"It’s time to move Hal Holbrook off the Oscar bubble and into the fold. The 84-year-old actor delivers arguably the performance of his career in That Evening Sun, director Scott Teems’s terrific adaptation of the William Gay short story “I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down.” Holbrook plays Abner Meecham, a Tennessean banished by his lawyer son (Walton Goggins) to a nursing home he’ll soon flee in disgust. Hal Holbrook and Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild" (2007).
Imagine his celebrated character in Into the Wild soaked in vinegar and hung out to dry in the sweltering Tennessee sun, and that’s Abner Meecham. He’s quite the marvel. -Scott, I’d read you were uneasy about casting Hal because he was perhaps best known for playing Mark Twain, and you needed someone a little rougher. Is that true? ST: I guess the reason I hadn’t initially thought of him is that I had been kind of programmed by Hollywood to think of Hal as the “guy in the suit.” Or the mustache. Or as the lawyer, the judge, Mark Twain. So he wasn’t initially on my radar five years ago in the conception of this. It wasn’t until we saw how Sean Penn reimagined Hal to be this physical specimen — this outdoorsman, this man of the land — as he did with Into the Wild that we thought, “Aha! That’s who we’ve been looking for.” Hal Holbrook and Emile Hirsch at Breakthrough of the year Awards (2007).
-What I was searching for was this really searching for was this really specific combination of strength and fragility. You believed that he believed that he had the strength to work this farm; he’s convinced himself he could do it. And we would stand up to this interloper on his land. And it wouldn’t be surprising to you that he’d do this. At the same time, I want you to say, “Please be careful! You’re an old man.” -The first shot of you in That Evening Sun — staring out the window of a nursing home — is kind of devastating. How did you react to seeing yourself like that?-HH: Well, first I react as an actor watching himself act and say, “Enh, I should have done that better.” But I get caught up in this film. I get caught up early on. I have a very strong connection with this man. I like this guy. I like the way he is, and I wonder sometimes if I’m that tough with people. I guess I am; my wife tells me I am sometimes. But she’s so kind to everybody all the time. She says, “You’re so grouchy!” I guess I am. But I hate deception. I hate lying. I cannot stand lying. That’s what makes me so angry about things I see going on around us, behind us, all these Wall Street and political people deceiving us. People are deceiving themselves all over the country. They’ve got one idea, they don’t want to listen to anybody else, on and on. That feeds me. It feeds me up onstage with Mark Twain, because then I get the machine gun out and start really leveling it. It keeps me going". Source: www.movieline.com
"There was some promise in "Halo," which Peter Jackson was going to produce and "District 9" helmer Neill Blomkamp was going to direct. Until it fizzled out, that is. The next great hope on the horizon is "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", which hits theaters next May.Jake Gyllenhaal, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Promotional Artwork.
Both of these games have rich, well-developed stories. "Twilight" producer Wyck Godfrey, who has his hands on adaptations of "Gears of War" and "Dead Space", argues that the big problem with game adaptations thus far is related mostly to the source narratives. "I feel like the video games are getting more sophisticated in terms of the storylines," he said in a recent interview with Collider. "Both 'Dead Space' and 'Gears of War' are games that have great storylines". Source: moviesblog.mtv.com
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, GQ photoshoot, December issue.
"-So help me understand Uncertainty a little better. Do you think this dual-existence thing is a regular pastime for these characters, or just a way to spend this particular Fourth of July? -That’s a funny way to phrase it. I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.-So these are two stories actually taking place at once? Or is one imagined and the other real, it’s just up to us to determine which is which? -My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.-So what intrigued you about making a movie about this concept? -Well, look — I love a good love story, and this, to me, is one of the most in depth and honest stories about love between two people that I’ve personally had the chance to act in. Lynn is a fabulous actress, and the process of Uncertainty itself is just based on improvisation and emotional authenticity as opposed to technical precision. You know, hitting your marks and saying your lines. I think it really allowed us to push the envelope of playing with those feelings of love. So… yeah. It makes for a good date movie."For me, my emotional state can go from one pole to another in the span of no time at all. I think that’s kind of what Uncertainty is about."-(500) Days of Summer has had such a long tail coming out of Sundance earlier this year. It made a killing, people love it, it’s still in theaters. What do you make of the sustained popular reaction to it?-I love that movie. You never have control over how the rest of the world is gonna feel about anything you make. I love other movies of mine that didn’t get as much attention, but it doesn’t mean I love them any less. I don’t know. It’s a funny dichotomy. To be a creative person I think you have to stick your guns and, in a certain way, not care what people think. But on the other hand I’m a citizen of the world, and I care very much what people think. There’s a less solid line between “us” and “them” than we’d like to believe. We’re all sort of made up of each other. What we think is largely affected by what everybody else thinks — no matter how strong we are. [Pause] Anyway. I don’t know why, but I’ve chosen you to be my esoteric interview for the day or something. -(500) Days of Summer took an equally radical approach to a narrative about a relationship. What specifically were you trying to say or express about love in these films?-It’s the whole of it, really. The juxtaposition. Isn’t that how love is? It’s never only one thing. For me, my emotional state can go from one pole to another in the span of no time at all. I think that’s kind of what Uncertainty is about. I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you’re always you. These are all useful concepts if what you’re trying to do is go down to the grocery store and get a gallon of milk. I guess I’m getting far out, but what I look for in a movie is something that will fuck with my mind and unrest some of those stable building blocks that make up my consciousness. I think Uncertainty does that — it plays with those notions of time and space, and who are you? Are you sure you’re not other things, too? Yes, this seems to be happening right now, but what else is happening?-Are you nervous? -You know what, man? I am. And I don’t get nervous. So that’s exciting. I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare — about work, anyway — I always take that as a really good sign". Source: www.movieline.com
Robert Pattinson on the red carpet for "New Moon" L.A. premiere, on 16th November 2009. "Not since Leo, circa Titanic, has a young actor been so aggressively beloved by 13-year-old girls worldwide", writes Evgenia Peretz in her Vanity Fair profile of Robert Pattinson (Twilight's Hot Gleaming, December 2009). Peretz is right—and I would know. I was one of those teenage girls who got caught up in the "Leo-mania" fan frenzy in the late 90s. The first copy of Vanity Fair I ever bought was the January 1998 issue with Leo on the cover. I hung Tiger Beat and Teen Bop posters of Leo on my bedroom walls. And after I saw Titanic in the movie theater six times, one of my friends and I even created a Leo Web site, at a time when you could only access the Internet via a dial-up modem.Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of "Inception".Robert Pattinson on the set of "Remember me".
But among us teenagers, it was only DiCaprio who orbited in the true superstar stratosphere". Source: www.vanityfair.com Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in "Romeo and Juliet" (1996).
"If Twilight was a fantasy twist on Romeo and Juliet, then New Moon is the story of Romeo, Juliet, and the boy who comes between them, Ned". Source: www.newsinfilm.com
Emile Hirsch arriving to the GQ party at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, on 18th November, 2009.
"The Chateau Marmont hosted GQ's Men of the Year Awards last night in LA. A few of the magazine's honorees, including Zach Galifianakis, Tom Ford, and Neil Patrick Harris joined forces with starlets like Olivia Wilde and AnnaLynne McCord". Emile Hirsch. Source: www.popsugar.com Amanda Seyfried, big laughs!Jaime King wearing a dress by Marc Jacobs Fall 2009 and golden heels.Marley Shelton."A lady sure does appreciate a man in a suit. Actress Olivia Wilde said, "I get a little bit more snazzy for the GQ party. You know what I like about this party? The men dress up too". Source: www.theinsider.com Olivia Wilde wearing a fitting bridal white dress by Marchesa. Emile Hirsch with Olivia Wilde.
Olivia looked radiant in that white dress by Marchesa. Guess who wore recently another dress by Marchesa? Kristen Stewart attending a Jimmy Kimmel Live show:Kristen arriving to Jimmy Kimmel in a Marchesa Embroidered silk strapless dress.
Natalie Portman and Carey Mulligan in a scene from "Brothers" (2009).
"I was less enthusiastic about Tobey Maguire’s performance than I was by Jake Gyllenhaal’s more natural portrayal. In fact, it seems that every time I see Gyllenhaal in something, I’m reminded of how underrated he is as an actor.
The real story of the film, however, is the casting of Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare, two absolutely amazing young girls who knock it out of the park. Much credit is due to Sheridan, of course, who has shown in the past his ability to get great performances out of children. But these two ladies have talent to spare. It was a really nice surprise". Source: incontention.com
"It’s time to move Hal Holbrook off the Oscar bubble and into the fold. The 84-year-old actor delivers arguably the performance of his career in That Evening Sun, director Scott Teems’s terrific adaptation of the William Gay short story “I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down.” Holbrook plays Abner Meecham, a Tennessean banished by his lawyer son (Walton Goggins) to a nursing home he’ll soon flee in disgust. 
Hal Holbrook and Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild" (2007).
-Scott, I’d read you were uneasy about casting Hal because he was perhaps best known for playing Mark Twain, and you needed someone a little rougher. Is that true?
Or as the lawyer, the judge, Mark Twain. So he wasn’t initially on my radar five years ago in the conception of this. It wasn’t until we saw how Sean Penn reimagined Hal to be this physical specimen — this outdoorsman, this man of the land — as he did with Into the Wild that we thought, “Aha! That’s who we’ve been looking for.”
Hal Holbrook and Emile Hirsch at Breakthrough of the year Awards (2007).
-The first shot of you in That Evening Sun — staring out the window of a nursing home — is kind of devastating. How did you react to seeing yourself like that?
-HH: Well, first I react as an actor watching himself act and say, “Enh, I should have done that better.” But I get caught up in this film. I get caught up early on. I have a very strong connection with this man. I like this guy. I like the way he is, and I wonder sometimes if I’m that tough with people. I guess I am; my wife tells me I am sometimes. But she’s so kind to everybody all the time. She says, “You’re so grouchy!” I guess I am. 
But I hate deception. I hate lying. I cannot stand lying. That’s what makes me so angry about things I see going on around us, behind us, all these Wall Street and political people deceiving us. People are deceiving themselves all over the country. They’ve got one idea, they don’t want to listen to anybody else, on and on. That feeds me. It feeds me up onstage with Mark Twain, because then I get the machine gun out and start really leveling it. It keeps me going". Source: www.movieline.com
