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Anne Hathaway Almost Quit Mother Mary After Seeing Her Performance
entertainment4 days ago

Anne Hathaway Almost Quit Mother Mary After Seeing Her Performance

Anne Hathaway almost quit the A24 musical Mother Mary after seeing footage of herself performing the film’s original songs, doubting she could entice audiences; she decided to stay, noting there would be no shame in being fired but a bigger one in quitting. She then spent months taking dance lessons and a year refining her vocals, even returning to the studio to re-record much of her part with Jack Antonoff. The film, directed by David Lowery, centers a pop star’s comeback and recently premiered.

via Deadline|
#a24#anne-hathaway#david-lowery
Behind the Pop-Star Horror: Making of Mother Mary
entertainment1 month ago

Behind the Pop-Star Horror: Making of Mother Mary

David Lowery explains how Mother Mary started from a late-night idea inspired by a haunted hotel, casting Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, training Hathaway for a world-tour–style performance, and collaborating with Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff on the soundtrack; bespoke costumes by Bina Daigeler and Iris van Herpen shape the pop-star visuals, while a practical, fabric-driven Red Woman ghost and stadium shoots fuse fashion, music and personal themes into a distinctive, personal film.

via Rolling Stone|
#anne-hathaway#david-lowery#entertainment
Crafting a New Pop Diva: How Anne Hathaway Becomes Mother Mary
entertainment1 month ago

Crafting a New Pop Diva: How Anne Hathaway Becomes Mother Mary

Variety reveals how director David Lowery and a team of artisans—choreographer Dani Vitale, DP Rina Yang, and costume designer Bina Daigeler—built Anne Hathaway’s fictional pop star Mother Mary, from months of artist development and hours of rehearsal to elaborate on-stage costumes and halo-inspired visuals, drawing inspiration from pop icons like Gaga and Swift while filming a largely practical, arena-like concert experience with minimal visual effects.

via Variety|
#anne-hathaway#bina-daigeler#dani-vitale
Mother Mary: A Hypnotic Dive Into Fame That Stumbles on Its Mood
entertainment1 month ago

Mother Mary: A Hypnotic Dive Into Fame That Stumbles on Its Mood

Tom Breihan’s review sees Mother Mary as a lush but ponderous arthouse piece anchored by a near-supernatural, memorable dance moment from Hathaway; while the visuals and performances shine, the film’s dense ideas about pop stardom feel overwrought and it mostly plays as a moody two-hander that lacks grounding in real-world music culture, making it a stylish but uneven experience that may reward future rewatchings more than initial viewing.

via Stereogum|
#anne-hathaway#david-lowery#entertainment
Pop-Seance on a Barn Stage: Hathaway and Coel Recast Comeback Drama
entertainment1 month ago

Pop-Seance on a Barn Stage: Hathaway and Coel Recast Comeback Drama

David Lowery’s Mother Mary is a hypnotic, boundary-blurring pop drama featuring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel. Set largely in a remote barn, it threads a tense reunion between two former collaborators as they stage a comeback dress and new single, using the spectacle of performance to probe memory, friendship, and art’s healing power. The film blends a seance-like metaphor with stylistic shifts—from Bergman-esque introspection to Fosse-inspired bravura—resulting in a singular meditation on how pop stardom can both wound and redeem.

via IndieWire|
#anne-hathaway#david-lowery#entertainment
Mixed Reviews for Disney's 'Peter Pan & Wendy' Remake
movies3 years ago

Mixed Reviews for Disney's 'Peter Pan & Wendy' Remake

David Lowery's version of "Peter Pan & Wendy" is a humanizing interpretation of J.M. Barrie's classic tale that speaks more to the inner child of jaded adults than to actual kids. The film grounds the fundamental wistfulness of the original story with empathetic backstories and takes care to remedy the original's overt racism and latent sexism. Lowery and his co-writer Toby Halbrooks have created a fairytale of the present and for the future, diversifying the mythic leader's ragtag group and developing the indigenous people of Neverland into more realized characters.

via Hollywood Reporter|
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