Mark Ruffalo on Poor Things' raunchy sex scenes: 'It's shaking off cultural oppression'
1 year ago

Mark Ruffalo on Poor Things' raunchy sex scenes: 'It's shaking off cultural oppression'

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Mark Ruffalo on Poor Things' raunchy sex scenes: 'It's shaking off cultural oppression' Atsushi Nishijima Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe star in Yorgos Lanthimos's Oscar-tipped Victorian fantasy, Poor Things, which has drawn attention for its nudity and sex scenes – but are they what they seem? The stars of Poor Things on sex, nudity and 'prudishness' "I think it’s gotten very… a little bit prudish, and like a new Victorian age, in a sense," Mark Ruffalo tells the BBC. While Ann Hornaday writes in The Washington Post that the film enters "ambiguous territory" with Emma Stone's sex scenes: "As thoroughly committed as Stone is to the bit, there are moments when viewers might wonder for whose benefit she’s baring it all so bravely. And the inimitable Bella Baxter is undoubtedly a role that Emma Stone relished taking on: "My God, she's the greatest character I'll probably ever get to play," she told the New York Times.

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Poor Things review: An absolute masterpiece
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Poor Things review: An absolute masterpiece

Live Mint  

God is a monster. This is but one way in which Poor Things—the Oscar-winning film by Yorgos Lanthimos, streaming now on Disney+ Hotstar—understands Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. The idea of men taking advantage of a woman who literally has the brain of a child is rightfully sickening, but Lanthimos shows us Poor Things through the eye of Bella, and the …

Where to watch Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning performance in Poor Things
9 months, 1 week ago

Where to watch Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning performance in Poor Things

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy While Oppenheimer was the biggest winner at this year’s Oscars, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor …

Emma Stone’s Poor Things understands that nothing scares men like a sexually liberated woman
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Emma Stone’s Poor Things understands that nothing scares men like a sexually liberated woman

The Independent  

The monster’s the star in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, a horror movie of sorts that thumbs its nose at convention and won’t stay in its lane. So, Poor Things isn’t just a revisionist horror movie. Secondly, because it oversimplifies Poor Things’ sexual politics, which are tangled and ambivalent, conditioned by a hundred years of monster movies. open image in gallery …

Oscars 2024: Poor Things starring Emma Stone deserves to win Best Picture
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Oscars 2024: Poor Things starring Emma Stone deserves to win Best Picture

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They combine power and big “taking-up-space” energy with an unapologetic femininity …

Tony McNamara wrote the witty and sometimes vulgar script for Poor Things. Now the Australian is up for an Oscar
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Tony McNamara wrote the witty and sometimes vulgar script for Poor Things. Now the Australian is up for an Oscar

ABC  

Australian screenwriter Tony McNamara loves Poor Things, but he didn't think millions of other people would too. Poor Things marks the writer's second collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, following 2018's The Favourite – an ultra-dark comedy about an 18th-century love triangle between Queen Anne and two cousins, which saw Olivia Colman take Best Actress at the 2019 Oscars. Adapted from …

Sexual silence: Experts discuss the reality of "Poor Things'" most horrifying scene
10 months ago

Sexual silence: Experts discuss the reality of "Poor Things'" most horrifying scene

Salon  

“Do you want just clitoral hood or glans as well?” “The whole infernal packet.” This gynecological checklist is the focal point of an exchange between Alfie Blessington, the estranged husband of Bella Baxter and a doctor in “Poor Things,” the latest film from director Yorgos Lanthimos. “The common thread no matter what century you're talking about, no matter what context,” …

Poor Things review: Emma Stone has never been bolder than in this oddball farce
10 months, 1 week ago

Poor Things review: Emma Stone has never been bolder than in this oddball farce

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There is a lot of “furious jumping” …

Poor Things to premiere on OTT and Blu-ray/DVD with deleted scenes: Release dates and where to watch
10 months, 1 week ago

Poor Things to premiere on OTT and Blu-ray/DVD with deleted scenes: Release dates and where to watch

Hindustan Times  

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar-nominated Poor Things will be available to purchase/rent on Prime Video and Apple TV+ on February 27. Poor Things is set to compete for 11 Academy Awards IMDb says of the storyline, “From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by …

How 'Poor Things' actor Emma Stone turns her anxiety into a 'superpower'
10 months, 3 weeks ago

How 'Poor Things' actor Emma Stone turns her anxiety into a 'superpower'

NPR  

How 'Poor Things' actor Emma Stone turns her anxiety into a 'superpower' Enlarge this image toggle caption Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures Poor Things actor Emma Stone was 7 years old when she experienced her first panic attack: "I was at a friend's house, and all of a sudden I was just sitting in her room, and I had …

Emma Stone Has Never Been Funnier (or Sexier) Than in Poor Things
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Emma Stone Has Never Been Funnier (or Sexier) Than in Poor Things

Slate  

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. But Keoghan’s cannily underacted performance lends the story a moral complexity the script itself never quite earns, and though the final twist is bad—it’s predictable, overexplained by the Keoghan character’s here’s-how-I-did-it framing monologue, and way …

Emma Stone on her latest film: 'Poor Things' inspires curiosity
1 year ago

Emma Stone on her latest film: 'Poor Things' inspires curiosity

The Hindu  

Oscar-winner Emma Stone says her sex-charged gothic comedy-drama "Poor Things" is a lesson in embracing change and diversity. "The way she takes in all aspects of life and humanity, how fascinating she finds the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, it was very inspiring to me," said Stone as she premiered the film at London's Barbican Centre …

Behind the sumptuous, monstrous craft of ‘Poor Things’
1 year ago

Behind the sumptuous, monstrous craft of ‘Poor Things’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — “Poor Things” is a Frankenstein-esque fantasia about a young woman reanimated by a demented surgeon, but the behind-the-scenes work that went into crafting the movie’s wildly warped world may be the film’s greatest act of mad science. “Poor Things,” based on Scottish novelist Alasdair Gray’s 1992 book, conjures an elaborately demented world as seen through the childlike …

'Poor Things' review: A Stone-cold triumph
1 year ago

'Poor Things' review: A Stone-cold triumph

LA Times  

There comes a moment when “Poor Things,” a gloriously bonkers fairy tale from the director Yorgos Lanthimos, explodes from black-and-white into wild, ecstatic color. The abrupt shift in visual palette naturally evokes “The Wizard of Oz,” even if the circumstances decidedly do not: Think of it as the R-rated art-house equivalent of Dorothy opening the door to Oz for the …

Emma Stone receives praise for ‘fearless’ sex scenes in Poor Things
1 year, 3 months ago

Emma Stone receives praise for ‘fearless’ sex scenes in Poor Things

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Emma Stone has been praised for her …

Venice Film Festival | Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’ gets 10-minute standing ovation
1 year, 3 months ago

Venice Film Festival | Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’ gets 10-minute standing ovation

The Hindu  

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Frankensteinian black comedy Poor Things screened to an encouraging response at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. According to a report in Deadline.com, the film received a 10-minute-plus standing ovation after the screening amid chants of ‘Yorgos, Yorgos’. However, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo - the stars of Poor Things - could not be in attendance …

Poor Things: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film receives ‘applause’ and is hailed ‘best of the year’ at Venice Film Festival
1 year, 3 months ago

Poor Things: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film receives ‘applause’ and is hailed ‘best of the year’ at Venice Film Festival

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film has received huge …

‘Poor Things’ teaser trailer: Willem Dafoe resurrects Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’ next feature
1 year, 7 months ago

‘Poor Things’ teaser trailer: Willem Dafoe resurrects Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’ next feature

The Hindu  

The teaser of filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming feature Poor Things was released by Searchlight Pictures today. Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, and Christopher Abbott headline the film. In the short teaser, however, it doesn’t seem like the Victorian era but more like an alternate world that has come alive through Lanthimos’ much-revered, fascinating imagination. Poor …

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