6 years ago
All posts by Noah Gittell
For Your Reconsideration: ‘Stoker’
Expectations were high for Stoker, the English-language debut of famed Korean director Chan-Wook Park. Upon its release in the cinematic doldrums of March, however, critics and audiences were largely unimpressed. Many rightly praised the technical prowess of P...
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What The “Love Actually” Wars Are Really About
The state of the rom-com, and why people are still arguing about the film 10 years later.
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Looking Back: ‘The Girl in the Cafe’
It seems there are a lot of folks out there who hate Richard Curtis, an odd phenomenon for a filmmaker who specializes in love. Having essentially defined the modern British rom-com in his scripts for Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jone...
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The Travels of Alexander Payne
Citizen Ruth, Alexander Payne’s first film, is not what you would call a laugh-out-loud comedy, but there is one moment that always gets me. Towards the end of the film, Ruth (Laura Dern), a pregnant junkie who has become the center of a political firestorm be...
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‘The Motel Life’ Is A Promising Directorial Debut
The debut film from Alan and Gabe Polsky reveals a talented new directing duo.
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‘Ender’s Game’ and The New Anti-War America
By now, I’m sure you have heard about the long, winding road Ender’s Game took to the big screen. Despite the best efforts of some accomplished Hollywood filmmakers, it has taken 28 years for the adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s young adult book to finally be ...
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Why Racial Films Must Be Made By Black Directors
Hollywood finally seems interested in telling stories about race that aren't designed to appeal to conservative, white viewers.
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The Government Shutdown Impacts Hollywood, Too
Noah Gittell examines how the current government shutdown in the U.S. is impacting Hollywood and movie theaters.
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The Empathy of ‘Captain Phillips’
If you’re a Hollywood producer, and you’ve got your hands on a particular kind of property - a thrilling docudrama about an intense and violent recent event – who is the first director you call? There is only one choice: Paul Greengrass.
The English directo...
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Why ‘Parkland’ Is Really A 9/11 Movie
It’s been 20 years since the release of In the Line of Fire, the last major motion picture about the assassination of JFK. That film came on the heels of JFK and Ruby, both of which came out the year before. Although they took different tacks, all three films ...
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