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Critic-O-Meter (Free subscription) | yesterday
GRADE: B+ Photo: Sarah Krulwich By Tennessee Williams. Directed by Liv Ullman(!), At BAM Through December 20th After a three year absence, Cate Blanchett has returned with yet another outsized performance in a revival of a shopworn classic. Last time, it was Hedda, this time, it's Blanche. Even those critics who don't particularly care for the production (Zacharek, McNulty and Vincentelli) have nothing...
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New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Liv Ullmann brings a northern severity to A Streetcar Named Desire.
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The Playgoer (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
-Cate Blanchett arrives in New York this weekend play Blanche DuBois at BAM in a trouring production from her company in Australia. NY Mag has an interview with her and director Liv Ullmann(!) -Everyone wants in on some summer Fringe action! Even London now, as if Edinburgh, the ur-Fringe, wasn't enough for the UK. -In the Voice, Alexis Soloski asks the question that everyone in downtown NY wonders...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Want to see the hot new revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire?” You’re too late.The entire 24-day run of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Liv Ullmann–directed production of the Tennessee Williams classic — starring Cate Blanchett — is sold out.Plenty of th...
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Lylee's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
NOTE: I've finally posted reviews of "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Bright Star" . I also saw "An Education" yesterday, but am letting it jell a bit before I write the review. The other night, I saw Cate Blanchett play Blanche DuBois at the Kennedy Center in D.C. She’s the marquee name in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire staged by the Sydney Theatre...
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Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Two of these stars below are tied for suffering the most Oscar snubs among actresses: six defeats, no wins. Can you name them? To see the answer, click the "Continue Reading" link underneath the photos. ANSWER: Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter. Oscarless Rosalind Russell and Barbara Stanwyck lost four times each, Liv Ullmann twice. Two male stars lost more times than all of these women: Peter...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"With mild exasperation, Mr. Allen said, 'This has been documented a million times.' He and Bergman, he said, 'have met, we've had dinner, we've spoken on the phone. I've had dinner with him, with Liv Ullmann …" Is it true that, throughout that dinner, the men never spoke?...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
If Cate Blanchett's nerve-shattering turn as Blanche DuBois doesn't knock the wind out of you, then there is nothing on a stage that can blow you away. What Blanchett achieves in the Sydney Theatre Company's revelatory revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" amounts to a truly great portrayal --...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Liv Ullmann: "We sat down at the table [in Bergman's New York hotel suite] - and this is the honest to God truth, Ingrid was sitting there, I was sitting there, Ingmar there, and Woody Allen there - and they did not talk. They just looked at each other, almost lovingly."...
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The Wicked Stage (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
It was almost a romantic moment, according to Liv Ullmann: Ingmar opened the door and said welcome. That’s all he said. And the two of them looked at each other. Two geniuses met. We sat down at the table — and this is the honest to God truth, Ingrid was sitting there, I was sitting there, Ingmar there, and Woody Allen there — and they did not talk. They just looked at each other,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The director's estate on Fårö has been bought by a Norwegian inventor and will be turned into an artists' retreat A Norwegian inventor and archaeologist has acquired Ingmar Bergman's home and will turn it into an artists' retreat, to the relief of campaigners who had been fighting for just such a project. Hans Gude Gudesen, who made his fortune in IT, paid an undisclosed sum for the property,...
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No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in Klute Sometimes I think I wanted to be a director because I love working with genuinely talented actors and actresses -- such is the respect, awe, and sheer love that I feel when collaborating...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
It's the moment nosy Norwegian neighbors have been waiting for: the release of official records showing the annual income and overall wealth of nearly every taxpayer in the Scandinavian country.
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