100% This one is about carpe diem and, when not having done so, vainly wanting to be someone else instead. It is also about trying to look at life through others eyes and then eventually trying to control them. That this can never work is the source of the plotting and character development here. There are also issues of the lonely desire to discover what it is like to be the other sex. And also about...
Into the Wild (2007) This movie was directed by Sean Penn who does a bit of gorilla filmmaking in this picture. The lead character in this story is played by actor Emile Hirsch, from such movies as Speed Racer (2008). His talent shines through as Chris McCandless a young man who turns his back on the [...]
Pedro Almodóvar's latest lampoons the movie industry. But making a film about a world that you know can prove tricky, writes Charles Gant Plenty of people harbour the illusion that their lives would make great material for a movie, so we shouldn't be too surprised that film-makers feel the same way. The only difference is that they are more likely to be right. And while we civilians sometimes...
Play director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is at somewhat of a moot point in his life. His wife Adele (played by Catherine Keener), whom despises him, and has taken their younger Olive with her as she heads to the German art scene. He has unresolved sexual tension with a range of other women, from psychologist Hope Davis to box office clerk Samantha Morton to one of the actresses he is directing,...
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To see the existing cast members, see my earlier post. Silena Beauregard (Daughter of Aphrodite) Chelan Simmons Luke (Son of Heremes) Jake Abel Hades Steve Coogen Persephone (Wife of Hades) Rosario Dawson Aphrodite Serinda Swan Sally Jackson (Percy’s Mom) Catherine Keener
Left to right: Tammy playing Hazel (Emily Watson), Hazel ( Samantha Morton), Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Sammy Barnathan playing Caden Cotard (Tom Noonan). Image source: Culch.ie . Synecdoche, New York is a weird film, but that's what you'd expect from something both written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Spike Jonze originally developed the project with Kaufman intending to direct it...
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Charlie Kaufman is one of the great figures of modern century. Genius would not be inappropriate for a man who has written the joy that is Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; three of my favourite movies of all time. His first movie to direct, Synecdoche, New York was released [...]
As a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has become a byword for cinematic jiggery-pokery, a master of tricky, self-reflexive storytelling who has bamboozled viewers with his scripts for such mind-bending movies as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. For Synecdoche, New York, his first film as a director, he’s come up with [...]
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. David O. Russell's next picture will be called NAILED, a romantic comedy already starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel. Russell co-wrote with Kristin Gore. Marsden plays boyfriend to Biel's character, a waitress who gets a nail shot into her head causing erratic behavior. Biel decides to take up a fight for health care and travels to Washington to push for change. While
Catherine Ann Keener is an Emmy nominated and two times Academy Award nominated American actress. She is a close friend of Brad Pitt, from the time he was married to Jennifer Aniston and she is the mother of Clyde Keener Mulroney. Her famous quote is: “Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part … they don’t look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.”