Tag: ‘Beguiled’

10 OCT

The 9 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Baby Driver,’ ‘The Beguiled’

This week’s new release slate is thick as hell, and esoteric as usual: two of our favorite movies of the summer, an A+ new documentary on Netflix, unconventional horror on Criterion Blu-ray and Netflix, a long-overdue restoration of an Orson Welles classic, and new disc releases from Jim Henson, Woody Allen, and Garry Marshall. Let’s […]

30 JUN

‘The Beguiled’ Director Sofia Coppola on Making Gothic Drama and Avoiding the Original [Interview]

With The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola has made her first adaptation and remake. The filmmaker’s retelling has little in common with Don Siegel’s 1971 film, though. Coppola was more interested in adapting Thomas P. Cullinan‘s A Painted Veil than remaking Siegel’s movie, which features a drastically different depiction of the all-girls school, led by Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), and […]

14 JUN

Staff Picks: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Crashing,’ The Original ‘Beguiled,’ Selenis Leyva on ‘OITNB’

Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or experience they’ve enjoyed most in the past seven days. Scroll through for our picks below. The 1971 Version ofThe Beguiled  […]