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My Hollywood Breakthrough: We Destroyed the Film
2 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Vilmos Zsigmond (to Eric Estrin)
The dazzling light show that served as interplanetary communication in 1977’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” helped win both cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and the film their only Oscar. Zsigmond was nominated three other times as well and won a lifetime achievement award from the Asc for a legendary career that has spanned decades and included multiple collaborations with such directors as Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Michael Cimino and Woody Allen. He’s the subject, along with his late friend, colleague and fellow Hungarian émigré Laszlo Kovacs, of... »
- Josh Dickey
Lauren Bacall Wins an Oscar
7 hours ago | newser.com | See recent newser news »
A mere 65 years after her unforgettable screen debut, Lauren Bacall has won an Academy Award. The honorary Oscar was a high point of a ceremony last night in Los Angeles that also celebrated the careers of filmmaker Roger Corman, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and producer John Calley. "I can't believe it, a man at last!" the 85-year-old Bacall joked as she hoisted her new hardware. Woody Allen called Willis "the best cinematographer we have ever seen." And Jonathan Demme spoke for many—not just fans of his mentor Corman—when he asked, "People, what took you so long?" The festivities... »
Lou Jacobi obituary
10 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
Lou Jacobi obituary
10 hours ago | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | 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
Man Ray: An Artist Any Designer Could Love
13 November 2009 2:00 PM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
Man Ray has one of the coolest names in the history of art. However, he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky. He rejected his birth name moved to Paris in 1921 and became the sole American in the vanguard of Parisian Modernism. This transformation represented a conflicted identity and his deep desire to escape the limitations of his Russian Jewish past.
"Le Violon d'Ingres," 1924. Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection. © 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (Ars), New York / Adagp, Paris.
Opening this Sunday at The Jewish Museum in New York City, is an impressive survey of Man Ray's art. The show entitled Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention includes a stunning collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, "rayographs," poetry, and short films. This work is evidence of a curious mind in the fast lane of continuous experimentation.
Man Ray is also an artist that any graphic designer could love.
"Lingerie," print from the portfolio Électricité, »
- Ken Carbone
"Everything else is pure theory": What-if Movies
13 November 2009 9:36 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
A coin flip splits the new movie "Uncertainty" in two. That's how a young couple (played by Lynn Collins and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) at a turning point in their relationship decide which way to go on the Brooklyn Bridge. Who picks heads over tails ultimately isn't important, because the film follows both paths -- in one storyline, the two head to Manhattan, find a cell phone in a cab and become embroiled in a thriller, while in the other, they go to a family barbecue in Brooklyn and navigate more personal dramas. Which reality is the "real" one? The title should give you a clue.
"Uncertainty"'s not the first film to explore those what-if musings we've all indulged in, the ones that every holiday season drive George Bailey to an angelic vision of what the world would be like if he'd never existed. But it is one of a select »
- Alison Willmore
Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'
12 November 2009 1:27 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Paul Giamatti tends to play moody defeatists and rageful misanthropes. Which is just the way he likes it
'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt," says Paul Giamatti, closely inspecting his coffee cup in a Polish restaurant in a leafy neighbourhood of Brooklyn. "But I don't think I'd want to be Brad Pitt, you know? So that's Ok."
This is partly just a reference to Giamatti's "character-actor" looks, but also to something deeper: a sense of composure, of being comfortable in one's own skin, that the archetypal Hollywood star exudes but both Giamatti and his characters tend to lack. "You know that thing where you can just fuckin' stand there and people can't take their eyes off the person? I don't have that weight of charisma," he explains. "That's not me. If I just stand there, it's going to be boring. You're going to »
- Oliver Burkeman
"Monday Nights With Oscar" 30th Anniversary Screening Of "Manhattan", November 16 New York City
10 November 2009 1:48 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a screening of Woody Allen's Manhattan at the Lighthouse Screening Room at 111 E. 59th Street in New York City on Monday, November 16 at 7:00 Pm. Actor Michael Murphy, who plays Allen's best friend in the film, will participate in a discussion following the movie. Tickets are $5. The presentation is part of the on-going Monday Nights With Oscar program. To order tickets click here »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
'Gossip Girl' threesome: Will you watch tonight?
9 November 2009 12:36 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Tonight is the much-hyped threesome episode of Gossip Girl and I'm totally tuning in for all the menage a trois action (I sorta have to because I write the recap but I would anyways!). All of this controversy over the threesome, though, is a little ridiculous. First of all, Gg has always pushed boundaries so this doesn't really feel like anything new (Remember the uproar over the network's "Omfg" ads for the series?). Second, most of the characters on the show are now college-age and I think we all did some crazy things at that time in our lives (I »
- Tim Stack
Movie Alert! Four Back-to-back Winners On TCM Tonight
7 November 2009 2:09 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
There's a great line-up of quirky films being shown back-to-back on TCM (North America) tonight. At 8:00 Pm is Woody Allen's hilarious Take the Money and Run. At 10:00 Pm is Ridley Scott's The Duellists starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. At midnight is Stephen Frear's Gumshoe starring Albert Finney, and capping it off at 1:30 Am is Walter Hill's superb (and under-rated) Hard Times (aka The Streetfighter) starring Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Strother Martin. Crank up those DVD recorders! »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Samantha Morton: The Movieline Interview
5 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Samantha Morton planted her flag stateside towards the end of the last decade, with an impeccable breakout performance as the mute ingenue of Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown -- a part for which she was nominated for her first Academy Award. In the years following, she emerged as a dependable powerhouse, imparting her gifts for nuance and emotional veracity to everything from period dramas like In America (which earned her her second Oscar nomination), to Hollywood blockbusters like Minority Report, to prestigious independent fare like Control and Synecdoche, New York. In her latest film, Oren Moverman's beautiful and difficult The Messenger, Morton plays a newly notified Iraq War widow who begins an affair with the soldier assigned with breaking the news. (He's played by one of the few young actors who could match her quiet intensity beat for beat: Ben Foster.) Movieline talked to Morton about the madness of her craft, »
Official Contest Rules: Woody Allen Book
4 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Woody Allen Book Giveaway Sweepstakes 2009 Official Rules No Purchase Necessary. Void In Puerto Rico And Where Prohibited. 1. Sweepstakes Period. 'Woody Allen Book Giveaway' Sweepstakes (the 'Sweepstakes') begins 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time ('Et') Monday, November 4, 2009 and ends at 11:59 p.m. Et on Thursday, November 19, 2009 ('Sweepstakes Period'). 2. Eligibility: Sweepstakes is offered only in the United States to legal residents of the 50 United States (and the District of Columbia) excluding Puerto Rico, who both submit a completed Official Registration Form (as described below) and are aged 18 or older (as of the submission date). Employees of Tribeca Enterprises ('Sponsor') and their respective sponsors, affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, shareholders, agents and advisors, and all others associated with the development and the execution of this Sweepstakes, and the immediate family or members of the households of each, whether or not related (collectively, 'Sweepstakes Entities') are not eligible. ... »
Freida Pinto supports Nanhi Kali
3 November 2009 4:40 AM, PST | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
Freida Pinto of the Slumdog Millionaire fame has etched a name in the global forum. Her underprivileged girl act from the film has taken a new dimension in the real life as she would be now involved with a foundation that aims to provide free education to 1,00,000 girls across India by 2010. The foundation, named 'Nanhi Kali', is an initiative of Anand Mahindra the famous business tycoon, who aims to rope in the support of 101 most successful women in the world. Freida seemed like an obvious choice, since with her mark and fan following in the west, she could easily manage to pull in many celebrities who would donate for the cause. Sheetal Mehta, President, Mahindra Foundation Trust said that their reason to choose Freida was due to her global appeal and her inspiring success story. She is independent, successful and an achiever in her own right''. She is fast becoming »
- Bollywood Hungama News Network
The gutting of Miramax, Pt. II: Is this the end of New York movie culture?
2 November 2009 3:58 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »
Last week, it was announced that Miramax Films would close its New York offices, and that its president, Daniel Battsek, was being asked to step down. If that sounds like an unhappy day for the world of independent film -- well, it is. Yet as far as Miramax is concerned, it's really just one more nail in a coffin that was already slamming shut. In case you missed the news, here's the post I wrote back on Oct. 11 about the gutting of Miramax that took place last month, and what it could portend, in general, for studio specialty divisions. There's »
- Owen Gleiberman
Interview: 50 Years of Filmmaking With Martin Landau
2 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The legendary Martin Landau was recently in Chicago with two films in special presentation at The 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival - the classic “North by Northwest,” also releasing on Blu-Ray tomorrow, November 3rd, 2009, and the new drama “Lovely, Still,” co-starring Ellen Burstyn.
Very few actors will ever have an experience like Mr. Landau did at the film festival in October, bringing two experiences from such different eras of their working life. We spent a lot of time with Martin discussing what’s important to him as an actor and he made clear that it’s the arc of his character that’s essential to the projects he chooses.
Landau explains, “The interesting thing is that I’ve had an interesting cross-section of directors - Joe Mankiewicz, George Stevens, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Tim Burton, Francis Coppola, Woody Allen, Steve Spielberg. The good directors create a playground for »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Philip Roth and Woody Allen: Have I Got a Girl for You!
2 November 2009 7:38 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Okay, here's what I want to know: What's with Philip Roth and Woody Allen? I only ask after trotting to my local movie palace some months back for Allen's latest astringent 92-minute laffer, Whatever Works, and paging diligently these recent days through Roth's newest probe of a novel, The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin, 140pp., $22). Both opuses (opi?) concern a man of a certain age (or, you might say, a bladder of a certain age) energetically and relentlessly pursued by a much younger woman. In Whatever Works Boris Yellnikoff is 60-ish; in The Humbling Simon Axler is 70-ish. Furthermore, for Axler, the pursuer is an avowed lesbian called Pegeen Mike Stapleford. (Note that Pegeen Mike is also the name of the barmaid who falls for the comically mendacious title figure in John Millington Synge's Playboy of... »
- David Finkle
Goy damage control: Shmuley takes on Jon Gosselin
31 October 2009 1:30 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Back in the day, Rabbis were not to be trifled with, especially with stupid, self-imposed problems that would have exposed you to the community as a complete shmegege. And if you dared, and lived in a small New England town as I did, it was bad news bears for your family's reputation. Not Jewish, but with extended family that happened to be, I was exposed to Rabbis frequently at family gatherings, weddings and other rites of passage. The Rabbis of my youth were stern, just like the one that smacked up a young Woody Allen in "Radio Days" for busting out a Masked Avenger line while being scolded for taking the Israel nation-building funds and buying a decoder »
- April MacIntyre
It's official: Anthony Hopkins joins 'Thor'
30 October 2009 9:30 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
This is a good piece of news: Anthony Hopkins is now officially part of Kenneth Branagh's upcoming Marvel Studios adaptation "Thor." He joins Natalie Portman, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston.
Variety says Hopkins plays Odin, father of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Portman will play Jane Foster, who became Thor's first love. Mark Protosevich and Zack Stentz wrote the script.
The film follows partially disabled medical student Dr. Donald Blake, who discovers his alter ego, the Norse warrior Thor. "Thor" is slated for release May 20, 2011.
The awesome Anthony Hopkins will soon be see in "The Wolfman." He recently wrapped Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger." Good news! »
- Franck Tabouring
Oscar voters get three more DVDs: 'Coco Before Chanel,' 'Damned United,' 'Whatever Works'
30 October 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
On Thursday, Oscar voters received the second, third and fourth DVD screeners sent to the full academy — all three from Sony Pictures Classics, which thus becomes the first major studio out of the gate: "Coco Before Chanel," "The Damned United" and "Whatever Works." Other Spc screeners ("An Education," "The Last Station," "Broken Embraces," "White Ribbon") will be sent later in derby season, a studio rep promises. "A Prophet" is eligible only in the race for best foreign-language film, which requires theatrical screenings, so DVDs of that will not be shipped. The only previous DVD sent to all academy members was "Anvil! The Story of Anvil." Some bloggers reported that "The Messenger" was also sent, but that's not true. At least not yet. It was sent to journalists, but a copy won't be shipped to academy members for another week or so. Economic hard times may severely limit the number of »
- tomoneil
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