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The Artist – review
22 December 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This witty and moving homage to the silent movie era is one of the most purely enjoyable movies in years
Advancing age and retreating inhibition now make me liable to cry at the movies. But this has to be the first time I have actually wept tears of joy. It is not high camp exaggeration. This happens every time I watch the last sequence of this exquisitely judged, gloriously funny and achingly tender film by the French director Michel Hazanavicius, a movie about the black and white silent age of Hollywood, which is itself in black and white, and silent – or almost silent. There are some spoken words, and a continuous orchestral score by Ludovic Bource.
Since seeing The Artist at its Cannes premiere earlier this year, I have become one of a global legion of jabbering evangelists, and only the fear of causing a backlash deters us from going on about its artistry more. »
- Peter Bradshaw
Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani jive their way to the Strictly Come Dancing title
17 December 2011 5:24 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Camper than a Christmas tree in spandex, Britain's favourite show made us all smile
I think it might have been a tiny bit of boot polish what helped win it. That and the many weeks of elbow grease. When Harry Judd, now officially Darling of the Nation, and Aliona Vilani danced the red'n'black rock'n'roll jive for their "showdance" in last night's smile-out-loud-good Strictly final, there was a moment where the foxy Kazakhstani slid the increasingly dapper-footed young McFly drummer along by his increasingly dapper heels. Wheeled him on his heels, over Blackpool's glistening sprung floor, just for a few seconds, and the poise and balance and delight were all there. It was a moment which reminded you, even briefly, of Gene Kelly and all that's gone before, and let you clap at how good every one of these three finalists has become.
So Harry won, beating – I suspect narrowly – the »
- Euan Ferguson
Glasgow dances with the stars
16 December 2011 10:00 AM, PST | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
Gene Kelly retrospective to feature at 2012 festival. Youth Festival details also announced.
"Gene Kelly led a one-man revolution in Hollywood that changed the screen musical forever," says Glasgow Film Festival director Allan Hunter, explaining why the fleet-fotted star of Singin' In The Rain will be the subject of a special retrospective at next February's event. Stars like Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse and Frank Sinatra will also feature in what is set to be a treat for dance fans. If you want to give it a go yourself, there'll even be a special Gene Kelly ceilidh!
The »
- Jennie Kermode
Jamie Bell: Tintin and Spielberg Are Very Similar
15 December 2011 12:10 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Jamie Bell literally twirled his way into our hearts as a 13-year-old "Billy Elliot," and now the 25-year-old English actor stars in the surefire holiday blockbuster "The Adventures of Tintin." The down-to-earth Brit took a bit of time to speak with HuffPost Celebrity about the global popularity of the Georges Remi character and what it's like to work with Steven Spielberg.
Did you read Tintin comics when you were little?
I did. I read them when I was eight, guilty as charged. There's something about the characters in the book that's so ingrained in the culture in Europe.
When you got offered the role were you like, "Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, not good enough"?
Yeah, basically I was like, "Can you employ some talented people?" I'd already worked with Peter on "King Kong," so we kind of had a bit of a relationship, and obviously I was a huge fan of Steven Spielberg, »
- Nicki Gostin
Elizabeth Taylor, Farley Granger, Jane Russell, Peter Falk, Sidney Lumet: TCM Remembers 2011
13 December 2011 4:16 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
"TCM Remembers 2011" is out. Remembered by Turner Classic Movies are many of those in the film world who left us this past year. As always, this latest "TCM Remembers" entry is a classy, immensely moving compilation. The haunting background song is "Before You Go," by Ok Sweetheart.
Among those featured in "TCM Remembers 2011" are Farley Granger, the star of Luchino Visconti's Senso and Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Strangers on a Train; Oscar-nominated Australian actress Diane Cilento (Tom Jones, Hombre), formerly married to Sean Connery; and two-time Oscar nominee Peter Falk (Murder, Inc., Pocketful of Miracles, The Great Race), best remembered as television's Columbo. Or, for those into arthouse fare, for playing an angel in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire.
Also, Jane Russell, whose cleavage and sensuous lips in Howard Hughes' The Outlaw left the puritans of the Production Code Association apoplectic; another Australian performer, Googie Withers, among »
- Andre Soares
Nick Lazzarini on World Domination and Never Sending an Assistant to Compton for a Weave
12 December 2011 6:02 AM, PST | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
A dancer since the age of four, Nick Lazzarini is ready to take the world by storm.
Nick Lazzarini shot to fame as the first season winner on So You Think You Can Dance and has continued to make a name for himself in the world of entertainment. There's a reality series in the works with his longtime friend Travis Wall as well as Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson. The project is called All The Right Moves and it's in development at Oxygen. There's also an upcoming Atlantis Cruise that Lazzarini is hosting with Wall. And finally, this Tuesday nigh Lazzarini's dance company Shaping Sounds has a show in Los Angeles.
On a rehearsal break from the Shaping Sounds show late last week, Lazzarini grabbed a cup of coffee to chat with AfterElton.com about everything currently happening in his busy, exciting life.
AfterElton.com: I know you and Travis »
- nyjimmy67
MGM musicals: more stars than the heavens
9 December 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Watching the best of the studio's output – Singin' in the Rain, Meet Me in St Louis – is to indulge in pure joyous artifice
Fred Astaire strolls into a toyshop with a walking stick and spats, whistling. He snatches an oversized Easter bunny from a small boy and proceeds to do a tap dance using a series of conveniently positioned props that happen to be lying around on the shop floor. "I'm plumb crazy for drums," he sings, for no obvious reason. Then he takes his bunny – without paying – and nonchalantly strolls out again.
This – a scene from Easter Parade (1948) – is the sort of thing that could only happen in the fantastical Technicolor world of the MGM musical. Such trifles as logical plot development and plausible human motivation have no place here. What matters is getting as quickly as possible to the next song and the next dance and letting the stars do their thing. »
- Bee Wilson
Cute Overload: Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes And Suri Take Dance Classes Together
9 December 2011 8:27 AM, PST | TheFabLife - Movies | See recent TheFabLife - Movies news »
When it was announced that Tom Cruise would take on the role of ’80s rock star Stacee Jaxx in the upcoming Rock of Ages, some felt it a little out of left field. “You’re just as surprised as I am,” Tom Cruise told MTV News earlier this week.
Well, it’s surprising if you think of Cruise as this guy. But long before he was an action hero, scaling the tallest building in the world, he was the kid dancing in his underwear in Risky Business, and the cocky pilot serenading Kelly McGillis in a bar in Top Gun. Just a few different job choices and he could have been a modern day Gene Kelly, right? Well, Ok, not quite. Even though that one wedding dance-off was impressive.
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But Cruise credits Katie Holmes with this new musical endeavor. “Kate kept saying, ‘You’ve got to make a musical. »
- Sabrina Rojas Weiss
The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see
8 December 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Friends laughed at Michel Hazanavicius when he wanted to make a silent movie. But Harvey Weinstein loved it – and bought it. Now there are Oscar rumours
'When I first told people about my idea for this movie, they just laughed at me," says Michel Hazanavicius. "Friends, actors, producers – they all laughed. They'd say, 'Ok, Ok, but what do you really want to do?'" The problem was that Hazanavicius wanted to make a silent movie, 70 years after talkies rendered silents commercially obsolete and aesthetically outré. True, there have been some avant garde silent film-makers (Canadian Guy Maddin, for instance), but Hazanavicius isn't of their temper. "I wanted to make a charming mainstream movie. But nobody thought the market was ready for it. Producers said: 'Nobody wants to see a movie like that.'"
But they do. Hazanavicius's unremittingly charming and inventive movie The Artist, about a 1920s Hollywood star eclipsed »
- Stuart Jeffries
Andrew Embiricos: Rita Hayworth Grandson Dies of Apparent Suicide
6 December 2011 7:14 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Andrew Embiricos, grandson of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, was found dead of an apparent suicide at his West 17th Street apartment in Chelsea, New York City, on Sunday, Dec. 4. Embiricos was 25. Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos was the son of economist and shipping heir Basil Embiricos and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. He was also the nephew of Prince Karim, Aga Khan IV. As such, Embiricos was purportedly a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed. His body, lying face up in bed with a bag over his head, was found Sunday evening by a friend, Aaron Edwards, who then called 911. An autopsy is to be performed. Because the handsome Embiricos had appeared in amateur gay sex video clips on X-Tube, New York and gay tabloids have gone on to claim that his death wasn't actually suicide, but an experimentation with autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong. Those are the same sensational »
- Andre Soares
The 8 Most Obvious Song Choices For Madonna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Setlist
5 December 2011 1:15 PM, PST | BestWeekEver | See recent BestWeekEver news »
Madonna has been officially booked for the next Super Bowl Halftime Show (though reports of The Puppy Bowl hiring Meowdonna for their Kitty Halftime Show remain unconfirmed). So what songs should we expect to hear from the Kingess of Pop? Let’s use our knowledge of past Super Bowl Halftime Shows to find out! As we should all know by now, the 5 Main Characteristics Of Super Bowl Halftime Show songs are: 1) Recognizable 2) Big Groups Of Fans / Children / Ethnic Firefighters Or Whatever can dance to it 3) Not too obscene or suggestive (#Boobgate: Never Forget) 4) Something the artist wants to promote, either a new song or a classic that our moms ask us to download for them the next day 5) Allows a guest star to join the artist onstage (This is the biggest guarantee of all) With those five criteria in mind, here are the 8 Most Obvious Song Choices For Madonna’s »
- Dan Hopper
'How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor on his new role as a musical star
2 December 2011 7:29 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
It’s been a song-filled year for the guys of How I Met Your Mother. Music man Neil Patrick Harris starred in Stephen Sondheim’s Company. Jason Segel stretched his pipes in The Muppets. Now Josh Radnor is leading a one-night only benefit reading of the romantic musical comedy She Loves Me at Roundabout’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Dec. 5. His co-stars include Tony winner Jane Krakowski, Tony nominee Victor Garber, and a 15-member orchestra — not bad for a guy whose previous singing experience was basically crooning for laughs on TV. Since we already know that he’s a skilled romantic comedian from Himym, »
- Aubry D'Arminio
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Luck has a lot do with it'
28 November 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Child TV stars don't find it easy to move into film. But the former Third Rock from the Sun actor has forged a successful – if unconventional – path to big-screen stardom
I'm moving through the lobby of one of Los Angeles' whimsy-luxe hotels on my way to meet actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a penthouse suite. Surrealist flourishes abound: chairs in the shapes of lips and twigs, and full-size horse statues that double as lamps. The overall effect is African ski lodge meets Mad Men, glazed with a dollop of melting clock. The setting is fitting, given Gordon-Levitt's eclectic career. He has morphed from the androgynous alien kid in long-running 90s TV hit Third Rock from the Sun to the teen gay hustler in Gregg Araki's 2004 film Mysterious Skin, bouncing on through characters as varied as (500) Days of Summer's lovelorn romeo, Hesher's charismatically violent burnout, and Inception's corporate dream-fiddling crook. »
- Katie Puckrik
‘The Artist’ Star Jean Dujardin Speaks Out on His Silent Role
22 November 2011 9:00 AM, PST | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Getty Images Jean Dujardin and his canine co-star Uggie
In “The Artist,” which opens in theaters on Friday, Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silent film star who is forced to confront the advent of talking film. Part Gene Kelly and part Erroll Flynn, Mr. Dujardin’s George is a charmer, winning over Berenice Bejo’s aspiring actress without saying a word.
Mr. Dujardin was cast in the film by director Michel Hazanavicius. The two had previously worked together on »
- Michelle Kung
"The Artist," reviewed
22 November 2011 7:29 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
In the classic film "Singin' in the Rain," directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly examined Hollywood's transition from silent to sound cinema from the perspective of the winners; actors like Kelly's Don Lockwood, who successfully survived the advent of the talkies. In the new romantic drama "The Artist," director Michel Hazanavicius reimagines that same journey from the perspective of the losers, men like Jean Dujardin's George Valentin, who were left behind when Al Jolson belted out his first onscreen tune in "The Jazz Singer." While "Singin' in the Rain" used the formal language of the musical to celebrate everything that the movies gained with sound, "The Artist" cleverly uses the language of silent cinema to remind us of what the movies lost, namely the magic of pure visual storytelling.
Dujardin is the film's impossibly handsome and charismatic star, a Douglas Fairbanks-esque matinee idol. As "The Artist" begins, he's »
- Matt Singer
Gaynor To Be Honoured With Mary Pickford Award At Satellites
14 November 2011 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress/singer Mitzi Gaynor is to be honoured with the 2011 Mary Pickford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Entertainment Industry at the 16th annual Satellite Awards in Beverly Hills next month.
The There's No Business Like Show Business and Anything Goes star, who made her acting debut aged 17 in My Blue Heaven opposite Betty Grable, turned 80 in September.
She says, "I am so very grateful to be able to work within an industry that I truly adore. To be recognised for that work, and to have it considered an outstanding contribution, well, I'm just over the moon with happiness, and especially with thanks."
Throughout her long career, the South Pacific star has appeared onscreen alongside the likes of movie legends Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas.
She also made a name for herself as a Las Vegas regular in the 1960s after wowing fans with her spectacular nightclub revue at the Flamingo Hotel. »
11•11•11
11 November 2011 8:11 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
To mark this historic occassion at 11:11 am of 11/11/11 and to continue procrastinating review writing (ugh writer's block) 11 lists of 11 things. Just because. Comment party: Please state your favorite 11 things of today in the comments!
11 Favorite Movies of the Year That Have Already Come Out On DVD (no particular order).
Beginners, Poetry, Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires), Bridesmaids, Jane Eyre, Rango, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, The Tree of Life, Captain America: The First Avenger, ...and is Certified Copy on DVD yet? I mean other than in the UK?
11 Favorite Colours
Purple, Silver, Turquoise, Green, Almodóvar Red, Blue, Black, Burgundy, White, Platinum Blonde, and any color by Krzysztof Kieslowski
11 Prettiest Male Movie Stars of All Time (no particular order off top of head)
Gene Kelly, Jude Law, Keanu Reeves, Paul Newman, Montgomery Clift, Brad Pitt, Alain Deloin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Gary Cooper, Warren Beatty, Oh and Marlon Brando for »
- NATHANIEL R
MGM musicals: All singing, all dancing
10 November 2011 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
MGM meant musicals for more than a decade after the second world war. David Thomson looks at a time when a little cheer at the movies was appreciated – and wonders if the same couldn't be said now
There had been musicals before. In the 1930s, as soon as sound permitted, Warner Brothers developed what we call the Busby Berkeley pictures: they were black and white, and often aware of the harsh Depression times, but a choreographic lather of girls and fluid, orgasmic forms where the camera was itching to plunge into the centre of the "big O" – think of Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933 or 42nd Street. They had aerial shots of waves and whirlpools of chorus girls, opening and closing their legs in time with our desire. A few years later, at Rko Pictures, the Astaire-Rogers films came into being – where the gravity, beauty, and exhilaration of the »
- David Thomson
The Guys Who Brought You 'Watchmen' Prepping 'Leonardo' About A Young Da Vinci
8 November 2011 7:02 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Homer Simpson made a fairly prescient prediction in the nineties. Forewarning that long after they’re six feet under, Simpson ventured that a celebrity’s image and legacy could be shamelessly exploited and manipulated, believing it wouldn’t be long before we’d “all be in commercials dancing with vacuum cleaners." Having endured Gene Kelly pimping Volkswagens or John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe doing their bit to keep Citroën afloat – not to mention the constant rumblings about resurrecting dead movie stars like Barbara Stanwyck and parachuting them into contemporary works of fiction - now, it seems, pretty much any historical figure is fair game for a whitewashing, regardless of whether or not there’s pre-existing footage. Whether it’s Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires, Jane Austen’s England populated with brain-chomping zombies, or Shakespeare being exposed as a beer-swilling “fraud,” anyone laced with the vaguest cultural cachet is grist for the revisionist mill. »
The Guys Who Brought You 'Watchmen' Prepping 'Leonardo' About A Young Da Vinci
8 November 2011 7:02 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Homer Simpson made a fairly prescient prediction in the nineties. Forewarning that long after they’re six feet under, Simpson ventured that a celebrity’s image and legacy could be shamelessly exploited and manipulated, believing it wouldn’t be long before we’d “all be in commercials dancing with vacuum cleaners." Having endured Gene Kelly pimping Volkswagens or John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe doing their bit to keep Citroën afloat – not to mention the constant rumblings about resurrecting dead movie stars like Barbara Stanwyck and parachuting them into contemporary works of fiction - now, it seems, pretty much any historical figure is fair game for a whitewashing, regardless of whether or not there’s pre-existing footage. Whether it’s Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires, Jane Austen’s England populated with brain-chomping zombies, or Shakespeare being exposed as a beer-swilling “fraud,” anyone laced with the vaguest cultural cachet is grist for the revisionist mill. »
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