Tag: Unsane
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Claire Foy Movies Need More Moments Where She Shouts for Justice
Trigger Warning: The following contains references to and discussions of sexual assault.One of the moviegoing moments I’ll never forget came while watching the trailer for First Man in a theater for the first time and seeing Claire Foy’s big moment within this piece of marketing. Now, having not seen The Crown, I wasn’t an expert…
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‘No Sudden Move’ Trailer: Don Cheadle And Benecio Del Toro Lead A Packed Ensemble In Soderbergh’s Latest
As his fans will attest, Steven Soderbergh is a filmmaking machine. Since his return from “retirement” in 2016, the director immediately resumed his torrid production rate. Starting with 2017’s “Logan Lucky,” Soderbergh has made five films in the last five years, including 2018’s “Unsane” and “Let Them All Talk” for HBO Max last December. On…
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‘Let Them All Talk’ Trailer: Meryl Streep Stars in Steven Soderbergh’s Latest Film for HBO Max
Remember when Steven Soderbergh was supposed to be retired? It seems like that never lasted very long, no matter how many times he said it. In the past few years, he’s directed Logan Lucky, Unsane, High-Flying Bird, and The Laundromat, and now he’s back with a new film for HBO Max called Let Them All…
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‘Unsane’: How the Star of a Global Box-Office Hit Turned His Back on Hollywood and Committed to Low-Budget Filmmaking
Two decades ago, Joshua Leonard was a 21-year-old wanderer, working in experimental film production in New York, in the final throes of drug addiction, and uncertain what he wanted to do in life. His father taught theater, but Leonard never considered acting as a career; on a whim, he pursued a role in a microbugeted…
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Will the Academy’s New Code of Conduct Policy Impact Its President? — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast
Oscar season is behind us, but some lingering issues remain. Just this past week, reports surfaced that John Bailey, the cinematographer currently serving as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was under investigation for sexual harassment. This comes after AMPAS instituted a new Code of Conduct policy for all members in…
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‘Unsane’: Claire Foy Represents a New Final Girl For the #MeToo Era
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “Unsane.”]Much of the hype over Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, “Unsane,” has centered around the filmmaker’s decision to shoot the entire movie on his iPhone. But beyond the movie’s technical marvels, “Unsane” offers viewers a harrowing window into the experiences of many women struggling to maintain normalcy after a…
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Unsane: how film’s portrayal of mental illness is (slowly) improving
Steven Soderbergh’s new film is the story of a women held in a psychiatric hospital. It shows how film-makers are doing a better job with mental health issuesSteven Soderbergh: Unretired. The director announced in 2013 that he was quitting because “movies don’t matter any more”. But he has continued to work steadily since – in…