In October, Freestyle Releasing will deliver Katherine Dieckmann’s “Motherhood” starring Uma Thurman and Minnie Driver.
Courtney Young assays “Tyler Perry’s Gender Problem” in The Nation.
Rupert Everett stars as Head Mistress Camilla Fritton in “St. Trinian’s,” the latest film adaptation based on the cartoons of Ronald Searle, which comes to American screens in October.
Ed Potton of The Times discovers “The World According to Don Cheadle.”
One Film Wonder: In 1986, famed saxophonist Dexter Gordon starred in Bertrand Tavernier’s poignant “Round Midnight” as expatriate saxophonist Dale Turner searching for redemption in 1950s Paris. It was a portrayal of art closely imitating life. A Bebop pioneer, Gordon lived and worked in Europe after an earlier bedevilment by drug addiction but returned to America in the 1970s to tour to rapturous acclaim. Gordon appeared in only two other films in his lifetime — an uncredited role as a “saxophone player” in 1955’s “Unchained” and in a 1968 flick titled “I Love, You Love” from experimental Swedish director Stig Björkman — but earned an Academy Award nod as Best Actor in his third, which features appearances by notable jazz musicians such as Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, who won an Oscar for Best Original Score.
