Trishna

By Jay Antani at 2:25 PM on July 13, 2012

For more than twenty years, Michael Winterbottom has kept up a restless pace, directing almost a movie a year. So he can’t be faulted for being lazy or blocked. And there’s always thoughtfulness, a sense of purpose at the core of everything he’s attempted. But, perhaps as a symptom of his assembly-line approach to his filmmaking, Winterbottom’s track record is, by and large, pretty mixed. For every In this World and A Mighty Heart, he’s churned out half-baked product like Code 46, 9 Songs and his latest, Trishna Winterbottom’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Ubervilles....  read more

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Immortals

By Michael Burgin at 6:51 PM on November 21, 2011

At first glance, Tarsem Singh’s Immortals seems to fall firmly within the recently born “Zack Snyderian” school of filmmaking. Actually, stare at the film for as long as you wish and that assumption is borne out, particularly in comparison to Snyder’s 300. There are the slo-mo/fast-mo fight sequences involving copious sprays of blood. (Immortals is a veritable spray-tacular of spray-plosions.) There are the gorgeous red-and-gold-infused vistas mostly populated by beautiful people. (Sorry, Mickey.) And there’s plenty of sculpted man flesh—not as much as found in 300, but that … was … SPARTA!!!, after all....  read more

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Miral

By Sean Gandert at 10:38 AM on March 29, 2011

There’s nothing wrong with making a film for personal reasons. In fact, I might argue that they should always be made for personal reasons. The best movies, like the best books or paintings or whatever else, are works of passion. Unfortunately, though, while passion can drive you, it can also blind you to truly seeing what you’re creating, which is almost certainly the case with Julian Schnabel’s Miral.   read more

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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Review

By Sean Gandert at 4:16 PM on November 1, 2010

Director/Writer: Woody Allen Starring: Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Freida Pinto, Antonio Banderas Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond Studio: Sony Pictures Classics By now even Woody Allen’s most ardent defenders have to admit that for some time now he’s been coasting. Back in the ’70s and ’80s (and ’60s—what a different landscape film was in then) Allen was far more anarchic, with every picture came a sense of vitality and new ideas. Admittedly they weren’t necessarily new in the grand sense, given how much he’s always enjoyed cribbing from authors and directors he’s admired, but at least new to Allen’s...  read more

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Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto to star in Greek Mythology Movie

By Kristen Callihan at 2:12 PM on February 24, 2010

Slumdog Millionaire Freida Pinto is moving from the streets of India to the realm of the ancient Greeks. The actress has signed on to star in War of the Gods, as the oracle priestess Phaedra, Variety reports....  read more

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Slumdog Millionaire starlet works with Woody Allen next

By Matt Goodlett at 8:30 AM on February 25, 2009

Freida Pinto will follow up her performance in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire with a part in Woody Allen's next film. The movie is currently only listed as Woody Allen's Untitled London Project, but Pinto will join the likes of Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins for filming....  read more

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