Robert Pattinson, Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan at BAFTA Ceremony
Robert Pattinson (top); Mickey Rourke presents Best Actress award to Carey Mulligan (middle); Kate Winslet presents Best Actor award to Colin Firth (bottom)
Robert Pattinson, with lightning speed, said as he took to the podium at the 2010 BAFTA awards ceremony: "Congratulations to Jenny? she’s a fantastic makeup artist." The "Jenny" in question is Jenny Shircore, who won a BAFTA for Best Makeup and Hair for her work on Jean-Marc Vallee’s The Young Victoria, in which Emily Blunt plays Queen Victoria. Pattinson then went on to carefully read the teleprompter, before announcing the winner in the best original screenplay category. The winner turned out to be Mark Boal for Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, the evening’s top [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 21, 2010
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Tags: BAFTA, BAFTA 2010, Carey Mulligan, Colin Firth, Film Awards, Kate Winslet, Robert Pattinson, Tom Ford, Xan Brooks
Kristen Stewart Wins Orange Rising Star Award
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Kristen Stewart’s Orange Rising Star Award victory would only surprise someone who has been living in some parallel universe where the Twilight Saga franchise movies haven’t played at local movie houses. Anyone could vote for the Orange Rising Star Award. I voted for Tahar Rahim, knowing full well he had no chance. But I wanted to make sure he got at least one vote. To this date I can’t quite figure out why Robert Pattinson wasn’t included in the BAFTAs Rising Star list. I mean, the guy is the embodiment of a Rising Star (see Robert Pattinson BAFTA clip). Maybe next year.
Anyhow, some weren’t all that impressed with Kristen Stewart’s win.
"Hang on. [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 21, 2010
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Tags: Kristen Stewart, Orange Rising Star Award, Robert Pattinson, Tahar Rahim, The Twilight Saga, Xan Brooks
Robert Pattinson at BAFTAs; Mo’Nique is a No Show
More Robert Pattinson at the BAFTAs. Fans go crazy as can be attested by the clip above. Mo’Nique is a no-show, but I wonder if any of the fans outside noticed or cared. Precious director Lee Daniels had to hop onstage to collect her Best Supporting Actress Award for playing Gabourey Sidibe’s abusive mom.
Xan Brooks, who, I might add, is no Twilight fan, did notice and did care about Mo’Nique’s absence. "Why the lack of Mo’Nique?," inquired Brooks in The Guardian. "Didn’t think she’d win, or just not arsed enough to come? Answers on a blog comment, please. And riddle me this: do you think she’ll take the same coy and enigmatic stance when the Oscars roll [...]
by Joan Lister | February 21, 2010
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Tags: BAFTA, BAFTA 2010, Film Awards, Mo'Nique, Precious, Robert Pattinson, Xan Brooks
Cannes 2009: Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON
Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson’s The Daily:
"For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke’s latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914, you wonder what you’re watching, how its disparate parts hang together and what it all might mean. More than ever, the playful, challenging, sometimes shocking director of Hidden, Funny Games and Time of the Wolf solidly resists answering the ‘what’s it all about?’ question and makes you work hard to make sense of what you’re seeing. As in Code Unknown, he resists focusing on one story or [...]
by Massimo David | May 21, 2009
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Tags: Austrian Cinema, Caché, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Code Unknown, Das Weisse Band, Dave Calhoun, Drama, Eric Kohn, Funny Games, Hidden, indieWIRE, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Haneke, Mike Goodridge, Mystery Movies, Political Movies, Screen Daily, Terrence Mallick, The White Ribbon, Time of the Wolf, Time Out London, Wendy Ide, Xan Brooks
Cannes 2009: Lars von Trier’s ANTICHRIST
Antichrist: Filmmaker Lars von Trier (top); Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe (bottom).
In this pyshcological horror-drama, a married couple struggles to come to terms with the accidental death of their son.
Wendy Ide in The [London] Times:
"Von Trier has moved away from the sparse, rough and ready work of the Dogme era and embraced a stylised and visually sumptuous look for Antichrist. The movie is packed with arresting and atmospheric images, some of which you’ll wish you could permanently erase from your memory.
"If von Trier’s issues with female sexuality have been evident in previous films, particularly Breaking the Waves and Dogville, in Antichrist he ups the ante, constructing a gender war of nuclear intensity between [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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Tags: Andrei Tarkovsky, Antichrist, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danish Cinema, Dogme, Horror Movies, Lars von Trier, Psychological Drama, Robert Ebert, Sex, Wendy Ide, Willem Dafoe, Xan Brooks