After months of casting on MGM and Sony’s remake of The Magnificent Seven, the Western is finally gearing up to roll cameras later this month. Today brings word that perennial baddie Peter Sarsgaard is in final negotiations to play robber baron Bartholomew Bogue, the villain of the film whose cronies murder the husband (Matt Bomer) of a young woman (Haley Bennett), leading her to hire an unruly band of mercenaries to take back her town. Simultaneously, though, word has it that Jason Momoa has dropped out of the project, leaving one supporting role unclaimed.
Sarsgaard has made a career out of playing nasty psychopaths, from John Lotter in Boys Don’t Cry to the controlling Chuck Traynor in Lovelace, so he’s well-suited for the part of a murderous Western baddie.
As for Momoa, Deadline reports that he departed the pic after feeling like he “didn’t have enough to do,...
Sarsgaard has made a career out of playing nasty psychopaths, from John Lotter in Boys Don’t Cry to the controlling Chuck Traynor in Lovelace, so he’s well-suited for the part of a murderous Western baddie.
As for Momoa, Deadline reports that he departed the pic after feeling like he “didn’t have enough to do,...
- 5/20/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Lovelace
Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Written by Andy Bellin
USA, 2013
In Billy Wilder’s excellent 1951 drama Ace in the Hole, which is a classic showcase of media manipulation, ambitious city-slicker reporter Chuck Tatum (played by an enthusiastic Kirk Douglas) finds himself stuck in Albuquerque, New Mexico with hopes to find that one big story that will jettison him to the big-leagues again. Tatum lucks out when he is informed about a man trapped in a cave-in and uses this opportunity to break big. When Tatum’s photographer asks why this will make a big story, Tatum responds that it’s a “human interest” subject and that if you can get readers to sympathize with the narrative then you have the reader’s attention. But, he also elaborates that a human interest story has to focus on one person; if you focus on others involved with the story,...
Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Written by Andy Bellin
USA, 2013
In Billy Wilder’s excellent 1951 drama Ace in the Hole, which is a classic showcase of media manipulation, ambitious city-slicker reporter Chuck Tatum (played by an enthusiastic Kirk Douglas) finds himself stuck in Albuquerque, New Mexico with hopes to find that one big story that will jettison him to the big-leagues again. Tatum lucks out when he is informed about a man trapped in a cave-in and uses this opportunity to break big. When Tatum’s photographer asks why this will make a big story, Tatum responds that it’s a “human interest” subject and that if you can get readers to sympathize with the narrative then you have the reader’s attention. But, he also elaborates that a human interest story has to focus on one person; if you focus on others involved with the story,...
- 1/16/2015
- by Christopher Koenig
- SoundOnSight
Sneak Peek new images of Amanda Seyfried in a recent issue of "Elle" (UK) magazine, plus take another look @ Nsfw images of the actress in the film "Lovelace":
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Cast also includes Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband...
"...disclosing the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Cast also includes Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband...
"...disclosing the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
- 8/31/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Take another look @ revealing Nsfw images, plus footage of actress Amanda Seyfried, from the restricted feature "Lovelace":
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband...disclosing the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband...disclosing the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
- 5/28/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek actress Amanda Seyfried in the January 2014 issue of "Elle" (Korea) magazine, plus take another look @ Nsfw images of the actress in the film "Lovelace":
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Cast also includes Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband...
"...disclosing the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Cast also includes Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband...
"...disclosing the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
- 1/11/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Take another look @ revealing Nsfw images of Amanda Seyfried, from the feature "Lovelace":
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband and discloses the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband and discloses the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
- 1/5/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Chris Noth, Bobby Cannavale, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Chloë Sevigny, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, Ron Pritchard | Written by Andy Bellin | Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Amanda Seyfried, arguably best known for her wide-eyed performances in films such as Mean Girls andMama Mia!, is perhaps not who you might expect to be cast as Linda Lovelace in a serious and confrontational film about spousal abuse. Defying expectations, however, is usually a good thing.
Lovelace is a different film to what you might expect based on its poster campaign, which seems to suggest a frothy, saucy take on the subject matter and you might be forgiven for viewing the film in this way for its first half. Linda is introduced as a fairly shy young woman, who gets mixed up with a very unpleasant man in...
Amanda Seyfried, arguably best known for her wide-eyed performances in films such as Mean Girls andMama Mia!, is perhaps not who you might expect to be cast as Linda Lovelace in a serious and confrontational film about spousal abuse. Defying expectations, however, is usually a good thing.
Lovelace is a different film to what you might expect based on its poster campaign, which seems to suggest a frothy, saucy take on the subject matter and you might be forgiven for viewing the film in this way for its first half. Linda is introduced as a fairly shy young woman, who gets mixed up with a very unpleasant man in...
- 12/23/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Chicago – Another week of a hodge podge of new Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming releases that we call What to Watch. Looking for something new? Something very old? Something rare? Something from TV? There’s a little bit of everything and even a story about porn too. Check it out, ranked in how interesting I find them.
Intolerance
Photo credit: Cohen Media Group
“Intolerance”
“Intolerance” would be a massive, amazing undertaking in 2013. Can you even put in perspective what it was like 100 years ago? Arguably one of the most important and influential silent films ever made, “Intolerance” runs almost three hours and covers centuries of storytelling. It’s a fascinating film both in the history of cinema and the way it addressed cultural concerns of the time. Cohen Media Group continues to expertly restore and highlight great films. They’re quickly rising the ranks of the most important Blu-ray studios working today.
Intolerance
Photo credit: Cohen Media Group
“Intolerance”
“Intolerance” would be a massive, amazing undertaking in 2013. Can you even put in perspective what it was like 100 years ago? Arguably one of the most important and influential silent films ever made, “Intolerance” runs almost three hours and covers centuries of storytelling. It’s a fascinating film both in the history of cinema and the way it addressed cultural concerns of the time. Cohen Media Group continues to expertly restore and highlight great films. They’re quickly rising the ranks of the most important Blu-ray studios working today.
- 11/5/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
VOD is all the rage right now, and for good reason (check out our November list). But while it's gratifying to know that you can watch pretty much anything with the simple click of a button, there's something comforting about tearing into a DVD/Blu-ray case and popping the disc into your player. That, and not even a VOD film in HD, can rival the clarity a Blu-ray disc offers. To keep you up to date with the current goings-on in the home video marketplace, here are the new releases worth your time and money. "Lovelace" "Lovelace," starring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone and Adam Brody, tells the story of porn star-turned feminist activist Linda Boreman (Seyfried). Longing to escape her conservative Catholic upbringing, Linda falls into the arms of her hustler husband Chuck Traynor who exploits and abuses her as she transitions from porn star sensation Linda Lovelace to an anti-pornography feminist activist.
- 11/5/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
The life of Linda Lovelace, one of the most controversial figures of early ’70s pop culture received a dramatization earlier this year in the period biopic Lovelace. Ms Lovelace was of course the star of Deep Throat in 1972, the most popular and influential porn film not only of that decade, but of all time. Deep Throat remains the tawdry film which — by introducing hardcore sex into the mainstream — ushered in the infinitely more explicit internet porn that is now only a keyboard click away. Completed in less than a week, with all interior shots filmed in the same cheap Florida hotel room, the 61-minute Deep Throat cost just $30,000 to make but earned an estimated $600 million — making it the most lucrative film ever made. Was Lovelace a victim of drug abuse and prostitution, a slave to Chuck Traynor, her controlling, mean-tempered husband, or was she a willing participant in the adult film industry?...
- 11/4/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 5, 2013
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Anchor Bay
Amanda Seyfried is adult film icon Linda Lovelace in Lovelace.
Amanda Seyfried (In Time) and Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern) star in a 2013 film drama about the iconic Seventies adult film star Linda Lovelace in the drama Lovelace.
In 1972—before the internet, before the adult film explosion—Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted adult theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace (Seyfried). Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high-life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor (Sarsgaard). As Linda Lovelace, she became an international sensation—less centerfold fantasy than a charming girl-next-door with an impressive capacity for fellatio. After struggling to break free from Traynor whose endless abuse nearly killed her, Linda made it her life’s mission to fight violence against women.
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Anchor Bay
Amanda Seyfried is adult film icon Linda Lovelace in Lovelace.
Amanda Seyfried (In Time) and Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern) star in a 2013 film drama about the iconic Seventies adult film star Linda Lovelace in the drama Lovelace.
In 1972—before the internet, before the adult film explosion—Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted adult theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace (Seyfried). Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high-life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor (Sarsgaard). As Linda Lovelace, she became an international sensation—less centerfold fantasy than a charming girl-next-door with an impressive capacity for fellatio. After struggling to break free from Traynor whose endless abuse nearly killed her, Linda made it her life’s mission to fight violence against women.
- 10/25/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Sneak Peek revealing Nsfw images of Amanda Seyfried, from the feature "Lovelace":
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband and discloses the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
"Lovelace"was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.
"...in 'Lovelace', Linda (Seyfried) gets under the all-consuming influence of her abusive husband and self-declared manager, 'Chuck Traynor' (Sarsgaard).
"He uses all means possible to persuade her to comply with his demands.
"The fragile woman becomes an infamous porn star and seems to be happy...
"But she eventually breaks free from her husband and discloses the truth in order to prevent other women from getting similarly exploited..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Lovelace"...
- 9/17/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Lovelace, the moderately controversial film about porn legend Linda Lovelace is making its way to Blu-Ray and DVD on November 5th. It’s a cast that’s hard to argue with, and a film that is sure to get people talking.
There doesn’t seem to be word on the bonus features yet, and that could be a wild meeting in itself. Get all the info below, and mark your calendars.
From Academy Award® winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Best Documentary, Features, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, 1989) comes the harrowing true story Lovelace, debuting on Blu-ray™ and DVD on November 5th from Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS-twc. The true story of fame, abuse and betrayal set against the sexual revolution of the 1970s stars Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables, In Time) as icon Linda Lovelace and Golden Globe® nominee Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern, Jar Head, Flightplan) as her abusive husband,...
There doesn’t seem to be word on the bonus features yet, and that could be a wild meeting in itself. Get all the info below, and mark your calendars.
From Academy Award® winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Best Documentary, Features, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, 1989) comes the harrowing true story Lovelace, debuting on Blu-ray™ and DVD on November 5th from Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS-twc. The true story of fame, abuse and betrayal set against the sexual revolution of the 1970s stars Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables, In Time) as icon Linda Lovelace and Golden Globe® nominee Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern, Jar Head, Flightplan) as her abusive husband,...
- 9/11/2013
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Amanda Seyfried earnestly attempts an honest portrayal of Linda Boreman, but the Deep Throat actor remains a mystery
• Reel history on Fair Game
• Reel history on The Enigma of Kasper Hauser
• Reel history on Land of the Pharaohs
Directors: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: C+
Linda Boreman, credited as Linda Lovelace, was the star of 1972 porn film Deep Throat. Later in life, she became a prominent figure in the anti-pornography movement.
Structure
Lovelace is a film in two parts. In the first, a young, naive and compliant Linda (Amanda Seyfried) falls in love with shady Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), stars in Deep Throat and achieves fame in a whirl of kitschy 70s glamour. Then the film flips back to the beginning and starts filling in the nasty bits it left out the first time round. This is a clever way to handle Boreman's own take on events.
• Reel history on Fair Game
• Reel history on The Enigma of Kasper Hauser
• Reel history on Land of the Pharaohs
Directors: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: C+
Linda Boreman, credited as Linda Lovelace, was the star of 1972 porn film Deep Throat. Later in life, she became a prominent figure in the anti-pornography movement.
Structure
Lovelace is a film in two parts. In the first, a young, naive and compliant Linda (Amanda Seyfried) falls in love with shady Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), stars in Deep Throat and achieves fame in a whirl of kitschy 70s glamour. Then the film flips back to the beginning and starts filling in the nasty bits it left out the first time round. This is a clever way to handle Boreman's own take on events.
- 8/29/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Washington, August 27: Famous adult movie star Linda Lovelace was apparently forced by her then husband Chuck Traynor, into making porn movies.
Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who claims to have known Lovelace and Traynor, told CNN that she was just being used every step of the way.
Flynt asserted that the 'Deep Throat' star wasn't in the situation where she would wake up every morning and think that she couldn't wait to get to work.
Flynt believes that Traynor prostituted Lovelace and was quite controlling of her, adding that is the reason why he refers to Traynor as a pimp.
The upcoming biopic.
Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who claims to have known Lovelace and Traynor, told CNN that she was just being used every step of the way.
Flynt asserted that the 'Deep Throat' star wasn't in the situation where she would wake up every morning and think that she couldn't wait to get to work.
Flynt believes that Traynor prostituted Lovelace and was quite controlling of her, adding that is the reason why he refers to Traynor as a pimp.
The upcoming biopic.
- 8/27/2013
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Why did two of radical feminism's biggest names decide to advise the makers of the new movie about the late porn star Linda Lovelace?
Seeing the names of two of radical feminism's most famous activists pop out in the closing credits of Lovelace might have surprised filmgoers over the weekend. The biopic about the star of the notorious 1972 porn film Deep Throat came with help from Catharine MacKinnon, a lawyer and anti-pornography campaigner, and Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms magazine.
The pair met Linda "Lovelace" Marchiano just before she released her (third) memoir, Ordeal, in 1980. In it, she wrote of being abused, pimped and raped by her then husband Chuck Traynor who reportedly forced her to make Deep Throat at gunpoint. The three of them worked as anti-porn campaigners for the next two decades and MacKinnon became Linda's lawyer. MacKinnon has represented Linda's children and estate since the actor-turned-activist died...
Seeing the names of two of radical feminism's most famous activists pop out in the closing credits of Lovelace might have surprised filmgoers over the weekend. The biopic about the star of the notorious 1972 porn film Deep Throat came with help from Catharine MacKinnon, a lawyer and anti-pornography campaigner, and Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms magazine.
The pair met Linda "Lovelace" Marchiano just before she released her (third) memoir, Ordeal, in 1980. In it, she wrote of being abused, pimped and raped by her then husband Chuck Traynor who reportedly forced her to make Deep Throat at gunpoint. The three of them worked as anti-porn campaigners for the next two decades and MacKinnon became Linda's lawyer. MacKinnon has represented Linda's children and estate since the actor-turned-activist died...
- 8/27/2013
- by Hannah Marriott
- The Guardian - Film News
The story of Linda Lovelace and Deep Throat feels as dodgy as its subject matter
For a brief, demented period in the early 1970s, hardcore pornography became fashionable among America's professional middle classes, and was predicted to be the next big thing in popular culture. The central exhibit for this claim was Deep Throat, and its star, the 22-year-old Linda Lovelace, playing a young woman dedicated to fellatio after discovering that her clitoris was in her throat, became an icon. The movie's title entered the language via Watergate, and Lovelace became the subject of a thousand jokes (eg How did Linda Lovelace's grandmother die? She went down on the Titanic).
This dubious, dislikable film starring Amanda Seyfried as Lovelace has it both ways by telling her story as a raunchy Rashomon. First there's the romantic tale of her liberation by Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), proprietor of a Florida "titty...
For a brief, demented period in the early 1970s, hardcore pornography became fashionable among America's professional middle classes, and was predicted to be the next big thing in popular culture. The central exhibit for this claim was Deep Throat, and its star, the 22-year-old Linda Lovelace, playing a young woman dedicated to fellatio after discovering that her clitoris was in her throat, became an icon. The movie's title entered the language via Watergate, and Lovelace became the subject of a thousand jokes (eg How did Linda Lovelace's grandmother die? She went down on the Titanic).
This dubious, dislikable film starring Amanda Seyfried as Lovelace has it both ways by telling her story as a raunchy Rashomon. First there's the romantic tale of her liberation by Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), proprietor of a Florida "titty...
- 8/24/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
A biopic of infamous porn star Linda Lovelace, whose 1972 film Deep Throat, showcasing her unique 'talents', helped bring the porn industry to main stream attention, Lovelace stars Amanda Seyfried in the title role, charting her life in the industry, as well as her later life as an anti-porn activist, with the most focus being put on her ill fated marriage with the abusive Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), who, declaring himself her manager, controlled every aspect of her life. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jerry Friedman, Lovelace perfectly captures the look and the feel of the Seventies, and with the focus being put on Linda's marriage, it has found the great hook to tell a powerful and interesting story. The film is basically a two hander, with Seyfried and Sarsgaard giving it their all in their roles. Seyfried perfectly captures the slowly eroding innocence of the character, and is thoroughly convincing...
- 8/24/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
In 1972, the hardcore porno Deep Throat became an unaccountably huge mainstream hit, and its star, Linda Lovelace, became a poster girl for the sexual revolution. But in her 1980 memoir Ordeal, she revealed that, far from liberated, she'd actually been forced into the business by her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor. After which, she became a poster girl for the feminist anti-porn movement.
- 8/23/2013
- The Independent - Film
The story of Linda Lovelace unfashionably links blue movies with domestic violence, and owes a lot to Boogie Nights – but it raises a deeper issue, too
• Amanda Seyfried interviewed
• Peter Sarsgaard interviewed
It's sometimes said that in the smiling face of every Hollywood star something awful can be glimpsed if you look hard enough. Something in the glaze of the eyes, or the set of the teeth – the suppressed memory of that entry fee paid at the beginning of a movie career: the casting-couch humiliation or nauseating debasement long ago, when the star was a powerless youth. That came back to me watching this interesting, heartfelt if flawed study of Linda Boreman, who as "Linda Lovelace" was the star of the smash hit 1972 porn film Deep Throat; she was briefly in the celebrity vanguard of that porno chic which famously failed to impress Cybill Shepherd in Taxi Driver (1976) and whose...
• Amanda Seyfried interviewed
• Peter Sarsgaard interviewed
It's sometimes said that in the smiling face of every Hollywood star something awful can be glimpsed if you look hard enough. Something in the glaze of the eyes, or the set of the teeth – the suppressed memory of that entry fee paid at the beginning of a movie career: the casting-couch humiliation or nauseating debasement long ago, when the star was a powerless youth. That came back to me watching this interesting, heartfelt if flawed study of Linda Boreman, who as "Linda Lovelace" was the star of the smash hit 1972 porn film Deep Throat; she was briefly in the celebrity vanguard of that porno chic which famously failed to impress Cybill Shepherd in Taxi Driver (1976) and whose...
- 8/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1972, the hardcore porno Deep Throat became an unaccountably huge mainstream hit, and its star, Linda Lovelace, became a poster girl for the sexual revolution. But in her 1980 memoir Ordeal, she revealed that, far from liberated, she'd actually been forced into the business by her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor. After which, she became a poster girl for the feminist anti-porn movement.
- 8/22/2013
- The Independent - Film
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Chris Noth, Bobby Cannavale, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Chloë Sevigny, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, Ron Pritchard | Written by Andy Bellin | Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Amanda Seyfried, arguably best known for her wide-eyed performances in films such as Mean Girls and Mama Mia!, is perhaps not who you might expect to be cast as Linda Lovelace in a serious and confrontational film about spousal abuse. Defying expectations, however, is usually a good thing.
Lovelace is a different film to what you might expect based on its poster campaign, which seems to suggest a frothy, saucy take on the subject matter and you might be forgiven for viewing the film in this way for its first half. Linda is introduced as a fairly shy young woman, who gets mixed up with a very unpleasant man...
Amanda Seyfried, arguably best known for her wide-eyed performances in films such as Mean Girls and Mama Mia!, is perhaps not who you might expect to be cast as Linda Lovelace in a serious and confrontational film about spousal abuse. Defying expectations, however, is usually a good thing.
Lovelace is a different film to what you might expect based on its poster campaign, which seems to suggest a frothy, saucy take on the subject matter and you might be forgiven for viewing the film in this way for its first half. Linda is introduced as a fairly shy young woman, who gets mixed up with a very unpleasant man...
- 8/22/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
★★☆☆☆ In 1972, Gerard Damiano's cult porno Deep Throat launched the short-lived but infamous career of Linda Lovelace, as well as pushing 'adult entertainment' into the American public consciousness after the film went on to become a box office smash. Now, Amanda Seyfried takes on the role of the doe-eyed girl next door turned scandalous sex symbol in Lovelace (2013). We open as the sweet and innocent 21-year-old Linda meets the seemingly charming Chuck Traynor (a moustachioed Peter Sarsgaard) at a local skate rink. Fast-forward a couple of months and the pair are happily married, but extremely short on cash.
Sadly, Lovelace's mutton-chopped husband soon shows his dark side when he convinces her to become a porn star. Saturated in a kitschy 70s aesthetic, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (the duo behind Ginsberg biopic Howl) quickly show their true colours, more concerned with aesthetics and narrative gimmickry - provided by writer Andy Bellin...
Sadly, Lovelace's mutton-chopped husband soon shows his dark side when he convinces her to become a porn star. Saturated in a kitschy 70s aesthetic, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (the duo behind Ginsberg biopic Howl) quickly show their true colours, more concerned with aesthetics and narrative gimmickry - provided by writer Andy Bellin...
- 8/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Chris Noth, Bobby Cannavale, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Chloë Sevigny, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, Ron Pritchard | Written by Andy Bellin | Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Another example of Hollywood trying to develop two similar projects at the same time, Lovelace beats rival biopic Inferno to the big screen. A document of the rise to fame of fledgling porn star Linda Lovelace and the abuse suffered by her at the hands of husband Chuck Traynor, Lovelace is a fairly stock biopic illuminated by its case and a somewhat surface level increase in interest due to its narrative structure.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s film is one of two halves, mixing the usual template of a biopic up by offering two different perspectives, a slightly more “Hollywood” version of events where Linda and Chuck have a romance,...
Another example of Hollywood trying to develop two similar projects at the same time, Lovelace beats rival biopic Inferno to the big screen. A document of the rise to fame of fledgling porn star Linda Lovelace and the abuse suffered by her at the hands of husband Chuck Traynor, Lovelace is a fairly stock biopic illuminated by its case and a somewhat surface level increase in interest due to its narrative structure.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s film is one of two halves, mixing the usual template of a biopic up by offering two different perspectives, a slightly more “Hollywood” version of events where Linda and Chuck have a romance,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Ian Loring
- Nerdly
Amanda Seyfried stars in this week's biopic Lovelace as infamous '70s porn actress Linda Lovelace, who is best-known for her role in 1972's Deep Throat, and her later work as an anti-pornography activist.
Directed by Howl's Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the film centres on the production of Deep Throat and Lovelace's relationship with her abusive husband and manager Chuck Traynor.
Digital Spy sat down with Seyfried last week to discuss the powerful stigma attached to sex as opposed to violence in Hollywood, and her misgivings about taking on the role of Lovelace.
Seyfried also discussed her dynamic with co-star Peter Sarsgaard, who plays Traynor. Adam Brody, Juno Temple, Sharon Stone, James Franco and Chloë Sevigny are among the supporting cast.
Lovelace is released in the UK this Friday (August 23).
Gallery - Lovelace in pictures:...
Directed by Howl's Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the film centres on the production of Deep Throat and Lovelace's relationship with her abusive husband and manager Chuck Traynor.
Digital Spy sat down with Seyfried last week to discuss the powerful stigma attached to sex as opposed to violence in Hollywood, and her misgivings about taking on the role of Lovelace.
Seyfried also discussed her dynamic with co-star Peter Sarsgaard, who plays Traynor. Adam Brody, Juno Temple, Sharon Stone, James Franco and Chloë Sevigny are among the supporting cast.
Lovelace is released in the UK this Friday (August 23).
Gallery - Lovelace in pictures:...
- 8/21/2013
- Digital Spy
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman; Screenwriter: Merritt Johnson; Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Wes Bentley, Hank Azaria; Running time: 93 mins; Certificate: 18
Linda Lovelace soaks in the bath, looking like she might as well drown it, while in the background the disembodied voice of a TV pundit hails her "the poster child for the sexual revolution". Amanda Seyfried bears the burden of playing that '70s porn star with a fair amount of grace, but she's been sold cheaply by a script that's as scanty as her wardrobe.
Far from being a tale of revolution and empowerment, this is a chronicle of the abuse endured by Lovelace, mainly at the hands of her husband Chuck Traynor. Peter Saarsgard makes the flesh crawl in that role, first eyeballing Linda while she shakes her young booty at a club. Just why she is drawn to him is a mystery...
Linda Lovelace soaks in the bath, looking like she might as well drown it, while in the background the disembodied voice of a TV pundit hails her "the poster child for the sexual revolution". Amanda Seyfried bears the burden of playing that '70s porn star with a fair amount of grace, but she's been sold cheaply by a script that's as scanty as her wardrobe.
Far from being a tale of revolution and empowerment, this is a chronicle of the abuse endured by Lovelace, mainly at the hands of her husband Chuck Traynor. Peter Saarsgard makes the flesh crawl in that role, first eyeballing Linda while she shakes her young booty at a club. Just why she is drawn to him is a mystery...
- 8/20/2013
- Digital Spy
To celebrate this Friday’s release of Lovelace, we’ve got three posters signed by the film’s star, Amanda Seyfried, and three copies of Linda Lovelace’s memoir Ordeal to give away!
Lovelace stars Amanda Seyfried in the iconic title role of Linda Lovelace and Golden Globe nominee Peter Sarsgaard as her charismatic but controlling husband Chuck Traynor. Inspired by the real life story of Linda Marchiano, Lovelace is a true story of fame, abuse and betrayal set against the sexual revolution of the 1970s, co-directed by Academy Award winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman (Howl, The Celluloid Closet).
In 1972, before the internet, before the porn explosion, Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high-life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor.
Lovelace stars Amanda Seyfried in the iconic title role of Linda Lovelace and Golden Globe nominee Peter Sarsgaard as her charismatic but controlling husband Chuck Traynor. Inspired by the real life story of Linda Marchiano, Lovelace is a true story of fame, abuse and betrayal set against the sexual revolution of the 1970s, co-directed by Academy Award winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman (Howl, The Celluloid Closet).
In 1972, before the internet, before the porn explosion, Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high-life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor.
- 8/19/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Amanda Seyfried and Sharon Stone interviews for Lovelace. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Linda Lovelace became the first main stream porn star when “Deep Throat” was released in 1972. But few know the story behind the scenes that is detailed in the film “Lovelace,” which is currently in limited release. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (“Howl,” “The Celluloid Closet”), Amanda Seyfried portrays the late actress, born Linda Boreman, who, according to her biography, was forced into making “Deep Throat” by her abusive husband/manager, Chuck Traynor (played by Peter Sarsgaard).
- 8/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film fetishises the 70s porn style, then tuts at all the exploitation
• News: Deep Throat lawsuit threatens to swallow Lovelace
• Peter Sarsgaard interviewed for Lovelace
• Lovelace: first look review from Sundance
There's plenty to admire about Lovelace, the second feature from documentarians Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (their first was Howl), including a surprisingly nuanced performance from Amanda Seyfried as the tragic frontierswoman of 70s hardcore porn, and sterling work from Peter Sarsgaard as Lovelace's husband/manager/pimp/owner/dungeonkeeper Chuck Traynor, and from Robert Patrick and Sharon Stone as her emotionally repressed working-class parents. Stone is almost unrecognisable as Linda's ice-cold, Livia Soprano-esque mother, who keeps telling her frightened daughter: "Go back to your husband." (Lovelace, incidentally, has more than a passing kinship with Stone's own tragic heroine in Casino.)
Plus it's the 1970s, so the costume department get to go hog-wild on bellbottoms,...
• News: Deep Throat lawsuit threatens to swallow Lovelace
• Peter Sarsgaard interviewed for Lovelace
• Lovelace: first look review from Sundance
There's plenty to admire about Lovelace, the second feature from documentarians Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (their first was Howl), including a surprisingly nuanced performance from Amanda Seyfried as the tragic frontierswoman of 70s hardcore porn, and sterling work from Peter Sarsgaard as Lovelace's husband/manager/pimp/owner/dungeonkeeper Chuck Traynor, and from Robert Patrick and Sharon Stone as her emotionally repressed working-class parents. Stone is almost unrecognisable as Linda's ice-cold, Livia Soprano-esque mother, who keeps telling her frightened daughter: "Go back to your husband." (Lovelace, incidentally, has more than a passing kinship with Stone's own tragic heroine in Casino.)
Plus it's the 1970s, so the costume department get to go hog-wild on bellbottoms,...
- 8/19/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Amanda Seyfried dressed in a sexy, sheer Gucci number to attend a special screening of her film Lovelace at the Mayfair Hotel in London yesterday. She was joined overseas by her costar Peter Sarsgaard, who plays her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, in the film, and the duo showed off their chemistry as they embraced for the festivities. Amanda has been staying busy with her promotional duties surrounding the movie lately, and she was up and at it again this morning for a stop by London's Capital radio. Amanda plays famed 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace in the biopic, which she has deemed the "riskiest thing in Hollywood." For her portrayal of Linda, Amanda's nudity in the film has been a topic of conversation, which she seemed to embrace, revealing, "It's funny, because I felt liberated when I was doing it. I'm sure people that are very protective of me wouldn't feel very comfortable with that,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Meghan Rooney
- Popsugar.com
The new clip from Lovelace is here. This movie is a story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the p*rn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life. Amanda Seyfried plays Lovelace while Peter Sarsgaard plays the role of her abusive husband/manager, Chuck Traynor. The Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman-helmed flick also stars James Franco (as Hugh Hefner, of all people), Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Hank Azaria, Chris Noth, Chloe Sevigny, Juno Temple, and Robert Patrick and Sharon Stone as Lovelace’s disapproving parents. Here’s the synopsis for the movie In 1972—before the internet, before the porn...
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- 8/12/2013
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Lovelace
Directed by: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, James Franco
Running Time: 1 hr 32 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Plot: The story of Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace (Seyfried) and her relationship with abusive manager Chuck Traynor (Sarsgaard).
Who’S It For? Not really sure. Those who like to be bummed out about the control of the porn industry? At the very least, fans of Seyfried who will follow her to even the messiest of projects.
Overall
Amanda Seyfried is fitfully, but unfortunately servant in Lovelace, a movie that confirms Boogie Nights might have a monopoly on widespread films about the porn industry. While it does take a commendable amount of lady cojones for an actress to attempt to represent such a complicated figure, one wouldn’t recognize such an attitude, as the former Mean Girls star is constantly...
Directed by: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, James Franco
Running Time: 1 hr 32 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Plot: The story of Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace (Seyfried) and her relationship with abusive manager Chuck Traynor (Sarsgaard).
Who’S It For? Not really sure. Those who like to be bummed out about the control of the porn industry? At the very least, fans of Seyfried who will follow her to even the messiest of projects.
Overall
Amanda Seyfried is fitfully, but unfortunately servant in Lovelace, a movie that confirms Boogie Nights might have a monopoly on widespread films about the porn industry. While it does take a commendable amount of lady cojones for an actress to attempt to represent such a complicated figure, one wouldn’t recognize such an attitude, as the former Mean Girls star is constantly...
- 8/11/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
A film about a woman with a clitoris that is hidden deep down at the bottom of her throat, the iconic film Deep Throat starred a naive and unsuspecting Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) who was basically just doing the bidding of her violently controlling husband, Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's cursory bio-pic, Lovelace, covers Lovelace's life from when she first met the ridiculously maniacal Traynor to the publication of her revealing autobiography, Ordeal. Constantly jumping around in the timeline, Lovelace plays like a string of vignettes rather than a cohesive narrative. Other than a few fleeting scenes of domestic violence, Lovelace's life does not seem nearly as dire as her autobiography suggests. Epstein and Friedman completely shy away from Lovelace's history of drug abuse, her unhappy childhood and her feelings about the porn industry. Other than Traynor, the porn industry revealed in...
- 8/10/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Lindsay Lohan was up for a role as Linda Lovelace, and I'm fairly certain it would have been worth the hell of having her bad self on set. The real Lovelace gave off a blow-job-queen-next-door aura that was later belied — shockingly — by her stories of abuse at the hands of her spouse-agent-pimp. Good as Amanda Seyfried is, she's too conventionally pretty and demure to capture the blowsiness that is (sadly) natural to Lohan nowadays.The biopic we have, Lovelace, is a straightforward story of victimhood enlivened by fun seventies montages (what a cringe-worthy era — everyone wore costumes) and some big yet finely tuned performances. You have to put up with the usual biopic clunkery, but by the time the fresh-faced Linda is sprung from her ultrareligious home by scruffy hustler Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), our curiosity is piqued: Just how much of Linda’s talent will Seyfried be required...
- 8/9/2013
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Chicago – It was one of the strangest star-is-born stories in show business history. One porn film – “Deep Throat” – permeates the American consciousness at precisely the right time. The “lead” actress in the film becomes a household name – and then becomes a victim of it – in ‘Lovelace.’
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film is the story of Linda Boreman, Aka Linda Lovelace, during a crucial ten years of her existence. “Deep Throat” was released in 1972, and “Lovelace” chronicles the before and after effect of that film on Linda Boreman. This is brutal stuff, for the world of pornography isn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows. The new crowned Linda Lovelace is manipulated by her husband Chuck Traynor, and forced into a celebrity that involves an exaggerated skill set (as all pornography portrays), virtually no pay (despite the film making several hundred million dollars) and a husband willing to sell her into essential prostitution. Amanda Seyfried...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film is the story of Linda Boreman, Aka Linda Lovelace, during a crucial ten years of her existence. “Deep Throat” was released in 1972, and “Lovelace” chronicles the before and after effect of that film on Linda Boreman. This is brutal stuff, for the world of pornography isn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows. The new crowned Linda Lovelace is manipulated by her husband Chuck Traynor, and forced into a celebrity that involves an exaggerated skill set (as all pornography portrays), virtually no pay (despite the film making several hundred million dollars) and a husband willing to sell her into essential prostitution. Amanda Seyfried...
- 8/9/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
With so many travel-themed films hitting theaters this weekend, here are a few reviews to help save you a trip or send you on a first-class flight. See This: Elysium With extinction events hitting Earth every opening weekend, it's a full on Armageddon summer at the movies. But the intriguing Elysium offers a slightly different take on the dystopian future: a world we only wish had ended. Director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) offers a mid-22nd century Earth that almost no one will want to live on, with its poverty, rampant crime and general sense of hopelessness. (Shooting the film...
- 8/9/2013
- by PEOPLE Movie Critic Alynda Wheat
- PEOPLE.com
Not so much a film about Linda Lovelace as a film about a bunch of things that happen to Linda Lovelace, including a destructive marriage to seemingly complete, total, bonafide scumbag sonofabitch Chuck Traynor, "Lovelace" is a glossy, starry package featuring loving '70s set design, costuming and narratively crucial hairstyling (more on that later). But, the main question was always around the casting of the leading lady, especially given that the last few years have seen a flurry of names come and go from both this and rival Lovelace project “Inferno” (which famously once boasted Seyfried’s “Mean Girls” co-star Lindsay Lohan). Yes, Lovelace was herself by many accounts a very sweet and warm person, but she was also the first porn superstar, and later on a vocal anti-porn crusader; we knew Seyfried could play the white swan, but could she play the black swan? Actually she probably could have,...
- 8/9/2013
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
The actor on his distinctive voice and feeling weak and pathetic playing a pornographer in Lovelace
I heard you had some difficulties with the role of Chuck Traynor – the pornographer who worked on Deep Throat – in Lovelace. What were they?
I've played a lot of violent people, a lot of people who are not heroes. I don't mind doing that. But violence towards women is difficult for me to imagine. My wife (1) was pregnant at the time and I'm not someone who "sort-of" does something – I would try to be in the head of this person and it wasn't nice. I also knew the film was not interested in fully understanding what made him tick because it's Linda's story. But my wife encouraged me to do it. I kept saying I didn't want to but I kept not turning it down and she said "clearly there must be some reason...
I heard you had some difficulties with the role of Chuck Traynor – the pornographer who worked on Deep Throat – in Lovelace. What were they?
I've played a lot of violent people, a lot of people who are not heroes. I don't mind doing that. But violence towards women is difficult for me to imagine. My wife (1) was pregnant at the time and I'm not someone who "sort-of" does something – I would try to be in the head of this person and it wasn't nice. I also knew the film was not interested in fully understanding what made him tick because it's Linda's story. But my wife encouraged me to do it. I kept saying I didn't want to but I kept not turning it down and she said "clearly there must be some reason...
- 8/9/2013
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
I don't suppose any biopic of 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace could be definitive--there were too many facets to her life, before and after she achieved worldwide notoriety for her "performance" in Deep Throat—but Lovelace makes a good stab. Amanda Seyfried delivers a fearless and sympathetic portrayal of the young woman who is led into very dark places by a smooth-talking hustler named Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). Her unusual prowess at fellatio becomes her stepping stone to fame, propelling Deep Throat to unprecedented success at a time when pornographic films were still screened in movie theaters and the Internet was not yet on the horizon. Screenwriter Andy Bellin...
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- 8/9/2013
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Overcoming gender stereotypes in Hollywood can be a difficult process for many young actresses as they enter adulthood and start searching for mature roles to define who they truly are, both professionally and personally. Amanda Seyfried, who rose to fame in her breakout role as the dimwitted Karen in Mean Girls, is striving to prove her ability to emotionally and accurately portray a struggling, but determined, character in her new film, Lovelace. The independent biographical drama not only allows the actress to transform Linda Lovelace’s initial naivety into determination to break free from the pornography business, but also allows Seyfried the chance to prove she can anchor sophisticated roles.
Lovelace chronicles the phenomenon of Deep Throat, the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda Boreman (Amanda Seyfried) discovered freedom and the...
Lovelace chronicles the phenomenon of Deep Throat, the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda Boreman (Amanda Seyfried) discovered freedom and the...
- 8/8/2013
- by Karen Benardello
- We Got This Covered
I do not understand why this movie was made.
I can fully comprehend the impulse to produce a biopic about Linda Lovelace, as she is an undeniably fascinating subject, but at no point during Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace did I have any grasp whatsoever on any meaningful reason for why this specific film exists. It is utterly and absolutely empty, devoid of any thoughtful or insightful angle on the story it tells and entirely uninterested in any of the deeper social, ethical, political, and, of course, sexual implications therein. Concerned instead with telling its story in the most manipulative, exploitative way possible, Lovelace is one of the fluffiest, least substantive biopics I have ever seen. The film does not merely have an identity crisis – it has no identity to speak of, whatsoever, and nothing to offer viewers drawn in by the inherently interesting nature of the subject.
I can fully comprehend the impulse to produce a biopic about Linda Lovelace, as she is an undeniably fascinating subject, but at no point during Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace did I have any grasp whatsoever on any meaningful reason for why this specific film exists. It is utterly and absolutely empty, devoid of any thoughtful or insightful angle on the story it tells and entirely uninterested in any of the deeper social, ethical, political, and, of course, sexual implications therein. Concerned instead with telling its story in the most manipulative, exploitative way possible, Lovelace is one of the fluffiest, least substantive biopics I have ever seen. The film does not merely have an identity crisis – it has no identity to speak of, whatsoever, and nothing to offer viewers drawn in by the inherently interesting nature of the subject.
- 8/8/2013
- by Jonathan R. Lack
- We Got This Covered
Editor’s note: Kate’s review of Lovelace originally ran during this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but we’re re-posting it now as the film opens in limited theatrical release this weekend. For whatever reason, the story of adult film legend Linda Lovelace has proven to be particular enticing material as of late, with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace only the first of two Lovelace biopics to hit screens this year. Epstein and Freidman’s film is the one that stars Amanda Seyfried as Lovelace (or Boreman, or Marchiano, depending on the particular period of her life you are referring to) and Peter Sarsgaard as her bastard husband/Svengali, Chuck Traynor (because, really, who better to play the necessary bastard/Svengali role than Sarsgaard?). A generally straightforward and uninspired biopic (beyond a somewhat interesting storytelling conceit that pops up about midway through the film), Lovelace tracks Lovelace’s unlikely rise from regular girl to...
- 8/8/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This story first appeared in the Aug. 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Considering the subject of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's provocative new biopic Lovelace -- the late Linda Lovelace, star of 1972's notorious porn film Deep Throat -- the movie flashes very little skin. The film, based on Lovelace's tragic and revealing 1980 autobiography, Ordeal, features an extensive wardrobe of period re-creations in its depiction of her years as an unwilling prostitute and porn star, her eventual escape from an abusive pimp/husband, Chuck Traynor (played by Peter Sarsgaard), and her later role throughout the '80s as an anti-
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- 8/8/2013
- by Elizabeth Snead
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hot on the heels of the sexual revolution, 1972's pornographic breakout hit Deep Throat brought conservative America to its proverbial knees, raking in millions and turning its lead actress, Linda Lovelace, into a bona-fide star. In Lovelace, actress Amanda Seyfried does an admirable job of portraying Linda Susan Boreman (her pre-Lovelace name), a clenched and repressed young woman, cowed by a religious mother and ineffective father (played by an unrecognizable Sharon Stone and Terminator 2: Judgment Day's Robert Patrick), who finds herself when she chooses to go-go dance for a roller rink band. As fate would have it, Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard in full-on Thomas Jane Boogie Nights mode) is there that night, and quickly insinuates himself to the innocent little lamb that is Linda....
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- 8/8/2013
- Screen Anarchy
You might say Amanda Seyfried digs deep for her latest role. Hot off her winning performance as the innocent Cosette in last year's Les Misérables, the 27-year-old actress is earning accolades for a far more salacious character—that of infamous Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace, the subject of a biopic hitting theaters on Friday. Lovelace chronicles the adult film actress (real name Linda Boreman) during the heady days of the porn industry in the early '70s—before there was this thing called the Internet, when porn was relatively still hard to come by. The film costars Peter Sarsgaard as Linda's abusive husband and manager Chuck Traynor along with Sharon Stone as...
- 8/8/2013
- E! Online
Adam Brody became a household name the playing adorkable Seth Cohen on the hit Fox television show "The O.C." in the early 2000s. Since then, Brody has continued to be quite the working man, appearing in "Jennifer's Body," "Scream 4" and this year's "Some Girls," among several others.
This week, Brody is invading your living room (as well as select theaters) with the VOD release of "Lovelace." He appears as 1970s porn star Harry Reems, acting opposite Amanda Seyfried (who plays the titular Linda) and Peter Sarsgaard (as her husband). Brody's character is necessary comic relief in the film, which centers around the tumultuous, abusive relationship between Lovelace and her husband Chuck Traynor. He will also be seen onscreen alongside Paula Patton in the rom-com "Baggage Claim," due out September 27.
We caught up with Brody in New York City ahead of the release of "Lovelace" and got him to dish on porn,...
This week, Brody is invading your living room (as well as select theaters) with the VOD release of "Lovelace." He appears as 1970s porn star Harry Reems, acting opposite Amanda Seyfried (who plays the titular Linda) and Peter Sarsgaard (as her husband). Brody's character is necessary comic relief in the film, which centers around the tumultuous, abusive relationship between Lovelace and her husband Chuck Traynor. He will also be seen onscreen alongside Paula Patton in the rom-com "Baggage Claim," due out September 27.
We caught up with Brody in New York City ahead of the release of "Lovelace" and got him to dish on porn,...
- 8/8/2013
- by Christopher Rosa
- NextMovie
"Lovelace," the new film biography of the woman who starred in the most famous porn film of all time, "Deep Throat," struggles to find novelty in a story that plays as depressingly familiar.
It's the "pretty young thing corrupted by a monstrous control freak" tale that follows Linda Boreman from not-quite-innocent girl to porn star Linda Lovelace, her troubled life afterward and late life redemption.
Her real life was messier than even that suggests. But this brief, sketchy movie about that "anything goes era" can never decide if it wants to be history, amusing satire, or tragic cautionary tale.
Amanda Seyfried makes it worth watching, seriously sexing up her image with a fearless turn as a naive beauty with self-esteem issues who gained fame but not fortune for making a dirty movie that all of America -- it seemed -- took in.
Linda Boreman and her family -- an unrecognizable Sharon Stone as her worn,...
It's the "pretty young thing corrupted by a monstrous control freak" tale that follows Linda Boreman from not-quite-innocent girl to porn star Linda Lovelace, her troubled life afterward and late life redemption.
Her real life was messier than even that suggests. But this brief, sketchy movie about that "anything goes era" can never decide if it wants to be history, amusing satire, or tragic cautionary tale.
Amanda Seyfried makes it worth watching, seriously sexing up her image with a fearless turn as a naive beauty with self-esteem issues who gained fame but not fortune for making a dirty movie that all of America -- it seemed -- took in.
Linda Boreman and her family -- an unrecognizable Sharon Stone as her worn,...
- 8/8/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Fresh Lovelace movie posters have arrived for Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Lida Lovelace biopic starring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, Chloë Sevigny, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple. In 1972—before the internet, before the porn explosion—Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high-life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor. As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation—less centerfold fantasy than a charming girl-next-door with an impressive capacity for fellatio. Fully inhabiting her new identity, Linda became an enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom and uninhibited hedonism. Six years later she presented another, utterly contradictory, narrative to the world—and herself as...
- 8/8/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Weinsteins are not having the best time of it recently. With the lawsuit over Lee Daniels’ The Butler now resolved, and not in the Weinsteins favor, the company is once again faced with another legal battle. This one comes from Arrow Productions, the company responsible for the famed 1972 porn film Deep Throat. Arrow, it appears, is not happy with the Weinsteins’ recent film Lovelace, which stars Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat.
Arrow Productions claims that they have both the names Deep Throat and ‘Linda Lovelace’ copyrighted. Lovelace was the stage name of actress Linda Susan Boreman Traynor, who shot to stardom via Deep Throat and later came to regret making the film. Arrow says that Lovelace uses both copyrighted names, as well as recreating scenes from the original without permission. They also don’t like the way the film depicts Lovelace’s reaction to Deep Throat,...
Arrow Productions claims that they have both the names Deep Throat and ‘Linda Lovelace’ copyrighted. Lovelace was the stage name of actress Linda Susan Boreman Traynor, who shot to stardom via Deep Throat and later came to regret making the film. Arrow says that Lovelace uses both copyrighted names, as well as recreating scenes from the original without permission. They also don’t like the way the film depicts Lovelace’s reaction to Deep Throat,...
- 8/7/2013
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Los Angeles — The lurid celebrity and sordid aftermath of the brief career of the world's first porn star is vividly, if not explicitly, etched in "Lovelace." Given all the ways a project like this could have gone wrong, the result is surprisingly good on several fronts, beginning with a shrewd structure that fosters an intelligent dual perspective on the public and private aspects of the "Deep Throat" phenomenon. Leaving behind the overly academic approach they brought to an earlier cultural and censorship landmark in "Howl" three years ago, directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have made a real movie here.
Linda Lovelace was the nom de porn bestowed upon Florida girl Linda Boreman when she starred in her one and only hardcore feature, the 1972 film that became the adult film industry's first crossover smash, launched "porno chic" and went on to gross anywhere from $100 million to $600 million on an initial...
Linda Lovelace was the nom de porn bestowed upon Florida girl Linda Boreman when she starred in her one and only hardcore feature, the 1972 film that became the adult film industry's first crossover smash, launched "porno chic" and went on to gross anywhere from $100 million to $600 million on an initial...
- 8/7/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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