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DVD Playhouse--November 2009
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Christmas 2009 going out guide: film
13 November 2009 1:40 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Blockbusters don't come much bigger in our guide to the best films this Christmas
Zac Efron proves he's ready to graduate from high school in Richard Linklater's latest. He plays Richard, a callow young fellow in the 1930s, who manages to persuade no less a figure than Orson Welles to give him a small role in the legendary Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar. Released on 4 December.
The famous illustrated children's book about a strange wonderland populated by marvellous, scary creatures with fur and horns has been fleshed out into a feature film by Spike Jonze, where a little boy runs away to this mythical land and installs himself as their king. Released on 11 December.
James "Titanic" Cameron returns to mainstream movie-making, bringing us this state-of-the-art spectacular. Sam Worthington plays Jake, a disabled former combat soldier who is recreated »
- Peter Bradshaw
Swinton 'glad she wasn't a pretty teen'
7 November 2009 6:22 PM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Tilda Swinton has claimed that she is glad she wasn't a pretty teenager. The actress explained that she has always been happy with her appearance, Bang Showbiz reports. "When I was 9 or 10 I wasn't pretty anymore, which is a big advantage," she said. "It must be a nightmare to be a beautiful teenager. I got this strange kind of androgyny. I was everything girls don't want to be - incredibly tall, incredibly thin, unimpressive. For years it's still been possible to hide as a sexual being." However, (more) »
- By Catriona Wightman
Tilda Swinton's teenage misery
7 November 2009 5:01 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Tilda Swinton is glad she wasn't a beautiful teenager. The 'Burn After Reading' actress insists she has always been comfortable with her androgynous appearance and was happy to be a "strange" adolescent. She said: "When I was nine or 10 I wasn't pretty anymore - which is a big advantage. It must be a nightmare to be a beautiful teenager. "I got this strange kind of androgyny. I was everything girls don't want to be - incredibly tall, incredibly thin, unimpressive. For years it's still been possible to hide as a sexual being." The 48-year-old 'Chronicles of Narnia' star admits she also felt her teenage years were lacking because she was isolated away from other popular pastimes due »
Birthday Suits: Tilda's Frontal & Sam's Moon
5 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I was going to try out this new quickie daily birthday feature. Only it's not quickie it's longie. I can't even do filler without breaking my back. Sigh, I'll never be a mega famous blogger. I care too much!
Today's birthdays 11/05
For those prone to celebrating the filmic and famous.
1905 Joel McCrea undervalued 40s star. Read this great piece on his career
1913 Vivien Leigh, more on her soon
1931 Ike Turner didn't deserve Tina. But, ugh, remember how great Laurence Fishburne was in What's Love Got To Do Without It?
1940 Elke Sommer, the German movie star turns 69 years young today. She was very generous with her birthday suit back in the 60s. Wouldn't you be if you looked like that? On a sad note I have never seen the infamous movie The Oscar (1966) which is about the Oscars that she co-stars in. Is it as bad as they say? I must see it. »
- NATHANIEL R
October. It's a Wrap.
31 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Boo! I hope stateside readers are enjoying late night Halloween festivities (I do so love this holiday) but if you're elsewhere on a slow night, get caught up on ten highlights from the month that was.
Precious Bleeds Over yes, it's fantastic. But how pure can our reactions be after 10 months of hype?
Tilda in the Flesh two pieces on Tilda Swinton at the New Yorker Festival
Directors of the Decade Robert kicked off an exciting retrospective column with Martin Scorsese. Who will he spotlight next?
First and Last: TV Glenn hosted the liveliest comment guessing game yet for this series. While I finally stumped y'all after fifty-plus tries.
Paris is Burning Matt's new series "Screen Queens" covered one of the best documentaries of past 20 years
Overheard at the Cinema lots of fun comments on Wild Things opening weekend
From London... Cross the Atlantic, Dave saw a ton of movies and kept reporting back. »
- NATHANIEL R
5 High-Tech Operas That Radically Transform the Stage
30 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
The run of the Metropolitan Opera's Damnation of Faust, designed by Canadian powerhouse designer Robert Lepage and his Ex Machina troupe, just started. We promise to give you a run-down of the opera's blitz of techno-imagery on Monday. Meanwhile, here are five high-tech operas that, depending on your tilt, either jar or excite the senses.
South African artist and visual director William Kentridge wowed audiences with his experimental, cinematic staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute in Belgium in 2005 and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2007. Rendering the stage a landscape of animated projections and artwork timed to correspond to singers' movements and arias, he made the opera closer to a video work. Animations come from Kentridge's "erasures"--black-and-white drawings of silhouettes, birds, and apartheid-era South African subjects that are photographed, erased, redrawn, and then animated to give a grainy, flip book-style pace to the action on-stage. »
- Diane Mehta
Viennale Dispatch 1
28 October 2009 7:14 PM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Above: Svetlana Geier in Vadim Jendreyko's The Woman with the 5 Elephants.
Mittwoch in Vienna, and mittfestival (if there is such a word) also for the city's—indeed the country's—biggest and most important cinema-related event. The Viennale kicked off on Thursday 22nd with a screening of La Pivellina at the 1960s Gartenbaukino, the film (a fairly well-received Italian/Austrian drama about an abandoned two-year-old, directed by Rainer Frimmel and Tizza Covi) being somewhat overshadowed by the presence at the opening of the festival's headline guest, Tilda Swinton. One over-enthusiastic paparazzo (from Austria's most scandal-hungry tabloid) was reportedly ejected for overstepping the mark, amid scenes that would hardly be regarded as chaotic or frenetic at Cannes or Berlin, but which here at the rather more austere, genteel and rarefied Viennale caused quite a stir.
Personally speaking I'm "over the hump" in terms of my attendance, having completed five full days »
Tuesday Top Ten: Bite Me!
27 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
It's Halloween Week! Though a horror movie wuss I be there's one movie monster who I'll always give it up for, the vampire. Herewith: the film & television vampires who I would find most difficult to resist. (I've restricted myself to the past 30 years because there are too many I haven't seen from earlier... like those Hammer Horror films Matt was just talking 'bout). Should these 10 suckers ever come knocking, I shan't be wearing a cross, turtleneck or smelling of garlic.
I've already discussed Seline in Underworld and that hot Mexican in From Dusk til Dawn so I'm skipping them here.
10 Dracula (Gerard Butler) in Dracula 2000 (2000)
There are abundant lists of "best/sexiest vamps" on the net, but most of them go off in directions I can't support [cough Twilight... must everything be about page views? They twinkle. In the sun. Ugh]. But The Daily Beast makes a good point in favor of Gerard Butler: Ceiling Sex.
09 Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) in »
- NATHANIEL R
London Film Festival: The Unbearable Inarticulateness of Being
26 October 2009 2:22 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Limits of Control Directed by Jim Jarmusch The Exploding Girl Directed by Bradley Rust In the early 1990s, slacker cinema was all the rage in American independent cinema, with wacky, mumbling characters, slow pacing and the mundanity of everyday life replacing traditional plots, characterisations and drama. Which brings us to these two Amerindie offerings. Whereas the London Film Festival programmers found them delightful, bold and original, my experience in the cinema was rather different. And given the snoring and sighing I could hear among my fellow audience members, I suspect I was not alone in my lack of enthusiasm. The Lonely Man, the anti-hero of The Limits of Control [1], is a blank canvas, a man with no name, no back story, next-to-no dialogue and no seeming motivation other than he is on some shadowy assignment involving the exchange of matchboxes with a parade of very talented actors in implausible outfits (step forward, »
- Val
Buzz Break: Francophilia
22 October 2009 1:45 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
· James Franco has revealed more details about his upcoming General Hospital stint, namely that he considers it another installment of the very meta performance art portfolio he's developing with artist Carter. So, y'know, think about that when he's doing his fifth shirtless scene of the week.
· While appearing before Congress in her role as a U.N. goodwill ambassador, Nicole Kidman blamed Hollywood for contributing to violence against women, and also for The Stepford Wives.
· As predicted, the Funny People DVD and Blu-ray is going to have approximately a million billion hours of bonus footage, including a six-hour behind-the-scenes documentary on you, as you watch it.
· The rights have been picked up to Lynne Ramsay's upcoming Tilda Swinton drama We Need to Talk About Kevin.
· Stomp the Yard 2, everyone. The Yard can't take much more of this! »
Stanley Tucci Rising "Gird Your Loins!"
21 October 2009 4:31 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
On the same day I sat in the presence of Tilda Swinton (which I already told you about), I also attended the similarly formatted Stanley Tucci event at the New Yorker festival. You can read my article about the experience over at Tribeca. I love that they festooned it with an old Levi's ad of Tucci's. So weird to see him like that.
As you may have noticed in past conversations, I'm fairly fond of Tucci and I've been happy to see his (supporting) star rising. I knew nothing about him personally so the event was my first reveal of what he was like off stage: serious but funny (and punny as the case may be). He's often referred to as a Character Actor which he dubs a redundant term. What they mean is you're not a leading man. It's like saying that someone is heavyset or 'she's a handsome woman! »
- NATHANIEL R
Tilda Swinton in the Flesh
20 October 2009 3:47 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
This weekend I had the opportunity to listen to cinephile actress Tilda Swinton reminisce about her career at the New Yorker Festival. I covered that beat (thrilling, rapid fire... oops, that was that my heart) for Tribeca Film. Naturally, wrestling the goodies down to article form was a mite troubling, because she was so candid, interesting and worthy of plunking down money for... though I guess with these new blogging laws I should indicate that my ticket was comped.
I always love hearing Tilda talk about her first collaborator Derek Jarman (which she did, a lot... there wasn't much discussion of her recent forays into mainstream fare) but one of my favorite bits was her story about meeting Eric Zonca, her Julia director, in Cannes. He was drunk and they tried to sneak into a party that they were both turned away from... even though they were both Cannes officials. »
- NATHANIEL R
On Meeting Tilda Swinton
20 October 2009 3:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Sitting in the City Winery, anxious to see one of the true goddesses of the screen on stage for her New Yorker Festival interview, I was hypnotized by the screens to either side of the stage. Images streamed from a wordless Derek Jarman short Depuis le Jour (1987). Tilda Swinton's smiling face and long cascading red hair kept reappearing, as if we were being watched by the ghost of her youth. When the current familiar incarnation of Swinton walked on stage minutes later, blond and androgynous, the flickering images were gone but the youthful actress remained. She was still wordless, too. Swinton's mic wasn't working... but the technical snafu proved welcome. There was slightly more time to acclimate oneself to her ageless presence in the flesh. Swinton is now a 48-year-old Oscar winner (for Michael Clayton), bonafide celebrity, and fashion icon for her eerie and singular beauty (who is often cited, »
Swinton At War With Trump Over Golf Course
13 October 2009 12:21 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Tilda Swinton is waging war against Donald Trump by throwing her support behind a campaign to block the tycoon's plans for a luxury golf course in her native Scotland.
Property tycoon Trump has been battling to construct a $1.5 billion resort in Aberdeenshire for years, and was finally granted permission from the Scottish government to proceed with his plans last November.
But locals near the Menie Estate, the location of Trump's latest venture, are furious at the decision, because some are facing possible eviction to make way for the ambitious hotel, housing and golf complex.
Swinton has signed a petition against the resort, joining 15,000 other Scots who are bidding to overturn the government's decision.
She says, "Surely this kind of industrial bullying has been discredited enough. I trust Aberdeenshire Council to know its Highland history and to resist giving in to this attempt at a 21st-century clearance."
George Sorial, a representative for the Trump Organization, has accused Swinton of siding with "extremists" and has urged her to do her research before making further "ill-informed" statements.
Now Trump himself has weighed in on the issue, blasting the actress for her late involvement in the campaign.
He tells TMZ.com, "Where was Tilda Swinton three years ago when everyone else was petitioning? She's a little late in the game don't you think?
"Swinton is a part of a tiny little group of people who are hanging by a thread. Ninety-three per cent of the public in Scotland are in favour of the project. I have all of my permits and approvals and we're going to start construction in three weeks." »
Trump Fires Back -- Tilda's 'Hanging by a Thread'
13 October 2009 11:20 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
Tilda Swinton is completely irrelevant ... at least according to Donald Trump. The Donald has just released the following statement regarding the Oscar winner's attempt to stop Trump from developing a golf course in Scotland ... but for Trump, the statement is surprisingly tame: "Where was Tilda Swinton three years ago when everyone else was petitioning? She's a little late in the game don't you think? Swinton is a part of a tiny little group of people »
Oscar-Winner Clubs Trump Over Golf Course
13 October 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
Tilda Swinton's life is about to become hell -- the Academy Award winner is officially picking a fight with Donald Trump ... and we all know how that usually turns out. Swinton just signed an anti-Trump petition, accusing His Hairness of bullying residents in Scotland in order to make way for a brand new state-of-the-art golf course developed by the Trump Organization. Trump got permission to build on the land back in 2008, but critics -- »
Anvil! Takes La
9 October 2009 8:58 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
At an event hosted by Tilda Swinton, Catherine Keener, Michel Gondry and Rainn Wilson, the members of the band Anvil! - subjects of Sacha Gervasi’s doc “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” - celebrated the release of the film’s DVD. Pictured with the band are the film’s producer Rebecca Yeldham, Gervasi, and moderator Steven Zaillian at a Q&A following the film’s screening at the WGA theater in Los Angeles. Cameron Crowe, Edward … »
Hollywood stars sign petition to free Roman Polanski
5 October 2009 9:18 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Harrison Ford, Natalie Portman, Tilda Swinton, Gael Garcia Bernal, and John Landis have all signed the petition to have all apparently signed a petition to free the currently 'jailed' film director Roman Polanski. The helmer was arrested in Switzerland last month for charges that date all of the way back to the 1970's. I refuse to enter debate and give my opinion on the subject on this here page, but what do you guys think? Do you agree with them? Discuss via our comments box below. »
- Paul
Free Polanski? Yes, Free!
2 October 2009 9:32 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Earlier today, I received an email from Fearnet's mailing list with "Free Polanski... Movie" as the subject. It is, obviously, a reference to the Free Polanski petition currently making rounds in the film community; but Fearnet isn't promoting that. They just want to sensationally let people know that they have Roman Polanski's great 1965 horror film Repulsion up for free viewing on their website.
Hey, just because it's 44 years ago doesn't mean we should all just forget!
You can watch the full film over there.
On a more serious note, at this point I'm rather ambivalent about Polanski's fate. I'm not going to cry for the man if they throw him in jail. Don't kick a monkey if you can't take a poop in the face, right? Serves him right, or something like that. But I'm not going to pitch a hissy if they let him go, either. I'd feel bad for the victim, »
- Arya Ponto
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