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Stellan Skarsgard and Hiroyuki Sanada Join Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman In ‘The Railway Man’
27 April 2012 2:02 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Although The Railway Man already suckered me in with some respectable pedigree and an interesting source, this one’s prospects just got bright — since, like many others, I happen to believe Stellan Skarsgård improves literally anything. Deadline reports that he and Hiroyuki Sanada (47 Ronin, Sunshine) will co-star with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, all of whom are being led by director Jonathan Teplitzky.
Railway Man is based on the life of Eric Lomax (Firth), a man who found himself the victim of torture on the part of interrogators in a Japanese Pow camp during World War II. (He’ll be played by War Horse‘s Jeremy Irvine in these flashback scenes.) After years of haunted memories, his wife, Patti (Kidman), staged a reunion with one of his captors; this is where Sanada comes in. Skarsgård, meanwhile, will play one of Lomax’s friends from the war. (Here’s hoping he »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Lars Von Trier's 'The Nymphomaniac' With Charlotte Gainsbourg Will Be 2 Part Film, Aiming For Cannes Premiere In 2013
25 April 2012 7:36 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Lars von Trier has never been short on balls. His career has been filled with films that have found the director walking right into a hornets nest of thorny issues, whether it's slavery ("Manderlay"), the American empire ("Dogville"), feminism (sorta) ("Antichrist"), depression ("Melancholia"), faith ("Breaking The Waves") or just plain ol' "spazzing" ("The Idiots"), and so doing a movie about sex seems like the logical next step. But of course, his approach is never as simple as those reductive summaries suggest, and the resulting works are always controversial, exasperating, overreaching, brilliant and fascinating -- often all at once. And once again, Lars von Trier is stepping beyond expectations.
Even though it was reported last year that Charlotte Gainsbourg would be reteaming with the helmer for "The Nymphomaniac," word began circulating today (again) that she was on board. But there's more. Producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen tells Screen Daily, “We are making two films. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Take Three: John Hurt
17 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Craig here with the third season of Take Three. Today: John Hurt
Take One: Brighton Rock (2010)
Hurt has alternated starring roles with supporting performances since he began acting in films with The Wild and the Willing in 1962. The amount of quality supporting turns he’s delivered over the years is vast: 10 Rillington Place, Midnight Express, The Shout, The Hit, Scandal, The Field, Contact, The Proposition, Melancholia, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are a mere few. His fine turn as accountant Phil Corkery in the Brighton Rock remake (backing up Helen Mirren, Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough and Andy Serkis) is a recent solid addition to the list and deserves due credit. Phil’s a gaunt shambles, but loyal to Mirren’s Ida, his long-time crush. He’s one of the old guard. A proud man accustomed to propping up bars whilst waxing forth about the state of the world. He’s the »
- Craig Bloomfield
DVD Playhouse--April 2012
13 April 2012 3:07 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—April 2012
By Allen Gardner
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Warner Bros.) An eleven year-old boy (newcomer Thomas Horn, in an incredible debut) discovers a mysterious key amongst the possessions of his late father (Tom Hanks) who perished in 9/11. Determined to find the lock it matches, the boy embarks on a Picaresque odyssey across New York City. Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Eric Roth have fashioned a film both grand and intimate, beautifully-adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, thought by most who read it to be unfilmable. Fine support from Jeffrey Wright, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis and the great Max von Sydow. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection (Anchor Bay) Adapted from Koushun Takami’s polarizing novel (compared by champions and detractors alike as a 21st century version of A Clockwork Orange) and set in a futuristic Japan, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Stellan Skarsgård: 'I'm a castrated bull'
5 April 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor on why he's really known as a calming influence on film sets
Hi Stellan, where are you? I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.
Congratulations! Has it expressed a desire yet to go into acting?
[laughing] Oh God, no, not yet.
How do you feel about so many of your children (1) becoming actors?
Since they're all talented I'm fine with it. It would've been terrible if they'd had a love for this profession and couldn't act. They've grown up knowing it's hard work but they've also seen how much I enjoy it.
A character on The Fast Show called Competitive Dad got his kicks thrashing his children at games. Sound familiar?
I've already lost to mine! I should have pressed them down much earlier in life. »
- Ryan Gilbey
Clip joint: Goodbyes
4 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, pet. We look at the best goodbye scenes in film
This week's Clip joint is by Leonidas Vyzas; a 16-year-old student from Greece and editor-in-chief of student magazine Must. Follow him on Twitter here, and on Tumblr here.
Think you can do better than Leonidas? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Cinematic goodbyes, whether for death or departure, generally require a moving last line and a captivating performance. They're not always easy to pull off, given the plausibility required to make the credulous masses shed a tear.
Here's my selection of some of the most thought-provoking, most soulful and most touching goodbyes throughout cinematic history.
1. Dogville
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Grace (Nicole Kidman) has witnessed or caused the execution of all the manipulating, miserable and tyrannical citizens who once inhabited Dogville, »
- Guardian readers
DVD Review: Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Renee Zellweger in 4-Film Collections
3 April 2012 12:44 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – What’s an inevitability when a company like Lionsgate gets access to a film archive like that of Miramax (besides the wonderful wave of Blu-ray reissues that has seen recent HD releases of “Amelie,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “Swingers,” and more)? DVD collections! Three of today’s biggest stars, all three Oscar winners, are getting the 4-film collection treatment from the company this week with some definite fan favorites in each set. Pick your favorite.
“The Nicole Kidman 4-Film Collection”
The Nicole Kidman 4-Film Collection
Photo credit: Lionsgate
Personally, it’s no contest. Nicole Kidman is not only the best actress of the three but gets the best 4-film treatment even if she’s the only one for which her Oscar-winning role (in “The Hours”) is not included. However, she was nominated for one of the performances in this set and I would argue could have easily been nominated for »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Nicole Kidman 4 Film Collection (Cold Mountain, Dogville, The Others, Rabbit Hole)
3 April 2012 8:29 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Nicole Kidman 4 Film Collection (Cold Mountain, Dogville, The Others, Rabbit Hole)
DVD Reviews
Cold Mountain (2003)
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Renée Zellweger
Running Time: 2 hrs 34 mins
Rating: R
Due Out: April 3, 2012
Plot: As the Civil War nears its end, a Confederate soldier (Law) makes the long journey home to reunite with the woman he loves (Kidman).
Who’S It For? Anyone who appreciates an old-fashioned romance, horrific depictions of war, or rich production values should find something to like about Cold Mountain. Though not ideal if you want a lightweight love story, it’s worth watching once.
Movie:
Cold Mountain is an occasionally great film, but the best word to describe it is “grueling.” Some of that feeling is appropriate, such as in the brutal opening war scene; unfortunately, more is due to it being overlong. While there are a handful of great moments, this isn »
- Shane T. Nier
This is Not a Film – review
24 March 2012 5:09 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Smuggled out of Iran inside a cake, Jafar Panahi's latest film is a remarkable addition to the literature of oppression
There is unlikely to be a wittier, braver, more serious film shown in Britain this year than the 51-year-old Iranian director Jafar Panahi's This is Not a Film. Made while under house arrest in Tehran using an iPhone and a digital video camera, it's an act of defiance in the face of the arbitrary, vindictive, capricious, utterly humourless regime of the ayatollahs and President Ahmadinejad. The film was smuggled out of Iran in a cake and it proved to be one of the most widely discussed entries at the 2011 Cannes festival, where it was a last-minute submission.
Following the fall of the Shah in 1979, Iran's film industry virtually collapsed for a variety of religious, economic and political reasons, but from the late 1980s it began to make a remarkable recovery, »
- Philip French
Ben Gazzara Loses Cancer Battle - Dies at 81 Years Old
4 February 2012 1:59 PM, PST | National Ledger | See recent National Ledger news »
Stage and screen legend Ben Gazzara has died after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer - the same disease that killed his Road House co-star Patrick Swayze. Gazzara, who was 81, died at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Friday. A native New Yorker, the Emmy winner studied with drama guru Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio and became a Broadway stage sensation in the 1950s thanks to leading roles in plays like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Hatful of Rain. Gazzara made a string of TV appearances in the late 1950s and hit the big screen in Anatomy of a Murder, opposite James Stewart, in 1959. The film picked up seven Oscar nominations and shot Gazzara into the Hollywood spotlight - where he became a revered actor for 50 years. Key projects have included Convicts 4, Saint Jack, The Big Lebowski, Buffalo 66, Happiness, Dogville, Summer of Sam and the 1999 »
Rip Ben Gazzara
4 February 2012 12:38 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Ben Gazarra. The actor passed away in New York City on Friday (3rd February) after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 81.
Gazarra, born Biagio Anthony Gazzara, a classically trained actor, started his career playing numerous roles in the 1950′s, mostly the part of ‘the heavy’ in various movies. He moved to television in the 1960′s with recurring parts in the shows Arrest And Trial and Run For Your Life. He enjoyed a comeback in no less than three John Cassavettes movies in the seventies, Husbands, The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie and Opening Night. In the eighties Gazarra appeared as the bad guy in the classic Patrick Swayze movie Road House before going on to appear in the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski, Happiness and Summer Of Sam, all in the 1990′s. More recently, in 2003, Gazarra appeared in Lars Von Trier’s Dogville. »
- Paul Heath
Ben Gazzara Has Died
4 February 2012 9:30 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Ben Gazzara, the character acting stalwart and stage star, has died at the age of 81.He was born in New York in 1930, and caught the acting bug at the age of 11 when he saw a friend perform in a play at the Madison Square Boys Club. He joined up and began working, eventually finding his way to the Dramatic Workshop. He auditioned for Lee Strasberg’s famed Actors Studio, which helped shape his career alongside such notable fellow actors as Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger.His big screen career included a wide variety of movies, including The Big Lebowski, Dogville, Inchon, The Spanish Prisoner and Todd Solondz’ Happiness. His fluent Italian helped him land roles in Italy, and he traded time between working in the Us and overseas. Above all, however, he was best known in cinematic circles for his work with John Cassavetes, for whom he acted in the »
Ben Gazzara Loses Cancer Battle
4 February 2012 6:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Stage and screen legend Ben Gazzara has died after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer - the same disease that killed his Road House co-star Patrick Swayze.
Gazzara, who was 81, died at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Friday.
A native New Yorker, the Emmy winner studied with drama guru Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio and became a Broadway stage sensation in the 1950s thanks to leading roles in plays like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Hatful of Rain.
Gazzara made a string of TV appearances in the late 1950s and hit the big screen in Anatomy of a Murder, opposite James Stewart, in 1959.
The film picked up seven Oscar nominations and shot Gazzara into the Hollywood spotlight - where he became a revered actor for 50 years. Key projects have included Convicts 4, Saint Jack, The Big Lebowski, Buffalo 66, Happiness, Dogville, Summer of Sam and the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair remake.
Gazzara also enjoyed a string of movie successes as legendary director John Cassavetes' collaborator - the two old pals teamed up in Husbands, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night.
He always brought a sense of great drama and a tremendous physical presence to his roles, often playing villains and morally corrupt characters.
On TV, he is best known for his role as Paul Bryan in the long-running 1960s series Run For Your Life.
He returned to the stage in recent years and toured his one-man show throughout the New York area as he battled throat cancer.
Gazzara was working with Jerry Lewis and Peter Bogdanovich on new movie Max Rose when he died. As WENN went to press it was not known if he had completed his work for the film. »
R.I.P. Ben Gazzara (1930 - 2012)
4 February 2012 2:16 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Ben Gazzara, the veteran actor of the stage and screen, has passed away on Friday at the age of 81 after battling pancreatic cancer. Born in New York City in 1930, Gazzara studied acting at the Dramatic Workshop in New York before joining the celebrated Actors Studio and began his career with a number of acclaimed Broadway roles during the 1950s, gaining the first of three Tony Award nominations in 1956 for his work in A Hatful of Rain. He made his feature film debut alongside fellow Actors Studio alumni such as George Peppard and Pat Hingle in 1957's The Strange One, before gaining his breakthrough role in Otto Preminger's 1959 courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder.
During the 1960s, Gazzara enjoyed a successful run in the television series Run for Your Life, receiving three Golden Globe nominations for Best TV Star - Male and two Emmy nominations for Actor in Leading Role »
- flickeringmyth
Ben Gazzara Dead: Actor Dies At 81
3 February 2012 7:36 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Ben Gazzara, star of "Anatomy of a Murder" and "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" has died at age 81. The actor, who was a favorite of director John Cassavetes, died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center, his lawyer, Jay Julien, told the New York Times. He was a contemporary of higher-profile stars Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger and also studied at the famed Actors Studio in Manhattan. He conquered Broadway, originating the role of Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but didn't capitalize on his rising star when Hollywood came calling. "When I became hot, so to speak, in the theater, I got a lot of offers,” he told Charlie Rose in a 1998 interview. “I won't tell you the pictures I turned down because you would say, ‘You are a fool.' And I was a fool.” Gazzara still managed to make an indelible mark on the movies, »
- Sharon Knolle
Ben Gazzara Dies at 81
3 February 2012 6:15 PM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Ben Gazzara, who made a career of playing virile roles on stage, screen, TV and in real life, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his lawyer told The New York Times. Accomplished as an actor, dapper and irresistible to women, Gazzara came by his many streetwise roles naturally. Born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the child of an Italian immigrant carpenter and roofer got the acting bug starting at age 12, at the Madison Square Boys' Club. "My voice was this deep even then," he told People in 1976. The urge to perform "screwed up my schooling, »
- Stephen M. Silverman
Ben Gazzara Loses Cancer Battle
3 February 2012 5:46 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Stage and screen legend Ben Gazzara has died after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer - the same disease that killed his Road House co-star Patrick Swayze.
Gazzara, who was 81, died at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Friday.
A native New Yorker, the Emmy winner studied with drama guru Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio and became a Broadway stage sensation in the 1950s thanks to leading roles in plays like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Hatful of Rain.
Gazzara made a string of TV appearances in the late 1950s and hit the big screen in Anatomy of a Murder, opposite James Stewart, in 1959.
The film picked up seven Oscar nominations and shot Gazzara into the Hollywood spotlight - where he became a revered actor for 50 years. Key projects have included Convicts 4, Saint Jack, The Big Lebowski, Buffalo 66, Happiness, Dogville, Summer of Sam and the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair remake.
Gazzara also enjoyed a string of movie successes as legendary director John Cassavetes' collaborator - the two old pals teamed up in Husbands, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night.
He always brought a sense of great drama and a tremendous physical presence to his roles, often playing villains and morally corrupt characters.
On TV, he is best known for his role as Paul Bryan in the long-running 1960s series Run For Your Life.
He returned to the stage in recent years and toured his one-man show throughout the New York area as he battled throat cancer.
Gazzara was working with Jerry Lewis and Peter Bogdanovich on new movie Max Rose when he died. As WENN went to press it was not known if he had completed his work for the film. »
Rip Actor Ben Gazzara, Dead at 81
3 February 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
The New York Times is reporting that legendary actor Ben Gazzara lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City earlier today. He was 81 years old. The New York-based, classically-trained actor, born Biagio Anthony Gazzara, is best known for his work with the late John Cassavetes, a pioneer in independent filmmaking with pioneering films like The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). He followed those pivotal films by working with other prominent directors, such as Peter Bogdanovich ( Saint Jack , They All Laughed ), David Mamet ( The Spanish Prisoner ), Spike Lee ( Summer of Sam ) and Lars von Trier ( Dogville ). Although Gazzara never received an Oscar nomination for his film work, he received four Emmy »
DVD Review: 'Melancholia'
23 January 2012 12:00 AM, PST | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ Lars von Trier's most accomplished movie since 2003's Dogville was sadly overshadowed by the controversy this constantly provocative director evoked at last year's Cannes Film Festival, with the praise it deserved sadly diluted by his remarkably thoughtless remarks. This is a huge shame, as not only does Melancholia (2011) boast an award-winning star turn by Kirsten Dunst (in a career best performance), but was also one of last year's most aesthetically pleasing films.
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- CineVue
Lars von Trier: Melancholia and Megalomania
15 January 2012 10:47 PM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Lars von Trier is a filmmaker given to excess and therefore tends to elicit extreme reactions from his viewers. He was co-founder (with Thomas Vinterberg) of ‘Dogma 95’ an avant-garde filmmaking movement, which set new ‘rules’ for filmmaking – eschewing elaborate special effects and technology and deliberately opting for a rough look partly through the use of the hand-held camera. The purpose was to rely on the resources of the plot entirely and get the required effects with the means available.
Lars von Trier initially attained renown for his three female-centered films – with Breaking the Waves (1996) being the first – and in all of them he does virtually the same thing, which is to place a defenseless woman in circumstances where she is gravely endangered and then show people taking advantage of her helplessness in the most selfish, brutal and hypocritical way possible. Whenever storytellers make us despise characters in their books or films, »
- MK Raghvendra
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