Last week, The Third Stringer had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Day-Lewis and have a chat. How could she say no?
“For the most part I try to hear the voice, which is one of the most deep and personal ways we present our very selves. It’s like a fingerprint of Read More
“The writers’ strike has had no visible effect on my Hanukkah,” said comedian Andy Samberg at Brasserie 8 1/2 on Monday, Dec. 10, during a party before the premiere of There Will Be Blood. He and Saturday Night Live colleagues Bill Hader, Rachel Dratch and Amy Poehler were all there in support of fellow cast Read More
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Running Time 158 minutes
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano
Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, from his own screenplay, is based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, the muckraking writer and anti-capitalist activist. The film’s narrative seems very Read More
“I’m totally getting my ass kicked,” said Paul Dano, the 23-year-old actor known as the silent-oath-taking, Nietzsche-obsessed older brother in last year’s Academy Award-winning hit Little Miss Sunshine. He was discussing his current role as Charlie, a heartbroken college dropout, in the Ethan Hawke-directed, Off Broadway play Things We Want, currently in previews at the Read More
Some people are good at what they do. Other people are better. Bobby Short was the best. Preserving the art of the Great American Songbook was his life’s work, and nobody did more for the cause. When cabaret queen Mabel Mercer, his friend and sometime musical partner, died in 1984, he remarked sadly, “Half of Read More
There is a moment in Jim Sheridan’s incandescent The Boxer that reveals, in a single, perfectly timed edit, what a movie can do. It is a tiny moment, but a moment of truth nevertheless, and it is worth all the goggle-eyed reaction shots, all the cartoon gestures and music-soaked shtick of a Spielberg. It comes Read More
Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown , from a screenplay by Mr. Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard, is too good an action movie to be dumped in Santa’s bag with all the impossibly numerous movie bonbons and stale fruitcakes of this holiday season. Mr. Tarantino has returned after a long directorial hiatus Read More
