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Five Questions with Patricia Clarkson
4 December 2009 6:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
In an industry where actresses face fewer options as they get older, Patricia Clarkson has defied the odds. Years after making her debut in Brian de Palma's 1987 crime pic The Untouchables and landing a breakthrough role in 1998's High Art, she's hit her stride and become one of Hollywood's most popular character actresses. In the decade of the '00s alone, the plaudits and awards have come left and right: an Oscar nomination for Pieces of April, two Emmy wins for HBO's "Six Feet Under,"and critics' awards for Far From Heaven, The Station Agent, Good Night, and Good Luck. (In 2009, the Year of the Cougar, Clarkson was also handpicked to star in Saturday Night Live's "Motherlover," an honor of another kind.)
So when Cinematical met Clarkson during last month's Savannah Film Festival, we jumped at the chance to talk with the actress about her career - past, »
- Jen Yamato
Blanchett's 'Soars' In Streetcar
3 December 2009 11:21 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Cate Blanchett has wowed New York's notoriously tough theatre critics after taking Tennessee Williams' classic A Streetcar Named Desire to the Big Apple.
The actress stars as Southern belle Blanche DuBois in the latest production of the show, brought to New York by the Sydney Theatre Company Blanchett runs with her husband Andrew Upton.
And the Oscar winner doesn't disappoint, according to early reviews of the Brooklyn Academy of Music show, directed by legendary actress Liv Ullmann.
New York Post critic Elisabeth Vincentelli writes, "Blanchett is the big draw. And she delivers."
The New York Times' Ben Brantley goes further, describing her performance as the best portrayal of DuBois he has ever seen.
Brantley gushes, "Cate Blanchett soars spectacularly.
"I have seen (DuBois) portrayed by an assortment of formidable stars including Jessica Lange, Glenn Close, Patricia Clarkson and Natasha Richardson....
"Ms. Ullmann and Ms. Blanchett have performed the play as if it had never been staged before, with the result that, as a friend of mine put it, 'You feel like you're hearing words you thought you knew pronounced correctly for the first time.'" »
Mark, Saoirse and Susan Are Lovely at Their Bones Premiere
3 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Mark Wahlberg led the way at a screening of The Lovely Bones in NYC last night. He was joined by his costars including Saoirse Ronan, who has grown up so much since Atonement, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Christian Ashdale and Rose McIver. The movie has been a long time coming and has another week to go before it hits theaters December 11. Mark has been hard at work on The Other Guys with Will Ferrell for the past few months, but now it's time for some promotional work as a star of the film as well as half of one of our favorite newlywedded couples of 2009. View 10 Photos › For more photos from The Lovely Bones premiere, just read more. View 10 Photos › Images include: Helena Christensen, Peter Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci, Rose McIver, Michael Imperioli. »
- Molly
'The Lovely Bones' New York Premiere Attracts Celebrities
2 December 2009 11:51 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Less than two weeks before it is released in limited theaters in the U.S., "The Lovely Bones" visited New York City for its premiere. On Wednesday, December 2, red carpet was rolled out in front of Paris Theatre to welcome cast and crew for the film who all came to celebrate the special screening event.
Wearing a tight dress, Saoirse Ronan who plays Susie Salmon was seen hitting the red carpet. She was joined by her on-screen father Mark Wahlberg and grandmother Susan Sarandon. Other cast who were seen among the attendees included Michael Imperioli, Nikki SooHoo, Rose McIver, and Stanley Tucci.
Peter Jackson, who serves as director, producer, as well as screenwriter of the film, also did not miss the event. Meanwhile, celebrity guests included actress/model Beth Stern, TV show's host Carson Kressley, actors John Leguizamo and Mark Indelicato, and Academy Award winner Patricia Clarkson.
Adapted from Alice Sebold's best-selling novel, »
- AceShowbiz.com
Natalie, Alec and Ryan Lead the Way at Gotham's Indie Awards
1 December 2009 5:00 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
It was a celebration of movies and acting in NYC last night at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. Ryan Reynolds hit the red carpet solo looking dapper in his vest while Brooke Shields stood close to Rosie Perez and Alec Baldwin posed with Richard Kind. Alec recently said he would be retiring from acting in a couple of years, but first he's out to promote It's Complicated out this month. He also has a big award show to host this season when he and Steve Martin take on the Oscars together. Natalie Portman showed some skin before being honored during the show just days before her new film, Brothers, hits theaters. The night's big winner was The Hurt Locker while Stanley Tucci was also one of the night's honorees along with Portman. Chris Rock came out to support his documentary Good Hair, though the prize went to Food, Inc. The »
- Molly
"The Hurt Locker" Shines at the Gotham Independent Film Awards! See Full List of Winners!
30 November 2009 8:01 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
"The Hurt Locker" won big at the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at a ceremony held at New York City.s Cipriani Wall Street. The film beat "Amreeka," "Big Fan," "The Maid," and "A Serious Man" for the Best Feature Trophy.
"The Hurt Locker" also won the Best Ensemble Performance Award beating "Adventureland," "Cold Souls," "A Serious Man," and "Sugar."
(For the complete list of nominees, click here)
Presented by Ifp (Independent Filmmaker Project), the Gotham Independent Film Awards. is one of the leading awards for independent film and the first major honors of the film awards season.
A total of 22 films received nominations in six competitive categories, including: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.
For the second year, the recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award will »
- Manny
Predictions 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Philippon, Marslett, Romanek
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
If my predix come true, this will be a fest heavy on first time filmmakers in the feature length film categories, which is nothing new of course. I've listed four new names below that could make their big time debuts at the fest. - If my predix come true, this will be a fest heavy on first time filmmakers in the feature length film categories, which is nothing new of course. I've listed four new names below that could make their big time debuts at the fest. Lullaby for Pi - If the festival is looking for this year's “Once”, they might look for it in the musically inclined feature starring Rupert Friend, who actually uses his pipes for the film. Killer Films is one of the production companies involved in a tale that sees Tom, a bewitching blues-jazz singer (Friend). Sadly, since his wife passed away, he »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
IFC Finds 'Cairo Time' for Ruba Nadda's Rom Drama
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Don't get me wrong, I heart Patricia Clarkson and just about anything that IFC distributes, but the reason why I was nowhere close to including Ruba Nadda's romantic drama among my Tiff coverage (it won the Best Canadian Feature in Toronto) was the sentiment that this one is intended for a very specific crowd in mind: the women over 40 demo. - Don't get me wrong, I heart Patricia Clarkson and just about anything that IFC distributes, but the reason why I was nowhere close to including Ruba Nadda's romantic drama among my Tiff coverage (it won the Best Canadian Feature in Toronto) was the sentiment that this one is intended for a very specific crowd in mind: the women over 40 demo. IFC Films have announced the picked up Theatrical and VOD Release for their 2010 slate. Cairo Time sees Clarkson play a woman who arrives in Cairo to meet »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Stars' Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes
26 November 2009 11:03 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Thanksgiving is here, and your favorite stars are in the kitchen whipping up their favorite meals. From Heidi Klum's sweet potatoes to Ali Larter's stuffing, celebrities dish on their best holiday meals.
Stars' Thanksgiving FavoritesHeidi Klum's Sweet Potatoes
Heidi will be cooking up a big fat turkey and sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top.
Jessica Alba's Stuffing
“I like to cook it all! I like turkey; I like stuffing; I like candied yams — I like it all! »
Free Flick of the Day: Pieces of April
26 November 2009 6:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
In this current world where Katie Holmes is wife to Tom Cruise and mother of Suri, it's easy to forget she used to have a pretty solid indie career intermingled with her days on the popular Creek -- Libbets Casey in The Ice Storm, Claire in Go, Hannah in Wonder Boys, Jessica in The Gift, Nurse Mills in The Singing Detective, April Burns in Pieces of April, and Heather Holloway in Thank You For Smoking. But there is one starring role in there that's quite applicable this week: Pieces of April. *
Her last big role of worth (she played only a supporting character in Smoking and she was bad enough to be axed from Gotham law after Batman Begins), Pieces of April finds Holmes the black sheep of a dysfunctional family. Living a life on her own in New York with her boyfriend Bobby, April decides to tackle the daunting »
- Monika Bartyzel
Free Flick Fridays: Pieces of April
25 November 2009 3:00 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Pieces of April dir. Peter Hedges (2003) Remember when Katie Holmes was a winning young actress-to-watch? Ah, yes, the Halcyon, pre-Cruise days of The Ice Storm and Go and Wonder Boys... Into this mix falls the charming Pieces of April, a story of family dysfunction and East Village squalor, with Holmes as the bad-girl black sheep prodigal daughter, living in sin with her dreamboat boyfriend (Derek Luke). In his directorial debut, Hedges (who literally wrote the book, and screenplay, on eccentric families with What's Eating Gilbert Grape?) tells two alternating stories: one of April trying to cook a turkey in her tenement of an apartment, meeting her neighbors (like Sean Hayes) along the way, and one of her family's journey to the Thanksgiving table, punctuated with pot-smoking (from April's mother, played by Patricia Clarkson in an Oscar-nominated performance), elderly grandmas, and petulant, 'good' daughter whining from a young Alison Pill. The »
Afm Coverage: Posters and Synopses for Burke And Hare, Electric Slide, Irishman, Effie, Main St., Cash
22 November 2009 8:28 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
By now you’ve probably noticed that Steve got an ungodly amount of material from this year’s American Film Market (Afm). The place where buyers and sellers do business to bring you the films you’ll hopefully be seeing in the near future, Afm has tons of artwork and synopses which are used to promote films but which we will use to bring you news on these films.
Below you’ll find images and synopses for Burke and Hare, Cash, Effie, Main St., The Electric Slide, and The Irishman. Hit the jump to check them all out. Also, all the synopses are copied down directly from the original materials with no editorial alterations. You can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 by click on their respective links.
Burke And Hare, directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London)
William Burke and William Hare are scratching out a living in 1830s Edinburgh. »
- Matt Goldberg
Celebrity Biography: Emma Stone
15 November 2009 9:21 AM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
Emily Jean Stone, better known as Emma Stone, was born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Jeff and Krista Stone, and the older sister of Spencer. Stone started acting at a relatively young age, appearing in a school production of The Wind in the Willows when she was just 11. Regional theater appearances followed and eventually, at 15, Stone convinced her parents -- using popcorn and a PowerPoint presentation, of all things, keyed to the Madonna song "Hollywood" -- to let her take a serious shot at acting, which meant relocating to Los Angeles. "I just always wanted to act from birth,” Stone told Saturday Night Magazine. "I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight, I had seen movies like The Jerk (1979), Animal House (1978), and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) with my dad, and I knew them by heart. I loved them, »
- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
Tom Hanks Honors WWII Soldiers with New 4-d Film
5 November 2009 2:55 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Actors Tom Hanks and Patricia Clarkson headed down to New Orleans on Thursday night for a screening of the war film "Beyond All Boundaries" held at the World War II Museum.
"I'm just glad that it's here," Hanks, who produced the film, tells the AP. "I'm glad that it's part of the bigger museum. I think things like this are natural resources for each city (in which) they exist."
Click here to see Hanks and »
Tom Hanks, others screen 'Beyond All Boundaries'
5 November 2009 1:14 PM, PST | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Actors Tom Hanks, Patricia Clarkson and James Cromwell walked the red carpet Thursday before a private screening of the Hanks-produced war film "Beyond All Boundaries" held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans.The film, which includes "4-d" elements such as props and shaking seats, opens to the public Friday and will be shown exclusively at the museum's new Victory Theater. The theater is part of the museum's $300 million expansion project that will continue through 2015.Clarkson and Cromwell were among more than a dozen celebrities who lent their voices to the documentary. Clarkson was the voice of Marguerite Higgins, a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, and Cromwell was the voices of Maj. Gen. Alexander Archer Vandegrift and Fleet Adm. William Halsey.The film includes vintage images that chronicle WWII . from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of the Bulge . and took five years to make. »
Clarkson and Nadda in Doha for “Cairo Time”
30 October 2009 7:06 PM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Writer/director Ruba Nadda and star Patricia Clarkson (along with fellow star Alexander Siddig - not pictured) introduced the Middle Eastern premiere of their film, “Cairo Time” Friday night at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in the Qatari capital’s beautiful Museum of Islamic Art. Some of the films screening here have a strict age limit of 18, including this one. In this one, Clarkson plays a wife who is suppose to meet … »
Oscar voters get three more DVDs: 'Coco Before Chanel,' 'Damned United,' 'Whatever Works'
30 October 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
On Thursday, Oscar voters received the second, third and fourth DVD screeners sent to the full academy — all three from Sony Pictures Classics, which thus becomes the first major studio out of the gate: "Coco Before Chanel," "The Damned United" and "Whatever Works." Other Spc screeners ("An Education," "The Last Station," "Broken Embraces," "White Ribbon") will be sent later in derby season, a studio rep promises. "A Prophet" is eligible only in the race for best foreign-language film, which requires theatrical screenings, so DVDs of that will not be shipped. The only previous DVD sent to all academy members was "Anvil! The Story of Anvil." Some bloggers reported that "The Messenger" was also sent, but that's not true. At least not yet. It was sent to journalists, but a copy won't be shipped to academy members for another week or so. Economic hard times may severely limit the number of »
- tomoneil
Doha Tff: Opening Night!
30 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
© 2009 Getty Images, Credit: Michael Buckner Reports are in from the opening night of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, and by all accounts, it was a magical evening! More on that in a moment. Martin Scorsese, Jane Rosenthal, Sir Ben Kingsley © 2009 Getty Images, Credit: Michael Buckner One thing we wanted to share about the days leading up to opening night: Martin Scorsese caused a stir with his arrival in Doha, and he was treated to a tour of the Museum of Islamic Art (the stunning headquarters of Doha Tff, featured to the left in the photo above) and of Al Jazeera, headquartered in Doha. Tff Executive Director Nancy Schafer reports, 'When he walked into the newsroom, the whole Al Jazeera staff gasped and twittered in appreciation.' (L) Hiam Abbass, Patricia Clarkson (R) Amanda Palmer © 2009 Getty Images, Credit: Michael Buckner But the biggest news is about the main event. ... »
Palm d'Oil
29 October 2009 7:45 AM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »
he first annual Tribeca Film Festival begins today in Doha, Qatar, the tiny, oil-rich Arabian monarchy on the Persian Gulf. A swank of celebrities—Robert de Niro, Ben Kingsley, Jeff Koons, Patricia Clarkson and directors Martin Scorsese, Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and R.J. Cutler (The September Issue) are attending the festivities, which will be headquartered at I.M. Pei's new Museum of Islamic Art. The event was cooked up by the Emir's daughter, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, 27, after she worked as an intern for the Tribeca festival in the summer of 2006. (Her first job was picking up breakfast pastries.) It's the first time the Tribeca group has expanded its franchise globally, and the woman helming the four-day event is festival executive director Amanda Palmer, a veteran of CNN and Al Jazeera. We asked her what it's going to be like:
Alexandra L. Peers: Why a Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar? »
tMF Talkback: Who is overrated Megan Fox or Kristen Stewart?
29 October 2009 3:15 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Updates! Let the viewers decide! At the right side of the website, we put up a poll for you to participate.
- - -
One tMF viewer, who is apparently a Megan Fox fan, once said 'Megan Fox is overrated as a celebrity but not as an actress.' That comment made me think: Is there really such a difference? Can't we judge someone who is a celebrity and an actress, and treat her as one and the same? She's just one person right?
- - -
- - - Here's exactly what our viewer said:
Megan Fox may be overrated as a "celebrity," but she is actually underrated, As An Actress.
She gets a ridiculously inordinate amount of criticism for her acting because the part of her career that made her famous was a part that focused on how attractive she was, not anything that could actually showcase any acting skills, »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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