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19 articles from 2009
Jennifer Jones obituary
20 December 2009 9:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood star who won an Oscar for her role as a saintly peasant girl in the 1943 film The Song of Bernardette
On the day of her 25th birthday, 2 March 1944, a fresh-faced, hitherto unknown performer stepped on to the stage of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles, to receive her best actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of The Song of Bernadette. It was officially the debut of Jennifer Jones, who has died aged 90. She had appeared four years earlier under her real name of Phyllis Isley, but only in a Dick Tracy serial and a B-western. (Actually, she had been born Phylis, but had added an "l".)
Ingrid Bergman, nominated for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls, said of The Song of Bernadette: "I cried all the way through, because Jennifer was so moving and because I realised I had lost the award." Jones, »
- Ronald Bergan
Rosanna Schiaffino obituary
18 November 2009 6:08 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Italian model and film actor, she left the cinema and joined the jet set
Rosanna Schiaffino, who has died aged 69, was one of those Italian beauty queens who began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. She gave up the cinema in the 1970s and married the handsome playboy and steel industry heir Giorgio Falck. Their marriage and, a decade later, their break-up and divorce, had overtones of melodrama more piquant than the content of any of the 45 films in which Schiaffino had starred.
She was born in Genoa, in north Italy, into a well-off family and, although her father wanted her to pursue studies as a surveyor, her mother encouraged her showbusiness ambitions, helping her to study privately at a drama school and then to take part in beauty contests, which she usually won. These led to modelling jobs, with photographs in important magazines, including Life. »
- John Francis Lane
Scenes We Love: The Band Wagon
13 November 2009 3:45 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
We have television to thank for a serious dance renaissance. TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars have introduced a new generation to the joys of the samba, the waltz, and the quickstep, while High School Musical (and now, Glee) brought song-and-dance production numbers back into vogue. Suddenly it seems like the world's gone dance crazy. Of course, geeks like me, who grew up watching the great movie musicals, have been dance crazy for most of our lives.
On this week's episode of Sytycd, show producer/judge Nigel Lythgoe lectured a pair of dancers about the importance of telling a story through choreography, instructing them that technical proficiency isn't enough --the audience wants to understand who the characters are, what the relationship is, and what they're trying to convey. Well, if he'd wanted to illustrate that concept, Lythgoe could do worse than to »
- Dawn Taylor
Musical Theatre West's Stage Version of Meet Me in St. Louis The Perfect Holiday Treat
4 November 2009 2:40 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The classic 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli is so revered that to imagine a stage version of equal prominence is... Well, Musical Theatre West's (Mtw) impressive reproduction of the 1989 Broadway version is so charmingly rendered, that one forgets the movie, Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien & company... at least for 2 hours. Not unlike White Christmas on stage, Meet Me in St. Louis captivates its audience with mesmerizing production values and an astounding ensemble. »
Musical Theatre West Presents Meet Me In St. Louis, Oct. 31 - Nov. 15
31 October 2009 2:30 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Long Beach, CA—Musical Theatre West opens its 57th season with Meet Me In St. Louis, the stage adaptation of the beloved Judy Garland classic. Previews of this production begin on October 30th and opens October 31, 2009 and runs through November 15, 2009 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.
Meet Me In St. Louis is a rare treasure in musical theatre and is based on the heartwarming 1944 MGM film starring Judy Garland. This show harkens back to a simpler, sepia-tinted time as the story follows the Smith family at the 1904 World's Fair. We see how their love and respect for each other is tempered with the genuine humor that can only be generated by such a close family. According to Mtw producers, Meet Me In St. Louis is "perfect for the entire family!" This production with lavish costumes and Victorian sets also includes classic musical numbers, "The Boy Next Door, »
Ten Years of 'Fight Club'
15 October 2009 5:21 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Fight Club hit theaters ten years ago today. The film was critically divisive, struggled with the right marketing, and had a lukewarm run at the box office. But then came the overstuffed two-disc Special Edition DVD, complete with a fake-cardboard slipcase. It was exactly the right kind of gorgeously overproduced fetish object demanded by the burgeoning DVD zeitgeist. Right in time for the ascendance of internet geek culture, Fight Club invented a whole new artistic species – the mass-marketed cult film. Passed along from friend to friend in a DVD case that looked like a box of anthrax, it was the »
- Darren Franich
Broken Embraces - Poster
28 July 2009 11:16 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »
Broken Embraces is a four–way tale of amour–fou, shot in the style of ‘50s American film noir at its most hard–boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful, with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers. Broken Embraces is an original screenplay written by tPedro Almodóvar which see's him once team up with Penelope Cruz following their successful collaboration on Volver, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. The films also star Lluis Homar of Bad Education and Blanca Portilla of Volver. Regular Almodóvar contributors, such as Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave and Lola Dueñas have also joined the cast. Veteran actor Ángela Molina, who starred in Live Flesh, »
- Leigh
Unbearable Movies
20 July 2009 5:14 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
An American in Paris is a Best Picture winner. It is a sentimental favorite of many, and considered worthy of serious study by many more. It stars Gene Kelly -- who I don't have any kind of problem looking at; it was built around the music of George and Ira Gershwin -- which I don't have any kind of problem listening to; it was directed by Vincente Minnelli, whose praises I don't have any kind of problem singing. All of that aside: I find An American in Paris unbearable to sit through. I've probably seen the whole thing -- the musical numbers excerpted in film school classes and installments of That's Entertainment!, the rest in dribs and drabs on cabl »
- Karina Longworth
Trailers for Sheridan's 'Brothers' and Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'
3 July 2009 4:47 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I will never understand why movie studios allow for their trailers to debut on "Entertainment Tonight" with that shoddy logo slathered on the video and an ugly bootlegged version of it showing up online, but that's what we have here when it comes to our first look at Jim Sheridan's Brothers, which stars Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman and is set to be released by Lionsgate on December 4. The film was expected to be a potential Oscar contender last year, but didn't make it to theaters and will, instead, make an awards season run this year. The film is a remake of Susan Bier's Danish-language war drama centering on a man (Maguire) who is sent to fight in Afghanistan while his black-sheep brother (Gyllenhaal) cares for his wife and child. Check out that trailer below and stay tuned as I will add an official version to the site once it becomes available. »
- Brad Brevet
Review: Cheri
26 June 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The French writer Colette, born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954), lived one of those witty, charming lives you've read about, doing things like performing at the Moulin Rouge and having affairs with Josephine Baker, while marrying several rich husbands. She wrote, among many other things, what would become the famous musical Gigi, which Director Vincente Minnelli turned into a dull, immobile Oscar-winning hit in 1958. The English film director Stephen Frears would have been 13 when Colette died, though at that age, he had most likely never heard of her. But now, 55 years later, the two have teamed up for the new movie Cheri, based on Collete's 1920 novel about a passionate affair between an aging courtesan and a spoiled younger man.
Frears seems like the right man for the job. After all, his similarly sexy costume drama Dangerous Liaisons (1988) was another Oscar-winning hit. And in his Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) he dealt with issues of »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Our Favorite Summers: 1986
21 June 2009 8:33 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The summer of 1986 is memorable to me as a time of intense highs, and sad, sorry lows. The highs: Hands Across America, the reopening of the refurbished Statue of Liberty, Greg LeMond winning the Tour de France, and the videos for Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" and Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer." Intel introduced the 386 processor. Gas was 89 cents a gallon, and Pee-Wee's Playhouse made for great, hungover Saturday morning TV.
The lows: Ronald Reagan was President. Peter Cetera, Klymaxx and Survivor got seemingly endless radio play. Kids were entranced with those creepy Cabbage Patch Kids, and that even creepier Teddy Ruxpin. Ronald Reagan was President. Benny Goodman, Vincente Minnelli and Ted Knight died. And Ronald Reagan was President.
Summer movies ran a similar gamut, from the resplendent to the abysmal. To wit:
May 23: Memorial Day weekend, not yet considered a tentpole release date, kicked off the summer with the dreadful Sylvester Stallone action flick Cobra, »
- Dawn Taylor
Bret Michaels Injured at the Tony Awards
7 June 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Broadway did what Broadway does best to open Sunday night's 63rd annual Tony Awards - delivering an electrifying musical number that starred Dolly Parton, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, the casts of West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Pal Joey, Shrek, 9 to 5: The Musical, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages and Billy Elliot and finished off with a love-in: a rousing rendition of "Let the Sun Shine" from the new best-revival production of Hair that got all 6,000 attendees inside Radio City Music Hall dancing in their seats. When the spectacle concluded, the evening's host, How I Met Your Mother star Neal Patrick Harris, »
- Stephen M. Silverman
Gigi Blu-ray Review -- Dellamorte enjoys the velvet touch of Master Vincente Minnelli
20 April 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Written by Andre Dellamorte You don’t start with Vincente Minnelli. Sure, you might be moved by Meet Me in St. Louis, or The Clock. May be swayed by The Band Wagon. But he doesn’t jump out at you as a master like some other filmmakers do. In that sense he belongs to the class of filmmakers like Budd Boeticher – to a certain extent, to Preston Sturges and master of them all, Howard Hawks. Gigi was one of Minnelli’s biggest in the sense that it won him a best director Oscar and the fil won best picture (among the nine it took home, though none for acting), and yet of his greats, and this is one, I would suggest it is better to start elsewhere. The pleasures become apparent to the modern viewer removed from the musical era. Maurice Chevalier plays host as Honoré Lachaille, who sings “Thank »
Blu-Ray Review: Pair of Oscar-Winning Musicals Tap to HD Beat
6 April 2009 9:49 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0 Chicago – Two of the most beloved musicals of all time recently made their debut on Blu-Ray with extravagant collections of special features, beautiful HD, and crystal clear audio. All musical fans will want to add the Best Picture-winning “An American in Paris” and “Gigi” to their Blu-Ray collection.
One of my favorite musicals, 1951’s “An American in Paris,” an Oscar-winner for Best Picture, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Score, and Screenplay, is such an essential film to the history of the musical genre that it seems like a no-brainer for HD Blu-Ray. It’s an undeniable classic featuring one of the great stars of the musical, Gene Kelly, at his athletic peak and includes the debut of the magical Leslie Caron.
An American in Paris was released on Blu-Ray on March 31st, 2009.
Photo credit: Warner Brothers
As if Kelly and Caron weren’t enough to entice musical fans, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Anne Hathaway Is Judy Garland
23 March 2009 10:44 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The first time that Empire heard Anne Hathaway sing, on her SNL hosting stint last year, we thought, ‘someone give that girl a musical’. An opinion that merely solidified the second time we, along with tens of millions of people, heard her sing, during her cameo alongside Hugh Jackman in the Oscars’ opening number.And now it seems like our wish may have come true, with the news that Hathaway has signed on to play Judy Garland in Get Happy, a biopic of the late, great singer/actress.In an intriguing move, Hathaway has also signed on to star in a stage version of the movie, which will be based on Gerald Clarke’s biography of Garland, the Wizard Of Oz star, wife of Vincente Minnelli, and mother of Liza Minnelli, who died aged just 47.It’s not clear which will come first – or, indeed, if the movie will be a straight-up musical. »
Poster for Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'
3 March 2009 12:40 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Okay, so it doesn't have ectoplasm goo as does the new motion poster for The Haunting in Connecticut and it is actually a bit redundant, but since I am anxiously awaiting the November 6 release of Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces this new poster as found by The Film Experience keeps the movie in the spotlight if only for a minute. The film reteams Almodovar with Penelope Cruz and the plot itself gives you a little more insight into the design: Broken Embraces is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" and Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful," with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers. »
- Brad Brevet
Thirty Five Seconds of Bliss: Broken Embraces Teaser
20 February 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Lush wardrobe colors, a Penelope Cruz being carried around by multiple older men, and a wall littered with former “flames”. You can't get much out of 35 seconds, and I'm not about to make some sort of analysis here before just appreciating the images and score, but for what it is worth, Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces is looking to do exactly what Todd Haynes' did with his homage to Douglas Sirk – bring the 50's to the forefront. To be released in Spain well before Cannes, I'm looking forward to catching this one on the Croisette. Broken Embraces is a 1990s-set drama is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli's The Bad And The Beautiful, with signature Almodovar themes such as Fate, »
Teaser Trailer for Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'
19 February 2009 2:34 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Well, well, just a few minutes after we learn Pedro Almodóvar is one of Entertainment Weekly's top 25 active directors he get a teaser trailer for his new film Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos) afilm starring Oscar nominee Penelope Cruz as the two pick up where they left off with Volver. Broken Embraces is described as a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" and Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful," with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers. Check out the teaser below and stay tuned as hopefully Sony Pictures Classics will release some images and an official release date soon. »
- Brad Brevet
Playwright Anderson Dies
10 February 2009 4:00 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Broadway playwright Robert Anderson has died, aged 91.The author, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in recent years, died of pneumonia at his Manhattan, New York home on Monday.
Anderson wrote several Hollywood screenplays, TV scripts and novels but was best known for his Broadway hit Tea and Sympathy as well as You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.
Tea And Sympathy debuted on Broadway in 1953, with Deborah Kerr and John Kerr taking the starring roles. The actors reprised their parts for a 1956 film adaptation, which was directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Anderson wrote the screenplays for the 1957 movie Until They Sail, 1966's The Sand Pebbles, and The Nun's Story, for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1959.
A memorial service for Anderson is due to take place on Friday. »
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19 articles from 2009
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