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Penelope Strikes One Pose After Another For Nine in Interview
17 hours ago | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Penelope Cruz went with red lips and lots of diamonds for the January cover of Interview. She posed for an accompanying sexy spread and talked about Nine with her costar in the film, Marion Cotillard. There's all sorts of speculation about Penelope's personal life and possible engagement to Javier Bardem, but the ladies kept things strictly focused on business - Penelope shared about what compelled her to act, her inspirations, and what it was like on the female-centered set of Nine. Here's more: On what inspired her to act: "That question actually brings me to the reason why I decided to become an actress, which is my constant curiosity about the endless mysteries of human behavior. Because we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers." On when she knew she wanted to act: "I think since I was around four years old. »
- PopSugar
Anna Kendrick Video Interview Up In The Air
2 December 2009 9:53 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Opening this Friday, in limited release, is director Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. Since I have already written many times how much I loved the movie and how I think it’s going to be nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscar’s, I don’t know what else to say except go see this film when it’s playing in your area. Not only does it feature fantastic performances from every actor (George Clooner, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick), it’s one of those films that doesn’t take the typical movie right turn. What I’m trying to say is it’s a film you haven’t seen before. Trust me, Up in the Air is great and you’re going to love it.
To help promote the film, I recently participated in the international press day as a reporter for our partners at Omelete. »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Opera Review: Domingo Sings One More for the Road
2 December 2009 11:46 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Creatures of creative habit -- say, Placido Domingo, Woody Allen, Philip Roth -- do not let numbers stand in their way. How many opera roles? How many movies? How many novels? Could be, they're even consumed with self-competition. Take the fabled tenor, for instance, who wouldn't dream of resting on his performance laurels. At 68, an age when most singers are content to browse through their scrapbooks because they hardly have a larynx left, Domingo has now advanced to his 126th role, in Handel's rarely performed Tamerlano. And please note, no one in all of opera even approaches that number - which means that he's committed to memory yet another staged three hours of music. A true marathon man. And, oh yes, he also helms the Los Angeles Opera (where he's currently appearing), as well... »
- Donna Perlmutter
Link Time!!!
1 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Rachel Bilson rocks inside the latest Asos magazine - Hollywood Tuna Another woman comes out claiming affair with Tiger Woods - Us Weekly Woody Allen is 74 today; take a look back at his muses! - TresSugar Meryl Streep admits to being camera shy - PopEater Tiger charged $164 for reckless driving, no further investigation expected - TMZ 50 Cent carries $25,000 around in his pocket, just in case - JustJared Neve Campbell talks about her role in Scream 4 - Pink Is the New Blog Cate Blanchett is one desirable lady in NYC - Lainey Gossip Britney's back in La after being Down Under - D-Listed Serena Williams has a bathing suit malfunction (Nsfw) - Egotastic The Kardashian sisters love wearing bikinis - The Superficial Cindy Crawford keeps her supermodel figure in shape - cityrag Enjoy the holidays around the fire with Tori Amos - popbytes Lily Allen's new look is glitzy »
- PopSugar
Manhattan, The Prisoner Of Zenda, The Big Parade at Packard Campus
1 December 2009 10:28 AM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Packard Campus December Film Series: Introduction Series Schedule Thursday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. Manhattan (United Artist, 1979, R-rated*) A television comedy writer in New York falls for his best friend’s girl. Directed by Woody Allen, who stars with Diane Keaton, the film was named to the National Film Registry in 2001. *No one under 17 will be admitted without a parent or an adult guardian. Friday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. The Prisoner of Zenda (Selznick International Pictures, 1937) An Englishman on holiday in Ruritania must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped. Starring Ronald Colman and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., the film [...] »
- Andre Soares
Bette Davis, Ronald Colman, Woody Allen at the Packard Campus
1 December 2009 10:27 AM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Ronald Colman, centenarian Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, and Mary Astor (in the Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda); Fairbanks again, with Irene Dunne and Lucille Ball (in the not-so-classic comedy Joy of Living); Bette Davis, Monty Woolley and Ann Sheridan (in the comedy classic The Man Who Came to Dinner); John Gilbert and Renée Adorée (in the anti-war classic The Big Parade); Humphrey Bogart, Joan Bennett, and Peter Ustinov (in the demi-classic allegorical comedy We’re No Angels); Woody Allen and Diane Keaton (in the middle-age-crisis classic Manhattan); James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Gloria Grahame (in the horror classic It’s a Wonderful Life); Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning classic Fanny and Alexander; and, inevitably, several Walt Disney classic shorts [...] »
- Andre Soares
Birthday Suits, Funny People
1 December 2009 6:55 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Your cinematic birthdays for December 1st. This post is dedicated to frequent reader/commenter Chris Na Taraja who celebrates the big 4-0 today. Happy Birthday, Chris!
1521 Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord who Kagemusha tried to impersonate. Oopsie. I've actually never seen that Akira Kurosawa picture. How quickly should I rent it?
1913 Mary Martin, broadway star of Peter Pan, The Sound of Music and South Pacific fame. Those famous roles hit silver screens, but without Mary
1935 Woody Allen, legend (abundant posts)
1940 Richard Pryor, influential comedian
1945 Bette Midler the divine. In a fit of complete absence of budgeting sense I nearly purchased a flight to Vegas and a concert ticket last month. Just because. I've never seen her perform on stage but I did used to love her in the movies. Particularly: The Rose, Beaches (so underrated... weepies can't get no respect) and Big Business
1951 Treat Williams enduring B lister. Among the highlights: Hair, »
- NATHANIEL R
Edward Cullen, stalker? Yes, but so is the hero of 'The Graduate'
30 November 2009 1:45 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »
Is Bella Swan an independent and sort of daring young lovesick renegade…or a doormat? A good role model...or a godawful role model? Or should she be considered a role model at all? And what of the Twilight saga itself: Is it liberating the fantasy life of a new generation of young women by inviting them to wallow in the kind of stormy-skies, trembling-damsel romanticism that has been a staple of popular fiction from Wuthering Heights onward? Or is it setting back the holy cause of women's enlightenment by 50 years? These and other questions were debated, with rude and furious passion, »
- Owen Gleiberman
Celebrity Biography: Allison Mack
30 November 2009 5:58 AM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
Allison Mack, the American actress, singer, and dancer, was born on July 29, 1982 in Preetz, Germany. Her American-born parents, Mindy and Jonathan Mack, moved to Germany when Jonathan, an opera singer, took a job there. They returned home to Long Beach, California when Allison was two years old. She has an older brother, Shannon, and a younger sister named Robyn, who attends the prestigious Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana, California. Mindy Mack knew her daughter was made for T.V. At the age of four, Allison began her career in a commercial for "German Chocolate." After appearing in print ads and various other commercials, she began a short career as a model. She was drawn more to acting, however, and began studying at The Young Actors Space in Los Angeles at the age of seven. Allison's first major T.V. role was in an episode of »
- jmaurer@corp.popstar.com (Jennifer Maurer)
Jay Dipietro's Top Ten Films of All Time
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Jay Dipietro, helmer behind Peter & Vandy which receives its theatrical release via Strand Releasing on October.9th. - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Jay Dipietro, helmer behind Peter & Vandy which receives its theatrical release via Strand Releasing on October.9th. He gave us his top ten (as of October 2009). Midnight Run (1988) Martin Brest An all time favorite. I could recite that movie at one point. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Woody Allen Gets His First Lady
30 November 2009 1:03 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
A few months ago, we reported that Woody Allen was considering offering a part in his next movie to France.s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. It was a reasonable consideration for Allen, since Bruni-Sarkozy is not only a model but has acting experience as well. Now it seems that Woody has gotten his wish. According to Dark Horizons, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has signed on to play a small role in Allen.s next film, to be set in France. Good ol. Woody is still finishing up the script, so plot details are still under wraps, even for Carla, who said that Allen refused to tell her what role she would play. She said, .I said, .yes.. I do everything a little bit blindly. If I don't, I won't do anything.. This is not the London-based You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger starring Josh Brolin but the flick that will follow. »
A Serious Man and the odd movie out
29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background. »
- Joe Queenan
Jose Gives Thanks.
26 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here.
Although we don't have anything resembling Thanksgiving in my culture (Penélope Cruz was talking about that on Letterman the other day) I have a special place in my heart (and stomach) for turkey, gravy and pumpkin pie.
I also feel very grateful for the following: Technicolor, Woody Allen banter, Judy Garland's smile, the millisecond of suspense between normal talking and spontaneous singing in the musicals, post-Volver Penélope, the Truffaut/Hitchcock book, still being thrilled by the sepia-to-color switch in The Wizard of Oz, Nino Rota and La Strada, Julia Roberts' laugh, Scarlett and Rhett, Bette Davis' eyes, Ingrid Bergman's Italian phase, Jett Rink, Jacques Tourneur horror flicks, The Blob, pre-supermom Gwyneth, Wall-e, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Hathaway at award shows, Brando as Kowalski, Meryl!, Gene Kelly's butt, subtitles...
Audrey Hepburn's weird morning eating habits circa '61, Nathaniel letting me write all of this, »
- Jose
Carla Is Woody Allen's First Lady
26 November 2009 3:18 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Let's hope Woody Allen is planning on recreating his recent success with Vicky Cristina Barcelona and not the shame of duds such as Match Point, Scoop and Cassandra's Dream as he has a very important and influential star on board, with a husband who wouldn't take kindly to it coming up short.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of French President Nicolas, has agreed to try out acting for the legendary director - having already added politics to the modelling and musical strings on her bow.
Although she has already agreed to be in his next film, she admits that she knows nothing about the role she is set to play or even whether she will be able to act: "I'm not at all an actress. Maybe I'll be absolutely terrible."
But she said that she had entered into the project, despite the lack of details offered to her, because it was an »
Could Carla Bruni be the next Mia Farrow?
25 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
France's first lady has agreed to be in a Woody Allen film. She's such an obvious choice, we should have predicted it
Why on earth didn't we predict it long ago? France's first lady, Carla Bruni, has revealed that Woody Allen has asked her to be in one of his films, despite her complete lack of acting experience. And she has said yes.
Bruni – of course! She is a quintessential Minor Woody Allen Character: sexy, wealthy, European in that luxury-hotel sense that he adores, liberated in a pre-feminist sort of way, with creative aspirations that are preposterous but which powerful, besotted men might well indulge in the hope of getting inside her exquisitely tailored culottes.
Bruni is the classic unattainable woman from a golden-age Woody Allen picture: the sort who might get a party-scene cameo, towering sexily over him while giving her deadpan opinions on literary or artistic topics – opinions with which he, »
- Peter Bradshaw
France's First Lady: Oui to Woody Allen Film
25 November 2009 2:47 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By the Hollywood Reporter
France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, says she's agreed to appear in Woody Allen's next film.
The former supermodel, wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy and aspiring singer-songwriter says she doesn't know what role Allen has in store for her -- and admits she could be a terrible actress.
Sarkozy made the revelation on Canal Plus television, where she appeared for an interview and duet with crooner Harry Connick Jr.
Read more at the Hollywood Report... »
- Josh Dickey
Woody Allen Plays A Tune For 'Superbad' Director Greg Mottola In Today's Daily TwitPic
25 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I'm a fan of Greg Mottola. I'll never forgive him for moving the setting of this year's "Adventureland" away from my childhood home of Long Island, but he's a fellow Islander and I just can't stay mad at him. Plus, Mottola can bring the funny like few others can. "Superbad" is laugh-out-loud hilarious and "Adventureland," despite its shortcomings, manages to strike a fine balance between the crass hilarity of its predecessor and the more gentle trappings of a teenage love story. Plus, "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart is central to the story.
Mottola is also a fan of jazz, as this morning's Daily TwitPic illustrates. While out the other night in New York City, he caught a performance from no less a personality than Woody Allen, accomplished filmmaker and notable jazzhound. After the jump, you'll find the picture that proves it.
Remember to check out Brian Warmoth's Twitter-Wood column every day »
- Adam Rosenberg
Casting Notes: Carla Bruni in Woody Allen’s Next; Guy Pearce in The Hungry Rabbit Jumps
25 November 2009 6:55 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Casting news will be thin until next week; Hollywood basically rolls up the sidewalks when a holiday like Thanksgiving comes around. Don't expect much news. But we've got a weird note and a good one to get today going. Woody Allen is working at a breakneck pace. There's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, his latest London-set film, which is already in post-production. He's already thinking about his follow-up, which is said to be a romantic drama set in Paris. Back in June he met French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, and shortly after that he offered Bruni a role in his next film. Now she says she's accepted, though in classic style for anyone taking a role in an upcoming Allen film, she doesn't know what she'll be playing. "He offered me a role in his next movie," Bruni-Sarkozy told Canal Plus. "I don’t »
- Russ Fischer
Woody Allen Offered Carla Bruni To Play In His New Film
25 November 2009 6:09 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »
The French First Lady – who is married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy – has accepted Woody’s offer to appear in his as-yet untitled project, but admits she could be "completely useless". Carla, 41, was first approached by Woody, 73, last year after he met her and told her she was "wonderful" and gushed he would love to have the supermodel-turned-singer in one of his movies. Carla - who married Sarkozy two months after meeting him at a dinner party in Paris – said: "He suggested I appear in his next film. I don't know what the role is but I said yes. I go into everything blindly or I'd never do anything at all. "I'm not an actress at all. Perhaps I'll be completely hopeless but I can't miss an opportunity like this one. When I'm a grandmother I'd like to be able to say I made a film with Woody Allen.” Carla »
- cyan
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to Appear in Woody Allen's Next Project
25 November 2009 6:02 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
France's first lady and former supermodel, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to be in Woody Allen's next film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bruni-Sarkozy doesn't know what role Allen has in store for her and admits she could be a terrible actress.
Allen "asked me to be in his next film," she said on Canal Plus television, where she appeared for an interview and duet with crooner Harry Connick Jr.
Asked if he had told her what part she would play, Bruni-Sarkozy replied: "No. But I said 'yes'... I do everything a little bit blindly. If I don't, I won't do anything."
"I'm not at all an actress. Maybe I'll be absolutely terrible," she added.
Bruni-Sarkozy, now a singer-songwriter, has largely shelved her concert tour plans to make way for her responsibilities as France's first lady.
No production date has been announced.
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