Pearl Jam has announced a livestream of their second of two Home Shows Seattle concerts, six months after the band hosted a pay-per-view stream of the first of the two 2018 gigs.
In August 2018, Pearl Jam played a pair of “Home Shows” concerts at Seattle’s Safeco Field to raise money to fight homelessness. Two years later — in August 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic — the band premiered the full-concert video of the August 8th, 2018 performance via Nugs.net.
Following fan requests, Pearl Jam announced Wednesday that the Home Shows Night 2 livestream of the August 10th,...
In August 2018, Pearl Jam played a pair of “Home Shows” concerts at Seattle’s Safeco Field to raise money to fight homelessness. Two years later — in August 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic — the band premiered the full-concert video of the August 8th, 2018 performance via Nugs.net.
Following fan requests, Pearl Jam announced Wednesday that the Home Shows Night 2 livestream of the August 10th,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
ABC and its new drama “Big Sky” are being called out by multiple tribal nations and Indigenous leaders for an “incomplete depiction of violence against women and girls.”
Following a letter last week addressed to ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke and series creator David E. Kelley, among others, the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association and the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (Ubcic) have now added their voices to the chorus of criticisms.
The series, based on the 2013 novel “The Highway” by C.J. Box, is set in Montana and centers around abductions that occur at truck stops. The Indigenous groups are accusing the show of “at best, cultural insensitivity, and at worst, appropriation” due to being set in area with a disproportionately high rate of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women & Girls (Mmiwg), yet not having any tribal representation in the show.
Variety has asked ABC for comment.
The Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council,...
Following a letter last week addressed to ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke and series creator David E. Kelley, among others, the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association and the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (Ubcic) have now added their voices to the chorus of criticisms.
The series, based on the 2013 novel “The Highway” by C.J. Box, is set in Montana and centers around abductions that occur at truck stops. The Indigenous groups are accusing the show of “at best, cultural insensitivity, and at worst, appropriation” due to being set in area with a disproportionately high rate of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women & Girls (Mmiwg), yet not having any tribal representation in the show.
Variety has asked ABC for comment.
The Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council,...
- 11/25/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
If you put a big red button in front of someone and tell them not to push the button, all that person is going to want to do is push the damn thing.
So then to the strange case of Megan is Missing, a low budget exploitation movie shot in 2006, given a limited release in 2011 which is now suddenly trending due to some high profile TikTok users talking about how utterly horrible it is and apparently warning others off with hyperbolic statements such as:
@bella.clare
please watch this film at your own risk. It is something i will never watch again . i am forever traumatized.
@lilnutmegg
If you are thinking of watching Megan is Missing, please don’t. I love horror/thriller/murder mysteries and I can watch them very easily, but this one I will never ever forget. I couldn’t even finish it.
Not to miss a trick,...
So then to the strange case of Megan is Missing, a low budget exploitation movie shot in 2006, given a limited release in 2011 which is now suddenly trending due to some high profile TikTok users talking about how utterly horrible it is and apparently warning others off with hyperbolic statements such as:
@bella.clare
please watch this film at your own risk. It is something i will never watch again . i am forever traumatized.
@lilnutmegg
If you are thinking of watching Megan is Missing, please don’t. I love horror/thriller/murder mysteries and I can watch them very easily, but this one I will never ever forget. I couldn’t even finish it.
Not to miss a trick,...
- 11/17/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Two Warner Bros. Television series are prepping to resume production in Los Angeles following the shutdown caused by this year’s coronavirus pandemic.
TNT’s Animal Kingdom will continue shooting Season 5 on Monday, Sept. 7; the show had filmed about half of the season before having to press pause. Showtime’s Shameless, which will film its 11th and final season, will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 8. They are the first Warner Bros. shows to restart production in L.A., followed by the CBS sitcom Mom, which is set to start work on Monday, Sept. 14.
More from TVLine47 'Missing' Summer TV Shows: Which Are Simply Delayed?...
TNT’s Animal Kingdom will continue shooting Season 5 on Monday, Sept. 7; the show had filmed about half of the season before having to press pause. Showtime’s Shameless, which will film its 11th and final season, will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 8. They are the first Warner Bros. shows to restart production in L.A., followed by the CBS sitcom Mom, which is set to start work on Monday, Sept. 14.
More from TVLine47 'Missing' Summer TV Shows: Which Are Simply Delayed?...
- 9/4/2020
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
Actress Gong Hyo-jin reigns supreme when it comes to romantic dramas for television, with any new series featuring her gaining a lot of momentum and fetching good ratings throughout its runtime and awards once its finished. On the silver screen though, she has consciously been trying to build a completely different image to her small screen avatar, featuring in actions films like “Hit-and-Run Squad” and thrillers like “Door Lock” and “Missing”. Likewise, actor Kim Rae-won has also had a strong presence and following in the romance genre on television but has been seen in action dramas like “The Prison” and “Gangnam Blues” on the big screen. Both of them haven’t been in a romantic feature since “You are More than Beautiful” in 2013 and “My Little Bride” in 2003 respectively. So when director Kim Han-gyul managed to sign both of them for her debut “Crazy Romance” which of course, as the title suggests,...
- 6/28/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Big Brother‘s long-awaited second All-Stars edition might finally be in the works and hit TV screens this summer.
CBS is rumored to be in talks with former players for a new all-star season to commemorate the series’ 20th anniversary, according to Us Weekly. Negotiations are said to be underway with several past winners and other fan-favorite houseguests.
More from TVLine47 'Missing' Summer TV Shows: Which Are Simply Delayed? And Which Did You (Whoops!) Forget Got Cancelled?TV's S.W.A.T. Team Vows to 'Do Better' Exploring Race and Policing in Wake of George Floyd Death/ProtestsYoung Sheldon to Stream on HBO Max,...
CBS is rumored to be in talks with former players for a new all-star season to commemorate the series’ 20th anniversary, according to Us Weekly. Negotiations are said to be underway with several past winners and other fan-favorite houseguests.
More from TVLine47 'Missing' Summer TV Shows: Which Are Simply Delayed? And Which Did You (Whoops!) Forget Got Cancelled?TV's S.W.A.T. Team Vows to 'Do Better' Exploring Race and Policing in Wake of George Floyd Death/ProtestsYoung Sheldon to Stream on HBO Max,...
- 6/7/2020
- TVLine.com
We all know the CIA runs the music industry. Didn’t The Simpsons leak that years ago? If not a new podcast series will follow the idea to its logical conclusion. If CIA hitman and Gong Show host Chuck Barris could write “Palisade Park,” why couldn’t other agents come up with a catchy tune. Spotify’s latest original podcast documentary series Wind of Change will explore whether the Scorpions’ 1990 song was Cold War propaganda, according to Deadline.
The no longer secret project will be produced by Spotify, along with New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, “Pod Save America” producer Crooked Media, and Pineapple Street Studios, which produced Missing Richard Simmons.
Sung by Klaus Meine, “Wind of Change” was the song which played during the Glasnostic end of the Cold War. Its music video featured the building and dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the most visible symbol of the...
The no longer secret project will be produced by Spotify, along with New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, “Pod Save America” producer Crooked Media, and Pineapple Street Studios, which produced Missing Richard Simmons.
Sung by Klaus Meine, “Wind of Change” was the song which played during the Glasnostic end of the Cold War. Its music video featured the building and dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the most visible symbol of the...
- 4/27/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Entertainment One has signed a multi-year distribution deal with fledgling U.K. scripted indie Three Tables Productions.
Under the pact, Three Tables will develop and produce original scripted programming for eOne to distribute worldwide.
Three Tables was founded by former Leopard Pictures head of development David Chikwe, ex-u.K. Film Council executive Himesh Kar, and entrepreneur and investor J.T. Wong. The chairman of Three Tables is David Green, who founded September Films, and went on to become CEO and then chairman of Dcd Media.
Three Tables is developing drama projects aimed at the U.K. and international markets. These include projects being developed with France Télévisions’ france.tv studios and the BBC.
It is working with talent such as “Picnic at Hanging Rock” writer Beatrix Christian, “Windermere Children” and “The Eichmann Show” writer Simon Block, “Gone Too Far!” writer Bola Agbaje, and Veronica Gleeson, whose credits include “Sixteen.”
Noel Hedges,...
Under the pact, Three Tables will develop and produce original scripted programming for eOne to distribute worldwide.
Three Tables was founded by former Leopard Pictures head of development David Chikwe, ex-u.K. Film Council executive Himesh Kar, and entrepreneur and investor J.T. Wong. The chairman of Three Tables is David Green, who founded September Films, and went on to become CEO and then chairman of Dcd Media.
Three Tables is developing drama projects aimed at the U.K. and international markets. These include projects being developed with France Télévisions’ france.tv studios and the BBC.
It is working with talent such as “Picnic at Hanging Rock” writer Beatrix Christian, “Windermere Children” and “The Eichmann Show” writer Simon Block, “Gone Too Far!” writer Bola Agbaje, and Veronica Gleeson, whose credits include “Sixteen.”
Noel Hedges,...
- 4/2/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Everyone talks about perfect summer songs, but hardly anyone discusses great winter ones — tunes that capture a certain cold, bleak, will-spring-ever-arrive? mood. Its title aside, Ben Watt’s “Summer Ghosts” is one of those songs, and beautifully so.
Triggered by something, seemingly a painting of his mother, the one-time half of English pop duo Everything But the Girl finds himself ruminating on his past — especially his parents with “their own shit, wrapped up in themselves, jazz on the shelves.” Whether it’s an actual trip or just one taking place in his mind,...
Triggered by something, seemingly a painting of his mother, the one-time half of English pop duo Everything But the Girl finds himself ruminating on his past — especially his parents with “their own shit, wrapped up in themselves, jazz on the shelves.” Whether it’s an actual trip or just one taking place in his mind,...
- 1/30/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
With his second stop-motion feature, Missing Link, writer/director Chris Butler took on a story with colorful characters, massive environments and a variety of complex action sequences, striving to bring a live-action quality to an animated world, which would be put together through a painstaking physical process, one frame at a time.
Centered on Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman), an investigator of myths and monsters who journeys with a sasquatch (Zach Galifianakis) into the Himalayas, to reunite the creature with his long-lost relatives, the latest feature from Laika Studios and United Artists Releasing was a massive challenge—“a bit too much of a challenge, at times,” Butler says—but one he felt compelled to take on.
As far as action sequences were concerned, Butler’s biggest inspiration with Steven Spielberg—particularly, the work he’d done with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and other films in the Indiana Jones franchise.
Centered on Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman), an investigator of myths and monsters who journeys with a sasquatch (Zach Galifianakis) into the Himalayas, to reunite the creature with his long-lost relatives, the latest feature from Laika Studios and United Artists Releasing was a massive challenge—“a bit too much of a challenge, at times,” Butler says—but one he felt compelled to take on.
As far as action sequences were concerned, Butler’s biggest inspiration with Steven Spielberg—particularly, the work he’d done with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and other films in the Indiana Jones franchise.
- 11/19/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Nascent La/London drama producer Three Tables Productions has teamed with Fremantle to develop an adaptation of mystery thriller The Robber Baron’s Daughter.
The companies have set Picnic At Hanging Rock writer Beatrix Christian to adapt Jamila Gavin’s book.
The adaptation marks the first project unveiled by Three Tables, which was set up by group of UK drama producers and former September Films boss David Green last year.
The three London-based founders of the company are David Chikwe, who produced Cbbc’s Eve and BBC One drama Missing, Himesh Kar, exec producer of Benedict Cumberbatch-fronted doc Walk With Me and Jt Wong, producer of BBC kids’ show The Mysti Show. Green, who previously ran Dcd Media and directed a raft of film and TV including Phil Collins film Buster, is Chairman and based in La.
The Robber Baron’s Daughter, which was first published in 2008, is...
The companies have set Picnic At Hanging Rock writer Beatrix Christian to adapt Jamila Gavin’s book.
The adaptation marks the first project unveiled by Three Tables, which was set up by group of UK drama producers and former September Films boss David Green last year.
The three London-based founders of the company are David Chikwe, who produced Cbbc’s Eve and BBC One drama Missing, Himesh Kar, exec producer of Benedict Cumberbatch-fronted doc Walk With Me and Jt Wong, producer of BBC kids’ show The Mysti Show. Green, who previously ran Dcd Media and directed a raft of film and TV including Phil Collins film Buster, is Chairman and based in La.
The Robber Baron’s Daughter, which was first published in 2008, is...
- 11/19/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran filmmaker Costa-Gavras will receive a lifetime achievement Donostia Award at this year's 67th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 20-28.
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
- 8/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Veteran filmmaker Costa-Gavras will receive a lifetime achievement Donostia Award at this year's 67th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 20-28.
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
- 8/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Last year’s action film “Revenger” saw stuntman/action co-ordinator Bruce Khan step in front of the camera for a leading role. This year, we have another stuntman and martial arts director taking the leap from behind-the-scenes to leading role with Jung Doo-hong, who stars in Ha Won-joon’s action film “Fist and Furious”.
Synopsis
A former violent detective with a knife in his head and a sneaky materialistic VJ collaborate!
Freelance VJ Gook-hyeon is a North Korean defector who is looking for news when he comes across Ki-man, a former detective who lives with a knife stuck in his head. Ki-man is living off scraps until Gook-hyeon convinces him he would help him get revenge on Jeong Tae-hwa, a drug mob boss who killed his partner.
While they track down Jeong Tae-hwa, they meet Seol-lan, who is looking for her missing sister, Song-hwa, who is Jeong Tae-hwa’s mistress.
Synopsis
A former violent detective with a knife in his head and a sneaky materialistic VJ collaborate!
Freelance VJ Gook-hyeon is a North Korean defector who is looking for news when he comes across Ki-man, a former detective who lives with a knife stuck in his head. Ki-man is living off scraps until Gook-hyeon convinces him he would help him get revenge on Jeong Tae-hwa, a drug mob boss who killed his partner.
While they track down Jeong Tae-hwa, they meet Seol-lan, who is looking for her missing sister, Song-hwa, who is Jeong Tae-hwa’s mistress.
- 6/18/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
The 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival has wrapped and the two films that looked well-positioned for this year’s Oscars (Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” and Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life”) both went home empty-handed.
Cannes’ coveted Palme d’Or went to South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s comedy-drama, “Parasite.” The film, about two families from different classes that find themselves on a collision course with each other, had the most glowing reviews of this year’s entries. Bong is now the first Korean director to win the top honor. The film’s win here could catapult it into serious Oscar consideration. Since 1955, 39 winners of this top honor have amassed a total of 129 Academy Award nominations, with 28 Oscar wins spanning 16 films. And 15 Palme d’Or champs scored Best Picture nominations: “Marty” (1955), “Friendly Persuasion” (1957), “M*A*S*H” (1970), “The Conversation” (1974), “Taxi Driver” (1976), “Apocalypse Now...
Cannes’ coveted Palme d’Or went to South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s comedy-drama, “Parasite.” The film, about two families from different classes that find themselves on a collision course with each other, had the most glowing reviews of this year’s entries. Bong is now the first Korean director to win the top honor. The film’s win here could catapult it into serious Oscar consideration. Since 1955, 39 winners of this top honor have amassed a total of 129 Academy Award nominations, with 28 Oscar wins spanning 16 films. And 15 Palme d’Or champs scored Best Picture nominations: “Marty” (1955), “Friendly Persuasion” (1957), “M*A*S*H” (1970), “The Conversation” (1974), “Taxi Driver” (1976), “Apocalypse Now...
- 5/26/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Actress Yao Chen began her career in 2005 on the small screen with TV series “My Own Swordsman”. Two years later, she was the protagonist of another very popular series, “Lurk”, where she played a guerrilla. And the rest is, as they say, history, after she burst onto cinema screens in “Sophie’s Revenge” (2009), “Color Me Love” (2010), “Caught in the Web” (2012), “Firestorm” (2013) and “Monster Hunt” (2015). Listed by Time Magazine and Forbes as one of the 100 most influential people on the planet and compared by journalists to Angelina Jolie both for her beauty and for her tireless commitment to social activism, she is a human right activist and a social media influencer with 80 million dedicated followers on the web. She was awarded the Golden Mulberry Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 21st edition of the Far East Film Festival.
Director Yue Lü was born in 1957 in China, and is known for “Thirteen Princess Trees” (2006) and “Mr.
Director Yue Lü was born in 1957 in China, and is known for “Thirteen Princess Trees” (2006) and “Mr.
- 5/18/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Meet Joss Whedon’s next leading lady. Laura Donnelly (Outlander) is set as the lead in The Nevers, HBO’s straight-to-series drama from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator and The Avengers writer/director.
Co-written by Whedon and Buffy alums Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie and directed by Whedon, The Nevers is an epic science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might change the world.
UK actress Donnelly will play Amalia True, the most reckless, impulsive, emotionally damaged hero of her time. A menace to stuffy Victorian society, she would die for the cause and kill for a drink.
“Laura Donnelly has charisma, wisdom and an anarchic precision that not only captures Amalia but defines her,” said Whedon. “She’s fierce and she’s funny – and I need both for the journey ahead.”
Whedon, who serves as showrunner,...
Co-written by Whedon and Buffy alums Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie and directed by Whedon, The Nevers is an epic science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might change the world.
UK actress Donnelly will play Amalia True, the most reckless, impulsive, emotionally damaged hero of her time. A menace to stuffy Victorian society, she would die for the cause and kill for a drink.
“Laura Donnelly has charisma, wisdom and an anarchic precision that not only captures Amalia but defines her,” said Whedon. “She’s fierce and she’s funny – and I need both for the journey ahead.”
Whedon, who serves as showrunner,...
- 4/23/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Anand Pandit Motion Pictures, a leading production house in the country that is committed to offering holistic entertainment. The Production House?s expedition into Marathi Cinema begins with co-producing a romantic Marathi movie titled Ti And Ti which features Pushkar Jog, Sonalee Kulkarni and Prarthana Behere Jawkar as lead characters.
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The founder, Anand Pandit who has been associated with around 40 Bollywood movies in the past, said, "The story of Ti And Ti was definitely very interesting and that was my sole reason for choosing to co-produce it. I have always said quality content will remain the key to success, so long as good content comes my way I am willing to back it wholeheartedly. Apart from that, it was a great combination of the director and actors who were a part of the movie. It was a good opportunity to let it pass"
Anand Pandit Motion Picture has been part...
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The founder, Anand Pandit who has been associated with around 40 Bollywood movies in the past, said, "The story of Ti And Ti was definitely very interesting and that was my sole reason for choosing to co-produce it. I have always said quality content will remain the key to success, so long as good content comes my way I am willing to back it wholeheartedly. Apart from that, it was a great combination of the director and actors who were a part of the movie. It was a good opportunity to let it pass"
Anand Pandit Motion Picture has been part...
- 1/31/2019
- GlamSham
The Cannes Film Festival just wrapped up its 71st edition and the film with the biggest Oscar potential got a big boost at the closing ceremony. Spike Lee’s, “BlacKkKlansman,” the true story of an African-American cop who infiltrated the Kkk, took home the Grand Prix, the second highest prize of the festival. It was Lee’s first time competing on the Croisette since 1991 when “Jungle Fever” was in competition and was a bit of retribution for Lee after his widely acclaimed 1989 film, “Do the Right Thing,” received nothing from the jury.
If “BlacKkKlansman” were to get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, it would be the second time a Grand Prix winner has gotten into the race for Oscar’s top honor. The first was “Life is Beautiful” in 1998. Thirteen past Grand Prix winners went on to earn 22 total Oscar nominations with five films scoring seven wins. Each...
If “BlacKkKlansman” were to get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, it would be the second time a Grand Prix winner has gotten into the race for Oscar’s top honor. The first was “Life is Beautiful” in 1998. Thirteen past Grand Prix winners went on to earn 22 total Oscar nominations with five films scoring seven wins. Each...
- 5/20/2018
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
It's likely that the Oscar has gone to the wrong performance in the Best Actress category more times than it has for Best Actor. You won't find Bette Davis here for All About Eve, or Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard; they were both beaten by Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday.
There's no Shirley Maclaine for The Apartment, no Sigourney Weaver for either good Alien performance, no Angela Bassett for What's Love Got to Do With It?, no Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth, and no Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc. Just think of how different this list would look only counting those oversights.
But here are our rankings of the best performances to ever win Best Actress. Debate away...
1 - Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice (1981)
I'll make this really simple. There has never been a better female actor in film than Meryl Streep. Making the argument against it...
There's no Shirley Maclaine for The Apartment, no Sigourney Weaver for either good Alien performance, no Angela Bassett for What's Love Got to Do With It?, no Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth, and no Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc. Just think of how different this list would look only counting those oversights.
But here are our rankings of the best performances to ever win Best Actress. Debate away...
1 - Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice (1981)
I'll make this really simple. There has never been a better female actor in film than Meryl Streep. Making the argument against it...
- 2/19/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
With the addition of the following 26 titles (14 of which have been invited), the competition section is almost completed. You'll notice the kid with wings flick Ricky by Francois Ozon that we reported on earlier. Also having it's world premier is Mitchell Lichtenstein's (Teeth) newest film Happy Tears which sounds nothing it's predecessor (a genre piece) as it's a family drama.
You can check out the list after the break.
Competition (some out)
Cheri UK
By Stephen Frears (The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons)
With Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones
World premiere
Darbareye Elly (About Elly) Iran
By Asghar Farhadi (Fireworks Wednesday)
With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidousti, Mani Haghighi
World premiere
Deutschland 09 Germany - Out of Competition
Compilation film by Fatih Akin, Tom Tykwer, Wolfgang Becker, Sylke Enders, Dominik Graf, Romuald Karmakar, Nicolette Krebitz, Isabelle Stever, Hans Steinbichler, Hans Weingartner, Christoph Hochhäusler, Dani Levy and Angela Schanelec
World...
You can check out the list after the break.
Competition (some out)
Cheri UK
By Stephen Frears (The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons)
With Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones
World premiere
Darbareye Elly (About Elly) Iran
By Asghar Farhadi (Fireworks Wednesday)
With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidousti, Mani Haghighi
World premiere
Deutschland 09 Germany - Out of Competition
Compilation film by Fatih Akin, Tom Tykwer, Wolfgang Becker, Sylke Enders, Dominik Graf, Romuald Karmakar, Nicolette Krebitz, Isabelle Stever, Hans Steinbichler, Hans Weingartner, Christoph Hochhäusler, Dani Levy and Angela Schanelec
World...
- 1/15/2009
- QuietEarth.us
There's an obvious omission in Beyoncé Knowles' new movie, "Cadillac Records" [Review Here.] - the story about the Chess Records label that left out Bo Diddley while including Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry. Diddley, who died last June, wasn't fond of Chess. "It's no secret that Bo had real issues with the Chess brothers and their 'creative accounting practices,' " Margo Lewis, who heads up Talent Source, Diddley's management company,...
- 12/15/2008
- NYPost.com
Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon in Missing
Photo: Universal Pictures Adapted from Thomas Hauser's book of the same name Missing won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1983 and was nominated for Actor, Actress and Picture as well. The film tells the story of a father who flies down to an unnamed South American country (known to be Chile) to search for his missing son during a time of civil unrest. If the film was trying to get any specific political message across it never quite hits home even though a jab at American involvement in Chile is quite obvious. Instead it comes across more as a family piece as a man and his daughter-in-law are able to set aside their personal and political beliefs in an attempt to find Charles Horman (John Shea), the missing member of their family. Jack Lemmon stars as the father, Ed Horman, with...
Photo: Universal Pictures Adapted from Thomas Hauser's book of the same name Missing won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1983 and was nominated for Actor, Actress and Picture as well. The film tells the story of a father who flies down to an unnamed South American country (known to be Chile) to search for his missing son during a time of civil unrest. If the film was trying to get any specific political message across it never quite hits home even though a jab at American involvement in Chile is quite obvious. Instead it comes across more as a family piece as a man and his daughter-in-law are able to set aside their personal and political beliefs in an attempt to find Charles Horman (John Shea), the missing member of their family. Jack Lemmon stars as the father, Ed Horman, with...
- 10/24/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Jack Lemmon was perhaps the quintessential Everyman of American cinema, a reliably earnest, down-to-earth performer who was equally good at playing the put-upon hero in Billy Wilder comedies and embodying an average, relatable guy in dramas like The China Syndrome or Glengarry Glen Ross. So it's especially heartbreaking to watch Lemmon's performance in Costa-Gavras' Missing, which casts him as a conservative American businessman who searches, with mounting disillusionment, for a son that disappeared in the midst of a bloody Latin American putsch. While there's an element of left-wing fantasy in Lemmon's conversion from unquestioning patriot to newly awakened skeptic of U.S. covert activities, Lemmon's emotional directness, driven by a need simply to find answers, makes that transition entirely plausible. Within this decent citizen lies the conscience of a nation. Based on Thomas Hauser's book The Execution Of Charles Horman, Missing takes place in an unnamed Latin American country,...
- 10/22/2008
- by Scott Tobias
- avclub.com
COLOGNE, Germany -- Danish director Susanne Bier, German actress Diane Kruger and French star Sandrine Bonnaire are among the names to sign up for jury duty at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival.
The jury, headed by famed political filmmaker Costa-Gavras ("Z," Missing) also includes Oscar-winning film and sound editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now), Taiwanese actress Shu-Qi (The Transporter), Russian film producer and CTC president Alexander Rodniansky (East-West) and award-winning German production designer Uli Hanisch ("Perfume -- The Story of a Murderer").
The four-man, four-woman jury will select the winners of Berlin's Gold and Silver Bears from among this year's Berlinale competition films.
Actresses Kruger, Bonnaire and Shu-Qi are no strangers to the Berlinale. Kruger, famous for her break-through role alongside Nicolas Cage in the National Treasure films, was in Berlin last year for the In Competition premiere of Bille August's Goodbye Bafana. Shu-Qi last appeared in Berlin in Stanley Kwan's in-competition entry The Island Tales in 2000 and Bonnaire starred in Patrice Leconte's Intimate Strangers, a Berlinale competition film in 2004.
Bier joins the Berlinale jury hot off the critical success of her English-language debut, Things We Lost In The Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro.
The jury, headed by famed political filmmaker Costa-Gavras ("Z," Missing) also includes Oscar-winning film and sound editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now), Taiwanese actress Shu-Qi (The Transporter), Russian film producer and CTC president Alexander Rodniansky (East-West) and award-winning German production designer Uli Hanisch ("Perfume -- The Story of a Murderer").
The four-man, four-woman jury will select the winners of Berlin's Gold and Silver Bears from among this year's Berlinale competition films.
Actresses Kruger, Bonnaire and Shu-Qi are no strangers to the Berlinale. Kruger, famous for her break-through role alongside Nicolas Cage in the National Treasure films, was in Berlin last year for the In Competition premiere of Bille August's Goodbye Bafana. Shu-Qi last appeared in Berlin in Stanley Kwan's in-competition entry The Island Tales in 2000 and Bonnaire starred in Patrice Leconte's Intimate Strangers, a Berlinale competition film in 2004.
Bier joins the Berlinale jury hot off the critical success of her English-language debut, Things We Lost In The Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro.
- 1/30/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Constantin Costa-Gavras, one of the world's most prominent political directors, has been named jury president for the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, arguably the most political of the big film fests.
Costa-Gavras made his mark with such politically charged thrillers as Z (1969) and Missing (1982).
The Greek-French director has won virtually every major film prize, including the Festival de Cannes' Palme d'Or and a screenplay Oscar for Missing and Berlin's Golden Bear for 1990's Music Box, the story of a lawyer who defends her father when he is charged with war crimes.
"I am very pleased that we have been able to win over such a great director as Costa-Gavras as jury president," Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick said. "His work is both social critique and high art."
The Berlin festival is proud of its political, left-of-center credentials. Recent Golden and Silver Bear winners include Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica, about the aftermath of the Balkan War; Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantanamo; and Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass' documentary style movie about the British military massacre of Irish civil rights protesters in 1972.
Costa-Gavras made his mark with such politically charged thrillers as Z (1969) and Missing (1982).
The Greek-French director has won virtually every major film prize, including the Festival de Cannes' Palme d'Or and a screenplay Oscar for Missing and Berlin's Golden Bear for 1990's Music Box, the story of a lawyer who defends her father when he is charged with war crimes.
"I am very pleased that we have been able to win over such a great director as Costa-Gavras as jury president," Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick said. "His work is both social critique and high art."
The Berlin festival is proud of its political, left-of-center credentials. Recent Golden and Silver Bear winners include Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica, about the aftermath of the Balkan War; Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantanamo; and Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass' documentary style movie about the British military massacre of Irish civil rights protesters in 1972.
- 11/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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