There were movies about the Holocaust long before "Schindler's List." Superb movies. George Stevens' "The Diary of Anne Frank," Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg," Alan J. Pakula's "Sophie's Choice," and Paul Mazursky's "Enemies, a Love Story" (to name but a few) grappled with this staggeringly evil, carefully coordinated campaign of genocide so that moviegoers could, hopefully, comprehend how ordinary people could become bigoted, bloodthirsty monsters. The answers weren't comforting, but we couldn't move forward as a species without them.
Aside from the "how," there was another agonizing question that needed to be answered, one that was not as easy to dramatize: why didn't more people step up to stop this?
It doesn't take a great deal of research to realize that most good people were paralyzed by a mixture of cowardice and self-preservation. And while it is vital that we keep hammering home this observation for future generations,...
Aside from the "how," there was another agonizing question that needed to be answered, one that was not as easy to dramatize: why didn't more people step up to stop this?
It doesn't take a great deal of research to realize that most good people were paralyzed by a mixture of cowardice and self-preservation. And while it is vital that we keep hammering home this observation for future generations,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Chicago – The European Union Film Festival is an annual happening at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center, and will take place in 2023 from March 1st-31st. Kicking off the Fest will be an appearance from actors Lena Olin and Tora Hallström.
Both are featured in the film “Hilma,” directed by Lasse Hallström (“Chocolat”), Tora’s father and Lena’s husband. The Opening Night event (6pm at the Siskel Center) on March 1st, 2023, will feature the appearances, the Chicago premiere of “Hilma” and a reception afterward hosted by the Honorary Consulate of Sweden. For Opening Night tickets and information, click EU Fest Opening Night.
’Hilma’ Opens the Ceuff on March 1st, 2023
Photo credit: Juno Films
“Hilma” is a cinematically artistic biography of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (portrayed younger by Tora Hallström and in middle age by Lena Olin). Hilma died in 1944, unknown and unrecognized as the woman who invented abstract...
Both are featured in the film “Hilma,” directed by Lasse Hallström (“Chocolat”), Tora’s father and Lena’s husband. The Opening Night event (6pm at the Siskel Center) on March 1st, 2023, will feature the appearances, the Chicago premiere of “Hilma” and a reception afterward hosted by the Honorary Consulate of Sweden. For Opening Night tickets and information, click EU Fest Opening Night.
’Hilma’ Opens the Ceuff on March 1st, 2023
Photo credit: Juno Films
“Hilma” is a cinematically artistic biography of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (portrayed younger by Tora Hallström and in middle age by Lena Olin). Hilma died in 1944, unknown and unrecognized as the woman who invented abstract...
- 3/1/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Actress-director Anjelica Huston may have been born into film royalty and may have fulfilled that royal destiny by becoming the third generation, after actor grandfather Walter and director-actor-writer father John Huston, to score Oscar gold, but her early innings were not the stuff cinema dreams are made of.
“Casino Royale” is the film where she first appeared, as an uncredited young teen 55 years ago this month. It is largely regarded as an overcooked comedy fiasco, or as Variety deemed it back then, “an attempt to spoof the pants off the James Bond.” The film had no less than five directors, including her father, John.
Variety was kinder to John Huston’s 1969 film “A Walk with Love and Death,” Anjelica’s first starring role, but most other outlets were tougher on the film and Huston’s performance, and it came and went with little notice.
In a vain attempt to overcome that fate,...
“Casino Royale” is the film where she first appeared, as an uncredited young teen 55 years ago this month. It is largely regarded as an overcooked comedy fiasco, or as Variety deemed it back then, “an attempt to spoof the pants off the James Bond.” The film had no less than five directors, including her father, John.
Variety was kinder to John Huston’s 1969 film “A Walk with Love and Death,” Anjelica’s first starring role, but most other outlets were tougher on the film and Huston’s performance, and it came and went with little notice.
In a vain attempt to overcome that fate,...
- 4/28/2022
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
Anders Jensen, the sleek and mild-mannered president and CEO of Nent Group, has transformed the company’s Scandinavian streamer, Viaplay, into Netflix’s biggest European competitor since taking its helm in 2018. Jensen, who describes himself as a “content nerd,” is the recipient of Variety’s Vanguard Award, which will be presented at Mipcom in Cannes this year. He is behind the company’s big strategic move into scripted content.
Jensen joined the company in 2014 when it was part of the listed conglomerate Modern Times Group, before it split into two companies and rebranded its entertainment assets into Nent Group. Jensen says having a focused approach is a prerequisite to have a chance to thrive in today’s increasingly concentrated media landscape.
“A lot of companies that end up in conglomerates typically tend to be ‘de-focused,’ but if you want to transform your business, then you need to be laser-focused on...
Jensen joined the company in 2014 when it was part of the listed conglomerate Modern Times Group, before it split into two companies and rebranded its entertainment assets into Nent Group. Jensen says having a focused approach is a prerequisite to have a chance to thrive in today’s increasingly concentrated media landscape.
“A lot of companies that end up in conglomerates typically tend to be ‘de-focused,’ but if you want to transform your business, then you need to be laser-focused on...
- 10/6/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Best Supporting Actress Oscar winners of the 1980s include both well-known leading ladies and beloved veteran actresses. The decade saw stars like Jessica Lange, Geena Davis and Anjelica Huston earn their Oscars, joining Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Linda Hunt, Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, who have all had solid careers since their wins. The decade also has two winning actresses that have since died, Maureen Stapleton and Peggy Ashcroft, though their performances will not be forgotten.
Who is your favorite Best Supporting Actress winner of the 1980s? Look back on each and vote in our poll below.
Mary Steenburgen, “Melvin and Howard” (1980) — The decade started off with Steenburgen winning her Oscar for “Melvin and Howard,” about Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat), who claimed to be the heir of Howard Hughes‘ fortune. Steenburgen plays Lynda, Melvin’s wife who takes up stripping and is frustrated by Melvin’s behavior. This...
Who is your favorite Best Supporting Actress winner of the 1980s? Look back on each and vote in our poll below.
Mary Steenburgen, “Melvin and Howard” (1980) — The decade started off with Steenburgen winning her Oscar for “Melvin and Howard,” about Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat), who claimed to be the heir of Howard Hughes‘ fortune. Steenburgen plays Lynda, Melvin’s wife who takes up stripping and is frustrated by Melvin’s behavior. This...
- 3/25/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
The Supporting Actress Smackdown of '89 arrives on Sunday August 31st, two weeks from now. We'll be celebrating 1989 here and there until then as "the year of the month". You need to get your votes in, too, (instructions at the end of the post). If you've wandered in from elsewhere and are like, "What's a Smackdown?," here's how it started and here's last month's entry on 1973 with its companion podcast. The year in question this time is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
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The Smackdown Panel for August
Without further ado let's meet the voices who will be watching and discussing the '89 hits Steel Magnolias and Parenthood. They'll also be sounding off on the Oscar-winning bio My Left Foot and the underseen actressy curio Enemies: A Love Story. Stay tuned.
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Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, film critic and...
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The Smackdown Panel for August
Without further ado let's meet the voices who will be watching and discussing the '89 hits Steel Magnolias and Parenthood. They'll also be sounding off on the Oscar-winning bio My Left Foot and the underseen actressy curio Enemies: A Love Story. Stay tuned.
new panelists
Kevin B Lee
Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, film critic and...
- 8/18/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Hattie is judging you. Stop with your fiddle-dees and choose a 'Best Shot' alreadyI'm like one of those horrible teachers that gives you endless homework. But I hope in the end when you graduate you'll be all 'he was the best. O Captain My Captain' and whatnot. But here's what you should be watching for maximum participatory glee here at The Film Experience as the summer draws to a close.
Retro: To close out "Best Shot" we'll be celebrating Gone With the Wind in two parts for its 75th anniversary year on August 19th (pre-intermission) & August 26th (post-intermission) and The Matrix on September 2nd (if you've always wanted to participate, why not now?); Anne Marie will look at Long Days Journey Into Night and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner as she hits the glorious 1960s in "A Year With Kate". And we'll be celebrating a few films from 1989 leading up...
Retro: To close out "Best Shot" we'll be celebrating Gone With the Wind in two parts for its 75th anniversary year on August 19th (pre-intermission) & August 26th (post-intermission) and The Matrix on September 2nd (if you've always wanted to participate, why not now?); Anne Marie will look at Long Days Journey Into Night and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner as she hits the glorious 1960s in "A Year With Kate". And we'll be celebrating a few films from 1989 leading up...
- 8/14/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Since I spent the last week completely absorbed in Supporting Actress Smackdown '73 (with a side of Into the Woods spazzing) I didn't have as much time to write. I'm super proud of this month's two part event (written & podcasted) and I'm so tempted to make Dana Delany's impression of Sylvia Sidney my new ringtone. I thank StinkyLulu for letting me be the Whitney to his Dolly. But here's a handful of other highlights you may have missed if you too had a busy week where one project stole your life. The team jumped in since I was smackdowning.
A Dame to Shill For cosign Jason's bigscreen/smallscreen lust for Eva Green's talent
Bergman's Ghosts Cries and Whispers is the greatest haunted house movie. But who or what is doing the haunting?
Is Lucy racist? Matthew refuses to see it
Hepburn's Hair Anne Marie shares a hairography theory...
A Dame to Shill For cosign Jason's bigscreen/smallscreen lust for Eva Green's talent
Bergman's Ghosts Cries and Whispers is the greatest haunted house movie. But who or what is doing the haunting?
Is Lucy racist? Matthew refuses to see it
Hepburn's Hair Anne Marie shares a hairography theory...
- 8/4/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The New Yorker on Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice by Paul Mazursky. I love that movie so much
Nyt Rip the influential filmmaker Paul Mazursky (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, Enemies: A Love Story)
THR The Academy sues the estate of art director Joseph Wright. His family auctioned off his Oscar for My Gal Sal (1942) for $79,200. (God, imagine how much an Oscar for a famous movie or actor would get!) But auctioning off Oscars is a big big no-no. AMPAS freaks out every time.
Bryan Singer tweets a treament of X-Men: Apocalypse
Daily Mail Johnny Depp on the set of Black Mass. Lots of old age makeup
X-Finity Matt Bomer implies that his Montgomery Clift biopic is on indefinite delay
The Wire Joe talks that Eric/Jason sex scene on True Blood and what a failure the show has been in terms of the gay. Co-sign every word.
The...
Nyt Rip the influential filmmaker Paul Mazursky (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, Enemies: A Love Story)
THR The Academy sues the estate of art director Joseph Wright. His family auctioned off his Oscar for My Gal Sal (1942) for $79,200. (God, imagine how much an Oscar for a famous movie or actor would get!) But auctioning off Oscars is a big big no-no. AMPAS freaks out every time.
Bryan Singer tweets a treament of X-Men: Apocalypse
Daily Mail Johnny Depp on the set of Black Mass. Lots of old age makeup
X-Finity Matt Bomer implies that his Montgomery Clift biopic is on indefinite delay
The Wire Joe talks that Eric/Jason sex scene on True Blood and what a failure the show has been in terms of the gay. Co-sign every word.
The...
- 7/2/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
In just four short years, Jennifer Lawrence has earned an Oscar win among three nominations, and she is now declared as the most powerful actress in the world. Beyond that victory for "Silver Linings Playbook" and nods for "Winter's Bone" and "American Hustle," her ranking is mostly based on the success of "The Hunger Games" film franchise. She is the 12th overall person on the new Forbes Celebrity 100 list. The top five are singer Beyonce, basketball star LeBron James, producer Dr. Dre, entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey, comedian/talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. Thompson on Hollywood. -Break- Oscar-nominated writer and director Paul Mazursky dies in Los Angeles at age 84. Though he was never nodded as a director, he competed four times as a writer for "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "Harry and Tonto," "Enemies: A Love Story," and "An Unmarried Woman" (for which he also earned a producing bid). H.
- 7/2/2014
- Gold Derby
Paul Mazursky has died, aged 84.
The director and screenwriter passed away of pulmonary cardiac arrest on Monday, June 30, according to family spokeswoman Nancy Willen.
Mazursky was well known for his sometimes controversial movie topics in the '60s and '70s, and penned and directed films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Harry and Tonto and An Unmarried Woman.
Over his long career, Mazursky directed six actors in Oscar-nominated performances, including Anjelica Huston in Enemies: A Love Story and Art Carney in Harry and Tonto.
He once told the Chicago Tribune: "I seem to have a natural bent toward humour and I seem to make people laugh, but I think there is in me a duality.
"I like to make people cry also… I like to deal with relationships. The perfect picture for me does all that."
The filmmaker also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in...
The director and screenwriter passed away of pulmonary cardiac arrest on Monday, June 30, according to family spokeswoman Nancy Willen.
Mazursky was well known for his sometimes controversial movie topics in the '60s and '70s, and penned and directed films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Harry and Tonto and An Unmarried Woman.
Over his long career, Mazursky directed six actors in Oscar-nominated performances, including Anjelica Huston in Enemies: A Love Story and Art Carney in Harry and Tonto.
He once told the Chicago Tribune: "I seem to have a natural bent toward humour and I seem to make people laugh, but I think there is in me a duality.
"I like to make people cry also… I like to deal with relationships. The perfect picture for me does all that."
The filmmaker also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in...
- 7/1/2014
- Digital Spy
He may not have been as well known as his contemporaries of the American golden age of cinema—Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Bob Rafelson etc.—but Paul Mazursky was just as influential. A writer, director and actor, Mazursky cemented his reputation with relationship films like "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "An Unmarried Woman," "Blume in Love," and "Enemies: A Love Story" and yet, despite five Oscar nominations, was somewhat underappreciated. He passed away today at the age of 84, and it's probably time to dip into his oeuvre if you haven't. And rather than provide a life overview that you can get from anywhere else with a quick click (Thompson On Hollywood has a pretty good one), instead, below you'll find about two and a half hours of Mazursky and Dave Poland, chatting extensively about the filmmaker's career. And certainly, if you want all you can get straight from the man himself,...
- 7/1/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Paul Mazursky, a five-time Oscar-nominee who wrote and directed admired movies from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to Down and Out in Beverly Hills, died Monday of pulmonary cardiac arrest, according to a family spokesperson. He was 84.
Mazursky was a successful actor in the 1950s, starring in many television series, as well as Blackboard Jungle and Stanley Kubrick’s first film, Fear and Desire. He segued into writing, scripting episodes of The Danny Kaye Show and The Monkees. He also wrote the 1968 Peter Sellers film, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, and then made his directorial debut on Bob & Carol, which...
Mazursky was a successful actor in the 1950s, starring in many television series, as well as Blackboard Jungle and Stanley Kubrick’s first film, Fear and Desire. He segued into writing, scripting episodes of The Danny Kaye Show and The Monkees. He also wrote the 1968 Peter Sellers film, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, and then made his directorial debut on Bob & Carol, which...
- 7/1/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Paul Mazursky, the colorful writer-director who masterfully mingled the funny and the forlorn in such modern classics as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, has died. He was 84. A five-time Oscar nominee whose influential oeuvre also includes the touchstone films Harry and Tonto (1974), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) and Enemies: A Love Story (1989), Mazursky died Monday in Los Angeles of pulmonary cardiac arrest. List The Hollywood Reporter Reveals Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films "A true raconteur, Paul brought humor and spirit to the many Guild meetings he
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- 7/1/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Watch this great interview with Paul Mazursky by David Poland over at Movie City news. Mazursky was nominated for writing Enemies: A Love Story, Harry and Tonto, Bob, Ted, Carol and Alice,...
- 7/1/2014
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Paul Mazursky, the five-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director, died Monday. He was 84.
Paul Mazursky Dies
Mazursky died as a result of a pulmonary cardiac arrest, a family spokesperson told Entertainment Weekly.
In the 1950s and early 60s, Mazursky broke into Hollywood as a TV actor in The Kaiser Aluminum Hour, The Steve Allen Plymouth Show, The Untouchables, Twilight Zone, The Real McCoys and more. He also made appearances on the silver screen in Blackboard Jungle and Stanley Kubrick’s Fear and Desire.
Among Mazursky’s first screenwriting credits were for The Monkees and The Danny Kaye Show. He went on to pen I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, for which he earned his first credit as a director and first Oscar nod.
Mazursky went on to receive Oscar nominations for Harry and Tonto (1974), An Unmarried Woman (1978) and Enemies: A Love Story (1990).
In later years,...
Paul Mazursky Dies
Mazursky died as a result of a pulmonary cardiac arrest, a family spokesperson told Entertainment Weekly.
In the 1950s and early 60s, Mazursky broke into Hollywood as a TV actor in The Kaiser Aluminum Hour, The Steve Allen Plymouth Show, The Untouchables, Twilight Zone, The Real McCoys and more. He also made appearances on the silver screen in Blackboard Jungle and Stanley Kubrick’s Fear and Desire.
Among Mazursky’s first screenwriting credits were for The Monkees and The Danny Kaye Show. He went on to pen I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, for which he earned his first credit as a director and first Oscar nod.
Mazursky went on to receive Oscar nominations for Harry and Tonto (1974), An Unmarried Woman (1978) and Enemies: A Love Story (1990).
In later years,...
- 7/1/2014
- Uinterview
When I announced that The Film Experience would be the new home of the long departed series Stinky Lulu's Smackdown last summer I figured you would be thrilled. It's our kind of party. I promised Stinky we'd do at least six smackdowns if we brought it back. With four battles already behind us -- pie throwing 1952, shady and sinister 1968, warm and kooky 1980, and troubled histrionic 2003-- let's wrap it up with four more.
Rather than announce at the end of each month, I figured we'd give you all four lineups in case you'd like more time to catch up over the hot months and cast your votes in the reader polling that accompanies each battle. Those votes count toward the final outcome, so more of you should join in.
These annums were chosen after comment reading, dvd searching, handwringing, and also to rope in prospective panelists (to be announced later...
Rather than announce at the end of each month, I figured we'd give you all four lineups in case you'd like more time to catch up over the hot months and cast your votes in the reader polling that accompanies each battle. Those votes count toward the final outcome, so more of you should join in.
These annums were chosen after comment reading, dvd searching, handwringing, and also to rope in prospective panelists (to be announced later...
- 5/5/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The great Paul Mazursky is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame December 13 (all together now: “Doesn’t he Have one already??!) and there’s a premature sense of the valedictory hanging over the occasion. Ok, maybe the director of “Harry and Tonto,” “An Unmarried Woman,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills" and “Enemies: A Love Story” hasn’t been front and center recently. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been acting up.Actually, the last movie Mazursky directed came out in 2006 -- “Yippee!” a documentary about the annual pilgrimage to Uman, a town in the Ukraine where the famous Hasidic leader Rabbi Nachman is buried. Nachman, who lived in the late 1700s and is associated with the more celebratory aspects of Hasidim, told his followers, “if you celebrate Rosh Hashanah at my grave, you'll have a year of joy.” So people return there year after year.
- 12/12/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Primeridian Entertainment has tapped Star Trek vet Nicholas Meyer to script the pilot and treatment for an untitled TV series about the space race between the U.S. and Ussr, spanning the end of WWII through the 1960s. The neophyte banner has optioned the rights to Matthew Brzezinski’s Red Moon Rising: Sputnik And The Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age for the project and is also in talks to enlist Cold War experts like Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev, to consult. Series will focus on the competition between superpowers as both countries attempt to build on the Nazis’ V-2 designs to grow their own space programs. Primeridian is led by Arcadiy Golubovich and Tim O’Hair, who at Cannes launched a feature project based on the life of Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. They’ll produce and finance the untitled space project themselves. The shingle has also tapped...
- 6/25/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Roger L. Simon will pen the script for The Future of Now, the second feature from newly launched Primeridian Entertainment. Arcadiy Golubovich, a principal of Primeridian, will make his directorial debut with the dystopian drama. His Primeridian partner, Tim O'Hair, will produce. Primeridian is fully financing the Washington, D.C.-set pic, with casting slated for June and shooting aiming for fall. Photos: 'The Bling Ring' Steals the Spotlight at Cannes Premiere The author of 10 novels, Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay for 1989’s Enemies: A Love Story. He also received
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- 5/21/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hypnotist: Lasse Hallström thriller is Sweden’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2013 submission The Hypnotist, Lasse Hallström’s first thriller ever and the Academy Award-nominated director’s first Swedish film in more than a quarter of a century, is Sweden’s official submission for the 2013 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Starring Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin (a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for Enemies: A Love Story), and Tobias Zilliacus, The Hypnotist opens in Sweden on September 28. The Hypnotist plot Based on Lars Kepler’s crime novel, The Hypnotist is described (via the Swedish Film Institute’s press release) as "a brutal story about a murderer that [...]...
- 9/7/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
After doing the rounds on VoD for a few weeks, where many of you will have seen it, Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" starts to roll out in theaters from tomorrow, and we can't recommend it enough; it's a messy, sometimes frustrating film, but a deeply felt, beautifully made and wonderfully acted one, and we named it last week as one of the best of the year so far. It is not, however, recommended as a date movie, fitting into a long cinematic tradition of painful examinations of broken, decaying, collapsing or dead relationships.
After all, it's one of the more universal human experiences; unless you get very lucky, everyone who falls in love will at some point have the wrenching experience of falling out of it, or being fallen out of love with. And when done best in film, it can be bruising and borderline torturous for a filmmaker and an audience,...
After all, it's one of the more universal human experiences; unless you get very lucky, everyone who falls in love will at some point have the wrenching experience of falling out of it, or being fallen out of love with. And when done best in film, it can be bruising and borderline torturous for a filmmaker and an audience,...
- 6/28/2012
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Tobias Zilliacus (Iris) and Oscar-nominated Lena Olin (Enemies: A Love Story) who collaborated with Lasse Hallstrom on the 2000 film Chocolat, which also received five Academy Award nominations, have joined Mikael Persbrandt (In a Better World) as the leading cast in The Hypnotist. The crime drama based on the Lars Kepler bestseller of the same [...]
Continue reading Lasse Hallstrom’s The Hypnotist Adds Lena Olin and Tobias Zilliacus on FilmoFilia.
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- 11/12/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Bravo to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for honoring actor-writer-director Paul Mazursky (nominated for four Oscars, for An Unmarried Woman, Harry and Tonto, Enemies: A Love Story, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) with their 2010 Career Achievement Award. It's hard to argue when Lafca president Brent Simon says: “It’s impossible to imagine American independent cinema in its current form without Paul Mazursky, in all his multi-hyphenate glory.” The Lafca's 36th annual awards ceremony will be held on January 15 at Los Angeles' InterContinental Hotel. New members joining the association this year are Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen. I hope I can attend this ceremony, because of all the folks I enjoy having dinner with, Mazursky is the most brilliantly entertaining. [Photo courtesy WireImage]...
- 10/25/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
Elliott Gould, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Paul Mazursky, among whose efforts as writer-director are Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Harry and Tonto (1974), An Unmarried Woman (1978), and Enemies: A Love Story (1989), will receive the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's 2010 Career Achievement Award at the Lafca awards dinner on Jan. 15, 2011, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City. Throughout his three or so decades as a writer-director, Mazursky earned five Oscar nominations: four for writing/co-writing the screenplays of the aforementioned four titles; one as a producer of Best Picture nominee An Unmarried Woman. He also helped six performers earn Academy nods: Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon (both for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), Art Carney (who won the Best Actor Oscar for Harry and Tonto), Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman), and Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin [...]...
- 10/25/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Craig here with a new Take Three
Today: Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston's played so many memorable roles that I wish I'd called this series Take Ten.
The Witches and The Dead are essential Huston: key performances in two wildly differing films; both minor gems of their genres. As, respectively, the Grand High Witch and mournful Gretta Conroy she couldn’t have been more different, and in both she showed immense versatility. Essential, too, are Enemies: A Love Story and Prizzi’s Honor: an Oscar nod for the former; a win for the latter. (Nathaniel wrote about Mae Rose Prizzi previously - and the Grand High Witch, too.)
For Wes Anderson she played three independent women: two estranged wives in The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and a strange mother in The Darjeeling Limited. The Addams Family's Morticia parts are a double-bill of the joyfully macabre.
Today: Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston's played so many memorable roles that I wish I'd called this series Take Ten.
The Witches and The Dead are essential Huston: key performances in two wildly differing films; both minor gems of their genres. As, respectively, the Grand High Witch and mournful Gretta Conroy she couldn’t have been more different, and in both she showed immense versatility. Essential, too, are Enemies: A Love Story and Prizzi’s Honor: an Oscar nod for the former; a win for the latter. (Nathaniel wrote about Mae Rose Prizzi previously - and the Grand High Witch, too.)
For Wes Anderson she played three independent women: two estranged wives in The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and a strange mother in The Darjeeling Limited. The Addams Family's Morticia parts are a double-bill of the joyfully macabre.
- 8/2/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
Variety reports that actor Ron Silver died Sunday at the age of 62 following a two-year battle with esophageal cancer. Silver is an Emmy nominee for his recurring role on “The West Wing” and has a long history of balancing acting with left-leaning social and political causes. He also won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet’s original production of “Speed-the-Plow” in 1988. Silver’s big-screen credits include Ali, Reversal of Fortune, Enemies: A Love Story, Silkwood, Semi-Tough and most recently The Ten and Find Me Guilty. He also narrated 2004’s Fahrenhype 9/11, which deconstructed Michael Moore’s anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Besides “The West Wing,” Silver was a regular or had [...]...
- 3/17/2009
- by Tessa
- ShockYa
Ron Silver began his career with regular roles on Chicago Hope, Veronica's Closet, The Stockard Channing Show all preparing him for his Emmy nominated role on The West Wing. It was released this morning that the 62 year old actor passed away after battling esophageal cancer for two years. His rep, Robin Bronk released the following statement this morning, "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning." Silver is survived by both parents, brothers Mitchell and Keith, son Adam, and daughter Alexandra. Each day his legacy will be carried on by his family, his fans and his supporters. Silver was born and raised in the Big Apple attending Stuyvesant High School and after wards attending Suny Buffalo where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Chinese. After returning to the city, Silver went on to earn his masters at St...
- 3/16/2009
- by cjoyce@mail.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
Ron Silver began his career with regular roles on Chicago Hope, Veronica's Closet, The Stockard Channing Show all preparing him for his Emmy nominated role on The West Wing. It was released this morning that the 62 year old actor passed away after battling esophageal cancer for two years. His rep, Robin Bronk released the following statement this morning, "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning." Silver is survived by both parents, brothers Mitchell and Keith, son Adam, and daughter Alexandra. Each day his legacy will be carried on by his family, his fans and his supporters. Silver was born and raised in the Big Apple attending Stuyvesant High School and after wards attending Suny Buffalo where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Chinese. After returning to the city, Silver went on to earn his masters at St...
- 3/16/2009
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
Ron Silver began his career with regular roles on Chicago Hope, Veronica's Closet, The Stockard Channing Show all preparing him for his Emmy nominated role on The West Wing. It was released this morning that the 62 year old actor passed away after battling esophageal cancer for two years. His rep, Robin Bronk released the following statement this morning, "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning." Silver is survived by both parents, brothers Mitchell and Keith, son Adam, and daughter Alexandra. Each day his legacy will be carried on by his family, his fans and his supporters. Silver was born and raised in the Big Apple attending Stuyvesant High School and after wards attending Suny Buffalo where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Chinese. After returning to the city, Silver went on to earn his masters at St...
- 3/16/2009
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," died Sunday at the age of 62. "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning" in New York City, said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found. "He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years." Silver's big-screen credits included "Ali," "Reversal of Fortune," "Enemies: A Love Story," "Silkwood" and "Semi-Tough." Besides "The West Wing," Silver was a regular or had recurring roles on such TV shows as "Veronica's Closet," "Chicago Hope" and "Wiseguy." He directed and co-starred in the 1993 TV movie "Lifepod," a science-fiction update of Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat." "He was a talented actor, a scholar and a great believer in participatory democracy," Bronk said Sunday evening. "He was an activist who became a great artist and his contributions will never be forgotten.
- 3/16/2009
- WorstPreviews.com
Actor and political activist Ron Silver has lost his battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62.
The award-winning stage actor passed away on Sunday following a lengthy battle with the disease, and was surrounded by his family, according to friend and colleague Robin Bronk.
He says, "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him this morning.
"He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years and his family is making arrangements for a private service."
Silver first appeared on the big screen in 1976's Tunnel Vision and enjoyed a longrunning career in film, TV, theatre and later as a political pundit on the radio.
As well as acclaimed turns in Garbo Talks and Enemies: A Love Story, Silver played the recurring role of presidential campaign advisor Bruno Gianelli on The West Wing from 2001 to 2006.
The actor also received high praise for his turn as a Hollywood producer in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which won him a Tony Award.
Silver famously turned from a lifelong Democrat to an outspoken supporter of President George W. Bush's Republican administration after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.
He is survived by his son, Adam, and daughter, Alexandra.
The award-winning stage actor passed away on Sunday following a lengthy battle with the disease, and was surrounded by his family, according to friend and colleague Robin Bronk.
He says, "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him this morning.
"He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years and his family is making arrangements for a private service."
Silver first appeared on the big screen in 1976's Tunnel Vision and enjoyed a longrunning career in film, TV, theatre and later as a political pundit on the radio.
As well as acclaimed turns in Garbo Talks and Enemies: A Love Story, Silver played the recurring role of presidential campaign advisor Bruno Gianelli on The West Wing from 2001 to 2006.
The actor also received high praise for his turn as a Hollywood producer in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which won him a Tony Award.
Silver famously turned from a lifelong Democrat to an outspoken supporter of President George W. Bush's Republican administration after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.
He is survived by his son, Adam, and daughter, Alexandra.
- 3/16/2009
- WENN
Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" and did a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Sunday at age 62.
"Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning" in New York, said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found. "He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years."
Silver, an Emmy nominee for a recurring role as a slick strategist for liberal President Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing," had a long history of balancing acting with left-leaning social and political causes.
But after the 2001 terrorist attacks, longtime Democrat Silver turned heads in Hollywood with outspoken support of President George W. Bush over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Silver spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention, began referring to himself as...
"Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning" in New York, said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found. "He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years."
Silver, an Emmy nominee for a recurring role as a slick strategist for liberal President Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing," had a long history of balancing acting with left-leaning social and political causes.
But after the 2001 terrorist attacks, longtime Democrat Silver turned heads in Hollywood with outspoken support of President George W. Bush over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Silver spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention, began referring to himself as...
- 3/15/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Comedian Alan King, whose longevity made him a staple of the comedy scene since the 50s, died Sunday in New York of lung cancer; he was 76. The host of the legendary New York Friars Club's celebrity roasts, King first came to prominence in the 50s, when he took his act from nightclubs to television, appearing first on The Ed Sullivan Show, where his rantings about suburbia struck a chord with growing TV audiences. King then became the opening act for numerous musical legends, and segued into innumerable appearances in TV and film, mainly in supporting roles. An accomplished character actor, King appeared most notably in Billy Crystal's Memories of Me and Just Tell Me What You Want, as well as Casino, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Enemies: A Love Story, The Anderson Tapes and Bye Bye Braverman, among other films. In addition to acting and comedy, King also wrote three books and produced several plays and movies. He is survived by his wife, Jeannette, and three children. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 5/10/2004
- WENN
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