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Deborah Kerr: Sexual Outlaw
22 May 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, The King and I Deborah Kerr Pt.1: What Lies Beneath True, you most likely won’t find Deborah Kerr labeled a sex goddess anywhere, but that’s merely because her sexual allure, apart from the beach scene in From Here to Eternity, was hardly obvious. Unlike overgrown little girls such as Marilyn Monroe, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Jayne Mansfield, or Brigitte Bardot, Kerr looked and acted like a mature woman even in her 20s. In other words, there was nothing kittenish about Deborah Kerr; she didn’t pout. Unlike Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Lizabeth Scott, or Susan Sarandon, Kerr’s seething sensuality had nothing to do with sultriness, come-hither looks, or bare body parts. Unlike Simone Simon, Jane Greer, the latter-day Barbara Stanwyck, and other (French or American) film noir dames, or Theda Bara and assorted film »
- Andre Soares
Interview: Newcomer Gretchen Lodge Talks Inhabiting 'Lovely Molly,' Dark Playlists & Dream Remakes
18 May 2012 12:55 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Gretchen Lodge makes her screen debut this weekend in the latest from "The Blair Witch Project" helmer Eduardo Sanchez, the possession/psychological horror thriller "Lovely Molly." Lodge gives a ferocious, fearless and deeply intimate performance in a film that strays from the found footage genre Sanchez helped to create, instead rendering a much more personal horror film that utilizes first person camera footage as one of the many tools in the telling the story of Molly, a young newlywed who begins to lose her grip on reality. Or does she? Lodge is firmly the anchor of this film, which revolves entirely around her, and she never for a minute loses her magnetic grasp on the audience, who can't look away, despite some of the shocking and primal moments. Our review from SXSW said, "she commits to the character -- so mousy and serene early in the movie and so terrifying »
- Katie Walsh
Carolyn Hennesy Speaks on "Great Dame" of a True Blood Character
18 May 2012 8:42 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Joan Crawford and Betty Davis, move over. Make room for Rosalyn Harris.
This Vampire Authority member will make her first appearance on True Blood Season 5, and Carolyn Hennesy recently described the character to me as a "great dame," one in the mold of the aforementioned legend.
"She's just a grand old broad," the actress said. "She's someone who thinks pearls go with everything and hair can never be too high. She has a tremendous sense of humor."
That's not how I would have pictured an Authority member, but Hennesey said fans of this HBO series are in for a few surprises when they meet who she describes as "the Pope and the Cardinals" of the vampire world. (Chrisopher Meloni, as Roman, would be the Pope in this analogy.)
"There are two principle factions within the Authority," Hennesy explained. "There are those who believe in mainstreaming, who wish to assimilate the humans and those who… »
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
Garbage’s Shirley Manson on Ending the Hiatus, Hating Record Labels, and Dressing As Bette Davis
15 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Shirley Manson cracks herself up, with a Scottish cackle that comes out of nowhere and knocks you on your ass. These days, Manson’s laughter comes easy, as she explains why it was time for her band, Garbage — which first found success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom of the mid-nineties — to get back to work following a seven-year hiatus. She spoke with Vulture about Garbage’s new album, Not Your Kind of People, going indie, why the nineties were better, and her penchant for dressing up as Bette Davis.Who initiated getting the band back together?Of course it's me, because I’m vocal and I'm so in touch with my desires and my wants. That's the way the dynamic has always been. [Laughs.] I called Butch [Vig] up first and said, “I want to make another record. Do you?” He said, “Yep!” I called Steve [Marker], he called Duke [Erikson], and we »
- Jillian Mapes
Snow White And The Huntsman Clip: Chris Hemsworth/Charlize Theron
11 May 2012 3:28 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Chris Hemsworth, Huntsman: Snow White and the Huntsman Charlize Theron is possessed by the Bette Davis of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (and The Virgin Queen) in this Snow White and the Huntsman clip. (Please scroll down.) Chris Hemsworth is the Huntsman who is brave (or stupid or crazy) enough to dare think he has the option not to do what his queen is telling him to. The "she" referred to in the Snow White and the Huntsman clip is, needless to say, Snow White (Kristen Stewart). According to a cool-looking talking mirror, Snow White is destined to surpass the Queen in sheer fairness. The Queen, none too happy, wants Snow to melt away. Snow, however, turns out to be as resilient as she’s white. Directed by Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman opens June 1. In addition to Charlize Theron (to be seen in Ridley Scott »
- Andre Soares
Cannes and the magic of Marilyn Monroe
9 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Cannes film festival kicks off next week, and this shot of Marilyn Monroe will feature on all its official posters. Does it matter that she never went?
She is a perennially fascinating screen actress, the incidental subject of new TV drama Smash – and from next week she will be pouting down at us from every street corner in Cannes, the face of the official film festival poster. The photograph shows the beautiful, beguiling, funny leading lady of such pictures as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot blowing out the candle on her 30th birthday cake, giving a seductive air-kiss to the lens. In a press release, the festival organisers explain: "The poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality – a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the festival anniversary [Cannes turns 65 this year] … Their coming together symbolises the ideal of simplicity and elegance. »
- Peter Bradshaw
The Deep Blue Sea ( 2011 ) – The Review
19 April 2012 9:49 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
No, this is not a remake of the Samuel L. Jackson brain-enhanced killer sharks thriller. The Deep Blue Sea is actually a new screen adaptation of a stage work more than sixty years old by Terence Rattigan as part of a centennial celebration of the noted British playwright. It’s set just a few years after the end of World War II and could very well have been made in the waning years of Hollywood’s Golden Age . This might be considered a ” woman’s picture ” back in the day and starred Bette Davis or Joan Crawford ( maybe at that time it would be Deborah Kerr or Olivia DeHaviland ). Going back to the early talkies romantic dramas were big earners for the studios in the days before male-dominated action flicks took over . An intimate study focusing on the female protagonist is rare these days. Of course certain elements of this »
- Jim Batts
TV review: Elizabeth Taylor: The Auction of a Lifetime; Divine Women
18 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The story of Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery was disgustingly decadent, absurd – and thrilling
I speak to you as one who has every biography of Elizabeth Taylor ever published neatly arrayed on her bookshelves and thoroughly read. They are in my Hollywood film section, which also comprises juicy, glittering hardbacks full of juicy, glittering facts – or, far more likely, factoids and outright, fabulous lies – about the lives of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James Dean, Montgomery Clift and all the glorious rest of them, and the even-more-fabulously-ridiculous autobiographies of gossip-column queens Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham. Louella Parsons' is literally in the post.
So (apart from the fact that I will go to my grave regretting that I did not manage to buy one of the six-volume catalogues that accompanied the sale at Christie's last year) I'm afraid I couldn't have been happier last night, luxuriating in Elizabeth Taylor: The »
- Lucy Mangan
TV review: Elizabeth Taylor: The Auction of a Lifetime; Divine Women
18 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The story of Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery was disgustingly decadent, absurd – and thrilling
I speak to you as one who has every biography of Elizabeth Taylor ever published neatly arrayed on her bookshelves and thoroughly read. They are in my Hollywood film section, which also comprises juicy, glittering hardbacks full of juicy, glittering facts – or, far more likely, factoids and outright, fabulous lies – about the lives of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James Dean, Montgomery Clift and all the glorious rest of them, and the even-more-fabulously-ridiculous autobiographies of gossip-column queens Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham. Louella Parsons' is literally in the post.
So (apart from the fact that I will go to my grave regretting that I did not manage to buy one of the six-volume catalogues that accompanied the sale at Christie's last year) I'm afraid I couldn't have been happier last night, luxuriating in Elizabeth Taylor: The »
- Lucy Mangan
Most-watched Show Sunday? 60 Minutes
16 April 2012 11:59 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »
With its hour-long tribute to Mike Wallace on Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes easily became the most-watched show of the night, averaging 10.8 million viewers. The program featured Wallace interviewing such celebrities as Johnny Carson, Ronald Reagan, Malcolm X, Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks, Bette Davis, Kirk Douglas, Jack Kevorkian, Tina Turner and Shirley MacLaine. Riding the show’s coattails, every other CBS show for the night came in at No. 1 in the ratings, including The Amazing Race with 9.2 million, The Good Wife with 10 million and the debuting NYC 22 with 8.9 million. »
- admin
Recap: Season Premiere Of 'Girls' A Confident, Funny Start For Lena Dunham's Series
15 April 2012 8:02 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Update: Viewers on the U.S. can now watch the pilot episode of "Girls" on YouTube without an HBO subscription. Unembeddable, but watch here.
Generally speaking, comedies don't arrive on the small screen fully formed, and often take some time to find and establish their voice and tone. Just look at the first seasons for shows like "Seinfeld," "The Simpsons" or the American version of "The Office." Those initial episodes, while showing flashes of the best they would have to offer, are uneven, with characters still taking shape, jokes missing as often as they land and the overall architecture still being built. But the remarkable thing in watching the premiere episode of Lena Dunham's "Girls" is how confidently it struts out of the gate, and how fully structured it seems right from the start.
The bulk of the season premiere -- which stretches just over the half-hour mark -- as expected, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Scacchi Relished Playing Davis On Stage
12 April 2012 9:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Greta Scacchi relished the chance to play Bette Davis on the London stage last year, hailing it as "the best role" she has ever had.
The Heat and Dust star appeared alongside Anita Dobson in the play Bette and Joan, about the personal and professional relationship between Davis and Joan Crawford - and she was only too happy to accept a role so different to her usual performances.
Speaking on U.K. chat show Loose Women, she says, "It's the best role I've ever had - the range... Actors always want to play different types, we don't want to be typecast, but typecasting is the nature of success so for years I had to look pretty and elegant and very often be well-behaved or cold-hearted and mean but actually in life I'm half Italian and I'm quite hot-blooded and expressive.
"And I felt very often my acting had to be more restricted, more restricted in my behaviour than I am in life and Bette gives me a chance to let it all out." »
Rare Photos of Bette Davis from Life 1939
11 April 2012 7:53 PM, PDT | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
In honor of her birthday, previously unpublished photos of Bette Davis (from Life magazine‘s archives) By the time Life magazine put Bette Davis on its cover in January 1939, the »
- Ryan Adams
Hollywood legends: the TCM Classic Film Festival
11 April 2012 4:28 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
At this Los Angeles film festival, movie buffs wallow unashamedly in nostalgia and the golden era of Hollywood, and get to meet the odd star of the classic films being screened
Hollywood Boulevard was closed to traffic and the crowds were gathering outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre to spot the stars – Peter O'Toole, Tippi Hedren and Mickey Rooney among them – as they walked the red carpet and filed past hundreds of famous foot and handprints for the premiere of Gene Kelly's 1951 film, An American in Paris. Fans cheer and cameras flash.
At the TCM Classic Film Festival stars from yesteryear rub shoulders with paying guests who made their way past the pair of giant Chinese Ming Heavens dogs guarding the main entrance of the 85-year-old picture palace.
Home to the biggest film premieres in Hollywood since 1927, the theatre interior rises 90 feet to a bronze roof, two coral red columns sitting »
'A Streetcar Named Desire': 25 Things You Didn't Know About The Marlon Brando Movie
10 April 2012 9:42 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Hey, Stellaaaaa! Fire up the Blu-ray player! 1951's "A Streetcar Named Desire" marked the 60th anniversary of its release last September. Now, seven months later, fans will have the opportunity to relive the classic flick with a special-edition Blu-ray release. That's as good an excuse as any to revisit this landmark film, which opened up Hollywood to movies with strictly adult content and -- thanks to Marlon Brando's legendary performance -- Method acting. The film forced the medium into a new, raw, emotional, mature kind of expression, and, six decades later, it has lost none of its power to shock and astonish. Of course, what went on behind the scenes of the steamy Southern story was nearly as dramatic as the on-screen tale. Read on for more about the film's casting (can you imagine Bette Davis as Blanche?), Vivien Leigh's witty takedown of director Elia Kazan, and the »
- Gary Susman
The Essentials: 5 Of Michael Curtiz's Greatest Films, On The 50th Anniversary Of His Death
10 April 2012 8:05 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
With the arrival of the auteur theory, filmmakers like Michael Curtiz no longer get as much sway among the current generation of directors. Curtiz (born Kertész Kaminer Manó in Hungary in 1886), was a journeyman, a man who flourished in the studio system after being picked out by Jack Warner for his Austrian Biblical epic "Moon of Israel" in 1924. He stayed at the studio for nearly 20 years, taking on whatever he was assigned at a terrifyingly prolific rate -- he made over 100 Hollywood movies up to "The Comancheros" in 1961. And some of them are terrible, as you might expect.
But Curtiz was also responsible for some of the greatest films of the era, and those who diminish his abilities (including the director himself, who once said "Who cares about character? I make it go so fast nobody notices") are ignoring his enormous skill behind the camera, and his undeniable capacity for »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Elisabeth Moss: Bette Davis Eyes On The Road Poster
9 April 2012 5:09 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Elisabeth Moss, On the Road movie poster "These people are mad," says (I assume) Elisabeth Moss' Galatea Dunkel in Walter Salles' On the Road, to open in France on May 23. Moss looks a little mad herself here, kinda like Bette Davis about to slap Miriam Hopkins in some movie or other. By the way, this is no putdown. This poster offers a great, memorable image of Elisabeth Moss, among whose film credits are Get Him to the Greek, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, and Girl, Interrupted. Moss is also a member of the Mad Men ensemble. In Salles and screenwriter José Rivera's film version of Jack Kerouac's novel, Galatea Dunkel is the wife of Ed Dunkel (Off the Hook / Ideal's Danny Morgan). The Dunkels are based on Helen Hinkle and Al Hinkle, early members of the Beats. In addition to Elisabeth Moss and Danny Morgan, »
- Andre Soares
All This, and Linking Too
9 April 2012 6:02 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Matt Patches gives us the best news of the day for New Yorkers. The Alamo Drafthouse is coming.
Lists of Note Preston Sturges "11 rules of box office appeal" Tee hee.
Cinema Blend new details on Matt Damon's Promised Land. It involves fracking.
Scanners a wonderful interview with Bette Davis circa 1988. She would have turned 104 this weekend.
Pajiba the highest grossing female led action films (not adjusted for inflation)
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The Awl unanswered questions about teen movies. Here's a sample:
Say Anything…: How many times did Lloyd use the boombox trick in future relationships, and was his song selection always “In Your Eyes,” or did it change to reflect the current hits?
Tom Shone on the Titanic 3D conversion. I love Tom Shone.
Finally Boy Culture reminded me of this year old interview with one of my favorite character actresses (and incidentally one of my favorite lesbians) Miriam Margolyes. »
- NATHANIEL R
Jean Dujardin: Le Silence Est dOr
9 April 2012 12:21 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin backstage at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood on February 26. Dujardin was the year's Best Actor winner for his performance as a Douglas Fairbanks- and John Gilbert-like silent film star in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. (Photo: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Jean Dujardin's fellow Best Actor contenders were Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A first-time Oscar nominee, Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an Oscar in the acting categories. (French-born actresses have been luckier at the Academy Awards: It Happened One Night's Claudette Colbert, Room at the Top's Simone Signoret, La Vie en Rose's Marion Cotillard, and The English Patient »
- D. Zhea
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
6 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Die Hard Quadrilogy
Big-budget action movies have become so safe (just compare the first and fourth of this franchise) that it's not uncommon for a film that's more than 20 years old, like Die Hard, to still outclass newcomers in almost every department.
This is not just rose-tinted romantic nostalgia or mere opinion. John McTiernan's 1988 Die Hard is a thing of perfection. It arrived when Hollywood's idea of an action hero was the almost supernaturally beefed-up likes of Schwarzenegger and Stallone. In Bruce Willis's John McClane we were presented with a regular(ish) guy who, faced unsurmountable odds, won through but took a severe beating in the process (having him barefoot then having to walk across broken glass was a masterstroke). With Alan Rickman proving that an action movie is only as good as its villain (and also ensuring British actors bad guy roles for decades to follow), Die Hard »
- Phelim O'Neill
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