Released in the US and Canada on October 24th, and internationally released on October 30th
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Will we be able to see the times of pop music biographies such as Ray, Walk the Line and more, and Elvis narrow the decades of Starr’s life to two hours? Last year was completely unknown, focusing on the early years of Bob Dylan’s career. And now, Springsteen: Saving Me dramatically portrays an even shorter chapter in the life story of that subject. As Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) plays, Bruce Springsteen is shown to be making one of the 1982 Nebraska albums. He is on the crisis of Superstarm, but he also has a crisis of confidence. His solution: retreat into his bedroom in New Jersey with a four-track recorder and acoustic guitar and tackle a set of songs about blue-collar disappointments. Jeremy Strong’s (Succession) co-star Stephen Graham (adolescent), as Springsteen’s manager, John Landau, plays his fierce father in a black and white flashback in his childhood in the 1950s. “If some fans are hoping to make it the equivalent of the biggest hit package, think about it again.” I’m writing Pete Hammond on the deadline. “Springsteen: Save me from anywhere. I’m on a real deal, a journey into the soul of a wise and deliberately paced artist.”
It was released internationally on October 24th
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Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler was first staged in 1891, but Nia Dacosta (Candyman, The Marvels) updated the classic play in one or more ways. The writer-director moved action to an English mansion in 1954. There, the newly married anti-heroine throws a long, luxurious and increasingly chaotic party. Two other important changes to the text are that the character in the title (played by Tessa Thompson) is now a black woman in a predominantly white environment, and her ex-lovers are now a woman (Nina Hos). But the most important update is that Dacosta has made her adaptation a very stylish and sensual event, as embodied by its leading woman. Watching “smooth” Thompson in the movie is a “devil-like thrill.” Kristy Puchko from Indiewire. “Gorgeous, hot, challenging, this is a drama of love, sex and regret, burning like a whiskey shot.”
It was released on Select US Cinemas on October 22nd, and then internationally released on Prime Video on October 29th
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