Not everyone is sad to see the end of “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s meandering ensemble dramedy about four overly coddled, overly ambitious millennials. However, it’s an exercise in frustration when you consider “The Delusional Downtown Divas,” her two-season 2009 web series about a group of three fame-chasing twentysomethings who would stop at nothing in their dogged pursuit of art-world recognition — except make art.
Commissioned by Index Magazine when Dunham was fresh out of Oberlin College, the three Divas were an obvious precursor to the four “Girls.” However, they inhabited a much more specific world in the downtown New York art scene, where Dunham was raised. It was a subject ripe for parody, one that she was uniquely suited to lampoon. (Of note: The founder of Index was artist Peter Halley, father of “Divas” star Isabel Halley.) “Divas” struck a much sharper and funnier tone than the uneven soup of dissatisfied ennui that often hampered “Girls.
Commissioned by Index Magazine when Dunham was fresh out of Oberlin College, the three Divas were an obvious precursor to the four “Girls.” However, they inhabited a much more specific world in the downtown New York art scene, where Dunham was raised. It was a subject ripe for parody, one that she was uniquely suited to lampoon. (Of note: The founder of Index was artist Peter Halley, father of “Divas” star Isabel Halley.) “Divas” struck a much sharper and funnier tone than the uneven soup of dissatisfied ennui that often hampered “Girls.
- 4/6/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
What Mr. Robot regularly does with visuals is so virtuosic, it's easy to forget how important a role sound plays. Mac Quayle's dire score, paired with ambient noises and creative soundtrack choices, conspires to create an aural landscape a person could live inside — if it wasn't such a goddamn stressful place to be.
That soundscape has never been on more stunning, nail-biting display than in last night's episode, "eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx" (try saying that five times fast). The primal scream that follows Price's quiet pronouncement that he...
That soundscape has never been on more stunning, nail-biting display than in last night's episode, "eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx" (try saying that five times fast). The primal scream that follows Price's quiet pronouncement that he...
- 9/8/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Ingrid Bergman ca. early 1940s. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial 'Gaslight' to the magisterial 'Autumn Sonata' Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, '15, TCM is focusing on another Swedish actress, three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. TCM has likely aired most of Bergman's Hollywood films, and at least some of her early Swedish work. As a result, today's only premiere is Fielder Cook's little-seen and little-remembered From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), about two bored kids (Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) who run away from home and end up at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Obviously, this is no A Night at the Museum – and that's a major plus. Bergman plays an elderly art lover who takes an interest in them; her...
- 8/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Disney might be putting its toys all in one basket with this one. Ruben Fleischer, who directed the charming "Zombieland" and the slightly less-charming "30 Minutes or Less" and the pretty silly "Gangster Squad," is in talks to direct the family film "Overnight."
Written by "22 Jump Street" scribe Oren Uziel, the film is described as "Home Alone" in a toy store much like Fao Schwarz. Hold on to your butts, because this ain't "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"! This could be a cool fit, because although "Zombieland" was far from a family-friendly film, it was fast and funny enough to see Fleischer's style translating well into a PG-13 father/son farce. After the surprisingly dark "30 Minutes or Less" and disappointing "Gangster Squad," it could be interesting to see Fleischer take on a lighter project.
Uziel has written a number of scripts in various states of pre-production (or...
Written by "22 Jump Street" scribe Oren Uziel, the film is described as "Home Alone" in a toy store much like Fao Schwarz. Hold on to your butts, because this ain't "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"! This could be a cool fit, because although "Zombieland" was far from a family-friendly film, it was fast and funny enough to see Fleischer's style translating well into a PG-13 father/son farce. After the surprisingly dark "30 Minutes or Less" and disappointing "Gangster Squad," it could be interesting to see Fleischer take on a lighter project.
Uziel has written a number of scripts in various states of pre-production (or...
- 2/26/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Get past the fonts (Futura bus logos! Everyone knows calligraphy!) and the '60s pop songs, and you'll find that the real recurring motif in Wes Anderson's films is "Melancholy Childhoods of the Vietnam Era." This auteur can't get enough of sad kids wistfully reading novels with intricately painted dustjackets, listening to records on plastic tone-arm record players and dreaming of liberation. Not for nothing does one of the flashbacks in "The Royal Tenenbaums" reference E.L. Konigsburg's "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," a 1967 tale of two precocious...
- 5/23/2012
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
After a tough episode last week had me wondering if this show was in danger of becoming extinct, the gang from How I Met Your Mother roamed with dinosaurs, ducked the rope of mediocrity and snuck in a good episode last night.
The half hour had all the key elements: Lily and Marshall shared funny yet tender moments; Robin and Barney teamed up again; and a witty, yet not pompous, Ted Mosby stole the show.
Marshall fell in love with Lily when she dressed like a Goth and spelled ‘woman’ with a Y (womyn), but in this week’s episode Lily found herself searching for the man she had fallen for. She could not seem to accept that Corporate Marshall might never become a tree hugging environmental advocate.
She feared she had lost the “sandwich” loving, nonconformist she fell for back at Wesleyan. They made up in the end like they always do,...
The half hour had all the key elements: Lily and Marshall shared funny yet tender moments; Robin and Barney teamed up again; and a witty, yet not pompous, Ted Mosby stole the show.
Marshall fell in love with Lily when she dressed like a Goth and spelled ‘woman’ with a Y (womyn), but in this week’s episode Lily found herself searching for the man she had fallen for. She could not seem to accept that Corporate Marshall might never become a tree hugging environmental advocate.
She feared she had lost the “sandwich” loving, nonconformist she fell for back at Wesleyan. They made up in the end like they always do,...
- 11/9/2010
- by cfohara4@hotmail.com (C F O'Hara)
- TVfanatic
Courtesy of Emily Giffin
Ever wondered what an author reads? Recently, writer Emily Giffin, whose newest tome Heart of the Matter is on shelves now, talked to People Moms & Babies about what she’s reading with her kids — and for herself.
“We always read before bedtime,” she says. “It gives the kids something to look forward to. And if we can’t finish a chapter, or if it’s late, we’ll continue at the breakfast table.”
Giffin shares that her 6-year-old twins, Edward and George, are just getting into chapter books.
“I’m reading the second book in the Harry Potter series to them,...
Ever wondered what an author reads? Recently, writer Emily Giffin, whose newest tome Heart of the Matter is on shelves now, talked to People Moms & Babies about what she’s reading with her kids — and for herself.
“We always read before bedtime,” she says. “It gives the kids something to look forward to. And if we can’t finish a chapter, or if it’s late, we’ll continue at the breakfast table.”
Giffin shares that her 6-year-old twins, Edward and George, are just getting into chapter books.
“I’m reading the second book in the Harry Potter series to them,...
- 6/16/2010
- by Shanelle
- People - CelebrityBabies
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