Category: Natalie Portman

My 2025 Personal Film Festival, Part 3 and Conclusion

For Parts 1 and 2 of this series, please see here and here. Just to reiterate, I am not a film critic in the traditional sense, merely an autodidactic lover of film and film history who curated his own, somewhat random, film festival over the first four months of 2025. It began when my wife … Continue reading My 2025 Personal Film Festival, Part 3 and Conclusion →

Matt Berger 1980s Teen Films, Alan Moore, All About Eve, Almost Famous, Anne Baxter, Anomalisa, Anthony Edwards, Atheism, Before Sunrise, Blank City, Cameron Crowe, Charlie Kaufman, Dashiell Hammett, David Lynch, David Thewlis, Dazed and Confused, Denis Villeneuve, Don't Say a Word, Enemy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Film, Hammett, HistoryBuffs, Hugo Weaving, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Interrogating Memory, Jake Gyllenhall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jim Jarmusch, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Liquid Sky, Martin Scorsese, Miracle Mile, Morgan Richter, My life, Nastassja Kinski, Natalie Portman, Paris Texas, Philadelphia, Prisoners, Punk, Richard Linklater, Slacker, Smithereens, Surrealism, Susan Seidelman, Taxi Driver, The Shadow, The Sixth Sense, The Sure Thing, Toni Collette, V For Vendetta, Wavelength, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen 1 Comment May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 16 Minutes

Fact and Fiction in Relationship Portrayals: BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Meets My Romantic History

The indispensable Internet Movie Database (“IMDb”) informs me the underrated romantic dramedy Beautiful Girls debuted in American movie theaters on February 9, 1996. However, I did not see it until sometime in the last decade or so. I enjoyed it, especially the bravura performance by then-14-year-old Natalie Portman. Her portrayal of Willie Conway’s (Timothy Hutton) … Continue reading Fact and Fiction in Relationship Portrayals: BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Meets My Romantic History →