Denis Villeneuve Co-writer, Producer, Director of Dune: Part Two Waxes Eloquently About His Sprawling Creation by Brad Balfour In light of the climate change events affecting humanity lately – from intense wildfires in Los Angeles to the shock snowfalls in the South to the sudden deep freeze on the East Coast – the literary Dune … Continue reading
DUNE: PART TWO (2024) Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem, Souheila Yacoub, Anya Taylor-Joy, Roger Yuan, Babs Olusanmokun, Alison Halstead, Giusi Merli, Kait Tenison, Tara Breathnach and Akiko Hitomi. Screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts. Directed … Continue reading
DUNE (2021) Starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Babs Olusanmokun and Benjamin Clementine. Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. … Continue reading
RED SPARROW (2018) Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson, Bill Camp, Jeremy Irons, Thekla Reuten, Douglas Hodge, Sakina Jaffrey, Sergei Polunin, Sasha Frolova, Sebastian Hülk, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nicole O’Neill, Kristof Konrad and Chris O’Hara. Screenplay by Justin Haythe. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Distributed by 20th Century … Continue reading
45 YEARS (2015) Starring Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley, Sam Alexander and Richard Cunningham. Screenplay by Andrew Haigh. Directed by Andrew Haigh. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 93 minutes. Rated R. How well can you ever know a person? Even if you have spent decades living together, and are considered by … Continue reading
Young & Beautiful (Jeune et Jolie) We first see Isabelle (Marine Vacth), the teenaged heroine of French director François Ozon’s latest filmYoung & Beautiful, from a distance, shown through binoculars. We watch, through the eyes of some unknown pervert, we suppose, as she lays down a towel on a deserted stretch of beach in the French … Continue reading
Geoffrey Rush, Fred Schepisi & Alexandra Schepisi Heading Into The Eye of the Storm by Jay S. Jacobs Copyright ©2012 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved.Posted: September 6, 2012. For decades, people have been trying to figure out a way to translate the works of treasured Australian novelist (and Nobel Prize Winner) Patrick White – with no … Continue reading
THE EYE OF THE STORM (2012) Starring Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, Alexandra Schepisi, Maria Theodorakis, Helen Morse, John Gaden, Colin Friels, Robyn Nevin and Dustin Clare. Screenplay by Judy Morris. Directed by Fred Schepisi. Distributed by Sycamore Entertainment. 119 minutes. Rated R. The novels of Patrick White, an Australian Nobel laureate in the … Continue reading
SHARON STONE BASIC INSTINCTS AROUSED AGAIN by Brad Balfour For Sharon Stone, the first Basic Instinct film, directed by Paul Verhoeven, was quite an odyssey; it established her as a provocative sex symbol, an actress willing to open herself up (and her legs) for the camera. In that film, she played a lesbian crime novelist accused of … Continue reading
SWIMMING POOL (2003) Starring Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour, Mirielle Mossé, Michel Fau, Jean-Claude Lecas, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Erarde Forestali, Lauren Farrow, Sebastian Harcombe, Frances Cuka, Keith Yeates and Tricia Aileen. Screenplay by François Ozon and Emmanuelle Bernheim. Directed by François Ozon. Distributed by Focus Features. 102 minutes. Rated R. Sarah, … Continue reading
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