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The new Netflix documentary on K-pop’s Blackpink, “Light up the Sky,” provides a clear sense of each member’s personality, far more so than does its new album. VIDEO: What If Quicksilver Didn't Die in Avengers: Age of Ultron? At first, the new Mrs. de Winter is ecstatic over the charmed world that she’s lucked into: a house full of treasures, a staff of dozens to take care of her every whim, charming new high-society friends, and a dashing husband who promises her the world. It was a pretty close shot-for-shot remake of the 1960 horror classic, and it was universally canned, winning (if you can call it "winning") two Golden Raspberries: one for Worst Remake or Sequel, and one for Worst Director. Last week, Netflix announced that its remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rebecca will be released on October 21. The complete list of L.A. Times’ endorsements in the November 2020 election.

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Buttigieg is the Biden campaign’s ruthless secret weapon. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. That would go directly against what made Hitchcock's films, which are psychological masterpieces where shadows are as important as the lights and silence as important as sound, great. The original movie, released in 1940, won an Oscar for "Best Picture" and featured Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine as the de Winters. For one thing, the "Master of Suspense" worked in a different era with stylistically vastly different cinematography and storytelling, both of which do not necessarily translate to modern film, whether it be the number of cuts or lighting, for example. Remaking Hitchcock movies, though, is especially hard and a task that not many have tried - and one that did not bode well for those who did. Column: Make way for Slayer Pete. RELATED: Clive Barker's Books of Blood Film Announces Release Date With a Terrifying Poster. And so the disappointment of Netflix’s lavishly upholstered new “Rebecca” — directed by the English filmmaker Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse — is not merely that it falls short of some superior alternatives. Click here to subscribe. It’s the product of an impatient, even impetuous sensibility, and it soon runs aground in busy, showy effects: an exhausting editing scheme, perfunctory dream sequences and jump scares, and a Clint Mansell score that poses more of a drowning hazard than the ocean itself. Justin Chang has been a film critic for the Los Angeles Times since 2016. Repression is, of course, baked into the very atmosphere of du Maurier’s novel, which is both an indictment of — and a grand wallow in — the kind of brittle English formality that allows secrets to fester and longings to bloom into obsessions.

Glenn Close and Amy Adams spar as mother and daughter in ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ trailer. "remove":"add"](select.closed),dom.control.setAttribute("aria-expanded",o)}function onToggleClicked(){var l=!isPanelOpen();setPanelState(l)}function onWindowScroll(){window.requestAnimationFrame(function() {var l=isPanelOpen(),n=0===(document.body.scrollTop||document.documentElement.scrollTop);n||l||!allowExpand?n&&l&&(allowExpand=!0,setPanelState(!1)):(allowExpand=!1,setPanelState(!0))});}pencilInit(".js-sub-pencil",!1); Disney+ YA romance Clouds knows exactly which tears it needs to jerk, Thunberg-focused film I Am Greta doesn’t change the documentary-cinema climate one degree, Due to technical reasons, we have temporarily removed commenting from our articles. Rebecca is available to stream on Netflix starting Oct. 21. If Hammer seems a bit too young, untroubled and frankly American to play the broodingly sardonic English widower, he’s still too charming a presence to take issue with for long (even if he does show up in a lumpy three-piece suit that doesn’t scream Maxim de Winter so much as Colonel Mustard). I suspect his next one will be better, and with any luck, the next “Rebecca,” too. AMC Theatres, the world’s biggest cinema chain, says its cash reserves could be largely depleted by the end of this year or early 2021. Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. One of the lessons of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca” is that we should be wary of impostor syndrome, specifically the impulse to compare ourselves too anxiously with a beloved predecessor. And if watching this new, shinier, sexier Rebecca leads them to discover the property’s, er, story’s history, then all the better. Endorsement: The Times endorses Hoffman, Anderson, Henderson and Han for LACCD.

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We asked 40 Black theatermakers for their stories. (She also described the film as "sometimes trippy and psychedelic."). The set design is so immaculate and ornate and museum-quality delicate that Wheatley gets lost in the rooms of his own re-creation, favouring One Perfect Shot-ready images over such apparently trivial elements as character and performance. RELATED: The Crow: Brandon Lee's Iconic Costume Just Sold for $25,000. But Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca? Star Wars: Do Force Ghosts Grow Back Severed Limbs? This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. IATSE announces changes to improve diversity in Hollywood film and TV crews. Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. The decision to put Rebecca 2.0 in Wheatley’s hands was puzzling when it was first announced in 2018, and remains so after the final product’s end credits roll. Also available in French and Mandarin. Kirsten Scott Thomas, right, treats her role as the Manderley’s caretaker as half-homage to Judith Anderson, the 1940s Mrs. Danvers, and half cosplay of Lesley Manville’s performance in Phantom Thread. While a committed James manages to anchor her Mrs. de Winter in an effectively unsettling perma-state of inadequate anxiety, she’s still forced to react to the look-at-me antics of those around her. Rebecca, an important piece of psychological drama literature famously adapted by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film, is about to be reinvented as a Netflix feature starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. And again. Yet it is not long before the shadow of Maxim’s first wife Rebecca casts itself over Manderley, and a love story becomes a psychodrama. Who wouldn’t dream of going to Manderley again? Their guiding instinct seems to have been to drench the proceedings in as much youthful Hollywood glamour as it can withstand, which more or less explains the casting of Armie Hammer as the GQ-iest Maxim de Winter ever to grace the screen. © Copyright 2020 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved. I dunno, people, I’m trying. (Although they’ll have to leave the cozy environs of the Netflix homepage to do so; Hitchcock’s film isn’t available to stream anywhere in Canada, not counting a so-so copy currently up on YouTube.).

Wheatley’s strongest sequence is probably the costume ball where Mrs. de Winter, striving for Maxim’s approval, winds up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory — a moment that plays to the director’s gifts for staging bacchanalian chaos, and also to the strengths of his costume designer, Julian Day.