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Sundance 2010 Film Lineup
5 hours ago | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Sundance released their slate for 2010. It includes:43 documentaries on the Middle East12 films about friends who 'discover' something33 movies about people you've never heard about1 comedyHopefully the lineup this year is strong but it doesn't look that way compared to last year. Last year we had Push (Precious), that Lil Wayne documentary that never went anywhere, Mystery Team which might make my top ten, Moon, Mike Tyson documentary, Cold Souls. Just so much last January that was excellent. I hope I don't go out therer and freeze my tail off just to see...I don't know, a documentary about a former Pakistani prime minister or something silly like that.Here's the lineup so far: U.S. Documentary Competition This year’s 16 films were selected from 862 submissions. Each film is a world premiere. Bhutto(Directors: Jessica Hernandez and Johnny O'Hara; Screenwriter: Johnny O'Hara)—A riveting journey through the life and work of recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, »
Sundance Unveils 2010 Competition Lineup
8 hours ago | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the lineup of films playing in competition from January 21 through January 31, 2010. The early fest typically debuts some of the best films the year has to offer, like 2009’s Precious, (500) Days of Summer, and Moon.
I’m bummed I won’t be in Park City, Utah next month because the lineup looks great, and these are just the films playing in competition. Here’s a few that stood out to me:
The Allen Ginsberg trial film Howl starring James Franco, a documentary by Alex Gibney (a truly great filmmaker) on Jack Abramoff, Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut Sympathy for Delicious, a doc about Joan Rivers, the directorial debut of “How I Met Your Mother” star Josh Radnor titled Happythankyoumoreplease (I wrote a glowing script review of it here), Hesher with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman, and Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.
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- Jeff Leins
Sundance 2010 Competition Lineup Arrives, And Here Are Some Highlights
13 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I've been fortunate enough to attend Sundance Film Festival for the past two years, and it's quite an experience. I tend to spend my time there gorging on as many movies as possible. In my two trips and 10 cumulative days spent in Park City, Ut, I've seen roughly 50 screenings. Not even as press really; writing would consume too much time.
Sundance 2010 is going to be different: either I'll be here manning the blog or out in Utah seeing only the occasional movie while participating in MTV's ongoing coverage. And manning the blog, of course. After looking at the competition lineup, just released today, I'm very much hoping that I'll be able to attend. There are some cool-looking movies in contention, and many more yet to be announced that aren't competing. Hit the jump to check out some of the highlights and then head over to the Sundance website for the full list. »
- Adam Rosenberg
Sundance 2010 competition lineup includes Temptation Of St Tony!
15 hours ago | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
And the first announcement is upon us and includes quite a few movies we've already reported on.. What does that include?
The incredible looking Estonian drama The Temptation of St. Tony for which we got the exclusive trailer on a while ago. It's by Veiko Õunpuu who did the incredible Sügisball and I'm greatly looking forward to seeing this.
From Spencer Susser, the director of the incredible zombie short I love Sarah Jane comes Hesher, his first feature which stars Jgl!
David Michôd's Australian thriller Animal Kingdom which stars Guy Pearce.
From Taiki Waititi, director of Eagle vs Shark comes Boy which we previously reported on, but then it was known as The Volcano.
Full list after the break!
U.S. Documentary Competition
This year’s 16 films were selected from 862 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Bhutto (Directors: Jessica Hernandez and Johnny O'Hara; Screenwriter: Johnny O'Hara)—A riveting »
‘Apocalypse Now’ voted best film in 30 year
1 December 2009 5:12 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Dec 1 (Ians) Italian-American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s war movie “Apocalypse Now” has been voted the best film in the last 30 years.
The 1979 drama, starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, has been given the top spot in a new poll celebrating 30 years of the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards, reports imdb.com.
“I’m delighted that such a powerful and brilliant film as ‘Apocalypse Now’ has won the enduring admiration of the London critics. Coppola’s towering film is a worthy winner and clearly its anti-war message, monumental performances and dazzling filmmaking technique have stood the test of time, making it as relevant to critics today as it was when it. »
- realbollywood
Apocalypse Now Is Critics' Top Film
1 December 2009 12:01 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Top critics have voted Francis Ford Coppola's war movie Apocalypse Now the best film of the last 30 years.
The 1979 drama, starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, is number one on a new poll celebrating 30 years of the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.
Apocalypse Now, which won Best Film at the inaugural ceremony in 1980, came ahead of Steven Spielberg's Holocaust epic Schindler's List, which was voted second best.
The Critics' Circle, the world's oldest organisation of critics, also recognised The Lives of Others, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, which rounded out the top five respectively.
Chairman of the Film Critics' Circle Jason Solomons says, "I'm delighted that such a powerful and brilliant film as Apocalypse Now has won the enduring admiration of the London critics.
"Coppola's towering film is a worthy winner and clearly its anti-war message, monumental performances and dazzling film-making technique have stood the test of time, making it as relevant to critics today as it was when it won best film at our first awards ceremony 30 years ago."
The 30th annual London Film Critics' Circle Awards will take place on 18 February in the British capital. »
Brando, Depp, the missing millions and Divine Rapture, the lost movie
26 November 2009 2:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The first sign things were going wrong on the set of Divine Rapture was when Marlon Brando shaved his head. But that was the least of the film's troubles
If all the roads in Ireland were to converge at a final destination, you would probably find yourself in Ballycotton, Co Cork. A tiny village on a rocky headland, it is as removed and cosy as its name suggests. Its harbour is stocked with a colourful fishing fleet and traditional music seeps from the pubs on Main Street. Despite an annual running marathon that passes through the town, it is slow-paced, sleepy, and cocooned from the outside world. But although 200-ft cliffs keep the Atlantic at bay and an offshore lighthouse looks out for danger, nothing could protect Ballycotton from nature's cruellest force: Hollywood.
Back in 1995, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and Marlon Brando rolled into town to make a film called Divine Rapture. »
Alexandre Desplat talks 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' score
25 November 2009 11:44 AM, PST | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »
Yesterday, Alexandre Desplat's The Twilight Saga: New Moon: The Score was released. Desplat, an award-winning composer, took on the project, it seems, at the behest of Chris Weitz's desire to make the score a little differently than Carter Burwell did with Catherine Hardwicke in Twilight. In a recent interview with IFMagazine, Desplat revealed the how's and why's on how he approached making the album. I love to do research on all the movies I score. I'm like an "actor's studio" kind of composer, especially because I enjoyed reading about how much Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando would prepare for their roles. But to be honest, in the case of New Moon, I did no research. I love the music that Carter Burwell does for the Coen Brothers. He's a fabulous composer. But I didn't want to go there with his Twilight score, especially because of Carter »
- thetwilightexaminer
Chris Weitz Reveals 'New Moon' DVD Details
23 November 2009 2:19 PM, PST | twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news »
In a new interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz he gives MTV a breakdown of everything we can expect on the films DVD. Among those are a commentary with him Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner as well as some deleted features and even more!Movie Trailers Movies BlogThere will be a commentary track Weitz revealed saying that hell soon head into the recording booth with his three big stars Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Itll just be us riffing off each other in our intimate way he grinned. We kind of like each other so that should be fun.In addition fans can look forward to picking up a copy of Twilight in Forks the independently made documentary that teased fans with brief glimpses of its exploration into the reallife town that inspired Stephenie Meyer only to be snatched up by Summit in September. An »
James Earl Jones: confessions of Big Daddy
23 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his stutter was his salvation
The septuagenarian walking slowly through the Novello theatre in London looks like an archetypal American tourist. Tall and wide, he wears a puffy gilet that makes him seem even bulkier, while a faded baseball cap shades his face. Yet this ordinary-looking man is one of America's pre-eminent actors: James Earl Jones. Over the last 50 years, he has won two Tony awards (playing a boxer in The Great White Hope, and for his role in August Wilson's Fences), an Oscar nomination (for the film of The Great White Hope), as well as multiple Emmy nominations and awards for his TV work.
You wouldn't know any of this to look at him, »
- Maddy Costa
'New Moon' Director Chris Weitz Reveals DVD Details
23 November 2009 1:13 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Weitz plans to include at least 20 minutes of deleted material from the blockbuster.
Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"
Photo: Kimberley French/Summit Entertainment
Beverly Hills, California — After this weekend's record-shattering opening, "New Moon" is now officially the biggest film of 2009. In a few months, it will inevitably become one of the biggest DVD releases of 2010.
So what can we expect from the "New Moon" DVD? Recently, we caught up with director Chris Weitz and got the scoop on the disc you'll soon want sitting next to "Twilight" on your shelf.
"There will be a commentary track," Weitz revealed, saying that he'll soon head into the recording booth with his three big stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. "It'll just be us riffing off each other in our intimate way," he grinned. "We kind of like each other, so that should be fun. »
Richard Stanley, I presume? An interview with the director of Hardware...
18 November 2009 6:03 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Pinning down Richard Stanley can be quite a job, whether you're talking about trying to find where he is or trying to make sense of the bewildering variety of reputations he has. He's been called a genius, a hack, an artist, a troublemaker, an Enfant Terrible and plain mad in both meanings of the word. This is all the more remarkable when you look at his body of work as a feature director: two films only ( both released in the early nineties ), and some little-seen documentaries.
Thing is, those two films are "Hardware" and "Dust Devil", which both have garnered a large cult following over the years. And fans who wonder what Richard is doing can always find him busy doing pre-production on some interesting projects.
But when it comes to turning those projects into actual films, Richard Stanley always seems to be hit by Gilliamesque bad luck. Worse even: »
Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 3 (Farber Before Negative Space)
18 November 2009 7:43 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
You don’t necessarily think of Manny Farber as your Baedeker to the shadings and luridities of mainstay American movie acting, as a dab hand of the concise plot summary that uncoils into deft film critique, or associate him with audience recommendations and words like “marvelous,” “sensitive,” “poignant,” and “sparkling.” You particularly don’t think of Farber this way if your experience of his writing is confined to Negative Space. Yet consider three short illustrative moments from his many, sometimes-weekly film columns of the 1940s and '50s.
This is Farber on Frank Sinatra & Co. in From Here to Eternity for The Nation, August 29, 1953:
The laurel wreaths should be handed out to an actor who isn’t even in the picture, Marlon Brando, and to an unknown person who first decided to use Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed in the unsweetened roles of Maggio, a tough little Italian American soldier, »
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart Say They 'Hang Out Quite A Bit' In First MTV News Interview
18 November 2009 12:35 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'Twilight' actors' bond already apparent in April 2008 chat.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Larry Carroll
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in their first "Twilgiht" interview for MTV News
Photo: MTV News
It was early April 2008 and "Twilight" hadn't yet become a global box-office phenomenon. That wouldn't happen until the fall, when the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's first vampire book reeled in $70 million in its first U.S. weekend alone. In the spring, though, when Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were just two up-and-coming actors making a movie for an independent studio, MTV News traveled to the film's Portland, Oregon, set to find out just what was happening with this vampire love story everyone seemed to be talking about.
What we found was a picture of two artists before superstardom set in. In MTV's first-ever interview with Pattinson and Stewart, the duo were alternately shy and revealing, jokey and awkward, »
Michael Winner: 'The only purpose of life is to avoid boredom'
16 November 2009 1:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The notorious film director on cheating death, the awfulness of restaurants – and how he can't stand boring people
It is with a mixture of fear and exhilaration that I approach Michael Winner's large house – he likes to describe it as a mansion – in London's fashionable Holland Park. God knows how much it's worth – £25m maybe. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin lives next door, in an even bigger house. An attractive, slightly forbidding young woman answers the door – I later discover she is a resting actress called Ruby – and she shows me into Winner's private cinema, filled with memorabilia from half a lifetime of movie-making and an entire lifetime of trouble-making.
There are seats for 30 people, a bar, a director's chair with Winner's name on it, the Winner puppet from Spitting Image, a signed photograph of Marilyn Monroe, pictures of some scantily clad starlets, and hundreds of photographs of stars »
- Stephen Moss
Next!
15 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy². Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer and Bogie. 'Coop' again. William Holden and Marlon Brando a few years late. Ernest Borgnine, Yul Brynner and Alec Guiness. David Niven, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. Maximillian Schell, Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier who made history. Rex Harrison, Lee Marvin, Paul Scofield, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson and 'The Duke'. George C Scott though he refused. Gene Hackman. Marlon Brando by way of Sacheen Littlefeather. Jack Lemmon, Art Carney, Jack Nicholson and (posthumously) Peter Finch. Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Henry Fonda. Ben Kingsley, Robert Duvall, F Murray Abraham, »
- NATHANIEL R
Brando Lands Bike Deal
12 November 2009 5:31 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Movie icon Marlon Brando has landed a lucrative motorbike gear deal from beyond the grave.
The administrators of the star's estate have signed off on a new project with bosses at Triumph Motorcycles to debut Brando-related apparel at the company's dealerships.
The Triumph Legends Line will now offer replica leather jackets inspired by the movie great's biker character in The Wild One.
This modern day replica includes key features of Brando's original jacket right down to the embroidered 'Johnny' name tag and the Brmc distressed print on the back of the jacket.
Triumph bosses are also developing Brando print men's and ladies' T-shirts.
The actor played tough biker gang leader Johnny Strabler in 1953's The Wild One. His character rode a 1950 Triumph Thunderbird 6T. »
Triumph to produce replicas of Marlon Brando's leather jacket from The Wild One
12 November 2009 5:01 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
It was back in 1953 that Marlon Brando’s rebellious gang leader, Johnny Strabler first rode onto the big screen on his 1950 Triumph Thunderbird 6T in biker classic The Wild One (or 1968 for British audiences), creating a monument to macho defiance and a craze for leather jackets. Fast forward 56 years later to 2009 and seemingly we still want to be part of Johnny’s gang, as Brando Enterprises (the company managing the late actor’s image) and Triumph Motorcycles have announced plans to design and produce a replica of the iconic leather jacket as seen on the movie biker. It will be a new addition for the Triumph Legends line of clothing and should be available from Triumph dealerships from 1st December. »
Sir Michael Caine Doesn’t Think He’s Good Enough To Win Another Oscar
11 November 2009 9:14 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »
The 76-year-old star – who has previously received Best Supporting Actor Academy Awards for 1986 film ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’ and 1999’s ‘The Cider House Rules’ – thinks his only hope of being honoured again is in a year of low standards. Speaking at the European premiere of his new movie ‘Harry Brown’ in London’s Leicester Square last night (10.11.09), he told Bang Showbiz: “I’ve got a couple of Oscars and I’ve been nominated nine times but I’ve lost seven. There are all sorts of different circumstances and you also want a duff year. “My first nomination was ‘Alfie’ and the competition was Paul Schofield in ‘A Man For All Seasons’. I didn’t stand a chance. The second time was ‘Sleuth’ and the competition was Marlon Brando in ‘The Godfather’. “All I’m waiting for is a c**p year so I can get in.” ‘Quantum of Solace’ star Gemma Arterton, »
- admin
Smith to star in Flowers for Algernon
11 November 2009 3:10 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Following the news that Smith’s Oldboy remake has fallen through, the erstwhile Fresh Prince has returned to more familiar territory – finding an Oscar-baiting role to alternate around his action projects.
With an I Am Legend prequel in development, and potential sequels to I, Robot and Hancock in the works, Smith has set his sites on an almost fool-proof project to finally nab the elusive Oscar he so clearly covets.
Pajiba are reporting that Smith is set to produce and star in an adaptation of Daniel Keyes 1959 novel Flowers for Algernon. The story focuses around a mentally retarded man named Charlie who, after experimental surgery, sees his Iq rocket from 68 to 185. His newfound intellect effects his ability to interact with those around him and proves far more of a burden than a blessing.
The story quite famously provided inspiration to an episode of The Simpsons and seems to tick all »
- Kieron
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