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14 articles from 2009
Morgan Freeman: He makes any movie better, but in 'Invictus' he's finally a great actor again
12 December 2009 9:28 AM, PST
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Whenever you sit down to watch a movie, it's always a welcome moment when the name Morgan Freeman appears in the opening credits. Whether he's playing God in Bruce Almighty, a saintly janitor in Million Dollar Baby, or a judge, detective, mechanic, or prison inmate, you can rest assured that each and every moment Morgan Freeman is on-screen, the movie, even if it's a dog, will snap to attention, and that Freeman, even in a nothing role, will take the lines he’s been asked to deliver and, through the sheer magnetism of his presence, turn them into something forceful and vibrant and compelling.
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- Owen Gleiberman
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Daniel Day-Lewis talks about Nine (and acting, reluctantly)
10 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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Daniel Day-Lewis will live rough, break bones and work through pneumonia to get inside his characters. It may be absurd, he says, but then, he's in an absurd business. He talks about his latest film, Nine
The Daniel Day-Lewis interview is set for Friday and then it's set for Saturday. It's at 3.30pm; it's at 1.15pm; it may not happen at all. Inside the swish London hotel, the press handlers are all hunched over their clipboards while Italian journalists keep tripping over TV cables in the corridor. Eventually, a pair of publicists forge through the melee to assure me that yes, the interview will indeed take place – but not right now. "Can we bring you some food while you wait?" asks the first publicist. "There's no food," says the second.
By this point I'm starting to wonder whether the Nine press junket might be some ornate PR stunt by the Weinstein Company,
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- Xan Brooks
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Nathaniel Thanks You
26 November 2009 5:00 PM, PST
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I am surely in a friend & food coma while you're reading this. Happily so! This Thanksgiving I'm grateful for all of you. You keep coming back daily to read the latest cinematic musings here at The Film Experience. Obsessing on the movies is really meant to be a team sport so I appreciate the fine company. They don't make movie theaters with one seat in them.
So thank you for being here daily from all over the world -- not just the States -- with an especially amorphous shout out to readers in Canada, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Mexico and The Philippines. You've always been supportive. And a big hug to my magical elves contributors who've really helped keep the blog going during a difficult year.
Normal programming resumes tomorrow but I must give thanks to the following sources of cinematic happiness at the moment: ambiguous endings,
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- NATHANIEL R
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The 50 Best Gay Movies (2009)
13 September 2009 5:40 PM, PDT
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Why aren’t there more good gay movies? We hear this complaint at
AfterElton.com a lot, and we’ve even made it a few times ourselves (although we
think the results of this poll prove that there are more good movies than many
of us think!).
There are surely many reasons why more “mainstream” movies don’t include gay
or bisexual themes, but no doubt one of them is heterosexual discomfort – not
just discomfort on the part of audiences and network executives, but also
discomfort on the part of critics and others to champion these films.
This is where our poll of AfterElton.com readers on the 50 Greatest
Gay Movies comes in. We can think of no better way to encourage the creation of
more good gay movies than to praise and support the existence of past good gay
movies!
How does this list compare to our previous poll?
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- Brent Hartinger
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Top 25 Brit Flicks From the Last 25 Years!
2 September 2009 9:53 AM, PDT
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Now this is a list we probably do not see often, at least state-side, but I thought it was a pretty solid one! The Guardian asked their “expert panel of film-makers and critics” to name their top 10 British films since 1984, instead they put together a list of 25 top British films from the past 25 years.
Films like Trainspotting, Four Weddings and a Funeral to newer films like Shaun of the Dead and Man On A Wire made the list. A few of these seem to be bordering on being British (only made by British filmmakers or about British people, not actually set in England, like Man on Wire) but they are all great films (those that I have seen).
Take a look below or click here for the full write-up! Perhaps my favorite on the list is Slumdog Millionaire and Shaun of the Dead, those have literally been my two most
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- Kevin Coll
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Like Movie Lists? Here are Four to Scrutinize
2 September 2009 1:27 AM, PDT
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Do you like lists? Well, how about these options?
Wired's Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time - Pre-Star Wars
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
Them! (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Solaris (1972)
Silent Running (1972)
Soylent Green (1973)
Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Zardoz (1974)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Logan's Run (1976)
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Richard Roeper's Top Five of Summer 2009
(500) Days of Summer
Inglourious Basterds
Up
The Hurt Locker
District 9
...and his worst...
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra
Land of the Lost
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The Ugly Truth
He has more, click here for the rest.
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- Brad Brevet
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Guardian Picks the Top 25 British Films of the Last 25 Years
1 September 2009 9:31 AM, PDT
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Now this is a best of list we don't see that often. The Guardian asked their "expert panel of film-makers and critics" to name their top 10 British films since 1984. They then compiled this list of the top 25 British films from the last 25 years and it's quite an interesting list - from Trainspotting to Sexy Beast to Shaun of the Dead to Hunger. A few of these seem to be bordering on being British (only made by British filmmakers or about British people, not actually set in England, like Slumdog Millionaire or Man on Wire) but they are all great films (at least those that I've seen). Take a look below or click here for the full gallery and write-up!
1. Trainspotting (1996)
2. Withnail & I (1987)
3. Secrets & Lies (1996)
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
5. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
6. Nil By Mouth (1997)
7. Sexy Beast (2000)
8. Ratcatcher
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- Alex Billington
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The Top 25 British Films Of The Last 25 Years
1 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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The Observer Film Quarterly polled more than 60 cinema experts - directors, screenwriters, actors, critics, and a few smart "outsiders" (novelists, musicians) to name their top 10 British films released in the last 25 years (ie since 1984). The results were combined to create a listing of the top 25 British Films Released in the last 25 years, topped with Danny Boyle's Trainspotting. Agree? Disagree? You can find that list after the jump.
I've also included a few selected personal top 10 lists from some of the participants, including director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), screenwriter Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), and actor Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog, Sexy Beast, Gandhi).
The Top 25 British Films Of The Last 25 Years
1 . Trainspotting (1996)
2. Withnail & I (1987)
3. Secrets and Lies (1996)
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
5. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
6. Nil By Mouth (1997)
7. Sexy Beast
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- Peter Sciretta
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Iconic Gay Movie Roles
18 August 2009 6:59 PM, PDT
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It’s not exactly news that as a mass
medium, cinema has the power to dramatically influence and change public
attitudes toward minority groups, often making them accessible and relatable to
the mainstream.
Unfortunately, that power works the
opposite way as well and the movie industry, under a strict legion of
‘so-called’ decency laws commonly referred to as the Hays Code enacted in the
1930s, tended to frown upon positive representations of the gay community up
until the 1960s. Gays were still present on screen, but more often than not,
they were limited to stereotypes such as the drag queen/transvestite, the
degenerate, the depraved killer and so forth.
As The
Celluloid Closet (1995) brilliantly revealed, many gay and bisexual men had
their motivations buried in subtext – virile characters like Ben Hur, for instance, were blatantly bisexual, but had to be
inconspicuous about their love for the boys.
As the years rolled on,
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- mohassan
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White Tiger For Hanif Kureishi
23 July 2009 10:10 PM, PDT
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Hanif Kureishi will adapt Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger for the screen, according to Variety.The Indian journalist Adiga's debut novel won the Man Booker Prize for 2008. Written in epistolary form, it involves Balram, the son of a rickshaw-puller in rural India, and his rise through society. Initially employed in a tea shop, he becomes a chauffeur in Delhi and a businessman in Bangalore. There's a lot of social and class commentary, a bit of murdering, and it's pretty funny.It would be crass to say "it's going to be a bit like Slumdog Millionaire" just because it's an Indian rags-to-riches crime story, but suffice to say it's reasonably clear why this is an enticing prospect for the cinema at the moment.Kureishi is no slouch when it comes to films and novels though. He is himself the bestselling author of the likes of The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy,
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Hanif Kureishi Has 'Tiger' Eyes for Prize-winning Novel
23 July 2009
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- With the world embracing Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, it's perhaps become "safe" to embrace future narratives that display a side of India without the feel good dance number finale. Comparisons between the Oscar best Picture winner and everything that comes after it is inevitable - but My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid scribe Hanif Kureishi's take on Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger should be a dark one that has extreme poverty and outlandish wealth of India in clear view.
The novel is told by the Pov of Balram Halwai - the smartest boy in his village, a community deep in the "Darkness" of rural India. Balram is the son of a rickshaw-puller; his family is too poor for him to be able to finish school, and instead he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. Through these experiences,
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Interview: 'Cheri' Director Stephen Frears
26 June 2009 7:02 PM, PDT
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Multiple Oscar nominee Stephen Frears is a tough nut to crack. Amiable but terse, his excellent multilayered films do the talking for him, from his first collaboration with Christopher Hampton and Michelle Pfeiffer on 1998's Dangerous Liaisons to 2007's The Queen. In his latest film, Cheri (read Cinematical's review here), Frears turns his lens onto the cloistered and often duplicitous world of wealthy courtesans. Frears' films often focus on subversive outsiders who must make their own "family," as it were, such as Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters, and My Beautiful Laundrette. But Cheri's delicious spin on sex, love, and aging is typical of its source material from author Colette, whose books Cheri and The Last of Cheri present a world of upside-down relationships and self-sufficient, frankly sexual women.
Michelle Pfeiffer leads the cast as the stunning Lea de Lonval, a famous courtesan whose friend Madame Peloux, played with busty abandon by Kathy Bates,
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- Jenni Miller
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Dueling with Stephen Frears
26 June 2009 7:56 AM, PDT
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Stephen Frears burst on the scene in 1985 with his cheeky "My Beautiful Laundrette," igniting a winning streak that included "Prick Up Your Ears," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Grifters" and "The Queen." Though famously hard to pigeonhole, the genre-spanning filmmaker gravitates toward folks struggling on the social margins or engaged in emotional gamesmanship. Frears is also, famously, a royal pain to interview. He almost defies you to extract responses from him, looking simultaneously gleeful and contrite, so you somehow empathize with him. In a sit-down for his new film "Cheri," he was reliably armored -- perhaps because his antennae are exquisitely attuned to pick up what he might call a "dodgy" reaction to his latest project.
More than two decades after "Liaisons," "Cheri" reunites Frears with ace screenwriter Christopher Hampton and Michelle Pfeiffer. Set in Belle Époque Paris, the saucy tragicomedy centers on the sumptuous world of courtesans -- demimondaines -- banned from polite society,
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- Erica Abeel
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2009 Oscar Predictions, The Actors
6 April 2009 2:46 PM, PDT
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We've chatted about the women. Now it's time for the men.
I'll start with the big omission news. I know most every Oscar pundit is predicting Daniel Day-Lewis for Nine (the Musical) but I think they're all forgetting an important and peculiar truth: Ddl does not get nominated for performances that center around his romantic relationships. Even when the Academy likes the film.
Consider...
A Room With a View (1986) 8 noms/3 wins
My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) 1 nomination.
He wasn't a known commodity in 86 but his double dip was incredibly chameleonic. And in two movies that were raved far and wide and that Oscar voters liked.The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 1 nom/1 win.
Certainly one of the most bizarre Oscar snubbings ever for an entire film. It was epic, beautiful, period, popular and moving. And it got one nomination... for sound?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) 2 nominations
The Age of Innocence (1993) 5 noms/ 1 win
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- NATHANIEL R
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