The Weinstein Bros. are in talks with a slate of Hollywood song-and-dance types to star in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Nine.
According to Variety, The Weinstein Company is negotiating with Penelope Cruz, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sophia Loren, Javier Bardem and newcomer Marion Cotillard (who recently played Edith Piaf in the highly-praised biopic, Read More
Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña Santa (“The Holy Girl”), from her own screenplay, slithers along as a highly controlled sex comedy that is unusually civilized in comparison to the more prevalent crudities in movies these days. With her first two films (the first was 2001′s La Ciénaga), Ms. Martel, not yet 40, has demonstrated a mastery Read More
Fellini’s Boys
I am always surprised to discover how few of Federico Fellini’s professed American admirers have ever seen I Vitelloni (1953), which Criterion has just released in a strikingly chiaroscuro restored new print. As it happens, I consider I Vitelloni to be his funniest and most emotionally coherent cinematic achievement. Fellini (1920-1993) had Read More
Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions , from his own screenplay, was moderately well received at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, winning two major awards. It was also one of the highlights of last month’s New York Film Festival, and yet there remains a residue of nagging condescension towards Mr. Arcand’s film, namely of the “if-you-like-tearjerkers-you’ll-like-this” Read More
Terence Stamp does not own a house. He told me this as we sat in the deserted Park Avenue Plaza atrium on 53rd Street between Park and Madison avenues. “My home is my head, really,” Mr. Stamp said with a shy smile. What a dwelling. Time has kindly turned his once boyishly pretty face into Read More
Anita Ekberg, the Fellini star who famously loses herself in the Trevi Fountain after a night of Roman high life in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita , opened the door of her suite at the Pierre hotel in the late morning of April 28. Like a panther in a jungle not her own, Ms. Read More
Beginning April 16, the Museum of Modern Art will present four months of exhibitions devoted to the art of Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) to celebrate the centennial of one of the world’s most fondly remembered filmmakers, and possibly its most exhaustively studied. A full retrospective of his films will run from April 16 through June 15 Read More
Hermine Huntgeburth’s The Trio , from a screenplay by Horst Sczerba, Volker Einrauch and Ms. Huntgeburth, bounces along on the screen with a shifting array of attractions and affinities in line with the current mini-trend toward bisexual triangles. I wouldn’t recommend this film to Jerry Falwell, who has recently warned us of the peril to Read More
