Love Lies Bleeding, the latest thriller from Rose Glass, has energy and style to burn. Kristen Stewart stars as mousy gym worker Lou who falls hard and fast for sculpted bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O'Brian) after she stops off in her small town on the way to a competition in Vegas. The pair fall hard and fast for each other but Jackie’s increasing addiction to steroids coupled with Lou’s criminal family - headed by Ed Harris’ Lou Sr - create a powder keg that’s ready to blow. The film is set in the late-80s, a period reinforced by careful costuming from Olga Mill - who previously brought her skills to William Oldroyd’s Sixties-set Eileen. We caught up with the designer, who also has films including Hereditary and Never Rarely Sometimes Always on her CV, to talk...
- 3/7/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Neon releases the film in limited theaters on Friday, December 1, with expansion to follow on Friday, December 8.
In the first scene of “Eileen,” the protagonist stakes out in her car on a dreary winter lakefront lovers’ lane in the Boston outskirts. As another couple makes out in a backseat of the next car, Eileen watches, glowering lustily, and grabs a handful of muddy snow, shoves it down her pants, and masturbates.
The rest of “Lady Macbeth” director William Oldroyd’s second feature never quite matches the giddy perversity of that image, but no matter, because this stylish 1960s-set noir adapted from Ottessa Moshfegh’s mean and pungent novel of the same name is a dark treat throughout. Thomasin McKenzie, playing the title character, and Anne Hathaway, playing the alluring blonde-headed woman that seemingly drops from the sky and into her life,...
In the first scene of “Eileen,” the protagonist stakes out in her car on a dreary winter lakefront lovers’ lane in the Boston outskirts. As another couple makes out in a backseat of the next car, Eileen watches, glowering lustily, and grabs a handful of muddy snow, shoves it down her pants, and masturbates.
The rest of “Lady Macbeth” director William Oldroyd’s second feature never quite matches the giddy perversity of that image, but no matter, because this stylish 1960s-set noir adapted from Ottessa Moshfegh’s mean and pungent novel of the same name is a dark treat throughout. Thomasin McKenzie, playing the title character, and Anne Hathaway, playing the alluring blonde-headed woman that seemingly drops from the sky and into her life,...
- 1/22/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Amy Williams is an Us-based production designer. She has left her creative fingerprint on several TV series such as „Master of None“ (2015) or lately „Little America“. Among the feature dramas she worked on is „Love Is Strange“ (2014) by Ira Sachs and now the actual new release on Netflix “Tigertail” by Alan Yang.
On this occasion we speak with Amy Williams, who told us more about the challenges of the production and her experiences with the Taiwanese culture.
It’s not the first time you work with director Alan Yang. Could you tell us more about your collaboration and how the work on “Tigertail” began?
I met Alan Yang in 2014 when I interviewed for the Netflix series, “Master Of None”, that he and Aziz Ansari created. “Master of None” was a beautiful experience for all of us working on the show. Alan and I share a love of basketball and dining,...
On this occasion we speak with Amy Williams, who told us more about the challenges of the production and her experiences with the Taiwanese culture.
It’s not the first time you work with director Alan Yang. Could you tell us more about your collaboration and how the work on “Tigertail” began?
I met Alan Yang in 2014 when I interviewed for the Netflix series, “Master Of None”, that he and Aziz Ansari created. “Master of None” was a beautiful experience for all of us working on the show. Alan and I share a love of basketball and dining,...
- 5/17/2020
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
For his feature directorial debut, Alan Yang chose to look close to home. Based on Yang’s own family’s experiences, “Tigertail” is set in both the past and the present and explores the life of retired Taiwanese immigrant Pin-Jui (Tzi Ma). We meet him as a child and watch him become a young man (played by Hong-Chi Lee) who falls in love with a childhood friend, Yuan (Kunjue Li). He ultimately leaves her and Taiwan behind, starting a new life in America with a wife he barely knows.
In breaking down two of the film’s scenes for Variety, Yang chose to focus on an early moment when the young Pin-Jui is on a date with his true love, dancing in a bar. The later scene shows Pin-Jui as an older man, struggling to connect with his grown daughter, Angela (Christine Ko).
The Dance Scene (Past)
This is the...
In breaking down two of the film’s scenes for Variety, Yang chose to focus on an early moment when the young Pin-Jui is on a date with his true love, dancing in a bar. The later scene shows Pin-Jui as an older man, struggling to connect with his grown daughter, Angela (Christine Ko).
The Dance Scene (Past)
This is the...
- 4/15/2020
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
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