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...Beales had already been the subject of a 1972 New York magazine cover story by Gail Sheehy when the Maysles brothers got to them a year later. By then, Albert and David had pretty much patented the branch of documentary known as showbiz v?rit?. Showman, a profile of movie distributor Joe Levine (1963), What's Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964), A Visit With Truman Capote (1966), Meet Marlon Brando (1966) and the Rolling Stones' Altamont debacle Gimme Shelter (1970) all demonstrated v?rit?'s affinity for performers. A form of documentary that plants a two-person film crew (camera...
...Cinema v?rit? translates as movie truth, but the subject's story doesn't have to be true; it only has to compel the viewer to keep watching. Anyway, the lies or evasions people bring to explanations of their lives can be as revealing of their real personalities (if there are such things) as the truth (if that even exists). And in Edith and Edie Beale, Albert and David found a mother-daughter act eager to act out their lifelong psychodrama. As Edie, who was 56 when the movie was shot, confides to the brothers about her dreams of nightclub stardom...
...also can't tell a story about Sierra Leone without hiring some really big stars to get people to come see it. And luckily for Zwick, it's the kind of tale that draws in actors looking for an Important Subject. "There was something really authentic about the story," says DiCaprio, who agreed to play mercenary Danny Archer after meeting twice with Zwick and watching a 4-min. DVD featuring child soldiers and the aftermath of their battles that the director had patched together. Before shooting began, DiCaprio spent a month in South Africa meeting former mercenaries, undergoing military training...
...feel bad for our TF. Our discussion is going nowhere, and I’ve seen her check the clock three times in the last 15 minutes. I’ve found that there are three types of TFs. First, you have the ones who get stuck teaching a subject that they know very little about. So you’re a graduate student in archaeology? Well then I guess it makes sense that you’re teaching a class on astronomy, since both subjects deal with rocks on occasion. Next, you have the TF who is actually overqualified...
...have been an emotional Tilt-a-Whirl.This production runs more like an emotional steam-roller thanks to John Tillinger’s blunt direction, barreling forward with a schedule to keep. The script’s writing is nuanced enough to transcend its “Lifetime”-esqe sappy subject matter, but here it gets a treatment that silences all but its most blaring notes.The play begins eight months after Becca (Donna Bullock) and her husband, Howie (Jordan Lage) lose their four-year-old son, who is hit by a car after chasing his dog into the street...