Screen Thoughts - Movie & Tv Reviews

Hollister & O’Toole were completely charmed by “Learning to Drive” at this week’s Provincetown International Film Festival – where it rightfully took home the @hbo #AudienceAward. (At the Toronto International Film Festival audiences ranked it second only to “The Imitation Game”.) It is a simple story of two very different lives intersecting, at just the right moment. As Hollister says, it’s not just about Learning to Drive – it’s really about Learning to Live. Featuring the indomitable re-pairing of Ben Kingsley (yes, our Oscar-winning “Gandhi”) and Oscar-nominee Patricia Clarkson (and two-time Emmy winner for “Six Feet Under”). Directed by Barcelona’s very talented Isabel Coixet (who also directed Kingsley, Clarkson, and Penélope Cruz in “Elegy”). Screenplay by Sarah Kernochan (who has won two (!) Oscars for her documentaries, and whose artistic output has given O’Toole a complete complex). Grace Gummer (Meryl Streep’s real-life daughter) plays the movie daughter of Clarkson (who, like Meryl, went to the