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'Teardrop Diamond' Finally Finds a Trailer
27 November 2009 8:32 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I was convinced this day would never come... I first wrote about The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond over three years ago when the forgotten Tennessee Williams screenplay got tapped for a feature film. Lindsay Lohan was set to star in it, before her heaps of turmoil turned her career sour. In 2007, Bryce Dallas Howard stepped in to replace Lohan, and in 2008, we finally got a still from the film. Now the movie has quietly swam through the festival circuit and is slated for release at the end of the year, which means we finally get a trailer, which you can see after the jump, courtesy of Coming Soon.
The trailer can certainly send you back in time, but maybe not to the right time. The whole thing reeks of 1980s Hallmark melodrama, from the scenes to the text and somber voiceover. Bryce Dallas Howard stars as Fisher Willow, a »
- Monika Bartyzel
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Trailer
25 November 2009 9:27 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Having recently heard about this movie for the first time, I wondered why it seems so much like a secret. The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is made from a Tennessee Williams screenplay that Elia Kazan never produced. It would almost be like finding a long dormant Mozart piece. Well, that’s not a perfect analogy, since a screenplay merely provides the structure. But then again, how did a director whose only directing credit is a short 1998 film called Why I Live at the P.O. come into possession of it? Apparently, it was found amongst the author’s papers in 1983 and was acquired by a film company called Paladin. That’s all that a quick Google search will yield. Coming Soon has the exclusive trailer for the film, which stars Bryce Dallas Howard in 1920s Memphis as Fisher Willow, a woman of high class who is frustrated by the corruption around her. »
- Jacob
First Diamond trailer
25 November 2009 6:40 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
This is a rather interesting tale of a lost script written by a famed playwright over forty years ago, a project that is just now seeing the light of day. For those of us young enough to think Tennessee Williams is a brand of whiskey, he's actually a hugely famous writer who penned A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll, both of which landed him Oscar nominations. Both were collaborations with director Elia Kazan, and The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond was meant to be a third venture, but for... »
- Paul Tassi
Lost Tennessee Williams Project Reborn
25 November 2009 3:30 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
There's a baffling lack of fanfare here for something this long in coming. Filming wrapped on The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond in 2008, the first new production of a Tennessee Williams screenplay in 40 years, with a strong cast including Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn and Ann-Margret, yet it's only being released in the States at the end of the year.According to Coming Soon, Williams was due to hand the script over to his A Streetcar Named Desire and Pretty Baby director Elia Kazan, but Kazan moved onto other projects. The script follows Mississippi socialite Fisher Willow (Dallas Howard), who in trying to get one-up on her corruptive and greedy father, hires her father's employ Jimmy (Chris Evans) to be her escort to a swish family party, which she has to attend if she stands any chance of inheriting money. Borrowing her great aunt's (Ann Margret) diamond earrings - priceless, »
Scorsese Receiving Honorary Golden Globe
13 November 2009 6:48 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Though there's the occasional Elia Kazan moment, where someone with a troubled Hollywood past has to step up and accept an award amid a crowd of detractors, the honorary awards at the Oscars and the Golden Globes are usually just a chance to catch up with some Hollywood legend you might not have seen in a while. So while Martin Scorsese's latest film Shutter Island has been pushed out of this year's Oscar race by virtue of release date, according to Variety we'll get to see him anyway as he accepts the Cecil B. DeMille award at the January 17 Golden Globe Awards. The DeMille is a generic lifetime achievement award, having been received by mostly actors (Harrison Ford and Warren Beatty are recent recipients) but also directors-- Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar, but he's got one of these. Remember that the Golden Globes, however much they are touted »
Standing Eight Count
2 November 2009 4:38 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Yesterday I sat down once again to watch Martin Scorsese’s 1980 masterpiece Raging Bull, taking my viewings somewhere into double figures. I consider it to be the director’s finest film (just edging out Mean Streets), and De Niro’s titular Bull, Jake Lamotta, the actor’s premier performance. It is a film that exercises an extraordinary hold, drawing me in time and again in search of new meaning. And it never fails to deliver. But as the credits role I always ask myself the same question: “Why does the film industry have such an abiding love affair with the sweet science?” Like a punch-drunk journeyman surviving on a mix of experience, gut instinct and crude reflex, the fight film, despite its often indelicate and rough-edged familiarity, continues to bewitch filmmakers and confound audiences with an Ali-esque dexterity. From noir-ish The Set Up, On The Waterfront, The Harder They Fall »
- Nick Clarke
Monologue: "He was a boy..."
26 October 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here bringing you the Monday Monologue, this time taken from Elia Kazan's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
"Blanche, can I ask you a question?" says shy Mitch (Karl Malden) to Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) during one of their dates. She says yes and he proceeds "How old are you?". With this simple question Leigh takes us on a trip down memory, and insanity, lane as she reminisces about her unsuccessful marriage to a "boy" named Allan.When I was sixteen I made the discovery: love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.
But I was unlucky. Deluded. There was something about the boy. The nervousness, the callousness, an uncertainty and I didn't understand.
I didn't understand why this boy, »
- Jose
Whispering Wind and the Profit Margin: A Petition
24 October 2009 6:36 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Above: Griffith's Intolerance.
In New York, Bam, Film Forum, and Anthology Film Archives are playing forgotten masterworks, unavailable on DVD, in pristine prints: this past week has surfaced prints of Elia Kazan’s America, America at Film Forum, Douglas Sirk’s A Time to Love and a Time to Die and André De Toth’s Man in the Saddle, Norman Rockwell with guns, at Bam, and an entire retrospective to Ulrike Ottinger at Anthology, where upcoming are long overdue retros of Roger Corman and Jerry Lewis. In most cases, it’s been decades since these films have been shown in New York.
Meanwhile, MoMA slugs on with deliberately disposable movies designed to draw families and indie teens who have already seen them: a Spike Jonze retro of his music videos and films; an upcoming Tim Burton retro the museum’s been working on for years; a just-completed “Recent Film Acquisitions »
The Auteurs Daily: New York, New York
23 October 2009 1:21 PM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
"My favorite film of the last two years, Hong Sang-soo's Bam gua nat (Night and Day), is getting a one-week run at Anthology Film Archives, starting this Friday," announces Dan Sallitt, and for more raves (well, mostly), you can turn to Richard Brody (New Yorker), Scott Foundas (Voice), Andrew Schenker (L) and Keith Uhlich (Time Out New York). Update, 10/23: More from Jeannette Catsoulis (New York Times), Michael Joshua Rowin (Reverse Shot) and S James Snyder (Artforum).
This is just one of several extraordinary runs going on in NYC over the next while, starting this evening at Film Forum, where, with what the Voice's J Hoberman calls the "cine-essay-cum-illustrated-lecture Rembrandt's J'accuse," Peter Greenaway "uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy - which is to say, he successfully turns The Night Watch into a Peter Greenaway film." More from Manohla Dargis (New York Times), David Fear (Tony), Nicolas Rapold »
Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews
22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor, »
- Roger Ebert
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Robert Pattinson: Keeping it Real
6 October 2009 11:26 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Our last article featuring Robert Pattinson dealt with the media's apparent obsession with the young British actor. In partnership with Rpo and their new website called F.L.A.N.S., which promoted the need for fans to respect the actor's privacy - tMF wrote an article detailing how fans can help.
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- - - To the Extreme: Now it seems a lot of online publications are going to the extreme to get the fan's attention. Let's take a closer look, and list down some 'glaring' examples:
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Highly and extremely Positive - Rob's brooding good looks and the film, about eternal love and teen angst, are strikingly similar to two monumental teen idols from previous generations - James Dean and Marlon Brando - who starred in similar movies. Both Dean and Brando became young sex symbols. Brando went on to star in a number »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Robert Pattinson: Keeping it Real
6 October 2009 11:26 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Our last article featuring Robert Pattinson dealt with the media's apparent obsession with the young British actor. In partnership with Rpo and their new website called F.L.A.N.S., which promoted the need for fans to respect the actor's privacy - tMF wrote an article detailing how fans can help.
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- - - To the Extreme: Now it seems a lot of online publications are going to the extreme to get the fan's attention. Let's take a closer look, and list down some 'glaring' examples:
- - -
Highly and extremely Positive - Rob's brooding good looks and the film, about eternal love and teen angst, are strikingly similar to two monumental teen idols from previous generations - James Dean and Marlon Brando - who starred in similar movies. Both Dean and Brando became young sex symbols. Brando went on to star in a number »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Robert Pattinson: Keeping it Real
6 October 2009 11:26 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Our last article featuring Robert Pattinson dealt with the media's apparent obsession with the young British actor. In partnership with Rpo and their new website called F.L.A.N.S., which promoted the need for fans to respect the actor's privacy - tMF wrote an article detailing how fans can help.
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- - - To the Extreme: Now it seems a lot of online publications are going to the extreme to get the fan's attention. Let's take a closer look, and list down some 'glaring' examples:
- - -
Highly and extremely Positive - Rob's brooding good looks and the film, about eternal love and teen angst, are strikingly similar to two monumental teen idols from previous generations - James Dean and Marlon Brando - who starred in similar movies. Both Dean and Brando became young sex symbols. Brando went on to star in a number »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Robert Pattinson: Keeping it Real
6 October 2009 11:26 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Our last article featuring Robert Pattinson dealt with the media's apparent obsession with the young British actor. In partnership with Rpo and their new website called F.L.A.N.S., which promoted the need for fans to respect the actor's privacy - tMF wrote an article detailing how fans can help.
- - -
- - - To the Extreme: Now it seems a lot of online publications are going to the extreme to get the fan's attention. Let's take a closer look, and list down some 'glaring' examples:
- - -
Highly and extremely Positive - Rob's brooding good looks and the film, about eternal love and teen angst, are strikingly similar to two monumental teen idols from previous generations - James Dean and Marlon Brando - who starred in similar movies. Both Dean and Brando became young sex symbols. Brando went on to star in a number »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Robert Pattinson: Keeping it Real
6 October 2009 11:26 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Our last article featuring Robert Pattinson dealt with the media's apparent obsession with the young British actor. In partnership with Rpo and their new website called F.L.A.N.S., which promoted the need for fans to respect the actor's privacy - tMF wrote an article detailing how fans can help.
- - -
- - - To the Extreme: Now it seems a lot of online publications are going to the extreme to get the fan's attention. Let's take a closer look, and list down some 'glaring' examples:
- - -
Highly and extremely Positive - Rob's brooding good looks and the film, about eternal love and teen angst, are strikingly similar to two monumental teen idols from previous generations - James Dean and Marlon Brando - who starred in similar movies. Both Dean and Brando became young sex symbols. Brando went on to star in a number »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Robert Pattinson: Keeping it Real
6 October 2009 11:26 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Our last article featuring Robert Pattinson dealt with the media's apparent obsession with the young British actor. In partnership with Rpo and their new website called F.L.A.N.S., which promoted the need for fans to respect the actor's privacy - tMF wrote an article detailing how fans can help.
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- - - To the Extreme: Now it seems a lot of online publications are going to the extreme to get the fan's attention. Let's take a closer look, and list down some 'glaring' examples:
- - -
Highly and extremely Positive - Rob's brooding good looks and the film, about eternal love and teen angst, are strikingly similar to two monumental teen idols from previous generations - James Dean and Marlon Brando - who starred in similar movies. Both Dean and Brando became young sex symbols. Brando went on to star in a number »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
The Centennial of Elia Kazan
7 September 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Today marks the centennial of director Elia Kazan’s birth, and doubtless Hollywood will soon be giving us souped-up special editions of his finest film work, if they haven’t already. Though DVD extras can be uneven, this is still an exciting prospect. Kazan’s best work truly deserves re-discovery, since for the most part it defies dated-ness. His then groundbreaking use of “the Method”, adapted from famed Russian dramatist Constantin Stanislavski, had much to do with his movies packing an unusually powerful punch. Co-founder of the Actor’s Studio, Kazan was perhaps the foremost “Method” disciple, who almost mystically encountered its most powerful purveyor in an actor he discovered and shot to fame: Marlon Brando. This diminutive Greek-American was nothing if not prolific in show business, and in the 40’s and 50's, most everything he did was good, and quite often great. He started out... »
- John Farr
Screenwriter Budd Schulberg Dies
7 August 2009 8:33 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
The American novelist and scriptwriter Budd Schulberg has died, aged 95. Schulberg is probably best known for his screenplay for the classic Marlon Brando film On the Waterfront.
Budd Schulberg was born Seymour Wilson Schulberg in New York City in 1914. His father was Benjamin P. Schulberg, head of Paramount Pictures. Schulberg schooled at Deerfield Academy and Dartmouth College before he got a job writing scripts for Paramount. He worked on the screenplays for Little Orphan Annie (starring ) and Winter Carnival (featuring Ann Sheridan), which were released in 1938 and 1939, respectively.
In World War II Schulberg served in the the Office of Strategic Services. When the war was over he turned his hand to writing novels, including 'What Makes Sammy Run?' (1941) and 'The Harder They Fall' (1947). Not long after the war he also appeared before the House of Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating allegations of communist activity in Hollywood. »
On the Waterfront screenwriter and Oscar winner Schulberg dies
6 August 2009 5:54 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
New York - Budd Schulberg, the novelist and screenwriter who won an Oscar for the 1954 film On the Waterfront, has died at the age of 95. Schulberg died Wednesday at his home on Long Island in the Us state of New York, his wife, Betsy, told The New York Times. The New York native and son of a film producer wrote such prize-winning novels as What Makes Sammy Run and The Harder They Fall in the 1940s, but he was best known for penning the screenplay for On the Waterfront, which starred Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint and won a total of eight Oscars. Three years, later, Schulberg worked again with director Elia Kazan »
Hollywood Loses a Real Contender
5 August 2009 6:11 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
If you've ever repeated Marlon Brando's "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum…" speech, you have Budd Schulberg to thank. The novelist and On the Waterfront screenwriter died today at age 95. Schulberg, the son of a powerful Paramount exec, made his name with the iconic novel What Makes Sammy Run?, a scathing look at the cost of making it big in Tinseltown. The writer—who named names during the years of the Hollywood blacklist—teamed with director Elia Kazan not only on Waterfront, but on the classic A Face in the Crowd, which remains a primer on political demagoguery. »
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