Malick's Knight of Cups is his latest
film about celebrities and excess starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman.
And while Sofia Coppola's frothy, teens - gone - bad flick doesn't look like a Palme d'Or winner,
the film about celebrity and celebrity obsession will likely resonate.
Not exact matches
A chance to see the
film a few weeks before its wide release and the ability to boast
about being in the same room as their favourite
celebrity.
See, Ricki Lake made a movie
about her choice, and the ACOG and AMA aren't too happy
about it: ACOG released a statement, which was in turn supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which said «There has been much attention in the media by
celebrities having home deliveries» and which singles out Ricki Lake's
film «The Business of Being Born» as part of the problem.
The
film's highlight is the custody - hearing sequence, in which several human
celebrities of yesteryear show up as witnesses: Silent
film stars Clara Kimball Young and Francis X. Bushman, both of whom reminisce
about their career highlights, and former boxing champion Jim Jeffries, who recalls his glory days of the 1890s.
The
film's inevitable compressions, made worse by the amount of empty, self - congratulatory
celebrity blathering, mean that every Pryor fan will have omissions to complain
about.
Hell, the
celebrity cameos in this picture — Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow, J. J. Abrams, Lizzy Caplan, Kristen Bell, Keegan - Michael Key, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, and Kevin Smith — should tell you all you need to know
about just how respected Wiseau, who made a
film that will live on for all eternity, is.
Ed Howard: In all of his
films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories
about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the
celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths
about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexuality.
Ryan Reynolds,
celebrity and manufacturer of Deadpool 2, unearths the
film at the beginning contained a specific funny story
about movie studio Walt Disney Pictures, however 20th Century Fox made him reduce it.
All of the
celebrities get tributary write - ups by other starry folk: Oscar whisperer Harvey Weinstein honors
film legend Redford; James Franco writes
about Abramovic (OF COURSE HE DOES); Naomi Watts talks up Robin Wright who had her best year; and Jessica Chastain has the good sense to worship Megan Ellison...
It's no surprise that Mike Leigh would take a distinctly original approach to the
celebrity biopic, and this
film about 19th century painter J.M.W. Turner is refreshingly unstructured and abrasive.
At a time when the British press is haranguing
about an injunction into a
celebrity threesome, we can take heart in the fact that Laura Poitras» latest
film shows the vital role that journalism still plays in shaping the narrative around major world events.
Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the
celebrity cameos —
about the same number as the previous
film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.
Learn
about the amazing dance moves from the
film's
celebrity choreographer in «Choreographing Emoji with Matt Steffanina.»
When covering
film festivals in the press, most reports are
about the many
films (with hundreds of reviews published daily) or the
celebrities on the red carpet or the business deals being made in the market.
One other nice thing
about the
film is that many of the voices are NOT top
celebrities.
Most festivals try to program
films that bring
celebrities to town, others try to program every last
film they can think of, but Fantastic Fest is all
about the people - the movie lovers with real grit, who love to find great
films even if they're horror flicks from Spain or hip hop musicals from Japan.
As the Steven Spielberg - produced, Joe Dante - directed movie nears its 30th anniversary, its star Zach Galligan has returned to the big screen and the horror genre, and he sits down with ETonline for an extended, exclusive interview
about all things Gremlins, from working with the stunning Phoebe Cates and those unpredictable animatronic creatures to the controversy surrounding the
film's MPAA rating and the unexpected
celebrities who have since outed themselves as fans!
Chock - a-block with
about a dozen crazy
celebrity cameos (even stretching out to include non-comic actors), it's a grand success, ending the
film on a high note, and representing the one time Ferrell and McKay pushing to go bigger actually works.
A distinguished panel of
celebrity chefs, filmmakers and actors will sample the dishes (along with all attending guests), and then «dish»
about personal favorites, the latest culinary trends and the role of food in
film.
At the
film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked
about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using
celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.
One of the most lovey - dovey movies
about a hotel ever made, the beautifully
filmed but out - of - touch documentary «Always at the Carlyle» takes a potentially juicy subject — a swanky landmark that caters to
celebrities and zillionaires — and turns it into a 90 - minute infomercial, with nary a revelation in sight.
Ryan Reynolds,
celebrity and manufacturer of Deadpool 2, unearths the
film at the beginning contained a specific funny story
about movie studio Walt Disney Pictures, however 20th Century...
The
film follows high - schooler Eugene Bell (Cregger) as he falls into a four - year coma just as he's
about to consummate his relationship with longtime girlfriend Cindi (Raquel Alessi), with the remainder of the proceedings detailing the wacky road trip that ensues as Eugene and best friend Tucker (Moore) attempt to track down Cindi (who has, in the years since, become something of a
celebrity after posing for Playboy Magazine).
The annual event, which honors performances in both television and
film, is considered one of Hollywood's most «fun» awards shows due to how early the awards fall in the season, the presence of alcohol (resulting in more
celebrities letting loose), and general unpredictability
about the winners.
There's no need for his boring, overly familiar learning - what - really - counts narrative arc, when the business of the
film is really
about getting to the darn stable via a host of
celebrity voices (Oprah!
There's a commentary with director / co-writer Neill Blomkamp that gives wall - to - wall detail
about the
film's conception, casting and making, as well as the role of
celebrity producer Peter Jackson.
Employing admirable restraint while focusing on the crack team of Boston reporters who exposed the pedophilic crimes being committed by members of the clergy, this riveting
film ends up being
about the awful abuse of power as much as
about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of
celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit.
The director will, inevitably, take some flak for making a third consecutive
film about the alienating side effects of
celebrity and privilege — but as with Woody Allen and Upper East Side intelligentsia, or Mike Leigh and Britain's Tetley - swilling middle classes, this is the world she knows and feels, and if she feels a responsibility to keep circling back to it in her work, then she should do so.
In Interview, a remake of the Dutch
film made by Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004 by a Muslim fanatic, he's a serious journalist who's been sent as punishment to interview a
celebrity - fluff actress (Sienna Miller) and agonizes
about being inside the room.
There was already something wonderfully weird and carnivalesque
about Matteo Garrone's past
films about the Naples mafiosi (Gomorrah) and our modern yearning for
celebrity (Reality).
Some
celebrity teachers have had documentaries
filmed in their classroom, which allow you to watch them teach and learn
about their projects.
Dramatic scenarios of moral and ethical lapses are everywhere on the Internet: the college student who used his webcam to secretly
film his roommate, who later committed suicide; the high school students who tweeted
about the rape of a fellow student; the hackers who stole compromising photographs from
celebrities and posted them to a public site, where commenters blamed the
celebrities for their predicament.
From documentary
films about the issue hitting the mainstream, to
celebrities talking
about their experiences being tormented, to the endless media coverage, the message is loud but not necessarily clear: Do something!
A
film about Jean - Michel Basquiat — an artist who knew
celebrity all too well — does not shy away from Warhol's late work.
Scott» s 1969
film portrait of Richard Hamilton continued this collaborative formula, with Hamilton musing
about cinema, art, and
celebrity while images of his works, their original source materials, and related elements from pop culture flash by in rapid succession.
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