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OPENING …
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
after
Thanksgiving!!!
AT THE MOVIES
Opened Wednesday, Nov. 23:
Nocturnal Animals won the Grand
Jury prize at the prestigious Venice Film
Festival. Really three movies in one, the
film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, 35, playing
a novelist and the main character in
the novelist’s new book. He gives the
manuscript to his ex-wife (Amy Adams)
to read. The story of her failed marriage
to the novelist and the harrowing tale
told in the novel form the bulk of the
film. Isla Fisher, 40, co-stars as the wife
of the novel’s main character. The direc-
tor, Tom Ford, is also a famous fashion
designer and he got Gyllenhaal’s
Gyllenhaal
permission to put out a “Jake” lipstick,
telling him, “Jake, every woman should
have you on your lips.” There is also a
Ford-line lipstick called, “Drake,” after
the famous rapper, and Gyllenhaal told
Jimmy Kimmel, “That’s OK, he’s Jewish,
too.”
Allied stars Brad Pitt as Max Vatan,
an intelligence officer who meets
Marianne (Marion Cotillard), a French
resistance fighter, in 1942 while on a
secret North African mission. Later in
the war, they reunite in England, get
married and have a child. Then Vatan
is shown evidence that she’s a German
sleeper spy, and he’s under extreme
pressure to kill her
or be killed himself.
Cohen
He then sets out on
a dangerous mission
to clear her name.
Lizzie Caplan, 34
to play Han Solo in the upcoming Star
(Masters of Sex) has a
Wars reboot). Frank and Marla’s romance
big supporting role
puts them at risk of being fired because
as Max’s sister.
Hughes has an ironclad rule barring
The opening date
driver/actress romances. Sadly, most
for Rules Don’t Apply
reviewers say the Hughes’ story and the
was pushed back,
young couple’s story never really mesh,
Caplan
so a lot of big-time
and the couple’s story is not satisfactorily
reviews are already
resolved. Matthew Broderick, 54, has
out. Nobody gave it a rave; a narrow
a big supporting role as a Hughes’ top
majority of reviews say it has a lot of
flunky.
flaws, but is worth seeing. It’s probably
SHALOM LEONARD COHEN
the last film to be directed by Warren
The legendary singer/songwriter died
Beatty, now 79. He co-wrote the script
on Nov. 7, age 83. Aware of his impend-
and co-stars as the legendary business-
ing death, Cohen recently spoke to New
man Howard Hughes, who owned RKO
film studio from 1948-1955. Hughes was Yorker editor David Remnick, 58, and
the interview, integrated into a remark-
famously odd, and while his eccentrici-
ably complete short bio of Cohen, was
ties are amusing, they may have too big
published in the Oct. 17 issue of the
a place in the film.
magazine and is free online (newyorker.
The youth market is served by cen-
com). Last week, Remnick wrote that he
tering the story, at first, on Marla, a
knew, during the interview, that cancer
pretty young actress (Lily Collins, whose
would soon take Cohen’s life. Also last
maternal grandpa was Jewish). Marla
week, Cohen’s son, Adam, 44, briefly
is signed by Hughes and soon falls for
described his father’s very traditional
Frank, her RKO studio driver. He’s played
Jewish burial.
by Alden Ehrenreich, 26 (who is going
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