The filmmaker will tackle the production of an original story centered on Frank Bullitt, the emblematic character played by Steve McQueen in the 1968 thriller, shot by Peter Yates. Honest, stubborn in his search for the truth, anti-conformist… Frank Bullitt played brilliantly by Steve McQueen in the thriller Bullitt, filmed by Peter Yates in 1968, […]
The releases of blockbusters at a frantic pace, the difficult recovery following the pandemic and competition from series could, according to the 49-year-old actor, dig the grave in the seventh art. Scream , Matrix , Where Spiderman: No Way Home . This winter is loaded with remakes or sequels to decades-old saga. A trend that […]
The Puerto Rican actress, already Oscar winner in 1962 for her role of Anita in the film by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, is strongly approached to receive again the supreme Hollywood award. Spontaneously Rita Moreno confessed to her daughter, “qwhat a sacred life I have had!», When she saw for the first time, the […]
In the ban of Hollywood, the organization plays its reputation of maker of kings on the road to the Oscars. His choices confirm in any case the esteem given to the western of Jane Campion and the childhood memories of Kenneth Branagh. Will the lucky ones named uncork the champagne or, on the contrary, will […]
At the North American box office, the remake of the musical rises to the top, but with only 10.5 million receipts. The bet was daring. By revisiting the West Side Story at the Ten Oscars of Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961), Steven Spielberg knew he was taking risks. Risks which are confirmed by reading […]
REPORTING – The new adaptation of the musical by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents was filmed between New York and New Jersey, with part in studios. Le Figaro crossed the Atlantic to visit the real settings. From our special correspondent in New York Turn the mythical prologue of West Side Story in the […]
In the new version of the 1961 film, actresses Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose breathe a breath of freshness and diversity into the most American of musicals. It is the dream of any new actress: to be chosen by Steven Spielberg himself from among 30,000 candidates for a leading role which opens the doors to […]
CRITICAL – Almost sixty years after Robert Wise’s film, Steven Spielberg offers a new version. Without changing anything and less well. All that for this? So Steven Spielberg is a man of his word. We can’t blame him for that. He had sworn to himself that one day he would turn his West Side Story […]
The adaptation of the famous musical by Spielberg, the fourth part of the comic saga carried by Jean-Paul Rouve, a spy melody against a backdrop of World War II … Discover the cinema selection of the Figaro. The sacrificed lovers, a drama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa: must see Through the story of a couple in the […]
The Steven Spielberg remake of the most legendary musical comedy falls under censorship in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. West Side Story is one of the most anticipated releases of this end of the year. Sixty years after the original, director Steven Spielberg presents his adaptation of the legendary film by Robert Wise, […]