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Tsr Blog: The Villainous Box Office Success of ‘The Avengers’
22 May 2012 5:14 PM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
A god more indestructible than The Avengers’ nemesis Loki, Ned Beatty’s character Arthur Jensen in Sidney Lumet’s drama Network will forever be one of the most powerful villains in all of film. His face illuminated by a row of green lamps in a dim conference room, this chairman of a massive media conglomerate educates future TV prophet Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) about “the primal forces of nature,” something that speaks galactically beyond accusations of greediness towards “The 1%.” In the movie’s epiphanic moment, he informs Beale that “… There are no nations, there are no peoples … there is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multi-national dominion of dollars … It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet … That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today!”
In this monologue Jensen »
- Nick Allen
Deborah Kerr: Sexual Outlaw
22 May 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, The King and I Deborah Kerr Pt.1: What Lies Beneath True, you most likely won’t find Deborah Kerr labeled a sex goddess anywhere, but that’s merely because her sexual allure, apart from the beach scene in From Here to Eternity, was hardly obvious. Unlike overgrown little girls such as Marilyn Monroe, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Jayne Mansfield, or Brigitte Bardot, Kerr looked and acted like a mature woman even in her 20s. In other words, there was nothing kittenish about Deborah Kerr; she didn’t pout. Unlike Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Lizabeth Scott, or Susan Sarandon, Kerr’s seething sensuality had nothing to do with sultriness, come-hither looks, or bare body parts. Unlike Simone Simon, Jane Greer, the latter-day Barbara Stanwyck, and other (French or American) film noir dames, or Theda Bara and assorted film »
- Andre Soares
Trailer Watch: Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' Punches America in the Face
3 April 2012 12:51 PM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Keith Olbermann anyone? Actually, Jeff Daniels' news anchor, at the start of Aaron Sorkin's new HBO series "The Newsroom" (June 24), is an upstanding objective news anchor without political bias until he completely loses it--under video grilling that goes viral. Like Peter Finch in Sidney Lumet's 1976 "Network," he's mad as hell and he isn't going to take it anymore. Daniels ("The Squid and the Whale") is a terrific actor; I first met him at the start of his career, playing Debra Winger's husband Flap, on the set of "Terms of Endearment" in 1982. Clearly, "The Newsroom" gives show creator Sorkin (who won an Oscar for "The Social Network" and was nominated with Steve Zaillian for "Moneyball") free rein to go to town on everything that piques him about American politics and culture; this makes "West Wing" and "Sports Night" look like mere preambles. Bring it on. ...
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- Anne Thompson
DVD Review - Raid on Entebbe (1977)
23 March 2012 5:56 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Raid on Entebbe, 1977.
Directed by Irvin Kershner.
Starring Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Yaphet Kotto, Jack Warden, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Loggia and James Woods.
Synopsis:
When a hijacked plane is diverted to Uganda's Entebbe Airport with over a hundred Israeli passengers on board, the Israeli government authorises a top-secret military raid to free the hostages.
Not to be confused with 1976's Victory at Entebbe - which also happens to feature a similarly impressive cast that includes Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth Taylor - Raid on Entebbe is a Golden Globe-winning TV movie from The Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner that recounts the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane travelling between Tel Aviv and Paris, and the subsequent counter-terrorist rescue mission carried out by members of the Israeli Defense Forces at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
After taking off from Athens »
- flickeringmyth
Screen Australia announces record year for premium documentary
27 February 2012 4:27 PM, PST | IF.com.au | See recent IF.com.au news »
Screen Australia says the value of documentary production hit a record high last financial year, underpinned by a greater number of more expensive series.
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley told the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) this week that 430 hours of Australian documentary projects were made in 2010-11, totalling $133 million of expenditure, which was above the $118 million five-year average.
.What we can clearly see is that the Producer Offset has been effective in buoying the industry and driving growth in the documentary sector," she said.
"Prior to the introduction of the Producer Offset in 2007, the annual five-year average for documentary production was $77 million and now we.re almost doubling that figure. The record budget level driven by more hours of high-production value series of programs above $250,000 per hour shows that the Offset is also driving an increase in premium content..
Harley attributed the strong performance of the sector to »
- Brendan Swift and Amanda Diaz
Oscar Nominees' Favorite Movie Moments
23 February 2012 7:39 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Los Angeles -- Many of this year's Oscar-nominated actors first experienced the magic of movies as children.
When asked on Oscar.com to reflect on their favorite movie moments, nominees such as Jessica Chastain, Kenneth Branagh, Gary Oldman and Octavia Spencer immediately went back in time.
"My favorite was perhaps the first time I saw `E.T.' as a kid," said Spencer, who is nominated for supporting actress for her turn as Minny Jackson in "The Help." "The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T."
Oldman, up for best actor for his role in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," said he remembers seeing "A Hard Day's Night" at age 5 with his teenage sisters at the Rialto Theater in South London "and my sister nudging me because I was singing too loud along with the songs. »
- AP
Oscar Myth Busting: Will playing gay nab you gold?
22 February 2012 10:15 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Put down those Pop Rocks and Diet Cokes. We’ve got some A-list myths to examine! Ahead of this Sunday’s Oscars, we’ll be taking a look at some of the most famous myths to rise out of the annual awards ceremony. Want to know if being nude will get you a Best Actress statue? Or if the Best Supporting Actress trophy is indeed a curse? You’re in luck – we’ll be investigating one Oscars-related urban legend each day this week. Today, we investigate whether playing a gay character will automatically get you a statue. In the past 25 years, »
- Sandra Gonzalez
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