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HE WENT THAT WAY – Review by Nadine Whitney

January 17, 2024January 18, 2024 Nadine Whitney He Went That Way, Jacob Elordi, Jeffrey Darling, true crime, Zachary Quinto

Now deceased Australian director Jeffrey Darling’s only feature is the definition of “missed opportunity.” It is hoping to be some odd buddy comedy road trip movie with a “misunderstood” psychopath Bobby Falls (Jacob Elordi) hanging out with the broke and desperate Jim (Zachary Quinto) and a soon to be passed his use by date chimp called Spanky (played by Terry Notary’s child Phoenix). What the audience gets instead is a very messy sermon on how Bobby might have been different if someone handled his primal nature with the same care Jim showed Spanky.

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SALTBURN – Review by Nadine Whitney

November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 Nadine Whitney Archie Madekwe, Barry Keoghan, Carey Mulligan, emerald fennell, Jacob Elordi, Linus Sandgren, Paul Rhys, Richard E. Grant, Rosamund Pike, saltburn

Emerald Fennell’s baroque psychosexual thriller wants you to have fun. There are lines that are spun with a golden malice. She has no pity for the upper crust and delights in displaying how insular they are and how easily they wield their wealth and titles. Their peccadillos are supposed to be transgressive, but in effect they are just the result of bored rich people needing their fix from extending a form of noblesse oblige.

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PRISCILLA – Review by Susan Granger

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 Susan Granger Cailee Spaeny, Elvis and Me, Jacob Elordi, Priscilla, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, sofia coppola

In casting Priscilla, filmmaker Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette) chose diminutive 5’1” Cailee Spaeny to play the titular role; she’s visibly dwarfed by 6’5” Jacob Elordi as towering Elvis. Filmed for $20 million in 30 days in Toronto, the film hints that moody, controlling Elvis may have been sexually dysfunctional with a Madonna complex, although rumors were rampant that he had affairs with Ann-Margret, Nancy Sinatra, Connie Stevens, Rita Moreno and Linda Thompson – among others.

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SALTBURN – Review by Diane Carson

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 Diane Carson Barry Keoghan, bfi london film festival, Carey Mulligan, emerald fennell, Jacob Elordi, Linus Sandgren, Richard E. Grant, Rosamund Pike, saltburn

Saltburn satirizes the ultrarich in 2006 England. How can a scholarship student at posh Oxford University, England, possibly fit in or relate to his privileged, silver-spoon-in-their-mouths classmates? In writer/director Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, set in 2006, that’s the dilemma for poor Oliver Quick who looks as drab as others find him. But he has one advantageous attribute, i.e., he watches carefully and assesses individuals astutely.

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PRISCILLA – Review by Diane Carson

November 2, 2023November 2, 2023 Diane Carson Cailee Spaeny, Elvis and Me, Jacob Elordi, Priscilla, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, sofia coppola

Priscilla scrutinizes Priscilla’s and Elvis’ relationship. Solid but unexciting, writer/director Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla painstakingly anchors its story in Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s relationship with Elvis. It begins with her high school days in 1959 Germany at the Air Force base where her stepfather and Elvis are stationed. Riding the roller coaster of their relationship, it concludes with her leaving Graceland in 1972.

Festivals Reviews

SALTBURN (Middleburg FF 2023) – Review by Leslie Combemale

October 30, 2023November 3, 2023 Leslie Combemale Barry Keoghan, bfi london film festival, Carey Mulligan, emerald fennell, Jacob Elordi, Linus Sandgren, Middleburg Film Festival, Richard E. Grant, Rosamund Pike, saltburn

From the moment the crimson red, Hammer horror-inspired opening titles show onscreen, the film warns it will not be your usual British uni coming of age story. It wouldn’t be, would it, given that it comes from Emerald Fennell, who brought us Promising Young Woman? That movie, Fennell’s feature debut as writer/director, won her a Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and speaking of promise, made audiences and critics frothy to see what she’d do with her sophomore feature. Though not nearly as original as her first, Saltburn, a sexually transgressive tale of privilege and the desire to belong, allows its lead performer to shine brighter than a diamond encrusted dagger.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Emerald Fennell’s SALTBURN set for holiday release – Brandy McDonnell reports

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Brandy McDonnell amazon studios, ATHE WEEK IN WOMEN, Barry Keoghan, Carey Mulligan, emerald fennell, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, saltburn, twiw

Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell will help kick off the cinematic holiday season when her Saltburn bows into theaters in limited release on Nov. 24, which is Black Friday. It will expand to additional theaters Dec. 1. Hailing from MRC Film and Amazon Studios, “Saltburn” also will reunite Fennell with two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan, who starred in Fennell’s 2020 feature film directorial debut Promising Young Woman.

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SALTBURN – Review by Serena Seghedoni

October 5, 2023October 6, 2023 Serena Seghedoni (Archived contributor) Barry Keoghan, bfi london film festival, Carey Mulligan, emerald fennell, Jacob Elordi, Linus Sandgren, Richard E. Grant, Rosamund Pike, saltburn

Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn is a wickedly subversive, exquisitely twisty character study that leaves no room for redemption and satisfying resolutions, and that’s the real genius of it. Fennell defies our expectations and delivers a clever character study disguised as an “eat the rich” satire, where everyone is a horrible person and absolutely deserves what they get.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Sofia Coppola’s PRISCILLA is NYFF Centerpiece – Brandy McDonnell reports

September 21, 2023September 28, 2023 Brandy McDonnell biopics, Cailee Spaeny, Elvis and Me, Jacob Elordi, New York Film Festival, NYFF 2023, Priscilla Presley, sofia coppola, the week in women, twiw

Writer-director Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla will screen as the Centerpiece selection for the 61st New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere Oct. 6 at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center. Adapted from Priscilla Presley’s best-selling 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, the biopic stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis. Priscilla is a culminating triumph for Sofia Coppola, a filmmaker with a singular gift for illuminating the interior lives of her characters,” said Dennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Sofia Coppola Takes on Priscilla Presley’s ELVIS AND ME – Brandy McDonnell reports

October 13, 2022October 16, 2022 Brandy McDonnell biopics, Cailee Spaeny, Elvis and Me, Jacob Elordi, Priscilla Presley, sofia coppola, the week in women, twiw

Oscar-winning writer-director Sofia Coppola is adapting Priscilla Presley’s best-selling 1985 memoir Elvis and Me into a feature film titled =Priscilla. The biopic will star Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis. In the 1980s, Presley’s book quickly became an international sensation as a chronicle of her passionate marriage to The King. She was just 14 years old when she caught the eye of Elvis, who was 24 at the time, during his military service in Germany. They married in 1967, and welcomed a daughter, Lisa Marie, before splitting up in 1972.