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This week's new cinema previews
4 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Box (12A)
(Richard Kelly, 2009, Us) Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella. 116 mins
Will Kelly ever make another movie as good as Donnie Darko? There are signs here that he might, but he hasn't this time. The Twilight Zone plot – press the button on this box and you'll get $1m, but someone will die – opens up more moral/conspiracy/sci-fi elements than the film can handle. Still, too much is better than not enough, especially when it's as smoothly sinister, visually sophisticated and borderline bonkers as this.
Me And Orson Welles (12A)
(Richard Linklater, 2008, Us/UK) Zac Efron, Claire Danes. 114 mins
Efron graduates from High School backstage to Welles's 1930s theatre troupe in this sweet coming-of-age flick, holding his own against Christian McKay's rakish, bombastic Welles – even when they fall for the same girl.
Cracks (15)
(Jordan Scott, 2009, UK) Eva Green, Juno Temple. 104 mins
Set within the confines of a posh girls' boarding school, »
- Steve Rose
Film review: The Box
3 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
An intriguing premise turns in to 115 minutes of codswallop. Peter Bradshaw squirms away
There are some films that confront the viewer with profound ethical dilemmas, agonising moral choices. In this one, an ageing man with a horrible face approaches a happily married woman with a proposition that could earn her $1m. Oh, heavens to Betsy, you are probably thinking, it's that Robert Redford back again, the incorrigible old goat, making another of his indecent proposals: a sackful of cash in exchange for the chance to let his expensive trousers and pants pool round his ankles while he puts you on the receiving end of a one-off rogering. How absolutely loathsome. And yet it is a lot of money, so gosh, would I? Would I?
But it is not Robert Redford. This time it is Frank Langella, playing a man with an appalling wound to the side of his face, dressed »
- Peter Bradshaw
Film Weekly podcast meets Claire Danes and Disgrace director Steve Jacobs
3 December 2009 3:16 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week's edition, hosted by Xan Brooks, hops from talking film and theatre with actor Claire Danes, to discussing the politics of post-apartheid South Africa with the director of Disgrace, to reviewing Steven Soderbergh's portrait of a high-class hooker, The Girlfriend Experience.
First up, Claire Danes, who burst on to the screen in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, tells Jason Solomons about starring in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles opposite Zac Efron. She discusses her career to date – combining small films with blockbusters such as Terminator 3 and starring on Broadway as Eliza in Pygmalion – and how Efron's performance in the film will surprise everyone.
Xan Brooks then chats with Steve Jacobs, the Australian actor turned director who has made a solid adaptation of Jm Coetzee's Booker prize winning novel Disgrace. The film stars John Malkovich as a shamed professor who finds refuge on his daughter's farm in post-apartheid South Africa, »
- Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Jason Phipps, Observer
Richard Kelly's $1m question
2 December 2009 2:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He made one of the coolest debuts ever, Donnie Darko – then it all went wrong. Now Richard Kelly's back, with a film about a shocking dilemma
After making Donnie Darko, his phenomenally self-assured and very cheap debut, Richard Kelly went on to direct 2006's Southland Tales, a surreal epic set in a post-apocalyptic America. When a rough cut was screened at Cannes, it wasn't just booed – it was denounced.
The memory still troubles him. "We did Southland for about $17m," he says. "A lot to me, but not much to some. We felt like we were making a bold satire of the Bush administration, and of celebrity and pop culture. Think Pynchon and Philip K Dick. We squeezed every penny out of the budget and worked like dogs. I'm so grateful for the experience, but it's the kind of thing you hope to get out of your system while you're still young. »
- John Patterson
It Wouldn't Be Wall Street 2 Without a Trump Cameo
1 December 2009 2:50 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
It's almost too perfect: Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps will feature a cameo by New York real estate mogul and Apprentice head honcho, Donald Trump. Arguably, Trump is akin to the real life Gordon Gekko, embodying all that we've come to expect of money and greed, so it's perhaps no surprise that the filmmakers chose to add him to the mix to up the story's realism. Personally, I have a sneaking admiration for Trump, so I'm looking forward to his scenes with the fictional Gekko.
As the film presently lenses on the Upper and Lower East Side of New York City, new photos have emerged of Trump on the set, interacting with Michael Douglas and director Oliver Stone. You can see the photos below, originally courtesy of Film Gecko.
Meanwhile, the first image of Josh Brolin as the film's villain as also arrived online, and you can see that to your left. »
Check out Donald Trump talking to Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street 2′
1 December 2009 12:10 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
I was an advocate of a Donald Trump cameo in Superman Returns. I just didn’t tell anybody. I envisioned Trump and Luthor walking out of a big swanky conference room and Trump would say “You did it again, Luthor. You drive a hard bargain.” It never happened. Damn me.
However, Donald Trump does have a cameo in the upcoming Oliver Stone film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. In one of the shots we see the real estate tycoon striking up a conversation with Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko. (Josh Brolin is there too.)
We picture the conversation going something like this:
Trump: Hey Gekko? How was prison? Are you sore?
Gekko: Sore from kicking your ass in the money game.
Trump: I don’t know…that doesn’t even make sense.
Gekko: Shut up and eat your hamburger.
Wall Street 2 also stars Shia Labeouf, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella »
- Reel Loop News Staff
Nocturnal Admissions: 2012 versus The Box
23 November 2009 2:47 AM, PST | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »
Roland Emmerich is the Irwin Allen de nos jours, and his new film, 2012, is an anthology of disaster films past. It’s got a bit of Volcano, of Earthquake, of all the Airports, and even When Time Ran Out, not to mention The Bible, at least the part about Noah. But unlike those earlier films, 2012 is primarily a comedy. Sure, serious things happen, such as the near demise of the earth and the deaths of billions of people, but the story is told with a certain measure of wit, a wink to the audience that says this is all for fun. When you see elephants being hauled by helicopters to a modern ark, or when someone says, “I’m not going to let anything come between us,” immediately before a fissure opens up on the floor before him, you have to realize that the director and his fellow credited writer »
- dkholm
David Thomson on Frank Langella
19 November 2009 3:55 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature'
Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979). But he wasn't ready. Something in his lofty mien suggested that he scorned movies, or simply didn't know how to behave in them. But now … well, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes on changing its own rules the way they seem inclined, Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature.
The Box is opening, as they say, »
- David Thomson
Box, The | Review
19 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Richard Kelly Writer(s): (short story "Button, Button") Richard Matheson, (screenplay) Richard Kelly Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella The Box begins with a CIA internal memo being typed out onscreen concerning a man named Arlington Steward who has suffered severe burn wounds. Next thing we know, it is 1976 and we find ourselves in Richmond, Virginia as Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) are awoken (at 5:45 am) by their doorbell. Norma notices a mysterious black sedan pulling away and she discovers a non-descript box wrapped in brown paper on their front step. Norma and Arthur open the box, it contains: a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, a key, and a note reading something along the lines of “Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.” Later in the morning, their son Walter (Sam Oz Stone) leaves for school. Arthur drives »
- Don Simpson
'New Moon' premiere: On the scene with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and inappropriate fan signs
17 November 2009 7:53 AM, PST | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
Last night's Los Angeles premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon brought out the film's stars and the devoted fans, the latter holding signs that ranged from the comically desperate ("Team Whatever I Can Get"), to the sexual and age-inappropriate ("Jacob Black: I’d hit that with a Volvo"), to the self-aware ("Don't judge me," "Don't stalk the Pattinson"). While Taylor Lautner skipped the print press line, Stewart and Pattinson, the latter of whom had no idea that Twihards had camped out in Westwood for four days to catch a glimpse of him, did their duty. "You can't prepare for this, »
- Mandi Bierly
Review: The Box
14 November 2009 6:42 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Richard Kelly is unable to make a dull film, and the merits of his latest, The Box, point to a director whose commitment is always to his own personal view of the story – not the narrative flow, nor the performances of the actors, and certainly not to giving the audience a coherent and straightforward plot.
The Box is Kelly’s third film and follows the glorious angst-ridden time twister of Donnie Darko and the visually stunning Southland Tales, a post apocalyptic mess of identity and ideas. The Box deals with the slow burning personal apocalypse of two suburbanites, Norma and Arthur (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden), who suffer a sudden loss of fortune and are perplexed when a small package arrives early one morning anonymously which, when opened, contains the titular box. Later that day the ominous figure of Arlington Steward, the owner of the box, appears to offer the »
- Jon Lyus
Birthday Suits: Hamlets & Hydes
13 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/131312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death. That Gibson's sperm could magically endure beyond the grave is far more likely. He already has eight children.1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, famous influential thespian and the 19th century's most prominent Hamlet. He's been portrayed onscreen and stage by famous thespians like Richard Burton and Frank Langella, usually in stories connected to his estranged brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Will someone play him in the Spielberg helmed Lincoln film?
Oskar, Steve and Whoopi
1897 Gertrude Omstead, one of many silent film actresses who moved on once sound hit the movies. »
- NATHANIEL R
The Box Movie Review
12 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Richard Kelly has once again made a film that confuses me. It's not the head-spinning, I need a chart to figure out the plot sort of confusion that Donnie Darko was. It isn't the "why did they need to expand more" confusion created by the director's cut of Darko. Nor is it that frustrating form of confusion caused by Southland Tales, where you wonder how this movie even got made when even the director doesn't seem to know what the movie's about. This is a different kind of confusing, as The Box is more than competently made, has a story that's easy to follow, and features terrific turns from all three leads, and yet it left me cold and not sure how I feel about it.
The Box is a typical Twilight Zone-movie, where an unnatural situation is thrown at a seemingly normal person, or peoples, who are then »
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
First Images and Synopses for All Good Things, Pirhana 3D, Shanghai, and The Fighter
10 November 2009 10:54 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Afm* fun continues with the first images and full synopses for All Good Things starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, Pirhana 3D starring Elisabeth Shue and Richard Dreyfuss, Shanghai starring John Cusack and Ken Watanbe, and The Fighter starring Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, and Amy Adams. These are all films that should be on your radar because there’s a good chance that these films will be getting some major marketing when they hit theaters.
I write and read about films every day and with the exception of The Fighter, these films weren’t really on my radar. After reading the synopses and seeing some shots from these movies, I’ll definitely be on the lookout for further news about them. Hit the jump to check out debut photos and what you need to know about these upcoming flicks.
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans »
- Matt Goldberg
Movie Review: The Box
10 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Warner Bros.
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Richard Kelly’s third film, The Box, is based on the short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson which later became a segment on an episode of The Twilight Zone. If you know nothing about the movies that Kelly has written and directed then you watched The Box because it has Cameron Diaz in it and you thought it looked interesting. If you are familiar with his movies then you knew what you were getting in to. Either way you will all have the same reaction. If you are part of the latter group you know that reaction because you’ve been here before.
Living in fairly affluent Virginia suburb in 1976, Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma Lewis »
- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
Movie Review: The Box
10 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Warner Bros.
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Richard Kelly's third film, The Box, is based on the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson which later became a segment on an episode of The Twilight Zone. If you know nothing about the movies that Kelly has written and directed then you watched The Box because it has Cameron Diaz in it and you thought it looked interesting. If you are familiar with his movies then you knew what you were getting in to. Either way you will all have the same reaction. If you are part of the latter group you know that reaction because you've been here before.
Living in fairly affluent Virginia suburb in 1976, Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma Lewis (Diaz) appear to be living the American dream. They have a nice house, »
- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
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