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For Love's Sake (Ai To Makoto): Cannes Review
27 May 2012 3:55 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Love and social classes tangle dangerously in For Love’s Sake, a delirious if overly long and repetitive high school musical spoof, contaminated with indigenous Japanese genres like anime cartoons and the action film. It would be a reckless leap to call the constant fist fights, coupled with absurd song and dance numbers, a send-up of classical Broadway musicals like West Side Story. Directed by Japan’s one-man film factory Takashi Miike, whose rapidly produced oeuvre has been averaging two releases a year and grabbing much festival attention, this spontaneous genre-bender targets teens and the midnight movie crowd. The
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- Deborah Young
[Cannes Review] For Love’s Sake
23 May 2012 6:30 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Takashi Miike (13 Assassins) is perhaps one of the most prolific filmmakers working in contemporary cinema today. He averages about 3 to 4 films a year and has created movies for almost every genre imaginable. With his newest film, For Love’s Sake – which premiered out of competition in the midnight section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival – the Japanese filmmaker infuses his trademark violent Yakuza tales with wacky slapstick comedy, while also simultaneously being a musical. It’s reminiscent of his first morbid musical, The Happiness of the Katakuris, in how zany the mix of intense violence is with colorful dance-heavy scenes. Despite the uneven tone and a running time about thirty minutes too long, For Love’s Sake is an enjoyable West Side Story-esque high school musical that pleases nearly as much as it disappoints.
Adapted from a popular manga in Japan (familiar territory for Miike, having adapted several »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
As 'Battleship' Flops: Ten Other Memorable Box-Office Bombs
21 May 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
To have one giant money-losing tentpole is unfortunate. To have two starts to look careless, and that's what's happened to Taylor Kitsch. The actor, who broke out on TV's "Friday Night Lights," was seen as Hollywood's next great hope, picked out to star in two great big blockbusters with a combined cost of half-a-billion dollars. But when "John Carter" arrived in March, the film wildly underperformed, with Disney taking a hit of at least $100 million on the project. And after this weekend, it looks that his other film, "Battleship," is going to lose similar amounts.
The film, Universal & Hasbro's adaptation of the board game, directed by "Hancock" helmer Peter Berg, had taken the unusual step of opening everywhere else in the world six weeks ahead of the U.S, in the hope of bagging lucrative foreign coin and building buzz for the U.S. release. But while the film did ok abroad, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Turning Back Time: 66 Reasons Why We Love Cher
20 May 2012 10:15 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
The force of nature known as Cher turns 66 today, and is about to celebrate her 50th year in show business. As tribute, lets take a look at a few of the reasons why she's remained an icon for decades.
Take a look at these 66 moments in time ... and then add your own. What's your favorite Cher memory?
1. - She knows how to dress like a serious actress.
2. - She's earned soft lighting.
3. - She gives great interview.
4. - "You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell."
5. - Suspect. She's the only public defender in screen history who could rock a leather jacket and Windmere hair crimper.
6. - Mask
7. - Mask 2
8. - She's immortalized in Comic form.
9. - And some of us couldn't get enough.
10. - She starred in one of the greatest films of the 80's. »
- snicks
Romeo And Juliet for Twilight Crowd
19 May 2012 11:11 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Romeo and Juliet: Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth Starring Lol‘s Douglas Booth and True Grit‘s Hailee Steinfeld, a new version of Romeo and Juliet is currently being shopped around at the Cannes Film Festival. Partly financed by Austrian design house Swarovski, this latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s love story was written by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and directed by Carlo Carlei. A Best New Director David di Donatello nominee for The Flight of the Innocent (1993), Carlei’s previous English-language foray, the Matthew Modine vehicle Fluke, was a major box-office flop in 1995. In recent years, Carlei has worked on Italian television; his most recent TV movie was a remake of Roberto Rossellini’s Il General della Rovere (2011), starring Pierfrancesco Favino in the old Vittorio De Sica role. According to the Los Angeles Times blog 24 Frames, producer Ileen Maisel wants “every teenager in the world to come see” Romeo and Juliet. »
- Andre Soares
Glee Recap: Commemorative Plaques All Around
16 May 2012 8:45 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
According to Sue, "We are entering the Hunger Games of show choir competition." While I do sort of wish that this episode had been one part singing competition and one part fight to the death (if only because I feel like what The Hunger Games ultimately failed to give us was West Side Story–style dance fighting), "Nationals" is exactly what Glee, at its best, is capable of delivering: Singing teenagers. Some feelings. Some jokes. I even cried once!Will is overwrought for basically the entire episode — right off the bat, he crows to Emma, "But [the New Directions kids] never get to win!!" Right, except for sectionals three times and regionals twice. Good point, Will. He goes on to wonder if all his hard work was enough. This year I've seen Will work hardest at planning his wedding and writing words on dry-erase boards, so I feel like maybe it »
- Lauren Hoffman
"Glee" Episode 320 Recap: "Props"
16 May 2012 2:12 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Here's the thing with Glee: First it takes you up, up, up, and then it drives you down, down, down. Like last night's first of two episodes, "Props," which has to be one of its best episodes ever – well-written, tightly plotted, interesting, moving, and featuring some amazing performances – that was followed by an episode so uninspired I wish I could just sum it up by saying, "And then they won Nationals."
But.
Remember way, way long ago, in the pilot, there was this cute Asian goth chick who sang "Rock the Boat" and stuttered? Well, they got her back for tonight's episode! And they let her sing... more than once!
My glee (get it?) at Tina's emergence from the shadows is somewhat dimmed by the realization that Kurt and Blaine had gone trick or treating as Sooki and The Situation from Jersey Shore (thank you everyone on Twitter for »
- christiekeith
‘Broadway Bares: Solo Strips’ Offers a Taste of ‘Happy Endings’
8 May 2012 8:20 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
When Josh Buscher was in college, he watched DVDs of performances of the annual burlesque show “Bares” and thought, “I want to be on Broadway so I can be in ‘Broadway Bares!”That’s exactly what happened. The first year he moved to New York City, Buscher became a dancer in “West Side Story” – and shortly after, he was performing in “Broadway Bares.” “This will be my fourth ‘Broadway Bares’ show,” said Buscher, who is now performing in “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.” “I’ve had some good features in it - George Washington crossing the Delaware; a banker in the [2010] show – ‘Stripopoly.’ I’m fully invested in this project!”This project is “Broadway Bares,” now in its 22nd year, a fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which awards annual grants to more than 400 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide and is the major supporter of the social service programs at. »
- help@backstage.com (Jennifer Vanasco)
Laura Benanti and Stockard Channing Read for Opening Act Benefit
8 May 2012 3:39 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Opening Act, an organization dedicated to bringing free theater programs to underperforming New York City high schools, held their annual play reading benefit at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway on Monday to raise money for the organization. “[Opening Act] allows people like me and other amazing teaching artists to go and do professional work and then be able to bring that experience back into the classroom,” said Patrick Vassel, assistant director for “Magic/Bird.” “Opening Act does an amazing job of finding that middle ground where people can do both. It’s what’s best for kids because I can answer all their questions about being in a Broadway show.” The benefit included a silent auction and a reading of Donald Margulies’ “Collected Stories” with Tony award-winners Laura Benanti (“Gypsy”) and Stockard Channing (“Other Desert Cities,” “The West Wing”). The production was directed by Michael Mastro (“West Side Story”).The witty and. »
- help@backstage.com (Briana Rodriguez)
Coronation Street, the Musical: look back in leopard skin
7 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
As Coronation Street: the musical prepares to open, Simon Hattenstone goes behind the scenes and asks the cast – from Julie Goodyear to Bill Roache – how they plan to bring its bolshy magic to the stage
I can't move for childhood ghosts. In front of me is grumpy Albert Tatlock; to my left, battleaxe Ena Sharples and her mousey friend Minnie Caldwell; to my right, legendary busybody Hilda Ogden. We are in a huge warehouse in east London, for rehearsals of Street of Dreams (or Coronation Street, the Musical), and I am finding this time-travel strangely moving. I'm tempted to hug these characters, ask them how they've been all these years.
Like so many people (and especially Mancunians), I grew up with Coronation Street. Back in the 1970s, it was pretty much the soap. But it was also more than that. In its youth, the series was fantastically well written, »
- Simon Hattenstone
Rewind TV: Perspectives – The Wind in the Willows; The Hoarder Next Door; Maestro at the Opera – review
5 May 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Griff Rhys Jones is too indulgent in his childhood reading, while Britain's extreme hoarders seek help
Perspectives: The Wind in the Willows with Griff Rhys Jones (ITV1) | ITV Player
The Hoarder Next Door (C4) | 4oD
Maestro at the Opera (BBC2) | iPlayer
I can only think it must be the trauma of having your parents send you away to school to be thrashed by strangers that makes Englishmen of a particular class and generation cling to the more cloying memories of their childhood – buttered toast, honey, rice pudding, the bosomy smell of nanny, and of course the unshakable obsession with children's fantasy literature from the age of steam and twittering hedgerows. I won't quibble as to the benefits to the impressionable young mind of Alice in Wonderland or Peter Pan or Beatrix Potter; I just find it puzzling that influential grown-ups with proper jobs treasure them with such endless longing. It's »
- Phil Hogan
Deja view: why television is addicted to remakes
2 May 2012 9:14 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
As the Us remake of The Killing returns to Channel 4 and a British version of The Bridge is mooted, Mark Lawson asks why broadcasters are so attracted to remaking foreign-language shows
A Scandanavian wind is blowing into English language television. With reports that Spooks production company Kudos is exploring a possible remake of The Bridge, there has also been talk in the corridors of both the BBC and Channel 4 about the viability of a "British Borgen". If made, these series would join a broadcasting smorgasbord that already includes the American version of the first of the great Dane dramas, The Killing. The second series of that Am-Scan hybrid – billed as The Killing Us – begins on Channel 4 on Wednesday night at 10pm.
TV remakes are motivated by a combination of envy and xenophobia: a foreign broadcaster recognises the brilliance of the idea but fears that subtitles and suspicion »
- Mark Lawson
Skip or Double Dip: Are New Blu-rays of 'West Side Story,' 'Equilibrium,' 'The Prophecy' and More Worth It?
1 May 2012 2:10 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
West Side Story This is the third Blu-ray incarnation of the classic 1961 musical starring Natalie Wood that puts the story of Romeo and Juliet in a 1950s New York setting. Adapted from a hit Broadway musical, this Robert Wise-directed film won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. What's New?: Before this stripped-down edition, one could buy a 50th anniversary limited collector's set loaded with behind-the-scenes extras and memorabilia. The three-disc collector's edition has the same extras as the collector's set minus the physical swag boxed with it. This new single Blu-ray edition jettisons most of the extras found on the bonus discs packaged with the previous releases. Skip or Double Dip?: You'd have to enjoy watching money dance out of your...
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- Robert B. DeSalvo
Interview: Rita Moreno on JLo & Being Latino
26 April 2012 7:46 AM, PDT | CineMovie | See recent CineMovie news »
At 80-years old, Rita Moreno is still hard at work on television and film. CineMovie caught up with the Hollywood veteran who dished on why Jennifer Lopez should consider more serious roles and why she sometimes feels like a "dirty old women" when it comes to Antonio Banderas and Andy Garcia.
Watch video interview below.
With a career that spans over 60 years, Rita Moreno isn't slowing down. She recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of West Side Story and scored a role as Fran Drescher's mother on the TV Land sitcom "Happily Divorced." One of the first and few Latinos to win an Academy Award for her supporting role as Anita in West Side Story, the multi-talented actress is also a proud owner of a Grammy and a Tony. On April 14, the Puerto Rican native also received a
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10 Of Saul Bass' Greatest Title Sequences
25 April 2012 9:22 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The art of movie titles is becoming an increasingly lost one: aside from a few films (the Bond movies) and directors (Steven Spielberg, David Fincher and Jason Reitman always pay particular attention to their credit sequences), it feels like relatively little care is taken over such things, with many movies dumping them altogether. And it's hard not to put that down to the fact that we don't have guys like Saul Bass around anymore.
Bass was a graphic designer from the Bronx who went out West in the 1940s and started working on film ads. After being noticed by Otto Preminger, who would become his collaborator for the next twenty years starting with "Carmen Jones" in 1954, Bass went on to design some of cinema's most iconic title sequences and posters for world-class filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, often in an instantly recognizable style that remains influential »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Mad Men: "Far Away Places"--An Expert Opinion
25 April 2012 3:37 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Mad Men: "Far Away Places"--An Expert Opinion
"I have a feeling I've been here before...seriously, what's with that colour scheme?"
Mad Men: “Far Away Places” – An Expert Opinion
Far away places with strange sounding names
Far away over the sea
Those far away places with the strange sounding names are
Calling
Calling me
Written by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer
Viewpoint one:
After the important developments for main characters that we’ve seen in previous episodes this year, and for Pete Campbell in particular from “Signal 30”, it’s hard to imagine a less “important” episode than “Far Away Places”. There is so little “going on” that the whole thing plays a little like the science fiction/Holocaust survivor story Ginsberg tells Peggy. Outside of Roger leaving his miserable marriage, very little of import occurs.
Which is fine—an episode spent watching how our favourite flawed characters take a road trip, »
- Jesse McLean
American Psycho musical in pipeline, Huey Lewis reportedly thrilled
24 April 2012 4:45 AM, PDT | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
The dude who does stage wounds for musicals doesn't get a lot of work. There's the stabbings in West Side Story, I imagine there's some wounding going on in that Silence of the Lambs musical, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson sounds like there might be some blood in it, but your average musical focuses on cats or Oklahoma, not dismemberment. But stage-wound guy who only works on musicals, your moment is nigh: a British production company is beginning work on a musical adaptation of American Psycho. It's unclear if it's a direct adaptation of the book, or an adaptation of the movie, but most news outlets seem to be using pictures of Christian Bale in their articles on the musical, so there's that hint. The book was always considered "unfilmable" before it was, y'know, filmed, so maybe the stage version [...] »
Happy Shakespeare Day: Five Big-Screen Bard Gems
23 April 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
On this day way back in 1564, William Shakespeare was born... or not, because apparently his exact birth date isn’t known. But today's the day we celebrate the man!.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Bard, here’s the briefest of introductions: Ol’ Will gave us a lot of pretty poetry as well as some fine plays that are the inspiration for countless TV and movie adaptations. If you’re like me, you may have supplemented your high school English class reading assignments with a few of those filmed adaptations (notice I wrote “supplemented” and not “replaced.” I never did that).
So to celebrate the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth (and death, which was definitely on April 23rd), here are my five favorite films based on or inspired by works of the Bard.
1. “West Side Story” (1961)
One of the greatest movie musicals ever made, “Story” placed the “Romeo and Juliet »
- Tami Katzoff
"Glee" Episode 316 Recap: Saturday Night GLEEver
18 April 2012 4:21 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
I take my recapping duties seriously, but really, do you expect me to remember anything that had happened in "Saturday Night GLEEver" once I saw Santana strutting down the hall in her white suit singing "Stayin' Alive"? Good luck with that.
My brain might have short-circuited, but according to my notes and the record of my reactions I left strewn over Twitter, something good finally came out of The Glee Project – and it's not just the fact that it's finally possible to use the phrase "More Unique" and have it be grammatically correct. With the debut of Wade/Unique (Alex Newell) singing "Boogie Shoes" in a pair of size 13 glitter platform sandals, we got pretty much the only performance of the night that felt infused with true disco energy.
"What will you be when you grow up?" and "Follow your dreams" were the night's hybrid themes, all set to the »
- christiekeith
MGM, Google and Youtube Movie Rental Deal
17 April 2012 9:34 AM, PDT | The Movie Pool | See recent The Movie Pool news »
In its latest partnership with MGM, Google/Youtube has placed more than 600 movie titles on a list of accessible rentals on the website. Some of the well-known movies in their line-up so far include: West Side Story; Moonstruck; The Terminator; Robocop; Rain Man; and Rocky.
The films are also available on the Google Play market bazaar. In April of this year, Google also announced its newest conglomerate with Paramount Studios, adding roughly 500 titles to the online store for rent. All of these deals are a part to remain in fierce competition with Apple's iTunes and Amazon's Prime marketplaces, although both offer thousands of titles each. However these business strategies are quite promising.
Google currently possesses 5 deals with major film studios and ten with independent studios. Despite having a deal with MGM Studios, not all of their titles are available immediately, though it was clarified some are ready for rent as »
- feeds@themoviepool.com (Aidy P)
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