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Sneak Peek: Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole
One of the most buzzed-about releases of the holiday movie season, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole, stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as a couple coping with the death of their young son.
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127 Hours with Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson
The Team Behind Slumdog Millionaire Brings Aron Ralston's Survival Tale to the Big Screen
Many people are familiar with the amazing survival tale of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber whose life was irrevocably changed in 2003, when his arm became trapped under a boulder for five days until he managed to amputate it with a dull knife. Now the subject of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, an adaptation of Ralston’s 2004 memoir, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, the ordeal has been turned into an uplifting adventure-thriller starring James Franco.
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Darren Aronofsky and Mila Kunis Reveal Their Dark Sides
Darren Aronofsky and Mila Kunis Get In Touch With Their Dark Sides on Black Swan
So what’s it all about? Well, like Pi, his 1998 breakthrough indie feature, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is a drama about an obsessive protagonist poised on the brink of madness while pursuing perfection. Like Requiem for a Dream (2000), his critically acclaimed sophomore effort, Aronofsky’s latest film focuses on the desperate frenzy of a character whose fantasies are intruding on reality. And like The Wrestler (2008), his sentimentally gritty tale of a has-been grappler who repeatedly returns to the ring, Aronofsky’s much buzzed-about drama about a ballerina who gets in touch with her dark side is the story of an artist who quite literally suffers for the sake of art.
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2010 Spirit Award Nominees Announced
Just hours after the Gotham Independent Film Awards were handed out, Los Angeles-based Film Independent has announced the nominees for its 2010 Spirit Awards, kicking awards season into even higher gear. And the nominees are...
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2010 Gotham Independent Film Award Winners Announced
Last night the winners of the 20th anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced in a ceremony in New York City.
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Breaking Away: Ten Great Prison Break Movies
If there's one movie genre that provides a guaranteed escape from the humdrum of everyday life, it’s the prison break movie. The meticulous planning (watch out for those guards!), the high-stakes suspense (will they make it?), the glorious moment when the prisoner finally breaks out of his confines and breathes free... it's always an enjoyably nerve-wracking experience. There’s something elemental and universal in our desire to root for the (usually innocent) prisoner.
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Gotham Independent Film Awards Nominees Announced
Award season has swung into gear with the Independent Filmmaker Project's announcement of the 20th anniversary Gotham Independent Film Award nominees.
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Michael Imperioli Feeds The Hungry Ghosts
For all the work he gets on the small screen, Michael Imperioli hasn’t left film behind. On October 1st, Imperioli added "director" to his business card when his feature directorial debut, The Hungry Ghosts (which he also wrote), opened in New York.
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Richard Jenkins Takes a Bite Out of Let Me In
After four decades of diverse supporting roles, Richard Jenkins was elevated to leading man status in 2007 with his portrayal of lonely professor, Walter Vale, whose life changes unexpectedly after the arrival of three Syrian immigrants in Tom McCarthy’s wonderfully resonant film, The Visitor.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Ryan Go Boating
Old friends and longtime collaborators explain the importance of a "good hang"
Philip Seymour Hoffman has earned enthusiastic acclaim for his acting work many times over. With Jack Goes Boating, he has announced himself as a formidable movie director, as well.
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Take 10: Justin Long’s Short Story
The Mac Guy channels his inner Marty McFly
Pacino. De Niro. Fox? When it comes to the holy triumvirate of great thespians, the star of Teen Wolf is usually not at the top of the triangle. Unless you happen to be Justin Long.
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Katie Aselton’s Pure Indie Power
By way of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for a girl who starts off a conversation with, “So you live in Midcoast Maine in the summer? I used to rake blueberries not far from there.” But the real reason Katie Aselton won me over when we met for a drink near her Los Feliz home had more to do with her pure, unabashed, unaffected enthusiasm for indie moviemaking.
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Mixed Reviews: Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
Sam Wasson’s new book, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman (204 pages, HarperCollins, $19.99), is the story of how the revolutionary film Breakfast at Tiffany’s was sewn together with passion, finesse and luck—and why it shocked the nation in 1961.
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Bruce Campbell Resurrects The Evil Dead
B-movie god Bruce Campbell has just about done it all—from lead roles in offbeat indie flicks like Bubba Ho-Tep to cameos in big-budget hits like the Spider-Man series.
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Amanda Schull is Mao's Last Dancer
Dancing and acting go hand in hand, especially on the stage. But what happens when you take a professional ballet dancer and put her in a major motion picture? In the case of Amanda Schull, you get a double threat. Schull made her film debut in 2000’s Center Stage, but returned to her dancing roots afterward. Now she’s back in Bruce Beresford’s Mao’s Last Dancer.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. Ellen Wong
With the exception of being a stalker who violently beats girls who steal her boyfriend, actress Ellen Wong is not so different from Knives Chau, the character she plays in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which hits theaters today. With a background in martial arts, weaponry and acrobatics, Wong was well prepared for a role of this nature—which marks her feature film debut.
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Jennifer Salt Spices Up Eat Pray Love
Actress-turned-screenwriter Jennifer Salt has had an eclectic career. The daughter of Oscar-winning screenwriter Waldo Salt (Coming Home; Serpico), Jennifer began her acting career in the late 1960s, just when a new wave of moviemakers were being given the reins by the studios to make more personal, thought-provoking, offbeat work. Some of her credits during this heady time include Midnight Cowboy (for which her father won an Oscar), Hi, Mom!, Play It Again, Sam, Brewster McCloud and Sisters (in which she starred with former roommate Margot Kidder).
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At the Movies With “Kid Critic” Jackson Murphy
As far as present-day film critics go, there’s the old folks, such as Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin; the pseudo-hip like Peter Travers; and rising star Jackson Murphy. Haven’t heard of him? Give it a few years—or, at least until he graduates from the eighth grade.
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Ellen Page’s Dream Job
From Canadian darling to Hollywood star, Ellen Page navigates success on her own terms with Inception
Rising star Ellen Page—the heart and soul of Jason Reitman’s 2007 indie hit Juno—is turning up on Hollywood marquees more and more these days. But her success, while much deserved, has been a relatively long time coming. Next playing opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Page—at the age of 23—has been clocking set time consistently for well over a decade.
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Duplass vs. Goliath
Indie brothers go Hollywood for Cyrus, but will they stay there?
"Holy shitballs.” That’s the general feeling we had when we were greenlit for our first studio movie, Cyrus.
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Total Eclipse of the Box Office
After a record-breaking night of midnight shows, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse came in at number one, earning $69 million in its first weekend, with a total gross of $161.7 million in its first five days.
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“Audition America” Teams With New York Film Academy
What ever happens to the winners of those all-too-popular reality show competitions? Sure, there's always a seemingly useful grand prize appropriate to the competition's genre, but once the series has aired and ended, the victor’s limelight usually fades along with it. Enter "Audition America," a hybrid series that fixes this reality show dilemma.
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Harald Zwart Kicks Back with The Karate Kid
Born in the Netherlands and raised in Norway, Harald Zwart first came to attention directing several award-winning short films, commercials and music videos (including several for fellow Norwegians, a-ha).
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Richard Loncraine vs. Bill and Hillary
He has been making movies for almost 40 years, but even Emmy-winning director Richard Loncraine knows that four weeks of prep for a movie about four of the world's most prominent political figures is not without its challenges. The Special Relationship, now playing on HBO, tells of the relationship between Tony and and Cherie Blair and Bill and Hillary Clinton in the mid- to late 1990s, a time when shared ideologies eventually gave way to political scandals.
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Sneak Peek: Matt Reeves' Let Me In, Starring Chloe Moretz
Just in time for Halloween (October 1st to be precise), Cloverfield director Matt Reeves will unleash his latest monster on unsuspecting audiences: Kick-Ass' Chloe Moretz. Let Me In, the English language remake of the recent Swedish hit Let the Right One In (based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel), tells the creepy tale of the friendship that grows between a bullied young boy and his new vampire neighbor. MM has a sneak peek at a few behind-the-scenes shots.
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center Honors Michael Douglas
Two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas will have a new award to place on his mantle later this month. On May 24, at Alice Tully Hall in New York, Douglas will be honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 37th annual Chaplin Award. Recent Chaplin Award recipients include Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman.
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Naomi Watts' Wild Child
Naomi Watts breaks all the rules in Mother and Child
Ten years ago, Naomi Watts was a struggling hollywood actress. In 2001, she caught her big break—in David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.—playing a struggling Hollywood actress. And immediately following her breakthrough role, she took on the role of producer-actress alongside her friend Scott Coffey to make Ellie Parker, playing—what else—a struggling Hollywood actress.
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Mixed Reviews: Clint: A Retrospective
“I’m just a guy who makes movies.” The first sentence in Clint: A Retrospective (Sterling, 288 pages, $35) perfectly sums up the moviemaking powerhouse that is Clint Eastwood, and is actually a quote from Eastwood himself.
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Hiroyuki Sanada Enters The City of Your Final Destination
There was really no reason for Hiroyuki Sanada to ever leave Japan. He was a five-time nominee for Best Actor at the Japanese Academy Awards and a winner in 2003 for his performance in Tasogare Seibei.
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Zoe Lister-Jones Breaks Out with Breaking Upwards
" I feel like I’ve led the intense life of a celebrity without making the money or getting any free shit. I’m like Lindsay Lohan minus the swag.” Not quite the humbled perspective you’d expect from an actress who has worked with the likes of Angelina Jolie, Ryan Gosling, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell in 2009 alone. But with Zoe Lister-Jones, this is precisely what you get.
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Mumblecore Goes Mainstream
The mumblecore genre is characterized by naturalistic settings and shooting styles, improvised dialogue, non-professional actors and twentysomethings sitting around and talking to each other about their lives. It doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that would be gracing the local multiplex anytime soon, but it has finally gone (relatively) mainstream with the limited release of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg.
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Bryan Cranston Directs “Breaking Bad”
Having already directed the season two premiere of "Breaking Bad," Bryan Cranston (best known for his role as the father of the title character in “Malcolm in the Middle”) is back in the director’s chair for the season three premiere, airing on AMC Sunday, March 21. Shortly before the premiere, Cranston was kind enough to give his take on what a TV director really does, his opinion on whether today’s television is superior to today’s film and his five-word summary of “Breaking Bad” season three.
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MovieMaker at the 2010 Spirit Awards
The 2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards might have been held at L.A. Live, Los Angeles’ newest plaza of self-serving commercialism. It might have featured Ben Stiller, the actor who traded in his early career as an indie director for box office hits like Meet the Parents and Night of the Museum, as its honorary chair. And it might have continued the recent trend of presenting a majority of the night’s awards to the higher-end independent films.
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Oscar Loves The Hurt Locker
Weeks of debate over "Will James Cameron be the King of the World once again?" or "Will the ex-Mrs. Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, reign supreme?" were quieted last night as Bigelow's The Hurt Locker won six of its nine Academy Award nominations, including those for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing, Sound and Sound Editing. The award makes Bigelow the first woman to receive an Oscar for Best Director.
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Anna Kendrick Goes Up in the Air with George Clooney
Starring opposite George Clooney in Up In The Air was, at least at first, a nerve-wracking experience for first-time Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick. “Yes, let’s just say I was terrified,” she laughs. “Who wouldn’t be? I mean, come on, it’s George. He’s one of the biggest stars in the world.”
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