Tag: The Truman Show
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Trailer Watch: Christos Nikou’s Apples, Starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White and Luke Wilson
Fresh off its world premiere at Telluride, the first trailer is here for Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou’s sophomore feature and English-language debut, Apples. The high-concept film stars Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed as a couple living in a not-so-far-off dystopian future who find the validity of their love under investigation at the Love Institute. The…
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‘The Truman Show’ Writer Proposes TV Series Adaptation of the Classic Film
Telling a tragic yet captivating tale, The Truman Show stars Jim Carrey in the 1998 critically esteemed film that follows the life of a man who lives on a life-like set, with the people around him serving as the show’s actors, completely unbeknownst to him. Truman soon found out the terrible lie he’d been living…
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The Truman Show Ending Explained: Freeing Yourself From Fear Of Reality
“The Truman Show” is a movie so high-concept that its title has become a colloquialism. The lead Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) discovers that his life as he’s known it for his 30 years is a lie. His hometown of Seahaven Island is contained within a dome, outfitted with complex camera and sound systems that document…
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Cannes Faces the Future: Inside the 20 Million Effort to Save Arthouse Cinema
Every year, the Cannes Film Festival sets the tone with a single image. The festival’s official poster adorns every street lamp along the Croisette and stretches out across the vast canvas of the entrance to the Lumiere Theatre. Sometimes it salutes a filmmaker and sometimes it takes the wider approach. Whatever message it sends gets…
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Cannes Film Festival Unveils Cinema de la Plage Lineup
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the program of its Cinema de la Plage section which launched last year with a mix of restored classics, cult films and premieres.Open to all audiences, the Cinema de la Plage will take place on the beach every evening and will be free of charge. The program, which runs…
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‘Free Guy’ Is the Rare Movie This Summer That Gets to Be an Only-in-Theaters Hit. Do You Think Other Movies Are Jealous? (Column)
“Free Guy,” starring Ryan Reynolds as a minor character in a video game who breaks out of his drone existence, is one of the fizziest movies you’ll ever see that has a bona fide brain. At first, it may remind you of a lot of other films — it’s like “The Truman Show” crossed with…
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Jim Carrey Thinks ‘The Truman Show’ Is More Relevant Than Ever
No performance captures my imagination quite as much as the dramatic turns offered by established comedians. From Adam Sandler in “Punch-Drunk Love” to Jenny Slate in “Obvious Child,” watching an actor unpack their public persona in service of a bittersweet love story. In looking back, it’s probably fair to say that “The Truman Show” helped…
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‘The Truman Show’ at 20: Jim Carrey’s Best Movie is Still Delightful and Philosophically Rich
In 1994, Jim Carrey broke big, starring in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber, three box office toppers that catapulted the rubbery-faced comedian to global superstardom. There’s an entire generation of kids that went around quoting those movies, repeating Ace’s catchphrase of “Alrighty then!” while affecting the same overly confident voice…
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With ‘Jim & Andy’, Chris Smith Charts Jim Carrey’s Eerie Transformation Into Andy Kaufman For ‘Man On The Moon’
Of late, Jim Carrey has been exploring a newfound passion for political cartooning, but for now he remains better known as one of the most popular comedic actors in Hollywood history. His credits range from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective to Dumb and Dumber, The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, the 1999 Milos Forman…