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Lou Jacobi obituary
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
Lou Jacobi obituary
7 hours ago | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
Amelia | Film review
14 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Amelia Earhart, the great pioneer aviatrix, has been impersonated on screen by numerous actresses, among them Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Diane Keaton and Amy Adams. But never as convincingly as she is by Hilary Swank in this immensely enjoyably biopic from the Indian director who made her name with Salaam Bombay!. With the right short haircut, some orthodontic effects and sporting her regular radiant smile, Swank bears an uncanny resemblance to Earhart and the film borrows the device Billy Wilder used in his Lindbergh film, Spirit of St Louis, of telling her story in flashbacks from an epic flight. In her case, it's the doomed round-the-world trip she embarked on in 1937 in her 40th year, accompanied by ace celestial navigator Fred Noonan.
The film chronicles her early fascination with flight, her companionate marriage to publisher and publicist George Putnam (Richard Gere at his most charming), her two record-breaking transatlantic flights, »
- Philip French
Hold Back The Dawn – Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
13 November 2009 3:54 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Direction: Mitchell Leisen Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring’s story Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen’s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket for the director’s World War II-era films. Adapted by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett from Ketti Frings‘ semi-autobiographical story, Hold Back the Dawn stars Charles Boyer as George Iscovescu, a Romanian dancer unable to enter the U.S. from Mexico due to immigration quotas imposed at the onset of the European conflict. Paulette Goddard is his scheming former partner, Anita, who marries an American to [...] »
- Doug Johnson
Soderbergh says that Damon is the next Lemmon
2 November 2009 2:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Stephen Soderbergh has compared Matt Damon to screen legend Jack Lemmon.
The movie director - who has worked with the Hollywood actor on 'The Informant!' and the 'Oceans' 11' film franchise - has praised Matt for his acting ability and admits he is delighted to see him portray such a variety of characters.
He said: " 'The Informant!' seemed like a Billy Wilder Movie in a way, with Matt as Jack Lemmon.
"I always enjoy making the 'Oceans' films because it is a justifiable way of playing with the camera, but in a movie like this, my job is to let Matt's performance take position front and centre, just be simple."
'The Informant!' is a dark political comedy based on the true story of Mark Whitacre, a business executive who turns whistle-blower on his own company's price-fixing scam.
Although Stephen, 46, is used to working on action comedies, he »
- Paul
The Noir Loser
26 October 2009 9:41 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The debut of a number of distinctive personalities is one of the important features of film noir. Noir’s main character, for instance, may appropriately be labeled the noir loser. He is a handsome, middle-aged man who seems to blur the line between protagonist and antagonist. Billy Wilder has very explicitly introduced such personalities as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard and, as such, defined a key aspect of the genre. Both are ordinary men who see an opportunity to advance their lives, albeit immorally, only to find themselves victims of fate at the hands of a female counterpart. In both films, the noir loser compels the audience to sympathize for them. The films begin with a voice-over narration from both men at the culmination of their demise. Double Indemnity’s Walter Neff introduces himself in the opening minutes as he confesses his crime: “I killed Dietrichson. »
- Daniel Elisevich
Group Fun
20 October 2009 3:50 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
If you've been here for some time you might recall that the Film Experience was once one of the main pushers of the phenom known as the blog-a-thon where multiple sites posted on a specific topic simultaneously. I hosted three of the largest blog-a-thons the web had ever seen at the time (Michelle Pfeiffer 2006, Vampires in Cinema 2006 and Action Heroines 2007) before collapsing from exhaustion / 'thon burnout... that happened pretty much everywhere since the sites that used to keep calendars of such events stopped keeping track, too.
The blog-a-thon has essentially been replaced by the film clubs which come in two forms: one site hosted discussions or formatted like old school 'thons with links to every site discussing the topic. The other 'thon replacement is the monthly event/tradition like, for example, StinkyLulu's awesome Supporting Actress Smackdown series which is about to hit its 34th installment. Wow. That's devotion.
Here are »
- NATHANIEL R
Balloon Boy Lives! Pass the popcorn
15 October 2009 4:55 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
First, let’s celebrate the fact that six-year-old Falcon Heene is alive and unharmed. Turned out the runaway balloon boy was in the attic, hiding in a box, the whole time. But let’s also take a moment to congratulate the junior aviator on perpetrating the greatest practical joke played on cable news since Glenn Beck got his own show. Ashton Kutcher couldn’t have punk'd the media any better. Whether it was all part of an elaborate publicity stunt (Falcon's family were once contestants on Wife Swap, which has raised some commentators’ eyebrows), or whether the little boy was »
- Benjamin Svetkey
50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 3) - Spotlight on German Films
11 October 2009 5:05 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
- - -
- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 3) - Spotlight on German Films
11 October 2009 5:05 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
- - -
- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
- - -
1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 3) - Spotlight on German Films
11 October 2009 5:05 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
- - -
- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
- - -
1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 3) - Spotlight on German Films
11 October 2009 5:05 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
- - -
- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
- - -
1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 3) - Spotlight on German Films
11 October 2009 5:05 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
- - -
- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
- - -
1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Price of a Movie: 10.07.09
7 October 2009 3:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Will Where the Wild Things Are become a classic like Some Like It Hot? Is Alton Brown the most likable guy on the Food Channel? These questions will be answered in this week's Price of a Movie. Some Like It Hot at Film Forum Its been fifty years since Billy Wilder's raucous cross-dressing comedy debuted and Film Forum is celebrating with a limited screening of the flick, all dolled up in a new 35mm print. The film has been named the #1 Funniest Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute, and while we don't necessarily adhere to superlatives, we have to agree that this one is a real classic. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon's comedy is pricless, and even though they make for two rather unfortunate looking women, Marilyn Monroe has looks to spare. Where: Film Forum, 209 West Houston St. When: Closes tomorrow! Screenings at 2:00 pm, »
Ricky D Conceicao: Founder & Creator
30 September 2009 12:37 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Ricky D is the founder and creator of Sound on Sight. Due to contrary belief he has never attended any film school. Instead Ricky learned his craft from his eight years as a video store clerk and countless hours of watching Vcr porn and 70`s horror films. He has completed just over a dozen short films in which he produced, directed, edited and photographed. He has taken home various awards including best director, editor and camera man at various short film festivals. Whatever little free time he has is usually spent at the movies, reading comic books and spending time with his boyfriend and two puppies. His favorite film makers are Pier Paolo Pasolini, David Cronenberg, Lars Von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Paul Thomas Anderson, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock. His favorite films are Pulp Fiction, La Dolce Vita, Europa and Salo. He is currently working on a slasher film. »
- Ricky
Alexandra Sokoloff ('The Unseen', 'The Harrowing')
27 September 2009 5:55 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
By Alan Kelly
Alexandra Sokoloff is a screen-writer well established in California writing novel adaptations (like the thriller Cold Kisses) for various Hollywood studios like Sony, Miramax and Disney. A graduate of Uc Berkeley where she majored in theatre and minored in just about everything else. Sokoloff has had three extremely well-received novels published: The Harrowing, The Price and The Unseen and is collaborating on a vampire trilogy with Heather Graham and Deborah Leblanc, which is due out next year...
Sokoloff explores themes of loss, loneliness, things that may be at the edge of our awareness or merely manufactured traumas created by the unnerving worlds her characters inhabit, plunging her readers into terrifying occult realms. Her novels are slices of supernatural realism which are fast, punchy, clever and chock-full of creepy intrigue.
Structure seems very important to you. Do you map your novels out before beginning; I ask this because »
- Superheidi
Credits Report: Kiss Me, Stupid
23 September 2009 12:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Here in Austin, the Billy Wilder movie Kiss Me, Stupid is playing tonight as part of a series about Wilder's later films, and I suspect I am driving people crazy, trying to convince them to see it with me. I may have scared a local filmmaker at a screening of Wilder's One, Two, Three a couple of weeks ago, urging the poor man -- whom I hardly know -- to return for this film.
Kiss Me, Stupid is often considered one of Wilder's worst films, a smutfest from 1964 that helped end the Production Code in Hollywood, a black-and-white comedy that is the opposite of the sophisticated sex comedies of the early 1960s (Doris Day and that crowd). It might have been a very different movie with its original lead actor, Peter Sellers, but he was ill and had to be replaced by Ray Walston. And yet there's something about this »
- Jette Kernion
Mallika bonds big time with legendary star Shirley MacLaine
22 September 2009 1:12 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Mallika Sherawat.s love-affair with Hollywood refuses to slow down. After charming Jackie Chan, music composer Yanni and other biggies, Mallika bonded big time with legendary American actress, Shirley MacLaine recently. The two actresses were seen leaving the Chanel store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.A source close to Mallika said, "They discussed films, and gosipped. Shirley told her stories about Billy Wilder and the time when she `kicked Jack Nicholson in the groin.` Ms MacLaine also enquired of her film .Hisss., as she has long been fascinated by reincarnation and has written nine books on it."Mallika is presently promoting her international film .Hisss., which deals with reincarnation. Shirley seemed quite interested in the film, and asked to see the teaser promo of the film. The meeting between the Oscar-winning actress and Mallika lasted over two hours.According to a source, a few weeks ago Mallika had met Shirley`s brother, »
Warner, Vishesh Films to remake Love in The Afternoon
17 September 2009 8:51 PM, PDT | BusinessofCinema | See recent BusinessofCinema news »
Vishesh Films has joined hands with Warner Bros to co-produce the Hindi remake of Warner's 1957 classic romantic comedy Love In The Afternoon.Warner Bros' Love In the Afternoon starred Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. It was directed by Billy Wilder. The remake will be directed by Mohit Suri and have Emraan Hashmi in the lead. The other details of the film are yet to be finalized.Vishesh Films also has a four film co-production deal with Sony Music Entertainment India (Sony BMG), the first of which was Raaz – The Mystery Continues. Their second co-production ... »
That'd Really Blow Your Skirt Up
14 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Fifty-five years ago today this very minute, Marilyn Monroe stood on a grate at Lexington and 52nd right here in NYC to film the infamous white skirt scene in The Seven Year Itch (1955).
According to This Day in History Joe Dimaggio (her husband at the time) was furious and thought the scene was exploitative. Well, duh. Who did he think he was marrying? It wasn't the first time or the last that Monroe's sex appeal was the whole point of an image or a film sequence. Alas, the footage you see in the movie was a reshoot thus ruining the point of this post --shut up, I just like talking about Marilyn. Though it's considered minor Billy Wilder, Itch was popular and the director and star would gloriously reunite for the classic Some Like It Hot (1959). This first pairing won some minor awards attention and Monroe was nominated for a »
- NATHANIEL R
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