Oscar roulette: or, don’t forget the year ‘Crash’ won
QUICK VIEW- Who will win? Best Picture | Director | Actor | Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting actress | Screenplay For a few weeks every year, people who aren’t even that interested in movies get...
View ArticleThe return of a great lost movie — David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’
David Fincher should have won the best directing Oscar Sunday night in Hollywood — he’s long overdue — but an even more egregious oversight occurred in 2007 when he wasn’t even nominated for “Zodiac.”...
View ArticleVogue cover girl Rooney Mara: starving herself into stardom?
The November issue of Vogue has an unsettling cover story on the actress Rooney Mara, who was plucked from obscurity by director David Fincher to star in his forthcoming screen version of Stieg...
View Article‘Dragon Tattoo’: a less than lateral move by David Fincher
Maybe it just isn’t a story I needed to be told three times. Or, perhaps I expected a lot more from the visionary director of “The Social Network” and “Zodiac” and “Fight Club.” Whatever the reason, I...
View Article‘House of Cards’: another reason not to go to the movies
The shift of adult storytelling from big Hollywood movies to TV keeps gaining momentum. Recently in this space I wrote about Brett Martin’s wonderful, forthcoming book, “Difficult Men,” about the way...
View ArticleIs Ben Affleck the right actor for Nick Dunne in ‘Gone Girl’?
With everyone having immediate opinions about everything now — and sharing them on social media a moment later — it’s not surprising that huge controversies swirl around announcements of major movie...
View ArticleRent it now: Mussolini’s secret lover (and their son)
Although Marco Bellochio’s fantastic bio-pic “Vincere” received only limited theatrical distribution in this country in 2010, Giovanna Mezzogiorno’s awesome performance as Benito Mussolini’s mistress...
View Article‘Gone Girl’: when a bestseller becomes a popular film
Whatever you might think of it as a movie, the financial success of “Gone Girl” last weekend was a cheering development for those who wish there were more big studio movies aimed at adult audiences....
View Article‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’: master class
As a piece of film history, and an in-depth analysis of the art of moviemaking, it’s hard to beat the Kent Jones documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut.” The movie had a limited theatrical release in 2015,...
View Article‘Mindhunter’: another reason to stay home
Film director David Fincher more or less launched the streaming series revolution with “House of Cards” – and the idea of making a whole season of shows available at once — and he’s back with a...
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