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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 20

5 July 2009 4:22 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

# 20 - Emma Roberts - Acting runs in the family. While

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 20

5 July 2009 4:22 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

# 20 - Emma Roberts - Acting runs in the family. While

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 20

5 July 2009 4:22 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

# 20 - Emma Roberts - Acting runs in the family. While

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Christian Bale's Rollercoaster Career

4 July 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

From Pacman to Public Enemies, he's had more ups and downs than most other actors of his generation. Christian Bale has careened between extreme highs and deep lows, in the view of the folks at MovieFill, and they decided that a rollercoaster was the most apt visual metaphor for his career. A reduced-size version can be seen above.

They squeeze most of his films into the chart, though they left out a few. Before his sensational role in Mary Harron's American Psycho, he was very appealing in Metroland and got good notices in Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine; pre-Batman Begins / The Dark Knight, he was fun to watch as a frisky villain in John Singleton's Shaft and an uptight, would-be psychiatrist in Laurel Canyon. I don't agree with every notation in the chart. Harsh Times, for example, is cited as one of his "lows," but Bale was riveting.

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Supernatural 'Ghosted', doc 'It Came From Kuchar' and Thriller 'El Nino Pez' screen at Outfest 2009

2 June 2009 5:58 PM, PDT | From Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news

Ghosted (Directed by Monica Treut and written by Astrid Stroner), It Came From Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, and El Niño Pez (The Fish Child) are stand-out genre films by women playing at the 2009 Outfest Film Festival.

These award-winning women directors deal with subjects like murder, revenge, twisted love, unsolved murders, and the absolutely awesome B-movie industry in their films...

Writer-director Lucía Puenzo won awards - including two prizes at Cannes - and critical acclaim all over the world for Xxy, and now the Argentine filmmaker returns with a lesbian romance that’s also a Chabrol-esque mystery thriller and a scathing examination of class differences in the South American nation. Lala (Inés Efron, whose performance has inspired comparisons to the early film roles of both Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny), the privileged daughter of a powerful judge, wants to run off with her Paraguayan lover La Guayi (Mariela Vitale), a maid

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Meeting Mr. or Ms. Wrong

26 May 2009 7:23 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

IFC.com's newest web series "Like So Many Things..." premieres today, and co-creators Marin Gazzaniga and Anslem Richardson offer up their thoughts on the best films about romances that are anything but easy.

"Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments."

       -- "Bringing Up Baby"

Meeting Mr./Ms. Wrong movies come in many varieties. There are the star-crossed lovers who are kept apart by outside forces ("Romeo and Juliet"). Or the couple whose hate for each other is only masking the sparks of true passion (just about any Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy movie). Then there's the man or woman who's certain that someone is their one and only, but has to spend the course of the film convincing that person that it's true ("Bringing Up Baby"). Why is

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Marin Gazzaniga

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Cannes: Maggie Cheung and Your Nine "Great Directors"

23 May 2009 10:46 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Before the Palme D'Or is handed out, I've got two last bits from our buddy in Cannes but first (sigh) a big old frowny face in regards to the following nugget.

Maggie Cheung's scene in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds was cut before the Cannes opening and will not be restored even though Tarantino is returning to the editing room. Presumably he's tinkering for maximum audience playability. The cutting room floor is a regular habitat for actors with small roles but this time it really hurts: Maggie still works the red carpet, but never the silver screen. She retired from movies after Clean and 2046 five long years ago. Basterds was going to provide us with a rare chance to see one of the most bewitching living actresses on the big screen again. Damn!

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On to cheerier topics.

The generous take on Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock appears to be that it's a "minor" effort.

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NATHANIEL R

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Catherine Breillat on a Yacht at Cannes: "Great Directors" Party

22 May 2009 1:56 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

Angela Ismailos' Great Directors screened today: a film journey of interviews with a dozen contemporary directors, including David Lynch, Todd Haynes, and Agnes Varda. The most intriguing aspect of the film is the acute variance in how these directors perceive film: for some, film is political (Ken Loach), for others, a search for "truth" (Catherine Breillat), and for a very few, a cultural reconstruction of "narratives" (Haynes). My favorite response: film as "magic", defined by David Lynch as that which takes one to an emotion "one can feel but not put into words." From the screening, I biked off to a post-screening cocktail on the Baracuda Yacht, where -- after being thunderstruck by the array of fish hors d'oeuvres (including oysters in big grey shells!) - I found, sitting on a...

Karin Badt

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Leonardo DiCaprio to Star in Scorsese’s Sinatra Biopic?

20 May 2009 10:13 AM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

Last week it was announced that Martin Scorsese will be directing a Frank Sinatra biopic, confirming rumours [1] that first cropped up sometime last year. The project has been in limbo for a while now due to "complicated rights issues", but it appears that they have finally been resolved. The script, which was written by Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams, Rhinestone), is being compared to Todd Haynes's 2007 Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There due to its lack of a "traditional, linear storytelling approach". While I'm sure most Sinatra fans will be more than happy with the choice of Scorsese as a director, the bigger question here is, who should play Ol' Blue Eyes? Rumours have already begun to surface, with Nikke Finke over at Deadline Hollywood Daily [2] claiming that the studio wants Johnny Depp for the lead role. However, another source is now reporting that Scorsese wants to turn

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Sean

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Martin Scorsese Directing Family-Approved Frank Sinatra Biopic

14 May 2009 12:01 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

After years of negotiations with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, Universal will finally be moving forward on the biopic Sinatra. The screenplay was written by Field of Dreams screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson, and as announced today, the prolific Martin Scorsese will direct. The film is already being compared to Todd Haynes' 2007 Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, at least in style and structure. "It'll be almost like a collage," producer Cathy Schulman said. "In the way one of his records captures different rhythms and moods, this will have collective scenes and moments that form the overall story as opposed to a conventional timeline." "The obstacles were ones of comfort and trust," Schulman said. "Everybody that was in control of the rights had to unanimously agree to do this. And having Marty at the head of this was the thing that ultimately cracked the code, so to speak." Anyone who may be

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Alex Billington

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The Real Bob Dylan

13 May 2009 4:24 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

Watch the world premiere of the latest Bob Dylan music video, "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'," exclusively at IFC.com.

    "Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Bob Dylan?"

       --Jean-Pierre Léaud, in "Masculin, féminine"

Who are you, Mr. Bob Dylan? Less than two years ago, Dylanologists had a field day with "I'm Not There," Todd Haynes' smarty-pants hallucination evoking the freewheelin' singer-songwriter's iconic persona, unknowable as he perpetually reinvents himself. But rock 'n' roll's poet laureate already had a history with film, both appearing onscreen and being portrayed by other actors. In honor of Dylan's tough-bird, rollicking new record "Together Through Life," I'm bringing it all back home with a re-evaluation of who fares better on film: Dylan himself, or his imposters?

Dylan as himself, "Dont Look Back" (1967) vs. Cate Blanchett as Jude, "I'm Not There" (2007)

Nobody could resist this most obvious of aesthetic match-ups, a battle between the two most sophisticated, evocative,

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Aaron Hillis

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Tribeca Awards 'About Elly,' 'Racing Dreams,' and More

1 May 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

In a ceremony held last night, the Tribeca Film Festival announced this year's winners of its competition categories. The top prizes went to Iranian drama About Elly for Best Narrative Feature and audience fave Racing Dreams for Best Documentary Feature.

About Elly, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, revolves around a group of "old college pals" who reunite for a weekend by the sea, a friendly outing that turns serious when one of the women disappears. The jury (Bradley Cooper, Richard Fischoff, Todd Haynes, Meg Ryan, and Uma Thurman) called the Iranian movie "a seamless piece of ensemble filmmaking." Racing Dreams, directed by Marshall Curry, follows three go-kart racers, ranging in age from 11 to 13, who are competing for a national champiomship that's considered "a huge stepping stone to auto racing's big show-nascar." The jury (Liz Garbus, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Spurlock, and Brian Williams) declared it to be "a completely compelling,

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Tribeca Film Festival 2009 - About Elly and Racing Dreams Nab Top Awards

1 May 2009 7:06 AM, PDT | From amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals | See recent amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals news

On Thursday night, Tribeca Film Festival co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal were joined by jurors Todd Haynes, Debra Messing and Rachael Ray to present this year's awards. Besides the prizes handed out to movies in world competition, two prizes were awarded to New York films. "I am delighted that we have awarded films from such diverse origins; helping to launch careers, establish names and tell stories that

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Tribeca Winners 2009: 'About Elly' and Ciaran Hinds

30 April 2009 8:53 PM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news

By Wrap Staff

The winners were announced on Thursday for the eighth Tribeca Film Festival .

 

The jurors for the 2009 World Narrative Competition were Bradley Cooper, Richard Fischoff, Todd Haynes, Meg Ryan and Uma Thurman.

 

The jurors for the 2009 World Documentary Competition were Liz Garbus, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Spurlock and Brian Williams.

 

Here were the winners: 

 

The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – About Elly (Darbareye Elly), directed and written by Asghar Farhadi...

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Doubt DVD Release: Interview with Viola Davis

29 April 2009 8:37 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news

Doubt has arrived on DVD from Miramax Home Video with a Director's Commentary from John Patrick Shanley, plus four featurettes: "Scoring Doubt," "The Cast of Doubt," "The Sisters of Charity," and "Doubt: From Stage to Screen." Here is Terry Keefe's in-depth interview with writer-director John Patrick Shanley which originally appeared in the December 2008 issue of Venice Magazine.

Viola Davis: Making Mrs. Miller in Doubt

By Terry Keefe

[Pictured above is actress Viola Davis in her role as Mrs. Miller in Doubt.]

One scene can make a star out of a rising actor, although it’s a rare occurrence. Particularly when that scene is opposite the likes of Meryl Streep, who is certainly difficult to outshine. But Viola Davis is going to attract a great deal of notice for her relatively brief appearance in Doubt, to the point where she is already being mentioned as a likely candidate for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Davis, who plays the character of Mrs. Miller, is

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James Franco's 15 Favorite Criterion Movies

31 March 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

The Criterion Collection's website posts the top 10 favorite Criterion movies of various artists each month, and this month's entry is from James Franco, whose taste in movies is as good as his stoner act. Instead of a Top 10, Mr. Franco provided them with 15 movies grouped by their 9 directors. Wha--? Forget it.

Not surprisingly, among the 15 is Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, which he had credited many times before as the movie that made him fall in love with films and inspired him to go into acting. Pictured above is a photo taken by Gus Van Sant last year in Oregon of Franco reenacting a scene from the film.

Gus is the best. Idaho was one of the first movies with which I fell in love. I would watch it repeatedly when I was a teenager. River Phoenix gives the performance of a lifetime, original and inspiring. As a young actor,

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Arya Ponto

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The World's Most Baffling Movie Trailer

28 March 2009 4:09 PM, PDT | From Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news

Thanks to Jamie Stuart for the heads up about the trailer for After Last Season, which is in the early stages of going viral by virtue of its genuine oddness. Michael Tully at his Indiewire blog writes, "It’s like Todd Haynes lost his mind after Safe and was hired to direct a series of cable access sci-fi infomercials," while David Lowery writes, "I've watched the trailer about ten times now, and have yet to tire of it. It is so beyond logic in its construction that it essentially reinvents itself anew upon each viewing." In addition to being featured on the film's own website, the trailer also appears on Apple's trailer page. Jamie at Knox Road says he's spoken to the film's director, Mark Region, and the picture, which many doubt is an...

Scott Macaulay

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Harron to Spill the Details in 'Diaries'

25 March 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- Teenage vampires are all the hype now, just ask Summit how many DVD copies of the debut film in their franchise sold this past tuesday. Mary Harron hasn't gotten her hands "bloody" since American Psycho, but will begin filming this summer in the vacant film production city of Montreal with her adaptation of Rachel Klein's novel The Moth Diaries. I'm not sure which production company is producing the project, but I would speculate Killer Films who were invovled in Harron's last picture (The Notorious Bettie Page) and who were delighted by the tax breaks they received in the Canadian city with Todd Haynes' I'm Not There. Based on the 2002 debut novel from Rachel Klein, set at an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship

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SXSW 2009 - New Talents Cody DeVos and Jess Weixler Bask in the Spotlight

20 March 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | From amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals | See recent amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals news

The theaters, panels and red carpets of South by Southwest have been filled with familiar faces and established names -- Seth Rogen, Todd Haynes, Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Lee and many more -- but it's also important to note the festival's role as a springboard for new talent. (The mumblecore film movement can directly trace its heritage back to SXSW.)   "While SXSW has a reputation as a fun, easygoing

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SXSW 2009 - Todd Haynes and Richard Linklater on the Realities of Modern Filmmaking

19 March 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | From amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals | See recent amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals news

On Tuesday, South by Southwest offered movie lovers a chance to see two of today's brightest filmmaking talents in conversation as Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Slacker) and Todd Haynes (I'm Not There, Far From Heaven) spoke at the Austin Convention Center. Speaking with relaxed charm and self-deprecating humor, both men shared their thoughts on modern moviemaking. Haynes, for example, talked about the tricky disconnect between making his highly personal

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