Natalie Portman - Elle UK Photoshoot, February 2010.
Natalie Portman plays Rifka (segment "Mira Nair") in "New York, I love you" (2009).
"Earlier this year Jerusalem-born Natalie broke one of her rules and played a Hasidic bride in 'New York, I Love You'. She now stars in the war drama 'Brothers' opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire.Natalie Portman as Grace Cahill in "Brothers" (2009).
On playing Jewish characters: "I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. That was the first thing to come my way (New York, I Love You) that really intrigued me."On rom-com roles: "It wasn't that I didn't want to do comedy. It's just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren't exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage." Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
"Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Noah Wyle, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell, and depicts the reality-bending adventures of the title character as he seeks the meaning and significance behind his troubling Doomsday-related visions.
2001, Richard Kelly won with Donnie Darko for "Best Screenplay" at the Catalonian International Film Festival and at the San Diego Film Critics Society. Donnie Darko also won the "Audience Award" for Best Feature at the Sweden Fantastic Film Festival. The film was nominated for "Best Film" at the Catalonian International Film Festival and for the "Grand Jury Prize" at the Sundance Film Festival.2002, Donnie Darko won the "Special Award" at the Young Filmmakers Showcase at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The movie also won the "Silver Scream Award" at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival. Kelly was nominated for "Best First Feature" and "Best First Screenplay" with Donnie Darko, as well as Jake Gyllenhaal being nominated for "Best Male Lead", at the Independent Spirit Awards. The film was also nominated for the "Best Breakthrough Film" at the Online Film Critics Society Awards.Jake Gyllenhaal in "Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut" (2004) - Production Diary.
2003, Jake Gyllenhaal won "Best Actor" and Richard Kelly "Best Original Screenplay" for Donnie Darko at the Chlotrudis Awards, where Kelly was also nominated for "Best Director" and "Best Movie."2005, Donnie Darko ranked in the top five on My Favourite Film, an Australian poll conducted by the ABC.
2006, Donnie Darko ranks ninth in FilmFour's 50 Films to See Before You Die.
It also came in at number 14 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies and landed at number 2 in their "Greatest Independent Films of All Time" list". Source: www.ordoh.com
"Quirk is odd, but not too odd. That would take us all the way to weird, and there someone might get hurt.(Indeed, inappropriate dancing is a big quirk trope, inasmuch as it provides a dramatic moment at which value systems can collide. This itself called out to the unwittingly only-slightly-less-hypersexualized preteen dance troupe Sparkle Motion in the 2001 quirk-noir Donnie Darko, a movie in which Jake Gyllenhaal takes orders from a giant rabbit.)" Source: www.theatlantic.com
"What makes indie such an odd example of a subculture being sold back to the masses is that, in practice, its main selling point is its uncoolness.
Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus in a scene of "Zombieland" (2009).
The Atlantic’s Michael Hirschorn identified this “aesthetic principle” as “quirk”, defining it as “an embrace of the odd against the blandly mainstream.” Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010).
“It features mannered ingenuousness, an embrace of small moments, narrative randomness, situationally amusing but not hilarious character juxtapositions ... and unexplainable but nonetheless charming character traits,” he wrote. “Quirk takes not mattering very seriously.” He then doled out a cross-platform cut down of pop culture’s then-current pantheon of quirk: This American Life, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, Flight of the Conchords. He missed Juno by just a few months, but the movie likely would have altered his take dramatically; Ellen Page and Olivia Thirlby in "Juno" (2007).
Imagine if he’d had as fodder Diablo Cody’s stripper-to-screenwriter story, Ellen Page’s eerily natural portrayal of Juno’s hyper-offbeat title character, the movie’s stringently precocious and best-selling soundtrack (featuring Belle and Sebastian, Kimya Dawson and proto-indie rockers The Velvet Underground), and the film’s predictably unexpected Oscar nods. Michael Cera in "Youth in Revolt" (2010).
And that’s to say nothing of the deluge of quirk that’s flowed forth since: all of Michael Cera’s other movies, Where the Wild Things Are, Zooey Deschanel. It would’ve been an embarrassment of twitches". Source: www.pastemagazine.com
Emma Stone kisses Jesse Eisenberg in "Zombieland" Jesse Eisenberg kisses Kristen Stewart in "Adventureland" Kristen Stewart kisses Anton Yelchin in "Fierce People" Anton Yelchin kisses Kat Dennings in "Charlie Bartlett" Kat Dennings kisses Michael Cera in "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" Michael Cera kisses Ellen Page in "Juno" Ellen Page kisses Landon Pigg in "Whip It!"
Scans of Leonardo DiCaprio in Spanish cinema magazine "Fotogramas", February 2010.
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Todd Graff at "Bandslam" LA premiere, on 6th August 2009.
"I've learned that New Line president Toby Emmerich is setting Bandslam director Todd Graff to helm Damn Yankees, a big-scale musical that has Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Carrey attached. And Paramount's Adam Goodman is giving screenwriter Etan Cohen the chance to make his feature directorial debut on Daddy’s Home, a comedy that will star Will Ferrell and Ed Helms. Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone and Ruben Fleischer at "Zombieland" Premiere in the 42nd Sitges Film Festival on 10th October 2009.
So why would studios entrust their tentpoles to relative newcomers? Because of Zombieland's Ruben Fleischer, X-Men's Bryan Singer and even Charlie's Angels' McG. All were instances of the majors taking a chance on emerging talent and enjoying big box office rewards because of it. McG, for instance, was plucked by Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal from the music video biz. Now she's gone obscure once again by tapping (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb to reboot her Spider-Man franchise.
Still, big blockbuster musicals are hard to pull off, and Graff might seem a surprising choice given that his 2009 Bandslam grossed only $5.2 million. But that film received glowing reviews -- and one insider infamously complained to Nikki Finke (Behind The Scenes Of 'Bandslam' & Summit) that Summit mistakenly marketed it as High School Musical when the pic was much edgier. I'm told Graff will rewrite a first draft of Damn Yankees by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel for New Line's Hairspray-producing team of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. What's planned is a contemporary version of the 1955 Tony-winning musical's story of a middle-aged fan who makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in order to become a slugger who’ll lead his hapless favorite team to the World Series. Jake Gyllenhaal singing at London MTV TRL (UK) show on 28th May 2004.
Though neither deal is set yet, Gyllenhaal is attached to play the slugger, Carrey to play the devil. There is also a plum role for a young actress to play Lola, the temptress sent by the devil to seduce the ballplayer". Source: www.deadline.com
Natalie Portman - Elle UK Photoshoot, February 2010.
Natalie Portman plays Rifka (segment "Mira Nair") in "New York, 
"Earlier this year Jerusalem-born Natalie broke one of her rules and played a Hasidic bride in 'New York, I Love You'. She now stars in the war drama 'Brothers' opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire.
Natalie Portman as Grace Cahill in "Brothers" (2009).
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