Orders from the Pope make a Catholic work quick: right after Killers of the Flower Moon‘s Cannes premiere Martin Scorsese visited Pope Francis and, in his own words, “responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.” In just eight months’ time it’s come to light, via an LA Times profile, that Scorsese penned a script with frequent collaborator Kent Jones, of many documentaries and forthcoming Marilynne Robinson adaptations, taking as source Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus, wherein the Silence author’s stated intent was “to make Jesus understandable in terms of the religious psychology of my non-Christian countrymen and thus to demonstrate that Jesus is not alien to their religious sensibilities.” Shooting is expected to commence this year.
If that sounds rather first-person, Scorsese and Jones haven’t...
If that sounds rather first-person, Scorsese and Jones haven’t...
- 1/8/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Sin, forgiveness, the glamour of evil, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlon Brando, terrible preview screenings for “Goodfellas,” Robert De Niro’s silence and, of course, “Killers of the Flower Moon” were all topics of conversation during Montclair Film Festival’s Filmmaker Tribute to Martin Scorsese on October 27 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
The director, who has received 14 Oscar nominations, was in the Garden State for the festival’s annual “An Evening With Stephen Colbert” fundraiser. Colbert, a Montclair resident, has long been a booster of the event, which is currently in its 12th year.
During their conversation, Scorsese told Colbert that Robert De Niro not only convinced him to make “Raging Bull,” which earned the director an Academy Award nomination, but also urged him to work with Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993 after the release of “This Boy’s Life.” The helmer also addressed De Niro’s notoriously tight-lipped demeanor.
“He just doesn’t say anything,...
The director, who has received 14 Oscar nominations, was in the Garden State for the festival’s annual “An Evening With Stephen Colbert” fundraiser. Colbert, a Montclair resident, has long been a booster of the event, which is currently in its 12th year.
During their conversation, Scorsese told Colbert that Robert De Niro not only convinced him to make “Raging Bull,” which earned the director an Academy Award nomination, but also urged him to work with Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993 after the release of “This Boy’s Life.” The helmer also addressed De Niro’s notoriously tight-lipped demeanor.
“He just doesn’t say anything,...
- 10/28/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
After last year’s triumphant return of Todd Field after a 16-year absence behind the camera, all eyes have been on what the Tár director may do next. He teased a collaboration with Adam Sandler but also said his Cate Blanchett-led drama is “highly likely” his final film. Now, we have the most concrete news yet on what Field is currently developing, thanks to Martin Scorsese himself.
A few months ago the Killers of the Flower Moon director revealed he is developing an adaptation of Home, part of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novel series, also including Gilead, Lila, and Jack. While Scorsese recently confirmed The Wager is next on the docket, he’s now revealed rather ambitious plans for the Robinson adaptations, which includes Field.
“I’d like to try and make another picture if I can. I’d like to move on. Well, we’ve come up with a script on Home,...
A few months ago the Killers of the Flower Moon director revealed he is developing an adaptation of Home, part of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novel series, also including Gilead, Lila, and Jack. While Scorsese recently confirmed The Wager is next on the docket, he’s now revealed rather ambitious plans for the Robinson adaptations, which includes Field.
“I’d like to try and make another picture if I can. I’d like to move on. Well, we’ve come up with a script on Home,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
We’re now just a few days away from the widest release of Martin Scorsese’s career as Killers of the Flower Moon is set to open in around 3,500 theaters in the United States from Paramount and Apple. With the SAG strike underway, the legendary director himself has led the promotional campaign, which means the publishing of several stellar interviews digging deeper into the process.
One of the most interesting bits to arrive about the production of his David Grann adaptation is that Scorsese drew inspiration from Ari Aster when it comes to the project. “I very much like the style and pacing of good horror films like Ari Aster’s Midsommar or Beau Is Afraid,” he told The Irish Times. “The pacing of those films goes back to the B films of Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People or I Walked With a Zombie.” While Scorsese’s admiration for Aster is well-documented,...
One of the most interesting bits to arrive about the production of his David Grann adaptation is that Scorsese drew inspiration from Ari Aster when it comes to the project. “I very much like the style and pacing of good horror films like Ari Aster’s Midsommar or Beau Is Afraid,” he told The Irish Times. “The pacing of those films goes back to the B films of Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People or I Walked With a Zombie.” While Scorsese’s admiration for Aster is well-documented,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
There is, of course, the legend that Martin Scorsese’s career nearly ended at Raging Bull: after the disappointments of New York, New York and attendant personal struggles, he (for at least some time) considered the boxing biopic––handled with a “kamikaze” mindset––a fine end of the road. That, of course, did not happen, but we’ve come closer to other retirements than most realize: in a great new GQ profile, Scorsese reveals the one-two punch of Gangs of New York (about which most know Weinstein-inflicted wounds) and The Aviator nearly made him give up. His next movie would nab Best Director and Best Picture Oscars and troubles were averted, but nobody predicted as much at the time.
At nearly 81 the speculation starts again––first with a pre-Cannes Killers of the Flower Moon interview in which Scorsese dwelled on age, then seemingly quelled by news of a couple films he had in development,...
At nearly 81 the speculation starts again––first with a pre-Cannes Killers of the Flower Moon interview in which Scorsese dwelled on age, then seemingly quelled by news of a couple films he had in development,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese has announced his plans to adapt Marilynne Robinson’s novel “Home” into a feature film. The novel, published in 2008, is the second in Robinson’s Gilead series, which explores the lives of the Ames and Boughton families in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa12
Scorsese, who has previously adapted novels such as “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “The Age of Innocence”, and “Shutter Island” for the screen, said he was drawn to Robinson’s work by its rich and complex characters, its themes of faith and forgiveness, and its depiction of mid-20th century America34
Killers of the Flower Moon Trailer
“Home” follows the return of Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister, to his childhood home after 20 years of absence. There, he reconnects with his sister Glory, who is caring for their dying father, and tries to make peace with his past and his future.
Scorsese, who has previously adapted novels such as “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “The Age of Innocence”, and “Shutter Island” for the screen, said he was drawn to Robinson’s work by its rich and complex characters, its themes of faith and forgiveness, and its depiction of mid-20th century America34
Killers of the Flower Moon Trailer
“Home” follows the return of Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister, to his childhood home after 20 years of absence. There, he reconnects with his sister Glory, who is caring for their dying father, and tries to make peace with his past and his future.
- 9/12/2023
- by amalprasadappu
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
Ten years ago, responding to rumors he’d sought to retire, Martin Scorsese succinctly replied, “You’ll have to tackle me to stop me.” Like a lunar cycle following the director on the occasion of three-hour-plus epics starring Leonardo DiCaprio, received wisdom again has it the man’s looking to settle down–then again, a rather elegiac interview on the eve of Killers of the Flower Moon‘s debut would only generate attention of the sort.
Between that film’s Cannes premiere (we have reliably heard it’s very good) and October 20 release, a fantastic profile from Stephanie Zacharek mentions a couple of irons in Scorsese’s fire. Among “lots of movie projects” are an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, companion novel to her Pulitzer-winner Gilead, and the synopsis of which is simply steeped in Late Style:
The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away.
Between that film’s Cannes premiere (we have reliably heard it’s very good) and October 20 release, a fantastic profile from Stephanie Zacharek mentions a couple of irons in Scorsese’s fire. Among “lots of movie projects” are an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, companion novel to her Pulitzer-winner Gilead, and the synopsis of which is simply steeped in Late Style:
The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away.
- 9/12/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Us actor tells how a new adaption of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton chimes with our uncertain times
Mid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the sky above St Ann’s Warehouse – a state-of-the-art performance and rehearsal space that was once a tobacco warehouse. Inside, a fabulous model of an angel is suspended from the ceiling, and beyond its windows the East River is getting on with its day. Laura Linney is said to be running late and when she arrives she walks in briskly without any diva-esque hauteur. She is all apologies, smiles, grace. She sits down on a circular leather banquette in the foyer and tucks her knees beneath her. She is casually dressed but with a black-and-white scarf for extra flourish. She looks comfortable in her own skin. At 54, there is a much younger woman visible in her face...
Mid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the sky above St Ann’s Warehouse – a state-of-the-art performance and rehearsal space that was once a tobacco warehouse. Inside, a fabulous model of an angel is suspended from the ceiling, and beyond its windows the East River is getting on with its day. Laura Linney is said to be running late and when she arrives she walks in briskly without any diva-esque hauteur. She is all apologies, smiles, grace. She sits down on a circular leather banquette in the foyer and tucks her knees beneath her. She is casually dressed but with a black-and-white scarf for extra flourish. She looks comfortable in her own skin. At 54, there is a much younger woman visible in her face...
- 5/27/2018
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
Money isn’t everything for the star of Star Wars most expensive film ever.
Alden Ehrenreich, who plays Han Solo in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, recently spoke with Wealthsimple’s recurring series Money Diaries about why getting paid less on films isn’t always a bad thing.
“Over the past few years, I’ve worked with some incredible, legendary directors — Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Chan-wook Park, Warren Beatty, Ron Howard, and the Coen Brothers — and I’ve discovered something fascinating: The better the director you’re working with, the less you get paid,” he explained.
“For me,...
Alden Ehrenreich, who plays Han Solo in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, recently spoke with Wealthsimple’s recurring series Money Diaries about why getting paid less on films isn’t always a bad thing.
“Over the past few years, I’ve worked with some incredible, legendary directors — Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Chan-wook Park, Warren Beatty, Ron Howard, and the Coen Brothers — and I’ve discovered something fascinating: The better the director you’re working with, the less you get paid,” he explained.
“For me,...
- 5/26/2018
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
As is annual tradition, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced this year’s 25 film set to join the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their “cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance,” the films picked range from such beloved actioners as “Die Hard,” childhood classic “The Goonies,” the seminal “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and the mind-bending “Memento,” with plenty of other genres and styles represented among the list.
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
- 12/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Princess CydStephen Cone has been making movies at a steady clip for over a decade and yet remains largely unknown. It is a momentous and wholly deserved occasion then for him to receive a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Despite mixed receptions and even more erratic distribution patterns, his collection of films isn’t as motley as one might think. While each might tiptoe in a different direction, they maintain a hand in the Stephen Cone universe, imprinted by the same particular humanistic insight. In one of his earliest films, In Memoriam (2011), a young man so subsumed with the sudden death of a couple, fallen from a roof during the throes of pleasure, conducts his own investigation into their ill-fated demise. Innocuous curiosity masks what is essentially an existential inquiry and takes a self-referential pivot when he decides to recreate and film the events,...
- 11/7/2017
- MUBI
Stephen Cone has the tenacity of first-time director, yet he has eight feature films and dozens of shorts to show for it. His vision for filmmaking, grit in self-fundraising, and ability to collaborate with fresh faces (like Joe Keery of Stranger Things fame) and veteran actors alike results in nimble productions with a quick turn-around.
The Film Stage’s Jose Solís reviewed Cone’s newest film Princess Cyd, which opens today in NY and Chicago, saying: “With this, Cone also continues to be one of the few directors who has chosen to contextualize faith rather than demonize it. He shows greater interest in the places where we are like each other, all while celebrating what makes us different.”
Offering a look into his still-young career, Eric Hynes, Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, programmed Talk About the Passion: Stephen Cone’s First Act, going from...
The Film Stage’s Jose Solís reviewed Cone’s newest film Princess Cyd, which opens today in NY and Chicago, saying: “With this, Cone also continues to be one of the few directors who has chosen to contextualize faith rather than demonize it. He shows greater interest in the places where we are like each other, all while celebrating what makes us different.”
Offering a look into his still-young career, Eric Hynes, Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, programmed Talk About the Passion: Stephen Cone’s First Act, going from...
- 11/3/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Bill Forsyth's Housekeeping (1987) is playing October 18 - November 17, 2017 in the United Kingdom. On first viewing Bill Forsyth’s film Housekeeping (1987) I was somewhat unimpressed by its low-key television-movie feel; a small town family drama lacking cinematic spectacle, featuring relatively unknown actors. It seemed thrifty, in keeping with the unfussiness of the story’s central character, Sylvie. By contrast, Marilynne Robinson’s novel, on which the film is based, describes moments of fantastical prophecy, strengthened by the author’s knowledge of Scripture, in images of dead souls recovered from a deep lake resonant of the Bible’s account of the Flood and Apocalypse. Forsyth’s better-known Local Hero (1983), a comedy set in a remote Scottish village, gives viewers a meteor shower, the Northern Lights and Burt Lancaster descending from the sky, so the director’s use of Robinson’s...
- 10/17/2017
- MUBI
Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive screens Thursday March 9th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30. Director Eric Stange, a visiting fellow with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will answer questions following the screening. This is a Free event!
Far more than a biography, Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive employs a variety of tools to create a narrative that is both visually stunning and deeply engaging. Drawn on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to help bring new understanding to his life, his place in American art and history, and the iconic position he holds in popular culture around the world. This film has received a production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will be broadcast on the acclaimed PBS arts and culture series American Masters.
Tony-award-winning actor Denis O’Hare portrays...
Far more than a biography, Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive employs a variety of tools to create a narrative that is both visually stunning and deeply engaging. Drawn on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to help bring new understanding to his life, his place in American art and history, and the iconic position he holds in popular culture around the world. This film has received a production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will be broadcast on the acclaimed PBS arts and culture series American Masters.
Tony-award-winning actor Denis O’Hare portrays...
- 3/6/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Snubbed” is an imperfect term for the series and performers whose Emmy campaigns conclude Thursday morning—voters intend no disdain, to be sure—but it does capture the feeling of the TV Academy’s annual nominations. Alongside the usual suspects and pleasant surprises, there are inevitably a few disappointments, longtime favorites that lose out and freshman sensations that fail to break through. For those of us on the Emmy beat, in fact, lamenting the Academy’s selections and, yes, “snubs” is as much a rite of passage as celebrating the honorees.
The list below is far from exhaustive. For one thing, it largely excludes series that appear to be on the bubble; I’m not ready to give up on Rachel Bloom (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) in the Outstanding Lead Actress (Comedy) race, or on “The Americans” in the Outstanding Drama Series category, though both might well end up on the outside looking in.
The list below is far from exhaustive. For one thing, it largely excludes series that appear to be on the bubble; I’m not ready to give up on Rachel Bloom (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) in the Outstanding Lead Actress (Comedy) race, or on “The Americans” in the Outstanding Drama Series category, though both might well end up on the outside looking in.
- 7/13/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
This month’s WSJ Book Club author, Marilynne Robinson, has written more nonfiction than fiction. Her latest book, “The Givenness of Things,” is a collection of essays, published in October. “Gilead,” her 2004 novel chosen for the WSJ Book Club by our host, Geraldine Brooks, is part of a trilogy. Why did Ms. Robinson end up with a “Gilead” trilogy instead of a single book? Perhaps because she wasn’t ready to bid farewell to the characters or the place she had created.
- 11/18/2015
- by Brenda Cronin
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
If you’re like me, you neurotically check the New York Review of Books website every other day to see if any pieces from the next issue have been published in advance. Last week I found that the cover of the new issue had been put up, advertising the interview between Barack Obama and Marilynne Robinson, which was published online on Monday. I sent the cover to a friend and wrote, “Weird. I hope it’s him interviewing her.” It turns out I was right! As an interviewer, Obama has a touch of the old SNL sketch "The Chris Farley Show" about him: “Remember when you wrote Gilead? That was awesome.” Yet this is perhaps the closest attention any U.S. president has ever paid to an American novelist. Norman Mailer interviewed many presidents, mostly before they won the election, and when he met John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic National Convention,...
- 10/14/2015
- by Christian Lorentzen
- Vulture
The Man Booker Prize has announced its long list, or "Man Booker Dozen," for 2015, including five U.S. authors (USA! USA!). You'll remember this is the second year that the Man Booker has opened the competition up to English-speaking countries outside of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. Among the nominees are Hanya Yanagihara, who described her influences for A Little Life for Vulture. Here's the complete list: Bill Clegg (U.S.), Did You Ever Have a Family (Jonathan Cape) Anne Enright (Ireland), The Green Road (Jonathan Cape) Marlon James (Jamaica), A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld Publications) Laila Lalami (U.S.), The Moor's Account (Periscope, Garnet Publishing) Tom McCarthy (U.K.), Satin Island (Jonathan Cape) Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), The Fishermen (One, Pushkin Press) Andrew O’Hagan (U.K.), The Illuminations (Faber & Faber) Marilynne Robinson (U.S.), Lila (Virago) Anuradha Roy...
- 7/29/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
Rectify Season 3, Episode 3 “Sown with Salt”
Written by Coleman Herbert
Directed by Billy Geirhart
Airs Thursday nights at 10pm Et on Sundance
It’s no surprise one of Daniel’s dream destinations is the land of Carthage in Tunisia, home of the Carthagian empire that fell to the Romans in 146 BC. When their lands were stripped and the Carthagian people were enslaved, legends said the Romans “salted the earth” of Carthage, cursing the land for re-inhabitation by the Carthagians or any others. This practice has appeared throughout history, most notably in medieval Spanish culture, when convicted traitors often had their lands covered in salt, as punishment,usually right before their heads ended up on spikes. There’s a strange two-sided nature to this practice; while often a symbolic gesture of destroying the land for agriculture, thus killing any chance of rebirth the civilization might have, the idea of salting a fallen civilization preserves it,...
Written by Coleman Herbert
Directed by Billy Geirhart
Airs Thursday nights at 10pm Et on Sundance
It’s no surprise one of Daniel’s dream destinations is the land of Carthage in Tunisia, home of the Carthagian empire that fell to the Romans in 146 BC. When their lands were stripped and the Carthagian people were enslaved, legends said the Romans “salted the earth” of Carthage, cursing the land for re-inhabitation by the Carthagians or any others. This practice has appeared throughout history, most notably in medieval Spanish culture, when convicted traitors often had their lands covered in salt, as punishment,usually right before their heads ended up on spikes. There’s a strange two-sided nature to this practice; while often a symbolic gesture of destroying the land for agriculture, thus killing any chance of rebirth the civilization might have, the idea of salting a fallen civilization preserves it,...
- 7/24/2015
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
This week, Vulture will be publishing our critics' year-end lists. 1. Lila, by Marilynne Robinson “Who in the world could need help with a chair?” This is what the protagonist of Marilynne Robinson’s new novel wonders when her husband pulls out her seat at the table. So much of Lila is present in that sentence: her pride, her self-reliance, her mistrust of kindness, and the way that — in her feral, gifted, autodidact’s mind — a profound alienation from society turns anthropologically keen. Readers of Robinson’s 2004 Gilead have met this character before, through the eyes of that husband, the Reverend John Ames. Now, in Lila, we hear her story directly. Born into poverty and neglect, abandoned by her meager community in the worst of the Dust Bowl years, Lila would be as low and aimless as dust itself — but for her mind, and her huge and startling will.
- 12/10/2014
- by Kathryn Schulz
- Vulture
HBO’s much praised crime anthology True Detective is nearing the climax of its engrossing eight-episode first season with a head of hard boiled steam and so many mysteries. Who really killed Dora Lange? Might our enlightenment-challenged heroes – pessimist grump Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and dim Everyman Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) – actually be the villains? Will an otherworldly spaghetti monster soar and seize control of the godless Louisiana waste? We brought creator Nic Pizzolatto in for questioning and tried to make him spill. “In our third act, timelines, action and character all align. In that way, they may play as...
- 2/27/2014
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW - Inside TV
HBO’s much praised crime anthology True Detective is nearing the climax of its engrossing eight-episode first season with a head of hard boiled steam and so many mysteries. Who really killed Dora Lange? Might our enlightenment-challenged heroes – Nihilist grump Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and dim Everyman Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) – actually be the villains? Will a supernatural spaghetti monster rise up from hell and seize control of the godless Louisiana waste? We brought creator Nic Pizzolatto in for questioning and tried to make him spill. “In our third act, timelines, action and character all align. In that way, they...
- 2/27/2014
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW - Inside TV
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”…
Johnston: Tie: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / After Hours by Martin Scorsese. Leading up to Wolf of Wall Street my wife and I decided to watch Scorsese’s full canon. I was completely enthralled with Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and After Hours and lamented the fact I hadn’t already seen them. I felt I had to watch them a couple of times just to make up for it. Belafonte by Harry Belafonte (album): When my father-in-law passed away my wife was given his record collection. This Belafonte record was part of it and I just couldn’t stop listening to it. Especially “Take My Mother Home”. His version of “Unchained Melody” is the best ever. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (book). David and Toby suggested this book to me, both saying it’s one of their favorites.
Johnston: Tie: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / After Hours by Martin Scorsese. Leading up to Wolf of Wall Street my wife and I decided to watch Scorsese’s full canon. I was completely enthralled with Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and After Hours and lamented the fact I hadn’t already seen them. I felt I had to watch them a couple of times just to make up for it. Belafonte by Harry Belafonte (album): When my father-in-law passed away my wife was given his record collection. This Belafonte record was part of it and I just couldn’t stop listening to it. Especially “Take My Mother Home”. His version of “Unchained Melody” is the best ever. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (book). David and Toby suggested this book to me, both saying it’s one of their favorites.
- 1/16/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cable TV and its alpha-males are certainly enjoying a surge in quality, but they're still no match for the great directors of film
The testosterone comes off Brett Martin's new book, Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution, like wafts of Brut. A short, stocky account of the rise of such shows as The Sopranos, The Wire, The Breaking Bad, Mad Men, it comes with the muscular thesis that cable TV has "become the significant American art form of the first decade of the 21st century, the equivalent of what the films of Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, and others had been to the 1970s or the novels of Updike, Roth. And Mailer had been to the 1960s." You see? Now that's what I call a thesis: beefy with name-drops, and a cultural frame of reference that could stun a herd of bison at 30 paces.
Martin corrals as hairy a...
The testosterone comes off Brett Martin's new book, Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution, like wafts of Brut. A short, stocky account of the rise of such shows as The Sopranos, The Wire, The Breaking Bad, Mad Men, it comes with the muscular thesis that cable TV has "become the significant American art form of the first decade of the 21st century, the equivalent of what the films of Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, and others had been to the 1970s or the novels of Updike, Roth. And Mailer had been to the 1960s." You see? Now that's what I call a thesis: beefy with name-drops, and a cultural frame of reference that could stun a herd of bison at 30 paces.
Martin corrals as hairy a...
- 8/2/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
Kelly Ruth Winter Marilynne Robinson
When I was a child I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
Surprising as it may seem, I had friends, some of whom read more than I did. I knew a good deal about Constantinople and the Cromwell revolution and chivalry. There was little here that was relevant to my experience, but the shelves of northern Idaho groaned with just...
When I was a child I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
Surprising as it may seem, I had friends, some of whom read more than I did. I knew a good deal about Constantinople and the Cromwell revolution and chivalry. There was little here that was relevant to my experience, but the shelves of northern Idaho groaned with just...
- 3/21/2012
- by Marilynne Robinson
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Here's a brief list of some interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:
The Hunger Games Parts 2 – 4 – Lionsgate is quadrupling down on their post-apocalyptic tentpole. Eat your heart out, Twi-hards.
The Hangover Part III – Quelle surprise, right?
Future Perfect – Filmmaker Alex Proyas (The Crow, I, Robot) produces this sci-fi thriller that director Shane Abbess describes as Blade Runner meets The Professional.
Furious Love – Martin Scorsese teams up with Paramount to dig up dirt on the freshly-buried beauty, Elizabeth Taylor, and her rocky romance with Richard Burton. Secretly we're hoping he gets to the Sinatra biopic first.
Gilead – Merchant Ivory is marching ahead (minus Ismail Merchant) with this 1950s-set drama based on Marilynne Robinson's novel about a septuagenarian preacher in Iowa recounting the events of his life to his young son.
Crashing Through – Lincoln Lawyer producer Scott Steindorff is developing this drama with his Stone Village Pictures and DRO Entertainment. Based on a true story, the film centers on a blind man who is given a chance to participate in an experimental transplant that could temporarily restore his vision.
The Olive Branch – Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr. produces this drama that tells the story of modern day descendants of a plantation owner and his slave. Script was written by Joey Kent.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
The Hunger Games Parts 2 – 4 – Lionsgate is quadrupling down on their post-apocalyptic tentpole. Eat your heart out, Twi-hards.
The Hangover Part III – Quelle surprise, right?
Future Perfect – Filmmaker Alex Proyas (The Crow, I, Robot) produces this sci-fi thriller that director Shane Abbess describes as Blade Runner meets The Professional.
Furious Love – Martin Scorsese teams up with Paramount to dig up dirt on the freshly-buried beauty, Elizabeth Taylor, and her rocky romance with Richard Burton. Secretly we're hoping he gets to the Sinatra biopic first.
Gilead – Merchant Ivory is marching ahead (minus Ismail Merchant) with this 1950s-set drama based on Marilynne Robinson's novel about a septuagenarian preacher in Iowa recounting the events of his life to his young son.
Crashing Through – Lincoln Lawyer producer Scott Steindorff is developing this drama with his Stone Village Pictures and DRO Entertainment. Based on a true story, the film centers on a blind man who is given a chance to participate in an experimental transplant that could temporarily restore his vision.
The Olive Branch – Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr. produces this drama that tells the story of modern day descendants of a plantation owner and his slave. Script was written by Joey Kent.
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- 6/4/2011
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
From Page To Screen, Bridport
Guest curator Jonathan Coe lends the appropriate literary lustre to this festival of movies adapted from novels, and for a respected author he's not as sniffy as you'd expect. Coe's list includes some successful examples recent and ancient – from True Grit, The Social Network and How To Train Your Dragon to Jacques Demy's Donovan-scored The Pied Piper and forgotten 1945 melodrama They Were Sisters – most of which are introduced by himself and other experts. Coe also talks to some of those concerned in the process, including Kazuo Ishiguro about the recent version of his Never Let Me Go and Bill Forsyth on his version of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, while Rowan Joffé discusses his recent adaptations of The American and Brighton Rock.
Bridport Arts Centre & Electric Palace, Wed to 17 Apr
From Ecstasy To Rapture: 50 Years Of The Other Spanish Cinema/Pere Portabella, London
You...
Guest curator Jonathan Coe lends the appropriate literary lustre to this festival of movies adapted from novels, and for a respected author he's not as sniffy as you'd expect. Coe's list includes some successful examples recent and ancient – from True Grit, The Social Network and How To Train Your Dragon to Jacques Demy's Donovan-scored The Pied Piper and forgotten 1945 melodrama They Were Sisters – most of which are introduced by himself and other experts. Coe also talks to some of those concerned in the process, including Kazuo Ishiguro about the recent version of his Never Let Me Go and Bill Forsyth on his version of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, while Rowan Joffé discusses his recent adaptations of The American and Brighton Rock.
Bridport Arts Centre & Electric Palace, Wed to 17 Apr
From Ecstasy To Rapture: 50 Years Of The Other Spanish Cinema/Pere Portabella, London
You...
- 4/8/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
When he was asked to be guest director for a festival dedicated to films based on books, Jonathan Coe set out to disprove the adage that great literature makes terrible movies
In the course of their famous book-length interview, François Truffaut once asked Alfred Hitchcock about his approach to literary adaptation, and Hitch's response was as magisterial, worldly and mischievous as one would expect: "What I do is to read a story only once, and if I like the basic idea, I just forget all about the book and start to create cinema. Today I would be unable to tell you the story of Daphne du Maurier's The Birds. I read it only once, and very quickly at that."
Hitchcock's comment was the first thing that occurred to me when, towards the end of last year, I was approached with an interesting proposition. "From Page to Screen" is the...
In the course of their famous book-length interview, François Truffaut once asked Alfred Hitchcock about his approach to literary adaptation, and Hitch's response was as magisterial, worldly and mischievous as one would expect: "What I do is to read a story only once, and if I like the basic idea, I just forget all about the book and start to create cinema. Today I would be unable to tell you the story of Daphne du Maurier's The Birds. I read it only once, and very quickly at that."
Hitchcock's comment was the first thing that occurred to me when, towards the end of last year, I was approached with an interesting proposition. "From Page to Screen" is the...
- 4/1/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
For most of this week I've been at the beach in a hotel with an extremely uncomfortable bed and some of the slowest and most frustrating wifi I've experienced recently. Oh, and there's a 14- and a 15-year-old girl here with us (I'm related to one of them) and I've noticed an interesting mathematical phenomena: The time it takes two teenage girls to get ready is not double the time it takes one teenage girl to get ready. It's actually closer to quadruple the time it takes one teenage girl to get ready. Luckily, we're going home tomorrow and at least I don't have to listen to the "what do you want to do?" "I don't know, whatever you want." "Well, I don't really care, that's why I asked you." "Do you want to go to the boardwalk?" "...I dunno. I guess." "Well, what do you Want to do?" "I don't know,...
- 7/8/2010
- by Intern Rusty
Marilynne Robinson has written three novels. Her first, Housekeeping, was written in 1980 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. It was over 20 years before her second novel, Gilead was published, and also nominated for a Pulitzer. Gilead is written from the point of view of Reverend John Ames and is an account of his life for his 7-year-old son. Home is its companion, telling the same events from different perspectives. Ames still features, but the focus is now on his neighbour Robert Boughton and his children Glory and Jack, who have both recently returned home. Jack has always been unreliable and something of a disappointment to his father, who worried for the state of his son's soul. Glory is the peacemaker, living her own nightmare of returning to the town of Gilead and becoming stuck there. Her other siblings may want their home to stay exactly as it was in their memories,...
- 4/28/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Twenty-four years passed between Marilynne Robinson's stunning debut Housekeeping and her second novel, Gilead. Now that Home, a sequel to Gilead, has appeared only four years later, fans of Robinson's still-waters-run-deep prose and achingly poignant characterizations must feel their cups are overflowing. Robinson's is no less a treasure for arriving more frequently; her prose remains an experience to be savored, page by page and often word by word. Yet its appeal lies in Robinson's ability to capture moments on the way toward the inevitable decline and end of all things, without harming the fragile, fleeting quality of the singular instance. She writes about the tipping of the scales between memory and hope, as her characters close their eyes on the past with only a thread of faith connecting them to the unknown beyond. Gilead recorded the theological reminiscences of John Ames, pastor of the Congregationalist church in Gilead,...
- 9/18/2008
- by Donna Bowman
- avclub.com
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