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'70s behind-the-camera greats: How Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond put the cinema in cinematography
18 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST
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Last night on PBS, I caught the reverent and fascinating documentary No Subtitles Necessary: László & Vilmos, a look at the art, influence, and longtime brotherly friendship of the two most fabled Hollywood cinematographers of the 1970s, László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond. Like anyone else immersed in the classic American movies of that time (and, really, who isn't?), I knew who these two men were, understood a few things about their art, and had a dim awareness of the fact (coincidence -- or something more?) that they were both Hungarian émigrés.
I was amazed, though, at how much I didn't know,
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- Owen Gleiberman
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Vilmos Zsigmond: From Hungary with Cameras
12 November 2009 2:35 PM, PST
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A new documentary about film-maker Vilmos Zsigmond shows the risks he took filming secret footage of Soviet troops in Hungary
The visionary Hungarian-born cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond does not care, I suspect, to dwell in the emotional terrain of the past. Perhaps the roots of that lie in the dying embers of 1956, when Soviet troops invaded his homeland and crushed the Hungarian revolution. To look back then, as he fled Budapest with clandestinely shot footage, would have meant death. "We had to be careful," Zsigmond says, "because the Russians had killed people just for taking still photographs."
Zsigmond's life is the subject of a warmly received documentary by James Chressanthis called No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos, which has just reached Los Angeles. The Laszlo in question is the late, great cinematographer László Kovács, Zsigmond's spiritual brother and companion on that fateful flight to the Austrian border more than half a century ago,
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- Jeremy Kay
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Birthday Suits: Tilda's Frontal & Sam's Moon
5 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST
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I was going to try out this new quickie daily birthday feature. Only it's not quickie it's longie. I can't even do filler without breaking my back. Sigh, I'll never be a mega famous blogger. I care too much!
Today's birthdays 11/05
For those prone to celebrating the filmic and famous.
1905 Joel McCrea undervalued 40s star. Read this great piece on his career
1913 Vivien Leigh, more on her soon
1931 Ike Turner didn't deserve Tina. But, ugh, remember how great Laurence Fishburne was in What's Love Got To Do Without It?
1940 Elke Sommer, the German movie star turns 69 years young today. She was very generous with her birthday suit back in the 60s. Wouldn't you be if you looked like that? On a sad note I have never seen the infamous movie The Oscar (1966) which is about the Oscars that she co-stars in. Is it as bad as they say? I must see it.
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- NATHANIEL R
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Tatum O'Neal Moves To New Jersey
13 October 2009 9:46 AM, PDT
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Tatum O'Neal was in the news recently with a completely icky, rather-not-think-about it story, about how her dad Ryan O'Neal approached her at Farrah Fawcett's funeral and, well, just read it yourself. But luckily she's still trying to be known as someone other than "the woman who got hit on by her own dad," signing up for a role in indie drama Sweet Lorraine.
According to THR she'll play a former queen of the New York underground scene (underground music? underground rock? who knows) who moves to a small New Jersey town and gets involved in local politics. She's also got a part in the Kristen-Stewart-as-Joan-Jett movie The Runaways, which is news to me.
O'Neal is known for being one of the youngest ever Oscar winners, snagging a trophy for Paper Moon at age 10, and her adult acting career hasn't exactly matched. An opportunity to turn things around? Or
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Remembering Madeline Kahn
30 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT
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Occasionally I'll look through my 'labels' in the internal machinery of this blog and think "my god! I never talk about [insert actor's name here]. Why? What's wrong with me?!?" Yesterday was such a day. The great Madeline Kahn would have celebrated her 67th birthday had she not left us far too soon, ten years ago in fact. Sniffle.
"Here I stand the goddess of desire, set men on fire... I have this power.
Morning, noon and night it's drink and dancing, some quick romancing...
And then a shower."
Team Experience
So, with fond memories of the genius comedienne on my mind, I asked a couple of my guest bloggers to tell me they're favorite Madeline Kahn moments. I need help you see. Obviously I haven't expressed enough love for her right here on my own. The damning evidence: No label before today.
Jose from Movies Kick Ass perked right up at the mention
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- NATHANIEL R
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Ryan O'Neal Fails To Recognize Paper Moon Co-Star/Daughter At Funeral
3 August 2009 12:15 PM, PDT
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Well, this tidbit buried in the Vanity Fair cover story about Farrah Fawcett -- an anecdote recounted by Ryan O'Neal in an attempt at illustrating what "a hopeless father" he is -- was enough to make me recoil in horror:
"I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me," Ryan told me. "I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me - Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick."
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O'Neal Banned Son From Fawcett's Funeral
1 July 2009 6:36 PM, PDT
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Ryan O'Neal's estranged son Griffin O'Neal was banned from attending Farrah Fawcett's funeral on Tuesday - because he's "a bad guy".
Redmond, the actor's 24-year-old son by Fawcett, gave a reading during the ceremony at Los Angeles' Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels after he was granted a three-hour release from jail, where he's serving time on drug charges - but his half-brother was not welcome.
Speaking to U.S. news show Extra outside the funeral, Griffin O'Neal, 44, insisted Fawcett would have been upset he wasn't able to bid farewell to his father's longtime companion.
He said, "She's mad I'm not in there."
Speaking hours after the service, Paper Moon star O'Neal confirmed he refused to allow his son to attend the funeral, adding, "He's a bad guy."
Father and son have been estranged since the beginning of 2007 following a fight at the family home, which ended with Ryan firing off a shotgun into the stairwell. Reformed drug addict Griffin's 22-year-old pregnant girlfriend, JoAnne Berry, was injured during the fight.
Ryan O'Neal claimed his son grazed him "four or five times" with a fireplace poker, and that when he ducked to avoid the swinging weapon, Griffin "hit his own girlfriend in the head."
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'The Runaways' Lands Two New Cast Members
30 June 2009 10:00 AM, PDT
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Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning have two new actors joining them in the cast of their Joan Jett biopic The Runaways, which started filming in Los Angeles last week.
Tatum O'Neal has been cast as Dakota's character's mother, according to Life & Style. Tatum is the daughter of Ryan O'Neal and step-daughter of the late Farrah Fawcett, and is also the youngest actress to have ever won an Academy Award. (That'd be for her role in 1973's Paper Moon, not her performance during her drug bust last year.)
In addition, LatinoReview.com has revealed that Alia Shawkat has joined the cast, as 18-year-old.
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Dakota Fanning gets a Runaways mom
30 June 2009 8:11 AM, PDT
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Tatum O'Neal, the Oscar winning actress from Paper Moon (also step-daughter to recently passed Farrah Fawcett and daughter to Ryan O'Neal), has signed on to play Dakota Fanning's mother in The Runaways (within which Fanning plays Cherie Currie opposite The Twilight Saga: New Moon co-star Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett), sources say.
O'Neal also stars in the TV series "Rescue Me" with Dennis Leary
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Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009 (Rip)
25 June 2009 1:17 PM, PDT
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Somewhere you can hear Charlie's disembodied voice weeping for an Angel passing. I mean that in the kindest non-snarkiest way in case anyone misreads. If you lived through the 70s or 80s you will undoubtedly have at least a small place in your heart for the seminal Charlie's Angels cast and probably Farrah Fawcett in particular. She got the most mileage from the show, career wise, probably by exiting it so very quickly. Smart girl. I preferred Jaclyn Smith as a child and then Cheryl Ladd but now in retrospect I'm totally a Kate Jackson man. Yet through it all, personal preferences aside, it was Farrah who emerged as the true superstar among them.
She died this morning at 62, losing her long battle with cancer.
Farrah provided me with my first fully conscious ideas about the divide between TV stars and Movie Stars: TV stars were part of the fabric of every day life,
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- NATHANIEL R
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What Hollywood is Not Letting You See
18 June 2009 8:09 AM, PDT
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Several years back, an article in the Los Angeles Times dealt with Hollywood closing its doors to writers over the age of 40. In it, a producer was quoted as saying that he could hire two 25-year old writers for what it would cost him to hire one Alvin Sargent.
(Alvin Sargent had recently written the Oscar-winning "Ordinary People," as well as "Paper Moon," "Julia," the "A Star is Born" remake, and many others.)
I wrote a letter to the newspaper, which it published. All I asked was one question - "Why in the world would you want to??"
It's worth noting that in the following years, Mr. Sargent (despite thoughtlessly becoming over 50) continued to write or co-write such films as "What About Bob?," "Other People's Money" and "Hero."
Oh, and also all three "Spiderman" movies.
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- Robert J. Elisberg
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O'Neal Fears Fawcett TV Special Will Be A Tragic Tribute
13 May 2009 1:05 AM, PDT
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Actor Ryan O'Neal fears his longtime partner Farrah Fawcett's upcoming cancer battle TV special will be one of the last things the actress will see.
The Paper Moon star admits Fawcett's health has taken a turn for the worse and now she's hanging on for life as her German medics jet to Los Angeles to be by the actress' side.
And O'Neal reveals the videotaped footage that will make up Fawcett news special, Farrah's Story - which will air in America later this week (ends15May09) - could serve as a televised tribute.
In a taped interview to air as part of the Fawcett tribute, the actor says, "I think that she may have believed that she would survive and have a film document. That's not how it's going."
Much of the footage was shot by Farrah's close friend Alanah Stewart.
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Oscar's Youngest Winners
6 April 2009 3:12 PM, PDT
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Jessica Tandy, one of the most revered stage and film actresses of the 20th century, toiled until she was 80 before she won an Oscar, for Driving Miss Daisy. Tatum O’Neal waited until she was 10. Oscar’s young winners have had vastly different destinies—while some have found their way to the tabloids, others, like Anna Paquin, continue to grace the pages of Vanity Fair. Click through the slide show below for a gallery of Hollywood’s golden children, from Patty Duke to Timothy Hutton and more. Ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal clutches her best-supporting-actress Oscar, which she won for her debut role, in director Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon (1973). She still holds the record for the youngest actor ever to win an Oscar. By Hulton Archive/Getty Images.Anna Paquin poses with her best-supporting-actress Oscar at the 66th annual Academy Awards, in 1994. Paquin, 11 at the time, won for her performance in the 1993 film The Piano.
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Spring Preview: Rian Johnson on The Festival of Fakery
23 February 2009 5:52 AM, PST
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When Rian Johnson attended USC in the '90s, he had a certain criteria that needed to be met when choosing an apartment. "It was walking distance from the New Beverly," says Johnson, who's been living in the same place near the venerable Los Angeles revival house ever since. Thanks to a collision of fate, whimsy and just a little bit of conniving reminiscent of his latest film, the thoroughly delightful conman caper "The Brothers Bloom," Johnson will take over programming duties at the theater starting tonight in what's being billed as "Rian Johnson's Festival of Fakery, a week of films regarding frauds, fakers, charlatans, hoaxters, huxters and other unsavory sorts." Johnson follows other recent guest programmers at the theater that include Edgar Wright, Diablo Cody and Peter Bogdanovich, and will be onhand every night of the festival to give introductions to the films. Fortunately, if you're not in L.
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- Stephen Saito
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As Seen On TV: Watch Jenna Dewan's 'Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal' on Lifetime
29 January 2009 10:05 PM, PST
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I want to let you all know that Lifetime Television is replaying Jenna Dewan's drama "Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal", so fans have another chance to see the movie.
The real-life story, which also stars Tatum O'Neal ("Rescue Me", "Wicked Wicked Games", 'Paper Moon') and Ashley Benson ("Days of Our Lives",'Bring It On: In It to Win It'), is about a group of mean girl cheerleaders nicknamed the "Fab Five". The girls ran their Texas high school and lived to break the rules until a new coach named Emma Carr (played by Jenna Dewan) tried to turn them around.
Fans can check out movie stills with Jenna in the Channing Tatum Unwrapped Photo Gallery and can watch the movie's trailer below...
You can also click on the links below to watch more videos that Lifetime released for the film. You will learn more about the movie through interviews with Jenna,
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Peter Bogdanovich Guest Curator At New Beverly Cinema, L.A January 21-31
16 January 2009 3:58 AM, PST
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Among the famed director's hand-picked choices: Hitchcock's 1959 classic North By NorthwestThe
New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, one of the last surviving revival cinemas in
the United States, is hosting legendary filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich as their
next guest in their popular director programming series, beginning January 21st
and continuing through the 31st.
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first week of double-feature bills will be devoted to Bogdanovich’s own
features from the 70’s and 80’s, starting with his own cut of the Oscar-honored
The Last Picture Show (1971) with What’s Up Doc? (1972); then screening a
new 35mm print of his own cut of Mask
(1985) with Paper Moon (1973). At
midnight on the 24th the director will be also screening an archival
print of his 1968 directorial debut, Targets,
with Boris Karloff, which is rarely screened or broadcast.
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second week will consist of Bogdanovich’s own hand-picked classics,
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