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A life in the arts: Simon Callow
23 December 2011 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
'I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor'
'Dickens was the most gorgeous person you could possibly meet. He was just amazingly affable. Your day would be absolutely made if you bumped into Dickens. More than that, he possessed the power to make you funnier and more attractive. He would laugh so generously that he actually empowered you. What a gift. No wonder that even during his lifetime people knew he was one of the immortals."
Simon Callow is explaining a lifelong fascination that has led him to write about Charles Dickens, to adapt his work, and to play the man – twice in episodes of Doctor Who alone – as well as his characters on both stage and screen. It is an engagement that reaches something of a culmination next year with the Dickens bicentenary, when Callow will publish a new book about »
- Nicholas Wroe
Casting News: Franco, Serralles, Walker
20 December 2011 10:51 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
James Franco is in talks while Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have all joined the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's "Lovelace" at Millennium Films which begins filming today in Los Angeles.
Amanda Seyfried is set to play porn star Linda Lovelace. Franco is up for a cameo as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Azaria will play the director of Lovelace's most famous film "Deep Throat",
Cannavale and Noth will play the film’s financiers, and Patrick will play Lovelace’s father. Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple also star. [Source: Deadline]
Stage veteran Jeanine Serralles ("Two Lovers," "Across the Universe") has joined the cast while "Amadeus" star F. Murray Abraham is circling the role of legendary manager Bud Grossman in Joel and Ethan Coen's folk music pic "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Set amid the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, »
- Garth Franklin
Casting News: Franco, Serralles, Walker
20 December 2011 10:51 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
James Franco is in talks while Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have all joined the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's "Lovelace" at Millennium Films which begins filming today in Los Angeles.
Amanda Seyfried is set to play porn star Linda Lovelace. Franco is up for a cameo as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Azaria will play the director of Lovelace's most famous film "Deep Throat",
Cannavale and Noth will play the film’s financiers, and Patrick will play Lovelace’s father. Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple also star. [Source: Deadline]
Stage veteran Jeanine Serralles ("Two Lovers," "Across the Universe") has joined the cast while "Amadeus" star F. Murray Abraham is circling the role of legendary manager Bud Grossman in Joel and Ethan Coen's folk music pic "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Set amid the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, »
- Garth Franklin
My favourite film: Amadeus
20 December 2011 7:48 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
David Shariatmadari continues our writers' favourite film series with Milos Forman's opulent tale of Mozart and his rival
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There are films that take your breath away before they've even begun. The first four minutes of Milos Forman's Amadeus – the credits, in fact – contain more drama and pathos than many directors manage in 120. The scene is Vienna, a winter's night in the 1820s. From somewhere inside a grand apartment a man screams "Mozart!" as the snow billows outside. "Forgive your assassin!" He is answered, first by a great dismal chord from the last act of Don Giovanni, then by two servants, who are bringing the cream cakes they hope will shut him up, but end up breaking the down the door. Inside they find their master has slit his throat, »
- David Shariatmadari
The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis Adds Jeanine Serralles, F. Murray Abraham Circling
19 December 2011 4:52 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
The career of F. Murray Abraham has always somewhat puzzled me. An Oscar winner for his absolutely brilliant work in Milos Forman's Amadeus, Abraham's career over the last 27 years has largely consisted of small roles and mediocre films that fail to compare to titles early in his filmmography, like All The President's Men and Serpico. But do you know who could turn that around in a heartbeat? The Coen brothers. Variety has learned that Joel and Ethan Coen are circling F. Murray Abraham for a role in the upcoming Inside Llewyn Davis. Loosely based on the life and times of '60s folk singer Dave Van Ronk, the film is already set to star Oscar Isaac as the titular talented musician trying to make it big in New York. The cast also includes Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, and John Goodman. The new report also says that Jeanine Serralles, best »
F. Murray Abraham and Jeanine Serralles Board ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
19 December 2011 4:11 PM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Has it really been over 2 1/2 months since there was news on Inside Llewyn Davis? I guess that no longer matters, as Variety reports that both F. Murray Abraham and Jeanine Serralles have either jumped on or are in talks for Joel and Ethan Coen‘s music-centered film. The former, best known for his starring role in Amadeus — and, for the six-year-old in me, Jumanji — is negotiating to play “Bud Grossman, a legendary manager.” Serralles‘ part hasn’t been detailed, but a background in theater — as well as a previous role in Across the Universe — leads me to think that a folk musician role is planned.
The film centers on the titular lead, played by Oscar Isaac, who “struggles as a folk musician during the genre’s 1960s heyday in New York City.” Also in the cast are Justin Timberlake as a folk musician, Jim; Carey Mulligan as his wife; and John Goodman, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Stage Actress Jeanine Serralles Joins Coen Bros' Folk Music Movie 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' F. Murray Abraham Circling Too
19 December 2011 3:56 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Well, the cast for the Coen Brothers' forthcoming music world drama "Inside Llewyn Davis," has added another interesting name, with Variety reporting that stage actress Jeanine Serralles has joined the production. The actress previously had parts in James Gray's wildly underrated "Two Lovers" and Julie Taymor's jaw-dropping (in a bad way) "Across the Universe." She joins a cast that already includes Coen film regular John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan, in the period film about the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the 1960s. She's not the only theater vet who looks likely to get involved; legendary Shakespearean actor F. Murray Abraham, best known for his Oscar win as Best Actor for the role of Salieri in "Amadeus," is in talks to play Bud Grossman, a legendary folk manager. It's a while since we've seen Abraham on our cinema screens ("Thir13en Ghosts" is the major one. »
Václav Havel Dead at 75: Former Czech President Directed One Movie, Played Bit Parts
18 December 2011 1:16 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Former Czech Republic president Václav Havel died from respiratory problems earlier today. Havel, who had been a heavy smoker, was 75.
Besides his role as a political dissident during the Communist regime and as a representative of Czechoslovakia's transition from Communist rule to economically and politically troubled constitutional democracy, Havel was also a playwright.
A number of his plays were filmed for television throughout the '80s and '90s. In 2011, Havel himself directed for the big screen an adaptation of his play Leaving, which was released in the Czech Republic in March. Making clear allusions to Havel himself and to his nemesis and successor, Czech president Vaclav Klaus, Leaving is a dramatic comedy about a once-popular chancellor (played by veteran Josef Abrhám) whose fortunes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse. As a result, he must vacate his posh official residence so his successor, Vlastik Klein (Jaroslav Dusek), can move in. »
- Andre Soares
Anniversaries: Mozart's Requiem Premiered at His Funeral 220 Years Ago
9 December 2011 9:35 PM, PST | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
On December 10, 1791, after Mozart had died five days earlier at age 35, there was a memorial service in Vienna, and for the first time some of his Requiem was performed. It was not noted then what parts were played, but H.C. Robbins Landon, who has studied the Requiem completion in some depth and made his own edition, makes the obvious nomination: the movements that Mozart had largely completed, the Introit (Requiem aeternam), which was fully finished, and the Kyrie, for which Mozart had written all the vocal parts and the basso continuo, and which thus needed only the orchestration, which was accomplished at least well enough for that first performance by Franz Jakob Freystädtler (a student of Mozart's) doubling the choral parts with instrumentation, while another student of Mozart's, Franz Xaver Sűssmayr, composed original parts for trumpets and timpani.
Jan Swafford recently wrote, "Like most composers of the Enlightenment, »
- SteveHoltje
The musical legacy of Ken Russell: composers' marble busts made flesh and blood
28 November 2011 5:22 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
John Bridcut on Ken Russell, a film-maker who 'resisted the facts getting in the way of his visual imagination'
The wild visual imagination of Ken Russell brought classical music to a whole new audience, and made his name notorious in respectable musical circles. His feature films about composers went straight for the jugular – sometimes almost literally, as in his blood-soaked Mahler. He loved the music, but he also loved the sex. He sold the idea of The Music Lovers on the basis that it was a story about a nymphomaniac who fell in love with a homosexual, and sure enough the film opens in a bedroom, with an unbridled romp between Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky and Christopher Gable as his lover.
His films on Liszt, Debussy, Richard Strauss and Wagner all involved sexual fantasy, to the dismay and outrage of people who took the music rather more seriously. Each one made headlines, »
John Travolta, Kelly Preston Photo: Governors Awards 2011
23 November 2011 3:32 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
John Travolta, Kelly Preston Oscar-nominated actor John Travolta and actress Kelly Preston, Travolta's wife, attend the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.] James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope, the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree, as he's co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage; veteran makeup artist Dick Smith (Amadeus, The Sentinel, Taxi Driver), however, was present at the ceremony to receive his Honorary Oscar. TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey, a 1985 Best Supporting Actress nominee for the Steven Spielberg movie The Color Purple, was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. John Travolta has received two Best Actor nominations, for Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994). Other film credits include Primary Colors, Blow Out, Mad City, Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Staying Alive, The Punisher, Hairspray, From Paris with Love, »
- D. Zhea
Glenn Close, Janet McTeer Photo: Governors Awards 2011
17 November 2011 3:38 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Glenn Close, Janet McTeer Actress Janet McTeer and Oscar-nominated Actress Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs' two "masculine" women, pose for the camera at the 2011 Governors Awards held in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.] Actor James Earl Jones (Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Great White Hope) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree; makeup artist Dick Smith (Amadeus, Sweet Home), however, was present at the ceremony to receive his Honorary Oscar. Oprah Winfrey, Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Glenn Close already has five Oscar nominations to her credit: as Best Supporting Actress for The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, and The Natural, and as Best Actress for Fatal Attraction, and Dangerous Liaisons. She is a likely Best Actress contender for the 2012 Oscar for her performance as a »
- D. Zhea
Dick Smith Photo: Honorary Oscar Recipient/Makeup Veteran (The Exorcist, The Godfather)
15 November 2011 11:16 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Dick Smith Linda Blair introduced the presentation of the Honorary Award to veteran makeup artist Dick Smith. Back in 1973, Smith transformed Blair into an iconic movie "monster" in William Friedkin's blockbuster The Exorcist. Among Dick Smith's other movie credits are Otto Preminger's The Cardinal, Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Tony Scott's The Hunger, and Milos Forman's Amadeus. Also, The World of Henry Orient, House of Dark Shadows, The Sunshine Boys, Altered States, The Deer Hunter, Starman, Ghost Story, Dad, Death Becomes Her, and House on Haunted Hill. The Governors Awards ceremony took place in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood on Saturday, Nov. 12. Dick Smith photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S. »
- D. Zhea
James Earl Jones, The Exorcist Makeup Artist Dick Smith Receive Honorary Oscars
14 November 2011 11:23 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
James Earl Jones, Mary J. Blige James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, and Dick Smith were honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the ballroom adjacent to Hollywood & Highland's Kodak Theatre. Jones, a Best Actor nominee for The Great White Hope (1970), and Smith, Oscar-winning makeup artist for Amadeus (with Paul LeBlanc), were the recipients of the Honorary Award, the Academy's equivalent of the Career or Lifetime Achievement Award. Winfrey was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work alongside various charities. Jones, 80, had to accept his Honorary Oscar from London — via a pre-taped ceremony — where he is starring opposite Vanessa Redgrave in a stage production of Driving Miss Daisy. "I am gobsmacked at this improbable moment in my life," Jones remarked. "You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. »
- Andre Soares
2011 Governors Awards Arrival & Ceremony Photos
13 November 2011 11:53 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Last night, the Academy presented Honorary Awards to actor James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to philanthropist Oprah Winfrey at the 3rd Annual Governors Awards dinner at the Grand Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland Center in California.
Click Here to watch the 2011 Governors Awards Video Highlights.
To honor James Earl Jones, aka Darth Vader, Star Wars stormtroopers and Academy President Tom Sherak introduced the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom. Sherak remarked, “How was your week?” in reference to the exit of producer Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy and the replacement of new host Billy Crystal and producer Brian Grazer.
Oscar®-nominated Actress Glenn Close spoke as part of the award presentation to Honorary Award recipient James Earl Jones. The actor was presented with his award on stage in London at the Wyndham Theater, where he is starring in “Driving Miss Daisy” with Vanessa Redgrave. »
- Michelle McCue
Viola Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Alec Baldwin Attend Governors Awards
13 November 2011 9:00 AM, PST | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Getty Actress Viola Davis arrives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 3rd Annual Governors Awards on November 12, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
The third annual Governors Awards, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, celebrated the achievements of three new Oscar recipients Saturday night while simultaneously helping the Academy distance itself from a stress-filled week.
Actor James Earl Jones and make-up artist Dick Smith were both presented with honorary Oscars and media mogul and philanthropist »
- Michelle Kung
Godfather of Make-Up Dick Smith Recognized with Honorary Academy Award
12 November 2011 9:55 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
One of the heroes of our genre has been honored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science. Dick Smith, who has rightfully been sired with the title of the Godfather of Makeup, was given an honorary Governor's Academy Award for his unparalleled contributions to the field of makeup in the film industry.
As he was always a behind-the-scenes guy, let me catch you up on just what Dick Smith is responsible for creating. Does the name Regan MacNeil mean anything to you? That's right, Smith transformed cute little Linda Blair into the beast that launched 1,000 nightmares in The Exorcist. For me, that alone is enough to grant the man the all-time title, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. Smith shared an Oscar in 1984 for transforming F. Murray Abraham from his 40's to his 80's in Amadeus and was nominated again for morphing Jack Lemmon from a »
- Doctor Gash
Roland Emmerich: Appetite for deconstruction
27 October 2011 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Why is Roland Emmerich, purveyor of disaster-movie schlock, wading into the debate over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays?
Roland Emmerich knows there's a subtext to the compliment when people tell him they like his new film, Anonymous. "Were my other movies so bad?" asks the Stuttgart-born director in his clipped Teutonic accent. But it's not so much that those other movies were bad – it's that they bore almost no resemblance to reality. In the last 15 years Emmerich has presided over an alien invasion (Independence Day), the trashing of New York (Godzilla) and the end of the world not once but twice (The Day After Tomorrow and 2012). So it comes as quite a surprise that his latest project, though just as rich in CGI, is quite an intelligent, if somewhat broad historical drama that portrays William Shakespeare as a drunk and posits the Earl of Oxford as the true genius of English literature. »
- Damon Wise
Tom Stoppard pens Shakespeare in Love stage adaptation
24 October 2011 5:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Stoppard, who co-wrote the award-winning 1998 film, will adapt script for London theatre show with help of Disney, according to reports
Tom Stoppard is adapting Shakespeare in Love for the stage, according to industry magazine Variety.
Though no timetable has been set, the play is believed to be aiming to open in London, supported by a partnership between Disney and veteran producer Sonia Friedman.
Tony award-winner Jack O'Brien, whose credits include stage productions of Hairspray and The Full Monty, will direct. He previously directed the Broadway runs of two of Stoppard's plays: The Invention of Love and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, both of which originated at the National Theatre.
Both productions were designed by Bob Crowley, who will return for Shakespeare in Love.
Stoppard co-wrote the 1998 film, which starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, with Marc Nolan. It went on to win seven Academy awards, including best picture. Paltrow was named best actress, »
- Matt Trueman
Michael Sheen: 'There have been times when I would have loved to be more of a star'
24 October 2011 3:07 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Famous for playing Tony Blair in three different films, as well as David Frost and Brian Clough, he is about to play Hamlet at the Young Vic. Yet the Welsh actor still remains practically anonymous
It is a source of unending amazement to me that so many celebrities regard an interview as an opportunity to boast about their brilliance, in the belief that this will convince readers they are brilliant. This is not a mistake Michael Sheen is in any danger of making.
The scruffy figure draws no stares or sideways glances when he arrives in the bar of the Young Vic theatre in central London. He looks smiley and unguarded, and so unlike a star that, for a split second, I panic that maybe I have greeted the wrong man. Sheen is famous for playing Tony Blair in three separate films, as well as David Frost in Frost/Nixon, »
- Decca Aitkenhead
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