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Living Through Words - Ethan Hawke on His Career - Poetry - Wildcat
By-the-books biopics are a dime a dozen and often result in a shallow portrait of their subject. But every once in a while you'll get a filmmaker whose film's unconventional form perfectly aligns with the singular talent at its heart. Such is the case with co-writer and director Ethan Hawke's "Wildcat," starring his daughter Maya Hawke as writer Flannery O'Connor, whose sardonic Southern Gothic humor elevated the ordinary lives of the characters in her stories to otherworldly and grotesque he...
Detailed Look at the Cast of The Office
When the British mockumentary sitcom series known as The Office was released in 2001, few could have predicted what a smash hit it would eventually become. By the series’ ten-year anniversary there were no fewer than six different versions of the series around the world, the latest of which was the Israeli show HaMisrad. 1 As of 2023, six additional adaptations have been released, with a few more still in the works. 2 Clearly, there is something about ridiculous bosses and banal office politi...
Election - film by Alexander Payne now Relevant as Ever
From Roger Ebert dot com:There’s an ongoing theme in Alexander Payne’s films -- the people we think are the antagonists aren’t actually bad people; we simply force ourselves into the corner of seeing them that way. From the simple-minded and unfortunately coiffed future in-laws in "About Schmidt" to the adulterous characters in "Sideways" and "The Descendants," to the animosity of the student-teacher relationship at the heart of "The Holdovers," these films all feature cases of the protagonis...
Cleaners in Film and Literature
Cleaners in Film and Literature About The Third Man, a film by Carol Reed that features a cleaner. The Third Man is a 1949 film noir that tells the story of Holly Martins, an American writer who arrives in post-war Vienna to meet his friend Harry Lime, only to find out that he has died in a mysterious car accident. Martins decides to investigate Lime's death and discovers that he was involved in a black market scheme that involved selling diluted penicillin to hospitals, causing many death...
Trip Beyond the House of Craving - A
(Originally written July 10, 2019).PLUS ONE, n. (+) The drug is quite certainly active. The chronology can be determined with some accuracy, but the nature of the drug’s effects are not yet apparent.[1]Shulgin and Shulgin 1990.For some larps it is easy to write about the experience in a way that will make sense to those who were not there. I can describe the events of the larp as a narrative, perhaps focussing on some of the significant set piece moments of the experience, and this will enabl...
Exploring the feud between John Huston and John Wayne
(Credit: Far Out / Wikimedia) Exploring the feud between John Huston and John Wayne Wed 28th Dec 2022 18.30 GMT John Huston, the director of unforgettable masterpieces such as The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of Sierra Madre, has often been called Hollywood’s renaissance man and rightly so. One of the greatest pioneers of American cinema, Huston worked with the biggest icons of t...
Decoding Marilyn Monroe and her legacy in film and culture
When it comes to Hollywood icons, very few have obtained the level of fame and success that Marilyn Monroe reached. Even after all these years, Monroe is undoubtedly one of contemporary culture’s most legendary stars. Born Norma Jean on June 1st, 1926, the actor cemented herself into pop cultural DNA through her onscreen performances of comedic ‘blonde bombshell’ characters, a term synonymous with Monroe. From this, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s. ...
Unforgiven Marked The End Of An Era For Clint Eastwood's Film Career - /Film
Unforgiven Marked The End Of An Era For Clint Eastwood's Film Career Warner Bros. By Jeremy Smith/Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 3:25 pm EST Clint Eastwood is one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world, but it wasn't always thus — especially in America. Having gotten his start on the long-running TV Western "Rawhide,"...
Edith Hern Fossett
Though she wasn’t in Cincinnati long, Edith Fossett managed to make quite an impression through her legacy of bringing the White House kitchen’s French cuisine to Cincinnati’s high society. Edith "Edy" Hern was born in 1787 as Thomas Jefferson’s slave in Monticello. Her parents, also Jefferson’s slaves, were David and Isabel Hern. By her early teens, Edy co-headed the 10×14’ kitchen with her cousin Peter Hemings, who inherited the kitchen duties from his older brother James. When Je...
Ora Buice McKee
Ora McKee Picture it: West Rome, Georgia, in the sweltering summer of 1890. Two houses across the Oostanaula River: one a pristine white cottage—the image of the American Dream—home to budding businessman L. D. McKee, his Atlantan socialite wife Ora Buice (pronounced Busey, as in Gary) McKee, both in their early twenties, and their daughter Clio. The other house was an urban farm—home to middle-aged Mat and Mary Wimpee, two of their daughters, two boarders, a dairy cow, and some chi...
Safe sex scenes | Modern Times Review
Safe sex scenesSEX: Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it means for women in the real world.Review written by Lauren WissotJuly 7, 2022For most of its history, Hollywood has been globally gaslighting the world, exporting the lie that the male gaze is somehow always benign or «neutral,» when of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. Fortunately, we now have Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s (Wonder Women! ...
Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon Is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material by Ryan Coleman
Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon Is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material by Ryan Colemanhttps://lithub.com/claire-deniss-stars-at-noon-is-a-cunning-improvement-on-the-source-material/Elusive, elliptical, sinewy, and instinctual. Her films often start after the action’s begun and end before it feels over. They give the impression of being granted temporary access to a raging world, one whose problems can’t be solved, whose social codes can’t be fully ascertained, and whose figures recede e...
The Personal Connection Behind M. Night Shyamalan's Constant Bruce Willis Casting
The Personal Connection Behind M. Night Shyamalan's Constant Bruce Willis Casting Buena Vista Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/May 24, 2022 9:23 am EDT No matter what you think of M. Night Shyamalan as a filmmaker, the one thing you can't deny is the man has ambition. Do you know how talented you have to be when your fir...
10 Actors Who Portrayed Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh is one of history’s most beloved artists. Thanks to his well-known masterpieces such as Starry Night, Sunflowers, and The Yellow Room, it’s hard to believe that the Dutch artist sold only a couple of paintings during his lifetime. He was a prolific artist who created over 850 paintings and over 1,300 sketches in his unique style. While creating this immense body of work, the Dutch artist suffered through waves of mental illness. His popularity soared after his death and it on...
Call Me by Your Name's Director Defends Straight Casting, No Nudity
Ad filmCall Me by Your Name's Director Defends Straight Casting, No NudityLuca Guadagnino stood by his decision to cast Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in the iconic gay parts. BY Daniel Reynolds Monday, September 14, 2020 - 13:45 The director of Call Me By Your Name has defended his decision to cast straight actors as the film's gay leads. Luca Guadagnino, in a Friday interview with The Independent promoting his new Salvatore Ferragamo biopic, Shoemaker of Dream...
The Second Life of John Frankenheimer's Seconds
Rock Hudson — rock as stoneStone HuddaughterStone Son (penis?)What IF…?What if…? is more than a new Marvel series. It’s the question that underpins so much great science fiction. What if the hierarchies of biological evolution were upended? What if artificial intelligences rebelled? What if humans colonized new worlds or mastered time travel? And what if—in the case of John Frankenheimer’s 1966 brilliant body-horror science-fiction paranoiac thriller Seconds—any of us could have a second shot...
Nicolas Cage: Acting genius or mindless meme?
MusicFilmTravelArtPlaylists (Credit: Alamy) 14 hours ago Calum Russell Nicolas Cage: Acting genius or mindless meme? Teetering the line between experimental innovator and cinematic provocateur, Nicolas Cage is an acting enigma whose influences supposedly lie in the very earliest forms of the craft. This is certainly hard to believe when he flails his body across the street in Vampire’s Kiss, screaming: "I’m a va...
Year of the Month: Roland Saint-Laurent on LOOK WHO’S TALKING
Part of the late ’80s mini-wave of baby movies, which includes 1987’s Baby Boom and Three Men and a Baby, and 1989’s long-awaited Ghostbusters 2, Look Who’s Talking is, for my money, the most tolerable of the bunch thanks to writer-director Amy Heckerling’s script, which has some solid jokes and manages to avoid being overly cutesy given the premise. The story concerns single mother Mollie (Kirstie Alley), her son Mikey, and cab driver/part-time pilot/general loser James (John Travolta, in hi...
Isn’t Everything Autobiographical?: Ethan Hawke In Nine Films And A Novel by Marya Gates
When asked during his first ever on-camera interview if he’d like to continue acting, a young Ethan Hawke replied, "I don’t know if it’s going to be there, but I’d like to do it." He then gives a guileless shrug of relief as the interview ends, wiping imaginary sweat off his brow. The simultaneous fusion of his nervous energy and poised body language will be familiar to those who’ve seen later interviews with the actor. The practicality and wisdom he exudes at such a young age would prove to ...
Leonard Harris, TV Critic With Star Turn, Dies at 81 - The New York Times
SectionsSEARCHSkip to contentSkip to site indexTelevisionLog inMonday, July 27, 2020SUBSCRIBE NOWLog InToday’s PaperTelevision|Leonard Harris, Television Critic, Dies at 81Supported byContinue reading the main storyLeonard Harris, Television Critic, Dies at 81By Daniel E. SlotnikAug. 31, 2011Leonard Harris, an arts and theater critic for New York’s CBS television affiliate who had his own dramatic turn playing a senator in Martin Scorsese’s classic film "Taxi Driver," died on Sunday in Hartfo...
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