5 min movie guide
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Fences
It’s always tough adapting a stage play into a movie even when the play in question is August Wilson’s Fences which in 1987 won both a Pulitzer and Tony for Best Play. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-part circle which were all set in Pittsburgh and explore the evolving blue-collar African-American experience…
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The Salesman
Ever since writer/director Asghar Farhadi became the first Iranian filmmaker to win a Oscar and a Golden Globe in 2011 for his stunning movie A Separation, he has continued to helm compelling dramas of domestic discord that show the uneasiness of women’s roles in contemporary Iranian society. The Salesman starts very dramatically with the impending collapse…
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Julieta
For his latest movie …….his 20th …..Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has done a 360 degree turn from his last film the outrageously camp farce ‘I’m So Excited‘ and eschewed comedy completely to make one of his excellent signature female-centric melodramas. Julieta is loosely based on three short stories from the Canadian Pulitizer-Prize writer Janet Munro and…
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Reset
After his successful tenure as a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet and a starring role in the movie Black Swan which he also choreographed and where he met his future wife Natalie Portman, in 2014 Benjamin Millepied was offered the position of Director of the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet. One of the reasons…
