Tag: The Graduate
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Succession’s Sarah Snook Thinks This Happened To Tom & Shiv After The Finale
I’ve never been a fan of asking “what happens next” at the end of a movie or television show. If the director and the writers have done their job, the story worth telling is over. Everything I need to know about these characters and ponder about the narrative’s themes has been relayed. All that’s left…
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Has Wes Anderson Become a Victim of His Own Aesthetic?
I’ve always been shy when it comes to writing about Wes Anderson, because he’s a filmmaker I rarely connect with. When I watch one of his movies, I can’t help but see his talent, but I feel like I’m experiencing something that was made on a different planet from the one I live on. I…
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How The ‘Burbs Couldn’t Find Its Ending
Few places in this world are as simultaneously placid and terrifying as the American suburbs. Though cookie-cutter houses and bright green lawns may seem idyllic at first, poison can run underneath the heartland. Films like The Graduate and Edward Scissorhands attempt to critique the obsession and consumerism that live in America’s sprawling neighborhoods. A surprising…
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10 Best ‘New Hollywood’ Movies, According to IMDb
New Hollywood was a movement in American cinema between the 1960s and ’70s, where the director took on a greater role than the studio. This era is often cited as a cinematic golden age, producing classics including The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, and Apocalypse Now. Filmmakers got more experimental and tackled a wider range of themes…
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Shiva Baby review – black comedy is a festival of excruciating embarrassment
Writer-director Emma Seligman’s debut about a young woman running into her sugar daddy at a family event is an amusing, transparently personal pieceThis debut feature from 25-year-old writer-director Emma Seligman is an amusing, self-aware, indulgent and transparently personal chamber piece, developed from an earlier short she submitted as her NYU thesis film. It could have…
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Lynn Stalmaster, Legendary Casting Director, Dies at 93
Lynn Stalmaster, the canny casting director who pushed relative unknowns Dustin Hoffman for The Graduate, Christopher Reeve for Superman and John Travolta for Welcome Back, Kotter, has died. He was 93.Stalmaster, who at the Governors Awards in November 2016 became the first casting director in history to receive an Academy Award, died Friday morning at…
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David Foster, Producer of ‘The Getaway’ and ‘The Thing,’ Dies at 90
Prolific movie producer David Foster, who collaborated with Steve McQueen on “The Getaway” and shepherded Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 90.Foster started in the business as a publicist representing McQueen along with Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Shirley MacLaine, Andy Williams and Sonny and Cher.He left publicity and…
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Found: Stanley Kubrick’s Lost Screenplay, ‘Burning Secret’
A script co-written by Stanley Kubrick has been found by a British film academic who was researching the legendary director’s last picture, “Eyes Wide Shut.” The screenplay, “Burning Secret,” is an adaptation of a 1913 novella by Austrian novelist and playwright Stefan Zweig.It was written by Kubrick and author and screenwriter Calder Willingham (“The Graduate”)…