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6 November 2009 1:07 PM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

When an actor or director suddenly breaks out and gets hot, studios scour their vaults to see if there’s a way they can capitalize on this heat. Last year, Robert Downey, Jr. went from a troubled, gifted actor to a Super Star thanks to his performance in Iron Man. This week, 20th Century-Fox hopes to catch a break with the Blu-ray release of Downey’s 1998 film Two Girls and a Guy.

Written and direct by James Toback, the film is virtually a real time three-person stage play on a film. In his self-congratulatory 20 minute conversation on the Extras, Toback talks about how he came to write the film, by beginning to imagine a setting. In this case, that’s the spacious loft apartment which became the set his performances would use. After that, he populated the apartment with his players.

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3 November 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Tao Ruspoli, helmer behind Fix which ropens November 20th at the Village East in NY. He gave us his top ten (as of November 2009).  8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini I'm sure this film has been on this list 100 times, and probably always for slightly different reasons. To me 8 1/2 is a brilliant exploration of one man's issues with time and aging (notice all the watches and clocks in the film!), with his complicated relationships to the women of his life, with imagination and the creative process, and with the complexes that come with growing up Catholic. Of course, as a film director and an Italian this »

2 articles from 2009