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Daniel Day-Lewis talks about Nine (and acting, reluctantly)
10 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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Daniel Day-Lewis will live rough, break bones and work through pneumonia to get inside his characters. It may be absurd, he says, but then, he's in an absurd business. He talks about his latest film, Nine
The Daniel Day-Lewis interview is set for Friday and then it's set for Saturday. It's at 3.30pm; it's at 1.15pm; it may not happen at all. Inside the swish London hotel, the press handlers are all hunched over their clipboards while Italian journalists keep tripping over TV cables in the corridor. Eventually, a pair of publicists forge through the melee to assure me that yes, the interview will indeed take place – but not right now. "Can we bring you some food while you wait?" asks the first publicist. "There's no food," says the second.
By this point I'm starting to wonder whether the Nine press junket might be some ornate PR stunt by the Weinstein Company,
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- Xan Brooks
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tMF Oscarwatch: Brothers, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones...
7 December 2009 10:01 PM, PST
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Three of my most anticipated movies have been released already - Brothers, The Lovely Bones and A Single Man. Two of them, A Single Man and Brothers, seem to be getting the kind of attention and raves they deserved while The Lovely Bones is now considered as one of the most divisive in regards to critics' assessment of the said Peter Jackson film. So what's the latest buzz right this minute?
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A Single Man: The recent win as Best Actor for Colin Firth at the Venice Film Fest appears to be a good omen for Tom Ford's directorial debut. I have yet to read anything 'drastically' negative about it.
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Says Karina Longworth, who is now with INDIEWire:
In his boldest visual choice, Ford manipulates the film's palette to match the evolving emotional tone. George's flashbacks are generally crayon-colored and his present desaturated and neutral,
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Brothers, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones...
7 December 2009 10:01 PM, PST
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Three of my most anticipated movies have been released already - Brothers, The Lovely Bones and A Single Man. Two of them, A Single Man and Brothers, seem to be getting the kind of attention and raves they deserved while The Lovely Bones is now considered as one of the most divisive in regards to critics' assessment of the said Peter Jackson film. So what's the latest buzz right this minute?
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A Single Man: The recent win as Best Actor for Colin Firth at the Venice Film Fest appears to be a good omen for Tom Ford's directorial debut. I have yet to read anything 'drastically' negative about it.
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Says Karina Longworth, who is now with INDIEWire:
In his boldest visual choice, Ford manipulates the film's palette to match the evolving emotional tone. George's flashbacks are generally crayon-colored and his present desaturated and neutral,
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Brothers, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones...
7 December 2009 10:01 PM, PST
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Three of my most anticipated movies have been released already - Brothers, The Lovely Bones and A Single Man. Two of them, A Single Man and Brothers, seem to be getting the kind of attention and raves they deserved while The Lovely Bones is now considered as one of the most divisive in regards to critics' assessment of the said Peter Jackson film. So what's the latest buzz right this minute?
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A Single Man: The recent win as Best Actor for Colin Firth at the Venice Film Fest appears to be a good omen for Tom Ford's directorial debut. I have yet to read anything 'drastically' negative about it.
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Says Karina Longworth, who is now with INDIEWire:
In his boldest visual choice, Ford manipulates the film's palette to match the evolving emotional tone. George's flashbacks are generally crayon-colored and his present desaturated and neutral,
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Brothers, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones...
7 December 2009 10:01 PM, PST
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Three of my most anticipated movies have been released already - Brothers, The Lovely Bones and A Single Man. Two of them, A Single Man and Brothers, seem to be getting the kind of attention and raves they deserved while The Lovely Bones is now considered as one of the most divisive in regards to critics' assessment of the said Peter Jackson film. So what's the latest buzz right this minute?
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A Single Man: The recent win as Best Actor for Colin Firth at the Venice Film Fest appears to be a good omen for Tom Ford's directorial debut. I have yet to read anything 'drastically' negative about it.
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Says Karina Longworth, who is now with INDIEWire:
In his boldest visual choice, Ford manipulates the film's palette to match the evolving emotional tone. George's flashbacks are generally crayon-colored and his present desaturated and neutral,
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Brothers, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones...
7 December 2009 10:01 PM, PST
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Three of my most anticipated movies have been released already - Brothers, The Lovely Bones and A Single Man. Two of them, A Single Man and Brothers, seem to be getting the kind of attention and raves they deserved while The Lovely Bones is now considered as one of the most divisive in regards to critics' assessment of the said Peter Jackson film. So what's the latest buzz right this minute?
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A Single Man: The recent win as Best Actor for Colin Firth at the Venice Film Fest appears to be a good omen for Tom Ford's directorial debut. I have yet to read anything 'drastically' negative about it.
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Says Karina Longworth, who is now with INDIEWire:
In his boldest visual choice, Ford manipulates the film's palette to match the evolving emotional tone. George's flashbacks are generally crayon-colored and his present desaturated and neutral,
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Oscarwatch: Brothers, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones...
7 December 2009 10:01 PM, PST
| The Movie Fanatic
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Three of my most anticipated movies have been released already - Brothers, The Lovely Bones and A Single Man. Two of them, A Single Man and Brothers, seem to be getting the kind of attention and raves they deserved while The Lovely Bones is now considered as one of the most divisive in regards to critics' assessment of the said Peter Jackson film. So what's the latest buzz right this minute?
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A Single Man: The recent win as Best Actor for Colin Firth at the Venice Film Fest appears to be a good omen for Tom Ford's directorial debut. I have yet to read anything 'drastically' negative about it.
- - -
Says Karina Longworth, who is now with INDIEWire:
In his boldest visual choice, Ford manipulates the film's palette to match the evolving emotional tone. George's flashbacks are generally crayon-colored and his present desaturated and neutral,
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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'Brothers' Wrenching, But the Performances Are Top Notch
5 December 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Sibling rivalry is a common theme in films, but Brothers takes that universal subject and places it in a new context. There's more at play — and at stake — in Jim Sheridan's awards hopeful than just family interaction. Grief, guilt, and identity lie at the torn heart of this sometimes disturbing but always moving film.
At the beginning of Brothers, the family of Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man 3) is reluctant to see the Marine return to Afghanistan for another tour of duty. His wife, Grace (Natalie Portman, The Other Boleyn Girl), jokingly asks to come with him, and his daughters (Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare) plead with him to stay. He has an uneasy relationship with his brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac), who has just been released from prison in time for Sam to leave. Trouble-making Tommy has always stood in his brother's shadow, and it's never been
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Brothers Review
3 December 2009 9:25 PM, PST
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I’m not sure why Brothers is so shallow. The plot of a man leaving to fight in a war, presumed dead, his wife developing an emotional connection to his brother, and then the resulting conflict which occurs when the man comes home alive. The story feels almost biblical but Brothers prefers obvious emotional markers rather than create real conflict between the characters. In the end, what should be a thematically rich and tense film becomes the story of a man who sacrificed his humanity in order to return to the human relationships that he now finds meaningless. Thankfully, that man is played by Tobey Maguire who manages to build a full character while everyone else is left to function as plot devices.
Sam Cahill (Maguire) is a good father, husband, and soldier. His brother Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) is the black sheep of the family, but Sammy loves him. While
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- Matt Goldberg
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Brothers Movie Review
3 December 2009 6:41 PM, PST
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Moviegoers are not interested in war films, yet three of the best movies of 2009 have the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan as their backdrop. The Hurt Locker, The Messenger, and Brothers are solid, somber, and timely films which likely won't find any success at the box office. But that's due to the timing of their releases and not due to the artistic merits of each of the three films.
Brothers is the Americanized remake of the 2004 Danish film, Brødre, co-written and directed by Susanne Bier (Things We Lost in the Fire). I'm not familiar with Bier's original film so I can't compare how writer David Benioff (The Kite Runner, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) has adapted Bier's work or how Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) stands up as director next to Bier. I can say this Brothers took me completely by surprise with its unflinching look at the affects of war on returning U.
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Monthly Movie Preview – December 2009
3 December 2009 1:53 PM, PST
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This is going to be a great month. No matter whether these big and small movies fall flat on their faces or not there’s going to be plenty to choose from – especially for those who want to keep up with important films.
First up is Avatar, one of the biggest gambles of this decade. Will the same kind of crowd that saw The Dark Knight or Transformers multiple times venture to movie theatres to see a 150-minute-long 3-D film that features tall blue creatures? It’s up in the air.
Which reminds me of a few more titles that should be worth checking out, one of them being Jason Reitman’s new film with George Clooney. The drama-comedy about a man who fires people for a living has been getting great buzz from its successful festival runs, with Oscar talk flying around as smoothly as paper airplanes.
But, Up In the Air
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- Nick Allen
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Natalie Portman Discusses Brothers and the Secrecy Surrounding Thor
2 December 2009 1:13 AM, PST
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Acclaimed director Jim Sheridan's (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father) new movie opens this week. Brothers tells the story of a soldier who returns home from captivity in Afghanistan to discover that his wife turned to his brother for comfort while he was presumed dead. Tobey Maguire plays Sam Cahill, the solider who tries to reintegrate with his family while coping with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (Ptsd). Natalie Portman plays Sam's wife, Grace, a role that she told Parade she was eager to play.
It was such a fantastic opportunity because so many parts written for females my age are just, like, the cute, girlish love interest. To get to play a real woman who's really strong and a good mother was really a great opportunity.
To prepare for his role, Maguire met with soldiers who suffer from Ptsd. To play Grace, Portman said
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- BrentJS Sprecher
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Paradox | Delia's Classic Christmas | Storyville: Simon Mann's African Coup – Black Beach | Cast Offs | Watch this
30 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Paradox | Delia's Classic Christmas | Storyville: Simon Mann's African Coup – Black Beach | Cast Offs
Paradox
9pm, BBC1
Another day, another mysterious vision of the future for Di Rebecca Flint to deal with. This time, it appears to involve a drowned teenager and, although Flint and co don't know it, the death of one of their number. Of course, as DS Holt helpfully points out, the idea that perhaps "God's talking to Manchester" is ridiculous. Nevertheless, this is a huge improvement on last week's opener: turns out you can mix high-concept Sf hokum with grumbling coppers, a race-against-time narrative and just a hint of kitchen sink realism.
Delia's Classic Christmas
9pm, BBC2
After the PR disaster of her series on "cheat" cuisine, in which Britain's longest-serving TV cook seemed to be telling us that tinned mince wasn't all that bad a thing, here Delia is back on much safer ground. Christmas
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- Jonathan Wright, John Robinson, David Stubbs
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Oscar buzz surrounds Jim Sheridan's latest film 'Brothers' (IrishCentral)
30 November 2009 9:42 AM, PST
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His latest film "Brothers" is garnering Oscar buzz, but Irish film-maker has more up his sleeve, including a movie called "Black Mask," about Boston Irish gangster Whitey Bulger.
Born in Dublin in 1949 Sheridan moved to American in 1982. He has worked as an actor as well as a director and his movies have covered a host of familiar Irish subjects: land ownership and inheritance in “The Field”; Ira violence and false accusations in “In the Name of The Father”; imprisonment and release in “The Boxer”; and the immigrant experience in a movie called “In America.”
He told the story of disabled Irish artist Christy Brown in “My Left Foot”, whose stars, Brenda Fricker and Daniel Day-Lewis, both won Oscars. Sheridan also worked with Day-Lewis on a number of other films.
Sheridan’s latest offering, “Brothers,” is based on a film by Danish director Susan Biers. It tells the story of a
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Jim Sheridan Touts Brothers At The Monkey Bar
29 November 2009 12:29 PM, PST
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The affable Jim Sheridan held court at the Monkey Bar last Monday, talking about his new movie, to open this Friday. Given that the first rate Brothers is a redo of a 2004 Danish film directed by Susanne Bier, now set in the America that continues to deploy troops to Afghanistan, you would not necessarily tap this Dublin-based director -- no matter how distinguished his track record for such superb films as My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and In America -- for this job, but producer Ryan Kavanagh insisted that Sheridan direct -- with excellent results.
This smart and gripping drama concerns the Cahill brothers, Sam (Tobey Maguire), a decorated Marine about to go off for his next tour and Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) a ne'er do well just out of prison. Sam Shepard, plays their father, an
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Preview: Brothers
27 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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About ten years ago, three promising young actors were working to secure a place amongst the Hollywood A-list. Natalie Portman had finished her first major acting role, as Mathilda in Luc Bessons Leon. She would go on to make her major breakthrough in the Star Wars prequels. Tobey Maguire had small roles in respected films like The Cider House Rules and Wonder Boys, then also got his major break in a high budget franchise, winning the role of Spiderman. Jake Gyllenhaal came to public attention through his role in sleeper Indie hit Donnie Darko, then hit the big time through a combination of big budget popcorn in The Day After Tomorrow, and critically acclaimed drama in Brokeback Mountain. Next week in the Us, these three actors, firmly A-List, come together for Jim Sheridan’s brothers.
Brothers is a remake of Susanne Bier’s Danish film Brodre. Tobey Maguire plays Captain Sam Cahill,
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Jim Sheridan’s newest film ‘Brothers’ wrenchingly powerful (IrishCentral)
25 November 2009 10:59 AM, PST
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Most things may never happen, but this one will -- by the time the 2010 Oscars roll around Irish film director Jim Sheridan, 59, will not only be basking in a slew of nominations, he’s likely to be carrying one home.
Sheridan’s certainly no stranger to the red carpet. His celebrated films like “In America,” “My Left Foot” and “In The Name of the Father” have between them received no less than six previous Academy Award nominations (“My Left Foot” won two) but next year will probably be the year he collects an Oscar for best director.
It’s not difficult to make this prediction. “Brothers,” Sheridan’s latest and most accomplished work to date, finds a way to skillfully address some of the most momentous questions now facing the U.S., but on a human scale, and in the process he inspires some unforgettable performances from his stellar cast.
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Daniel Day-Lewis was scared of singing and dancing in ‘Nine’ (IrishCentral)
23 November 2009 7:28 AM, PST
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Daniel Day-Lewis didn't think his singing and dancing was good enough to star in new musical movie “Nine.”
The Oscar-winning actor and Irish citizen, who plays Italian film director Guido Contini in the hotly-anticipated film, had a crisis of confidence and asked the director Rob Marshall if there was anyone else who could take his role, because he had no confidence in his voice.
Day-Lewis, who lives in Wicklow, Ireland, said: "I did say to Rob in the early stages, 'Is there anyway of getting out of this? I have a list of actors who could do it tomorrow!' He tried to convince me I could sing and I said, 'You've no idea if I can sing or not!'
"I sang feebly a couple of times, and on the grounds of that Rob managed to convince me it was worth pursuing."
The 52-year-old actor, who is famous for his method acting,
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Brothers TV Spot #1
16 November 2009 4:09 PM, PST
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Here’s the first TV spot for Jake Gyllenhaal’s latest movie, “Brothers“.
“Brothers” Plot: Sam (Tobey Maguire) is a family man who is about to embark on his fourth tour of duty. His brother, Tommy (Gyllenhaal), however, is the black sheep of the family and a drifter just out of jail. When Sam’s Black Hawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, this steadfast marine is presumed dead. This places Tommy in the position to be responsible of Sam’s wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and two young daughters, which leads to an unexpected attraction between Tommy and Grace.
While the two are still dealing with the intricate situation, Sam returns home. Carrying the heavy weight of post traumatic stress disorder, he starts suspecting that something happened between his wife and brother when he was away.
Directed by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (”In America,” “My Left Foot,
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Jim Sheridan to Attend Ifta Exclusive Preview of 'Brothers'
15 November 2009 11:29 PM, PST
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Six time Oscar® nominated Irish director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father) will attend an exclusive Irish Film & Television Academy preview screening of his latest feature film 'Brothers' in Dublin on Thursday 19 November 2009. The acclaimed filmmaker will participate in a post screening Q&A with Ifta Academy Members. 'Brothers' tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal) who are polar opposites. A marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man, married to his highschool sweetheart, the aptly named Grace (Natalie Portman) with whom he has two young daughters (Bailee Madison, Taylor Grace Geare).
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