Flop and Fizzle #19: ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE reinvents Gothic literature for the 21st Century
by Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
“I mainly blame Shelley and Byron and some of those French assholes he used to hang around with.”
SUMMER OF STARS #20: Tilda Swinton
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
“I don’t have a career, I have a life.”
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Written and directed by Armando Iannucci
Starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie and Tilda Swinton
Running time: 1 hour and 59 minutes
MPAA rating: PG for thematic material and brief violence
be Ryan Smillie
A Charles Dickens adaptation is supposed to be dreary. Impoverished orphans in factories, delinquent debtors in prison, jilted lovers in faded wedding dresses. And these elements certainly play a major role in Dickens’s novels, through which Dickens sought to expose and satirize the bleak conditions and hidden inequalities of Victorian society. Equally present, however, are the novels’ timeless sense of humor and their unforgettably distinct characters.
Read MoreWomen Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (TCM Documentary)
Written and directed by Mark Cousins (in case there were any doubt)
Featuring Tilda Swinton, Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda and many others
Running time: nearly 7 hours for this first half and about 14 hours in total
Recap of Episodes 1-7
by Fiona Underhill
So - Mark Cousins’s 2011 15-part documentary The Story of Film (shown on TCM in 2013) took us through the entire history of cinema … and barely mentioned women directors… unless they were Leni Riefenstahl. Now he’s back again, to rectify that with a 14-part documentary with the unwieldy title of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, in which Cousins has the nerve to start by saying “film history has been sexist by omission.” Surely the little ladies can’t possibly complain this time? Well.
Read MoreThe Dead Don't Die
Written and Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Starring Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny and a bunch of other people
Runtime 1 hour, 43 minutes
By Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
“Ghouls.” - said in Adam Driver voice is YES.
The world really didn’t need another zombie movie, or as Adam Driver calls them…ghouls. Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, is comprised of several great scenes but ultimately misses the mark, becoming yet another zombie flick added to the ever-growing pile.
Can't Care - Week of April 11, 2016
Welcome to this week’s installment of Can’t Care, Moviejawn’s weekly roundup of all the entertainment news we just can’t care about.
Francis Friel, The Projectionist
AMC. You heard about this, right? This Adam Aron fuckin munch gettin' all this attention, threatening to allow cellphone use in his auditoriums. Because he doesn't want "millennials" to stop going to his theatres, which constitute one of the biggest freakin companies on the planet. You're in no danger, idiot. So I can't care.
Read MoreMy Valentine is Tilda Swinton
by Jaime Davis
The Fixer at Moviejawn
My Valentine is Tilda Swinton. This year and every damn year. I’m just in love with her, you guys. In awe, in fact. I can’t remember when it started exactly. It came on slowly; slowly and then all of a sudden I couldn’t stop thinking about what she was doing or imagining what my name would look like written out as Jaime Davis-Swinton.
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