"It's Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's fourth film together,which officially makes them Hollywood's hottest couple after Brad 'n' Angie. But Shutter Island is not just exciting because of that; it's also shaping up to be something of a stylistic shift for Scorsese. And here's a shot of Scorsese directing DiCaprio (as Teddy Daniels) and Michelle Williams as his wife.Co-star Mark Ruffalo, who plays a US marshal alongside DiCaprio, said, "This could be one of [Scorsese's] great films. He gets to do everything he loves about film: noir, dream sequences, suspense, tough urban stuff. It's absolute madness, twist upon twist."
Scorsese himself has likened the film to Orson Welles' take on Kafka's The Trial, or Hitchcock at his weirdest, which sounds pretty darn promising to us. The film's out on October 9 in the UK and October 2 in the US. Source: www.empireonline.com
"Milk's ambition, drive, guile, and sexual orientation put him on a collision course with almost creepily wholesome-seeming fellow supervisor and former boxer, fireman, and police officer Dan White, a real-life version of the all-American, baby-faced sniper in Targets. Enraged that Mayor George Moscone wouldn't allow him to return to office after he abruptly resigned, White killed Moscone and Milk, then got off with a manslaughter conviction amid what became known as "the Twinkie defense," which used a diet heavy on junk food as evidence that White wasn't in his right mind. White is such a perversely fascinating figure that The Times Of Harvey Milk doesn't seem to deal with him or his much-publicized trial as extensively as it should. Fortunately, the double-disc set compensates with hours of bonus material that delves deeper into various aspects of his life and career". Source: www.avclub.com
Lindsay sat down with Ellen for a very personal interview, addressing everything from rumors of a restraining order to allegations that she cheated on Samantha Ronson. Watch to get all the details - straight from Lindsay herself! In the second part of her interview with Ellen, Lindsay gives a very direct answer to whether she would ever reunite with Samantha in the future.
CLOSER "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky," France, Jan Kounen
IN COMPETITION "Bright Star," Australia-U.K.-France, Jane Campion "Spring Fever," China-France, Lou Ye "Antichrist," Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier "Enter the Void," France, Gaspar Noe "Face," France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium, Tsai Ming-liang "Les Herbes folles," France-Italy, Alain Resnais "In the Beginning," France, Xavier Giannoli "A Prophet," France, Jacques Audiard "The White Ribbon," Germany-Austria-France, Michael Haneke "Vengeance," Hong Kong-France-U.S., Johnnie To "The Time That Remains," Israel-France-Belgium-Italy, Elia Suleiman "Vincere," Italy-France, Marco Bellocchio "Kinatay," Philippines, Brillante Mendoza "Thirst," South Korea-U.S., Park Chan-wook "Broken Embraces," Spain, Pedro Almodovar "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," Spain, Isabel Coixet "Fish Tank," U.K.-Netherlands, Andrea Arnold "Looking for Eric," U.K.-France-Belgium-Italy, Ken Loach "Inglourious Basterds," U.S., Quentin Tarantino"Taking Woodstock," U.S., Ang Lee
OUT OF COMPETITION "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Canada-France, Terry Gilliam "The Army of Crime," France, Robert Guediguian "Agora," Spain, Alejandro Amenabar
Jake Gyllenhaal carrying Ramona (Maggie's daughter).Michelle Williams carrying her daughter Matilda Rose for a walk in the stroller.Christian Bale holding his daughter Emmeline.Leonardo DiCaprio holding his friend Toby Maguire's daughter Ruby Sweetheart.Naomi Watts holding her son Sasha.Isla Fisher holds her daughter Olive, 17 months, Hollywood Hills.
Jake Gyllenhaal in a hot scene of "Rendition" (2007).-And Emile Hirsch was seventeen?-The sex scene took place separately, actually. Because of the nature of the scene - it was shot in a limo - we had to cut out the back of the limo and a camera was basically where the trunk is. Because of the positioning of us, they shot Emile separately, and me separately, so we were never actually together.-How hard was that? -(Laughing) To pretend you're making love to a box? Because that's exactly what it was. I don't know. You do the best you can, I guess. You know what? I think the love aspect of it all was the drawing point for me. I mean, just the chemistry and all that. Source: movies.about.com-Elisha Cuthbert said you shot the sex scene in the limo separately. What was that like to do? -How does it feel to have sex by myself? You know, very much at home. Source: movies.about.com"Maggie Gyllenhaal has revealed there are double-standards regarding nude scenes in her house: she hates it when fiance Peter Sarsgaard strips for the camera but he likes it when she does it.
The Dark Knight actress explained recently: “After Secretary, people knew that I’d get naked, but I won’t get naked for anything - only if it makes sense.
“I hate it when Peter does a love scene. He’s very understanding - it doesn’t seem to bother him [when I do one]". Source: fametastic.co.uk
"The story of Harvey Milk is one of the most clearly adult and serious topics a gay film has taken on in recent years.
A member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Milk was the first openly gay elected public official in the US.
His murderer, city official Dan White, who also killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone, was given the absurdly lenient sentence of seven years in jail.
As a subject for a movie, Milk's story is far removed from the familiar topics of gay cinema.Alison Pill and Emile Hirsch in "Milk" (2008).
Hollywood has agreed that gay actors will do very well for the comic gay roles - the gay best friend, the bitchy queen in the office. For the serious gay roles, a straight actor must be found.
This is true for Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Charlize Theron in Monster, Hilary Swank in Boys don't Cry, Penn in Milk, and Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain. Nobody wants to insist that gay parts should only be taken by gay actors. But the limitations of Hollywood's interest in gay people is shown by the way they reward a straight actor playing gay. The one exception was Brokeback Mountain which was dragged around Hollywood with the reputation of being a great screenplay that could never be made. When it came out, it took the gay audience by storm and spread, to some degree, into the rest.
Clearly, there are people who can only see the world through the apertures licensed by the film industry. In the case of the lives of homosexuals and lesbians, those apertures are unusually tiny" Source: tonight.co.za
10. The Day After Tomorrow 2004’s disaster blockbuster, “The Day After Tomorrow”, definitely gave its audience chills… But it was the effect of climate change and global warming that had one of the stars thinking about the film afterwards. According to Jake Gyllenhaal, who acted in the movie, “I think what this movie does is kind of show you the effects of that kind of attitude, and what could happen.”
2. WALL-E Pixar’s 2008 animated creation “WALL-E” introduces us to a lovable robot whose name stands for “Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class.” WALL-E is programmed to clean the uninhabitable wasteland that Earth has become after humans have trashed the planet. And who could resist WALL-E’s lovable charm, and his love affair with fellow robot, Eva? 1. An Inconvenient Truth With the 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” Al Gore tackled the serious effects of global warming. Al’s new green proposal to have 100 percent of America’s electricity come from renewable energy and carbon free sources is achievable within ten years. It won the former Vice President an Oscar. Source: www.accesshollywood.com
"New Moon", the sequel to Twilight, began production in Vancouver last month, "setting Vancouver abuzz for weeks," says The Wrap, "with fans following the production around from location to location, often alerting each other via Twitter." (Maybe that's why Robert Pattinson's embarassing injury got noticed.) Filming under the direction of Chris Weitz is scheduled to conclude late next month, with Eclipse set for release on November 20. Meanwhile, production on Eclipse, the third film, is slated to begin in late summer, with a tentative release date of next summer. A director for that project has not yet been announced, though we know it's not Drew Barrymore". Source: www.cinematical.com
27. Bite Me! Twilight (2008) Eeek! That big-haired vampire totally put my finger in his mouth!
A deleted scene from a film so cherished by (mostly female, mostly teenage) vamp-fans that its appearance on YouTube sparked meta-debates in the form of other YouTube videos. 14. Joker Takes The Bus The Dark Knight (2008)
An unseen angle from inside the school bus on which The Joker rides away from the hospital he’s just exploded.
Ledger is incredible, his face-smeared monster jittering and jolting without ever once looking at the destruction out the window. 10. Frank Poetry Donnie Darko (2001) This scene of Donnie reading Frank-inspired verse to his school class was presumably cut because it made a solid connection between the time traveller’s maybe-psychosis and the outside world - something which played with more ambiguity in the finished film. Source: www.totalfilm.com
"As nice as it is to encounter a blockbuster-sized movie dealing overtly with global warming, it would be nicer still if that film was directed by someone other than Roland Emmerich, the mayhem maven behind “10,000 B.C.,” “Godzilla” and “Independence Day.” Emmerich speeds up cataclysmic events leading to a second Ice Age that would occur at a more gradual rate in reality, in the interest of delivering spectacular CGI money shots of tornadoes decimating the Hollywood sign and an icicle-covered New York. It’s about as believable as aliens blowing up the White House"."The Happening" Credibility rating: 1
Expecting credibility in a M. Night Shyamalan film is clearly misguided. Especially one nominated for four Razzie awards. Those who despised Shyamalan’s eco-thriller couldn’t stop rolling their eyes at a storyline that envisions toxin-emitting plants getting their revenge on the humans that have carelessly abused them. Needless to say, it’s not a phenomenon anyone should realistically worry about, so feel free to laugh when the film’s heroes start running from blades of grass."An Inconvenient Truth" Credibility rating: 10
Just because this successful documentary focuses on a lengthy Power Point presentation doesn’t rule it out as a disaster movie. There’s surprising tension in former Vice President Al Gore’s lecture on devastation wrought by global warming, making the film more riveting than many CGI-heavy spectacles. Even more impressive is the array of concrete facts and statistics that Gore lays out. “An Inconvenient Truth” isn’t fantastical or science-fictional, which renders its plea for the human race to protect its Mother Earth all the more urgent. Source: connecticut.metromix.com
Jake wearing a grey scarf and a Fedora hat.Jake wearing a derby black hat.Christian Bale, British style.Peter Sarsgaard.Robet Pattinson, "Twilight" gentleman.James Franco is a modern dandy.Johnny Depp wearing a "Tim Burton" hat.Emile Hirsch wearing a black hat.Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy in a Hitchcockian photoshoot.Emile Hirsch in "The girl next door" (2004). Emile Hirsch and the designer Ferruccio Pozzoni in Paris."Emile Hirsch opts for a big black ribbon tie instead of a typical necktie to go with his silver suit while out and about with two lady friends in Paris on Friday.
"It's Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's fourth film together,which officially makes them Hollywood's hottest couple after Brad 'n' Angie. But Shutter Island is not just exciting because of that; it's also shaping up to be something of a stylistic shift for Scorsese. 
And here's a shot of Scorsese directing DiCaprio (as Teddy Daniels) and Michelle Williams as his wife.
Co-star Mark Ruffalo, who plays a US marshal alongside DiCaprio, said, "This could be one of [Scorsese's] great films. He gets to do everything he loves about film: noir, dream sequences, suspense, tough urban stuff. It's absolute madness, twist upon twist."
