Tag: Griffin Dunne
Caught Stealing: Darren Aronofsky Might Call It a “Love Letter” to New York, But It’s More Like a Requiem (Not for a Dream)
It’s been three years since Darren Aronofsky proceeded to break audiences’ hearts with The Whale (written by Samuel D. Hunter, and based on his 2012 play). In [Read More…]
Love Won’t Save You: An American Werewolf in London
There is a common trope in every love story that begins with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle that actually is, in the end, insurmountable (though many [Read More…]
I Love Dick & The Anathema Concept of Man as Muse
Jill Soloway, always to be counted on for her impressionistic stylings (see: any of those Berlin flashbacks in season two of Transparent), is perhaps the [Read More…]
Bad Chemistry & Fairly Good Music Comprise Tumbledown
As the rom-com becomes evermore stigmatized, it’s easy to understand why screenwriters like Desiree Van Til would try to go outside the norm of the [Read More…]
Sacramento Girl: Joan Didion Turns 80
On the heels of Joan Didion’s nephew, Griffin Dunne, raising well over the amount of his Kickstarter goal of $80,000 to make a documentary about [Read More…]
Hello to All That: The Joan Didion Documentary Hype Begins
Those who say what gets the greenlight in Hollywood are clearly eating their metaphorical hats right now, as the Kickstarter for a Joan Didion documentary [Read More…]
Why Madonna’s Film Roles Are Redeeming From a Feminist Standpoint
Madonna is not known for being a great actress–or even being an actress at all. The most people will ever give to her is Desperately [Read More…]
Never Mind the Bullocks: A Look at Sandra Bullock’s Early Roles
While Sandra Bullock is more lauded in her present career than her early one, many of her roles at the initial stage of her acting [Read More…]
