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DGA to honour Norman Jewison
2 December 2009 7:52 PM, PST
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The Directors Guild of America will honour director Norman Jewison with its 'Lifetime Achievement' award early next year, says Variety. The Moonstruck helmer will receive the prize at the 62nd annual DGA Awards on January 30 at the Century Plaza, La. Jewison will be the 33rd artist to be handed the gong. Past recipients include Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg. "He is an incredible filmmaker whose calm, affable manner (more)
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Norman Jewison Will Get DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
2 December 2009 7:33 AM, PST
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Norman Jewison, the Oscar-nominated director of In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, and Moonstruck will add another line to his resume on Jan. 30, when the Directors Guild of America gives him its lifetime achievement award. It's a fairly exclusive honor, too -- the DGA has been around for 73 years but only gives lifetime achievement awards occasionally. Jewison is the 33rd recipient; the last one was Clint Eastwood, in 2006.
Jewison, an 83-year-old Toronto native, is a somewhat unusual choice for the DGA in that he hasn't been active lately. The most recent recipients -- Eastwood, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola -- had all been working pretty regularly at the time of their awards, but Jewison has only made three theatrical features in the last 15 years: Bogus (1996), The Hurricane (1999), and The Statement (2003).
His past work is exemplary, though. In addition to the films I mentioned,
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- Eric D. Snider
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Free Flick Fridays: Moonstruck
22 October 2009 11:00 PM, PDT
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Moonstruck
Dir. Norman Jewison (1987)
Did Cher win Best Actress for this film?
Oh yes, yes she did. In a costume designed by Bob Mackie himself that made instant history. Working from a wonderful script by playwright John Patrick Shanley (who also won the Oscar, along with Cher's Mom Olympia Dukakis), director Norman Jewison takes you to Brooklyn and the world of Loretta Castorini (Cher), an Italian widow living with her parents, fated for a dutiful marriage with Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello).
And into this humdrum, drab future storms Johnny's estranged brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage), a brooding Brando of a wolf-man with a wooden hand who is operatic passion personified: 'Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect.
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tMF Oscarwatch: Nic Cage ready for his 3rd Oscar nom?
12 October 2009 6:40 AM, PDT
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I'm not impressed with a lot of Nic Cage's movies of late. It's so frustrating when you know he could have done better movies. The Nic Cage of today seems like a totally different actor from the Nic cage of yesteryears. I first saw him in Birdy, as Sergeant Al Columbato, an injured Vietnam vet who has a peculiar friend - Birdy, played by Matthew Modine. I love his performances in Guarding Tess, Moonstruck, Matchstick Men and Leaving Las Vegas.
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Perhaps his collaboration with Werner Herzog's in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans would mark the return of the real Nic Cage.
Remarked Michael Bialas @the HuffPost: Cage has made quite a career for himself in playing erratic characters (Matchstick Men, Vampire's Kiss) living on the edge. While his notorious movie meltdown scenes are legendary, he may even "over-the-top" himself in Bad Lieutenant.
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tMF Oscarwatch: Nic Cage ready for his 3rd Oscar nom?
12 October 2009 6:40 AM, PDT
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I'm not impressed with a lot of Nic Cage's movies of late. It's so frustrating when you know he could have done better movies. The Nic Cage of today seems like a totally different actor from the Nic cage of yesteryears. I first saw him in Birdy, as Sergeant Al Columbato, an injured Vietnam vet who has a peculiar friend - Birdy, played by Matthew Modine. I love his performances in Guarding Tess, Moonstruck, Matchstick Men and Leaving Las Vegas.
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Perhaps his collaboration with Werner Herzog's in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans would mark the return of the real Nic Cage.
Remarked Michael Bialas @the HuffPost: Cage has made quite a career for himself in playing erratic characters (Matchstick Men, Vampire's Kiss) living on the edge. While his notorious movie meltdown scenes are legendary, he may even "over-the-top" himself in Bad Lieutenant.
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Nic Cage ready for his 3rd Oscar nom?
12 October 2009 6:40 AM, PDT
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I'm not impressed with a lot of Nic Cage's movies of late. It's so frustrating when you know he could have done better movies. The Nic Cage of today seems like a totally different actor from the Nic cage of yesteryears. I first saw him in Birdy, as Sergeant Al Columbato, an injured Vietnam vet who has a peculiar friend - Birdy, played by Matthew Modine. I love his performances in Guarding Tess, Moonstruck, Matchstick Men and Leaving Las Vegas.
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Perhaps his collaboration with Werner Herzog's in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans would mark the return of the real Nic Cage.
Remarked Michael Bialas @the HuffPost: Cage has made quite a career for himself in playing erratic characters (Matchstick Men, Vampire's Kiss) living on the edge. While his notorious movie meltdown scenes are legendary, he may even "over-the-top" himself in Bad Lieutenant.
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Nic Cage ready for his 3rd Oscar nom?
12 October 2009 6:40 AM, PDT
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I'm not impressed with a lot of Nic Cage's movies of late. It's so frustrating when you know he could have done better movies. The Nic Cage of today seems like a totally different actor from the Nic cage of yesteryears. I first saw him in Birdy, as Sergeant Al Columbato, an injured Vietnam vet who has a peculiar friend - Birdy, played by Matthew Modine. I love his performances in Guarding Tess, Moonstruck, Matchstick Men and Leaving Las Vegas.
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Perhaps his collaboration with Werner Herzog's in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans would mark the return of the real Nic Cage.
Remarked Michael Bialas @the HuffPost: Cage has made quite a career for himself in playing erratic characters (Matchstick Men, Vampire's Kiss) living on the edge. While his notorious movie meltdown scenes are legendary, he may even "over-the-top" himself in Bad Lieutenant.
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Nic Cage ready for his 3rd Oscar nom?
12 October 2009 6:40 AM, PDT
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I'm not impressed with a lot of Nic Cage's movies of late. It's so frustrating when you know he could have done better movies. The Nic Cage of today seems like a totally different actor from the Nic cage of yesteryears. I first saw him in Birdy, as Sergeant Al Columbato, an injured Vietnam vet who has a peculiar friend - Birdy, played by Matthew Modine. I love his performances in Guarding Tess, Moonstruck, Matchstick Men and Leaving Las Vegas.
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Perhaps his collaboration with Werner Herzog's in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans would mark the return of the real Nic Cage.
Remarked Michael Bialas @the HuffPost: Cage has made quite a career for himself in playing erratic characters (Matchstick Men, Vampire's Kiss) living on the edge. While his notorious movie meltdown scenes are legendary, he may even "over-the-top" himself in Bad Lieutenant.
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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Tiff: Oscar Buzz Report
19 September 2009 2:19 PM, PDT
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Some of the winding down for the Toronto International Film Festival began mid-week, as the major films tend to be here for the first seven days. That said, I saw some very good pictures in the days that bring the fest to a close. I quite liked The Young Victoria, in which Emily Blunt gives a very fine performance as the young monarch in the days that shaped her as one of Britain’s greatest monarchs. Directed by Canada’s Jean-Marc Vallee, the picture has great momentum, but it is Blunt that carries the load throughout.
Vallee gave us the incredible Canadian film C.R.A.Z.Y. a few years back, a stunning study of a Montreal family that spans two decades and explores the ups and downs of their lives, the little victories and terrible tragedies that impact their lives. I would like to say that The Young Victoria
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- John Foote
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Toronto: Nicolas Cage makes an inspired 'Bad Lieutenant,' plus bad boy Michael Cera
15 September 2009 3:43 PM, PDT
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In his schlocky paycheck movies, of which there are way too many, Nicolas Cage often pumps up his energy in a false, blowhard way. He glowers and throws tantrums and over-italicizes his emotions, as if trying to prove to his audience (or maybe to himself) that he's still got it, that he really means it, man. He does the same thing in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog's demon-rich, loopy, fascinating, and improbably entertaining remake of the 1992 Abel Ferrara dark-side-of-everything cult classic. The difference is that Cage is now doing his strenuous, bug-eyed intensity thing in character.
He plays a New Orleans homicide detective named Terence McDonagh who gets hooked on drugs -- mostly cocaine and heroin -- and is always getting high, on the job and off. Unlike the Harvey Keitel character in Ferrera's film, McDonagh first comes to his addiction "innocently," when he's given
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- Owen Gleiberman
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Reviewing The Oldies: Vampire’s Kiss
25 August 2009 11:27 PM, PDT
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Think of a vampire. Picture it in your mind. The most iconic representations in cinema are no doubt conjured forth: Max Schrek with his long, spindly frame and rat-like visage or Bela Lugosi with his cape, Hungarian drawl and intense stare. Perhaps it is Sir Christopher Lee with his suave countenance, immaculate tailoring and graceful presence. Then again, there is Gary Oldman’s doomed-romantic Count Dracula. And there’s The Lost Boys and the Joss Whedon creation Angel: the lovelorn vampire with a wicked curse. Another very post-modern creature of the night (and day) is Edward Cullen (more likely in this year’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon to steal a girl’s heart than her blood).
Nobody would ever think of Nicolas Cage’s bizarre riff on this legendary creature in Robert Bierman’s film, Vampire’S Kiss. On a technicality, it can be argued the character is not a vampire.
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- Martyn Conterio
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Handicapping Project Runway Season 6
13 August 2009 11:24 AM, PDT
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After the long, bitter legal battle with Bravo, Project Runway Season 6 finally premieres on Lifetime next Thursday! What has two thumbs and is super excited, so much so that she has drafted a Project Runway Fantasy Team? This girl!
I have been a somewhat obsessive fan of the show from the start, and last year I thought it would be fun to recap the episodes on my personal blog. That didn't go so well, mainly because of the wine I consumed while viewing (leading to comments such as: "If Moonstruck-era Cher had a threesome with Ricky from My So-Called Life and one of those generic bodega bins of sherbet, this would be their love child." But really, it would. Look.) Also I tended to recap the show approximately 8 days later. But this year I am committed to being a
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- Una LaMarche
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Interview: Oscar Winner Olympia Dukakis at the Chicago Gabby Awards
7 July 2009 8:44 PM, PDT
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Chicago – The highlight of the Gabby Awards, the June 19th ceremony in Chicago honoring Greek Americans, was Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award.
In an emotional and memorable acceptance speech, Dukakis remembered her early childhood experiences and the lessons of her immigrant Greek parents. She also recalled a moment during the presidential campaign in 1988 of her cousin Michael Dukakis, where the two of them shared happy tears thinking of where they had both come and the family that allowed them to get there.
Olympia Dukakis at the Gabby Awards, Chicago, June 19, 2009.
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Olympia Dukakis is a longtime stage veteran who broke through in a big way at the age of 56 in her Oscar-winning turn as Cher’s mother in “Moonstruck” (1987). She followed that with significant film roles in “Steel Magnolias” (1988) and “Mr. Holland’s Opus” (1994), plus playing the
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Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker play elderly lesbians in love
2 July 2009 1:00 PM, PDT
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Brenda Fricker — who you may remember as Central Park Pigeon Lady from the much-lauded Home Alone 2 — and Olympia Dukakis are set to star in the forthcoming film Cloudburst, about a lesbian couple that decides to bust out of a nursing home to take a road trip to Canada.
Cloudburst is being billed as a comedy, but there's a poignant undertone: The women, who have been together for 30 years, plot their escape and subsequent trip to Canada because they want to be married before either of them dies.
See how I'm already weeping? There's no way I'll be able to sit through this movie.
Well played on the gender-bender tux, Brenda Fricker. Congratulations, you're ready to play a dyke!
On their way to Canada, the women pick up a young hitchhiker, which of course make me thing the alternate title of Cloudburst could be Thelma and Louise: What If They Survived The Fall?
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Streep Noms, #6 (1985)
26 June 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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A Note: I will be returning to reviewing Streep movies soon but for now let's return to discussing Streep's competitive Oscar fields. I'll try to wrap up the 80s pictures very soon. I knew this month would be Streep heavy I had no idea how mired down in the 80s nostalgia we'd get. See also: Farrah & Michael Jackson.
1985
Six Oscar nominations is a lot for anyone but what is perhaps even more impressive / serendipitous about Meryl Streep's 1985 accomplishment is that Out of Africa, a big hit and Oscar champ, was her third Best Picture winner in seven years. That's quite rare. She would go on to lose Best Actress to Geraldine Page who was, at that time, the most nominated performer (8) never to have won the golden boy (Peter O'Toole now holds the record since he lost on his 8th nomination). Page died a scant 15 months later at 62 years of age.
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Cher Joins Christina Aguilera In ‘Burlesque’
23 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT
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Call it a hunch, but I think “Burlesque” already has its place in film history set. Not only will it be the acting debut of Christina Aguilera, but the modern musical has signed on the music icon of all icons: the one and only Cher. Yeah. It’s going to be flamboyant.
According to Variety, Aguilera will play an ambitious small-town girl fresh from the cornfields of Iowa. Possessing one heck of a voice (hey, it’s Aguilera) she goes West to pursue her singing and dancing dreams. The aspiring star winds up in a neo-burlesque club on Sunset Boulevard that’s run by Tess (Cher), a former dancer who struggles to keep the club open and gives the young girl a chance to become a star.
The film will be a career first for the “Moonstruck” Oscar winner, as it will be the first time she uses her singing
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Cher Joins Aguilera's 'Burlesque' but Not Before She's a Voice in the Zoo
22 June 2009 11:42 PM, PDT
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Who would have thought one day could actually bring two bits of casting news regarding Cher? Cher, the woman that won an Oscar for Best Actress for Moonstruck back in 1988. Cher, the woman whose face I saw plastered all over Las Vegas when I was down there this past March. Cher, the woman that has now landed a role opposite Christina Aguilera in the upcoming musical Burlesque while at the same time she lays her voice down for Kevin James's comedy The Zookeeper.
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you Cher!
First off, Variety reports Cher will take on her first feature acting role in a decade (Tea With Mussolini in 1999) as Tess in the contemporary musical Burlesque starring Christina Aguilera as an ambitious small-town Iowa girl with a big voice who comes of age in a neo-burlesque club on Sunset Boulevard that's run by Tess, a former dancer who
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- Brad Brevet
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Doubt DVD Release: Interview with John Patrick Shanley
29 April 2009 8:43 AM, PDT
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Doubt has arrived on DVD from Miramax Home Video with a Director's Commentary from John Patrick Shanley, plus four featurettes: "Scoring Doubt," "The Cast of Doubt," "The Sisters of Charity," and "Doubt: From Stage to Screen." Here is Terry Keefe's in-depth interview with writer-director John Patrick Shanley which originally appeared in the December 2008 issue of Venice Magazine.
A Conversation with John Patrick Shanley on the making of Doubt, the origins of Moonstruck, and the dire fate of his first novel.
By Terry Keefe
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 21 years since John Patrick Shanley’s screenplay for Moonstruck made a whole generation of moviegoers want to move to Little Italy, marry Cher or Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello even, and look for the mythical Cosmo’s Moon. The young Shanley had already been having a good career run at that point, with a number of successful Off-Broadway plays,
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Is There Smoke? Can There be a Smokeless Fire? -- Dellamorte reviews John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt on Blu-ray
12 April 2009
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Written by Andre Dellamorte
John Patrick Shanley got a number of raw deals. His absolutely delightful Joe Vs. The Volcano was a picture out of time. Sure, Shanley had his Oscar for the script of Moonstruck, but Joe was box office poison, partly because people didn’t know what to make of it. Now, especially with the help of supporters like Drew McWeeny, Mike D’Angelo and Nathan Rabin, the film has at least emerged for movies fans as something to track down. Shanley also suffered from debilitating glaucoma, which nearly left him blind. Such would keep him from directing.
But in 2008, he returned to the big screen with an adaptation of his play Doubt. It received five Oscar nominations, showing that the Academy still salutes the theater, and Shanley. Some found it stagey, but such is the narrative. There’s no scrim, but the
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"Doubt" - Blu-ray review. Bonus features are limited as would be expected but extremely intuitive.
7 April 2009
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"Doubt" Blu-ray Reviewby Peter Dimako, Editor
The “Doubt” Blu-ray review. By Peter Dimako, Editor“Doubt” is a powerfully acted drama which moves along at a good pace considering the heavy material, making the film easy to watch. John Patrick Shanley returns to the helm after an eighteen year hiatus; his last film “Joe vs. The Volcano” was on the opposite side of the genre spectrum; an adventurous comedy with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The director helms and adapts the screenplay based on his own play.Meryl Streep undoubtedly dominates the screen, overpowering Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams’ performances. Oscar®-nominated for her part, Streep stars as Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a nun known for her fear-driven, stern running of the St. Nicholas School in the Bronx. It’s 1964, a time of change and the school has accepted its first black student in Donald Miller (Joseph Foster).Father Brendan Flynn
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