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...But in glints of mood and style, the movie calls back to older artefacts: Hitchcock, noir, the great melodramatist Douglas Sirk. Heady mysteries hover....
...resembles a movie set as the second Oppenheimer becomes director of his band of mercurial talents, facing down bad weather while a producer hovers in the form of US Army Lieutenant General Leslie Groves (Matt Damon...
...His perky new movie Air is a period piece, set in that same year, with Matt Damon and Viola Davis among the stars. It tells the origin story of the Nike Air Jordan....
...And like the films of the same era by the great Douglas Sirk, those lush surfaces are deceptive....
...The film has already teased the pomp of Dune before Douglas mentions socialism in admiring tones. That much confirms it....
...In Chicago, those lovely surfaces recall Hollywood great Douglas Sirk, whose 1950s melodramas peeled back layers to reveal painful social truths....
...In the classic 1951 noir Ace in the Hole, Kirk Douglas plays a cynical reporter marooned in New Mexico when a local man is trapped by a cave collapse....
...His regular colleague Matt Damon once gave a fine performance in another Highsmith adaptation, The Talented Mr Ripley....
...But Demon Copperhead also misses the poignancy of portrayals of addiction in novels such as Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain (2020) or Susie Boyt’s Loved and Missed (2021)....
...Among the crowd, the camera picks out Ben Affleck, co-writer of the film with Damon and Nicole Holofcener....
...The city is just one stop in the story’s Italian tour, but the Roman backdrop feels darkly fitting at a crucial moment: Matt Damon’s Ripley masquerading as the man he killed, living out a gilded life that...
...It was Robin Leigh-Pemberton in 1993, shortly after another banking crisis. His answer was clearly “no”. In finance, knowledge is cyclical....
...Around half an hour into my lunch with Douglas Stuart, we encounter a problem....
...Even in the hands of a subversive maestro like Douglas Sirk, the most visible a black woman got was in a film like Imitation of Life, a great movie but one with room only for the traumas of racial identity...
...A more theatrical note is promised by Truly Madly (Sphere, March), Stephen Galloway’s account of the passionate, turbulent, captivating romance between actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier....
...The pug is Douglas (Cosmo Jarvis), known in the west of Ireland small town he calls home as Arm....
...One puppeteer is roguish local celebrity Punch (Damon Herriman), the other his long-suffering wife Judy (Mia Wasikowska)....
...The likeness is heightened by the dual presence of Damon Herriman, the fine-tuned actor who, having twice played Charles Manson this year in Netflix series Mindhunter and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A...
...Luke Philpott Joint CEO, DeVono Cresa Robert Leigh Joint CEO, DeVono Cresa Richard Morris CEO, IWG (UK) Jerry Schurder Head of Business Rates, Gerald Eve LLP Tim Rodber CEO, The Instant Group...
...Usually the hippie sons of movie stars — like, Michael Douglas, maybe. The whole masculine thing was passé. It was over.”...
...The Matt Damon-led The Great Wall, produced at a cost of $150m, bombed at the box office and with critics when it came out in 2016....
...Ladybird commissioning editor Douglas Keen was the mastermind behind the imprint’s golden years — 1953 to the mid-1970s....
...But back then, the most interesting thing onscreen was meant to be Douglas — we were invited to be fascinated by the fury of his character....
...Iannucci’s inclusion was part of a deliberate trend towards cultivating younger talent from the UK as the older generation — typified by festival staples Ken Loach and Mike Leigh — come ever closer to retirement...
...Whether either is the desired audience is moot, as Apted front-loads his movie with American talent: Michael Douglas turning up as Alice’s affable handler and, oh God, John Malkovich as an agency tyrant....
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