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This year's Golden Globes is the worst for British film in years | Adam Dawtrey
16 December 2009 5:41 AM, PST
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The usually anglophile Hollywood Foreign Press Association is overwhelmingly hymning American films this year, and that doesn't bode well for us the rest of the awards season
Despite the expected nominations for Carey Mulligan, Helen Mirren, Colin Firth and Daniel Day-Lewis, the strong American flavour of this year's Golden Globes represents a significant setback for British Oscar hopes. It's the first year since 1990 without a single British film among the 10 candidates for best drama or best musical/comedy.
Whether that reflects a weakness in British cinema, or a shift in American tastes and distribution patterns, is a matter for debate. But given that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hands out the Globes, usually has an anglophile bias, it doesn't bode well for the rest of awards season. The only consolation is that the Globes have a patchy record of predicting the Oscars.
The biggest surprise was the omission of
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- Adam Dawtrey
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #20
6 December 2009 1:54 AM, PST
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This week it was a pair of Italian cinema greats and one of the best films of 2009. I also watched Inglourious Basterds on Blu-ray as well as a second helping of Public Enemies, but reviews of both of those will be just around the corner so no further mentions here.
Ginger and Fred (1986)
Quick Thoughts: If you're any kind of fan of Italian cinema and/or Federico Fellini you know the names of Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. If you don't you really should. Might I recommend picking up La Strada, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita. That should be a good primer and should have you falling in love with these two. Once you've done that, pick up Ginger and Fred as this is a film to be watched only after enjoying these two charismatic actors in their younger years as they are both much older in this film,
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- Brad Brevet
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Jose Gives Thanks.
26 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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Jose here.
Although we don't have anything resembling Thanksgiving in my culture (Penélope Cruz was talking about that on Letterman the other day) I have a special place in my heart (and stomach) for turkey, gravy and pumpkin pie.
I also feel very grateful for the following: Technicolor, Woody Allen banter, Judy Garland's smile, the millisecond of suspense between normal talking and spontaneous singing in the musicals, post-Volver Penélope, the Truffaut/Hitchcock book, still being thrilled by the sepia-to-color switch in The Wizard of Oz, Nino Rota and La Strada, Julia Roberts' laugh, Scarlett and Rhett, Bette Davis' eyes, Ingrid Bergman's Italian phase, Jett Rink, Jacques Tourneur horror flicks, The Blob, pre-supermom Gwyneth, Wall-e, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Hathaway at award shows, Brando as Kowalski, Meryl!, Gene Kelly's butt, subtitles...
Audrey Hepburn's weird morning eating habits circa '61, Nathaniel letting me write all of this,
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- Jose
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Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009
15 November 2009 4:33 PM, PST
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Warren Beatty, who also won a best director Oscar for Reds in 1982, at the presentation of the Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Steven Spielberg, who also won two best directors Oscars, for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Dino de Laurentiis, the producer of classics such as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, The Great War, The Stranger, and Serpico
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- Anna Robinson
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Fellini's '8 1/2', Wenders' 'Paris, Texas' and Soderbergh's 'Che' Coming to Criterion Blu-ray
16 October 2009 2:41 AM, PDT
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Anyone that reads this site even on a semi-regular basis probably knows I absolutely love Federico Fellini's 8½ and that is one of the major reasons I am so looking forward to Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine. So, to learn Criterion is bringing the Fellini classic to Blu-ray with a brand new 52-minute documentary on Fellini's lost alternate ending for 8½ is almost too much for me to handle and is certainly too long to wait.
Along with the upcoming arrival of 8½, Criterion has also announced Blu-ray and DVD releases for Steven Soderbergh's Che and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Details on these three titles are detailed below, but don't go yet there is a little more...
8½ (January 12, 2010)
Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and Nyu film professor Antonio Monda
Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini,
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- Brad Brevet
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'Nine' moves to December
9 October 2009 11:35 AM, PDT
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The Weinstein Co. has moved the release date of the Rob Marshall musical "Nine" from Nov. 25 to a wide release on Dec. 25.According to Variety, this takes "Nine" out of direct competition with "The Road," the Weinstein Co.'s post-apocalyptic movie that opens on Nov. 25."Nine" will now open against other Christmas films such as "Sherlock Holmes," with Robert Downey Jr., and the Meryl Streep-Steve Martin-Alec Baldwin romantic comedy "It's Complicated."Based on Federico Fellini's "8½," "Nine" stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz and follows a director dealing with a midlife crisis while juggling the various women in his life.
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- Adnan Tezer
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Weinstein Co. Can’t Make Up its Mind
9 October 2009 10:19 AM, PDT
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Most adaptations seem to get weathered and diminished with every iteration. They lose a little something in translation. But Nine is a film that I hope is galvanized with each successive adaptation. It is already based on a 1982 Tony award-winning play, which itself was based on an Italian play by Mario Fratti, derived from the legendary Italian film 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini. Nine is directed by stage musical extraordinaire Rob Marshall (Chicago, the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and starring Daniel Day Lewis as Guido Contini. Oh yeah, and it also co-stars Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, and Kate Hudson (who is talented but chooses a lot of forgettable romantic comedies).
But nothing in there is news. What is new, as Variety reports, is the fact that Nine has been preempted by The Weinstein Company until December 25th, having originally been scheduled for November, the same month that The Road,
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- Jacob
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Oscar Hopeful 'Nine' Moves from Thanksgiving to Christmas
9 October 2009 8:33 AM, PDT
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Those of us eager to see a movie based on a Broadway musical based on a play based on a Fellini film will have to wait just a little longer, perhaps to give us time to figure all that out. Nine, originally set to open on Nov. 25, has been pushed back a month. It will now open on Dec. 18 in New York and L.A. and Christmas Day everywhere else.
The move -- which was first announced at Rope of Silicon -- is sadly lacking in controversy. The distributor is The Weinstein Company, and they already have another movie opening on Nov. 25, The Road. (The real question is why two Weinstein films were ever scheduled for the same day in the first place.) Thanksgiving weekend is terribly crowded anyway; Christmas will give Nine a little more breathing room. The real scandal would have been if they'd pushed it all the way back to 2010, but nope.
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- Eric D. Snider
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Hudson, Loren and Kidman Heat Up Eight New Looks at 'Nine'
25 September 2009 6:01 PM, PDT
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(clockwise from top left) Nicole Kidman and Daniel Day-Lewis, Kate Hudson and Sophia Loren in Nine
Photo: The Weinstein Co.
I've said it more than is probably necessary, but Rob Marshall's Nine remains one of my most highly anticipated films of Fall 2009 and it's just around the corner as that November 25 release date gets closer and closer. It's a Thanksgiving holiday weekend that has the potential to be extraordinarily stacked with quality cinema as Nine is accompanied by another Weinstein release with The Road, the new Warner Bros. actioner Ninja Assassin and the limited release of Disney's The Princess and the Frog. Yet, out of the bunch Nine remains my most anticipated and I have added eight new stills to the gallery for you to preview, all you need to do is click here to check 'em out.
Nine is a musical adaptation inspired by the Federico Fellini film
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- Brad Brevet
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Buy This: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Soundtrack Collection
24 September 2009 2:02 PM, PDT
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The best movie scores don't just add extra depth to a movie, but they take on lives on their own; they sneak into your subconscious so that the next time you hear Nino Rota you feel like downing some espressos and dancing in the Trevi Fountain.
Post-punk/death rocker turned mustachioed Southern Gothic philosopher Nick Cave and his fellow Bad Seed bandmate Warren Ellis* have become standout film composers in the past few years, beginning with their collaboration on The Proposition, a Western from the land Down Under directed by The Road's John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave. They also created the soundscape for the sadly underseen and somewhat overlong The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Their most recent collaboration on the score for The Road is worthy of an Oscar nomination -- subtle, appropriately dark but not overbearing, and elegant.
However, the two
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- Jenni Miller
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Youth In Revolt Moved to January 15, 2010
17 September 2009 12:58 PM, PDT
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The Weinstein Company has just announced they’re moving “Youth in Revolt” to January 15, 2010 from their previously announced October release date. While moving a release is sometimes the sign of a troubled film or production, I saw a screening a few days ago at the Toronto Film Festival and have to say…it’s a great movie. The film is based on acclaimed novel by C.D. Payne and it’s the story of Nick Twisp - a teen with a taste for the finer things in life like Sinatra and Fellini - and he’s played by Michael Cera. Actually, I posted a video blog about the movie yesterday where I sang the films praises. For more on the film and why it probably moved, hit the jump:
I think the main reason the film moved is The Weinstein Company has a few “Oscar” films this year (”The Road”, “A Single Man
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Oscar Update: 'Up In the Air,' 'The Road,' 'A Serious Man' and Robert Duvall?
14 September 2009 3:18 AM, PDT
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After the Telluride Film Festival came to a close on September 7, I began thinking about putting together a new Oscar update, but all there was to talk about was the initial hype surrounding Jason Reitman's Up In the Air and the reactions to John Hillcoat's The Road, which also debuted at the Venice Film Festival before both films made the trip north to the Toronto Film Festival, which is what I was waiting for to see where things settled following the early storm of raves. It's been a busy couple of weeks of festivals and while talk is loud for Up In the Air and its position as a serious contender is assured, where it will fall is still undecided (I came dangerously close to saying "up in the air").
Recently I saw a comment online with someone referring to the 2009 awards season saying it felt more like
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- Brad Brevet
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Film Print Gives Way To Digital Glint
16 July 2009 10:08 PM, PDT
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Symphony Space is presenting a classic film series with a new twist -- instead of being projected on 35mm film, the movies are being presented in a high-definition digital video format.
The series, which kicks off Sunday with Federico Fellini's "La Strada" and Victor Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive," is being billed as the first major digital retrospective series in New York.
Other titles being shown on Saturdays and Sundays -- mostly in double features -- include such repertory favorites as Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows," Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal,
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- By LOU LUMENICK
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Scriptwriter Pinelli Dies
9 March 2009 9:15 AM, PDT
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Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tullio Pinelli has died at the age of 100.
The Italian stage and film scribe passed away on 7 March in Rome.
Beginning his career in the 1940s, Pinelli was best known for his collaborations with director Federico Fellini.
Together, they earned recognition for movies like 1953's I Vitelloni, 1954's La Strada, 1960's La Dolce vita and 1963's 8 1/2 - all of which were nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Academy Awards.
Pinelli was also noted for his work on Pietro Germi's 1951 crime film Four Ways Out, starring Gina Lollobrigida, and Fellini's La voce della luna in 1990.
The star is also widely acknowledged for his contributions to Italian cinema's golden age with Monicelli comedies like 1975's Amici miel and 1981's Il Marchese del Grillo.
He is survived by four children, including his director son, Carlo Alberto Pinelli.
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