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Robert Pattinson's Dream? To Make His Own Movies

13 November 2009 9:17 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

'I'd like to make it a lot easier for the creative people to get their thoughts heard,' the 'New Moon' star says of possibly starting his own production company.

By Larry Carroll

Robert Pattinson

Photo: MTV News

Beverly Hills, California — When Edward Cullen was 18 years old in 1919, Hollywood superstars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford came up with the idea for United Artists — a studio that would give actors greater control over which films they got to make and take the creative decisions away from commercial-minded studio execs. When Edward was 68 years old, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand made waves with their First Artists Production Company, pledging the same actors-first mentality.

Now, Robert Pattinson is determined to mark Edward's upcoming second-century teenage period with a similar endeavor, using his newfound star power to make the kind of movies he wants to see.

"I definitely »

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'Antichrist': Why Lars von Trier's latest fake outrage was made for, and only for, the Cannes film festival

10 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

In the world of cinema, there are many precious accolades -- an Academy Award, a rating of 100 percent fresh on rottentomatoes.com -- but few can match the sexy frisson of that most glittering of distinctions: getting booed at the Cannes film festival. Any old drama can win universal acclaim, especially if it's set in the back alleys of Romania during the waning days of Communist rule. But to get booed at Cannes...that's a venerable prize indeed. It signifies that you've made something fearless, wrenchingly divisive, ahead-of-the-cutting-edge, maybe even visionary in its disregard for the staid old status quo. »

- Owen Gleiberman

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'Antichrist': Why Lars von Trier's latest fake outrage was made for, and only for, the Cannes film festival

10 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

In the world of cinema, there are many precious accolades to be had -- an Academy Award, a rating of 100 percent fresh on rottentomatoes.com -- but few can match the sexy frisson of that most hallowed of accolades: getting booed at the Cannes film festival. Any old drama can win universal acclaim, especially if it's set in the back alleys of Romania during the waning days of Communist rule. But to get booed at Cannes...that's a venerable prize indeed. It signifies that you've made something fearless, wrenchingly divisive, ahead-of-the-cutting-edge, maybe even visionary in its disregard for the staid old status quo. »

- Owen Gleiberman

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Featured Article: Classic Italian Film

9 November 2009 4:45 PM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »

With its silent superspectacles, postwar neo-realism and 1960s new wave, the Italian film industry has enjoyed three major periods of international influence. In between times, it has assimilated the technological advances and dramatic styles of foreign competitors and used them to shape such local trends as the `white telephone' film, calligraphism, giallo, the `sword and sandal' epic, the `spaghetti' Western and the dialect comedy.

Over the years, the unexpected has become commonplace. Therefore, it's no surprise to see Gianni di Gregorio, the screenwriter of the uncompromising crime saga Gomorrah, making his directorial debut with Mid-August Lunch, a charming comedy of bourgeois manners, whose unforced naturalism, social insight and deceptive wit hark back to a golden age that is recalled here by MovieMail - the best place to buy classic movies and world cinema on DVD.

After two decades of propaganda and pictorialism, Italian film went back to basics after the Second World War. »

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"Forget it, Jake. It's Cougartown."

5 October 2009 8:44 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

The movies' male/female age divide is nothing new -- from Marlon Brando buttering up a less-than-half-his-age Maria Schneider in "Last Tango in Paris" to Catherine Zeta-Jones pursuing a grandfatherly Sean Connery in "Entrapment," on-screen relationships between older men and younger women rarely even merit a comment.

This week on the IFC News podcast, we thought we'd look at the flip side of the phenomenon and examine how films treat pairings of older women with younger men, picking out some of the recurring themes, and wondering why the deflowering of a teenage boy by an older female is allowed to be played off as funny, when the reverse is, well, Roman Polanski.

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- Alison Willmore

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"The Godfather" To Get Theatrical Re-issue In The UK

12 July 2009 10:34 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

The good folks at Park Circus, the British film distribution company, have sent us the following press release - which is good news for classic movie fans.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning classic The Godfather will be back in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2009.

Re-released by Park Circus, this beautifully restored and remastered version of The Godfather stars Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire, Last Tango In Paris), Al Pacino (Scarface, Scent Of A Woman), James Caan (Misery, Funny Lady), Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now, The Apostle) and Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, Manhattan).

An iconic film with outstanding performances, The Godfather is set in the 1940’s and opens at the lavish wedding of Connie, the daughter of the revered ‘Godfather’ - Don Vito Corleone (Brando). This is an event where business and pleasure naturally go hand in hand. The ‘Godfather’ receives a select list of guests into his den, to listen »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Blu-ray Review: The Last Emperor (The Criterion Collection)

5 January 2009 2:26 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

An Italian film director sets out to recreate an epic Chinese story as an independent film and entirely in English and goes on to win nine Oscars. Sound unlikely? Well, in most cases it probably would be, but Bernardo Bertolucci did just that with The Last Emperor in 1987 as he set out to tell the story of a 3-year-old boy who became Emperor of China with 400 million people as his subjects on an unlikely path to becoming a gardener in Peking. The success of the film is almost as unimaginable as the story behind it and Criterion has set out to ensure you know Everything there is to know about this movie and its place in history with a Blu-ray edition that takes three (of the four) DVDs worth of material and places it all on one disc. Speak ill of the high-definition format no more as the thought of »

- Brad Brevet

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