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Marilyn Monroe fascination comes to Netflix with 'Blonde'

Marilyn Monroe has been dead for almost 60 years, but there is still a kind of madness around her that remains

The Independent UK

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates audiobook review – an imagined life of Marilyn Monroe

Jayne Atkinson resists the cliches of the film star’s breathy voice in a tough, fictionalised tale of abuse and fame

The Guardian - UK

Movie review: ‘Blonde’ a tour de force take on Marilyn Monroe’s fabulous, tragic life

Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” is a “Phantom of the Opera” whose phantom hides her psychological scars behind the mask of a Hollywood screen goddess. Based on the 2000 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the beautifully shot, almost three-hour film, which switches back and forth from color to black and white, presents…

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Overwrought, overlong ‘Blonde’ depicts Marilyn Monroe’s life as a joyless nightmare

Netflix film has an arresting look, but too many visual and aural tricks fight for our attention.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blonde: Epic Marilyn Monroe novel captures the violence of celebrity myth-making

Blonde, now a film, is a towering literary achievement that summons, as only fiction can, the violence of being mythologised.

The New Daily

Blonde: Joyce Carol Oates' epic Marilyn Monroe novel captures the violence of celebrity myth-making

Marilyn Monroe died 60 years ago, on August 4 1962. And on September 28, Netflix will release Blonde, a film by Australian director Andrew Dominik, starring Cuban actress Ana de Armas as Monroe.

The Conversation

5 years ago, Nicolas Cage made his most disturbing movie ever

'Vengeance: A Love Story' misuses Nicolas Cage while telling an imperfect story about crime and revenge.

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Ana de Armas wipes away tears as Blonde receives 14-minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival

The 34-year-old plays Marilyn Monroe in the biographical drama, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates

Evening Standard

Blonde movie review: Ana de Armas’s Marilyn Monroe drama does nothing to help reclaim its subject’s power

Ana de Armas embodies Monroe’s sexiness and vulnerability but is given frustratingly little chance to express her wit and intelligence

Evening Standard

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan’s Lessons to Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes

Martin Chilton reviews six of September’s biggest new books for our monthly column

The Independent UK

Marilyn Monroe’s estate defends Ana de Armas over biopic accent criticism

Cuban-Spanish actor’s accent in movie Blonde disparaged but ABC says she ‘captures Marilyn’s glamour, humanity and vulnerability’

The Guardian - US

The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth

Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction

The Guardian - UK

'Blonde' trailer: Ana de Armas explores the tension between the public and private life of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe

Ana de Armas dropped the gripping new trailer of her upcoming film 'Blonde' that brings to the screens the complicated life of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.

The Times of India

Ana de Armas looks just like Marilyn Monroe in new pictures released from film biopic

Blonde, starring Ana de Armas, is based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates and is a fictionalised narrative of Marilyn's life

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Blonde author Joyce Carol Oates praises controversial Netflix adaptation of Marilyn Monroe biography

Film is released on the streaming service in September

The Guardian - US

Blonde: first trailer for ‘disturbing’ Marilyn Monroe biopic released

Netflix film, which has been called ‘startling’ by source author Joyce Carol Oates, stars Ana de Armas as the tragic actor

The Guardian - UK

Blonde: will a shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?

From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?

The Guardian - US

Ten tweets in need of the new edit button: from covfefe to Oscars selfie

As Twitter prepares to roll out its new edit function, a look back at the tweets that could have done with one

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The Guardian - UK

Night, Neon and Other Stories of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates review – nuanced, not neat, thrillers

Embracing the twists and turns of everyday American life, the author’s latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing

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