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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 15, 2013

The Great Beauty

A cinematic tour de force, this meandering tone poem to Rome and Italy by Paolo Sorrentino, like his movie Il Divo, resists categorization. Very reminiscent of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, it centers in the character of Jep Gambardella, played by Sorrentino’s frequent collaborator, the great Toni…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 15, 2013

Blue Is The Warmest Color

It is fitting that for the first time in history, the Palme D’Or at Cannes this year was awarded to director Abdellatif Kechiche in conjunction with the two actresses of this film, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux. In fact, I think the women deserve the award more than him. He…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 19, 2013

Captain Phillips

There are two fabulous scenes in this movie by Paul Greengrass. When the four skinny Somali pirates, armed to the teeth in a small skiff, come on board the enormous Maersk Alabama cargo ship, and there is nothing that Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) can do about it; and the last five minutes of the…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 29, 2013

The Butler

Lee Daniels’ The Butler is like a Western Union telegram of the history of the civil rights movement and it has the same powerful bluntness. A lot of it is obvious and strained, but emotionally, it works.
It’s worth comparing it to Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave in that Daniels embraces artificiality…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 22, 2013

Philomena

Philomena is the real story of Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who became pregnant when she was very young, was forced to have the baby by nuns in a convent, who then gave the baby up for adoption without her consent (and worse). The movie is based on journalist Martin Sixsmith’s book, directed by Stephen…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 8, 2013

Dallas Buyers Club

When actors play showy roles that entail extreme physical changes, it is easy to confuse their physical transformations with acting. They lose or gain 40 pounds, and it is an enormous sacrifice, but that does not automatically deserve them nominations and prizes. A full fledged character has to…

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