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‘Shaun of the Dead’ Photo-a-day / Shoot Day 1 / May 11th, 2003
Edgar Wright Here
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So on this very day, ten years ago, we began principal photography on ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ in London. To celebrate this we’ve decided to take you through every single day of production over the next month or two. Team Big Talk have gone through personal photos, still,
BAMcinemaFest Announces Full 2013 Lineup; 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' and 'Short Term 12' Will Bookend
Indiewire
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An IFC Films release. Opens August 16.CLOSING NIGHT: "Short Term 12" (Destin Cretton) NY Premiere NarrativeForty years after Roe v. Wade, abortion remains a divisive and incendiary national debate. In theaftermath of Dr. George Tiller’s assassination in 2009, only four physicians in the US continue toperform third trimester ...
Simon Pegg heads to 'The World's End' in new trailer
usatoday.com
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Leather-clad Gary (Simon Pegg) rounds up his old friends for a night of drinking that takes a turn for the weird in the comedy 'The World's End.'(Photo: Laurie Sparham, Focus Features)Wright directs the apocalyptic comedy (in theaters Aug. 23) that acts as the finale of a trilogy of ...
Exclusive The World’s End Trailer
video.uk.msn.com
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Watch our exclusive trailer featuring Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as they reunite again in The World's End.
Greetings From Tim Buckley | Movie Reviews | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
2 mentions — 3 weeks ago
Rolling Stone:star rating53Community:star ratingAspiring musician Jeff Buckley (Penn Badgley), 24, leaves California for New York in 1991 to reluctantly perform in a concert tribute, at Brooklyn's St. Ann's Church, to his singer-songwriter father, Tim Buckley, who died of a heroin overdose in
'Tim Buckley' Clip Features Nude Serenade
Rolling Stone
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The new film Greetings From Tim Buckley tells the story of a young Jeff Buckley (played by Penn Badgley) preparing for a tribute concert in honor of the father he never knew, folk singer Tim Buckley. Directed by Dan Algrant, the movie was was released on video on ...
QA: Penn Badgley on Filming 'Greetings from Tim Buckley' | Movies News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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Q&A: Penn Badgley on Filming 'Greetings from Tim Buckley''We were trying to capture lightning in a bottle,' he saysPenn Badgley is doing his very best to make audiences forget the words Gossip Girl. In Greetings from Tim Buckley, the former CW star plays Jeff Buckley, the son of ...
Penn Badgley’s Mission to Reclaim His Own Celebrity With Greetings From Tim Buckley
Vulture
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Penn Badgley slaloms up to me in Tompkins Square Park on a skateboard, wearing a gray sweatshirt and red sneakers, recognizable but unrecognized as the disaffected starlet-boy of the rococo teen soap Gossip Girl, which concluded its sixth and final season in December. He wanted to meet here ...
Tribeca Video: Revisiting the Buckleys
NYTimes.com
2 mentions — 4 weeks ago
The biopic “Greetings From Tim Buckley,” screening tonight in the Tribeca Film Festival and heading into theaters on May 3, aims to commemorate the brief music careers and lives of the folk singer Tim Buckley and his son Jeff, who followed in his father’s musical footsteps. The film ...
'Greetings from Tim Buckley' with Penn Badgley Screens at Tribeca Film Festival | Movies News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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'Greetings from Tim Buckley' with Penn Badgley Screens at Tribeca Film Festival'It would have been hard to do without live performance,' says BadgleyPenn Badgley and Frank Bello attend the Tribeca Film Festival 2013 after party for 'Greetings From Tim Buckley' in New York City. There were more than ...
'Attack' Takes Three Awards at COLCOA
Variety
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Lebanese-born helmer Ziad Doueiri’s “The Attack” nabbed three honors at the City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival on Sunday, closing out the 17th annual showcase for Gallic cinema in Los Angeles.An examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict centered around a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, “The Attack” ...
PAPERMAG: 10 Picks for the Tribeca Film Festival
papermag.com
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Well, the little festival that could is here in New York again (from April 17-28) and here are my 10 picks of movies that intrigue and beckon me. Although some no longer have advance tickets available, you can still show up 45 minutes before any screening for a ...
'The Place Beyond the Pines' Exclusive Video: Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling Are Actors, Stuntmen (VIDEO)
news.moviefone.com
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Derek Cianfrance Talks 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Trailer and the Near-Death Opening Scene
BlackBook
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Responses to Derek Cianfrance Talks 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Trailer and the Near-Death Opening Scene "It's about violence and moments that effects of violent moments. It's more internal and emotional than purely genre film," says director Derek Cianfrance, speaking to his sprawling epic The Place Beyond the ...
Jeff Buckley Lives: The New Trailer for Greetings from Tim Buckley: The feed: GQ
gq.com
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You know that version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" that has been used for countless dramatic/romantic/syrupy soul-searching scenes in basically every TV show since 1997? Well on May 3rd a biopic on the singer, Jeff Buckley, will be released starring everyone's favorite Hollywood hipster wannabe Penn Badgley. The film,
Behind the Scenes of 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Pictures | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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Behind the Scenes of 'The Place Beyond the Pines'Inside the new film starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan GoslingPut on the art-house map in 2010 with the emotional Blue Valentine, writer-director Derek Cianfrance is back to tug at the tear ducts with The Place Beyond the Pines. Starring Ryan ...
Director Derek Cianfrance on 'The Place Beyond the Pines' and the Magic of Ryan Gosling
Flavorwire
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It’s tricky to talk to Derek Cianfrance about his new film The Place Beyond the Pines, due to a series of bold narrative turnabouts that would fall squarely into the realm of “spoilers.” I explained my hesitancy to him in a recent telephone interview. “It’s challenging for reviewers,” ...
Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond the Pines: “There Were Many Takes Ruined” by People Staring at Shirtless Ryan Gosling
Vanity Fair
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Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond the Pines: “There Were Many Takes Ruined” by People Staring at Shirtless Ryan Gosling While prepping for Blue Valentine—Derek Cianfrance’s critically acclaimed falling-in-and-out-of-love story starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams—Cianfrance and Gosling started discussing another project that the filmmaker had in the ...
Admission | A Focus Features Film | Movie Overview
Movie Overview
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Tina Fey tells Indiewire what makes her role in ADMISSION the next best step as an actress, woman & comedienne.
QA: 'Admission' Star Lily Tomlin on Playing Tina Fey's Mom | Movies News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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Q&A: 'Admission' Star Lily Tomlin on Playing Tina Fey's Mom'She's exceptional,' she says of co-starIt's somehow fitting for comedy legend Lily Tomlin to play Tina Fey's mother in the new dramedy Admission, opening nationwide Friday. Tomlin portrays the Bella Abzug-worshiping Susannah, who conceived her daughter Portia (Tina Fey) ...
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Place Beyond the Pines
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The daring new film from the director of BlueValentine, The Place Beyond the Pines is a powerfuldrama that explores the unbreakable bond between fathers and sons.Luke (Academy Award nominee Gosling) is a high-wire motorcyclestunt performer who travels with the carnival from town to town.While passing through upstate New ...
The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Moonrise Kingdom Co-Writer Roman Coppola
Vulture
2 mentions — 3 months ago
In this recurring feature, Vulture speaks to the screenwriters of 2012's most notable movies about the scenes that they found most difficult to crack. What pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen? Today, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Roman Coppola talks to Kyle Buchanan about ...
Anna Karenina: on-screen style icon
British Film Institute
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As director Joe Wright’s reimagining of Anna Karenina hits cinema screens, Claire Smith and Nathalie Morris take a look back at earlier versions of Tolstoy’s classic love story and one of cinema’s most enduring style icons.Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, first published in instalments between 1873 and 1877, has ...
Pride and Prejudice Will Get a Downton Abbey Twist in New Book and Potential Movie
Vanity Fair
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Exciting news for Pride and Prejudice fans: the Jane Austen classic has been spun off into an entirely new direction by British novelist Jo Baker. The forthcoming book, to be published by Alfred Knopf in the U.S., will be titled Longbourn after the Bennetts’ estate near London. Like ...
See the Dramatic New Poster for Derek Cianfrance's 'The Place Beyond the Pines'
BlackBook
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Responses to See the Dramatic New Poster for Derek Cianfrance's 'The Place Beyond the Pines' Despite having seen The Places Beyond the Pines back in November, I still find myself doubled-over with emotion every time I watch the wonderfully cut trailer. As a sprawling triptych film that dives ...
It's Nice That : Interactive, illustrated Moonrise Kingdom Script anyone? Thought so
Interactive, illustrated Moonrise Kingdom Script a...
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Interactive, illustrated Moonrise Kingdom Script anyone? Thought soLiv Siddall •23 January 2013Introducing... the rhythmic animations and illustrations of Tom RainfordAnna Trench •23 January 2013Angela Dalinger paints heavy metal gigs, werewolves and spilt beer – what more do you need?Liv Siddall •23 January 2013Matthew Stone's artworks capture the raw ...
fadeinonline
fadeinonline.com
3 mentions — 4 months ago
e’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the number of major studio releases from the Big 6 (Disney, Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony, Universal) dipped again this past year — which, in theory, would mean more screens for smaller films, right? Now the bad news. You probably didn’t see them. Like in 95 percent of them. You know, the ones that didn’t deluge the market on 2,000-plus screens, and weren’t accompanied by a marketing campaign as subtle as a tsunami. And unless you ...
On the set of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom
wmagazine.com
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"Here I am with Khaki Scout Troup 55 and Kara Hayward, who plays Suzy. This was shot on a farm in Rhode Island. The boy, Sam, has just been struck by lightning."—Wes Anderson. Click here to view the full slideshow.June 2012“As a kid, I never spent time in ...
Chris Butler, 'ParaNorman' Director, On Getting An Oscar Nod For Best Animated Film
news.moviefone.com
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This morning, “ParaNorman” earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Picture. Afterward, Moviefone caught up with the film’s co-director -- and first-time Oscar nominee -- Chris Butler. The British animator, who'd previously served as storyboard supervisor on "Coraline" and storyboard artist on "Corpse Bride," was giddy about getting ...
A Moonrise Kingdom montage shows the art of compression isn’t dead
avclub.com
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In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key movie scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.Montages have fallen out of fashion in recent years. Maybe it has something to do with how mercilessly the convention was skewered by Team America: World Police, in a hilarious musical ...
John Krasinski on Promised Land, Good Will Hunting, and The Office
Vulture
2 mentions — 5 months ago
In Gus Van Sant's new drama Promised Land, John Krasinski plays an environmentalist who becomes a thorn in the side of fracking salesman Matt Damon, but behind the scenes, Krasinski and Damon were more like collaborators than adversaries: The two actors also scripted the movie together, based on ...
V Magazine / THE SECOND COMING OF JOHN KRASINSKI
vman.com
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Grooming Ashley Streicher for Dior Homme (Solo Artists)Set Design Brad ZuckermanTailor George ClintonDigital technician Damon LoblePhoto assistants Ron Loepp, Monica May, Simon McDermott-Johnson, Amy MauthStylist assistant Valeria PolnoroffProduction Kim JohnsonProduction Coordinator Ramona RosalesLocation BOXeight StudiosEquipment Rental Smashbox Photo RentalRetouching Portus Imaging THE WRITER, PRODUCER, AND STAR OF PROMISED ...
Promised Land | Movie Reviews | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone:star rating53Community:star ratingKnown as the anti-fracking movie by people who aren't paying attention, Promised Land is actually a potent and powerful look at how the stressed economy is stressing farm communities across America. Matt Damon stars as a corporate suit offering
Wes Anderson on His Life, Career and Biggest Success Yet, 'Moonrise Kingdom' (Q&A)
Hollywood Reporter
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Earlier this month, I connected by telephone with one of the great auteurs working today, the writer-director Wes Anderson, who was in Germany working on his next film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Anderson had agreed to chat with me for a half-hour about his life, career and most ...
Honor Roll 2012: Wes Anderson On the Success of 'Moonrise Kingdom' and What Separates Him From Robert Zemeckis
Indiewire
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Already one of the most lauded films of the year, with a recent big win at the Gothams, where it beat out "The Master" to nab the Best Feature honor, "Moonrise Kingdom" recently boosted its Oscar prospects by scoring a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture.READ MORE: Honor ...
The Top 10 Films of 2012
Village Voice
2 mentions — 5 months ago
More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered slots. I'd cite another five, formally varied nonfiction films: Tchoupitoulas, Detropia, The Ambassador, Only the Young, and How to Survive a Plague. And were I ...
Season Spotlight: “Moonrise Kingdom”
Film Society of Lincoln Center
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It was only a matter of time until Wes Anderson made Moonrise Kingdom. His films, with their golden palette, swishing whip-pans, and romantic use of music, have an inherent nostalgia to them. The bygone eras of films like Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbuaums hint at a sense of ...