Sacramento native Greta Gerwig's
hit film Lady Bird has enchanted audiences around the globe.
Not exact matches
Though actress Laurie Metcalf plays Saoirse Ronan's mother in the
hit film «
Lady Bird,» it was Metcalf who was going to Ronan for guidance.
So
ladies and gentlemen of the jury consider: this
film will sink quickly and quietly from the multiplex, then slowly grow once it
hits the video and streaming market.
With
films aimed at mature audiences gaining in popularity, «My Old
Lady» seems like a sure - fire formula for a
hit.
Like so many other
films hitting the big screen this year, from «Neighbors 2» to «Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,» «Bad Moms» isn't afraid to let its leading
ladies prove that women can behave just as badly as men, and be funny as hell while doing it.
Both director and star reunite for
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974), the one and only sequel to the
hit film.
Unlike other
films in the subgenre, this isn't a series of CliffsNotes or the greatest
hits of a former first
lady's life, but rather an entirely subjective, visceral, upsetting and sometimes beautiful experience.
NEW YORK — Pop stars Elton John and
Lady Gaga, award - winning
films «Dallas Buyers Club» and «Blue is the Warmest Color» and the
hit TV series «Modern Family» received nominations from the GLAAD Media Awards.
Their scenes together
hit the mark and even touch the heart, but it is still the back and forth with mom that lifts this
film to a whole other level as further friction is caused when
Lady Bird secretly applies to a New York University against the wishes of her mother who wants her to stay close to home.
After big Gotham Award wins for Call Me By Your Name,
Lady Bird and Get Out and Independent Spirit Awards nominations for the same
films (plus The Florida Project) we saw this week those same
films hit big with NBR and NYFCC too.
Other British
films screening at the festival include Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's
hit play The
Lady in the Van, with Maggie Smith reprising her much - lauded performance as eccentric homeless woman who lived in Bennett's drive for 15 years.
His latest
film was a smashing
hit and during a public photo shoot for it, a
lady from the crowd bumps into him that catches his eye.
It's the little notes that he
hits that are more memorable than the broad ones like the look on his face when he sees Peppy's new
film opening in a much bigger venue than his own or the way he can't move past the young
lady as they try to shoot a dance number (in easily one of my favorite scenes of the year).
Nilsson wrote I Guess the Lord Must Be Living in New York City for the
film, while Dylan pitched his future
hit Lay
Lady Lay.
In its Official Selection, Sitges 2013 will also be presenting eagerly - awaited
films like Machete Kills, the latest from Robert Rodriguez with a star studded cast (Danny Trejo, Sofia Vergara, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, Antonio Banderas,
Lady Gaga...), as well as the latest big
hit on American screens, Insidious Chapter 2, the most recent
film by king of horror James Wan, or Terry Gilliam's new incursion into science fiction with The Zero Theorem.
As for the rest of the set, Eleanor Powell stars in four
films (collected as two double features): Broadway Melody of 1936 and Broadway Melody of 1938 with Robert Taylor, Born to Dance with James Stewart and
Lady Be Good with Robert Young and Ann Southern; Jane Powell stars in the double feature Nancy Goes to Rio and Two Weeks With Love (both from 1950) and the single features
Hit The Deck (with Debbie Reynolds); and Deep in My Heart with Jose Ferrer as composer Sig Romberg.