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Thursday, October 24, 2024

The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s English-language debut is extravagant and engrossing

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton give luxuriously self-aware performances as two old friends who are reunited in a doggedly mysterious drama

Peter Bradshaw

Wed 23 Oct 2024 07.00 BST

When this film won the Golden Lion for Pedro Almodóvar at the Venice film festival this summer, there were three kinds of surprised critic. Some were surprised to learn that this was Almodóvar’s first ever major European festival award; others that this should be the film to finally bag it … and then there were those who were politely surprised that it should have won anything at all. I myself found it as extravagant and engrossing and doggedly mysterious as anything he has done recently, with luxuriously self-aware performances from Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and an undertow of darkness often overlooked by yeasayers and naysayers.

While Brad Pitt and George Clooney Settle Into Silver-Fox Charm, Their Female Peers Are the True Stars of the Season

Tilda Swinton, Demi Moore, Julia Moore and Nicole KidmanSwinton and Moore: Courtesy Toronto International Film Festival; Moore: Chad Salvador—Variety/Getty Images; Kidman: Niko Tavernise—A24

While Brad Pitt and George Clooney Settle Into Silver-Fox Charm, Their Female Peers Are the True Stars of the Season

BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

20 September 2924

The pleasures of writer-director Jon Watts’ crime caper Wolfs are numerous: George Clooney and Brad Pitt play dueling fixers called in to clean up the accidental death of a young, adorable student—prior to his demise, occasioned by his jumping on a hotel bed, he’d been picked up by high-powered district attorney Amy Ryan in a bar. Clooney and Pitt have reached the age where they know it’s useless to pretend they’re something they’re not. Their faces look handsomely lived in; the whispers of gray in their artfully sculpted chin stubble feel honest and earned. Like Lucy and Ethel in the throes of a falling out, they’re fun to watch as they bicker and crab at one another, leaning heavily on their silver-fox charm. Still, what they’re offering feels as comfy as the worn-in leather jackets they wear. And in this late-2024 movie season, if you find yourself wishing for something more—for another view of what actors in the 50-to-60-ish age bracket can do—look to the women, who insist on pushing themselves out of the comfort zone rather than settling into it.

Demi Moore in Coralie Fargeat’s horror-of-aging black comedy The Substance, Nicole Kidman in Halina Reijn’s May-December sizzler Babygirl,Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in Pedro Almodóvar’s moving and provocative The Room Next Door: These big-name movie stars are pushing into new territory rather than just riffing on whatever may have made them appealing 10, 20, or 30 years ago. That’s a luxury no actress can afford, and these women know it.

Are standing ovations at film festivals getting out of hand?

Tilda Swinton, Pedro Almodóvar and Julianne Moore

Venice film festival 2024

Are standing ovations at film festivals getting out of hand?

The Venice premiere of Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door received 17 minutes of applause – has touting the length of clapping has become just another PR tool?

Logia de Guy

Wednesday 4 September 2024

For any film lovers who aren’t currently at the Venice film festival and want to play along at home, here’s something to try. Pop in a DVD of your favourite Pedro Almodóvar film – or your least favourite, or one you think is merely OK, since it makes little difference for this exercise. Watch the film through and, as the closing credits begin to roll, set the stopwatch on your phone, rise to your feet and start clapping. Keep clapping until your hands are sore, your feet are sore, or you simply get bored – whichever comes first. Pause the stopwatch and see how long you made it. A minute? Two if you were really stretching yourself?

Peter Lindberg / Pirelli 2017

Penélope Cruz

Peter Lindberg

Pirelli 2017

Nicole Kidman

Robin Wright

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore interview / 'My life is a privileged one'

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore interview: 'my life is a privileged one'

In this interview from 2014, the Golden Globe-winning actress talks about proving her parents wrong, her domestic side and why she loves an action movie

By John Preston
5:00AM GMT 12 Jan 2015

It takes a brave woman to go bare-legged in London in January. Even in the Dorchester hotel there’s an icy breeze blowing down the corridors and Julianne Moore has goose bumps. If this bothers her, she doesn’t show it – but then it’s hard to imagine her being daunted or cast down by anything.

On screen you often have a pretty good idea where you’re going to end up with Julianne Moore – and that’s in extremis. No other actress has explored the outer limits of emotion quite so comprehensively, whether it be helpless passion (The End of the Affair), suicidal depression (The Hours) or religious mania (Carrie).

Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore / The End of the Affair / Two Scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rCMMwfnL2w

Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore love scene from "The End of the Affair"

Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore

THE END OF THE AFFAIR

Two Scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVRPG6cAww

Maurice dies - "The End of the Affair" - Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Jaume Collet-Serra, top of the US box office once more

Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson in Jaume Collet-Serra's 'Non-Stop'.

Jaume Collet-Serra, top of the US box office once more

Spanish director’s ‘Non-Stop’ repeats success of 2011’s ‘Unknown’ Both thrillers star actor Liam Neeson

Gregorio Belinchón

Madrid, 6 March 2014

Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra has reached the number-one spot in the US box office for the second time in his career, once again with actor Liam Neeson, with new thriller Non-Stop.

The film, which is released in Spain on March 21, took in $28.8 million (20 million euros), according to data from Rentrak Spain. It had a screen average of over $9,300, beating out the movie that experts had expected to dominate the box office in Oscar week, Son of God, a cut-down version for movie theaters of a miniseries about the Bible broadcast on the History Channel. That took $25.6 million, despite having been released on more screens (3,260) than Collet-Serra’s movie (3,090).

The 50-million-dollar production is set on an international flight where a mysterious passenger threatens to kill a person every 20 minutes if they do not receive $150 million. Neeson, who starred in Collet-Serra’s previous number-one movie Unknown in 2011, stars as a federal air marshal responsible for security on the plane. Appearing alongside him are Julianne Moore and, in only her second film, Mexican-Kenyan star Lupita Nyong’o, who won the award for Best Supporting Actress at Sunday’s Oscars for her performance in 12 Years a Slave.

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