There are two fantastic needle drops that bookend Yorgos Lanthimos's new anthology film Kinds of Kindness. Following two consecutive awards darlings – the Oscar-winning Poor Things and The Favourite – Kinds of Kindness marks Lanthimos's return to the deadpan excursions into cruelty and despair for which he first made his name. Emma Stone's 'exquisite strangeness' on screen Photo shows Emma, …
Kinds of Kindness review: 'Almost unbearable cruelty' in Emma Stone's wacky black comedy Courtesy Cannes Film Festival Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe star in Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos's latest, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Instead, Kinds of Kindness comprises three short films, all set in the present-day US, and all featuring the same …
Willem Dafoe knew the script for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” was different the moment he read it. When Dafoe told an actor friend he would be working with Lanthimos, a master of deadpan absurdity, he was warned: “Oh, God, he’s going to not want you to act at all.” The Greek filmmaker built a name for a sort of anti-acting …
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 …
Emma Stone was front and centre on Tuesday evening as she promoted her latest film at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. The actress was joined by co-stars Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef at a screening of Poor Things, a black comedy based on Alasdair Gray's novel of the same name. Emma Stone was front and centre …
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 …
