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      ‘Some of the sloppiest writing I’ve ever watched’: how True Detective’s creator turned on his own show

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 15:00

    Nic Pizzolatto’s reposted negative comments, publicly distanced himself and created a dedicated space for criticism on his Instagram – despite viewing figures getting better and better …

    It has been another busy week for fans of men whining on the internet. I mean, when isn’t it? But there has been one particularly engaging meltdown in recent days: Nic Pizzolatto throwing a tantrum over his own show.

    Pizzolatto is the creator of the TV franchise True Detective, the first season of which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson and was quickly inducted into the annals of “golden age” TV. The fourth season has just come to an end on HBO (Sky in the UK). Starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country is set inside the Arctic Circle in the middle of winter and faithfully recreates many of the staples of the series: odd-couple cops, an untamed landscape, a suggestion of the occult and some grotesque murders. There are even elements of homage, including allusions to McConaughey’s celebrated ruminations on the nature of time. But did Pizzolatto like it? No, he did not.

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      Nyad review – Annette Bening pulls out all the stops in engaging swimming drama

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 24 October - 13:00

    Bening gives it her all as Diana Nyad, who set out aged 60 to swim from Cuba to Florida, but the film skims over Nyad’s backstory

    Loneliness isn’t exactly the issue for the long-distance swimmer in this earnestly acted real-life motivational drama. It’s about Diana Nyad, a retired American swim champ turned sportscaster who, at 60 years old, set out to front-crawl her way uninterrupted from Cuba to Florida – 103 miles or five English Channels – facing down the sharks, the jellyfish and the sexist and ageist condescension. All through this story, people are crowding up to her: best friend Bonnie, grumpy, plain-speaking captain John in the accompanying boat, memories of her dad who inspired her and her coach who abused her.

    And of course the whole idea of people getting close to Nyad assumes a new significance. She must swim alone – retching and shitting in the water by herself, taking liquified nourishment on the end of a pole, wearing a stifling anti-jellyfish mask and staying within the anti-shark electronic pulse field – because if anyone touches her, the whole attempt is void.

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      Nyad review – swim biopic lifted by Annette Bening and Jodie Foster

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 14 September, 2023 - 20:34 · 1 minute

    Two stellar performances add weight to Netflix’s uneven retelling of the story of Diana Nyad, who swam from Cuba to Florida at the age of 64

    In the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo , directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin came upon a doozy of a character in Alex Honnold, an unhinged, unsupported climber with little regard for his own mortality. It was a perfectly terrifying and fascinating film, the nightmarish sight of Honnold hanging from the edge of a 900-metre rock seared into the brain of anyone who saw it.

    The pair were able to film every hair-raising moment of his record-breaking climb, the ethics of which were smartly explored within the movie, and it turned an extreme sports documentary into an immersive, edge-of-seat thriller. But their lack of on-location involvement in their follow-up, the Thai cave doc The Rescue, gave it a drier, less dynamic feel, an anonymous assemblage of clips telling a story we all knew a little too well. Nyad, their narrative debut, finds the pair in uncharted territory, the tale of another daring endeavour but one they can bring to the screen with complete directorial control and without fear of blood on their hands.

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      "True Detective" saison 4 se fera avec Jodie Foster

      news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Friday, 27 May, 2022 - 04:45 · 1 minute

    Jodie Foster rejoint Jodie Foster rejoint "True Detective" saison 4 (photo de juillet 2021)

    SÉRIES TV - La série HBO “True Detective” a recruté Jodie Foster pour sa prochaine saison, ont annoncé ce jeudi 26 mai plusieurs médias américains comme Deadline et The Hollywood Reporter .

    L’actrice de 59 ans, deux fois oscarisée, signera ainsi son premier retour de taille à la télévision depuis ses débuts dans le métier alors qu’elle était enfant. Elle participera aussi au projet en tant que productrice exécutive.

    Le quatrième chapitre de la série policière -lancée en 2014 avec Matthew McConaughey et Woody Harrelson dans les rôles principaux- est encore en plein développement, mais HBO a déjà annoncé qu’il serait intitulé “Night Country”.

    Cette nouvelle histoire avec un nouveau casting suivra les détectives Liz Danvers et Evangeline Navarro qui enquêtent sur la disparition soudaine de six hommes travaillant dans une station de recherche installée dans l’Arctique. Pour faire la lumière sur ce mystère, les deux enquêtrices devront “faire face à leurs démons et creuser dans les glaces éternelles qui renferment des vérités hantées”, raconte la chaîne.

    Pour l’heure, aucune date de tournage ni de diffusion n’ont encore été annoncées.

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