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Dave’s Weekly Comic Book Recommendations
15 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Another slow week my wallet will appreciates so thanks to the comics publishers. From DC: I’m sorry, Spoilers, but if you missed the last issue of Green Lantern Corps it’s your own fault because you missed Kyle Rayner’s death. Yeah, Hal Jordan’s replacement died in a battle against the Black Lanterns, so this new issue is bound to be an emotional firecracker.
A personal favorite of mine is collected by Idw this month with the complete Rocketeer by Dave Stevens. If you remember, a pretty decent movie came out several years back with Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connolly, and Alan Arkin featuring this character. It was favorite of mine when I was 10 years old and somewhere in my parent’s garage are the single issues Dave Stevens wrote and drew of the series. This week sees the release of the complete series collected, and it a beautiful spectacle to behold. »
- David Press
First Look: Robert Downey Jr. & Zach Galifianakis in Due Date
14 December 2009 3:21 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Director Todd Phillips' follow-up to The Hangover is another new comedy titled Due Date. The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. as an expectant father on a road trip racing to get to the birth of his first child. Zach Galifianakis stars as his "unlikely travel companion" and the two of them race across the country. The cast also includes Jamie Foxx, Juliette Lewis, Michelle Monaghan, Alan Arkin, and RZA. It sounds like Planes, Trains & Automobiles but with an expectant father twist. SlashFilm has the first photo which looks like it was scanned from a copy of Entertainment Weekly (but I'm not sure?). Did one of them bring a dog as well? Downey Jr. and Galifianakis are both hilarious actors on their own, yet they make a perfect mismatched pair of travelers. My problem with this, and most of Todd Phillips' films, is that it will probably never go »
- Alex Billington
First Image from Todd Phillips’ Due Date Starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr.
14 December 2009 12:38 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
/Film has snagged the first image from Todd Phillips’ upcoming comedy Due Date starring Robert Downey Jr. as a father trying to rush back across the country to make it to his wife’s birth and Zach Galifianakis as an aspiring actor who becomes Downey’s traveling companion. The film has been described as Trains, Planes, and Automobiles meets The Hangover. The film co-stars Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Alan Arkin, and is slated to hit theaters on November 5, 2010.
Click over to /Film to see a larger version of the image.
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- Matt Goldberg
'Dexter,' Stan Lee's Private Island And Vulture Casting For 'Spider-Man 4' In Today's Twitter Report
14 December 2009 12:31 PM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
"Dexter" having fans in the comics community shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but the season finale last night was the talk of the Twitter Report follow list, with Frank Tieri and Scott Allie among those tweet-gasping at its conclusion.
Meanwhile, Tony Moore has his sights on a specific actor to play the Vulture in "Spider-Man 4," and he posted some thoughts on that casting choice. You can check out who he wants after the jump along with some artwork by Tony Millionaire, Stan Lee's vision for his own private island and Ron Marz's post-mortem analysis of the New York Giants game yesterday.
It's all in the Twitter Report for December 14, 2009.
@tonymoore Malkovich is great and would rock The Vulture, but i'd personally always hoped for Alan Arkin.
-Tony Moore, Artist ("Fear Agent," "The Walking Dead")
@FrankTieri So, Dexter... that was a pretty ballsy season finale, I would say. »
- Brian Warmoth
Interview: Alan Arkin
9 December 2009 5:15 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
No matter how well we might prepare for an interview with an actor or filmmaker, no matter how thoughtful we think the questions are that we've assembled, there's always a possibility that all of that work will go out the window, simply because the interviewee does his or her job rather than thinks about it. Notwithstanding the possibility that there are some creative types who manage not to think much about anything, film critics and journalists (at least one of them) have a tendency to overthink the artistic process that their subjects intuitively embrace. As a result, the interview process becomes a push-pull of thoughts versus feelings, deconstruction versus submission, and all of that careful planning ends up being for nothing, if not doing more harm than good.
Alan Arkin has worked for over 50 years in Hollywood, with so many of the industry's greatest performers, and has played a range »
- Todd Gilchrist
Arkin Uncomfortable With Lively Naked Scene
6 December 2009 3:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran actor Alan Arkin's latest movie features his most difficult scene - with a naked Blake Lively.
The Gossip Girl star had to strip for a scene in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, in which she lies naked on top of the Little Miss Sunshine actor - and the 75 year old admits he was mortified throughout the shoot.
He explains, "I spent the whole day apologising to her. That was a tough day. You're thinking about being alone in a room with Blake Lively with no clothes on; I was there with 50 people and it was freezing and I had lines I had to say.
"In making 45 movies, it's only been an issue three times for me. It's not the kind of parts I get. It's always been uncomfortable for me and not something I really look forward to."
But the actress insists she preferred to get naked for Arkin over younger hunks: "I think being with a young dude would've been more awkward. I'd be thinking, 'Does he think I look cute?' I don't want that.
"I didn't have to worry about that with Alan because he was so uncomfortable and I was so uncomfortable, so I didn't have to worry about anyone being creepy. It was very easy." »
The Forgotten: Head Shots
5 December 2009 4:23 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
A strange, ringing tinnitus sound in the subway. A man, his shirt and face spattered profusely with blood, shambles in catatonic stupor up the stairs. Another man, blood gouting from a wound in his brow, staggers down the stairs. These men have something in common, but because of that very something, they do not notice each other.
Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, playwright, author and illustrator, is so multi-talented and so refined and brilliant in each of his talents that it's perversely easy to underrate him. For instance, as screenwriter of Mike Nichols' film Carnal Knowledge and Robert Altman's film Popeye, his work brackets the celebrated New Hollywood cinema of the 1970s. Add to that one screenplay for Alain Resnais (I Want to Go Home, 1989) and 1971's disturbing family comedy Little Murders, directed by Alan Arkin, and Feiffer's contribution to cinema becomes a small but vital one.
Of course, billed »
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
30 November 2009 4:35 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: Nov. 27 (limited) Director/Writer: Rebecca MillerCinematographer: Declan Quinn Starring: Alan Arkin, Robin Wright Penn, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Blake Lively Studio/Run Time: Screen Media Films/98 mins. In The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller adapts her own novel of the same name in order to tell the overly melodramatic story of its title character’s life. As she’s grown older, Lee and her husband have slowly been breaking down but in order to understand Lee’s current situation, we have to start at the very beginning of her life and learn about what it’s taken to end »
Robin Wright Penn Interview - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
29 November 2009 7:11 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Robin Wright Penn stars in the title role in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a moving tale of self-discovery. Rebecca Miller adapted her own novel and directed Pippa Lee, the story of a woman who marries a much older man (played by Alan Arkin), raises a family, and then embarks on a journey to confront her past and face the resentment she now feels over her seemingly perfect life and marriage.
Miller and Wright Penn worked together extensively to craft Pippa Lee, a 50 year old homemaker who examines her past and finds her own identity late in life, over the course of a year while the film was seeking funding. "I worked on the costumes, the sets and the script. And I was also able to talk to Robin for a whole year about it, much to the benefit of the movie. It was a wonderful collaboration," said Miller. »
'Pippa Lee' Stars Keanu Reeves, Robin Wright Penn Talk Love And Loss
25 November 2009 12:16 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf,' Penn says of her character's changing life.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Robin Wright Penn and Keanu Reeves
Photo: MTV News
Robin Wright Penn wasn't supposed to be in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," at least not in the way it was originally conceived by indie filmmaker Rebecca Miller ("The Ballad of Jack and Rose"). The writer/director conceived her newest movie's heroine as a 55-year-old woman coming to terms with her shady past and contending with her older husband's declining health.
But when Penn came into the picture, the story line stayed the same, while Pippa's age dropped 15 years. "Really and truly, age is just a number," the actress told MTV News. "I think we do it in stages in our life. It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf. [Pippa's] at that crossroads. »
Film: Review:The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
24 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Rebecca Lee Miller’s melodrama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee—which she based on her own novel—is told from the perspective of the title character, a former free spirit who suffers a spell of sleepwalking and uses the incidents as impetus to look back at why she settled down in the first place. Robin Wright Penn plays Pippa, the wife of aging book editor Alan Arkin. As Arkin eases awkwardly into semi-retirement—dragging his much younger wife along with him—she reflects on her turbulent childhood, which involved fleeing the confines of the suburbs and the mania of »
'The Princess And The Frog,' 'Me And Orson Welles' And 'The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee' In This Week's unLimited
24 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's another big holiday weekend with plenty of new releases to consider following your Thanksgiving feast this Thursday (and following your subsequent leftovers feasts through Sunday). In the same way that many Americans prefer alternatives to the traditional turkey and stuffing dinner on the day of gratitude, many moviegoers want something other than a studio tentpole release the day after Thanksgiving. Really, why would you want a popcorn movie when you're still full from the night before?
There are a couple of limited release options this week, including an important studio film getting a surprisingly soft opening, to appease such a film diet. Check these films out if you want something different as or additional to your main course this weekend:
What is is: Richard Linklater, director of "Dazed and Confused" and "School of Rock," returns with a fictionalized coming-of-age drama set during production of Orson Welles »
- Christopher Campbell
In Theaters: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
24 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
As the adult Pippa Lee, the comely, gracious, unfailingly appropriate wife of a newly retired New York publisher, Robin Wright speaks in a small, high voice that suggests a kind of atrophy. It's the kind of voice that might result from years of unuse, of sealing even the most meager opinions behind the warm but empty smile of a literary consort, and Pippa is the kind of woman who has endured countless cocktail party conversations without once being spoken to herself. In the opening scene of Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, she disappears into that smile when one of the guests at the dinner party she is throwing to celebrate her husband Herb's (Alan Arkin) new home in a Connecticut retirement community pays her a tribute that doubles as a dismissal: "You are the very icon of an artist's wife." This now-common misuse of the term »
Exclusive Video: Robin Wright Penn and Blake Lively Discuss The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
23 November 2009 12:47 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Robin Wright is best known for playing two highly iconic roles on the big screen. The first, was where she gained her fame as the title role in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, the second is where she earned her Oscar nomination as Jenny in Forrest Gump. Blake Lively is best known for her break-through roles on both the hit series Gossip Girl and in the movies The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and it's sequel. So it only makes sense that the two actresses would share the title role, playing the same character at different points of her life in the new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, opening in theaters on November 27th. We recently had a chance to sit down with both Robin Wright and Blake Lively to discuss their new film, how they went about playing the same character, working with director Rebecca Miller »
‘Gossip Girl’s’ Blake Lively talks nude scene in ‘Pippa Lee’
23 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Alan Arkin, you luck sonofabitch. It’s not everyman that has a partially nude Blake Lively on him…or is it?
The Gossip Girl star has a revealing scene in the upcoming Rebecca Miller film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. Lively insists that filming her nude scene with the 75-year-old Arkin “didn’t make it any weirder” than usual.
“Apparently naked, not fully naked. I was lying partially naked on Alan Arkin, but strategic body parts were covered,” says the 22-year-old. “It’s always scary when you’re in front of strangers half-naked, but the fact that it was with Alan, honestly, didn’t make it any weirder. I think being with a young dude would have been more awkward because I might have been like, ‘Well, does he think I look cute right now?’”
Speaking about her character, “young” Pippa, Lively says portraying her was “exciting.”
“Pippa does get very dark. »
- Reel Loop News Staff
Alan Arkin: 'I Think I Get a Lot of Applause Because I'm Not Keeling Over'
23 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
In Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Alan Arkin's plays Herb, a retiring Lothario who woos a beautiful wild child (played at two ages by Blake Lively and Robin Wright), then stands idly by as she becomes domesticized (and anesthetized) in an attempt to please him. It's the juiciest part he's had in quite a while, and as Arkin freely admits, he didn't want it. The 75-year-old is as prolific as he's ever been since winning the Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, but he's also choosy, and he's got a very particular set of criteria for picking roles that Miller had to adapt to in order to win him over.
In a wry interview with Movieline, Arkin expanded on that criteria and also provided unexpected, helpful tips for bloodstain removal. Who says his range has to be saved for the screen? »
Ninjas, Princesses and Old Dogs
23 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Families arriving at the multiplex for a little pre/post-turkey entertainment have two choices -- separate off into your respective age/gender demographics and indulge yourselves, or stick together in a tragic statement of family unity and purchase seven tickets for "Old Dogs." The choice, it is yours.
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A selection at Cannes 2008 and this year's Swiss Oscar hopeful, the sophomore feature from Ursula Meier centers on a middle class couple (Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet) that enjoys bringing up their children away from urban life in the French countryside. However, the construction of a highway near their home leads to a divide between the two on what's best for their family as the pollution from the cars and the incessant noise begins to drive them a little mad.
Opens in New York; opens in Los Angeles on December 18th. »
- Neil Pedley
Blake Lively Interview, Private Lives of Pippa Lee
22 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
MoviesOnline sat down recently with Blake Lively to talk about her role in “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” directed by Rebecca Miller. Adapted from writer-director Rebecca Miller’s novel of the same name, the film follows the adventures of Pippa Lee, a serene, beautiful, devoted wife and mother with a seemingly perfect life -- until her surprisingly volatile past crashes through her persona, forcing her to find her true sense of self. She begins to question the seemingly fulfilling life she’s made for herself by entering into a dialogue with the demons of her past.
With a film spanning a single character’s lifetime, Rebecca Miller planned from the onset for a second performer to portray the teenage Pippa Lee. What remained unclear was who was best suited for the part. Working with casting director Cindy Tolan, they considered nearly one hundred actors for the role before setting their sights on rising star, »
Robin Wright Penn Interview, Private Lives of Pippa Lee
22 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright heads an all-star cast in “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” that includes Academy Award winner Alan Arkin, Blake Lively, Maria Bello, Suky Sarkissian, Keanu Reeves, Chris Nadeau, Monica Bellucci, Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore and Golden Award nominee Winona Ryder.
Adapted from writer-director Rebecca Miller’s novel of the same name, the film follows the adventures of Pippa Lee, a serene, beautiful, devoted wife and mother with a seemingly perfect life -- until her surprisingly volatile past crashes through her persona, forcing her to find her true sense of self.
Robin plays the character of Pippa Lee who on the page, in both Rebecca Miller’s novel and screenplay, presents a singularly unusual heroine who begins to question the seemingly fulfilling life she’s made for herself by entering into a dialogue with the demons of her past. As the trappings of her marital and familial life slowly unhinge, »
retro trailer: ‘The Last Unicorn’
22 November 2009 10:11 AM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Man, fantasy animation has moved on a bit since 1982, has it not? Voice acting, too. Dear oh dear, but the dialogue is cringeworthy today, isn’t it? Alan Arkin as the second-rate pickpocket might be the most awkward, but Jeff Bridges is a close second with that line about heroes. Gotta love those on-the-nose lyrics, too: “Look and see her, how she sparkles, she’s the last unicorn!” Still, we are all precious unicorns, aren’t we? I predict that in 2982, someone will make a fantasy movie called The Last Polar Bear... The Last Unicorn is available on DVD in Region 1 and Region 2. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
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