The Last Showgirl, directed by Gia Coppola, tells the story of a veteran dancer struggling to find a new purpose in the Vegas entertainment industry after the closing of Le Razzle Dazzle, a ...
This deliberate choice to have Anderson star in the film then makes sense: director Gia Coppola chose her after seeing the ...
A power ballad can feel cheesy in the wrong context, but in Gia Coppola's film, it's a deceptively meta knockout ...
In “The Last Showgirl,” Jamie Lee Curtis upends a host of cinematic clichés about women. Jamie Lee Curtis’s supporting role ...
The Last Showgirl may begin – as its ever-romantic heroine exclaims – with a shiny celebration of ‘breasts and rhinestones and joy!’ But in Gia Coppola’s (Palo Alto) sensitive telling, the glitter ...
She did not win at the awards ceremony on Jan. 5, but Pamela Anderson was deserving of her nomination for a Golden Globe for ...
Even at only 89 minutes, the story of Shelly (Pamela Anderson), a onetime star of the Las Vegas revue show Le Razzle Dazzle, stretches out too long, not unlike the shimmery butterfly wings Shelly ...
Shortly after, the movie cuts to chaos in medias res, backstage at a performance of Le Razzle Dazzle–the kind of prototypical Vegas stage show where beads, rhinestones, and sequins layer artificial ...
Gia Coppola's new film and Dorothy Arzner's 1940 classic both show the ravages of ageism on professional women in the ...