This year’s New York Film Festival opened Friday night with a screening of French director Laurent Cantet’s The Class.
The film, which has already won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, focuses on a multicultural classroom in Paris’ rapidly gentrifying 20th Arrondissement. With the exception of the role of the teacher, who is Read More
Trumbo
Running time 96 minutes
Written by Christopher Trumbo
Directed by Peter Askin
Starring Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas and others
Peter Askin’s Trumbo is based on the play, Trumbo, by Christopher Trumbo, and is clearly a labor of love and ideological affinity for all the Read More
Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons are coupling up for a return to Broadway. The Tony winners (and experts in aging gracefully) will get back on stage together in the world premiere of Impressionism, a new American play by Michael Jacobs (Cheaters), according to BroadwayWorld.com. The production, about a jet-setting photojournalist and a New York Read More
BONNEVILLE
Running Time 93 minutes
Directed by Christopher N. Rowley
Written by Daniel D. Davis
Starring Jessica Lange, Joan Allen, Kathy Bates
Christopher N. Rowley’s Bonneville, from a screenplay by Daniel D. Davis, based on a story by Mr. Rowley and Mr. Davis, is the first feature film by writer-director Read More
On a recent blustery February morning, Jessica Lange and Joan Allen sat at a conference table, joking around with each other about the ills of fluorescent lighting. The two women co-star, along with Kathy Bates, in Bonneville, a film about three friends who drive from Utah to Southern California after Ms. Lange’s character’s husband passes Read More
At last, we have a winner. The Upside of Anger is an emotional reality check that is profound, laugh-out-loud funny, articulate and shattering. It’s the kind of realistic movie you rarely see on the screen these days, with real people saying truthful things, a script that provides believable situations and still manages to look fresh Read More
MoMA Enemy No. 1: STELLA!
As far as gratuitous millennium museum shows go, the Museum of Modern Art’s self-involved MoMA2000 got its fair share of panning in the press when it opened in the fall of 1999. The show was a way to air out the collection for the public–and, some say, to cure curator Read More
