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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Appoints Agnieszka Holland as Jury President, Honors Oliver Stone
23 April 2013 11:39 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
The 48th Annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czech Republic announced today that American auteur Oliver Stone will be honored with the Crystal Globe Award for outstanding artistic contributions to world cinema. While Stone's last film was the less-than-outstanding "Savages" in 2012, the writer-director has won three Oscars and helmed many memorable classic films, from "Salvador," "Born on the Fourth of July," and "Platoon" to "Nixon," "JFK" and "Wall Street." In addition, thrice-Oscar nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland (holocaust drama "In Darkness") will serve as president of the jury. Holland and her jury will give out Crystal Globe Awards for Best Feature, Actor, Actress, Director and a Special Jury Prize. The festival runs June 28 to July 6, and the lineup will be announced in June. »
- Ryan Lattanzio
'Oblivion': 5 things to know about Tom Cruise's sci-fi gamble
19 April 2013 5:29 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Tom Cruise could really use a box office hit right about now and "Oblivion" might be the film to do the trick. Already a success overseas, the sci-fi mindbender opens in the U.S. just two weeks ahead of the official summer movie season's launch with "Iron Man 3."
It's not just Cruise who could use a hit after a string of recent disappointments, but also the entire movie industry. So far the year has produced only three real hits ("Oz," "The Croods" and "Identity Thief") and a few modest overachievers ("Olympus Has Fallen," "Mama," "Safe Haven"), to say nothing of the even more troubling dearth of movies that are actually, you know, good.
The quick take on "Oblivion" is "great visuals, not-so-great story," but it's worth saying a little more about this ambitious piece of sci-fi filmmaking from director Joseph Kosinski ("Tron: Legacy").
Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Oliver Stone: 'America always wins'
15 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Oliver Stone got so sick of always reading the sanitised version of Us history that he decided to write his own. He talks about the real reason America dropped the atom bomb, how Kennedy is a hero and why he can't stand Hillary Clinton
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing »
- Stuart Jeffries
Oliver Stone: 'America always wins'
15 April 2013 10:51 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Oliver Stone got so sick of always reading the sanitised version of Us history that he decided to write his own. He talks about the real reason America dropped the atom bomb, how Kennedy is a hero and why he can't stand Hillary Clinton
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing »
- Stuart Jeffries
James Bond, James Cameron Slammed by Oliver Stone, but Director Likes George Clooney Movies
11 April 2013 3:33 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
In case you hadn't noticed, Oliver Stone likes to get fired up over politics. And when politics and film cross paths...watch out. "Even when James Cameron made that superb film Avatar, he was making as clear a statement as I have ever seen about the U.S. military being the bad guy, and he said, 'I don't make political films like Oliver Stone. I had no intention of criticising the empire.' "Well, James, excuse me, what are you smoking? I love you as a filmmaker, but don't play that game," the Oscar-winning director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July says in a new interview with Huffington Post. As for himself, says Stone, when he makes a politically charged »
The James Clayton Column: If Tom Cruise were consigned to oblivion
11 April 2013 6:23 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature James Clayton 12 Apr 2013 - 06:17
The release of Oblivion leaves James pondering the hole left in cinema had Tom Cruise never existed...
Sci-fi thriller Oblivion has arrived in cinemas, and that means that audiences have a fresh sci-fi blockbuster to enjoy. Sometimes snubbed, misunderstood and casually dismissed to sulk in its own tech-interfaced ghetto, the genre has got a bit of a (micro)chip on its shoulder. It's therefore always nice to see original science fiction stories making waves on the movie scene and reaching wider cinema audiences.
I'm hoping that Oblivion is embraced and receives a positive reception to follow in the footsteps of District 9, Source Code and Looper, to name a trio of recent critical and commercial smashes.
Of course, the crucial draw of Oblivion for many isn't its vision of a future Earth ravaged by alien warfare, overseen by survivors who inhabit floating towns and »
- ryanlambie
Top 10 Best Tom Cruise Movies
1 April 2013 7:12 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
"Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, in a speck on one in a blink. That’s us, lost in space." — Vincent, Collateral
Though he's most widely known for his action movies — the Mission: Impossible movies, in particular — superstar actor Tom Cruise has also starred in a handful of sci-fi movies in his career, including War of the Worlds (2005), his highest grossing domestic release to date. After an eight-year hiatus from sci-fi, Cruise will return to the genre on April 19th in Oblivion, a post-apocalyptic epic from director Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) in which Cruise plays one of the last drone (read: clone) workers on an Earth that is all but abandoned following a devastating war with an alien race known as the Scavs.
In anticipation of Oblivion's imminent release, we thought this would be a great time to look back on Cruise's rather extensive filmography to determine, »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Top 10: Actors that have never won an Oscar
21 February 2013 6:21 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Article by Dan Clark
The Academy Awards have a long tradition of awarding the best and the brightest in the world of movies. Hollywood’s biggest night is the ideal time for film legends to be recognized. Unfortunately the Oscars are also well known for dropping the ball on occasion. Some of the best actors to ever have graced the silver screen never hoisted that golden statue. Sure they attempt to remedy that at times by giving out Honorary Awards to make up for their biggest oversights, but to me that’s nothing more than a giant comp out. With that in mind I have compiled a list of the greatest actors to never have won an Oscar. Like the Oscars I’m sure there are many that deserve to be on this list that didn’t make the cut so feel free to honor them in the comment section »
- Guest
Tech Support: Wylie Stateman on experiencing sound in a Quentin Tarantino movie
12 February 2013 10:41 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Supervising sound editor Wylie Stateman earned his sixth Oscar nomination this year for “Django Unchained.” The soft-spoken industry veteran has now managed to earn a nomination in four decades – the 1980s (“Born on the Fourth of July”), the 1990s (“Cliffhanger”), the 2000s (“Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Wanted,” “Inglourious Basterds”) and now the 2010s. I recently had the chance to speak with him about his passion for the craft, his career and, of course, the experience of working on “Django Unchained.” And that passion for sound has been present for a very long time. “The very first toy that I can »
- Gerard Kennedy
Inside the Best Picture nominees: A deep dive into 'Django Unchained'
12 February 2013 6:00 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Name: Django Unchained
Release date: December 25 2012
DVD release date: Unknown
Run time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Box office: $154.5 million
Rotten tomatoes score: 86 percent
Movie Math: (Django x Shaft) + (Glory/Mandingo)
Tweetable description: In the antebellum South, a bounty hunter and a freed slave named Django join forces to kill evil white people and rescue Django’s wife.
What Lisa Schwarzbaum said: “It is one thing to take on a mix of genres and say he’s going to mush up the western and the slave stuff and the spaghetti western…but I’m finding there are fewer and fewer ideas behind it… »
- Darren Franich
If 'Argo' Wins Best Picture is that Bad for the Future of the Oscars?
11 February 2013 8:32 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
There are two ways of looking at the Oscars: 1.) as film fans, aware of the Oscar race and what's considered "best" throughout most of the year, or 2.) as a member of the general public that doesn't pay attention to them but once a year. As much as those of us that keep a close eye on the Oscar race throughout the year would like to believe the rest of the world is just as invested in movies as we are, the fact of the matter is we are in the minority. So, when answering the question I pose in the headline we must realize we're merely reaching a conclusion on a rather small scale, but first let me explain why I even thought of the question in the first place. Once Argo was announced Best Film at the BAFTA Awards this weekend, along with another Best Director win for Ben Affleck, »
- Brad Brevet
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