movie review BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER Running time: 101 minutes. Rated R (language and suicide). In select theaters. On Netflix Oct. 29. The first half of “Ballad of a Small Player,” a mysterious psychodrama starring Colin Farrell, is a sexy, hyperactive, high-roller’s “Catch Me If You Can.” As for the much worse second half, … Read more
Marianne Faithfull is telling her own story, in her own words. The late singer, who died at age 78 in January, was best known for a slew of hits, including “As Tears Go By,” which was written by the Rolling Stones‘ Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, with whom she had a several-year romance. Now, a documentary about her … Read more
new video loaded: ‘The Room Next Door’ | Anatomy of a Scene transcript Back transcript ‘The Room Next Door’ | Anatomy of a Scene Pedro Almodóvar narrates a sequence from his film starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. I’m Pedro Almodóvar. I’m the director of “The Room Next Door.” We are in the middle of … Read more
Chanel ambassador, Academy Award winner and otherworldly fashion icon: Tilda Swinton embodies a new kind of triple threat. On screen, the 64-year-old actress is known for frequent collaborations with directors like Wes Anderson, Bong Joon Ho and Luca Guadanino. Promoting her latest film “The Room Next Door” — directed by Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar and … Read more
She might be stepping back. Tilda Swinton said her new drama with Julianne Moore, “The Room Next Door,” may be her final film. “I’ve always intended that each film would be my final one,” Swinton, 64, told Elle in a recent interview. “It was not wanting to jinx anything because I have had such fun … Read more
“Bruceeeeee!” — or Ellen DeGeneres? Bruce Springsteen showed up to his first show in months looking unrecognizable — and a little bit like Tilda Swinton. Dressed in a half-buttoned red flannel and dark jeans, the “Born to Run” musician, 74, returned to touring in Phoenix, Ariz., on Tuesday, after postponing shows due to his peptic … Read more
With the sun in Scorpio and the fields fallow, ’tis the hallowed season of the witch and, thus, no finer time to explore the rich history of the outsider. From history, myth, folklore and fiction, we are casting an eye (of newt) toward witches that embody the archetype of each zodiac sign. Helping to guide … Read more
Do you know who Hirsch, Abraham, Schmuel, and Jacob Wonsal were? Shmuel Gelbfisz or Wilhelm Fried Fuchs? And what about Herschel and Bryna Danielovitch, for that matter? When these Jews fled Eastern Europe, they found refuge from pogroms in America, changed their names — and created Hollywood. The Wonsols became the Warner Brothers; Gelbfisz became Sam … Read more
Which deceased bloodsucking soul is a dead ringer for your zodiac sign? Ever since Bram Stoker, syphilitic Irish genius that he was, put his immortal touch on the story of enemy impaling Romanian nobleman Vlad Dracul, we as audiences have been lining up and lapping up the blood lust. Chock full of bare asses and … Read more
(From left) Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in George Miller longing for three thousand years,photo, Metro Goldwyn Meyer Pictures It’s hard to root for a film like this longing for three thousand years, George Miller has long been one of our more thrilling and diverse filmmakers of today, so his take on the romantic fantasy … Read more