Michael Shannon Movies Blog

  Here’s a blink and you’ll miss it Shannon appearance with him listed as a cameo on the film’s Wikipedia page. The film is laden with familiar faces and it looks like the whole of the New York acting scene showed up to support director Peter Bogdanovich in what turned out to be his last feature. I hadn’t read up on the film before I watched it and it looked all the world like a Woody Allen effort. I guess they tread similar paths but the famous faces and unnecessary cameos smacked of a lazy effort at a last pay day. That may be a bit cynical but you do get the sense that the cast are having more fun than the viewer. The film is told in flashback with a seemingly successful actress Isabella, played ably by Imogen Poots, being interviewed about her career by Illeana Douglas. As she tells her story the film goes into flashback mode with the interview returned to periodically when a bit of exposition is required. Isabella is a wannabe New York actress who is living at hom...