Filmmaker Jane Campion’s neo-Western “The Power Of The Dog” is one of the year’s most anticipated films. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the cruel and fiercely repressed rancher Phil Burbank, it gracefully lays bare the emotion and agony of those living alongside him on a Montana cattle ranch in the 1920s.Through his fraught relationships with brother George (Jesse Plemons), […]
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass—Oscar Winner Oliver Stone’s New Inflammatory Political Documentary
October 2, 2021 by
Cannes Film Fest 2021 (World Premiere) “The U.S. blockade of Cuba and the Cold War with the Soviet Union could have both ended in 1963 had President John Fitzgerald Kennedy not been assassinated,” controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone say in a recent interview. Stone spoke about those inflammatory events of the Kennedy assassination at the 2021 […]
Power of the Dog, The: Jane Campion
October 2, 2021 by
Television was where you had your freedom. You could really almost do anything. Nobody would shut you down. Discuss any topic, be as crazy as you want. It was fantastic for that. Cinema is a lot more conservative.
Card Counter, The: Tye Sheridan–Next Big Thing
September 17, 2021 by
Tye Sheridan was an 11-year-old kid from Texas when he was cast in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, an experience he compares to “summer camp.” He wasn’t expected to learn lines or even give a performance, but Malick’s set put him on a trajectory towards Jeff Nichols’ Mud and David Gordon Green’s Joe, which cemented his decision to become an actor.
Mainstream: Gia Coppola on her Venice Fest Film and Social Media
September 16, 2021 by
Venice: Gia Coppola on Her “Satirical Fable” ‘Mainstream’ and the Perils of Social Media Inset: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, and Andrew Garfield star as outsiders who become unlikely social media celebrities in Coppola’s follow-up to her critically-acclaimed debut ‘Palo Alto.’ It took Gia Coppola a while to join the family business. The […]
