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20th Century Fox Announces Actress Keri Russell Cast In Matt Reeves’ Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
6 March 2013 3:31 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
TV’s “Felicity,” Keri Russell, and series writer/director Matt Reeves (Let Me In) have re-teamed for 20th Century Fox’s Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. Variety is reporting that the actress has been added to the cast as the lead for the sequel to 2011′s Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. Set more than a decade after Rise, things aren’t looking good for the humans and the apes are running the place.
Part of the film’s focus is said to be on a small group of San Francisco-based scientists that are forming a resistance against the apes and part follows Serkis’ Caesar as he, like his namesake, tries to maintain order and power within his new civilization. (Coming Soon)
Nothing yet on what character Russell will play, but I’m hoping she takes on a Kim Hunter/Zira (Planet Of The Apes, 1968) like role »
- Michelle McCue
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
2 March 2013 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Argo; The Sapphires; Gambit; Stitches
As a sci-fi-loving child of the 60s and 70s, I believed that you could learn everything you needed to know about politics from watching the Planet of the Apes movies. Now, several decades later, it turns out that idea wasn't so crazy after all; indeed, on the evidence of Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning thriller Argo (2012, Warner, 15) it seems that the creators of rubbery fantasy flicks were at the cutting edge of international diplomacy and espionage all along.
Based on the once-secret, now declassified accounts of the CIA's response to the 1979 storming of the Us embassy in Iran, this stranger-than-fiction tale is a terrific hybrid of factual drama and fanciful invention, which slips nimbly between nail-biting Middle Eastern action and Player-style Hollywood satire. At the centre of it all is CIA agent Tony Mendez, played with beardy conviction by producer/director/star Affleck as the mastermind »
- Mark Kermode
HeyUGuys Interview: Argo Screenwriter Chris Terrio on Striking a Balance Between Reality & Drama
22 February 2013 7:36 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
With the Oscars only hours away, many of the categories look pretty much sewn up, and no doubt in La right now, sure-thing winners are putting final touches to their speeches for the big night.
One of the few categories the still very much an open field is Best Adapted Screenplay, with Argo, Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook all possible winners.
We caught up with Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio last week, when he made a flying visit to London for the BAFTAs, and it turns out we weren’t the only ones, as Terrio explains:
Chris Terrio: I had a meeting with Paul Greengrass, I’m working on this film that Clooney’s going to be in that Paul and I are doing, so we’d planned to get together and talk, and then with the delay everything got pushed back.
HeyUGuys: Was that in the UK you were meeting Paul Greengrass? »
- Ben Mortimer
Argo – Ben Affleck's gripping CIA thriller sends reality into a tailspin
22 February 2013 2:02 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It's brilliantly tense and exciting, but despite a lot of authentic touches this film doesn't hold true to the real events of 1979
• Read Reel History's analysis of other Oscar contenders: Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Mis and The Impossible
Argo (2012)
Director: Ben Affleck
Entertainment grade: A–
History grade: C
On 4 November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries occupied the Us embassy in Tehran and took more than 50 hostages. Six diplomats escaped. Canadian officials and the CIA launched a secret joint operation to get them out.
Politics
In 1953, the CIA and MI6 engineered a coup to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected president of Iran, and replace him with a military-backed absolute monarchy. By 1979, opposition to the shah hardened into revolutionary fervour and democrats found themselves, fatefully, on the same side as Islamic fundamentalism. Argo presents this context imaginatively, though fleetingly and perhaps too vaguely. The sequence in which revolutionaries storm the Us embassy is brilliantly realised, »
- Alex von Tunzelmann
Watch: 'Argo' Screenwriter Explains Film's Famous Line
8 February 2013 6:53 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In the Oscar-nominated film "Argo," there is a line repeated throughout the story for comedic relief. Turns out, it provided a few laughs in real life, too.
On HuffPost Live Wednesday, "Argo" screenwriter Chris Terrio said the line -- "Argo F*ck Yourself" -- was actually a phrase used by real-life Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers as he worked on the phony film plan.
"It's a real joke that John Chambers, who's the character played by John Goodman, used to make when they were trying to relieve tension in the room," Terrio told HuffPost Live's Jacob Soboroff.
The screenwriter said including it in the film was one way to bring Chambers to life on screen.
"In the process of writing the film, you get these little gifts, these posthumous gifts from John Chambers, that his sense of humor finds its way into the film," Terrio said.
Chambers, who won »
- The Huffington Post
Five Forgotten Gems From Five Great Movie Music Composers
14 January 2013 11:19 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Anybody who has ever been to a high school reunion (and I’ve been to my share) will tell you that the calendar and the clock can be incredibly cruel (particularly when combined with the long-term effects of gravity, but let’s not go there).
Time punishes creative works as well. Some work grows dated, stale, stiff. Time and the evolving form of the given art leaves a once vibrant and exciting work behind looking dead and obsolete.
More cruel, perhaps, is work that is simply…forgotten. Not for any good reason. Good as it was, maybe it was simply not successful enough to lodge very deeply in the popular consciousness; working well enough in its day, but soon lost among the ever-growing detritus of a lot of other pieces of yesterday.
Movie music is particularly vulnerable to the cruelties of time. Outside of the form’s devotees, it rarely »
- Bill Mesce
The 300 Greatest Films Ever Made (Part 11)
12 January 2013 7:55 AM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Our daily countdown of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made continues with part 11 out of 30. These are numbers 200-191.
200) Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder USA
199) Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick USA
198) Princess Mononoke (1997) Hayao Miyazaki Japan Animated
197) Judgement At Nuremberg (1961) Stanley Kramer USA
196) Sansho The Bailiff (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
195) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Werner Herzog USA
194) Tootsie (1982) Stanley Pollack USA
193) Ghostbusters (1984) Ivan Reitman USA
192) The Planet Of The Apes (1968) Frank Schaffner USA *
191) The Producers (1968) Mel Brooks USA
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