On The Picture Show this week:
Director Richard LaGravenese, best known as the writer of The Fisher King joins The Picture Show tonight to discuss the musical The Last Five Years, which he recently directed.
The Last Five Years is an adaptation of the 2002 off-Broadway musical by Tony-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown.
Tonight, LaGravenese talks about how he wanted to keep the musical in its original form and to make a movie that was “outside the system” and “Independent of Hollywood”.
LaGravenese also chats about working with “great directors” such as Gilliam and Soderbergh and tells Phillip that after a twenty-six year career he wants to “take a breath” in order to think about what it is he really wants to write.
The Last Five Years chronicles a relationship that takes place over a five year period. Jeremy Jordan (Jamie) plays a young and talented novelist who falls in love with Cathy (Anna Kendrick) a struggling actress. Most of the film's story is told through song, with little dialogue. All of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backward in time to the beginning of their love affair, while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They meet in the center when Jamie proposes.
(Cert:PG13)
Also coming up:
Carol Morley, an English film director, screenwriter and producer talks about the inspiration behind new movie The Falling on tonight’s show.
Morley who is best known for her semi-documentary Dreams of Life released in 2011 says that The Falling “felt like such a great opportunity to explore female adolescence” and to look at “the discomfort” young women experience with their identities at that point in their lives.
The movie is set in a girls' school in the British countryside in 1969 and stars Maisie Williams, best known as Arya Stark from "Game Of Thrones” and Florence Pugh as best friends. The film explores a mysterious fainting outbreak that results after a tragedy occurs at the strict school.
(Cert: 16)
The Picture Show, tonight at 6pm, on Newstalk 106-108 FM.
