Top stories published by I’ve Had It With Hollywood in 2016

I find Ewan McGregor utterly charming and I was rooting for his first directing foray, of American Pastoral, based on the novel by Philip Roth. Alas, pretty much everything goes awry: bad casting, a stiff script, and an equally stiff directorial job.
McGregor plays Seymour “The Swede” Levov, a…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

May 11, 2016

The Lobster

I am a big fan of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. Before he made the more expensive The Lobster, Lanthimos delivered elegant, deeply unsettling high-concept movies with very modest budgets (Dogtooth, Alps). You could not stop thinking about these movies. They are like a punch in the gut.
Now that he has a…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 28, 2016

Nocturnal Animals

A stylish mess. Amy Adams is wasted in a rudderless role in this modern noir by Tom Ford about a wealthy woman who has everything and is deeply unhappy. She lives in a modernist box in the Hollywood Hills, has a penchant for terrible performance art, has a handsome, unconcerned husband (Armie…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Apr 6, 2016

Chus Lampreave: Spain’s National Treasure.

Spain has given the world many wonderful things, among them Serrano ham, cañitas (the…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 7, 2016

Moonlight

Watching the first scene of this movie by Barry Jenkins, where Chiron, a scrawny black kid, runs from a bunch of bullies and hides in an abandoned property, panting in despair, I realized that there are no movies that feature black children as protagonists (except for the last version of Annie). This means…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 10, 2016

Arrival

I was bored from minute one. Is this a movie about language and communication, or is this a movie about predicting the future, or is this a movie about China and Russia being mean?
Arrival has some interesting stuff going for it. I liked the alien heptapods, which also look like hands and have elephant skin…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 2, 2016

Indignation

Adapting Philip Roth novels to the movies is a Sisyphean task and one that has encountered failure almost every time it has been…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Feb 24, 2016

Time To Kvetch: Oscars 2016

Once again, the time is near for that extended fest of self-congratulation and foregone conclusions that we can’t look away from. As always, I strongly recommend that if you watch, you do so with copious amounts of booze. I pity Chris Rock and hope he comes up with the goods. He…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 24, 2016

The Handmaiden

Sumptuous, perverse and exquisite, The Handmaiden, by Korean auteur Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance), is one of my favorite movies this year — a big, bold tale, the story of an epic swindle, a Chinese box of plot twists and a refreshingly compelling erotic story with a feminist streak.

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