2 articles from 2008
25 March 2008 8:40 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
Demi Moore's new movie is terrific, but the set really stunk. Turns out her husband, Ashton Kutcher, punked a prop man with "stinky cheese." At Monday night's Cinema Society screening of Flawless in New York City, the actress's new diamond heist thriller, Moore described the smelly feud between her prank-prone hubby and a worker on her Luxembourg set. "The prop man started it with eggs and stinky cheese," Moore, wearing a white Chanel coat, told People. "[It was during] a scene where I had to open a locker and be very serious. I opened it, and it smelled like something had died!
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Jeffrey Slonim and Christina Tapper
24 March 2008 7:41 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Neil Pedley
Apparently, less is more this week, as "Flawless" and "Priceless" both head to the big screen and work from minimalist Alexander Sokurov balances out over-the-top offerings like "Superhero Movie" and "21."
"Alexandra"
Russian avant-garde director Alexander Sokurov's melancholic drama landed itself a Palme D'Or nomination last year at Cannes. Set in a nameless, war-torn place that bares more than a passing resemblance to Chechnya, "Alexandra" has for its star veteran opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, who plays an elderly woman who sets off to visit her grandson, a soldier stationed at the edge of a wasteland. In Russian with subtitles.
Opens in New York.
"Backseat"
Labeled by some a "Sideways" for twenty-somethings, "Backseat" features Rob Bogue and Josh Alexander, who also wrote the film's script, as a pair of directionless friends who take to the open road in a bid to outrun the incoming juggernaut of adult responsibility and maybe meet Donald Sutherland.
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Neil Pedley
2 articles from 2008