Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story: Difference between revisions
| Line 28: | Line 28: | ||
==Critical reception== |
==Critical reception== |
||
The film has won many awards since being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival including NYT Critic's Pick and 5 audience awards. It has been named, "One of the ten best films of the year" by Artforum and "a thoroughly engaging, eye-opening showbiz doc" by the Hollywood Reporter. |
|||
[[Manohla Dargis]] writing in the [[New York Times]] says of the film ..."Directed by Alexandra Dean, “Bombshell” is a very enjoyable addition to what has become a minor Hedy Lamarr industry that includes documentaries, books and stage productions. Like some of these other accounts, this documentary traces the arcs of Lamarr’s personal and professional lives, which by turns harmoniously converged and wildly veered in opposite directions. Whatever happened, it was rarely dull. The daughter of assimilated Jews, she married a munitions magnate who came with a castle and did business with [[Mussolini]]. When she decided to ditch her husband, she staged (or so she claimed) an escape that turned her into the heroine of her own thrilling adventure"....<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/movies/bombshell-the-hedy-lamarr-story-review-.html?module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Movies&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article</ref> |
[[Manohla Dargis]] writing in the [[New York Times]] says of the film ..."Directed by Alexandra Dean, “Bombshell” is a very enjoyable addition to what has become a minor Hedy Lamarr industry that includes documentaries, books and stage productions. Like some of these other accounts, this documentary traces the arcs of Lamarr’s personal and professional lives, which by turns harmoniously converged and wildly veered in opposite directions. Whatever happened, it was rarely dull. The daughter of assimilated Jews, she married a munitions magnate who came with a castle and did business with [[Mussolini]]. When she decided to ditch her husband, she staged (or so she claimed) an escape that turned her into the heroine of her own thrilling adventure"....<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/movies/bombshell-the-hedy-lamarr-story-review-.html?module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Movies&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article</ref> |
||
Revision as of 23:29, 11 December 2017
| Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alexandra Dean |
| Written by | Alexandra Dean |
| Produced by | Susan Sarandon Michael Kantor Adam Haggiag |
Release date |
|
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,500,000 (estimate) |
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story is a 2017 Amercan documentary about the life of the actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 - 2000).[1] The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017, and will be broadcast on American Masters in 2018.[2]
Synopsis
The film follows the life story of Lamar from her youth as the daughter of assimilated Austrian Jews through her rise to fame, the Nazi onslaught, her departure for the United States, six marriages, her acting career, her landmark invention, decline, shoplifting and plastic surgery adventures and finally her death at the age of 85 in 2000. However the focus of the biopic is her co-creation with George Antheil of the technology of frequency hopping which has since been employed by the military and in cell phones, GPS and blue tooth.[3]
Critical reception
The film has won many awards since being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival including NYT Critic's Pick and 5 audience awards. It has been named, "One of the ten best films of the year" by Artforum and "a thoroughly engaging, eye-opening showbiz doc" by the Hollywood Reporter.
Manohla Dargis writing in the New York Times says of the film ..."Directed by Alexandra Dean, “Bombshell” is a very enjoyable addition to what has become a minor Hedy Lamarr industry that includes documentaries, books and stage productions. Like some of these other accounts, this documentary traces the arcs of Lamarr’s personal and professional lives, which by turns harmoniously converged and wildly veered in opposite directions. Whatever happened, it was rarely dull. The daughter of assimilated Jews, she married a munitions magnate who came with a castle and did business with Mussolini. When she decided to ditch her husband, she staged (or so she claimed) an escape that turned her into the heroine of her own thrilling adventure"....[4]
In their review of the movie, The Hollywood Reporter states .."first-time director Dean does an excellent job of marshalling old source material, setting the scene for an account of Lamarr's life on- and off-screen"....[5]
References
- ^ https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/bombshellthehedylamarrstory
- ^ Epstein, Sonia (7 December 2017). "World Premiere of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story". Sloan Science & Film.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bombshell_the_hedy_lamarr_story/
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/movies/bombshell-the-hedy-lamarr-story-review-.html?module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Movies&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article
- ^ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/bombshell-hedy-lamarr-story-997292