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19 items from 2012
David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’, A Scene Analysis
13 hours ago | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method is a fine example of deceptively simple direction, utilizing classic cinematic language in a subtle way so as to direct its audience in a way above and beyond the majority of films of its type. This is probably the director at his technically finest, breezily and classily manipulating the audience through his very planned series of shots.
The film concerns the relationship of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen – in what is perhaps his finest role to date). A woman, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly – playing, oddly given the film’s standing as period piece, against type) doesn’t necessarily come between them, as much as between their philosophies. Operating around the fringes of the narrative is Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel), a brilliant nymphomaniac, charged by Freud to Jung’s care in the former’s absence.
The first scene in question involves an early, »
- Neal Dhand
Joe Dante on To Be Or Not To Be
8 May 2012 10:30 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Jack Benny’s greatest movie role, and no wonder–it was written especially for him by Ernst Lubitsch! Carole Lombard’s swan song earned her some of her finest reviews posthumously, but the film itself, daringly dark for the time, was generally regarded as an insensitive and even troubling satire of wartime issues. The title refers not only to Shakespeare but the questionable existence of Poland. It has since been recognized as one of the director’s finest efforts and a brilliantly cast comedy classic. Remade in 1983 with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in the leads.
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- Danny
"Mad Men" Fabulous Quotient: The Naughtiest Tryst of the Season
30 April 2012 2:57 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Grownups: They'll let you down! Or more accurately, they'll let you down by telling you the truth. Jerks. On Mad Men last night, we watched helplessly as elders threw tough love at their kids: Peggy's mother alerted her to the dangers of living in sin; Megan Draper's father warned her about forfeiting ambition; even Sally Draper learned a lesson in filthy adulthood -- but not from her staggeringly terrible father! Bizarre! But within all the cross-generational nuttiness, Mad Men managed to dish some faboo moments too. Here are this week's top five.
1. Megan Draper is a marketing genius and -- sigh -- hates herself for it.
It's predictable that Megan would be so brainy and instinctive. When we met her last season, she seemed like another grinning mannequin in the mold of Don's past flings, but Mad Men's favorite pastime is stunning you with "unexpected" character development. Megan's social »
- virtel
Jean Dujardin: Cannes & Oscar Winner
19 April 2012 5:50 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin, Uggie Jean Dujardin backstage getting licked by Uggie during the 84th Academy Awards Awards ceremony held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26, 2012. Jean Dujardin was the year's Best Actor winner for his performance as a fading silent-film star in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. Uggie was a Golden Collar winner for his star-making turn as the fading silent star's faithful animal companion. Now, months before Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an Oscar in the acting categories, he had already been chosen as the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Though not a common occurrence — chiefly because Cannes winners are usually non-Americans performing in non-English-speaking roles — there have been a number of Cannes Best Actor / Best Actress winners who went on to win or be nominated for Oscars. Those include Christoph Waltz for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, William Hurt for Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman, »
- Andre Soares
Take Three: John Hurt
17 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Craig here with the third season of Take Three. Today: John Hurt
Take One: Brighton Rock (2010)
Hurt has alternated starring roles with supporting performances since he began acting in films with The Wild and the Willing in 1962. The amount of quality supporting turns he’s delivered over the years is vast: 10 Rillington Place, Midnight Express, The Shout, The Hit, Scandal, The Field, Contact, The Proposition, Melancholia, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are a mere few. His fine turn as accountant Phil Corkery in the Brighton Rock remake (backing up Helen Mirren, Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough and Andy Serkis) is a recent solid addition to the list and deserves due credit. Phil’s a gaunt shambles, but loyal to Mirren’s Ida, his long-time crush. He’s one of the old guard. A proud man accustomed to propping up bars whilst waxing forth about the state of the world. He’s the »
- Craig Bloomfield
April Showers: "Home For the Holidays"
16 April 2012 8:28 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
waterworks each weeknight at 11. This particular installment of April Showers was first published in 2009.
One of the greatest disconnects I've ever had between consensus response to a movie and my own reaction was in 1995 when Jodie Foster's second film Home for the Holiday debuted. It was mostly ignored by the public and the critics were out for blood. Maybe Jodie Foster had just been too successful and too lauded and it was time for the pendulum to swing back? Perhaps the undercurrent was along the lines of 'Does she have to be good at making movies in addition to acting in them?'
Even Robert Downey Jr playing Tommy got bad reviews for his performance as teh gay brother to Holly Hunter's Claudia. Though his performance is pretty out there with his needling rapid fire joking -- he's consistently pushing things too far -- it's also exactly in »
- NATHANIEL R
The Films Of Sidney Lumet: A Retrospective
9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.
Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.
Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).
His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Neil Labute on The Graduate
8 April 2012 9:45 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Dustin Hoffman was nearly 30 when he played his star-making role as college student Benjamin Braddock, a part he landed when producer Lawrence Turman rejected Robert Redford as too movie star handsome. Similarly, Anne Bancroft inherited her signature role as Mrs. Robinson when Doris Day turned it down (what a different movie that would have been!). The right movie at the right time, Mike Nichols’ second directorial outing won him an Oscar and struck a nerve with an entire generation of baby boomers–although the director later opined, “I think Benjamin will end up like his parents”.
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- Danny
April Showers: "Silent Movie"
6 April 2012 7:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
waterworks each weeknight at ten
When The Artist won Best Picture at the 85th Oscars in February it marked the first time a silent film had reigned since the very first Oscar ceremony. Some articles on this unexpected throwback and French import mentioned modern filmmakers like Guy Maddin who've experimented with the silent form but strangely Mel Brooks' Silent Movie (1976) was rarely discussed. That's a shame since it might be the closest precedent to The Artist. It was also a widely released comedy about Hollywood and it's also very funny... at least in that shameless Mel brooks kind of way. There's another odd coincidence. Like The Artist it's sole line of dialogue comes from a famous Frenchmen.
The plot of Silent Movie is a simple laundry line on which to hang comic setpieces. Mel Brooks (as "Mel Funn") wants to make a silent movie and the powers that be »
- NATHANIEL R
Jon Stewart as Mel Brooks in 'Blazing Shtik: The Mel Brooks Story' For HBO
1 April 2012 2:16 PM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Comedian Jon Stewart is set to play Mel Brooks in a new biopic co-written by the man himself, Mel Brooks, for HBO entitled Blazing Shtik, airing fall 2012.
Apparently, according to Variety, Stewart was approached to play the comedian and writer/director after expressing interest in portraying him onscreen. Unlike the ill-fated The History of Mel Brooks, Part 1, which seems to be languishing in development hell over at Paramount, Shtik was made for considerably less and is TV-ready.
The film focuses mainly on Brooks' making of the classics Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in the 1970s, just like all the Hitchcock biopics and that Marilyn Monroe film. It seems to be the new thing.
I have to say I Love Brooks and Stewart and couldn't think of a better man for the job. Honestly. Can you think of a better actor to play Brooks? Adrian Brody is Gene Wilder, which could be hit or miss, »
- Superheidi
McG: the film that changed my life
3 March 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
I first saw this in an arthouse theatre in my hometown of Newport Beach, California, and was taken by its youth-against-the-establishment position, its tone, the manner in which it was shot. I thought it was immaculate – the perfect film.
I must have been 10 years old. I was a bit of a precocious kid, very neurotic, and I feel as though I understood the film as intimately at that moment as I would today. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, for instance, I didn't fully understand what they were talking about in terms of the pain of Vietnam and everything that was going on in the late 60s – I didn't necessarily understand the nuances – but I understood the fundamental sadness, and that's haunted me for my whole life.
I've seen The Graduate more than 100 times since. I know every frame of that film. It exists on my iPad, »
And The Oscar Goes To ... Someone Who Didn't Deserve It.
23 February 2012 11:59 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
It still provides a chuckle
The history of The Academy Awards is littered with strange and inexplicable happenings: Revealed shortcomings, spontaneous pushups, "The winner is Paul Newman," Sandahl Bergman's interpretive dance to "Eye Of The Tiger" (admittedly, one of the highlights of my life).
And of course ... Snow White rolling on the river.
But aside from the odd ceremony moments, and the fashion drama on the red carpet, it's the Oscar errors in judgment that we remember the most.
A few weeks ago we discussed the Oscar nomination Sins Of Omission, so let's now take a look at the performers who actually won, and how The Academy still blew it.
The 2005 nominees for Best Actor were:
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote
Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
David Strathairn in Good Night and Good Luck
Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow
Joaquin Phoenix in Walk The Line
And The Oscar Went »
- snicks
The 5 Most Deserving Best Supporting Actress Oscar Wins
22 February 2012 12:07 PM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Cloris Leachman and Timothy Bottoms in The Last Picture Show
Newsflash: I can't stop thinking about the Oscars. I'm writhing around in my bathrobe crying Irving Thalberg's name and opening every briefcase I can find, just in case Price Waterhouse hid the list of this year's winners in my attic. (Still looking!) In the meantime, let's take a moment to honor some occasions when The Academy Awards were worthy of this level of fanaticism. Here are the five greatest winners in my favorite category, Best Supporting Actress. You can't beat a woman going for broke in a secondary role; there's a nothing-to-lose gutsiness about these dames, and they make the most of their every fleeting moment onscreen.
5. Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire
Though Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) are compelling portraits on their own, the genius in Elia Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams »
- virtel
Greer Garson, Joan Crawford: Deceased Honorary Oscar-less
17 February 2012 4:01 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver Honorary Oscars and Women Pt.2: Doris Day, Danielle Darrieux, Joan Fontaine, Maureen O'Hara On the list of film industry women who have yet to receive an Honorary Award, I did not include Olivia de Havilland, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson, Luise Rainer, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Jessica Lange because each of them has already won two acting awards. Barbara Kopple, Thelma Schoonmaker, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, for their part, have each already won two Oscars for, respectively, documentary feature, film editing, and screenwriting. Barbra Streisand, I should note, has also won two Oscars; the second one, however, was as co-composer (with Paul Williams) of the song "Evergreen" from A Star Is Born. Only someone like Elia Kazan — i.e., with friends in high Academy places — can have two Academy Award wins in a »
- Andre Soares
Readers' Ranking: Streep's Oscar Noms, #10-6
4 February 2012 7:00 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Previously on Streep Reader Rankings we covered The French Lieutenant's Woman, Music of the Heart, Doubt, The Deer Hunter, One True Thing, and Ironweed. Now we hit the top ten. Ten and Nine were a statistical tie, constantly trading dominance as I tallied the results of your ballots. Since both films were listed in last place on 7% of the ballots, I broke the tie by looking at first place votes. Only one of the two had any.
Top Ten Streep Nominated Performances
According to The Film Experience Readers
10. Julie & Julia (2009)
Role & Balloting: Streep has played many biographical parts in her long career which accounts for some of her record-obliterating nomination haul (8 of her 17 nominations are for biographical roles and she is now 5 nominations beyond her nearest rival Jack Nicholson). This widely seen warm serio-comic interpretation of the famous chef Julia Child is the last film in the countdown without any #1 placements on reader ballots. »
- NATHANIEL R
Sins of Omission: 13 Past Performances The Academy Should Have Nominated
1 February 2012 11:32 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
They have a right to be pissed.
It's the most important morning of the year. Hollywood is temporarily jolted from its stupor for a ten-minute rollercoaster of natural highs and shattered dreams. Nothing but ... shattered dreams.
It's those shattered dreams that immediately become the focus after the Oscar nominations are announced. With only five slots per category, deserving actors are excluded, and that's when the fun begins, as the discussion about the "snubs" commences.
That was especially true this year, as a flurry of serious contenders were nowhere to be found. Charlize Theron, Tilda Swinton, Leonardo Dicaprio, and Albert Brooks were the names most bandied about, along with Andy Serkis (and they should really either nominate him, or give him a special Oscar for his unique contributions to film.)
Of course, Oscar has a history of overlooking interesting and memorable performances. Let's take a look at a few notable Oscar omissions. »
- snicks
Faces Review: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin
27 January 2012 11:37 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Faces Review Pt.1. [Photo: Gena Rowlands as the prostitute Jeannie.] Faces' drama failed to move me not because of either the film's plot, however predictable at times, or conventional set of characters. Faces' chief handicap is director-writer John Cassavetes, who apparently was too enamored of his own anti-Hollywood brilliance to let a mere story and a handful of distraught human beings get in the way of his stock-in-trade cinematic tricks. These include the use of a handheld camera that helps make the barely discernible action even murkier, and an overabundance of closeups. True, the film is called Faces, but unlike Ingmar Bergman, whose closeups (usually) transport us into the inner core of his actors, Cassavetes only presents us with talking heads. And do those heads talk. What they actually talk about is anyone's guess, since much of the dialogue is inaudible, but the sections that are intelligible are best described by one line in the movie: "Blah, »
- Andre Soares
Carnage (2011) – The Review
12 January 2012 3:00 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Since cinema began Hollywood has raided the opposite coast (the Great White Way Aka Broadway) for works to be adapted into big screen blockbusters. Of course we’ve got the old standards by Shakespeare- his plays seem to get a cinema “dusting off ” every few years. The studios seems to have had the biggest box office hits with the Broadway musical (or to be more specific, the musical comedy). Beginning in the early thirties these movie adaptations did brisk business and some garnered lots of acclaim (including such Best Picture Oscar winners as My Fair Lady, The Sound Of Music, Oliver!, and fairly recently Chicago). But before the movies could talk or sing several works of the “legitimate theatre” were adapted to film. Many times the original cast is recruited to preserve their stage performances (like The Miracle Worker with original stars Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke-both picked up »
- Jim Batts
Top 10: Most Memorable MILFs
12 January 2012 2:11 PM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
According to Urban Dictionary, a Milf (an acronym for Mother I’d Like To F*** you fill in the blank), is ‘Any woman in her early 30s to late 40s who is in danger of being attacked by horny teenage boys.’ MILFs have recently been idolised in films, most notably by American Pie in 1999, but the concept stretches further and wider in cinema history. These films have also encouraged ‘cougars’ around the world to be proud of their sex appeal, despite their age and parental status. In fact, according to a recent study by social networking site Badoo, Britain is a nation of cougars, with more than 50% of older women landing themselves with toy boys. We think that on-screen portrayals of MILFs might have something to do with that.
In honour of Universal Pictures’ The Change-Up, which features Leslie Mann as one such Milf, which is out on Blu-ray and DVD from 23rd January, »
- Phil
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