Chicago – In “Liberal Arts,” the magical new film written and directed by Josh Radnor, characters have conversations that are actually worth listening to about subjects that are actually worth discussing. It reminds viewers of just how flat and perfunctory movie dialogue can become when it only serves to move along the plot.
Radnor stars as Jesse, a 35-year-old New Yorker who returns to his former school, Kenyon College (Radnor’s real-life alma mater), for his beloved professor’s retirement party, and becomes smitten with a 19-year-old sophomore, Zibby (played with beguiling radiance by Elizabeth Olsen). Hollywood Chicago spoke with Radnor about his love of classical music, his conflicting feelings toward Woody Allen and why he enjoys balancing film work with portraying Ted Mosby on “How I Met Your Mother.” Yet perhaps the best questions of all were inspired directly by Radnor’s dialogue.
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Radnor stars as Jesse, a 35-year-old New Yorker who returns to his former school, Kenyon College (Radnor’s real-life alma mater), for his beloved professor’s retirement party, and becomes smitten with a 19-year-old sophomore, Zibby (played with beguiling radiance by Elizabeth Olsen). Hollywood Chicago spoke with Radnor about his love of classical music, his conflicting feelings toward Woody Allen and why he enjoys balancing film work with portraying Ted Mosby on “How I Met Your Mother.” Yet perhaps the best questions of all were inspired directly by Radnor’s dialogue.
HollywoodChicago.com: The script for your your first film,...
- 9/17/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Jane Fonda portraying an aging hippie seems like a slam dunk. She was a 1960s hippie at one time, right? Well, it’s obvious she wasn’t the type of hippie personified in “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding,” co-starring Catherine Keener and Elizabeth Olsen. Nobody was that type of of hippie.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Taking the route of clichés over character or substance, “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding” is a fable of a survivor from the 1960s era that could be argued as taking place in a parallel universe, or is written (by Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert) through people who didn’t experience what that era meant, but this is what they hoped a hippie character would be like. Set in Woodstock, New York (naturally), the narrative plods through a series of groovy references, strung together like mismatched love beads, but signifying stereotypical laziness and producing boredom.
Diane (Catherine Keener) is an uptight lawyer...
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Taking the route of clichés over character or substance, “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding” is a fable of a survivor from the 1960s era that could be argued as taking place in a parallel universe, or is written (by Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert) through people who didn’t experience what that era meant, but this is what they hoped a hippie character would be like. Set in Woodstock, New York (naturally), the narrative plods through a series of groovy references, strung together like mismatched love beads, but signifying stereotypical laziness and producing boredom.
Diane (Catherine Keener) is an uptight lawyer...
- 6/9/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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