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Birthday Suits: Ryan and Anne. Get 'Em While They're Hot

12 November 2009 5:31 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Nov. 12th: Celebrating the birthdays of the filmic and famous

1840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor... still waiting on a biopic though Gerard Depardieu did play him in Camille Claudel (1988). In his honor today, get naked and strike a memorable pose.

1922 Kim Hunter, "Stellaaa!"

1929 Grace Kelly, princess

1942 Wallace Shawn, "inconceivable!"

1945 Neil Young, musician

1947 Patrice Leconte, director (Ridicule, The Widow of St. Pierre, Monsieur Hire, etcetera)

1958 Megan Mullally, Karen no more

1963 Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor

1973 Radha Mitchell, actress. Melinda²

1978 Alexandra Maria Lara, international schauspielerin

Finally, let's hear it for one-time Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling, turning 29 today, and Anne Hathaway, turning 27. Will it be tricky for them to find worthy follow ups to Half Nelson and Rachel Getting Married? Being in demand, which they both unquestionably are, is different than finding challenging three-dimensional parts. Hathaway has 10 projects somewhere on that long and volatile road to the screen the most exciting of which, from an acting standpoint, »

- NATHANIEL R

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Speak of the Devil: The Many Faces of Cinematic Satanism

30 October 2009 8:07 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

The Bible says that Satan "masquerades as an angel of light. In popular culture, we tend to think of him as a big red dude with horns and a pitchfork, or as a talking snake, or as Al Pacino in an Armani suit. The devil, in other words, comes in many different forms. And his followers come in just as many. Unlike a lot of other horror movie staples, there's no visual archetype for satanists. We recognize a vampire when we see his fangs and a zombie by the rotting flesh, but a Satan-worshipper? Tougher to spot.

In the new indie horror film "The House of the Devil," an unknowing teenager looking to make some quick cash is lured into a babysitting job by a crew of weirdos who are ultimately revealed to be devil worshippers (not a spoiler, folks, look at the title). This particular coven of satanists are a bunch of suburban eccentrics, »

- Matt Singer

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Alec Baldwin Returns As Co-Host Of "The Essentials"

9 October 2009 2:10 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

"30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin will be back for a second season as a co-host of Turner Classic Movies' "The Essentials," joining Robert Osborne in the show.

The 10th season of "The Essentials" will kick off in March with the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.

The season will also showcase four Academy Award Best Picture winners "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), "Gigi" (1958), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)," and "The Sting" (1973), as well as Best Foreign Language Film winner "Black Orpheus" (1959).

Baldwin said, "I have enormous respect for TCM and Robert Osborne. TCM has stayed true to its mission, with a vast library of movies from many different decades. I'm proud to be able to sit down with Robert again."

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Bad Ronald - DVD Review

22 August 2009 8:46 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Warner Brothers continues with their popular Archive Collection in releasing some cult .movie of the week. television films. Ronald may not be as bad as he thinks, but he gets worse when he.s walled up in the house and retreats into his self produced fantasy world. Ronald Wilby (Scott Jacoby) is a creative but geeky kid who lives with his overprotective mother Elaine (Kim Hunter). Ronald wants to be a doctor to help his ailing mother. He also wants to ask Laurie (Shelly Spurlock) on a date but is roundly rejected. On the way back home he.s made fun of by Laurie.s sister Carole (Angela Hoffman). He pushes her and she falls and strikes her head on a »

- Jeff Swindoll

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Karl Malden (Rip)

1 July 2009 7:45 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 [via]

This past week has been very rough on the entertainment industry and our cultural history. Today, with Karl Malden's death, we've lost the last remaining principal cast member of Tennessee William's legendary play turned movie A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Now, Malden's career was much larger than mama's boy Harold "Mitch" Mitchel but that classic role, which he originated and owned, is a vital part of his legacy.

Strangely, Jessica Tandy's Tony honor (the original "Blanche DuBois") was the show's only attention from 'Broadway's Oscars' if you will. All the principles transferred to the movie except Tandy who was replaced by the cinema's most legendary southern belle (even though she was British) Vivien Leigh. When it came to the Oscars, three of the four actors (including Malden) collected statues. In typical Oscar fashion the performance most often regarded as game changing for the entire »

- NATHANIEL R

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Karl Malden Passes Away at the Age of 97

1 July 2009 5:34 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

It has been a rough two weeks for the entertainment business when it comes to the passing of major celebrity names as Karl Malden has passed away at the age of 97. Malden died in his sleep about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, his manager Bud Ross tells CNN. Malden won an Oscar for his performance alongside Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and was also nominated for another one of his performances opposite Brando in On the Waterfront in 1955. Only five years ago at the 2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards he was recognized with a Life Achievement Award and has long been recognized as a Hollywood icon. My personal experience with his movies has been relatively limited considering the overal breadth of his career but I have seen him in films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, How the West Was Won, The Cincinnati Kid, Patton »

- Brad Brevet

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On DVD: "The Wedding Director," Michael Powell

6 January 2009 7:53 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

By Michael Atkinson

Turning 70 this year, Marco Bellocchio has finally attained old-guard respectability, in light of the ironic, seasoned, historically quizzical mastery of "My Mother's Smile" (2002), "Good Morning, Night" (2003) and now "The Wedding Director" (2006). Notorious here as a mere provocateur (largely thanks to Maruschka Detmers' half-hearted blowjob in "Devil in the Flesh"), Bellocchio has always seemed young and ready to rumble ever since his 1965 debut "Fists in the Pocket," fashioned, when he was 26, as a sneak attack on all things Old World Catholic, provincial, late-baroque, aristocratic and traditional. Now, after many darkling family tales and adaptations of Pirandello, Bellocchio has mellowed into a ruminative, absurdist autumnal mood, and "The Wedding Director" is his most sheerly enjoyable film in years. The movie has a pleasantly Rivette-like dimension to it -- however much we see, we're always aware of something unmentioned and mysterious going on at the fringes of the story. »

- Michael Atkinson

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DVD Set Restores Heavenly Drama

6 January 2009 12:16 AM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Besides being a legendary Led Zeppelin recording, "Stairway to Heaven" is the more upbeat Us release title of a 1946 romantic fantasy known in Britain as "A Matter of Life and Death."

The singular writing-directing-producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - who called themselves The Archers and are best known for "The Red Shoes" (1948) - cast David Niven as an Raf squadron leader who bails out of his burning plane without a functioning parachute.

Miraculously, the »

- By LOU LUMENICK

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