Rob Marshall could have done any movie with any big movie star after directing the blockbuster Academy Award winning movie musical Chicago. Instead he went the other direction and directed the adaptation of the best selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha which was in limbo after Steven Spielberg decided to pass on directing.
Memoirs of a Geisha begins in the years before WWII when a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who...
I am so excited. I was dring down Hollywood blvd the other day and there were lovely cherry blossoms and baracades... It was the Premiere. I was so excited. I have read this book and bought the audio version and now I finally get to see it in all its beauty.
There was a good write up in yesterdays Guardian newspaper about Geisha's in regards to this film and to them (real Geisha's) at least the film and the book it's based on are a load of bollocks. Check out the feature - clicky here
courtneyriot
STAFF
Los Angeles, CA
DEC 06, 2005 12:00 AM