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11 articles from 2009
Will Ferrell is an 'Oobermind'
17 August 2009 11:45 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Hollywood has cooked up a new twist. This may not be in league with Javier Bardem being replaced by actress Carmen Maura in a gig, but it's still surprising. Variety reports that DreamWorks has lined up its voice talent for 2010's Oobermind -- Robert Downey Jr.'s lead baddie has been replaced by Will Ferrell, and he'll be joined by Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill (not to mention Tina Fey, who signed on earlier).
The satire focuses on a big-noggined supervillain called Oobermind. He has defeated his hero rival Metro Man (Pitt), and finds post-hero-fighting life to be boring. So he creates a new superhero called Titan (Hill), to fight. Only this dude wants to be a bad guy as well, which forces Oobermind to switch sides himself. (Can you spot all the Venture Brothers similarities?) Fey, meanwhile, voices a reporter trying to keep up with the many superhero/villain changes. »
- Monika Bartyzel
Streep Nom #7-8: The Abundant Riches of 1987-88
5 July 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
We've been looking at each Meryl Streep Oscar nod and its competitive field. Previously: 78, 79, 81, 82, 83 and 85
Meryl Streep's first act was the Liberated Lady. The second was The Chameleon in which Meryl was always the lead, always had new hair, voice and body language and basically controlled Oscar's Universe. It was as if there was only 4 spots for Best Actress, one reserved for her in perpetuity. This second act ended with her intense immersion into notorious dingo-hating Lindy Chamberlain in A Cry in the Dark. [Editor's Note: Yes, I'll do a top ten performance list when "Streep at 60" wraps in mid July. I've heard your requests and I've been rewatching all the movies.]
Starting in 1989 Act III of Streep's career began but we'll get to that shortly. First, let's look at her competition in the last two years of her legendary Act II.
1987
the nominees were...
Cher, MoonstruckGlenn Close, Fatal AttractionHolly Hunter, Broadcast NewsSally Kirkland, AnnaMeryl Streep, Ironweed
I've always loved that "Mary Louise" exchange. But is Cher rewriting history to claim Silkwood as her first movie or »
- NATHANIEL R
Movie Review: Tetro (2009)
11 June 2009 2:12 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: American Zoetrope Releasing Watching Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro I came away with something of a soothing sensation. Visually, it's an absolutely beautiful film, shot in widescreen black-and-white with bold splashes of color peppered throughout. The story is a delicately told narrative that draws several similarities from Coppola's personal life, yet more than enough differences to make sure it is not at all autobiographical. While the ending suffers from an extremely melodramatic climax, Tetro is so comforting to watch, elegantly told and superbly acted it is one I could return to again and again. The story begins with the unexpected arrival of 17-year-old Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) at his older brother Tetro's (Vincent Gallo) Buenos Aires apartment. There is obvious tension coming from the closed bedroom door that keeps Tetro hidden at the outset as deep-rooted family secrets become the order of the day. Both »
- Brad Brevet
'Tetro': Art Damage, By Kurt Loder
10 June 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Francis Ford Coppola in exile from his true talent.
Alden Ehrenreich in "Tetro"
Photo: American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes of eye-popping color, the picture is a riveting visual experience. But the tale it tells — of two brothers in flight from their imperious father — grows tedious, and in the end collapses into startling preposterousness.
Vincent Gallo plays Angelo Tetroncini, a man racked by obscure torment. Ten years ago, Angelo moved to Buenos Aires (where the film was shot) in order to write — a vocation his father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a celebrated opera director, had derided. ("There's only room for one genius in this family," he told his son. »
'Tetro': Art Damage, By Kurt Loder
10 June 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Francis Ford Coppola in exile from his true talent.
Vincent Gallo in "Tetro"
Photo: American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes of eye-popping color, the picture is a riveting visual experience. But the tale it tells — of two brothers in flight from their imperious father — grows tedious, and in the end collapses into startling preposterousness.
Vincent Gallo plays Angelo Tetroncini, a man racked by obscure torment. Ten years ago, Angelo moved to Buenos Aires (where the film was shot) in order to write — a vocation his father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a celebrated opera director, had derided. ("There's only room for one genius in this family," he told his son. »
Coppola Returns With Tetro- June 11
7 June 2009 8:49 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Tetro is the newest film feature from writer/director Francis Ford Coppola, starring actors Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú and Carmen Maura. "It is set in Argentina", said Coppola. "The story will follow the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family." Coppola was attracted to Argentina as a location. "I knew Argentina has a great cultural, artistic, literary, musical, cinema tradition," he said. "And I like those kinds of atmospheres very much because you usually find creative people to work with." Spanish company Tornasol Films and Italian company Bim Distribuzione are co-producers. Production started March 31, 2008, budgeted at $15 million, with locations including La Boca in Buenos Aires, the Andean foothills in Patagonia and at Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante, Spain... »
Cannes 2009 Day 2: Some Unfinished Business in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
14 May 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Day 2 began with the 10:00 a.m. opening film for the Director's Fortnight screening of Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro. With this being one of the rare penned projects from Coppola. Playing with the notion of unrealized potential, unfinished business and certainly draws upon Coppola's own family dynamic (his father was musically inclined and it becomes apparent that the son considered him a genius), Tetro could have passed off better as a shortened stage piece. In a linear timeline, the flashes of color in this B&W film act as reminders Vincent Gallo's character Angelo/Tetro's guarded past, actor Alden Ehrenreich who is still wet behind the ears, plays his younger estranged brother prying open his older brother's nest for answers and clues. Unfortunately, the Argentinean-Italian community backdrop serves as very little and Carmen Maura's short presence only reminds us of the lack of "grip" that »
Francis Ford Coppola's 'Tetro' Gets Trailer
3 May 2009 9:08 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
The first trailer to Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" has made its way out. Teasing a look into the filmmaker's first original screenplay since 1974's "The Conversation", the promotional video is dominated by black-and-white footage with splashes of colors seen nearing the end. It features mostly Alden Ehrenreich's Bennie and Vincent Gallo's Tetro.
Dubbed to be Coppola's most personal film yet, "Tetro" tells a bittersweet story of two brothers, Bennie and Tetro, of family lost and found, and of the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. It begins with 17-year-old Bennie traveling to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother Tetro.
When Bennie finally finds his volatile and melancholy poet brother, he learns that Tetro is not at all what he expected. In the course of staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, he discovers his brother's near-finished play that leads the two to »
- AceShowbiz.com
New trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro
3 May 2009 6:45 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
The trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro is now online! The film marks just the second production from the celebrated filmmaker in 12 long years, as well as his first original screenplay since "The Conversation".
As if that wasn't all, Tetro is also being billed as Coppola's most personal film to date. Whilst the film is based on early memories and emotions from Coppola's life, it is in fact an entirely fictional story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family.
I can't help but think of some of the long lost grandeur of "The Godfather" while watching the trailer, it's obvious to me that family is still central both in Coppola's life, and in his work.
The black and white cinematography is astounding, and I hope above all else that Tetro marks a return to form for Coppola. »
- info@originalsharpsays.com (Craig Sharp)
Almodovar To Make A TV Show
26 April 2009 10:20 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Pedro Almodovar, the ace Spanish director of Volver and this year's Cannes effort Broken Embraces, is set to turn one of his early hits into a TV show. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a farcical story about love, infidelity, terrorism, sleeping pills and gazpacho, was a massive hit for the director in 1988, and is now going to be an English-language show.The original film starred Carmen Maura, Rossy de Palma and a young Antonio Banderas, in a story about Maura's Pepa, an actress who dubs commercials and whose life goes into a tailspin when her lover leaves her. While she goes a bit nuts (puts her apartment up for sale, makes a large jug of sleeping-pill laced gazpacho) and searches Madrid for him, a series of misunderstandings between her friends and acquaintances make everything very complicated, very silly and totally bizarre.The TV show will be based »
Women on the Verge of a Bad TV Show?
25 April 2009 9:19 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Have you heard the news that Pedro Almodóvar's comedic 1988 classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film that first won him a major following in the Us and his first trip to the Oscars, is going to become an English language TV series for Fox?
Pass the gazpacho!
When I read the headlines I felt like I had downed a pitcher of glee. Smashing news, especially since Almodóvar himself is producing. But ... then I read the fine print. There's always fine print.
Apparently it's Not a comedy but a "suburban drama" (huh?) And it's about women who've known each other a long time (what? no complex comedic interweaving of strangers?) And it's being written by a Grey's Anatomy writer? (oy!) This doesn't sound anything like the movie and it sounds way too much like a soapy redux of Desperate Housewives. Next thing you know we'll be »
- NATHANIEL R
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11 articles from 2009
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