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Books: Review:John Irving: Last Night In Twisted River
4 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Last Night In Twisted River is the I’m Not There of John Irving novels. Like Todd Haynes’ attempts to turn Bob Dylan into a figure of myth in that film, Irving playfully invents a story that’s as much about the pleasures of reading one of his novels as it is anything else, until it poignantly turns into a paean for a dying art and a plea for the idea of the story. This could all seem self-indulgent. Instead, it’s Irving’s best since the ’80s. As a novelist, Irving simultaneously seems to invite questions of how much ... »
The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies
27 October 2009 10:11 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
When you sit down to a horror film, you know, at least on a basic level, what you're getting into. Whether or not the movie delivers, what you've been promised, and what you're braced for or looking forward to, are scares. Which is why, when we look back on those truly traumatic movie memories, the titles that come to mind often are not horror films at all.
The most frightening movie moments can arrive out of nowhere, in the midst of where they shouldn't belong, catching you when you're vulnerable -- which is why there are a few alleged children's films on this list. But they can also creep up on you, working a different kind of dread, which is where some of the documentaries included below fit in. Fear is a funny thing. It comes in different varieties, it can work its way on you in unanticipated, and, as our collection here proves, »
- Alison Willmore
tMF Featured Trailer: The Messenger
26 October 2009 5:33 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Messenger revolves around a U S Army officer assigned to casualty notification, considered one of the least desirable jobs in the military. The officer faces complex moral choices when he becomes involved with a soldier's widow. Ben Foster, who has terrific in 3:10 to Yuma and 30 Days of Night plays the lead role in this film.
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- - - In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Featured Trailer: The Messenger
26 October 2009 5:33 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Messenger revolves around a U S Army officer assigned to casualty notification, considered one of the least desirable jobs in the military. The officer faces complex moral choices when he becomes involved with a soldier's widow. Ben Foster, who has terrific in 3:10 to Yuma and 30 Days of Night plays the lead role in this film.
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- - - In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Featured Trailer: The Messenger
26 October 2009 5:33 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Messenger revolves around a U S Army officer assigned to casualty notification, considered one of the least desirable jobs in the military. The officer faces complex moral choices when he becomes involved with a soldier's widow. Ben Foster, who has terrific in 3:10 to Yuma and 30 Days of Night plays the lead role in this film.
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- - - In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Viola Davis Puts her 'Trust' in Indie Film
22 October 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- I'm wouldn't necessarily call her the Parker Posey indie girl of today, but since Steven Soderbergh's Solaris and Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, Viola Davis is taking on more supporting cast pinch hitter in independent films. The actress who essentially got her start in film with bit roles in Soderbergh's Out of Sight and Traffic, has just signed up for a pair of indie films. Davis will be featured in Ryan Fleck's adaptation of Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Thing for Focus Features. The story is described as a young-adult One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and centers on a clinically depressed 15-year-old who checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life. Davis will play the psychiatrist who helps him understand his anxieties and provides him with the help he needs. Filming is pegged for sometime soon. »
Nyff '09 Podcast: Life During Wartime (Armond White, Andrew Grant, Sylvia Miles)
8 October 2009 7:30 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
Is Welcome to the Dollhouse auteur Todd Solondz a misanthrope, or a humanist whose characters just happen to engage in ugly, perverse, cruel behavior? For me, the answer has been made clear with Life During Wartime (screening Saturday, Oct. 10 at 9pm), Solondz's quasi-sequel to 1998's Happiness, in which all of the characters are now played by different actors: Todd Solondz starts his latest and finest film to date by introducing us to Joy (Shirley Henderson), whose husband Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams) is not quite cured of his peculiar "affliction." Joy's sister Trish (Allison Janney) is hoping to stabilize her family life by marrying the recently divorced Harvey (Michael Lerner), but her soon-to-be bar-mitzvahed son Timmy (Dylan Riley Snyder) isn’t sure he wants another man in the house—especially as it seems his dead father, Bill (Ciarán Hinds), might not be dead after all. His portrait of these and several »
The Messenger Trailer Starring Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster
8 October 2009 9:12 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
With all the critical acclaim and Oscar buzz surrounding Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, it begs the question: are audiences finally ready to embrace movies about the war in Iraq? Oren Moverman's The Messenger looks like the next movie to put that theory to the test, but unlike The Hurt Locker, it's another intimate drama that deals more with the people back home than the soldiers in the line of fire. The movie stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster as two officers who work for the Casualty Notification Office in the U.S. military (ie. the people who notify the next of kin when someone is killed in action). When one of them becomes romantically involved with a fallen soldier's widow (Samantha Morton), things get... complicated. This is Moverman's directorial debut, but one of his previous credits was co-writer for Todd Haynes' I'm Not There. I can't »
- Sean
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Trailer: Ben Foster And Woody Harrelson In The Messenger
6 October 2009 4:01 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Last night I attended a special screening of The Messenger, a very small, very powerful drama about two soldiers (played by Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson) assigned to one of the worst jobs in the Army-- notifying the next of kin when soldiers have been killed in action. Foster plays Will Montgomery, recently injured in Iraq and serving out his last three months of duty while reeling after his ex (Jena Malone) suddenly gets engaged to someone else. Harrelson plays Tony Stone, a seasoned pro at notifications who helps Will open up while also revisiting some old wounds from his own time in the service. The film is directed by Oren Moverman, who also co-wrote with Todd Haynes the screenplay for I'm Not There. It's a nicely made, really affecting movie, and will be coming to theaters starting in limited release in November. Take a look at the movie's trailer »
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
Chrystina Benyo: Part time Host
30 September 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Chrystina Benyo refuses to write up a small bio for herself so I decided to go ahead and write one for her. She has made several appearances on the show co hosting as far back as episode 2 of Sound On Sight (Then known as the Naked Lunch). She currently contributes to the show as our news anchor (so to speak) and is always on the look out to step in and replace anyone of the regular hosts when taking a break. Ricky and Chrystina me at a video store discussing Greg Araki and have since remained close friends sharing a similar taste in cinema. Her favourite film makers include Todd Haynes, Jim Jarmush, Gus Van Sant and she loves French New Wave. »
- Ricky
Michelle Williams Reteams with Reichardt for 'Meek's Cutoff'
25 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- I love how Variety makes a casual, end-of-article mention that is all alarm bells and whistles for us. In a Paul Dano casting update for the James Mangold project, comes word that Kelly Reichardt is in Oregon currently shooting a period pic that has her re-teaming with Wendy and Lucy's Michelle Williams, and has the filmmaker working with her biggest cast yet additionally working with Dano, Bruce Greenwood (probably suggested by Todd Haynes), Shirley Henderson and Zoe Kazan. We reported that the filmmaker was fleshing out a Western-themed project, so it looks like she'll be well-prepared for working in difficult terrain. Written by Jon Raymond (who wrote on her previous film and Old Joy), the film's title Meek's Cutoff is based on the tale with perhaps Gerry-like consequences. The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the »
Remembering The "R.C.M.P." (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) T.V. Series
19 September 2009 4:09 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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By Herbert Shadrak
In 1959-60, the distinguished Quebec actor Gilles Pelletier (who had earlier appeared in Otto Preminger’s The 13th Letter and in Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess) came to Ottawa to shoot 39 episodes of the R.C.M.P. television series, coproduced by Crawley Films, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Executive producer F.R. “Budge” Crawley cast Pelletier as Corporal Jacques Gagnier, a Mountie working at a detachment in rural northern Saskatchewan. Interiors were shot on a brand-new soundstage near Ottawa at Old Chelsea, Quebec. Exteriors were filmed in nearby Aylmer, Quebec, and in Outlook, Saskatchewan, which stood in for the fictional western town of Shamattawa, the center of the action of this contemporary adventure series.
Casting a Québécois in the lead role was considered a gutsy move at the time, but »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
The Rise of Julianne Moore! (Mixed Media)
17 September 2009 11:59 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »
In 2002, Moore was considered a heavy favorite to win the Oscar for her excellent lead work as Cathy Whitaker in Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven or her equally powerful supporting in Stephen Daldry's The Hours as Laura Brown. Joining a list that includes Emma Thompson and Sigourney Weaver, she went home empty-handed that fateful night. Deja-vu: watch out for her upcoming two-category sweep in 2010: First up is a much-discussed lead turn in Atom Egoyan's Chloe, a sexually-charged drama in which Moore's tony doctor hires an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to bed her husband. Remember that nobody does "sexually-charged" quite… »
- By Matt Mazur
The Rise of Julianne Moore! (Mixed Media)
17 September 2009 11:59 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »
In 2002, Moore was considered a heavy favorite to win the Oscar for her excellent lead work as Cathy Whitaker in Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven or her equally powerful supporting in Stephen Daldry's The Hours as Laura Brown. Joining a list that includes Emma Thompson and Sigourney Weaver, she went home empty-handed that fateful night. Deja-vu: watch out for her upcoming two-category sweep in 2010: First up is a much-discussed lead turn in Atom Egoyan's Chloe, a sexually-charged drama in which Moore's tony doctor hires an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to bed her husband. Remember that nobody does "sexually-charged" quite… »
- By Matt Mazur
Far From Heaven. Still Heavenly
1 September 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Elle: Cathy? Oh, she's been liberal ever since she played summer stock with all those steamy Jewish boys. Why do you you think they used to call her 'red'?Cathy: Oh, for heaven's sake. Let's go inside before Joe McCarthy comes driving by. Seven years ago today, Todd Hayne's Far From Heaven debuted at the Venice Film Festival. It won four prizes there beginning a strong early awards season showing that resulted in four Oscar nominations but two sad snubs: Todd Haynes for Best Director (he won the most precursor prizes that year, believe it or not) and Dennis Quaid for Best Supporting Actor (who ran second only to eventual Oscar winner Chris Cooper for Adaptation in terms in pre-Oscar honors).
It still bursts with auteurial colors, "red" and otherwise...
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- NATHANIEL R
Last Minute Venice Surprises: Hana Makhmalbaf, Joe Dante's 1968 Orgy and Peter Greenaway's The Marriage
24 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Joe Dante will be presenting not one, but two films at the Lido. The Venice Film Festival will be presenting Dante's latest film - the 3D supernatural called The Hole and will include a re-cut showing for The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version. The stitched together pic, that Dante made during his student days, is a back-breaking 280-minute look at the B films from the 50's and 60's which I'm sure would be a blast for film aficionados like Quentin Tarantino. The 66th Venice International Film Festival will also include a film from the Makhmalbaf. Youngest member Hana will show Green Days, which looks at women in Iran in docu form and fiction, this will be shown Out of Competition. Also showing is Angela Ismailos's Great Directors. There was a private screening at Cannes which I couldn't make and I regret, since it looks at contemporary cinema and talks with Bernardo Bertolucci, »
Kate Winslet Heads for TV in 'Mildred Pierce' Remake
16 August 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
When you hear the name Mildred Pierce, and you happen to know your classic cinema, you probably go right to one woman: she of the big eyebrows and shoulder pads...better known as Joan Crawford. Crawford won her one and only Oscar for her role in Michael Curtiz's crime classic, and now another Oscar winning actress has signed for a remake of the noir tale, but this time it's for the small screen. Variety is reporting that Kate Winslet has joined forces with director Todd Haynes to star in a remake of Pierce as a cable miniseries.
Mildred Pierce was the story of a woman determined take on the restaurant world and make a better life for her daughters, only to have her eldest turn on her, and after much slapping and running up and down the stairs, Mildred finally *resorts to murder. The original film was based on James Cain's novel, »
- Jessica Barnes
Kate Winslet Eyes 'Mildred Pierce' Miniseries
15 August 2009 4:25 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
In what could be an absolute perfect fit for everyone involved, HBO is the lead horse in a race to bring the 1940s film Mildred Pierce to television as a miniseries, with Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) directing and Kate Winslet in the starring role.
The first filmed version of James M. Cain's novel won Joan Crawford a Best Actress Oscar, although she's probably better remembered for skipping the awards and inviting the press into her bedroom for her acceptance speech than she would be for the film itself.
The story was a little ahead of its time, or at least, its acceptance was. There weren't a lot of movies about independent women in 1945, and fewer of those about a recent divorcee/single mother who tries breaking into the business world and becomes wrapped up in a relationship with a man who later becomes involved with her older daughter. »
- Colin Boyd
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