I've been racing around this week from interview to interview. You'll start seeing them as soon as I can catch my breath. For numerous reasons my mind kept leaping back to last year's precursor season when I met with Kirsten Dunst while she was on the promotional circuit for the true crime romantic drama All Good Things. Her name popped up Wednesday while I was talking with Ben Foster (Rampart) -- he's a past co-star and endearingly describes himself as "a silly fan of Kirsten" -- and Melancholia is never far from my mind as one of the most provocative and essential films of 2011. Her mysterious bewitching lead role as a severely depressed bride has, at this point, not garnered as much Best Actress traction as the performance merits, but there's little doubt that her career is most decidedly back on track. I read yesterday that she'd just joined the...
- 11/18/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
at the NYC premiere
of All Good Things.It might sound silly to say, but seeing her in the flesh is something of a shock. Kirsten Dunst has been in the movies for many years, and she's made such indelible mark in them, whether as a child vampire, an unknowable teen dream, a disciplined cheerleader, a superhero's better half and so on; one half expects her to flicker when one meets her,as if she's being projected still. But there she was earlier this month at a New York City luncheon honoring her heartbreaking work in All Good Things. Her image did not fade or dissolve but remained steady in medium shot. She ate, she sipped, she walked around the room talking with reporters, friends and peers.
There was, however, a close-up. We shook hands and exchanged a few pleasantries. Then she was whisked off, not by a sharp edit,...
of All Good Things.It might sound silly to say, but seeing her in the flesh is something of a shock. Kirsten Dunst has been in the movies for many years, and she's made such indelible mark in them, whether as a child vampire, an unknowable teen dream, a disciplined cheerleader, a superhero's better half and so on; one half expects her to flicker when one meets her,as if she's being projected still. But there she was earlier this month at a New York City luncheon honoring her heartbreaking work in All Good Things. Her image did not fade or dissolve but remained steady in medium shot. She ate, she sipped, she walked around the room talking with reporters, friends and peers.
There was, however, a close-up. We shook hands and exchanged a few pleasantries. Then she was whisked off, not by a sharp edit,...
- 1/1/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
All Good Things, though it has all the ingredients necessary to make a perverse thriller a la Psycho (even paying some obtuse homage to said film in the third act), never quite finds a way to mold fact and fiction into a wholly-satisfying piece of cinema.
Based on the strange true story of Robert Durst, eldest son of real estate tycoon Seymour Durst, and his wife Katie Durst, who dissapeared mysteriously in 1982, the film wants everybody watching to understand how deep young Robert’s problems run. And how deeply it affects those around him. Primarily his wife, whose body has yet to be found.
Robert Durst is renamed David Marks in the film and played by Ryan Gosling. It’s clear why the young performer jumped at the role. Unfortunately, he jumps a bit too high, playing Marks less as a human character and more like a Psychology 101 experiment. What’s eating David Marks?...
Based on the strange true story of Robert Durst, eldest son of real estate tycoon Seymour Durst, and his wife Katie Durst, who dissapeared mysteriously in 1982, the film wants everybody watching to understand how deep young Robert’s problems run. And how deeply it affects those around him. Primarily his wife, whose body has yet to be found.
Robert Durst is renamed David Marks in the film and played by Ryan Gosling. It’s clear why the young performer jumped at the role. Unfortunately, he jumps a bit too high, playing Marks less as a human character and more like a Psychology 101 experiment. What’s eating David Marks?...
- 12/5/2010
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
.All Good Things. is inspired by the true-life story of Robert Durst, the son of the late New York real estate mogul Seymour Durst, and brother of commercial developer Douglas Durst.
In 1973, Durst married Kathleen McCormack who vanished in 1982. Then, on December 24, 2000, Durst.s long-time friend, Susan Berman, was found murdered. Was he to blame for both murders?
The complexities of Durst.s life was put under the microscope in .All Good Things.. It.s the first full-feature narrative movie of Andrew Jarecki, who gave us the powerful 2003 documentary .Capturing the Friedmans..
The names have been changed, of course, but the powerful, intriguing dynamics of the story remain the same.
In the film, Ryan Gosling is the Robert Durst character, David Marks, and Kirsten Dunst is his wife, Katie Marks. The movie works because of the chemistry of the two lead actors. .All Good Things. is a gripping love story with a Hitchcockian twist.
In 1973, Durst married Kathleen McCormack who vanished in 1982. Then, on December 24, 2000, Durst.s long-time friend, Susan Berman, was found murdered. Was he to blame for both murders?
The complexities of Durst.s life was put under the microscope in .All Good Things.. It.s the first full-feature narrative movie of Andrew Jarecki, who gave us the powerful 2003 documentary .Capturing the Friedmans..
The names have been changed, of course, but the powerful, intriguing dynamics of the story remain the same.
In the film, Ryan Gosling is the Robert Durst character, David Marks, and Kirsten Dunst is his wife, Katie Marks. The movie works because of the chemistry of the two lead actors. .All Good Things. is a gripping love story with a Hitchcockian twist.
- 12/4/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
All Good Things
Starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst
Directed by Andrew Jarecki
Rated R
Director Andrew Jarecki, (director/producer of Capturing the Friedmans) along with writers Marc Smerling and Marcus Hinchey, based this love-story-gone-wrong on the strange events surrounding the disappearance of a woman named Kathleen Durst in 1982. Wife to the wealthy heir of the Durst real estate fortune, Robert Durst, Kathleen's body was never found. Despite the correlation between her case and two homicides almost twenty years later, Robert Durst was never tried for her murder, and lives as a free, if not haunted man to this day.
Jarecki and fellow writers conducted in-depth research into this mysterious case, but their aim was not to merely present facts. “We didn’t try to replicate the exact history, but worked to capture the emotion and complexity of this love story turned unsolved mystery that has for years been kept hidden from public view.
Starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst
Directed by Andrew Jarecki
Rated R
Director Andrew Jarecki, (director/producer of Capturing the Friedmans) along with writers Marc Smerling and Marcus Hinchey, based this love-story-gone-wrong on the strange events surrounding the disappearance of a woman named Kathleen Durst in 1982. Wife to the wealthy heir of the Durst real estate fortune, Robert Durst, Kathleen's body was never found. Despite the correlation between her case and two homicides almost twenty years later, Robert Durst was never tried for her murder, and lives as a free, if not haunted man to this day.
Jarecki and fellow writers conducted in-depth research into this mysterious case, but their aim was not to merely present facts. “We didn’t try to replicate the exact history, but worked to capture the emotion and complexity of this love story turned unsolved mystery that has for years been kept hidden from public view.
- 11/29/2010
- by Olivia Briggs
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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