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Hollywood sheds its prejudice

22 December 2009 9:40 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

As Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver win plaudits for their roles as older women in physical relationships with younger men, one of the most enduring barriers in Hollywood's movie-making history is at last being torn down

When a film star seduces someone 20 or 30 years their junior on screen, the audience doesn't bat an eyelid. In fact, it is an established cinema convention. If the older star is a woman, however, public reaction is harder to predict. But now Hollywood, so long accused of sexism because of the way it treats female talent, finally seems prepared to tackle a subject once regarded as beyond the pale: sex and the sixtysomething woman.

Sigourney Weaver, who stars in this month's new sci-fi blockbuster, Avatar, has revealed that in her next film she is to play the lover of an actor little more than half her age. In Cedar Rapids, Weaver, 60, is cast opposite »

- Vanessa Thorpe

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Anna Kendrick: The Hollywood Interview

21 December 2009 8:34 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

(Anna Kendrick and George Clooney, above, in Up In The Air.)

By Terry Keefe (Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)

Anna Kendrick has always excelled at playing the smartest person in the room, and one who you definitely want to watch your back around. We were introduced to Kendrick in her big-screen debut, Todd Graff’s Camp in 2003, when she played young teen actress wannabe Fritzi Wagner in a notable supporting role. Described by one adult character in the film as a “scary little girl,” Wagner begins the story as a mousy sidekick to blonde theater star diva Jill (Alana Allen), but then manages to quite literally push Jill off the stage in a fierce All About Eve-style turnaround. In 2007, Kendrick won critical acclaim for her work as manipulative high school debate champion Ginny Ryerson in Rocket Science. Like Fritzi Wagner, Ginny Ryerson had a freaky air of intelligence well beyond her years, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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[TV Reviews] 아이리스 (Iris)

18 December 2009 12:18 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" might be one of the most overused mantras you can find, but sometimes you wonder whether that is truly all there is to it, particularly when it comes to the Korean mainstream's peculiar relationship with American TV series - in itself a sort of by-product of their approach towards Hollywood blockbusters. No, this is not going to be a diatribe on the cultural imperialism of the good old Californian behemoth and its small screen brethren, since copious amounts of American TV on your screen is pretty much a foregone conclusion by now, whether you live in Stockholm, Yokohama or Bishkek. A discussion on how different countries and cultures favor different genres over others would also be pretty intriguing (such as the Koreans' age-old indifference towards anything sci-fi, as for instance I don't believe the pajama-wearing shenanigans of one Jean Luc Picard ever made »

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Oscars quiz: What film lost all five bids for acting?

5 December 2009 11:15 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

All of the films below received five Oscar nominations for acting. Only one was totally snubbed in the performance categories. Which one? To see the answer, click on the "Continue reading" link below. Answer: "Tom Jones" (1963) lost all five: Albert Finney (actor), Hugh Griffith (supporting actor), Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans, Joyce Redman (supporting actress). As for the others: "The Godfather: Part II" (1974) won one: Robert DeNiro (supporting actor). "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) won one: Estelle Parsons (supporting actress). "All About Eve" (1950) won one: George Sanders (supporting actor). Note: "Network" (1976) was also nominated for five acting slots, winning three: Peter Finch (actor), Faye Dunaway (actress), Beatrice Straight (supporting actress). "Peyton Place" »

- tomoneil

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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes

4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

The Godfather (1972)

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.

On the Waterfront (1954)

“You don’t understand! »

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'The Godfather 2': Movies I watch and watch again

3 November 2009 1:36 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

Maybe it's because The Godfather 2 seems to be playing on cable TV in a loop for all eternity-but I realized the other day that I've lost count of how many times I've heard Michael Corleone say to his brother, "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart." Not that I mind: There's a profound comfort in re-watching a movie you love, even though (or maybe because) the scenes have worn grooves in your consciousness. My list of most-watched titles includes Casablanca, Citizen Kane, All About Eve, the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, and, for reasons I can't fathom but just accept, »

- Lisa Schwarzbaum

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Mother and Child No Longer Up For Adoption

2 November 2009 3:42 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they've picked up the Tiff hit Mother and Child starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Samuel L Jackson and Kerry Washington. The Rodrigo García adoption drama prompted more than one pundit to declare that The Bening would most definitely be back in the Best Actress Oscar race. But the press release makes no promises about when Spc would be showing off their new bundle to the public.

Kerry Washington and Shady Naomi Watts work it out in San Sebastian, promoting Mother and Child

Sadly we'll have to assume it's not for another year (sigh... All these movies completed and placed on shelves). After all, Spc is already octomom of the Oscars for 2009. So very fertile they are. Eldest children include: An Education, Moon and Coco Before Chanel. But there's a whole litter about to drop (and now I promise I'll quit with this pregnant metaphor): The White Ribbon, »

- NATHANIEL R

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Arts Horizons' 'Broadway Salutes' Benefit Features Next To Normal's Tom Kitt, 11/16

27 October 2009 10:46 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Tom Kitt, Tony Award-winning composer of Next to Normal will be a featured performer at the annual gala for Arts Horizons, Broadway Salutes. He will be joined by additional special guest Celeste Holm, Oscar winner for Gentleman's Agreement and Oscar nominee for All About Eve. The event will take place at The Edison Ballroom on Monday, November 16 from 6:00pm - 10:00pm. »

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Gossip Girl 3.05 "Enough About Eve" Recap

20 October 2009 8:53 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

So Gossip Girl confused the hell out of your boy last night, but a part of me is torn between my love of the show and the duty as a fan to call out its ‘flaws’. Character motivations and plot points were going all over the place last night, which is one of the flaws out of a slew of other ones. What were the other ones? Let me explain in recap mode.

The Freshman Toast Heard Around The World

Can I get a show of hands of those who are tired of Blair’s quest for sealing the position of Queen B?

So Blair’s latest quest for the Holy Grail of Status this week is to give the freshman toast at the annual Parent’s Weekend. But, as always, she has to crush someone to get it. The unlucky victim this week? Vanessa.  But is Blair clairvoyant? Because she had a dream, »

- Mark O. Estes

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Screen Queens

12 October 2009 6:53 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Hi, Matt Canada here with a weekly column looking back at gay cinema classics. I think that alot of people, gay and straight alike, view gay films as formally, thematically, and socially ghettoised and sub par. It is my goal that this column will reflect the diversity, breadth, and quality of the gay canon. This body of films encompasses everything from those made by gay filmmakers dealing explicitly with gay issues (Milk); to gay authored films that are nominally straight stories, but are interpreted by many as allegorically commenting on Lavender themes (George Cukor's Rich and Famous); camp classics (Mommie Dearest); gay films authored by heterosexual directors, screenwriters and/or producers (Brokeback Mountain); and those "heterosexual films" that have always been appropriated by gay audiences as queer (All About Eve). With such a wide array of possible films to look at, this column will bring something unique to the table each weekend. »

- CanadaMatt

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Tiff ‘09: Broken Embraces

24 September 2009 8:25 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Abrazos Ratos (Broken Embraces) Directed by Pedro Almodovar After Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Volver, director Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penelope Cruz unite for a fourth time with Broken Embraces, a film about film-making. Broken Embraces is a film within a film that jumps back and forth between past and present and evokes genres as far apart as noir and melodrama. Sugar coated on top are enough film references waiting to be spotted that is sure to put a smile on Quentin Tarantino's face. Only Almodovar's references are at times too easily recognizable, art imitating art, and in case you didn't catch it the first time, he's sure to have his characters name off each movie title for you. In one of the more interesting subplots, a young filmmaker stalks his stepmother (Penelope Cruz), hoping to expose her affair. His character is a caricature of Carl Boehm's Peeping Tom, »

- Ricky

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Tiff ‘09: Broken Embraces

16 September 2009 9:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Abrazos Ratos (Broken Embraces) Directed by Pedro Almodovar After Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Volver, director Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penelope Cruz unite for a fourth time with Broken Embraces, a film about film-making. Broken Embraces is a film within a film that jumps back and forth between past and present and evokes genres as far apart as noir and melodrama. Sugar coated on top are enough film references waiting to be spotted that is sure to put a smile on Quentin Tarantino's face. Only Almodovar's references are at times too easily recognizable, art imitating art, and in case you didn't catch it the first time, he's sure to have his characters name off each movie title for you. In one of the more interesting subplots, a young filmmaker stalks his stepmother (Penelope Cruz), hoping to expose her affair. His character is a caricature of Carl Boehm's Peeping Tom, »

- Ricky

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Add All About Steve to the List of Punful Movie Titles

3 September 2009 3:41 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

All About Steve opens this weekend across the country. The title is a play on words of the classic 1950 film, All About Eve. In the movie's honor, I've assembled a timeline of movies that showcase lead characters names in the titles in both odd and clever pun-driven ways. Some of these may have been obvious to you, other puns might be so bad that you'll only realize them now. (500) Days of Summer (2009) Get Smart (2008) Invincible (2006) The Family Stone (2005) King's Ransom (2005) Raising Helen (2004) Deliver Us From Eva (2003) Ginger Snaps (2000) Me, Myself & Irene (2000) Wild Wild West (1999) Zero Effect (1998) Good Will Hunting (1997) Gross Pointe Blank (1997) Barb Wire (1996) Major Payne (1995) Cops and Robbersons (1994) Poison Ivy (1992) The War of the Roses (1989) For Pete's Sake »

- Danny Groner

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Happy 70th anniversary, 'The Wizard of Oz'! (Name your favorite lines!)

25 August 2009 2:08 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Break out those ruby red slippers, PopWatchers! Today marks the 70th anniversary of 1939's epic The Wizard of Oz. And the only thing more impressive than the film's ability to hold up for contemporary audiences is the fact that there are still some munchkins alive to celebrate the movie's septuagenarian status. If the secret to long life is a diet of lollipops, I'm in! Though rightly revered for its ground-breaking visual effects, and Judy Garland's effervescent on-screen presence, we know what's most fun about the film: the quoteables. While famous quotes from old-time films like All About Eve ("Fasten your seatbelts—it's going to be a bumpy night.") and Auntie Mame ("Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!") are slowly but tragically being omitted from the lexicons of future generations, The Wizard of Oz's best lines continue to be referenced by folks of all ages. »

- Kate Ward

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Marilyn in Griffith Park

13 August 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

While digitizing their vast archives, Life magazine uncovered a stash of never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe, taken by staff photographer Ed Clark in Griffith Park in August 1950. She was 24 at the time, wearing shorts and a "simple button-down shirt monogrammed with her initials." I love the one after the jump of her reclining on a bench in a halter top while reading a script. Was it All About Eve? »

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Monkey Uncaged: The Ten Most “Important” Gay-Related Movies

11 August 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)

A Note from the Flying Monkey: Of the many emails I receive every week for my column, some are so good that they simply can’t be answered in just a few words. So from time to time, the editors have decided to let me out of the “cage” of that regular column, in a feature we’re calling Monkey Uncaged! (What I didn’t tell the editors, of course, is that now they’ve let me out of my cage, do they really think I’m ever going back inside again?! Editor’s Note: Monkey no listen to his editor, Monkey no get fed.)

Q: I just watched a movie that had several references to old movies that are very popular in gay culture, and that made me think of »

- Brent Hartinger

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Never-Before-Seen Marilyn Monroe Photos

1 June 2009 7:25 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

She's still the iconic image of the Hollywood blonde, even 47 years after her death - at age 36 - in 1962. With Monday marking what would have been the 83rd birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Life.com has posted a gallery of never-before-seen images of the then-rising star, taken in 1950 by Life photographer Ed Clark in Los Angeles's Griffith Park. Monroe, then 24, had already played the girlfriend of a crooked lawyer in The Asphalt Jungle and was soon to be seen as "a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic art" in the Oscar-winning All About Eve. Still ahead: the subway-swept skirt in »

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I Could Go On BioPic'ing

24 March 2009 1:54 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Clang! Clang! Clang! Variety is reporting that Anne Hathaway is going to become Frances Ethel Gumm (i.e. Judy Garland) in a biopic called Get Happy

When will the madness end? If the pop culture on pop culture on pop culture joke weren't overplayed already, I'd be peering out from under a bedsheet, mascara running face contorted screaming...

Leave Judy Alone!!!

Judy Garland is one of the film experience's sacred ten* and just as She Could Go On Singing, I Can Go On Bitching that she does not get the credit she deserves. Another biopic detailing her sad life probably won't do much for her legacy which should be one of enormous contribution to cinematic and musical culture rather than yet another recounting of her personal tragedies. See, they didn't call her "The World's Greatest Entertainer" for nothing. Can we please talk about that.

Judy G was the subject of »

- NATHANIEL R

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How Many of Yahoo's '100 Movies To See Before You Die' Have You Seen?

23 March 2009 8:42 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I recently made a point to see all of the films I had not seen on IMDb's Top 250 list and outside of the unavailable Safety Last! (Does anyone own this or know where I can buy it for less than $80?) I managed just that. In talking about taking on the list I discussed it with a fellow Seattle critic who said to me, "Yeah, but there are a lot of fanboy films on that list." I told them I understood that, but there are also plenty of great films on that list and also said it is always best to be sure you see all the films your potential readership has seen and also believes are great. On top of the IMDb list I have also created a spreadsheet that totals 495 films made up of the IMDb Top 250, the AFI Top 100, the complete list of Best Picture winners and Roger Ebert »

- Brad Brevet

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How Many Best Picture Winners Have You Seen?

26 February 2009 5:09 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Empire Online has recently put up a feature which showcases all the Best Picture winners at the Oscars since the awards started back in 1928. It’s a good read although a very long one since they felt the need to give each movie its own full page which means plenty of clicking of the “next” button.

So to save time and energy Screen Rant provides you with the much shortened version of the list, which makes it much easier to skim over and take in (thanks to www.tif.ro for the original short list, although we’ve shortened it even more).

My question for you, the welcomed and much loved Screen Rant reader, is how many of the Best Picture winners have you seen? This is all just a bit of fun but if you feel in the mood for a little list-motivated film discussion then tally up those »

- Ross Miller

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