Movies of Interest: Coming Soon and in Pre-Production
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Agreed.
I want acting, not animations and smurf-zombie-vampire-superhero-monsters.
PBS's running of the play "Red," about the painter Mark Rothko, is super. I saw the play on Broadway in 2010, and seeing it again was worth every minute. Just two characters, Rothko and his young assistant with whom he is overbearing with philosophy, opinion, and bluster. However, the kid finally argues against a commission Rothko is doing for paintings for an ultra-expensive NY restaurant. Rothko finally takes his advice, and then fires him, to get him out of the confines of his studio and on with his own young life as a painter. Superbly written, acted, set-designed, and directed. It won a rack of Tony's -- the power of simplicity. Rothko's description of visiting the restaurant to see where his paintings will "live" is amazing, not pretty. You'll never dine out with the better-off again in just the same way. The title has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the actual painter's color choices.
I saw it earlier this week. It's good but you need to have a serious taste for the surreal. Imagine David Lynch did a period piece.
You also need to have a good grasp of Greek mythology, since there's a constant interweaving of mythological elements and symbology into the events at the lighthouse that add to the significance of those events. I enjoyed the film for the truly black comedy that it is intended to be.
I agree in part, but don't believe it's meant wholeheartedly to be a farce or black comedy. If so, it's Aristophanes on a complete acid bender. I'm curious, what did you make of the scene with Winslow staring into blinding light, as well as the end of the film?
I don't know any details...I haven't even followed the recent movies or the CBS thing you're referring to. In fact, I never even watched "next generation". The only ST I watched was the original series and the original movies with the original cast.
Tarantino making one interests me though...just for the spectacle of it I guess.
Although little is known about the project at this point, someone has provided this highly informative perspective on it:
Winslow is Prometheus, the trickster Titan who created mankind and who stole fire from the Gods to give to his creations. In Greek mythology, Prometheus was punished for his transgression by being chained to a rock where he would suffer eternally by having his liver devoured by an eagle, only to have it grow back overnight and thus would have to go through the same agonizing procedure again and again throughout eternity. Eagles being scarce, Winslow is subjected to having his liver eaten by a seagull who also takes a crap on him while having lunch. Insult added to injury.
The director very much intended it as black comedy.
Except for the crapping part. I like to think an eagle would have had more class and not pooped during lunch.
The CBS All Access thing is more "pop" and commercial. It's like a netflix series, so think soap opera. Still, it's tolerable I suppose till you discover
that the modified timeline was created, at least partially, so that rights to merchandise, etc., could be solely owned.The Next Generation was worthy. Many episodes were formulaic and tepid, but many episodes were quite good. It was up and down, not as consistent as TOS. The rest of the series' after that were a general decline, IMO.
My British Car club went to see that on Saturday. Looks great, I really want to see that one on the big screen.
Well, she was certainly anatomically complete and ready to rock and roll.
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