon, and Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series. Most recently, he appeared in The Reader 2008, The Hurt Locker 2009 and as Hades in Clash of the Titans 2010.
- 12/22/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sit down, Lemon Andersen ‘got a story to tell. He grew up in Brooklyn by the ten crack commandments. After both parents succumbing to Aids through their addictions, he took the improbable journey from Rikers to reading his first poem at El Puente Community Center to Broadway earning himself a Tony Award. Or as Lemon simply puts it, he took those lemons and made “the best goddamn lemonade!” He is now the subject of a documentary called ‘Lemon’ by Laura Brownson & Beth Levison which chronicles the journey of his one man play ‘County of Kings; the Beautiful Struggle’ which recently closed the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival and will air on PBS on October 19th as part of Voces, a four part Latino documentary series in celebration of Hispanic Heritage month.
LatinoBuzz: When you think of riding the train, standing room only on a winter day, hoodie and goose down North Face on in Brooklyn—what song pops into your head?
Lemon:“It’s all about the mood I’m in and the scene I’m writing. ‘Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don’t listen to any music that’s not an influence on what I’m working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go. It depends on what character I’m working on because all of my characters are musically driven as far as their language and their style. So it really depends on the day and what character I’m working on. One day I may be listening to Wu-Tang and another day I’m listening to A$AP Rocky, matter of fact I was listening to him on the train yesterday. Right now listening to A$AP Rocky cause I’m writing about some pretty motherfuckers from Harlem”.
LatinoBuzz: Author from any time in history, from any place whose swag should have had them born in the County of Kings in 1975?
Lemon:“I would definitely have to say William Shakespeare, he should have been born in Brooklyn in 1975 because I would have loved to see Shakespeare’s poetic portrayal of that generation and that world. He’s a big inspiration on my writing about that world and on my style. Shakespeare all day man, that’s the Og. I mean, I would pick Sophocles or any one of those guys, but Shakespeare is my kind of writer cause its all poetry. Basically for me Shakespeare is the greatest storyteller ever in the world, ever, period, hands down there is no one better than him and I challenge any motherfucker to question it. Even if they say he wasn’t the one who wrote it, I’m talking about the work not the man; I don’t know that fool, I know his work”.
LatinoBuzz: If St. Cecilia, patron saint of poets, was from Flatbush Ave. What would she be wearing and how would you holler at her?
Lemon:“I live by the code kill them with kindness, blood everywhere, for me it’s always about being the nicest kind of guy. What she would be wearing is something that is independent to her personality. On some hip-hop tip but no brand names totally indie hip designers. Something that really reflects her personality. That’s how I would start the conversation, I would notice something that she’s wearing and comment on it, something like I know the brand or “I’ve seen that in Paris,” and that will strike a chord with her and we’ll talk”.
LatinoBuzz: Three time felon, Tony award winner, one man show and now subject of a documentary film—any regrets to your journey?
Lemon:“I don’t know, I think that if I had any regrets that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I’ve gone through that I don’t wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me. The only thing I regret is the pain that I had to endure because pain sucks, the feeling of pain sucks, I don’t give a fuck when people say “more pain, more gain” no one wants to feel pain”.
LatinoBuzz: What do you tell your children about your parents?
Lemon:“You know, I talk to my kids about my mother’s energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were. That’s what I try to do. I try not to give too many details, though they are not old enough to ask me for details yet”.
LatinoBuzz: What would you rather? Drink wine with Pablo Neruda. Play ‘Cee-lo’ with Langston Hughes, Slap Box with Charles Bukowski or Slow Dance with Sonia Sanchez?
Lemon:“Would be slap boxing with Charles Bukowski cause he tried to protect Langston Hughes cause he owes me on the dice game and Sonia Sanchez is sitting there laughing her ass off with Pablo Neruda sipping wine. I would slap box with Bukowski and I’ll know that he’ll try to go for his. Bukowski stands out for more than anyone, although I love Langston Hughes and I love Sonia, and Pablo Neruda is the most beautiful loving poet of them all. I’m too rambunctious and so Charles Bukowski fits the bill. I would turn those guys down any day to even just have coconut water with Bukowski. So that’s my dude, he rolls big with me, in my work, so yeah I’d slap box with him all day, right on the corner”.
LatinoBuzz: What ritual sends you to your creative realm?
Lemon:“Lately its been getting up in the morning and allowing my kind of madness to grow. By that I mean that I have to allow myself to wake up before I start writing. I wake up I talk to one of my closest friends. I talk to my management team and I get their energy boiling. I get the blood boiling. I get angry, I get hungry, and I go at it, and I don’t stop ‘til I go to bed at night. So I have to get the blood boiling is just not coffee. It has to be that I’m in conversation with people in the morning before the work start because people drive me. Through out the day I listen to music I go to local cafes I hang out with the Mexicans behind the bar let them know that I love and that I’m holding them down, real talk, and that’s my every day”.
LatinoBuzz: If you and Biggie played Hooky—what’s the day like?
Lemon: “Wow, if me and Biggie played hooky I think we’d be sitting at home, that’s the only time I would go back to smoking weed, because I know I’ll be smoking with Biggie. I don’t smoke weed but for Biggie and Bob Marley. I would smoke with him and we would be watching Midnight Express and Brubaker and I would be telling him, “you see these movies that’s why I’m writing ‘Toast’, that’s why I write scripts and not raps.”
LatinoBuzz: Line of poetry or a lyric you wish you wrote?
Lemon:“I never sleep cause sleep is the cousin of death.”—Nas, “NY State of Mind”
LatinoBuzz: What will people say about Lemon when it’s all said and done?
Lemon:“That he believed in a generation not based on race but on class and style, and they had a great story tell and he told it”.
For info on The documentary and screening times visit: http://www.lemonthemovie.com or show Lemon some love at: http://twitter.com/lemonandersen
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights emerging and established Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
LatinoBuzz: When you think of riding the train, standing room only on a winter day, hoodie and goose down North Face on in Brooklyn—what song pops into your head?
Lemon:“It’s all about the mood I’m in and the scene I’m writing. ‘Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don’t listen to any music that’s not an influence on what I’m working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go. It depends on what character I’m working on because all of my characters are musically driven as far as their language and their style. So it really depends on the day and what character I’m working on. One day I may be listening to Wu-Tang and another day I’m listening to A$AP Rocky, matter of fact I was listening to him on the train yesterday. Right now listening to A$AP Rocky cause I’m writing about some pretty motherfuckers from Harlem”.
LatinoBuzz: Author from any time in history, from any place whose swag should have had them born in the County of Kings in 1975?
Lemon:“I would definitely have to say William Shakespeare, he should have been born in Brooklyn in 1975 because I would have loved to see Shakespeare’s poetic portrayal of that generation and that world. He’s a big inspiration on my writing about that world and on my style. Shakespeare all day man, that’s the Og. I mean, I would pick Sophocles or any one of those guys, but Shakespeare is my kind of writer cause its all poetry. Basically for me Shakespeare is the greatest storyteller ever in the world, ever, period, hands down there is no one better than him and I challenge any motherfucker to question it. Even if they say he wasn’t the one who wrote it, I’m talking about the work not the man; I don’t know that fool, I know his work”.
LatinoBuzz: If St. Cecilia, patron saint of poets, was from Flatbush Ave. What would she be wearing and how would you holler at her?
Lemon:“I live by the code kill them with kindness, blood everywhere, for me it’s always about being the nicest kind of guy. What she would be wearing is something that is independent to her personality. On some hip-hop tip but no brand names totally indie hip designers. Something that really reflects her personality. That’s how I would start the conversation, I would notice something that she’s wearing and comment on it, something like I know the brand or “I’ve seen that in Paris,” and that will strike a chord with her and we’ll talk”.
LatinoBuzz: Three time felon, Tony award winner, one man show and now subject of a documentary film—any regrets to your journey?
Lemon:“I don’t know, I think that if I had any regrets that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I’ve gone through that I don’t wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me. The only thing I regret is the pain that I had to endure because pain sucks, the feeling of pain sucks, I don’t give a fuck when people say “more pain, more gain” no one wants to feel pain”.
LatinoBuzz: What do you tell your children about your parents?
Lemon:“You know, I talk to my kids about my mother’s energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were. That’s what I try to do. I try not to give too many details, though they are not old enough to ask me for details yet”.
LatinoBuzz: What would you rather? Drink wine with Pablo Neruda. Play ‘Cee-lo’ with Langston Hughes, Slap Box with Charles Bukowski or Slow Dance with Sonia Sanchez?
Lemon:“Would be slap boxing with Charles Bukowski cause he tried to protect Langston Hughes cause he owes me on the dice game and Sonia Sanchez is sitting there laughing her ass off with Pablo Neruda sipping wine. I would slap box with Bukowski and I’ll know that he’ll try to go for his. Bukowski stands out for more than anyone, although I love Langston Hughes and I love Sonia, and Pablo Neruda is the most beautiful loving poet of them all. I’m too rambunctious and so Charles Bukowski fits the bill. I would turn those guys down any day to even just have coconut water with Bukowski. So that’s my dude, he rolls big with me, in my work, so yeah I’d slap box with him all day, right on the corner”.
LatinoBuzz: What ritual sends you to your creative realm?
Lemon:“Lately its been getting up in the morning and allowing my kind of madness to grow. By that I mean that I have to allow myself to wake up before I start writing. I wake up I talk to one of my closest friends. I talk to my management team and I get their energy boiling. I get the blood boiling. I get angry, I get hungry, and I go at it, and I don’t stop ‘til I go to bed at night. So I have to get the blood boiling is just not coffee. It has to be that I’m in conversation with people in the morning before the work start because people drive me. Through out the day I listen to music I go to local cafes I hang out with the Mexicans behind the bar let them know that I love and that I’m holding them down, real talk, and that’s my every day”.
LatinoBuzz: If you and Biggie played Hooky—what’s the day like?
Lemon: “Wow, if me and Biggie played hooky I think we’d be sitting at home, that’s the only time I would go back to smoking weed, because I know I’ll be smoking with Biggie. I don’t smoke weed but for Biggie and Bob Marley. I would smoke with him and we would be watching Midnight Express and Brubaker and I would be telling him, “you see these movies that’s why I’m writing ‘Toast’, that’s why I write scripts and not raps.”
LatinoBuzz: Line of poetry or a lyric you wish you wrote?
Lemon:“I never sleep cause sleep is the cousin of death.”—Nas, “NY State of Mind”
LatinoBuzz: What will people say about Lemon when it’s all said and done?
Lemon:“That he believed in a generation not based on race but on class and style, and they had a great story tell and he told it”.
For info on The documentary and screening times visit: http://www.lemonthemovie.com or show Lemon some love at: http://twitter.com/lemonandersen
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights emerging and established Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
- 10/3/2012
- by Juan Caceres
- Sydney's Buzz
Freud was right about Oedipus. Perhaps the famous neurologist was just some crazy Austrian guy who did altogether too much cocaine, but he was right to say the ancient Greek myth contains a universal truth, if maybe not the one he imagined. Oedipus Rex, from Pier Palo Pasolini (the Italian director best known for the notorious Salò: 120 Days of Sodom) is a fairly straight retelling of the legend from Sophocles's play, about the boy who grew up to unwittingly kill his father and marry his mother. But Pasolini's genius stems in large part from the idea backstabbing, double-dealing, murder and incest are the less interesting things going on here.Oedipus Rex is a gorgeously theatrical production that still proves visually stunning more than four decades...
- 8/27/2012
- Screen Anarchy
A debut novel that reinterprets Homer's Iliad is the latest in an array of works to be inspired by the classics
When Madeline Miller won the Orange prize for fiction last week for her debut novel The Song of Achilles, it seemed only natural to wonder how the mythical Greek hero of her book might celebrate. "I think he'd do it in a very epic way," she says, laughing. "And luckily one of the lovely sponsors [of the prize] gave me a very large bottle of champagne."
Miller's book, written in her spare time while she taught Latin in Us secondary schools, is based on Homer's Iliad and vividly reimagines the story of Patroclus, the brother-in-arms of Achilles. Although Miller's inspiration was ancient, her themes are undoubtedly modern: The Song of Achilles charts the deep and loving relationship between these two, same-sex characters in a time of war and brutality.
"I...
When Madeline Miller won the Orange prize for fiction last week for her debut novel The Song of Achilles, it seemed only natural to wonder how the mythical Greek hero of her book might celebrate. "I think he'd do it in a very epic way," she says, laughing. "And luckily one of the lovely sponsors [of the prize] gave me a very large bottle of champagne."
Miller's book, written in her spare time while she taught Latin in Us secondary schools, is based on Homer's Iliad and vividly reimagines the story of Patroclus, the brother-in-arms of Achilles. Although Miller's inspiration was ancient, her themes are undoubtedly modern: The Song of Achilles charts the deep and loving relationship between these two, same-sex characters in a time of war and brutality.
"I...
- 6/2/2012
- by Elizabeth Day
- The Guardian - Film News
Highlights of the forthcoming productions at the National Theatre, announced today by Nicholas Hytner, include new plays by Alan Bennett, Stephen Beresford, Lisa DAmour, James Graham and Lucy Prebble. There will be adaptations of Mark Haddons The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Simon Stephens, and of The Count of Monte Cristo by Richard Bean. Enda Walshs Misterman receives its London premiere classic revivals include Polly Findlays production of Sophocles Antigone, Shakespeares Timon of Athens directed by Nicholas Hytner, Bijan Sheibanis staging of Damned for Despair by Tirso de Molina, and Nadia Falls production of Bernard Shaws The Doctors Dilemma.
- 1/25/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Welcome to Bww's New Daily On This Day Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre historyToday in 1962, Tony winner Ralph Fiennes was born. Fiennes' 2006 performance in the play Faith Healer gained him a nomination for a 2007 Tony Award. In 2008, Fiennes worked with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kent to play the title role in Sophocles's Oedipus the King at The National Theatre in London. He has appeared in films such as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days and Maid in Manhattan.
- 12/22/2011
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Olivia Wilde, beautiful though she may be, doesn't quite qualify for Milf status — not in reality, that is. But in director Andrew Niccol's upcoming futuristic thriller, previously titled "I'm.mortal," she's going to be the hottest mom on the block.
The Wrap reports that Wilde is taking a role in Niccol's movie about a society where aging ceases at 25 and time has become a currency, leaving the rich immortal and the lower classes without much hope for survival. But the real kicker about Wilde's involvement is her function in the story — she's the mother of "The Social Network" star and world renown bringer-back of sexy, Justin Timberlake.
That's right: not a girlfriend, not a wife, not a sibling, not a distant cousin. Wilde is the mommy to Timberlake's runaway rebel, despite the fact that she's three years younger than the actor and pop sensation.
It's not the strangest mother-son...
The Wrap reports that Wilde is taking a role in Niccol's movie about a society where aging ceases at 25 and time has become a currency, leaving the rich immortal and the lower classes without much hope for survival. But the real kicker about Wilde's involvement is her function in the story — she's the mother of "The Social Network" star and world renown bringer-back of sexy, Justin Timberlake.
That's right: not a girlfriend, not a wife, not a sibling, not a distant cousin. Wilde is the mommy to Timberlake's runaway rebel, despite the fact that she's three years younger than the actor and pop sensation.
It's not the strangest mother-son...
- 10/4/2010
- by Josh Wigler
- MTV Movies Blog
Werner Herzog messes with genre, and ostriches, in this black comedy. By Xan Brooks
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done finds God in a cereal box and Satan on an ostrich farm. It's a deadpan black comedy, directed by Werner Herzog, co-produced by David Lynch and loosely based on the case of Mark Yavorsky, an amateur actor who became so unhinged by his role in Sophocles's Electra that he tried to kill his mother with a samurai sword. Michael Shannon plays the Yavorsky figure (here renamed Brad McCullum) as a shambling shaman with a 1,000-yard stare. Chloë Sevigny co-stars as his passive fiancee, while Willem Dafoe completes the trio as the pensive cop who lays siege to Brad's humdrum suburban house. Nobody, least of all the cop, seems quite sure what's going on. "I don't mean to alarm you, Miss, but it's all a little strange," Dafoe...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done finds God in a cereal box and Satan on an ostrich farm. It's a deadpan black comedy, directed by Werner Herzog, co-produced by David Lynch and loosely based on the case of Mark Yavorsky, an amateur actor who became so unhinged by his role in Sophocles's Electra that he tried to kill his mother with a samurai sword. Michael Shannon plays the Yavorsky figure (here renamed Brad McCullum) as a shambling shaman with a 1,000-yard stare. Chloë Sevigny co-stars as his passive fiancee, while Willem Dafoe completes the trio as the pensive cop who lays siege to Brad's humdrum suburban house. Nobody, least of all the cop, seems quite sure what's going on. "I don't mean to alarm you, Miss, but it's all a little strange," Dafoe...
- 9/9/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
'Dostoevskian' French actor with an aura of tormented youth
With his emaciated but hypnotically handsome face and lithe body, the French actor Laurent Terzieff, who has died of respiratory infection aged 75, graced the stage and films for more than half a century. There was always an aura of tormented youth about Terzieff which he carried into the classic roles of his maturity such as Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV (1989) and Shakespeare's Richard II (1991). His perfect diction and rhythmic precision made his rendering of Jean Cocteau's narration of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex in Bob Wilson's production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996 particularly exciting.
Terzieff's special talents were used by many of the great theatre producers of the day: Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook, Roger Planchon, Maurice Garrel, Roger Blin and André Barsacq. He also directed dozens of plays, many at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Montparnasse. Paradoxically, given his tormented persona as an actor,...
With his emaciated but hypnotically handsome face and lithe body, the French actor Laurent Terzieff, who has died of respiratory infection aged 75, graced the stage and films for more than half a century. There was always an aura of tormented youth about Terzieff which he carried into the classic roles of his maturity such as Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV (1989) and Shakespeare's Richard II (1991). His perfect diction and rhythmic precision made his rendering of Jean Cocteau's narration of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex in Bob Wilson's production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996 particularly exciting.
Terzieff's special talents were used by many of the great theatre producers of the day: Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook, Roger Planchon, Maurice Garrel, Roger Blin and André Barsacq. He also directed dozens of plays, many at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Montparnasse. Paradoxically, given his tormented persona as an actor,...
- 7/21/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
With Dear John and The Last Song arriving at the cinema, Stuart Heritage wonders if the author will ever deviate from his lucrative formula
Last Friday saw the release of Dear John, a soppy romance about a boy and a girl whose relationship is tested by an event that neither of them can control. Next Friday sees the release of The Last Song, a soppy romance about a boy and a girl whose relationship is tested by an event that neither of them can control. Both have bittersweet endings. Both are guaranteed to make girls of a certain age weep uncontrollably. Both are based on books by Nicholas Sparks.
Sorry, that should have read "literary phenomenon Nicholas Sparks". He's made his fortune – and with more than 55m book sales and a run of movies adapted from those books grossing $300m, it is a fortune – by finding out what upsets a...
Last Friday saw the release of Dear John, a soppy romance about a boy and a girl whose relationship is tested by an event that neither of them can control. Next Friday sees the release of The Last Song, a soppy romance about a boy and a girl whose relationship is tested by an event that neither of them can control. Both have bittersweet endings. Both are guaranteed to make girls of a certain age weep uncontrollably. Both are based on books by Nicholas Sparks.
Sorry, that should have read "literary phenomenon Nicholas Sparks". He's made his fortune – and with more than 55m book sales and a run of movies adapted from those books grossing $300m, it is a fortune – by finding out what upsets a...
- 4/22/2010
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
As a theme in Western art, sibling rivalry is as ancient as the Hebrew Bible or the internecine blood feud that shapes the destinies of two sisters in Sophocles’ Antigone. In her utterly absorbing family portrait Prodigal Sons, which won the Fipresci prize at the 2009 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Kimberly Reed (“25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Summer 2007) revisits this archetype with honesty and courage, grappling with questions of identity as she details how life-changing transformations have affected her relationship with adopted brother Marc McKerrow, a soulful hard-luck character who has long felt he was living in her shadow. The wheels are set in motion with Reed’s decision to attend a high-school reunion in her...
- 2/24/2010
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
As a theme in Western art, sibling rivalry is as ancient as the Hebrew Bible or the internecine blood feud that shapes the destinies of two sisters in Sophocles’ Antigone. In her utterly absorbing family portrait Prodigal Sons, which won the Fipresci prize at the 2009 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Kimberly Reed (“25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Summer 2007) revisits this archetype with honesty and courage, grappling with questions of identity as she details how life-changing transformations have affected her relationship with adopted brother Marc McKerrow, a soulful hard-luck character who has long felt he was living in her shadow. The wheels are set in motion with Reed’s decision to attend a high-school reunion in her...
- 2/24/2010
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Stage West presents Liz Lochhead's wry and funny Good Things.
49-year-old Susan is going through what is generally described as a bit of a rough patch. Her husband has left her for a much younger woman, she has lost her job, her father is slipping into senility, and her teenage daughter is behaving like-well-a teenager.
Now she's volunteering in a resale shop, and maintaining a (mostly) cheerful determination not to fall into victimhood, in Liz Lochhead's comedy Good Things, beginning Thursday, October 29 at Stage West's Vickery playhouse.
Susan's co-workers, the nurturing and possibly gay Frazer, and the micro-managing Marjorie, are eager to see Susan's life sorted out in appropriately fairy-tale fashion. They've encouraged her attempts at online and speed-dating, though she herself is less than enthusiastic. It hasn't worked out very well so far; she's currently having to dodge the attentions of one particularly creepy match-up. And then into the shop comes David,...
49-year-old Susan is going through what is generally described as a bit of a rough patch. Her husband has left her for a much younger woman, she has lost her job, her father is slipping into senility, and her teenage daughter is behaving like-well-a teenager.
Now she's volunteering in a resale shop, and maintaining a (mostly) cheerful determination not to fall into victimhood, in Liz Lochhead's comedy Good Things, beginning Thursday, October 29 at Stage West's Vickery playhouse.
Susan's co-workers, the nurturing and possibly gay Frazer, and the micro-managing Marjorie, are eager to see Susan's life sorted out in appropriately fairy-tale fashion. They've encouraged her attempts at online and speed-dating, though she herself is less than enthusiastic. It hasn't worked out very well so far; she's currently having to dodge the attentions of one particularly creepy match-up. And then into the shop comes David,...
- 10/17/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Morning Boxwishers and welcome to what is a very quiet Monday morning on the DVDs front. Y’know how sometimes there are so many new Dvds, you just don’t know which one to choose from? This ain’t one of those days. That’s not to say that what we have, one new DVD and two new Blu-Rays isn’t exciting, it’s just lacking any heavy-hitters, those films that you countdown till they’re available. Instead we have The Lucky Ones, a quirky indie starring lady of the moment Rachel McAdams and, making their Blu-Ray debuts, Angel Heart and La Haine. See, it’s not so bad after all. Click over the jump for more.
If you see… The Lucky Ones, starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Peña (Crash) as three Us soldiers that return from duty in Iraq to find that life has moved on without them.
If you see… The Lucky Ones, starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Peña (Crash) as three Us soldiers that return from duty in Iraq to find that life has moved on without them.
- 8/17/2009
- Boxwish.com
The Falcon Theatre presents the Troubadour Theater Company's Oedipus the King, Mama!, the first production in its 2009-2010 Subscription Season. It's the Maternal Musical that mashes up Sophocles' ?Oedipus the King? with the music of the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley. Oedipus has a Burning Love and he Can't Help Falling in Love with his Mama. So Don't Be Cruel and miss this musical parody by the theater company the Los Angeles Times calls ?The Masters of Musical Spoofery.?...
- 7/17/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Portland State University School Of Fine And Performing Arts and The Department Of Theater Arts Present: Electra by Sophocles Northwest Premiere of a New Adaptation by Frank McGuinness Directed by Devon Allen, performances at Artists Repertory Theatre, Morrison Stage Friday, March 6 - Saturday, March 14, 2009 Tuesday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8 at 2:00 p.m. General admission tickets: $10 Seniors/Students/Psu Students: $8 "Shall there be killing after killing forever?"...
- 2/17/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
I first read about David Lynch and Werner Herzog’s upcoming collaboration at the time of last year’s Cannes festival, before Herzog had even commenced filming on his upcoming Bad Lieutenant do-over. Back then, all that was known was the basic premise: a man believes himself in a Sophocles play and, accordingly, slaughters his mother with a sword. Scenes of the murder will be mixed into the plot line as flashbacks and we’ll get to know the killer very well indeed. I’m assuming the play is Electra, but I may be wrong.
It was also assumed then that Lynch would be the director; now it has been announced that Werner Herzog will be the man in charge. Indeed, Lynch’s role is a rather minor producing engagement. Further to this, we know who is lining up for roles and for the most part, it’s just the crew you might expect.
It was also assumed then that Lynch would be the director; now it has been announced that Werner Herzog will be the man in charge. Indeed, Lynch’s role is a rather minor producing engagement. Further to this, we know who is lining up for roles and for the most part, it’s just the crew you might expect.
- 2/6/2009
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
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