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A Single Actress (Julianne Moore and Oscar)

27 September 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

There can be only one ...winner, that is.

This year's supporting actress contest (new predictions!), if you believe early hype, is down to Mo'Nique vs. ummmm? She's way out front for her abusive mother role in Precious. But with Julianne Moore's supposedly vivid contribution to Tom Ford's A Single Man newly exciting festival auds, we could see the redhead goddess nab her 5th career nomination. That's quite an honor, even if she never wins that elusive statue.

The Man That Got Away Keeps Getting Away

A couple of years ago I asked readers who the next Deborah Kerr would be. Which modern important actress will be forever appreciated but never fully embraced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Back then Kate Winslet was sort of gunning for the honor. Now that the English Rose has noisily moved into the winner's circle, the imaginary competition is back on. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Scenes We Love: The Awful Truth

9 August 2009 4:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Over the course of earning a degree in Cinema Studies, I'll be honest with you; I hardly ever got to watch the kind of movies that I liked. Call me lowbrow if you must, but remember, I'm talking about my university years, and getting up at eight Am to watch Berlin: Symphony of a Great City wasn't the best way to nurse a hangover. Don't get me wrong, I learned plenty and I was happy for the chance to see intellectually challenging films -- I just didn't always have that much fun. That is until I signed up for Classic Hollywood Cinema, and finally I got my chance to watch movies like Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth and pretend I was studying.

The great Jean Renoir once said, "[Leo] McCarey understands people - perhaps better than anyone else in Hollywood.", and Truth is a great example of McCarey's way with a character. »

- Jessica Barnes

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Screwballs Let Loose On DVD

4 August 2009 12:49 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

It's even more slippery to define as a genre than film noir, but that hasn't stopped Sony from dipping into its Columbia Pictures vaults for a pair of sets titled "Icons of Screwball Comedy," out today on DVD.

The critic Andrew Sarris called screwball comedies "sex comedies without the sex."

Other recurrent elements include farce, slapstick and snappy repartee, with plots frequently focusing on mistaken identity, class issues and, of course, romantic complications.

Three of the four actresses showcased in the sets -- with two films apiece -- are certainly closely identified with the genre, »

- By LOU LUMENICK

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John Lithgow: The Hollywood Interview

23 June 2009 2:51 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Actor John Lithgow

John Lithgow: Confessions of a Actorholic

By Ben Braddock

Veteran performer John Lithgow is a member of the impressive cast of Confessions of a Shopaolic. The zany comedy revolves around shopping crazy Becky Bloomwood(Isla Fisher), who can’t resist temptation when it comes to shopping. Whether it’s dresses or accessories, this irrepressible young woman has no self-control and will get out her credit card at every possible opportunity. She cannot pass a shop window without walking in and buying something.

Hoping to get a job on a leading fashion magazine – she ends up instead landing a job on a financial publication and actually becomes successful – helping readers to sort out their money problems, even though she cannot stick to a budget herself. Hugh Dancy plays the magazine editor; John Lithgow is the powerful boss. Witty and charismatic, the actor hits just the right notes in the film, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Rubber Ducky in Quest of Raison D'Etre

4 April 2009 3:04 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Over at Sergio Valente and the Ground-Rule Double (I may have this slightly wrong), Dennis Cozzalio revels in the sand, dust, clouds, and sheer orneriness of Sam Peckinpah's trucker road show Convoy in HD. This is a movie I have an enduring unsentimental attachment to, since I was on the set in New Mexico for part of the shooting (riding in the camera car for scene where Ernest Borgnine's patrol car is squeezed, crushed, between two big rigs), and a happy set it was not. The combination of high altitude and harsh sun on a cast and crew of a film over-schedule and over-budget with a director who didn't always answer the knock on his trailer door was not morale-uplifting. In the frustrating logistics of shooting a cavalcade of trucks on the move and maintaining continuity as one thing after another went wrong, narrative logic got left by the wayside. »

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Top 10 Movie Characters

31 March 2009 10:12 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

I've been asked "What are my ten favorite characters in the history of movies?" Curse you Timothy! And Squish. The question is not something specific like ten favorite characters in Moulin Rouge! (easy) or ten favorite performances by an actress in the past three years or ten favorite Disney villains. No, this question is broader than Ursula's tentacle span. This is like asking someone "What are your ten favorite notes in the history of music?" Insanity. So I'm doing this off the top of my head. I'm avoiding things I talk about too much (Ursula, Lt. Ellen Ripley, Dorothy Gale and any character played by Michelle Pfeiffer). I'm also presenting in chronological order so as to avoid nervous meltings or celluloid breakdowns.

Top Ten Movie Characters

Peter Pan

The movies are full of franchise characters, but usually I stay picky only getting wrapped up for short bursts of time. »

- NATHANIEL R

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DVD: Review: Magnificent Obsession

20 January 2009 10:05 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

In 1935, unsung Hollywood director John Stahl tackled Lloyd C. Douglas' crypto-Christian novel Magnificent Obsession, about a carefree playboy who learns that the secret to success lies in helping others anonymously. Robert Taylor plays the redeemed nogoodnik, who becomes a skilled surgeon in order to improve the lot of Irene Dunne, a doctor's widow whose failing eyesight and dwindling bank account are both Taylor's fault. Once Taylor gives himself over to the philosophy known as "Dr. Hudson's Magnificent Obsession," and its methods of "establishing contact with the source of infinite power," he enters a community of artists ... »

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2009 | 2008

7 articles from 2009

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