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Post by ilovewinona on Nov 9, 2008 10:14:29 GMT -5
In 1996, she rounded out the star-studded cast of Al Pacino's "Looking for Richard", playing Lady Anne in Al Pacino's documentary about performing William Shakespeare's "Richard III"; and she reunited with her "Age of Innocence" co-star and ex-flame Daniel Day-Lewis in an adaptation of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" , Ryder next tested the limits of time, space, and believability, with "Alien Resurrection", in with she aids Sigourney Weaver's reanimated Ripley in battling aliens, and 1998 brought a role as an irresponsible actress in Woody Allen's "Celebrity". ----- That's all of the article. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 2, 2008 6:51:27 GMT -5
And now "Greatish Performances" ----- Winona Ryder in "The Age of Innocence" by Shawn Levy ---------- Poor Winona! With her last hit over four years behind her, she's no doubt heard the cutting whispers: "She was just a teenage wonder," "She's only a pretty face," and, worst, "She could never really act anyway." Well, some of it's true: she was a teenage wonder, and she is a very pretty face. But hey, evidence of her acting talent is ample. ----- More tomorrow ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 3, 2008 9:25:57 GMT -5
Ryder can play impetuous and sincere, lightly comic and drolly baroque, delicate and spirited. She's self-conscious in the way every actor should be, savvy to the contrast between her porcelain features and her cat-quick reactions. She's still the actress under 30 likeliest to dominate the movies: she's got the looks, the versatility, and, yes, the skill. For proof, watch "The Age of Innocence". ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 6, 2008 9:47:43 GMT -5
Martin Scorsese's admittedly suffocationg melodrama of manners is built primarily of tortured dialogues between Michelle Pfeiffer (as a fallen lady) and Daniel Day-Lewis (as a socially proper lawyer) , would-be lovers whose union is continually preempted by Ryder, who plays Pfieffer's cousin and Day-Lewis's fiancee and eventual bride. In the arithmetic of the film, Ryder's character, May, is a socially sanctioned wet blanket who breaks into her man's reveries waving a flag of propriety. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 7, 2008 9:08:58 GMT -5
With a wasp waist and an ear-to-ear smile that borders on the grotesque, May is a symbol of everything precious and stifling in upper-crust New York, a girl born to privilege and cultivated to maitain her station throught marriage, She is, in effect, a decent, chaste, devoted, pretty, blameless, angelic villian. Perhaps this is why some people bridled when Ryder was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, the sole performer in the film to get a nod from the Academy. It looked like just another case of the Supporting Actress prize as Ingenue Award. ----- Rusty
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Post by fansince96 on Dec 7, 2008 10:30:55 GMT -5
hi Rusty..seems to me you know a great deal about our Winona..I'm impressed.. I used to be like you..i even managed to quote the whole line from particular books and magazines.. now..much have been gone out of my mind..
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 8, 2008 7:50:02 GMT -5
hi Rusty..seems to me you know a great deal about our Winona..I'm impressed.. I used to be like you..i even managed to quote the whole line from particular books and magazines.. now..much have been gone out of my mind.. ---------- This topic ---- "About Noni ........ Nice ......." originally started back in December 9, 2003 by a former member, Lia. This topic started with all of our members jumping in and posting quotes by people talking about our lovely Winona. Then December 23, 2003 I started posting parts of articles about Winona, in installments, that I had been printing out with my ink-jet printer since I first got on the internet back in November 1998. I've made sort of a very special personal book collection by doing that. ------ Over the years I've filled six three ring binders full of articles and news update about our lady Winona, which I'm always adding to them when I find more news to print out, and I'm happy to say I still have three more three-ring binders full of articles and stuff about Winona to post to the group for a few years to come. ----- And thanks to you fansince96 I took a trip down memory lane to see the first part of an article I posted to the group and it was December 23, 2003 when I first posted this ---------- David Handleman from "Rolling Stone" magazine, May 18, 1989 ----- " Driving down Wilshire Blvd, Ryder passes a gaggle of elementary schoolers in uniform. "I can't wait until I'm grown up and have kids," she says, rubbing her tummy. "I want little boys. Want to hear the names I'm gonna make them? I like baseball names. Vida Blue Ryder. Cool Papa Ryder. Unless I marry some guy that has a better last name than me." She says she's "worshipped" Dodgers second baseman for years, to the point of writing (Winona Sax) on her school notebook. But the day he went to the Yankees, she says, "I burst into tears. The f*u*c*k*i*n*g Yankees. I would never do that, if I was a Dodger. It's morally reprehensible." (Besides she had already "bettered" her own last name, Horowitz, when the titles were being put on "Lucas". ----------- Rusty ---------------------- Man it was great to read the first installment of my Winona Ryder articles that I've been posting for the last five years and I hope all of our members enjoy learning as much as they can about our lovely Winona Ryder as much as I have from these articles and other items I've posted. ------ Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 12, 2008 4:47:51 GMT -5
Now back to the Movieline article -------- But those complaints make it clear how good Ryder is in "The Age of Innocence". For she creates a young woman who is duplicitous and honest at once, a vibrant emblem of all that is good as bad in her world. Ryder plays May as a calculating vixen wrapped in a sunny skin, feigning innocence so effectively that her beau (and some of the audience) thinks her sweetly shallow. She ingeniously lifts May's facade in little flashes, letting the schemer within only show fleetingly. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 14, 2008 7:26:32 GMT -5
Watch her twist Day-Lewis to her will without ever stepping outside the bounds of decorum, snooping into his secrets with an innocuous air. By discreetly, only now and again, letting the camera catch her with her eyes hooded and her wiles fully deployed. Ryder is extraordinarily good at showing us that May is merely the naif. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 15, 2008 20:06:24 GMT -5
She contrives for May a precise sort of Janus face -- plain and simple as far as her man can see, coy and scheming just outside his ken. May's husband never suspects her -- he even wonders if she's a complete blank. Ryder's doubters are no more apt. Seeing only the dazzling surface of her face, they overlook the calculating skill of her craft. She's young. She's good. And however many "Crucible"'s and "Alien Resurrection"'s she has in her immediate past, she'll be back. ----- That's all of this "The Age of Innocence" article and is the last one from my third three-ring binder. I just thumbed throught my fourth one. It is chockfull of a lot of great articles, interviews, and assorted tidbits about our lovely Winona. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 19, 2008 19:33:02 GMT -5
Now the first article from volume four ----- From 1999 "Review: "Girl Interrupted" -- Committed drama ----- By Reviewer Paul Tatara ----- The good news is that writer-director James Mangold's "Girl Interrupted" is one of the best films of the year. The bad news is that you have to be a hyper-sensitive 17-year-old girl to think so. Based on Susanna Kaysen's account of her late-1960's internment in a mental institution, the film has its heart in the right place while being too superficial to score honest dramatic points. And Mangold, not exactly the smoothest filmmaker on the planet, doesn't know when to stop with the perfect signifiers. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 20, 2008 9:22:37 GMT -5
The soundtrack contains a wealth of classic tunes, everything from Simon and Garfunkel to Van Morrison to The Band. And there's usually a TV in the background, blaring significant news stories and advertisements from the 60's. This barrage ensures that you won't forget where you are: it's easier than having the era naturally bubble up via subtle verbal and visual references. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 23, 2008 9:48:03 GMT -5
One psychiatrist even has a "Bobby Kennedy for President" poster prominently displayed in his front yard. When you start raising posters to establish a time period -- and the campaign sign isn't the only 60's-centric placard in the film -- it's time to ease up on the sledgehammer. Winona Ryder -- who's also an executive co-producer on the film -- plays the heroine, a lonely suicidal teen named Susanna. Ryder is a reliable actress, and she might even turn out to be an exceptional one. It's good to see her on the screen again. But her porcelain skin and doe eyes emit a natural calm that's difficult to spike with self-destructive bile. ----- (My comment) In the nine years since this article was printed Winona has proven to be just that ----- "An exceptional actress" ----- ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 27, 2008 7:19:38 GMT -5
Chain-smoking Susanna is committed to the hospital after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka, an apparent response to her cold-hearted parents. The hospital is full of variously cracked or cracking young women who are meant to open Susanna's eyes to real pain and suffering. Unfortunately, the legitamate misery often takes place in another room, somewhere down the hall. Even calamitous electroshock treatments are talked about rather than shown. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 28, 2008 10:29:41 GMT -5
The clear comparasion here is with Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). Granted "Cuckoo's Nest" is the ultimate anti-authority movie and you can't beat Jack Nicholson's performance as R. P. McMurphy. But that film, like the dazzling Ken Kesey novel that inspired it, establishes clear parameters for its rebellious confrontations. ----- Rusty
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