Set in the early years on silent cinema, The Fall tells the story of a young stunt man, Roy Walker, who injuries himself to the point of paralysis. Suicidal and depressed he begs little Alexandria, another patient at the hospital, to provide him with Morphine in exchange for a fantastic story.
Blake Nelson grew up in Portland, Oregon and much like the main character of Gus Van Sant’s latest film, Paranoid Park, of which Nelson wrote the source novel, he spent most of his teenage years skateboarding and performing in various bands. But (hopefully) where the two differ is that the main character of Paranoid Park, Alex,
Julian Schnabel has the kind of persona that only New York could foster. He's slightly bombastic, feigning an artistic pretentiousness, traits held since appearing on the New York art scene in the 1980’s.
As of this writing, Margot at the Wedding enjoys a 50% freshness rating on rotten tomatoes. Talk about a polarizing film. Dismissing the sentimentality of The Squid and the Whale and diving right into the cesspool of sibling rivalry and arrested development, Noah Baumbach’s new film explores the dynamics of a family on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown