Posts Tagged ‘Shutter Island’
March 1, 2010 - 5:37 pm
By Jay A. Fernandez
The Writers Guild Foundation will showcase a number of intriguing writers this month as part of its “Anatomy of a Script” series. And more than a few are women, for a change.
March 3 – Vince Gilligan talks about his AMC series “Breaking Bad,” but his resume also includes work on “The X-Files” and the feature “Hancock.” A screening of the “Breaking Bad” pilot will begin at 6 p.m.
March 10 – Callie Khouri talks about her Oscar-winning screenplay for “Thelma & Louise,” with a screening of the Ridley Scott-directed drama beforehand at 5 p.m.
February 14, 2010 - 1:48 pm
By Mira Advani Honeycutt
Finding Leo was far more intense than getting out of “Shutter Island.”
Martin Scorsese’s film premiered Saturday night at the Berlinale and I was keen to meet the Italian trifecta — Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo — as well as Sir Ben Kingsley and Michelle Williams, at the after party held at Muenza in the Mitte district of Berlin.
By Jay A. Fernandez
The rare female screenwriter working in non-romantic comedy genres, Læta Kalogridis has had her hands on a diverse array of scripts in the past 15 years — “Scream 3,” “Tomb Raider,” “Wonder Woman,” “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “Night Watch,” and “Alexander,” to name a few. Friday, Paramount releases the Martin Scorsese-directed “Shutter Island,” her adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s paranoia-soaked Cold War thriller. And this summer Fox will let loose its action tentpole “Knight and Day,” which Kalogridis co-wrote. She also served as an uncredited helper on James Cameron’s record-busting “Avatar.” Here, Kalogridis talks about the bloody inspiration in Greek myth, female superheroes and the appeal of the “unbelievably, incredibly, outrageously violent.”
How exactly do you pronounce your name?
It’s Læta, with the diphthong—it’s Latin, actually. If it were Greek it would be Lay-eta. But it’s Latin, so it’s like Caesar.
So your ethnic background is Greek?
On my father’s side.
By Jay A. Fernandez
This is decidedly random, but I’ve seen two movies recently that featured typically strong appearances by the mostly unsung Elias Koteas. I don’t know what it is, but I find this guy exhilarating to watch and wholeheartedly believe that he needs to be on screen as much as humanly possible.
So I hereby call for casting directors to bring him in on everything — comic book villains, romantic leads, action roles, miserable dramas, pornos, whatever. Get him in the movie. Do it now.
