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16 items from 2012
Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person'
17 May 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The woman who made her name as Bella Swan reckons her new role in Snow White and the Huntsman has a lot in common with a certain vampire-loving teenager. She talks here about her 'bad-ass girl power movie'
After a year of unsuccessful auditions, the nine-year-old Kristen Stewart told her mother she wanted to pack it all in. It hadn't been her ambition to act; she had wanted to be an archaeologist. But she lived in Los Angeles, where an agent saw her sing in a school play aged eight, and so inevitably the notion was put to her. She was interested initially. Her parents were crew members, and she had spent time on film sets where there was a feeling that: "we were all in this together, and we were making something worthwhile". She takes one of many deep, meaningful breaths. "And then I would see a kid walk »
- Kira Cochrane
Twilight’s Kristen Stewart Wants To Play Incestuous,Evil Characters In The Future
14 May 2012 11:04 AM, PDT | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »
Twilight's Kristen Stewart wants to play incestuous,evil characters in the future. As previously reported, Twilight Saga hottie Kristen Stewart recently posed for Elle Magazine's June 2012 edition. She also chatted with them. According to Hollywood Life,she told them that she is very interested in playing some pretty fucked up characters in the future. First,she revealed that she wanted to play a character named Peyton Loftis,who is a suicidal young girl in love with her father, in a screen adaptation of the novel Lie Down In Darkness. Kristen went on to say, "I want to play Peyton more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life. I want to play her so bad. She’s in love with him. I mean, I think she’s in love with him. It’s not his fault. They’re the most fucked up family." But it didn't stop there. »
- Derek
Kristen Stewart Wants to Play Suicidal or Psychopathic Woman in Her Next Movie
14 May 2012 1:59 AM, PDT | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »
Kristen Stewart reveals her dream to play a dark character in order to break away from her character as naive girl Bella Swan in "Twilight Saga" movie series. She says that she wants to play suicidal Peyton Loftis from novel "Lie Down in Darkness" or psychopathic Cathy Ames from another book "East of Eden".
"I want to play Peyton more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life," Stewart says in an interview with Elle for its June issue. "I want to play her so bad." Commenting on Peyton's dysfunctional relationship with her father, the actress utters, "She is in love with him. I mean, I think she's in love with him. it's not his fault. They're the most f***ed-up family."
When asked about who will fit to play Peyton's father, the "On The Road" beauty says, "Two people vying for the part of the father »
- celebrity-mania.com
Kristen Stewart Reveals Her Dream Movie Role: An ‘Evil C**t’
13 May 2012 11:45 AM, PDT | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
K-Stew doesn't just want to leave Bella behind -- she wants to play someone totally twisted! Can you picture her in a darker role? Kristen Stewart reveals her dream role in the June 2012 issue of Elle magazine -- and it's actually pretty messed up. She says she wants to play Peyton Loftis, a suicidal young girl in love with her father, in a screen adaptation of the novel Lie Down In Darkness. "I want to play Peyton more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life," Kristen says. "I want to play her so bad." "She's in love with him," Kristen says of Peyton and her father in the book. "I mean, I think she's in love with him. It's not his fault. They're the most f***ed-up family." Kristen even knows who she'd want to play Peyton's father! "[Colin] Firth would be perfect," she tells the interviewer. »
- HL Staff
Into the Abyss: A conversation with filmmaker Werner Herzog
31 March 2012 3:20 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Matt Smith takes part in a roundtable discussion with acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog about his latest documentary Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life...
So. My first ever Q&A. And it’s with a cinematic great. Greeeaaat. No pressure then. So I pack my bags, head off to London with my questions in my back pocket, my head full of dreams.
But you don’t need to care about that. You’re here to read about Werner Herzog. Writer, director, actor. He’s a busy man, working on projects ranging from art installations to starting his own rogue film school as a movie villain. Differing projects that require a lot of talent just to get off the ground, let alone make a success as he has. Even ate his own shoe once. Once that we know of.
I walk in, three questioners already sat down. »
- flickeringmyth
Terence Davies Talks Post-War England & Life Between the Devil And 'The Deep Blue Sea'
22 March 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Terence Davies’ newest film, “The Deep Blue Sea,” takes place, like much of his work, in post-World War II England. In it, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, a woman who abandons her passionless marriage to a wealthy barrister (Simon Russell Beale) for a torrid affair with a troubled former Royal Air Force pilot (Tom Hiddleston), the consequences of which plunge her into despair. When we got a chance to speak with the director, a natural storyteller with a mischievous sense of humor and infectious laugh, we would never have guessed he suffered from an acute case of homesickness for his native U.K., a fact he admitted toward the end of our time together.
We started by asking him about societal differences between England in the 1950’s versus 2012. “What I think people don't understand is how traumatic the war was for Britain. When the war was over, Britain didn't get »
- Thomas Dodson
Mindy Newell: Character
12 March 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
What goes into making a memorable character for a story?
According to Lawrence Block, author of over one hundred novels and recipient of the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America, they must be three things: plausible, sympathetic, and original.
I think that’s a damn good definition of what makes a character real. Except that I think Mr. Block used the wrong word. It’s not “sympathetic,” it’s “empathetic.” Now, sympathy and empathy are kissing cousins, but sympathy, I think, allows the individual to separate from the character just a bit, to feel for the character while still allowing for some separation – six degrees of separation, if you will. Empathy, on the other hand causes the individual to feel with the character– it’s the recognition of self in someone else.
Without that recognition, without that empathy, the character is in danger of falling flat, of eliciting a “who cares? »
- Mindy Newell
Obama And The Oscars: Predicting Election Results From Award Shows
1 March 2012 2:17 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
This just in: President Obama will be re-elected president in 2012.
At least, that's what the newly discovered Academy Awards/Golden Globes Rule suggests.
With only two exceptions over the past 50 years, a Democrat has won the White House when the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Drama) and the Oscar for Best Picture have not gone to the same film. When the same picture takes both honors, a Republican wins.
This year, "The Descendants" won Best Motion Picture (Drama) at the Globes, and "The Artist" won Oscar's Best Picture. (Full disclosure: "The Artist" also won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical).)
CNN's OutFront blog spotted the pattern (and yes, even they float the question of whether or not they have too much time on their hands), and the details are pretty intriguing. Of the two times the rule failed to hold true, one can be »
- Kia Makarechi
Elia Kazan/Oscar Actors: James Dean, Marlon Brando
22 February 2012 3:00 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
James Dean, Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden Elia Kazan: Oscar Actors' Director Pt.1 Elia Kazan-directed movies: twenty-four acting nominations; nine wins. (s) supporting category. (*) Academy Award winner 1945 * James Dunn (s), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Additionally, Peggy Ann Garner won a Juvenile Oscar for her 1945 performances, including the one in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) 1947 Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement Dorothy McGuire, Gentleman's Agreement * Celeste Holm (s), Gentleman's Agreement Anne Revere (s), Gentleman's Agreement 1949 Jeanne Crain, Pinky (co-directed with John Ford) Ethel Barrymore (s), Pinky Ethel Waters (s), Pinky 1951 Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire * Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire * Karl Malden (s), A Streetcar Named Desire * Kim Hunter (s), A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 Marlon Brando, Viva Zapata * Anthony Quinn (s), Viva Zapata 1954 * Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront Lee J. Cobb (s), On the Waterfront Karl Malden (s), On the Waterfront Rod Steiger (s), On the Waterfront »
- Andre Soares
Elia Kazan: Oscar Actors Director
22 February 2012 2:58 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the 1950s, and the fact that he claimed to be unrepentant about naming names — and ruining careers and lives — during the Red-baiting hysteria of the post-World War II years. Kazan's 19 feature films as a director are wildly uneven. For every great A Streetcar Named Desire there is a dreadful America, America, in addition to everything in between. Yet, probably as a result of his Broadway training, Kazan was undeniably an outstanding actors' director. Tough-guy Brando remains the best-remembered Kazan star for his performances in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront (less so for his Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata!). Even so, the director elicited superb performances from a wide range of players, from child actress Peggy Ann Garner, who won a Juvenile Oscar »
- Andre Soares
The film that changed my life | Lone Scherfig
11 February 2012 4:12 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955)
I was maybe 14 or 15 when I saw East of Eden, the 1955 film based on John Steinbeck's novel. It uses an important moment in American history, the first world war, as the backdrop to a tale about two warring brothers, drawing on the story of Cain and Abel. Though I've since seen films that were much better, this was the most intense cinema experience that I've ever had.
I had a rash so I wanted to hide in the cinema to avoid being seen for a while by a boy I was in love with, my first love. Hiding from him, I went with a friend to the biggest cinema we had in Denmark. We saw East of Eden and cried throughout. When I walked out of the theatre I was still filled with all this emotion... and I saw my first love standing outside! »
- Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy
'Viva Zapata!' 60th Anniversary: 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Marlon Brando Classic
7 February 2012 5:13 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
You'd think a movie starring Marlon Brando at the height of his young-firebrand sex appeal, written by Nobel laureate John Steinbeck, and directed by the great Elia Kazan, would be better remembered today. Yet "Viva Zapata!", released exactly 60 years ago (on Feburary 7, 1952), is all but regarded as a footnote in the careers of Brando, Steinbeck, and Kazan. That's a shame, since it's at once a terrifically exciting action film, a heroic biopic, and a penetrating political study. Of course, even then, it was an odd one -- a movie about legendary figures in Mexican history portrayed by an almost Mexican-free cast; a movie about a pro-peasant revolutionary hero made at a time of anti-Communist hysteria in Hollywood. That it got made at all was remarkable, given the battles over censorship and casting, not to mention the battles between Brando and co-star Anthony Quinn, whose bitter tension often erupted into elaborate pranks and practical jokes. »
- Gary Susman
Pop Culture by the Numbers -- Oscar nominations 2012 edition!
23 January 2012 7:32 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
When Jennifer Lawrence and AMPAS President Tom Sherak announce the nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards tomorrow morning, lives will change, salaries will grow instantly, and new Cinderella stories will be spun. But what of the nominees of the past? What was Oscar’s most expensive film ever nominated? Who has been recognized the most times without ever actually winning? And which actor was nominated two years in a row — even after his death? Read on…
$320 million Production cost (adjusted for inflation) of 1963′s Cleopatra, the most expensive movie ever nominated for an Oscar — even with nine nominations, that »
- Lanford Beard
Catching Up With A Classic: ‘On the Waterfront’
19 January 2012 2:06 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Written by: Budd Schulberg
Starring: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint
Genre: Drama
Year: 1954
On the Waterfront is, on its surface, a modest story of a working class warrior going from a figurative hero to a literal one. However, the film surrounding it is not satisfied with just being one thing; it is a parable and a social exposé and a rich character study. Director Elia Kazan, himself a complex and perhaps damaged individual, specializes in explicating complex and damaged characters: the capricious Blanche DuBois of A Streetcar Named Desire, the obsessive Wilma of Splendor in the Grass, and the obsequious Cal of East of Eden. Here, the multifaceted fulcrum is a hyper-masculine archetype: the sensitive lug. In fact, Kazan’s greatest characters exhibit a unifying trait–their want, nay, their necessity, to be loved.
Marlon Brando’s Terry Malloy, an ex-bruiser in the ring who now »
- Shane Ramirez
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Jack Clayton, David Lean, Stanley Donen
9 January 2012 7:15 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) David Lean's Summertime DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1948-1952: Odd Men Out George Cukor, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli 1953 DGA (12) Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, Above and Beyond Walter Lang, Call Me Madam Daniel Mann, Come Back, Little Sheba Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Julius Caesar Henry Koster, The Robe Jean Negulesco, Titanic George Sidney, Young Bess DGA/AMPAS George Stevens, Shane Charles Walters, Lili Billy Wilder, Stalag 17 William Wyler, Roman Holiday Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity 1954 DGA (16) Edward Dmytryk, The Caine Mutiny Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder Robert Wise, Executive Suite Anthony Mann, The Glenn Miller Story Samuel Fuller, Hell and High Water Henry King, King of Khyber Rifles Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, Knock on Wood Don Siegel, Riot in Cell Block 11 Stanley Donen, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers George Cukor, A Star Is Born Jean Negulesco, »
- Andre Soares
must reads: “What *Could* Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?”
1 January 2012 7:53 AM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
The short answer, via Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain? Under the law that existed until 1978 . . . Works from 1955 A taste of the long answer: Think of the movies from 1955 that would have become available this year. You could have shared clips online with your friends. You could have shown the full films in your local theater. You could have spliced and remixed and made documentaries about them. Instead, here are a few of the movies that we won’t see in the public domain for another 39 years: • The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder; starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell • Lady and the Tramp, Walt Disney Productions’ classic animation • Mister Roberts, directed by John Ford; starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and Jack Lemmon • Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly • The thriller The Night of the Hunter, directed »
- MaryAnn Johanson
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