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10 items from 2012
DVD Blu-Ray: 'Chronicle,' 'The Grey,' 'The Devil Inside'
14 May 2012 1:16 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Moviefone's New Release of the Week "Chronicle" What's It About? Teens gain superpowers and struggle between becoming heroes or villains. See It Because: A "found footage" superhero movie sounds like a gimmick on top of a gimmick, one trying to capitalize on the success of "Paranormal Activity." But the young talent in front of -- and behind -- the camera imbue the format with real, dynamic youthful energy; be warned it's a short movie, clocking in at 84 minutes. (Also Available on Amazon Instant Video) Moviefone's Blu-ray Pick of the Week "Being John Malkovich" (Criterion Collection) What's It About? John Cusack stars as a sad-sack file clerk by day, amateur puppeteer by night, who finds a secret tunnel that places him in the mind of actor John Malkovich. He uses the strange phenomena to change his (and the actor's) life around. See It Because: The film was one of the most »
- Eric Larnick
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
'Singin' in the Rain' 60th Anniversary: 25 Things You Didn't Know About Hollywood's Greatest Musical
29 March 2012 6:47 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
In a year when the Best Picture Oscar went to a comedy about Hollywood's turbulent transition from silence to sound, "Singin' in the Rain" suddenly seems timely again. The beloved musical, which marks the 60th anniversary of its release in U.S. theaters in April, is not only fondly remembered for its exuberantly athletic song-and-dance numbers, but also for its witty dramatization of the birth of Hollywood's sound era. If you haven't seen it, imagine 2011's "The Artist" with spoken dialogue and without the heroic dog. But of course, you have seen it, even if you don't realize it. The title number, featuring a soaked but joyful Gene Kelly, is one of the most iconic (and most frequently parodied) sequences in film history. The film's impact on popular culture is enormous, from making stars out of Debbie Reynolds and Cyd Charisse to influencing directors as far-flung as Jacques Demy and Stanley Kubrick. »
- Gary Susman
George Cukor/Oscar Actors: Judy Holliday, Ronald Colman
22 February 2012 3:42 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
William Holden, Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday George Cukor: Oscar Actors' Director Pt.2 George Cukor-directed movies: twenty-one acting nominations; five wins. (s) supporting category; (*) Academy Award winner 1930-31 Fredric March, The Royal Family of Broadway (co-directed with Cyril Gardner) 1936 Norma Shearer, Romeo and Juliet Basil Rathbone (s), Romeo and Juliet 1937 Greta Garbo, Camille 1940 * James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story Ruth Hussey (s), The Philadelphia Story 1944 Charles Boyer, Gaslight * Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight Angela Lansbury (s), Gaslight 1947 * Ronald Colman, A Double Life 1949 Deborah Kerr, Edward, My Son 1950 * Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday 1954 James Mason, A Star Is Born Judy Garland, A Star Is Born 1957 Anthony Quinn, Wild Is the Wind Anna Magnani,Wild Is the Wind 1964 * Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady Stanley Holloway (s), My Fair Lady Gladys Cooper (s), My Fair Lady 1972 Maggie Smith, Travels with My Aunt »
- Andre Soares
George Cukor: Oscar Actors Director
22 February 2012 3:41 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
James Stewart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story George Cukor: Oscar Actors' Director Pt.1 Additionally, the "gay sensibility" nonsense ignores the fact — and that is a fact — that George Cukor was equally adept at directing male actors. Clark Gable may have gotten Cukor fired from the Gone with the Wind set, but the extensive list of Cukor-directed performers nominated for Academy Awards includes Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway), Basil Rathbone (Romeo and Juliet), Charles Boyer (Gaslight), James Mason (A Star Is Born), Anthony Quinn (Wild Is the Wind), and no less than three male Oscar winners: James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story), Ronald Colman (A Double Life), and Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady). Cukor also guided numerous other male stars, including Spencer Tracy (five times), Cary Grant (three times), John Barrymore (three times), Melvyn Douglas (twice), Robert Taylor (twice), Joel McCrea (twice), William Holden, David Manners, Laurence Olivier, »
- Andre Soares
George Cukor: Womens Director?
22 February 2012 3:38 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Known as a refined "women's director," George Cukor has had his considerable output either relegated to the sidelines or simply dismissed by those who like their directors macho and their films male-centered. Not helping matters is the general perception that Cukor was merely a hired hand for the likes of David O. Selznick at Rko and Louis B. Mayer at MGM, instead of an auteur following a clear professional path. Except, of course, for the (assumed) fact that he was a women's director — and we're back to square one. In truth, George Cukor was one of the most accomplished directors of the studio era. His movies may lack the wide vistas found in John Ford's Westerns, or those personal cinematic/thematic touches that make, say, an Alfred Hitchcock movie recognizably Hitchcockian. But that's because Cukor's camera was set up so audiences would forget it was there and thus be allowed to — or rather, »
- Andre Soares
Oscar's 13 Biggest Mistakes
20 February 2012 9:00 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
For every winner who leaps up to thank the Academy, at least four nominees stay behind -- and with them, countless audience members wondering why their favorites failed to snag the big award. But there are times when everyone -- maybe even the winner -- believes the wrong name was read and the Oscar should have gone to... someone else.
We've picked 13 unlucky times the Academy made a huge, irreversible mistake, whether out of misguided loyalty to an actor-turned-director, fear of bestowing the Oscar to a violent or controversial film, or for no discernible reason at all (in no particular order).
'Ordinary People' Over 'Raging Bull' (Best Picture, 1980)
Robert Redford's family drama beat Martin Scorsese's sweeping boxing epic in a decision that still leaves Oscar buffs shaking their heads in confusion. "Ordinary People" was a fine study of familial dysfunction, but its popularity arose »
- Sandie Angulo Chen
The Oscars season of self-hatred | Tanya Gold
2 February 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
As the film awards approach, our fatal attraction to Brad Pitt et al grows, just as interest in their films diminishes
It is film award season, where the role of the viewer is to be amazed or repelled, depending on one's ability to see pathology everywhere. My own Oscar grief this year is all about George Clooney and Brad Pitt. These two, who can't stretch to a metaphor, are fighting for best actor when neither can do much but pull a face to match an idea. But 2012 is not the saddest Oscar year. That will always be 1950, when Gloria Swanson lost for Sunset Boulevard and Bette Davis for All About Eve. Perhaps these movies, which were essentially about mad actresses digested by their own PR, were too truthful for Hollywood. The town didn't like the mirror and the Oscar went to Judy Holliday instead, in Born Yesterday.
If we must have awards, »
- Tanya Gold
Woody Allen: cinema's great experimentalist
13 January 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Since the 'early, funny' films, Allen's subject-matter has matured, but there's a line of comic genius that runs from Sleeper through to Midnight in Paris
Thomas Hobbes declared that all laughter depends on sudden contempt, that flash of superiority when the other chap slips on the banana skin and we don't. When we smile, we show our teeth. For this reason he warned against the self-deprecatory gag, for after all who wishes to pull down contempt on himself? No one seems to have told Woody Allen.
Along with Alfred Hitchcock, Allen must be the most recognisable director in the history of cinema. In 1984 an anthology was published devoted to people's dreams about him. To like his early films is to like him; perhaps the peculiar intimacy of his relationship with the audience stemmed from the fact that he had been a stand-up comedian. These films maintained that sense of performing »
- Michael Newton
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out George Cukor, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli
9 January 2012 7:14 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Jeanne Crain, A Letter to Three Wives DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards Pt.2: Foreign, Small, Controversial Movies Have Better Luck at the Oscars Since pre-1970 Directors Guild Award finalists often consisted of more than five directors, it was impossible to get an exact match for the DGA's and the Academy's lists of nominees. In the list below, the years before 1970 include DGA finalists (DGA) who didn't receive an Academy Award nod and, if applicable, those Academy Award-nominated directors (AMPAS) not found in the — usually much lengthier — DGA list. The label "DGA/AMPAS" means the directors in question received nominations for both the DGA Award and the Academy Award. The DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards list below goes from 1948 (the DGA Awards' first year) to 1952. Follow-up posts will cover the ensuing decades. The number in parentheses next to "DGA" indicates that year's number of DGA finalists if other than five. »
- Andre Soares
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