Joseph L. Mankiewicz Tribute: SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial – Part I
And if Guys and Dolls (1955) was a bore — just about everyone in this film musical is miscast, from Brando to Mankiewicz himself — the director recovered his touch with the adult (and bizarre) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), a psychotic psychological drama adapted by Gore Vidal and (officially) Tennessee Williams from Williams’s own play. (Williams later said he had nothing to do with the film version.)
The story follows a young woman (Elizabeth Taylor) who is sent to a psychiatric hospital after she suffers a nervous breakdown following some horrific traumatic experience. Things can get quite heady — bad pun intended — when you mix traditional Southern [...]
by Andre Soares | May 1, 2009
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Tags: Arthur Knight, Classic Movies, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Garson Kanin, Gay Interest, Gore Vidal, Guys and Dolls, Incest, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katharine Hepburn, Kenneth L. Geist, Laurence Olivier, Los Angeles Screenings, Marlon Brando, Mercedes McCambridge, Michael Caine, Montgomery Clift, People Will Talk, Psychological Drama, Sleuth, Suddenly Last Summer, Tennessee Williams, The Oney Pot, The Saturday Review, There Was a Crooked Man
London Film Critics Awards 2007
2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award nominations: December 14, 2006
2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: Dorchester Hotel on February 8, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Film of the Year
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Volver
* United 93
The Queen
The Attenborough Award for Best British Film
Children of Men
* The Queen
Red Road
The Last King of Scotland
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
Black Book
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
The Child
Pan’s Labyrinth
* Volver
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
* Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best British director
Andrea Arnold, Red Road
* Stephen Frears, The Queen
Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
Kevin Macdonald, The Last King of Scotland
Ken Loach, The Wind That [...]
by Andre Soares | February 8, 2007
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Tags: Emily Blunt, Film Awards, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, London Film Critics Awards, Meryl Streep, Michael Caine, Paul Greengrass, Stephen Frears, The Queen, Toby Jones, United 93, Volver
Best Films – 2002
A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas’ play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]
by Andre Soares | June 13, 2005
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Tags: About a Boy, Alberto Iglesias, Avner Bernheimer, Best Films, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Doyle, Christopher Hampton, Classic Movies, Conrad L. Hall, Daniel Day-Lewis, Danielle Darrieux, David Hare, Dennis Quaid, Eytan Fox, Fanny Ardant, Gangs of New York, Henry Thomas, Hero, Isabelle Huppert, Jay Cocks, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Kenneth Lonergan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Michael Ballhaus, Michael Caine, Nicole Kidman, Ohad Knoller, Paul Newman, Pawel Edelman, Philip Glass, Road to Perdition, Stephen Daldry, Steven Zaillian, Tan Dun, The Hours, Thomas Newman, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Virginie Ledoyen, Wedigo von Schultzendorff, Yehuda Levi
