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7 items from 2012
Best Movie Ever? "Victor/Victoria"
2 May 2012 10:08 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Like Nine to Five, this week's candidate for Best Movie Ever is righteously ridiculous. It's sophisticated and bawdy as hell. In fact, it's a whole bunch of awesome dichotomies: wacky but meaningful, musical but conversational, broad but subversive, hilarious but concerned with very real taboos. And more than anything, it's fun, which is more than enough to qualify it for the finest film ever. It is the saucy superiority of Victor/Victoria, a movie that's so shockingly whimsical and warm, I'm willing to bet -- if you've seen it before -- you're lighting up just remembering your favorite moment or character. I know I am. And I'll save her for last.
Let's jump back to Paris in the '30s, contemplate the ferocious morality of Julie Andrews and her character's commitment to drag, and relive the gayest and feyest and flyest of '80s comedies. C'est magnifique!
1. Julie Andrews. Full stop. »
- virtel
Broadway Season Ends With a Muddle of Shows
29 April 2012 1:10 PM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: It’s over. The big race from March 1st — when the spring season begins– to April 26th, cut off date for eligibility for the Tony Awards. It ended tonight with a thud. I saw “Leap of Faith”–it’s as bad as the 1992 movie, maybe worse. I skipped “Don’t Dress for Dinner” and “Ghost: The Musical.” The other reviews were bad enough. I really liked “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and thought the New York Times was unusually harsh and wrong. It’s delightful, and Matthew Broderick is very good in it. As for “Leap of Faith”: they brought in the talented Warren Leight (“Sideman”) to fix a broken script. He did everything he could. He used the paddles, yelled “Clear!” and tried to revive a dead body.
But the show is inert. The songs are mostly torture. The concept is still a very »
- Roger Friedman
Emma Thompson/Holly Hunter Double Oscar Nominations Meaning
4 April 2012 5:08 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Writing about Emma Thompson possibly reprising her role as human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce made me remember comments I've read about the 1993 Academy Awards. In early 1994, Thompson was nominated for two Oscars: as Best Actress for James Ivory's social/psychological drama The Remains of the Day (photo) and as Best Supporting Actress for Jim Sheridan's family melodrama / political & prison drama In the Name of the Father. That same year, Holly Hunter was another double nominee — the first (and to date only) time two performers have been in the running in two acting categories in the same year. Hunter was up for the Best Actress Oscar for Jane Campion's The Piano (photo) and as Best Supporting Actress for Sydney Pollack's The Firm. She eventually won for The Piano; she and Thompson lost in the Best Supporting Actress category to The Piano's Anna Paquin. Some have claimed »
- Andre Soares
Similar Images #3
5 March 2012 7:02 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
...Or: The Inventiveness of Filmcraft: How to Slide a Camera Down a Dune.
The finale of William Wellman's Beau Geste (1939), featuring Ray Milland and Robert Preston; cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl and Archie Stout:
The finale of Raymond Lee's Dragon Inn (1992), featuring Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Maggie Cheung and Donnie Yen; cinematography by Lau Moon-tong and Chow Gam-wing:
Part of our series Similar Images. »
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Debbie Reynolds Set For TCM Classic Film Festival In April
31 January 2012 12:25 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Passes Now on Sale Now for Four-Day Festival,
Coming to Hollywood April 12-15, 2012
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Debbie Reynolds and “Baby Peggy” Diana Serra Cary, along with film noir leading ladies Peggy Cummins, Rhonda Fleming and Marsha Hunt are the latest stars scheduled to appear at the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival.
Also announced today, the festival will feature the North American premiere of a new 75th anniversary restoration of Jean Renoir’s powerful Pow drama Grand Illusion (1937), widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. And the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will provide a live musical accompaniment for a screening of the silent Douglas Fairbanks fantasy-adventure The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
Minnelli and Grey are slated to join TCM’s own Robert Osborne to kick off the four-day, star-studded event with a gala opening-night world premiere screening of the 40th anniversary restoration Cabaret (1971), the film for which the »
- Michelle McCue
Robert Downey Jr. Boasts Bigtime About 'Iron Man 3'
11 January 2012 8:38 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Hyperbole be damned, when Robert Downey Jr. talks something up he pitches better than Robert Preston in "The Music Man."
When working a red carpet, most celebrities are typically tight-lipped about their secretive new projects (especially after getting the same question over and over), but while attending the Brazilian premiere of "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" Rdj talked to Omelete (via Total Film) and did an enthusiastic song and dance for his upcoming fourth outing as ol' shellhead.
"I think that we have an opportunity with the third 'Iron Man' to make the best of the three," declared Downey, "and maybe one of the better superhero movies that’s ever been made. But I think we have to remember what made the first one good. It was very character-driven. It was very odd. It was kind of outrageous. And so I think we have to have the »
- Max Evry
Looking back at The Last Starfighter
4 January 2012 7:38 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
An 80s sci-fi epic that gave hope to videogame geeks everywhere, The Last Starfighter is still a lot of fun all these years later. Jeff takes a look back…
“The amusing thing about this? It's all a big mistake. That particular Starfighter game was supposed to be delivered to Vegas, not some fleaspeck trailer park in the middle of tumbleweeds and tarantulas. So it must be fate, destiny, blind chance, luck even, that brings us together. And as the poet said, the rest is history.”
1984’s The Last Starfighter might just well be the best embodiment of the wish-fulfillment fantasy for gamers everywhere. It validates the hours spent in front of video screens by rewarding one player in particular with high adventure, giant spaceships, cute girlfriends, and the opportunity to save the planet.
In this modern day Arthurian fable, Alex Rogan (Lance Guest, supposedly 17 or 18, but looking mid-20s) can »
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