As we each begin to take stock of 2019 and count our blessings over the festive period, George Nash takes time to celebrate the great movie friendships that have graced our cinema screens over the past twelve months… With the festivities sweeping us up on a wave of shameless consumer indulgence, seasonal knitwear and figuring […]
Movie Review – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, 2018. Directed by Marielle Heller. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella, Christian Navarro, Anna Deavere Smith, and Kevin Carolan. SYNOPSIS: When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of […]
Exclusive Interview – Editor Anne McCabe talks craft, Director’s Cuts, and Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Red Stewart chats with Anne McCabe about Can You Ever Forgive Me?… Anne McCabe is an American film editor who has been working in the film and television industries since the late-1980s. She is best known for her work on projects like Adventureland, Nurse Jackie, and Top Five. Flickering Myth had the privilege to talk to […]
Movie Review – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, 2018. Directed by Marielle Heller. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella, Christian Navarro, Anna Deavere Smith, and Kevin Carolan. SYNOPSIS: Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is a biographer who has fallen on hard times. Cantankerous, talented but defensive she hides behind […]
Oscars 2019: Predicting the nominations in the main categories
Tom Beasley has a shot at predicting which films will make their way on to the Academy’s shortlists in the main Oscars 2019 categories… Last year, I tried to predict the nominees in all of the main Oscar categories. There were some shortlists I got almost bang on, but others for which I was way […]
Julianne Moore eyed for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
After many years of almosts and nearlys, February saw Julianne Moore finally win an Academy Award for her performance in Still Alice. Now, the actress is setting about picking her post-Oscar projects, with Variety reporting that the actress may have found one in the lead for the adaptation of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Lee […]
First trailer for Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy
Fox Searchlight has debuted the first poster and trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Lee Israel’s memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?. Directed by Marielle Heller, the comedy drama stars Melissa McCarthy as author and biographer Israel alongside Richard E. Grant; take a look below… Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir CAN YOU […]
