… a generous, gently unassuming worldview - one that grants everyone their space and their struggles, and that never turns characters into easy symbols or reduces relationships to obvious tensions. The movie is in theaters now.įor The Times, Justin Chang wrote, “In tracking a decades-long relationship, forged in a vaguely Edenic wilderness to which it keeps returning, ‘The Eight Mountains’ at times inescapably evokes ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ even if Pietro and Bruno’s love story is, as far as we can tell, a platonic one. Set amid the Italian Alps, the story covers years in the complicated friendship of Pietro and Bruno, played as adults by Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi.

Written and directed by Belgian husband and wife Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, “The Eight Mountains” is an adaptation of the Italian novel by Paolo Cognetti. Your support helps us deliver the news that matters most. Nice Guy.”Įnjoying this newsletter? Consider subscribing to the Los Angeles Times Among the titles in the series, running through the 27th, are “The Millionaires’ Express,” “Pedicab Driver,” “Wheels on Meals,” “Dragons Forever,” “She Shoots Straight” and “Mr. The Academy Museum is now presenting “Sammo Hung: From Stuntman to Star,” spotlighting his abilities in front of and behind the camera to use inventive physical action and sharp comedy to conjure pure filmmaking joyfulness. Sammo Hung at the Academy With more than 200 acting credits, stuntman-director-actor-icon Sammo Hung has been one of the best-known figures from the Hong Kong film industry since the 1980s. (I was posted up outside the gates of the Disney lot in Burbank.) Anousha also wrote about the studios’ response to the writers’ dismissal of their counteroffers. Josh Rottenberg and Anousha collected dispatches from the picket lines outside various studios around town to hear firsthand what was at stake and the reasons why rank-and-file guild members were striking. Mary McNamara examined how studios profited from the new golden age of television without passing those rewards along to those who helped create them, noting, “unless we want TV’s boom town to become a ghost town, we need to protect the writers who built it.”

Meg James and Anousha Sakoui broke down why the strike will probably go on for some time. The Times’ coverage has looked at the strike from all angles. Hollywood writers on strike After contract negotiations broke down on Monday night, Hollywood’s writers went on strike this week, sending shockwaves through all levels of the industry. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.

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