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Q&A: Michael Haneke on Violence, The White Ribbon

Filmmaker Michael Haneke talks about the brutality of his films, respecting the viewer, and his new movie, The White Ribbon.

December 28, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Marketing, Movies, News  No Comments

Movie Review: ‘Whip It’ Scores for Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, ‘Whip It,’ is the first cool girls’ sports movie since … we’re drawing a blank. That’s the problem.

October 2, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Movies  No Comments

Meryl Streep’s Delicious Julia Child

“Slipping away quietly in her sleep late last week may have been the only unspectacular thing Julia Child ever did,” I wrote in August 2004 in NEWSWEEK. But I was wrong. Julia Child is not dead. Not as long as Meryl Streep inhabits her big-boned, 6-foot-2 frame; fills her size 12 shoes; sets the corners of her eyes in a permanent crinkle; and causes her voice—that voice!—to bubble up from some sweet, deep place in her soul. In Nora Ephron’s film , which opens this week, you’re convinced that Julia Child is still here. This is reassuring stuff for those of us who learned to cook from . Watching the determined Julia slip a piece of carbon paper (carbon paper!) between two sheets of onionskin and roll them into her typewriter for the first time is quietly thrilling—like being there at the creation. “French people eat French food every single day! I can’t get over it,” Julia/Meryl says as she begins her midlife culinary adventure. Julia’s (and Meryl’s) diphthonging way of talking makes us laugh. Hell, her very laughter make us laugh.

July 30, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Movies  Comments Closed

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July 25, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Internet, Movies  No Comments

Judd Apatow’s Relationship Issues

There’s a scene in Judd Apatow’s new movie, in which George Simmons (Adam Sandler), a famous comedian fighting a terminal illness, makes a pilgrimage to see his old flame, Laura (Leslie Mann). Their breakup was nasty, but George isn’t above exploiting his health for a second chance at true love. Laura, a former actress, never achieved George’s fame, and she quit Hollywood to become a full-time mom. A canny seducer, George arrives on her doorstep with a bag of props to remind Laura of the girl she once was: her favorite old pair of jeans (they still fit!) and a greatest-hits reel of her acting spots. As she watches the clips of the occasional moment, her verdict on that is considerably harsher. Later, Laura says, “I always played the bitch.”

July 17, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Movies  Comments Closed

Kathryn Bigelow Talks About “The Hurt Locker”

Just before dawn one July morning, Kathryn Bigelow was setting up a shot for in the Jordanian desert. The movie follows an Explosive Ordnance Disposal bomb technician, one of the hundred or so soldiers in Iraq who dismantle roadside IEDs planted by insurgents. For the scene, the tech and two of his co–workers would detonate a bomb in the middle of the desert, and Bigelow wanted to shoot them from atop a high sand dune. This meant that the crew had to tote all their gear to the top of a hill in the brutal summer heat. “There were a lot of macho guys on the set, British SAS, not to mention all these young, studly actors, and all those guys were falling by the wayside,” says Mark Boal, who wrote and co-produced . “I’m not walking this hill, no way in hell. I drive past one of the crew who’s literally puking on the side of the road. People are dying on this hill. I drive up, and Kathryn is already at the top. She’s beaten everyone up there.”

June 19, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Movies  No Comments

Coming Attractions: Tetro

Multiple Academy Award–winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola brings a new film to theaters on June 11. It’s his first original screenplay since The Conversation and his most personal film to date. Tetro, stars Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, and Maribel Verdú in a film that follows 17-year old Bennie (Ehrenreich) to Buenos Aires, where he searches for his older brother Tetro (Gallo) and the secrets that have separated them.

June 9, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Movies, News  No Comments


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