Graham Fuller
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...
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...
Movie projects about two virtuosic soccer players will be presented to buyers at this year’s Cannes film festival, which starts Wednesday. There’s no news yet whether a previously announced soccer star movie — one with grass-roots appeal and a 1970s rock...
Delmer Daves (1904-77), one of Hollywood’s most accomplished directors of Westerns, is seldom mentioned in the same breath as such tough-guy auteurs as John Ford, Raoul Walsh, Henry Hathaway, and William Wellman, or the more urbane...
Call them the Malevolent Seven: the little band of skeletons armed with sword, spears, and shields, who, born from Hydra’s teeth scattered on the ground by Aeëtes, the villainous king of Colchis, rise from the earth in “Jason and the Argonauts,” to attack the...
Last November, the art forgery comedy “Gambit,” which ARTINFO wrote about here, opened in the UK. Critics were unenthusiastic about Colin Firth’s art curator teaming up with Cameron Diaz’s Texan steer roper to sell a fake copy of Claude Monet’s 1890...
J’ai appris avec beaucoup de tristesse que le projet d’adaptation de « Pride and Prejudice and Zombies » (2009) était toujours en cours. Avec ce bestseller, Seth Grahame-Smith avait profané à la fois le roman original et la mémoire de son...
