Tag: Trip
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‘Emily in Paris,’ ‘The Last Duel’ Among Recent Productions Aided by French Incentives
Playing a foundational role in the history of film and benefitting from enough picturesque locales to launch a thousand postcards, France has long attracted directors and crews from across the globe.Keeping them on site for more than a few days, however, was once a different story altogether.The 2009 passage of the Tax Rebate for Intl.…
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It’s Ethan Coen’s Turn To Go Solo – With A Lesbian Road Trip Movie
Joel Coen recently directed a film without his brother, Ethan Coen, for the first time, and the result was 2021’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” a pretty darn terrific movie that re-imagined Shakespeare’s classic tragedy as a black-and-white, noir-flavored, expressionist nightmare. Now, it seems that Ethan is getting back in the director’s chair for a solo…
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‘The Trip to Greece’ Is the Last ‘Trip’ Film. But It Shouldn’t Be (Column)
I’m an unabashed fan of “The Trip” and its three sequels. They’re the British talk-verité road comedies in which Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing heightened versions of their quicksilver acid-tongued middle-aged selves, drive around some lovely European country, stopping for lavish lunches at Michelin-star restaurants as they slice and dice each other’s egos with…
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Rob Brydon on ‘The Trip to Greece’, Making Steve Coogan Laugh, and If He’d Do Another Sequel
It all started back in 2010, when British comedian Rob Brydon and actor Steve Coogan did a TV series called The Trip, which followed them over the course of week as they traveled England’s Lake District dining out on delicious food and having free-wheeling, frequently funny conversations. The series was then edited together into The…