New York City’s movie-going options are getting even bigger, thanks to the news that Film Forum is set to not only renovate its three screens, but to add a fourth screen to its fold. The venerated theater — known for decades as a haven for specialty releases and repertory programming — will undergo a simultaneous renovation of its current screens and the addition of a new theater. Stephen Tilly, who designed Film Forum’s earlier incarnation on Watts Street (alongside Alan Buchsbaum), is the architect in charge of this project.
The news is exciting for New York cinephiles, but has a potentially even greater value for the specialty film marketplace.
Film Forum was founded in 1970, and made its mark as an independent theater equally invested in NYC-centric premieres, repertory programming, and new features alike. (A glance at its upcoming lineup speaks well to its depth of programming, including planned showings of...
The news is exciting for New York cinephiles, but has a potentially even greater value for the specialty film marketplace.
Film Forum was founded in 1970, and made its mark as an independent theater equally invested in NYC-centric premieres, repertory programming, and new features alike. (A glance at its upcoming lineup speaks well to its depth of programming, including planned showings of...
- 9/5/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
This year’s New York Film Festival has just unveiled a slew of Special Events to round out its already full-to-bursting lineup, and it includes some late-breaking entries to previously announced sections and a selection of brand new events that are very special indeed. Highlights include a trio of documentary premieres, including Susan Lacy’s “Spielberg” (focused on the eponymous director, with both Lacy and her subject set to appear at the festival), along with Jennifer Lebeau’s Bob Dylan concert film “Trouble No More,” and Susan Froemke’s “The Opera House,” a history of the Metropolitan Opera and a love letter to the art form that will (appropriately enough) screen at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.
Other standouts include four brand-new films from Claude Lanzmann, a sparkling new restoration of G.W. Pabst’s “Pandora’s Box.” Elsewhere, Kate Winslet will be on hand for a career-spanning chat...
Other standouts include four brand-new films from Claude Lanzmann, a sparkling new restoration of G.W. Pabst’s “Pandora’s Box.” Elsewhere, Kate Winslet will be on hand for a career-spanning chat...
- 8/28/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Elizabeth McGovern stars in the 1920s era film based on Laura Moriarty’s novel.
Principal photography has begun on Michael Engler’s 1920s-set film The Chaperone.
PBS, Masterpiece and Fibonacci Films in association with Rose Pictures, Hamilton Entertainment and Anonymous Content are producing the film with Arclight Films handling international sales.
PBS Distribution is planning a theatrical release of The Chaperone in the Us in 2018.
The film centres on a woman whose life is changed forever when she chaperones a young and soon-to-be-famous Louise Brooks to New York.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes adapted the script based on Laura Moriarty’s novel of the same name.
Michael Engler directs the film that stars Elizabeth McGovern (pictured above), Haley Lu Richardson, Victoria Hill, Campbell Scott, Geza Rohrig, Blythe Danner and Miranda Otto.
McGovern, who is also a producer, optioned the novel and worked with Fellowes to adapt it for the big screen. The pair worked...
Principal photography has begun on Michael Engler’s 1920s-set film The Chaperone.
PBS, Masterpiece and Fibonacci Films in association with Rose Pictures, Hamilton Entertainment and Anonymous Content are producing the film with Arclight Films handling international sales.
PBS Distribution is planning a theatrical release of The Chaperone in the Us in 2018.
The film centres on a woman whose life is changed forever when she chaperones a young and soon-to-be-famous Louise Brooks to New York.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes adapted the script based on Laura Moriarty’s novel of the same name.
Michael Engler directs the film that stars Elizabeth McGovern (pictured above), Haley Lu Richardson, Victoria Hill, Campbell Scott, Geza Rohrig, Blythe Danner and Miranda Otto.
McGovern, who is also a producer, optioned the novel and worked with Fellowes to adapt it for the big screen. The pair worked...
- 8/2/2017
- ScreenDaily
The 1920s era film is based on Laura Moriarty’s novel.
Principal photography has begun on Michael Engler’s 1920s-set film The Chaperone.
PBS, Masterpiece and Fibonacci Films in association with Rose Pictures, Hamilton Entertainment and Anonymous Content are producing the film with Arclight Films handling international sales.
PBS Distribution is planning a theatrical release of The Chaperone in the Us in 2018.
The film centres on a woman whose life is changed forever when she chaperones a young and soon-to-be-famous Louise Brooks to New York.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes adapted the script based on Laura Moriarty’s novel of the same name.
Michael Engler directs the film that stars Elizabeth McGovern (pictured above), Haley Lu Richardson, Victoria Hill, Campbell Scott, Geza Rohrig, Blythe Danner and Miranda Otto.
McGovern, who is also a producer, optioned the novel and worked with Fellowes to adapt it for the big screen. The pair worked together on Downton Abbey alongside Engler...
Principal photography has begun on Michael Engler’s 1920s-set film The Chaperone.
PBS, Masterpiece and Fibonacci Films in association with Rose Pictures, Hamilton Entertainment and Anonymous Content are producing the film with Arclight Films handling international sales.
PBS Distribution is planning a theatrical release of The Chaperone in the Us in 2018.
The film centres on a woman whose life is changed forever when she chaperones a young and soon-to-be-famous Louise Brooks to New York.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes adapted the script based on Laura Moriarty’s novel of the same name.
Michael Engler directs the film that stars Elizabeth McGovern (pictured above), Haley Lu Richardson, Victoria Hill, Campbell Scott, Geza Rohrig, Blythe Danner and Miranda Otto.
McGovern, who is also a producer, optioned the novel and worked with Fellowes to adapt it for the big screen. The pair worked together on Downton Abbey alongside Engler...
- 8/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes; Elizabeth McGovern, who played that series' elegant Lady Grantham; and Michael Engler, who directed four episodes of the show, are reuniting for a new feature, The Chaperone, which will be released theatrically and then air on PBS as part of its Masterpiece series.
Based on the novel of the same name by Laura Moriarty, which Fellowes is adapting for the screen, the project is set in the early 1920s as a woman, played by McGovern, undertakes chaperoning a beautiful 15-year-old dancer and eventual star named Louise Brooks, to be played by The Affair’s Julia Goldani Telles, to New...
Based on the novel of the same name by Laura Moriarty, which Fellowes is adapting for the screen, the project is set in the early 1920s as a woman, played by McGovern, undertakes chaperoning a beautiful 15-year-old dancer and eventual star named Louise Brooks, to be played by The Affair’s Julia Goldani Telles, to New...
- 5/16/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The creator of “Downton Abbey” is reuniting with one of its stars for the first feature film from PBS and Masterpiece. “The Chaperone,” which was written by “Abbey” creator and writer Julian Fellowes, will star Elizabeth McGovern, who played Lady Grantham in the hit series, PBS and Masterpiece announced on Tuesday. Michael Engler, who directed four episodes of the series, will be in the director’s chair once again. The film is based on Laura Moriarty’s best-selling novel of the same name about a Kansas woman (McGovern) who chaperones a dancer named Louise Brooks (Julia Goldani Telles from “The Affair”) to New York.
- 5/16/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
Exclusive: New producers are behind Julian Fellowes and Elizabeth McGovern reunion.
Arclight Films and PBS have announced that PBS label Masterpiece is producing its first feature in the shape of Chaperone, which will reunite Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and star Elizabeth McGovern.
Based on Laura Moriarty’s Us novel the film will be directed by Michael Engler and will air on PBS stations nationwide after its initial theatrical run.
The Chaperone takes place against the backdrop of the early 1920’s. A Kansas woman (McGovern) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15-year-old dancer (Julia Goldani Telles, The Affair) named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of dance and movie stardom; the other is on a mission to unearth the mysteries of her past.
Speaking at the PBS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton said: “It feels so right...
Arclight Films and PBS have announced that PBS label Masterpiece is producing its first feature in the shape of Chaperone, which will reunite Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and star Elizabeth McGovern.
Based on Laura Moriarty’s Us novel the film will be directed by Michael Engler and will air on PBS stations nationwide after its initial theatrical run.
The Chaperone takes place against the backdrop of the early 1920’s. A Kansas woman (McGovern) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15-year-old dancer (Julia Goldani Telles, The Affair) named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of dance and movie stardom; the other is on a mission to unearth the mysteries of her past.
Speaking at the PBS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton said: “It feels so right...
- 5/16/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: New producers are behind Julian Fellowes and Elizabeth McGovern reunion.
Arclight Films, PBS and the PBS label Masterpiece are producing Chaperone, which will reunite Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and star Elizabeth McGovern.
Based on Laura Moriarty’s Us novel the film will be directed by Michael Engler and will air on PBS stations nationwide after its initial theatrical run.
The Chaperone takes place against the backdrop of the early 1920’s. A Kansas woman (McGovern) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15-year-old dancer (Julia Goldani Telles, The Affair) named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of dance and movie stardom; the other is on a mission to unearth the mysteries of her past.
Speaking at the PBS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton said: “It feels so right to reunite Julian Fellowes, Elizabeth McGovern, and director...
Arclight Films, PBS and the PBS label Masterpiece are producing Chaperone, which will reunite Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and star Elizabeth McGovern.
Based on Laura Moriarty’s Us novel the film will be directed by Michael Engler and will air on PBS stations nationwide after its initial theatrical run.
The Chaperone takes place against the backdrop of the early 1920’s. A Kansas woman (McGovern) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15-year-old dancer (Julia Goldani Telles, The Affair) named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of dance and movie stardom; the other is on a mission to unearth the mysteries of her past.
Speaking at the PBS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton said: “It feels so right to reunite Julian Fellowes, Elizabeth McGovern, and director...
- 5/16/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Screenwriter Eric Heisserer didn’t have a fast and easy path to success in Hollywood, and like many writers who go out to the land of dreams, he had been writing scripts “on spec” for years before he started getting credited screenwriting work. His first paid job was writing the screenplay for the 2008 A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, and he remained working in horror by writing The Thing prequel and Final Destination 5. (He also wrote and produced the recent horror hit Lights Out.)
At the same time, Heisserer continued to work on his own dream projects, including an adaptation of Ted Chiang’s short sci-fi story “The Story of Your Life,” and after years of development, Sicario director Denis Villeneuve expressed interest in making a movie on the story and they were off to the races for what would become Arrival.
Arrival stars Amy Adams as Dr. Louise Brooks,...
At the same time, Heisserer continued to work on his own dream projects, including an adaptation of Ted Chiang’s short sci-fi story “The Story of Your Life,” and after years of development, Sicario director Denis Villeneuve expressed interest in making a movie on the story and they were off to the races for what would become Arrival.
Arrival stars Amy Adams as Dr. Louise Brooks,...
- 11/8/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Yes, it is a perfect title for a horror picture, but it belongs to an early film noir -- or as we discover, a murder thriller that previews the classic '40s noir visual look. Victor Mature is the man on the spot for a killing, Betty Grable and Carole Landis are a pair of sisters in danger, and Laird Cregar is the creepiest police detective in the history of the force. I Wake Up Screaming Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 82 min. / Street Date November 1, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn, Elisha Cook Jr. Cinematography Edward Cronjager Art Direction Richard Day, Nathan Juran Film Editor Robert L. Simpson Original Music Cyril J. Mockridge, Harold Barlow Written by Dwight Taylor from the novel by Steve Fisher Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
My,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
My,...
- 10/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Summer just officially started just a few days ago, so Halloween is months away. Perhaps a great way to get us cooled off, to put us in a Fall state of mind, would be to pay a visit to one of the oldest horror movie icons: the vampire. Everyone’s aware of how scary those fanged fiends can be, but you may have forgotten how funny they are (intentionally, of course). Movie audiences have emitted nervous laughter ever since Max Schreck emerged from the shadows in the silent classic Nosferatu. And certainly there are bits (and bites) of humor (mostly comic relief supporting players) in 1931’s Dracula and Mark Of The Vampire, both with Bela Lugosi. It wasn’t until 1948 that he was in an all out farce (though the Count is never lampooned) in Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein. After Hammer Studios brought back (in full gory color) the bloodsuckers ten years later,...
- 6/24/2016
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
'Broadcast News' with Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter: Glib TV news watch. '31 Days of Oscar': 'Broadcast News' slick but superficial critics pleaser (See previous post: “Phony 'A Beautiful Mind,' Unfairly Neglected 'Swing Shift': '31 Days of Oscar'.”) Heralded for its wit and incisiveness, James L. Brooks' multiple Oscar-nominated Broadcast News is everything the largely forgotten Swing Shift isn't: belabored, artificial, superficial. That's very disappointing considering Brooks' highly addictive Mary Tyler Moore television series (and its enjoyable spin-offs, Phyllis and Rhoda), but totally expected considering that three of screenwriter-director Brooks' five other feature films were Terms of Endearment, As Good as It Gets, and Spanglish. (I've yet to check out I'll Do Anything and the box office cataclysm How Do You Know starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Jack Nicholson.) Having said that, Albert Brooks (no relation to James L.; or to Mel Brooks...
- 2/7/2016
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Val Lewton’s third horror film, The Leopard Man (1943) initially seemed promising. Based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel Black Alibi, it had more pedigree than Lewton’s previous movies. He reunited his previous team: director Jacques Tourneur, writer Ardel Wray, even Dynamite, the black leopard from Cat People. Forced again to film on the Rko lot, he sent Wray to photograph Santa Fe, New Mexico and crafted meticulous sets around her snapshots. Despite this attention to detail, The Leopard Man is one of Lewton’s weakest efforts.
The plot is simple enough. Nightclub entertainers James (Dennis O’Keefe) and Kiki (Jean Brooks) arrive in Santa Fe with a leopard in tow; Kiki’s rival Clo-Clo (Margo) scares the cat, which escapes into the city. The leopard kills a Mexican girl, sending the city into a panic. Several other women die, but James grows convinced that the leopard isn’t behind them.
The plot is simple enough. Nightclub entertainers James (Dennis O’Keefe) and Kiki (Jean Brooks) arrive in Santa Fe with a leopard in tow; Kiki’s rival Clo-Clo (Margo) scares the cat, which escapes into the city. The leopard kills a Mexican girl, sending the city into a panic. Several other women die, but James grows convinced that the leopard isn’t behind them.
- 10/13/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
"The music seemed extraordinarily fresh and genuine still. It might grow old-fashioned, he told himself, but never old, surely, while there was any youth left in men. It was an expression of youth–that, and no more; with sweetness and foolishness, the lingering accent, the heavy stresses–the delicacy, too–belonging to that time."—"The Professor's House," Willa CatherHis last words, in a hospital four months later, are said to have been 'Mind your own business!' addressed to an enquirer after the state of his bowels. Friends got to the studio just before the wreckers' ball. Pictures, a profusion, piles of them, littered the floor: of 'a world that will never be seen except in pictures'"—"The Pound Era," Hugh Kenner***Heart Of FIREOften when I go to a movie, usually one made before 1960, I think about the opening scene of The Red Shoes, of Marius Goring and his...
- 10/2/2015
- by gina telaroli
- MUBI
The remake of a quintessentially American miniseries which traced slavery through multiple generations including the Revolutionary and Civil Wars will have three Australians in key creative roles.
Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford will each direct an episode and DoP Peter Menzies Jr. will shoot all four episodes of Roots for A&E Networks. The original Roots based on the Alex Haley novel Roots: The Saga Of An American Family was the third most watched series in Us history when it screened on the ABC network in 1977.
Laurence Fishburne will play the narrator, Kunte Kinte, portrayed in the original by LeVar Burton, who is among the producers of the remake with Mark Wolper. Mark.s father David produced the first series and the 1979 sequel, Roots: The Next Generations.
Beresford tells If, .One of the things I like about working in the Us is that producers, studios and networks are perfectly...
Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford will each direct an episode and DoP Peter Menzies Jr. will shoot all four episodes of Roots for A&E Networks. The original Roots based on the Alex Haley novel Roots: The Saga Of An American Family was the third most watched series in Us history when it screened on the ABC network in 1977.
Laurence Fishburne will play the narrator, Kunte Kinte, portrayed in the original by LeVar Burton, who is among the producers of the remake with Mark Wolper. Mark.s father David produced the first series and the 1979 sequel, Roots: The Next Generations.
Beresford tells If, .One of the things I like about working in the Us is that producers, studios and networks are perfectly...
- 8/5/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Ryan Adams, Craig Kennedy and I brought back the historical Academy Awards podcasts to revisit 1929/1930, the year when the Academy was pressured to change their voting from a select committee...
- 6/20/2015
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
What good is a canon? It's a question that hovers in endless debate near cinephile culture. The idea of distilling cinema down to its "best" or "most essential" films is like a game or a thought experiment, and whether it be the AFI or Sight & Sound or a group of Young Turks looking to rattle conventional wisdom, canon-making demonstrates nothing so much as a desire to assemble an expansive, fragmented, and still-evolving sense of film history into some sort of definitive order. Canons, each with its own biases, are useful chiefly as a starting point or a basecamp. The best answer is to always be looking, always curious. And cinema has barely more than a century to keep up with. I wonder how bibliophiles cope.One of the virtues of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which begins on May 28th, is how it mixes classics and arcana on a level plane.
- 6/3/2015
- by Duncan Gray
- MUBI
What you're seeing above is an incredible promo photo from Sinead O'Connor's next album "I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss," which received its title from Sheryl Sandberg's same-named movement. The disc comes out Aug. 12, and if it aims to promote the same empowered feminist message as the #BanBossy campaign, we are totally psyched. But there are eight other reasons to be excited for "I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss" -- and we're not even talking about the music. Here are eight reasons Sinead's incredible makeover is working for us. 1. It's a little bit classic, like Miss Louise Brooks. 2. It's a little bit modern, like Christian Siriano's "Project Runway" work. 3. It's just as rock n' roll as she's always been. 4. It's a little bit wicked, like Isabella Rossellini in "Death Becomes Her." 5. It's a little bit uber-glam, and Sinead hasn't served up true wig glamor since "No Man's Woman.
- 6/3/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
In American cinema, fate is often presented as a path leading to success – especially when it comes to love. People meet, fall head-over-heels for one another, experience a setback or two, then live happily ever after. In films outside of Hollywood, love stories are often more realistic, and more in tune with subjective experiences of love. In real life, you have to learn how to love. You have to know who you are before turning to others for deep-seated romantic connection. Love at first sight, though, does exist in real life. Maybe not a long-lasting, grow old together, kind of love; but a life-altering spark, where you absolutely need to experience a particular person. Blue is the Warmest Color deals with this kind of love. Similar to both her and Stranger by the Lake, Blue revolves around a character who is lost. Unlike those films, though, Blue is epic in scope.
- 3/2/2014
- by Griffin Bell
- SoundOnSight
August: Osage County takes two minutes to prove that Meryl Streep, still racking up Oscar nominations like Skee-Ball tickets at age 64, will brutalize herself and you for the sake of a movie. As the loopy Oklahoma grandmama Violet in the new adaptation of Tracy Letts‘ Pulitzer-winning play, she stumbles around almost gratuitously, gargles profanities at Julia Roberts, and basically refuses to endear us for the movie’s entire duration. If you thought June Squibb was broad in Nebraska, you’ll be shocked at the kabuki-type insanity of Meryl’s work. She practically draws a sword and impales Margo Martindale for disgracing the emperor.
As such, August: Osage County polarizes. But who doesn’t love when Meryl gives us polarizing work? After all, her weirdest, kookiest, and potentially funniest movie of all time is also her most divisive: Death Becomes Her. The dark 1992 farce may feel like the snobbish Hollywood cousin...
As such, August: Osage County polarizes. But who doesn’t love when Meryl gives us polarizing work? After all, her weirdest, kookiest, and potentially funniest movie of all time is also her most divisive: Death Becomes Her. The dark 1992 farce may feel like the snobbish Hollywood cousin...
- 1/8/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Next month, Jimmy Fallon inherits NBC's revered Tonight Show, bringing his unbridled energy, musical talent and long list of celebrity pals to the 60-year-old late-night institution. Over the past five years – close to 1,000 shows – the Saturday Night Live alum honed his craft as the host of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and if last night's two-hour retrospective of his Late Night tenure is any indication, we're in for a hell of a ride when The Tonight Show relocates from Los Angeles to New York on February 17th. What makes Fallon's unique blend of comedy,...
- 1/6/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Guillermo del Toro's latest is consistently thrilling and playful, returning human agency to the action-packed genre
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Giant alien monsters known as Kaiju are making their way through an inter-dimensional portal deep in a Pacific ocean trench, and are coming ashore to reduce cities like San Francisco and Manila to rubble. The only thing that will stop them are giant robots, or Jaegers, piloted by two humans, one for each hemisphere of the brain, thus ensuring that the robots can tie their own shoelaces and guess how you are feeling.
And if that sounds like a salad of just about every blockbuster of the last five years, then you'd be right. What can I say? Except Arthur Brooke and William Painter both had a crack of the Romeo and Juliet story before this Shakespeare kid showed up.
Advance word on Guillermo del Toro...
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Giant alien monsters known as Kaiju are making their way through an inter-dimensional portal deep in a Pacific ocean trench, and are coming ashore to reduce cities like San Francisco and Manila to rubble. The only thing that will stop them are giant robots, or Jaegers, piloted by two humans, one for each hemisphere of the brain, thus ensuring that the robots can tie their own shoelaces and guess how you are feeling.
And if that sounds like a salad of just about every blockbuster of the last five years, then you'd be right. What can I say? Except Arthur Brooke and William Painter both had a crack of the Romeo and Juliet story before this Shakespeare kid showed up.
Advance word on Guillermo del Toro...
- 7/12/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
This week, Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring” features a group of young people, mostly female, who break into the homes of the rich and famous to steal their stuff, mostly for kicks. You can read our full review here, and while of course it’s a movie about celebrity obsession and the ennui of youthful privilege, it can also, in its central female characters and group dynamic, be read as an evolution of a subgenre with a decades-long spotty history: the bad girl gang movie. As much of a fascination as cinema may have always had with the “bad girl” (the temptress, the prostitute, the adulteress, the vamp, the tramp, the scarlet woman, the moll, and lord knows how many other Theda Bara/Louise Brooks-style archetypes we could quote), it wasn’t until the emergence of teen culture in the 1950s that we saw this new offshoot really grow it wings.
- 6/13/2013
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Jean Harlow was the first bombshell. Sure, there were silent-era predecessors, but our 'modern day' notion of the siren really started with Harlow. Mostly because of the platinum hair, which led legions to the peroxide bottle. (We've since never recovered from blonde worship.) Before she glided onto the silver screen, clad in liquid satin with that perfect '30s look comprised of thin brows, pouty lips and shining waves, the sexbombs were usually dark-haired. Think: Clara Bow, Louise Brooks and Norma Shearer.
If Bow was the "It Girl" that defined the 20s, Harlow was quintessentially 1930s. She could bridge the giant gap between classes -- she looked like a socialite but had plenty of sass, which ensured mass appeal. Her blondeness became her legend, promoted as "rare" though the modern-day eye would call it "bizarrely unnatural." Howard Hughes, who directed Harlow in her breakthrough role in "Hell's Angels," christened the...
If Bow was the "It Girl" that defined the 20s, Harlow was quintessentially 1930s. She could bridge the giant gap between classes -- she looked like a socialite but had plenty of sass, which ensured mass appeal. Her blondeness became her legend, promoted as "rare" though the modern-day eye would call it "bizarrely unnatural." Howard Hughes, who directed Harlow in her breakthrough role in "Hell's Angels," christened the...
- 3/1/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
(L-r) Michael York, Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Robert Osborne and Marisa Berenson attend the
"Cabaret" 40th Anniversary New York Screening at Ziegfeld Theatre on January 31, 2013.
(Photo by Roger Kisby/Getty Images)
Last Thursday I was planning on spending a quiet evening at home curled up with some reading or knitting, or possibly sweeping my kitchen. After all, the arctic temperatures and gale force winds in NYC were not exactly enticement to leave one's home or pajamas. But when I got the invite to attend the 40th(-ish) anniversary screening of Cabaret at the historic Ziegfield Theater and to chat with some of its legendary cast on the red carpet, I put down the knitting, the book And the broom - for life is, after all these years, still a cabaret.
If anything was reason enough for me to freeze my tail feathers off on a Thursday night, it was the chance to meet Liza Minnelli,...
"Cabaret" 40th Anniversary New York Screening at Ziegfeld Theatre on January 31, 2013.
(Photo by Roger Kisby/Getty Images)
Last Thursday I was planning on spending a quiet evening at home curled up with some reading or knitting, or possibly sweeping my kitchen. After all, the arctic temperatures and gale force winds in NYC were not exactly enticement to leave one's home or pajamas. But when I got the invite to attend the 40th(-ish) anniversary screening of Cabaret at the historic Ziegfield Theater and to chat with some of its legendary cast on the red carpet, I put down the knitting, the book And the broom - for life is, after all these years, still a cabaret.
If anything was reason enough for me to freeze my tail feathers off on a Thursday night, it was the chance to meet Liza Minnelli,...
- 2/5/2013
- by brian
- The Backlot
Fox Searchlight has acquired film rights to Laura Moriarty’s best-selling novel "The Chaperone".
Set in the early 1920s, the story follows a Kansas woman (played by "Downton Abbey" star Elizabeth McGovern) who chaperones a beautiful and talented 15 year-old dancer named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer.
One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of silent film stardom; the other hopes to unearth the mysteries of her past.
"My Week With Marilyn" helmer Simon Curtis will direct from a script written by 'Downton' creator Julian Fellowes. Curtis, McGovern, Eli Selden and Adam Shulman are producing.
Source: Deadline...
Set in the early 1920s, the story follows a Kansas woman (played by "Downton Abbey" star Elizabeth McGovern) who chaperones a beautiful and talented 15 year-old dancer named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer.
One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of silent film stardom; the other hopes to unearth the mysteries of her past.
"My Week With Marilyn" helmer Simon Curtis will direct from a script written by 'Downton' creator Julian Fellowes. Curtis, McGovern, Eli Selden and Adam Shulman are producing.
Source: Deadline...
- 2/4/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Sherlock fans, get excited: Benedict Cumberbatch is circling the role of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game – the well-regarded Black List script from Graham Moore. Alan Turing was a British logician and mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cryptology. His efforts and inventions proved especially useful in breaking Axis codes during WWII, but after the war, Turing faced criminal prosecution for being gay and later committed suicide. Leonardo DiCaprio was previously attached to the role, but backed out this past fall. [Deadline]
• Revenge’s Emily VanCamp is currently in talks to star opposite...
• Revenge’s Emily VanCamp is currently in talks to star opposite...
- 2/2/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
The massive success of Downtown Abbey could promise to bring back a resurgence of costume dramas or movies about the British class system, but that kind of trickle-down trend effect takes a while in Hollywood. What we can count on right now, at least, is a lot more work from the various stars of that show-- and for period pieces to surely be thrown at them in spades. Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Cora Crawley on the show, has picked one up from the pile, and will one again find herself in a story set in 1920s, though one about the "roaring" era in the United States instead. According to Deadline, Fox Searchlight has picked up the worldwide rights to The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty's best-selling novel imagining a trip that silent film star Louise Brooks took as a 15-year-old aspiring dancer, traveling to New York to study at the Denishawn School...
- 2/2/2013
- cinemablend.com
Exclusive: Coming off a killer Sundance where it acquired The Way, Way Back and unveiled its film Stoker, Searchlight has acquired worldwide rights to Laura Moriarty’s best-selling novel The Chaperone. My Week With Marilyn helmer Simon Curtis will direct a a script written by Downton Abbey‘s Julian Fellowes. The film reunites Fellowes with his Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern. Eli Selden and Adam Shulman of Anonymous Content are producing with Curtis and McGovern. Amid the backdrop of the tumultuous times of the early 1920s, the life of a Kansas woman (McGovern) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15 year-old dancer named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of silent film stardom; the other hopes to unearth the mysteries of her past. “I have longed to make a film of Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone...
- 2/1/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Madonna's recent appearance on Ellen had several noteworthy moments, including Ellen's cool anecdote about how Madonna reached out to her during the "Yep, I'm Gay" era, a dunk tank game with Madonna's 12-year-old son Rocco, and this provocative clip where Ellen asked Madonna to comment about her fellow pop stars. How'd she do? And more importantly, do we agree? Let's grade Madonna's responses on a scale from 1-10.
Hit it, Ellen!
On Britney: "Good kisser. Sorry, I had to say that."
Score: 7/10. Cheeky enough, and I'm glad she knows referencing that god-awful PR stunt is a little cringe-inducing.
On Katy Perry: "Haven't kissed her."
Score: 5/10. Not descriptive at all, but it accidentally alludes to Katy's first single "I Kissed A Girl," so I grant Madonna charity points. Couldn't she have said something related to cupcake bras or that contrived-ass Louise Brooks haircut?
On Beyonce: "Incredible voice.
Hit it, Ellen!
On Britney: "Good kisser. Sorry, I had to say that."
Score: 7/10. Cheeky enough, and I'm glad she knows referencing that god-awful PR stunt is a little cringe-inducing.
On Katy Perry: "Haven't kissed her."
Score: 5/10. Not descriptive at all, but it accidentally alludes to Katy's first single "I Kissed A Girl," so I grant Madonna charity points. Couldn't she have said something related to cupcake bras or that contrived-ass Louise Brooks haircut?
On Beyonce: "Incredible voice.
- 10/30/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
The first in a short series on Italian horror-thrillers of the sixties and seventies.
Are these all true gialli, or am I stretching genre definitions to breaking point? It might be more interesting to ask, What elements must be present, in what concentration, to make a film qualify as a giallo?
...Hanno combiata faccia (1971) translates as They've Changed Their Faces. Bear that in mind.
Director Corrado Farina made short subjects for Italian television, including a couple of looks at the fumetti (comic strip) industry. His better-known feature (of the two he made in his short, almost abortive career), Baba Yaga (1973), spins off from an erotic comic series by Guido Crepax, and is a surreal, pop art fantasia involving S&M nazis and Carroll Baker.
(It's worth noting in passing that Crepax's bdsm porno strip, starring a heroine based on silent star Louise Brooks, won the enthusiastic approval of Brooks herself,...
Are these all true gialli, or am I stretching genre definitions to breaking point? It might be more interesting to ask, What elements must be present, in what concentration, to make a film qualify as a giallo?
...Hanno combiata faccia (1971) translates as They've Changed Their Faces. Bear that in mind.
Director Corrado Farina made short subjects for Italian television, including a couple of looks at the fumetti (comic strip) industry. His better-known feature (of the two he made in his short, almost abortive career), Baba Yaga (1973), spins off from an erotic comic series by Guido Crepax, and is a surreal, pop art fantasia involving S&M nazis and Carroll Baker.
(It's worth noting in passing that Crepax's bdsm porno strip, starring a heroine based on silent star Louise Brooks, won the enthusiastic approval of Brooks herself,...
- 8/30/2012
- MUBI
Like American Idol during its Vegas week(s), So You Think You Can Dance's semifinal excursions to Sin City are treated as quaint, host-narrated docudramas. And frankly? It couldn't be any better. Vegas week is always compelling, even if we spend too much time following around middle-of-the-pack dancers who keep earning flak from the judges. But remember: Flak is entertaining, and it turns statuesque ballerinas into crying piles of blubberiness. In fact, this section of the series could be spun off into a grueling Olympic event called The Cryathlon, because my god, the tears. They were everywhere last night. And sometimes they were hilarious.
With that, let's take a break from the exceptional dancing and sort through the funnier stuff from last night's telecast. Remember when Mary Murphy growled at Alexa Anderson and sounded like Janis Joplin struggling to sing "Piece of My Heart" while eating a ham and cocaine sandwich?...
With that, let's take a break from the exceptional dancing and sort through the funnier stuff from last night's telecast. Remember when Mary Murphy growled at Alexa Anderson and sounded like Janis Joplin struggling to sing "Piece of My Heart" while eating a ham and cocaine sandwich?...
- 6/21/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
There's no such thing anymore as the "art" of the movie still, with images from movies now part and parcel of carefully orchestrated marketing or sales plans driving the films. They are, generally speaking, grist for the mill, and while the first look at an imminent blockbuster or secretive project can provide a temporary thrill, the sheer overwhelming pervasiveness and availability of images, all at the click of a button, means that enjoyment is a temporary thing. Movie stills aren't about the glamor of a production anymore, so much as placeholders until we can see the actual movie. And that's not to cast judgment on how things work -- after all, we're a movie blog and very much perpetrators of the cycle -- but how images from movies are used and how they are perceived, from inside the studio and out, has changed dramatically.
Flipping through the pages of Joel F.
Flipping through the pages of Joel F.
- 6/5/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
As far as I can remember, So You Think You Can Dance is the only reality competition series with an audition-thru-finals format where every episode is equally compelling. I can't say that about American Idol and its unbearable auditions or The Voice and its paltry battle rounds. The talent on display in Sytycd is so beautiful, primed, and undeniable that even the relatively nutty auditions come off wonderfully. And did I mention the thorough, fabulous critiques from the judges' panel? What about the ineffable charms of host Cat Deeley? And my favorite: the genius of the voting format. It's not a total populist freakshow like Idol -- America sends three contestants into a sudden death round and the judges decide who within that trio must go home. It's all so correct. So fun and energized and professional.
And with that, we dive right into last night's premiere, which featured a typical melange of kooky talents,...
And with that, we dive right into last night's premiere, which featured a typical melange of kooky talents,...
- 5/25/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
When it was announced that Baz Luhrmann would be directing a film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," anyone who knew the Australian director's work sort of knew what to expect. They might not have guessed that he'd make the whole thing in 3D (which he has), but they knew you'd get something lavish, operatic and heavily styilized, with party scenes that finally lived up to some of Fitzgerald's descriptions.
But did what they imagined in their mind's eye look like this? We doubt it. The first trailer for Luhrmann's opus has just debuted over at Apple, and it looks pretty nutty. You can tell already the extent that Luhrmann's shot for 3D, and you can tell that this is clearly not going to be set in anything like the real world: it's reminiscent of "Sucker Punch" more than anything else. Visuals aside, Leonardo DiCaprio looks like...
But did what they imagined in their mind's eye look like this? We doubt it. The first trailer for Luhrmann's opus has just debuted over at Apple, and it looks pretty nutty. You can tell already the extent that Luhrmann's shot for 3D, and you can tell that this is clearly not going to be set in anything like the real world: it's reminiscent of "Sucker Punch" more than anything else. Visuals aside, Leonardo DiCaprio looks like...
- 5/22/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Clothes on Film on every costume worn by Doris Day in Pillow Talk. Love it.
Felix in Hollywood Louise Brooks is looking at you.
Film Doctor on Dark Shadows. (Eek. I pforgot the promised pfeiffer pfriday posting). He says my pfavorite thing anybody has said about Michelle Pfeiffer recently:
America does not appreciate her enough... she deserves to be treated at least as well as France treats Catherine Deneuve
I've always felt the Deneuve/Pfeiffer comparison was apt. But the auteurs aren't biting or Pfeiffer isn't baiting. Deneuve, on the other hand who is 15 years her senior, is still making vital films for important directors.
A New York Night *Contest* Sarah Jessica Parker is inviting you to her place if you win the contest to attend her Obama fundraiser. Yes, I entered. We need a sensible President and, more importantly, I need to be inside Sjp's home!
Towleroad the Magic Mike pr blitz has begun.
Felix in Hollywood Louise Brooks is looking at you.
Film Doctor on Dark Shadows. (Eek. I pforgot the promised pfeiffer pfriday posting). He says my pfavorite thing anybody has said about Michelle Pfeiffer recently:
America does not appreciate her enough... she deserves to be treated at least as well as France treats Catherine Deneuve
I've always felt the Deneuve/Pfeiffer comparison was apt. But the auteurs aren't biting or Pfeiffer isn't baiting. Deneuve, on the other hand who is 15 years her senior, is still making vital films for important directors.
A New York Night *Contest* Sarah Jessica Parker is inviting you to her place if you win the contest to attend her Obama fundraiser. Yes, I entered. We need a sensible President and, more importantly, I need to be inside Sjp's home!
Towleroad the Magic Mike pr blitz has begun.
- 5/19/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
HollywoodNews.com: Zooey Deschanel has a very distinct look with her long brown hair paired with bangs, but that doesn’t mean she is always happy with it.
Deschanel recently opened up about wishing she had the freedom right now to change her recognizable look, states UsMagazine.com. “If I could cut my hair today I totally would. I love a Louise Brooks bob!” Deschanel said about the silent film actress.
However, she might not like it in the end as she has previously commented, “Your hair is part of your identity, and I’ve always felt like a brunette with bangs. I’ve grown them [bangs] out before, but I feel more comfortable with them.”
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Deschanel recently opened up about wishing she had the freedom right now to change her recognizable look, states UsMagazine.com. “If I could cut my hair today I totally would. I love a Louise Brooks bob!” Deschanel said about the silent film actress.
However, she might not like it in the end as she has previously commented, “Your hair is part of your identity, and I’ve always felt like a brunette with bangs. I’ve grown them [bangs] out before, but I feel more comfortable with them.”
Do you like her hairstyle?
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- 5/19/2012
- by Molly Sullivan
- Hollywoodnews.com
Los Angeles — It took a stray bit of dirt to scratch the perfection of "Cabaret," and painstaking effort to return it to cinematic glory.
The restored "Cabaret," minus damage that had prevented a high-definition version, earned the opening spot at the four-day TCM Classic Film Festival. Stars Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey were scheduled to attend Thursday's ceremony marking the musical's 40th anniversary.
Minnelli, whose turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom, said making "Cabaret" was a joyful "secret," filmed in Munich and far away from meddling Los Angeles studio bosses.
Director Bob Fosse "got away with murder. We all did," Minnelli said in a recent phone call from New York. She's on a concert tour, "Confessions," based on her album of the same title.
"We'd take chances, and the studio would send notes like, `Too cloudy. It will break...
The restored "Cabaret," minus damage that had prevented a high-definition version, earned the opening spot at the four-day TCM Classic Film Festival. Stars Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey were scheduled to attend Thursday's ceremony marking the musical's 40th anniversary.
Minnelli, whose turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom, said making "Cabaret" was a joyful "secret," filmed in Munich and far away from meddling Los Angeles studio bosses.
Director Bob Fosse "got away with murder. We all did," Minnelli said in a recent phone call from New York. She's on a concert tour, "Confessions," based on her album of the same title.
"We'd take chances, and the studio would send notes like, `Too cloudy. It will break...
- 4/12/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
With the major exception of The Good Wife (CBS), there’s really not much that piques my interest on network television these days. Indeed, it increasingly seems as if everything and everyone with any originality or daring has migrated to cable. But, that being said, there is one new network show that, I must confess, has me a little excited: Don’t Trust the B— in Apt. 23 (ABC, trailer), which debuts tonight at 9:30, right after Modern Family.
Why? In part because of the unusual title; in part because it has been endlessly promoted on ABC, ABC’s affiliated channels (Espn, etc.), and in movie theater promos; and in part because it is attempting the tongue-in-cheek feat of having James Van Der Beek, the forgotten Dawson’s Creek (WB) alum (as in not Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, or Joshua Jackson), portray — you guessed it — James Van Der Beek.
But the...
Why? In part because of the unusual title; in part because it has been endlessly promoted on ABC, ABC’s affiliated channels (Espn, etc.), and in movie theater promos; and in part because it is attempting the tongue-in-cheek feat of having James Van Der Beek, the forgotten Dawson’s Creek (WB) alum (as in not Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, or Joshua Jackson), portray — you guessed it — James Van Der Beek.
But the...
- 4/11/2012
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
'Singin' in the Rain' 60th Anniversary: 25 Things You Didn't Know About Hollywood's Greatest Musical
In a year when the Best Picture Oscar went to a comedy about Hollywood's turbulent transition from silence to sound, "Singin' in the Rain" suddenly seems timely again. The beloved musical, which marks the 60th anniversary of its release in U.S. theaters in April, is not only fondly remembered for its exuberantly athletic song-and-dance numbers, but also for its witty dramatization of the birth of Hollywood's sound era. If you haven't seen it, imagine 2011's "The Artist" with spoken dialogue and without the heroic dog. But of course, you have seen it, even if you don't realize it. The title number, featuring a soaked but joyful Gene Kelly, is one of the most iconic (and most frequently parodied) sequences in film history. The film's impact on popular culture is enormous, from making stars out of Debbie Reynolds and Cyd Charisse to influencing directors as far-flung as Jacques Demy and Stanley Kubrick.
- 3/30/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Amy Monaghan, first known to most of us as the cinetrix, is high-tailing it from Boston, where she presented a paper at Scms, to New York for this afternoon's launch of the new issue of Black Clock, the literary journal edited by novelist Steve Erickson. You've got to love the promo blurb they've written for themselves:
In a movie issue like no other, Black Clock 15 features Geoff Nicholson's meeting of two film pioneers in "Buster Keaton: The Warhol Years," David Thomson's journey up the Amazon with Warren Beatty, and Anthony Miller's history of the cinema — from Dw Griffith's adaptation of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (presenting Louise Brooks as Lady Brett) to Don Siegel's 60s cult B-movie Bonnie and Clyde with Tuesday Weld and Clint Eastwood, to the 2010 Academy Award-winning portrayal by Chris Farley of silent comedic actor Fatty Arbuckle in Milos Forman's The Life of the Party.
In a movie issue like no other, Black Clock 15 features Geoff Nicholson's meeting of two film pioneers in "Buster Keaton: The Warhol Years," David Thomson's journey up the Amazon with Warren Beatty, and Anthony Miller's history of the cinema — from Dw Griffith's adaptation of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (presenting Louise Brooks as Lady Brett) to Don Siegel's 60s cult B-movie Bonnie and Clyde with Tuesday Weld and Clint Eastwood, to the 2010 Academy Award-winning portrayal by Chris Farley of silent comedic actor Fatty Arbuckle in Milos Forman's The Life of the Party.
- 3/25/2012
- MUBI
What does a man look like when he turns into a centaur with a Louise Brooks bob? If the answer to that question has ever haunted you, Odd Future's video for "Rella" will help you out.
Odd Future, a hip-hop collective that includes Tyler the Creator, Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis and Left Brain, have a new album dropping March 20 The Of Tape Vol. 2. The group's new video features its members rolling through fields and suburbs as they shoot lasers, turn people into cats, go wild in the backseat of a car, snort massive piles of mysterious white powder, and endure some serious booty shaking. And yes, there is a man-taur.
Watch the video for "Rella" below:...
Odd Future, a hip-hop collective that includes Tyler the Creator, Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis and Left Brain, have a new album dropping March 20 The Of Tape Vol. 2. The group's new video features its members rolling through fields and suburbs as they shoot lasers, turn people into cats, go wild in the backseat of a car, snort massive piles of mysterious white powder, and endure some serious booty shaking. And yes, there is a man-taur.
Watch the video for "Rella" below:...
- 2/21/2012
- by Amy Lee
- Huffington Post
I'm only just now catching up with this year's edition of De Filmkrant's best-known project, Slow Criticism 2012, for which editor Dana Linssen has invented a new game: "It is called The Other Side(s) of the World and includes a lot of cinephile Wanderlust and cybernetic travel schedules. With the kind assistance of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (that made the films available trough a preview stream) we have assembled a dossier with reviews of most of the premieres in the Bright Future section. Playing along were film critics from all over the world who embarked on a virtual journey to see a film that came from a country or film culture that was as far from their current location as possible. Or was it?"
Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López launch this collection of journeys with an essay on the "intimate connection between cinephilia and travel," in which they...
Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López launch this collection of journeys with an essay on the "intimate connection between cinephilia and travel," in which they...
- 2/20/2012
- MUBI
From Rooney Mara's hair to the art deco set, Mario Testino's shot of '1920s pure beauty' shows the dream factory in full effect
Rooney Mara, star of the Us version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, poses in this year's cover photograph for the annual Hollywood special of the magazine Vanity Fair with raven black hair sculpted to evoke the legendary silent- era film beauty Louise Brooks. Her 1920s look gives the ethereally nostalgic keynote to a clever formal gathering of 11 young women across a fold-out cover, shimmering in a bright white space especially built for the photographic shoot in imitation – explains an article within – of works by the art deco interior designer Syrie Maugham.
From Mara's hair to the statuesque pose of Adepero Oduye, star of the film Pariah, to the pink fur worn by British actress Lily Collins, the picture is a panorama of...
Rooney Mara, star of the Us version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, poses in this year's cover photograph for the annual Hollywood special of the magazine Vanity Fair with raven black hair sculpted to evoke the legendary silent- era film beauty Louise Brooks. Her 1920s look gives the ethereally nostalgic keynote to a clever formal gathering of 11 young women across a fold-out cover, shimmering in a bright white space especially built for the photographic shoot in imitation – explains an article within – of works by the art deco interior designer Syrie Maugham.
From Mara's hair to the statuesque pose of Adepero Oduye, star of the film Pariah, to the pink fur worn by British actress Lily Collins, the picture is a panorama of...
- 2/3/2012
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Look at our friends. Aren't they pretty?
The annual Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue is always packed with gorgeous photos and profiles of the hottest up-and-coming stars, and this year is no different. The three-part cover features 11 of our favorite ladies snapped by high-end photographer Mario Testino in super glam styles.
Oscar nominee/multiple piercee Rooney Mara is sporting a sleek Louise Brooks bob, while "Albert Nobbs" star Mia Wasikowska chills at her feet. Next to them, Jennifer Lawrence is looking fierce in a totally non-Katniss way, while Jessica Chastain is channeling an old school siren.
The second and third parts of the cover are equally robust. Elizabeth Olsen, who wowed in us in "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and charmed us in "Liberal Arts" at Sundance, is featured next to "Pariah" breakout star (and Meryl Streep fave) Adepero Oduye and Shailene Woodley from "The Descendants." Paula Patton, Felicity Jones, Brit Marling...
The annual Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue is always packed with gorgeous photos and profiles of the hottest up-and-coming stars, and this year is no different. The three-part cover features 11 of our favorite ladies snapped by high-end photographer Mario Testino in super glam styles.
Oscar nominee/multiple piercee Rooney Mara is sporting a sleek Louise Brooks bob, while "Albert Nobbs" star Mia Wasikowska chills at her feet. Next to them, Jennifer Lawrence is looking fierce in a totally non-Katniss way, while Jessica Chastain is channeling an old school siren.
The second and third parts of the cover are equally robust. Elizabeth Olsen, who wowed in us in "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and charmed us in "Liberal Arts" at Sundance, is featured next to "Pariah" breakout star (and Meryl Streep fave) Adepero Oduye and Shailene Woodley from "The Descendants." Paula Patton, Felicity Jones, Brit Marling...
- 2/1/2012
- by Jenni Miller
- NextMovie
In the first part of a new series, Zoe takes a look back at the history of MGM, one of Hollywood’s oldest and most notable studios...
Studios have come and gone since the birth of cinema, and the film business is an unpredictable one, as the history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer reveals. Founded in 1924, its name conjures up images of lavish musicals, sweeping historical epics, glamorous stars and its mascot, Leo the lion.
It’s fair to say that MGM is one of the most famous and influential studios in Hollywood, and certainly one of the most iconic studios to come out of American film industry. But where did it all begin?
The story begins in the early 1920s. Vaudeville, previously one of the most popular forms of entertainment, is beginning to dwindle, as movies capture the public’s imagination. Enter Marcus Loew, a theatre chain owner. What Loew wanted was...
Studios have come and gone since the birth of cinema, and the film business is an unpredictable one, as the history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer reveals. Founded in 1924, its name conjures up images of lavish musicals, sweeping historical epics, glamorous stars and its mascot, Leo the lion.
It’s fair to say that MGM is one of the most famous and influential studios in Hollywood, and certainly one of the most iconic studios to come out of American film industry. But where did it all begin?
The story begins in the early 1920s. Vaudeville, previously one of the most popular forms of entertainment, is beginning to dwindle, as movies capture the public’s imagination. Enter Marcus Loew, a theatre chain owner. What Loew wanted was...
- 1/10/2012
- Den of Geek
Movie Poster of the Week was on vacation last week and thus missed the opening of the re-release of The Bride Wore Black at New York’s Film Forum. But, before it closes this Thursday, I simply must celebrate the fact that Truffaut’s 1968 Hitchcockian revenge drama may have more great and varied original posters than any other film. I count eleven here, each one a winner. First there are two French posters for La mariée était en noir by the peerless René Ferracci, who must have been more than usually inspired by Jeanne Moreau in her widow’s garb. In the first, above, he contradicts the title by scribbling in white on a photograph of Moreau in her titular mourning robe to turn it back into a wedding dress. (The same design was used for the original American poster which Film Forum and distributor Film Desk are selling reproductions of.
- 11/8/2011
- MUBI
In Time is cheesy slice of sci-fi nonsense presenting a futuristic world where time has become the ultimate currency. The natural aging process ends at 25, then you’re genetically-engineered to live for only one more year. After that, you’re dead unless you can acquire more time. Everyone has a countdown clock on his or her arm (it looks like a glowing death camp tattoo) that must be replenished before it gets to zero and your number’s up. Time is used to pay for things. A phone call costs a minute, while ten minutes with a hooker will set you back a whole hour. The wealthy live in upscale ‘time zones’ and control the time supply, relishing in decades and becoming functionally immortal, while the rest of society has to beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. Time can be transferred (or stolen) from...
- 10/28/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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Throughout summer it has been difficult to ignore the recent Chinoiserie trend in stores and magazines, kick-started by the opulent Louis Vuitton show in Paris and merged effortlessly into autumn by Paul Smith. Cheongsam collars and qipao slits aside, this new-found interest in the East may have been partly triggered by China’s growing appetite for high-end goods, which despite recent economic setbacks, has left Western luxury brands competing for a share of this very sizable market.
This obsession with the ‘Orient’ has also seen a proliferation of Asian models on catwalks and throughout editorial spreads, which has courted controversy for some publications and raises all manner of questions regarding ethnicity and standards of beauty. Whilst researching this trend it becomes impossible not to contemplate the...
Throughout summer it has been difficult to ignore the recent Chinoiserie trend in stores and magazines, kick-started by the opulent Louis Vuitton show in Paris and merged effortlessly into autumn by Paul Smith. Cheongsam collars and qipao slits aside, this new-found interest in the East may have been partly triggered by China’s growing appetite for high-end goods, which despite recent economic setbacks, has left Western luxury brands competing for a share of this very sizable market.
This obsession with the ‘Orient’ has also seen a proliferation of Asian models on catwalks and throughout editorial spreads, which has courted controversy for some publications and raises all manner of questions regarding ethnicity and standards of beauty. Whilst researching this trend it becomes impossible not to contemplate the...
- 10/18/2011
- by Contributor
- Clothes on Film
"Tuesday Weld will not be attending the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective American Girl: Tuesday Weld, running from September 21—25, which will showcase 10 performances by the unconventional actress." Louis Jordan, who's working on a biography of Weld, at the House Next Door: "For a tantalizing moment, the reclusive Weld agreed to be interviewed at the Walter Reade Theatre in an event called 'An Evening with Tuesday Weld,' but later suddenly cancelled. Weld hasn't made a public appearance in more than a decade. Perhaps she's gone into self-imposed exile a la Marlene Dietrich, wanting to preserve the public's memory of the brazen, luminous beauty that made her an icon of the '60s and turned the heads of everyone from Elvis Presley to Pinchas Zukerman. But then again, Weld has made a career of not giving the public what they want, or expect."
"As an actress, Weld is famous for...
"As an actress, Weld is famous for...
- 9/21/2011
- MUBI
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