The Film Experience™ was created by Nathaniel R. All material herein is written by our team. (This site is not for profit but for an expression of love for cinema & adjacent artforms.)
The British director Guy Ritchie never finished school and didn't attend film school either but by the time he was 28 he was on his way to making cinematic waves. His short film The Hard Case (1995) attracted the attention of financiers and his debut feature Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) was a scrappy success. Sudden fame for new directors is usually somewhat invisible since it's their names rather than faces that get the publicity. Not so for Guy Ritchie. His rise went meteoric via a marriage to global household name Madonna before people had even really learned his name. They famously wore each other's new products on t-shirts; he pushed her album "Music" across his chest in 2000 as she paraded Snatch, his second film, around on hers.
The marriage soured but his movies got bigger and bigger if not always more successful. Like any regularly working director he's had both hits and misses. His 9th feature King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is now open in theaters everywhere.
Let's look at all his movies via posterized after the jump. How many have you seen?
When you think Matthias Schoenaerts and Lea Seydoux, do you think of submarines? Schoenaerts of the smoldering look, hulking presence and that dimpled smile that shattered many hearts to Rust. Seydoux,who perfected the sexy butch walk when she went Blue. Well Thomas Vinterberg decided to put those two together in a movie about a sinking submarine -- not the story many imagined they’d be paired in.
For many of us Kirsten Dunst fans, her performance in the second season of Fargo was a peak in and of itself. She had turned in exquisite performances in the past like Melancholia, buta collaboration with Noah Hawley in the Fargo universe was a different step in Dunst's career.Her Peggy Blumquist picked up rave reviews, and awards nomination, and she ended the year as part of the winning SAG ensemble of Hidden Figures. Now it would appear that 2017 will continue on with more beguiling Dunst projects as if the comeback has only just begun...
Today's 5 mood boosting assignments from showbiz history...
2017 oh wait that's today! New in movie theaters today: Goldie Hawn returns to the cinema in the Amy Schumer comedy Snatched; Uneven but sometimes really exciting director Doug Liman unveils the sniper drama The Wall (starring Brit Aaron Taylor-Johnson with a twangy accent); Guy Ritchie anachronistically Ritchifies the King Arthur legend with Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law; Demian Bichir stars in Lowriders; and Diane Lane takes a road trip with Arnaud Viard inParis Can Wait when her husband Alec Baldwin bails on her for business.
In their honor: Go see a movie this weekend. Pick a title any title. If you don't want to see one of those catch up with The Loversor Lost City of Z. Both are good flicks.
1988 The infamous stage musical version of horror classic Carrie opens. It will close five days later. The off Broadway revival in 2012 did significantly better but still closed at a loss
Today's Must Read "I am Diane Keaton's Crisp White Shirt" an imagined monologue by Charlotte Barnett. I can't even describe how much I love this, guys. I love it as hard as Diane Keaton's crying jag in Somethings Gotta Give is long.
I am immaculate, woven by gods from fibers of cotton and Nancy Meyers’ discarded screenplays...
Movies EW talks to Cate Blanchett about Manifesto but works in a Carol bit, too, bless them. Interview talks to Tracy Letts of The Lovers about his dual career as acclaimed actor and award winning playwright
Go Fug Yourself Elle Fanning on the cover of Vogue Tracking Board Jeff Goldblum's career is busiers than ever. Now he's signed on for a thriller called Hotel Artemis with Jodie Foster and Sofia Boutella EW Anya Taylor-Joy and Maise Williams will play Magik and Wolfsbane in the New Mutants movie. (But it's still so diappointing that the rumor is that the movie is leaving out the Asian member of the original comic book group, Karma. Who also happened to be an LGBT character. Hollywood just loooooves gay erasure and whitewashing. They cannot get enough.) Variety Thom Yorke, of Radiohead fame, hired to score the remake of Suspiria from director Luca Guadagnino NYT Michael Parks, Tarantino favorite and prolific character ever, dies at 77 THR Kenny Miller, B movie actor of 1950s drive-in classics dies at 85 Variety talks to the costume designer of Snatched, dressing for laughs The Playlist remember that Michelle Williams movie Suite Francaise that had Oscar buzz but then sat on a shelf for years? It's now going to Lifetime TV
TV BuzzFeed is thankfully keeping this handy list of cancellations and renewals on TV up to date. I'm so sad about The Real O'Neals. I expected American Crime but anthology cancellations hurt less since they come to a natural end each year anyway. Vulture 13 shows that defined dystopian TV before The Handmaid's Tale VF Hollywood Scandal probably ending next season. But will ABC shift their drama strategy away from wealth porn?
And the teaser FINALLY for Top of the Lake Season 2 starring Elisabeth Moss and Nicole Kidman. We couldn't be more excited about it. If you missed season 1 with Elisabeth Moss investigating the disappearance of a young girl and finding a much larger crime that she wasn't expecting you really must catch up with it. Jane Campion's still got it and she still makes riveting human drama rife with feminist implications.
Stage WAMC Will Swenson talks about Waitress Theater Mania Tina Fey on her new Mean Girls musical Playbill Glenn Close remembers her Broadway debut, going from understudy to star Playbill Lin-Manuel Miranda to fund O'Neill Theater Center Scholarship for artists of color
Friday, May 12, 2017 at 2:35PM 
The British director Guy Ritchie never finished school and didn't attend film school either but by the time he was 28 he was on his way to making cinematic waves. His short film The Hard Case (1995) attracted the attention of financiers and his debut feature Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) was a scrappy success. Sudden fame for new directors is usually somewhat invisible since it's their names rather than faces that get the publicity. Not so for Guy Ritchie. His rise went meteoric via a marriage to global household name Madonna before people had even really learned his name. They famously wore each other's new products on t-shirts; he pushed her album "Music" across his chest in 2000 as she paraded Snatch, his second film, around on hers.
;)
