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Focus Features Just Nabbed Sam Mendes for a Two-Year Pact. Is Their Confidence Misplaced?
For a guy who won an Oscar for his first feature, Sam Mendes is difficult to pin down. Since that auspicious debut, American Beauty, he’s made a series of more-or-less respected movies that never quite took off: Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road. By the time Away We Go opened earlier this month to the harshest reviews of his career (Hey, our guy liked it!), some observers wondered aloud how much longer he could really be considered an elite name in prestige moviemaking.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsAway We Go
In a blind taste test of the charming new film... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsMore Details Surface About Sam Mendes' Away We Go
The information keeps pouring in about director Sam Mendes' previously untitled film, which, we now know, will be called Away We Go. ... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsRevolutionary Road
Nearly a decade after director Sam Mendes crafted American Beauty... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsOscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?
There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VComic writer working on two Road to Perdition sequels
Word of mouth for Revolutionary Road is pretty hot right now, not to mention interest surrounding what else Sam Mendes may be up to in the future. But strangely enough, that's not the only of his works that's getting some notice from the studios. EMO Films announced that it will be expanding his Road to Perdition into a trilogy, with the writer for Perdition's comic book Max Allan Collins (which it was adapted from) on board as director.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsSam Mendes is a Preacher man
As close as a Preacher film has been to getting made, it's always seemed like a prayer that would never be answered. It's not that the cross-country, nihilistic, confrontational comic book couldn't be filmed, but more that given its content, a studio would have to be pretty insane to throw up the kind of money it would take to do it right. But then, the same thing was said about Watchmen, a similarly dense and literate comic, so who's to say what gets greenlighted these days.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsTarantino, del Toro, others vote the 500 Greatest Movies
British film monthly Empire is known for its lists, but the mag has outdone itself with its latest, the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. Such lists are, of course, fairly useless to anything other than overheated web-forum debates and Netflix queues, but they remain a favorite pastime for populist film buffs and the magazines that bolster them, so who’re we to resist?... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch the trailer for Revolutionary Road
First optioned for film in 1967, Richard Yates’s classic novel Revolutionary Road has had a long run-up to the screen. Published almost contemporary to its action in 1961 and yet starkly modern in thought, the story concerns a husband and wife in suburban Connecticut circa 1955, she deeply discontent with the social prerogatives of the period, he more and more immersed in them.... read more
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