Over the past decade, there has been a deluge of big Hollywood movies about rock stars, among them 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, 2019’s Rocketman and 2022’s Elvis, each of which made a fortune at the box office and was Oscar-nominated, with Bohemian Rhapsody winning four little gold men, including best actor, and Rocketman taking home one. Those films certainly addressed dark aspects …
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Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere makes affecting gains by focusing on the Artist as a Depressed Young Man. Which is not to say Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen portrait is a downer. If you’re …
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It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his OK to that particular film. Bruce Springsteen, however, after turning down numerous past attempts and offers, is around to pass judgment on director-writer Scott Cooper‘s anti-biopic Springsteen: …
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It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his OK to that particular film. Bruce Springsteen, however, after turning down numerous past attempts and offers, is around to pass judgment on director-writer Scott Cooper‘s anti-biopic Springsteen: …
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Luca Guadagnino’s new film After the Hunt starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield features themes and character conflicts that speak to the #MeToo movement. So what was the Italian filmmaker trying to say by using opening credits inspired by the films of Woody Allen? That’s one of the questions Guadagnino fielded during the film’s official press conference at …
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In the opening credits of “After the Hunt,” a #MeToo-themed thriller, director Luca Guadagnino chose to evoke the aesthetic of Woody Allen’s films, formatting the actor’s names in alphabetical order on one card. When asked at the movie’s official Venice Film Festival press conference why he paid tribute to Allen, who has been accused of sexual assault by his adopted …
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ROCHESTER, N.Y . — Josh Allen isn’t old. But, in an NFL context, there are signs of age starting to creep up, slowly and subtly. “We got Joe Andreessen last year, and the whole thing was like he was wearing 17 jerseys years back—he’s from Buffalo,” Allen told me in a quiet moment, maybe 50 yards away, and behind a …
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned Woody Allen for speaking virtually at a Russian film festival over the weekend, calling his participation in the event “a disgrace and an insult” to the victims of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to Russian media, Allen spoke Sunday at the Moscow International Film Week via video conference. The appearance put him …
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On Sunday, Allen spoke during an online session alongside some of Russia’s top movie directors, cinematographers and actors, many of whom, including director Fyodor Bondarchuk, who interviewed Allen, have publicly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Allen — who has won four Oscars — talked about AI and described a visit to the USSR as a grim experience, but also …
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