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Directors Billy Wilder, John Ford & More Get Commemorative Stamps
25 May 2012 1:12 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
We're not gonna lie. The Memorial Day weekend is upon us, and the news flow is already starting to slow down as everyone enjoys an extra day in the sun (or whatever weather you're having locally). But even so, here's something that's cool enough that we would probably highlight on a day with big trailers and such. Iconic filmmakers Billy Wilder, John Ford, Frank Capra and John Huston have their work immortalized on celluloid (some even by the Library of Congress) and now the directors themselves and their work have been commemorated with postal stamps. It's almost a rite of passage as an icon. Look! Here are the four stamps commemorating each director and one of their seminal works via The Playlist: The set includes just four stamps for now, highlighting The Searchers from John Ford, It Happened One Night from Frank Capra, Some Like It Hot from Billy Wilder »
- Ethan Anderton
Take A Look At Usps Stamps For Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, John Ford & John Huston
25 May 2012 12:35 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Considering the art of letter-writing and the ritual of walking to the mailbox are becoming lost to the digital age (single tear), it's kinda cute that the United States Postal Service keeps making special new stamps, but honestly, we'd buy these and frame 'em.
Legendary filmmakers Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, John Ford and John Huston have all been given their own stamps, issued this week, as part of the Great Film Directors (Forever) series. If none of those names are familiar to you, go hit IMDb, check out the top rated movies for each filmmaker, add 'em to your Netflix queue and then get back to us in a few weeks. These are the guys who changed the shape of cinematic history in many ways, either in form or structure or by simply delivering some the finest works ever made, which continue to endure to the present day. The films »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Memorial day is a time to reflect on Us conquests and failures – in film
25 May 2012 10:06 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood goes for blockbuster returns on Memorial Day, but how do the Us-centric hyper-macho films perform overseas?
Memorial Day is fast approaching, so naturally one's thoughts turn to the Fallen, and to the shared sacrifice of European and American continents as they united in common cause against the spectre of global tyranny. But that's enough about the reviews for Battleship.
"A preposterously lunkheaded salute to American naval machismo" snorted Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph. "It seems that the Us Navy is as much committed to the production of this film as is the toy company" opined Le Monde's Thomas Sotinel. As news of the hostile European reception spread, American critics equipped their reviews with a pre-emptive Euro-snob missile defense shield. "That the movie didn't exactly receive hosannas in Europe should surprise absolutely no one. This is a Super-American movie," bristled Jeff Simon of Buffalo News. "It would be like »
- Tom Shone
U.S. Postal Service Honors Directors Capra, Ford, Huston and Wilder With ‘Forever Stamps’ Award
23 May 2012 5:51 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Four extraordinary film directors .Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston and Billy Wilder . received a stamping ovation today with the issuance of the Great Film Directors First-Class Forever stamps. The dedication took place at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center where some of their works were showcased. Available nationwide today, the stamps can be purchased online at usps.com/shop, by calling 1-800-stamp-24 (1-800-782-6724) or by visiting Post Offices.
“With these stamps, we’re bringing these filmmakers out from behind their cameras and putting them in the spotlight so that we can learn more about them,” said Samuel Pulcrano, U.S. Postal Service vice president, Corporate Communications in dedicating the stamps. “Movies offer a window into our history and heritage and tell the story of America. Similar to movies, stamps honor our past and celebrate our achievements while encouraging us to learn more about the people, »
- Michelle McCue
Swearing in a Rom-Com Ain't The Problem
13 May 2012 6:26 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb...
Betsy Sharkey writes for the La Times about foul language in mainstram cinema:
"Now, we head into summer, the prime time for big, bruising action flicks and lots of racy comic outrage and a grand opportunity for filmmakers to cross boundaries of taste on the language front. I'm bracing for what could well become a raging torrent of moviegoer disgust and distress, because despite what anyone claims about the modern acceptance of and appetite for language of the roughest, rawest, most graphic sort, the truth is that a huge contingent of the paying crowd objects to it still."
Read the full article here.
The recent controversy involving Bully portrays an unclear approach to ratings regarding language. Though a documentary about bullying, for children who are bullied, it cannot depict the reality of bullying on the basis that swearing too much is simply not »
- flickeringmyth
Jean Paul Gaultier's rich history as a costume designer deserves praise
8 May 2012 8:49 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With his selection as jury member for the coming Cannes film festival recently announced, it's about time we acknowledged Gaultier's work on such films as The Fifth Element and The Skin I Live In
For as long as movies have been made, costume designers have been indispensible to creating a film's look and defining characters. Yet prior to this year, the last costume designer to sit on the Cannes jury was the spectacular Eiko Ishioka, who made her mark on films such as The Cell and Immortals, way back in 1996.
Who better, then, to thaw the 16 year fashion chill at Cannes than Jean Paul Gaultier? The designer's selection as a jury member for this year's film festival not only serves as a reminder of what Gauilter himself has offered cinema over the years but also draws attention to a relationship between fashion and film that is as old as the medium itself. »
Fall In Love: The Playlist's Favorite Romantic Comedies
27 April 2012 7:56 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Few genres of film inspire more personal responses than the romantic comedy. Given how much of our lives is spent on love and romance (falling into it, falling out of it, chasing it, giving up on it), it's no surprise that the rom-com has remained one of the most popular formulas since the dawn of cinema, and while the genre has undisputed classics, you can end up cherishing certain films purely because of their connection to your own life. They can help pull you out of a post break-up tailspin, they can comfort you through unrequited love, and, if a film hits you at the height of your passion for someone, they can end up associated forever, even blinding you to the movie's flaws -- seeing "Elizabethtown" in the midst of first love left this writer swooning after exiting the theater (thankfully, a subsequent rewatch put me straight as to how terrible it is. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Vanessa Williams opens up about molestation and abortion in new memoir 'You Have No Idea'
18 April 2012 9:25 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
"Desperate Housewives" star Vanessa Williams has penned a new memoir, titled "You Have No Idea," wherein she speaks candidly about her adolescence, including that she was molested by an 18-year-old girl when she was just 10 years old.
"It was definitely a choice, because it didn't need to be [in the book]. It happened one night where she told me, 'come over here,' ... I didn't know that it was wrong, but I knew that it wasn't right because I wasn't supposed to tell anybody," Williams tells ABC's "Nightline."
She says she didn't even realize the significance of the event until she was in college. And she never told her mother Helen until they were writing this memoir together. Williams also reveals that she became pregnant in high school and chose to have an abortion, which she also kept as a secret from her mother.
"Being pregnant is the most frightening thing that happens in your life. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
I was molested as a child: Vanessa Williams - Realbollywood.com News
18 April 2012 4:33 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, April 18: Singer actress Vanessa Williams has revealed she was sexually abused when she was 10. She says the traumatising experience caused her to become highly sexualised at an abnormally young age.
Williams has made the revelation in her new book "You Have No Idea". She has explained how an 18-year-old woman molested her during a family trip with friends, reports tmz.com.
"It happened one night where she told me, 'Come over here'. I didn't know that it was wrong, but I knew that it wasn't right because I wasn't supposed to tell anybody," Williams wrote in her. »
- Amith Ostwal
Vanessa Williams: 'I didn't know childhood abuse was wrong'
17 April 2012 1:30 PM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Vanessa Williams has opened up about her childhood abuse claims in a televised interview. The Desperate Housewives actress recently revealed in her memoirs that she was a victim of child abuse when she was 10 by an 18-year-old girl, who was a friend of the family. In an interview for ABC's Nightline, Helen explained that she was unaware the experience was "wrong" at the time. "It was definitely a choice, because it didn't need to be [in the book]," she said. "It happened one night where she told me, 'Come over here'. I didn't know that it was wrong, but I knew that it wasn't right because I wasn't supposed to tell anybody." She added: "I think I was highly sexualised because I was in fifth grade and I had this experience. (more) »
- By Tom Eames
Vanessa Williams -- I Was Molested as a Child
17 April 2012 10:35 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
Vanessa Williams says she was sexually abused as a 10-year-old girl ... and believes the traumatizing experience caused her to become "highly sexualized" at an abnormally young age. Williams dropped the bombshell in her new book, "You Have No Idea" ... explaining how an 18-year-old woman molested her during a family trip with friends. The "Desperate Housewives" actress opened up about the experience to "Nightline" ... saying, "It happened one night where she told me, 'come over here, »
- TMZ Staff
Yahoo! Lists the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die
10 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
It's not easy to put together a top 100 of just about anything, but the folks over at Yahoo! Movies have really thrown down the gauntlet this time with a list of the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die. In describing the list, they maintain that their goal was to choose the "funniest" movies out there, not necessarily the "best" comedies. With that in mind, you might think they'd stay away from critically acclaimed classics and lean more toward low brow, quick and easy laughfests. But you'd be wrong. There are a lot of classics on this list, everything from The Apartment to Dr. Strangelove to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and Buster Keaton's The General. There are also movies on here that aren't really "comedies" per se, such as Pulp Fiction and Martin Scorsese's After Hours. More than anything, this serves as a reminder that what is »
- Sean
Jean Dujardin: Le Silence Est dOr
9 April 2012 12:21 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin backstage at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood on February 26. Dujardin was the year's Best Actor winner for his performance as a Douglas Fairbanks- and John Gilbert-like silent film star in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. (Photo: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Jean Dujardin's fellow Best Actor contenders were Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A first-time Oscar nominee, Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an Oscar in the acting categories. (French-born actresses have been luckier at the Academy Awards: It Happened One Night's Claudette Colbert, Room at the Top's Simone Signoret, La Vie en Rose's Marion Cotillard, and The English Patient »
- D. Zhea
A Capra Classic Made Whole
1 April 2012 10:00 PM, PDT | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
A year before It Happened One Night famously swept the Oscars, Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin made Lady for a Day, which earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture—but because it was withheld from TV and 16mm distribution for years, it never attained the widespread awareness and residual affection that other Capra classics have always enjoyed. A new, beautifully restored DVD and Blu-ray from Inception Media—with a sequence that was missing from an earlier dvd release—may help to remedy that injustice. Oddly enough, it was Capra himself who pulled Lady for a Day from circulation, so that it wouldn’t be compared to his 1961 remake,...
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- Leonard Maltin
Jean Dujardin: First Actor Oscar/Cannes/BAFTA/Golden Globe
8 March 2012 3:00 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin made film-award history after he won the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as a fading silent-film matinee idol in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. But before I proceed, I must say that those who compare Dujardin with former Best Actor Oscar winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful, 1998) should watch more French and Italian films. The comparison is ludicrous. What Dujardin and Benigni have in common is that they've both made comedies and neither one of them speaks very good English. That's it. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Anyhow, Jean Dujardin was a first-time Academy Award nominee. His Best Actor competition consisted of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and Brad Pitt for Moneyball. As a result of his victory, Dujardin »
- Andre Soares
Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer
8 March 2012 12:43 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer, Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer, Meryl Streep, and Jean Dujardin pose backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards held at Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26. Plummer was the Best Supporting Actor winner for Mike Mills' Beginners. Spencer was Best Supporting Actress for Tate Taylor's The Help. Streep won Best Actress for Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady. And Dujardin was the year's Best Actor for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) This was Christopher Plummer's second Oscar nomination. His fellow Oscar nominees this year were first-timer Jonah Hill for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, two-time nominee Max von Sydow for Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, two-time nominee (in the acting categories) Kenneth Branagh (as Laurence Olivier) for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, and three-time nominee Nick Nolte for Gavin O'Connor's Warrior. »
- D. Zhea
Jean Arthur Movies/TCM: The More The Merrier
6 March 2012 5:43 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier The delightful actress Jean Arthur is Turner Classic Movies' star of the evening tonight. Beginning at 5 p.m. Pt, TCM will show five Jean Arthur movies: The Talk of the Town (1942), History Is Made at Night (1937), The Public Menace (1935), The More the Merrier (1943), and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Directed by George Stevens, The Talk of the Town received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and two for its story and screenplay. (Back in those days there were three Best Writing categories.) Arthur is outstanding as a schoolteacher — this is perhaps my favorite among her performances — torn between a law professor (an equally outstanding Ronald Colman) and an escaped convict (Cary Grant). As a plus, former Warner Bros. contract player Glenda Farrell is excellent in a supporting role. The Talk of the Town is not to be missed. Though much less »
- Andre Soares
Jean Dujardin Kisses Oscar; French Actresses/Oscars
5 March 2012 4:30 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin kissing Oscar statuette Best Actor Oscar winner Jean Dujardin kisses his Oscar statuette at the Governors Ball 2012. For his performance as a fading silent-film star in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an Oscar in the acting categories: Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier, and Gérard Depardieu had all been nominated before, but none of them had ever won. (Photo: © A.M.P.A.S.) The list of Frenchwomen who either won or were nominated for Oscars in the acting categories is much more extensive. The French-born, American-raised Claudette Colbert was the Best Actress of 1934 for Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night. The other French Best Actress Oscar winners are Simone Signoret for Jack Clayton's 1959 British drama Room at the Top and Marion Cotillard for Olivier Dahan's French-language Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose. Additionally, Juliette Binoche was a »
- Andre Soares
2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Picture
26 February 2012 9:00 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Best Picture Academy Award is really what explains film as a collaborative effort. The Best Picture is what the Academy has found to be the best combination of every aspect that film has, whether thematically or structurally. The producers of the winner take home the Oscar, because, well, they footed the bill. They were also the decision-makers. We know its more of a gray area than that, but the classic Academy likes to think like classic movie-making. It doesn’t stop the Best Picture winners from being some of the greatest pieces of work in the artform. One film this Sunday will be written in along with films like It Happened One Night, On The Waterfront, The Godfather parts 1 & 2, and No Country For Old Men. That’s a list of 83 movies that will be or already are considered essentials when it comes to film history. We don’t look down on the nominees who didn’t »
- Jeremy Kirk
The 25 Sexiest Best Actor Winners Ever
23 February 2012 3:33 PM, PST | BestWeekEver | See recent BestWeekEver news »
The 84th Annual Academy Awards (or, as we country folks call it, The Oscars) will air this Sunday evening live from Los Angeles. 84th Annual. Do you know what that means? That adds up to 84 years of mostly attractive, wealthy people getting handed awards. And one thing even a blind person with an unusually high sex drive would admit: This year’s Best Actor nominees are some of the sexiest yet. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Hot French Dude, Gary Oldman, Hot Mexican Dude. If I were a professional writer on the internet and this was 2008, one might even call them the “nom-nom-nominees.” It’s safe to say that Sunday’s Best Actor winner will also simultaneously be hot as sh*t. But this isn’t the very first time in history that a handsome man has taken home the big prize. After hours scouring through the Best Actor winners over the past 80ish years, »
- Michelle Collins
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