Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Our friends over at First Showing got an interesting little scoop this afternoon, picking up some casting news from Robert Redford's upcoming Lincoln assassination film The Conspirator.
Michael Madison (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Sydney Pollack talking about acting and directing in his film. Old interview. Great interview...he talks about the future of distribution. This was from the late 1970s.
Eater LA (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
To thoroughly enjoy the glory that is Top Chef, we welcome back comedian Max Silvestri, who is here every week to take us through season six. Eight left, guys. Playtime is over. (What I mean is that producers made Eli...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Newseum, in partnership with American University's School of Communication, today announced that "His Girl Friday" and "Absence of Malice" will be the first two films in the 2009-2010 season of the movie and discussion series "Reel Journalism With Nick Clooney."
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
By Edward Copeland It's a cliche to say, "They don't make 'em like they used to." It's downright depressing when that trite saying is being employed to refer to a film such as The Fabulous Baker Boys that is just marking its 20th anniversary. Has Hollywood really degenerated this much this fast? In 1989, this was a big studio release. Now, we'd be lucky if someone would pick it up as an...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Tad Friend's enormous profile of Nikki Finke in today's The New Yorker may be a little light on breaking news, but for fans of Finke, her hilariously tactless reporting style, and the silly industry she covers, it's an 8,000-word delight. The piece is being criticized by some (including Finke herself ) for pulling punches, though we defy anybody to get better out of the pants-shitting moguls terrified...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
From the first moment Spencer Tracy sets eyes on Katharine Hepburn in the 1942 classic Woman of the Year (at 5:46 on the DVD), you know he wants to explore that leg which she has been stretching and find just where it leads. Just by the glances the exchange in the ensuing scene, you know [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Rare is the occasion where the week biggest release isn't a new blockbuster but rather a septuagenarian, but that's the case this time as a young girl from Kanas eclipses anything New Hollywood has to throw at us. This is your DVD Report for Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Since the advent of Blu-ray, studios have casually [...]
Thighs Wide Shut (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
with Sydney Pollack attached to direct? Unsuper Mario Bros ? Trainspotting II ? Reservoir Guide Dogs ? Reservoir Wolves ? Caribbean Basterds ? Bi's Wide Shut ? [not really NSFW]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Norman Katkov, a writer who started his long career crafting articles for newspapers and magazines and moved on to television scripts and novels, died Sept. 13 at his Los Angeles home of age-related causes, his son Richard said. He was 91.
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
On March 7th 1999, four days after screening his first cut of Eyes Wide Shut (1999) to stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (still married at the time) and Warner Brothers executives, director Stanley Kubrick died at the age of...
headsup: the blog (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Summer isn't even technically over, and we're closing the balloting for Stupidest AP Trend Piece of the Year? Yes! And when you see the Grand Champion here , you'll stuff ballot boxes out of sheer delight: We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, [No we weren't. That was a joke. Remember? Jokes'] not in the dozens. [To spare you the trouble of counting, we manage to squeeze...
TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
See this tonight: Three Days of the Condor
Mobility Site (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Linda and her page TabletPc2.com are without any doubt in my mind a mandatory stop for anybody researching about the term TabletPC. Her last article is a compendium of all the information found at her ...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Writer Larry Gelbart, who developed the hit TV series MASH and co-wrote the Sydney Pollack film Tootsie, succumbed to a battle with cancer and passed away this morning at the age of 81. Click through for the LA Times' detailed obituary.
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