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Set Visit: Rock of Ages!
15 hours ago | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
I have visited dozens of movie sets over the past four and a half years - fantasies, action-thrillers, comedies, and dramas - but I've never stepped foot on the set of a musical until last August, when I found myself immersed in glam rock awesomeness on the Miami set of Rock of Ages. As I mentioned in my set visit preview a few weeks ago, director Adam Shankman and his crew transformed a few blocks of Miami into a fantastic, 1987 version of Hollywood's Sunset Strip for this adaptation of Chris D'Arienzo's Broadway stage play.
When I first arrived, we not only saw iconic Strip locales such as the Rainbow Room, Guitar Center, and Tower Records, but there were also a slew of 80s cars driving to the set. Among them were a Pontiac Fiero, Volkswagon Cabriolet, Chevy Monte Carlo, Datsun 280Z, Chevy Chevette and even a Dodge Reliant K (a. »
- MovieWeb
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
26 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Artist; Martha Marcy May Marlene; Carancho; Chronicle; Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
At a time when eye-straining, ear-bashing, hi-tech 3D movies are being drearily touted as the inevitable "future of cinema", Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011, Entertainment, PG) reminds us that great movies – and great movie-making techniques – are timeless. An affectionate homage to the early days of cinema, this wonderful near-silent black-and-white beauty about a matinee idol threatened by the arrival of sound tips its cine-literate hat towards everything from the swashbuckling romps of Douglas Fairbanks to the pathos of Chaplin and the slapstick of Keaton. Narratively, the film intelligently acknowledges the die-hard templates of Singin' in the Rain and A Star is Born, while an hallucinogenic dream sequence in which our hero is haunted by the spectre of sound would not look out of place in a David Lynch movie. Hazanavicius's best picture Oscar-winner is no mere genre pastiche, »
- Mark Kermode
Preparing for Film School at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy
24 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
1. Watch as many movies as you can. At the core of every great filmmaker is a great student of films, so this is always the first bit of advice I give my future students. Before you pick up a camera, you should certainly get to know the greats (like Chaplin, Kubrick, Scorsese and Spielberg, to name a few), but also try to venture outside of your cinematic comfort zone. Explore the breadth of the classic American and foreign cinema canon. Pay close attention to similarities and differences among filmmakers of different generations, styles, and cultural backgrounds. But perhaps most importantly, get intimately familiar with what you, the film watcher, love to experience at the movies. To get you started, here are my picks for the top six essential films for aspiring film students (in alphabetical order): ♦ Casablanca ♦ Citizen Kane ♦ The Godfather ♦ Psycho ♦ Raging Bull ♦ Singin' in the Rain For even more selections, »
Joseph Gordon-Levitt to enter The Little Shop of Horrors?
4 May 2012 12:56 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Joseph Gordon-Levitt can do many things very well, and if you watched the rendition he did of "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' In The Rain when he hosted Saturday Night Live then you'll know that singing and dancing are definitely two of those talents. And it seems Gordon-Levitt has at last decided to make use of them on the big screen, as he is currently developing a new movie version of the 1982 musical The Little Shop Of Horrors. Little Shop was first a movie »
- Alejandro Stepenberg
Clip joint: Imaginary friends
2 May 2012 9:56 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Who needs real friends when you've got a vivid imagination? Help us identify cinema's most memorable made-up mates
This week's Clip Joint is by Norman Walton from Warwickshire.
Think you can do better than Norman? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
It's always good to have friends you can count on. However it's even better if you make them up. Whether it's to help you regain control in your life, cope with stress or just offer a well-rounded argument on why the local pimp/drug dealer should be put down like a dog, imaginary friends can be handy.
However, as they are conjured up from the recesses of (often) troubled minds, they do not need to adhere to the rules of the real world and the boundaries of what they can do are only restricted by the limits of their protagonist's imaginations. »
- Guardian readers
Gene Kelly To Be Honoured By Oscars Bosses On 100th Birthday
2 May 2012 1:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Late dancer/actor Gene Kelly is to be posthumously honoured on what would have been his 100th birthday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Officials will present a two-night celebration of the Singin' in the Rain star's life and career on 17 and 18 May in Hollywood.
Kelly's widow, film historian Patricia Ward Kelly, will host both events. »
'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky: The Three Stooges and a Frankenstein prom dress liven up family stories
29 April 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Anna Chlumsky's family roots extend to Moe, Larry, Curly and Frankenstein.
Chlumsky, who plays Amy, chief of staff to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Vice President Selina Meyer, on HBO's Sunday comedy "Veep," had a great-grandfather who was in vaudeville.
"He opened for the Stooges, and he had a trained bear," Chlumsky tells Zap2it. "Vaudeville ended, and all these guys had to get other jobs, so my great-grandfather was -- I think he was a cop. At that point he told my grandmother that she couldn't have a prom dress, and she was very sad. And he wrote Mae Clarke, whom he had known, and asked, 'What do I do?' And she sent him -- sometimes the story is she sent him the trunk, sometimes that she sent him the dress -- the story changes depending on the holiday."
Still, it's a great story that your grandmother's prom dress was in "Frankenstein. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Store Wars: Vue and Odeon
27 April 2012 1:46 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Each week we look at retailers competing in the same sector. This week it's the turn of cinema chains Vue and Odeon
Each week we are looking at two shops competing in the same sector and reviewing what they are offering customers: from how helpful the staff are, to the best bargains currently on offer.
Our review will be based on a visit to stores on the same high street, or online, so it will be just a snapshot of how the retailer is performing.
In order to get a better idea of which retailers are delivering and which are falling short, we would like you to tell us about your experiences of the same shops.
Some weeks, both stores we visit may do a good job, other weeks there will be one that stands out as being much better or worse. Your reviews will help us discover if this is a trend. »
- Marc Lockley
The Bad and the Beautiful – review
23 April 2012 7:18 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In the early 1950s, as the big studio system breathed its last, Hollywood produced a succession of classic Tinseltown fables: Sunset Boulevard, In a Lonely Place, Singin' in the Rain, The Barefoot Contessa, A Star Is Born and, right in the middle, The Bad and the Beautiful, made in 1952 and back in the cinemas to accompany a Minnelli retrospective at the Nft. Though directed with Minnelli's characteristic delicacy, this is essentially a producer's film, made by John Houseman, one of the great figures of 20th-century American theatre and cinema. Houseman's first Hollywood job was supervising the script of Citizen Kane, his second was working for David O Selznick. In The Bad and the Beautiful, Houseman applies a similar structure, intelligence and suavity to a ruthless Hollywood genius much like Selznick as he brought to Charles Foster Kane.
An old-style Hollywood studio boss (Walter Pidgeon) brings together a movie star (Lana Turner »
- Philip French
Lord Of The Rings Battle Named Top Rain Scene
18 April 2012 3:11 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A spectacular battle in The Lord Of The Rings sequel has been hailed as the best rain scene in movie history.
The brutal clash at Helms Deep in 2002's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is one of the fantasy series' standout set pieces, and has come out on top of the poll by U.K DVD rental firm LoveFilm.
The ending of Blade Runner, which features Rutger Hauer's soaking wet character delivering a moving monologue, was in second place, and The Shawshank Redemption's rain-lashed climax came third.
Gene Kelly's toe-tapping dance in Singin' in the Rain twirled into fourth place, with the fearsome fight scene in Matrix Revolutions rounding out the top five. Other notable entries include Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell's kiss in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Tobey Maguire's upside down smooch in Spider-Man. »
Curio: Hollywood's Garage Sale
17 April 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Alexa here. The 2012 Hollywood Legends Auction, held recently by Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, made some news because it included the first sale of Whitney Houston's belongings since her passing. I recently perused the catalog and was interested to see many items from Rue McClanahan's estate (Golden Girls caftans!) and artifacts from Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's life together (including some patio furniture). There were hundreds of interesting film curios, including costumes, original artwork and odd, lifelike mannequins. Also fascinating was how much many of the items went for. Why did Debbie Reynolds' Singin' in the Rain Costume fetch $10,000 more than Natalie Wood's Gypsy ensemble? Who knows. Here is a small selection of the hundreds. You can flip through the catalog here.
Orson Welles self portrait, sold for $8,960.
Eyes Wide Shut mannequins, sold for $1,408.
Cabaret, Cleopatra, Gypsy and more after the jump »
- Alexa
The King's Speech impediment: when films don't work on stage
17 April 2012 3:56 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The King's Speech is struggling to make anywhere near the same impact on stage as it did on the big screen. Can cinematic and theatrical versions of the same piece happily co-exist?
Two newspaper reports over the last few days offered conflicting evidence on a piece of theatrical wisdom. A Mail on Sunday article had pictures from the shooting of the movie version of the musical of Les Misérables , while, in the paper's daily stablemate, Baz Bamigboye's showbiz column on Friday, suggested that the stage production of The King's Speech is struggling. (A rumour that's confirmed by visits to ticketing websites, which offer a 40% discount on best stalls seats for every performance this week, including Saturday night.)
The question that arises is this: can cinematic and theatrical versions of the same piece happily co-exist? Producer Cameron Mackintosh's decision to back director Tom Hooper to make the film of »
- Mark Lawson
TCM Classic Film Festival 2012
14 April 2012 3:22 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Style in the Movies" is the central theme of this year's TCM Classic Film Festival, opening tonight in Los Angeles with the world premiere of the new restoration of Cabaret (1972) and running through the weekend. For the AP, Lynn Elber calls up Liza Minnelli, who'll be there with Joel Grey and, if he can make it, Michael York: "Minnelli, whose turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom, said making Cabaret was a joyful 'secret,' filmed in Munich and far away from meddling Los Angeles studio bosses. Director Bob Fosse 'got away with murder. We all did,' Minnelli said… 'We'd take chances, and the studio would send notes like, "Too cloudy. It will break up on drive-in (screens)." Fosse would read that out loud, tear it up and throw it over his shoulder — in front of the whole cast and crew. »
Reynolds: 'The Artist Borrowed From Singin' In The Rain'
12 April 2012 5:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds is convinced The Artist borrowed heavily from her hit movie Singin' In The Rain but failed to live up to the 1952 film's high standards.
The black and white silent movie ruled the 2012 Academy Awards in February, winning five trophies including Best Picture and Best Actor for its lead Jean Dujardin.
The movie was based around a silent movie star who fell on hard times after the introduction of sound and drew comparisons to the story of Singin' In The Rain, which featured Gene Kelly in a very similar role.
Reynolds, who starred alongside Kelly and Donald O'Connor in the popular musical, has now spoken out about the similarities between the two pictures, insisting she enjoyed The Artist but felt it failed to shine in the same way as Singin' In The Rain.
She tells the New York Post, "I thought The Artist was a very good film, with talented personalities. But while they took the basic premise of Singin' in the Rain, it's not in colour, and it doesn't have Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor. And its musical numbers aren't as good...
"When we made the picture, nobody had the slightest idea that it would someday be listed among the greatest films of all time. We just thought it was a big, splashy MGM musical."
Unlike The Artist, Singin' In The Rain failed to win a single Oscar, but it was named fifth in the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. »
The best damned film list of them all
5 April 2012 6:00 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Long-suffering readers will have read many times about my dislike of lists, especially lists of the best or worst movies in this or that category. For years they had value only in the minds of feature editors fretting that their movie critics had too much free time. ("For Thursday's food section, can you list the 10 funniest movies about pumpkin pie?") Now their value has shot way up with the use of slide shows, a diabolical time-waster designed to boost a web site's page visits.
In a field with much competition, Number One on my list of Most Shameless Lists has got to be Time mag's recent list of the "Best 140 Tweeters." How did the magazine present this? That's right, on 140 pages of a slideshow. Considering that the list had no meaning at all except as some hapless intern's grindwork, I'd say that was a bold masterstroke. I say so even though I was on it. »
- Roger Ebert
New 'Rock of Ages' Trailer Shows Us that Tom Cruise Can Rock
3 April 2012 6:07 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
I'm not actually sure if this is still considered un-manly in our culture anymore, but I love musicals. Even Moulin Rouge. Heck, especially Moulin Rouge. At least I know that was an unmanly thing to say. While it's easy to name off a series of classic (Oklahoma!, Singin' in the Rain, Little Shop of Horrors), they're painfully underrepresented in today's movie world. The new film Rock of Ages probably isn't going to change that, but it makes a valiant attempt, as its newest trailer shows. »
- David Hoffman
Meryl Streep Has Lost the Oscar 14 Times
1 April 2012 11:48 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Colin Firth, Meryl Streep Colin Firth tells Meryl Streep he should have been cast as Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, for he's British and Streep is not. Streep responds by telling him she can play any nationality, including Italian. As proof, she incarnates Anna Magnani in Bellissima. Well, something like that went on backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony. (Photo: Bryan Crowe / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Meryl Streep's Best Actress Oscar for The Iron Lady was her third. Streep's previous two Oscars were as Best Supporting Actress for Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), featuring Dustin Hoffman, Jane Alexander, and Justin Henry; and as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice (1982), with Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. Only three other performers have won three Academy Awards: Walter Brennan as Best Supporting Actor for Howard Hawks and William Wyler's Come and Get It »
- Andre Soares
Mia Wasikowska to Play Madame Bovary
30 March 2012 2:06 PM, PDT | BuzzSugar | See recent BuzzSugar news »
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- Becky Kirsch
'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
'DWTS' Star Maria Menounos to Perform in Week 2... with Broken Ribs!
26 March 2012 11:28 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" host Maria Menounos' secret is out!
Page Six reported the "Dancing with the Stars" contestant broke two ribs while rehearsing with partner Derek Hough, but Menounos tells "Extra's" Renee Bargh in her first interview since the injury that she is not letting it get her down.
Maria laughed, "What injuries? We're fine!"
Hough explained the injury. "There's this one move in which she lands on my knee." Maria added, "His knee is really »
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