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"Finally, I'd like to step out of my pundit shoes for a moment, if I may, and make a bold suggestion: Academy, if you're reading, please consider nominating Fantastic Mr. Fox for best costumes. Where does it say costumes have to be human sized?"-- Vanity Fair.com's Julian Sancton in an 11.18 ...
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I know I probably won't ended up looking like this when I'm 79, but I'd like to. Cool, studly, relaxed machismo is worth its weight in gold. The cover photo lies, of course, by favoring the subject, but what photo doesn't lie on some level? Most of them make you look worse....
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Email here for additions & corrections. Il Grido (Antonioni, 1957 ) The Fortune (Nichols, 1975 ) -30- (Webb, 1959 ) Betrayal (Jones, 1983 ) Play It As It Lays (Perry, 1972 ) The Outfit (Flynn, 1973 ) Alex in Wonderland (Mazursky, 1969 ) The Legend of Lylah Clare (Aldrich, 1968 ) In The ...
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Somebody said something the other day about Alec
Baldwin being exceptional in Nancy Meyers' It's Complicated (Universal,
12.25). The vested parties are saying this, of course, with the post-marital comedy expected to start screening for critics ...
Glimmer of Baldwin Thing
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Part of the tragedy of New Moon is that it temporarily wraps Kristen Stewart -- the GenY Marlon Brando/James Dean/Montgomery Clift -- in a shroud of mediocrity. I'm not saying that Stewart has mastered her talent completely, but it's inside her, for sure. It's almost nauseating to see her ...
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Kristen Stewart
New Moon has earned a fair and appropriate 37% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I'm amazed and almost stunned that EW's Lisa Schwarzbaum, the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips, the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Colin Calvert , the Washington Post's Michael O'Sulivan and the Philadelphpa Inquirer's Carrie ...
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New Moon
I like Peter Bart's brief 11.19 profile of 34 year-old movie financier and Relativity Media honcho Ryan Kavanaugh more than the also-recent one by Chris Jones in Esquire. I prefer Bart's because he mentions that Kavanaugh is "a moderate drinker [whose] driving is sufficiently erratic to provoke ...
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Will Ferrell's track record over the last five years (and particularly the titanic failure of Land of the Lost) has earned him the title of Hollywood's most overpaid actor, according to an intensive survey announced a day or two ago by Forbes.com. The survey is not, in other words, a portrait of ...
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This is a peripheral Matt Drudge-like posting and I'm sorry, but as soon as I heard the term "dino-chickens" I was hooked. In my entire life I've never heard this term, and I'm speaking as a guy who once wrote a Roger Corman- or George Pal-type script called Killer Chickens. The size of ...
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IFP Gotham Independent Award "Breakthrough Director" nominee Derick Martini (Lymelife) and Michelle Byrd, IFP Executive Director, at last night's IFP celeberation for the nominees of the "Best Film Not Playing at a Theatre Near You" award. This is a private invitation to a private event (and the ...
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A fellow Oscar handicapper recently conveyed this observation on the fly. He was talking about some late-breaking Oscar contending films that have been seen and/or whispered about over the last week or so....
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In lieu of recent reports that seasoned editors Walter Murch and Mark Goldblatt have been hired to try and punch up improve Joe Johnston's The Wolfman (Universal, 2.10), I heard from a guy a day or two ago who recently saw a research screening of the 19th Century-era horror film in Los Angeles, ...
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Joe Johnston
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Benicio Del Toro
The one thing that's always bothered me about The Hurt Locker. One scene, I mean. Actually a single line of dialogue. A jocular U.S. Colonel (David Morse) asks Jeremy Renner's Sgt. James, a bomb-defusal Jedi, "What's the best way to defuse one of these things?" And Renner answers, ...
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The Hurt Locker
There were two screenings yesterday of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (Paramount, 12.11 limited) -- an exhibitor screening on the Paramount lot and (according to a friend) a SAG screening at the Landmark Westside Pavillion. I heard some stuff from one guy, and of course (a) it's just one guy ...
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Peter Jackson
The Lovely Bones
Terry Gilliam
Lionsgate has provided Hit Fix/Awards Campaign columnist Greg Ellwood with an exclusive clip from Jim Sheridan's Brothers (which I'm seeing this evening) in which costars Carey Mulligan -- the Best Actress front-runner for her work in An Education -- and Natalie Portman share a low-key scene. I ...
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Natalie Portman
Lionsgate
Jim Sheridan
Without copping to having seen New Moon (which he clearly has), The Wrap's Dominic Patten has listed six reasons why the Twilight franchise is doomed. Eventually, he means. Sapping of the spirit, downward marketing spiral, tank running dry, etc. One, "nothing happens" in the movies, the ...
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New Moon
Twilight
Robert Pattinson
Chris Weitz
Catherine Hardwicke
Much of what's wrong with New Moon seems tracable to director Chris Weitz. In the view of L.A. Times critic Kenneth Turan, Weitz is a "polished" and "smooth professional who makes the vampire trains of Melissa Rosenberg's capable script run on time, but he almost seems too rational a director ...
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New Moon
Chris Weitz
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In terms of using the right kind of
connective tissue that works for the story and for
the audience simultaneously, New Moon (Summit, 11.20) isn't half the film that Twilight was. It's slow and infected with the sequel virus. It's gaseous and ...
It's Baaad
Sacha Gervasi's Anvil!: The Story of Anvil has been left off the just-announced short list of the Academy's Best Feature Documentary contenders. One of '09's most offbeat and emotionally engaging (one could even apply the term "heart-warming") docs, Anvil! was expected to at least make the short ...
