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Thursday, July 20, 2023

Oppenheimer review / Nolan’s atom bomb epic is flawed but extraordinary

 


Oppenheimer review – Nolan’s atom bomb epic is flawed but extraordinary


Peter Bradshaw
Wednesday 19 July 2023

Christopher Nolan’s account of the physicist who led the Manhattan Project captures the most agonising of success stories

The wartime Soviet intelligence services had a codename for the Manhattan Project, the US’s plan to build an atom bomb: Enormoz. Christopher Nolan’s new film about it is absolutely Enormoz, maybe his most enormoz so far: a gigantic, post-detonation study, a PTSD narrative procedure filling the giant screen with a million agonised fragments that are the shattered dreams and memories of the project’s haunted, complex driving force, J Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist with the temperament of an artist who gave humanity the means of its own destruction.

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Oppenheimer / A film by Christopher Nolan


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Oppenheimer
A film by Christopher Nolan
 


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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Matt Damon and Russell Crowe 'helped kill 2004 story' on Harvey Weinstein's misconduct


Matt Damon and Russell Crowe 'helped kill 2004 story' on Harvey Weinstein's misconduct

A journalist claims The New York Times spiked an article about the Weinstein allegations 

Jacob Stolworthy
Tuesday 10 October 2017 08:39 BST

Update: Damon has since denied these claims in a statement to Deadline with journalist Waxman later endorsing his comments.
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein controversy currently rocking the world, it's now been alleged that the sexual harassment allegations against him could have been exposed over a decade ago in an article that it's claimed was spiked following pressure from notable Hollywood stars.
It's been alleged by The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman that she investigated the accusations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein 13 years ago while reporting for The New York Times in 2004.

She claims this piece was cut from the paper due to both The Weinstein Company’s presence as an advertiser and alleged meddling by major Hollywood players including Matt Damon and Russell Crowe.
For her investigation, Waxman was following Fabrizio Lombardo, the Italian head of Miramax, whom she says “knew nothing about film” and was merely hired “to take care of Weinstein's women needs.”
Waxman alleges that Damon and Crowe, who had previously worked with Weinstein on films including Good Will Hunting and Cinderella Man, called her “directly” to refute these reports, something she claims led to the gutting of her finished article being gutted.

Harvey Weinstein: his accusers

Waxman wrote on The Wrap: “I was devastated after travelling to two countries and overcoming immense challenges to confirm at least part of the story that wound up running last week, more than a decade later.“
The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has since issued a statement regarding Waxman's claims, saying: “I wasn’t here in 2004. But it is unimaginable to me that The Times killed a story because of pressure from Harvey Weinstein, who was and is an advertiser. After all, The Times is an institution that has published investigative reporting that caused our Chinese-language website to be blocked in China.” 
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Harvey Weinstein reportedly sent an email pleading with Hollywood executives to help him save his job (Getty)
The top two editors at the time, Bill Keller and Jill Abramson, say they have no recollection of being pressured over Ms. Waxman’s story. And her direct editor, Jonathan Landman, suggested she didn’t have it nailed. The story we published last week took months of work by two experienced investigative reporters. It included the on-the-record accounts of numerous women who were harassed by Mr. Weinstein. It also included the fact that Mr. Weinstein paid settlements to keep women from talking. 
“I’m sure Ms. Waxman believes she had a story. But if you read her own description, she did not have anything near what was revealed in our story. Mainly, she had an off-the-record account from one woman.”
Actors ranging from Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep to Mark Ruffalo and Jessica Chastain have criticised Weinstein both for his alleged behaviour and his statement in response to the allegations.
The latter also deemed the alleged claims about Damon - her co-star in Ridley Scott film The Martian - as "heart shattering."




Streep, who has collaborated with Weinstein on several projects, called the producer “disgraceful” and stated she did not know about his allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The Martian still marooned at the top of the UK box office



The Martian still marooned at the top 
of the UK box office

Ridley Scott’s sci-fi spectacular appeals across the generations, with strong expectations for half term

The winner: The Martian

Declining a slim 21% from its opening frame, Ridley Scott’s The Martian had no trouble holding on to the top spot at the UK box office. After 12 days, the film has taken an impressive £13.21m.
An apt comparison might be Interstellar, in which Matt Damon, curiously, also played an astronaut stranded on a distant planet. That film fell 29% on its second weekend, by which time it had grossed £12.13m. It then fell hard and fast, with consecutive drops of 50%, 39%, 47% and 65%, suggesting that it quickly burned through its audience after the initial rush of Christopher Nolan fans.
The same fate may yet befall The Martian, but it seems unlikely. One good sign is that it appears to be playing to a younger audience than might have been expected.
Distributor Fox agrees that “this seems very much in line with what we are hearing and how the film is playing – throughout the day, to young and old, teens and adults, men and women alike”. They are hoping for a strong half-term hold, despite competition from other titles.
Director Scott’s biggest hit in the UK remains Gladiator, with £31.2m. The Martian has a long way to go to match it, but it should soon push past Robin Hood(£15.6m) and then overtake Hannibal (£21.6m). Fox would presumably be delighted to reach as far as Prometheus, which managed £25m.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

First Trailer For Ridley Scott’s The Martian


First Trailer For Ridley Scott’s The Martian
Matt Damon is MacGyver on Mars


08 June 2015 | Written by James Dyer

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s promo footage, today brings us yet more Martian treats in the form of the film’s first trailer, which has just this minute touched down online. We see Matt Damon’s botanist, Mark Watney, injured and left for dead when the first manned mission to the red planet is forced to make an emergency evacuation.


With no food, no supplies and a potential four year wait for rescue, Watney, in the best Breaking Bad tradition, sets out to “science the shit” out of his sticky situation and work some labcoat magic to keep himself alive until help comes.



Based on Andy Weir’s bestseller, The Martian has already made a significant splash in literary form and the screen adaptation has sent its script into orbit. The finished film will make planetfall in UK cinemas on 27 November.

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The Martian still marooned at the top  of the UK box office




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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The 10 best films of 2013, joint third / Behind the Candelabra




The 10 best films of 2013

Joint third

Behind the Candelabra


Twas the week before Christmas, and all round the globe, film writers were speculating about the 2014 Oscars. One of the most hotly-contested categories looks set to be best actor. Will it be Dern or Ejiofor? Redford or Hanks?
Catherine Shoard
Wednesday 18 December 2013 17.00 GMT

It could have all been so different. Had assorted studio heads, about three years ago, not made the call that Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic would prove "too gay" for them to finance, this year's best actor race would have a done deal.
As it was, Behind the Candelabra's HBO debut means the best Michael Douglas could get in the US was an Emmy. And, duly, a month or two ago, he did.
Behind the Candelabra is dazzling from every angle, with a supporting cast to kill for (most strikingly, Rob Lowe's vampiric plastic surgeon, sucking blood as he nips and tucks) and a script dripping with zingers.

Michael Douglas
Behind the Candelabra
But it's that central casting that clinches it: a turn that's simultaneously transformative - literally, Douglas as you've never seen him before - and a nice sly commentary on his star cache. The baggage he brings to the part is what elevates it beyond showboat or impersonation into inhabitation.


As reviews at the time noted, Douglas's Liberace is more Martian emperor than musician, gliding through his own personal Versailles like a voracious, upholstered pussycat. The arena of Soderbergh's story, too, is out of this world, almost sci-fi. Yet as well as being wild entertainment, Behind the Candelabra works as commentary on fandom and family, love and longing. It took an outlandish affair - between the sex addict closeted super-diva and an apple pie dog handler (Matt Damon's Scott Thorson) - and it made it relatable.
The film ends with Liberace's clear-eyed tribute to his lover:



Why do I love you? I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I'm with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for ignoring the possibilities of the fool in me, and for accepting the possibilities of the good in me. Why do I love you? I love you for closing your eyes to the discords in me, and for adding to the music in me by worshipful listening.

Soderbergh's film sings from the same hymn sheet. It treats its characters, no matter how ludicrous, with dignity and compassion. It loves them because and in spite of their raging absurdity, and doesn't have a problem with the conjunction. Beneath the sequins, behind the lights, it's just lovely.

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