Revolutionary Road
Running time 119 minutes
Written by Justin Haythe
Directed by Sam Mendes
Starring Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kathy Bates, David Shannon
Revolutionary Road, under the detailed, sharp-eyed guidance of Sam Mendes, is a flawless, moment-to-moment autopsy of a marriage on the rocks and an indictment Read More
The preview for Revolutionary Road, which opens Dec. 26, is one of those rare and wondrous pieces of promotion that tells you everything you need to know about a movie without really telling you anything at all. There’s beautiful Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, gleaming in their mid-’50s-era costumes, smoking, sighing, drinking, dancing, screaming, kissing Read More
When Zoe Kazan walked in to audition for the role of Maureen Grube in Sam Mendes’ adaptation of Revolutionary Road, the tragic Richards Yates novel about 1950s suburban angst, the casting director gave her a swift, appraising glance and declared her too young.
After all, Ms. Kazan—with her big hopeful blue Read More
Here at the Culture Czar, we’ve had our eye on Revolutionary Road for some time. Academy Award winner Sam Mendes’ adaptation of the depressingly awesome Richard Yates novel, which reunites doomed Titanic lovers Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, seems like it should be a guaranteed home run: high-pedigree Oscar bait that will also be Read More
This week, the Observer published a letter from one Ms. Elizabeth Tomelleri of Springfield, Mo., in which she wondered “what bitter pills” The Transom might have swallowed in its “personal life” to result in such “acidic, below-the-belt, mean-spirited, hypercritical comments” from its pen. (Pen!)
Dear Ms. Tomelleri,
1. The Reagan funeral. It really did Read More
The Dying Gaul is Gaslight with e-mail. As a first-time directorial effort by writer Craig Lucas, it’s an imaginative, compelling and respectable failure, a psychological, postmodern film noir with plenty of conflict and no resolution, better suited to the stage than screen. But it says something about the dreams and disillusionments of Hollywood, and even Read More
As the most famous line in Broadway musical history goes, “Sing out, Louise!” And so I shall. The revival of Gypsy at the Shubert Theatre is triumphant in every way. The best backstage musical ever created touches greatness in the central performance of Bernadette Peters as the ultimate stage mother, Momma Rose. Tabloid gossip and Read More
As we take our seats for Twelfth Night or Uncle Vanya , playing in repertory at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, we see projected on the back wall of each set the same unifying message: “O learn to read what silent love hath writ.” Hmmm, we surely think. Food for thought there!
Sam Mendes, the Read More
Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition , from a screenplay by David Self, based on the graphic novel written by Max Allan Collins and illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner, had received so much advance adulation by the time I saw it that I felt Mr. Mendes could be forgiven for already rehearsing his second Oscar-acceptance speech Read More
As I say, when the English catch a whiff of the sewer, they’re in heaven. The excitingly revisionist, flawed and appropriately sordid production of Cabaret , which comes to us via acclaim in London, is a case of nostalgie de la boue run riot. Its hot English director, Sam Mendes, takes no prisoners; his style Read More
