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Full of the strange
5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In September Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. He faces extradition to the Us, having fled the States in 1978 to avoid being sentenced for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The debate about the case has raged ever since. Martin Amis was the first writer to interview Polanski after his flight, meeting him in Paris in 1979 for a magazine article. Here, we publish the encounter in full
When I was being driven to the police station from the hotel, the car radio was already talking about it. The newsmen were calling the police before I was arrested to see whether they can break the news. I couldn't believe… I thought, you know, I was going to wake up from it. I realise, if I have killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. »
- Martin Amis
Oscars quiz: What film lost all five bids for acting?
5 December 2009 11:15 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
All of the films below received five Oscar nominations for acting. Only one was totally snubbed in the performance categories. Which one? To see the answer, click on the "Continue reading" link below. Answer: "Tom Jones" (1963) lost all five: Albert Finney (actor), Hugh Griffith (supporting actor), Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans, Joyce Redman (supporting actress). As for the others: "The Godfather: Part II" (1974) won one: Robert DeNiro (supporting actor). "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) won one: Estelle Parsons (supporting actress). "All About Eve" (1950) won one: George Sanders (supporting actor). Note: "Network" (1976) was also nominated for five acting slots, winning three: Peter Finch (actor), Faye Dunaway (actress), Beatrice Straight (supporting actress). "Peyton Place"... »
- tomoneil
Depp could play Pancho Villa
4 December 2009 5:47 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Serbian director Emir Kusturica is in talks with Johnny Depp to star as the infamous Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa. The upcoming Spanish-language biopic is titled "Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers." Kusturica wrote the script with his regular collaborator Gordan Mihic. The script is based on the biographical novel "The Friends of Pancho Villa," in which author James Carlos Blake recounts Villa.s wild days robbing the rich with his men.Shooting would not start until 2011 due to Depp's prior workload. The film will be shot partly in Mexico.According to Variety, Salma Hayek is in talks to co-star.Depp starred in Kusturica.s indie film "Arizona Dream" in 1993 alongside Faye Dunaway and Jerry Lewis. »
- Adnan Tezer
Review: ‘Precious’
20 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
I can’t really say that I enjoyed watching Precious. To do so would make me categorically misogynistic. Precious ( Based On The Book ‘Push’ by Sapphire) is a brutally punishing look into the life of an economically depressed 16 year old living in a ghetto with her insidiously evil mother. It is jarring, unflinching, and depressing. That is not to say that it is not a good movie, but don’t go expecting a joyful denouement to the story arc. Things are not wrapped up in a typical tidy Hollywood bow.
Precious is played by outstanding newcomer Gabourey Sidibe. She is an obese, dark-skinned, illiterate 16 year old pregnant with her second child. Her first child is mentally handicapped (Precious lovingly refers to her as Monglo) and is kept from Precious at a grandmother’s house. The only time Precious gets to see her child is when it is time for a »
- Shannon Hood
Dunaway Facing Eviction Over Unpaid Rent - Report
19 November 2009 4:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran movie star Faye Dunaway is facing eviction from her New York City home for allegedly failing to pay her rent.
The Chinatown actress' landlord has threatened to kick her out of the property if she refuses to hand over the $1,920 (£1,200) she is said to owe.
According to TMZ.com, a notice was left on Dunaway's door on 23 October but the star has yet to respond.
Bosses at Vanderleigh Properties have now filed a notice of non-payment in New York County Civil Court in a bid to force Dunaway to pay up, reports the website. »
Dunaway's Landlord -- Faye Won't Pay!
18 November 2009 9:30 PM, PST | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
The only thing outstanding about Faye Dunaway as a tenant is the balance she allegedly owes her NYC landlord -- and if she doesn't pay up, they want her out.According to the landlord, the Oscar winning actress owes $1,920.85 in back rent -- and we've learned Vanderleigh Properties has filed a notice of non-payment in New York County Civil Court to get it back.We're told the last notice was posted on her door on »
Cast Added For The Hilary Duff Bonnie And Clyde Movie
17 November 2009 1:18 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It's been a good couple of months since we heard casting news about The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, the movie that will star Hilary Duff as the historical figure once portrayed by Faye Dunaway, and may ruin cinematic history in the process. In case you were hoping that meant the whole thing was off, no such luck-- Screen Daily is reporting that Thora Birch, Taryn Manning and Cloris Leachman have been added to the cast, and filming will start soon enough in the South. They're not saying which characters the three ladies will be portraying, but presumably neither of them will start a feud with Dunaway the way Duff did when the project was first announced. Birch, of course, is well-remembered as the teenage daughter in American Beauty and Enid from Ghost World, but hasn't had a major movie role since the early part of this decade. Not sure »
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Screenwriter and filmmaker Robert Towne.
Forget It Bob, It’S Chinatown
Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary
By
The haunting trumpet wailing plaintively over the closing credits. The bandage covering star Jack Nicholson’s nose. The best last line of a movie, ever: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown"; all elements of a film now regarded by scholars, critics and cinefiles alike as one of the greatest pieces of American celluloid ever made. Chinatown was a collaboration between a who’s-who of ‘70s film icons. Directed by Roman Polanski, produced by Robert Evans, written by Robert Towne, starring Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, shot by John Alonso, and scored by Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1974, but brought home only one: for its writer. Robert Towne was barely 40, and Chinatown his first produced original screenplay, his previous efforts having been literary adaptations, such as 1973’s The Last Detail. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
Faye Dunaway Reportedly to Begin Filming 'Master Class' This Week
24 October 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Faye Dunaway is set to start filming 'Master Class' in Detroit next week, as both the star and director of the movie. The paper reports that she's been in town for a month in pre-production and that reports of the movie having stalled were false. Dunaway has been trying to put together a feature film adaptation of the Tony-winning play "Master Class" for the past five years after previously starring in a 1997 tour. »
Chinatown's 35th Anniversary Edition and the Polanski Scandal
24 October 2009 12:05 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In one of the great ironies, the 35th anniversary edition of Chinatown came out this month, nearly at the same time that its director, Roman Polanski, was arrested in Switzerland after fleeing Los Angeles over 30 years ago following a downward guilty plea and brief imprisonment for unlawful sex with a minor. Chinatown, the tale of a smart, tough detective investigating what he thinks, at first, is a simple case of infidelity in late 1930s Los Angeles, is my favorite film. On the surface, it's a period detective picture, a big Hollywood movie with the trappings of film noir. Beneath, it's much more. Armed with an alarmingly intelligent screenplay by Robert Towne, brilliantly cast -- from stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway down through the extras -- the film creates its own mesmerizing world through evocative music, costuming, and... »
- William Bradley
Villains We Love: Joan Crawford 'Mommie Dearest'
21 October 2009 4:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
It always amazes me how your perspective can change when you grow up with a movie, and sometimes the movie takes on a whole new meaning when you see it again with the eyes of an adult. When I was kid, I watched the 1980 cult classic Mommie Dearest and was terrified of Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford, the maniacal clean freak and abusive mom. But as an adult, I watch this movie, and it's pretty darn funny -- of course, that has a lot to do with watching the film with John Waters' commentary (and if you haven't heard it, I highly recommend picking up the Hollywood Royalty edition of Dearest on DVD).
Dearest was based on the exposé written by Crawford's daughter Christina in 1978, and the book dragged the Hollywood icon's reputation through the mud, and even inspired other celebrity tell-alls from other famous kids in the years to come. »
- Jessica Barnes
Wes Anderson's Absence Angers Fantastic Mr. Fox Crew
13 October 2009 2:56 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
All is not well in the world of Fantastic Mr. Fox. The stop-motion animation feature — which is based on the children's book by Roald Dahl — is still due out in a little over a month. But according to recent reports, the project has been hampered by unhappy relations between director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and Darjeeling Limited) and his crew.
Digital Spy writes that Anderson apparently took a hike for most of the on-site production's one-year duration, choosing instead to correspond with crew members by email from a residence in Paris.
Understandably, many of the crew members are a bit upset, perhaps none more than director of photography Tristan Oliver. Speaking to the press, he seemed to release some pent-up resentment when he lashed out at Anderson, and he made sure he pulled no punches:
It's not in the least bit normal. I've never worked on a picture »
- Rich Z Zwelling
New On DVD This Week
6 October 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Trick ‘r Treat (pictured above with Anna Paquin), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Chinatown, Bones Season 4 and the complete Stargate: Atlantis series.
Check them out.
Movies
Anvil: The Story of Anvil ~ Robb Reiner (DVD)
Assassination of a High School President ~ Kathryn Morris, Michael Rapaport, Bruce Willis (DVD and Blu-ray)
Chinatown ~ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston (DVD)
Contact ~ Jodie Foster (Blu-ray)
Dance Flick ~ Damon Wayans (DVD and Blu-ray)
The Gate ~ Christa Denton, Stephen Dorff (DVD and Blu-ray)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ~ Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray »
- Joe Gillis
Monday Night Poll: The Lamest Superhero Movie Villains
5 October 2009 8:18 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I grew up loving all things Superman, but even as a lad of 13 I could tell that the villain in Superman IV -- Nuclear Man, created when Supes threw all the world's nuclear weapons into the sun -- was dumb. He had no personality. He didn't even have a name. "Nuclear Man" is what the closing credits called him, but no one in the film ever calls him anything. Rule No. 1 of being a supervillain: You must have a name. I cannot imagine any exceptions to that rule.
So Nuclear Man is probably my vote for the lamest villain in a superhero movie, but it's hardly a slam-dunk. He has a lot of competition. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campy Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin is legendary. At the opposite end of the muscles scale, there's whiny Venom (Topher Grace) in Spider-Man 3 and emo-goth Blackheart (Wes Bentley) in Ghost Rider. And »
- Eric D. Snider
Roman Polanski's Chinatown - Special features clips and more from the DVD.
1 October 2009 12:39 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"Chinatown" is coming to DVD via Paramount Home Entertainment on October 6th. See great clips including special features from the Roman Polanski film starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Fritzi Burr and Cecil Elliott. Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair »
Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown
30 September 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
The curious timing and conspiratorial goings-on surrounding Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland this week bring to mind, for me, the Polish director’s most fascinating film, Chinatown. Arrested for a crime he confessed to thirty-two years ago, but the punishment for which he has avoided ever since, Polanski appears to have been drawn into a world of smoke-and-mirrors and legalese, finally bought down by the very system that has permitted his freedom from extradition since he fled the Us in 1977. It promises to be a distorted and confusing affair and like that experienced by Jake Gittes, the increasingly buffeted and bewildered detective protagonist in his 1974 neo-noir masterpiece, one that might prove impossible to truly unravel. Chinatown was, and remains, a dazzling exercise in cinematic intelligence and, even in that golden era of post-classical Hollywood, when directors as spiky and gifted as Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, Kubrick and Malick were at their towering, »
- Nick Clarke
Nyff: Lost Control
29 September 2009 3:23 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Cinema have produced some memorably bad mothers -- Faye Dunaway's wire-hanger-wielding Joan Crawford in "Mommie Dearest" springs to mind -- but I'm hard-pressed to think of a meaner mom in movie history than Mary, from director Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," a hateful, bitter woman who manages to be the most abusive parent in a family where the father has sired two children with his own daughter. This mortal-lock-for-an-Oscar-nomination of a performance comes from Mo'Nique, the comedienne who I previously knew best as the host of a reality television show that placed her name in tandem with the phrase "fat camp." After the accolades she rightfully deserves for "Precious" start coming her way, she won't be hosting any new seasons of that series anytime soon.
Mary lives with her daughter Precious (Gabourey Sidibe), who she openly despises and treats like a servant. Precious »
- Matt Singer
Roman Polanski Arrest Sparks International Incident (Video)
27 September 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »
The arrest of film Director Roman Polanski has risen to the level of an international incident after Swiss police nabbed him as he was entering the country to be honored at film festival. Polanski won Best Director Oscar for "The Pianist" in 2003. He also directed "Rosemary's Baby," starring Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow, and 1974s "Chinatown," which starred Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Both are considered classic films. The film director’s pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate was murdered in 1969 by followers of Charles Manson. »
- kgirard@theimproper.com (Keith Girard)
Beyonce And Janet? Gaga And Diddy? A Sneak Peek At Vma Seating
11 September 2009 8:02 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
'Twilight' stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner are also paired up in the crowd for Sunday's show, airing live at 9 p.m.
The seat cards at Radio City Music Hall in NYC
Photo: John Shearer
Onstage at New York's Radio City Music Hall, a swarm of headset-wearing technicians lift lights, hammer away at scaffolding, run reams of cable and try very hard not to collide into one another.
It's a performance in its own right, one that's been going on for nearly two weeks now, as the massive Video Music Awards stage has slowly been assembled inside the vaunted venue. Usually, no one but a few tired-eyed directors and producers are watching this all unfold, but today is different: Today, the seats are filled with the biggest stars in the business — Beyoncé, Eminem, 50 Cent, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, to name just a few — watching the Vma set spring to life. »
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