Category Archives: Actors

Tilda Swinton for David Bowie and for MoMA

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Doris Day: A Hollywood Legend Reflects On Life (from Fresh Air)

Posted on March 17, 2013 by

The inimitable and gracious Doris Day, interviewed by Terry Gross in 2012.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini@MoMA: Mamma Roma (1962)

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

Part social critique, part melodrama and entirely thrilling, this is probably one of Pasolini’s most mainstream and “linear” films, much closer in theme and feel to his Italian neo-realist peers. As with many of these films, the sacrifices the women … Continue reading →

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Fragments: Marilyn Monroe

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Fragments is a compilation of some of Ms. Monroe’s letters, photographs, journal entries and letters. Published to great fanfare in 2010, it has since received a great deal of attention and generally positive reviews. This collection, while well-presented, fundamentally does … Continue reading →

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SFIFF Founder’s Directing Award: Kenneth Branagh

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

The first time I saw Kenneth Branagh in person was at the now long-gone Tower Records at Lincoln Square in New York. I followed him up the escalator to the jazz section and got his autograph (giddily) over Dave Brubeck. … Continue reading →

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A Collage of Life: Then Again by Diane Keaton

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

While I don’t love every film that Diane Keaton’s been in, I do love what she does with all her characters. She has played a range, rare for many American actors, from Kay Corleone in The Godfather to Nina Banks … Continue reading →

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Jeanne Moreau: A Real Woman

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

When I think of Jeanne Moreau, I always think of her in La Notte in a black spaghetti-strap dress, chin down, eyeing Marcello Mastroianni carefully with her terrifying eyes. In French and Italian, from Antonioni to Malle, she delivers and … Continue reading →

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Bourgeois Infidelity: The Grass is Greener (1960)

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

This strange but charming film concerns a deliberately unfaithful wife and her equally forgiving husband. I suspect that the film may have been quite controversial for the time, notably because of its blithe treatment of infidelity in the bourgeois class. … Continue reading →

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Prada F/W 2012: In Praise of the Seasoned Actor

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Starting at 8:34, above, we have in procession Tim Roth, Willem Defoe, Adrien Brody, and Gary Oldman, walking the cavernous industrial space at Miuccia Prada’s Milan show. Adrien Brody, with his gloomy handsomeness and tall frame, is perfect for that … Continue reading →

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Now Playing: My Week with Marilyn

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

Celebrity is much more about how we imagine people than who they essentially are. Hollywood, and the studio age in particular, relies heavily upon this almost primal instinct to create our ideal in someone else. In recent/revisionist versions of the … Continue reading →

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