Nick Newman

[Review] Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight’s pending release has granted marketing types an opportunity to note Woody Allen’s supposed penchant for magic. For this to be the hobby ...

[Review] Nymphomaniac

The reputation Lars von Trier's culled for himself in recent years has indeed been laid on thick, to the end that no more than a slight mention of world cinema’...

‘Nymphomaniac’ Star Stacy Martin on Lars von Trier’s Preparation, Body Doubles, and Watching with an Audience

Although we've long thought of this as a Charlotte Gainsbourg-led picture, the true star of Nymphomaniac: Volume I -- and, if early looks should be any indication, still taking a big role in the second half -- is Stacy Martin, a French-English model with enough humility to make the center of Lars von Trier's lengthy, no-holds-barred sex odyssey her acting debut. The task seems almost insurmountable and the requirements might make one's head spin, but in the first two hours does she give the craft everything as emotions, the body, and an internal thespian psychology find themselves splayed across the screen....

Nick Newman

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Nick lives in New York with his cats Drenka and Telemachus.