Tag Archive | Meryl Streep
Florence Foster Jenkins
Nominated for Best Actress (Meryl Streep) at the 89th Annual Academy Awards Nominated for Best Costume Design at the 89th Annual Academy Awards To borrow from a piece I once did on Tom Cruise: I love Meryl Streep. I hate Meryl Streep. Oh, this has absolutely nothing to do with national politics, or awards show speeches. […]
Into the Woods
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep) at the 87th Annual Academy Awards Nominated for Best Production Design (Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock) at the 87th Annual Academy Awards Nominated for Best Costume Design (Colleen Atwood) at the 87th Annual Academy Awards To paraphrase my favorite film critic, adapting Stephen Sondheim is like playing chess–so why […]
“Into the Woods” on stage & screen: a Sondheim showdown!
Well, I’m back from a wonderful Block Island vacation with my family, and anticipating many good things to come during the exciting fall/winter season. And one of the most intriguing is an unusual battle for dominance(at least in the New York City area!), involving one of Stephen Sondheim’s most celebrated and challenging works. Which will […]
Flashback: on 1979’s Manhattan
Now, that I’ve officially nixed going to see Woody Allen’s latest film, “Magic in the Moonlight”(based on its tepid reviews), I decided to revisit perhaps his best feature, on the occasion of its 35th anniversary. And I really am still so fond of “Manhattan”—even if I’m not particularly so fond of Mr. Allen any longer. […]
August: Osage County
Familiarity breeds contempt says the Bard. That adage certainly seems to apply here, as I reflect back on my initial look at awards-season prestige picture, “August: Osage County” from director John Wells. Would I have enjoyed the film version of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play a bit more if I hadn’t originally experienced it on Broadway […]
Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close first played this role on stage in 1982(when she was in her mid 30’s)and has apparently been trying to bring this story to the big screen for quite some time. Finally getting it done at the age of 64 must feel like some sort of victory to her, and I applaud her tenacity. […]
The Iron Lady
Nominated for Best Actress and Best Make-up at the 84th Annual Academy Awards… It’s stupefyingly awful. And also an insultingly simple-minded document of a fascinating decade of change from the previous century. Bobby Sands and the IRA hunger strikers, for instance, are given one brief line yelled from a crowd. No attempt is made to […]
Reviewed by Mark Leonard 