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DVD Playhouse--November 2009
8 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Z Criterion DVD Review
1 November 2009 7:34 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Costa-Gavras’s Z is the ultimate political thriller. Much like the earlier Battle of Algiers (1968) it takes a real event, and uses it as fodder for cinema. And as a paranoia piece, 1969’s Z is a masterpiece. It’s an angry film, spurned by the events of 1963, where a Greek politician was assassinated, and was murdered partly by the police, and the regime at the time. It’s a film that can make you angry about events of nearly a half century ago, and yet the echoes of the actions are still resonant. My review after the jump.
The leftist politician at the center of the film is called The Doctor (Yves Montand), and he’s brought in to have a political rally, but the organizers are denied their first location, and locals in with a half gang/half political organization - that hates the leftists and typifies them as »
- Andre Dellamorte
[DVD Review] Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut
29 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Natural Born Killers is the black sheep of the Oliver Stone filmography. Though it has received some critical acclaim, it has never received the same treatment as Stone’s more prestigious films like Platoon, Born on The Fourth of July and JFK. This comes from a host of factors. First, at the time of its release, the movie ironically became the primary target for a movement against violence in television and film. Second, and more importantly, it doesn’t really feel like an Oliver Stone film. Stone’s films are typically epic and historic, larger than life in their content and the lessons they teach. Nbk is larger than life too, but in a very different way. It attacks our sensibility about culture and the way we sense things. It tests our understanding of good and evil by proposing that no one is good.
The film follows Micky (Woody Harrelson »
- Michael Epstein
Money Never Sleeps For Charlie Sheen
8 September 2009 11:51 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Not content with being one of the highest paid actors on television - Charlie Sheen is now set to reprise his role of Bud Fox in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps - the sequel to the Oscar-winning original.
The Two and A Half Men star will film a cameo in the sequel that is set to star the first rate cast of Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon and Frank Langella.
The film, which starts shooting next week, follows Labeouf’s Jake Moore as he romances Gordan Gekko’s (Douglas) daughter played by Carey Mulligan.
Alex Young, co-president of production at 20th Century Fox said:
“We sort of started over with the story of a young man who is at the center of it, and how he needs Gordon Gekko’s help to navigate those waters.”
While Stone may have a patchy record (although »
- Niall Browne
Hugo Chavez in Venice
8 September 2009 | Cineman.ch/en | See recent Cineman.ch/en news »
Merciless dictator for some, political "Robin Hood" fighting against the power of the United States for others, the head of the Venezuelan government attended the world premiere of the movie about him by Oliver Stone. During press interviews after the screening of "South of the Border", the American director announced that what the world needs is tens of politicians like Hugo Chavez, people who keep their promises, citing the discipline and honesty of the Venezuelan leader. The maker of "Wall Street" snd "JFK" strongly criticized the American media, saying it goes out of its way to shed a negative light on the South American politician. In his film, Oliver Stone was able to interview other left wing Latin American heads of state, such as Argentina's Cristina Fernández, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Brazil's Lula, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Raúl Castro, brother of the seemingly immortal Fidel, while avoiding the »
- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
Ghent Film Festival to Honor Kevin Costner
2 September 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Wrap Staff
The 36th Ghent International Film Festival will honor Kevin Costner with its Career Achievement Award.
The Belgian fest will present the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award to the actor on October 11th, followed by a performance by Costnery’s band “Modern West.”
A two-time Academy Award-winner, the actor is most well-known for his roles in “Dances with Wolves,” “Bull Durham,” “The Bodyguard,” “Field of Dreams,” “JFK,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.”
Previous honorees include Morgan Free... »
- Deborah Stokol
Q&A: Sam Kashner On the Definitive J.F.K. Assassination Book
31 August 2009 1:20 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
William Manchester in Hartford in 1962; the photo of J.F.K. behind him was taken by Arnold Newman. Right, Jacqueline Kennedy in 1964. From John Manchester; by George Silk/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Sam Kashner’s cover story for the October issue unearths the story behind the best-selling book about the events of November 23, 1963: The Death of a President. Vf Daily sat down to talk with Kashner about J.F.K.’s assassination, the Kennedy family, and the chilling echoes of anti-Kennedy radicalism in today’s town-hall debates. Vf Daily: Do you think that The Death of a President is among the best books about J.F.K.'s assassination? Sam Kashner: Somewhere in the piece it says that there are about 2,000 books on the assassination, in every imaginable language. So I can't say I've read them all—I haven't read all of Nabokov—but I think Manchester's is a masterpiece. »
Oliver Stone bringing the Secret History of America to Showtime
19 August 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
Rather than dramatize the kinds of conspiracy theories that led to his film JFK being one of the most controversial releases of its time, Oliver Stone's latest project is a documentary series. The ten-part Secret History of America will cover the last 60 years of America, and is said to cover the dramatically "under-reported" events of that era that shaped this country.
It also promises to include "newly discovered facts" from the Kennedy administration, the Vietnam War and how America achieved its current global role post-Cold War. In other words, it'll be full of controversial ideas that will upset a lot of people. Sounds like Oliver Stone alright. I'm sure Michael Moore will be paying attention to see how successful this is.Continue reading Oliver Stone bringing the Secret History of America to Showtime
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- Jason Hughes
Oliver Stone to show us the Secret History of America
19 August 2009 12:47 PM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
While he started off as a screenwriter of some hit-or-miss movies (try watching 1981's The Hand sober and you'll soon know what I mean), Oliver Stone remade his professional persona by writing and directing one of the biggest critical successes of the 1980s, the Oscar-winning Best Picture Platoon. Ever since Stone hasn't shied away from rocking the boat and making films which showed us the way he views America and its political landscape. JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Nixon, Wall Street and World Trade Center all deal with real life people or events that still create uncomfortable ripples in the psyche of many Americans.
Now Stone is turning his attention to the platform of television and creating a 10-part documentary series for Showtime that will examine the Secret History of America. In addition to producing the series Stone will also narrate each episode as it examines culturally important »
- Patrick Sauriol
Ten greatest Films about America
4 July 2009 6:48 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
1)Nashville (1975) Robert Altman’s Masterpiece captured America in the 70s like one else: All its confusion, disappointment, and uncertainty. The film follows 24 different characters over a period of as few days in Nashville just before a political fundraising concert. We take a peak in the lives of country music superstars, hippies, aspiring singers, mothers, producers, liberals, conservatives, radicals, Christians. We see how America has changed and how our moral system had been skewed by Vietnam, Watergate, the Kennedy assassinations and the sexual revolution. Illustrates perfectly what john Lennon sang “Strange Days Indeed.” 2)Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) There are few scenes in movie history more powerful than Jimmy Stewart’s impassioned speech on the house floor. He says what every American wanted to say. These politicians are more loyal to their parties and think of people as numbers they need to get reelected. Frank Capera’s idealistic film has not »
- Anthony Nicholas
Anton Chigurh Stalks Wall Street In Oliver Stone Sequel
2 June 2009 9:32 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The adorable Nikki Finke is reporting that Javier Bardem has joined the cast of Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel. He'll be playing the film's villain against Shia Labeouf and Michael Douglas. Finke also got her mitts on a more detailed plot synopsis. Labeouf plays a young Wall Street trader whose stockbroker mentor kills himself. He blames a hedge fund manager (Bardem) responsible for major stock shorting in his mentor's death and seeks the help of a disgraced Gordon Gekko (Douglas) in getting revenge. Gekko is fresh out of prison after serving time for his escapades in the first film, and he now sits on the fringe of the financial community. The additional kink in the mix is that Labeouf is engaged to Gekko's estranged daughter. The film reportedly spans from June 2008 through the recent Federal bailout and has a reformed Gekko warning the establishment that the market is about to crash. The »
- Rob Hunter
Scenes We Love: In the Line of Fire
30 April 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
If a movie is really only as good as its villain, the summer of 1993 proved it with the double-whammy of In the Line of Fire and The Fugitive in July. Everyone else had Jurassic Park fever, but I was swept up by these two excellent, evenly-matched bouts. The latter, The Fugitive, reveled in some gray areas; Tommy Lee Jones's character wasn't all bad, but in In the Line of Fire, John Malkovich was pure bad. (They were both nominated for Oscars, and Jones won.) Malkovich plays Mitch Leary, a former military man who feels the need to assassinate the current U.S. president (Jim Curley -- who looks a bit like John McCain). Clint Eastwood plays aging Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan, who blames himself for allowing JFK to be shot, and is determined not to let it happen again. Mitch knows all about Frank's history and leaves him clues, »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Frost/Nixon DVD Release: Kevin Bacon Interview
22 April 2009 10:19 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
By Terry Keefe
Frost/Nixon comes to DVD this week with special features which include a director's commentary from Ron Howard. Below is an in-depth interview with Frost/Nixon co-star Kevin Bacon, which also covers his recent starring role in Taking Chance.
(Note: This article appeared in the February 2009 issue of Venice Magazine. )
Kevin Bacon: Hollywood’s Long Distance Runner
Memo to young stars: If you want to know how to manage an acting career, study the project choices of Kevin Bacon. After Footloose, he was as big as any of the young stars of the 80s, but, a few years later, deftly avoided being lumped in with the pop culture relics of a fading decade by a small role he took in 1991’s JFK, for director Oliver Stone, then at the height of his filmmaking, and press-creating, powers. Bacon’s screen time was brief as gay hustler Willie O’Keefe, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
April Showers, Sean Penn
14 April 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
april showers, daily @ 11
A mischievous devil sent me these snaps of Sean Penn showering for Oliver Stone's U Turn (yes I'm liable to use pics if you send any) I assume this is a hint to discuss it, but I haven't seen the movie.
What, pray tell, is with the canted overhead shot of his body? And why does Sean appearing to be swallowing the water in both shots? Is he washing out his mouth after offending someone? He's never been one to hold his tongue so it's a definite possibility.
Or maybe it's just an odd shot because it's part of Oliver Stone's lost period. Some people feel he lost his way after JFK, but I'm inclined to believe that Nbk was even better and worked precisely because of its delirium, a filmmaker unhinged. But what's been going on since? U-Turn, Any Given Sunday, World Trade Center, »
- NATHANIEL R
Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Comedy Edition
5 April 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Welcome to another edition of Movies That Deserve a Second Life. If you need a refresher on what I’m referring to by “second life,” check out the Action/Adventure Edition. If you’re caught up, read on to see what funny flics I felt were unfairly ignored/disliked upon its release or have been forgotten in the years since its release.
Comedy is almost certainly the most subjective of all genres. What makes one person laugh is guaranteed to make another yawn or wrinkle his/her brow. Some find juvenilia in poor taste while others bust a gut. Everyone claims to have a sense of humor, but almost no one enjoys every type of humor there is, from dry wit and pungent satire to bodily fluid gags and intentionally groan-worthy puns. Therefore, I think it’s safe to say that no one (besides myself) will be satisfied with every choice. »
- Matt Medlock
Vanessa Redgrave Joins Ridley Scott's 'Robin Hood' as Production Gets Underway
24 March 2009 4:17 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Universal Pictures announced today the start of production on Ridley Scott's untitled Robin Hood adventure and announces the complete list of cast members and synopsis. The most prominent new name added to the cast is Vanessa Redgrave as she joins Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Lea Seydoux, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle in the action-adventure, that will mark Crowe and Scott's fifth collaboration following Body of Lies, American Gangster, A Good Year and, of course, Gladiator. The film was once titled Nottingham and was put on hold around the time of the writer's strike. At that time it was described as a revisionist story in which Crowe would play a sympathetic Sheriff of Nottingham who labors for a corrupt king and engages in a love triangle with Maid Marion and Robin Hood. Sienna Miller was also aboard as Maid Marion. Since that time the »
- Brad Brevet
New York City Serenade DVD Review -- Charles says if this is the only DVD in the house, go ahead and watch it. But be ready to fast forward
22 March 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
According to IMDb, actor Frank Whaley plays “bit parts in big movies and successful star vehicles (Pulp Fiction (1994), JFK (1991), Broken Arrow (1996), The Freshman (1990), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Red Dragon (2002)), and leads in mostly bad movies (Career Opportunities (1991), Cold Dog Soup (1990), and The Jimmy Show (2001)).” The implication here is that he is incapable of carrying a movie on his own. Whether or not that is true, New York City Serenade certainly shows he has similar difficulties as a writer-director (although his two earlier efforts, Joe the King and The Jimmy Show have received some favorable commentary). Where to begin with this film? Dull and depressing? Predictable and trite? Unsympathetic and uninteresting characters? All too true. This 2007 effort introduces us to Owen (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), an ... »
Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones Join Company Men
19 March 2009 12:23 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
The cast of John Wells' The Company Men has gained a few more big names. Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones will star alongside of Ben Affleck in the drama about the impact that corporate downsizing has on both its casualties and survivors. Long-time producer John Wells wrote the script and will make his directorial debut. Affleck plays a corporate hotshot whose Porsche and salary vanish after he gets laid off. Costner plays his brother-in-law, a drywall installer who gives him a construction job. Jones plays a senior partner in the firm, a principled man who struggles with the greedy actions of his partners. The last, and only, time we saw Costner and Jones together was in Oliver Stone's JFK in 1991. It'll be great to see these two, and Affleck, working together again, although as I've said numerous times before, I prefer to see Affleck behind the camera, »
- Alex Billington
Costner and Jones Team for Company Men
18 March 2009 9:55 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
JFK stars Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones are set to star in The Company Men, an independently financed drama about the impact that a corporate downsizing has on both its casualties and survivors. They will star alongside Ben Affleck, who joined the film last fall. John Wells wrote the script and will direct. The project will be the feature directing debut for Wells, a veteran TV writer and director whose credits include ER, Third Watch and The West Wing. In the film, Affleck plays a corporate hotshot whose Porsche and six-figure salary vanish after he gets laid off. Costner plays his brother-in-law, a salt-of-the-earth drywall installer who gives him a construction job. Jones plays a senior partner in the firm, a principled man who struggles with the greedy actions of his partners. Both Costner and Jones are also prepping their next directing vehicles. Costner plans to direct and star in The One, »
- James Cook
Lee, Costner join Company
18 March 2009 9:44 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
The days of Kevin Costner making porous movie choices seem to be behind him. Costner and the always solid Tommy Lee Jones will join Ben Affleck--another actor on the upswing--in The Company Men, an independently financed drama about the impact that a corporate downsizing has on its casualties and survivors. Costner and Jones previously appeared in Oliver Stone's JFK together. John Wells--the executive producer of "ER" wrote and will direct the film, which sees Jones play a... »
- Daniel Barna
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