TAKEN’s Pierre Morel to Direct DUNE
Pierre Morel, whose Taken starring Liam Neeson was one of last year’s sleeper hits, has been set to direct Dune, the latest film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic novel. Paramount will be releasing the new venture.
David Lynch directed a much anticipated film version back in 1984, but the superproduction starring Kyle MacLachlan (photo) was deemed too disjointed and confusing by critics and apparently by audiences as well, as the film turned out to be an expensive flop. The special effects, however, were quite good for the time, and the film offered a stellar supporting cast that included Virginia Madsen, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, Linda Hunt, Francesca Annis, Silvana Mangano, Sting, and Freddie Jones.
According to Variety, in late [...]
by Anna Robinson | January 5, 2010
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Tags: David Lynch, Dune, Kyle MacLachlan, Pierre Morel
SUMMER HOURS Best Film of 2009 – indieWIRE Poll
Juliette Binoche in Summer Hours ( Jeannick Gravelines / IFC Films)
Olivier Assayas’ family drama Summer Hours has been named the best film of 2009 in indieWIRE’s annual poll of 114 film critics and bloggers, Eugene Hernandez reports. Also, David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. was chosen the best film of the decade.
Starring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Renier, Summer Hours tells the story of three siblings fighting for the possessions left behind by their deceased mother (Edith Scob) at the family’s summer house. Earlier this month, Summer Hours was voted the best foreign language film of 2009 by the Los Angeles, New York, and Boston film critics.
Following in second place in indieWIRE’s poll was Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious [...]
by Anna Robinson | December 22, 2009
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Tags: A Serious Man, David Lynch, Film Awards, indieWIRE Poll, Joel and Ethan Coen, Juliette Binoche, Mulholland Dr., Summer Hours, The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air
Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch Sign Roman Polanski Petition
Woody Allen, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and Terry Gilliam have added their names to the petition, organized by France’s Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD), demanding the release of Palme d’Or and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently in the custody of Swiss authorities.
In 1978, Polanski pleaded guilty to a charge of statutory rape (sex with a minor) of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey (now Geimer), whom he allegedly drugged before having sex with her against her will. Polanski, who at the time claimed that the sex was consensual and that he was led to believe that the 13-year-old was 18, reportedly fled the United States upon learning, after spending 42 days in prison, that [...]
by Andre Soares | September 29, 2009
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Tags: David Lynch, Luc Besson, Martin Scorsese, Politics, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski Petition, Ronald Harwood, Samantha Geimer, Sex, Woody Allen
The DGA vs. the Academy: 2000s
Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge (top); Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring in Mulholland Dr. (bottom)
The DGA vs. the Academy: 1990s
2000
DGA: Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous
AMPAS: Stephen Daldry for Billy Elliot
2001
DGA: Baz Luhrmann for Moulin Rouge and Christopher Nolan for Memento
AMPAS: Robert Altman for Gosford Park and David Lynch for Mulholland Dr.
2002
DGA: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
AMPAS: Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her
2003
DGA: Gary Ross for Seabiscuit
AMPAS: Fernando Meirelles for City of God
2004
DGA: Marc Forster for Finding Neverland
AMPAS: Mike Leigh for Vera Drake
2006
DGA: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine and Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
AMPAS: Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima and Paul [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2006
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Tags: Academy Awards, Baz Luhrmann, Classic Movies, David Lynch, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Dr.
The DGA vs. the Academy
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi in Summertime
In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG), began handing out yearly achievement awards. George Sidney, Frank Capra, Delmer Daves, John Ford, H. Bruce Humberstone, Irving Pichel, Norman Taurog, and, ex-officio, Guild president George Marshall took part in the initial Awards Committee, which selected the Directors Guild Award honorees.
Before 1970, the Guild’s yearly list of finalists consisted of a variable number of directors, usually more than five. From 1970 on, when the Directors Guild began restricting its list of nominees to five directors per year, a DGA nod has usually translated into an Oscar nod. There have been, however, quite a few exceptions to [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2006
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Tags: Academy Awards, Bernardo Bertolucci, Classic Movies, David Lean, David Lynch, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen