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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Huge music: Taking Woodstock, Jeff Buckley and more

"Hirsch is also wondering whether that same audience can be lured into theatres to see his new version of Hamlet, which he begins filming this winter with Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. Journalists quizzing him about the movie keep assuming that it will be in today's vernacular and are astonished when he tells them it will use Shakespearean text.After his award-winning triumph in Sean Penn's Into The Wild, his acclaimed performance as a gay activist in last year's Milk, and his top- billed work in Speed Racer, he took on this small supporting role as a troubled Vietnam vet coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. His reason for doing so was simple. This was an Ang Lee film. When the director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon came calling he had to say yes.Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal and Randy Quaid in "Brokeback Mountain".

"The great thing about Ang Lee movies is that every single role - whether the biggest or the smallest - is so good. Like the Hispanic ranch hand in Brokeback Mountain - he had like three lines, but I thought he was great''.Nevertheless, this is a period film, a memoir of events surrounding the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival - a happening indelibly imprinted in the memories of older generations but dangerously alien and remote to young moviegoers today. If Hirsch is worried about this new film's reception, it's partly because of the box-office failure four years ago of The Lords of Dogtown, director Catherine Hardwicke's evocative look at the skateboard culture of the 1970s. Hirsch is convinced that this film, in which he appeared with Heath Ledger, was destroyed by the hostility of today's young filmgoer."It's the problem of when you market the movie to young adults, young men in particular. It's a period piece and there's a danger there because they go: 'These guys were the coolest guys in the world when they were modern, but now that they're historical, it just looks like some skinny dudes with long hair'. If you're a 16-year-old teenager and you see dudes with long hair they look like a bunch of girls''.
"The reason Woodstock has survived and is so famous - I don't think it's just because of the music which, of course, is huge. A lot of it is because it's like this big utopian ideal of the peaceful good old days. You know what I mean? We kept going back to this one huge event: this was the peaceful time and it kind of grew in legend. The legend of Woodstock grew until 40 years later we have a movie".The Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer is perhaps the closest Hirsch has come to making a conventional Hollywood popcorn movie. He wants to broaden his own acting horizons and he wants filmgoers of his generation to broaden theirs. That's why he gets so evangelistic on the subject of Taking Woodstock or his upcoming Hamlet, which he admits will be unorthodox yet true to Shakespeare's text.

"We're really excited to make like a modern kind of teenage crazy thriller Hamlet'', he says. The story will be modern, set in college and have a gothic architectural feel to it.
Hamlet is going to be a kind of gloomy poetic rocker who gets in way over his head. We want to make it scary, though we want the ghost of the father to really seem (like) this crazy dude . . . actually scary. I watch these other Hamlets and the ghost is just not that scary. Why can't it be scary like . . . The Ring?''
Source: www.canada.com

"James Franco vs. Robert Pattinson"

The Role: Jeff Buckley, son of musician Tim Buckley, got popular in the '90s playing cover songs in the East Village before focusing on his own material. In 1997, Jeff accidentally drowned in Memphis at the age of 30. Since he only had one studio album, several songs were released posthumously, including his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" which earned him chart success over a decade after his death.
The Candidates: James Franco is the spitting image of Buckley. Plus he's a master of the the good-die-young shtick since he's already played James Dean. Meanwhile, Robert Pattinson has experience playing an emo musician in "How To Be". And he was a pretty convincing Salvador Dali in "Little Ashes".

The Winner: My vote's on James Franco. Pattinson may be the hot young thang, but Franco can handle the tough roles and has Hollywood staying power. Plus, there's that eerily similar facial structure".
Source: abcnews.go.com

More illustrious/amateur guitar players:
Elvis Presley.

Lou Reed.Jeff Tweedy.Nels Cline.Rivers Cuomo.Brad Pitt.Michael Angarano and Kristen Stewart.Lindsay Lohan.Mischa Barton.Katy Perry.
Peaches Geldof.

Megan Fox gives us a Public Service message



"To promote her upcoming "Jennifer's Body" movie, Megan Fox sat down to make a Public Service Announcement, telling kids to be themselves, sort of. The story of "Jennifer's Body" revolves around a cheerleader who is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. Her "plain Jane" best friend must kill her, then escape from a correctional facility to go after the Satan-worshiping rock band responsible for the transformation.

The new movie is directed by Karyn Kusama, the woman behind "Aeon Flux" and the great "Girlfight."
It is written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Juno) and is scheduled to hit theaters on September 18th". Source: www.worstpreviews.com

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Hair sex-stroking

Jake Gyllenhaal.Kristen Stewart.Robert Pattinson.Mary Elizabeth Winstead.Chris Pine.Reese Witherspoon.Drew Barrymore.Emma Stone.Bijou Phillips.Diane Kruger.
Kirsten Dunst.Sophia Bush.Topher Grace.Jennifer Aniston.Courtney Love.Megan Fox.Marilyn Monroe.Gretchen Mol.
Evan Rachel Wood.Emma Watson.Lindsay Lohan.

"Brothers" Trailer HD


In Theaters: December 4, 2009

When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home—with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family. BROTHERS tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirtysomething Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal), who are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace (Natalie Portman), with whom he has two young daughters (Bailee Madison, Taylor Grace Geare). Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail whos always gotten by on wit and charm. He slides easily into his role as family provocateur on his first night out of prison, at Sams farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie (Mare Winningham) and Hank Cahill (Sam Shepard), a retired Marine.

Terry Gilliam interview - resisting the Faustian moment

"But a lot of the guys that have worked with you, I've noticed they have that tendency... they're beautiful actors, physically, like Heath Ledger, but there's a desire on their part to get past that and then to play roles that really challenge that perception of them.

Well, I think Heath didn't have the opportunity to get to get where he attempted...

He was just starting.... because he was fighting the temptation the whole time because he just... I think "Brokeback Mountain" threw him into that part of the stratosphere.
I like what he did in "Lords of Dogtown" too. I think there was some really interesting character stuff there.

Yeah, I mean... he hated all that, what was being put on a plate in front of him. "This is your moment." The Faustian moment, and he was resisting it. And Joker was just a great bit of fun. That's what it was. Just a fly. He was having just a great time doing that.
I noticed that Heath said the same thing that Depp said on "Pirates" that they kept expecting to get fired. They kept expecting that the studio would notice what they were doing and say, "Oh no, no, no. We're not making that kind of movie." I think that's one of the reasons those roles are immediately iconic... we are so used to, in commercial films, a certain level of where you'll stop. And those guys insisted on pushing further, and so suddenly you get something that doesn't feel commercial at all. [...]

-Have you been up on the stage yet?

-Not yet. My wife is the celebrity. She writes "Dexter" and the "Twilight" films. The only time I've been to the Academy Awards was when my wife was nominated for "Munchausen" for Best Makeup. That's the only time I went. Hang on to your wife because it works.

-Did she win?

-No. We're losers. Cheers".

Source: www.hitfix.com