Jamie Foxx

The Soloist (2009)

source: catholicfilmreview (WordPress)

Lopez decided to make arrangements for Ayer’s treatment. But when Ayers discovers the plan he furiously threatened Lopez and tells Lopez not to see him again. Hurtling for his mistake, Lopez visits his LA Times editor and ex-wife Mary Weston (Catherine Keener) in her place. He decides to...

Published Thu, Nov 12

What Do the Papers Say?

source: jmmnewaov2 (WordPress)

To begin, let’s take a look at The Soloist which stars Robert Downey Jr as LA Times columnist Steve Lopez, and Jamie Foxx, as the schizophrenic and homeless street musician, Nathaniel Ayers. In a few words, the plot can be summarized as the story of a newspaper journalist who befriends a hom...

Published Mon, Oct 26

Review: The Soloist (2009)

source: rufflesack (WordPress)

The Soloist is the story about a reporter (Robert Downey Jr.) who meets an extraordinary street musician (Jamie Foxx) and procedes to write a column on said musician and why he is homeless despite his potential. As the movie progresses, a sort of relationship grows, and the movie manages to...

Published Sun, Oct 18

Midday Musings

source: eastcoastpaperboy.com

Syracuse, NY — In my advanced reporting class today, Professor Gingerich showed us a clip from “The Soloist,” featuring Jamie Foxx as the schizophrenic violinist Nathanil Ayers. His tongue danced across his teeth like fingers on piano keys.

Published Fri, Oct 16

[movie review] the soloist

source: stephaniecheng (WordPress)

Recently my boyfriend and I watched The Soloist featuring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. Downey plays Steve Lopez, a columnist  for the Los Angeles Times, who meets Nathaniel Ayers played by Foxx, a homeless paranoid schizophrenic who also happens to be a music prodigy.

Published Wed, Oct 14

The Soloist and 2010 Oscar Field

source: palethunder (WordPress)

Invictus - It hasn’t come out yet but it’s directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon and about Nelson Mandela…enough said.  In theaters December 11th. The Soloist, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx, was a glaring hole in my movie viewings this

Published Wed, Oct 14

Must try easier

source: 20thcenturymummifiedfox (WordPress)

A sweet and true story, though a little slight; not much that can be done there since it’s true… and of course ongoing. So good luck in particular to the real Nathaniel Ayers (a schizophrenic and, initially, homeless musician played by Jamie Foxx who is exploited… sorry, helped… by LA Times...

Published Sun, Oct 11

The Soloist - A Review

source: moviewaffle (WordPress)

The difficulty in playing “mad” is that it’s easy to overdo it. Madness, like alcohol, offers actors an awful temptation to grandstand. Think of Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys, Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, or Nicolas Cage in anything (including his “sane” roles). Playing an actual living mad person doesn’t tend to sway actors one way or the other (they’re mostly focused on the Oscars), but thankfully, Jamie Foxx is reasonably restrained. Give the man credit, he’s playing a homeless (read: Oscar-worthy), schizophrenic (read: Oscar-worthy) music prodigy (read: And the winner is…), so the urge to break-dance through his scenes must have been crippling. But Foxx is admirably free of extraneous ticks and finger twirls, and even when he g...

Published Sun, Oct 4