New York Jewish Film Festival

Edward Moran

Edward Moran
737 POSTS 0 COMMENTS
Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

Jaalen Best to Play Boxer Muhammad Ali in ‘The Greatest’ for Amazon/MGM

©Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali The Greatest, a limited series about the late boxer Muhammad Ali is in the works. Jaalen Best will play the iconic pugilist who was originally known as Cassius Clay. Ben Watkins will be the showrunner/executive producer of the series, for which Ali’s widow Lonnie Ali will also serve…

Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Upcoming A24 Dark Comedy, ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’

Jennifer Lawrence has a busy year ahead of her. She will be starring in a film adaptation of Why Don’t You Love Me? being developed by A24, and has also been chosen for the leading role in The Wives, another movie by Apple Original Films and A24. That film is a murder mystery inspired by…

Euro Gang Plans Remake of Sergio Leone’s Classic ‘A Fistful of Dollars’

A Fistful of Dollars, the classic spaghetti Western by Sergio Leone, is getting a remake by Euro Gang Entertainment. Clint Eastwood starred in the original 1964 film, which is considered an unofficial version of Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa’s iconic samurai movie that had been released in 1961. Kurosawa’s production company sued over copyright issues, delaying the…

Momo Akashi’s ‘VOICE’: A Thoughtful Parable in the ‘Theatre of Engagement’ Tradition

©Captured and Edited by Miku Hirayama with iPhoto Written by Momo Akashi and directed by Kevin Cheng, VOICE had its global premiere on July 6 as part of the Time Capsule project at the Chain Theatre in New York City. As the brainchild of producer and artistic director Ai Toyoshima, the Time Capsule project is…

RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island : Exclusive Interview with Director Heidi Hutner, Subjects Beth Drazba & Paula Kinney

©Courtesy of RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Heidi Hutner, Director, Writer, and Producer, is an associate professor of Literature, Sustainability, Women’s and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, and a scholar of nuclear and environmental history, literature, film, and ecofeminism. She is…

THE CROW Director Rupert Sanders Explains ‘It’s a Very Scrappy Indie Movie’

As we know, yet another film adaptation of James O’Barr’s graphic novel The Crow is in the works, this time by director Rupert Sanders. Starring Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs, the Lionsgate film will debut in theaters on August 23. Several other adaptations had been made over the years, including Alex Proyas’s 1994 version starring…

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel 4 : Eddie Murphy Conjures Up the Ridiculous in the Midst of Mayhem

©Courtesy of Netflix  After forty years, Eddie Murphy is still going strong as Axel Foley, the comic cop who traded the mean streets of Detroit for the meaner but greener streets of Beverly Hills. Murphy was an aspiring 22-year-old when he appeared in the original Beverly Hills Cop movie in 1984, which grossed more than…

Iconic ‘Chinatown,’ ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Writer Robert Towne Died at 89

Photo by Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films – © 1990   Robert Towne, the legendary Oscar-winning auteur noted especially for scripting Chinatown, died on July 1 in Los Angeles at the age of 89. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Towne scripted some of the most iconic films of his generation. His writing…

Richard Gere to Star in ‘The Agency’ for Showtime

Norman, © 2017 – Sony Pictures Classics Richard Gere is joining the star-studded cast of Showtime’s espionage-oriented political thriller, The Agency, which will stream on Paramount+. It will be the first time the 74-year-old actor will be seen in a major television role, though he’d earlier appeared in several miniseries over the course of his…

Norman Reedus Dropped an Update on ‘The Boondock Saints 3’

©Courtesy of Twenty Century Fox via Disney The Boondock Saints 3, the third installment in a series originally released in 1999, is currently in development though no release date has yet been revealed. It will serve as a sequel to The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day, which came out in 2009. At the time…