Tag: Tessa Thompson
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Todd Haynes on the ‘Extraordinary’ Alchemy Between Kelly Reichardt and Writer Jon Raymond
Portland local Todd Haynes turned out at the Oregon city’s art museum in late June not to tout his own movies — and he certainly has a major one on the horizon thanks to Netflix’s Cannes pick-up “May December” — but to celebrate his peers: namely screenwriter and author Jon Raymond, longtime collaborator of Haynes’…
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Annihilation: How the Core Characters Represent the Five Stages of Grief
Adapting the first novel of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and Tessa Thompson, brings a closer visual and narrative look to its source material in a few respects. In the original novel, an expedition team investigates a strange ecological location known as Area X. Previous excursions have provided nearly…