English actress Emma Watson breaks Hermione’s chains in her first post-Harry Potter role.
Author Stephen Chobsky adapts his 1999 eponymously titled novel and directs. Co-stars include Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd, Mae Whitman, Nina Dobrev, Melanie Lynskey, and Kate Walsh.
Here’s a synopsis:
“A funny and touching adventure based on a best-selling novel that has sold over a million copies in the U.S. and has been published in 16 countries and 13 languages, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER is a modern classic about a shy, sensitive teenager caught between trying to live his life and escape it.”
“Snow White and the Huntsman” took a big bite out of the weekend’s box office action, opening with a strong $56.2 million, despite a mixed critical reception. “Men in Black 3” finished second with “The Avengers” rounding out the top three in a weekend that saw receipts drop by a little more than 7 percent over the weekend previous.
In the pages of the Sunday New York Times, writer/director Alex Cox reflects on his love of the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. Filmmakers (including Cox) have tried to reproduce the vibe of the Italian-produced westerns, but no one’s ever really come close.
Here’s the nut graf:
“And thus it was that this young filmgoer, in the late ’60s, discovered not the Summer of Love but the Summer of Spaghetti. On a high school trip to Paris I encountered that city’s network of second- and third-run movie theaters, which played the most obscure Italian westerns any enthusiast could wish for, dubbed in French.
In Paris again the next summer I got a job as an office boy at Les Films Marbeuf. This didn’t provide much valuable work experience, but I didn’t care. Marbeuf distributed the most legendary of these B westerns, Sergio Corbucci’s “Django.” It is to this great, mad, violent spaghetti western — and its many sequels — that Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming film, “Django Unchained,” alludes. In the Corbucci film Django (played by a young Franco Nero) arrives in a muddy shantytown on foot, dragging a coffin. In the coffin is a machine gun with which he will shortly kill many enemies. Why does he do this? Apparently they are racist Southerners who wear red hoods rather than white ones. In a brief scene Django visits his wife’s grave and reflects that she was murdered by the leader of the bad guys, Major Jackson. Why the major killed her, and why Django has waited so many years to take revenge, is entirely unclear. And, equally, unimportant.
My enthusiasm for “Django” and its contemporaries rivaled that of a young Elizabethan treated to the London theater of the Rose or the Globe. Who cared why the Dane waited so long to murder his uncle? There was mayhem! There was murder! There was madness! There was music! And a ghost! The enthusiasm for these things shown by the best Renaissance playwrights — Marlowe, Webster, Kyd, Middleton — rivaled the spaghetti western auteurs’ equal passion for arbitrary killing, crucifixions, loud music and scenes with white-clad villains abused by talking parrots.”
Prabhudheva’s ‘Rowdy Rathore’ is really a common masala movie, filled with love, romance, drama and a lot of action. The actual movie is actually packed with Tamil-style strike outlines, slow-motion activity sequences wherever bloodstream silently trickles onto messy floor as well as menacing-looking bad guys who else reside in the Sholay style haunt.
The actual leading part is a great small-time conman that is prepared to repair their methods if he falls into really like. Simply if he is getting ready to start a brand new tea leaf, this individual incurs a little woman who else believes he could be the girl dad plus some goons that are individuals competing with regard to their bloodstream. Several chases plus some misunderstandings later on, all of us understand that…
The “Dark Knight Rises” actress dishes to The Sun about playing Selina Kyle in the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s bat-saga:
“Anne is the first woman villain in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which has featured such memorable baddies as Cillian Murphy’s Scarecrow and Heath Ledger’s Joker.
She tells The Sun: “I didn’t realise I was the first — and I feel a little nauseous. That’s a lot of pressure.”
The Cineaste's Lament. 