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Who Are Your Favorite Movie Professors?
10 July 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
You can't turn around in a movie without bumping into a professor. If it's not Nicolas Cage as the unlikeliest astrophysicist to be granted tenure at M.I.T. in Knowing, just released on DVD, it's the passel of professors that will undoubtedly be presented in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due out in theaters next Wednesday. Which kind of professor do you prefer?
My early impressions were formed by seeing the distinguished, imposing Harvard law professor John Houseman dress down Timothy Bottoms in James Bridges' The Paper Chase: "Here is a dime. Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer." My impressions changed dramatically when I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones may have been more of a thrill-seeker than an academic, but he was driven by his love for archeology
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Peter Martin
More Changes For Oscar Broadcast; Song Category May Have Zero Nominees
30 June 2009 9:48 AM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
By Lee Pfeiffer
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues its controversial changes to forthcoming Oscar broadcasts. Honorary Oscars, such as the Hersholt and Thalberg awards, will no longer be part of the ceremony and will be presented at a separate black tie dinner. This may please the unsophisticated crowd who don't even know who these legends are, but is sure to alienate classic movie purists who count these awards as a highlight of the broadcast. The policy change is further proof that the purpose of the broadcast has less to do with honoring the right people than it does with getting ratings. If the policy had been in place in recent years, movie fans would have been denied such emotional highlights as seeing Sidney Lumet, Peter O'Toole, Jerry Lewis and many others receiving their lifetime achievement awards. All this to make more time to squeeze in the stars of Transformers 2?
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Dq Entertainment announces animation TV series on Lassie
29 June 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | From BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news
Hyderabad based Dq Entertainment has announced the co-development of a multi-million Euro proposed animated TV series based on the legendary dog, Lassie. The animation, gaming and entertainment production and distribution group is partnering with Classic Media, Inc. - the owner of the Lassie brand and Dqe's affiliate in France and Ireland, M6 from France and Zdf from Germany. Lassie, a brave and loyal collie dog, first appeared in Eric Knight's 1940 novel, Lassie Come-Home. She was so well received that, in 1943, MGM Studios debuted the canine heroine in her first silver-screen appearance alongside Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, followed by 10 more feature films in the 40's and 50's - the first eight of which grossed over $285 million. Alongside Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton and Peter Dinklage, in 2005, Lassie lit up the big screen in a critically-acclaimed new feature film. In 1954, Lassie made her small-screen debut in an Emmy Award-winning television series that
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Dq Entertainment announces animation TV series on Lassie
29 June 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | From BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news
Hyderabad based Dq Entertainment has announced the co-development of a multi-million Euro proposed animated TV series based on the legendary dog, Lassie. The animation, gaming and entertainment production and distribution group is partnering with Classic Media, Inc. - the owner of the Lassie brand and Dqe's affiliate in France and Ireland, M6 from France and Zdf from Germany. Lassie, a brave and loyal collie dog, first appeared in Eric Knight's 1940 novel, Lassie Come-Home. She was so well received that, in 1943, MGM Studios debuted the canine heroine in her first silver-screen appearance alongside Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, followed by 10 more feature films in the 40's and 50's - the first eight of which grossed over $285 million. Alongside Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton and Peter Dinklage, in 2005, Lassie lit up the big screen in a critically-acclaimed new feature film. In 1954, Lassie made her small-screen debut in an Emmy Award-winning television series that
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Anthony Harvey Recalls Directing "The Lion In Winter" At Loews Jersey City
1 May 2009 1:14 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
(L to R) Cinema Retro contributing writer Todd Garbarini, editor-in-chief Lee Pfeiffer and Anthony Harvey at the Loews Jersey City.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Last Friday, I attended the special screening of The Lion in Winter at the Loews Theatre, the classic movie palace in Jersey City, New Jersey. Not only did I want to see the highly acclaimed film on the big screen for the first time, but the event also allowed me to meet with my old friend, Anthony Harvey who directed the 1968 classic. It had been a few years since I had seen Tony, who I first met when I was writing the Sony DVD documentary on the making of Dr. Strangelove. Tony had been Stanley Kubrick's editor on that film as well as Lolita and it was Kubrick himself who persuaded Tony to try his hand at directing. I was pleased to see Tony looking as
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nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Loews Jersey City Presents "The Lion In Winter" And "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" This Weekend; Anthony Harvey And Arlene Dahl To Attend Screenings
22 April 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
The Loews Theatre in Jersey City, New Jersey, will be hosting two very special screenings in the restored movie palace this weekend. On Friday evening, director Anthony Harvey will be in attendance to discuss his Oscar-winning classic The Lion in Winter starring Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole and - in their big screen debuts - Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Mr. Harvey will be interviewed by film historian Foster Hirsch and will participate in a Q&A session following the film. On Saturday, the Loews will have a rare big screen showing of Journey to the Center of the Earth. Actress Arlene Dahl, who co-starred with James Mason and Pat Boone in the classic sci-fi film, will be in attendance. There will be an optional reception and "meet and greet" with Ms. Dahl prior to the film. The Loews is only minutes from midtown Manhattan. For full details, click here
nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Irish Talent Nominated for Monte Carlo TV Fest
16 April 2009 6:19 AM, PDT | From IFTN | See recent IFTN news
Irish television productions 'Killinaskully', 'Raw' and 'The Tudors' along with 'The It Crowd' creator by Graham Linehan and 'Merlin' actors' Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath have all be nominated for 49th Monte Carlo Television Festival taking place from 7 – 11 June 2009. Both Michael Parke, producer of 'Raw', and 'The Tudors' producers Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst have received nominations in the Outstanding International Producer and Outstanding European Producer categories. For Outstanding Actor – Drama, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Peter O'Toole (The Tudors), Keith McErlean (Raw) and Armagh actor Colin Morgan (Merlin) have all received nods while in the Actress section Charlene McKenna (Raw), Maria Doyle Kennedy (The Tudors) and Katie McGrath (Merlin) are up for the award.
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The Tudors: Showtime Series Ending After Year Four, No Season Five
13 April 2009 7:48 PM, PDT | From TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news
There's good news and bad news for fans of The Tudors TV series. Showtime has announced that they're renewing it for a fourth season but it will be the historically-based show's last.
The Tudors is a fictional version of the reign of the King of England during the 1500's, King Henry VII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Other historical players include Henry Cavill, Natalie Dormer, Nick Dunning, James Frain, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Padraic Delaney, Jeremy Northam, Jamie Thomas King, Anthony Brophy, Guy Carleton, John Kavanagh, Sam Neill, Callum Blue, Henry Czerny, Hans Matheson, David Alpay, Joe Van Moyland, Bosco Hogan, James Gilbert, Alan Van Sprang, and Peter O'Toole.
When the show debuted on April 1, 2007 to 870,000 viewers, it was reportedly Showtime's best premiere in three years. The series has held onto those numbers pretty well, attracting 726,000 for its third season premiere last week. The series has also been well-reviewed but it is an expensive epic to produce.
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Scenes We Love: My Favorite Year
10 April 2009 5:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
My Favorite Year... To me, this is the film that epitomizes innocent young love, awakening, and adult enjoyment. By this I mean that the Peter O'Toole-starring film was one I saw often as a child, and loved -- my grandmother and I putting the vhs or laser disc in and delighting in the manic world of Alan Swann, with added helpings of Mark Linn-Baker and Joe Bologna -- two of the best dudes from the '80s.
Back then, I loved the things a kid would love -- the big wow moments, especially Swann swinging through the air for his big finale. Then I got a little older, and I paid more attention all of those adult nuances and raunchy Swann that came to the forefront, gaining an added understanding and appreciation of my grandmother and her love of a man who delivered the bathroom line below. Such class!
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Monika Bartyzel
Kiss Him, He's Irish
17 March 2009 1:37 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
see also: Kiss Her She's Irish
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Can you guess which famous actor these lips belong to?
Which pair are you most eager to plant one on?*
Hollywood sure does loves Irish men. If you know of friends who do... forward this link on and see how well they can do guessing these.
Updated: Highlight the text below for all the names (not in order) and you can try to figure it out on your own if you're just joining us:
Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender, Richard Harris, Stuart Townsend, Spencer Tracy, Colin Farrel, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Aidan Quinn, Kenneth Branagh, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, Peter O'Toole, Cillian Murphy and Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Answers are now posted in the comments. All that's left is the kissing.
* Straight boy and lesbian readers are non-exempt from this comment game but should probably avoid tongue so as to keep it platonic.
NATHANIEL R
Casting Bites: Brides, Crazies, and 'Up in the Air'
12 March 2009 10:03 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Hump day is behind us, the weekend is in sight, and here are some casting bites, courtesy of Variety:
We're still waiting to see when on earth The Garden of Eden will hit screens (some, like me, more impatiently than others), but meanwhile, Mena Suvari has picked up a new gig. She (along with Ken Davitian, Kevin Dunn, and Tia Carrere) is joining a new indie project called You May Not Kiss the Bride. The film is said to be a mixture of romance and action (a la Romancing the Stone). IMDb, under the name Wedlocked, says it's about a mobster trying to get his daughter Us citizenship by marrying her off to an American photographer. Unfortunately, director and screenwriter Rob Hedden's credits probably won't help you figure out the film's tone. He's responsible not only for Clockstoppers, but also Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. Oh,
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Monika Bartyzel
Pfanboyism
10 March 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Last week's top ten of Most Overdue for Oscar Wins got a lot of people going (119 comments). And it's interesting to me that the readers choice poll ranking is going to be quite different. Seems that 'round the web my confiscating of Peter O'Toole (on account of that honorary Oscar) was an unpopular move and that my #1 choice was deemed an act of Pfandom rather than a discerning view in linking articles... which is fine. I am a total Pfan. 'tis true. I try to curtail my general fannishness to some degree when I do this type of piece though it occasionally gets the better of me. I'm aware that I gushed too much in those Kristin Scott Thomas and Amy Adams interviews. Oops. I suddenly feel terribly hypocritical for bitching about James Lipton's creepy drooling all those years on Inside The Actor's Studio (I still can't finish an
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NATHANIEL R
Which actor is most overdue to win an Oscar?
8 March 2009 9:24 AM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
Now that Kate Winslet is no longer poor Kate Winslet, five-time loser of the Academy Award, it's time to decide who deserves our pity next.
Nathaniel Rogers got this new pity party started over at Film Experience, combining male and female performers and deciding that we should all be boo-hoo-hoo-ing over Michelle Pfeiffer. Not a bad choice. She's lost three times and may be nominated next year for "Chéri," director Stephen Frears' adaptation of the romance novel penned by Colette. But there are so many snubbed stars in the Hollywood firmament, frankly, we'd like to break up this Oscars discussion into two parts based upon gender.
Let's start with the guys and have you pick the star you think we should all be rooting for.
Of course, Peter O'Toole is most overdue in the literal sense, being the Oscars' biggest loser (eight defeats). But at this point, let's be honest,
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tomoneil
Top Ten: After Kate Winslet, Who?
4 March 2009 10:48 AM, PST | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Kate Winslet finally won her Oscar, delighting the bulk of fans who have been rooting for her since she dreamt of Hollywood in '94 -- 'they're desperately keen to sign me up!' -- or nearly drowned in '97. She never let go. So, who is next?
Or rather... who is most overdue?
Contrary to popular belief, it ain't easy to win an Oscar. It certainly wasn't easy for Kate the Great. You need more than an accent, a disability, a good or popular movie, old age makeup or mimicry skills. You also need star charisma, a role that compliments or complicates that charisma and media support. Above all else you need luck combined with surgically precise good timing. History is full of performers who never won the movie's top prize despite plentiful contributions to the art of acting.
For the following list I'm ignoring outstanding performers who have never
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NATHANIEL R
Don't you wish old photos came with audio tracks?
3 March 2009 1:44 PM, PST | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Or that you could time travel into the room as they were being taken.
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And if either of those things were possible, wouldn't you grab every Old Hollywood candid you could find in order to listen in or join the party? What exactly would Rosalind Russell, Greer Garson and Merle Oberon chat about anyway? Roz only cares about the camera but who are Greer and Merle all smiles about?
I mean just fantasize for a moment about a night at ... on the bar with Marlene Dietrich and Claudette Colbert.
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How much would you have to drink to not be starstruck and join right in. Too much. Too much I say. The mind clouds. The hangover would be epic.
Here's a photo I've cherished my whole life from an old out of print Natalie Wood book from the 80s. It's Dennis Hopper and Wood discussing acting styles as they screen A Streetcar Named Desire
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NATHANIEL R
Live blogging the Oscars
22 February 2009 12:07 PM, PST | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting "refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.
9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse
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tomoneil
Scenes We Love: The Lion in Winter
20 February 2009 1:03 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
All this week we'll be highlighting some of our favorite scenes from Oscar-winning films and performances leading up to this year's Academy Awards on Sunday night.
There will only ever be one "best actress" for me, and her name is Katherine Hepburn. As everyone knows, she racked up 12 nominations and 4 wins in her legendary career (a record beaten at last by Meryl Streep), and she earned them all without playing a prostitute, feigning mental or physical handicap, or wearing prosthetic make-up. Instead, she won for her performance as one of the most formidable queens European history has ever seen: Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her solo monologue, as featured above, proves why. When I featured this film as a Christmas favorite, one commenter noted that you never know when Eleanor is being honest. In this scene, the brilliant tactician is seemingly all alone, emotionally vulnerable, and shook up by Henry's devotion to the young Alais.
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Elisabeth Rappe
They Never Won an Academy Award
19 February 2009 5:55 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
There's a better than average chance that Kate Winslet will pick up an Academy Award Sunday night for The Reader. It's neither my favorite performance in that category, nor is it her best work, but at 33, she's already something of an Oscar spinster, having been nominated six times with no trophies to show for it.
Among actresses, Winslet is tied for the most nominations without a win. Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter have six, too, and curiously, all of them were sandwiched in a short amount of time, like Winslet. Kerr amassed six nods between 1949 and 1960, while Ritter did her damage between 1950 and 1962. Kate has lost for Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine, and Little Children.
The record for no wins, at least among actors, is the legendary Peter O'Toole, who it goes without saying is among the greatest of all time. Eight nominations with no gold. And they
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Colin Boyd
Irish Film and Television Awards Winners Announced
19 February 2009 7:16 AM, PST | From IFTN | See recent IFTN news
The winners of the 6th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards have been announced at a gala ceremony held in Dublin's Burlington Hotel tonight, 14th of February 2009. Hunger was named Best Film, also picking up IFTAs for Actor in a Lead Role Film Michael Fassbender, Actor in a Supporting Role Film Liam Cunningham, Original Score David Holmes, Production Design Tom McCullagh and Sound Ronan Hill and Mervyn Moore. 'Hunger' actor Michael Fassbender was also presented with the Irish Film Board Rising Star Award. 'The Tudors' won Best Drama Series / Soap, in addition to Director Film Ciaran Donnelly, Actor in a Supporting Role Television Peter O'Toole, Actress in a Supporting Role Television Maria Doyle Kennedy, Costume Design Joan Bergin and Makeup and Hair Sharon Doyle and Dee Corcoran. Kisses director Lance Daly picked up the Director Film Ifta while Martin McDonagh received the Best Script Film Award for 'In Bruges'.
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The Best Best Actors
16 February 2009 6:55 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
A list like this is highly subjective; there's no way around it. But I think we can all say that some bests are better than others. How many of us would argue that Rex Harrison gave one of the greatest performances ever in My Fair Lady? Exactly. Don't make me bring up Roberto Benigni...
So ranking the best Best Actors involves an awful lot of conjecture. There are a couple on our list that might not be as high on your list and vice versa, but the real question is how well this year's winner - whether it's Sean Penn or Mickey Rourke - stacks up against the others. On first glance, I've gotta say the advantage goes to history in this case.
1 - Robert De Niro - Raging Bull (1980)
Without a doubt, this is the most significant performance in one of the most significant acting careers of the 20th century.
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Colin Boyd
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