REVIEW: Green Light for Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s acclaimed classic, The Great Gatsby, is exactly what the title implies: great. Gatsby follows Nick Carraway (Toby Maguire) as he recounts the tale of his first summer on Long Island Sound. The mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby lives next-door, and hosts lavish parties almost every night in [...]
INTERVIEW: Dan Scanlon & Kori Rae on self-discovery in Monsters University
MUSE’s interview with the director (Dan Scanlon) and the producer (Kori Rae) of Monsters University, the prequel to 2001’s Monsters Inc.. Q: Thank you very much for doing this. How did the idea of a prequel for Monsters Inc. come about? DAN: Early on, we loved the characters of Mike and Sulley and we loved the relationship of Mike [...]
REVIEW: Moral decisions in Beyond the Hills
The very title of writer and director Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills suggests a mysterious, almost mythical, place, barely visible and rarely explored. Indeed, the film — primarily set in an orthodox convent in rural Romania — centers on a slice of the world physically estranged from civilization. A sign at the convent entrance champions the community’s [...]
Beautiful confusion and ambiguity in Malick’s To The Wonder
A strange sense of timelessness manifests itself throughout Terrence Malick’s films. While he generally defines eras and physical places concretely, Malick’s stories could originate from any world or any time. hiss singular and enigmatic style — defined by his engagement with the world in creative gestures, whispering melancholy voices, even animated dinosaurs — also creates [...]
INTERVIEW: Disconnect’s Henry Alex Rubin on authenticity, documentaries and Jason Bateman
“You can easily pitch this movie badly and have people roll their eyes and say, ‘I don’t want to watch a movie about technology and how it’s bad,’” said director Henry Alex Rubin over lunch at the Eliot Hotel in Boston. The film Disconnect, starring Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgård, is the first leap into [...]
