Stephen Daldry

Extremely Loud Oscar Angst

Chris Krapek | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Best Picture, Stephen Daldry, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, Oscar's, Academy Awards, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Chicago News
Chris Krapek

We are living in a world where Martin Lawrence, in a fat suit and playing an old woman, made a better film than one that is nominated for Best Picture...

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Movie review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Tom Hanks, Movie Reviews, Eric Roth, Marshall Fine, Max Von Sydow, 9/11, Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, World Trade Center, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, New York, Movies, Jonathan Safran Foer, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

I keep want to referring to Stephen Daldry's film of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as, instead, ..& Incredibly Cute. That...

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Remembering 9/11: Portraits of Resilience

Regina Weinreich | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Stephen Daldry, Sheila Nevins, James Toback, Julie Taymor, Portraits of Resilience, Marco Grob, 9/11 Memorial, 9/11 Anniversary, September 11 Anniversary, Decade After 9/11 - Remembering, Portraits of Resilience Show, Culture News
Regina Weinreich

You could feel the weight of the occasion at the Milk Gallery in the Meatpacking District on Thursday night, the site of a portrait exhibition and screening of a documentary marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

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Lily Allen Writing Songs For 'Bridget Jones' Musical

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Bridget Jones's Diary, Lily Allen, Bridget Jones Musical, West End, Bridget Jones, Stephen Daldry, Broadway, Musicals, UK Arts, London, Helen Fielding, London-United Kingdom, Arts News

Lily Allen is heading to the stage, or writing for it anyways. Allen is penning the songs for the new musical version of Helen Fielding's'Bridget Jone...

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Dining Royally: The King's Speech

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Ford, Christine Baranski, Jerry Garcia, Stephen Daldry, DeLeon Tequila, Stella Powell Jones, Newt Gingrich, Amir Bar-Lev, Joan Didion, The King's Speech, Harvey Weinstein, Helena Bonham Carter, Wallis Simpson, Colin Firth, Tom Hooper, Geoffrey Rush, Candice Bergen, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

At "21" last Tuesday, it was a case of multiple events. Newt Gingrich graciously held the door for me as Joan Didion stood in the foyer of the legenda...

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Billy Elliot's Proud Papa: An Interview With Gregory Jbara

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stage, Rob Patterson, Outer Critics Circle, Billy Elliot, Stephen Daldry, Tony Awards, Drama Desk, Dancers, Broadway, Kiril Kulish, Dancing, Miner, Gregory Jbara, Theatre, Elton John, Father, Dialect, Greg Jbara, Screen, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

The boys may get all the press in the Tony Award-winning musical Billy Elliot, but anyone who has seen the show knows veteran character actor Gregory Jbara subtly steals the show.

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Tony's Ratings Up and Bret Michaels' Goes Boom

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dolly Parton, Tonys, Chandra Wilson, Neil Patrick Harris, Bret Michaels, Billy Elliot, Stephen Daldry, Marc Kudisch, David Bologna, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

Before the awards went on, I hit the red carpet and the pre-show Lipton Gift Lounge and got some insight.

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Harvey Weinstein And Stephen Daldry Hit Back At "The Reader" Criticism

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Daldry, Film, Kate Winslet, The Oscars, The Reader, Harvey Weinstein, Award Season, Entertainment News

Supporters and producers of "The Reader" are hitting back at criticisms of the Oscar-nominated film and speaking out for the film, just two days befor...

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The Holocaust Revisionism of Hollywood

Rod Lurie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julius Streicher, Shoah, Jews, Marc Frydman, Kate Winslet, Holocaust Movies, Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, Judaism, Stephen Daldry, Film, Holocaust Films, Bishop Richard Williamson, Filmmaking, Nazis, Holocaust Deniers, Rod Lurie, Primo Levi, Entertainment News
Rod Lurie

It never crossed my mind that I would ever speak or write negatively about the work of a fellow filmmaker. I am sure the makers of The Reader are not deniers. But they are helping those who are.

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Actress Kate Winslet Struggles With Making The Reader, The Nazi Era and Oscar Buzz

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, Revolutionary Road, Germany, The Reader, Nazis, Kate Winslet, Women, Sex, Movies, Academy Awards, Stephen Daldry, The Third Reich, Ralph Fiennes, Bernhard Schlink, Interview, Oscars, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Kate Winslet: "All that mattered at the end of the day was that I made [Hannah Schmitz] my own and...played the... the truthfulness of that, the vulnerability of her and that I understood her."

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The Reader is a Surprising Film: Nazis Can Be Sympathetic, Though Not Forgiven

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Kate Winslet, Russnow, Der Vorleser, Summer of '42, Huckleberry Finn, Billy Elliot, Lena Olin, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Bruno Ganz, The Hours, David Kross, Michael Russnow, Revolutionary Road, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

On the whole David Hare has written a fascinating and engrossing script, and Director Stephen Daldry has given us a taut and emotional filmmaking achievement.

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Reading The Reader

Annette Insdorf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Reader, Nazis, World War 2, The Reader Movie, Germany, Stephen Daldry, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, Entertainment News
Annette Insdorf

Michael functions as a metaphor for his generation: like post-war Germany, he is drawn to this secretive emblem of the past, then repulsed, and finally makes a wary accommodation.

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Making "The Reader": Translating Love And The Unspeakable

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Daldry, Film, The Reader, Kate Winslet, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment News

The Germans have a word for it: Vergangenheitsbewaltigung -- more or less, "coming to terms with the past." It's not an easy concept to translate into...

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Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Germany, Kate Winslet, Holocaust, Academy Award Nominees, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Hugh Jackman, Film, Auschwitz, Sexual Abuse, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Oscar Nominees, Child Abuse, Statutory Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Nazis, Sexual Double Standard, Gender Issues, Literary Adaptation, Annie Liebowitz, Cougar Women, Bernard Schlink, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

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