LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Penelope Cruz feels uncomfortable talking about nude scenes and says she has "an allergy to labels," but she becomes effusive when discussing her "dream year" with two special films about to hit theatres.
For some reason, I procrastinated in watching the Showtime series Californication . When it first came out, there was a lot of buzz over its treatment of sexual addiction, and so I immediately assumed the show would be filled with gratuitous scenes involving infidelity. Naturally, a sex addict's victims must include innocent, committed women, otherwise he'd have trouble getting his fix. And I realized...
I've likely spoken at some length on the majority of these awards, seeing as how most of them were given out this year... which means this will be the last installment of the Awards section of The Decade List, as I hope to will finish this all up by the end of the year. The "national film prizes" sounded really great in theory, but it's actually been more of a hassle than anything else. I'm...
Contempt for the reader The Humbling. By Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 140 pages; $22. Jonathan Cape; GBP12.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, in his late period, produced some of the most sublime chamber music ever written. Woody Allen abandoned Russian heaviness and zeitgeist-tapping frizziness to revel in the delight of form and structure. His recent films, “Match...
Larry David plays a slight variation on his Curb Your Enthusiasm incarnation, spouting some of the most articulate rants on humanity in Woody Allen’s new comedy. I enjoyed last year’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but this is definitely better. It’s a spectacularly executed comedy farce, with the action constantly escalating along the way, adhering to the [...]
This may be the twentieth time I've declared this in this space, but one more time can't hurt: watch Battlestar Galactica! It may not be the best show of the last ten years, but it's as good as any. How a floundering NBC never thought to scoop it up from its little Syfy sister and air it on the big network still astonishes me. Whatever Works isn't nearly as good as recent Woody Allen gems Vicky Cristina...
Orphan An "outwardly angelic little girl" gets adopted by a new family consisting of Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga, and then begins to unleash her hidden evilness. In his review, Peter Martin wrote that Orphan "is so bats*** crazy that it wears you down just enough to accept the lunacy and enjoy the movie for what it is: every parent's worst nightmare, writ large in childish crayon."...
Penelope Cruz became the first Spanish actress to win an Academy Award when she was handed a best supporting Oscar for her role in the Woody Allen comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”. After the ceremony - where she wore a very bridal vintage Balmain gown - she changed into a white asymmetrical Atelier Versace gown for [...]
Woody Allen likes to keep a little mystery steeped in his upcoming projects -- especially when it comes to the title. Where other projects start off with that nugget of news, he shares it later . So, without further ado, the title of his latest film is, as The Hollywood Reporter posts: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger This is the film that stars the likes of Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony...
Continuing the relationship developed while working on Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s next film will be produced by Spanish production company Mediapro, with Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 serving to co-produce. The new movie, entitled You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, follows the love lives of the various members of a family, and the efforts they [...]
International News: London-set pic stars Watts, Brolin, Hopkins -- Antena 3 Films, the film production arm of Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, will co-produce Woody Allen's London-set movie, the now titled "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger."
She’s known for her exotic look and amazing smile. Penelope Cruz didn’t disappoint her fans a few days ago when she participated at the Times BFI London Film Festival premiere of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a movie directed by Woody Allen. She was looking phenomenal, as always. How does she keep fit and look so amazing every time she passes a red carpet? The actress, mostly known for her Spanish beauty,
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The love scene may come off as hot on the big screen but don't assume it was that way during filming. That's the word from Scarlett Johansson. Her erotic moments with Javier Bardem in Vicky Cristina Barcelona raised eyebrows when the film premiered at Cannes in the spring, and she's been fielding questions about them ever since. But she insists it was no big deal. In fact she