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Audi Celebrates Clean Diesel with Celebrity Cocktail Party
2 November 2009 8:34 AM, PST | Hollyscoop.com | See recent HollyScoop news »
Audi celebrated the success of Tdi clean diesel technology at a cocktail party co-hosted by CAA’s Tracy Brennan and Director Marc Forster on Thursday night at the Sunset Tower Hotel. Celebrity guests arrived in Audi Q7 Tdi SUVs to the poolside soiree which mixed an old Hollywood feel with progressive design. Audi’s Tdi vehicles are up to 30% more fuel efficient than their gasoline counterparts. Highlights from the evening include: Jaime Pressly debuting a new edgy short hair cut, Allison Janney and Rachael Harris taking to the ones and twos with DJ Michelle Pesce, and MSNBC’s... »
MovieSet’s Alliance DVD Round-Up - Coraline, Ghosts of Girlfriends, Away We Go, Easy Virtue, 17 Again
30 October 2009 3:50 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
As winter approaches the days start getting shorter and the temperature keeps dropping which makes watching movies at home start to look like a better option than braving the cold weather to go out to the theater.
Lucky for you, Alliance has released a great selection of films that can entertain fans of any genre. Keep your eyes open for Coraline, Nothing Like the Holidays, Away We Go, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Easy Virtue, Sin Nombre and 17 Again.
Coraline DVD
If you’re looking for a good family film to watch over Halloween, then pick up Coraline on DVD or Blu-Ray to delight and frighten you in standard 2-D, or eye-popping 3-D. Coraline tells the story of a young girl who walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life.
On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to »
- Shannon
Stars From J Lo to Will Smith Honor Mj at This Is It La Premiere
28 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Michael Jackson's final masterpiece, This Is It hit theaters at midnight last night, with a star-studded La premiere just a few hours earlier to celebrate. Mj's brothers Jermaine, Tito, Marlon and Randy posed together to support the project while stars of stage and screen came together to honor the King of Pop. Will Smith doesn't do a ton of red carpets these days, but couldn't miss this one and Nph was dapper in black. Ashley Tisdale pulled her High School Musical costar Monique Coleman close while Adam Lambert and Katy Perry looked like two peas in a pod. Michael Jackson's last performance footage has done amazingly well in presales and he clearly has the love of all his celebrity fans and friends - including close pal Elizabeth Taylor - as it hits theaters for a special run. Jennifer Lopez pouted for the camera after another weekend supporting the Dolphins in Miami. »
- Molly
Pine & Janney Win Theatre Award Nominations
20 October 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Star Trek actor Chris Pine and Allison Janney have landed nominations for Los Angeles' top theatre awards.
Pine is recognised for his role in Farragut North, while Janney lands a Best Actress nod for her part in 9 to 5: The Musical at the upcoming Ovation Awards.
Dolly Parton has also been nominated for creating 9 to 5, which picked up a total of seven nods.
The revival of Smokey Joe’s Cafe leads the list with eight nominations. »
445 Films Heading To 30th American Film Market
12 October 2009 10:31 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
The 30th American Film Market (Afm) has announced 445 films in 27 languages, including 73 world premieres and 311 market premieres, screening to 8,000-plus film buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries. Among the seemingly endless list of films screening at Afm are (with the film’s seller in brackets) “Life During Wartime,” directed by Todd Solondz and starring Ally Sheedy, Paul Reubens, Charlotte Rampling and Allison Janney (Fortissimo Film … »
Nyff '09 Podcast: Life During Wartime (Armond White, Andrew Grant, Sylvia Miles)
8 October 2009 7:30 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
Is Welcome to the Dollhouse auteur Todd Solondz a misanthrope, or a humanist whose characters just happen to engage in ugly, perverse, cruel behavior? For me, the answer has been made clear with Life During Wartime (screening Saturday, Oct. 10 at 9pm), Solondz's quasi-sequel to 1998's Happiness, in which all of the characters are now played by different actors: Todd Solondz starts his latest and finest film to date by introducing us to Joy (Shirley Henderson), whose husband Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams) is not quite cured of his peculiar "affliction." Joy's sister Trish (Allison Janney) is hoping to stabilize her family life by marrying the recently divorced Harvey (Michael Lerner), but her soon-to-be bar-mitzvahed son Timmy (Dylan Riley Snyder) isn’t sure he wants another man in the house—especially as it seems his dead father, Bill (Ciarán Hinds), might not be dead after all. His portrait of these and several »
Blu-ray Giveaway: Away We Go
30 September 2009 8:34 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Sam Mendes' Away We Go (read our review) is newly available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Up for grabs are two of the Blu-ray version of Away We Go which you can take a shot at winning by entering this contest via the online form below. You can optionally return any or every day thereafter to enter again and increase the odds of being chosen each time. John Krasinski (The Office) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) star in the heartfelt film that explores the comedic twists and turns in one couple's journey across contemporary America. Anticipating the birth of their first child, longtime couple Burt (Krasinski) and Verona (Rudolph) embark on an ambitious itinerary to visit friends and family in order to find their perfect home. Featuring a remarkable soundtrack and an incredible ensemble cast . including Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine O'Hara and Jim Gaffigan. »
Away We Go arrives on Blu-ray and M&C's giving away two copies
30 September 2009 2:45 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
From acclaimed Director Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road), Away We Go has arrived on Blu-ray from Focus Features and M&C.s giving away two copies! Away We Go is a funny, romantic, honest and surprisingly moving film that explores the comedic twists and emotional turns in one expectant couple.s journey to find the right place to put down roots. John Krasinski (NBC.s .The Office.) and Maya Rudolph (NBC.s .Saturday Night Live.) transcend what you.ve seen before with break out performances that are warm, emotional and funny, as they go on their journey visiting friends and family brought to life by the enormously talented ensemble cast including Catherine O.Hara (Best In Show), Jeff Daniels (State of Play), Allison Janney (Juno), Maggie »
- Patrick Luce
This Week In DVD: September 29th
29 September 2009 1:26 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as a server at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater carrying $5 shakes, black-bean burgers, and root-beer flavored cookies to happy, cinema-loving patrons. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. And don't forget to check out Neil Miller's hilariously titled This Week In Blu-ray column for reviews on the latest high definition Blu-ray releases! 42nd Street Forever Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Edition Pitch: A fantastically offensive collection of trailers from some of the craziest »
- Rob Hunter
Away We Go Blu-ray Review
29 September 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Upon finishing Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road (2008) it felt like the life had been drained out of me. While impeccably produced and acted, the film is so emotionally heavy and unrelentingly depressing, I am relieved there was not a firearm or straight razor within arm's reach during viewing. I have the utmost respect for the caliber of the work but should it be so painful to endure? Almost as an anecdote, the director churned out the indie flick Away We Go (2009) within six months that is a total reversal in tone from his previous effort. Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are unmarried and awaiting the birth of their first child when surprised by the news that his parents are leaving the country for two years with the kicker that they are departing before the due date. Since Verona's folks are deceased (which is part of the reason she »
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Away We Go’ Proves Impossible to Resist
28 September 2009 2:10 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Filmmaker Sam Mendes has always been drawn to telling stories set in a dysfunctional America where the sanctity of marriage is anything but “sanct.” For the past decade, he has specialized in brutally frank social satires about the deterioration of the American family. His work is nearly always riveting, but could never be described as “feel good”…until now. The happily unmarried couple in “Away We Go” sharply contrasts with the unhappily married couple of “Revolutionary Road.” It is a rather marvelous lark, and easily the most optimistic film Mendes has ever made.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0 John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph are two enormously appealing actors, and they finally get the opportunity to prove it onscreen. They perfectly capture the excitement and uncertainty of a couple in their early thirties desperate to prove to themselves that they are not “f—k-ups.” With their first child on the way, Burt (Krasinski »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Tiff ‘09: Short Takes
24 September 2009 9:54 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Trash Humpers Directed by Harmony Korine Anyone who enjoyed Korine's previous feature, the funny, surreal Mister Lonely, may have been looking forward to what he was to do next in anticipation of a further expansion into pseudo-accessible territory. Instead, Korine decided to jump off the arthouse deep end with Trash Humpers, a reasonably well-executed conceptual short that somehow found its way to an incredibly tortuous 78 minutes. An "artifact" rather than a film, Humpers is meant to act as a simulation of found art, an odd relic from an unknown universe bestowed to us through some incredibly unfortuitous happenstance. Perhaps if Korine had issued the film (shot on deliberately primitive video) anonymously in a soiled plastic bag, the film might have accomplished just such an effect after being rediscovered by the bored film students of future decades, but as it stands it's merely an intermittently funny but mostly agonizing collection of »
- Simon
Tiff: Top 10 New Faces & Voices: #10. Dylan Riley Snyder
24 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- #10. Dylan Riley Snyder Part of the fun of the whole film festival experience is discovering new talents, both in front and behind of the camera. Since I'm an avid fan of the top ten list format, I thought I'd go at this again. Cannes gave us two break-thru perfs in acting from A Prophet's Tahar Rahim and Fish Tank's Katie Jarvis (both were mentioned once again in IndieWIRE's Tiff poll), I featured the both of them in this apres Cannes' piece. So here we go with some Tiff standouts, commencing with one of the littlest members in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime. I think its safe to say that Solondz gets a kick out of putting adult words and ideas in his string of child characters, here pre-teen Dylan Riley Snyder took on the role of the inquisitive Timmy Maplewood - the middle child. Snyder manages to »
Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story
22 September 2009 4:51 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Filmmaker Michael Moore apologized for being late to the premiere of his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. President Obama, a guest on David Letterman, was clogging traffic and Moore got caught up in his motorcade. "We could have just kept going," said Moore from the stage of Alice Tully Hall before a packed and patient audience that included actors like Allison Janney, Tovah Feldshuh, and Wallace Shawn, as well as a family, the Hackers, who had been evicted from their home on land that had been owned by their family for decades. Their tale of woe is just one illustrating the ills of capitalism limned in this typical Moore satire. Yes, this big hearted guy is up to the old shenanigans, those hijinks we've grown to love from his Roger & Me, featured in the New York Film... »
- Regina Weinreich
Film Review: Away We Go
22 September 2009 10:07 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Ah! Sam Mendes! That old poe face laugh a minute joker is at at again. After covering suburban alienation, violent gangster under worlds, the effects of war on the psyche, marriage meltdowns, suicide and murder, he's this time turned his cynical humanist hand to... an all out sweet comedy? And one that is as brilliantly simple in execution as it is uncomplicated in plot. After odd couple Burt and Verona find out (in a brilliantly played opening scene) that they are expecting a baby and also that Burt's parents are fleeing the country before the birth, the pair find themselves strangely unencumbered with no real sense of place or home and set off on a little trip to visit old friends with the hope of deciding where they want to raise their family. John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph's off kilter chemistry and perfect comedy timing helps make this easy »
- Neil Innes
Toronto: Some closing thoughts, and Todd Solondz’s unhappy sequel
20 September 2009 11:38 AM, PDT | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »
Here are a few last, random thoughts on the Toronto film festival, which came to a close yesterday: It Was a Very Good Year. In the week I spent there, almost everyone I talked to seemed to agree -- as did I -- on the generally exciting quality of the movies. The fact that so many of those films connected with the anxious urgency of the moment lent the programming (intentionally or not) a certain seductive coherence. At times, coming out of a movie like Collapse or Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, it was almost like attending the Whole Earth on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown film festival -- and I mean that as a compliment. Best Film I Saw. Hands down, Up in the Air. An exquisite reminder of everything that a Hollywood movie can still be, Jason Reitman’s sublime comedy about a jet-setting down-sizer »
- Owen Gleiberman
Tiff 2009 Day 6: Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime
18 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- I failed to re-watch the 1998 film prior to seeing this one, but just like a coat that got lost in a closest and hasn't been worn in some time, this pic has the same form – its just not as perverted as the original. Life During Wartime's first “re-introduction” sequences and this sense of familiarity that comes along with it can bring along a sense of glee and while the transfer from one actor the another is a great device, the appeal slowly dissipates until we are left with very little. Todd Solondz' follow up to Happiness won the best screenplay award in Venice – for very specific reasons, the dialogue sharply sticks it to the batch of unlike-able characters and Allison Janney steals the show when comparing her character to the pantheon of scary mothers who mean well. I enjoyed the pic and this is his best since 98', »
Featurette on Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime Starring Paul Reubens
12 September 2009 1:24 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Update: Buzz continues to build as the film just won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. I like how Todd Solondz talks. In the below featurette---ideal for a Saturday afternoon in both length and Puerto Rico palm casualness---the writer/director of Welcome to the Dollhouse discusses his new film, Life During Wartime. Yep, titled after the Talking Heads' classic. You may or may not know that Wartime is being cited in early reviews as a return to form for Solondz, the rare American director who is unwaveringly committed to exploring the fringes and norms of society. There was a time in the mid '90s when I actually confused Solondz and Wes Anderson, due to their media-buzz indie predilection and similar disheveled nerd-artist appearances. Funny that in 2009, that seems like such an odd and off mix-up. Perhaps tellingly so. Wartime stars Paul Reubens, in sickly make-up, the swell Allison Janney, »
- Hunter Stephenson
Can’t Miss: The West Wing Complete Series At Amazon $120 (60% Off)
9 September 2009 5:26 AM, PDT | The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news »
For One Day Only you can get the truly wonderful (45 disc!) complete series boxset of The West Wing for an incredibly cheap $120 at Amazon. That’s 60% off of their regular price compared to the last month. Snap it up within the next 20 hours, or you’ll lose out.
Starring Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, Rob Lowe, Melissa Fitzgerald and Dulé Hill, The West Wing ventured where no other TV series had gone before: an extraordinarily intimate look at an American President and the inner workings of the White House. Experience all the crises, triumphs, lofty idealism and hard realities of the acclaimed series in this complete seven-season DVD set. Here, on 45 discs, are all 154 episodes of the series that won 26 Emmys, including 4 for Outstanding Drama Series. Hail to chief - and to the creators and stars of this ground-breaking series. Also Included: Pilot »
- Paul Larn
Bww Special Feature: How I Got My Equity Card - by Allison Janney
4 September 2009 2:41 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
BroadwayWorld.com is proud to present its newest weekly feature, presented in association with and to celebrate the importance of the Actors' Equity Association. "Aea" or "Equity", founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 48,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members. »
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