endless love ( 2014 film )
chicago tribune film critic michael phillips reviews
endless love .
( posted on february 13, 2014 )
there are numerous differences between the “endless love” novel and the original film and this remake. a major difference between 2014 “endless love” and both the 1981 version and the novel is the 2014 version doesn’t portray david as an obsessive sociopath like the novel or the original movie .
for more information and details on the soundtrack and film, visit the endless love website .
original release date: february 11, 2014 below you can view the complete endless love soundtrack list, album tracklist: 1. pumpin blood – nonono
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endless love is a 1981 american romantic drama film based on scott spencer' s 1979 novel of the same name .
endless love
grossed $ 4, 163, 623 during its opening weekend .
the studio’s plan is to open the movie in the winter of 2014. on valentine’s day .
happy valentine' s day, everyone! don' t spend it watching endless love .
in 2014, spencer described the film as a
botched
job and wrote that franco zeffirelli
egregiously and ridiculously misunderstood
the novel .
universal has started production in georgia on a remake of the 1981 film endless love which starred brooke shields and martin hewitt. this time around, alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde are set to star in the movie which will open on valentine’s day 2014 .
principal photography began in may of 2013 and wrapped two months later. the film was released on february 14, 2014 by universal pictures in the us .
joely richardson has joined the cast of universal’s “ endless love ” starring alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde .
have a look below to see the official soundtrack list and the songs playing in the trailers for the 2014 romance movie, endless love, including scene descriptions, additional music, end credits songs and trailer music .
of course not, i don' t love anyone the way i love you .
david rights “love u” on the window and jade tells him “i love you too” .
looking for movie tickets? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing endless love near you .
warner bros. records released the endless love soundtrack from the original motion picture today in time for valentine’s day. endless love, a romantic drama between two young adults, will hit theaters on feb. 14 .
it’s unclear how closely the new pic will follow the 1979 scott spencer book or the 1981 brooke shields movie. studio has dated the film for feb. 14, 2014 .
like fast food, endless love feels engineered to satisfy in the moment without providing any sort of nutritional value .
meanwhile, universal pictures' teen romance
endless love
and warner bros.' fantasy
winter' s tale
will compete for young female film fans .
endless love
isn' t so much a remake of the 1981 franco zeffirelli film as it is an extended ad for the idyllic abercrombie & fitch lifestyle .
this weekend’s valentine release endless love is ostensibly a remake of the 1981 franco zeffirelli film of the same name. after watching both movies this weekend, i can assure you that endless love is in no way, shape or form a remake of the 1981 film of the same name. at all. even a little bit .
the book
endless love
was a bestseller by two - time national book award finalist scott spencer in 1979 .
endless love may well resonate with young women who dream of falling in love with a sexy bad boy, the rest of us will view it as forgettable romantic escapism .
this article was amended on 5 november 2014. the original referred to raymond chandler’s book trouble be my brother. this has been corrected to
upcoming movie endless love is released on the 14th, and tells the story of a privileged teenager called jade, who falls in love with the charismatic 17 - year - old david .
why does hollywood continue to starve audiences longing for a good romantic tearjerker? endless love didn' t have to be this godawful .
worldwide, the film grossed $ 32, 492, 674 and domestically, the film grossed $ 31, 184, 024 .
gabriella wilde and alex pettyfer in the' super - bland' endless love. photograph: allstar / universal / sportsphoto ltd. / allstar
all our endless love written by inara george, greg kurstin performed by the bird and the bee feat. matt berninger produced by greg kurstin
gabriella wilde and alex pettyfer star in a new film all about teen love. sounds like one for us ...
but audiences aren' t the only ones who don' t love the latest remake, original author scott spencer blasted the film to the hollywood reporter after watching just the below film trailer .
[ … ] up ^ “‘endless love’, starring alex pettyfer, filming in georgia”. onlocationvacations. com. retrieved may 30, [ … ]
listen to original score, theme music from the motion picture, film score list, the playlist of all of the songs played in the movie, who sings them, including end credits. endless love soundtrack details :
i really agree. i like the book, but love the film. in fact, it may be my favorite movie ever. so much about it to love. great article, cath .
tomorrow, friday, may 24, endless love will spend all day filming scenes on redwine road in fayetteville, ga. they will also film scenes on tuesday, may 28, on redwine between harris and harp rd .
film historian leonard maltin seemed to agree, calling the film a
textbook example of how to do everything wrong in a literary adaptation .
endless love is based on scott spencer' s 1979 novel of the same name. the film is directed by franco zeffirelli and written by judith rascoe. the film stars brooke shields and martin hewitt in the two leading roles. it is also the film debut of hewitt, tom cruise, jami gertz, jeff marcus and ian ziering. the film was shot in 1980 on location in chicago, new york city, and long island .
endless love is a 1981 american romantic drama film based on scott spencer' s 1979 novel of the same name. the film is directed by franco zeffirelli, and stars brooke shields and martin hewitt. the screenplay was written by judith rascoe. the original music score was composed by jonathan tunick .
endless love
was panned by numerous critics for poorly handling the source material as well as glorifying what audiences saw as an unhealthy, damaging relationship .
what is the song used in endless love when the movie first starts from 0. 03 to 0. 45 please help me out? ?? ?
endless love
was filmed in chicago, new york city and long island, new york. it was originally given a
x
rating, but the film was re - edited to earn a
r
ratiing .
as silly romantic fluff goes, “endless love” seems harmless, and they both seem like sweet kids. if you’re a fan of the novel, don’t even bother, because it will drive you berserk in a totally different way that franco zeffirelli’s awful 1981 film did, but if you’re just looking for a painless valentine’s day date, it is certainly better than “winter’s tale. ” “endless love” opens tomorrow .
the mpaa awarded the initial cut of endless love an x rating. director franco zeffirelli subsequently made several cuts in the love scenes between brooke shields and martin hewitt to achieve a lower rating. the film was re - submitted to the mpaa five times before they awarded it an r rating. [ 1 ]
in 2014, scott spencer (the author of the novel on which the film was based) wrote ,
i was frankly surprised that something so tepid and conventional could have been fashioned from my slightly unhinged novel about the glorious destructive violence of erotic obsession
.
“the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart. ” below you can listen to some of the songs from the endless love soundtrack :
“as if this film weren’t trippy enough, ” one of the colourists quipped .
this remake of the brooke shields’ 1981 film is getting better reviews than the original. however, why would producers want to remake the original? roger ebert would probably turn over in his grave if he knew “endless love” was remade after all the blundering mistakes that earned a 2 out of 5 stars on his scale. “endless love” became a movie after successful book, yet even the second adaptation couldn’t get it right .
“anyone unfamiliar with the story of scott spencer’s novel is bound to be mystified by franco zeffirelli’s latest film, which reduces endless love to a whimperingly latter - day romeo and juliet with a little pyromania thrown in. ” —janet maslin, in the new york times
filming is expected to continue in and around atlanta through july 3. if you spot endless love filming in georgia, let us know about it at olv @ onlocationvacations. com !
when beautiful jade (gabriella wilde) meets charismatic david (alex pettyfer), her sheltered world of privilege is turned upside down as the pair' s instant desire sparks a reckless summer love affair. while jade leaves behind her inhibitions and innocence as she falls for david, he works to prove himself worthy of her love. but when david' s mysterious past and jade' s overprotective father threaten to tear them apart, their romance will be put to the ultimate test. (original title - endless love (2014) )
this is supposed to be a film about the throes of teenage first love—a love you would go to jail for, set a house on fire for, a love that requires a restraining order—but it' s awfully tasteful and emotionally detached in its blissed - out depiction of beautiful young people cavorting in the sunlight .
endless love
has a chock full of cliches, melodrama, and cheese, but this was quite the surprise for a february romance film. the cast is convincing in their roles and the drama works more effectively than it should. it isn' t the most assured film from a directorial standpoint, but it gets the job done for what it is .
feste re - wrote the script, which was originally penned by josh safran. universal’s vp of production kristin lowe and creative exec chloe yellin will oversee “ endless love ” for the studio .
endless love
conveys precious little of that crazy, mixed - up feeling, even with powder keg robert patrick (as david' s dad) in the cast. by the time restraining orders are threatened you' re wondering if someone pre - issued a restraining order against the film itself .
both times scott spencer’s novel “endless love” has been adapted to the bigscreen, there have been fundamental changes made to the source material to such a degree that it’s apparent the filmmakers are uneasy with the book .
in 2014, scott spencer, the author of the novel on which the film was based, wrote ,
i was frankly surprised that something so tepid and conventional could have been fashioned from my slightly unhinged novel about the glorious destructive violence of erotic obsession
. [ 4 ] spencer described the film as a
botched
job and wrote that franco zeffirelli
egregiously and ridiculously misunderstood
the novel. [ 5 ]
my brother david lives in olde town conyers and stopped by today on the set of “endless love” with his friend lamont. he chatted with some camera operators. he said they were very nice, and friendly .
in both spencer’s novel and the earlier film of “endless love, ’’ david sets a fire that leads to an increasingly awful series of tragedies. it’s not really spoiling anything to report that in this low - stakes version, the fire is an accident that triggers a happy ending. like i said, lame .
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late night. starts raining. david sneak into jade’s house. they make love for the
what happens in
endless love
? the boy / man, david, teaches the girl / woman, jade, to live. he proves his worth by fighting for their endless love against all predictable obstacles. bruce greenwood is obstacle no. 1, jade' s controlling doctor father. with jade' s summer internship looming, the kids / adults make sweet love by firelight, and then in a montage set to an overhelpful country - folk ballad, they squirt each other with water guns. also there' s a house fire, which figured rather differently into the action of the novel and the first film .
alongside the reboots of
robocop
and
about last night ,
this week' s bizarre
i love the' 80s
multiplex tribute continues with the remake of
endless love ,
a movie just begging to go up in the flames of camp. if only somebody had brought a match .
. the film was released the next day. despite the poor critical reception, the film was a box office success. it made $ 4, 163, 623 on its opening weekend and went on to gross $ 31, 184, 024 in total, becoming the twenty - second highest earning film domestically in 1981 .
the film, which is more about endlessness than love, comes from the scott spencer novel about the obsessive arsonist and the rich girl he loves, endlessly. franco zeffirelli filmed a wildly unfaithful version in 1981, to mass derision and pretty good box office. the new film leaves out most of the story' s uncomfortable bits and maintains a bland, glum prettiness in place of feverish desire and sociopathology. no strain or fuss here, no hint of voyeuristic craziness or stalker behavior. call it
endless love, within reasonable limits .
as it is, the film is just crappy, sappy, pg - 13 valentine' s day drivel .
endless love, the 1979 best - seller by two - time national book award finalist scott spencer that was adapted for a 1983 brooke shields movie, opens feb. 14 in its second movie adaptation, starring gabriella wilde and alex pettyfer .
endless love
- - which stars alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde as the two lovebirds and bruce greenwood as a highly overprotective father - - could bring in $ 13 million to $ 15 million, after costing $ 20 million to make .
this footnote was added on 5 november 2014. subsequent to publication, nolan disputed the quote attributed to him by snyder. according to nolan, he had told snyder, “we shouldn’t be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of man of steel. ”
this version of “endless love” seems tailor - made for the all - too - clich? © sparks crowd. the target audience is young girls who either never had a boyfriend before or are in the “single and miserable” stage. don’t waste your money or time. re - watch the some classic love stories if you want to shed some tears .
tammy smith casting is handling local extras for the film. you can see recent casting calls on her facebook page .
christopher nolan, right, on the set of interstellar with the film’s star matthew mcconaughey. photograph: melinda sue gordon
additional film music – songs that are not included in the official soundtrack list, but are playing in the movie .
shana feste’s endlessly lame “endless love’’ remake turns the obsessive sexual heat way down from the infamous 1981 brooke shields vehicle — while also tossing out the tragedies of scott spencer’s acclaimed source novel (but keeping diana ross and lionel richie’s original theme song) .
‘tis the month for endless chick - flick marathons, excessive chocolate eating and harboring resentments against men not being any male character from nicholas sparks’ novels .
the 2014 version scored 13 percent on rotten tomatoes — even worse than the brooke shields original (25 percent), but better than winter' s tale, the new adaptation of spencer' s fellow guggenheim fellow mark helprin' s 1983 literary hit, which scored 12 percent .
love makes me unreasonable that way. now, years later, i’ve read the book again and have had a chance to reconsider my first reaction. it’s time for a sober reassessment of which is better – book or film ?
my neice just got home from olde town conyers ga and told me that filming for the moving endless love was happening. my neice was trying to get ice cream at beasley’s drug store but had to wait. the lady at the drug store said, the film crew loves milkshakes. they didn’t know if they saw any of the actors. lol going to go check it out
director shana feste (country strong), captures a romantic drama about jade, a privileged girl who falls in love with a rebellious but charismatic boy whose instant connection sparks a love affair made only more difficult by parents trying to keep them apart. the film stars alex pettyfer (magic mike) and gabriella wilde (the three musketeers )
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my brother forwarded a pic of my grandmother’s house in decatur, with film crews all on the front of the property. i was told that this was filming of endless love. my grandmother was the first owner of that home, and we spent every summer there until we were 17. the house is on nelson ferry rd. i have lots of very old pictures of the house .
if you’re familiar with brad jones and his reviews and other videos (midnight screenings, 80' s dan, and cinema snob), you should know in his midnight screenings review of this film, he considered this film to be the worst adaptation he’s ever seen. i’m telling you this because i happen to share the same feelings. now, a bad adaptation doesn’t automatically mean it’s a bad film. the first percy jackson film is a terrible adaptation but a fun fantasy adventure film on its own. the shining isn’t a very faithful adaptation but it’s one of the scariest horror films ever made. this, however, …
don' t find another love written by julie frost performed by tegan and sara courtesy of warner bros. records
unlike franco zeffirelli’s notoriously over - the - top 1981 filmization of scott spencer’s novel, shana feste’s “endless love” seems less a misguided adaptation than a deliberate, flat - out rewrite. feste and co - scripter joshua safran turn a dark tale of self - destructive romantic obsession into an innocuous fairy tale about the shining power of puppy love, set in an insulated universe [ … ]
scott spencer is the author of ten novels, including endless love, waking the dead, a ship made of paper, and man in the woods. his nonfiction has appeared in rolling stone, the new yorker, o, harper’s, and the new york times .
starring colin farrell, jennifer connelly and russell crowe ,
winter' s tale
is expected to generate slightly less than
endless love .
farrell plays a burglar with supernatural abilities who tries to save a young woman played by jessica brown findlay, best known as the late
understandable. spencer’s novel is not a sweet and simple love story by any means. it is a look back at the temporary madness that comes from that first wild love that people often encounter, and what happens when it’s not temporary and it’s not as harmless as people make it out to be. spencer’s novel is dark, and it both opens with and builds to a fire that is truly catastrophic and tragic. shana feste’s film “endless love” shares character names and some plot points with the book, but it is telling an entirely different kind of story, one that almost feels like a complete refutation of the points made by the novel .
the lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man, as he reflects back on a past love .
song as david sneaks back into the house after all the lights go off. they make love by the fire .
the film was released in july 1981 and received negative reviews, with critics comparing it unfavorably to the novel. spencer disliked it, believing the filmmakers to have missed the point of the book. the film was a moderate box - office success, and its theme song, performed by diana ross and lionel richie and also called
endless love
, became a # 1 hit on the billboard hot 100. it spent nine weeks at # 1 and received academy award and golden globe nominations for
best original song ,
along with five grammy nominations .
it perfectly describes jade' s loss of innocence and how she opens up to this world of passion and young love .
the romantic notion that there exists one very special person... one you' ll want to be with for the rest of your life, is at the heart and soul of scott spencer' s novel endless love, which now arrives in its second, superior incarnation on the big screen .
[ last lines ] jade butterfield: my first love was everything all at once. the kind you never fall back from. never try to. never want to. a love so big. so strong. it never dies. never fades. never losses its electricity. the kind of love you fight for. the kind of boy you fight for. see more »
i know it’s not really the done thing for authors to speak ill of the folks who are turning his or her work into a movie. we love movies, and the reflected glamor of being involved in one is difficult for most people to resist. but since i haven’t met anyone involved in the making of this new endless love i haven’t been charmed by any of them. plus this: i have read the script .
internationally, the film took in a further $ 1, 308, 650 bringing its total worldwide gross to $ 32, 492, 674 .
this sugary remake (or re - adaptation, whatever) is an innocuous fairy tale about the shining power of puppy love .
i saw the film when released in the hollywood version scott disliked. i have also seen the director' s cut release of the film 25 years after the 1982 hollywood verson. the new york times has an interesting review and history of the film. near the end of the film, roy baty saves deckard in his final act, demonstrating androids capacity for empathy. in the novel, deckard grapples with the distinction and ultimately decides to quit his job as a bounty hunter, alluded to in the film' s beginning. he realizes in the novel the distinction doesn' t matter. to paraphrase one of deckard' s comments in the novel: even androids have a life, no matter how paltry it is .
if that all sounds familiar, it’s because this is not, as it claims, a remake of endless love, but a remake, rip - off and complete and total bastardization of say anything as reimagined by a 14 year old in the middle of a sob - filled fight with its parents about curfew .
scott spencer advises people who might celebrate valentine' s day by seeing the new film version of his 1979 best - seller to avoid it instead .
see i loved the book and wasn' t so much a fan of the film. i agree with mark norris' s comment as well .
compared the film unfavourably with the novel, describing martin hewitt as miscast and criticising the narrative, though he did praise brooke shields' s performance .
it was not my first encounter with nolan: i met him at the very beginning of his career, in 2000, just before the us release of memento, which had just come out of sundance. sitting in a red banquette at canter’s deli in los angeles, nolan was the picture of the hopeful young film - maker, genuinely pleased to have someone to talk to about his film. he seemed a little nervous about memento’s reception, and most relaxed when talking about the technicalities of its backwards - running time scheme. the film was shot for a mere $ 4. 5 million, but after three screenings for studio heads in los angeles, it was turned down by almost every distributor in town, including the weinsteins – causing steven soderbergh, an early fan of the film, to comment, “when a film like chris nolan’s memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. ”
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
joely richardson has joined the cast of universal’s “endless love” starring alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde. bruce greenwood also stars with shana feste helming the pic. scott stuber and pamela abdy of bluegrass films and josh schwartz and stephanie savage from fake empire will produce. tracy falco and j. miles dale will executive produce. it’s [ … ]
however, the movie more than anything else is gentle. the music is gentle. the stakes are gentle. even when david punches hugh in the face, it’s gentle. the whole film was like an assault with a delicate weapon, like being beaten to death with a dandelion. which is strange for something trying so hard to be passionate! and important! teen love is the only love! there’s a half - assed theme of fighting for love, but the fights are so gentle, if it wasn’t repeated ad nauseum in the script, you’d never know .
a privileged girl and a charismatic boy' s instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart .
franco zeffirelli’s operatic original is a pretty bad movie, but it did have a clear agenda: to exploit shields’ notoriety as a teenage hottie, coming on the heels of “the blue lagoon. ’’ the film’s brilliant tag line: “she is 15. he is 17. the love every parent fears. ”
i love blade runner. i splashed out £££ on a snazzy remastered version with an additional 10 seconds of footage and a commentary which adds nothing to the film. i will probably go and see the sequel, if they ever manage to make it. i even wrote a ya novel in homage to it .
locating the remake' s setting in georgia does nothing for the story; the reasons likely had everything to do with that state' s generous film production tax incentives .
as for this story, i’m kinda curious as to why it’s completely apparent to me, yet totally missed by a surprising amount of people how much of this story is in the crazy boy’s head. there’s another, much darker and more satisfying film to be made about how horrible love can be and how obsession leads to insanity, but i guess idyllic teenage love that’s so pure you could die from sugar shock is more marketable this time of year. oh well .
everyone, that is, but jade’s father hugh (bruce greenwood). still mourning the loss of a son from cancer, he likens david’s courtship of jade to losing another child. the character turns the film from a love story to a tale of one man’s deepening psychosis, as he attempts to put one barrier after another between the young lovers. but, the film insists, any obstacle can be barreled over by a young - lovers - having - fun montage set to sensitive music .
if there’s any redeeming value to the film, it’s as a case study of how far an adaptation can stray from the source material while still remaining, technically, an adaptation. the film features many scenes with analogues to the novel, but they’ve been emptied out and drastically reworked, most notably a house fire that sets the novel into motion, but here shows up much later, and serves a considerably different purpose. that purpose, as with every element in the film, is to confirm the rightness of jade and david’s passion for each other, any outside objections be damned. that’s far removed from the source, but more troublingly, presented in the least challenging way possible. of course these kids belong together. they look great next to each other! endless love never tries to look beneath that pretty surface. or maybe it doesn’t dare, knowing there’s nothing to be found .
this remake has almost nothing to do with spencer' s novel. it' s the kind of film you make when you' ve run out of nicholas sparks books .
a fire at the butterfields’ — which, in both the novel and 1981 film, was set by david and provided the primal act that precipitated tragedy — here ignites by accident and sets hugh on the road to redemption. he is merely the last of the butterfields to tell david how wonderfully his love has illuminated his life .
the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart .
1. safer for kids: like the 1981 version with brooke shields, endless love was adapted from the novel by scott spencer. the author wasn' t involved in the project, having signed away the movie rights and remake rights in 1980. this latest iteration makes numerous changes, including setting the story in georgia (instead of chicago) and throwing water on the obsessive protagonist' s arsonist tendencies (this hotheaded david only uses his fists). the new film also targets the teen demographic by toning down the action for a pg - 13 rating .
not great, not good, not putrid. worth a look if you think you can. it held my interest as of the father greenwood. do not have the film .
roger ebert gave the film two stars, saying ,
although there are a great many things wrong with the movie, this blunder on the narrative level is the worst
.
the story is of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart .
watching
endless love ,
you long for it to be riskier, edgier, or at least more reflective of actual teenage experiences and emotions. even the partying feels false, with freshly scrubbed kids talking about getting drunk and high without actually taking part in such activities or indicating their eventual effects. (ostensibly, this creative decision was intended to secure a pg - 13 rating. )
whether he had indeed made a great film was not obvious to him, but that alone seemed to satisfy him: he had found one more thing he could reasonably claim uncertainty about .
it was directed by franco zeffirelli & starred brooke shields, martin hewitt, shirley knight, don murray, james spader, richard kiley and tom cruise (in his film debut) .
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why i watched this one? brooke shields' endless love was the first r rated movie i that i actually was able to see in theaters (nobody asked me for an id) without parental supervision. body heat was the second one just in case you were wondering. so since the original has that piece of worthless cogerson trivia... i figured i would check out the remake .
after opening on wednesday, the $ 120 - million
robocop ,
an update on the 1987 sci - fi film, is expected to gross roughly $ 25 million through the holiday .
we get the sense that this film, which stars gabriella wilde and alex pettyfer, might not have the very happiest of endings, but it definitely looks like one to watch ...
a modern - day take on the
beauty and the beast
tale where a new york teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love .
i find david' s idealistic view on love a little far - fetched, because i can only imagine guys his age chasing girls all day and avoiding committed relationships .
it didn’t work to completely eliminate nolan’s nerves in the weeks preceding the film’s release. would the audience be able to follow the science? would they be able to let go of the science and follow the emotion? had he got the balance of story and spectacle right? “i’ve always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks, ” he told me. “it was very clear to me that if you’re going to make a film called interstellar, it’s going to have to be something extremely ambitious. you push it in all the possible directions you can. not for its own sake, but because you know that if you’re going to try to add something to the canon, besides fiction films and all the rest, and live up to the promise of that title and the scale of that title, you really have to go there. ”
a rebellious girl is sent to a southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect .
the turnaround came at the venice film festival, where someone had told nolan the crowd could be particularly fierce. the film ended rather abruptly, to a black screen, and for a few seconds, there was silence. nolan had no idea what was about to happen. “i kind of liked that, ” he recalled. “i was very frightened, but i felt proud of that emotion. ”
and if you have not seen either, i wholly recommend viewing the two in this order because the contrast is so stark you may actually go blind. watching the two in succession was like eating a dry piece of toast and following it by swallowing a live grenade. the original endless love is so bonkers it scored “next level” on the mantzoukas scale and immediately won a place in my heart alongside mariah carey’s epic, gliter .
girl talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present, and future. while hollywood continues to struggle towards parity in the director’s chair, the film festival world is playing major catch - up. at this year’s sxsw film festival, the push towards parity is becoming more of a reality than ever before, as 33% of all feature films at the fest are directed by women, while the shorts section boasts 59% female directorship across its slate. it’s a stark difference to the studio side of the industry. the usc annenberg inclusion initiative’s latest study, “inclusion in the director’s chair? gender, race & age of directors across 1, 000 films from 2007 - 2017, ” found that, of the 109 film directors associated with the 100 top movies of 2017, 92. 7 percent were male; 7. 3 percent were female. days later, the san diego state university ’s center for the study of women in television and film followed with the “celluloid ceiling” study ,
it should come as no surprise that the maker of memento and inception – two masterpieces of watchmaker cinema – should have wound up at the door of albert einstein, who deduced the postulates of relativity while processing patents for clocks at a bern patent office. few, though, could have anticipated the emotional resonance he gets from relativity in the film, as mcconaughey and his crew set down on a water planet where every hour spent means a seven - year chunk missed from his daughter’s life back on earth. to say that interstellar is nolan’s most emotional film isn’t exactly accurate. it actually puts the audience through an entirely new species of emotion: a fiendish compound of grief, longing, loss and awe at time’s immensity. this is how love shows up in a christopher nolan film .
two crazy kids just out of high school fall madly in love even though alex pettyfer looks like he’s 30. still it’s a harmless romance movie that is entirely melodramatic but watchable .
the only thing i enjoy more than watching an oscar - worthy film in theaters is watching a horribly scripted rom - com with wooden actors, cliche dialogue, bad accents, nonsensical plots and diabolical dads. so you can only imagine how much i loved watching endless love this week. you know what, i take that back. you can' t imagine that, because never in the history of horrible movies has a human being enjoyed a movie this much. i loved it so much that i' m tempted to march right back to that theater, steal the movie from them and take it out on a swanky valentine' s day date .
the actress and director both love the genre, but as they told indiewire, they also knew it needed to be retrofitted to tell the true story of catherine weldon and sitting bull .
surround you written by jamie sierota, noah sierota, sydney sierota, graham sierota, jeffrey david sierota performed by echosmith courtesy of warner bros. records inc. by arrangement with warner music group film and tv licensing
rock and roll doctor written by lowell george, martin f. kibbee (as martin kibbee) performed by little feat courtesy of warner bros. records inc. by arrangement with warner music group film and tv licensing
the soundtrack features music from many contemporary artists, including popular duo tegan and sara who perform an original song specifically made for the film, nonono, as well as the bird and the bee featuring matt berninger .
what none of these folks seem to get is that endless love was meant to be a knife to the reader’s heart, not the writer’s. as that old elegant italian filmmaker was giving me fair warning, it turned out the knives were being sharpened for him, and—unfortunately—for several of his principal actors. and now a second generation is blundering into their own valentine’s day massacre. as the late leonard michaels said, i would have saved them if i could .
alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde star in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart .
it’s so wonderful isnt’t it? i love the plumping blood by nonono. its my favorite and it will always be. did you download it on itunes or how did you get it ?
karyn kusama, who directed the 2o16 logan marshall - green cult horror thriller “ the invitation, ” has signed on to direct the upcoming fox horror film “ breed, ” and she’s bringing her team with her. “invitation” writers and producers phil hay and matt manfredi will reprise those roles for “ breed, ” which is based on a novel of the same name by chase novak — whose pen name is scott spencer (“ endless love, ” “ waking the dead ”). “ breed ” follows an upscale new york couple who are struggling to conceive a child and turn to a questionable and controversial eastern european clinic. ten years later, after - effects from that procedure .
in short, director and co - writer shana feste has remade
endless love
but she' s taken out all the crazy. not that the original was all that great to begin with; a six - time razzie award nominee, it was screechy, melodramatic and over - acted, with an awkwardly flat lead performance from brooke shields. but at least it had passion. pettyfer and wilde look lovely together—although they' re both in their mid - 20s playing 17 - year - olds, and it shows—and they do enjoy some real chemistry throughout their flirtatious, falling - in - love stage. but the sense that something vital is at stake is woefully lacking .
endless love was botched - misquoted, as it were - once in 1981, when franco zeffirelli tried to make a movie out of it, and it seems as if it has been even more egregiously and ridiculously misunderstood in the movie universal pictures is releasing. (i gave up control of the movie rights to my novel in 1980 .) i had brief contact with the first filmmakers who tried to adapt my novel, and i had no contact whatsoever with the second wave .
“i have been shocked to realise how much more emotional this film is, ” nolan said a day later, when i met him at the officers of his production company, a tan bungalow nestled on the warner bros lot amid palm trees and azaleas, just a stone’s throw from clint eastwood’s malpaso productions. the extreme reaction has taken him aback, he said. “i have spent years of my life thinking only about this film and i mean only this film. the responses where it’s lacking – ‘it’s just a movie and it’s pretty good, i liked it’ – they are the things that kill you. this is my obsession for years, you just pour yourself into it. ”
this is nothing like the film! i raged internally. i mean, this dick fellow writes about the future. why couldn’t he predict the movie version would be awesome and pre - write his novel to be just like it ?
the force spearheading this new version of endless love was the producer of a long - running teen soap opera. i was familiar enough with the movie business to know the difference between a development deal and an actual motion picture. the movie business is full of false starts, projects begun and abandoned, fanfares trumpeted in front of doors that never open, stars that implode, directors who fall out of favor, executives who are fired, schedules that conflict, budgets that balloon and then burst .
alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde star in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart... more
a number of key scenes from the film were shot on location at jackson lake in butts county. the county film liaison worked closely with the georgia power company, who manages the lake, to secure the necessary permits for filming scenes in the water. a private lake house was also secured and utilized for over two weeks to shoot the lake scenes. because of the close working relationship between the county government and georgia power, the permitting process was accomplished in a day .
5 .
my love, there' s only you in my life…
: don' t expect to hear the title song made insanely popular by diana ross and lionel richie (and later covered by mariah carey and luther vandross). instead, twin sisters tegan and sara perform a new theme for this reboot ,
don' t find another love .
other musical contributions include
pumpin blood
by nonono ,
right action
by franz ferdinand, and a soundtrack by composer christophe beck, who has scored such hits as the hangover trilogy, crazy, stupid, love. , pitch perfect, and the muppets .
and gabriella wilde in the roles played by martin hewitt and brooke shields in franco zeffirelli’s 1981 film. the shana feste - helmed update will have a third wheel on its opening weekend in the form of another ’80s remake, sony / screen gems’
the film was also noted to have one of the most spectacular one - man stunt displays when hugh butterfield gets hit by a car in new york city & the stuntman does a high end - over - end flip in mid - air .
the film' s theme song, written by lionel richie and performed by richie and diana ross and also called
endless love
, became a # 1 hit on the billboard hot 100, and was the biggest - selling single in ross' career. billboard magazine chose it as
the best duet of all time
in 2011, 30 years after its debut. it spent 9 weeks at # 1 and received academy award and golden globe nominations for
best original song
, along with 5 grammy nominations. the soundtrack peaked at # 9 on the billboard top 200 and was certified platinum. it also featured a second duet between ross and richie ,
dreaming of you ,
that received considerable airplay but was never released as a single.
endless love is a 2014 american romantic drama film directed by shana feste and co-written by feste with joshua safran . a second adaptation of scott spencer 's novel , the film stars alex pettyfer , gabriella wilde , bruce greenwood , joely richardson , and robert patrick . the film was released on february 14 , 2014 by universal pictures in the us and uk , and on february 13 , 2014 in australia . 
endless love is a 2014 american romantic drama film directed by shana feste and co-written by feste with joshua safran. a second adaptation of scott spencer's novel, the film stars alex pettyfer, gabriella wilde, bruce greenwood, joely richardson, and robert patrick. the film was released on february 14, 2014 by universal pictures in the us and uk, and on february 13, 2014 in australia.
endless love is a 2014 american romantic drama film directed by shana feste and co-written by feste with joshua safran. a second adaptation of scott spencer's novel, the film stars alex pettyfer, gabriella wilde, bruce greenwood, joely richardson, and robert patrick. the film was released on february 14, 2014 by universal pictures in the us and uk, and on february 13, 2014 in australia.