BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN: REVOLUTIONARY ROAD - A Post-Viewing Open Letter to Sam Mendes (flag)

www.hammertonail.com — (NOTE: Revolutionary Road is Michael Tully’s Favorite Book Ever. The opinions expressed herein are fiercely personal and do not reflect the attitudes of Hammer to Nail at large.) Dear Mr. Mendes, Where, oh where, should I begin? How about here: You castrated Revolutionary Road. You did ...

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Links for the Day (December 22nd, 2008)
The House Next Door — ... trendspotting? The result of a corrosion of older (perhaps outdated) values, without new ones to replace them? I'm not sure. Perhaps all of these factors combined to create a cultural establishment which resembled an ostrich whose head was buried deep in the post-9/11 ash."] *** 5. Peter Suderman and Michael Tully take a few year-enders down a peg: Suderman on Slumdog Millionaire; Tully on Revolutionary Road. ["There are times when it's embarrassing to be a ...

Revolutionary Road Review
SpoutBlog — Being that it’s at once an embarrassing failure and an unignorable success, it’s a bit of a shock that Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road has thus far been received with fewer vitriolic open letters and impassioned defenses than shrugs of measured praise. Certainly the best work Mendes has ever produced for the screen, Revolutionary Road works (on the level that it does work) as a showcase for performances: big stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are probably at the top of their game, a star-making ...