The title character in “Blue Jasmine” should be awful, but Cate Blanchett gives her a sad, wounded nobility. Jasmine is gradually losing her grip in a movie that could also be titled “A Streetcar ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Sony Pictures Classics has released the first ...
What are we to make of Woody Allen in 2013? Since at least the mid-70s the poster-boy for neurotic cinema has been steadily ploughing his own cinematic furrow, releasing films that aren’t comfortable ...
In a way, "Blue Jasmine" is a perfect encapsulation of Woody Allen's filmmaking career. Both are largely uneven creatures -- with as many elements to like about them as to dislike -- but they demand ...
Cate Blanchett saunters through Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” like a nervous pearl. Dressed in soft, pale colors, hair and skin expensively glowing, she’s Jasmine French (born Jeanette), a woman ...
She’s come undone. The title of one of my favorite Wally Lamb novels about a woman over the edge kept running through my mind as I watched Woody Allen’s new film “Blue Jasmine.” There’s just no better ...
Reportedly inspired by a story Allen heard from his wife about a friend of a friend who endured a Ruth Madoff-esque experience, “Blue Jasmine” is very much a chronicle of a 1-Percenter’s shattering ...
Though the movie may be currently overshadowed by decades old events that have no bearing on the film itself, Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine is one of his stronger late-period films, with a brilliant ...
LOS ANGELES — She’s come undone. The title of one of my favourite Wally Lamb novels about a woman over the edge kept running through my mind as I watched Woody Allen’s new film Blue Jasmine. There’s ...
Mental Illness is something we now think of as a product of brain chemistry, not personality. But have we tilted almost too far in that direction? Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s powerful and enthralling ...
The new movie, Blue Jasmine, has been so wildly embraced by critics, while being so replete with its writer-director’s worst tendencies, that it provides the best example in years of Woody Allen’s ...