JoBlo (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
I recently saw James Gray's epic cop drama WE OWN THE NIGHT and was surprised at much I enjoyed it. Wahlberg was his usual stellar self and Joaquin Phoenix gave a fiery performance as a brother torn. So normally, a poster such as the one below, for a film called TWO LOVERS--a romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his sketchy new neighbor--would...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
"At May's Festival de Cannes, buyers rushed to see the latest work from three American auteurs: Steven Soderbergh's Che, James Gray's Two Lovers and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York," recalls the Hollywood Reporter's Gregg Goldstein. "But the fest ended...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Two months after garnering a raft of enthusiastic notices and a best-actor award for its star, Benicio Del Toro, Steven Soderbergh's $65-million Che has still been unable to ...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
I believe this Hollywood Reporter story on the struggles faced by several American Cannes premieres to find a stateside distributor is the first notice that 2929 Entertainment has decided to give James Gray’ s Two Lovers to Magnolia to distribute. The film famously drew mixed reactions in Cannes; I gave it a thumbs up with some reservations, whilst the very idea of waiting in line for it drove Lisa...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - At the Cannes Film Festival in May, buyers rushed to see the latest work from three noted American filmmakers: Steven Soderbergh's "Che," James Gray's "Two Lovers" and Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York."
Reuters (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - At the Cannes Film Festival in May, buyers rushed to see the latest work from three noted American filmmakers: Steven Soderbergh's "Che," James Gray's "Two Lovers" and Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York."
Gossip Thug - GossipThug.com (Free subscription) | 31/05/2008
The totally accidental mystery of the angry critic who stormed out of a crowded Cannes screening of Two Lovers rather than "wait an hour for fucking [director] James Gray " was put to rest this afternoon at Entertainment Weekly , where critic Lisa Schwarzbaum copped to the outburst we once guessed came from Manohla Dargis . "And since I'm giving PopWatch readers a spectacular scoop, let me tell you...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
Who was the “major U.S. critic” who allegedly “stormed away from a mobbed, delayed 10:30 p.m. Cannes press screening of Two Lovers declaring she’s ‘not going to wait an hour for f—–g [director] James Gray’”? After allowing the blogosphere to stew on it for a week and a half, EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum uses the Pop Watch blog to come clean. ” stormed away from a mobbed, delayed 10:30 p.m. Cannes press screening...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
In chronological order: James Toback’s Tyson Indiana Jones premiere, and Everything is Fine In the market: Uwe Boll goes to Vietnam How to throw a renegade karaoke party in Cannes In the market: Sex and Breakfast Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne James Gray's Two Lovers Che distribution speculation, and the French Forrest Gump Pre-Che jitters Post-Che fallout Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours and Terrence...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Filed under: Drama , Romance , Cannes , Theatrical Reviews , Festival Reports , Cinematical Indie In James Gray's Two Lovers , Leonard ( Joaquin Phoenix ) is torn between two women, each of whom is right for him, and wrong for him, in different ways. When we meet Leonard, he's jumping into the river in a suicide attempt; he changes his mind at the last minute, struggling to the surface and gasping...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
Arts & entertainment: French director Laurent Cantet is surprise winner of festival's top prize, while British drama Hunger is named best first feature
HOME (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
Joaquin Phoenix missed the premiere of his new movie 'Two Lovers' in Cannes, France, after he was hospitalised with stomach problems. The actor couldn't attend the red-carpet event at the world famous film festival alongside co-star Gwyneth Paltrow on Monday (19.05.08) because he was "massively dehydrated", according to the movie's director James Gray. In a statement, Joaquin admitted he was "very...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
French director Laurent Cantet is surprise winner of festival's top prize, while British drama Hunger is named best first feature
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Philippe Garrel's Competition entry, Frontier of Dawn, is "a story of amour gone so fou that the natural world becomes subject to the supernatural. Hands down the most accessible Garrel film I've seen, it's still a strange, swoony, genre-bending challenge,"...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Philippe Garrel unveils his latest, a romance bordering on a horror film about fear of so-called "bourgeois happiness."
