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Lucy in the Sky (2019)

In Lucy in the Sky, Natalie Portman plays Lucy Cola, a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she’s deeply moved by the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home as Lucy’s world suddenly feels too small, her connection with reality slowly unravels.

Directed by:   Noah Hawley

Starring:   Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Pearl Amanda Dickson, Ellen Burstyn, Colman Domingo, Nick Offerman

Release date:   October 4, 2019

AHHHHHHH so chubby

Film Hype #273.

With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.

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Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky

“I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid I haven’t been alive enough.”

Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Director Todd Solondz is back with the dark comedy of the summer in Wiener-Dog, in select theaters June 24!

Ellen Burstyn is not your average nana in @wienerdogmovie. See the film in select theaters on June 24. http://gwi.io/klyrbc

Don’t miss the official trailer for Todd Solondz’s new dark comedy Wiener-Dog, starring Greta Gerwig, Danny DeVito, Zosia Mamet, Julie Delpy, and Ellen Burstyn! See it in select theaters June 24.

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Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson y Martin Scorsese en “Alicia ya no vive aquí” (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore), 1974

The Exorcist  [ 1973 ]

Dir:  William Friedkin
DoP:  Owen Roizman

#697 #Pieces of a Woman

As Monica Castillo correctly notices, “Pieces of a Woman” actually begins with a man. That itself is neither bad nor wrong. After all, the movie is about “a person’s ability to grieve or how they think grief is supposed to be handled” (reading film critics from Roger Ebert’s website continues to be my post-movie routine). Shia LaBeouf’s character, as a husband and a father, would naturally be a part of the grieving equation in real life. Still, the same way the protagonist’s mother doesn’t like him, I bet I speak for most of the audience when I say we don’t like him either. And this because the movie wastes time, space, and our sympathy for the piece itself, on a weak bridge-building analogy and clichés of his destructive behaviour through drugs, and oh surprise! some violence, and oh surprise! cheating. In the same fashion, it’s not a surprise that what I personally enjoyed the most about the movie only involves him in the deep background: the one-take shot of Martha going from one room to another in her mother’s home, taking hold of anything that falls under her hands, a glass in the kitchen, a vinyl record in the living room, half-listening to the conversation, trying not to be angry and annoyed. How do you resolve a shot like that, the only one that smelt of ‘real life’ to me? It eventually had to end, of course, but with a cut that felt like a slap in the face – a close-up of Martha about to engage in a dramatic fight with her mother after all. Close-ups are indeed great for portraying strong emotions, and here everything comes out directly: That is what YOU want! That is what YOU need! The 24-min birth scene was also shot as a single take, but I preferred this one because it left me thinking, and feeling: The resistance to the so-called negative emotions, if its build-up is so attentive to detail, how do you also untangle it naturally, even though the breakage is often quick and explosive?

Pieces of a Woman(2020)

Alain Resnais directs Ellen Burstyn on the set of Providence.