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Lady GaGa not to top designer`s musical taste
10 December 2009 3:17 PM, PST
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An Italian designer for the stars, Antonio Berardi, has turned down Lady GaGa. The Milan designer, who counts among his clients Victoria Beckham, Megan Fox, Amber Rose, Eva Mendes and Gwyneth Paltrow, declined an offer from GaGa to collaborate. 'I was approached to design a clothing range with Lady GaGa but I knocked it back because I wasn't interested in someone whose music is meaningless,' Berardi said. GaGa is a performance artist whose musical career is soaring. Songs she has released such as Paparazzi have rocketed up the charts. Her penchant for outlandish costumes, including those with high-voltage shock value, has drawn mixed reactions. Berardi, who was in Sydney, said:'Her music is meaningless now so
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- Philippa Bourke
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Master reunites Pt Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman
4 December 2009 3:32 AM, PST
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Religious drama set in 1950s America will be fifth collaboration between director of There Will Be Blood and Oscar-winning actor
Director Paul Thomas Anderson will reunite with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on Master, a religious drama set in 1950s America.
Hoffman acted in Anderson's debut feature Hard Eight back in 1996 and took supporting roles in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. Master marks their fifth collaboration.
The film will star Hoffman as an intellectual in the mould of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, who sets up a successful faith-based organisation. Variety reports that the tale focuses on the relationship between "the master" and his pupil – a young drifter who joins the group and then starts to doubt its ideals and ambitions.
Master looks likely to be backed by Universal, although the studio has yet to officially green-light its estimated $35m (£21m) budget.
Anderson's last film, There Will Be Blood, showcased
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- Xan Brooks
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Paul Thomas Anderson And Philip Seymour Hoffman Find Religion
2 December 2009 11:25 PM, PST
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Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his follow-up to There Will be Blood. And this time he's tackling religion organizations with the help of Philip Seymour Hoffman. More from the trades:"There Will Be Blood" writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next project, a period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s. The project is set up at Universal, which will make a decision about whether to greenlight the pic, with a $35 million budget, once Anderson delivers a finished script.Hoffman, who has played supporting roles in most of Anderson's past films, this time will be at the center, playing "the Master," as in "master of ceremonies," a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. The core is the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter who becomes the leader's lieutenant.
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Paul Thomas Anderson Announces Next Film, Starts His Own Religion
2 December 2009 8:32 PM, PST
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Rejoice! It's time for Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman to work together again. After Sydney, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love, Variety reports that the two are teaming up for a new feature about a man who creates his own religion. But don't celebrate too much -- this news is still in the early stages. Anderson is said to be planning to submit a finished script to Universal, who will then decide whether or not they will greenlight it (um, yes please). And, the trade couldn't get comment from the studio, or either man's reps.
But here's what we do know. Should this go into production, there will be a $35 million price tag with Hoffman finally getting center stage playing "the Master" (as in master of ceremonies), a charismatic man who starts "a faith-based organization" in the 1950s. He teams up with a twentysomething drifter named Freddie
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews
22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT
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Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,
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- Roger Ebert
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Celebrity Trainer Appears In Court
28 September 2009 5:12 AM, PDT
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A fitness trainer to the stars appeared in court last week to face charges of assault.
Leading British workout expert Joe Fournier - whose previous clients include Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow - pleaded not guilty to assaulting a taxi driver following a night on the town during a promotional trip to Australia last month.
The 29 year old has been accused of punching the driver in the face after an argument about the fare, as his fiancee and 15-month-old son looked on.
He was also alleged to have driven away in the taxi, although that charge was later dropped.
Film composer David Arnold, who worked with Fournier on the James Bond film franchise, offered the court references on Fournier's behalf, and the fitness expert was later granted unconditional bail to make his return to Britain.
The case will go to court in October but Fournier does not have to return to Sydney to appear before the judge, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Fournier boasts his client base includes several major stars, international royalty, and bosses of some leading Hollywood film companies who hire him to train actors for demanding roles.
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The Résumé Indie
11 August 2009 7:35 AM, PDT
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Mostly, what Paul Andrew Williams' "London to Brighton" (2006) has in its threadbare arsenal, shy of budget and time and scale, is a small propane tank of hot nerve. This is the kind of indie that opens in mid-adrenaline-spike (two women, bloody and beaten, burst into a public restroom, running for their lives) and proceeds to paint a sparse portrait of modern life that slowly constricts on the two protagonists like a fatal case of lockjaw.
It's an exercise in economy and efficiency, of course -- Williams' "London" is one of the most memorable résumé films of recent years, but it's still a résumé movie. If you want to send up flags about your ability to glue your audience's eyes to the screen, this is one way to do it. (Much to the disappointment of British critics, who loved "London to Brighton," Williams has since been spinning his wheels in psycho-killer genre ditties.
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- Michael Atkinson
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Philip Seymour Hoffman to star in Off-Broadway ‘Othello’
27 May 2009 3:40 AM, PDT
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, most recently seen in “Synecdoche, New York” , “Doubt” and “The Boat That Rocked” and who won a Oscar for his portrayal of Truman Capote in “Capote” is set to star as the play’s villain Iago from the 12th of September this year.
Hoffman has solid roots in Theater and has been previously nominated for two Tony awards. He has starred in previous Off-Broadway productions of “Jesus Hopped The A Train” and “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”, and made his directorial debut in Sydney back in 2007.
John Ortiz will star alongside Hoffman in the production.
The play will run at the sports arena located at New York University, a larger venue than normal, in anticipation of popular demand for tickets. Please contact the venue directly for news and ticket information.
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- Paul Larn
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Live blogging the Oscars
22 February 2009 12:07 PM, PST
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Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting "refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.
9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse
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- tomoneil
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Review | Crap Artist: Robert Celestino's "Yonkers Joe"
7 January 2009 10:05 AM, PST
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by Leo Goldsmith (January 7, 2009)
[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]
From the start, "Yonkers Joe" pitches the spectator directly into a world of tough-talking gamblers and sharks, where the dice are loaded, hands move quickly, and there's always a scam in the offing. This milieu of casinos and parking lots, peopled with hustlers and hookers, is a familiar film setting, but one that's produced remarkably few good films. Though the subject at hand seems ideally suited to cinema, allowing for a closer look at all the sleights and feints of card-sharp's or crap-shooter's trade, films such as "Hard Eight," "Shade," "The Cooler," and this year's "21" all mine similar material with a range of mostly disappointing results.
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