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Birthday Suits: Hamlets & Hydes

13 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/131312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death. That Gibson's sperm could magically endure beyond the grave is far more likely. He already has eight children.1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, famous influential thespian and the 19th century's most prominent Hamlet. He's been portrayed onscreen and stage by famous thespians like Richard Burton and Frank Langella, usually in stories connected to his estranged brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Will someone play him in the Spielberg helmed Lincoln film?

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1897 Gertrude Omstead, one of many silent film actresses who moved on once sound hit the movies. »

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Berlin 2010: Play it Again …! Series

11 November 2009 2:01 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective "Play it Again …!," featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals. Among them are Curzio Malaparte’s The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg’s Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa’s To Live, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Niels Arden Oplev’s We Shall Overcome, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. Also, Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses, which caused a furor in 1976. German authorities — who probably had better things to do (weren’t the Baader Meinhof running [...] »

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Eastwood's 'Hereafter' Moves to France

10 November 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Clint Eastwood's Hereafter is circling "France". The one who charmed the art-house circuit with her Jean Seberg coiffe and introductory performances to world auds in L'auberge espagnole and High Tension will be making her official Hollywood studio film debut as one of the three central characters in the globe-trotting supernatural drama. Along with Matt Damon, Cecile de France is part a storyline of a trio of people who are touched by death in different ways. De France will portray a French journalist who has a near-death experience. Filming will take place in Paris, London, Hawaii and San Francisco and like his previous films with WB, Eastwood's pic is already slated for a December release next year.... »

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