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Cold Souls | Film review
14 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST
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In this amusing, intelligent, well-acted picture, Paul Giamatti, playing a troubled actor called Paul Giamatti currently appearing in Uncle Vanya, goes to a New York surgery called Soul Storage and exchanges his soul for that of a Russian artist. It's a combination of the Faust legend, John Frankenheimer's Seconds and Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, but curiously flimsy.
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Exclusive: The Real Story (and the Mastermind) Behind James Franco's Soap Opera Career Move
12 November 2009 7:20 AM, PST
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When General Hospital announced that James Franco would be joining the soap opera for a lengthy story arc, pop culture pundits couldn't fathom the movie star's motivation. Over here at Movieline, though, we sensed the guiding hand of Carter, Franco's frequent artistic collaborator. The two men have embarked on a wide variety of art projects that play with and deconstruct Franco's image, including a VMan photo shoot that handed the actor a flamethrower and covered his face in shaving cream, and Erased James Franco, a 63-minute film (playing November 15 at the Castro Theater in San Francisco) that finds Franco idiosyncratically recreating Rock Hudson from Seconds and Julianne Moore from Safe, as well as some of his own lesser roles.
Yesterday I spoke to Carter, who revealed that he was the mastermind who convinced Franco to appear on General Hospital -- the beginning of their most ambitious collaboration yet.
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La-La Land releases Goldsmith double
7 October 2009 8:06 AM, PDT
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Two scores by Jerry Goldsmith licenced from Paramount Pictures – the 1966 sci-fi thriller Seconds and the 1994 comedy I.Q. – is being put out on a new CD from La-La Land Records, limited to 3000 copies. The CD begins shipping on October 16 and features nearly 70 minutes of music, 38 minutes from I.Q. and 31 minutes from Seconds. The last-mentioned is presented in mono only since no stereo
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Playing it Straight
7 April 2009 6:31 PM, PDT
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While Sean Penn’s recent Best Actor Oscar win for Milk helped bring Harvey Milk’s message
to a wide audience — both from the increased visibility of the film and from
Penn’s moving acceptance speech — the occasion marked another instance of a
Hollywood tradition: a gay character played by a heterosexual actor.
Penn, like Tom Hanks (Philadelphia [1993]) and
William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman [1985]) before him, was praised
for his “bravery” for taking on the role and even — eek! — kissing another man.
Gay actors, on the other hand, get no such credit for
playing gay roles; let’s not forget the year that Rupert Everett’s hilarious
supporting turn in My Best Friend’s
Wedding (1997) was ignored by the Academy, with the implication that queer
thespians need merely show up to play queer characters, with no actual acting
involved. (To add insult to injury, that same year saw
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