March
6
Weekend Tips: Everlasting Moments, Greg in Hollywood
Once in a rare moon you see a film made by a master auteur at the top of his game. At the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day, Mike Leigh and I took the gondola up the mountain to see Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments. We both came out of the theater enthralled, agreeing that it was one of the best films we'd seen in years. It's a crowning achievement. Troell earned four Oscar nominations for his third film, 1971's The Emigrants, starring the young Liv Ullmann and Max Von Sydow, including Best Picture, followed by its sequel, The New Land. The director is revered in Sweden, where he has worked deliberately in films and television over the decades.
IFC picked up this tough period drama--based on a true story--about a poor, uneducated woman (Maria Heiskanen) with a lunky husband and a large family who learns how to take photographs. Operating his own camera, Troell creates visual poetry. This heartachingly beautiful film opened in limited release Friday.
Here's the review from the LAT's Kenneth Turan, the NYT feature on Troell, and the trailer.
On the media recession front, I learned from Greg Hernandez in the press bleachers at the Oscars that he was losing his job at the Daily News. Well, he wasted no time launching his own blog with a gay celebrity focus, Greg in Hollywood. Here's how he did it--in one week.
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Thanks for posting about this movie, which I might have missed altogether till Netflix...it was soulful, gorgeous, bittersweet. Lovely cinematography that begs for the theater screen rather than the TV monitor.
Posted by: ProgGrrl | March 09, 2009 at 06:28 AM