Though he’s still best known for his considerable resume as a director of the stage, Ulu Grosbard formulated a sporadic yet significant filmography in...
The Angels' Share: Girard’s Musical Drama a Conventional Return
Quebecois filmmaker Francois Girard returns from a near decade long hiatus with Boychoir, his first cinematic...
Mostly Favreau: Actor/Director’s Return to Indie Scene a Pleasant Surprise
A thinly veiled allegory for Jon Favreau’s own career, whether he consciously means it to...
Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: John Hodge
Producers: Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, Tracey Seaward, Kate Solomon
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Lee Pace, Ben Foster, Chris...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.