Wednesday, April 28 2010
Essential Art House: Brief Encounter
No matter how exciting their meetings are, there’s always the looming train ride back to nonexistence.
Wednesday, September 23 2009
Easy Virtue
Noel Coward's play is brought to the screen with Jessica Biel in the lead role, but the film loses much of the bite of the stage version.
Wednesday, May 20 2009
The Beginning of a New Age: Stephan Elliot’s ‘Easy Virtue’
Matt Mazur talks with the filmmakers behind the big screen adaptation of Noël Coward's classic play Easy Virtue about the challenges of translating Coward to film, the strengths of gay filmmakers and, yes, Kristin Scott Thomas.
Friday, August 29 2008
The Noël Coward Trilogy
Covering Coward’s life from its inauspicious beginnings through his huge successes is a project of some ambition, and it is no small praise to report that it is done very well, indeed.
Monday, February 7 2005
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
The film's primary appeal is the bizarre turn by Noel Coward as Wilson (one of several 'eccentrics' the film trots out to otherize London even as it pathologizes at least one of the yanks).
