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Cannes 2012: Paul Schrader to Pen Script for Russian Ballerina Biopic (Exclusive)
17 May 2012 2:49 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Cannes -- Writer-director Paul Schrader will write the story of the adored and reviled Russian prima ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, a mistress to the last Russian tsar described by producers as "the ultimate femme fatale." Photos: Cannes 2012: Competition Lineup Features 'Cosmopolis,' 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Killing Them Softly' The biopic -- which is being financed by a Kremlin-backed fund -- is being produced by Russian comedian, pop singer and TV host Vladimir Vinokur and Russian ballet impresario Vladislav Moskalev in collaboration with American producers David Weisman (Kiss of the Spider Woman) and Anatoly Davydov. The movie, the first time a
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- Georg Szalai
The 2012 Seattle Film Festival Line-Up is the Best I've Seen in Years
27 April 2012 12:07 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see. »
- Brad Brevet
Jean Dujardin: Cannes & Oscar Winner
19 April 2012 5:50 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin, Uggie Jean Dujardin backstage getting licked by Uggie during the 84th Academy Awards Awards ceremony held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26, 2012. Jean Dujardin was the year's Best Actor winner for his performance as a fading silent-film star in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. Uggie was a Golden Collar winner for his star-making turn as the fading silent star's faithful animal companion. Now, months before Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an Oscar in the acting categories, he had already been chosen as the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Though not a common occurrence — chiefly because Cannes winners are usually non-Americans performing in non-English-speaking roles — there have been a number of Cannes Best Actor / Best Actress winners who went on to win or be nominated for Oscars. Those include Christoph Waltz for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, William Hurt for Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman, »
- Andre Soares
The Host Teaser Trailer
22 March 2012 4:58 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, The Host "The Earth is at peace. There are no wars. There's no hunger," intones Saoirse Ronan in The Host's teaser trailer (see below). "Honesty, courtesy and kindness are practiced by all. The world has never been more perfect. It is no longer your world." Indeed, it's not. In my world there are wars and hunger. Dishonesty, rudeness, and viciousness are practiced by way too many. So, what's the problem with The Host's perfect world? Well, things are perfect for the same reason that things are kinda perfect in Don Siegel's The Invasion of the Body Snatchers: human beings have been taken over by alien invaders known as Souls. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (In Time, Gattaca), The Host stars Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (for Atonement) as Melanie, a young woman possessed by a Soul named Wanderer. The problem is that »
- Andre Soares
Jean Dujardin: First Actor Oscar/Cannes/BAFTA/Golden Globe
8 March 2012 3:00 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin made film-award history after he won the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as a fading silent-film matinee idol in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. But before I proceed, I must say that those who compare Dujardin with former Best Actor Oscar winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful, 1998) should watch more French and Italian films. The comparison is ludicrous. What Dujardin and Benigni have in common is that they've both made comedies and neither one of them speaks very good English. That's it. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Anyhow, Jean Dujardin was a first-time Academy Award nominee. His Best Actor competition consisted of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and Brad Pitt for Moneyball. As a result of his victory, Dujardin »
- Andre Soares
The 25 Sexiest Best Actor Winners Ever
23 February 2012 3:33 PM, PST | BestWeekEver | See recent BestWeekEver news »
The 84th Annual Academy Awards (or, as we country folks call it, The Oscars) will air this Sunday evening live from Los Angeles. 84th Annual. Do you know what that means? That adds up to 84 years of mostly attractive, wealthy people getting handed awards. And one thing even a blind person with an unusually high sex drive would admit: This year’s Best Actor nominees are some of the sexiest yet. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Hot French Dude, Gary Oldman, Hot Mexican Dude. If I were a professional writer on the internet and this was 2008, one might even call them the “nom-nom-nominees.” It’s safe to say that Sunday’s Best Actor winner will also simultaneously be hot as sh*t. But this isn’t the very first time in history that a handsome man has taken home the big prize. After hours scouring through the Best Actor winners over the past 80ish years, »
- Michelle Collins
Oscars Myth Busting: Do presenters have a connection to the winner?
23 February 2012 10:15 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Put down those Pop Rocks and Diet Cokes. We’ve got some A-list myths to examine! Ahead of this Sunday’s Oscars, we’ll be taking a look at some of the most famous myths to rise out of the annual awards ceremony. Want to know if being nude will get you a Best Actress statue? Or if the Best Supporting Actress trophy is indeed a curse? You’re in luck – we’ll be investigating one Oscars-related urban legend each day this week. Today, we’ll see if we can bust the presenter-winner nepotism myth: Over the past 25 years, has everyone been as connected as, »
- Lanford Beard
Oscar Myth Busting: Will playing gay nab you gold?
22 February 2012 10:15 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Put down those Pop Rocks and Diet Cokes. We’ve got some A-list myths to examine! Ahead of this Sunday’s Oscars, we’ll be taking a look at some of the most famous myths to rise out of the annual awards ceremony. Want to know if being nude will get you a Best Actress statue? Or if the Best Supporting Actress trophy is indeed a curse? You’re in luck – we’ll be investigating one Oscars-related urban legend each day this week. Today, we investigate whether playing a gay character will automatically get you a statue. In the past 25 years, »
- Sandra Gonzalez
"Smash" 102: “You Got It. You're Marilyn!”
14 February 2012 6:13 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Wow, I'm surprised, that was so fast. I really thought that the selection process for the starring role in Marilyn: The Musical would stretch out over several weeks. But by the end of tonight's episode, we will have our Marilyn Monroe.
We open on Karen onstage singing the Blondie hit “Call Me” to an audience that includes Ellis, Tom, Julia, Eileen and Derek.
So, obviously a fantasy sequence, which is lucky because “Call Me” is entirely not a Katharine McPhee song. Karen snaps out of it at her waitressing job, stressed because it's been four days since the callback with no word. “I wish they'd just call me,” she tells her co-worker. I see what you did there, Smash!
The very people for whose call Karen is waiting are gathered in Eileen's office, hashing over their two choices. Tom is pushing hard for Ivy while Derek is championing Karen. Tom extols Ivy's singing, »
- fakename
'Grimm' preview: Cult pop fave Amy Acker plays a fairy tale spider-woman that you don't want to miss... or kiss.
10 February 2012 8:46 AM, PST | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
A pop culture week that began with a sneak peek at Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man comes to a close with a scary-fun hour of Grimm (NBC, 9/8c) that could be called “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Actually, the episode is entitled “Tarantella” and it features actress Amy Acker — a cult pop fave best known for her work in Angel and Alias — as a femme fatale who happens to be an enchanted arachnid known as a “spinnetod.” Said creatures suffer from a rapid-aging condition that can only be managed by killing and feasting on young men via a process that involves perhaps the grossest, »
- Jeff Jensen
Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton To Star In Double Feature
2 February 2012 1:23 PM, PST | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Thursday, February 2, 2012 – Santa Monica…. Academy Award®-nominee Jessica Chastain (The Help, The Tree of Life) and Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Wish You Were Here) have signed on to star in a double-feature film project for Myriad Pictures: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers. The love story explores a New York City couple’s relationship during a difficult time in their marriage, from the different perspective of the husband, (Edgerton), a restaurant owner, and of the wife (Chastain), who goes back to college. Academy Award® ‐ winner and 5-time nominee William Hurt (The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Syriana) is in discussion to join the cast. Ned Benson (In Defiance of Gravity) wrote the two scripts and will direct both films. Cassandra Kulukundis (A Late Quartet, In Defiance of Gravity) is producing. Kulukundis is also Casting Director (There Will Be Blood, Shattered Glass). Kirk D’Amico, »
- MIKE FLEMING
Chastain and Edgerton Join Double Feature The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
2 February 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Academy Award-nominee Jessica Chastain ( The Help , The Tree of Life ) and Joel Edgerton ( Warrior ) have signed on to star in a double-feature film project for Myriad Pictures: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers . The love story explores a New York City couple.s relationship during a difficult time in their marriage, from the different perspective of the husband, (Edgerton), a restaurant owner, and of the wife (Chastain), who goes back to college. Academy Award-winner and 5-time nominee William Hurt ( The Kiss of the Spider Woman , Syriana ) is in discussion to join the cast. Ned Benson ( In Defiance of Gravity ) wrote the two scripts and will direct both films. Cassandra Kulukundis ( A Late Quartet , In Defiance of »
Congrats, Christopher Plummer: Playing gay + dying = Oscar
31 January 2012 5:52 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Christopher Plummer looks like a good bet to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for several reasons. He gives a critically hailed performance in "Beginners," he's a beloved veteran overdue for academy glory and – perhaps most important – he's a straight actor portraying a gay man who dies a hideous death on screen. That last factor seems to be a slam-dunk way to snag an Oscar these days. No openly gay or lesbian actor has ever won an Academy Award for portraying a Lbgt role on screen, but straight actors get rewarded for showing the guts to do so – as long as the characters come to a tragic end. William Hurt was the first star to win for a lavender role. In "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1985), his character Molina – a flamboyant, movie-obsessed prison inmate – gets shot and his body is hurled into a dumpster. Getting shot is also the »
3 Reasons Why Cinema About Cinema Has Become So Popular
25 January 2012 12:38 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Every once in a while a director will use their fame to pay tribute to the medium they love. Federico Fellini’s 8½ is perhaps the most famous example of a film about film: the title alludes to the number of completed works Fellini had made up to that point. These kinds of films, which tread the fine line between self-reflexive and self-absorbed, tend to come along every once in a while and attract a certain amount of critical adulation. With the exception of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, which prompted moral outrage in the British press, works like Kiss of the Spider Woman and Cinema Paradiso are regarded as artistic, personal works which are unlikely to trouble the box office.
But in the last couple of years, there has been a veritable influx of films about films which is coming to a head in the 2012 awards season. Cast your minds »
- Daniel Mumby
William Hurt Photo: Golden Globes 2012 Red Carpet
16 January 2012 3:03 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
William Hurt and guest Actor William Hurt, nominated for Best Actor in a Television Miniseries or Movie for his role in HBO's Too Big to Fail, and guest attend the 69th Annual Golden Globes Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Hurt's competition consisted of eventual winner Idris Elba for Luther, in addition to Hugh Bonneville for Downton Abbey, Bill Nighy for Page Eight, and Dominic West for The Hour. William Hurt won a Best Actor Academy Award in early 1986 for his performance as an imprisoned drag queen in Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman, with Raul Julia. Hurt received two other Best Actor Oscar nominations: for Randa Haines' Children of a Lesser God, opposite Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, and for James L. Brooks' Broadcast News, with Holly Hunter and this year's Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe nominee Albert Brooks. Nearly two decades later, »
- D. Zhea
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch
10 January 2012 10:35 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Bob Hoskins, Jessica Rabbit in Robert Zemeckis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Who Framed Roger Rabbit (top); Willem Dafoe in Martin Scorsese's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated The Last Temptation of Christ (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1970s: Odd Men Out Bob Fosse, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman 1980 DGA Michael Apted, Coal Miner's Daughter AMPAS Roman Polanski, Tess DGA/AMPAS Robert Redford, Ordinary People David Lynch, The Elephant Man Richard Rush, The Stunt Man Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull 1981 DGA/AMPAS Warren Beatty, Reds Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire Louis Malle, Atlantic City Mark Rydell, On Golden Pond Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982 DGA Taylor Hackford, An Officer and a Gentleman AMPAS Sidney Lumet, The Verdict DGA/AMPAS Richard Attenborough, Gandhi Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot Sydney Pollack, Tootsie Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1983 DGA Lawrence Kasdan, The Big Chill Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff AMPAS Mike Nichols, »
- Andre Soares
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Foreign, Small, Controversial Movies Have Better Luck at the Oscars
9 January 2012 3:41 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The DGA Awards vs. the Academy Awards: Usually But Not Always a Match. [Photo: Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris.] Since 1970, when the DGA instituted the five-nominee limit, a mere ten directors of (at least mostly) non-English-language films have received DGA nods: Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties, 1976), Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, 1982), Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander, 1983), Lasse Hallström (My Life As a Dog, 1987), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, 1990), Michael Radford (Il Postino / The Postman, 1995), Robert Benigni (Life Is Beautiful, 1998), Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000), Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), and Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 2009). The above list can be expanded to twelve if you include Bernardo Bertolucci for Last Tango in Paris, which has a sizable amount of English dialogue, and Michel Hazanavicius' French-made but Hollywood-set The Artist. During that same period (excepting 2011, as Oscar nominations will be announced only later this month), 21 directors of non-English-language films received Academy Award nominations. (Twenty-two if you »
- Andre Soares
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