After having seen Robin Hood, I was poking around the internet looking for stuff about Cate Blanchett. Something I found reminded me that she is now the co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company. I went to check out their website and found something that made my heart stop:
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Sold out, dammit
Posted in Cate Blanchett, theatre, tagged Cate Blanchett, Chekhov, Hugo Weaving, Shaw Festival, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Sydney Theatre Company, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Robin Hood
Posted in Cate Blanchett, movies, tagged Cate Blanchett, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I read a fascinating article before I went to see this movie that lowered my expectations still further. Apparently, once upon a time, this movie was a brilliant script – the Robin Hood legend told from the point of view of the Sheriff of Nottingham in a 12th century England CSI kind of way. There [...]
the new Robin Hood movie
Posted in Cate Blanchett, movies, tagged Cate Blanchett, Hollywood, Robin Hood, Russell Crow on May 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s a Hollywood film. Its only real connection to the Robin Hood legend is going to be the name. It’s going to be jammed with too much fighting, historical inaccuracies and bad writing. And it stars Russell Crow. All reasons to avoid this movie. And then they cast Cate Blanchett. Which now means I have [...]
Elizabeth
Posted in Cate Blanchett, movies, theatre, tagged Brent Carver, Cate Blanchett, Diane D'Aquila, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Rex, The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Timothy Findley on April 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Most people have heard of Elizabeth, I imagine. It was Cate Blanchett’s breakout role, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. It’s a costume piece, a historical drama, it deals with politics, with intrigue, with religion. But at its heart, it’s a movie about Elizabeth learning to stop being a woman and start [...]
Heaven
Posted in Cate Blanchett, movies, tagged Cate Blanchett, foreign film, Giovanni Ribisi, Heaven, Italy on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This could have been an action movie. All the elements were there: bomb plot, explosion, execution, police chase, daring escape, and fugitives on the run. It could have been, but it wasn’t. It was a character-based drama, and it was lovely.
