Tag Archives: Meryl Streep

love and friendship (film: Falling in Love – Ulu Grosbard, 1984)

A movie starring Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro, made during a time that represented the peak of their careers can’t be too bad. I confess that I hadn’t heard much about ‘Falling in Love‘ nor about its director Ulu … Continue reading

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Netflix Looks Up (film: Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay, 2021)

It’s rare for a film to radically divide opinions like ‘Don’t Look Up‘, the political-apocalyptic satire written and directed by Adam McKay that ended the year 2021, succeeded to do. Fame preceded it in my mailbox and in the news … Continue reading

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good old film making about good old journalism (Film: The Post – Steven Spielberg, 2017)

Movies about the late 60s or early 70s become more and more epoch films. They describe a time when dollars were kept in boxes to be used by kids ten or fifteen years later and still have some value, when … Continue reading

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passion vs. talent (Film: Florence Foster Jenkins – Meryl Streep, 2016)

I cannot help it. Every film she shines in (because this is what stars do – they shine) ends by being about her. The great actress who is and lives on screen as every character she is incarnating, who makes … Continue reading

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Meryl Streep rocks (Film: Ricki and the Flash – Meryl Streep, 2015)

This may be the rock film of the year. Meryl Streep plays an aging supermarket cashier who spends her evenings playing Stones and U2 music in a club for a faithful audience of a few tens of people, many of … Continue reading

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huge acting by Meryl Streep (Film: August: Osage County – Meryl Streep, 2013)

I had seen the play that inspired August: Osage County a few years back on stage at the HaBima theater in Tel Aviv and I confess that I did not remember much of the story. It took me this second … Continue reading

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Mission Accomplished, the Oscar (Film: The Iron Lady – Meryl Streep, 2011)

If the goal of The Iron Lady was to get another statuette for Meryl Streep, the mission was accomplished. Streep receives a generous part which takes former British PM Margaret Thatcher from her early days in the Commons to the … Continue reading

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