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Review: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
Filed under: Documentary », Music & Musicals », Disney », Theatrical Reviews », Family Films »
Last November, around the time that Bolt came out, I was offered with a night's notice a phone interview with Miley Cyrus. Despite my completist habit of seeing pretty much all theatrical releases in a given year, I decided to make an exception with Miley's 3D concert movie, an exception which had now come to haunt me in the most unexpected of ways. To my luck, the film happened to be instantly available through Netflix, and so I sat at my computer for 75 minutes, confirming all that I had been told the previous spring: it was a fine flick for her fans, and equally harmless and pointless to anyone else.
Anyhow, Ms. Cyrus stood me up, but I bring up that story for two reasons: one, to pad my word count, and two, to assure you that I know I am not the ideal audience for Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, that I know that you know this, and that you know already whether or not you're interested, pumped, and/or psyched -- and chances are that if you are any of those things, then you won't be disappointed.
White Hotel Gets a Start Date
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Deals », Scripts », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
D. M. Thomas' The White Hotel was published in 1981, and has since then been both highly praised and dismissed as a piece of junk, as well as dogged by charges of plagiarism.* From the moment it was released, though, the book -- described as a surreal novel about Freud, an opera singer and the holocaust -- attracted the attention of Hollywood, and has served as a sort of revolving door for big-name stars and directors. Among those who have been connected to the project over the past 25 years are: Barbra Streisand, Anthony Hopkins, Bernardo Bertolucci, Meryl Streep, Terrence Malick, Dustin Hoffman, David Cronenberg, Nicole Kidman, Pedro Almodóvar, Ralph Fiennes, David Lynch and Cate Blanchett. Whew. Of course, now that the movie version is actually getting off the ground, none of those people are anywhere to be found. According to Variety, The White Hotel will be directed by Simon Monjack, who also wrote the screenplay. He and producer Susan Stewart Potter claim they've raised about $20 million to shoot the film, and are currently casting with an eye to late-October start.
*Thomas was accused of lifting passages from A. Anatoli's Babi Yar. As far as I can tell, charges were never brought by either Yar or his publisher -- if you know otherwise, let me know in the comments.
Review: My Name Was Sabina Spielrein
Filed under: Documentary », Foreign Language », New Releases », Theatrical Reviews », Cinematical Indie »
In 1904, a young Swiss psychiatrist took as his first patient a 19-year-old Russian woman who was diagnosed as suffering from hysteria. The patient, Sabina Spielrein, listed among her symptoms regular visits from a German-speaking angel who often directed her actions. Over the course of 10 months of treatment, Spielrein was cured but fell desperately in love with her doctor, giving their relationship an almost mystical quality in her mind. Under normal circumstances, such an occurrence, while certainly frowned upon, is unlikely to have been remembered. When the psychiatrist is Carl Jung, however, the situation is very different.
Were it not for an incredible discovery in Switzerland, all we know about Spielrein would have come from Jung’s files on his professional relationship with her (in them he freely discussed her feelings). Spielrein, however, kept all of Jung’s letters to her, along with carbon copies of everything she wrote him, and stored all of the letters in a trunk she kept with her for most of her life. This treasure trove of history was accidentally unearthed less than 30 years ago in the basement of a Palace in Geneva that once housed the city’s Psychology Institute and the letters, along with Jung’s files form the basis for Swedish director Elisabeth Marton’s 2002 documentary (just now released in the US for the first time), My Name Was Sabina Spielrein.
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