Agnès Varda’s first film in nine years is, like 2008’s The Beaches of Agnès, rooted in her past, while also addressing her finite future. Faces Places is a stylized road movie co-directed with JR, a pseudonymous Parisian street artist, but the echoes of Varda’s French New Wave origins ripple across the journey. The 33-year-old JR, as the 88-year-old Varda’s voice-over … [Read more...]
Actor Cox takes on the daunting mantle of ‘Churchill’
What do Albert Finney, Rod Taylor, Timothy Spall, Richard Burton, John Lithgow and now Brian Cox have in common? They have all played British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on film. In Cox’s case, he is in a new film called simply Churchill, opening in South Florida this Friday. The classically trained, Scottish-born actor looks a great deal like the pudgy politician who … [Read more...]