A second-straight budget surplus will not come at the expense of cost-of-living relief, the treasurer says. The federal budget on Tuesday will reveal a $9.3 billion surplus for the 2023/24 financial year, the first time the country’s finances will be in the black for consecutive years for almost two decades. Jim Chalmers’ third budget as […]
Trying to capture a life in film – never mind one as complex as that of Amy Winehouse – can be a challenge. When it comes to biographical films, critics often fire from both sides, calling them exploitative or sanitized. It's not for the faint-hearted director. But according to Sam Taylor-Johnson, "There's something about tackling difficult subjects where I just think, come on, let's go!"Taylor-Johnson's film, "Back to Black," a drama about the life and music of British singer Amy Winehouse, was...
The Barbie star, 27, portrayed the role of the iconic late singer, Amy Winehouse , in Sam Taylor-Johnson's latest biopic - which has been slammed by critics as a 'poor piece of filmmaking.'
Back to Black, 2024. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Starring Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville, Juliet Cowan, Bronson Webb, Ansu Kabia, Harley Bird, Michael S. Siegel, Matilda Thorpe, Ryan O’Doherty, Jeff Tunke, Izaak Cainer, Tracey Lushington, Sam Buchanan, Pete Lee-Wilson, Thelma Ruby, Anna Darvas, Spike Fearn, Liv Longborne, Kumbi Mushambi, Therica Wilson-Read, and […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you...
A new movie dramatizes the life and music of British singer Amy Winehouse, the charismatic, multiple-Grammy-winner whose struggles with drugs and alcohol led to her death at the age of 27. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with director Sam Taylor-Johnson about capturing a complex life on film; and with actress Marisa Abela, who describes how she inhabited the role of Winehouse from the inside out.
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It’s hard not to feel jaded by yet another musical biopic. “Ray.” “Rocketman.” “Bohemian Rhapsody.” “Bob Marley: One Love.” “Judy.” “Respect.” That’s a partial list, of course. What we really need is 'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 2.' Along comes “Back to Black,” the tragic tale of Amy Winehouse’s rise and fall, and we greet it with arms tightly folded. Will she hear her song played on the radio for the first time? What about fights with management over her career’s trajectory? “Back to...
As expected, director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s woeful film “Back to Black” doesn’t play as the gripping battle of musical genius vs. personal demons it fancies itself to be.
Since the blockbuster success of the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, a music biopic gold rush has been underway in Hollywood. Some of the resulting films—made as they are with the participation of the artist, or more often their estate—have found room for genuine creative flare (Rocketman, Elvis); more have been uninspired (Respect, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Bob Marley: One Love), the filmmakers undoubtedly straitjacketed by the twofold restriction of the...
Late musician Amy Winehouse is the subject of a new biopic that explores her substance abuse and recording to Back in Black.
The director on her approach to Amy Winehouse's story, why she doesn't read anything about herself in the press, and the franchise she'd love to tackle.