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Michael Mann to head Venice jury
17 hours ago | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
American director, screenwriter and producer Michael Mann will preside over the international Jury of the competition of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, the first one directed by Alberto Barbera, taking place from August 29 until September 8, 2012.
Born in Chicago in 1943, Mann is one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American film. After having written, produced and directed a few television series, he made his debut in film directing in 1981 with Thief, which was followed by the big success as an executive producer of the cult TV series Miami Vice (1984). His characteristic post-modern style comes out in all its complexity in Manhunter (1986), a film which marks the first appearance on our screens of the character of Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal psychologist.
His name is particularly associated with city thrillers such as Heat (1995), which saw Al Pacino and Robert De Niro starring together for the first time, Collateral (2004, out »
- NewsDesk
Michael Mann Is Named Venice Film Festival's Head Of Jury
17 hours ago | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Moviemaker Michael Mann is heading to Italy in September to lead the jury at the Venice Film Festival.
The Heat director will chair a panel of industry experts responsible for selecting the festival's honourees and the recipient of the top prize, the coveted Golden Lion trophy.
Mann, whose films have earned him a string of honours including four Academy Award nominations, has been praised by event organisers as "a total film maker and one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American cinema".
The cinema showcase was helmed by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky last year. »
Michael Mann to Head Venice Film Fest Jury
19 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Rome – Hollywood director, producer, and screenwriter Michael Mann will head the main international jury at the next edition of the Venice Film Festival, event organizers announced Friday. Mann, best known for his work with the Miami Vice television series and the subsequent film, also produced Martin Scorsese’s 2004 drama The Aviator, and co-wrote and directed Ali in 2001, Heat in 1995, and The Last of the Mohicans in 1992. As jury president, he will help decide on the winners of Venice’s main prizes, including the coveted Golden Lion award for the best film among the festival’s 18-film in-competition lineup. The Mann-
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- Eric J. Lyman
Michael Mann To Chair Jury At 69th Venice Film Festival
19 hours ago | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
The American director, screenwriter and producer Michael Mann – a total filmmaker and one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American cinema – has been designated to chair the International Jury for the Competition at the 69th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September 2012), which will award the Golden Lion and other official prizes. The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Venice Film Festival Alberto Barbera. As a producer, Michael Mann won recognition as the creative force behind some of the most successful series in television (Miami Vice, Crime Story), which contributed to creating new standards of quality borrowed from filmmaking. As a screenwriter and especially as a director, he developed his own very personal style in thematic and formal elaborations drawn prevalently from the American urban experience (Manhunter, Heat, Insider, Ali, »
- MIKE FLEMING
Michael Mann to Chair Venice Film Festival Jury
20 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The Venice International Film Festival said Friday that Michael Mann will chair its international jury, calling the director of "Heat" and "Public Enemies" a "total filmmaker." The jury will be responsible for selecting the recipient of the festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, and other awards. Mann is best known for his stylish big screen crime dramas like "Collateral." He has also won praise for his adventure film "The Last of the Mohicans," the boxing biopic "Ali," and the newsroom thriller "The Insider," for which he earned a best director Oscar nomination. Also read: Michael »
- Brent Lang
Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 5 of 5)
30 May 2012 10:08 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Gary Oldman as Jackie Flannery in State Of Grace (Phil Joanou, 1990, USA):
Long considered one of the most talented actors in cinema, it’s very strange that his outstanding acting as the younger brother of Ed Harris’ local crime boss in this underrated film doesn’t get talked about nearly enough when discussing Oldman’s body of work. This is a must-see performance for all Oldman fans. For the record, State Of Grace is a far better Irish mob film than The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006, USA), primarily because it contains much better acting across the board. Oldman was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011, UK/France).
Other notable Gary Oldman performances: Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears, 1987, USA), Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992, USA), True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993, USA), Leon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994, France), Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997, USA), The Contender (Rod Lurie, »
- Terek Puckett
Film Review: Tom Sizemore Tries For Overdue Comeback with ‘Cellmates’
30 May 2012 2:34 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – I’ve always rooted for Tom Sizemore. Without question, if real-life addiction hadn’t derailed his career, he would be one of our more interesting actors. Go and rent “Natural Born Killers,” “Heat,” and “Saving Private Ryan” if you think I’m wrong. I think about what Sizemore might be doing if he could work with modern masters again like the Coens, Scorsese, or Tarantino. Instead, he’s trying to revive his career with a lead role in a film that’s essentially going straight to On Demand (and opening in New York and L.A. on June 1st), the unique dramedy “Cellmates.” While there’s some notable efforts here, the final result misses its mark.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Leroy Lowe (Sizemore) is the Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan, a man who learns a lesson or two when he’s thrown in a prison cell with an over-the-top Mexican »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Clip joint: Heists and getaways
30 May 2012 5:01 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Buckle up and hit the gas with us as we find cinema's best high-speed crooks-on-wheels
This week's Clip joint is by David Keeble, who you can follow on Twitter here, and visit his website here. Think you can do better? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.
Heists and getaway scenes in films are always fun to watch. They are scenes that build up suspense, which is then slowly released to the audience as we watch our heroes and anti-heroes try to get in and out of danger. Heists and getaways also have the ability to be incredibly creative about just how our characters pull them off. From Johnny Depp jumping over a bank counter with a Thompson sub-machine gun during America's Great Depression in Public Enemies (2009) to Robert De Niro and his crew causing one of the »
- Guardian readers
Texas Killing Fields Blu-ray Review
29 May 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
After more than a decade of directing for television, Ami Canaan Mann (Friday Night Lights, Morning) returns to feature films with the dark crime drama Texas Killing Fields. The script was first commissioned a decade ago by her father, director Michael Mann (Heat, Public Enemies), who acts as producer here. At one time director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 127 Hours) was attached to the film, but he backed out, stating that the film was too dark to ever get made. The film stars Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, and Chloe Grace Moretz. Hit the jump for my review of the Texas Killing Fields Blu-ray. Based on the actual murders of over 60 women in Texas over several decades, Texas Killing Fields follows homicide detectives Mike (Worthington) and Brian (Morgan) on their hunt for a serial killer. During a crime scene early on, we learn that Mike is the hotheaded of the two, »
- Patrick Cooper
Stallone 3-Disc DVD & Blu-Ray of ‘Cop Land’, ‘Lock Up’ & ‘Rambo: First Blood’ out in August!
24 May 2012 8:22 AM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
Three of Stallone’s best films are about to be into one explosive package on DVD & Blu-Ray! James Mangold’s under-appreciated Cop Land, John Flynn’s Lock Up and the classic Rambo: First Blood will be in a 3-Pack DVD and Blu-Ray set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment in August! Read below for all the fine details!
From the Press Release:
The world’s favorite action superstar, Academy Award® nominee Sylvester Stallone (Best Actor in a Leading Role, Rocky, 1976), is back with the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of the Stallone 3-Film Collector’s Set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Just in time for the theatrical release of his highly anticipated action film, The Expendables 2, this collection features three of Stallone’s most memorable hit films Cop Land, Rambo: First Blood and Lock Up, together for the first time. A must-have for Stallone fans of all generations, the collection »
- Andy Triefenbach
Universal Plans Lego "Hero Factory" Film
24 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Universal is in negotiations to acquire the screen rights to "Hero Factory", a 2010 line of robotic toy sets from Lego says Heat Vision.
Unlike other lego toys, the 'Hero' line-up comes with a dense mythology built in with various characters "hailing from a planet where a factory churns out robotic machines whose goal is to fight intergalactic evil".
"Predators" scribes Michael Finch and Alex Litvak are in negotiations to pen the script which would be a live-action adaptation and distinct from the more regular Lego inspired CGI-animated feature in production at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Mark Gordon, Bryan Zuriff, Ben Forkner and Dean Schnider will produce. »
- Garth Franklin
Link to the Rescue
16 May 2012 3:46 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
First Showing Django Unchained banner on the Croisette in Cannes
Inlander Don Draper isn't Mad Men's main character any more
Filmofilia a full slate for Amy Adams through 2014 at least. Add thriller Dark Places (based on the novel of the same name) to the long list
Cinema Blend Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel gets the Contagion screenwriter Scott Z Burns
Mz Yikes. Actor Nick Stahl of Bully, Terminator 3 and Carnivàle fame has been reporting missing since May 9th
Heat Vision Robert Downey Jr's The Avengers payday could reach $50 million. The other actors aren't so lucky
Gold Derby Downton Abbey will be competing in Best Series (where it belongs) for Emmy nods... finally giving up on considering itself a miniseries, bless.
Pajiba "Identifying the Moment in Natalie Portman's Career Timeline In Which It Was Ok To Admit a Crush"
Screen Daily Keira Knightley replacing ScarJo in »
- NATHANIEL R
"Ghost Recon Alpha" Is Your Short Film View of the Tom Clancy-verse
14 May 2012 2:29 PM, PDT | MTV Multiplayer | See recent MTV Multiplayer news »
The new short shows off the future of war.
The video shows the members of the Alpha Squadron, members of the U.S. armed forces, going after a war criminal in the near future Eastern Europe (which is in part where Ghost Recon Future Soldier will be set).
Publisher Ubisoft put this short together alongside Little Minx films, which acts a prequel to the upcoming game, featuring the four playable characters from Future Soldier as members of the cast of characters here. The location in the film will be a multiplayer map from the game and if you look carefully, there's a secret weapon unlock code somewhere in the Ghost Recon Alpha's running time.
Here's the synopsis:
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Alpha boasts a line-up of top Hollywood talent. The film was directed by Academy Award winners Hervé de Crécy and François Alaux, who won an Oscar in 2010 for Logorama, »
- Charles Webb
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: love in a time of war
12 May 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Capa and Taro lived, loved and died on the frontline, becoming the most famous war photographers of their time. As a new novel about them is published, we explore their real relationship
It begins with a photograph. In 1934 a struggling Hungarian photographer, André Friedmann, living in exile in Paris, is commissioned to take publicity pictures for a Swiss life insurance company's advertising brochure. On the lookout for potential models, he approaches a young Swiss refugee, Ruth Cerf, in a café on the Left Bank and convinces her to pose for him in a Montparnasse park.
Because she does not entirely trust the scruffy young charmer, Ruth brings along her friend Gerta Pohorylle, a petite redhead with a winning smile and a confident manner. So begins the most iconic relationship in the history of photography, and an intertwined and complex story of radical politics, bohemianism and bravery that, in the intervening years, »
- Sean O'Hagan
Why the world needs Val Kilmer
11 May 2012 7:38 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He could have been another Brad Pitt. Instead he's doing one-man stage shows. Is it time for a rescue plan?
For some time now, I have belonged to a secret society known as the League of Rueful Val Kilmer Enthusiasts. It consists of men of a certain age who adore Tombstone and Heat, and who also have a soft spot for The Doors and The Ghost and the Darkness. And, of course, Top Gun. What unites the members of the league is our affection for the actor himself, mingled with regret that Kilmer did not become the intergalactically famous star we wanted him to be. We also resent the fact that he did not make more movies like Heat while he was young and athletic enough to pull it off.
Because now it is too late. Kilmer has reached the point in his career where he is performing in a one-man show called Citizen Twain, »
- Joe Queenan
My Favorite Movie: Tom Hiddleston
5 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
"'Heat'. Michael Mann film. Every time I watch it, it gets better and better.
"The detail in it is flawless … if you try and unravel the story there's not one detail that doesn't hang together, and it 's the most perfect cat-and-mouse police thriller I've ever seen.
"It features two of the greatest performances by two of America's most electrifying actors -- DeNiro and Pacino -- and alongside all of that, as a genre thriller, as a piece of photography, as a kind of cat-and-mouse cop thriller, it has this incredible philosophical weight; it's an examination of the fatal flaw in masculinity, which is summed up in Pacino's line: 'All I am is what I'm going after.'"
Tom Hiddleston can currently be seen terrorizing your favorite superheroes as the super villain Loki in Marvel's "The Avengers." »
- NextMovie Staff
Luck: HBO’s Most Ironically Titled Series
2 May 2012 2:16 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Luck. It really should have been so sweet. A show created by one of TV’s most commercially and critically successful producers, a pilot directed by one of the more important filmmakers of his generation, a cast of famous faces and stellar supporting talent, on the network Americans (and indeed, the world) have come to associate with the highest quality programming.
Thirty-five million dollars later, we’ve got little to show for it.
I defy any of you out there to claim you were more excited for Luck than I was. After all, you have not, I dare say, been maintaining a series of essays on every single episode of NYPD Blue, the ’90s cop show created by David Milch (along with Steven Bochco). Milch then went on to create for HBO the western Deadwood, easily the finest western to ever grace the small screen and no minor factor in the success of Timothy Olyphant, »
- Jimmy Callaway
Steve Coogan Lands Role in 'Despicable Me 2' and More Cast Returns
2 May 2012 9:43 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
So far only a minion rendition of The Beach Boys song Barbara Ann has teased the forthcoming sequel Despicable Me 2, which won't hit theaters until next summer. But more news of the voice cast is still slowly making its way online. We know Steve Carell will reprise his role as the dastardly but charming villain Gru and now Heat Vision has word that Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and Miranda Cosgrove will all reprise their respective roles as Miss Hattie, Dr. Nefario and Margo from the original film. In addition, Steve Coogan will have a new role in the film, and he may even be voicing multiple characters. This comes on the heels of the news that Al Pacino will be playing the villain after Javier Bardem had to back out of the role. When Bardem was cast, the villain was known as El Macho and he even had a »
- Ethan Anderton
Casting Call: Malcolm McDowell Joins Tbilisi, My City; Steve Coogan Joins Despicable Me 2; Kyle Gallner in Beautiful Creatures and More
1 May 2012 6:13 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Lots of casting news to catch up on, so here it is in brief: Steve Coogan (Tropic Thunder) has been cast to voice a character in Despicable Me 2, starring Steve Carell and Al Pacino. Malcolm McDowell (The Artist) will star in a vignette of Tbilisi, My City. Kyle Gallner (A Nightmare on Elm Street) is a recent addition to Beautiful Creatures, the adaptation of the Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl novel. Abigail Spencer (Mad Men) will join the indie drama Kilimanjaro, starring Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker). Vik Sahay (Chuck) rounds out the cast for the werewolf film, Wer, directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside). Hit the jump for more. First up, Heat Vision reports that Coogan will join Despicable Me 2 to lend his voice alongside Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and Miranda Cosgrove with Carell returning as Gru and Pacino set to play the villain. Details »
- Dave Trumbore
Domestic goddess wanted: who's going to be the next Nigella Lawson?
27 April 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Once, Nigella ruled. Now there's a battle for her domestic goddess crown – and style is just as important as the ability to whip up a crème brûlée. Meet the contenders…
Rachel Khoo
Style From her immaculately painted lips (often pink, but best when they're true red) to her chunky short fringe (all the better for showing off her inquisitively coquettish brows), the look is pure Amélie. Khoo's clothes underline what her make-up bag is getting at. The obligatory Nigella-ish cropped cardigans are present and correct in powder blues and hot pinks. The dresses hint at that carefree-girl-on-a-push-bike-shopping-at-a-vegetable-market cliché, but on closer inspection those polka-dot dresses with elasticated belts are more likely from the vintage rails at Topshop (cross-back spot dress, £52) or the sanitised online vintage boutiques found in the "marketplace" section of asos.com. But there's nothing wrong with that.
Background Most cookery shows sell viewers the dream of a »
- Imogen Fox, Hannah Booth
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