Film
Steven Spielberg dreams anew
By Tom Teicholz at 6 October, 2008, 12:47 am
Over the last two weeks, lost amid Wall Street’s financial turmoil, came the announcement that Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks was leaving Paramount, having found financing from The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (”Reliance”), one of India’s largest private companies.
What does the fact that no American studio or financier made a better offer say about Spielberg, his [...]
Waxing Roth
By Tom Teicholz at 24 July, 2008, 10:27 am
The movie, “Elegy,” which opens Aug. 8 and stars Ben Kingsley as David
Kepesh and Penelope Cruz as the object of his desire, is the latest
film to be adapted from the writings of Philip Roth. This one is based
on his novella, “The Dying Animal.”
Despite Roth’s long,
successful career in American letters, his track record on film has
been [...]
KCRW gives us ‘The Business’
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:08 am
In an underground office on the campus of Santa Monica College, Claude
Brodesser-Akner is working with his producer, Matt Holzman, and
associate producer, Darby Maloney, to describe the current status of
the Oscar broadcast — and work in a pun.
Finally, Brodesser-Akner says, with some satisfaction, “The Oscars are mired.”
Welcome to the world of “The Business,” a half-hour [...]