News Rick on 29 Jan 2008
From the recently concluded Sundance Festival comes The Order of Myths, a documentary written and directed by Margaret Brown, and set in the world of Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. AJ Schnack at indieWIRE really likes it:
“Beautifully shot by Lee Daniel and Michael Simmonds and expertly edited by Brown, Michael Taylor and Geoffrey Richman, [...]
News Rick on 29 Jan 2008
From the Hollywood Reporter
“Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM. Del Toro’s name was on a short list of directors who could tackle the project, one of the most anticipated literary adaptations of the past decade. An ill-chosen [...]
News Rick on 28 Jan 2008
There are promising signs pointing to a resolution to the 13-week Writer’s Guild of America strike. According to Variety’s Dave McNary, informal talks between the majors and the WGA will continue and that “The sessions — widely viewed as de facto negotiations — have apparently been productive, but the outcome remains uncertain.”
Here’s [...]
Analysis & Commentary and Short Take Rick on 27 Jan 2008
One of the distinctive things about the last years in film was the polarizing of bloggers and critics and others around either Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men or Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. I’m not sure what to make of it . . . it seemed that they were [...]
Analysis & Commentary and Review Rick on 25 Jan 2008
Ok. I admit it. When I first saw Breathless, I was underwhelmed. I mean, what was the point? These two rather good-looking people (well, Jean Seberg’s good-looking, anyway) wandering around Paris with badly-dubbed sound and jerky editing, and the acting wasn’t exactly the most natural I’d ever seen, either, and [...]
News Rick on 24 Jan 2008
According to Variety, the new Bond flick has been given a title. Previously called simply “Bond 22,” Quantum of Solace has been filming for about a month at England’s Pinewood Studios. Once again Daniel Craig plays Bond, and he’s joined by Mathieu Amalric as bad guy Dominic Greene and Olga Kurylenko as Bond [...]
News Rick on 22 Jan 2008
Here are some reactions from around the blogosphere about this morning’s announcement of the 80th Annual Academy Award nominees:
Jim Emerson at Scanners handicaps the nominees statistically:
“Looking at the odds, “Atonement” is an unlikely best picture because its director (Joe Wright) wasn’t nominated. “Michael Clayton” and “Juno” lack editing nominations, which (statistically speaking) is are crucial [...]
News Rick on 22 Jan 2008
They’re he-ere! What do you think?
Best Picture:
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Actor in a Leading Role
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
Julie Christie [...]
News Rick on 21 Jan 2008
Suzanne Pleshette, a light comedienne with a wonderfully sexy, husky voice, has died of respiratory failure. Although starring in well over a hundred features and television episodes, she will doubtless be remembered primarily as Emily in the Bob Newhart Show and as Rod Taylor’s also-ran girlfriend in The Birds, in which [...]
News Rick on 20 Jan 2008
Janus Films is a name held in near reverence by cinephiles in the United States. Began in 1956, the distribution company has been instrumental in introducing American audiences to the masters of world cinema; one of its first directors was an obscure Italian named Federico Fellini. Since then, it has been at [...]
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