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Top 7 Films Directed by Actors Turned Directors
30 October 2009 4:34 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.
The old joke is that all actors want to direct. Though it’s maybe not true of all, I still had plenty to choose from in making this list. The directors on this list all started life as actors, some still are, but I’d argue that they’re better known as directors. This month, two well known actresses have tried their hand at direction, Drew Barrymore with Whip It (which was a great movie, I have no idea why it did so badly) and Natalie Portman doing a segment of New York I Love You. Who knows, maybe one (or both) has a second career around the corner.
7. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Directed by John Cassavetes
Recap: A portrait of family in crisis when a woman (Gena Rowlands) goes mad and her husband (Peter Falk) tries to understand it.
Reason: »
- Megan Lehar
“Invictus” Trailer
28 October 2009 12:54 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for “Invictus,” starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Springboks captain Francois Pienaar.
Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Invictus
The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
“Invictus” is directed by Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino). The screenplay was written by Anthony Peckham (Don’t Say a Word, Sherlock Holmes) and is based on John Carlin’s book “Playing the Enemy” and is scheduled to hit theaters on December 11th, »
- Allan Ford
Invictus Gets Official Poster
22 October 2009 3:06 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Clint Eastwood has proven himself to be one of the preeminent directors of the past twenty years, having already won best director Oscars for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, but there is definite hope that Invictus will be one of his best. Invictus, of course, is the story of South African President Nelson Mandela, played by Morgan Freeman. Just like The Queen before it, Invictus is not exclusively about Mandela’s presidency, but about a focal event that helps define the feelings of the time – in this case the 1995 Rugby World Cup. You can see the poster for the film below. Invictus will be in theaters December 11th, 2009. »
- Jacob
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Clint Eastwood Goes Supernatural with Hereafter
18 September 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Clint Eastwood's next directorial project is headed into supernatural territory according to a post on Variety. Matt Damon will star in Hereafter , a thriller Eastwood is producing and directing for Warner Brothers this fall. Details are very scarce other than to say Hereafter is in the vein of The Sixth Sense . Peter Morgan wrote the script and is exec producing with Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and Tim Moore. Eastwood's directing credits include Gran Torino , Million Dollar Baby , Mystic River and Unforgiven . Should be interesting to see him tackle something genre related. »
The Blu-Ray Review: The Quick and the Dead (1995)
15 September 2009 1:55 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Colin J reviews the Sam Raimi western.
Back before he became an "A"-list director with the Spider-Man movies, Sam Raimi was best known as the guy behind the crazy Evil Dead horror flicks. Raimi attempts other genres, however, and took on Westerns with 1995's The Quick and the Dead.
Rugged frontierswoman named Ellen (Sharon Stone) enters the lawless town of Redemption in search of revenge. Though intent on her mission, she becomes involved in the town's big Quick Draw Competition. There she faces off against contestants like cocky young Kid (Leonardo DiCaprio), reformed gunslinger Reverend Cort (Russell Crowe) and flamboyant Ace (Lance Henriksen). While this occurs, she pursues her vendetta against John Herod (Gene Hackman), another shooter and the root of much of the town's evil.
Wow - it's been so long since the release of Quick that I forgot Stone actually starred in the movie! If you look at the Blu-ray's cover, »
- Paul
Blu-ray Review: Silverado
12 September 2009 1:14 PM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Silverado is one of the last great westerns we have. Sure, Unforgiven is undoubtedly a better film (and one of the top twenty-five greatest films ever) but Lawrence Kasdan’s 1985 epic is easily one of the most fun westerns of our time. While not flawless, the film is perfect when it comes to delivering a smart, fun, western romp which makes it painful the film doesn’t have a solid reputation.
It should, thanks to some pitch-perfect casting that begins with Kevin Kline as Paden. Kline’s thinking man persona is just poetry to watch as he embodies our level-headed hero. Scott Glenn equals him as Emmitt, playing the character a a mix of John Wayne with a dash of Clint Eastwood, yet somehow making Emmitt his own. Both are complimented by Danny Glover, who’s likely never been this badass as the silent but deadly Mal. Yet it’s »
- Philip Barrett
Christopher Nolan Leaves The Prisoner, Possibly Batman 3 After Inception?
21 August 2009 2:57 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Christopher Nolan was set to direct a big-screen adaptation of the British TV series The Prisoner back in 2006, and it was believed that he would start work on The Prisoner after finishing The Dark Knight. When Nolan chose to direct Inception after Dark Knight, it was assumed that The Prisoner would be next, except that Prisoner producer Barry Mendel told CineFOOLS that Nolan has dropped out:
Chris Nolan has dropped out of it, but we have a first draft by David and Janet Peoples who wrote Twelve Monkeys and David wrote Unforgiven and it's a good draft and we're working on the script right now. Could Nolan be clearing his schedule for Batman 3? Fans are hoping so, though Nolan isn't saying a word. The director is hard at work on his extremely secret Inception, for which so little is known that some Paris-set photos and discovering the characters' names are »
- Ryan Gowland
Westerns Ultimate Fan Quiz Part 2
18 August 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »
Hollywood is releasing fewer Westerns these days but the Wild West still has plenty of allure. Who supplied the music for Jim Jarmusch's Acid Western Dead Man? How long was the 1903 version of The Great Train Robbery? What did Clint Eastwood not win an Oscar for with Unforgiven? Take the quiz. Take Quiz » To challenge yourself with more movie trivia, try our Super Movie Quiz.Check out Lonesome »
Gene Hackman's Magnificent Seven Trips to the Wild West
14 August 2009 9:01 PM, PDT | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »
Gene Hackman may be best known for movies like The French Connection and Superman but before he swore off violent roles in 2002, he managed to make quite a few trips to the Wild West. The dusty terrain suited him perfectly -- it's no coincidence that Gene Hackman earned the second of his two Oscars playing likable villain Little Bill in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Since he's pretty much retired »
Interview: Warehouse 13’s Saul Rubinek on the Serious Business of Being Funny
6 August 2009 2:56 PM, PDT | thetorchonline | See recent thetorchonline news »
Some actors make it look so easy, stealing every scene they're in, generating laughs with gestures both big and small. Of course, it helps if you're as talented and experienced as Saul Rubinek, one of those long-time actors who everyone recognizes, but many people can't quite name. In Rubinek's case, he's appeared in everything from the movies Unforgiven and True Romance, to the television shows Star Trek: The Next Generation and Frasier (where he played Donny Douglas, Daphne's fiance). But more and more people are remembering his name these days, now that he's been cast as Arthur "Artie" Nielsen, the hilarious, socially awkward caretaker on Warehouse 13, a break-out hit for the newly-renamed SyFy Network. Recently, I got a chance to talk to the veteran character actor about whether he's a geek in real life, how it might have been very embarrassing if the show had tanked, and the serious »
The Sandbox: Western Expansion
17 July 2009 11:56 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Why aren't there more Western video games? As a film genre, the Western may now have spent more time in decline than it has at the front of the popular national consciousness, but it steadfastly refuses to be gunned down. Courtesy of Sergio Leone's smashes in the '60s, Clint Eastwood's self-reflective "Unforgiven" in the early '90s, and HBO's "Deadwood" in the aughts and 2007's highly regarded oaters (including, if you stretch the definition, "No Country for Old Men"), the genre keeps finding ways to pick itself up, dust itself off and make itself relevant once again, despite its setting having long been surpassed by outer space as the place for cinematic adventure-fantasies. And many of the Western's ingredients -- lone heroes, violent showdowns, clashing cultures and tectonic generational/societal shifts -- are well-suited for games, where gun battles between silent protagonists and dastardly villains, not to »
- Nick Schager
Blu-Ray Review: Beloved ‘Gran Torino’ Gets HD Treatment
18 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Is it coincidental that Clint Eastwood’s beloved and uber-manly “Gran Torino” is hitting Blu-Ray and DVD just in time for shoppers looking for a great Father’s Day gift? Of course not. No one knows marketing like Warner Brothers and the well-timed and transferred “Gran Torino” should satisfy many a proud pop this season.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0 I’m a huge Clint Eastwood fan as an actor and director. “Mystic River”, “Million Dollar Baby”, “Unforgiven,” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” are some of the best films of the last twenty years. But he’s not perfect and when I saw “Gran Torino” in theaters, I thought it fell much closer to missteps like “Space Cowboys” and “Pink Cadillac” than his best.
Gran Torino was released on Blu-Ray on June 9th, 2009.
Photo credit: WB Watching it again on a very well-transferred Blu-Ray release and after months of near-glowing praise, I »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Interview: 'Warehouse 13'
17 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
In July, Sci Fi Channel, which by then will be called by its new moniker, Syfy, debuts a new series, Warehouse 13. Starring Joanne Kelly (Vanished, Jeremiah), Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives), and Saul Rubinek (Frasier, Leverage), the paranormal themed show is set in South Dakota, where the U.S. government maintains a warehouse that houses “strange artifacts, mysterious relics, fantastical objects and supernatural souvenirs”.
Kelly and McClintock are two Secret Service agents who, after saving the life of a president, are transferred to the South Dakota facility, where they meet the caretaker, Artie Nielsen, played by Rubinek.
McClintock’s Pete Lattimer sees the assignment as a reward, but Kelly’s Myka Bering can’t help but feel like she’s being punished. Regardless, their new responsibility is to chase down new objects that belong in the warehouse.
Warehouse 13 is lensed largely on location in and around Toronto. The »
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Invictus’ Snags Awards Season Opening
6 June 2009 6:42 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Coming on the heels of the widely-celebrated Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood is in preparations to release his next feature film Invictus, the story of Nelson Mandela’s efforts to reunite the people of South Africa during the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
The movie will feature Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the captain of the South African rugby team. The title, Invictus, refers to a short poem Mandela was often known to recite.
Slated to open on December 11th, Warner Bros. hopes premiering Invictus at the peak of awards season will make the film a heavy-hitter come Oscar time. Of course, Clint Eastwood is no stranger to awards: he has earned two Best Actor nominations, four Best Director nominations (with two wins for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby), and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
I find it amazing that Clint Eastwood is still producing such »
- Rob Frappier
Talkin' Westerns with A.C. Lyles
14 May 2009 4:29 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(A.C. Lyles, below)
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on February 27, 2009
There’s an A.C. Lyles Building at the Paramount Pictures main lot, but you won’t find A.C. Lyles there; his office is on the fourth floor of the William S. Hart Building.
When I arrived for our interview, Mr. Lyles was chatting with some visitors in his outer office. He bid me into his main office, and asked his assistant Pam to put in a video… a short promo reel that opens with a six minute tribute by then-President Ronald Reagan, who warmly recalls his and Nancy’s many years of friendship with A.C. and his wife Martha, and congratulates A.C. on his fifty years at the studio. The President’s intro is followed by taped congratulations from President Carter, President Ford, and Vice President Bush, then assorted clips celebrating Mr. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Arthur Penn: The Hollywood Interview
10 April 2009 1:43 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Arthur Penn.
The Left Handed Gun: Arthur Penn’S Ticket To Hollywood… And His Ticket Back Home As Well
by Jon Zelazny
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on EightMillionStories.com September 29, 2008.
In the 1960’s, Arthur Penn was one of the most acclaimed directors in the world, best known for his smash hits The Mircale Worker (1962) and Bonnie & Clyde (1967), each of which earned him an Oscar nomination.
He spent his early career directing theater and live television in New York, until he and three of his TV colleagues—producer Fred Coe, writer Leslie Stevens, and fledgling star Paul Newman—went to Hollywood to make a western about Billy the Kid.
Paul Newman takes aim as Billy the Kid, in Arthur Penn's The Left Handed Gun.
2008 marked the 50th anniversary of The Left Handed Gun, Penn’s now-celebrated feature film debut. We spoke by phone, ironically the day »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Gran Torino: A Vintage Star Vehicle
20 March 2009 6:21 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
When Clint Eastwood made Unforgiven in 1992 it was regarded as the very antithesis of the good old "sphagetti westerns" that effectively kickstarted the actor/director's long and illustrious carrier. An instant classic, Unforgiven pointedly negated all those very qualities that made Eastwood's westerns so memorable. The rugged, morally ambigious "man with no name" played his own alter ego in Unforgiven as the supposedly reformed mercenary. »
- Aniruddha Basu
Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist
27 February 2009 3:58 PM, PST | MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news »
Clint Eastwood either tells it like it is, or is a ranting, senile old coot. Defending, one assumes, his racially motivated thriller (or was it a comedy?) Gran Torino, Eastwood spoke with South Asian news source Ani, recalling with fondness an earlier time, when mocking ethnic minorities was a-ok. He goes on to say, “In those earlier days every friendly clique had a ‘Sam the Jew’ or ‘Jose the Mexican.” Eastwood’s recent Gran Torino is his higest grossing film of all time. More than Outlaw Josey Wales. More than Play Misty For Me. More than Unforgiven. More than Million Dollar Baby (which was flawed, but still pretty damned good.) »
Blu-Ray Review: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Changeling’ Features Great Performance By Angelina Jolie
12 February 2009 10:49 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0 Chicago – I usually don’t agree with suggestions that certain movies need to be seen twice to be appreciated. If a movie doesn’t work on first viewing, then it simply doesn’t work. Having said that, watching Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” a second time on Blu-Ray made me appreciate the final product significantly more than my disappointed reaction to it in theaters.
What struck me about the first time I saw “Changeling,” starring Oscar-nominee Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, and Jason Butler Harner, was the disjointed storytelling in the film and the way the black and white themes don’t play into Eastwood’s strengths as a director.
Angelina Jolie stars in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling
Photo credit: Anthony Michael Rivetti
Eastwood has always been at his best when his films deal with gray areas of behavior and morality. “Unforgiven,” “Mystic River, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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