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The gallery updates continue with a second batch of 1990s updates. These photos range from 1996 to 1998 and include Meryl’s promotions for “Marvin’s Room”, “One True Thing” and “Dancing at Lughnasa”. Almost all albums have been replaced with better quality images and new additions as well. A complete list can be found under the preview images below. The third and final update of 1990s images will follow later this evening, so check back.
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1998 – Walk of Fame Ceremony
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1998 – “One True Thing” Premiere Los Angeles
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1998 – “One True Thing” Premiere New York
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1998 – Taping of “Defending Our Daughters”
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1997 – Visit to Vassar College
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1997 – “Marvin’s Room” Photocall Japan
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1996 – Women in Hollywood Awards
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1996 – A Magical Evening Gala
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1996 – 68th Annual Academy Awards
Walt Disney Studios has released the first theatrical poster from their upcoming Broadway adaptation, “Into The Woods”, putting Meryl Streep’s witch front and centre. The film, which is a modern twist on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales, boasts quite an impressive cast highlighted by Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Christine Baranski, Tracey Ullman and Johnny Depp. The film will hit theaters everywhere Christmas Day. Check out the high resolution poster in the image library.
The albums of Meryl’s public appearances in the 1990s have been sorted, replaced with better quality images and and new images have been added as well. This first update covers the 1990’s first half, the second half will follow in a later update. To launch all latest images, have a look at the previews and list below.
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1994 – “The River Wild” Premiere (Washington)
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1994 – Sega Sports Children Event
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1994 – “The House of the Spirits” Premiere
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1994 – AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1992 – Boston Symphony Orchestra
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1991 – New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1990 – Warner Bros. Studio Rededication
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1990 – 32nd Annual Grammy Awards
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1990 – “The Earth Day Special” Photocall
The US theatrical trailer for “The Homesman” has been released, showing lots of new footage, especially on Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank, whose performance received quite some positive buzz after the film’s festival premieres. The rest, however, remains mysterious to me. While “The Homesman” has already received a theatrical release in some European countries back in May, this trailer states the US release as “Coming Soon”, while the IMDb lists a limited theatrical release for November 14, 2014. Let’s see…
Meryl has attended the New York premiere for “My Old Lady”, starring friend and colleague Kevin Kline, and co-starring Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas. Streep and Kline were joined on the red carpet by another friend, Glenn Close. In the film, directed by Israel Horovitz, Kline plays an American who inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident. Pictures from the premiere have been added to the image library.
Once again, I’ve digged deep down the archives to bring some rare finds to Simply Streep. The highlight of this post is probably Meryl’s first television interview in 1979 to promote “Kramer vs. Kramer”. Bits from this interview were featured on the Today Show, now a seven-minute version has been added to the video archive. Also new is footage from the Mann’s Chinese Theatre Handprints ceremony, the premieres for “The River Wild” and “The Bridges of Madison County” and a newly discovered press junket interview for “Music of the Heart”. Click the previews for all new clips and scroll down for screencaptures.
Video Archive – Public Appearances – Mann’s Chinese Theatre Handprints (September 25, 1994)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – “The River Wild” Premiere (September 25, 1994)
Video Archive – Career Videos – The Bridges of Madison County – Making Of
Video Archive – Public Appearances – The Bridges of Madison County Premiere (May 30, 1995)
Video Archive – Career Videos – Music of the Heart – Interview
Lots of additional screencaptures have been added as well. There are better quality captures from the 1979 and 1980 Academy Awards, Meryl’s television appearances on “Race to Save the Planet” and “Voices that Care” as well as numerous television interviews she did in the 1990s. Once again, have a look below for a complete list. Enjoy the new additions.
Image Library – Public Appearances – 1980 – 52nd Annual Academy Awards
Image Library – Television Appearances – 1990s – Race to Save the Planet (1990)
Image Library – Television Appearances – 1990s – Voices that Care (1991)
Image Library – Television Appearances – 1990s – Journal du Film (December 21, 1992)
Image Library – Career – The Bridges of Madison County – Making Of Screencaptures
Image Library – Television Appearances – 1990s – Access Privee (June 06, 1998)
Image Library – Television Appearances – 1990s – “One True Thing” Press Junket
Image Library – Television Appearances – 1990s – “Music of the Heart” Press Junket
Artists from three media will come together for a special event at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Sept. 19, as three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep joins the Takács String Quartet for readings from Philip Roth’s novella, “Everyman.” The readings will be interspersed with music by Franz Schubert and Arvo Pärt. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. The event is already sold out (in less than 12 hours); however, obstructed view seats will be put on sale on Sept. 2. In the unlikely event there are remaining tickets, they will be made available for purchase after Sept. 2 at the Frist Campus Center Box Office, at (609) 258-9220. As described by The New York Times, Roth’s “Everyman” is the story of “a nameless, multi-divorced advertising man in New Jersey grappling with family estrangement, illness and death.” The event will be presented by Princeton University Concerts, which will also collaborate with the Princeton Adult School to offer a two-session course on Sept. 15 and 16, exploring the themes of Roth’s novella. The complete announcement can be read here. Many thanks to Glenn and Rachel for the heads-up.
The new issue of Empire has a fresh look at Meryl Streep in Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of Into The Woods. This still comes from the scene, glimpsed in the trailer, where Streep bursts in on the baker and his wife – wait, does that make no sense as a pairing to anyone else?). They wished to have children, but a curse was laid on the baker’s father by the witch decades before, and the only way she’s willing to lift it is if they find her four ingredients for a potion. Cue a quest that brings them into conflict with other fairytale characters, some of them rather different to how you remember.
A new batch of production and promotional stills as well as on-set pictures of Meryl’s films have been added to the image library. Updates range from 1979 to 1986 and include “The Seduction of Joe Tynan”, “Kramer vs. Kramer”, “Sophie’s Choice”, “Plenty” and “Heartburn”. For a complete overview and list, check the previews below.
Image Library – Feature Films – Plenty – Production Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – Plenty – On-Set Pictures
Image Library – Feature Films – Out of Africa – Production Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – Falling in Love – Production Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – Falling in Love – Promotional Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – Sophie’s Choice – Production Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – Sophie’s Choice – Promotional Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – Sophie’s Choice – Deleted Scenes
Image Library – Feature Films – Sophie’s Choice – Posters & Key-Art
Image Library – Feature Films – Still of the Night – Promotional Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – Kramer vs. Kramer – Promotional Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – The Seduction of Joe Tynan – Production Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – The Seduction of Joe Tynan – Promotional Stills
Image Library – Feature Films – The Seduction of Joe Tynan – On-Set Pictures
Most publications have released their reviews for “The Giver” in time for the film’s theatrical release. Unfortunately, the film is not a favorite with critics. Most compare it to other recent YA movie adaptations, whose books have been inspired by “The Giver”, while the novel’s adaptation does not hold up compared with its successors. But here’s the good thing about critics: They give you a chance to see the film and make your own opinion. Below’s a selection of reviews.
Entertainment Weekly (Jeff Labreque, August 15, 2014)
Bridges, who spent nearly 20 years trying to bring the novel to the screen, seems trapped playing the passive seer, and Meryl Streep’s villainous turn as the Jane Campion-haired Chief Elder will test the blind devotion of Golden Globe voters. In the end, the film practically collapses under its own…hmm, what’s the opposite of ‘weight’? In any case, it falls apart with a slapdash final act that doesn’t work as drama or action and only serves to undermine Jonas’s heroics. It’s treated as a quest so non-Herculean that you wonder why the Giver didn’t do the job himself years ago. Maybe he just lost interest too.
Variety (Scott Foundas, August 11, 2014)
Sameness, the conformist plague that afflicts the futuristic citizens of Lois Lowry’s celebrated and scorned YA novel, The Giver, might also be the name given to what ails the movie adaptation—the latest in a seemingly endless line of teen-centric dystopian fantasies that have become all but indistinguishable from one another. A longtime passion project for producer/star Jeff Bridges, The Giver reaches the screen in a version that captures the essence of Lowry’s affecting allegory but little of its mythic pull—a recipe likely to disappoint fans while leaving others to wonder what all the fuss was about.
The Hollywood Reporter (John DeFore, August 11, 2014)
The changes, which include making the book’s 12 year-old hero old enough to make tween viewers swoon (he’s played by 25 year-old Aussie Brenton Thwaites), surely enhance marketability, even if they sand some edges off a tale that has won many hearts over the years. The presence of Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep in supporting roles will help draw some attention from grown-ups who don’t know the book, but while the film may see enough success to justify follow-ups (Lowry has written three sequels), this franchise won’t come close to competing with The Hunger Games and other more epic series.
The Washington Post (Ann Hornaday, August 12, 2014)
In its own way, the movie version—handsomely directed by Phillip Noyce and featuring an appealing, sure-footed cast of emerging and veteran actors—aptly reflects The Giver’s pride of place as the one that started it all, or at least the latest wave. Ironically, it wasn’t until its imitators became box office bonanzas that The Giver was seen potentially profitable enough to produce for the big screen. Far less noisy and graphically violent than those films, this mournful coming-of-age tale feels like their more subdued and introspective older sibling, even as it trafficks in the self-dramatizing emotionalism and simplistic philosophizing that are so recognizably symptomatic of the YA genre.
The Wrap (Inkoo Kang, August 11, 2014)
If the film aces its depiction of the dawning horror and social alienation that comes with studying yesteryear, the rest is largely a failure. The Giver is an anti-totalitarian allegory so farcically hyperbolic it feels like only a teenager could have come up with it… [It] feels pinned and tucked into place, evincing a too-smooth surface with all the standard narrative folds and corners. The picture is more human than the people it depicts, but it merely goes and ends where you’d expect it to, save for a gruesomely stupid final two minutes that surprises only with its laziness.
