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Eurovision 2012: Sebastien Tellier gives his verdict
25 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The French star (joint 18th, Eurovision 2008) makes his picks and announces the launch of his own quasi-political movement while he's at it
Germany
Roman Lob – Standing Still Honesty is something I admire – what are we without truth? I believe it to be crucial that all within the Blue Alliance be honest not only to themselves but to each other too. Enter ideal Blue Alliance poster-child Roman Lob. His truth is simple: Roman is going to sing his song standing completely still. His honesty far exceeds the expectations held for my community. Roman is standing still. This is made clear not only by his inaction, but his insistence upon it. Stand on Roman. Your honesty is divine.
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Engelbert Humperdinck – Love Will Set You Free Your candidate has a lot of class! I can see it on his face and his knitted tie. You're lucky! He makes me think of an »
On The Road Movie: Mixed Review/Variety
23 May 2012 1:12 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Cannes Film Festival movie review: In Variety, Justin Chang says the following about Walter Salles‘ On the Road, a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac‘s 1957 novel starring Garrett Hedlund (Dean Moriarty / Neal Cassady), Sam Riley (Sal Paradise / Jack Kerouac’s alter ego), and Kristen Stewart (photo, as Marylou / LouAnne Henderson): "Evocatively lensed, skillfully made and duly attentive to the mercurial qualities of its daunting source material, Walter Salles’ picture pulses with youthful energy but feels overly calculated in its bid for spontaneity, attesting to the difficulty and perhaps futility of trying to reproduce Kerouac’s literary lightning onscreen. "… The blur of events and surface impressions onscreen … feels overlong at 139 minutes, yet nowhere near long enough, and even Riley’s appealing, bright-eyed turn can’t keep Sal from seeming a passive, psychologically weak protagonist. "The other actors hit their notes effectively, particularly [Viggo] Mortensen and [Tom] Sturridge as the respective alter egos »
- Andre Soares
On The Road Clip: Kristen Stewart/Marylou Wants Normal Life
21 May 2012 1:23 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
On the Road: Kristen Stewart as Marylou, Sam Riley‘s / Sal Paradise’s ear "I just had a great idea, you guys are gonna love it!" exclaims Garrett Hedlund‘s Dean Moriarty at the end of this French-subtitled On the Road clip. (Please scroll down to check out Sur la route.) Also seen in the clip are Kristen Stewart‘s Marylou and Sam Riley‘s Sal Paradise. Walter Salles directed this year’s Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or contender. Kristen Stewart is the focus of this particular On the Road clip, as Marylou is apparently telling Sal that she’s going to dump Dean. She sounds a bit like a fatalist: better dump Dean before he dumps her. In any case, she’s already got a fiance at home, a sailor. Marylou also sounds like a traditionalist here: she wants a house and a baby, "something normal. »
- Andre Soares
News: Kristen Stewart/Garrett Hedlund/Sam Riley On The Road Interview
21 May 2012 11:31 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
On the Road interview: Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley "It’s interesting to play characters that have existed," says Kristen Stewart in an On the Road video interview posted at Screenslam. (Please scroll down.) "Especially when you have grown to love those people. When I played Joan Jett, I couldn’t improvise. I felt so weird putting words in her mouth. I always referred to her. And in this case, we wouldn’t be doing On the Road right, unless it was found, unless so much of it was, like, learned and then forgotten, so we could actually just discover it ourselves." Screenslam will be posting several interviews with various On the Road talent in the next few days. On the Road, in competition for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, opens in France on May 23. Directed by Walter Salles — of previous road movies Central Station »
- Andre Soares
[Now Streaming] Your ‘The Avengers,’ ‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ & ‘First Position’ Alternatives
3 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to The Avengers, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel & First Position.
Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye and the Hulk join forces as the Avengers to face an evil unlike the earth has ever seen before. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Jeremy Renner co-star; Joss Whedon directs.
How about giving some lesser-known superheroes their due:
Confessions of a Superhero (2007) This quirky and compelling documentary follows four dreamers whose passion to become professional actors has landed them all on Hollywood Boulevard costumed as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and the Incredible Hulk. Matt Ogens directs.
Big Man Japan (2007) This Japanese mockumentary explores the downside to being a superhero. Daisato is a middle-aged, second-rate superhero who not »
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Clip joint: Imaginary friends
2 May 2012 9:56 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Who needs real friends when you've got a vivid imagination? Help us identify cinema's most memorable made-up mates
This week's Clip Joint is by Norman Walton from Warwickshire.
Think you can do better than Norman? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
It's always good to have friends you can count on. However it's even better if you make them up. Whether it's to help you regain control in your life, cope with stress or just offer a well-rounded argument on why the local pimp/drug dealer should be put down like a dog, imaginary friends can be handy.
However, as they are conjured up from the recesses of (often) troubled minds, they do not need to adhere to the rules of the real world and the boundaries of what they can do are only restricted by the limits of their protagonist's imaginations. »
- Guardian readers
Florence and the Machine Song: Breath of Life
26 April 2012 3:37 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch Grammy-nominated band Florence and the Machine has just released the lead song for Snow White and the Huntsman (please scroll down), Rupert Sanders‘ upcoming Gothic fantasy-adventure tale starring On the Road / The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2’s Kristen Stewart, The Cabin in the Woods / The Avengers‘ Chris Hemsworth, Prometheus / Young Adult’s Charlize Theron, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides / United’s Sam Claflin. The Florence and the Machine song is called “Breath of Life.” It’s mostly a mournful pop song "belted out by Florence Welch, with drums beating in the background. Those are later followed by a choir accompaniment featuring touches from medieval / religious hymns. Whether or not you’ll find "Breath of Life" appropriate for a fantasy tale in a medieval setting depends on whether or not you watch many Hollywood movies — as pop tunes of various »
- Zac Gille
The King's Speech impediment: when films don't work on stage
17 April 2012 3:56 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The King's Speech is struggling to make anywhere near the same impact on stage as it did on the big screen. Can cinematic and theatrical versions of the same piece happily co-exist?
Two newspaper reports over the last few days offered conflicting evidence on a piece of theatrical wisdom. A Mail on Sunday article had pictures from the shooting of the movie version of the musical of Les Misérables , while, in the paper's daily stablemate, Baz Bamigboye's showbiz column on Friday, suggested that the stage production of The King's Speech is struggling. (A rumour that's confirmed by visits to ticketing websites, which offer a 40% discount on best stalls seats for every performance this week, including Saturday night.)
The question that arises is this: can cinematic and theatrical versions of the same piece happily co-exist? Producer Cameron Mackintosh's decision to back director Tom Hooper to make the film of »
- Mark Lawson
Mozart's Sister – review
14 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sad stories of artists overshadowed by relatives or lovers are common enough, and after films about Ts Eliot's wife, Rodin's lover and Jacqueline du Pré's sister, we now have Mozart's gifted sibling, Nannerl, being sidelined by her conventional father in favour of little Wolfgang, five years her junior. A French film, mostly set in France when the Mozart family were close to members of Louis Xv's court, it's a well-designed, tasteful affair. But as none of Nannerl's music exists, judgments on her talent, as opposed to the cruel way contemporary mores insisted on her being treated, remain moot.
DramaWorld cinemaWolfgang Amadeus MozartPhilip French
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- Philip French
Mozart's Sister – review
12 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This revisionist account of Mozart's early life reclaims one of history's lost women. If only the film weren't so turgid
René Féret's earnest and ponderously acted movie is partly a feminist reclaiming of one of history's lost women, and also a revisionist, speculative account of Mozart's early life that is not so far away from Milos Forman's Amadeus. It has a seriousness that commands attention, and a very believable sense of the hardship and bitterness Mozart Sr put his family through. It is a good subject. If only this film weren't so turgid, and didn't have that strained quality in the sound recording that picks up every extraneous costume-rustle and makes the background silence in every scene seem like a continuous hiss.
Marc Barbé and Delphine Chuillot are Léopold and Anna-Maria Mozart, parents who are putting their children through a gruelling and continuous continental tour. Their remarkable 10-year-old, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Don Giovanni - hero or villain?
12 April 2012 2:44 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sex-crazed business man? Gay icon? Drug addict or anti-imperialist cipher? The many faces of Don Giovanni
In the Don Giovanni that has just opened in Paris, the eponymous hero has become an irredeemable sex pest of a businessman. Too much power and sex has corroded his soul. Perhaps you work with him. Perhaps you are him. At the end, in his nocturnal office, Giovanni is stabbed through the heart by the co-worker he sexually assaulted in act one, thrown through a window by a crowd of downtrodden cleaners, at least one of whom he tried to grope, and then accompanied to hell by the rotting corpse of the CEO he murdered at the outset. Twenty-first century moral? Don't stay late at the office.
The desperate Don's comeuppance, though, strikes me as unfair. As Kierkegaard noted in Either/Or, Don Giovanni is the opera's erotically animating presence. "His passion resonates everywhere »
- Stuart Jeffries
The Search For The Missing Woman Behind 'Mirror Mirror' Song
29 March 2012 12:29 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
This is the true story of a quest -- the quest for a song, first, and then for the woman who wrote it.
The song appears in the closing credits of "Mirror Mirror," the first of this year's two big-screen adaptations of the Snow White fairy tale. Its director, Tarsem Singh, first heard the song in the early 1970s, when he was a boy growing up in India's Punjab province.
The song was called "I Believe," and it was sung -- in English -- by a woman who might best be described as the Madonna of Iran at that time. She went by one name, Googoosh, and sported a pixie haircut presumably inspired by Mia Farrow. "As kids, we used to dance to it," Singh told The Huffington Post. "We loved it."
Three decades later, Singh played the song for his niece, who was staying with him in Montreal while he shot his 2011 film, »
- Katie Calautti
Gene Simmons disses Rihanna in an attempt to start most baffling celebrity feud ever
21 March 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
Rock-star feuds have been going on since Salieri famously called Mozart a "no-talent, Vd-ridden hack" at their mutual friend's girlfriend's flat-warming party in Salzburg (true story; I think it's from one of the deleted scenes from Amadeus). Now, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons is continuing the venerable tradition of one idiot calling another idiot an idiot by publicly hating on — wait for it — Rihanna. Last Tuesday, at a press conference announcing Kiss's upcoming North American tour with co-headliner Motley Crue, Simmons told a bunch of journalists at the Roosevelt Hotel that Princess RiRi's music does not, in fact, make him want to rock and roll all nite and/or party every day. While discussing how pop acts are now headlining at the stadiums and arenas where rock bands like Kiss used to play, Simmons said: "We're sick and tired of girls [...] »
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Jeffs In Movies
14 March 2012 5:38 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
In honor of Jeff, Who Lives At Home, the gang at Wamg put together a different kind of Top Ten Ten Tuesday. This Friday, Paramount Vantage and Indian Paintbrush are bringing to the screen Jay Duplass’ and Mark Duplass’ story of Jeff (Jason Segel). On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life… and if he’s lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.
So who’s game for a Top Ten Jeffs in Movies? We came up with a list of our favorite “Jeffs” and boy are they a busy lot. As you can see below, these guys have run the gamut between film, »
- Movie Geeks
'Mimic' Legacy to Release on 3-Film Set in May
12 March 2012 5:14 PM, PDT | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
By MoreHorror.com,
The complete legacy of one deadly experiment, 'Mimic: 3-film Set' (which includes Guillermo Del Toro's Director's Cut of Mimic) will be unleashed to DVD and Bly-ray on May 1. Read the official details below.
Audiences will experience thrills and chills from the franchise that brought the epic battle of man and nature to life as Lionsgate debuts the Mimic: 3-Film Set on Blu-ray Disc this May. Available for the first time as an HD collection, the set includes Mimic: The Director’s Cut, along with Mimic 2 and Mimic 3: Sentinel – both on Blu-ray Disc for the first time and available exclusively in the set. Telling the complete story of one deadly genetic engineering experiment, each film includes a host of special features, certain to excite and terrify fans of the sci-fi series.
Mimic: The Director’S Cut Synopsis
Directed by Oscar® nominee Guillermo Del Toro (Best Writing, »
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DVD Playhouse--March 2012
6 March 2012 9:50 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2012
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
The Academy To Break The Soundtrack Barrier With “40 Years of Sound for Film” On March 6th
1 March 2012 3:08 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council will present “40 Years of Sound for Film“ on Tuesday, March 6, at 8 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Oscar®-winning sound mixers Chris Newman and Tom Fleischman will explore the intricacies of building a motion picture soundtrack using clips from such films as “Hugo,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The French Connection.”
The program will demonstrate how the raw tracks recorded on a set become part of the finished soundtrack through the collaboration of sound mixers, sound designers, sound effects editors and foley artists. Newman and Fleischman also will discuss how sound mixing has been influenced by advances in digital technology, and share stories of working with directors like Jonathan Demme, Milos Forman, William Friedkin and Martin Scorsese.
Newman and Fleischman have more than seven decades of experience and 13 Oscar nominations between them. »
- Michelle McCue
Academy to Present 40 Years of Sound for Film
1 March 2012 1:04 PM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council will present “40 Years of Sound for Film” on Tuesday, March 6, at 8 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Oscar®-winning sound mixers Chris Newman and Tom Fleischman will explore the intricacies of building a motion picture soundtrack using clips from such films as “Hugo,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The French Connection.”
The program will demonstrate how the raw tracks recorded on a set become part of the finished soundtrack through the collaboration of sound mixers, sound designers, sound effects editors and foley artists. Newman and Fleischman also will discuss how sound mixing has been influenced by advances in digital technology, and share stories of working with directors like Jonathan Demme, Milos Forman, William Friedkin and Martin Scorsese.
Newman and Fleischman have more than seven decades of experience and 13 Oscar nominations between them. »
- Josh Abraham
ABC’s Beauty and the Beast Pilot Casting Begins
29 February 2012 12:00 PM, PST | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Together we can do this; we can keep these Beauty and the Beast shows straight. As a quick reminder, the Beauty and the Beast pilot project by CBS Studios for The CW (sorry, I know that doesn’t help de-confuse) is the reboot of the 1980s TV series with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman.
The ABC Beauty and the Beast pilot is a “reimagining” of the classic tale. An easy way to remember? ABC is owned by Disney, who did the animated Beauty and the Beast and is doing Once Upon a Time, all of which is kinda based on the classic tale.
The ABC pilot is the show we’re talking about today. They have now cast several of the parts, and wow it the list runs the gamut from unknown to Oscar winner. It will help for you to know the storyline: roughly, an “embattled” princess, Grace (stop »
- Erin Willard
Makeup Maestro Dick Smith Takes Home an Honorary Oscar
27 February 2012 11:00 AM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
This year's Academy Awards was noticeably devoid of horror nominees, even in the technical catagories the genre normally excels in. But one name stuck out: Dick Smith. The Godfather of Makeup was awarded with an Honorary Oscar this year for his revolutionary techniques that influenced virtually everyone in special-effects makeup today. I myself dabbled in monster makeup for a number of years after coming across Smith's groundbreaking Do It Yourself Monster Make-Up book in the library. More after the jump. Smith won an Oscar in 1984 for Amadeus, but will be better known to FEARnet readers for creating Regan's demonic look in The Exorcist. Other projects out of his nearly 100 titles include The »
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