Monthly Archives: March 2009
Since the Vancouver Winter Olympics run from February 12th – 28th next year, the Oscar schedule is shifting forward two weeks for 2010 giving us all 14 more days to savor the anxiety anticipation. Although it’s only being touted as a one-year arrangement, the more spacious range of dates will provide an interesting opportunity to try on some sanity for size....
Ridley Scott became the 62nd recipient of a BFI Fellowship on Saturday night, just as Universal released the latest casting updates for the newly re-written Robin Hood (formerly Nottingham) Russell Crowe… Robin Hood Cate Blanchett… Lady Marion Vanessa Redgrave… Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine Oscar Isaac… King John Mark Strong… King John‚Äôs...
Insane Clone Posse: Dana Fox, Diablo Cody, Liz Meriwether and Lorene Scafaria. The NYTimes Cady Heron Deborah Schoeneman pulls back the seven veils to flash us with a glimpse of the coolest chick clique since Heather, Heather, Veronica, and Heather: Ms. Scafaria and Ms. Cody are usually not a duo, but half of a quartet. With their pals Dana Fox, who wrote “What...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2UKvM7SjWc[/youtube] I’ve been mulling over one title since the Oscars came to a screeching halt this year. One title really should have done better, even if not in the big categories, certainly in Original Screenplay, where it seemed like a slam dunk. Rachel Getting Married was written by Hollywood spawn Jenny Lumet. It was...
(click to expand) Uncanny resemblance, achieved mostly through posture, gesture, and that jolly epicurean eye-squinch. And we haven’t even heard Ms. Streep staple Julia Child’s accent to the wall with a nail gun yet. Check out a half-dozen more on-set stills (via simplystreep.com), after the cut. Lest we forget, Meryl Streep is a double-threat this year....
Biopic, the most reliable road to Oscar? Anne Hathaway, nominated for a lead actress Oscar last season for Rachel Getting Married, is attached to star for The Weinstein Company as Judy Garland in film and stage versions of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life Of Judy Garland. Get Happy is based on hundreds of interviews and Garland’s own unfinished...
Thanks to Dan for the tip to the trailer for Within the Whirlwind 1937, the year that Eugenia Ginzburg was arrested and falsely charged as a Trotskyist terrorist counterrevolutionary, was only the beginning of Stalin’s purges. Nearly six million people were arrested on trumped up charges, and millions were executed or perished in prisons and camps. Eugenia Ginzburg,...
French trailer for Coco Avant Chanel is inexplicably in French! But that only makes it prettier. HD here. House of Chanel art director Karl Lagerfeld supervised re-creations of the legendary designer’s attire. Director Anne Fontaine’s adaptation of Edmonde Charles-Roux’s biography “L’irreguliere” will focus on Chanel’s early...