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• Rachel Abramowitz catches up with Johnny Depp on the “Public Enemies” publicity trail. [Los Angeles Times] • Helen O’Hara remembers Michael Jackson’s movie moments. [Empire] • Jenni Miller talks to “Cheri” director Stephen Frears. [Cinematical] • Guillermo DelToro’s credo. [The Independent] • “Do the Right Thing” still asks burning questions. [Washingotn Post] • Hey, […]
Entries from June 2009
6/29 Web Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:01 am · June 29th, 2009
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Gangster lovin’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:01 am · June 29th, 2009
Joe Queenan is one of my least favorite Guardian film contributors — too often perversely hard to please — but I did appreciate the boyish honesty of this piece, in which he sheds his usual cineaste grousing to indiscriminately geek out over guns and fedoras. With “Public Enemies” only a few days away, he extols […]
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Respectfully disagree
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:11 pm · June 28th, 2009
F.X. Feeney, whose Taschen study on the films of Michael Mann is must reading for fans of the director, has gone on the record with Jeffrey Wells as believing the female characters from Mann’s films to be “deeply observed, self-reliant and fully dimensional.” The comment follows an earlier Wells posting concerning Marion Cotillard’s strong performance […]
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Previewing tomorrow’s Oscar column…
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:12 pm · June 28th, 2009
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Has anyone seen this bizarre CNN interview with Joe Jackson???
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:08 pm · June 28th, 2009
I don’t think “WTF” says it, but…WTF???
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SUNDAY CENTS: Box office ‘Trans’-stormed!
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 3:37 pm · June 28th, 2009
After a critical mauling the likes of which is usually reserved for Uwe Boll, Michael Bay’s mega-budget sequel “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” opened to the second largest five day opening of all-time behind “The Dark Knight.” Is that surprising? Not really. The original film is one of only two non-sequels in the last three […]
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Oliver Stone talks ‘Wall Street 2’ on Real Time
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:57 am · June 28th, 2009
Bill Maher is taking a brief mid-season break from live “Real Time” shows for the next couple of weeks. Friday night’s show, when not an awkward schmooze fest on some of his guests’ part, made for a delightful three-part one-on-one discussion. The guests were Cameron Diaz, Oliver Stone and Billy Bob Thornton, but as you’d […]
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‘Moon’ takes top prize at Edinburgh
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:44 am · June 28th, 2009
The Edinburgh International Film Festival closed today with an awards ceremony that culminated in Duncan Jones’s sci-fi debut feature “Moon” landing the fest’s most coveted prize, the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature. The jury, headed by Joe Wright and including Oscar-nominee Frank Langella, said of the film: We award “Moon” for its singular […]
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Live action Luxo Jr.
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:38 am · June 28th, 2009
(Courtesy: Gizmodo, via Cinematical)
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Miyazaki’s ‘Ponyo’ closes LAFF
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:12 am · June 28th, 2009
I’ve come to the awkward, “I’m the only one” conclusion that, despite my best efforts, the cinema of Hayao Miyazaki just doesn’t paddle my boat. Looking back over the animator’s past works again throughout the week in preparation for this write-up, and having taken in his latest, “Ponyo,” just a few weeks back, I still […]
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Deepak Chopra on his friend, Michael Jackson
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:05 am · June 28th, 2009
This Keith Olbermann interview with doctor and author Deepak Chopra, one of Michael Jackson’s closest friends and confidants, is required viewing for anyone wanting to get past the knee-jerk “a pedophile is dead” stupidity flooding the net, the air waves, etc., in the wake of the entertainer’s untimely demise Thursday. The interview comes on the […]
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Contest reminder
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:53 am · June 27th, 2009
If you haven’t already, don’t forget to take a stab at our “Public Enemies” poster contest. We’ll accept captions throughout the weekend.
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Oscarcast nixes honorary awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:40 am · June 27th, 2009
Anyone know the reason why the Academy is so restlessly change-happy this week? Not content with doubling the Best Picture field and potentially eliminating the Best Original Song category, they’ve also decided go ahead and cut all honorary awards from the March telecast. Instead, the hitherto irregularly awarded Honorary (AKA lifetime achievement), Irving G. Thalberg […]
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Could Focus be priming ‘Boat’ for Oscar?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:56 pm · June 26th, 2009
Variety’s Pamela McClintock and Ali Jafaar are reporting tonight that Focus Features will distribute Richard Curtis’s “The Boat That Rocked,” rather than parent Universal, and instead of the originally planned August 28 release date, the studio has pushed it to November, right in the middle of the Oscar season. The article notes the fact that […]
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Johnny Depp pitches ‘Enemies’ on Letterman
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:47 pm · June 26th, 2009
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WEEKLY WRAP: Bombshell upon bombshell
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:23 pm · June 26th, 2009
Weird, unsettling week, this. Here’s how it went down: • In the week’s biggest movie news, the Academy threw us all for a loop by announcing a 10-nominee slate for the Best Picture category. • But even that shock was dwarfed in scale by the stunning news of Michael Jackson’s passing. • And in a […]
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Original ‘Batman’ producer looks back
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:57 pm · June 26th, 2009
On Tuesday we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Tim Burton’s “Batman” around these parts with a personal retrospective. There are a number of similar remembrances around the web, many of them linked in that entry, but one guy who really deserves a “huzzah” this week is film producer, pop culture professor and all around comic […]
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Bruno on Conan
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:14 pm · June 26th, 2009
Here’s part one. Part two after the jump:
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