One of the long-standing laments about the Academy, or AMPAS, is that they have forbidden movie ads to be run during the Oscars so as not to appear as thoug they are endorsing one film company over another. This report comes from Cynthia Littleton at Variety and was sent to us by FilmBoy Michael: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors voted Tuesday...
Monthly Archives: October 2008
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwLcb-FBinI[/youtube] What begins as a poignant tribute to filmmaker Kurt Kuenne’s dead best friend snowballs into a gut-wrenching true-crime story in “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father,” a film that, like the twist-filled events it covers, isn’t always what it appears to be. (Variety) Thanks...
USA Today’s Anthony Breznican caught up with Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie at the NYFF where Changeling was screening. Eastwood says it wasn’t his strategy to place Gran Torino square in the middle of the Oscar race but the studio’s. He does talk a bit about the character he plays: “I’m a weirdo in it. I play a real racist. ‚Ķ It’s...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA[/youtube] Slashfilm alerts us to the tantalizing offer of spending some time at Timberline Lodge, the hotel where Stanley Kubrick filmed part of The Shining: In the film, Jack Nicholson slowly loses his grasp on reality and loses himself in a hallucination of a 1920s era ball. Twenty-Eight years later, Nike Sportswear...
Clint Eastwood and Miss Hot Tomato New York Post, Page Six: Clint Eastwood made it clear who won last week’s vice-presidential debate in an interview he did Saturday as part of The New Yorker Festival with the magazine’s legendary Lillian Ross. “One of the candidates the other night seemed more prone to telling the truth than the other,” Eastwood...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s0Nvg9ShCM[/youtube] Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: Let’s be honest: “Pleasure of Being Robbed” drove a lot of people crazy at Cannes, including people whose tastes I respect. I could flatter myself by claiming that they didn’t get it and I did, but things are never entirely that simple. What I saw as...
Even more inspiring than the voter registration video we posted yesterday, the Creative Coalition encourages us to vote with a quote from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCcLzu3jz1M[/youtube] ‚ÄúFor...