Rodrigo Prieto Articles

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Awards and Nominations: Part I New York Film Critics Circle: 3 wins (best film; best director, Ang Lee; best actor, Heath Ledger) New York Film Critics Online: One of the year’s top-ten films Norwegian Film Institute Amanda Awards: 1 nomination (best foreign film) Online Film Critics Society: 2 wins (best adapted screenplay, Larry McMurtry and Diana [...]

Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Colin Farrell, Alexander ALEXANDER Review Pt.1. [Photo: Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.] Alexander begins with an homage to Citizen Kane, in which a ring falls from the hand of the dying emperor. The similarities to Orson Welles‘ analysis of another deeply flawed historical figure end there. Fast forward several decades to Alexandria, Egypt, where Ptolemy (a mechanical Anthony Hopkins), self-proclaimed [...]