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Is Johnny Depp the right actor to play Mexican hero Pancho Villa?
16 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Variety reported yesterday that Johnny Depp, one of our recently anointed Entertainers of the Decade, is in negotiations to star in Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers, a Spanish-language biopic of the Mexican revolutionary. Depp is a famous chameleon, able to slip in and out of distinct roles so well that I sometimes have difficulty realizing it’s him (call it a lack of Depp perception - ha!), but does he have it in him to play another nationality in another language? Especially a character as iconic as Villa? I have faith in the actor, »
- Keith Staskiewicz
Interview: Zac Efron, Claire Danes & Christian McCay On Me And Orson Welles
21 hours ago | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
War of the Worlds is one of those classic films everyone has to see. The original radio broadcast by Orson Welles, scared half the planet into thinking we were actually being invaded. It was just one of many examples to the man's brilliance in whatever it was he was doing. Whether it be the theater, film or radio. In this interview, I spoke with Chrsitian McCay about playing the famous Orson, Claire Danes on her role in the film and Zac about going outside the box and playing a teenager that can sing. The screenplay by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. is based on the novel by Robert Kaplow, a coming-of-age story set in the heady world of New York theatre. Efron plays a teenage student who lucks his way into a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar," directed by 22-year-old genius Orson Welles. »
Film review: Me and Orson Welles
3 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Orson Welles, that brilliant beast of the prewar theatre jungle, is here reduced to a gentle moggy
Orson Welles, that brilliant beast of the prewar theatre jungle, is here reduced to a gentle moggy in Richard Linklater's sentimental-romantic drama set amidst the excitement of Welles's 1937 production of Julius Caesar in New York.
Christian McKay gives a game impersonation of the young Welles, being mercurial, demanding, impossible, etc, as he mounts a challenging new modern-dress "fascist-militarist" version of Caesar – reminding isolationist Americans of the gathering storm across the Atlantic. Zac Efron is Richard, the pushy, stagestruck teen who amuses Welles and flukes his way into a small part; Claire Danes is the beautiful young theatre assistant with whom Richard falls in love, only to find the affections of this ambitious young woman are engaged elsewhere.
As so often with films reverently dealing with theatre folk, the directing itself becomes exasperatingly theatrical and inert. »
- Peter Bradshaw
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 ‘Me and Orson Welles’ Chicago Passes With Claire Danes, Zac Efron
3 December 2009 1:33 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Me and Orson Welles” with Claire Danes and Zac Efron from director Richard Linklater of “School of Rock”!
“Me and Orson Welles” also stars Imogen Poots, Eddie Marsan, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Zoe Kazan, Kelly Reilly, James Tupper, Leo Bill, Al Weaver, Iain McKee, Simon Lee Phillips, Simon Nehan and Patrick Kennedy from director Richard Linklater (who also directed “School of Rock,” “Fast Food Nation,” “Bad News Bears,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Before Sunset” and “Before Sunrise”).
The film opens on Dec. 11, 2009. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Me and Orson Welles” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Top Ten Overrated Films
3 December 2009 9:58 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Overrated films are an interesting breed. They are essentially the type that everybody goes crazy for until consideration, time, thought and retrospect force us to reassess the situation. They are, by and large, the product of Hollywood: though by no means exclusive. However, Hollywood films are the most hyped; the most seen; the most heard. They are garnered with awards and flattery and the cycle begins again. Is it genius of deception or commerce?
Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is often labelled as “the greatest film ever made”. It will not appear in this list. It is not an overrated film. Even now, in the sixty-plus years since its release, Welles’ masterpiece remains inimitable. Searching for something to dislike in it is pointless. Yes, critics go ga-ga for Orson, and so they should. He was a true maverick.
If one looks at the history of the Best Film award at the Oscars, »
- Martyn Conterio
Robert Duvall Is Gilliam's Choice For Don Quixote
3 December 2009 3:23 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
In an interview by Collider, Robert Duvall said that Terry Gilliam wants him to play Don Quixote, presumably in Gilliam's longstanding project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film that he has been struggling to get made for years now.
Duvall said, "I may work with Terry Gilliam next - if they get the money - to play Don Quixote de la Mancha...Totally amazing to work with Terry Gilliam. But, once again, the money. It's so difficult to get the money. He saw me play a Cuban barber one time with Richard Harris and that's what gave him the idea to cast me as Don Quixote".
This would be Gilliam's second attempt to make Don Quixote. His first was plagued with problems from the first day of production. The result was Lost in La Mancha, a documentary narrated by Jeff Bridges. Bridges who stars opposite Duvall in Crazy Heart, »
DGA to honour Norman Jewison
2 December 2009 7:52 PM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
The Directors Guild of America will honour director Norman Jewison with its 'Lifetime Achievement' award early next year, says Variety. The Moonstruck helmer will receive the prize at the 62nd annual DGA Awards on January 30 at the Century Plaza, La. Jewison will be the 33rd artist to be handed the gong. Past recipients include Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg. "He is an incredible filmmaker whose calm, affable manner (more) »
- By Mike Moody
Me and Orson Welles
2 December 2009 3:52 PM, PST | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »
Me and Orson Welles is a coming of age story for pretentious teens, and they deserve their own. And they get the same star as the flighty High School Musical set. Zac Efron comes of age for snobs and jocks alike.
Review: Me and Orson Welles
I do love Zac Efron in .30s styles. His best decade is probably the .60s in Hairspray but his polished good looks work in a .30s coif too.
Anyway, he plays an aspiring actor who gets a gig at Orson Welles. theater production of Julius Caesar. Just talking shop with Orson Welles is a cool thing to see, and the environment of .30s pop culture and Shakespearean analysis requires a little homework for the audience to keep up. »
Spirit Award Noms Include Austin Connections
2 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
The 25th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced on Tuesday, and two Austin-related projects were honored with nominations:
Christian McKay was nominated in the Best Supporting Male category for his portrayal of Orson Welles in local filmmaker Richard Linklater's latest feature, Me and Orson Welles. You can see photos of McKay and Linklater in our photo essay from the Me and Orson Welles red carpet in Austin.Dia Sokol, producer of Beeswax, was nominated for the Piaget Producers Award. Beeswax was filmed locally and starred many local filmmakers in acting roles. Jette reviewed the movie at SXSW this year; the above photo, with Sokol in the middle, was taken at the SXSW Q&A for Beeswax.
Austinites may recognize many other titles on the list, which you can read in full after the jump. A number of the nominated films played at SXSW or at Austin Film Festival this year. »
- Debbie Cerda
'I'm not like Orson Welles. I'm a quiet director'
2 December 2009 6:58 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The indie film-maker talks about his new film Me and Orson Welles, starring Zac Efron
In his later years Orson Welles made wine and beer commercials. He acted in The Muppet Movie and Magnum Pi and narrated a documentary about Bugs Bunny. Sometimes he gave lectures, too, shambling into the half-empty town-halls of middle America to breathlessly introduce himself as a film director, writer and actor; a magician, designer and painter. Then his eyes would flick across the rows of empty seats. "Isn't it strange," he said, "that there are so many of me and so few of you?"
It was Welles's fate to burn too brightly, too quickly. He was a man who could be everything except a cog in the Hollywood machine; an artist whose precocity would prove his undoing. He was a stage star in his teens and the creator of Citizen Kane at the age of 25. After that, »
- Xan Brooks
Photo Essay: 'Me and Orson Welles' Red Carpet
2 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater premiered his latest film Me and Orson Welles at the Paramount Theater on Monday. Linklater joined stars Christian McKay and Zac Efron at the event, as shown above. The screening was a benefit for the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, which Linklater started in 1996 to assist emerging Texas filmmakers, and which has awarded over $1 million since then.
Zac Efron's presence created quite a commotion at the premiere. Even more exciting news regarding Me and Orson Welles -- Christian McKay has been nominated for his portrayal of Orson Welles in the "Best Supporting Male" category of this year's Spirit Awards.
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- Debbie Cerda
Catching Up With... Richard Linklater
2 December 2009 5:15 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Few modern directors have displayed the sheer range and adoration of filmmaking as that of arthouse luminary Richard Linklater. After spending the last decade offering fare as diverse as rotoscoped sci-fi dirge A Scanner Darkly, yellow-journalism parable Fast Food Nation, a remake of nostalgic kids’ romp Bad News Bears and Jack Black comedy School of Rock, Linklater’s latest, Orson Welles And Me, is just as captivating and surprising as should be expected. In the period piece, Zac Efron plays an aspiring actor thrust into the world of egomaniacal showman Orson Welles, who, at 22, was directing and starring in “Julius... »
Zac Efron Talks Bungee Jumping on David Letterman
1 December 2009 11:55 PM, PST | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »
Zac Efron 2.0 emerged earlier this month when the star traded his white tanks and ripped jeans for Calvin Klein suits. The shaggy haired Efron has disappeared leaving way for a dapper clean cut version of the heartthrob. While out promoting his new film Me and Orson Welles (2009), Zac Efron stopped by Late Show with David Letterman (TV) to talk about the film and his experience bungee jumping. While on location filming his new movie The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud in Canada, the star along with some of his buddies decided to spend the day bungee jumping. Efron recounted the adventure to David Letterman and was upfront that even though his contract strictly forbids reckless behavior his friends and him did it anyway. Jumping twice, the outdoorsy Zac Efron talked about loving the thrill and spoke about wanting to sky dive in the near future. Me and Orson Welles »
- cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
(95) Days of Spirit
1 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
The Spirit Awards are coming! In 95 days. The nominees have a long time to decide which pair of jeans or casual designer wear would best suit the event. Though the Spirits have traditionally passed out their ever-so-slightly off mainstream prizes the day before the Oscars this year they’re moving to a Friday night situation on March 5th. All the better for partying? Still time to use those hangover cures before the Oscars on Sunday.
Sin Nombre, a 3 time nomineeHere are the nominees
Best Feature(500) Days Of Summer | Amreeka |Precious | Sin Nombre | The Last StationI warned y'all that The Last Station would have more awards strength than many pundits are indicating. I must get around to Sin Nombre before the end of this year. I suspect Precious is your winner since the Spirits generally award the actual Oscar hopefuls.
Best Director
The Coen Bros A Serious Man | Lee Daniels Precious »
- NATHANIEL R
Linklater: 'Industry doesn't do my movies'
1 December 2009 3:49 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Richard Linklater has said that the mainstream movie industry has stopped making his type of films. The Orson Welles And Me director told The Guardian that the impact of the ongoing economic crisis had surprised him. Linklater said: "I'd always seen the film industry as a constant. And then all of a sudden the bottom fell out." "I still hold on to the romantic vision of people watching my movie in a cinema. I don't want to watch Bright Star on a f**king iPhone." He added the possibility of a follow-up to 2004's Before Sunset, itself a sequel to 1995's Before (more) »
- By Mayer Nissim
Apocalypse Now tops London critics' 30th anniversary poll
1 December 2009 2:46 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Francis Ford Coppola's nightmarish vision of the Vietnam war is named best film of the past three decades, beating Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List to the top spot
Apocalypse Now was today named as the best film of the past three decades by the London Film Critics' Circle (Lfcc). Francis Ford Coppola's nightmarish vision of the Vietnam war beat out Steven Spielberg's 1994 holocaust drama Schindler's List to take top spot in the poll, held to celebrate the organisation's 30th anniversary.
Third place went to German film The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winner for best foreign language film in 2007. The top five was rounded out by two very different movies with western themes: Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, from 1992, and Ang Lee's 2005 tale of gay cowboys, Brokeback Mountain.
Chair of the circle and Observer writer Jason Solomons said: "I'm delighted that such a powerful and »
- Ben Child
Me and Orson Welles
30 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | Pure Movies | See recent Pure Movies news »
At times it can feel like the film is acting as a showcase for Efron, and goes too far in trying to prove a point although he holds his own, dispelling any doubt that he can competently perform outside of his familiar all-singing, all-dancing territory. Set in 1937, Me and Orson Welles stars Zac Efron as hapless teenage fame-seeker Richard Samuels, who is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles. Richard negotiates the highs and lows of working with Welles and predictably falls for the beautiful Sonja Jones (Claire Danes) the ambitious theatre manager, who seems to welcome his tentative advances. »
- Natalie Peck
Welles' Daughter Protests Biopic
30 November 2009 2:11 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The daughter of late American film legend Orson Welles is protesting the star-studded Hollywood drama Me And Orson Welles - insisting the negative portrayal of her father as a womaniser in the film is "laughable".
Welles' oldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder, attended the New York premiere of the Richard Linklater movie earlier this month, and she's outraged her father has been painted as a dictatorial director and womaniser who cheated on her pregnant mother.
She tells the New York Daily News, "That's not my father - it's a distortion. They took all the negative things and fashioned a character that's a caricature. It's laughable."
And she's upset with Christian McKay's portrayal of Welles in the film, insisting her father would never be as bullish to a fellow actor as McKay's Welles is to Zac Efron in the film, which also stars Claire Danes.
Welles Feder adds, "It's inconceivable my father would ever act as he did toward Zac Efron's character... He was known for being kind to his actors."
Her half-sister, Beatrice, has refused to even see the film.
However, McKay has defended his portrayal of the director, responding, "I respect her opinion enormously. At the same time... if we made him more likable, we'd have taken all the drama away." »
Me and Orson Welles - Movie Review
30 November 2009 8:52 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
A small but revealing inside look at Orson Welles at the crisis of his life and the inside story of glamorous 1930.s Broadway Richard Linklater become one of the undisputed heroes of the indie circuit with his award winning youth based films shot on ultra low budgets (.Slacker,. .Fast Food Nation,. Oscar nominated .Before Sunset.). In this film he has stayed with the tried and true formula of viewing the world through young eyes but has strayed far away from the conventional indie formula with a 1930.s setting rich with costumery and set design. The end result is a fun film that harkens back to the Neil Simon coming-of-age trips down memory lane. The film is based on the novel »
- Ron Wilkinson
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G-Force | DVD review
30 November 2009 6:41 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Is there a worse director working in cinema today than Michael Bay? For sheer spectacular cynicism, he really is hard to beat. Sitting through "un film de" Michael Bay is like being struck repeatedly over the head by a hefty accountant's ledger and in the case of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Paramount, 12), the skull-pummelling number-crunching is particularly loud… and long. By comparison, the tacky 80s cartoon feature Transformers: The Movie starts to look like a lean, mean arthouse flick, morally worthy of its voice cast which included a fallen Orson Welles.
Things start badly with the unwelcome return of charisma vacuum Shia Labeouf, although Bay seems too busy leering over Megan Fox's arse to notice just how dull his leading man really is. But the cards are on the table soon enough as Shia goes to college where he is seduced by a sexy fembot, allowing Bay's camera »
- Mark Kermode
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