Movies

[kidcarter8]

Gets plenty or respect from me.........

Big Dawson's Creek fan.....

You kind of missed the point entirely.......

But rock on.......

[barton2]

Shutter Island, Blue Valentine, The Station Agent, Wendy and Lucy.....all good film roles for Wms.  But have to agree she was seriously miscast as Marilyn - no disrespect, young actors grab the roles that are offered to them.  When you're getting started, you never know when or if the next gig is going to come along. 

The Marilyns duking it out on the new tv series, "Smash" are both more monrovian than Williams was. 

[kidcarter8]

McPhee's a bore.

But she can sing..

[madupont]

Theory:  There are no good movies being made anymore, give me a slate of 5, not international, but USthefuckingA, and I've got like, nothing.

Without the Coens or Eastwood, haven't seen the horse one but let's call that one,



and



that's the comma, mama.

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that's the one:
 February 17, 2012 21 minutes ago

But What Are Academy Members Searching Online?
 
Based on the volume of searches for "War Horse," Yahoo predicts that film will win the Academy Award.

[whiskeypriest]

http://coronado.patch.com/articles/ib-woman-sues-claims-she-owns-titanic-rights

An Imperial Beach woman named Princess Samantha Kennedy claims the script of the movie Titanic unlawfully draws from her unpublished biography and family history, and last week filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement.

For the alleged infringement she wants all copies of the movie destroyed, and to be awarded all money made by the movie. The second highest grossing film ever, according to IMDB.com, Titanic made $1.8 billion in worldwide box office sales alone after its premiere in 1997.

Kennedy claims her biography was written between 1990 and 1992.

Her sister is Rose, Kate Winslet's character, and her father is Jack, Leonardo DiCaprio's character, she said. Other characters in the movie mimic other members of her family though none were passengers on the ship that sank 100 years ago.

The Princess in her name is because growing up in Memphis, her mother told her she is related to the queen of England.

"They have exploited me. Their actions are willful, willful. I will suffer the rest of my life," she said in a handwritten complaint filed in the United States District Court in San Diego.

"I have not been in a movie theatre since 1995 and recently discovered the infringement. I have hundreds of pages of side-by-side comparisons that a school grader, a child could easily read to see infringement, that I will present to the court. I have proof that Paramount Pictures had access to my work in writing from them," she said.

Kennedy claims she only recently saw the movie on television within the last year.

The complaint also requests a preliminary injunction against the studio benefiting from the movie while the matter is being disputed.

Titanic 3D is expected to premiere April 4.

The movie studio received a copy of Princess' bigoraphy she said when she filed another copyright infringement suit against Paramount in the early 1990s.

Paramount Pictures was contacted for comment but did not respond before this story was published.

To me, the most telling line in the whole story was "handwritten complaint".

[barton2]

Heh.

The most telling word, for me, was "princess."

[harrie]

I saw Thin Ice today - stars Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin.  Overall, the flick was a meh experience, but the performances by Kinnear and especially Billy Crudup were worth the (matinee) price of admission. (Alan Arkin was solid as always, and also worth the price of admission, but that goes without saying.)  The movie itself starts out as a promising black comedy, reminiscent of Fargo in some ways - Kinnear is an ethically challenged businessman, and it's winter in Wisconsin - in which (darkly) wacky happenings spiral Kinnear's life out of control.  It's comic, it's suspenseful, and it's mostly working. (There's at least one screaming plot hole, however.)  Then the film kind of crashes and gets wrapped up with a voice over; in that respect, it was supremely unsatisfying, like the writer(s) painted themselves into a corner or something, much the way some stories end with "and then I woke up."

Later on, I read up on Thin Ice, formerly known as The Convincer, which premiered at Sundance in 2011.  From what I understand, the two might as well be different flicks.  I don't know if there was a power struggle, or a distributor backed out or what, but it definitely felt like a patch job - which is too bad because it's got some really good stuff in it. To bring up Young Adult, Kinnear's Mickey is genuinely bad and makes Theron's Mavis look like a lightweight badness wannabe. I don't know that I would spend theater money on Thin Ice (even if I already did), but it's worth a rental just for the performances of Billy Crudup and Greg Kinnear.

[madupont]

re: Thin Ice,    @ harrie

..."and it's winter in Wisconsin - in which (darkly) wacky happenings spiral Kinnear's life out of control."

Just thought, I would let you know that this is true of all of us who have ever lived in Wisconsin. That is what life in Wisconsin is like. In case you haven't noticed the news about what is happening there since the Koch Brothers bought the place. My sisters are still going through that much to their surprise that things do not get better as you get older  Look what happened to Houdini!  Another notable example of how that works is the famous Danish writer Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen whose story Out of Africa starred Meryl Streep and Robert Redfore.  Her father got it into his head that he would see the new world as the Vikings had; moved to Wisconsin and acquired an Native America for a wife and they lived in a cabin at Fondulac That was it, nothing new and wonderful happened. Instead, being a ladies-man ( like his daughter's husband), he acquired syphillis; she,however, was able to go home to Denmark for a cure and then was able to tour the U.S. on a smash success as the best-selling author of that first short story collection when everybody wanted to meet her.
                Ps. barton2, unlike the woman who claims to be the author of the Titanic, not very many years elapsed between her tour and the movie production; which means her rights entitled her to her take from the movie since she already had the structure set up of an agent, a publishing company; and. since the movie is still making money, that means they can just deposit the money in her account or dumped into the pile of her estate as just some of the success she had by coincidentally meeting "a  great white hunter".

[madupont]

ps.  I am still smitten with Billy Crudup, who can apparently do no wrong although he got awfully close. Which means, I will actually watch for this on tv.

[barton2]

Thin Ice

- funny when the title has a "meta" significance, re the final cut.

[MrUtley]

THE PALE FACE of OSCAR:


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-unmasking-oscar-academy-project-html,0,6763063.htmlstory

[whiskeypriest]

THE PALE FACE of OSCAR:


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-unmasking-oscar-academy-project-html,0,6763063.htmlstory

Yes, since you leave the Academy the same way you leave the Supreme Court - in a hearse - the Academy's membership is going to continue to reflect the demographics of earlier times.  It will always be older; eventually it will be less male and less white. 

[barton2]

London Boulevard provides a Brit take on Carlito's Way and a couple hours of Colin Farrell in "In Bruges" mode.  Ray Winstone, Anna Friel, and David Thewlis all fun to watch, too.  I would include Knightley, but her role is small, more of a pivot point for Farrell - the sort of chick-gig which her character, a paparazzi-besieged actress, complains has driven her to retire from acting and take up painting.  All delivered with a nudge and a wink.  Worth a rental.

[kam]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/iranian-film-separation-favorite-win-academy-award/story?id=15732361#.T0VRMvWrE0V

So will it win? Most say yes. But Richard Pena, program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, cautions that there might be a backlash in the voting. He says he thinks it's "very strong and deserves to win" and "it's the right moment."

But there might be members of the Academy who won't vote for it, believing a "yes" vote would mean rewarding Iran's "system, seen as totalitarian and authoritarian," he said. "Or you might have people who think voting for this is a vote for peace, that say art rises above these preoccupations."

THE PALE FACE of OSCAR:


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-unmasking-oscar-academy-project-html,0,6763063.htmlstory

Yes, since you leave the Academy the same way you leave the Supreme Court - in a hearse - the Academy's membership is going to continue to reflect the demographics of earlier times.  It will always be older; eventually it will be less male and less white. 

[barton2]

I doubt that people in the film industry are going to see a vote for a film as a reward to a nation's regime.  Esp. given that content in such films is often directed, often rather sneakily, against totalitarian regimes - as is the case in a couple of scenes in "A Separation."