Georgetown Vertical Entertainment Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Christopher Waltz Writer: David Auburn, based on the NY Times article 7/8/12 “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown” by Franklin Foer Cast: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/12/21 Opens: May 14, 2021 So you […]
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- 11/20/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Making his directorial debut, Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz is both behind and in front of the camera for Georgetown, a real-life story of secrets and scheming in Washington. Waltz stars as Ulrich Mott, a charismatic social-climber who brings the who’s-who of D.C. into his orbit, including Vanessa Redgrave’s Elsa Brecht. The two get married, and eventually Elsa ends up dead, prompting serious suspicion from her daughter Amanda (Annette Bening) about Ulrich’s involvement.
Penned by Tony-winner playwright David Auburn (Proof) and based on the New York Times article “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown” by Franklin Foer, the film was shot in 2017 and premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival to mixed reviews. Ahead of Waltz’s forthcoming performances in The French Dispatch and No Time to Die, his directorial debut will now finally be released in the United States on May 14 followed by a VOD premiere on May 19.
Watch the trailer below.
Penned by Tony-winner playwright David Auburn (Proof) and based on the New York Times article “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown” by Franklin Foer, the film was shot in 2017 and premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival to mixed reviews. Ahead of Waltz’s forthcoming performances in The French Dispatch and No Time to Die, his directorial debut will now finally be released in the United States on May 14 followed by a VOD premiere on May 19.
Watch the trailer below.
- 4/30/2021
- by Stephen Hladik
- The Film Stage
Paramount has released the trailer for Georgetown, directed by and starring Christoph Waltz alongside Annette Bening and Vanessa Redgrave. The film, in theaters May 14 and on digital May 18, was inspired by the bizarre true story of Albrecht Muth.
The film’s official synopsis notes, “Waltz stars as Ulrich Mott, an eccentric and smooth-talking social climber who seems to have everyone in Washington, D.C. wrapped around his finger. But when his wealthy, well-connected and much older wife (Redgrave) turns up dead in their home, her daughter Amanda (Bening) suspects Ulrich...
The film’s official synopsis notes, “Waltz stars as Ulrich Mott, an eccentric and smooth-talking social climber who seems to have everyone in Washington, D.C. wrapped around his finger. But when his wealthy, well-connected and much older wife (Redgrave) turns up dead in their home, her daughter Amanda (Bening) suspects Ulrich...
- 4/29/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
PBS ended its day at the TCA Winter Press Tour with Frontline’s Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos – and if you’ve been thinking about your own Amazon addiction, this program will make you think more than twice.
Frontline producer James Jacoby was blunt in his assessment of the company. “There’s a military-like precision to their operation which is awesome, but it comes at a cost to labor force and the environment,” he said. “We’re all accustomed to the convenience. The film explores some of the cost to that and the calculus of how to deliver on that convenience. Taking stock of where the empire is now was our focus. Forty percent of all computing in the cloud happens on Amazon Web Service (Aws.) PBS is housed on Aws. Alexa is embedded in more than 20,000 devices.”
Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic,...
Frontline producer James Jacoby was blunt in his assessment of the company. “There’s a military-like precision to their operation which is awesome, but it comes at a cost to labor force and the environment,” he said. “We’re all accustomed to the convenience. The film explores some of the cost to that and the calculus of how to deliver on that convenience. Taking stock of where the empire is now was our focus. Forty percent of all computing in the cloud happens on Amazon Web Service (Aws.) PBS is housed on Aws. Alexa is embedded in more than 20,000 devices.”
Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic,...
- 1/11/2020
- by Diane Gordon
- Deadline Film + TV
It isn’t especially difficult to explain pop culture’s recent obsession with liars and con artists, but Christoph Waltz’s “Georgetown” suggests that Washington D.C. was a magnet for megalomaniacal grifters long before Donald Trump reduced the property value of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Power has a funny way of attracting the most pathetic of people, and this half-formed, almost true dark comedy is nothing if not a story about the most pathetic of people. Alas, it stops a bit short of being anything else.
Based on Franklin Foer’s 2012 New York Times article “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown,” Waltz’s directorial debut — in which he credits himself as “C. Waltz” — opens with a winking title card that insists “this film does not claim to be the truth,” and spends the rest of its run time wobbling on a knife’s edge between different kinds of discomfort. Waltz himself plays Ulrich Mott,...
Based on Franklin Foer’s 2012 New York Times article “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown,” Waltz’s directorial debut — in which he credits himself as “C. Waltz” — opens with a winking title card that insists “this film does not claim to be the truth,” and spends the rest of its run time wobbling on a knife’s edge between different kinds of discomfort. Waltz himself plays Ulrich Mott,...
- 4/28/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Surprisingly not unspooling at Tiff last September at the same time as the Green Book brouhaha, actor Christoph Waltz completed shooting on his directorial debut in September of 2017 in Toronto. Perhaps Georgetown stands a better chance with a Park City Eccles screening. Recruiting himself and Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Annette Bening for the top three spots, this true story piece of Americana that is Linklater’s Bernie in get rich quick scheme pedigree was a NYTimes article Franklin Foer called The Worst Marriage in Georgetown.
Gist: Inspired by true events, and written by David Auburn, this unfolds in the world of political intrigue and gossip dominating the social scene in Washington, few couples stood out quite like German nationals Elsa Breht (Redgrave) and her husband Ulrich Mott (Waltz).…...
Gist: Inspired by true events, and written by David Auburn, this unfolds in the world of political intrigue and gossip dominating the social scene in Washington, few couples stood out quite like German nationals Elsa Breht (Redgrave) and her husband Ulrich Mott (Waltz).…...
- 11/21/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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