Welcome to The B-Side! Right here we speak about film stars! Not the films that made them well-known or saved them well-known, however the ones that they made in between.
In the present day we gush (and hush) over Gwyneth Paltrow with our previous, current, and future visitor Cory Everett, creator of Cinephile: A Card Sport and the ever-expanding My First Film books!
Our B-Sides in the present day are: Flesh and Bone, Onerous Eight, Hush, and Sliding Doorways. The primary focus revolves round her banner yr of 1998. Paltrow had FIVE movies launched in ‘98, together with Shakespeare in Love, which received her an Oscar.
We speak about her very good SNL opening monologue from 1999 (and her cameo in Ben Affleck’s monologue the following yr), her deep cultural resonance on the time (some credit score her for bringing the colour pink again into trend), the movies she made earlier than and after Emma, and her waning film star period after the yr 2000. Of the practically fifty movies wherein she has appeared, there have been treasured few since 2010 that weren’t Marvel films. There was, in fact, Mortdecai. And, maybe most famously, her life-style firm Goop.
There’s Hush’s notorious take a look at screenings and wig-heavy reshoots (years later, Jessica Lange referred to as the movie “a piece of shit”), Sliding Doorways’ haircuts and soundtrack, and Flesh and Bone’s slow-cooked, well-worn dramatics. Additionally talked about is that incredible Patrick Doyle rating for Nice Expectations, The Movie Stage’s Vacation Present Information, After which there’s Duets and Gwyneth’s hit cowl tune “Cruisin’” with Huey Lewis.
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