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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
Meryl Streep Will Present Shirley MacLaine With American Film Institute.s 40th Life Achievement Award
22 May 2012 9:26 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Meryl Streep will present Shirley MacLaine with the American Film Institute.s 40th Life Achievement Award . America.s highest honor for a career in film. The private black tie gala will be held at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City on June 7 and will air on TV Land on Sunday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt.
Streep, who was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, played MacLaine.s daughter in Postcards From The Edge (1990). Both actresses are multiple Academy Award recipients. Streep, nominated a record 17 times, including for Postcards From The Edge, won for The Iron Lady (2011), Sophie.S Choice (1982) and Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979) while MacLaine, nominated six times, won for her portrayal of Aurora Greenway in Terms Of Endearment (1983).
Luminaries from across the film community will join Streep to celebrate the career of Shirley MacLaine, one of America.s treasured motion picture artists. »
- Michelle McCue
6 Filmmaking Tips From Billy Wilder
9 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
There are few directors that had a career like Billy Wilder‘s. There are probably none that reached his level of skill and notability while staying as diverse as a storyteller. The man did drama and comedy with equal acuity, but his dominance of filmmaking almost didn’t happen. Born in what is now present-day Poland, Wilder left for Paris during the initial rise of the Nazi party in Germany and soon left for the States. He got out early, yes, but it’s difficult to think about the magic he’s delivered without being reminded that but for a few years he may have found himself a victim of the fear-mongering and murder that befell European Jews at the height of Hitler. Fortunately, he did get out and did go on to craft some of the best scripts and movies of the era (and, you know, of all time). His breakout was writing the hilarious Best »
- Cole Abaius
Jason Reitman Debuts His 'Live Read' Series In NYC With 'The Apartment' Starring Paul Rudd & Emma Stone
28 April 2012 1:16 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It was a magical evening at the New York Times Center last night for those lucky enough to be in attendance, for at long last, Jason Reitman brought his “Live Read” Series to NYC. The series began about six months ago when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) asked Reitman if he had any ideas for programs. His idea was a simple one: to stage readings of classic screenplays live on stage, one time only for an audience of a few hundred people. As he told the NY Times recently, “I’d done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. [So I thought], ‘Why couldn’t we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life?’ You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there’s really nothing like that for movie scripts. »
- Cory Everett
Jason Reitman Recruits Emma Stone And Paul Rudd For The Apartment
27 April 2012 9:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Director Jason Reitman has recruited stars including Emma Stone, Paul Rudd and James Woods for a reading of The Apartment as he takes his movie theatre project to New York City.
The moviemaker has been bringing a series of well-loved movies to the stage in Los Angeles in recent months for star-studded live readings of films including The Big Lebowski, The Breakfast Club and The Princess Bride.
He is now taking the shows to the Big Apple and will kick off the Live Read series in Manhattan on Friday with a reading of 1960 classic The Apartment.
Stone and Rudd will take over the roles made famous by Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon, while the show will also feature James Woods, Lena Dunham and Jason Sudeikis.
The event will take place at The Times Center, and due to the overwhelming demand for tickets, the reading will also be broadcast on screens in the venue's main hall for those who couldn't get a seat in the theatre. »
Emma Stone, Paul Rudd, James Woods, and Lena Dunham will read 'The Apartment' for Jason Reitman
26 April 2012 3:40 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Jason Reitman’s popular Live Read series is based on a simple equation: Take a screenplay, hand it to a smattering of actors running the gamut from “high-profile” to “awesome emeritus” to “internet famous,” and watch the sparks fly.
Tomorrow, Reitman expands the franchise to New York with a staged reading of The Apartment, and the cast he announced via Twitter should bring the Billy Wilder/I.A.L. Diamond to life splendidly. Paul Rudd and Emma Stone will take over from Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in the lead roles. Even better, James Woods will play Sheldrake, the sleazy exec originally incarnated by Fred MacMurray. »
- Darren Franich
Daily Briefing. Global Roundup
26 April 2012 11:43 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Newport Beach Film Festival
opens today and runs through May 3.
Bertrand Bonello will preside over the Jury for the Nespresso Grand Prize for La Semaine de la Critique (Critics' Week), while João Pedro Rodrigues will be President of the Jury for the Nikon Discovery Award for Short Film. The awards will be presented on Closing Night, May 24, and, once again, here are the lineups they'll be taking in.
Nina Menkes will not only be on the International Jury at the Jeonju International Film Festival, opening today and running through May 4; she'll also be presenting her 1996 feature, The Bloody Child, one of only five films selected to represent 50 years of the Jeonju sister festival, the Viennale.
Michael Guillén previews the lineup of the International Film Festival of Panama, opening today and running through Wednesday.
"12 projects from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa have been selected for Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno's co-production lab. »
Emma Stone, Paul Rudd Will Star in Jason Reitman’s Staged Reading of The Apartment
25 April 2012 3:15 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Emma Stone will be playing the Shirley MacLaine role in Jason Reitman's staged reading of The Apartment at the Times Center on Friday, Reitman announced today, and Paul Rudd will take on the Baxter role originated by Jack Lemmon. This raises a vexing question: Is this pairing superior to the Natalie Portman/Steve Carrell pairing that performed the reading in L.A.? (Vulture staffers are split.) David Wain will play Dr. Dreyfuss, Lena Dunham will play Sylvia, Jason Sudeikis will play Kirkeby, Cara Buono will play Miss Olsen, Tom Cavanagh will play Dobisch, and James Woods will play Sheldrake. Not too shabby! The show itself is sold out, but you can still get simulcast tickets. »
- Margaret Lyons
Friday Noir: ‘Double Indemnity’ shows a cool cat’s frightening dual nature
20 April 2012 1:08 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Billy Wilder
Written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler
U.S.A., 1944
There is a perverse sort of delight a film viewer can extract from witnessing the fall of someone too cool for school. How many times have vintage film noirs featured a protagonist which always had the right words to say at the right time, who could juggle aloofness with a total capacity to gauge and react to any imaginable predicament? Those character are typically the ones to end up on top. The Maltese Falcon has the greatest example of them all, with the Humphrey Bogart’s Sam Spade being the coolest cat around. Seeing that archetype character suddenly stumble, show signs of severe weakness, both of the emotional and psychological variety, makes for a fresh twist. Fred MacMurray, had the behest of director Billy Wilder, suffers that very fate in the highly acclaimed Double Indemnity. »
- Edgar Chaput
Jason Reitman looking for New York 'Apartment'
3 April 2012 10:50 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Jason Reitman’s popular series of live performances of beloved screenplays is coming to New York City later this month. After staging The Breakfast Club, The Apartment, The Princess Bride, Shampoo, The Big Lebowski, and Reservoir Dogs with all-star casts, Reitman is planning to host a reading of The Apartment in Manhattan on April 27. According to the New York Times, Reitman will use a different cast than he did in the original Apartment reading — where Steve Carell played the Jack Lemmon part and Natalie Portman filled in for Shirley MacLaine — so feel free to start throwing out your best guesses »
- Darren Franich
The Films Of Billy Wilder: A Retrospective
27 March 2012 1:44 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
"I want to thank three persons,” said Michel Hazanavicius, accepting the 2012 Best Picture Oscar for “The Artist.” “I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder.” He wasn’t the first director to namecheck Wilder in an acceptance speech. In 1994, Fernando Trueba, accepting the Foreign Language Film Oscar for "Belle Epoque" quipped, "I would like to believe in God in order to thank him. But I just believe in Billy Wilder... so, thank you Mr. Wilder." Wilder reportedly called the next day "Fernando? It's God."
So just what exactly was it that inspired these men to expend some of the most valuable seconds of speechifying airtime they'll ever know, to tip their hats to Wilder? And can we bottle it?
Born in a region of Austria/Hungary that is now part of Poland, Wilder's story feels like an archetype of »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Blu-Ray Review: The Apartment (1960) Still Great After All These Years
5 March 2012 9:00 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Originally, this review of Billy Wilder's Oscar winning classic would have served as something of a companion piece to our own Scott Weinberg's review of the by all accounts execrable This Means War. In his takedown, he described the romantic comedy thusly: "This movie feels like it was conceived with a cast first, a release date second, and a clunky patchwork screenplay third. Or maybe fourth after a good craft services company." The makers of that movie, Weinberg observed here, didn't seem to care all that much about the final result. Back to the original concept of my review, it was intended to elaborate, point by point, how The Apartment is the pinnacle of a filmmaker caring about the shape of the final product to »
Episode Recap: Navy NCIS - 1.10: "Left for Dead"
2 March 2012 10:32 AM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
A woman who was buried alive returns with amnesia and recalls a bomb planted on a navy ship. Kate (Sasha Alexander) gets on well with her and as always is eager to believe her. Tony (Michael Weatherly) claims not to know where Ducky (David McCallum) lives - never mind that will be cleared up in a few seasons. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) mentions The Apartment with Jack Lemmon – who is into movies too, like Tony, but not as many. Gibbs also mentioned Shane with Alan Ladd, which Tony hasn't heard of. Oh come on everyone's heard of Shane. So for such a movie buff, how come he hasn't? Abby (Pauley Perrette) has a chastity belt, why is that not surprising? Tony wants to see it and no doubt Tony would be able to get into it. (He's Tony, he can get into anything!) Of course Gibbs wouldn't like to see it, »
- mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
Sid & Nancy and The Apartment Blu-ray Reviews
28 February 2012 5:03 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Fox has released two of the most romantic anti-romances of all time on Blu-ray: Sid and Nancy and The Apartment. Both show the negatives of dating, and the headaches that come from love, which sometimes include being arrested for murder. Billy Wilder does career best work (which is saying something) with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacClaine and Fred MacMurray in The Apartment, while Alex Cox creates some of his most indelible imagery with stars Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb in Sid and Nancy. Both are well worth checking out on Blu-ray and our reviews follow after the jump: C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) is climbing in corporate business. All his supervisors love him, and he’s only been at the job for a year. There’s a catch, though. The reason that he’s a rising commodity is because he allows three of them to use his apartment at night to entertain »
- Andre Dellamorte
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
25 February 2012 8:40 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Romcoms: end of the affair?
10 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Fred and Ginger to Jennifer and Ashton, romantic comedies used to be one of the safest bets in Hollywood. But it seems that rom is just not into com any more
Is it the end for the romcom? You can imagine the celebrity mag headlines: "Romcom's relationship on the rocks?" "Com: I'm just not that into Rom" "Rom: Com doesn't make me laugh any more."
After all, who says romance and comedy go together like a horse and carriage? It seems to be a chiselled Hollywood commandment that the two shall be forever conjoined in cinematic matrimony, but perhaps it's time they went their separate ways. Sure, they got off to a great start: in those early years it was all fun and games and sparkling repartee, but recently they haven't quite looked the happy couple; the spark just hasn't been there.
They've been stuck in the same repetitive formula: boy meets girl, »
- Steve Rose, Richard Vine
Top Ten Perfectly Cast Films
10 February 2012 7:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Written by Joe Pearce.
Casting is one of the most important factors to get right when making a film; good actors saying bad lines can save a script (see Sir Ian McKellen in X-Men: The Last Stand); whereas bad actors working with a good script can come close to ruining a film completely (I refer you to Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral). It’s a joy for the audience to watch when a film manages to gather the perfect cast of actors for the roles.
Child casting is notoriously difficult to get right. Often lauded as the greatest decade to grow up in when it came to films; the 80s saw a huge number of popular children’s films. Naturally The Goonies comes to mind immediately; an everlasting favourite for everyone now in their thirties, its nostalgic charm is completely unrivalled. However, it’s Rob Reiner’s »
- Guest
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality
9 February 2012 2:02 PM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Downton Abbey Season Two ($49.99 BluRay; PBS)
Poldark The Complete Collection ($79.99; Acorn) -- Don't tell my mother, but Downton Abbey has swiftly declined from a pale imitation of the original Upstairs Downstairs to a pale imitation of Falcon Crest. She's enjoying the show but I quickly switched from eagerness to see if the second season could build on the over-praised first to laughter at its foolishness to boredom. The first season lifted entire plot lines from U/D (and shamelessly from Mrs. Miniver) but it was fun. This season it has gone completely off the rails, with episodes ending with soap-like revelations (complete with "da-dum!" foreboding musical cues), characters behaving utterly without rhyme or reason from one moment to the next. Why, for example, has Isobel Crawley gone from a sensible if blunt woman to a blithering idiot? The plot twists come so fast and furious all you can do is laugh. »
- Michael Giltz
Jason Reitman to re-create 'Reservoir Dogs' in live reading -- with a major twist -- Exclusive
9 February 2012 4:30 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Jason Reitman has aimed his sights at reinterpreting a new classic: Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
After re-creating The Breakfast Club, The Apartment, The Princess Bride, and Shampoo in a series of Los Angeles staged readings, Reitman has selected the 1992 crime saga for his latest one-time-only live performance with a new cast.
And there’s a big switch in store for Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink, Mr. White, Mr. Orange and the rest of the diamond-heist crew.
“We’re changing the race of the entire cast,” Reitman says.
EW has the details, along with the event’s new poster by artist »
- Anthony Breznican
Why Can’t An Oscar-Winner Look More Like A Hit?
8 February 2012 3:40 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards.
Whether one of the major studios takes the top prize at the Academy Awards or not, they have no squawk this year.
Several years ago, as you might recall, the Big Guys were getting fed up with having their clocks cleaned in the Best Picture category every year by releases from independent companies. The last time one of the majors walked home with the Best Picture gold was 2006 when Warners’ The Departed took the trophy. Before that, you have to go back almost a decade — to 1997 — to Titanic, split between 20th Century Fox and Paramount.
Over the last decade and a half or so, the indies have usually taken a fair share of the nomination slots and almost always the grand prize. The majors retaliated by pushing for an expansion of »
- Bill Mesce
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