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BROKEN EMBRACES Trailer

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Broken Embraces stars Penélope Cruz and Lluís Homar. Cruz is a potential Oscar 2010 best actress contender for this film.
Broken Embraces synopsis from the press release:
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.
This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. [...]

Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson in THE MESSENGER Trailer

Directed by Oren Moverman, and written by Moverman and Alessandro Camon, The Messenger stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Jena Malone.
The film chronicles the emotional struggles of an American soldier after he becomes involved with the widow of a fallen officer.
The Messenger won both the Silver Bear for best screenplay and the Peace Award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival,
The Messenger opens in the US on November 13, 2009.

THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM Trailer

The Hunt for Gollum, a 40-minute film conceived, created and funded by fans of the J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will be screened exclusively online on Dailymotion on Sunday, May 3. The film will have a simultaneous premiere at SCI-FI LONDON, the 8th Annual London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, with free tickets available to festivalgoers.
Written, directed, and produced by Chris Bouchard, who was inspired by notes in the appendices from the The Lord of the Rings, The Hunt for Gollum follows Aragorn as he sets out to find the Gollum so as to discover the truth about the Ring.
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Michelle Pfeiffer in CHERI Trailer

Directed by Stephen Frears and adapted by Christopher Hampton from Colette’s novel, Chéri stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a 1920s French courtesan who teaches a young man (Rupert Friend) the ways of love and sex.
Also in the Chéri cast: Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Anita Pallenberg, Frances Tomelty.
Chéri opens in the US on June 26.
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Sacha Baron Cohen in BRUNO Trailer
Carmen Miranda Does "Cai, Cai" in THAT NIGHT IN RIO
Best Actress Oscar Winners – 1927/28-2007
Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar Acceptance Speech

OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE, THE LARAMIE PROJECT Offend

Tina O’Grady, a member of the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s "cultural competency initiative" was scolded by her boss after co-workers complained about an e-mail she had forwarded promoting the gay-themed Out@Wex Film Festival in Columbus.
As per the Columbus Dispatch, O’Grady’s co-workers seemed to be particularly offended by the festival’s description of Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up With Dead People in its release. Otto is summed up as an "art-porn provocation [that] depicts an explosion of cannibalistic, sodomy-seeking zombies in Berlin."
What exactly in that sentence — art, porn, provocation, explosion, cannibalism, sodomy, zombies, Berlin — offended some of the Ohio Department of Public Safety workers remains unclear.
The judges at the Milan International Lesbian and [...]

Carmen Miranda Does “Cai, Cai” in THAT NIGHT IN RIO

The more I see Carmen Miranda, the more I find her one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. In this clip from Fox’s 1941 musical comedy That Night in Rio, Miranda sings and shakes to the rhythms of Roberto Martins‘ "Cai, Cai."
Now, what the heck is she singing?
Cai, cai, cai, cai
Eu não vou te levantar
Cai, cai, cai, cai
Quem mandou escorregar?
Fall, fall, fall, fall
I’m not going to help you get up
Fall, fall, fall, fall
Whoever told you to slip?
That’s why songs should usually be left untranslated…
Also in the That Night in Rio cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish, Curt Bois, and the Bando da Lua.
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Vivien Leigh on Turner Classic Movies
Carole Lombard on [...]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS: Q&A with Filmmaker James C. Ferguson

I’m always happy when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen — as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder.
Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson (right, in blue), whose Happy Holidays (written by Ferguson and Tom Misuraca) is a three-way character study about old school friends who are reunited at their Connecticut hometown for a brief period right before Christmas. During that time, deeply buried emotions burst to the surface, old secrets are revealed, and one character ends up suffering a nervous breakdown. Old buddies can do that to you.
Shot in black in white during the course of two weeks, Happy Holidays features Paul Hungerford as Patrick Donovan, an openly gay man and avowed [...]

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones, one of my all-time favorite performers, turned 90 yesterday, March 2.
The name doesn’t ring a sonorous bell? Well, it should.
Jennifer Jones, the sensitive, darkly beautiful actress who won an Academy Award (and the very first best actress Golden Globe) for the 1943 box-office sensation The Song of Bernadette.
Jennifer Jones, who starred in Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Carrie (1952), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), A Farewell to Arms (1957), and Tender Is the Night (1961).
Jennifer Jones, the unlucky woman who falls off the elevator in The Towering Inferno (1974) and who happened to be Gone with the Wind producer David O. [...]

THE HOT ROCK/COPS AND ROBBERS: Donald E. Westlake Tribute at the Aero

The American Cinematheque will present a memorial tribute to writer Donald E. Westlake, who died last December, with a screening of two films based on his novels, The Hot Rock and Cops and Robbers, on Thursday, March 12, at 7:30 pm at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.
I haven’t seen Cops and Robbers, but I remember finding the caper comedy The Hot Rock quite enjoyable. Directed by Peter Yates from an Academy Award-nominated screenplay by William Goldman, The Hot Rock stars Robert Redford and George Segal as jewel thieves attempting — and generally failing at — the perfect heist.
Clip: Annie7676.
Schedule/info from the American Cinematheque:
Thursday, March 12 – 7:30 PM
THE HOT ROCK, 1972, 20th Century Fox, [...]

Best Actress Oscar Winners 1927/28-2007

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2008: Kate Winslet, The Reader
2007: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
2006: Helen Mirren, The Queen
2005: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
2004: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
2003: Charlize Theron, Monster
2002: Nicole Kidman, The Hours
2001: Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball
2000: Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
1999: Hilary Swank, Boys Don’t Cry
1998: Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare In Love
1997: Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets
1996: Frances McDormand, Fargo
1995: Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
1994: Jessica Lange, Blue Sky
1993: Holly Hunter, The Piano
1992: Emma Thompson, Howards End
1991: Jodie Foster, The Silence Of The Lambs
1990: Kathy Bates, Misery
1989: Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Jodie Foster, The Accused
1987: Cher, Moonstruck
1986: Marlee Matlin, Children Of A Lesser God
1985: Geraldine Page, The Trip To Bountiful
1984: Sally Field, Places In The Heart
1983: [...]

Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar Acceptance Speech

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Hattie McDaniel is generally remembered as the first black performer to win an Oscar. I invariably remember her as one of the best performers of the studio era, Oscar or no, black or white or blue or rainbow-colored.
McDaniel steals the show at the dinner table, while doing her best (but failing both miserably and hilariously) to come across as a "fancy people’s" maid in Alice Adams; she nearly runs away with the 1936 version of Show Boat; and is one of the most memorable elements in Gone with the Wind, for which she won one of the most well-deserved Oscars in Academy history — especially considering that she was competing against Olivia de Havilland, a young, pretty, [...]

Oscar 2009: Hugh Jackman, Beyonce, Zac Efron, Dominic Coooper Musical Clip

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Hugh Jackman, Beyonce Knowles, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper perform songs from West Side Story, Grease, and Mamma Mia!, among others, in a post-camp number that makes the musical finale from Hello, Dolly! look subdued in comparison.
"The musical is back!" Jackman shouts at the end. Sure, but instead of On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Cabaret, or Hair, you have High School Musical 3.
 
Oscar 2009: Dustin Lance Black’s Acceptance Speech
Sean Penn’s Oscar Acceptance Speech
Oscar 2009: Penélope Cruz’s Acceptance Speech

Oscar 2009 Buzz: Kate Winslet Breaks Bette Davis’ Record, Title Sequence Design Oscar?

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Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler in the New York Times (by way of David Hudson’s The Daily)
"There’s an Oscar for pretty much every aspect of filmmaking, except one: the title sequences. Titles, though, have always played a significant part in motion pictures. They may have started out as simple black-and-white cards. But in the days before sound, they already did more than identify key players: they communicated dialogue and advanced plot. And as filmmaking evolved, so did title design. Titles have become wonderful bridges from reality into the cinematic world and back out again. At their very best, they are themselves innovative, emotional experiences, microcosms of their movies."
*** Oberman [...]

Top Ten Biggest Oscar Snubs – Nominations #3

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City of God (2002)
Volver (2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Gomorrah (2008)

I’ve always had a personal grudge against the Academy’s rules & regulations for their Best Foreign Language Film category. I know I’m not the only one.
Time and again, deserving films aren’t nominated not because Academy voters have different tastes than yours truly, but because they don’t even have the chance to watch the potential contenders; they are not allowed, for instance, to watch movies on DVD or video — unlike Oscar voters for most other categories.
Compounding matters, films fall by the wayside because they don’t meet some arcane criterion or other. For instance, in December 1994 Richard Corliss [...]

Berlin Film Festival 2009 Winners

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South American cinema — once again — performed quite well at the Berlin Film Festival, which came to a close on Sunday, Feb. 15.
The Golden Bear for best picture went to La Teta Asustada / The Milk of Sorrow (the Spanish title would actually translate as "The Frightened Tit"), the first Peruvian production — actually a Spanish-Peruvian-Chilean co-production, made with the assistance of the Berlinale’s own World Cinema Fund — in the festival’s main competition.

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Directed by Claudia Llosa (niece of writer Mario Vargas Llosa), The Milk of Sorrow tells the story of a young housemaid (Magaly Solier) born as a result of her mother’s rape during the years the [...]

Christian Bale Flipping Out on TERMINATOR SALVATION Set Videos

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I’ve had friends in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and in some impenetrable spot in the Amazon jungle e-mail me about Christian Bale’s expletive-filled blowup on the Terminator Salvation set last July. (That was around the time the actor was arrested for allegedly assaulting his mother and sister in London.)
For those who have spent the day somewhere in Orion, let me briefly explain what happened:
Suddenly, last f#$%ing summer, Bale had a f#*ing scene ruined by director of photography Shane Hurlbut (nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award in 1998 for the TV movie The Rat Pack), who walked within Bale’s f$#*ing field of vision throwing him off [...]

Marley Beats Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, and Tom Cruise

David Frankel’s comedy Marley & Me raced to the top of the North American box office this weekend with $37 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a couple struggling to keep their dog in check, Marley & Me lifted its domestic total to an impressive $51.6 million after only four days in release.

At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest comedy Bedtime Stories took home $28 million, reaching a cumulative gross of $38.5 million. The Adam Shankman-directed effort follows a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories come true the next day.

Meanwhile, David Fincher’s acclaimed drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt [...]

WERE THE WORLD MINE Trailer

 
Co-written by partners Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (from Gustafson’s 2003 short Faeries) and directed by Gustafson, Were the World Mine tells the story of small-town teen Timothy (Tanner Cohen), who happens to be gay, ostracized, and in love with his private school’s top jock (Nathaniel David Becker). Timothy’s sole means of escape is his musico-magical world, filled with shining lights and singing athletes.
Enters a quirky English teacher (hilariously played by Wendy Robie of Twin Peaks), who decides to stage a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Timothy is cast as Puck and ends up playing the role offstage as well, using a liquid-spraying, purple pansy to spread love — of the sort that dares [...]

Berta Singerman Recites “Camino de la Patria”

 
Argentinean stage legend Berta Singerman — actually born in Russia — made only three films, one of which in Hollywood: Nada más que una mujer / Nothing More Than a Woman, the 1934 Spanish-language version of the Fox production Pursued (itself a remake of The Painted Woman).
Singerman, who died at the age of 97 in Buenos Aires in 1998, was renowned for her poetry readings. Spanish classical music composer Manuel de Falla once said, "While we, composers, look for music for our words, Berta extracts music from words."
The clip above (I’d say it’s from the 1970s or perhaps early 1980s) shows Berta Singerman being interviewed by journalist Antonio Carrizo. I can’t understand most of what she [...]

LATTER DAYS Clip: Mormons Vs. Gays

 
Californians will be voting on Proposition 8 this coming Tuesday. Considering how religious beliefs are the engine behind the anti-gay marriage proposition, and that according to numerous reports the Mormon Church has been fighting the fight to make sure that gays and lesbians never have their unions recognized by the state, I thought it only appropriate to post a clip from the 2003 romantic dramatic comedy Latter Days, which stars Steve Sandvoss as a Mormon missionary who — sit tight — is seduced and corrupted by the vile gay lifestyle.
Well, at least that’s how his Mormon family sees the young man’s coming out of the closet. Writer-director C. Jay Cox, a gay man who was himself a former Mormon [...]

Patti Smith Indicts George W. Bush

 
The above clip, in which Patti Smith indicts current US president George W. Bush is from Steven Sebring’s Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which will be out on DVD in January 2009.
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MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Trailer
TRICK ‘R TREAT Trailer
Daniel Craig in QUANTUM SOLACE Trailer
SAVING MARRIAGE Trailer
Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott in ROLE MODELS Trailer
THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY Trailer
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS Trailer
Anne Hathaway in PASSENGERS Trailer

MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Trailer

 
Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa apparently revolves around culture clashes between New York City zoo animals and their African buddies. I’ll probably wait for the Samoyedan version to come out before I venture into a movie theater playing this film.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa voices: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bernie Mac, Alec Baldwin.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa opens in the US on November 7.
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TRICK ‘R TREAT Trailer
Daniel Craig in QUANTUM SOLACE Trailer
SAVING MARRIAGE Trailer
Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott in ROLE MODELS Trailer
THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY Trailer
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS Trailer
Anne Hathaway in PASSENGERS Trailer

TRICK ‘R TREAT Trailer

 
Written and directed by Michael Dougherty, Trick ‘r Treat is set in a small town that "is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten."
In the Trick ‘r Treat cast: Brian Cox, Anna Paquin, Quinn Lord, Dylan Baker, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett.
Trick ‘r Treat opens in the US on — when else? — October 31.
Michael Dougherty’s MySpace page.
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Daniel Craig in QUANTUM SOLACE Trailer
SAVING MARRIAGE Trailer
Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott in ROLE MODELS Trailer
THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY Trailer
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS Trailer
Anne Hathaway in PASSENGERS Trailer
FEAR(S) OF THE DARK Trailer

Daniel Craig in QUANTUM SOLACE Trailer

 
Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in Quantum of Solace, directed by unlikely choice Marc Forster and written by Robert Wade, Neal Purvis, and Paul Haggis. The plot of the new Bond involves water supplies in an unnamed South American country, terrorists, the CIA, gay Martians, and horny women. Well, perhaps I’m mistaken about the gay Martians, but "exotic" locations, hot & bothered gals, mind-numbing action, and absurd plot developments will surely be a part of the fun (if you’re like most people) or the tediousness (if you’re like me) of it all. In spite of Judi Dench, I found the highly popular and generally well-received Casino Royale the very worst James Bond flick I’ve seen. And that’s [...]

UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US: Norwegian Black Metal at AFI FEST 2008

Don’t know what to do for Halloween?
Well, here’s a suggestion: Why don’t you go check out some Norwegian Black Metal Trick-or-Treaters?
Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell’s documentary Until the Light Takes Us, which offers a peek into the spooky world of Norwegian Black Metal, will be screened at the AFI FEST 2008 at 7:45 p.m. on Friday, October 31, at ArcLight Hollywood. (The film will have a second screening at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, at Mann’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.)
As per the Until the Light Takes Us press release, black metal founders "consist of a handful of surprisingly articulate Norwegian teenage friends with a complex set of extreme nationalistic, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian beliefs. These [...]

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