FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
It's been a long time coming, but Roger Corman has finally received his Oscar. At the annual Governors Awards ceremony, honoring the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients,...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
When the levees broke.
Frugal Café Blog Zone (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Sultry, intelligent Lauren Bacall is one of my favorite actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She made a number of films, but the best, in my opinion, were the film noir movies in which she co-starred with husband Humphrey Bogart (they first met and fell in love during the filming of To Have [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The 2009 Governors Awards are given to actress Lauren Bacall, 85; producer-director-writer Roger Corman, 83; and cinematographer Gordon Willis, 78. A who's who of Hollywood -- Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and George Lucas among them -- turned out Saturday night for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2009 Governors Awards.
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I’ve been feeling a little listless lately, wondering about a lot of things that I won’t go into here. With this in mind I happened to pop Jonathan Demme’s 1986 film SOMETHING WILD into the DVD player for my first full viewing in quite some time. It’s interesting how the opening title sequence consists of views of Manhattan—funkier, more low-level shots of the island than...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
He is the unbearable lightness of being a director, producer, actor, mentor. He is the most effervescent of gentlemen, one who has that gene for making it all look easy.
Amy's Robot (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Roger Corman, one of the most prolific movie makers ever, got his honorary Oscar yesterday. He's an award winner that seems unconventional for the Academy, but Corman's connections to mainstream Hollywood go deeper than I realized. You might already...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Eighty-three-year-old Roger Corman, who has produced nearly 400 "B" movies -- none of them regarded as a candidate for an Oscar nomination -- over a career that began 55...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Oscar News: Indie legend's proteges have nabbed many Oscars -- The first job I had in the movie business paid $400 for four weeks' work on location in 1974 in some of the top chicken-fighting spots in Georgia for a movie called "Cockfighter."
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
They will be honored for their achievements behind the camera.
Celebslam (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Britney Spears bikini pics! (Melbourne, Australia - 11/10) It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. Did you know Britney was actually Jonathan Demme's second choice to play Buffalo Bill in The Silence... ...read full story
Bubblegum Aesthetics (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
After a weekend Indian summer, fall has returned with a vengeance here in Cineville, leaving your dashing narrator all woozy again (I swear, if I get one more &$%$#* cold, I'm going to go all Angelus on this place), and thus unable to blog about the backlog of movies ( Royal Flash , Revolutionary Road ), comics (Spider-Man!) and events (Jonathan Demme at Oberlin!) that have been dancing through...
Thrasher's Wheat (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Jonathan Demme, Pegi Young, Neil Young 48th Annual Grammy Awards - 8 Feb 2006Getty Images Entertainment photo by Stephen ShugermanThis summer it was announced that the Music Academy would honor Neil Young as the MusiCares Person of the Year.From Music News Net: Legendary artist and activist Neil Young will be honored as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year at a special L.A. event on Friday,
We'll Know When We Get There (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I've become increasingly aware of people who are doing what they want to do with their lives and having a positive impact on others' in the process. I wrote recently about Dallas Clayton , who wrote a beautiful book for his son to inspire a little boy to think big and, when he couldn't find a publisher, published it himself and is now giving copies away. I watched Jonathan Demme's Jimmy Carter: Man...
kottke (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The movie rights to Dave Eggers' Zeitoun have been purchased by Jonathan Demme, who wants to make an animated movie out of it . Tags: books Dave Eggers Jonathan Demme movies Zeitoun
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