Tag: Shirley
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Odessa Young Has Stepped In To Replace Riley Keough In ‘Masculinity Cult’ Thriller Manodrome
Odessa Young is taking over the role originally set to be played by Riley Keough in the upcoming thriller “Manodrome,” which co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody. Young’s star has been on the rise in the 2020s with her role opposite Elizabeth Moss in “Shirley” and her performance as Frannie Goldsmith in the CBS adaptation…
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‘Port Authority’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese Exec Produces This New York-Set Love Story
It’s pretty rare that the legendary Martin Scorsese puts his name on something that ends up being bad. In addition to his directing credits over the past few years, he’s executive produced things like Uncut Gems, The Souvenir, Pretend It’s a City, Shirley, and Happy as Lazzaro, and he’s done the same thing for Port…
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How ‘Shirley’s’ Production Design Went Inside the Novelist’s Grim Mind
In the recent feature “Shirley,” Elisabeth Moss plays novelist Shirley Jackson, who is hard at work on her second novel, “Hangsaman.”She has thrown herself into writing the story, based on the disappearance of a young woman Paula Jean Welden from Bennington College, where her husband teaches. Jackson spends her days and nights working on the…
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Film Festival Cologne Gets Physical With In-Theater Screenings
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the Film Festival Cologne will be one of the first major festivals in Europe to take place entirely physically as the coronavirus continues to wane in Germany. It runs Oct. 1-8. Launched in 1991 as the Cologne Conference, as it was known until 2016, the international film and television…
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Neon Nabs Josephine Decker’s ‘Shirley’ With Elisabeth Moss
Neon has purchased North American rights to Josephine Decker’s “Shirley,” a drama about novelist Shirley Jackson that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Elisabeth Moss as Jackson, a writer whose work intertwined elements of the macabre with sly social commentary, most notably in her short story, “The Lottery.”The pact closed hours…
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‘Shirley’: Film Review
Shirley Jackson was a real person, a writer best known for her twisted short story “The Lottery,” although the version presented in Josephine Decker’s “Shirley” feels more like a character from one of her own novels. Featuring “The Handsmaid’s Tale” actor Elisabeth Moss in the title role, this queer, hard-to-quantify psychological study isn’t a biopic…