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For our series “From the Vault”, which looks back on old movies worth revisiting, Laura Anne Harris reviews Paul Mazursky’s impressively forward-thinking 1970s film An Unmarried Woman.
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Alex Heeney looks at the performances, costumes, and blocking in the Coen Brothers’ glorious Hail, Caesar and how it was heavily influenced by Golden Age Hollywood musicals.By returning to mine an earlier age, the Coens provide a rare vehicle for today’s stars.
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First-time director Anna Rose Holmer discusses The Fits and how working with the New York City ballet influenced her film. She also discusses using sound and editing to tell the story, and the shooting rules she set for herself.
[Read more…] about Anna Rose Holmer on her Sundance hit The FitsWriter-director Maggie Greenwald’s Sophie and the Rising Sun is an unconventional period piece about race, public and private spaces, and romance. Set in 1941 in the South, the mysterious arrival of a badly beaten Japanese man disrupts small town life. Greenwald talked to us about adapting the novel, the importance of costumes and locations, and more.
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Kurzel takes his cues from the text, but he expresses his ideas about the text through images and sounds — the whistling wind, the clashing swords, and the ghostly hooded figures — rather than through the dialogue. The verse, in Kurzel’s hands, is barely even identifiable as poetry. But what is Shakespeare without the unforgettable language?
[Read more…] about Kurzel’s Macbeth emphasizes tone over textCrimson Peak is a sensory feast rather than a character drama. In this, the film takes its cue from the mechanics of gothic literature, which is less about plot and more about atmosphere.
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