Keyword results: Biopic

Naked Lunch (1991)

27th Jun 07

Biopics are perhaps the suckiest genre in all of cinema. Interesting lives almost never translate to interesting cinema, and their main appeal is showing one famous person pretend to be another famous person, like a celebrity drag-show. So why is the hallucinatory biopic of cult author William Burroughs, NAKED LUNCH, so good?

Director David Cronenberg takes Burroughs’ life and runs it through the filter of Burroughs’ fiction.

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The Notorious Bettie Page

14th Feb 07
Format: Cinema
Mood: Nostalgic

Until now, Gretchen Mol’s roles have ranged from ‘somewhat forgettable’ to ‘still somewhat forgettable’. Suddenly, here she is playing 1950s uber-pinup, the canonical sex symbol Bettie Page, and her performance is an amazing, bona fide transformation of Hollywood magic.

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