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Up In The Air: the American Comedy of the Year?
3 December 2009 7:14 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Dir: Jason Reitman Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman Ryan Bingham (Clooney) is a suave and sophisticated nomad. He lives 10,000 feet ‘up in the air’ and he is as uncomfortable on the ground, staying in one place, as most other people are during take-off. Ryan’s job (he fires people for a living) means that he is travels for around 362 days every year. He has a lavish selection of travelling accessories, but his apartment looks more like a hospital room that a home. But Ryan likes it this way. He is constantly surrounded by people who don’t bother him with their emotional baggage (they are too busy with their physical baggage); he can enjoy fleeting romances with the beautiful Alex (Farmiga) and devour complimentary buffet meals ad infinitum; and he even has a dream… if he reaches 10 million airmiles he will get a plane named after him. »
- Nicholas Deigman
Tiff 2009 Day 2: Jason Reitman's Up in the Air
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
I'm making this sound like I'm a naysayer, there is plenty to appreciate, Clooney was spot on and could grab a Oscar nom as a modern day Cary Grant, and Jason Reitman adds a lot more subtext than what is apparently offered in the novel, but I didn't much care for the more attempted mature aspects in the final act... - Unlike the slew of journalists who've been championing the film since Telluride and now Tiff, I'm less convinced of Up in the Air's Oscar potential when you measure it up against another Tiff comedy (the Coen Brother's A Serious Man) which gets the tone right and has so much more going for it. I'm making this sound like I'm a naysayer, there is plenty to appreciate, Clooney was spot on and could grab a Oscar nom as a modern day Cary Grant, and Jason Reitman adds a lot »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Rupert Everett | I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out
28 November 2009 4:10 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He had Hollywood at his feet at the age of 25. So why has Rupert Everett never lived up to that early promise? Here, the outspoken actor talks about homophobia, deranged A-listers and why Madonna isn't speaking to him
Can anyone look more world weary than Rupert Everett? At certain points in the interview, he gives the impression of having been in the acting game since at least the dawn of time, if not before. These are eyes that have seen it all – glittering success, abject failure, critical acclaim, the best reviews on earth, the worst. But then, at times, his career trajectory has resembled the cardiogram of a 60-a-day, overweight smoker: up, down, up, critical, dead, alive again! He was a star at 22, a has-been at 30, a Hollywood ingenue at 40, and here he is again, aged 50, still handsome, still game, gadding around in the new St Trinian's film in a »
- Carole Cadwalladr
My channel surfing turned into movie grazing
28 November 2009 1:12 PM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
I think I'm going to coin a new term. I'm a movie grazer. I like watching TV and grazing in and out of movies that I've seen before, know well, and enjoy watching again in bits and pieces. I know this sounds crazy to some who have to watch a movie from the opening studio logo to the end credits (even as they're being smushed on commercial TV broadcasts).
I'm not like that, though. On Friday, amid the post-Thanksgiving haze and without much interest in the college football games or reruns of CBS soaps or syndicated fare, I was channel surfing. Every time I saw something I liked, I stopped for a while. It was mostly movies. I watch Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle, there was a whole bunch of Goodfellas, because Bravo showed it back to back. So I watched the ending first, »
- Allison Waldman
Grant Helped Fisher With Acid Problem
27 November 2009 5:26 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Carrie Fisher's actress mother Debbie Reynolds called in celebrity pal Cary Grant to counsel the star about her drug addiction when she was a troubled teen.
The 53-year-old Star Wars actress has publicly disclosed her acid use and addiction to prescription medication in her new memoir Wishful Drinking, and Fisher admits she was stunned to receive a worried phone call from Grant, who she discovered once used Lsd under a doctor's supervision.
She explains, "My mother was worried I was doing too much Lsd... She did what any concerned mother would do - she had Cary Grant call me about my acid problem."
Still baffled by Grant's experience, she laughs, "I just always want to imagine, was he in a backless gown? Was the doctor on acid? Did they do it in the office? How do you do acid with a doctor?" »
Nathaniel Thanks You
26 November 2009 5:00 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I am surely in a friend & food coma while you're reading this. Happily so! This Thanksgiving I'm grateful for all of you. You keep coming back daily to read the latest cinematic musings here at The Film Experience. Obsessing on the movies is really meant to be a team sport so I appreciate the fine company. They don't make movie theaters with one seat in them.
So thank you for being here daily from all over the world -- not just the States -- with an especially amorphous shout out to readers in Canada, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Mexico and The Philippines. You've always been supportive. And a big hug to my magical elves contributors who've really helped keep the blog going during a difficult year.
Normal programming resumes tomorrow but I must give thanks to the following sources of cinematic happiness at the moment: ambiguous endings, »
- NATHANIEL R
DVD Review: ‘North By Northwest’ 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray
26 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
One of the most visually stunning, action packed, clever and suspenseful of all Alfred Hitchcock movies, his 1959 masterpiece North By Northwest finally gets the Blu-ray treatment it deserves. Featuring a terrific remastering with lots of great supplemental material and beautiful packaging the movie really shines and Warner Bros. has clearly pulled out all the tops to bring this classic film to a new generation of audiences.
Just in case you’re not familiar with this Hitchcock masterpiece, it stars Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a young Martin Landau in a story featuring one of Hitchcock’s signature conceits: the wrong man. Grant’s Roger Thornhill, mistaken for superspy George Kaplan by a group of sinister agents led by James Mason’s Phillip Vandamm, is taken to a county house, forceably intoxicated and almost murdered. He barely manages to escape with his life, mostly due to his high »
- Chris Ullrich
Morris Dickstein on '30s Movies: Screwball Brilliance and What Happened in 1939
26 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
History remembers the 1930s as a period of immense turmoil and economic strife, as the U.S. struggled through the Great Depression. But at the same time, the films of that period were wonderful -- from Fred Astaire's toe-tapping to Cary Grant's charm ... Read more
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- Patricia Chui
Blu-ray Review: North By Northwest
25 November 2009 12:08 PM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
When it comes to thrillers and tales of suspense, there is no greater artist than Alfred Hitchcock. The British-American filmmaker carved out his place in annals of cinema and TV by creating a distinct style that is immediately recognizable and always memorable. It come as no surprise that Warner decided to take the time to make the 50th Anniversary of one of Hitchcock’s best films, “North by Northwest,” an HD masterpiece. “North by Northwest” features Cary Grant in his fourth and final Hitchcock teaming. The story begins simple enough: a New York adman is plunged unwittingly into a world of spies and mystery. This log line may sound cliché by today’s movie standards, but the Hitchcock’s storytelling is anything but cliché. With each moment Hitchcock creates a world that you just can’t escape from and neither can Grant. If there was one role Cary Grant was »
- Bags
Carrie Fisher: Cary Grant Helped Me With My Teenage Acid Problem
25 November 2009 6:44 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
When Carrie Fisher's mom got worried about her teenage daughter's Lsd use, she did what any concerned parent might do. "She had Cary Grant call me about my acid problem," Fisher told David Letterman on his show Tuesday night. "While I was shooting it and stuff. I tell my father the story and my father's a little vague having shot speed 13 years. It's a family tradition." Grant's involvement with Fisher's drug problem didn't end there. Fisher's dad ending up seeing him at Grace Kelly's funeral and at a loss for what to say, asked him to call his daughter again. He did. The reason Grant was the family acid expert? He once did it under doctor's supervision. "I just always want to imagine, was he in a backless gown?" said Fisher. "Was the doctor on acid? Did they do... »
- Katy Hall
Revenge of the shlockmeister: Roger Corman gets his due
25 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Roger Corman's output through the years may not be immediately familiar, but he's been a wide conduit for emerging talent and raw creativity. That's why he's finally been given an Oscar
"Ok, so, November 14th 2009, Roger Corman receives an Oscar. People … what took you so long?" The words of Jonathan Demme in his speech before handing over the statuette to Corman on that fateful evening.
Don't worry, you've not missed the Oscar ceremony (something surprisingly easy to do since Sky swiped the TV rights). This was the inaugural Governors awards, part of the new-look Academy that will see the number of nominees greatly expanded come March, where the board issue honorary Oscars to deserving talents who they missed out or ignored over the years. It's a shame this was such a sidelined event as we were denied the opportunity to see Hollywood's brightest and best politely clapping at a »
- Phelim O'Neill
Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
24 November 2009 8:26 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Coming into the theatres in wide release with all the joie de vivre of a little boy trying to please his girlfriend and mother, Fantastic Mr. Fox is yet another trump card in the quality animated and family film derby of 2009. Like all of Wes Anderson's pictures, Fantastic Mr. Fox dances between meaningful and artificial. Often the directors detractors spend too much time on the latter, and perhaps miss the immense character detail revealed in their diorama surroundings and meticulously selected wardrobes. Of course the stop-motion technique selected to animate the film threatens to enhance the artificial, but somehow, the animators have transcended the challenge put to them to tell the story this way. This is simply the right way to do a Wes Anderson Joint (or rather French Cigarillo). Do the simple thought exercise of imagining this film as a 3D CGI or 2D cel animation affair. After »
Grace Kelly: To Catch A Thief, High Society, The Swan
24 November 2009 12:10 AM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High Society Turner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress’ last three films: Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters‘ musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Kelly as the woman between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby; and Charles Vidor’s romantic drama The Swan (1956), in which Kelly has to make up her mind between plebeian Louis Jourdan or blue-blooded Alec Guinness. I wouldn’t call any of those three films a masterpiece, but both To Catch a Thief and The Swan have their own particular charms. In the former, Grace Kelly is at her most relaxed as [...] »
- Andre Soares
What's Hot on SlashControl: Sneak peek at tonight's Castle
23 November 2009 5:00 PM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
Here's a sneak peek at tonight's Castle, "One Man's Treasure." When a murdered man is found stuffed in the garbage chute of an apartment building, two women arrive to ID the body -- the guy's wife and his fiance. It's like the ultimate in awkward encounters, and of course, Castle has something to say about it. He looks at the dead guy and says, "You are so busted."
Of course, Castle and Beckett have the fun task of trying to figure out if this guy's been leading a double life or if he's being framed. With this show, you just never know. I'm guessing one of the women is behind it, but we'll see.
I'm loving Castle, because it fulfills my lifelong wish for a TV show that offers the snappy banter and sexual tension of an old-time movie. Well, Castle would call it sexual tension. Ok, Beckett is leaning that way, »
- Jane Boursaw
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book) - Blu-ray Review
13 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
North by Northwest has come to be the definitive film by Alfred Hitchcock. It hits all the right notes and features a suave, debonair Cary Grant, a ravishing Eva Marie Saint, sinister doings from James Mason and Martin Landau, and a finale of presidential proportions. It.s perfection in both film and Blu-ray presentation. Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is a Madison Avenue advertising agent who is mistaken for George Kaplan (Archibald Leach) and taken to the estate of Lester Townsend. There he is interrogated by a man (James Mason) he believes to be Townsend. Thornhill insists that he.s not Kaplan, but the man doesn.t buy it and orders his servant Leonard (Martin Landau) to dispose »
- Jeff Swindoll
Trailer - Tina Fey and Steve Carell in 'Date Night'
12 November 2009 2:24 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Ok, I'm game: Tina Fey and Steve Carell are starring in what is essentially a married update of North by Northwest. Mistaken identity, chased by thugs, chase thing at the end...with a married couple instead of Cary Grant. And Date Night actually looks like it works.
Most of that has to do with casting Carell and Fey, and how in the world did struggling NBC/Universal let this one slip through its grasp? It's a Fox product, and it's directed by Shawn Levy, which does not inspire much confidence. Good supporting players, though, like Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, and Mila Kunis, plus what appears to be a fair number of opportunities for the overexposed Fey and the overexposed Carell to dance with new partners.
I'm not saying this is going to re-write the rules of screen comedy or anything, but it's a fairly entertaining two minutes of your day. »
- Colin Boyd
Jason Reitman's Interview Pie Chart
11 November 2009 3:35 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Jason Reitman, whose next film Up in the Air comes out on December 4th, posted a very funny image on Twitter recently - a pie chart detailing the different things that people have asked him in recent interviews. The top three were about George Clooney (111 people), the economy (96 people), and his next project (78 people). The fourth is a little more confusing, as it just reads "Real People," so apparently 77 people asked him about real people. Maybe they wanted to know if the people being laid off in the movie were real people? Who's to say what goes through the murky depths of the mind of a journalist?
I humbly ask Jason Reitman to make a pie chart of his answers. Here's what I picture it to look like.
111 people: "Clooney is such a prankster! But he's also a great serious actor. He's the Cary Grant of our times. Sometimes we have moustache contests. »
- Jenni Miller
Blu-Ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock Makes Striking HD Debut With ‘North by Northwest’
11 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – It is as difficult for me to write critically about “North by Northwest” as it would be for someone to discuss their first love. The films of Hitchcock are, without question, why I do what I do and my only concern, as they start to be released on Blu-Ray, is that they won’t live up to the bar set by the package put together for first Hitch movie on the next-gen format - “North by Northwest”.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
What more could possibly be written about “North by Northwest”? As co-star Martin Landau recently told me, it played to him like a “greatest hits” of Hitchcock’s career to that point. This is Alfred Hitchcock at the top of his game playing with themes that had been a part of his career since silent film. Released in between “Vertigo” and “Psycho,” “North by Northwest” is one of the most »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Linda Eder Comes To The Van Wezel 12/9 With A Holiday Concert
9 November 2009 2:18 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Linda Eder, the songstress whose larger-than-life voice has been called "the human equivalent of a Stradivarius" (theatermania.com) returns to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 9 with a concert of holiday songs and favorites from her CDs. Tickets to the concert, at 8 p.m., are $40-$55 (with a limited number of "smart seats" at $10).
Often compared to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, two of her musical influences, the Minnesota native first captured public attention with her unprecedented 12- week winning streak on the TV show Star Search. The success expanded her fan base nationally and led to a leading role as Lucy Harris in the 1990 Broadway- bound musical Jekyll & Hyde. The mainstay of Eder's career, however, remains the concert stage.
Reviewing a recent concert, Chicago Tribune Arts Editor Howard Reich raved that Eder has "the most voluptuous voice in pop music today."
Over the years, passionate fans »
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