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A serious actor, Mystic critics, Unhappy Haneke | Trailer Trash
19 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
>>A serious actor Michael Stuhlbarg is being talked of for Oscar nominations following his impressive performance as Larry Gopnik in the Coen brothers' latest comedy A Serious Man. Stuhlbarg is a little-known actor, despite a 20-year career on and off Broadway. He met Joel Coen after performing with the film-maker's wife, Frances McDormand, in a community theatre project. "It was the 52nd Street Project in which kids wrote the plays and professional actors would come in to perform their work," the actor tells me. "It was quite a thrill and I became good friends with Frances." She took her husband to see Stuhlbarg in a David Mamet adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. Joel called Stuhlbarg in initially to play the Yiddish husband in A Serious Man's Yiddish prologue but was so impressed that he eventually gave him the lead. "I'm still reeling from it, and it's certainly the biggest break of my film career, »
- Jason Solomons
Discuss: The Characters We Wish Were Serialized
29 October 2009 3:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
There are times when our fandom gets satiated. We see a world stretch out before us on the big screen, come to adore a character, and then get to follow him or her through a number of films. In some cases, they might even start to feel like an old friend, popping up over and over again. We'll become attuned to their swagger, the tone of their voice, the moments they love or loathe. Other characters, their presence in our lives is deliciously, yet painfully brief -- destined only for repeat viewings of the same scenes, the same reactions, the same outcome over and over again.
The more our movie world leans towards sequels, the more part of me wishes certain characters could have continuing life on the big screen. (Played by the same actor, of course. No Vince Vaughn/Norman Bates recasts allowed.) On the mind from earlier this month, »
- Monika Bartyzel
In My Opinion: The Top Ten Coen Bros. Films
30 September 2009 1:49 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Ethan and Joel Coen circa 1990 while promoting Miller's Crossing Top Ten Coen Bros. Films With the upcoming release of A Serious Man, the brand new film from the Coen brothers, I decided to put together my personal top ten list of their films. A task that proved much harder than I would have originally imagined. I agonized over this list. Why? Because love isn't a strong enough word for how I feel about the Coen films. No, something more akin to reverence mixed with a healthy bit of obsessive adoration would be much closer to my relationship with their work. They are the kind are filmmakers who make us think, as we sit in the theater, they are unspooling the yarn just for us. Sure, the Coens weave tales of great violence and isolation, but somewhere in there a quiet grace is achieved too. Places 11, 12 and 13 Photo: Universal Pictures / Touchstone »
- Laremy Legel
A Single Actress (Julianne Moore and Oscar)
27 September 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
There can be only one ...winner, that is.
This year's supporting actress contest (new predictions!), if you believe early hype, is down to Mo'Nique vs. ummmm? She's way out front for her abusive mother role in Precious. But with Julianne Moore's supposedly vivid contribution to Tom Ford's A Single Man newly exciting festival auds, we could see the redhead goddess nab her 5th career nomination. That's quite an honor, even if she never wins that elusive statue.
The Man That Got Away Keeps Getting Away
A couple of years ago I asked readers who the next Deborah Kerr would be. Which modern important actress will be forever appreciated but never fully embraced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Back then Kate Winslet was sort of gunning for the honor. Now that the English Rose has noisily moved into the winner's circle, the imaginary competition is back on. »
- NATHANIEL R
MovieWeb's 2009 Fall Movie Guide!
1 September 2009 7:54 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Labor Day weekend is coming up, and it's a holiday that marks the end of the summer movie season along with summer itself. All the kids are heading back to the classroom for another dreaded year of school and (for those in L.A. like myself) the weather starts to cool... hopefully. While fall usually isn't seen as a cinematic hotbed, with the blockbuster summer season over, there are still plenty of quality films to check out at the box office. This year we have Megan Fox's possessed body, a sensational animated film and a new zombie adventure. There's a lot more that I'm looking forward to this fall, so here is a comphrehensive look at what you can expect from this fall movie season.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael C. Hall, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Leguizamo, Amber Valletta, Terry Crews, Logan Lerman, »
Fall Movie Preview: Deception And Dark Laughs in Coen Brothers Comedy, 'A Serious Man'
28 August 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Woody Harrelson. Tom Hanks. George Clooney again. Billy Bob Thornton. George Clooney a third time.
Joel and Ethan Coen like Hollywood leading men in their movies, those Oscar winners and tabloid staples who put butts in theaters seats and bring their twisty dark tales to life. After "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers" and "No Country for Old Men" and "Burn After Reading" comes "A Serious Man" and its star... Michael Stuhlbarg?
Yup, the Coen brothers are switching gears, at least when it comes to casting. Their story, though, hits themes—deception, betrayal, crime, humiliation, alienation, pride—that the writer/directors have returned to again and again in their work.
"I just didn't want to be the one who messed everything up," Stuhlbarg told MTV News.
A New York-based theater actor, »
- Eric Ditzian
Come Join the Party!
17 August 2009 5:47 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Hello, Jose here to remind you all that it's Madonna's birthday!
The Queen of pop/ businesswoman/ kabbalist/ mother/ 90's tabloid fodder/ safe sex advocate/ sex advocate/ entrepeneur/ icon is celebrating her 51st birthday today (and with those arms!). But along with everything she's done, many people forget (on purpose mostly...) that she's also an actress/director. The notorious perfectionist has never been able to master the cinematic arts, even if she tries and tries and tries. But since it's her birthday we should acknowledge that not all she's done for the silver screen is bad and since we can't take a holiday to get into the groove with her, here's...
51 Reasons to Celebrate Madonna... in the Movies!
51. Daring to take on a role created by Katharine Hepburn...sort of in Who's That Girl.
50. Her endorsement of Michael Moore.
49. Setting a whole new clothing trend with Desperately Seeking Susan.
48. Her deep love for classic films. »
- Jose
The Coen Brothers and Their Coenesque Trailers
9 August 2009 9:47 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Recently, the trailer for the Coen Brothers' latest film, A Serious Man, was released. If you haven't seen it, go right ahead to the end of this article to do so—posthaste. What's really great about it is that it eschews the traditional trailer structure in favor of something more memorable (and hilarious). There's a playful sense of rhythm to it that's unmistakably Coen.
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man marks the Coens' 14th feature film. In their long and consistently fabulous oeuvre, the Coen Brothers have done both this type of unique trailer narrative and a more traditional one for their previous films, though even the latter ones are still fantastic. Case in point: the No Country for Old Men trailer exemplifies how generic thriller trailers can evoke great tension in just 3 minutes. You have to wonder if they cut these themselves.
Here are eight of their Coenesque trailers, »
- Arya Ponto
Tues Top Ten: Pregnancies
4 August 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
In honor of Penélope Cruz's recently announced pregnancy and the DVD release of Lindsay Lohan's latest Labor Pains (don't everybody rush out to snatch it up at once. I promise you they'll have enough copies) in which she fakes a pregnancy to keep a job, I thought a top ten list celebrating the miracle of childbirth -- or future childbirth rather -- was called for.
But first a bit more about Ms. Lohan. Rich at fourfour collected the Labor Pain lines that were more applicable to Lindsay the celebrity than the character she happens to be playing.
...not that Lindsay plays characters these days. The Actress wrapped things up with Mean Girls, only The Celebrity lives on.
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Ten Best Pregnant Movie Characters
The general three act journey of zeitgeist movies goes like so... Act I: instant hype, audience love and acclaim births a new pop »
- NATHANIEL R
A Serious Man Trailer from the Coen Brothers
30 July 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Those wacky Coen boys. What will they think up next? “A Serious Man”, it would appear. It’s a black comedy set in 1967 and opens with the leading man getting his head rammed repeatedly into a blackboard. Yup, it’s the Coens. Enjoy the debut trailer below. The only thing missing from the movie? I don’t see any appearances by Frances McDormand. No Frances McDormand in a Coen Brothers movie? What, is that even allowed? “A Serious Man” is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed »
- Nix
Zhang Yimou Plans Chinese Remake Of Coen Brothers' 'Blood Simple'
29 July 2009 7:30 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's hardly uncommon for the American film industry to remake popular foreign films. Take Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning "The Departed," based on the Hong Kong-spawned "Infernal Affairs" series. How often does it work the other way around though? Before you ask, yes, I am aware of "Indian Thriller."
Such a reverse remake is in the works via Sony Pictures Classics, which will distribute filmmaker Zhang Yimou's planned remake of "Blood Simple," the classic thriller that marked Joel and Ethan Coen's first co-directorial endeavor. The distribution deal means that the still untitled "Blood Simple" remake will see release in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.
According to Variety, Yimou's take on "Blood Simple" sets the plot in a desert-bound Chinese noodle shop as the restaurant's owner plans to murder his adulterous wife and her lover.
The original "Blood Simple" -- not only the debut of the Coens as directors, »
- Josh Wigler
In Memoriam: Harve Presnell (1933-2009)
3 July 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Actor, singer and Broadway star Harve Presnell died July 1, 2009 at the age of 75. Born September 14, 1933, Presnell started his career on stage, playing prominent roles on Broadway in shows such as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, before moving into film work in the late 1960s. Perhaps best known as the domineering father-in-law to William H. Macy's sheepish wannabe kidnapper in Fargo, Presnell enjoyed a career resurgence in the 1990s and became one of the more recognizable character actors of the last two decades.
Presnell's performance in Fargo was one of those that made even cinephiles wonder, who is this guy? Playing Wade Gunderson, the gruff and obstinate father of the film's kidnap victim, he complemented the desperate ambition of Macy's Jerry Lundegaard and the smalltown sensibleness of Frances McDormand's Marge Gunderson. That same year, he appeared in several other movies, including The Whole Wide World, Larger Than Life and The Chamber, »
- Todd Gilchrist
Julianne Moore + Annette Bening. Rejoice!
2 July 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Lisa Cholodenko is flirting with me*. How else to explain the multi-orgasmic news that the writer/director of High Art, one of my all time favorite lesbian movies, is making another and she's making it with two actresses whom I practically can't worship more than I already do? Yesterday, production supposedly began on The Kids Are All Right which will star Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as lovers who've raised two kids together. Their two teenagers (played by Josh Hutcherson and Alice in Wonderland herself Mia Wasikowska) decide to meet the original sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo).
Psycho, The Hours, Running With Scissors
Both actresses have played lesbians before. Moore re-interpreted Psycho's Lila Crane as a record shop dyke and she definitely didn't want to sleep with her husband in The Hours Come to bed, Laura BrownFor Bening's part she ditched her screen husband for some self-actualizing labia time in Running With Scissors. »
- NATHANIEL R
Ruffalo Lends Bening and Moore Some Sperm
1 July 2009 12:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
What do you get when you mix Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo in a comedy? A same-sex couple and one eager sperm donor. (Bet you weren't expecting that!) Variety reports that the trio, plus Josh Hutcherson (Bridge to Terabithia) and Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland), will star in a new film called The Kids Are All Right.
Bening and Moore are playing a couple who long ago used donated sperm to start a family. Years later, when their son and daughter (Hutcherson and Wasikowska) have grown up, they want to find the man behind the sperm. So, they hunt down Ruffalo's character, and he "totally upsets their family dynamic once he enters their lives."
This project is coming from Lisa Cholodenko, which bodes particularly well for the already-unique story. You might remember that she's the writer and director of Laurel Canyon, one of the few films to show »
- Monika Bartyzel
Chinese Remake of 'Blood Simple'?
24 June 2009 9:15 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
After a series of quiet dramas, elaborate martial arts epics, and quite possibly the most opulent Olympic ceremonies in recent history, what could mainland Chinese director Zhang Yimou possibly do for an encore?
How about remaking the Coen Brothers neo-noir classic Blood Simple? Twitch reports Yimou is currently shooting San Qiang Pai An Jing Qi, which translates to "The Stunning Case of the Three Gun Shots", and that the film is a remake of the Coens' 1984 debut.
Blood Simple told the story of a hired hit spun out of control, and features one of the most suspenseful final half-hours in American cinematic history. The Coens themselves revisited the film — which helped launch the careers of the brothers and lead actress Frances McDormand — in 2001 for a director's cut. Now it appears time for Yimou, famous internationally for Chinese-language pics Raise the Red Lantern, Hero and House of Flying Daggers, to give it his own spin. »
Confirmed: Yimou is Remaking Coen's Blood Simple
23 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- While the economy cancelled larger, more ambitious projects, if you ask me the project Zhang Yimou's next might be ambitiously on par with the likes of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. It was reported back in March (see article) that a director who has taken on almost all genres except comedy was looking to add just that to his filmography, and then MonkeyPeaches.com reported that Yimou had secured the remake rights to the Coen's Bros. classic Blood Simple. Today, we get confirmation that the production that was in pre-production is indeed the 1984 American indie. I'm not sure about you kids, but I'm psyched for this remake and would be curious to know how the pick up of the rights occurred? Hopefully, someone during the A Serious Man junkets can ask just that question. For the time being: I wonder whether martial arts chops will replace cold steel? »
DVD Playhouse--June 2009
3 June 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—June 2009
By
Allen Gardner
The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Movies We Love: Almost Famous
20 May 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Almost Famous (2000) "I am a Golden God!" Synopsis William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is on the verge of being a 15 year-old high school graduate when he gets the break of a lifetime. Rolling Stone Magazine sends him on tour with Stillwater, a rock band on the rise. While on tour he gets to know the band members, including lead singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee) and incendiary guitar hero Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), as well as one of the famous band-aids, Penny Lane (Kate Hudson). All this, while getting advice from rock critic Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and avoiding the wrath of his mother, Elaine (Frances McDormand). William learns that as a burgeoning talent, he may be a little too influenced by the people around him to be an objective reporter. Note: This article is referencing the theatrical version, but I will comment on Untitled, the Bootleg Version as well. Why We Love It As a fan of »
- Josh Radde
DVD release inspirations including Saw 5
9 March 2009 4:44 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Howdy Boxwishers and welcome to another week of film fun. We’re still busy scratching our Watchmen itch with our fortnight dedicated to the costumed heroes continuing into its second week today bringing you some of the best Watchmen-inspired merchandise. We’ve got everything from canvas art to deluxe collector’s figures and even the grappling gun and ink blot mask of everyone’s favourite vigilante Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). And while Watchmen is packing them in at the cinemas, check out the new goodies heading your way today on DVD including a gruesome horror sequel, period drama opulence, World War II through the eyes of a child and Frances McDormand getting a much-needed makeover!
If you see… The Jigsaw Killer’s legacy live on in the fifth installment of the popular torture-porn flick, Saw 5.
Why Not Check out our rundown of the most fantastically gruesome horror movie merchandise here. »
Blu-ray Review: Primal Fear
24 February 2009 1:58 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Primal Fear is one of those films I felt I was the only one that liked it. So, when a brand new special edition release comes out on DVD and Blu-ray simultaneously with all brand-new featurettes it caught me a bit off guard. I felt there was no way these featurettes were going to be of any real substance. I mean, this is a film from 1996 and I never hear anyone talk about it. Yet, this is a release you must pick up if you are one of those closet fans and especially if you have never seen it because this film blows the doors off. For those that don't know this was Ed Norton's first feature film and really served as a breakout role for Laura Linney who had been in a few films prior but Primal Fear ensured her status as a great actress. On top of those two, »
- Brad Brevet
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