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Seven great rebel portraits of the ’60s and ’70s
16 hours ago | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The French gave us the word “demimonde” – literally, half the world. But what it has come to mean in English, or so says Webster, is “a distinct circle or world that is often an isolated part of a larger world.”
Storytellers have always held a fascination with the dark side of human nature; that part of the psyche which is normally restrained and leashed, taught to be obedient, held in check – as Conrad wrote in Heart of Darkness – by the reproving looks of our neighbors. After all, what was Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but a probing of that other, id-driven half and the entrancing appeal of doing what one wants instead of what one should.
Film is no different than literature, and from its beginning the movies have produced a rich vein of stories about society’s fringe dwellers, those who operate by necessity, »
- Bill Mesce
Tony Awards Best Actor (Play): Philip Seymour Hoffman ('Death of a Salesman') far ahead
25 May 2012 7:15 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
All but two of our Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor (Play) for headlining the fourth rialto revival of 1949 Tony champ "Death of a Salesman." Hoffman, who lost this race in 2000 for "True West" to Stephen Dillane ("The Real Thing"), is far out in front with odds of 4 to 7 to claim his first Tony. If he prevails, Hoffman will be the first of the three Best Actor Oscar champs to play the role of Willy Loman on Broadway to win over Tony voters. George C. Scott, who turned down his 1970 Academy Award for "Patton," contended in 1975 for the first Broadway revival; he lost to John Wood ("Travesties"). Dustin Hoffman was snubbed for his 1984 performance though the production won Best Revival and he claimed an Emmy in 1986 for the TV version. (Jeremy Irons won Best Actor that year for the original production of "The Real Thing."). While "Death of a Salesman »
Andrew Garfield/The Amazing Spider-man Trailer 3: Haunted Son
11 May 2012 10:13 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Andrew Garfield, The Amazing Spider-Man trailer "This life is not an easy one," says Andrew Garfield / Peter Parker in this latest The Amazing Spider-Man trailer. (Please scroll down.) "I’ve made enemies,” adds Parker / Garfield. “Powerful enemies. I’ve put those I love in danger. But the one thing that has haunted me my entire life is finding the truth about my parents." One of Peter Parker’s (aka Spider-Man’s) enemies is The Lizard (Rhys Ifans). Another is Emma Stone’s father, who has 500 cops looking for poor Peter. With The Lizard, the monolithic Oscorp Corporation, and the useless cops after him, what’s a DC superhero to do? Call Marvel’s The Avengers? Nope. Come and get the truth about his parents. And weave a web or two throughout New York City along the way. In addition to Andrew Garfield, Rhys Ifans, and Emma Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man »
- Zac Gille
Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman as Best Actor at Tony Awards
27 April 2012 6:24 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
All of our Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor (Play) for headlining the fourth rialto revival of 1949 Tony champ "Death of a Salesman." Hoffman, who lost this race in 2000 for "True West" to Stephen Dillane ("The Real Thing"), is far out in front with odds of 4 to 9 to claim his first Tony. If he prevails, Hoffman will be the first of the three Best Actor Oscar champs to play the role of Willy Loman on Broadway to win over Tony voters. George C. Scott, who turned down his 1970 Academy Award for "Patton," contended in 1975 for the first Broadway revival; he lost to John Wood ("Travesties"). Dustin Hoffman was snubbed for his 1984 performance though the production won Best Revival and he claimed an Emmy in 1986 for the TV version. (Jeremy Irons won Best Actor that year for the original production of "The Real Thing."). While "Death of a Salesman »
Mike Nichols Honored In New York For 'Death Of A Salesman'
24 April 2012 5:22 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Mike Nichols, director of the critically acclaimed Broadway production of “Death of a Salesman,” was honored at a lunch in New York Monday. The play received four Outer Critics Circle nominations that morning, including best director, best revival of a play, best actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and best featured actor (Andrew Garfield.)
Nichols, 80, showered praise on his cast, noting that the creative process of directing the show was “as mysterious as sex: You know you had a great time, but you don’t quite remember what happened.” He added: “This is the happiest I have ever been doing a play. Make of it what you will.”
Along with the show cast, the Four Seasons was swarming with post 50 luminaries, including Diane Sawyer (Nichol’s wife), Anna Wintour, Tom Brokaw, Whoopi Goldberg, Frances McDormand, Tina Brown, Dame Judi Dench, John Turturro, Nora Ephron and Barry Diller (who said he had never seen the play before, »
- Laura Rowley
'12 Angry Men': Why Sidney Lumet's Claustrophobic Classic Still Matters
16 April 2012 4:59 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
On paper, it's a tough sell: a black-and-white movie set in one room, with an all-male (and all-white) cast, with no action except for a heated war of words among a dozen guys. Indeed, "12 Angry Men" -- which opened 55 years ago last week (April 13, 1957) -- with its shoestring budget, was a financial flop, and while it was nominated for three Oscars (including Best Picture), it lost them all to the splashier, more colorful, wide-screen epic "The Bridge on the River Kwai." Yet today, "12 Angry Men" is considered a classic, not just for its riveting script and top-notch acting, but also for how it made a virtue of its stagy limitations. Adapted by Reginald Rose from his own 1954 TV play (back when live drama was a TV staple), the movie expanded the hour-long story of a deliberating jury into 95 minutes, but it didn't expand the confines of the setting: a single, »
- Gary Susman
Wamg Interview: Kitten Natividad – Russ Meyer’s Ultra Vixen!
12 April 2012 6:35 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Buxom beauty Kitten Natividad is known to movie buffs as the last of Russ Meyer’s busty starlets, having starred in the cult director’s final two films. Kitten’s untamed beauty, personal charm, sex appeal , and cartoonish 44-25-35 dimensions has left her image imprinted on the mind of many a young man who saw her in the Meyer films or her cameos in such mainstream fare as My Tutor (1983) and The Wild Life (1984). Kitten was also Meyer’s girlfriend the last fifteen years of his life and she appeared as a stripper at the bachelor party held by Sean Penn to celebrate his 1985 marriage to Madonna.
Francesca Natividad was born in 1948 in Juarez, Mexico, one of nine children. Her family moved to El Paso, Texas, when Kitten was 10 after her mom married a man from there. In 1969 she began stripping and got her first breast implants in Mexico »
- Tom Stockman
Stanley Kubrick: Master of Contradictions
9 April 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic, epic, maudlin and humane. Then there’s Welles, the ill-fated genius, abused by producers but beloved of critics. Spielberg, even in his seventh decade, is still the boy wonder; Scorsese the mad scientist. Griffith is the wise forefather, deeply flawed but idolized nonetheless, while Hawks is ageless, just as sly and self-assured as he was at the time of “The Big Sleep” (1946).
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned, »
- Graham Daseler
Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones
8 April 2012 11:48 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey Honorary Award recipient James Earl Jones and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Oprah Winfrey backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26, 2012. Jones and Winfrey was officially handed their trophies at the Governors Awards held in fall 2011. Jones wasn't in attendance, as he was appearing with Vanessa Redgrave in a production of Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage. (Photo: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.) James Earl Jones was a Best Actor nominee for Martin Ritt's 1970 drama The Great White Hope. His competition consisted of Jack Nicholson for Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, Melvyn Douglas for Gilbert Cates' I Never Sang for My Father, Ryan O'Neal for Arthur Hiller's Love Story, and the eventual winner, George C. Scott for Franklin J. Schaffner's Patton. Scott became the first performer to refuse the Oscar. »
- D. Zhea
10 Commonly Overlooked Horror Films Worth Seeing
31 March 2012 12:43 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
When I was a kid, I used to love a scary movie. I remember catching the original The Haunting (1963) one night on Channel 9’s Million Dollar Movie when I was home alone. Before it was over, I had every light in the house on. When my mother got home she was screaming she’d been able to see the house glowing from two blocks away. The only thing screaming louder than her was the electricity meter.
That was something of an accomplishment, scaring me like that. Oh, it’s not that I was hard to scare (I still don’t like going down into a dark cellar). But, in those days, the movies didn’t have much to scare you with. Back as far as the 50s, you might find your odd dismemberment and impaling, even an occasional decapitation, but, generally, the rule of the day was restraint. Even those rare dismemberments, »
- Bill Mesce
Veneration and Its Discontents
26 March 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Film is dying, but the cinema still lives. To mark the death of one cycle in the age of motion pictures and the beginning of another, Film Forum recently ran a series called "This Is Dcp" to introduce us cinephiles to our inevitable digital future. Dcp, for those of you who’ve been hiding in a mineshaft the last few years, stands for Digital Cinema Package, the new industry standard for digital projection that has just recently replaced 35mm film as the most common means of presenting movies in the United States. On the first day of the series, I went to see a presentation by Grover Crisp—Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Executive Vice President of Asset Management, Film Restoration, and Digital Mastering—that was billed as Dr. Strangelove Side-by-Side but which probably should have been called Dr. Strangelove A-Few-Minutes-of-One-Followed-by-a-Few-Minutes-of-the-Other. Film Forum projected a version of the movie on an »
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield in “Death of a Salesman”
19 March 2012 8:10 AM, PDT | Scott Feinberg | See recent Scott Feinberg news »
The greatest American play? Quite possibly Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” set in 1949 and revived last night on Broadway in a production that is outstanding. Mike Nichols directed and reinvented Miller’s classic, with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Andrew Garfield (the new movie Spider Man) as Biff, Linda Emonds as Willy’s wife Linda, and Finn Wittrock as Happy. This is a historic production, quite possibly the best ever (and there have been many great ones starring Dustin Hoffman, Brian Dennehy, Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott).
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- Scott Feinberg
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield in “Death of a Salesman”
18 March 2012 10:03 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: The greatest American play? Quite possibly Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” set in 1949 and revived last night on Broadway in a production that is outstanding. Mike Nichols directed and reinvented Miller’s classic, with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Andrew Garfield (the new movie Spider Man) as Biff, Linda Emonds as Willy’s wife Linda, and Finn Wittrock as Happy. This is a historic production, quite possibly the best ever (and there have been many great ones starring Dustin Hoffman, Brian Dennehy, Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott). Thursday night’s star studded opening was the second time I’ve seen this production, and it’s only gotten more devastating, deep, emotional, and overwhelming. Philip Seymour Hoffman is our generation’s Jason Robards. He is perfection as Willy Loman in all aspects–from Willy’s wrestling with his past (the father and »
- Roger Friedman
The Devil’s Demonic Handywork: Thn’s Top Five Possessions
16 March 2012 5:34 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Demonic possession has been the theme of many a horror film over the years. However it was really William Peter Blatty’s best-seling novel The Exorcist (inspired by the real-life exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim) that ensured the idea was ingrained into popular culture. A film was eventually adapted for the screen by a top-of-his-game William Friedkin, who was just coming off his Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse crime classic The French Connection. After The Exorcist went on to break box-office records with queues around the block and audience members reportedly fainting in aisles, the 1973 controversial shocker was ripped-off, parodied, and sequelized by imitators wanting to capitalise on this new form of terror.
So with the imminent release of the new found-footage horror hit The Devil Inside, Thn has decided to take at look at the best five films to feature the battle between good and evil for the souls of humanity`… as »
- Craig Hunter
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu To Direct ‘Flim-Flam Man’ Adaptation
9 March 2012 4:10 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Mexican auteur Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has enjoyed a nice rest since he delivered the bleak drama Biutiful at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago, the film that later earned two Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor for lead Javier Bardem.
Last year there was talk of him setting up the period vengeance thriller The Revenant with Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio but, as tends to happen with busy people, it never really got any momentum and talk of the film went cold.
Now Variety reports that he has put The Revenant aside for a little while and he is gearing up to direct a different project altogether, an adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s memoirs “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life,” that he has setup at 20th Century Fox subsidiary New Regency.
Adapted by Fair Game writer Jez Butterworth, the movie »
- Matt Holmes
DVD Playhouse--March 2012
6 March 2012 9:50 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2012
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Edition of James Stewart’s ‘Anatomy of a Murder’
5 March 2012 11:06 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Otto Preminger’s “Anatomy of a Murder” is a film that certainly still entertains modern audiences but should best be considered in light of when it came out in theaters. In 1959, courtroom dramas weren’t nearly as prevalent as they are in the era of “Law & Order” and discussions of rape and murder were not yet common in film. It may be hard for young audiences to believe but this spectacular film truly pushed the envelope of what could be done in a film like it and creatively succeeded in every way.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Instead of going with the censorship that faced the movie (it was even banned in Chicago for some time), the country and the industry embraced “Anatomy of a Murder” and the movie was nominated for seven Oscars, including Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for James Stewart and Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott (losing »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Horror! The Horror! Must-See War Films
1 March 2012 2:56 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
You can't show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience's head every night, you know, and have actual casualties in the theater. -- Sam Fuller, film director and author
War is a grisly business, a horror of epic proportions. In terms of human carnage alone, war's devastation is staggering. For example, it is estimated that approximately 231 million people died worldwide during the wars of the 20th century. However, this figure does not take into account the walking wounded -- both physically and psychologically -- who "survive" war. Eventually, war will be our undoing. As Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and author Chris Hedges observes: War is like a poison. And just as a cancer patient must at times ingest a poison to fight off a disease, so there are times »
- John W. Whitehead
Jean Dujardin/The Players: World Trade Center Joke Censored
29 February 2012 6:03 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
"Jean Dujardin, already Oscared, can breathe: his little secret was kept to the very end," writes Emmanuel Berretta in the French magazine Le Point. The "little secret" in question is a brief scene initially found in — but since then cut from the final release print of — Dujardin's comedy Les Infidèles / The Players (literally, "The Unfaithful Ones"), which opened in France today. The Players consists of six sketches — or rather, short films — about the themes of male infidelity and men's ravenous sexual appetite. Dujardin co-stars with Gilles Lellouche in the various segments featuring the two actors either enjoying extra-marital affairs or pursuing women (and sometimes something else) of various ages, sizes, and shapes. According to Berretta, Dujardin, also one of the film's producers, was afraid that a comic bit in The Players might have seriously harmed his chances of taking home the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as a fading silent-film star in The Artist. »
- Andre Soares
Strangest & Most Controversial Moments In the History of the Academy Awards
23 February 2012 5:49 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The saying goes: If Hollywood is really the movie capital of the world, then Oscar night is the world’s biggest wrap party, and like all parties, each event comes with unwelcome guests, embarrassing situations, strange fashions and controversial moments. In fact, controversy and the Oscars seem to go hand in hand and despite the fact that the Academy Awards are, for the most part, an elegant and tightly controlled affair, some very strange things do occur. Let’s take a look back through the history of the Academy Awards, and some of it’s strangest and more controversial moments – which sadly were also the most memorable.
Shadow Dancers
For the 2007 ceremony, producers hired the dance troop Pilobolus to recreate famous images from that year’s most popular films.
Political Rants
Richard Gere was last asked to present in 1993 when he interrupted the ceremony to give a long speech attacking »
- Kyle Reese
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