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Take everything you know about the biopic genre and throw it away, because “Jackie” is like no historical drama you’ve ever seen. Pablo Larraín’s searing dissection of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the days following her husband’s assassination is a psychological meditation on grief and legacy, anchored by Natalie Portman in one of the best performances of her career. If you somehow missed the film during its release this awards season, “Jackie” is now available on VOD and demands your attention.
Framed around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine reporter Theodore H. White, the film is a dive into her subconscious as she comes to terms with her husband’s death and rises to the challenge of preserving his legacy in American history. Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt and Max Casella co-star.
Take everything you know about the biopic genre and throw it away, because “Jackie” is like no historical drama you’ve ever seen. Pablo Larraín’s searing dissection of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the days following her husband’s assassination is a psychological meditation on grief and legacy, anchored by Natalie Portman in one of the best performances of her career. If you somehow missed the film during its release this awards season, “Jackie” is now available on VOD and demands your attention.
Framed around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine reporter Theodore H. White, the film is a dive into her subconscious as she comes to terms with her husband’s death and rises to the challenge of preserving his legacy in American history. Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt and Max Casella co-star.
- 3/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Off the back of a wave of rave reviews, Jackie has landed in UK cinemas, with Natalie Portman in the lead. So: any good?
It was almost a little too on-the-nose for Entertainment One to release Jackie last Friday, given that it's a film about mourning for a political figure lost in the wake of a terrible tragedy as the peaceful transfer of power takes precedence over anyone's feelings. Then again, the film itself, which stars Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, is so much a callback to a bygone age that any comparisons to current affairs are moot.
The film dramatises a pivotal Life magazine interview by reporter Theodore H. White (here represented by Billy Crudup as an unnamed character), which took place in the week following John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. Mrs. Kennedy reserves strict editorial control over the cover story, but insists on fulfilling her duty...
It was almost a little too on-the-nose for Entertainment One to release Jackie last Friday, given that it's a film about mourning for a political figure lost in the wake of a terrible tragedy as the peaceful transfer of power takes precedence over anyone's feelings. Then again, the film itself, which stars Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, is so much a callback to a bygone age that any comparisons to current affairs are moot.
The film dramatises a pivotal Life magazine interview by reporter Theodore H. White (here represented by Billy Crudup as an unnamed character), which took place in the week following John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. Mrs. Kennedy reserves strict editorial control over the cover story, but insists on fulfilling her duty...
- 1/24/2017
- Den of Geek
The evolving nature of the film biopic has recently become quite interesting to me. Insofar as Pablo Larraín's Jackie is as much about Theodore H. White's Life magazine article as it is about the iconic First Lady, so John Lee Hancock's The Founder is as much about the process of business franchising across the United States in the 1950s as it is about the man who made McDonald's the corporate empire it is today. That is not to say that Michael Keaton's performance as Ray Kroc, nor the delightful duo of John Caroll Lynch and Nick Offerman, who portray the McDonald brothers Mac and Dick (respectively), are not important or excellent. Of course they are. Kroc innovated the franchise model and was the driving force behind...
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- 1/19/2017
- Screen Anarchy
There are few things more deflating than the prospect of yet another Great Man biopic, a genre that's prone to cause even the best directors to stumble. The resulting films are often too rambling, too unfocused, too unnecessary—either misguided passion projects or empty stabs at “respectability.” In that respect, Jackie (Chilean director Pablo Larraín's second foray into biopic territory this year, after Neruda) sets itself apart. Centering on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman) and largely confining its focus to the hours and days following her husband’s assassination in 1963, it’s less a biopic and more an intimate refraction of a national tragedy. And although somewhat uneven, it remains an intriguing, if frustrating affair—both a plunge into history and myth and a look at its creation, the manner by which “one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot” became embedded into a national consciousness.Opening at...
- 12/2/2016
- MUBI
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First Lady Jackie Kennedy was plunged into shock and despair when her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated at 46 in 1963. But even in the midst of unimaginable tragedy, she had a key focus: to ensure that his legacy endured. And to do that, she spun a fantasy that has only grown in the five decades since.
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First Lady Jackie Kennedy was plunged into shock and despair when her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated at 46 in 1963. But even in the midst of unimaginable tragedy, she had a key focus: to ensure that his legacy endured. And to do that, she spun a fantasy that has only grown in the five decades since.
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- 12/1/2016
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Maybe you're thinking the last thing you want to see is a TV-movie–ish take on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy. Good news. Jackie is not a damn thing like that. There's hardly a conventional biopic minute in it. Instead, you get a spellbinding look at one of the planet's most famous women through the prism of what happens right after her husband is assassinated and she cradles his bullet-shattered head in her lap. Let me mention right of the gate that Natalie Portman, in a performance that tops her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan,...
- 11/30/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Natalie Portman is headed to Palm Springs.
The actress will receive the Palm Springs International Film Festival's International Star Award for her performance in Jackie, it was announced Wednesday. Mary Hart will host the annual awards gala, to be held Jan. 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center; other honorees include Lion's Nicole Kidman, Sully's Tom Hanks, Loving's Ruth Negga, Manchester by the Sea's Casey Affleck and the cast of La La Land.
Directed by Pablo Larrain, the Fox Searchlight historical drama takes place in the days after the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, focusing on Theodore H. White's...
The actress will receive the Palm Springs International Film Festival's International Star Award for her performance in Jackie, it was announced Wednesday. Mary Hart will host the annual awards gala, to be held Jan. 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center; other honorees include Lion's Nicole Kidman, Sully's Tom Hanks, Loving's Ruth Negga, Manchester by the Sea's Casey Affleck and the cast of La La Land.
Directed by Pablo Larrain, the Fox Searchlight historical drama takes place in the days after the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, focusing on Theodore H. White's...
- 11/30/2016
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This year’s holiday season is full to bursting with new movies, from the expected awards contenders to a number of festival favorites and some true-blue feel-good offerings to round out the pack, and we’re pleased to offer up 22 of the coming weeks’ best bets for film fans of all stripes. Whether you’re looking to beef up on your Oscar contenders, take the whole family to see something they all can enjoy or you just want to lose yourself in the magic of the movies, the rest of 2016 has something for you.
Take our advice, there’s no better place to spend the season than at the movie theater, so start here.
“Allied” (November 23)
Robert Zemeckis has had an interesting relationship with on-screen history. “Forrest Gump” reimagined decades worth of Americana and “The Walk” turned a grace note of New York history and crafted a spectacle. “Allied” finds him in historical thriller mode,...
Take our advice, there’s no better place to spend the season than at the movie theater, so start here.
“Allied” (November 23)
Robert Zemeckis has had an interesting relationship with on-screen history. “Forrest Gump” reimagined decades worth of Americana and “The Walk” turned a grace note of New York history and crafted a spectacle. “Allied” finds him in historical thriller mode,...
- 11/21/2016
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Steve Greene, Graham Winfrey, Zack Sharf and Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
There are performances, and then there is what Natalie Portman achieves in Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie.” In what is easily some of the most powerful work of the Oscar winner’s career, “Jackie” finds Portman burrowing into the soul of Jacqueline Kennedy like never before and forcing the viewer to see her subject in a new, more complex light.
Read More: ‘Jackie’: Natalie Portman Explains How She Looked Past Her Own ‘Common Perceptions’ for Her Lauded Role
Framed around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine reporter Theodore H. White, which took place just a week after her husband’s assassination, the film is a dive into her subconscious as she comes to terms with her husband’s death and rises to the challenge of preserving his legacy in American history. Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt and Max Casella co-star.
In an A- review out of the Venice Film Festival,...
Read More: ‘Jackie’: Natalie Portman Explains How She Looked Past Her Own ‘Common Perceptions’ for Her Lauded Role
Framed around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine reporter Theodore H. White, which took place just a week after her husband’s assassination, the film is a dive into her subconscious as she comes to terms with her husband’s death and rises to the challenge of preserving his legacy in American history. Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt and Max Casella co-star.
In an A- review out of the Venice Film Festival,...
- 11/14/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
In Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s first English-language outing, the daring Jacqueline Kennedy biopic “Jackie,” Natalie Portman turns in some of her finest work yet as the beloved First Lady in the days just after the assassination of her husband. The film has already garnered significant buzz on the awards circuit, prompting Fox Searchlight to pick up the project out of Toronto, and it was with that momentum that Larraín and Portman brought the film to the New York Film Festival on Thursday night for the film’s U.S. premiere.
It’s Portman’s performance — one years in the making, as the film was produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, who had long pictured his “Black Swan” leading lady in the title role — that has grabbed the most attention, and while it’s still early days, it’s hard to imagine an awards season that won’t feature her work front and center.
It’s Portman’s performance — one years in the making, as the film was produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, who had long pictured his “Black Swan” leading lady in the title role — that has grabbed the most attention, and while it’s still early days, it’s hard to imagine an awards season that won’t feature her work front and center.
- 10/14/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Most critics had their eye on “Jackie” heading into the fall film festivals, but few predicted it would ultimately be one of the season’s best offerings. The movie has all the makings of an Oscar-baiting biopic (casting Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy will do that), but in the hands of both the actress and Pablo Larraín, the talented Chilean filmmaker whose become one of cinema’s most gifted historical investigators, “Jackie” is something all the more daring and experimental.
Read More: ‘Jackie’ Clip: Natalie Portman Has No Time For Mourning In Ambitious Jackie Kennedy Biopic
Larraín structures the narrative around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine reporter Theodore H. White, which took place just a week after her husband’s assassination. Still in mourning but with no choice but to face the country, Jackie relives pivotal moments from the chaos leading up to and following that fateful day. Peter Sarsgaard,...
Read More: ‘Jackie’ Clip: Natalie Portman Has No Time For Mourning In Ambitious Jackie Kennedy Biopic
Larraín structures the narrative around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine reporter Theodore H. White, which took place just a week after her husband’s assassination. Still in mourning but with no choice but to face the country, Jackie relives pivotal moments from the chaos leading up to and following that fateful day. Peter Sarsgaard,...
- 10/5/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
November 22, 1963. It’s a day long remembered in modern American history as the moment when John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding through Dealey Plaza. A true tragedy that invoked an outpouring of sorrow from across the globe, director Pablo Larraín will be gunning to chronicle that story through a different lens – specifically, through the lens of JFK’s significant other and First Lady, Jackie.
With a worldwide premiere already under its belt thanks to last week’s Venice Film Festival, Jackie is now being prepped for screening at the imminent Toronto International Film Festival and to ramp up excitement, The Film Stage has relayed the first clip for Larraín’s star-studded political drama.
Focusing on the immediate fallout from JFK’s assassination, here we see a sombre Portman sussing out funeral arrangements. Delicate and remarkably graceful, this first peek at Jackie in motion is beautifully shot. Couple this with the subject matter at hand,...
With a worldwide premiere already under its belt thanks to last week’s Venice Film Festival, Jackie is now being prepped for screening at the imminent Toronto International Film Festival and to ramp up excitement, The Film Stage has relayed the first clip for Larraín’s star-studded political drama.
Focusing on the immediate fallout from JFK’s assassination, here we see a sombre Portman sussing out funeral arrangements. Delicate and remarkably graceful, this first peek at Jackie in motion is beautifully shot. Couple this with the subject matter at hand,...
- 9/7/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
“Jackie” may sound like some kind of Oscar-baiting drama on paper (an award-winning actress playing a historical figure in a critical period of her life), but we’ve come to expect the unexpected when it comes to the films of Pablo Larraín. In daring historical dramas like “No,” “The Club” and this year’s Chilean Oscar contender “Neruda,” Larraín has flipped the script on well-publicized events to present ambitiously structured investigations into critical moments of a nation’s history. His first English-langue feature looks to do the same with one of America’s most beloved icons: Jackie Kennedy.
Read More: Natalie Portman’s Kennedy Biopic ‘Jackie’ Swarmed By Cannes Buyers
Starring Natalie Portman in the title role, which by default is bound to bring loads of Oscar buzz, “Jackie” centers on the days following President Kennedy’s assassination. The narrative is framed around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine’s Theodore H. White,...
Read More: Natalie Portman’s Kennedy Biopic ‘Jackie’ Swarmed By Cannes Buyers
Starring Natalie Portman in the title role, which by default is bound to bring loads of Oscar buzz, “Jackie” centers on the days following President Kennedy’s assassination. The narrative is framed around Jackie’s interview with Life magazine’s Theodore H. White,...
- 9/7/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Update: Read our full review here.
When’s the last time a director had three great films in the same year? With the highly recommended The Club arriving in the early months and his drama Neruda being one of Cannes’ best, Pablo Larraín is back with the Natalie Portman-led Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie. It recently premiered at Venice to great acclaim — our review will be coming shortly — and we now have the first clips.
Set in the first four days of her life after the assassination of her husband, and featuring a score by Under the Skin‘s Mica Levi, the first clip finds her getting ready for funeral arrangements, and, sporting an accent, Portman looks to command the screen. Check out the footage, Tiff synopsis, and new images featuring the cast — including Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, and John Hurt — below.
Tiff Synopsis:
The assassination of John F. Kennedy...
When’s the last time a director had three great films in the same year? With the highly recommended The Club arriving in the early months and his drama Neruda being one of Cannes’ best, Pablo Larraín is back with the Natalie Portman-led Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie. It recently premiered at Venice to great acclaim — our review will be coming shortly — and we now have the first clips.
Set in the first four days of her life after the assassination of her husband, and featuring a score by Under the Skin‘s Mica Levi, the first clip finds her getting ready for funeral arrangements, and, sporting an accent, Portman looks to command the screen. Check out the footage, Tiff synopsis, and new images featuring the cast — including Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, and John Hurt — below.
Tiff Synopsis:
The assassination of John F. Kennedy...
- 9/7/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Fox Searchlight has acquired U.S. rights to Jackie, which sees Natalie Portman star as former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. In an otherwise sleepy Toronto market, the deal marks the first significant sale of a finished film. Searchlight will release the historical drama on Dec. 9, giving it a prime awards-season berth. Jackie, directed by Pablo Larraín, takes place in the days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, focusing on Theodore H. White's Life magazine interview with the widow at Hyannis Port. Noah Oppenheim wrote the original script, which won best screenplay at this year’s Venice Film Festival. “Pablo
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- 9/7/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director: Feng Xiaogang. Review: Stan Glick. Back to 1942 (Yi jiu si er), an epic film about a terrible famine that struck China’s Henan province during World War II, will begin its North American theatrical release on Friday, November 30th, 2012 in seven markets: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Washington, D.C., Toronto and Vancouver. The film, which has a 146 minute running time, will be shown in its international version, in Mandarin with English and traditional Chinese subtitles. The famine began in 1942 and lasted until the spring of 1944. Its primary cause was a severe drought, but the situation was made worse by, among other things, locusts, the ongoing war between Japan and China, and the incompetence if not outright corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government. More than 10 million fled the province and approximately 3 million people died. While telling the overall story, the film focuses on two families from Henan,...
- 11/29/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
DVD Playhouse—July 2011
By Allen Gardner
The Music Room (Criterion) Satyajit Ray’s 1958 masterpiece looks at the life of a fallen aristocrat as a metaphor for an India that is not only becoming Westernized, but modernized technologically and culturally beyond recognition. When the beloved music room, where he has hosted lavish concerts in the past, starts falling into disrepair as attendance drops steadily, the man realizes his way of life is vanishing. Stunningly shot in black & white, one of Ray’s finest works. Bonuses: Documentary on Ray from 1984 by Shyam Benegal; Interviews with Ray biographer Andrew Robinson and filmmaker Mira Nair; Excerpt from 1981 roundtable discussion between Ray, critic Michael Ciment, director Claude Sautet. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Beauty And The Beast (Criterion) Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of the classic fairy tale become a beloved classic upon its 1946 release, and hasn’t faded since.
By Allen Gardner
The Music Room (Criterion) Satyajit Ray’s 1958 masterpiece looks at the life of a fallen aristocrat as a metaphor for an India that is not only becoming Westernized, but modernized technologically and culturally beyond recognition. When the beloved music room, where he has hosted lavish concerts in the past, starts falling into disrepair as attendance drops steadily, the man realizes his way of life is vanishing. Stunningly shot in black & white, one of Ray’s finest works. Bonuses: Documentary on Ray from 1984 by Shyam Benegal; Interviews with Ray biographer Andrew Robinson and filmmaker Mira Nair; Excerpt from 1981 roundtable discussion between Ray, critic Michael Ciment, director Claude Sautet. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Beauty And The Beast (Criterion) Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of the classic fairy tale become a beloved classic upon its 1946 release, and hasn’t faded since.
- 7/7/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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