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19 items from 2013
'This Is the End' is more than just hilarious. It marks the potentially revolutionary moment when the movies met reality TV
16 June 2013 9:39 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
For years, Hollywood producers have been cannibalizing television shows to come up with concepts for movies. The trend might have looked like it was on its way out after the low-rent megaplex versions of Starsky & Hutch and The Dukes of Hazzard (the latter of which I actually liked), but no, it’s still very much with us, from The A-Team to Dark Shadows to 21 Jump Street (can Doctor Who be far behind?). Reality TV, on the other hand, is a different animal, resistant by nature to being translated to the big screen. It’s not that you can’t do it. »
- Owen Gleiberman
Lyle Lovett to Receive Lone Star Film Festival's Stephen Bruton Award
11 June 2013 9:09 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Famed country singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett will be the recipient of the Stephen Bruton Award at the 2013 Lone Star Film Festival, the Lone Star Film Society announced last week. Bruton was a musician from Forth Worth whose noteworthy achievements included contributing to the soundtrack of "Crazy Heart" right before his death in 2009. The award is given to a musician that has also made waves in the world of film. Other than his acclaimed musical career, Lovett has also made several appearances onscreen, most notably in Robert Altman's films "The Player" and "Short Cuts." Past recipients of the Stephen Bruton Award have included Willie Nelson, T. Bone Burnett, and Kris Kristofferson. Although just in its seventh year, the Lone Star Film Festival has consistently grown in size and star-wattage, attracting talents such as Billy Bob Thornton and Robert Duvall. It's likely that it will maintain its substantial influence and contribution to »
- Clint Holloway
This is the End: why actors love to play themselves
6 June 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
From Being John Malkovich to Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Trip, actors increasingly find it liberating, even therapeutic, to play a version of themselves. This is the End is the latest film to mess around with movie star personas
The new comedy This is the End is less notable for its vision of Hollywood hit by the apocalypse than for the conceit of having its entire cast play themselves. It turns out that Jonah Hill is a prissy buffoon given to harping on about his Oscar nomination. Sweet, gentle Michael Cera is in fact a leering, cocaine-snorting lout who has toilet-stall threesomes with anyone who will oblige. Seth Rogen likes weed. And who on earth would have suspected that James Franco is gay?
Only the most credulous audience members will believe that the cast of This is the End are doing anything except performing, but there is still the tantalising »
- Ryan Gilbey
This is the End: why actors love to play themselves
6 June 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Being John Malkovich to Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Trip, actors increasingly find it liberating, even therapeutic, to play a version of themselves. This is the End is the latest film to mess around with movie star personas
The new comedy This is the End is less notable for its vision of Hollywood hit by the apocalypse than for the conceit of having its entire cast play themselves. It turns out that Jonah Hill is a prissy buffoon given to harping on about his Oscar nomination. Sweet, gentle Michael Cera is in fact a leering, cocaine-snorting lout who has toilet-stall threesomes with anyone who will oblige. Seth Rogen likes weed. And who on earth would have suspected that James Franco is gay?
Only the most credulous audience members will believe that the cast of This is the End are doing anything except performing, but there is still the tantalising »
- Ryan Gilbey
Robin Wright’s Film Takes ‘Craziest Movie at Cannes’ Honors
20 May 2013 10:15 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Before I continue with this post, take a look at this wackadoodle trailer for Robin Wright's new live action–animated movie The Congress, from Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman, which debuted at Cannes earlier this week and feels like the most uninhibitedly ambitious film of the festival so far.Okay, now we can talk, because the movie itself is even more out-there than what the trailer would have you believe. Picture a part-live-action, part-animated Yellow Submarine–esque version of Being John Malkovich (but starring Wright), combined with the Hollywood satire of Robert Altman's The Player and a dystopian futurist vision of the celebrity obsession depicted in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (which also premiered at Cannes). Based on Stanislaw Lem's 1971 novel The Futurological Congress, it starts out with Robin Wright playing Robin Wright, an actress who starred in The Princess Bride and Forrest Gump, and »
- Jada Yuan
John Carpenter’s Body Bags is Coming to Blu-ray
13 May 2013 11:59 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Did you know that John Carpenter was working on an anthology horror project at Showtime in the 90′s? It never became a full series, but the first segments were collected together into an anthology horror movie, titled Body Bags. The DVD has out-of-print for a while, but Scream Factory announced that they will be adding it to their Blu-ray selection.
The movie features three main segments, directed by John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, who also appear in the movie, along with Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, and a number of other genre icons/stars:
Via Blu-ray.com: “Robert Carradine (The Player) and David Naughton (Witchboard II) pump-up for high-octane horror when a satanic serial killer stalks “The Gas Station.” Stacy Keach (False Identity), Deborah Harry (Videodrome) and rock superstar Sheena Eston wig-out in the hair-raising tale of tonsorial terror, “Hair.” And special guest director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) takes the reins when »
- Jonathan James
Blu-ray Releases: The Driver and Hard Times
7 May 2013 3:08 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray Release Date: June 11, 2013 (Hard Times); July 23, 2013 (The Driver)
Price: Blu-ray $29.95 each
Studio: Twilight Time
Ryan O'Neal is the man behind the wheel in Walter Hill's The Driver.
Hard Times (1975) and The Driver (1978) are two of our favorite hard-hitting Seventies films by Walter Hill (The Long Riders).
The action-drama Hard Times, Hill’s first directorial effort, stars Charles Bronson (The Great Escape) as a drifter who travels to Louisiana during The Depression and and begins competing in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches. After his first bout, he hooks up with one of the fight’s fast-talking organizers (James Coburn, Duck You Sucker) to set him up with more matches, with mixed and often painful results…
Hill’s second film, the action-filled crime drama The Driver, stars Ryan O’Neal (Barry Lyndon) as a professional guy-behind-the-wheel who steals cars to drive as getaway vehicles for big-time robberies in Los Angeles. Hot »
- Laurence
8 Best In Character Movie Cameos
21 April 2013 6:52 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
This one is a bit hard to define. We all know what a movie cameo is. A famous person who you weren’t expecting (hard to fathom in today’s spoiler world) shows up in a movie adding a bit of surprise, and spontaneity to the proceedings. Its almost always a meant to be a joke, as most people who cameo in films are usually doing it to have a little fun (or as a favor to the director). Very rarely do you see cameos that have any real barring on the story. The only example I can think of comes from the movie Sunset Blvd. That movie is positively chocked full of cameos but its not at all for fun. Each surprise appearance is strictly to provide specific character and overall narrative development.
Besides that (and maybe an example from Robert Altman’s The Player) cameos are strictly still known as a joking affair. »
- Raymond Keith Woods
Where on the Shelf Is...Health?
16 April 2013 5:16 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Welcome to "Where on the Shelf Is..." In this column, I look at great TV shows and movies that have never been on DVD and/or Blu-ray. For your pleasure and out of all of our frustrations, this column examines the Where, When and, of course, Why?! of these non-releases. Up this week is...Health What Is It?: In his 50+-year career, Robert Altman amassed a list of credits unlike most other directors. There are the films that won at Cannes, like Mash (1970) and The Player »
- Mathew Plale
Judy Blume’s Coming-of-Age Classic Tiger Eyes In Theaters June 7th
21 March 2013 3:05 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media announced today that they have acquired domestic theatrical and VOD rights to Tiger Eyes, based on Judy Blume’s acclaimed young adult novel of the same name. Tiger Eyes marks the first major motion picture adaptation from Blume’s work, whose books have sold more than 82 million copies in 41 countries.
Co-written by Blume and her son, Lawrence Blume, who also directed, the film stars Willa Holland (“Arrow,” “Gossip Girl”), Tatanka Means (“The Host”), Amy Jo Johnson (“Flashpoint”), Russell Means (“The Last of the Mohicans”), Cynthia Stevenson (“The Player”), and Elise Eberle (“The Astronaut Farmer”). Tiger Eyes was a co-production of Amber Entertainment (Mark Ordesky, Ileen Maisel) and Tashmoo Productions (George Cooper, Judy Blume, Lawrence Blume) with Linda Moran co-producing, and Ruth Pomerance executive producing.
Freestyle has set June 7th for the day and date release in multiple markets.
Tiger Eyes tells the story of Davey, »
- Michelle McCue
10 Robert Altman Films You May Not Know
21 March 2013 10:05 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It's easy to forget that Robert Altman didn't have his breakthrough until he was well into his 40s, with 1970's "M*A*S*H." The filmmaker proved to be so prolific -- and continued to be piled with acclaim and critical plaudits well into his '80s -- that it feels like his career in feature cinema lasted for much longer than the 35 years he's known for (Altman made a few features prior to "M*A*S*H," but mostly worked in TV during the 1950s and 1960s). And the breadth and depth of that career means that some of his movies were bound to be overlooked. Even casual cinema fans are aware of the likes of "M*A*S*H," "McCabe & Mrs Miller," "Nashville," "The Player," "Short Cuts" and "Gosford Park." But for every one of his films that's an acknowledged classic, there are three that have passed into obscurity, »
- The Playlist Staff
John Cusack
15 March 2013 4:54 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Our pick of some of the actor's most memorable performances. What would you add to the list?
John Cusack, star of The Paperboy (read Peter Bradshaw's review here), is one of the few 80s teen stars to have made a genuinely successful transition to adult cinema. From early supporting roles in Sixteen Candles and Stand By Me, through critically acclaimed turns in The Grifters and The Player, to parodying his 80s-self in Hot Tub Time Machine, he's consistently sought out roles that play to his strengths as an actor.
Here are some highlights from his film career, including recommendations from @guardianfilm Twitter followers @Hollywdbabylon, @owenkeats, @missalison, @workdick, @Daniel_Moores, @mwarrilow and @grantcollinson.
What would you add to the list?
In this cult film from 1992, Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys and John Doe of the La punk band X play a pair of bikers on a road trip »
- Adam Boult
Clip joint: the best happy endings
6 March 2013 7:02 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The holy grail of customer satisfaction as well as an artistic taboo, the happy ending can be played out in many ways. Which films would you add to this list?
This week Clip joint is from John Carvill, who previously wrote on subjects as varied as taking the train and 'meet cutes'. If you've got an idea for a future clip joint, email adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.
During a key scene in The Player, Robert Altman's shrewdly meta-fictional Hollywood movie about how Hollywood makes movies, studio executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) languidly enumerates to June Gudmundsdottir (Greta Scacchi), the elements a script needs if it is to become one of the dozen or so per year that Griffin's studio can green light for production: "Suspense, laughter, violence … hope, heart … nudity, sex … happy endings." Griffin pauses, then concludes: "Mainly happy endings."
Happy endings, being both a holy grail of »
- Guardian readers
Samantha Fox joins stars of Harry Potter, Primeval, Doctor Who, James Bond at McM Birmingham Comic Con & Memorabilia
5 March 2013 9:19 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Former pop star and pin-up Samantha Fox is to join the stars of Harry Potter, Primeval, Doctor Who and James Bond at the upcoming McM Birmingham Comic Con & Memorabilia on March 16 and 17.
The Comic Con and Memorabilia events are held side by side at the NEC, Birmingham. Comic Con visitors get into Memorabilia free of charge. Children under 10 get in free if accompanied by a paying adult.
Listed below are some of the star guests lined up for the shows.
Potter Personalities: Chris Rankin, who plays Percy Weasley in six of the blockbuster Harry Potter films, Steffan Rhodri, who was Reg Cattermole in Deathly Hallows and Hugh Mitchell, who appears as Gryffindor student Colin Creevey in The Order Of The Phoenix. Steffan is also famous for playing Dave in hit comedy Gavin & Stacey, and recently won plaudits as the voice of Drippy in acclaimed video game Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch. »
- David Bentley
Oscars 2013: how politics won the Academy's votes
24 February 2013 3:58 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From the abolition of slavery to the 'war on terror', this year's Academy Awards are dominated by heavyweight political films
Follow our live coverage of the Oscars 2013 red carpet
Early in 1927, Louis B Mayer, the head of MGM studios and soon to be the highest-paid executive in the world, met a handful of fellow conservative thinkers to create an elite Hollywood organisation with the grandiose title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The aim was to deter the development of unions, or at least to control and arbitrate their operations. The academy, and the awards set up the following year as an expression of the good taste of its members (of whom there are now 6,000), began in politics and continue to be influenced by it.
Twenty years later, MGM went for three years without winning an Oscar and Mayer was fired by the company's ultimate boss in »
- Philip French
Robert Altman: The Hollywood Interview
15 February 2013 1:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Robert Altman.
Robert Altman: Eclectic Maverick
By
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Venice Magazine.
It's the Fall of 1977 and I'm a bored and rebellious ten year old in search of a new movie to occupy my underworked and creativity-starved brain, feeling far too mature for previous favorites Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and wanting something more up-to-date and edgy than Chaplin's City Lights (1931). I needed a movie to call my favorite that would be symbolic of my own new-found manhood (and something that would really piss off my parents and teachers). Mom and Dad were going out for the evening, leaving me with whatever unfortunate baby-sitter happened to need the $10 badly enough to play mother hen to an obnoxiously precocious only child like myself. I scanned the TV Guide for what »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Watch: 1987 Robert Altman Adaptation of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Room’ For ABC TV
12 February 2013 9:42 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
If you’ve ever heard high-culture appreciating television viewers lament the fact that Bravo used to air operas while now it airs Andy Cohen, those same folks might be equally disheartened to see this one act play directed by Robert Altman in 1987 for ABC, the network that is now home to 17 seasons of “The Bachelor.” Altman directed a two-part special entitled “Basements,” with both halves being adaptations of English playwright Harold Pinter’s one act plays “The Room” and “The Dumb Waiter.” “The Room” surfaced online recently in the form of a VHS rip, and it’s a thoroughly bizarre 48 minute experience that fans of the celebrated Altman (“Gosford Park,” “The Player,” “M*A*S*H*”) or Pinter (“The Birthday Party,” “The Homecoming,” “Betrayal”) might want to check out. The story centers on a woman (the dimunitive Linda Hunt) living in »
- Tess Hofmann
Box Office: Why Did All-Star Comedy 'Movie 43' Stumble?
28 January 2013 5:16 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Opening in seventh place this weekend with just $5.0 million on 2,043 screens, "Movie 43" marks one of the poorest wide-release openings of Hugh Jackman's career. Or Kate Winslet's. Or Halle Berry's. Or Emma Stone's. Or those of Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Greg Kinnear, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, or Naomi Watts. How does a comedy with so much star power -- more than two dozen big-name celebrities earned top billing, including at least two past Oscar winners and two current nominees -- and still fail to open big? You can't exactly call "Movie 43" a failure; it reportedly cost just $6 million to make, with all the actors working for union scale and pre-sold deals with entities like Netflix for its ancillary rights. And »
- Gary Susman
20/20 Awards 2013 Nominations Honor the Best Movies of 1992
10 January 2013 8:51 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
This morning the Voting Syndicate of the 20/20 Awards announced this year's nominees at Seattle's prestigious Casbah Club. Twenty years after winning the Oscar for Best Picture and Director, Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven is once again the front-runner with nine 20/20 Award nominations. Following close behind with 8 nominations each are Howards End and Dracula.
Other notable nominations include Quentin Tarantino's freshman effort, Reservoir Dogs, Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, and while Marisa Tomei's win for Best Supporting Actress (My Cousin Vinny) was considered suspect 20 years ago, her work was deemed worth a second look in 2012. However, Best Actor winner Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) was left on the cutting room floor this time around.
Below is a list of the Big 6. For a complete look at all of this year's nominees, please clickHere
* Denotes Oscar Nominee ** Denotes Oscar Winner
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