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Habib Azar's Top Ten Films of All Time
22 December 2009 7:28 PM, PST
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Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we bent the rules a little, our profiled filmmaker Habib Azar explains why below, and keep in mind in less than a month, he'll be presenting his debut film, Armless at Sundance. He gave us his top seven (*) as of December 2009. - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we bent the rules a little, our profiled filmmaker Habib Azar explains why below, and keep in mind in less than a month,
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Sobieski Gives Birth
17 December 2009 5:31 PM, PST
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Eyes Wide Shut star Leelee Sobieski has become a Christmas mum after giving birth to her first child on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old actress gave birth to a baby girl in New York.
The father is Sobieski's fashion designer fiance Adam Kimmel.
The couple, who became engaged in June, plans to wed in 2010.
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It Happened In Hollywood Last Night: Bryce Dallas Howard and director Jodie Markell with Tennessee Williams' The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond
17 December 2009 3:41 PM, PST
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(Filmmaker Jodie Markell and actress Bryce Dallas Howard, above.)
by Terry Keefe
The American Cinematheque at the Aero Theater hosted a screening on Wednesday evening of The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond, which starred Bryce Dallas Howard (Terminator: Salvation, Spider-man 3, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) and was directed by first-timer Jodie Markell, both of whom were in attendance and participated in a Q&A afterwards.
(Bryce Dallas Howard, above.)
There are many films this season competing for Oscar glory which likely have far bigger marketing budgets than Teardrop Diamond, but Howard deserves strong consideration in the Best Actress race for her work as the troubled Fisher Willow, a complex young woman who might turn into Blanche DuBois 20 years down the road if she continues to make the wrong choices. The film's script was actually written by Tennessee Williams directly for the screen, but was only recently rediscovered. The film is
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Curio: Film Posters by Claudia Varosio
16 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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Alexa here from Pop Elegantiarum with a quick pretty picture break. I find too many film posters to be utterly devoid of style; it's pretty disappointing when a great film gets a poster that looks like it should be on the back of a cereal box. (Just check out the overwhelmingly lame offerings for 2009.) So I just have to give a shout-out to illustrator Claudia Varosio. Her film posters are completely original, and give you the feeling of seeing the movie for the first time, through someone else's (very hip) eyes. She has a fabulous way of distilling films to a single, iconic image (and not in that awful animated Terminator Salvation way):
like the masks in Eyes Wide Shut,
or a Lacuna, Inc. file cabinet from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
or the 50 eggs in Cool Hand Luke. Check out more of Claudia's stylish universe here.
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Unwrapping and Unearthing Kubrick's Napoleon
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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There was that long stretch between 1987's Full Metal Jacket and 1999's Eyes Wide Shut where Stanley Kubrick was missing in action. The master filmmaker was passionate enough about a little Frenchman going by the name of Napoleon that he devoted years to a film project that never came to fruition. Taschen books who've already put out a couple of books honoring the legend, have put out the unthinkable: a limited edition collection of books (including the original screenplay) just in time for Xmas. - There was that long stretch between 1987's Full Metal Jacket and 1999's Eyes Wide Shut where Stanley Kubrick was missing in action. The master filmmaker was passionate enough about a little Frenchman going by the name of Napoleon that he devoted years to a film project that never came to fruition. Taschen books who've already put out a couple of books honoring the legend, have
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Collider Is Looking For New Writers. You Want In?
11 December 2009 12:35 PM, PST
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Collider is pleased to announce that we are currently bringing on new writers to help us cover the vast amount of entertainment news streaming through the Internet. I personally joined the site in September 2007 and aside from the rather unnecessary blood oath and “Eyes Wide Shut”-orgy welcome party, it has been a pleasant and rewarding job that I brag about I order to make other people feel jealous.
But as we’ve evolved into our new, blog-style format, we need fresh blood. There’s simply too much content for us to cover and that why we want you to write for Collider.com if you meet the following conditions. Find out what they are and how to apply after the jump.
–You not only love movies, you Know movies.
We all like movies. Some of us even love movies. And that’s all well and good. Sadly, it’s
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Draft excluder: Napoleon - the greatest movie never made?
9 December 2009 9:24 AM, PST
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In the first of a new fortnightly series, Phil Hoad reviews an as-yet-unfilmed movie script. Today: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon
This is Draft excluder, the Guardian's fortnightly review of unproduced screenplays. Whether it's the latest hot item that's got the development execs thumb-wrestling over it in the parking lot, or the great unfinishable obsession that has defeated many a director, we'll be dicing it, slicing it and making nice (or not) with it.
Remember: the scripts reviewed here are works-in-progress, and will differ from the finished film.
This week: Napoleon by Stanley Kubrick
The pitch
The rise and fall of history's greatest general by history's greatest director (if you subscribe to Empire magazine). Napoleon dynamite, surely?
The pedigree
Doesn't come any higher, really. In a career that saw a fair few get away, Napoleon became Kubrick's cream cetacean. Having tackled the entire history of humanity in 2001: A Space Odyssey,
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- Phil Hoad
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Twice the glitz and glamour?
5 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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The Academy has decided to extend the shortlist for next year's best picture Oscar from five to 10 films. Is that a good idea? We can't quite decide…
It has to be a bad idea, doesn't it?
Ten best picture nominations in the Oscars instead of five? It's a cynical move by the Academy to boost viewing figures by opening the field to crowd-pleasers such as The Dark Knight, the exclusion of which last year caused fanboy outrage. The Oscars aren't exactly the gold standard where quality is concerned, but they remain the most important fixture in the movie calendar and the nomination process is not to be treated lightly. Now the list will be swamped with button-pressing blockbusters such as Avatar and Star Trek, which may deserve their box-office receipts but absolutely should not be honoured alongside the all-time greats: All About Eve! Lawrence of Arabia! The Godfather!
True, but
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The Naughts: The Actress of the '00s
4 December 2009 10:17 AM, PST
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If time is an avenger, then the Naughts have had it both ways with Nicole Kidman. In the span of a decade, Kidman was transformed from arm candy into an artist -- the rare movie star who made genuinely interesting choices -- eclipsing her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, who filed for divorce in 2000, with an Oscar win and the embrace, finally, of her peers on her own terms.
However, as the '00s limp to a close, Kidman seems to be succumbing to a personal vendetta against time: by manipulating her face into a mask -- a waxworks ideal of "Nicole Kidman" -- rather than continuing to deploy it as a functional instrument, an artist's tool, Kidman is taking perhaps the most surprising risk of her career: she has chosen to age into glacial iconicity. In this, she exemplifies a decade that treated actresses with ambivalence, waving all the flags of
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- Michelle Orange
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Oprah Winfrey hires Irish celebrity chef (IrishCentral)
2 December 2009 5:21 AM, PST
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Oprah Winfrey has chosen an Irish celebrity chef who cooked for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as her new website chef.
Aine McAteer (54), from Cavan, has also cooked for Hollywood stars such as Robert Redford and Simpsons creator Matt Groening during her career.
McAteer told the Evening Herald newspaper she was hired after bringing her own cookies to the interview and speaking about the famous names she has already cooked for.
"I knew Oprah was starting a new tv network and that they were creating a new website for it. I was put in touch with a guy who was working on her website, and I brought cookies and a pack for Oprah," she said
McAteer focuses on a macrobiotic diet cooking with whole grains and vegetables.
She most recently worked for actor John Cusack on the set of his new film, '2012.'
She first came to notice when working in Hawaii.
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MSNBC's List Of Cinematic Turkeys Is A Turkey Itself
26 November 2009 9:58 AM, PST
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Is Eyes Wide Shut really one of the worst movies of all time?By Lee Pfeiffer
MSNBC has listed reader's choices for the biggest film turkeys of all time - and the list itself is the biggest turkey of all. Sure, there are the undeniable bombs that one would expect to find in any sane list of worst movies: Showgirls, Ishtar and Battlefield Earth. However, these readers must have been into the cooking sherry a bit too early to include Pulp Fiction (too much profanity), The Blair Witch Project (the camera was too shaky) and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which is regarded, at worst, as a noble failure but certainly not an outright turkey. Even the innocuous Mr. Bean is not spared. The readers must be of the same school of film criticism as the friend who once accompanied me to a screening of Lawrence of Arabia. At the conclusion of David Lean's masterpiece,
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Galaxy Quest Blu-ray Review
24 November 2009 9:30 PM, PST
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When you talk about the year of cinema that was 1999, there are the films that come immediately. Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, Eyes Wide Shut. I love The Insider, have a soft spot for eXistenZ and Three Kings and then it starts getting complicated, as films like American Beauty, Girls Don’t Cry, and The Green Mile haven’t exactly weathered as well, while films like Office Space have only grown in estimation. At the time, most wouldn’t have listed Galaxy Quest as one of the great films of 1999, and yet ten years later, someone like David Mamet can call it a perfect movie. And it is. By Grabthar’s Hammer, my review of Galaxy Quest after the jump.
The premise is simple: what if aliens watched Star Trek and thought it was real? Tim Allen plays Jason Nesmith who plays Peter Quincy Taggart, the Kirk character
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- Andre Dellamorte
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Sneak Peek Nine
24 November 2009 6:10 AM, PST
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Nine is the new musical feature directed by Rob "Chicago" Marshall :
1. From a screenplay by Anthony Minghella and Michael Tolkin;
2. Based on author Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical of the same name;
3. Derived from an Italian play by Mario Fratti;
4.Inspired by director Federico Fellini's autobiographical film 8½.
Maury Yeston composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the songs.
Principal cast includes actors Daniel "There Will Be Blood" Day-Lewis, Nicole "Eyes Wide Shut" Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, and Sophia Loren with Kate Hudson and Grammy Award winner Fergie in supporting roles.
"...Having reached the age of forty, director 'Guido Contini' (Day-Lewis) is facing a midlife crisis that is stifling his creativity and leading him into a variety of complicated romantic involvements.
As he struggles to complete his latest film, he is forced to balance the numerous formative women in his life,
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Nicole Kidman Says Robert Pattinson is a Fine Actor
17 November 2009 9:01 AM, PST
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We're still not exactly sure what Nicole Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut) meant when she said Robert Pattinson was a 'fine' actor. Was she referring to his talent or was she referring to his drop-dead gorgeous looks? Nobody will ever know for sure, but for now, we'll assume she was complimenting the actor on his movie performances. In any case, Kidman told MTV News that she and the "Twilight" hunk were in talks to star together in the film about journalist Georges Duroy (Pattinson) and his rise to the top of Parisian high society in the 1890s. Kidman would have played Madeline Forestier, Duroy’s onetime mentor. “Bel Ami” is the title of the film and it looks as if Kidman won't be starring in the flick after all. Read on for the full scoop!
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Why Richard Kelly's The Box could be the best film of the year
12 November 2009 10:36 AM, PST
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Year: 2009
Directors: Richard Kelly
Writers: Richard Kelly
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 9 out of 10
Richard Kelly channels no less than the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to turn Richard Matheson's blip of a Twilight Zone idea into one of the most astounding pieces of cerebral science fiction cinema I have ever seen. Yes, The Box is that good. It dares to scale the same intellectual heights as 2001: A Space Odyssey and it revels in the potent, restrained formalism of The Shining without ever leaving its two main characters or plot too far behind. In fact, Kelly is so self assured in executing this delicious layer-cake of a movie that The Box is now a front runner for my choice of best film of the year (yep, move over Moon) and I absolutely can't wait to see it again so I can dig even deeper into its box of mysteries.
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Nicole Kidman Burned Her Journals When She Married Keith Urban
4 November 2009 8:55 AM, PST
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Unlike many of her Hollywood peers, Nicole Kidman says she prefers to keep an air of mystery about her life.
So that means no tell-all memoir, no blogging, and no Tweeting.
"If you know what is going on inside somebody's head all the time that's not a good place," the actress, 42, tells the December issue of British GQ.
"You can't read somebody's diary. You shouldn't read it. I burnt most of my journals after I remarried ... You're only going to find out bad things."
In the interview, however, Kidman gives a hint about the adventurousness that infused her romances over the years.
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Matthew Modine: The Hollywood Interview
2 November 2009 10:20 AM, PST
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Matthew Modine: Better Angels
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Alex Simon
Matthew Modine has been something of an iconoclast most of his working life. After being groomed for ‘80s teen idol status in early films such as Private School and Vision Quest, Modine was also one of the first actors of his generation, along with Sean Penn, to take on riskier projects, such as Robert Altman's Streamers, Alan Parker’s Birdy, Gillian Armstrong’s Mrs. Soffel, and Alan J. Pakula’s Orphans. It was his lead role as the cynical Marine Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam epic Full Metal Jacket that put Modine into the pantheon of young actors who were more than just pretty faces and knowing winks at the camera. This, after all, was the young man who turned down the lead in Top Gun, arguably the prototypical ‘80s blockbuster, due to its cold war politics. From the beginning,
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Cheadle & Gleeson Join Forces For 'The Guard'
29 October 2009 12:29 AM, PDT
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Principal photography for a new Irish comedy thriller, 'The Guard', has commenced in Spiddal, Co. Galway. The feature is written and directed by John Michael McDonagh (Ned Kelly) and stars Brendan Gleeson (Into the Storm) and Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda).
Announced today by Martin Cullen Td, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, the film sees Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson playing an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with Don Cheadle's straitlaced FBI agent in a bid to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Other Irish acting talents featured includes Ifta winners Liam Cunningham (Hunger), Fionnula Flanagan (Lost, Transamerica), Pat Shortt (Garage) and David Wilmot (Intermission, The Clinic). Director of photography for the project is Larry Smith (Eyes Wide Shut) and production designer is John-Paul Kelly (Venus). 'The Guard's costume designer is Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh (Brideshead Revisted) and the film's editor is Chris Gill (28 Days Later).
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Katie Holmes to Star in 'Cocktail: The Musical'?
27 October 2009 4:02 PM, PDT
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Are you ready for another hippie, hippie shake? The New York Post reports that Cocktail is getting turned into a Broadway musical by producer Marty Richards, and Heywood Gould, the pen behind the book and film, will write it. But that's not all. Gould told them: "I am writing it as we speak. Marty Richards is on board and he's working on the score. It's far too early to talk about casting. We haven't approached anybody yet. But I do like Katie Holmes." Yes, original star Tom Cruise's wife. Gould might not be the end-all on decisions, but since he's involved with all the story's incarnations, I bet he has some sway.
The 1998 film focuses on a young guy (Cruise) who drops out of school and becomes a famous bartender. Eager to have his own bar, he heads to Jamaica to earn enough money. While there, he must choose
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What are Your Favorite Winter Holiday Themed Movies?
26 October 2009 2:39 AM, PDT
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I wasn't quite sure how to properly word the headline for this post considering I want to make sure you understand I am talking about the season pretty much running from Thanksgiving to Christmas, but I also want to make sure you know the film itself doesn't have to necessarily be about the holidays.
Take Die Hard for instance, it's set during Christmas time, but it isn't a Christmas film. However, it fits in with what I am looking for here. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Eyes Wide Shut, Fanny and Alexander, Batman Returns, Gremlins, The Thin Man and When Harry Met Sally are other examples. Hell, I would even say Rocky IV and Lethal Weapon count. As a matter of fact, I would say the non-Christmas, Christmas movies are the more interesting additions. How about The Shining or even Psycho?
Then, of course, I personally love films such as Love,
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