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The depiction of waterboarding in “Zero Dark Thirty,” denounced by everyone from the CIA’s Michael Morell and Republican senator John McCain to the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, was not a cinematic first. A film made in 1959 and based meticulously on the...
Todd Haynes has signed on to direct a film of Patricia Highsmith’s progressive 1952 lesbian novella “The Price of Salt.” It will be called “Carol” – the book's alternative title – and star Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowka.The film is to be produced by...
Five weeks after the announcement that Edgar Allan Poe’s “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” is to be filmed, as reported by ARTINFO here, comes news that another movie adapted from one of his short stories will go before the cameras.In “Hop-Frog...
The complex relationship between A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh, and his son Christopher Robin Milne is to become the subject of a biopic. The $10-15 million project, which has been announced at Cannes, will be produced by Damian...
Life imitated art last night when jewelry was stolen from the Suite Novotel, an untouristy modern hotel opposite a police station in Cannes. The gems were taken from a safe in the room of an American employee of Chopard, the Swiss luxury watch and jewelry...
While Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is perhaps the most highly anticipated screen release of the year, it’s not just the visuals that are focused on reclaiming something of the good old days – the music, too, serves up some classics reworked for a modern...
Once, when praising Greta Gerwig to a woman critic, I was sternly told: “I don’t get her – is it a guy thing?” Well, yes and no. There’s a retro rescue-me quality about Gerwig’s combination of Carole Lombard-like madcap-ness, physical awkwardness,...
They’re the flappers of the week – but neither of them is Carey Mulligan's Daisy Buchanan. In a Vimeo clip from Claude Friese-Greene’s silent 1924-26 “The Open Road,” which has gone viral on the Internet thanks to Tweets by Kevin Spacey and Stephen Fry,...
The brooding Belle Époque drama “Augustine,” which opens on Friday, features an indelible performance by Soko, the 26-year-old, Bordeaux-born Los Angeleno who writes and warbles loopy minimalist folk-pop. She plays the title character — a lucid, repressed...
“Born to Be King,” a comedy starring Ewan McGregor and Kate Hudson, will be included in the slate of six films that Lionsgate UK is bringing to Cannes. Bonnie Prince Charlie, who launched the abortive 1745 Jacobite Rebellion to restore the Stuarts on the...
