Category Archives: Editorial
Cate Blanchett Is the Lead, but Nina Hoss Is the First Violin in Tár

In Tár, Nina Hoss plays Sharon, Lydia Tár’s partner. They share both a personal and a professional life together. Sharon is the concertmaster in the Berlin orchestra conducted by Tár (Cate Blanchett). Behind a powerful woman, there is a more powerful woman. Read More
Editorial: Making One’s Mark

Join in or do one’s own thing? Do actors still have the ability and courage to stand out from the established order and make their own mark? Read More
Editorial: Keep the Sweat Off

photo: movie still, Luke Wilson as Richie Tenenbaum in “The Royal Tenenbaums” | Buena Vista Pictures The Editorial: thoughts, short stories or essays about the world of cinema It’s clay season! So let’s talk tennis in film. Wes … Read More
Editorial: Night Train and a Rear Window-like Microcosm of Human Experiences

In Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Night Train, the setting, an element of suspense and the fact that all the stories unfolding have as common denominator some aspect of love unequivocally reminded me of Rear Window. Read More
Editorial: She’s Earned Those Stripes

Jean Arthur in “The Talk of the Town”, 1942 | Columbia Pictures The Editorial: thoughts, short stories or essays about the world of cinema Nora Shelley is wearing a men’s striped oversized pajamas when the entire town barges … Read More
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