Tim Jackson Web
  • Home
  • Actor
  • DIRECTOR
  • FILM
  • Drums
  • Photo
  • Blog
  • Misc
  • Videos
  • CV
  • Eight Days a Week: The Beatles on Tour
  • Sully
  • Christine
  • Loving
  • Blog
  • BLACK FILM 2016
  • BESTS OF 2016
  • 20th Century Women
  • SOME BANDS
  • Photograph
  • THE ASSISTANT
  • EMMA
  • First Cow
  • Video Essays
  • Tommaso
  • Driveways
  • Boston Films
  • Painted Bird
  • HELMUT NEWTON
  • Capital
  • Roy Cohn
  • Roger Stone
  • Lee Atwater
  • Herzog
  • Humankind
  • MISC.
  • BOOKS
  • Theater
  • Hitchcock Acting
  • Best of 2019
  • Best 2018
  • Best 2017
  • Best 2016
  • Best 2015
  • Best 2014
  • BEST 2013

Christine

11/10/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture

We already know the story: in 1974, Christine Chubbuck, an aspiring TV newscaster in Sarasota, Florida, took her life while on the air. The explanation given was that she was suffering from depression. Antonio Campos’ film takes a dark look at what made an idealistic journalist end her life in such an extreme and public way. It’s a narrative that, at least on the surface, speaks to the ambitions of professional women as well as the skewed priorities of broadcast news, to the point of touching on how, for some, media has come to serve as a means of existential affirmation. (Allegedly, Paddy Chayefsky’s classic script for Network was inspired by this incident.) In addition, at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge on November 4, there will be the area premiere of Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine, which comes up with an interesting twist on the story. The film follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares to play the role of Christine Chubbuck. She slowly becomes obsessed with the part.
Campos’ film, from a script by Craig Shilowich, is less interested in serving up a moral lesson or providing sociological analysis than generating sympathy. Like Afterschool (2008) and Simon Killer(2012) e. Christine’s hapless efforts to be assigned meaningful, socially . . . READ MORE !!
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    November 2020
    October 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    January 2020
    September 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    March 2019
    September 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    March 2013
    March 2012

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.