To be clear: Bright Young Things is its own Ya series and not a reference to the original title of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies (and the movie adaptation of the book). So, this series will be about two Midwestern women who move to Manhattan in 1929 and have all sorts of glitzy pre-Depression adventures. It seems like heresy to make an entire Bright Young Things show not set in England? But sure, flappers are fun.
- 10/11/2013
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
Sometimes you still see them, lurking around Greenwich Village, scurrying past Starbucks and Duane Reade drugstores under their crumpled fedoras, ink-smeared newspapers in their gnarled hands, ghosts. These are the living reminders of the days when any artist, intellectual, blowhard, genius, fakir, poet, or debutante with a diploma from one of the 'Seven Sisters' and a penchant for hard liquor and brittle conversation could turn the world on its head --all within a half-mile radius of Washington Square. That scene was even far gone when Dawn Powell wrote her satiric elegy to it in 1954. But it rings true today, not just as a nostalgia-trip, but as an x-ray of the way people, especially that unique subspecies known as New Yorkers, live and work and make love and generally get on with life.
The Wicked Pavilion is razor sharp social satire that simultaneously mocks and celebrates a poisoned world gone wrong.
The Wicked Pavilion is razor sharp social satire that simultaneously mocks and celebrates a poisoned world gone wrong.
- 7/13/2013
- by Ken Krimstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Stephen Fry's assured directorial debut sees him joyously lifting the lid on the lives of aristocratic young revellers of 1920s London. Based on Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, it follows the trail of newcomer Campbell Moore as he woos the mercurial Emily Mortimer. As sleek and refined as a vintage Bentley, this purrs along with Fry with his foot down but still firmly in control.
- 12/12/2012
- Sky Movies
Films by Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese may be the headline-grabbers at the festival this year, but the real gems, such as Banksy's new creation, are to be found elsewhere
The star of this year's 60th anniversary Berlin film festival was crowned in his (inevitable) absence: Banksy, the British street artist, situationist, anarchist and all-round genius, presented us with his movie Exit Through the Gift Shop. The man himself only appeared in darkness, with his voice distorted. This was both tricksy self-portrait and cheeky docu-scam, satirising contemporary art craziness.
Blanked-out tongue somewhere in his pixelated cheek, Banksy tells us the story of his supposed relationship with a hyperactive French videographer, one Thierry Guetta, who has, it seems, been following him around – Boswell to Banksy's Johnson. A few years back, allegedly encouraged by Banksy, this man apparently suddenly stopped being an amateur cameraman and suddenly turned into a self-taught street artist called Mr Brainwash,...
The star of this year's 60th anniversary Berlin film festival was crowned in his (inevitable) absence: Banksy, the British street artist, situationist, anarchist and all-round genius, presented us with his movie Exit Through the Gift Shop. The man himself only appeared in darkness, with his voice distorted. This was both tricksy self-portrait and cheeky docu-scam, satirising contemporary art craziness.
Blanked-out tongue somewhere in his pixelated cheek, Banksy tells us the story of his supposed relationship with a hyperactive French videographer, one Thierry Guetta, who has, it seems, been following him around – Boswell to Banksy's Johnson. A few years back, allegedly encouraged by Banksy, this man apparently suddenly stopped being an amateur cameraman and suddenly turned into a self-taught street artist called Mr Brainwash,...
- 2/15/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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