Small’s 2019 novel Bright Burning Stars, Birds of Paradise tells the story of Kate (Diana Silvers), an aspiring ballet dancer who arrives in Paris to study on scholarship at an elite dance academy. How to watch it: The Eyes of Tammy Faye will open in theaters.īirds of Paradise Birds of Paradise hits Amazon Prime on September 24. In particular, it explores some of the hand the Bakkers had - intentionally or not - in fostering the marriage of evangelical Christianity to the Republican Party, with Jerry Falwell (a perfectly cast Vincent D’Onofrio) leading the charge. The story was told from Tammy Faye’s perspective in the 2000 documentary of the same name this based-on-a-true-story version draws from the earlier one in many ways, but also digs into history that the documentary overlooked. Jessica Chastain stars as Tammy Faye Bakker, who along with her husband Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) became embroiled in one of the marquee televangelist scandals of the 1980s. How to watch it: The Nowhere Inn will open in theaters. In The Nowhere Inn, it’s impossible to tell where reality ends and performance begins - or if all of life, in the end, really is performance. Vincent finally takes over Clark, however, things start to go haywire. Vincent to make the movie more interesting. She asks Brownstein to make a documentary about her, and for a while, Brownstein coaxes Clark to be “more” St. In the film, Clark’s onstage alter ego is a sharp-edged, take-no-prisoners performance artist, while offstage she’s mild-mannered and pretty boring. Vincent) wrote the screenplay, and each woman plays a version of herself - or, in Clark’s case, several versions of herself. Carrie Brownstein (of Sleater-Kinney and Portlandia) and Annie Clark (a.k.a. The Nowhere Inn is a semi-fictionalized story about the hazards and constantly seesawing power balance inherent to making a documentary.

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