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Jm Coetzee's Disgrace | Film
27 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Theo Tait on the transition from page to screen of Coetzee's novel
It's often said that good novels make bad films: they're too nuanced, too complex, too long to fit into a slot two hours long. Readers don't thank film-makers for trampling on their treasured mental visions of a book – for making Sebastian Flyte shout "All you ever wanted was to fuck my sister!" at Charles Ryder, as in last year's film of Brideshead Revisited, or for casting Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter or Nicolas Cage as Captain Corelli. The resulting adaptations tend to be, at worst, a travesty (Bonfire of the Vanities, Love in the Time of Cholera) and, at best, faithful and bloodless (Atonement, Revolutionary Road) – weighed down by the desire to do justice to a big reputation.
Few contemporary novels have a bigger reputation than Disgrace, Jm Coetzee's chilly, shocking 1999 tale of post-apartheid South Africa,
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Birthday Suits, Asia Major
27 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST
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Do you ever celebrate the birthdays of your favorite movie folk? You should. Here are your options for 11/27
Michael Vartan, Bruce Lee
1940 Bruce Lee Chinese American trailblazer, 70s icon, legend. Without him, whose to say how long it would have taken martial arts films to gain as much international popularity? Without him, no Uma Thurman in a yellow track suit.
1951 Kathryn Bigelow director, action fan. An Oscar nominee in about 2 months and a week.
1956 William Fichtner actor
1957 Callie Khouri, screenwriter. She'll always have Thelma & Louise
1957 Kevin O'Connell, the most nominated never-winning Oscar anything. He's been nominated 20 times (!) for his sound work. He has only his Emmy and lucrative blockbuster heavy career to comfort him. His next project is the Gyllenhaal action flick Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. [editor's note: You may recall that the second podcast ever here at Tfe was an interview with his then working partner Greg P Russell whose own Oscar tally totals 12 nominations without a win.]
1963 Fisher Stevens, Michelle Pfeiffer's boyfriend during her Catwoman years
1968 Michael Vartan, French-American actor (Alias)
1978 Unax Ugalde, Spanish hottie... seduced Julianne Moore
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Spotlight on the newest ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ vampire, Catalina Sandino Moreno
13 August 2009 3:25 AM, PDT
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Catalina Sandino Moreno is no newcomer to the Hollywood scene. – Maria Full Of Grace. Moreno won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead in that film, as well as the New Generation Award at the London Critics Circle Film Awards and the Imagen Award, amongst others. ... Journey To The End Of The Night and as Ana in Paris, I Love You before becoming Sylvia for Fast Food Nation, an Imagen Award-nominated and Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm-nominated film that received wide acclaim. ... The Hottest State and The Heart Of The Earth before taking the role of Hildebranda in Love In The Time Of Cholera. ... Che: Part One and Che: Part Two, Cannes Film ,,, Benecio del Toro and Julia Ormond. She has also been cast in the up-coming film entitled Frail, which films in Vancouver – the same location as filming for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse with Jackson Rathbone
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Spotlight on the newest ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ vampire, Catalina Sandino Moreno
13 August 2009 3:19 AM, PDT
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Catalina Sandino Moreno is no newcomer to the Hollywood scene.
Moreno is an Oscar-nominated actress with some very impressive work under her belt.
This twenty-eight-year-old actress hails from Bogota, Colombia, and she was the first ever Colombian to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Her husband, David Elwell, is a cinematic lighting technician who worked with her on the film for which she was nominated – Maria Full Of Grace. Moreno won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead in that film, as well as the New Generation Award at the London Critics Circle Film Awards and the Imagen Award, amongst others.
Maria Full Of Grace was her first film, if you can believe it, and quite the breakthrough performance for Moreno it was.
After Maria, Moreno took the part as Angie in Journey To The End Of The Night and as Ana in Paris, I Love You before becoming Sylvia for Fast Food Nation,
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'Eclipse' joined by Catalina Sandino Moreno
12 August 2009 7:23 PM, PDT
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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Catalina Sandino Moreno has joined the cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as Maria (a character you might recall from Jasper (Jackson Rathbone)'s past).
When the announcement came last night that Royce King had been cast with Jack Huston, many speculated as to whether flashback sequences from Jasper's past would be included as well (since those of Rosalie' ... Catalina Sandino Moreno is a twenty-eight year old Oscar-nominee who you might've seen in Fast Food Nation, Che: Part One, and Che: Part Two. Moreno has also played in Love In The Time Of Cholera, based on the classic book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, so she has experience in book-to-film translations of a mystical sort.
According to THR,
The Colombian-born Sandino Moreno most notably starred in "Grace," in which she played a pregnant teacher who becomes a drug mule, as well as Steven Soderbergh's
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