Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore has been a cinematic muse for the likes of Todd Haynes, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Altman, Alfonso Cuaron, David Cronenberg and the Coen Brothers, to name but a few. But how many of her films are classics? Let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest roles, ranked worst to best.
Moore became a darling of independent cinema with appearances in such films as “Short Cuts” (1993), “Vanya on 42nd Street” (1994), and “Safe” (1995). It didn’t take long for Oscar voters to notice her talents, and the Academy rewarded her with four nominations in quick succession: Best Actress for “The End of the Affair” (1999) and “Far From Heaven” (2002); Best Supporting Actress for “Boogie Nights” (1997) and “The Hours” (2002). Her two bids in 2002 put her in an elite group of performers to receive lead and supporting citations in the same year.
After her double-dipping achievement, however, it seemed...
Moore became a darling of independent cinema with appearances in such films as “Short Cuts” (1993), “Vanya on 42nd Street” (1994), and “Safe” (1995). It didn’t take long for Oscar voters to notice her talents, and the Academy rewarded her with four nominations in quick succession: Best Actress for “The End of the Affair” (1999) and “Far From Heaven” (2002); Best Supporting Actress for “Boogie Nights” (1997) and “The Hours” (2002). Her two bids in 2002 put her in an elite group of performers to receive lead and supporting citations in the same year.
After her double-dipping achievement, however, it seemed...
- 11/16/2023
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Netflix releases the film in select theaters on Friday, November 17, with a streaming release to follow on Friday, December 1.
A heartbreakingly sincere piece of high camp that teases real human drama from the stuff of tabloid sensationalism, Todd Haynes’ delicious “May December” continues the director’s tradition of making films that rely upon the self-awareness that seems to elude their characters — especially the ones played by Julianne Moore.
Here, the actress reteams with her “Safe” director to play Gracie Atherton-Yoo, who became a household name back in 1992 when she left her ex-husband for her 13-year-old fellow pet shop employee. Now it’s 2015, the situation has normalized somewhat, and Gracie and Joe (a dad bod Charles Melton) have been together long enough that their youngest children are about to graduate high school. The occasional package full of poop...
A heartbreakingly sincere piece of high camp that teases real human drama from the stuff of tabloid sensationalism, Todd Haynes’ delicious “May December” continues the director’s tradition of making films that rely upon the self-awareness that seems to elude their characters — especially the ones played by Julianne Moore.
Here, the actress reteams with her “Safe” director to play Gracie Atherton-Yoo, who became a household name back in 1992 when she left her ex-husband for her 13-year-old fellow pet shop employee. Now it’s 2015, the situation has normalized somewhat, and Gracie and Joe (a dad bod Charles Melton) have been together long enough that their youngest children are about to graduate high school. The occasional package full of poop...
- 5/20/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Eugene Lee, the award-winning production designer for “Wicked” and “Saturday Night Live,” has died. He was 83 years old.
His death was shared by the official Twitter page for “Wicked.”
Lee had been with “Saturday Night Live” since its debut in 1975, and worked on sets including the “Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary” and “SNL Presents: Halloween.”
Prior to joining the show, Lee was the in-house set designer for Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I., and remained in that position at Trinity Rep throughout his life.
Lee, a six-time Emmy winner, won consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Art Direction For Variety or Nonfiction Programming from 2017-2021. He earned a total of 18 Emmy nominations.
In addition to his TV work, Lee worked on Broadway designing sets for “Sweeney Todd,” “Wicked” and “Candide” — all of which earned him Tony Awards. He also served as scenic designer for the original productions of “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Seussical.
His death was shared by the official Twitter page for “Wicked.”
Lee had been with “Saturday Night Live” since its debut in 1975, and worked on sets including the “Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary” and “SNL Presents: Halloween.”
Prior to joining the show, Lee was the in-house set designer for Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I., and remained in that position at Trinity Rep throughout his life.
Lee, a six-time Emmy winner, won consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Art Direction For Variety or Nonfiction Programming from 2017-2021. He earned a total of 18 Emmy nominations.
In addition to his TV work, Lee worked on Broadway designing sets for “Sweeney Todd,” “Wicked” and “Candide” — all of which earned him Tony Awards. He also served as scenic designer for the original productions of “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Seussical.
- 2/8/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Eugene Lee, the six-time Emmy-winning production designer for Saturday Night Live since 1975 and a multiple Tony winner for such Broadway hits as Wicked, Sweeney Todd and Candide, died Tuesday in Providence, Ri. He was 83.
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As the production designer of SNL since the year of its debut, Lee was the longest-serving member of the NBC show’s production staff. He also served as production designer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon from 2014-2018 and numerous SNL specials.
He also led the production design for Late Night with Seth Meyers and the 2000 television movie On Golden Pond, among others. For his work in television production design,...
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As the production designer of SNL since the year of its debut, Lee was the longest-serving member of the NBC show’s production staff. He also served as production designer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon from 2014-2018 and numerous SNL specials.
He also led the production design for Late Night with Seth Meyers and the 2000 television movie On Golden Pond, among others. For his work in television production design,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“Some of the earliest origins of the stage play were my love of the horror genre on screen and psychological thrillers,” Stephen Karam shares about the cinematic roots of his Tony Award-winning stage play “The Humans.” Five years after the drama opened on Broadway, Karam has adapted and directed the work into a new A24 film, bringing the DNA of the material full circle. “The way to make it a movie was so clear to me,” he continues, in part because he had “a lot of cinematic thoughts” “even when writing the play.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Karam drew on a number of theatrical movie adaptations as sources of inspiration while he developed “The Humans.” Since “The Humans” is Karam’s directorial debut, he looked to Oscar winner Mike Nichols’ first film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” which he says “feels very open to me” despite its origins as a stage play.
Karam drew on a number of theatrical movie adaptations as sources of inspiration while he developed “The Humans.” Since “The Humans” is Karam’s directorial debut, he looked to Oscar winner Mike Nichols’ first film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” which he says “feels very open to me” despite its origins as a stage play.
- 11/23/2021
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Brooke Smith added another memorable role to her resume with the new ABC drama “Big Sky.” The actress plays Merrilee Legarski, a woman who gradually discovers her state trooper husband has monstrous predilections. She is also seduced by her husband’s accomplice, stemming from her own loneliness. “Hell of a taste in men she has,” quips Smith in an exclusive video interview for Gold Derby. “I guess you go with what you’ve got.” Watch the full webchat above.
While Merrilee might have rotten luck in her love life, Smith resonated with her character’s innermost motivations. Filming in Vancouver away from her family in the middle of a pandemic was an isolating experience, and like Merrilee, Smith was missing those to which she was closest. “I felt that there was a parallel in that Merrilee, she just wants connection,” explains Smith. “She wants her husband to be able to look her in the eye.
While Merrilee might have rotten luck in her love life, Smith resonated with her character’s innermost motivations. Filming in Vancouver away from her family in the middle of a pandemic was an isolating experience, and like Merrilee, Smith was missing those to which she was closest. “I felt that there was a parallel in that Merrilee, she just wants connection,” explains Smith. “She wants her husband to be able to look her in the eye.
- 5/27/2021
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
First Look Media’s Topic Studios has announced the appointments of Alysse Bezahler and Christine Connor, who will take on the Senior Vice President of Production and Vice President of Nonfiction roles, respectively. The new executives, announced Friday, will report directly to Maria Zuckerman, Executive Vice President of Topic Studios.
Bezahler, who comes into the new position following her time at AMC Studios, will oversee all physical production needs for Topic Studios’ content across television, film, podcasts, documentary features and premium nonfiction series. The industry vet will also helm Topic Studio’s dedicated in-house production and postproduction executives and boost the company’s presence in the production community.
“With her sterling bona fides as both an independent producer and studio executive, Alysse’s boots-on-the-ground know-how, problem-solving spirit and proven track record across media position Topic Studios to provide best-in-class support to creators and partners alike,” said Zuckerman.
Connor, as the...
Bezahler, who comes into the new position following her time at AMC Studios, will oversee all physical production needs for Topic Studios’ content across television, film, podcasts, documentary features and premium nonfiction series. The industry vet will also helm Topic Studio’s dedicated in-house production and postproduction executives and boost the company’s presence in the production community.
“With her sterling bona fides as both an independent producer and studio executive, Alysse’s boots-on-the-ground know-how, problem-solving spirit and proven track record across media position Topic Studios to provide best-in-class support to creators and partners alike,” said Zuckerman.
Connor, as the...
- 10/23/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Christmas has come a little early to anyone hoping to score some Criterion Collection deals on Amazon today. While Amazon has been running a pretty good sale on a handful of discs throughout December, they’ve lowered the prices on lots of Blu-rays today, including a few pre-orders for next year.
Amazon doesn’t usually announce when an impromptu sale like this will end, so don’t hesitate. And don’t forget that you can lock in the pre-order price for some of the upcoming titles as well, but Amazon won’t charge you until they ship.
You can currently pre-order The Before Trilogy for $52.47 (48% off)
The following Blu-rays are currently (as of December 23rd at 10:30pm Pacific) down below $21 each.
The Asphalt Jungle Boyhood The Complete Lady Snowblood The Devil’s Backbone Diabolique Easy Rider The Executioner F for Fake The Game Harakiri Harold and Maude Hidden Fortress...
Amazon doesn’t usually announce when an impromptu sale like this will end, so don’t hesitate. And don’t forget that you can lock in the pre-order price for some of the upcoming titles as well, but Amazon won’t charge you until they ship.
You can currently pre-order The Before Trilogy for $52.47 (48% off)
The following Blu-rays are currently (as of December 23rd at 10:30pm Pacific) down below $21 each.
The Asphalt Jungle Boyhood The Complete Lady Snowblood The Devil’s Backbone Diabolique Easy Rider The Executioner F for Fake The Game Harakiri Harold and Maude Hidden Fortress...
- 12/24/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The Oscar winner for Still Alice discusses how her two films at Tiff this year – Freeheld and Maggie’s Plan – fit into her back catalogue, and urges for increased female visibility in Hollywood
Julianne Moore is somewhat of a fixture at the Toronto film festival. The film that finally won her an Oscar, Still Alice, premiered here last year. Likewise one of her breakthrough dramas, Vanya on 42nd Street, back in 1994; not to mention two other movies that netted her Oscar nominations (Boogie Nights and Far From Heaven).
The tally is racking up even quicker this year as she’s back in town with two movies: ensemble romcom Maggie’s Plan – directed by Rebecca Miller and co-starring Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke – and Freeheld, a drama based on the documentary of the same name, about a detective diagnosed with incurable lung cancer who fights to have her pension benefit left to her girlfriend (Ellen Page,...
Julianne Moore is somewhat of a fixture at the Toronto film festival. The film that finally won her an Oscar, Still Alice, premiered here last year. Likewise one of her breakthrough dramas, Vanya on 42nd Street, back in 1994; not to mention two other movies that netted her Oscar nominations (Boogie Nights and Far From Heaven).
The tally is racking up even quicker this year as she’s back in town with two movies: ensemble romcom Maggie’s Plan – directed by Rebecca Miller and co-starring Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke – and Freeheld, a drama based on the documentary of the same name, about a detective diagnosed with incurable lung cancer who fights to have her pension benefit left to her girlfriend (Ellen Page,...
- 9/11/2015
- by Nigel M Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
The third experimental cinematic endeavor from the writing/acting duo of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, A Master Builder, at last reaches a notable platform of consumption with its inclusion in the Criterion collection. Their previous collaborations, My Dinner with Andre (1981) and Vanya on 42nd Street (1992), both directed by French auteur Louis Malle, have reached a sort of mythical status in the realm of art-house cinema. And so the rather hushed theatrical reception of this latest endeavor, another long-gestating exercise, this time re-working a late period play from Ibsen while Jonathan Demme usurps the directorial seat, perhaps has more to do with the fluctuating cinematic landscape. Existing, tonally, somewhere in-between the previous two ventures, this generally claustrophobic rendering doesn’t contain the same sense of innovative, inspiring energy, oscillating between moments of flaccid, rehearsed dialogue and moments of overwhelming emotional hysteria. As a filmed version of this experimental theater exercise,...
- 6/23/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
When My Dinner With Andre hit cinemas in 1981, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn were already established figures of the New York theater scene. But the hit film, directed by Louis Malle and consisting almost entirely of a scripted dinner conversation between the two men, turned them into something closer to celebrities: "Few people knew who they were when they entered the theater," wrote Roger Ebert about the film’s premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. "Now they would never be forgotten where films were taken seriously." Over the next several decades, the two men built on that collaboration with more films. Next came 1994’s Vanya on 42nd Street, also directed for the screen by Malle, though the theatrical production itself — essentially a years-long workshopping and exploration of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with little thought given to a traditional audience — was directed by Gregory himself. Then, in 2014, the...
- 6/17/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
Read More: Abramorama Picks Up Jonathan Demme's 'A Master Builder' From one of Julianne Moore's most underrated performances to the form-bending collaborations between Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, the June 2015 Criterion Collection slate promises a little something for everyone. Featuring the release of six classic films, along with a special trilogy package that includes the exemplary cinema of Shawn and Gregory, this upcoming month's Criterion Collection should easily whet the appetite of any cinephile. Check out synopses of the films set to be released below, courtesy of Criterion. "A Master Builder" (2014) Twenty years after their brilliant cinema-theater experiment "Vanya on 42nd Street," Wallace Shawn and André Gregory reunited to produce another idiosyncratic big-screen version of a classic play, this time Henrik Ibsen's "Bygmester Solness" ("Master Builder Solness"). Brought pristinely to the screen...
- 3/17/2015
- by David Canfield
- Indiewire
You'd have to go a long way to find a career that touches as many far-flung bases as that of write-director-actor Wallace Shawn. One can know Shawn's voice from the "Toy Story" movies, but not recognize him from "The Princess Bride." You could, I suppose, know him as Blair's eventual stepfather on "Gossip Girl" and not know him as Rex or Vizzini. You could think yourself an intellectual and know "My Dinner with Andre" or "Vanya on 42nd Street," without knowing any of Shawn's acclaimed, often outspokenly political plays or his myriad essays. Shawn is so multi-faceted an artist that it's entirely unsurprising that a very brief conversation tied to ABC's very enjoyable "Toy Story That Time Forgot," airing on Tuesday, December 2, begins with simple questions about Rex's endearing short-armed innocence and progresses to the lure of acting to help him maintain a bourgeois lifestyle, delves into the anti-decadence message...
- 12/1/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
With Toronto International Film Festival drama "Still Alice" snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics and sparking talk of an Oscar campaign around Julianne Moore's performance, The Criterion Collection's announcement of their December slate couldn't be more perfectly timed. The boutique label has revealed it will bring Todd Haynes' breakout film "Safe," starring Moore, to store shelves in time for Christmas. The film, coming after memorable turns in "Short Cuts" and "Vanya On 42nd Street," cemented Moore as a rising talent and earned her an Indie Spirit Award nomination and a win from the New York Film Critics Circle. The film itself is a terrific look at spiraling paranoia, following a woman who begins to believe she's allergic to much of the world around her. The Criterion release of "Safe" will be newly restored, feature commentary by Haynes, Moore and producer Christine Vachon, Haynes' short film "The Suicide,"...
- 9/16/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Update, 11:35 Am: Sony Classics just confirmed the North American rights deal for Still Alice, which officially makes star Julianne Moore an Oscar contender for her performance as a cognitive psychologist who faces the early onset of Alzheimer’s. Check out Spc’s release after my original break.
Previous Exclusive, 6:14 Pm: Capping yet another busy day of Toronto deals, Sony Pictures Classics is closing a low-seven-figure deal for Still Alice, the pic written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. The label plans to release the film for Oscar season. It has gotten strong notices for Julianne Moore, who stars with Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth. She plays a cognitive psychologist who faces the early onset of Alzheimer’s.
This is the first deal that calls for a berth in this year’s Oscar race, though many said that the Michael Shannon-Andrew Garfield pic...
Previous Exclusive, 6:14 Pm: Capping yet another busy day of Toronto deals, Sony Pictures Classics is closing a low-seven-figure deal for Still Alice, the pic written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. The label plans to release the film for Oscar season. It has gotten strong notices for Julianne Moore, who stars with Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth. She plays a cognitive psychologist who faces the early onset of Alzheimer’s.
This is the first deal that calls for a berth in this year’s Oscar race, though many said that the Michael Shannon-Andrew Garfield pic...
- 9/12/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Variety's Scott Foundas grants that Barry Levinson's The Humbling "may be doomed to dwell" in the "deservedly large shadow" of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman. "But where Inarritu’s exuberant style piece calls to mind the likes of Fosse and Fellini, The Humbling feels closer to the intimate theater/film hybrid works of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn (My Dinner With Andre, Vanya on 42nd Street) in its lo-fi aesthetics and gently playful sense of art imitating life imitating art. Fronted by a vibrant, deeply committed Al Pacino performance and very fine support from Greta Gerwig, this uneven but captivating film deserves to find its own audience." This is one of the more positive reviews; we're collecting others. » - David Hudson...
- 8/30/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Variety's Scott Foundas grants that Barry Levinson's The Humbling "may be doomed to dwell" in the "deservedly large shadow" of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman. "But where Inarritu’s exuberant style piece calls to mind the likes of Fosse and Fellini, The Humbling feels closer to the intimate theater/film hybrid works of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn (My Dinner With Andre, Vanya on 42nd Street) in its lo-fi aesthetics and gently playful sense of art imitating life imitating art. Fronted by a vibrant, deeply committed Al Pacino performance and very fine support from Greta Gerwig, this uneven but captivating film deserves to find its own audience." This is one of the more positive reviews; we're collecting others. » - David Hudson...
- 8/30/2014
- Keyframe
On Wednesday, July 22, I had the privilege of hosting a talk with Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, and Jonathan Demme, under the auspices of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, after a screening of the trio’s impressive collaboration A Master Builder (now playing at New York’s Film Forum). Much as they did with Uncle Vanya (filmed by Louis Malle as Vanya on 42nd Street), Gregory, Shawn, and the cast rehearsed Ibsen’s play for many years, ultimately performing it for small, invited audiences. Malle being dead, Demme stepped into the breach and filmed the production quickly and well.A Master Builder centers on acclaimed architect Halvard Solness (played onscreen by Shawn), who fears being dislodged by the next generation. He feels especially vulnerable because he has, over the last decade, gone from making towering structures to smaller buildings in which real people can live. He has lost some stature and...
- 7/25/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Twenty years ago, André Gregory gathered a group of great actors to rehearse Uncle Vanya; Louis Malle came in to film their work, almost as if he were shooting a documentary; and the result, Vanya on 42nd Street, was an astonishing fusion of theater and film—superb Chekhov, superb moviemaking. Gregory, Wallace Shawn, and Larry Pine have reunited for Henrik Ibsen’s A Master Builder, and, Malle being dead, Jonathan Demme has stepped into the breach. (The film is dedicated to Malle.) Demme doesn’t take a documentary approach, which I don’t think would work for this strange masterpiece—a play that marked the moment that Ibsen began to turn away from the naturalism of A Doll’s House and Ghosts and head back to the mythic, poetic realm of earlier epics like Brand and Peer Gynt. Gregory and Demme have turned A Master Builder into (pardon my invoking...
- 7/22/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Director Jonathan Demme captures the team of Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory staging a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder.”
The dynamic duo behind My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42nd Street take on another classic of the stage in their big-screen Henrik Ibsen adaptation, Fear of Falling.
With Jonathan Demme replacing the late Louis Malle at the helm, this terrifically performed version of The Master Builder -- based on a screenplay by Wallace Shawn, from his own translation of the Norwegian text -- channels the rage, joy and delusions of an aging architect’s final days, where a ghost from his past (played by the exuberant Lisa Joyce) guides him to the great beyond. Premiering in the Rome Film Festival’s experimental CinemaXXI section, this dense and occasionally poetic chamber piece should appeal to very upscale audiences both at fests and -- despite production values...
The dynamic duo behind My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42nd Street take on another classic of the stage in their big-screen Henrik Ibsen adaptation, Fear of Falling.
With Jonathan Demme replacing the late Louis Malle at the helm, this terrifically performed version of The Master Builder -- based on a screenplay by Wallace Shawn, from his own translation of the Norwegian text -- channels the rage, joy and delusions of an aging architect’s final days, where a ghost from his past (played by the exuberant Lisa Joyce) guides him to the great beyond. Premiering in the Rome Film Festival’s experimental CinemaXXI section, this dense and occasionally poetic chamber piece should appeal to very upscale audiences both at fests and -- despite production values...
- 11/12/2013
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julianne Moore is a living legend for one reason (besides the unbelievable Bulgari ad above): her utter and absorbing onscreen command. Can you think of a time she was less than in complete control of her material? She even ruled in that weird-ass Vanya on 42nd Street (though she did perform in Uncle Vanya for years prior to that movie’s release, to be fair).
I like going to the movies when I know a star will flawlessly sell dialogue. You always know Meryl Streep will kill. Cate Blanchett will kill. Glenn Close will kill, perhaps in boiling water. But so will Julianne Moore, and for some reason I always feel compelled to note her flawlessness since she retains a strange underdog quality. Oh, and top of this? She is my nominee for a new gay icon.
In case you need a refresher on the rules of our Gay Icon Nominee selection,...
I like going to the movies when I know a star will flawlessly sell dialogue. You always know Meryl Streep will kill. Cate Blanchett will kill. Glenn Close will kill, perhaps in boiling water. But so will Julianne Moore, and for some reason I always feel compelled to note her flawlessness since she retains a strange underdog quality. Oh, and top of this? She is my nominee for a new gay icon.
In case you need a refresher on the rules of our Gay Icon Nominee selection,...
- 10/2/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Oscar-winning director behind Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia to premiere new film at the Rome Film Festival and host a masterclass.
The8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) will play host to the world premiere of Jonathan Demme’s Fear of Falling.
The film will feature in in the CinemaXXI section, dedicated to new trends in international cinema.
In an accompanying masterclass, Demme will talk about his relationship with cinema, commenting on the most significant film scenes in his career and answering questions from the audience.
Demme, who won the Best Director Oscar for Silence of the Lambs (1991), has also directed award-winning features including Philadelphia (1993) and Rachel Getting Married (2008) - the last time he made a fiction feature.
Fear of Falling is based on a theatre production that was an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “Master Builder Solness” (“Bygmester Solness”) and follows a renowned architect increasingly caught up in his own fantasies.
Created for the...
The8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) will play host to the world premiere of Jonathan Demme’s Fear of Falling.
The film will feature in in the CinemaXXI section, dedicated to new trends in international cinema.
In an accompanying masterclass, Demme will talk about his relationship with cinema, commenting on the most significant film scenes in his career and answering questions from the audience.
Demme, who won the Best Director Oscar for Silence of the Lambs (1991), has also directed award-winning features including Philadelphia (1993) and Rachel Getting Married (2008) - the last time he made a fiction feature.
Fear of Falling is based on a theatre production that was an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “Master Builder Solness” (“Bygmester Solness”) and follows a renowned architect increasingly caught up in his own fantasies.
Created for the...
- 9/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Family Portrait: Kleine’ Uses Husband as Subject for Light Documentary
Fans of director and actor Andre Gregory should be excited, and, overall, pleased with director Cindy Kleine’s documentary about her husband, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, which gives us a rare glimpse of the artist in his personal environment. While he’s perhaps best known to the general movie going public for odd supporting turns in several main stream motion pictures, Gregory is first and foremost an accomplished theater director, and he infamously rehearses one piece for years at a time. Those familiar with the film Vanya on 42nd Street should know exactly what his process entails. Unfortunately, those unfamiliar with Gregory and his work will most likely find Kleine’s documentary aggravating and without any type of thrust beyond a compilation of shared familial memories.
Introduced to the cinema in Louis Malle’s 1981 adaptation of his work,...
Fans of director and actor Andre Gregory should be excited, and, overall, pleased with director Cindy Kleine’s documentary about her husband, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, which gives us a rare glimpse of the artist in his personal environment. While he’s perhaps best known to the general movie going public for odd supporting turns in several main stream motion pictures, Gregory is first and foremost an accomplished theater director, and he infamously rehearses one piece for years at a time. Those familiar with the film Vanya on 42nd Street should know exactly what his process entails. Unfortunately, those unfamiliar with Gregory and his work will most likely find Kleine’s documentary aggravating and without any type of thrust beyond a compilation of shared familial memories.
Introduced to the cinema in Louis Malle’s 1981 adaptation of his work,...
- 4/2/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Taviani brothers' account of a prison production of Julius Caesar marks a profoundly moving return to form
Before the emergence of the Coens, the Farrellys, the Hugheses and the Wachowskis, there were the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, born in Pisa in respectively 1931 and 1929, the sons of a lawyer jailed for his anti-fascist activities. Coming out of Italian neorealism and the French new wave, adapting works by Tolstoy and Pirandello and much influenced by Brecht, they emerged in the late 60s. Theirs was a humanist cinema that reached out socially and chronologically, from an aristocrat disillusioned with revolution in early 19th-century Lombardy to the idealistic inhabitants of a Tuscan village standing up against the Nazis in 1944.
The Tavianis' finest film perhaps is Padre Padrone, the true story of a boy escaping from hard-scrabble peasant life in present-day Sardinia to be educated during his military service on the mainland. The...
Before the emergence of the Coens, the Farrellys, the Hugheses and the Wachowskis, there were the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, born in Pisa in respectively 1931 and 1929, the sons of a lawyer jailed for his anti-fascist activities. Coming out of Italian neorealism and the French new wave, adapting works by Tolstoy and Pirandello and much influenced by Brecht, they emerged in the late 60s. Theirs was a humanist cinema that reached out socially and chronologically, from an aristocrat disillusioned with revolution in early 19th-century Lombardy to the idealistic inhabitants of a Tuscan village standing up against the Nazis in 1944.
The Tavianis' finest film perhaps is Padre Padrone, the true story of a boy escaping from hard-scrabble peasant life in present-day Sardinia to be educated during his military service on the mainland. The...
- 3/3/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
For the world premiere Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival of their drama What Maisie Knew, based on the Henry James novel of the same title, directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel played it very calm, even if they felt jitters inside.
The night before the premiere, at an after-party for On the Road, McGehee talked about being nervous because the venue, the Roy Thomson Hall, is so large (about 2,600 seats). He shouldn’t have worried. Quietly down-to-earth, McGehee and Siegel capture the sadly lovely mood of the film, about a pixie-sized wisp of a girl named Maisie, played by now 7-year-old Onata Aprile,...
The night before the premiere, at an after-party for On the Road, McGehee talked about being nervous because the venue, the Roy Thomson Hall, is so large (about 2,600 seats). He shouldn’t have worried. Quietly down-to-earth, McGehee and Siegel capture the sadly lovely mood of the film, about a pixie-sized wisp of a girl named Maisie, played by now 7-year-old Onata Aprile,...
- 9/8/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
Throughout the history of film, the medium has not only been used to discuss the times from which it is created, as well as transcending time, having the ability to be even more pertinent and important as the years pass. And then, somewhere in the middle, lies a film like The Organizer. A film that is as visually stunning as one would imagine, with a narrative the is both ripped from history made and history currently being made, yet far less intellectually profound than a film like this would be imagined to be.
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- 4/30/2012
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
The possibility of an edition of Roman Polanski's classic thriller, Rosemary's Baby, released by The Criterion Collection has been rumored for ages. The film seemed destined for Criterion (Knife In The Water, Cul-de-sac, and, his best film in my eyes, Repulsion, have hit home video via the mighty C) and due to one of their ever-great "wacky drawings," looks to be made available soon.
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- 4/18/2012
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
Werner Herzog's documentary about a triple murder in Texas is a compelling reflection on capital punishment
Many film-makers cut their teeth directing documentaries before moving on to features. Relatively few continue making them in tandem with their fiction work. Louis Malle is perhaps the most notable example of a director who did, and there is a fascinating and fruitful interplay between the two aspects of his career stretching from his first movie, Le Monde du silence, the film of marine exploration he co-directed with Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1956, to his final film, Vanya on 42nd Street, in 1994, where it is hard to say whether it's a documentary about an Andre Gregory production of Chekhov in New York or a fictional film built around the play.
Born a decade after Malle and a key member of the German new wave that followed the French one, Werner Herzog's career has taken him along a similar path.
Many film-makers cut their teeth directing documentaries before moving on to features. Relatively few continue making them in tandem with their fiction work. Louis Malle is perhaps the most notable example of a director who did, and there is a fascinating and fruitful interplay between the two aspects of his career stretching from his first movie, Le Monde du silence, the film of marine exploration he co-directed with Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1956, to his final film, Vanya on 42nd Street, in 1994, where it is hard to say whether it's a documentary about an Andre Gregory production of Chekhov in New York or a fictional film built around the play.
Born a decade after Malle and a key member of the German new wave that followed the French one, Werner Herzog's career has taken him along a similar path.
- 3/31/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
DVD Playhouse—March 2012
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
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J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
- 3/7/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Reviewer: Philip Tatler IV
Ratings (out of five): ****
Watching a play rehearsal is usually the province of long-suffering stage parents showing support for their fledgling thesps. The idea of sitting on cold chairs in a darkened, dusty theater while actors in street clothes decipher their text and block out their movements isn’t a universally appealing one. But that’s the essence of Louis Malle’s 1994 swansong, Vanya on 42nd Street: watching actors informally work over the finer points of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Ratings (out of five): ****
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- 3/7/2012
- by weezy
- GreenCine
Every so often, some company will release a “big screen event” into theaters, bringing a play or, more often, an opera, to the big screen for “one night only.” However, rarely, if ever, do these films give the viewer a viscerally affecting look into the creative process, while also being a true work of art both stage and screen, quite like Louis Malle’s 1994 masterwork, and ultimately his final work, Vanya On 42nd Street.
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- 2/29/2012
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
Before Community riffed on it, My Dinner With Andre was the kind of thing you chatted about over Merlot while chuckling and pretending to know what you were talking about. After Community, that’s still the case, but you can reference Community referencing it and still seem cool. The truth is, Wallace Shawn and André Gregory‘s contemplative dinner conversation about the nature of art is fascinating because it features two men who know way more than they should talking about the broad-reaching subject of the humanities. Even as high a pedestal as they should be on, they manage to come off casually. Why there hasn’t been a podcast featuring the two yet is baffling, but according to The New York Times, they’re both set to work together again, and they’ll be doing it with directing icon Jonathan Demme. After Dinner, they did Vanya on 42nd Street, so...
- 2/29/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
My Dinner With Andre has always had a lingering cultural significance that far outweighed the number of people who had actually seen the movie, thanks to its reputation as a slow, low-key, arty movie that's the opposite of the usual Hollywood whiz-bang. But thanks to Community's tribute episode to the Louis Malle film, the movie is back in a weird way-- so fans of that episode where Abed and Jeff share a meal together may be excited to know that the film's stars, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, are finally ready to collaborate again. Appropriately enough for a highbrow effort between the guys who also made Vanya on 42nd Street, this news comes from The New York Times, where Shawn and Gregory announce that they'll be working together on a filmed version of the Henrik Ibsen play Master Builder. But this won't be some lavish theatrical production shot from every...
- 2/29/2012
- cinemablend.com
Nearly two decades after they shook up the art house cinema world with cult classics "My Dinner With André" and "Vanya on 42nd Street", creators Wallace Shawn and André Gregory are re-teaming for a new project which Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs," "Rachel Getting Married") will direct reports The New York Times.
The sub-$1 million film is being described as an adaptation of Ibsen’s “Master Builder", the story of an architect (Shawn) increasingly caught up in his own fantasies. Julie Hagerty will star as his wife, Lisa Joyce as his young admirer and Gregory as an aging employee of the architect.
Both Shawn or Gregory had issues with the original translation and went back to the original Norwegian text. With the help of an Ibsen scholar, Shawn carefully translated the play himself and made "cuts and changes of emphasis and interpretation".
The film will be shot in...
The sub-$1 million film is being described as an adaptation of Ibsen’s “Master Builder", the story of an architect (Shawn) increasingly caught up in his own fantasies. Julie Hagerty will star as his wife, Lisa Joyce as his young admirer and Gregory as an aging employee of the architect.
Both Shawn or Gregory had issues with the original translation and went back to the original Norwegian text. With the help of an Ibsen scholar, Shawn carefully translated the play himself and made "cuts and changes of emphasis and interpretation".
The film will be shot in...
- 2/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Is it even possible that a more interesting group will coalesce during this week? I’m going to go ahead and say “no.”
Per a report in The New York Times, we can tell you that Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory — best known for their Louis Malle-directed My Dinner with André and Vanya on 42nd Street — will reunite for a third (and possibly final) time on Wally and André Shoot Ibsen, their experimental adaptation of Henrik Ibsen‘s play, The Master Builder. Directing it all? Mr. Jonathan Demme.
The project found a genesis when, as Shawn claims, he and Gregory set out about 14 years ago to put their own spin on this story. All this time was necessary, seeing as the former took the time to translate the original Norwegian text into English, make some “adapting” choices where he saw fit, and then stage it with his frequent partner for personal friends.
Per a report in The New York Times, we can tell you that Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory — best known for their Louis Malle-directed My Dinner with André and Vanya on 42nd Street — will reunite for a third (and possibly final) time on Wally and André Shoot Ibsen, their experimental adaptation of Henrik Ibsen‘s play, The Master Builder. Directing it all? Mr. Jonathan Demme.
The project found a genesis when, as Shawn claims, he and Gregory set out about 14 years ago to put their own spin on this story. All this time was necessary, seeing as the former took the time to translate the original Norwegian text into English, make some “adapting” choices where he saw fit, and then stage it with his frequent partner for personal friends.
- 2/29/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Every year since 2000, the Jeonju International Film Festival has commissioned three short works for its Jeonju Digital Project and, about a month ago now, the festival announced it'd selected Raya Martin, Vimukthi Jayasundara and Ying Liang for this year's edition (you may remember the three directors' video messages). The 2011 films are still making the rounds, and in fact, when they screen tomorrow at Exit Art, two of them — Claire Denis's To the Devil and José Luis Guerín's Memories of a Morning, both 45 minutes — will be seeing their NYC premieres. The third is Jean-Marie Straub's An Heir (22 mins, image above). If you're planning on being there, you'll want to read Robert Koehler's dispatch from Locarno last summer, touching briefly on the Denis and Guerín films but really digging into the Straub.
Reading. "With the main focus on African and Asian cinema and documentary film, Camera Lucida no 7 also...
Reading. "With the main focus on African and Asian cinema and documentary film, Camera Lucida no 7 also...
- 2/28/2012
- MUBI
Moviefone's Pick of the Week "Hugo" What's It About? Martin Scorsese tries his hand at family films with this adaptation of the award-winning children's book. Hugo Cabret is an orphaned boy who lives out of a train station in 1930s Paris; by day he works as the station's clocksmith, by night he tries to solve the mystery that connects his departed father to a broken toy robot. Soon he is swept up in an adventure involving a mean old shopkeeper (Ben Kingsley) and lost pieces of film history. See It Because: It's a gorgeous, heart-warming, one-of-a-kind movie. Every detail -- from the snow-covered skyline of Paris to the recreation of landmark moments in silent film -- pop with excitement and beauty. We struggle to find the words that can describe this movie appropriately; Scorsese's technical craftsmanship and passion for film history are a surprising perfect fit for this sweet, whimsical...
- 2/28/2012
- by Eric Larnick
- Moviefone
Even his detractors must admit that there's a glorious unpredictability in watching the career of Jonathan Demme. In the last decade alone, he's directed two remakes of 1960s classics, documentaries on Neil Young, Haitian activist Jean Dominique and former President Jimmy Carter, indie drama "Rachel Getting Married," episodes of TV series "A Gifted Man" and "Enlightened," and, on the way, an animated adaptation of Dave Eggers' "Zeitoun" and Stephen King time-travel thriller "11/22/63." But his next film? It's something even more unexpected.
The New York Times reports that Demme is teaming up with theater legends Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, who each starred in Louis Malle's "My Dinner With André" and "Vanya On 42nd Street" (the latter of which Gregory co-directed), on a new film entitled "Wally And André Shoot Ibsen," which will shoot in New York in the spring.
Like 'Vanya,' which detailed the workshop rehearsals of...
The New York Times reports that Demme is teaming up with theater legends Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, who each starred in Louis Malle's "My Dinner With André" and "Vanya On 42nd Street" (the latter of which Gregory co-directed), on a new film entitled "Wally And André Shoot Ibsen," which will shoot in New York in the spring.
Like 'Vanya,' which detailed the workshop rehearsals of...
- 2/28/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Hugo Paramount obviously timed the release of Hugo on DVD and Blu-ray to coincide with the Oscars and I would bet anything that, about midway through Sunday night's show, some of the folks over there were thinking, "Hey, we might be able to take home Best Picture if it continues at this rate." Well, Hugo didn't win Best Picture, but it did manage to get some people interested and asking, "What is Hugo?" I noticed an increase in visits to the Hugo page here on the site. And to have the film hitting DVD and Blu-ray in the midst of that interest certainly doesn't hurt.
As for the film itself, I'm not as big a fan as some out there. I know some people simply adore this movie while others are just sort of down the middle on it. I fall in the latter category, but one thing is sure,...
As for the film itself, I'm not as big a fan as some out there. I know some people simply adore this movie while others are just sort of down the middle on it. I fall in the latter category, but one thing is sure,...
- 2/28/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 28, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A group of actors get down to some serious Chekhovian business in Vanya on 42nd Street.
A group of New York actors rehearse Anton Chekhov’s classic play Uncle Vanya in a rundown theater in the 1994 comedy-drama film Vanya on 42nd Street.
The comedy-drama movie was shot in the 1990s, when theater director André Gregory mounted a series of spare, private performances of Uncle Vanya in a crumbling Manhattan playhouse. These unique moments were captured on film by director Louis Malle (Zazie Dans Le Metro ).
In Vanya on 42nd Street, a stellar cast of actors — including Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride), Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right) and Brooke Smith (Fair Game) — embark on a full read-through of the play (adapted into English by David Mamet). The resulting film of the event by Malle, which turned out to be his last movie,...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A group of actors get down to some serious Chekhovian business in Vanya on 42nd Street.
A group of New York actors rehearse Anton Chekhov’s classic play Uncle Vanya in a rundown theater in the 1994 comedy-drama film Vanya on 42nd Street.
The comedy-drama movie was shot in the 1990s, when theater director André Gregory mounted a series of spare, private performances of Uncle Vanya in a crumbling Manhattan playhouse. These unique moments were captured on film by director Louis Malle (Zazie Dans Le Metro ).
In Vanya on 42nd Street, a stellar cast of actors — including Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride), Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right) and Brooke Smith (Fair Game) — embark on a full read-through of the play (adapted into English by David Mamet). The resulting film of the event by Malle, which turned out to be his last movie,...
- 11/25/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Photos from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo, Playing the Field, Brave, Arthur Christmas, This Must Be the Place, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Butter, and Ada Wong on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution.
Posters for Young Adult, Titanic 3D, Being Flynn, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Underworld Awakening and The Iron Lady.
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"Walt Disney Studios have proudly announced that a new animated short film based on "Tangled" will screen with "Beauty and the Beast in 3D" opening on January 13th 2012. The short spotlights the royal wedding of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and...
Posters for Young Adult, Titanic 3D, Being Flynn, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Underworld Awakening and The Iron Lady.
"Summit Entertainment estimates that this weekend’s domestic opening of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" will be around $110 million to $125 million, behind only "New Moon"…" (full details)
"Comedy Central has renewed animated series "South Park" for three more seasons. The deal will keep the series on through 2016 and extend its run to twenty seasons…" (full details)
"Walt Disney Studios have proudly announced that a new animated short film based on "Tangled" will screen with "Beauty and the Beast in 3D" opening on January 13th 2012. The short spotlights the royal wedding of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and...
- 11/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Have you ever seen the movie Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)? It's really quite good. The movie plays something like a fly on the wall rehearsal documentary of a stage production of Anton Chekov's immortal "Uncle Vanya." It marked the first important clue that Julianne Moore was going to be a major screen goddess (unless you count Short Cuts as just that, which some do) and it also gave Brooke Smith her first worthwhile role after achieving a kind of 'who is that she looks so familiar?' fame as "The Girl in the Pit" in Silence of the Lambs.
Two "Yelena"s: Cate (on stage) and Julianne (on film)It's a worthwhile rental so long as you give it your full attention as it's full of intricacies and performances of quiet but potent dramedic depth. If you're in Australia, though, you can see more than a rehearsal. You can...
Two "Yelena"s: Cate (on stage) and Julianne (on film)It's a worthwhile rental so long as you give it your full attention as it's full of intricacies and performances of quiet but potent dramedic depth. If you're in Australia, though, you can see more than a rehearsal. You can...
- 11/18/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
It's time to have a good cry with Julianne Moore. Good grief, she cry's so much in her films that when you see it all edited together like this it's freakin' hilarious! The video called, Julianne Moore Loves to Cry, comes from pajiba's video editor Harry Hanrahan, and here's a note from the site:
It’s a telling video; if you ever want to minimize the talent of an actor, try isolating similar moments from different movies and reducing them to one three-minute video. The video is initially somber, but as you see the same face repeat itself through the video, it grows increasingly absurd.
I couldn't help but laugh through most of the video, enjoy!
Julianne Moore crying montage.
A-z List of films used:
A Map of the World (1999)
Assassins (1995)
Blindness (2008)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Freedomland (2006)
Hannibal (2001)
Jurassic Park II: The Lost World (1997)
Laws of Attraction (2004)
Magnolia (1999)
Prize Winner of Defiance,...
It’s a telling video; if you ever want to minimize the talent of an actor, try isolating similar moments from different movies and reducing them to one three-minute video. The video is initially somber, but as you see the same face repeat itself through the video, it grows increasingly absurd.
I couldn't help but laugh through most of the video, enjoy!
Julianne Moore crying montage.
A-z List of films used:
A Map of the World (1999)
Assassins (1995)
Blindness (2008)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Freedomland (2006)
Hannibal (2001)
Jurassic Park II: The Lost World (1997)
Laws of Attraction (2004)
Magnolia (1999)
Prize Winner of Defiance,...
- 9/23/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
This is the podcast dedicated to The Criterion Collection. Rudie Obias, Ryan Gallagher & James McCormick discuss Criterion News & Rumors and Criterion New Releases, they also analyze, discuss & highlight Criterion #479 Louis Malle’s 1981 film, My Dinner With Andre.
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- 8/24/2010
- by Rudie Obias
- CriterionCast
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced one more 2009 honoree: Julianne Moore, a potential Oscar contender for her performance as a married alcoholic yearning for a gay man (fellow Santa Barbara honoree Colin Firth) in Tom Ford’s A Single Man (above). Moore will receive the festival’s Montecito Award, which recognizes "a performer who has given a series of classic and standout performances in his/her career," on Thursday, February 11, at the historic Arlington Theatre. Previous Montecito Award winners are Kate Winslet, Javier Bardem, Naomi Watts and Annette Bening. Among Julianne Moore’s credits are Jeremiah S. Chechik’s Benny & Joon; Robert Altman’s Short Cuts and Cookie’s Fortune; Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street; Todd Haynes‘ Safe, [...]...
- 12/13/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Ray Cullom, will present the beloved musical The Fantasticks, directed by Amanda Dehnert, from October 7 through November 1, 2009, on the Mainstage.
Press night is Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m. Curtain times are Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Wednesdays at 2 and 7 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3p.m. and 8p.m., and Sundays at 2p.m. and 7p.m. Tickets are $30-$70.
"I have loved The Fantasticks since I was a little kid," said Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. "This will be so much fun for the entire family."
This hit musical with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, the longest running Off-Broadway musical in history, tells the story of Luisa and Matt, a pair entering the bloom of their youth. Their fathers, scheming to encourage their budding love, hire...
Press night is Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m. Curtain times are Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Wednesdays at 2 and 7 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3p.m. and 8p.m., and Sundays at 2p.m. and 7p.m. Tickets are $30-$70.
"I have loved The Fantasticks since I was a little kid," said Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. "This will be so much fun for the entire family."
This hit musical with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, the longest running Off-Broadway musical in history, tells the story of Luisa and Matt, a pair entering the bloom of their youth. Their fathers, scheming to encourage their budding love, hire...
- 11/1/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes is returning to Broadway to helm a new production of the David Hare play The Vertical Hour, starring Julianne Moore. It will be the American Beauty filmmaker's first theatre work since his revival of the musical Gypsy on the New York stage in 2003. The Vertical Hour will focus on post 9/11 politics with Moore playing American war correspondent Nadia Blye, who teaches political studies at Yale University. The actress' last theatrical appearance was in 1992 when she appeared in Vanya On 42nd Street - about a rehearsal for the Anton Chekhov play Uncle Vanya. The new play opens in November.
- 3/27/2006
- WENN
MUNICH -- Warner Home Video and Intermedia Film Distribution, a subsidiary of the Munich and Los Angeles-based Internationalmedia AG, have inked a 10-year exclusive distribution deal for Intermedia's entire film library. The library includes such titles as the Jean-Claude Van Damme action-adventure Timecop, the Demi Moore starrer G.I. Jane and Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street. WHV paid the company an advance of $3.5 million for worldwide home video rights to the library as well as pay-per-view, video-on-demand and television rights in the U.S., Canada and Germany, Intermedia said in a statement Wednesday. Intermedia also will receive a video royalty as part of the deal, the statement added.
- 12/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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