Archive for October, 2007
Sean Penn and Heath Ledger in talks to star in Malick’s new movie
Hollywood Reporter writes that, two years after Terrence Malick’s fifth feature film Tree of Life was supposed to go into production with Colin Farrell and Mel Gibson starring, Sean Penn and Heath Ledger are now in talks to star, with River Road Entertainment (Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Lust, Caution) producing. If all goes well, [...]
Controversial drama takes Grand Prix at Tokyo Film Festival
Israeli drama The Band’s Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin, won the Grand Prix at the 20th annual Tokyo International Film Festival. The film deals with an Egyptian police band touring Israel and it has sparked some controversy recently, with film festivals in Abu Dhabi and Cairo refusing to screen it.
Peter Howitt won the prize for [...]
The Banishment voted best movie at Zagreb Film Festival
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s movie The Banishment (Izgnanie) has won the main prize at the 5th annual Zagreb Film Festival. The Russian film tells the tale of a married couple whose relationship goes through a crisis when the wife admits that she is pregnant with another man. The film stars Konstantin Lavronenko, who won the best actor [...]
U.S. weekend box office October 26-28
FILM – BOX OFFICE $ – ROTTEN TOMATOES RATINGS
Saw IV – $32,110,000 – [...]
Juno wins at Rome Film Festival
Rome Film Festival was one of the several important world cinema events that closed over the weekend. Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman won the award for best film with his new feature Juno, a movie that follows an American teenager who is forced to deal with an unplanned pregnancy and makes a series [...]
Into the Wild: a poetic meditation on freedom
Once every couple of years, there comes a movie that is both unapologetically soulful and offers a gentle philosophical take on one of the timeless myths and human tendencies. In Sean Penn’s latest film, the trick is that the full implications of the myth and of the thing that drives the protagonist are not fully [...]
Coppola’s Youth Without Youth premieres at Rome Film Festival
Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola’s first film since the 1997 thriller The Rainmaker, premiered Saturday night at the Rome Film Festival. Based on a short story by Romanian author Mircea Eliade, the film begins in Romania capital Bucharest on the eve of World War Two and tells the story of a lonely old Romanian [...]
William Shatner: No Star Trek XI cameo
A short interview with William Shatner appeared online today in which the Star Trek icon denies the rumours that surfaced in recent days about him making a cameo in J.J. Abrams’ Trek prequel.
Hollywood.com reported yesterday that the actor would be making an appearance in the movie as the old Captain Kirk (the young one will [...]
Academy announces Best Foreign Language Film candidates
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed this year’s contenders for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar earlier today. The best movies from 63 countries – a record number of submissions – were announced by Academy president Sid Ganis. The awards for outstanding achievements in cinema in 2007 will be presented at the annual [...]
Joey Bishop, last of the Rat Pack, dies
Joey Bishop, the Bronx-born comedian best known for his performances alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford (the “Rat Pack”) in the 1960s, passed away at the age of 89 in his home in Newport Beach on Wednesday.
Bishop was born as Joseph Abraham Gottlieb in Bronx in 1918. He made [...]
