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12 articles from 2009
Ben Kingsley should not play Shah Jahan
8 December 2009 2:44 AM, PST | Hindustan Times - Cinema | See recent Hindustan Times - Cinema news »
Ben Kingsley should not be acting in films like Taj Mahal. British movie director Mike Figgis, who is on the jury at the ongoing Marrakech International Film Festival here, is very clear about this. “If I would have been an Indian I would be pissed off”, he told me yesterday during an exclusive interview. Figgis was referring to Kingsley’s plan to essay Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in Taj Mahal with Aishwarya Rai as Mumtaz Mahal. “You have a lot of great Indian actors. You do not need someone not Indian to play that role. It is »
Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Interview
19 November 2009 11:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Nicolas Cage: Bad To The Bone
By
It’s an inevitable event in every accomplished artist’s life: if you go back on the timeline of their existence and stop in adolescence, almost all of our greatest actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians and painters went through tumultuous, tortured teenage years, often scorned, almost universally ridiculed by their peers and elders alike for the cardinal sin of being “weird.” Most people run from their inner nerd as they grow into adulthood, masking it behind toned muscle, fine clothing and the right haircut, struggling to be that cool guy or gal whom we knew had all the answers and the clearest skin back when such things started to be de rigeur in our lives (and if you live in Southern California, continue to be).
Nicolas Cage is that rare movie star who not only never seemed to care if he was cool, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Link Code
10 August 2009 1:10 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Ao Scott "spoon-fed cinema" on the infantilization of the cinema. There's no solution in this piece, just despair. But it's hard to argue with the points raised -- the box office does prove that even adults prefer movies aimed at toddlers and their "Again!" refrain.
Roger Ebert is also exasperating by the dumbing down. Hey... might this have anything to do with GI Joe?
fourfour a 10 second review of GI Joe. Funny funny although I guarantee Channing has regular genitalia, having seen it.
Boy Culture Did you know that Channing Tatum was once a male stripper? Neither did I.
Edward Copeland commits heresy "a pox on all your awards shows"
Finally, if you've ever seen Mike Figgis's fascinating quartered-screen experiment Time Code (2000) you owe it to yourself to check out Nick and Tim's wordy, passionate, thorny, funny and appropriately confusing discussion for Nick's ongoing series Films of the 00s. »
- NATHANIEL R
The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands
3 August 2009 2:13 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
On the screen, Julian Sands is known for a wide spectrum of roles that make the most of his seemingly contradictory mixture of glowering, antihero intensity and ethereal leading man looks. On the telephone, he presents an equally formidable hybrid: Sands has got delightfully prickly down to an art. The British-born actor, who began his film career in "The Killing Fields" in 1984 and broke through the next year as George Emerson in "A Room With A View," has worked steadily in film and television for the last 25 years, starring in cult classics like "Warlock" and working with directors like David Cronenberg, Mike Figgis and Dario Argento, and gaining a television following with roles on shows like "24." Currently, Sands is starring as expat actor Reg Hunt in IFC's upcoming miniseries "Bollywood Hero." I spoke with him about his career, what sparks his interest in a role, and what audiences want from a golf movie. »
- Michelle Orange
Culture Warrior: Digital Cinematography in Hollywood
6 July 2009 10:07 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Digital cinematography has had an ever-shifting role as it’s edged its way into mainstream Hollywood filmmaking. Originally used as a viable solution to the economic hurdles of independent filmmaking, even the best digital cameras available in the late 1990s and early 2000s retained a grittiness and fly-by-the-pants amateur feel in movies like julien donkey-boy and Chuck & Buck (both 2000) that matched the means of production of no-budget filmmaking but looked far too unprofessional to be adapted to Hollywood. Well-known filmmakers then adapted the technology as a means of experimentation for new aesthetic or narrative approaches, allowing them to take more risks with a technology that allows for continuous takes or attack subject matter that may have been too risky for bigger budget 35mm filmmaking, like Mike Figgis’s Time Code (2000), Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (2000), or David Lynch’s find-the-film-as-you-make-it approach to Inland Empire (2006). By now, however, digital cinematography has become sophisticated enough to be embraced by the »
- Landon Palmer
Weekly Eye Candy: 42 Below One Dream Rush
13 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- The pitch is simple. The line-up is impressive. 42 directors explore their dreams in 42 seconds. I'm not sure what relation the 4 minute trailer (see below) has to do with the individual works, but the concept alone merits our Eye Candy mention of the week. Visit the site here. Sponsored by the vodka brand 42 Below, this project includes some bona-fide stars in the auteur cinema field and a good portion of plenty unknowns. Among the names that I consider myself a fan we have the likes of David Lynch and Carlos Reygadas, but we'll be looking out for those in the near future since they have yet to post their contribution, but a small sampling is available on the site. Among those available, we have what I would call more of a day dream from Asia Argento's part "S/He" - her curiosity on transexuals was the basis of her film, »
Top 5 Vegas Films
5 June 2009 11:10 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Swingers (1996) Directed by Doug Liman It really isn't hard to see why this film has acquired a cult following. The atmosphere is laid back, the dialogue is some of the best in any 90's comedy, the characters are appealing and well-drawn, the casting is perfect, the soundtrack is great, and the situations are honest and real. Memorable quotes: You know what you are? You're like a big bear with claws and with fangs... ...big fucking teeth, man. Yeah... big fuckin' teeth on ya'. And she's just like this little bunny, who's just kinda cowering in the corner. Shivering. Yeah, man just kinda... you know, you got these claws and you're staring at these claws and your thinking to yourself, and with these claws you're thinking, "How am I supposed to kill this bunny, how am I supposed to kill this bunny?" And you're poking at it, you're poking at it. »
- Ricky
Trailer For Surreal Multi-Director Project Onedreamrush
1 June 2009 10:18 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Ah, sponsor-supported film making. It’s a form of embedded advertising and if not for the fact that these projects keep coming out so well I think I’d have to hate them on matter of principal. But I just can’t. The trend got kicked off in a big way when BMW commissioned a series of short films a few years back - films from the likes of Wong Kar Wai, Guy Ritchie, Alejandro Innaritu and others - films that proved a huge hit online and, eventually, in DVD sales. The formula has been copied a few times since then with decidedly more mixed results but now here comes Onedreamrush.
Sponsored by vodka company 42 Below - though their products don’t appear in any of the shorts I have seen so far - Onedreamrush is a series of short films from forty two directors, each of them forty two »
- Todd Brown
Cannes Exclusive: 'Onedreamrush ' Trailer
18 May 2009 4:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
We've posted tons of exclusive clips, trailers, images and posters in the past, but this one has to take the cake as one of the strangest, most bizarre pieces of eeriness to ever grace the main page of Cinematical. And that's totally not a bad thing, because the project -- titled Onedreamrush -- is a very cool-sounding collaborative effort between filmmakers, writers, actors and actresses that was created by the New Zealand Vodka brand 42Below and, as such, is the first implicitly branded content ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival.
Essentially, a bunch of world-renowned artists were brought together to create 42 films, each 42 seconds long and all of them about the interpretation of dreams. Among those featured are Abel Ferrara, David Lynch, Asia Argento, James Franco, Kenneth Anger, Arden Wohl, Sean Lennon, Mike Figgis, Harmony Korine and so many more. Each director's film will be featured at this website for one year, »
- Erik Davis
Filmmakers talk Toolbox Murders sequel; site open, first images
13 May 2009 6:57 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
FX artist turned director Dean Jones got in touch with comments and a couple of exclusive photos from a promotional video (see below) for his upcoming sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 2003 Toolbox Murders remake. You can also have a look at that promo clip for the movie, titled Tbk: The Toolbox Murders, at the bottom of this page.
The new film picks up as the previous movie’s survivors, Nell and Stephen, continue their night of hell when they’re rushed to the nearby Hollywood Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, detectives Cole and Barnes coordinate with a hard-nosed Lapd criminal profiler to uncover the disfigured killer’s origins, leading to a shocking revelation involving Old Hollywood’s seedy underground and one doctor’s secret past.
The cast is shaping up well, with a number of genre favorites confirmed. Jones has secured Lance Henriksen, Jeffrey Combs, Tony Todd, Red West and Brian Krause, »
Moss Planning Acting Career
1 February 2009 3:15 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Supermodel Kate Moss is reportedly set to try her hand at acting with the help of a top Hollywood director. The British beauty is getting help from Leaving Las Vegas director Michael Figgis - who directed Moss in a web film for underwear firm Agent Provocateur in 2006.
A pal of the model tells British tabloid News of the World, "Figgis and Kate have been discussing possible projects and he is helping her work with the right people."
Moss, who turned 35 last month, won't be giving up the catwalk completely and will continue to model at the same time.
The friend adds, "She has always dreamed of acting. Kate's nervous but feels with the right backing, she can make the transition from supermodel to Hollywood star."
This isn't the first time that Moss has ventured outside of modelling, having previously dabbled in music providing vocals for Primal Scream tracks and writing lyrics for ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles. »
Modine Plays 'Atticus Finch' In Hartford's To Kill A Mocking
22 January 2009 2:47 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Hartford Stage, under the artistic direction of Michael Wilson, announced that acclaimed Emmy-nominated actor Matthew Modine will make his Hartford Stage debut as Atticus Finch in the eagerly anticipated stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Hartford Stage Wilson will direct the production, which will play at the Tony Award-winning theatre February 19 - April 4. Matthew Modine has worked with many of the most highly regarded film and stage directors, including Oliver Stone, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Alan J. Pakula, Spike Lee, Tom Mike Figgis, Jonathan Demme and John Sayles. A partial list of his films include Birdy, Married to the Mob, Vision Quest, Full Metal Jacket, Gross Anatomy, and Shortcuts. Mr. Modine is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup and Golden Lion for best actor. He received Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for What the Deaf Man Heard »
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12 articles from 2009
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