As the fading gigolo in Fading Gigolo, John Turturro plays a convincing enough stud — gaunt, laconic and mysterious, with a magnetism that belies both his looks and age. His character, whose real name is never mentioned, is a worldly florist with a reputable track record as a lover who is talked into the world’s oldest profession by his strange old buddy Murray (Woody Allen), a … [Read more...]
The wrong man pursued, in powerful ‘The Hunt’
Lucas, the protagonist of Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, is fond of horsing around. In the film’s opening scene, which looks like something out of the Grown-Ups movies, Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) and his coterie of male colleagues gather around a dock and strip down to their undies, placing bets on whether one of their pack will jump naked into the freezing November water of the … [Read more...]
The View From Home 11: New releases on DVD
Greenberg (Universal) Release date: July 13 Standard list price: $18.49 If I were Roger Greenberg – the literate, perpetually disgruntled protagonist in Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg – I would definitely be hand-writing a letter to Universal right about now that would go something like this: Dear Universal Home Entertainment, Eager to discover more about the motion picture … [Read more...]