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9 articles from 2009
Barry Levinson
10 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Barry Levinson is an Oscar-winning director, screenwriter and producer. His film credits include "Diner," "Rain Man," "Good Morning, Vietnam," "Bugsy," "Wag the Dog" and recent documentary "Poliwood." He was executive producer of TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Oz." Known for his devotion to his native Baltimore, he is a minority owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. »
- Lisa Horowitz
Halfway House: Oh Suzanne-ah
3 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Halfway through the day we freeze a movie halfway through. What do we see?
Doris Mann: Have you known Suzanne long?
Jack Faulkner: Ah, lets see. we've known each other about a month. It seems like longer, though.
Doris: Oh, I know what you mean. I'm her mother and it seems like longer.Fifty minutes into Postcards From the Edge (1990), Jack (Dennis Quaid) has dropped by to pick up Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) for a date. Her mother (Shirley Maclaine) intercepts the man with the bedroom eyes ('and the living room nose and the kitchen forehead'). The performers are deliciously insynch with Carrie Fisher's rapid fire witticisms.
One of the reasons people get so invested in the Oscars is the joy that comes from arguing about whether or not the octogenarian institution got it right in any given year / category. When it comes to Postcards From the Edge, they got it very very wrong. »
- NATHANIEL R
Movie Stars Featured In Levinson Documentary
2 November 2009 1:32 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Producer/director Barry Levinson takes a look at the convergence of celebrity and politics in the documentary Poliwood,which airs tonight (Monday) on Showtime. Featured in the film is a raft of Hollywood celebrities, including Susan Sarandon, Spike Lee, Ellen Burstyn, Tim Daly, Anne Hathaway and the late Ron Silver. Levinson, a celebrity in his own right with films such as Rain Man and the political satire Wag the Dog and with TV shows like Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz, attempts to show not only what happens when celebrities come together with politicians but also with ordinary folks. Most critics suggest that the result is confusing. Boston Herald critic Mark A. Perigard says that Levinson's documentary is simply too simplistic. Levinson, he notes, calls his film an "essay." That, says Perigard, is "like calling the back of a cereal box a novel." The Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz comments that Levinson presents "a tonnage of vague pronouncements." Ellen Gray in the Philadelphia Daily News remarks that "for all the eye-rolling that goes on as noncelebrities weigh in on what they believe is Hollywood's undue influence, Poliwood doesn't pack much of a punch." And Alessandra Stanley concludes in the New York Times: "Poliwood feeds our prurient fascination with celebrities' fascination with politics, but Mr. Levinson's thesis is undermined by an election process that he bemoaned but didn't film." »
Disney Pulls Chair Out From Beneath Mamet’s Remake of Anne Frank
25 September 2009 12:43 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Sometimes there is a project that seems so incongruent with the predilections of a director or writer that the entire concept conjugally fits together like the left side and right side of the brain. That seems like the best way to describe David Mamet, who is known for the circuitous, urban, and vulgar dialogue in movies such as “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Wag the Dog”, and his interest in “The Diary of Anne Frank”. Rather than creating a kind of Mobius strip, in which parts of the movie twist into each other, his intentions seemed straightforward. The movie is described as “a pro-Israel exploration of anti-Semitism movie set in contemporary times”. Unfortunately, Sharon Waxman of The Wrap reports that, with the current state Disney is in after the departure of Dick Cook, the project has been put in turnaround. An executive is quoted as saying: “It’s very intense, and dark and scary. »
- Jacob
Disney Rejects David Mamet's Version of Anne Frank
25 September 2009 5:46 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
About six weeks ago, Disney announced that it was considering a new movie based on The Diary of Anne Frank, with David Mamet to direct. Like most people, we had only one thought: David Mamet and Disney?!
The acclaimed director and playwright — who earned a Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross and a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for Wag the Dog — is famous for his poetic use of vile language and his unsparing examination of racial and sexual politics, hardly family-friendly stuff. It seemed like a match made in hell, and yesterday, Disney finally seemed to realize it.
The Wrap reports that the studio officially announced that they are abandoning the project. One executive made a statement to the press:
It's very intense, and dark and scary. It's not a film version of The Diary of Anne Frank. The story evolved into something more intense.
Apparently, what Mamet had in mind was a complete reimagining. »
- Rich Z Zwelling
Zombieland TV Spots
16 September 2009 10:41 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Don't you just love Woody Harrelson in crazy-ass mode? With only a 5-minute appearance he stole Wag The Dog from under Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman as a psycho ex-marine, and this one looks like one more golden Woody moment at the movies. Zombieland is only a few weeks away from release, so TV spots have started to appear and of course we bring them to you right here. They don't offer anything new but reinforce the buzz that it just looks like... »
- Tony Lang
"In the Loop" - New clips from the IFC Films release.
6 July 2009 1:34 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Check out these new clips from IFC's "In the Loop," starring James Gandolfini, Steve Coogan, Tom Hollander, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi and Gina McKee. Filmed in England, UK, New York and Washington, D.C., U.S.A., the Armando Iannucci-helmed and written comedy is produced by Aramid Entertainment Fund, BBC Films and the UK Film Council. The film is drawing instant comparisons to some of the great political and absurdist comedies such as Doctor Strangelove, Wag The Dog, Thank You For Smoking and Monty Python »
"In the Loop" to be sent to cable via IFC
5 July 2009 10:23 PM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
IFC Films will also premiere on video-on-demand this month. The Sundance Film Festival release will find theatres on July 24th. Other IFC films also showing on VOD this month are "The Girl by the Lake," "Before the Fall" and "The Uninvited." In The Loop is a smart comedy and Sundance Film Festival hit from the acclaimed team who created the award-winning BBC TV comedy series Alan Partridge and The Thick Of It. The film is drawing instant comparisons to some of the great political and absurdist comedies such as Doctor Strangelove, Wag The Dog, Thank You For Smoking and Monty Python. With razor-sharp, truly laugh-out-loud dialogue the film pokes fun... »
Al Pacino signs up for HBO film about Dr Jack Kevorkian
28 May 2009 5:08 AM, PDT | The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news »
Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Michigan spent nearly 20 years of his life campaigning for the legal right to help his patients who were committed to suicide to do so pain free via physician-assisted suicide. He claimed to have helped 130 patients commit suicide, but was convicted in 1999 for second-degree murder after recording the assisted suicide of one of his patients and allowing it to be broadcast on TV. He served eight years of a 10-to-25 year sentence in prison before being released in 2007.
Al Pacino is set to star as Kevorkian in the biopic for HBO Films. Adam Mazer (”Breach”, which starred Ryan Phillippe and Gary Cooper) will write the script based on the book ‘Between the Dying and the Dead’, which was written about Kevorkian by Harry Wylie and Neal Nicol.
Barry Levinson (Good Morning, Vietnam, Rain Man, Wag The Dog) will direct.
No release date is currently set, but we »
- Paul Larn
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9 articles from 2009
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