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Frank Langella Enters 'Unknown'
8 December 2009 12:03 PM, PST
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Frank Langella's becoming the go-to guy for classy character-acting in otherwise dubious-sounding thrillers. Variety has just announced that the veteran actor (and former Dracula) will follow up his role in The Box by starring in the upcoming Dark Castle film Unknown White Male, alongside Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger.
"Neeson," says Variety, "plays a man who awakens from a coma to find somebody else has assumed his identity. Langella plays Cole, who comes forward as the coma guy's colleague and gets involved as he tries to reclaim his identity."
(I love how Neeson's character is referred to as "coma guy"; which would make for a much better name for the
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David Thomson on Frank Langella
19 November 2009 3:55 PM, PST
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'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature'
Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979). But he wasn't ready. Something in his lofty mien suggested that he scorned movies, or simply didn't know how to behave in them. But now … well, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes on changing its own rules the way they seem inclined, Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature.
The Box is opening, as they say,
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- David Thomson
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Exclusive: Richard Kelly Ends His Guest Editorship With Praise For 'The Box' Star Frank Langella
30 October 2009 4:00 PM, PDT
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Richard Kelly is the man. Not just because he'll be here all this week, posting as a guest editor for MTV Movies Blog. It helps, sure, but we're talking about the guy who made "Donnie Darko" here. And "Southland Tales." Isn't that enough? Not for Kelly it isn't. His latest brain-twisting tale, "The Box," hits theaters on November 6. And he has a dynamite week of content planned for y'all, so sit back and enjoy!
October 30, 2009
Lord Langella
What do you do with an Oscar-nominated actor for his follow-up role? If you’re me – you convince him to remove half of his face.
For those of you who have seen "The Box" trailer (opening November 6th!) -- or seen a television spot – you might notice that Mr. Langella does not look like his normal handsome self in this film.
That’s because we removed half of his face using state-of-the-art CGI.
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Weekend Shopping Guide 9/11/09: A Mighty Wind
12 September 2009 7:19 PM, PDT
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The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
(Please support Quick Stop by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
What made the comedy of Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind work so well was the actual musicianship of its principal trio, who’ve decided to take center stage as themselves for Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening With Christopher Guest, Michael McKean & Harry Shearer (Courgette Records, Not Rated, DVD-$15.97 Srp), a must-have concert DVD that is exactly what it says on the tin.
Having seen it’s uber-cool,
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Frank Langella Joins 'Wall Street 2'
10 August 2009 9:10 PM, PDT
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According to Variety, Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) will join the cast of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, the Oliver Stone-directed sequel for 20th Century Fox.
Shia Labeouf stars beside Michael Douglas, who reprises his role as Gordon Gekko. Josh Brolin is reportedly circling a part in the Allan Loeb-scripted drama as well.
Langella is in talks to play Lewis Zabel, an old-time broker who mentors Labeouf's character, a young Wall Street broker. The mentor's fate plays a major part in the film's plot.
This actually sounds like a great choice. The one time Dracula star proved his mettle last year in Frost/Nixon, and will next appear with Cameron Diaz and James Marsden in Richard Kelly-directed thriller The Box and Andrew Jarecki's All Good Things, opposite Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.
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Frank Langella joins Stone's 'Wall Street 2'
10 August 2009 2:52 PM, PDT
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Oscar-nominated actor Frank Langella will join Michael Douglas and Shia Labeouf in Oliver Stone's upcoming "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps," which 20th Century Fox is currently prepping.
Variety says Langella will play Lewis Zabel, a broker who acts as a mentor to the character Labeouf will be portraying. The trade says Zabel will play quite an important role in the film.
Douglas, of course, will return to reprise his role as Gordon Gekko from the first flick, which was released in 1987. Also, Josh Brolin has been in talks to play a villain in the sequel. Brolin also worked with Stone on "W."
Langella recently starred in "Frost/Nixon." The "Dracula" actor will soon be seen in Richard Kelly's new mystery thriller "The Box." He's also got "All Good Things" coming up soon.
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Tony Awards Round Up: Harden, Lansbury, Hathaway, Langella, Neil Patrick Harris
8 June 2009 2:37 PM, PDT
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And now a pre-show moment with Martha Plimpton...
That's right. I was conceived because of the musical Hair. I wouldn't exist without it. That's Plimpton sandwiched inbetween Broadway's Hair boys: my fellow Byu alum Will Swenson, who we've been drooling on for awhile and Gavin Creel (Love the... tie? scarf? tarf?). Plimpton was actually speaking the truth to the reporter. Her parents Keith Carradine (yes, the star and composer of one of the greatest song scenes in all of cinematic history, "I'm Easy" from Robert Altman's Nashville) and Sheila Plimpton met while performing Hair on stage in the late 60s.
I bring up this pre-show red carpet moment because Martha Plimpton is a handy human symbol of how much the mainstream media, and by extension the public, misses out on because they ignore theater and great actors who work in it. To the general public Ms. Plimpton isn't recognizable or,
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Five Things I Love About John Carpenter
21 January 2009 10:25 AM, PST
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Good Lord! How long have I been gone? Well, here's the deal, Fangorians. You may or may not know that I took over as team captain for Blog@Newsarama, with my new group kicking things off on December 1st. I also made some preparations for my original site, ShotgunReviews.com, to begin celebrating its Tenth Year online. Needless to say, it's been busy. But I haven't wanted to neglect my Fango friends, so I've been giving a lot of thought to what to do for the third installment of this (now more) regular series. The first two go-rounds, I talked '31 Frankenstein and Dracula. I really kicked around covering Spanish Dracula, and I Will get back to that eventually. Today, though, I've decided to cover someone that's still in the game. And I'll begin with this question: between 1978 and 1988, was there a genre director that had a better run than John Carpenter?
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Rip Pieces’ Edmund Purdom
13 January 2009 3:13 PM, PST
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Variety reports that veteran actor Edmund Purdom, star of numerous Eurohorror features, passed away January 1 in Rome. He died of natural causes, at age 85.
Originally a stage actor who was part of Laurence Olivier’s company, Purdom traveled with Olivier to Hollywood in the ’50s, where he had leads and key supporting roles in the likes of The Student Prince, Julius Caesar and The Egyptian. Later in the decade, he moved to Italy and began a long career in European features, including numerous actioners, Westerns and horror films. Among the latter were Luigi Bazzoni’s 1971 giallo The Fifth Cord, Paolo Lombardo’s The Devil’S Lover (1972), Jess Franco’s The Sinister Eyes Of Dr. Orloff (1973), Dick Randall’s Frankenstein’S Castle Of Freaks (1974), Massimo Dallamano’s Night Child a.k.a. The Cursed Medallion (1975), Joe D’Amato’s The Monster Hunter a.k.a. Absurd and Anthropophagus 2 (1981), Neri Parenti’s 1985 horror/comedy Fracchia Vs.
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