Tag Archives: Michelle Williams

“A woman’s gotta do…” Feminist Western Meek’s Cutoff screens in the Birds Eye View Film Festival

Posted on 9 March 2011 by Jason Best

Hailee Steinfeld’s feisty performance in True Grit has just reminded us that the Wild West shouldn’t be seen as an exclusively male preserve. So it’s fitting that the Birds Eye View Film Festival, great champion of women filmmakers, should be … Continue reading →

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Oscars Muse – The countdown has begun

Posted on 28 January 2011 by Adele Craciun

Roll out the red carpet! News Muse has thrown on a swanky designer frock and a pair of Jimmy Choo-Choos to walk you through the nominated movies and keep you up-to-date with all things Oscar in the run-up to the … Continue reading →

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Blue Valentine – Heartbreaking portrait of a marriage from first flush to bitter end

Posted on 14 January 2011 by Jason Best

A big critical and audience hit at last year’s Sundance and Cannes film festivals, Blue Valentine is a heartbreaking study of a marriage on the verge of collapse. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams play blue-collar Pennsylvanian couple Dean and Cindy. … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman’s new movie: self-indulgent twaddle or surreal masterpiece?

Posted on 15 May 2009 by Jason Best

As a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has become a byword for cinematic jiggery-pokery, a master of tricky, self-reflexive storytelling who has bamboozled viewers with his scripts for such mind-bending movies as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Brokeback Mountain: Why didn’t it win that Best Picture Oscar?

Posted on 28 March 2009 by Beth Williams

The other day I told a film critic friend of mine that I’d decided to do a post about Brokeback Mountain because it was going to be showing on TV within two days of Crash? (Come back on Monday for … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Wendy and Lucy

Posted on 12 March 2009 by Jason Best

With all the fanfare surrounding the release of Watchmen last week, the low-budget American indie film Wendy and Lucy ended up somewhat overlooked, not least by us here at Movie Talk. Which is a great shame as this unassuming movie … Continue reading →

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