Jeffrey Wells: Lawrence of Latin America

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Hollywood Elsewhere found this 4/30/2008 on www.huffingtonpost.com [flag]
If you love epic-styled movies you've certainly seen and loved Lawrence of Arabia , which also means you've been influenced by the great win-lose Lawrence theme. The first half of David Lean's Oscar-winning 1962 film is mostly about climbing the mountain -- the dream, the struggle and the rush of an enigmatic hero fighting and winning an underdog battle. The second half is about tumbling down the other side as the cards -- personal, logistical and political -- turn against him. It's the basic ... [link]

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Lawrence of Latin America
Published 4/30/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
The Up and Down Of It " Lawrence of Latin America ," my Huffington Post article about the forthcoming Steven Soderbergh films about Che Guevara, went up a few minutes ago. I've said some of the same things in previous postings, but here are the first two graphs: "If you love epic-styled movies you've certainly seen and loved Lawrence of Arabia , which also means you've been influenced by the great win-lose Lawrence theme. The first half of David Lean 's Oscar-winning 1962 film is mostly about climbing the mountain -- the dream, the struggle and the rush of an enigmatic ...

Soderbergh's Che Films
Published 4/30/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... Jeffrey Wells blogs about Soderbergh's two Che films at Cannes at The Huffington Post.

Soderbergh’s Che Films Likened to Lawrence of Arabia
Published 4/30/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
... ), but that couldn’t stop Jeff Wells from contributing such a piece to The Huffington Post yesterday. At least the guy has read the screenplays, both penned by Peter Buchman, but otherwise it’s all a lot of confident speculation and hopeful anticipation, particularly for Benicio Del Toro’s performance, which Wells is sure will be garner Oscar talk (didn’t the casting alone garner such talk two years back?): ...

Will Soderbergh's Che Guevara Biopics Find a Distributor?
Published 5/1/2008 by Eric Kohn at Cinematical
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Deals, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Scripts, Distribution, Exhibition, Movie Marketing, PoliticsIf you thought leading a revolution was easy, try filming one. In The Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere discusses Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che Guevara biopic, comprised of The Argentine and Guerilla. Despite earlier rumors to the contrary, ...

Cannes Watch: Blindness, Synecdoche, Che, Two Lovers
Published 5/10/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... Four much-anticipated Cannes pics are opener Blindness, an indie Fernando Meirelles drama acquired by Miramax, and three pics which distribs are hovering over: Steven Soderbergh's epic Che double feature, Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and James Gray's Two Lovers. Rope of Silicon has early Cannes stills. UK newspaper The Independent deplores the decline of the world's leading film fest. ...