Posts Tagged ‘Richard Yates’

  • Revolutionary Road: To Paris and Beyond
    Revulutionary Road is the story of the Wheeler couple, Frank and April (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet), living in a Connecticut suburb during the 1950’s. Sam Mendes’ film based on Richard Yates cult, eponymous book, however, is also a story that goes beyond the specifications of time and place to unravel the disappointment and disillusionment of an entire...
    by Padmaja Thakore at March 15th, 2009 at 03:03 am
  • Revolutionary Road – A Life of Quiet Desperation
    “Can you believe it? We just ended up being like everybody else?!” John Givings: Hopeless emptiness. Now you’ve said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. Some films relish in the aftertaste of the moments not captured in their entirety, unsettling yet no good reason to be so, poised and in-their-moment...
    by Tushar at March 7th, 2009 at 02:03 pm