The studios tended to focus all their energy on the young rising actresses, while the established veterans fell into the trap and started to receive inferior scripts once they reached a certain age. We can easily affirm to this viewpoint when discussing Bette’s case. After the unexpected succe...
Gaudoni, Zhang, andOzonshow it's still possible to make small movies with distinctive national characteristics in the age of the madcoproduction. For a new definition of that category, try the film that opened theBerlinfest,WimWenders'sThe Million Dollar Hotel.This Vicki Baum for the video ge...
“Green Book,”“Bohemian Rhapsody,”“Roma” and “The Kominsky Method” were among the big winners of the night. But the acceptance speeches were only a small part of the night’s most memorable moments, with others belonging to Emma Stone, Patricia Arqu...
Readers of a certain age will remember Cop and a Half as belonging to that peculiar subset of high-concept, soft-centred, family-friendly films that would screen, without fail, on Bank Holiday afternoon terrestrial TV. See:Ghost Dad,K-9,Three Fugitives,Vice Versa,Three Men and a Little Lad...
11 Perhaps an analogy with what happens to us when we visit the theater will make this instinctive correlation clearer. In the theater, you are aware of the actors and actresses, costumes and sets, sounds and movements. All these give one the sense that the theater is a pleasant place to...
‘Yes, offstage these actresses can be very stiff. Actually,theyare more strictly brought up than the young ladies nowadays.They’re so afraid of their teacher. There’s also their parents, usually very old-fashioned, these northern theatre people.’ ...