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Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 3 of 5)
24 May 2012 8:28 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Nicol Williamson as Merlin in Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981, UK):
Turning in by far the best acting in Boorman’s epic, Williamson sets the bar for all other interpretations of the Merlin character. Best known as an acclaimed stage actor with a history of incredibly unprofessional behavior, this is Williamson’s most memorable film role and will have you chanting the “charm of making” in no time.
Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982, USA):
As an android seeking to prolong his short life, Hauer’s unique screen presence is perfectly utilized in director Scott’s atmospheric science fiction milestone. Hauer brings a sort of “alien” quality to the character Roy Batty and really makes this role a truly superior piece of casting.
Other notable Rutger Hauer performances: Nighthawks (Bruce Malmuth, 1981, USA), The Hitcher (Robert Harmon, 1986, USA).
Ricardo Montalban as Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, »
- Terek Puckett
Five Best Movie Summers Ever—Where Will The Avengers' Rank?
2 May 2012 6:15 AM, PDT | E! Online - UK | See recent E! Online - UK news »
Come midnight Friday, The Avengers opens, the movie summer starts—and The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man and more get ready to roll. Will the summer class of 2012 be a winner? Here's the storied competition it has to live up to, in chronological order: 1. 1975: The first modern movie summer there ever was, as the lines around the block for Steven Spielberg's Jaws attested. As added bonuses, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Dog Day Afternoon debuted. 2. 1978: Yes, the summer before saw the arrival of Star Wars, but '77 mostly offered up disasters, chiefly, Exorcist II: The Heretic, which was laughed off screens. The summer of '78, however, was jam-packed, with Grease, »
Five Best Movie Summers Ever—Where Will The Avengers' Rank?
2 May 2012 6:15 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Come midnight Friday, The Avengers opens, the movie summer starts—and The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man and more get ready to roll. Will the summer class of 2012 be a winner? Here's the storied competition it has to live up to, in chronological order: 1. 1975: The first modern movie summer there ever was, as the lines around the block for Steven Spielberg's Jaws attested. As added bonuses, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Dog Day Afternoon debuted. 2. 1978: Yes, the summer before saw the arrival of Star Wars, but '77 mostly offered up disasters, chiefly, Exorcist II: The Heretic, which was laughed off screens. The summer of '78, however, was jam-packed, with Grease, »
Emily Blunt/The Five-year Engagement, Safe Bomb: Box Office
28 April 2012 3:22 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Emily Blunt, The Five-Year Engagement Zac Efron’s Box Office: Charlie St. Cloud vs. The Lucky One Movie The Five-Year Engagement, Pirates! Band of Misfits, Safe, and The Raven were the four new releases that failed to make much of an impact at the North American box office on Friday, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Produced by Judd Apatow, The Five-Year Engagement took in a paltry $3.5 million at 2,936 locations on Friday, landing at no. 3 behind Tim Story / Michael Ealy’s Think Like a Man ($5.5m) and Zac Efron / Taylor Schilling’s The Lucky One ($3.91m). The Apatow comedy is expected to reach at most $11.5 million by Sunday, whereas Box Office Mojo had predicted an opening in the low 20s. The Muppets‘ Jason Segel, The Adjustment Bureau’s Emily Blunt, Moneyball’s Chris Pratt, and Scream 4’s Alison Brie star in The Five-Year Engagement, which has »
- Zac Gille
Box Office: Safe, The Five-year Engagement, The Raven Disappoint
28 April 2012 1:25 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jason Statham movie: Safe Think Like a Man, inspired by TV/radio comedian Steve Harvey’s bestselling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, will apparently remain at the top of the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend. That’s less because of Think Like a Man’s ladylike staying power than because of the weak performance of this weekend’s four new entries. The romantic comedy, which many reviewers found simple-minded and cliche-ridden, opened impressively last weekend, but it has gone steadily downhill this past week. In fact, Think Like a Man’s Thursday take was 32% below the film’s gross on Monday. For comparison’s sake, the Zac Efron romantic drama The Lucky One was down 3%. As per Deadline.com, Think Like a Man is expected to collect $5.2 million on Friday, for a weekend total of $17.5 million — down 52% compared to last weekend. Directed »
- Zac Gille
Al Pacino's Eye Emergency—Will He Be Ok?
25 April 2012 8:31 AM, PDT | E! Online - UK | See recent E! Online - UK news »
It was a Dog Day Afternoon—and indeed we presume a not-so happy birthday for Al Pacino. The acting legend, who turns 72 today, injured his left eye on Monday during shooting of a gunfight scene in Los Angeles with costar Christopher Walken for their upcoming action comedy, Stand Up Guys. Pacino—decked out in a three-piece pinstripe suit and looking quite dapper with a gray goatee—drew back in pain and on-set medics treated him immediately. The Oscar winner's rep tells E! News that Pacino, who was not actually involved in the scene that was shooting, was struck in the eye by some unkown foreign object. It was immediately flushed out and he continued working. Contrary to some early »
Al Pacino's Eye Emergency—Will He Be Ok?
25 April 2012 8:31 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
It was a Dog Day Afternoon—and indeed we presume a not-so happy birthday for Al Pacino. The acting legend, who turns 72 today, injured his left eye on Monday during shooting of a gunfight scene in Los Angeles with costar Christopher Walken for their upcoming action comedy, Stand Up Guys. Pacino—decked out in a three-piece pinstripe suit and looking quite dapper with a gray goatee—drew back in pain and on-set medics treated him immediately. The Oscar winner's rep tells E! News that Pacino, who was not actually involved in the scene that was shooting, was struck in the eye by some unkown foreign object. It was immediately flushed out and he continued working. Contrary to some early »
[Interview] ‘Safe’ Producer Lawrence Bender Talks Jason Statham, Shooting Challenges In New York City & More
25 April 2012 7:30 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Having worked on everything from Reservoir Dogs to Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill to Inglorious Basterds, Lawrence Bender’s reputation as a producer has become forever intertwined with the filmography of Quentin Tarantino (though, interestingly enough, he’s not on board for the writer-director’s upcoming Django Unchained). That’s perhaps the main reason why Bender’s recurring affiliation with Boaz Yakin, the writer-director behind Safe, has been largely unnoticed. Admittedly, Safe is the first Bender-Yakin collaboration since 1998′s A Price Above Rubies, but, as you’ll learn in the interview below, Bender and Yakin have remained extremely close since the days that preceded 1994′s even Fresh, and the producer has since been in constant search for something that would reunite the two in a professional environment as well as a personal one.
Also discussed in the interview is a gripe that was also made ever so clear by Yakin »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Mad Men Recap: The Thrilla of Vanilla
16 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Just call it the Thrilla of Vanilla: two pasty Madison Avenue executives duking it out while their co-workers gawked. There was no way Pete Campbell wasn’t going down. Lane Pryce, after all, was in the military once — a desk job, but still — and knew the gentleman’s version of proper pugilistic form. Pete didn’t do that badly, all things considered, but he still lost. In that climactic exchange between him and Don in the elevator — Pete’s pent-up domestic frustrations merging with the pain of losing and unleashing tears — his face looked like it was made of veal shank.This was a heavy-hitting episode in more ways than one. Co-written by series creator Matthew Weiner and one of America’s finest living screenwriters, Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon), and directed by cast member John Slattery, who did a bang-up job in his season four Mad Men directing gig, »
- Matt Zoller Seitz
'12 Angry Men': Why Sidney Lumet's Claustrophobic Classic Still Matters
16 April 2012 4:59 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
On paper, it's a tough sell: a black-and-white movie set in one room, with an all-male (and all-white) cast, with no action except for a heated war of words among a dozen guys. Indeed, "12 Angry Men" -- which opened 55 years ago last week (April 13, 1957) -- with its shoestring budget, was a financial flop, and while it was nominated for three Oscars (including Best Picture), it lost them all to the splashier, more colorful, wide-screen epic "The Bridge on the River Kwai." Yet today, "12 Angry Men" is considered a classic, not just for its riveting script and top-notch acting, but also for how it made a virtue of its stagy limitations. Adapted by Reginald Rose from his own 1954 TV play (back when live drama was a TV staple), the movie expanded the hour-long story of a deliberating jury into 95 minutes, but it didn't expand the confines of the setting: a single, »
- Gary Susman
The Films Of Sidney Lumet: A Retrospective
9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.
Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.
Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).
His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
9 Great Cop Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
21 March 2012 6:41 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
As happened for so many other genres, the 1960s/1970s saw a tremendous creative expansion in crime and cop thrillers. The old Hollywood moguls had died off or retired, most of the major studios were bleeding red ink, attendance had gone off a cliff since the end of Ww II, and a new breed of young, creatively adventurous production executives had been tasked with trying to save their business by coming up with movies which could hook a new, young, cinema-literate audience.
It also happened to be one of the most socially turbulent times in American history. Even before the American public grew restive over the growing disaster in Vietnam, the social fabric was unraveling with self-examination and doubt. The Cold War; a certain inner emptiness that went with a period of great material prosperity; once invisible fault lines on matters of race and gender discrimination beginning to crack – all »
- Bill Mesce
Oscars 2012: In memoriam - Academy pays tribute to Elizabeth Taylor among others
27 February 2012 1:56 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The screen icon and two-time Oscar winner heads the list of stars who died this year in the Academy's traditional rememberance
Elizabeth Taylor featured prominently in the In Memoriam section of the Academy Award ceremony currently taking place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf actor died in March 2011 aged 79, and was one of the most prominent figures of Hollywood glamour through the 1950s and 60s. She is especially well remembered for her multiple marriages, including two to fellow actor Richard Burton.
Also remembered were actors Jane Russell, best known for starring opposite Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Farley Granger, the star of two Hitchcock masterpieces, Rope and Strangers on a Train; and Michael Gough, the veteran British character actor who had a late flowering as the butler Alfred in the Batman films in the 90s.
Behind the camera, mentions were made of director Sidney Lumet, »
25 Reasons To Hate The Oscars
26 February 2012 1:52 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
With the 2012 Oscar ceremony taking place tonight, I’ve rounded up the 25 worst Academy Awards decisions of the past quarter century to feed filmgoers collective rage. Many of these are outright bad winners, but I’ve also reserved special spots in this countdown for blunders in production, nominations, and existing in the first place.
So take a deep breath, go watch I Saw the Devil to get in the right mood, and dig in.
25. Fifty-Nine Years of Rocky History
I did not want to imply that the Academy was all sunshine and roses before 1988; so a brief history of their ineptitude seems in order. In fact, history is a perfect lead in because, even though this is reason number twenty-five, it underlies the basic principle that caused this list to manifest. The Academy never learns from its mistakes. It never changes.
There is plenty of fodder here for several »
- Phil Aram
5 Oscars Wins That We'd Love To See This Year (Even If They Won't Happen)
24 February 2012 10:02 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Sometimes, the nomination is the prize. Even in more open years than this one (where many of the major prizes have been locked in for weeks, if not months), only two or three of the nominees have had a realistic chance of winning, with the others merely filling out the field. Which is not to say that they're not deserving. Indeed, quite often, the anointed winner is in that position because they're overdue, or they're part of a film that's sweeping the Oscars in general, or any one of a number of reasons.
Sometimes, the most deserving winner is the one that stands no chance of actually picking up the prize. So, with the Oscars only slightly more than 48 hours away, we've picked five wins that, while extremely unlikely, would make us entirely delighted if they happened. Let us know any potential wins of your own that would make your »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Worst. Nominee. Ever?
23 February 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Stephen Daldry's post-9/11 drama is almost universally reviled, but the Academy has a history of nominating some dreadful films for the top prize, and often ignoring future classics
If there is to be a prize for the best picture at this year's Oscars, then why not one for the worst? To make a great film is difficult and therefore worthy of honour. But to make a bad film that gulls the voters into thinking it's great is no mean feat either. It may not be noble, but you have to admire the chutzpah.
The presence of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close on this year's Oscar shortlist stirs golden memories of the interlopers of old. Stephen Daldry's candy-floss memorial to the events of 9/11 had the critics gagging. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw daubed it with a one-star review, dubbing it "extremely contrived and incredibly preposterous". Danny Leigh, co-host of the BBC's Film 2012, »
- Xan Brooks
Was the 1970s the best decade for the Best Picture Oscar?
21 February 2012 3:58 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
With the Oscars nearly here, Glen looks back to the 70s, and argues that it was the decade when the Academy got its Best Picture decisions consistently right...
It’s widely acknowledged that the 1970s was one of the best periods in American cinema. It’s little surprise, then, that the Academy Awards gave the Best Picture award to some of the best films during its 84 years. But as is often the case with the Oscars, the 70s wasn’t without its controversies, as a number of great films missed out on the award or even failed to be nominated. Even so, the run of Best Picture winners from 1970 to 1979 was incredibly strong.
The decade started with Midnight Cowboy scooping the Best Picture award at the 42nd Academy Awards on 7th April 1970, but as the film was released in May 1969 it doesn’t really count as an example of the »
Al Pacino Joins Despicable Me 2
4 February 2012 7:00 AM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
If you needed any further clue that Al Pacino's career has gone down the tubes, he has just joined Despicable Me 2. Deadline reports that the Godfather will be making his first animated movie and voicing the villain. Universal Pictures and Illumination Ent. are overseeing the sequel to the 2010 film, which made $543 million on a $69 million budget. Not much is known about his role, but he will be joining Steve Carell as Gru.
Pacino has had starred in such films as Scarface, Heat, and Dog Day Afternoon. Despicable Me was okay but did not warrant a sequel. At least he has a great voice, which is important for an animated film. What are your thoughts on this news?
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- Tiberius
MoreHorror Chats with Director Nick Simon and Actor Oz Perkins of 'Removal'
28 January 2012 5:51 PM, PST | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
by Shannon Hilson, MoreHorror.com
There's nothing we like here at MoreHorror better than an expertly made film that really covers all the bases and writer/director Nick Simon's feature debut Removal really delivers in this regard. Filled with twists, turns, gold-star performances from an all-around amazing cast, awesome dialogue, and incredible shots, this film is easily one of the best horror films I've seen in a long while. It follows the story of Cole, a carpet cleaner who takes on a rather unusual cleaning job for a wealthy client and winds up with a lot more to contend with than he bargained for.
Writer/director Nick Simon and writer/actor Oz Perkins of Removal were both kind enough to answer some questions for me recently in regards to this very cool film. If you still haven't had a chance to check it out for yourself, catch it today On Demand or on DVD. »
- admin
Man on a Ledge Review
27 January 2012 9:00 AM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
In the opening minutes of Asger Leth’s Man on a Ledge, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) checks into the Roosevelt Hotel, climbs out his window, and stands on the ledge outside. A few pedestrians spot him and soon the TV cameras arrive, but all anyone knows at first is there is a man on a ledge.
It’s more complex than that, but it’s a simple concept for a movie. One that immediately brings to mind other confined thrillers like Phone Booth, Panic Room, or recently, the under-appreciated Buried. The key is to allow the audience to put themselves in the fixed character’s shoes, in this case Nick’s at the edge of a 200-foot drop, while keeping the escalating environment around him anything but static. But Leth and writer Pablo Fenjves miss the mark on both sides of the window, and the film feels as flat and generic as the title. »
- Jeff Leins
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