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Caryn James
Good and Bad Surprises in Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby'
- By Caryn James
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- May 6, 2013 10:26 PM
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- 4 Comments
Novel? What novel? I went into Baz Luhrmann's 3-D, Jay Z-soundtracked
The Great Gatsby assuming that the kindest, smartest approach would be to forget
there was ever a book behind it. Surprisingly,
the film is more attached to F. Scott Fitzgerald than I expected, and that
turns out to be its downfall.
Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
- By Caryn James
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- May 6, 2013 10:24 PM
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- 3 Comments
The Great Gatsby
is both irresistible to filmmakers and notoriously hard to adapt. All that
color and glamour comes crashing up against the eloquence of Fitzgerald's prose
and the ineffability of Gatsby's dreams. Baz Luhrmann's new version gives us a wondrous
performance by Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby and a dreadful, flat performance by
Tobey Maguire as the narrator, Nick Carraway. (You can find my review here.) But take
a look at two better Nicks and one good, maligned Gatsby:
Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington On Race, the N-Word & 'Django Unchained' (Video Interview)
- By Caryn James
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- December 20, 2012 8:58 AM
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When I asked Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington if they had refused anything that director Quentin Tarantino asked them to do or say in Django Unchained – you can imagine that these very smart African-American actors, playing slaves, might tell their white director where to draw the line -- I got a very revealing non-answer. “We’ll keep that private,” Foxx said, then went on to describe the dynamics on set, including what he thinks about the N-word, how Leonardo DiCaprio felt saying it, what Samuel L. Jackson told Leo in rehearsal.
George Vs. Leo For Best Actor
- By Caryn James
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- November 10, 2011 10:19 AM
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I would still so love to see George Clooney win the Best Actor Oscar for "The Descendants," one of the year’s best films. His performance is witty, touching and as always understated – and I could almost see his chances trickling away with every prosthetic added to Leonardo DiCaprio’s face in "J. Edgar." Here’s what it comes down to: Clooney is great in a lovely, touching, relatively small family drama. DiCaprio is good and nearly unrecognizable in a big, bad film. Hmmm.
