By the time its ten Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, were announced, not even Hollywood royalty Kim Novak could derail “The Artist,” though she tried in a Variety interview comparing the film’s Oscar-nominated score to “rape” and stating its lifted themes from Vertigo made her “feel as if my body – or at least my body of work – has been violated by the movie.”
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The closest the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences comes to the Florida recount’s hanging chad is Hilary Swank’s ex-husband, but nonetheless, its system of nominating and voting could politely be called Byzantine, growing more intricate with each passing year.
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There have been a small handful of obscure actresses who have taken on the role of Diana, but there has yet to be a bold-faced name to step into those hard-to-fill shoes. Enter Jessica Chastain. And then … exit Jessica Chastain, and enter Naomi Watts.
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Let’s begin today’s post with a jaunt into the realm of the too-uncool-to-be-real: Dan Aykroyd is starting to talk about having a different actor play Bill Murray’s character in “Ghostbusters 3.” (Which, when you think about it, is actually just further proof that Murray’s instincts about the project were right in the first place.)
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The NY Post has named indie darling Maggie Gyllenhaal among wealthy New Yorkers who register with the famed Park Slope Co-op (an organic market where members work shifts in the store in exchange for wicked deals on fresh eats) and then send stand-ins such as maids and assistants to do the actual labor for them.
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Considered one of the great British films, “Brief Encounter” was the fourth and final screen collaboration between director David Lean and playwright Noël Coward.
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I’m wearing a black armband today to mourn the death of the 3-D Paradise Lost adaptation that Legendary Pictures had been toiling over. You know, the one in which Bradley Cooper was set to star? Hopefully this isn’t the last chance for a really good special effects-heavy John Milton blockbuster chronicling the celestial battle between good and evil. I guess in the meantime we’ve always got the “South Park” movie.
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If you think twenty-four hours of that sounds like torture, maybe you should talk to Denzel Washington. The actor actually let himself be waterboarded in a scene they were filming for his new movie “Safe House.” In a controlled environment, Washington says he lasted about five seconds before tapping out: “Imagine having that done for twenty, thirty seconds? You will give up the answers! You may not necessarily tell the truth, but you will tell [your captors] whatever they want to hear.” Terrifying!
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Much to our delight, it was recently announced that Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams will produce and star in the film adaptation of Steve Martin’s best-seller.
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February 7, 2012, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, but 2012 promises to be an international celebration of the great author all the year round. (Heh.)
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Last week’s Groundhog Day was uneventful — except when Stephen Tobolowski, one of the stars of the film “Groundhog Day,” posted a special holiday shout-out to the readers of Reddit. If you haven’t seen “Stephen Tobolowski’s Birthday Party” (a documentary about the actor in which he simply tells interesting stories from his life), then you’re seriously missing out. How can someone so unassuming fascinate us so?
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Last night marked the glorious, much-anticipated premier of the new MTV series “I Just Want My Pants Back.” In my little corner of the universe, this was notable for a handful of reasons.
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Many Americans only know “The Woman In Black” as that new movie with the Harry Potter kid in it. Ask any Brit, however, and you’re likely to hear about how the Susan Hill novel it’s based on has been in circulation since 1983, and about its many existing adaptations — including a theatrical version that’s been running in London’s West End for more than twenty years.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Not exactly the name that comes to mind when one thinks of written works primed and ready for adaptation.
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It’s well known that the Tarantino film “Jackie Brown” was adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch. It’s less well known that Leonard later wrote a prequel to the novel, called The Switch.
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It’s a shame we won’t see Lovecraft in movie form anytime soon, but at least we still have his books! http://www.wordandfilm.com/2011/03/guillermo-del-toro-shelves-at-the-mountains-of-madness/
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Dolly Parton, who’s been twice nominated for best song Oscars (“9 to 5,” “Transamerica”) is apparently a stellar singer at any speed.
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It is specious to presume that just because America lacks a monarchy proper that there isn’t royal protocol.
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Books. Animation. A touch of “The Wizard of Oz.” The result? The incredibly charming, wonderfully captivating “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,” the debut release of Moonbot Studios.
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Did you see the new “Game of Thrones” teaser trailer? It will put you on the edge of your seat — and keep you there, since the show doesn’t even begin until April 1.
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Who will win the “Hunger Games” nail art game? It looks like we all win: The Hairpin has assembled a collection of video tutorials showing you exactly how to get that Katniss Everdeen nails-of-fury look that you so crave.
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Imagine a post-apocalyptic world where twenty-four kids fight to the death in an arena plagued with fire, mutant animals, and tidal waves, all while filmed on live TV. Only one person survives. Is this some sick twist on “American Idol”? Did “The Real World” go terribly wrong? I’m afraid not. Welcome to The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ megahit novel.
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This isn’t another synopsis of George R.R. Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire series, nor is it an echo of the publicity around its adaptation into the popular HBO show “A Game of Thrones.”
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New Yorkers at a screening of Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” accidentally got an eyeful when some pre-movie ads were accidentally screened over the film itself, with unforeseeably humorous results.
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Here at Word & Film, we treat the Academy Awards like the Superbowl — there are wagers made, parties thrown, and tears shed, all in the name of great movies.
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