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Tuesday
Jan282025

Sundance Review: ‘Ricky’ is a Tough Watch with a Strong Message and Performances

By Abe Friedtanzer

There have been many films made about people getting out of prison and struggling to restart their lives. It’s rarely an easy journey and typically includes the threat of re-incarceration due to an inability to find work or a stable support system. Rashad Frett’s Ricky is the latest to explore this premise, and it does so in a gritty, realistic manner that speaks to the incredible challenges presented at every turn when someone only has good intentions but just isn’t able to fully control what happens to them...  

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Monday
Jan272025

Paul Newman @ 100: "The Verdict"

by Nick Taylor

First thing’s first: HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY PAUL NEWMAN!!!! Everyone say “Happy Birthday Paul!!” in the comments. As I said when giving backstory on my first Newman installment, Sidney Lumet's The Verdict was one of my first encounters with the actor’s filmography. Even admitting my many, many blind spots, I think it’s fair to say The Verdict stands apart in his retinue of troubled men.

So many of Paul Newman’s characters storm into their films as men to be reckoned with, men capable of announcing themselves as singularly indomitable without saying a word. This is not the case for Frank Galvin, a washed-up, alcoholic lawyer on his last legs. Frank is shorn of the charismatic showmanship Newman wielded so adroitly throughout his career. Instead we’re asked to see him as a failure, a man gunked onto the bottom of the barrel and finally fighting to get out after wasting years wallowing in pity and booze . . . .

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Sunday
Jan262025

Paul Newman @ 100: "Slap Shot"

by Cláudio Alves

From 1969 to 1977, Paul Newman and George Roy Hill collaborated on three projects. The first two are, of course, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, a pair of immortal classics that are near impossible to divorce from one's understanding of Newman as a movie star, his cultural impact, his legacy. With Robert Redford along for the ride, Hill put his stamp on both the Western genre and the heist film, appealing to convention revisited and sometimes vivisected, re-imagined for a New Hollywood. And yet, no matter how impactful those flicks are, I find myself more drawn to the third Newman-Hill joint. This time, they set their sights on the sports movie, devising a hockey comedy as funny as it is surprising – Slap Shot

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Sunday
Jan262025

Gold-Standard Roles: From Tony to Oscar

by Cláudio Alves

This season, Wicked hopes to translate some of its Tony glory to the Oscars, twenty years after the musical competed for Broadway’s highest honors. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, in particular, are now part of a long tradition of performers who took Tony-heralded parts and made them into Oscar success stories. Time will tell if either of them finishes the season with little golden men clasped tightly in their hands. Still, it’s already possible to contextualize them within this peculiar dynamic, this Tony-to-Oscar pipeline. Because we love lists and statistics here at The Film Experience, let’s recall every case when a Tony-nominated role earned itself AMPAS’ seal of approval…

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Saturday
Jan252025

Paul Newman @ 100: "The Sting"

by Lynn Lee

No doubt about it, Paul Newman was at peak stardom when he signed on to The Sting.  But he needed a hit: he hadn’t had one since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and his intervening films had all underperformed.  Fortuitously, he was about to enjoy the biggest blockbuster of his career in the form of a Butch Cassidy reunion with co-star Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill...

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