Stephanie Zacharek

'The Bride!' Is an Intellectual Joyride Without the Joy That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill

Ask and ye shall receive! time.com/7382567/the-...

I'd forgotten that in 2000 I wrote about watching THIS IS SPINAL TAP! in the dentist's chair. But apparently, I did!

It's very important info.

YEEEESSSSSSS, all must watch!

Appreciation: The Peter Fonda role we should be talking about isn’t ‘Easy Rider,’ but ‘Ulee’s Gold’ In the 1997 drama “Ulee’s Gold,” Peter Fonda plays a lonely beekeeper with a persistent limp, a gruff demeanor and a lifetime’s worth of regrets. Nearly everyone in his smal…

BOTD Peter Fonda!!
Across sweeping career, our fave remains The Hired Hand
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I would add that people have to like it, but yes!

I think I've heard that, and regardless, it sounds very Nick Lowe!

While we're on the subject of MacArthur Park & songwriter Jimmy Webb...this is just incredible.

I've never seen this—it's incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sending!

Wichita Lineman is one of the greatest songs ever written.

This version, from Paul Shaffer's band, with Jimmy Webb himself sitting in, and vocals by Will Lee, is magnificent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUPS...

Love both versions, but she definitely chose the right one for skating choreography!

I grew up listening to the Richard Harris version (one of my older sisters was in love with him) and I’m sure, for better or worse, it made me what I am today.

Delighted that a new generation is discovering the WTF pleasures of “MacArthur Park.”

Baz Luhrmann's EPiC Is the Tribute Elvis Deserves Constructed of previously unreleased footage, EPiC is less a documentary than a kind of spiritual conjuring of Elvis

ELVIS LIVES! See EPiC in IMAX if you can. time.com/7379611/elvi...

Bible doesn't mention that Martha & Mary had such a fab home. No wonder Christ & the gang wanted to visit them! As rendered in 1566 by Hans Vredeman de Vries, whose day is today.

Being darling is now a potential FCC violation.

THIS Wuthering Heights is "for the fans."

A trillion ❤️s for this picture.

I remember going to @filmforumnyc.bsky.social to see Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros, and I'm like, wow, this is long, better hunker down, & a guy behind me snored through the WHOLE thing, but I was practically tingling through all the way through. Like watching a William Castle movie or something.

God, he was just great!

Hands-down my best celebrity-sighting-in-the-wild was seeing, while visiting Paris, Fred Wiseman crossing the Pont Neuf one day. I stopped for a second and just gawped. Frederick effing Wiseman! I was too scared to say anything to him, but I savored that moment of being in the presence of greatness.

Author photo for when she writes her first book. Don’t laugh, I think she’s gonna do it.

I disliked pretty much all of it (except for Heathcliff’s gold tooth, which I thought was inspired), but I’d rather have a movie that divides people than one that just instigates a universal pile-on.

And you can signal artificiality—with vinyl dresses or whatever—but it has to give the audience some visceral charge beyond, 'Wow, that's certainly a hideous choice.' Not necessarily looking for prettiness, just prefer not to be visually punished so a filmmaker can get her not-so-big ideas across.

I was OK with it because I knew going in not to expect slavish faithfulness to the novel. Which is fine! But when nearly every stylistic choice is just bad, you start to wonder why she’d bothered in the first place.

Yet MY EYES were the true prisoner! It doesn’t work.

Just going to say it: No matter what you think of Wuthering Heights, Cathy’s dresses (after she goes off to live at the Grange) are from hunger. Bad fit, shiny, cheap-looking fabric, bad color combos. I know they’re intentionally stylized, but please, my eyes!

Thank you, Donald! It shocked me how good that one was—true to the spirit of the book without being slavishly faithful. The moment he reveals the little bird skeletons—brrrr!

it's not the worst thing AI is doing but: i love cat videos so much and it's so annoying that people are posting ai cat videos now