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After Earth: keeping it in the family
7 June 2013 4:01 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Almost as old as Hollywood itself, nepotism has had the movie industry stitched up for decades and Will Smith's family are keeping up the tradition
Seriousfacing its way into cinemas this weekend, After Earth is the $130m father-son action movie that fans of slightly icky familial relationships have been waiting for. Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth 1,000 years after its abandonment by humankind, the film stars Will Smith and his real-life son Jaden Smith, has a story by Will Smith, and is produced by Will Smith, his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and her brother Caleeb Pinkett. And people say Hollywood is too incestuous.
The Smiths have been cultivating their showbiz dynasty for more than a decade now, ever since a four-year-old Jaden was cast in All Of Us, an autobiographical sitcom produced by his parents. (Layabout sibling Willow was a doddering six-year-old by the time her own acting career began). Still, »
- Charlie Lyne
Cannes Film Festival 2013: 'The Immigrant' review
29 May 2013 6:25 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★☆☆ James Gray has always enjoyed a good reputation in France and so it comes as little surprise to see his fifth film, The Immigrant (2013), showing in competition here at Cannes. The year is 1920 and in the wake of the Great War, Polish immigrant Ewa Cybulski (Marion Cotillard) arrives at Ellis Island - in scenes reminiscent of 1974's The Godfather: Part II - with her tubercular sister, Magda (Angela Sarafyan). When Magda is taken into quarantine and Ewa threatened with deportation for alleged immoral behaviour on the passage, the American Dream looks like turning into something more akin to a nightmare.
However, help is at hand in the shape of Bruno Weiss (regular Gray collaborator Joaquin Phoenix), a representative of a charitable fund who bribes the guards to let Ewa off the island. Once in New York, it becomes apparent that Bruno is not all that he seems and Ewa is »
- CineVue UK
Another Oscar In Her Future?
24 May 2013 11:16 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Cannes, France — Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant."
The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, was filmed in part on the almost mythical Ellis Island, where millions of immigrants stepped off the boat to America in search of a better life, captured with stark beauty by cinematographer Darius Khondji.
The initial American dream of Cotillard's character, Ewa, to rejoin her uncle and aunt and start a family with a "good man" is quickly dashed. Her sister winds up quarantined in an immigrant hospital and she herself is taken under the wing of Bruno, a louche cabaret manager who's prone to violent outbursts.
Bruno, played by Joaquin Phoenix in a melodramatic performance that has divided critics, »
- AP
Cannes Film Review: ‘The Immigrant’
24 May 2013 1:30 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Cementing himself as the great classicist of his generation, James Gray turns back the clock to 1921 in “The Immigrant,” a romantic tale that cuts to the very soul of the American experience. This rich, beautifully rendered film boasts an arrestingly soulful performance from Marion Cotillard as a Polish nurse-turned-prostitute for whom the symbolic promise of Ellis Island presents only hardship. Her travails unfold at a pace that will frustrate today’s attention-deficit audiences, limiting this Weinstein Co. acquisition’s popular prospects. Give it 20 years, however, and “The Immigrant” is sure to hold up far better than its modish competition, an ambitious yet imperfect cinematic classic with the heft and heart of great literature.
From the American canon, novels like Theodore Dreiser’s “Sister Carrie” offer charitable accounts of the lures and snares big-city life posed on single working women of the early 20th century. Such influences suggest a radical shift »
- Peter Debruge
Watch four Oscar winners have one wild trip in Last Vegas teaser
16 May 2013 2:40 PM, PDT | Cineplex | See recent Cineplex news »
Yes, it’s The Hangover for old people. But what do these guys have that Bradley Cooper and co. don’t? Oscars. Make that multiple Oscars.
Robert De Niro (Raging Bull, The Godfather: Part II), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Michael Douglas (Wall Street), and Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) are out to prove that the fun doesn’t have to stop once you’re in your late 60s (and above) in the first teaser trailer for Last Vegas.
The senior crew heads to Vegas for that quintessential rite of passage: the bachelor party. They’re ready to party like it’s 1959 as they celebrate the last weekend of single freedom for Billy (Douglas). It’s a lot of white hair, laughing, dancing, and drinking. What happens in Vegas will probably stay in Vegas since these guys will likely just forget they were ever there.
Watch the party unfold »
- Rachel West
Waltz Joins DeNiro & Clarke In Stephen Gaghan’s ‘Candy Store’
15 May 2013 6:30 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Two-time Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz has now been confirmed to join the impressive cast of Stephen Gaghan’s interleaving crime-thriller Candy Store. The press release below confirms Waltz, who most recently landed the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Tarantino’s Django Unchained, will join Robert DeNiro, Jason Clarke and rising Frenchman Omar Sy, in the film set in various locations in New York City.
Los Angeles (May 14, 2013) – Two-time Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) is joining two-time Academy Award®-winner Robert De Niro (the upcoming Last Vegas, Silver Linings Playbook, Raging Bull, The Godfather: Part II),Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, the upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and Omar Sy (The Intouchables, the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past) in Good Universe’s and Lionsgate’sTHE Candy Store, a character-driven action thriller by Academy Award®-winning writer and director Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana »
- Craig Hunter
Christoph Waltz Joins The Candy Store
14 May 2013 5:30 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Two-time Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) is joining two-time Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro (the upcoming Last Vegas, Silver Linings Playbook, Raging Bull, The Godfather: Part II), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, the upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and Omar Sy (The Intouchables, the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past) in Good Universe's and Lionsgate's The Candy Store, a character-driven action thriller by Academy Award-winning writer and director Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana).
Lionsgate will distribute in North America. Good Universe is handling international sales and presenting the film as part of their slate in Cannes.
The Candy Store interweaves several storylines set against a dynamic criminal underworld in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. A former covert operative (Jason Clarke) discovers the organization he was dedicated to fighting is now operating in his new backyard. When he teams up with a disgraced local cop (Robert De Niro »
- MovieWeb
Al Pacino: His 5 Most Iconic Roles
30 April 2013 9:17 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
In a time when the box office is driven by special effects, super heroes, remakes and reboots, it’s easy to forget when movie magic was predicated primarily on the power of a great performance over all other concerns.
Each year the Oscars and other awards ceremonies try to remind us that there are still actors working today who are committed to mastering their craft, but arguably the golden age of the “Screen Actor” – rather than merely the “Hollywood Star” – was in the 1970s, when a new-wave of unconventional male leads broke through, who had little interest in being magazine pin-ups, like their heroes Brando or Newman, yet who did share those pioneers’ passions for honesty and integrity in characterisation.
Few were more successful in this than legendary New York actor, and champion of the Lee Strasberg Method, Al Pacino, who can rightly consider himself one of the most celebrated »
- Keith Tomlinson
Film Review: ‘The Big Wedding’
25 April 2013 2:31 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Let’s face it: “The Big Wedding” was more fun when it was fat and Greek — or loud and French, in the case of this adaptation of Gallic laffer “Mon frere se marie.” Writer-director Justin Zackham awkwardly blends feel-good pablum and raunchy sex jokes with the expected nuptial ingredients: something old (just look at that cast), something new (the groom is an adopted Colombian with three moms to manage), something borrowed (Nancy Meyers called, she wants her ideas back) and something blue (handjobs at the rehearsal dinner, etc.). It’s all catnip for the easily pleased, suggesting possible sleeper success amid louder early-summer studio fare.
Skewing older than other recent R-rated wedding comedies such as “Bridesmaids” and “Bachelorette,” “The Big Wedding” all but ignores the happy couple in favor of the “bigger” sixtysomething names in its starry ensemble: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon. As in Jean-Stephane Bron’s 2007 original, »
- Peter Debruge
Rope of Silicon Movie Club: 'The Outsiders' (1983)
24 April 2013 11:03 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola had plenty of greatness under his belt from The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II and Apocalypse Now, but some may say 1982's One from the Heart was the beginning of the end... at least the end of the Coppola we came to know in the '70s. Sure, The Godfather: Part III saw seven Oscar nominations, but ask anyone and they're sure to point it out as the weakest of the trilogy by a mile. Films such as Peggy Sue Got Married, Dracula and even The Rainmaker aren't half-bad and I'll happily admit to loving 90% of Tetro, but the Coppola star doesn't shine as it once did. Such a situation can result in films being forgotten, overlooked and never revisited again. The lack of appreciation for the last 30 years of Coppola's directorial career has allowed me to easily avoid -- wrongly or not -- »
- Brad Brevet
How Many of the Movies from Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies Have You Seen?
10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 363 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies, the Up docs and Decalogue) and of those 363, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »
- Brad Brevet
How Many of the Movies from Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies Have You Seen?
10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 362 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies and Decalogue) and of those 362, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »
- Brad Brevet
What makes a great screenplay?
15 March 2013 5:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
From Casablanca to The Killing – the elements of a great script are essentially the same. John Yorke – who is responsible for some of the most popular recent British TV dramas – reveals how and why the best screenwriting works
Once upon a time, in such and such a place, something happened." In basic terms that's about it – the very best definition of a story. What an archetypal story does is introduce you to a central character – the protagonist – and invite you to identify with them; effectively they become your avatar in the drama. So you have a central character, you empathise with them, and something then happens to them, and that something is the genesis of the story. Jack discovers a beanstalk; Bond learns Blofeld plans to take over the world. The "something" is almost always a problem, sometimes a problem disguised as an opportunity. It's usually something that throws your »
What makes a great screenplay?
15 March 2013 5:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Casablanca to The Killing – the elements of a great script are essentially the same. John Yorke – who is responsible for some of the most popular recent British TV dramas – reveals how and why the best screenwriting works
Once upon a time, in such and such a place, something happened." In basic terms that's about it – the very best definition of a story. What an archetypal story does is introduce you to a central character – the protagonist – and invite you to identify with them; effectively they become your avatar in the drama. So you have a central character, you empathise with them, and something then happens to them, and that something is the genesis of the story. Jack discovers a beanstalk; Bond learns Blofeld plans to take over the world. The "something" is almost always a problem, sometimes a problem disguised as an opportunity. It's usually something that throws your »
Whedon Officially Denies "Planet Hulk" Talk
5 March 2013 8:55 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Joss Whedon has flat out denied rumors from the other week that a "Planet Hulk" stand-alone feature is part of Marvel's Phase III plans.
Whedon says: "Well I'm really not supposed to comment, but no, that's nonsense."
The rumor suggested the Hulk would be sent into space at the end of "The Avengers" sequel, setting up the stand alone film based on the highly popular comic storyline.
No script is yet done for "The Avengers 2," and Whedon says the sequel will be more inspired by classic sequels in other genres that other superhero sequels:
"I've got the next story, and it's a corker. I haven't even been thinking in terms of superhero movies. The films I've been thinking about are The Godfather: Part II and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Those are the stars by which I chart my course."
"The Avengers 2" is expected »
- Garth Franklin
Joss Whedon Denies Planet Hulk Rumors
5 March 2013 8:37 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
It was rumored that The Avengers 2 will end with Hulk being sent into space, which would seemingly set up Marvel's Phase III series of movies and a purported Planet Hulk stand-alone feature. Marvel's The Avengers director Joss Whedon has stepped forth to squash those rumors like a puny human.
"Well I'm really not supposed to comment, but no, that's nonsense."
This could be subtle subterfuge on Joss Whedon's part. No screenplay has been written for The Avengers 2 yet, which is set for release in 2015. It is possible that a lot may change between now and then. For now, though, it seems we won't be taking a trip to Planet Hulk anytime soon. The story line was previously explored in the 2010 animated movie Planet Hulk.
While the story is still being worked out for The Avengers 2, Joss Whedon teased that his follow-up will be inspired be classic, »
- MovieWeb
Uh-oh, Robert De Niro: Oscars only honor comeback bids after even longer absences
22 February 2013 4:18 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Our experts just gave Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook") the edge to win Best Supporting Actor over Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln") at this Sunday's Oscars. -Insertgroups:12- An even dozen of them now predict this two-time Oscar champ ("The Godfather: Part II," 1974; "Raging Bull," 1980) to prevail while nine support the bid by Jones, who won this award in 1993 for "The Fugitive." Five experts forecast Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") taking home a bookend to his 2009 trophy for "Inglorious Basterds." This groundswell of support for De Niro is based on the notion that decades of absence from the ballot pays off with a win as academy members embrace the chance to vote for an old favorite. However, Oscar history contradicts this idea. -Addprediction:85:7:Click to predict Supporting Actor Oscar:addprediction- This marks De Niro' »
Life advice
21 February 2013 7:09 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Films aren't there just to exercise your eyes while you shovel popcorn into your mouth; they can change your life. Here's one reader's pick of movie bons mots – now send us yours
This week's Clip joint is by Guardian reader Matt Clough. If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Films hold a command over our emotions like few other mediums; they make us laugh, they make us cry, they even make us angry ("Why is Michael Bay making another film about sentient sports cars?") However, some films go further and leave us with food for thought, or even a whole new outlook on life. Here are my top five film quotes to live your life by.
The Godfather: Part II: 'Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer'
Michael Corleone's piece of inherited family wisdom in The Godfather: Part II »
- Guardian readers
2013 Oscar Preview: Part 2
20 February 2013 8:14 PM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Our Oscar coverage continues. Here we overview the best acting and best directing award nominees.
Best Actor Nominees
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Age: 38
Previously Best Known For: “Phil” from The Hangover
Previous Oscar Nominations: None
Interesting Fact: Was a medalist on the Men's Heavyweight Crew team at Georgetown University.
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Age: 55
Previously Best Known For:
“Bill Cutting” from Gangs of New York
“Daniel Plainview” from There Will Be Blood
Previous Oscar Nominations: 4
Won – Best Actor, Leading Role for There Will Be Blood (2007)
Nominated – Best Actor, Leading Role for Gangs of New York (2002)
Nominated – Best Actor, Leading Role for In The Name of The Father (1993)
Won – Best Actor, Leading Role for My Left Foot (1989)
Interesting Fact: He first became interested in acting when he learned to replicate the accent and mannerisms of people in his neighborhood to avoid standing out to bullies.
Age: 44
Previously »
- feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
Argo, Silver Linings Playbook And Brave Win Big At 63rd Annual Ace Eddie Awards
17 February 2013 2:33 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
“Argo” (edited by William Goldenberg, A.C.E.) and “The Silver Linings Playbook” (edited byJay Cassidy, A.C.E. and Crispin Struthers) won Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) and Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy/Musical) respectively at the 63rd Annual Ace Eddie Awards tonight where trophies were handed out in ten (10) categories of film, television and documentaries.
The black-tie ceremony was held in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel with over 1,000 in attendance to celebrate the year’s best editing. “Brave” (edited by Nicholas C. Smith, A.C.E. & Robert Grahamjones, A.C.E.) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film and “Searching For Sugar Man” (edited by Malik Bendjelloul) won Best Edited Documentary (Feature).
Television winners included ”Nurse Jackie – Handle Your Scandle” (edited by Gary Levy) for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television, “Breaking Bad – Dead Freight” (edited by Skip MacDonald, A.C.E.) for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial television, »
- Michelle McCue
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