Nicole Holofcener Keeps Things Streamlined with ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

Nicole Holofcener Keeps Things Streamlined with ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

by | May 26, 2023 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics

The following article was published by IndieWire.com 

“I wish that so many movies were a half hour shorter”
BY JIM HEMPHILL

“You Hurt My Feelings” is the latest exquisitely mounted comedy from writer-director Nicole Holofcener, the American cinema’s master of marital unease. The premise is classic Holofcener: A writer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) overhears her husband (Tobias Menzies) saying what he really thinks of her work and reevaluates what she thought she knew about her relationship and, by extension, her own identity.

Judy Blume was banned from the beginning, but says ‘It never stopped me from writing’

by | May 4, 2023 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics

…When Blume began writing for pre-teens and teens in the ’70s and ’80s, young readers devoured her novels, which spoke to their hopes and anxieties. Her 1970 book, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret., told the story of an 11-year-old girl who worried that all the other girls were getting their periods, developing breasts and starting to wear bras — but she wasn’t. (That book, too, has been banned in various outlets, including, in the 1970s, at the primary school that Blume’s own children attended.)…

Everything Everywhere All at Once – Genre Mix Extraordinaire

Everything Everywhere All at Once – Genre Mix Extraordinaire

by | Apr 7, 2022 | Home-Page, Journal, Movie Maker Notes, Tench's Topics

There are some interesting back stories behind the surprise smash Everything Everywhere All at Once. It seems that iconic martial arts start Jackie Chan was going to be in the lead role, but the feeling of the directors to pay homage to the strong women in their lives won out, and Michelle Yeoh was casted as the everywoman thrust into a dazzling multiverse of parallel lives.

An Homage to 70s Era B-Movie Making

An Homage to 70s Era B-Movie Making

by | Mar 24, 2022 | Home-Page, Movie Maker Notes, Tench's Topics

The following is an open  letter to movie-goers from filmmaker Ti West, the writer, director, editor and producer of X, currently playing at The Naro. In it he discusses his inspiration for and general thoughts about this unusual film. It is reprinted in its entirety from distributor A24’s website. For more about Ti West’s background, see his Wikipedia entry here.