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Sleep No More closing: How Punchdrunk’s show changed theater in New York, for better and for worse.
7 months ago

Sleep No More closing: How Punchdrunk’s show changed theater in New York, for better and for worse.

Slate  

I was 22 the first time I went to the McKittrick Hotel. Every line of Macbeth, Punchdrunk’s leadership was fond of saying, could be found somewhere in the McKittrick: translated into a flock of dead birds in the Macduffs’ apartments, a hidden letter in an antique drawer, a secret room in the asylum where Lady Macbeth performs, wordlessly, a version …

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Revisiting Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1 year, 7 months ago

Revisiting Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Hindustan Times  

Rebecca’s melancholic opening line establishes the setting, locale, and atmosphere of the gothic classic, which was published in 1938 and has never been out of print. In The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, her last work that was published in 1981, du Maurier recalled Rebecca’s gestation: “Seeds began to drop. A whirlwind courtship ensues which ends in a most unromantic …

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Rebecca movie review: Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance gets a glossy makeover from Ben Wheatley, Netflix
4 years, 2 months ago

Rebecca movie review: Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance gets a glossy makeover from Ben Wheatley, Netflix

Firstpost  

Language: English “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. Just like the memory of Rebecca haunts the new Mrs de Winter, the legacy of the Alfred Hitchcock classic haunts the new adaptation. Just as Mrs Danvers undermines the new Mrs de Winter, the critics among us will judge Wheatley’s take to be far …

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How Faithful Is the New Rebecca Movie to the Book by Daphne du Maurier?
55 years ago

How Faithful Is the New Rebecca Movie to the Book by Daphne du Maurier?

Slate  

The newest adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca, which arrives on Netflix on Wednesday, follows the book’s unnamed female narrator—identified in the movie credits only as Mrs. de Winter, her married name—as she meets and weds a wealthy widower in Monte Carlo. Maxim de Winter In the film, the male romantic lead is played by Armie Hammer, who’s …

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Where Netflix’s ‘Rebecca’ found its Manderley
4 years, 2 months ago

Where Netflix’s ‘Rebecca’ found its Manderley

LA Times  

Wayne Manor, Windsor Castle, Croft Manor and now Manderley. In recent years, Hatfield has played host to three to four major Hollywood productions every year alongside smaller shoots — such as the Jonas Brothers’ recent music video for “Sucker.” Last summer, Ben Wheatley’s new adaptation of “Rebecca” — now streaming on Netflix — used Hatfield as one of several stately …

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Netflix’s New Rebecca Misses What Made Its Predecessors Great
4 years, 2 months ago

Netflix’s New Rebecca Misses What Made Its Predecessors Great

Slate  

To read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is to succumb to a series of moods. Ben Wheatley’s new film adaptation of du Maurier’s novel is a bit of a second Mrs. de Winter. There, the second Mrs. de Winter quickly becomes obsessed with the first Mrs. de Winter, the Rebecca of the novel’s title. Like du Maurier’s narrator, Wheatley’s film also …

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Rebecca review: ‘A pallid adaptation’
4 years, 2 months ago

Rebecca review: ‘A pallid adaptation’

BBC  

Rebecca review: ‘A pallid adaptation’ Kerry Brown / Netflix The latest adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is “bland”, argues Caryn James, who writes that this film “feels as if someone at Downton Abbey were having a bad day”. The second Mrs de Winter becomes the ill-prepared mistress of Maxim’s great estate of Manderley, where her timidity is no match …

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Rebecca trailer: Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas come face to face at Manderley in Netflix adaptation
4 years, 4 months ago

Rebecca trailer: Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas come face to face at Manderley in Netflix adaptation

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. Lily James stars as a young woman who falls in love …

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Revisiting Manderley on Rebecca's 80th anniversary: Shadows, suspense and subtext in Hitchcock's gothic thriller
4 years, 8 months ago

Revisiting Manderley on Rebecca's 80th anniversary: Shadows, suspense and subtext in Hitchcock's gothic thriller

Firstpost  

When Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca hit cinemas in the US on 12 April 1940, large sections of the audience were already familiar with its source material. Rebecca’s spectre haunts Manderley and everyone in it, from Maxim to the housekeeper Mrs Danvers. Mrs Danvers even leads a game of manipulation to make the new Mrs de Winter feel like an intruder in …

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