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'Magnolia' Bloomed Ten Years Ago Today; We Haven't Forgotten
17 December 2009 2:38 AM, PST
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in Magnolia
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Beware of anyone who associates with Ricky Jay. He shows up in the films of David Mamet, who always loves a good con. He's the narrator of one of my favorite movies of 2009, The Brothers Bloom, also a movie about con artists. When there is trickery and sleight of hand afoot, look around and you might notice a large bearded man peering around the corners.
I know a magician. He's a pretty damn good one. His name is Jerry. To tell you more is to reveal his secrets. I asked him a few weeks ago which magician he is most impressed by. I mentioned some popular names like David Blaine (you know, to help him out). He shook his head at every name I mentioned and said, "That's easy. The greatest magician I've ever seen is Ricky Jay."
Ricky Jay pops
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- Andre Rivas
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Predictions 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Duplass Bros., Janez Burger, Kit Hui
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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If the Croisette belonged to Sony Pictures Classics and IFC Films, then Park City is where Searchlight, Focus, Apparition, Roadside, Samuel Goldwyn and Magnolia get to have a piece of the cake. If my predictions are half right, then this year's Sundance will have a unusually high number of titles with A list talent for sale. - If the Croisette belonged to Sony Pictures Classics and IFC Films, then Park City is where Searchlight, Focus, Apparition, Roadside, Samuel Goldwyn and Magnolia get to have a piece of the cake. If my predictions are half right, then this year's Sundance will have a unusually high number of titles with A list talent for sale. The market trend right now is far from the heyday of all night negotiation days after a film's premiere, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some titles get picked up for some impressive numbers during and not after the fest.
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- Ioncinema.com Staff
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The Best Action Flicks of the '00s
9 December 2009 7:32 PM, PST
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Cinematical is about to launch into our best-of-the-'00s series, with a different writer tackling a different genre over these last few weeks of the aughts (or whatever it was we decided to call this decade). Yours truly has been tasked with sifting out the most exciting action flicks these years have had to offer, and in the list-making equivalent of flinching, I've decided to divide them up by superlative instead of ranking them in order of awesomeness.
Oh, and before you comment away about what's missing (which we do want), I have left off The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2, X2: X-Men United and The Incredibles, so they may be included in any superhero or animated list to come. If those movies are left off those lists, then by all means, give them hell. I might even join you.
Filed under: Action, Foreign Language, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Disney, Lionsgate Films,
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- William Goss
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Wear This: “Big Earl Partridge Productions, Inc” T-Shirt, Based on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia
9 December 2009 12:24 PM, PST
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The shirts from Last Exit to Nowhere are for the true movie geeks out there. The epitome of esoteric, these references can only be spotted by the sharpest of movie fans and create an unspoken beyond between the wearer and the person envying the wearer for wearing such a cool shirt.
Today Letn debuted a new shirt displaying the name and logo of “Big Earl Partridge Productions, Inc.” from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. For those who don’t know or don’t remember, Bepp, Inc. was the studio behind “What Do Kids Know?” a jeopardy-like program that ruined the life of former young genius Donnie Smith (William H. Macy) and is currently ruining the life of young genius Stanley Spector (Jeremy Blackman). The eponymous “Big” Earl Partridge is a feeble man dying of cancer (played by Jason Robards in his final feature film performance). Now you can have all
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Philip Seymour Hoffman In Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Movie
7 December 2009 4:48 PM, PST
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Paul Thomas Anderson will write and direct a period drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Anderson and Hoffman worked together before on “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia” and “Punch-Drunk” but this time the director has finally cast Hoffman, who won Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in “Capote,” in the lead role of his new movie.
The unnamed project follows “the Master”, a charismatic and intelligent man (Hoffman) who leads a popular faith-based organisation in America in 1952.
The film will examine the relationship between Hoffman’s character and a 20-something drifter named Freddie, who finds himself questioning the Master’s belief system.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Oscar nominated for “Boogie Nights” (1997), “Magnolia” (1999), “There Will Be Blood” last year) upcoming yet-to-be-titled movie is awaiting a greenlight from Universal.
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Paul Thomas Anderson & Philip Seymour Hoffman Collaborate On New Religon-Focused Movie
4 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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Paul Thomas Anderson is an excellent filmmaker. Philip Seymour Hoffman is an excellent actor. Put the two together and, barring disaster, you should have an excellent movie.
That's certainly the hope when the two creative forces combine their talents for Anderson's latest directorial gig, speculated to be called "The Master." Variety reports that Hoffman will star in the period drama for Anderson, reuniting them for the first time since "Punch-Drunk Love."
In the film, Hoffman plays a charismatic leader — nicknamed "The Master" — who launches a controversial and increasingly popular "faith-based organization" in America, circa 1952.
The Master forges a bond with Freddie, a young drifter that becomes a lieutenant in the Master's organization. After becoming ingrained in the belief system, however, Freddie begins to have second thoughts about the organization and the Master that's taken him under his wing.
There's an easy knee-jerk reaction to be had regarding the premise of Anderson's film — namely,
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- Josh Wigler
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Master reunites Pt Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman
4 December 2009 3:32 AM, PST
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Religious drama set in 1950s America will be fifth collaboration between director of There Will Be Blood and Oscar-winning actor
Director Paul Thomas Anderson will reunite with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on Master, a religious drama set in 1950s America.
Hoffman acted in Anderson's debut feature Hard Eight back in 1996 and took supporting roles in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. Master marks their fifth collaboration.
The film will star Hoffman as an intellectual in the mould of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, who sets up a successful faith-based organisation. Variety reports that the tale focuses on the relationship between "the master" and his pupil – a young drifter who joins the group and then starts to doubt its ideals and ambitions.
Master looks likely to be backed by Universal, although the studio has yet to officially green-light its estimated $35m (£21m) budget.
Anderson's last film, There Will Be Blood, showcased
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- Xan Brooks
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is Finally the Master of Pt Anderson’s Film
4 December 2009 12:02 AM, PST
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I don’t know if Paul Thomas Anderson has it out for religion; There Will be Blood weaved religion into its plot subtly but then unleashed a flourish of violence, living up to its title at the very end. According to Variety, his latest project, called Master, won’t be very subtle at all since it will use religion as the impetus for the main plot. Philip Seymour Hoffman, who has had supporting roles in other Pt Anderson films such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love, will finally be pushed to the spotlight in the starring role. Variety has plot details:
Hoffman, who has played supporting roles in most of Anderson’s past films, this time will be at the center, playing “the Master,” as in “master of ceremonies,” a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. The core is
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Pt Anderson’s Next Film is About Scientology
3 December 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of such brilliant films as There Will Be Blood and Magnolia, has announced his next film. Tentatively titled The Master, the period drama will focus on a “master of ceremonies” or a charismatic intellectual who creates his own religion in 1952.
The great Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to star in the Universal-produced project, re-teaming with Anderson after supporting roles in four of his films, including Punch-Drunk Love and Boogie Nights. As if I needed another reason to be pumped about PTA behind the camera, Psh is in front of it.
The story focuses on the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter and his second in command when establishing the religion. As the faith grows in popularity, Freddie questions his Master and the belief system. The right hand man is uncast.
Variety deliberately points out the film does not scrutinize self-started churches like Scientology or the Mormons,
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- Jeff Leins
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Anderson Has Faith In 'The Master'...
3 December 2009 7:55 AM, PST
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Writer/director Paul Thomas "There Will Be Blood" Anderson is developing his next feature, a period drama set in the 1950's, to star actor Philip Seymour "Magnolia" Hoffman playing the founder of a new religion.
Producer JoAnne Sellar has budgeted the film at $35 million, currently being set up at Universal, who are waiting to greenlight the project, dependent on Anderson delivering a screenplay that won't get the studio into hot water with religious groups, scientologists and mormons.
In the script, Hoffman will be known as 'The Master' Of Ceremonies, an intellectual who starts a faith-based organization in 1952.
At the heart of the story is the relationship between The Master and 'Freddie', a drifter who becomes the 'lieutenant' of the new religion.
Anderson says the film will follow how a belief system can easily graduate into an organized religion.
The last time a film-maker effectively tackled the subject, was in the
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Cast in Paul Thomas Anderson's Next
2 December 2009 10:34 PM, PST
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While this vastly talented duo has worked together before on previous films like Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love, director Paul Thomas Anderson has never given Philip Seymour Hoffman the leading role in any of his films. All that changes as Variety reports tonight that Anderson has finally cast Hoffman in the lead role of his upcoming yet-to-be-titled drama that follows the exploits of a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950's. While the project is set up at Universal, the greenlight and a $35 million budget is still pending a final draft of the script, to be turned in imminently by Anderson himself.
In the film Hoffman will be playing The Master, as in master of ceremonies, "a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952." The core of the film is the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a
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Paul Thomas Anderson Announces Next Film, Starts His Own Religion
2 December 2009 8:32 PM, PST
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Rejoice! It's time for Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman to work together again. After Sydney, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love, Variety reports that the two are teaming up for a new feature about a man who creates his own religion. But don't celebrate too much -- this news is still in the early stages. Anderson is said to be planning to submit a finished script to Universal, who will then decide whether or not they will greenlight it (um, yes please). And, the trade couldn't get comment from the studio, or either man's reps.
But here's what we do know. Should this go into production, there will be a $35 million price tag with Hoffman finally getting center stage playing "the Master" (as in master of ceremonies), a charismatic man who starts "a faith-based organization" in the 1950s. He teams up with a twentysomething drifter named Freddie
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Berlin 2010: Play it Again …! Series
11 November 2009 2:01 PM, PST
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective "Play it Again …!," featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals.
Among them are Curzio Malaparte’s The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg’s Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa’s To Live, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Niels Arden Oplev’s We Shall Overcome, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia.
Also, Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses, which caused a furor in 1976. German authorities — who probably had better things to do (weren’t the Baader Meinhof running [...]
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Crashville: The Risky Route To Oscar Glory
6 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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In March 2006 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sprung one of its annual surprises by awarding the best picture Oscar to Crash, rather than Ang Lee’s acclaimed gay cowboy drama, Brokeback Mountain. At the time it looked as though racism and multiple vehicular pile-ups had trumped homosexuality in the battle of the “hot button” issue movies.
But perhaps the Academy was belatedly acknowledging the kind of ambitious, densely plotted, multi-character dramas made famous by the great Robert Altman. From 1975’s Nashville, to Short Cuts, Prêt à Porter and his 2006 swansong A Prairie Home Companion, Altman allowed audiences to immerse themselves in the cinematic equivalent of a book of short stories. Writer Alissa Quart has characterised these films with multiple intersecting plotlines as “hyperlink movies”, in which, “information, character, and action co-exist without hierarchy”.
Now I’m a fan of Altman and I loved Paul Thomas Anderson’s,
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The Men Who Stare At Goats (Review)
4 November 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Directed by Grant Heslov
According to Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare At Goats, the U.S. government has experimented with various extra-sensory ‘abilities,’ such as remote-viewing and mind control, since the 1950s. These highly classified sub-divisions of the Army were developed in the hopes of creating a different kind of warrior, one who could harness mental abilities to destroy his adversary. Although many of these divisions were kept under wraps, journalist Ronson (known as Bob Wilton in the film) got wind of a low-profile Army project after having met Jim Channon, the former colonel who wrote a manual for the creation of the ‘First Earth Battalion,’ an army unit to based upon New Age principals. The book, which inspired the film, charts the absurd journey that began with this chance encounter. It contains a wild, often questionable, but ultimately fascinating story of introspection and destiny.
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Scenes (Songs) We Love: 'Wise Up,' Magnolia
2 November 2009 4:45 PM, PST
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It has been my experience that there are two types of people in the world: those who love Magnolia, and those that don't (and the ones that don't, man, they really don't). I fall into the first category, and I'm still occasionally surprised by the people who will come out of the 'Magnolia closet' as either a fan or someone who just ''doesn't get what all the fuss was about". Now I'm not going to spend the next couple of paragraphs defending Anderson's flick, but it does feel like I'm forever trying to explain just what I think is so fascinating about a film centered on the intersecting lives of a group of damaged individuals living in the San Fernando Valley.
So it really doesn't matter what you tell me about how ridiculous you thought it was when the frogs fell from the sky, or that Anderson is an overindulgent director,
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Boondocks, Babysitters and Broncos
26 October 2009 6:26 AM, PDT
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A Halloween week surprisingly light on horror sees instead some romantic dust-ups, courtroom showdowns and an epic battle of egos waged across the vast cosmic expanse of time and space.
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"Aladin"
While much of Bollywood's output has a touch of the fantastical, this contemporary adaptation of the classic fairytale cranks things up to a whole new level. The latest from Indian director Sujoy Ghosh, this romantic fable finds Ritesh Deshmukh as the eponymous hero, a ne'er-do-well bullied by local thugs whose life transforms when his childhood crush gives him a magic lamp containing a genie (Amitabh Bachchan). Eager to be released from his teapot-shaped prison for good, the fast-talking trickster pressures our befuddled hero to make wishes until things turn ugly when the lamp's former occupant (Sanjay Dutt) shows up. In Hindi with subtitles.
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Quick List: Celebrities With The Worst Reputations
22 October 2009 1:03 PM, PDT
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Perception is everything, and I don't mean to get all metaphysical on you, but sometimes it's how the world sees us that can define who we are -- but what if the world thinks you're a psycho? In an interview with American Psycho director Mary Harron, she was reminiscing about the black comedy, and as it turns out, her star Christian Bale based his vision of the murdering yuppie on -- wait for it -- Tom Cruise. According to Harron, she and Bale had been collaborating on the character when "...he [Bale] called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy."
Actors take inspiration from all kinds of places, but you can't help but wonder if Bale saw something that we would all be made painfully aware
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1999: A Year In Review (Part Two)
14 October 2009 8:05 AM, PDT
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Welcome to Part 2 of our 1999 Movie Retrospective. The final year of the last century was one hell of a cinematic ride and it offered some outstanding films for lovers of cinema.
Now be aware that this is not a definitive list of the films released - it’s a brief rundown highlighting interesting films that should be seen (although not always for the right reasons).
You can check out the first part (A-e) here or continue reading to see the other gems that were released in 1999.
Fight Club
Fight Club was a box office disappointment ten years ago, but it has gained a Huge cult following since - and it must have made an absolute mint on DVD. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star in this David Fincher directed adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s now-famous novel. The film is another example of world perspective from a late 90s view point.
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The Brothers Bloom
6 October 2009 8:31 AM, PDT
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Let me open by saying, outright, that Rian Johnson's debut film-noir/high school crossover, Brick, absolutely floored me. I saw, in that film, a true homage built on and aimed at, a love for a genre that was somehow beyond affection. A great movie and a story that portrayed a specialised and well crafted knack for dialogue and plot that even Tarantino couldn't muster.
It had a small powerful heart. There was no pretension or slyness that tied itself to the film (yes there was a style and a theme which enhanced it for effect...) but it seamed to have a pulse and a life of its own without immediately prodding you, self consciously, to do nothing but remember other films. Despite the numerous allusions to Dasheil Hammet's writing and film noir as a whole it stood up on its own two legs. It lived inside an overly revisited
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