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David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’, A Scene Analysis
26 May 2012 2:36 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method is a fine example of deceptively simple direction, utilizing classic cinematic language in a subtle way so as to direct its audience in a way above and beyond the majority of films of its type. This is probably the director at his technically finest, breezily and classily manipulating the audience through his very planned series of shots.
The film concerns the relationship of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen – in what is perhaps his finest role to date). A woman, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly – playing, oddly given the film’s standing as period piece, against type) doesn’t necessarily come between them, as much as between their philosophies. Operating around the fringes of the narrative is Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel), a brilliant nymphomaniac, charged by Freud to Jung’s care in the former’s absence.
The first scene in question involves an early, »
- Neal Dhand
Mark Axelrod: The Real Housewives of Orange County or 'Tuesday Nights at Dysfunction Junction'
23 May 2012 2:12 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
My teenage son and I have a bonding ritual. Every Tuesday night we eagerly await the next episode of Rhoc. In an age when many contend there's a "generation gap" (there's always a generation gap) something like Rhoc can truly minimize the distance between the generations. It's a marvelous show to analyze psychologically and that's what we do. The stories themselves are pedestrian because, for the most part, the characters are pedestrian, but it's the way these mundane people can actually turn something that would normally bore the hell out of an audience into something psychologically engaging. So, these are some of the things we talked about after last night's episode.
For example, Heather, the newest of the "housewives" (though none of them ever do any housework so the notion of housewife is a bit disingenuous) has decided to terminate her "acting career" and become a "stay-at-mansion mom." Throughout her short-term career as a Rhoc, »
- Mark Axelrod
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
Jess Brown ... Got the Part
19 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
While in rehearsals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Rufus Wainwright's "Prima Donna," Jess Brown was preparing to audition for the role of Elaine Robinson in a production of "The Graduate" at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Ivoryton, Conn. After seeing the casting notice for the show in Back Stage, Brown began her research on the character, the daughter of the infamous Mrs. Robinson. "After reading the play in its entirety, I decided to do something rather questionable -- I watched the movie," she says. "Although this is known to be a major faux pas among actors, I felt justified in my actions because the play was primarily based on the original film, starring Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross. Knowing this, I felt that to be cast, I would need to exemplify certain qualities of the original Elaine while still making it my own."On arriving at the audition, »
- help@backstage.com (Sri Gordon)
90210 Season Finale Review: 'Til Death Do Us Part
15 May 2012 11:04 PM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Taking crazy chances and winging it was in full effect in "Forever Hold Your Peace."
Naomi finally got her man after she desperately attempted to push Max to admit he still loved her and initially fell flat on her face. Looking stunning as ever, and even prettier than the bride in my opinion, she had to lift her jaw off the ground when Max admitted to not remembering a stitch of what he'd said about wondering if he was making a mistake marrying Madison.
So it was no shock when she announced that she was leaving Beverly Hills immediately to start a new job in NYC courtesy of Rachel, her ex-boss.
I loved how she burst into the ceremony Dustin Hoffman-style in The Graduate. Declaring her true love for Max and making a colossal fool of herself, in the end Naomi got exactly what she wanted. But will it last this time? »
- arlene@tvfanatic.com (Arlene G.)
Barbra Streisand Movies: Grading The Star's Hollywood Career
24 April 2012 4:57 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
One thing's for sure: The frosting on her birthday cake will be like buttah. As Barbra Streisand turns 70 on Tuesday, you'd think her reputation would be secure. She's conquered every medium, she's one of only a dozen or so members of the Egot club (people who've won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony), and she's one of the most popular and best-selling singers of all time. Still, despite her two Oscars, her Hollywood career has never gotten its due. In part, that's because, in 44 years of screen acting, she's made just 18 movies. Young audiences who know her only as Ben Stiller's exuberant mother from the "Fockers" movies can't be blamed for not knowing that she was once a groundbreaking dramatic and comic star, a reliably funny and sexy leading lady, a pioneering jill-of-all-trades filmmaker, or a celebrated (and reviled) movie diva. She's made just six movies in the last 30 years, »
- Gary Susman
Stillman and the art of the courteous comedy
20 April 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
His characters are uncool, preppy and full of the self-dramatising melancholy of youth, yet his films are hugely likeable. His latest, Damsels in Distress, continues his peculiar cinematic vision
Every great American film-maker struggles to create their own peculiar vision, just as the studio men struggle to stop them doing so. Yet few visions are quite so peculiar as Whit Stillman's, and few have seemed so marginal to the industry of which they are a part. It's hard to say how much impact his films have had; there have been, for reasons beyond his own control, too few of them. He has succeeded in getting four films made: a comic trilogy set in the 1980s, Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994) and The Last Days of Disco (1998), and now the about-to-be released "campus comedy" Damsels in Distress. On one level it may seem a rather meagre body of work. However, for some, myself included, »
- Michael Newton
The Lion In Winter Producer Martin Poll Dead
16 April 2012 10:43 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter Martin Poll, best known for producing Anthony Harvey's 1968 Best Picture Oscar nominee The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, died of "natural causes" on April 14 according to various online sources. Poll was 89. An Avco Embassy release, The Lion in Winter was considered the favorite for the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. The film had won the Best Film Award from the New York Film Critics Circle, while Harvey was the year's Directors Guild Award winner. However, Carol Reed's Columbia-distributed musical Oliver! turned out to be the winner in both categories. (Curiously, the previous year another Embassy release, Mike Nichols' The Graduate, unexpectedly lost the Best Picture Oscar to Norman Jewison's United Artists-distributed In the Heat of the Night. But at least Nichols came out victorious. »
- Andre Soares
Daily Briefing. The Far East, Megacities and Music
13 April 2012 1:24 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Terracotta Far East Film Festival is on in London through the weekend, presenting, as Electric Sheep notes in the introduction to its newish issue, "the UK premiere of Sion Sono's Himizu [review: John Bleasdale], using a comic to tackle the fallout from Fukushima." Es takes "a look at manga adaptations with Takashi Miike's stylized, violent high school movie Crows Zero [comic strip review: Joe Morgan] and Toshiya Fujita's 70s revenge tale Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld [review: Virginie Sélavy]."
Hiroyuki Okiura's A Letter to Momo, seven years in the making, opens in Japan next week after a run through the festival circuit and, in the Japan Times, Mark Schilling gives it four out of five stars: "Hayao Miyazaki is the obvious point of comparison, but unlike many of Miyazaki's more fanciful landscapes, Okiura's port is vividly, recognizably real — so much so that you can almost smell the salt in the water and feel the warmth of the stones. »
Robert Altman's 'The Player': What Lessons Hollywood Has Learned From The Showbiz Satire
13 April 2012 5:02 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Released 20 years ago this week , "The Player" seemed at the time like one of the most merciless lampoons of Hollywood ever made, but director Robert Altman liked to insist that it was "a very mild satire." He meant that it could have been even meaner if he'd made it more realistic. Altman was working from Michael Tolkin's screenplay, adapted from Tolkin's own novel, but the observations it made about the movie industry's contempt for art and artists were clearly informed by Altman's own decades of frustration as a creative filmmaker with a singular, idiosyncratic vision who repeatedly clashed with executives interested only in profit. Judging by how many Hollywood A-listers he got to do free cameos in the movie -- about five dozen of them -- a lot of the industry's top talent must have felt as he did. So did critics and audiences, who helped make the movie »
- Gary Susman
Stanley Kubrick: Master of Contradictions
9 April 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic, epic, maudlin and humane. Then there’s Welles, the ill-fated genius, abused by producers but beloved of critics. Spielberg, even in his seventh decade, is still the boy wonder; Scorsese the mad scientist. Griffith is the wise forefather, deeply flawed but idolized nonetheless, while Hawks is ageless, just as sly and self-assured as he was at the time of “The Big Sleep” (1946).
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned, »
- Graham Daseler
Grey's Anatomy Scoop: St. Elsewhere's William Daniels Scrubs In as Cristina's [Spoiler]
3 April 2012 6:07 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
William Daniels, a winner of two Emmy Awards during his run as St. Elsewhere‘s Dr. Mark Craig, is playing doctor again — in a potentially pivotal episode of Grey’s Anatomy.
In one of the ABC drama’s final episodes of the season, Daniels will play one of the doctors overseeing the medical boards being taken by the Seattle Grace residents.
“it’s actually really hilarious!” Sandra Oh told TVLine of the episode, which was directed by her scene partner Kevin McKidd. “I just shot the entire boards episode with the wonderful William Daniels, who played Cristina’s proctor. It »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
'Dollhouse' star Fran Kranz talks 'The Cabin in the Woods,' 'Death of a Salesman' and Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing'
30 March 2012 11:11 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
It is hard to think of two projects more different than the horror-comedy The Cabin in the Woods, which hits cinemas April 13, and the new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, which opened a couple of weeks back (to a rave review from EW’s Thom Geier). But they do have a couple things in common. Both productions have an impressive amount of behind-the-scenes talent: Cabin was cowritten by Buffy creator Joss Whedon while Salesman is directed by the legendary Mike Nichols. And both feature ex-Dollhouse actor Fran Kranz, who plays the role of »
- Clark Collis
Mike Nichols and "Death of a Salesman"
5 March 2012 6:44 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"His maternal grandmother, he says, wrote the libretto for Strauss's Salome. Her anarchist husband was bayoneted by German police. Henry Louis Gates mapped the family history. The Aga Khan took him up the Nile on his yacht. The Nazis chased him out of Berlin at age 7; upon arrival in New York, one of his only English phrases was 'Please do not kiss me.' He married Diane Sawyer. 'I know!' he says, when you look amazed."
Mike Nichols is the subject of an entertaining profile by Jesse Green in this week's New York. At the age of 80, Nichols is reviving Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway (the show's currently in previews and officially opens on March 15): "Philip Seymour Hoffman, with whom he'd worked on The Seagull and Charlie Wilson's War, agreed to play Willy; Linda Emond, Andrew Garfield, John Glover, and the rest of the luxury cast signed on instantaneously. »
McG: the film that changed my life
3 March 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
I first saw this in an arthouse theatre in my hometown of Newport Beach, California, and was taken by its youth-against-the-establishment position, its tone, the manner in which it was shot. I thought it was immaculate – the perfect film.
I must have been 10 years old. I was a bit of a precocious kid, very neurotic, and I feel as though I understood the film as intimately at that moment as I would today. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, for instance, I didn't fully understand what they were talking about in terms of the pain of Vietnam and everything that was going on in the late 60s – I didn't necessarily understand the nuances – but I understood the fundamental sadness, and that's haunted me for my whole life.
I've seen The Graduate more than 100 times since. I know every frame of that film. It exists on my iPad, »
Shippers: Who’s Steering This Boat?
15 February 2012 9:00 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Stephen King’s 1987 novel Misery (more of you may be acquainted with the 1990 film adaptation) is about the frustrated author of a successful romance series held prisoner by a psychotically-obsessed fan until he writes a novel undoing the series-ending tale of his last book in which, to free himself to move on to other kinds of writing, he killed off his doughty Victorian heroine.
Misery was King’s first full-length novel written under his own name which didn’t involve telekinetic teens or childhood boogeymen come to life or rabid killer St. Bernards or any other supernatural force or extraordinary beastie. It’s often been interpreted – and certainly its chronological place in his canon seems to confirm this — as King’s own response to feeling boxed into the supernatural horror genre as much by his fans as by critics.
King’s Misery came back to me as I read a »
- Bill Mesce
Hoffman Planned Prank To Liven Up 'Boring' Oscars
10 February 2012 8:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran actor Dustin Hoffman became so bored of attending the annual Academy Awards, he once planned to liven up the event by writing a rude word on his chest and flashing it to the TV cameras.
The Graduate star has won two Oscars, for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man, and has notched up a slew of other nominations, but he insists the prize-giving is not as glamorous as it looks.
Hoffman reveals he once planned to liven up the show by scrawling an expletive on his body, but his wife wouldn't let him go through with the prank.
He tells Maxim magazine, "It's boring! It lasts forever, and don't think you're seeing spontaneous behaviour. You see couples who are suddenly smooching, and, well, there's a guy sitting on the ground with the camera at their knees.
"There was one particular time I knew I wasn't going to win, and when they'd train the camera on me as one of the losers, I wanted to be able to rip open my tuxedo shirt and just have stencilled on my chest, 'oh, s**t'. But my wife wouldn't let me do it." »
Oscar celebrates the movies with Cameron Diaz, Dustin Hoffman
8 February 2012 1:27 PM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
In the weeks leading up to the 84th annual Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is celebrating its history with a series of "iconic" images plucked from 84 different movies.
Everything from 1950's "Sunset Boulevard" to 2009's "Avatar" are included in "Celebrate the Movies," which takes the form of a digital exhibit viewable in Los Angeles, in New York's Times Square and online at Oscar.com.
Zap2it is pleased to bring you two of the images included in the exhibit. The first from 1998's "There's Something About Mary" featuring Cameron Diaz in a sticky situation and a second from the 1967 Dustin Hoffman classic, "The Graduate."
The Oscars will be presented on Sunday, Feb. 26. Zap2it will, of course, bring you full live coverage.
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- editorial@zap2it.com
Special Features - The Ten Best Movie Stares
6 February 2012 11:14 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Jake Wardle selects his ten favourite movie stares...
Stares, glares, gazes... whatever you want to call them, the movies are full of them, and as far as I can tell nobody’s ever compiled a list of the best. Shocking, I’m sure you’ll agree, but true. For some, even the mention of ‘film’ will bring to mind a good stare, so it’s only fitting that those films which place similar value on the humble gawk are duly recognized...
10. Lyn Cassady – The Men Who Stare at Goats
Not, perhaps, a great film, but a damn good stare. A stare so good it gets the uncommon honour of being ‘the titular stare’. It is, as the title would suggest, a stare between a man (George Clooney) and a goat (a goat), ultimately resulting in said goat’s death. Nobody wins when a stare goes that far. But a classic stare regardless. »
- flickeringmyth
'Luck' Episode Two: Dustin Hoffman Is Still Trying to Get Traction
5 February 2012 8:00 PM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Does it say something very good about television or something very bad about movies that Dustin Hoffman is appearing in (and producing) “Luck”? Or maybe it’s a bit of good news/bad news. The amount and quality of outstanding television drama broadcast today almost certainly surpasses that of TV’s first golden age, 50-some years ago, when Hoffman first appeared in “Naked City” and “The Defenders.” Even if someone were to write a youth-skewing picture with older stars like “The Wild Bunch” (which came out two years after Hoffman’s breakthrough in “The Graduate”), no one would make it. (Yes, Hoffman is »
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