This fascinating Charlie Rose interview with the three amazing brothers Emanuel--doctor Ezekiel, who has written a radical book on healthcare, Democratic congressional powerhouse Rahm, and Ari, the hard-charging, politically-passionate head of Hollywood agency-on-the-rise Endeavor--reveals that Ari,...
Read More »As far as I'm concerned, the 1938 Pygmalion starring Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard is far better than the terrible 1964 My Fair Lady movie adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway smash musical. The movie got by on Rex Harrison and the great music, barely. It was one of those cases where Hollywo...
Read More »Here's the first of many Sundance video-interviews we're putting up during the fest, with the In Bruges gang:
Read More »Barbet Schroeder is one of those brainiac filmmakers, like Werner Herzog, who moves effortlessly between docs (General Idi Amin Dada), features (Reversal of Fortune), studios (Murder by Numbers) and indies (Barfly), in whatever country (Maitresse) or language (Our Lady of the Assassins) that suits h...
Read More »[Posted by Peter Debruge]Box office predictors are crying doom and gloom for Stardust (some suggest the weekend total will be as low as $15 million off 2,540 situations), and I‚Äôm inclined to believe them. Nobody seems to like the Stardust trailers ‚Äî no argument here (judge for yourself). (The re...
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