We continue our countdown of the main Oscar categories with Best Supporting Actress, a category that seems all sealed up for Hathaway but has even richer performances beyond such an obviously tremendous performance at its core. Who’s nominated? Amy Adams, “The Master” Sally Field, “Lincoln” Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables” Read More…
Thank you for joining the Oscar conversation at The Daily Cal. More of our arts writers will be getting together for a podcast in the next few days to give you a more detailed analysis of the Oscars overall. So let’s devote some blogposts to some of the bigger categories, Read More…
Let’s be honest. Last summer was a sore disappointment. Out of the many blockbusters to be released — “Thor,” “X-Men: First Class” and the laughably awful “Green Lantern” — no film stood out as the centerpiece of the summer season (except maybe “Harry Potter”). There was no “Inception” or “Dark Read More…
French actress Juliette Binoche (“Certified Copy”) plays Anne, a Parisian journalist writing an article about female student prostitutes. For the assignment, Anne interviews 2 students: Charlotte (Anaïs Demoustier), who uses the pseudonym ‘Lola’ with her male clients, and Alicja (Joanna Kulig), a Polish immigrant attempting to find a better life Read More…
For the past 15 years or so, Kathleen Turner’s acting career seems to have taken that dismal route toward that dark abyss where almost every single actress’ career in Hollywood goes after they hit 40. (Studios seem to think that Meryl Streep is the only veteran actress with talent and Read More…
Indie writer-director Whit Stillman returns after a 14-year absence from filmmaking with his new off-kilter comedy, “Damsels in Distress.” Like the Manhattan townhouses in “Metropolitan” (1990), an isolated setting provides much of the content for this movie. In “Damsels”, it’s Seven Oaks College where a quartet of beautiful girls set Read More…
After a 12-year hiatus, director Terence Davies adapts Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play “The Deep Blue Sea” into an operatic glimpse at a woman’s disillusionment with a world unable to reciprocate the nuclear love that’s sprouted within her. The film begins with a suicide attempt by Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), the Read More…
I know what you’re thinking,” a disgruntled Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) tells a group of baby-faced cops in an early scene in “21 Jump Street.” “Angry, black captain! Ain’t nothing but a stupid stereotype!” Whatever problems with stereotypes these cops have, Captain Dickson suggests they better start embracing the ones Read More…
From March 8 to 18, the Center for Asian American Media presents the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. This is one of many homegrown Bay Area fests that pays tribute to cineastes of difference who have otherwise been marginalized by the Hollywood machine. We cannot turn to Read More…
15 years ago, the world of cinema was hit with one of the biggest films ever made — “Titanic.” Like the hype surrounding the titular ship, director James Cameron crafted a movie so large and so expansive in scale, the public went into a type of “Titanic” frenzy. It became Read More…
