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Diddy Celebrates His 40th Birthday

4 November 2009 11:12 AM, PST | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

If you happen to pass by Sean Combs, be sure to wish him a happy birthday, as the man better known as Diddy turns 40 years old today. While it's bizarre to think if Diddy as a guy in the depths of middle age, it's also odd to think that he isn't older. Diddy has been such a dominant, ubiquitous force in pop culture since the '90s that it's almost as if he has always been with us. There have been countless highs (smash hits like "It's All About the Benjamins," "I'll Be Missing You" and "Bad Boy for Life") and devastating lows (most notably the death of his friend the Notorious B.I.G.), but he has certainly changed the face of hip-hop and gave rise to the idea of diversification among pop stars. He's dabbled in fashion, fragrances, restaurants and alcohol, and his empire is constantly expanding.

They say hip-hop is a young man's game, »

- Kyle Anderson

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London Film Festival: The Unbearable Inarticulateness of Being

26 October 2009 2:22 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Limits of Control Directed by Jim Jarmusch The Exploding Girl Directed by Bradley Rust In the early 1990s, slacker cinema was all the rage in American independent cinema, with wacky, mumbling characters, slow pacing and the mundanity of everyday life replacing traditional plots, characterisations and drama. Which brings us to these two Amerindie offerings. Whereas the London Film Festival programmers found them delightful, bold and original, my experience in the cinema was rather different. And given the snoring and sighing I could hear among my fellow audience members, I suspect I was not alone in my lack of enthusiasm. The Lonely Man, the anti-hero of The Limits of Control [1], is a blank canvas, a man with no name, no back story, next-to-no dialogue and no seeming motivation other than he is on some shadowy assignment involving the exchange of matchboxes with a parade of very talented actors in implausible outfits (step forward, »

- Val

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Film Weekly at the London film festival

22 October 2009 1:21 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

In this edition, Film Weekly visits the London film festival, now in full swing. Jason Solomons and Xan Brooks compare notes and discuss the three films that have starred George Clooney (Fantastic Mr Fox, Up in the Air and The Men Who Stare at Goats) before revealing their favourites so far – Jason highly recommends Jim Jarmusch's latest, The Limits of Control, as well as a brace of films starring two cherished British actors: Clive Owen in The Boys Are Back and Colin Firth in A Single Man.Still with Lff, Jason meets British film-makers Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, who... »

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Festival Du Nouveau Cinema

14 October 2009 5:12 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

[1] For over 35 years, the Festival du nouveau cinema has contributed to the success of innumerable independent works, both local and from afar. It has introduced to audiences such Canadian and Quebec luminaries as François Girard, Atom Egoyan, Denis Villeneuve, Guy Maddin, Léa Pool, as well as international artists who have today earned worldwide acclaim, such as Jim Jarmusch, Abbas Kiarostami, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Raymond Depardon, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodovár, Wong Kar-Wai, Peter Greenaway, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras... The founders of the Festival, Claude Chamberlan and Dimitri Eipidès, known for their temerity and bold intuition, took it upon themselves to broaden the horizons of Montreal audiences by delivering original formulas for screening the image. In 1982, their audaciousness lead them to introduce and recognize video in their programming. And urged on by the support and willpower of Daniel Langlois, President of the Board from 1997 to 2005, new media earned a significant role »

- Ricky

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1999: A Year In Review (Part Two)

14 October 2009 8:05 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Welcome to Part 2 of our 1999 Movie Retrospective. The final year of the last century was one hell of a cinematic ride and it offered some outstanding films for lovers of cinema.

Now be aware that this is not a definitive list of the films released - it’s a brief rundown highlighting interesting films that should be seen (although not always for the right reasons).

You can check out the first part (A-e) here or continue reading to see the other gems that were released in 1999.

 

Fight Club

Fight Club was a box office disappointment ten years ago, but it has gained a Huge cult following since - and it must have made an absolute mint on DVD. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star in this David Fincher directed adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s now-famous novel. The film is another example of world perspective from a late 90s view point. »

- Niall Browne

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Bored to Death: The Case of the Stolen Skateboard

12 October 2009 9:26 AM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

(S01E04) "I'm almost done. Just three more tugs!" - Ray

After I screened the first three episodes of Bored to Death early last month, I had resigned to not watch it ever again. For the most part, save for Ted Danson's performance, there wasn't much I found funny about the show. Add in last week's weirdo installment featuring Jim Jarmusch and I wasn't sure what to think. Given the premise of the show, last week's episode didn't even feel like the same program. It was like they took a script from something else and just had the Bored to Death ensemble act it out.

But then HBO went and renewed it for a second season and I figured, hey - maybe I'll cover the rest of the season for TV Squad. Well, I'm glad I did. Despite numerous shortcomings, "The Case of the Stolen Skateboard" is easily the »

- Jonathan Toomey

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Three

9 October 2009 8:54 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Mulatu Astatke Ethio-jazz composer/arranger and musician Mulatu Astatke was born in western Ethiopia in 1943. After music studies in London and New York, Astatke became the first African student at Boston's Berklee College of Music. Astatke contributed to the flowering of world music throughout the '70s. Most recently, he held court at Harvard and M.I.T. Collaborations include Duke Ellington, Jim Jarmusch, and the Either/Orchestra. Discover Mulatu Astatke with "Mètché Dershé (When Am I Going to Reach There?)," from his 1998 release Éthiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale (1969-1974). It's got a haunting swing. Buy: iTunes Genre: Jazz/World Artist: Mulatu Astatke Song: Mètché Dershé (When Am I Going to Reach There?) Album: Éthiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale (1969-1974) Paul Desmond Jazz composer/arranger and alto-sax master Paul Desmond (a.k.a. Paul Emil Breitenfeld) was born in San Francisco in 1924 into a musical family. »

- Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

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John Woo Update: A Remake of ‘Le Samourai?’

8 October 2009 2:04 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Since 2003’s much-panned Paycheck, American audiences haven’t heard much from the often-imitated action auteur, John Woo.  But he hasn’t been resting on his laurels.  In fact, he’s been adding feathers to his cap.  His latest film, Red Cliff, is an over four-hour-long historical epic that broke the record for the highest-grossing film in China (a title once held by Titanic).

However, Red Cliff, like Woo’s next project, Jianyu Jianghu (The Swordsman’s World), is in Chinese.  And we all know that subtitles - especially on an action film that won’t play with the art-house types -  dooms a film to limited release in America.  So when Will the director return to American screens with an English language film?

 

IMDb lists a slew of projects in development, but the two Woo is most excited about haven’t been announced till now.  One is a remake of »

- Brian Gresko

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RZA joins Downey Jr. and Galifianakis in Due Date

8 October 2009 2:05 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Variety reports that Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA will star with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in Due Date, the upcoming comedy from director Todd Phillips (The Hangover, Old School, Starsky & Hutch).

The story involves a soon-to-be father who is in danger of missing his child's birth. In order to make it on time, he has to enlist the help of an underachieving college student, who takes him on a road trip.

The RZA has already starred in and produced music for a number of features, perhaps most notably those of indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. If you haven't yet seen it, check out this hilarious clip from Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes, in which RZA discusses the ills of caffeine addiction with fellow Wu-Tang member Gza and ... Bill Murray.

RZA is also starring in Paul Haggis's upcoming movie The Next Three Days and is scoring Robbie Brenner's Warriors Way. »

- Rich Z Zwelling

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No One Knows Anything

5 October 2009 6:55 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Last week, America's indie film community took a long, hard look at its precarious state.

After industry pros flew back home from the Toronto International Film Festival -- heads throbbing from too many drinks, not enough sleep and the lackluster marketplace, where few films were bought and sold -- many headed straight to the Ifp's annual Independent Film Week and Conference, a 31-year-old event where people like Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers, Michael Moore, Whit Stillman, Todd Haynes and Todd Solondz first stepped through the industry's door. Capping off the run of whining and redefining was an "Indie Film Summit," a meeting of some 60 significant distributors, producers and other insiders at the Museum of Modern Art, all looking for answers in these tumultuous times, when economic and technological changes have irrevocably shattered the conventional models of making and distributing movies.

For first-time filmmakers entering the business during this moment of upheaval, »

- Anthony Kaufman

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Review: Take Out (2004)

1 October 2009 7:28 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Image courtesy of Amazon.com"] [/caption] Take Out 2004, USA Directed by Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou Written by Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou Starring Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee, Justin Wan English/Mandarin In the context of film reviews, ‘hypnotic’ often means the critic fell asleep, but got the DVD for free and is trying to be nice. This is why Jean Rollin films keep getting positive notices, and why Jim Jarmusch still makes movies (click here [1] to send the hate mail). But in the case of Take Out, no more apt adjective exists. And it’s a good thing it applies, because otherwise 90 minutes of a sullen deliveryman carrying around fried rice would seem like the ninth circle of a minimum wage hell. Ming Ding (Charles Jang) is an illegal Chinese immigrant living in New York. Crippled by the debt incurred getting himself smuggled into the country, Ming finds himself short on his loan payments, and »

- Al Kratina

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Charlyne Yi: Geek Love

30 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

Hometown: Los Angeles

Film: Paper Heart

For Fans Of: Jim Jarmusch, Michael Cera, Rainn Wilson

In recent years, there’s been no shortage of well-soundtracked "alternative" romantic comedies, and most have hinged on a very particular archetype: the unassuming nerd girl. Equal parts brains and quirk, 23-year-old Charlyne Yi is a real-world version of those characters—and she has no reservations about that. "I’m sort of a dork," she deadpans. »

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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

28 September 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

'Indigenous cinema' will be celebrated in Toronto at the 10th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Wednesday, October 14th to Sunday, October 18th, 2009, showcasing global aboriginal filmmakers and media artists, with more than 125 works of innovation in film, video, radio and new media. "The celebration of imagineNATIVE.s 10th anniversary offers an important occasion to reflect on the accomplishments of the last 10 years and the exciting opportunities ahead of us," said Executive Director Kerry Swanson. "In 10 years we have seen an incredible explosion of growth in Indigenous-produced film and media art and, as a result, a surge of interest and recognition for the unique and groundbreaking work shown at the festival." "The films programmed this year," said Director of Programming Michelle Latimer, "speak to the contemporary experience and reflect the fact that today's Indigenous filmmakers are reclaiming the medium of film and transforming the world-view of Indigenous people by voicing our »

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TV Review: ‘Bored to Death’ Has Title More Truthful Than Ironic

20 September 2009 12:13 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Maybe it’s an ironic, surreal joke but the most common thought that I kept having during the first three episodes of “Bored to Death” was, well, “bored”. Only the immensely talented supporting cast, including great turns from Zach Galifianakis, Ted Danson, Olivia Thirlby, and Kristen Wiig save the show from achieving the threat promised by its title.

Television Rating: 2.0/5.0 “Bored to Death” is essentially about a writer so bored with his own predictable, lovelorn life that he pretends to be a private investigator and stumbles into actually solving crime. The humor comes from the stuck-up, snobby delivery of star Jason Schwartzman traveling in a Chandler-esque setting where his ordering of a white wine in a seedy bar is greeted with a raised eyebrow. There is a bit of interest in seeing Schwartzman’s intellectual awkwardness in an atypical world, but it grows stale much more quickly than the »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Spoilers! Bored to Death Episodes for October

16 September 2009 2:31 PM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Looks like the trend on HBO continues as far as the guest stars go, with Bored to Death featuring Oliver Platt and Parker Posey, just to name a few, during the month of October.  Read on below to get the scoop on all of the October episodes of Bored to Death and don't forget to watch the premiere this Sunday on HBO (or click here to watch it on fancast now!).  Read on for all the spoilery details.

Episode #3:  “The Case of the Missing Screenplay”

Debut:  Sunday, Oct. 4 (9:30-10:00 p.m. Et/Pt)

At a New York film-society party, George (Ted Danson) introduces Jonathan (Jason Schwartzman) to filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, a fan of Jonathan’s first book, who is interested in having him rewrite a screenplay.  Later, after leaving his personalized script in a therapist’s (Denis O’Hare) office during an ill-advised late-night tryst with a »

- Bryan Jones

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Cool Stuff: Jay Ryan’s John Hughes Posters

16 September 2009 10:25 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

If you follow the Alamo Drafthouse's Mondo Tees shop on Twitter (@MondoNews) you might have seen a mention recently that the shop would be selling some John Hughes posters. Now they're in and on sale to internet shoppers as of now. Jay Ryan has created two images, one for The Breakfast Club and one for Sixteen Candles. Each poster is 20" x 26, signed and numbered by Ryan for $30. The Sixteen Candles poster is in an edition of 225, the Breakfast Club image is in an edition of 230. And if you liked the Aaron Horkey poster for Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man I posted on Monday, Mondo has a few of those, too. The edition is slightly different than the one that sold out immediately on Monday, and is slightly cheaper, too: $110 instead of $145. (Edit: that one went fast. Within two hours the Dead Man posters were ... »

- Russ Fischer

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Cool Stuff: Aaron Horkey’s Dead Man Poster

14 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Holy beautiful. It doesn't take much to hook me on a poster that represents Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, one of my very favorite films. But to make a poster this elaborate for a film so austere takes some guts, and the design is so over the top that I can't help loving it. I've seen some of artist Aaron Horkey's work before, but in compsition, color and the letterpress accents, this one goes far beyond the other work I've noticed. The image was created to celebrate the presentation of Dead Man at the Alamo Drafthouse earlier this month and will be for sale at Dead Arts Publishing. 175 have been printed and the 7"x16.5" prints, giclee with letterpress accents, don't come cheap: for a rather small poster they run a whopping $145. If that isn't too rich for you (or if you're just a Jim Jarmusch fan who has much more »

- Russ Fischer

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London Film Festival Line-Up Revealed

9 September 2009 4:55 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

We headed to Leicester Square this morning for free orange juice, coffee and pain au chocolat - oh, and to hear the line up for the Times BFI London London Film Festival, which is shaping up as pretty exciting stuff.We already knew, of course, that Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox would open the Festival and Sam Taylor Wood's Nowhere Boy would close it. But now we can tell you that inbetween we'll see new films from, well, everyone!George Clooney rules the Festival. In addition to his voice role in Fox, he will appear in two films: Grant Heslov's The Men Who Stare At Goats (our reaction to that in Venice is here) and Jason Reitman's Up In The Air. His auld mucker Matt Damon will appear in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! (first reaction here), his Michael Clayton co-star Tilda Swinton is there in »

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Full Programme announced for the 2009 London Film Festival

9 September 2009 3:57 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

The programme for The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival, has been announced today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron. The line-ip includes a diverse selection of world and international premieres with a total of 191 features and 113 shorts screening alongside an exciting line-up of special events and expected guests. Opening Night film, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, is one of the Festival's 15 world premieres and will be presented by the director and cast members including Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Helen McCrory.   Other films celebrating their world premieres include Sam Taylor-Wood's Closing Night Gala Nowhere Boy and the Festival's first ever Archive Gala, the BFI's new restoration of Anthony Asquith's Underground, with live music accompaniment by the Prima Vista Social Club, led by Neil Brand.  The Festival will also host 23 European premieres, including Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs, Scott Hicks' The Boys Are Back and Robert Connolly's Balibo, »

- Paul

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The Architect of All Tomorrow's Parties

8 September 2009 12:45 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Barry Hogan is the founder of All Tomorrow's Parties, the now-infamous festival that began in 1999 as the U.K.'s answer to other commercialized, corporate-sponsored festivals. Another key difference from those other festivals is the location -- Atp takes place at unique locations like the holiday camp at Camber Sands in Sussex where it first started and, as of last year, Kutsher's Country Club in the Catskills, which has become the festival's home in New York. Recently, Hogan told me all about how corporate douchebags have ruined music, the film he executive produced about Atp, why he and his wife have their hands all over everything, and I also put him on the spot about his dream guest curator for Atp... and it's not a musician.

How does it feel to have All Tomorrow's Parties celebrating their 10th anniversary as an organization?

It's interesting because when we first started doing the first one in England, »

- Brandon Kim

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