Marla Adams, celebrated for her portrayal of Dina Abbott Mergeron on The Young and the Restless, has passed away at the age of 85. The news was confirmed by Matt Kane, the director of media and talent for Y&r, announcing her death in Los Angeles on Thursday. Career Beginnings and Early Acclaim Adams started her distinguished career on Broadway in 1958, performing with theater icons Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Visit. This early exposure to the limelight paved the way for her role as June, the high school best friend of Natalie Wood’s character in Elia Kazan’s Splendor
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- 4/27/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
Marla Adams, celebrated for her portrayal of Dina Abbott Mergeron on The Young and the Restless, has passed away at the age of 85. The news was confirmed by Matt Kane, the director of media and talent for Y&r, announcing her death in Los Angeles on Thursday. Career Beginnings and Early Acclaim Adams started her distinguished career on Broadway in 1958, performing with theater icons Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Visit. This early exposure to the limelight paved the way for her role as June, the high school best friend of Natalie Wood’s character in Elia Kazan’s Splendor
The post Marla Adams Dies at 85, Celebrated for Decades of Daytime Drama first appeared on TVovermind.
The post Marla Adams Dies at 85, Celebrated for Decades of Daytime Drama first appeared on TVovermind.
- 4/27/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
Nicolas Cage was one of the presenters at the Academy Awards for the Best Actor category, and while his colleagues weaved lyrical introductions for the other nominees, the Ghost Rider star chose to make a joke about Paul Giamatti.
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
The latter starred in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers as Paul Hunham, a classics professor at the all-male boarding school Barton Academy. The comedy-drama film was nominated in five Oscars categories, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Nicolas Cage Cracks A Joke About Paul Giamatti’s Lazy Eye At The Oscars
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
During the Oscars Best Actor introduction, actor Nicolas Cage revealed how Paul Giamatti got his lazy eye in The Holdovers. He took a jab at his method acting and admitted he would also do the same (via Deadline Hollywood):
“This past year, Paul Giamatti was so committed that...
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
The latter starred in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers as Paul Hunham, a classics professor at the all-male boarding school Barton Academy. The comedy-drama film was nominated in five Oscars categories, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Nicolas Cage Cracks A Joke About Paul Giamatti’s Lazy Eye At The Oscars
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
During the Oscars Best Actor introduction, actor Nicolas Cage revealed how Paul Giamatti got his lazy eye in The Holdovers. He took a jab at his method acting and admitted he would also do the same (via Deadline Hollywood):
“This past year, Paul Giamatti was so committed that...
- 3/11/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
Adding to his awards season accolades, Paul Giamatti was honored with the Cinema Vanguard Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Wednesday, where he sat down for a conversation about his long career and journey to The Holdovers.
In a 75-minute chat moderated by The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg, Giamatti walked the Santa Barbara audience through his pivot from wanting to study primate anthropology to pursuing acting after his father died. He reflected on early roles in Private Parts, Planet of the Apes (“I was really disappointed I couldn’t play a gorilla. I was like, ‘I can’t be a gorilla, why not?’ They’re like, ‘You look more like an orangutan'”) and eventually American Splendor, where he said, “I remember at the time thinking, this is probably the first and last time I’m gonna lead [a movie] like this.”
Despite the critical success of that film,...
In a 75-minute chat moderated by The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg, Giamatti walked the Santa Barbara audience through his pivot from wanting to study primate anthropology to pursuing acting after his father died. He reflected on early roles in Private Parts, Planet of the Apes (“I was really disappointed I couldn’t play a gorilla. I was like, ‘I can’t be a gorilla, why not?’ They’re like, ‘You look more like an orangutan'”) and eventually American Splendor, where he said, “I remember at the time thinking, this is probably the first and last time I’m gonna lead [a movie] like this.”
Despite the critical success of that film,...
- 2/15/2024
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paul Giamatti, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the greatest character actors of all time.
Giamatti is an Oscar nominee and winner of Emmy, Spirit and Critics Choice awards, three Golden Globe awards and three SAG awards, with credits to his name including 2003’s American Splendor, 2004’s Sideways, 2005’s Cinderella Man, 2006’s The Illusionist, the 2008 limited series John Adams, 2012’s Win Win, 2013’s 12 Years a Slave and the drama series Billions, which ran from 2016 through earlier this year.
His most recent credit is 2023’s The Holdovers, which reunites him with his Sideways director Alexander Payne; in which he plays a cranky boarding school teacher who is made even crankier by having to spend the 1970 Christmas break on campus with an aggrieved student; and for which he has already won best actor Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards...
Giamatti is an Oscar nominee and winner of Emmy, Spirit and Critics Choice awards, three Golden Globe awards and three SAG awards, with credits to his name including 2003’s American Splendor, 2004’s Sideways, 2005’s Cinderella Man, 2006’s The Illusionist, the 2008 limited series John Adams, 2012’s Win Win, 2013’s 12 Years a Slave and the drama series Billions, which ran from 2016 through earlier this year.
His most recent credit is 2023’s The Holdovers, which reunites him with his Sideways director Alexander Payne; in which he plays a cranky boarding school teacher who is made even crankier by having to spend the 1970 Christmas break on campus with an aggrieved student; and for which he has already won best actor Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards...
- 1/14/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Italian director Mario Martone, who has been on the festival and awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale with his passion project Somebody Down There Likes Me.
The documentary pays tribute to late Italian actor and fellow Neapolitan Massimo Troisi who died tragically young at the age of 41 in 1994, just hours after filming wrapped on Michael Radford’s Il Postino (The Postman).
Selected for the Berlinale Specials sidebar, the documentary plays at a sold-out screening on Saturday, on the eve of what would have been the actor’s 70th birthday on February 19. Deadline can reveal a trailer.
Martone says he wants to shed light on the popular actor who he believes has never been properly celebrated.
“Massimo has always remained alive in the collective consciousness because he was a great actor and a great artist,” says the director.
Il Postino,...
The documentary pays tribute to late Italian actor and fellow Neapolitan Massimo Troisi who died tragically young at the age of 41 in 1994, just hours after filming wrapped on Michael Radford’s Il Postino (The Postman).
Selected for the Berlinale Specials sidebar, the documentary plays at a sold-out screening on Saturday, on the eve of what would have been the actor’s 70th birthday on February 19. Deadline can reveal a trailer.
Martone says he wants to shed light on the popular actor who he believes has never been properly celebrated.
“Massimo has always remained alive in the collective consciousness because he was a great actor and a great artist,” says the director.
Il Postino,...
- 2/18/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
It may feel like throuples are a distinctly modern romantic arrangement – but this couldn’t be further from the case.
In fact, consensual non-monogamy, such as a ménage à trois, goes back centuries. It can even be found in the bible.
Recently, David Haye has been the subject of speculation surrounding his private life, with fans claiming that the ex-boxer is in a three-way relationship with model Sian Osborne and The Saturdays singer Una Healy.
On Valentine’s Day, Haye appeared to confirm the rumours, with Healy also sharing a coy message on Instagram alluding to the relationship.
When it comes to depictions of polyamorous relationships in film and TV, good examples have traditionally been few and far between.
But that’s not to say there haven’t been any – from pre-code classics to modern indie dramas, there are plenty of films and TV series which place the spotlight on...
In fact, consensual non-monogamy, such as a ménage à trois, goes back centuries. It can even be found in the bible.
Recently, David Haye has been the subject of speculation surrounding his private life, with fans claiming that the ex-boxer is in a three-way relationship with model Sian Osborne and The Saturdays singer Una Healy.
On Valentine’s Day, Haye appeared to confirm the rumours, with Healy also sharing a coy message on Instagram alluding to the relationship.
When it comes to depictions of polyamorous relationships in film and TV, good examples have traditionally been few and far between.
But that’s not to say there haven’t been any – from pre-code classics to modern indie dramas, there are plenty of films and TV series which place the spotlight on...
- 2/15/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
Owen Kline fuses teen innocence with adult sexuality in a bad-taste debut film that recalls American Splendor and Crumb
As a child actor, Owen Kline played Jesse Eisenberg’s kid brother in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s excruciating comedy about a middle-class New York family wrecked by divorce, with Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the warring parents. Kline played the troubled 12-year-old kid who sympathises with his mother and has developed a habit of covertly masturbating in public.
His debut feature as a director features many of the same unwholesome themes. This is a genuinely bizarre, startling, freewheelingly lo-fi and funny indie picture with the refreshing bad-taste impact of Todd Solondz or Robert Crumb. Daniel Zolghadri plays Robert, a talented high-school graphic artist and cartoonist who idolises his art teacher – the man that might, very possibly, have been about to abuse him sexually before fate took a terrible hand.
As a child actor, Owen Kline played Jesse Eisenberg’s kid brother in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s excruciating comedy about a middle-class New York family wrecked by divorce, with Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the warring parents. Kline played the troubled 12-year-old kid who sympathises with his mother and has developed a habit of covertly masturbating in public.
His debut feature as a director features many of the same unwholesome themes. This is a genuinely bizarre, startling, freewheelingly lo-fi and funny indie picture with the refreshing bad-taste impact of Todd Solondz or Robert Crumb. Daniel Zolghadri plays Robert, a talented high-school graphic artist and cartoonist who idolises his art teacher – the man that might, very possibly, have been about to abuse him sexually before fate took a terrible hand.
- 5/24/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
There are ghosts that haunt the houses of New York’s Hudson Valley, we’re told early on in Things Heard & Seen (now screening on Netflix) — the spirits of former owners who may have unfinished business in this realm, or who may be protecting new occupants from possible danger, or who may be right evil bastards waiting to inspire the living to embrace their own inner darkness. The residents of the region, at least in the early 1980s, seem to accept this as a fact of life; some even view it as a perk.
- 4/29/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Far from the consistent critical glory of Sundance contemporaries like Kelly Reichardt and Debra Granik — or even the sporadic critical glory of a Lisa Cholodenko or an Ira Sachs — and not to be confused with more marketable writing-directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini have forged one of the most perplexing career paths in American independent film.
In the nearly two decades since their 2003 breakout American Splendor, nothing they’ve made has come close to delivering on that debut’s prankish promise. Efforts have included a high-profile misfire (The Nanny Diaries); a ...
In the nearly two decades since their 2003 breakout American Splendor, nothing they’ve made has come close to delivering on that debut’s prankish promise. Efforts have included a high-profile misfire (The Nanny Diaries); a ...
- 4/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Far from the consistent critical glory of Sundance contemporaries like Kelly Reichardt and Debra Granik — or even the sporadic critical glory of a Lisa Cholodenko or an Ira Sachs — and not to be confused with more marketable writing-directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini have forged one of the most perplexing career paths in American independent film.
In the nearly two decades since their 2003 breakout American Splendor, nothing they’ve made has come close to delivering on that debut’s prankish promise. Efforts have included a high-profile misfire (The Nanny Diaries); a ...
In the nearly two decades since their 2003 breakout American Splendor, nothing they’ve made has come close to delivering on that debut’s prankish promise. Efforts have included a high-profile misfire (The Nanny Diaries); a ...
- 4/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Whilst I’ve noticed an increasing number of dubious uses for the Marvel branding – including everything from sweets to underwear – Marvel Splendor is one tie-in that actually makes sense. The link between classic Splendor gameplay and Thanos’ quest for the Infinity Stones is so clear that I could imagine that whoever runs marketing at Space Cowboys leaping out of bed one night and shouting “Eureka!” as the thought occurred to them.
Anyway, it’s a concept that intrigued me right away, if only because I haven’t actually played the original Splendor, despite having heard an awful lot about it. Splendor is reportedly one of the classic gateway games, offering two to four players about thirty to forty-five minutes of winging building fun – helped immensely by the chunky plastic poker chips it uses to represent the in-game jewels.
In Marvel Splendor, the game is built around five basic gem colours...
Anyway, it’s a concept that intrigued me right away, if only because I haven’t actually played the original Splendor, despite having heard an awful lot about it. Splendor is reportedly one of the classic gateway games, offering two to four players about thirty to forty-five minutes of winging building fun – helped immensely by the chunky plastic poker chips it uses to represent the in-game jewels.
In Marvel Splendor, the game is built around five basic gem colours...
- 9/21/2020
- by Matthew Smail
- Nerdly
It’s taken over three decades for Natalie Wood‘s daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, to tell the story of her mother, who died by drowning on Nov. 29, 1981.
Now 49, Natasha is ready to share who her “brave and strong” mother truly was in a new documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, (premiering May 5 on HBO) and in her memoir More Than Love, excerpted exclusively in the next issue of People.
So devastating was the loss for Natasha, who was then 11 years old, that for many years she blocked out the details of her mother’s death. It was too painful to...
Now 49, Natasha is ready to share who her “brave and strong” mother truly was in a new documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, (premiering May 5 on HBO) and in her memoir More Than Love, excerpted exclusively in the next issue of People.
So devastating was the loss for Natasha, who was then 11 years old, that for many years she blocked out the details of her mother’s death. It was too painful to...
- 4/27/2020
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
Former Runaways frontwoman Cherie Currie will digitally release her long-awaited, star-studded album, Blvds of Splendor, via former Runaways guitarist Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records on April 28th.
The album previously came out as a vinyl-only release for Record Store Day last year, but didn’t get a wide release; the digital version includes three bonus tracks.
Currie first began teasing the album — which features guest appearances by Billy Corgan, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Juliette Lewis and Brody Dalle, among others — in 2016. She shelved the project at...
The album previously came out as a vinyl-only release for Record Store Day last year, but didn’t get a wide release; the digital version includes three bonus tracks.
Currie first began teasing the album — which features guest appearances by Billy Corgan, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Juliette Lewis and Brody Dalle, among others — in 2016. She shelved the project at...
- 4/8/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
When it comes to euro games, there are no shortage of options that focus on trading in a historic setting. Whether we’re talking about games focused on the Mediterranean during The Age of Antiquity, or later, perhaps during the Renaissance, with a setting in Asia or the far reaches of Europe. With a name like The Voyages of Marco Polo, you can be assured that the subject of today’s review is no different in terms of timeline or setting, but what it does do is create a mechanically sound and very tight experience around the well used theme of trading up goods and resources to fulfill contracts and ultimately, to score victory points.
The kind of trading games that I was referring to above also come in many different weights, with the likes of say Splendor or Century: Spice Road coming in at the lighter end of the spectrum and then more complex,...
The kind of trading games that I was referring to above also come in many different weights, with the likes of say Splendor or Century: Spice Road coming in at the lighter end of the spectrum and then more complex,...
- 9/12/2018
- by Matthew Smail
- Nerdly
It's the unsolved mystery that’s continued to make headlines for over 35 years: What really happened to Natalie Wood? The death of the dark-eyed Hollywood beauty stunned fans around the globe, and nagging questions remain about how Natalie met her end in a watery grave on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981. Now, for the first time, the real story behind the film icon’s life and times in Hollywood is being told in Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood. The fascinating 12-part podcast series will launch on Friday, July 20 — the day that the doomed star would have celebrated her 80th birthday. In a blistering new disclosure in episode one, Ralph Hernandez, a homicide detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, reveals bruises found on Natalie were consistent with her being the "victim of assault" — not, as the original 1981 report concluded, caused by her struggling to climb back aboard to...
- 7/19/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
It's the unsolved mystery that’s continued to make headlines for over 35 years: What really happened to Natalie Wood? The death of the dark-eyed Hollywood beauty stunned fans around the globe, and nagging questions remain about how Natalie met her end in a watery grave on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981. Now, for the first time, the real story behind the film icon’s life and times in Hollywood is being told in Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood. The fascinating 12-part podcast series will launch on July 20 – the day that the doomed star would have celebrated her 80th birthday. In a blistering new disclosure in episode one, Ralph Hernandez, a homicide detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, reveals bruises found on Natalie were consistent with her being the "victim of assault" — not, as the original 1981 report concluded, caused by her struggling to climb back aboard to yacht after falling over the side.
- 7/19/2018
- by Editorial Staff
- Life and Style
It's the unsolved mystery that’s continued to make headlines for over 35 years: What really happened to Natalie Wood? The death of the dark-eyed Hollywood beauty stunned fans around the globe, and nagging questions remain about how Natalie met her end in a watery grave on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981. Now, for the first time, the real story behind the film icon’s life and times in Hollywood is being told in Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood. The fascinating 12-part podcast series will launch on July 20 – the day that the doomed star would have celebrated her 80th birthday. In a blistering new disclosure in episode one, Ralph Hernandez, a homicide detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, reveals bruises found on Natalie were consistent with her being the "victim of assault" — not, as the original 1981 report concluded, caused by her struggling to climb back aboard to yacht after falling over the side.
- 7/19/2018
- by Editorial Staff
- In Touch Weekly
Skin Deep: Araki Weathers a 4th Decade in Filmmaking
Gregg Araki’s latest ode to youthful alienation, White Bird in a Blizzard, is his most restrained and grounded work to date. It’s a quiet and astute film that derives its mystery from the err of human assumption and like most, or arguably all, of Araki’s work, this posits a naïve protagonist trying to come to terms with an unthinkably harsh world.
Unraveling slowly as 17-year-old Kat Connor (Shailene Woodley) dissects and rationalizes the world and the people around her following the disappearance of her mother, Eve (Eva Green). Kat is at a precipice, literally escaping the baby fat that marginalized and repressed her in early adolescence to emerge into an adult world unprepared, grappling with a sexuality she’s not entirely comfortable with or certain of. She’s also indirectly trying to relate this to her relationship...
Gregg Araki’s latest ode to youthful alienation, White Bird in a Blizzard, is his most restrained and grounded work to date. It’s a quiet and astute film that derives its mystery from the err of human assumption and like most, or arguably all, of Araki’s work, this posits a naïve protagonist trying to come to terms with an unthinkably harsh world.
Unraveling slowly as 17-year-old Kat Connor (Shailene Woodley) dissects and rationalizes the world and the people around her following the disappearance of her mother, Eve (Eva Green). Kat is at a precipice, literally escaping the baby fat that marginalized and repressed her in early adolescence to emerge into an adult world unprepared, grappling with a sexuality she’s not entirely comfortable with or certain of. She’s also indirectly trying to relate this to her relationship...
- 10/24/2014
- by Robert Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Gregg Araki is no stranger to The Sundance Film Festival. "100 times," he laughed when asked how many times he's come to Park City. "I was emailing with Rick Linklater before I came and he’s totally the all-time king. He’s gotta be in the teens. I think this is my eighth film in the festival?" "White Bird in a Blizzard" -- which premiered at Sundance Monday night -- is actually Araki's ninth film at the festival following "Kaboom" (2011), "Smiley Face" (2007), "Mysterious Skin" (2005), "Splendor" (1999), "Nowhere" (1997), "The Doom Generation" (1995), "Totally F***ed Up" (1994), and "The Living End" (1992). And it falls comfortably into that list. Sexy and hilarious and brutal and haunting all at once, "White Bird" is based on Laura Kasischke's book of the same name. Set in the late 1980s, it follows teenage Kat (Shailene Woodley, continuing to never fail) as she comes of age amidst the disappearance of...
- 1/23/2014
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
The Living End (1992). Totally F***ed Up (1993). The Doom Generation (1995). Nowhere (1997). Splendor (1999). Mysterious Skin (2005). Smiley Face (2007). Kaboom (2011). VIP jacket wearing Gregg Araki has been breaking into Park City mode for more than the eight films mentioned. An integral part of the moving into his third decade, White Bird In A Blizzard is a French funded thriller and much like Kaboom, this is a welcome switch of pace for the filmmaker. Production began in November of 2012, so this is in the can as we say and will come equipped with Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez and Dale Dickey.
Gist: When Katrina Connors’ mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been “becoming sixteen” – falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, discovering sex – her mother has been slowly withdrawing. As Kat and...
Gist: When Katrina Connors’ mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been “becoming sixteen” – falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, discovering sex – her mother has been slowly withdrawing. As Kat and...
- 11/22/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Money
Brendan Gleeson has been cast as the lead in "Deadwood" creator David Milch’s latest drama project "The Money" which will go to pilot on HBO. Milch is penning the script.
The story deals with wealth and corruption among the super elite focusing on American mogul and patriarch James Castman (Gleeson) who wields power and influence to expand his media empire and control his family. [Source: Deadline]
Hawaii Five-o
The only half-decent looking Jonas brother, Nick Jonas, is set to guest star on an episode of CBS' crime procedural "Hawaii Five-o". Jonas plays a computer hacker whose motives complicate the case of the week. [Source: ]
Grey's Anatomy
Sandra Oh is set to exit the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" after more than eight years on the medical soap. The actress will exit at the end of the upcoming tenth season. [Source: THR]
Trending Down
Rhys Ifans is set to co-star in Showtime’s comedy...
Brendan Gleeson has been cast as the lead in "Deadwood" creator David Milch’s latest drama project "The Money" which will go to pilot on HBO. Milch is penning the script.
The story deals with wealth and corruption among the super elite focusing on American mogul and patriarch James Castman (Gleeson) who wields power and influence to expand his media empire and control his family. [Source: Deadline]
Hawaii Five-o
The only half-decent looking Jonas brother, Nick Jonas, is set to guest star on an episode of CBS' crime procedural "Hawaii Five-o". Jonas plays a computer hacker whose motives complicate the case of the week. [Source: ]
Grey's Anatomy
Sandra Oh is set to exit the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" after more than eight years on the medical soap. The actress will exit at the end of the upcoming tenth season. [Source: THR]
Trending Down
Rhys Ifans is set to co-star in Showtime’s comedy...
- 8/14/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Chicago – HBO’s under-appreciated original movie recalls the moment when entertainment-seeking Americans averted their eyes from actors to their neighbors over the fence. Voyeurism had a new name, “cinema verite,” and one-time producer Craig Gilbert was determined to take it from art houses to small screens in homes across the country.
His target was the Loud family—a large and popular clan headed by the philandering Phil and the strong-willed Pat. Their son Lance was openly gay and his flamboyant exuberance was celebrated within the walls of his home but proved to alarm conservative viewers once it was broadcast on TV. The show resulted in the dissolution of Pat and Bill’s marriage, which was already ailing but wasn’t at all aided by Gilbert’s manipulative strategies to intensify their domestic conflict.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
The enormous timeliness of the subject matter makes “Cinema Verite” a fitting entry in HBO’s ever-impressive filmography.
His target was the Loud family—a large and popular clan headed by the philandering Phil and the strong-willed Pat. Their son Lance was openly gay and his flamboyant exuberance was celebrated within the walls of his home but proved to alarm conservative viewers once it was broadcast on TV. The show resulted in the dissolution of Pat and Bill’s marriage, which was already ailing but wasn’t at all aided by Gilbert’s manipulative strategies to intensify their domestic conflict.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
The enormous timeliness of the subject matter makes “Cinema Verite” a fitting entry in HBO’s ever-impressive filmography.
- 4/26/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Konami has provided a bit more information on yet another great team member working on the highly anticipated Silent Hill: Downpour: award-winning composer Daniel Licht, known for his work on Showtime's "Dexter", who will be adding his eerie touches to the upcoming game.
From the Press Release
Award-winning composer Daniel Licht scores Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.'s Silent Hill: Downpour. The highly anticipated game will be released on March 13, 2012, for Playstation Network and Xbox 360. Downpour will bring a completely original storyline and an all-new haunting soundtrack to the video game series. The soundtrack is available March 13, 2012, on Milan Records, featuring the game’s theme “Silent Hill” by Jonathan Davis, front-man of nu metal band Korn, and score by Daniel Licht. Licht is best known for his scores to every "Dexter" episode.
In describing Silent Hill: Downpour, Licht stated, “I’m inspired by the mood and the story.
From the Press Release
Award-winning composer Daniel Licht scores Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.'s Silent Hill: Downpour. The highly anticipated game will be released on March 13, 2012, for Playstation Network and Xbox 360. Downpour will bring a completely original storyline and an all-new haunting soundtrack to the video game series. The soundtrack is available March 13, 2012, on Milan Records, featuring the game’s theme “Silent Hill” by Jonathan Davis, front-man of nu metal band Korn, and score by Daniel Licht. Licht is best known for his scores to every "Dexter" episode.
In describing Silent Hill: Downpour, Licht stated, “I’m inspired by the mood and the story.
- 2/3/2012
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
Director of Mysterious Skin and Kaboom is keeping indie pop alive by featuring new music and remixes by his favourite bands
This week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his most recent. It's always tempting to look for patterns and themes in a director's work, but in Araki's case, there's little that connects them all. The disenfranchised gay teens of Totally Fucked Up don't share much common ground with the silly stoners of his later comedy Smiley Face; and it's hard to reconcile the serious, subtle Mysterious Skin with the knockabout thrills of Splendor and Kaboom.
But for all the hallucinatory imagery, ambisexual cavorting, drug taking, violence and other shocking facets of Araki's work, there's one element that runs through them all: the music. When he says that "Kaboom is my most autobiographical and personal...
This week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his most recent. It's always tempting to look for patterns and themes in a director's work, but in Araki's case, there's little that connects them all. The disenfranchised gay teens of Totally Fucked Up don't share much common ground with the silly stoners of his later comedy Smiley Face; and it's hard to reconcile the serious, subtle Mysterious Skin with the knockabout thrills of Splendor and Kaboom.
But for all the hallucinatory imagery, ambisexual cavorting, drug taking, violence and other shocking facets of Araki's work, there's one element that runs through them all: the music. When he says that "Kaboom is my most autobiographical and personal...
- 8/5/2011
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
After a brief detour into universal critical acclaim with a 'dark, serious' film, Gregg Araki returns to familiar territory making a horny, druggy college caper
Rumours that Gregg Araki has finally grown up appear to have been greatly exaggerated. They started in 2004 with his extraordinary movie Mysterious Skin, in which two young men struggle to process the sexual abuse they suffered years before at the hands of their baseball coach. Bold, sensitive and, yes, mature, the film won Araki more critical and festival acclaim than the rest of his work combined. At last, it seemed, Araki was ready to join his contemporaries Gus van Sant and Todd Haynes in the fold of "serious" film-makers. So how did he follow up Mysterious Skin? With Smiley Face, a goofy stoner movie in which Anna Faris eats too many hash cookies. In terms of critical expectation, it was the equivalent of Scorsese following up Raging Bull with Dude,...
Rumours that Gregg Araki has finally grown up appear to have been greatly exaggerated. They started in 2004 with his extraordinary movie Mysterious Skin, in which two young men struggle to process the sexual abuse they suffered years before at the hands of their baseball coach. Bold, sensitive and, yes, mature, the film won Araki more critical and festival acclaim than the rest of his work combined. At last, it seemed, Araki was ready to join his contemporaries Gus van Sant and Todd Haynes in the fold of "serious" film-makers. So how did he follow up Mysterious Skin? With Smiley Face, a goofy stoner movie in which Anna Faris eats too many hash cookies. In terms of critical expectation, it was the equivalent of Scorsese following up Raging Bull with Dude,...
- 6/2/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Kaboom
Opens: 2011
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Kelly Lynch, James Duval
Director: Gregg Araki
Summary: Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.
Analysis: A year after "Thelma and Louise" came "The Living End", an independent film which had a similar premise but made the protagonists two gay HIV+ men. It was raw, intense and signalled the arrival of a new talent in the form of filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the subsequent two decades, he's delivered several trippy films involving young, good-looking omnisexual people having lots of graphic sex and dealing with some wacky cobbled together plot shenanigans.
The tone has ranged the light-hearted "Splendor" and "Nowhere" to the darker "Mysterious Skin...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Kelly Lynch, James Duval
Director: Gregg Araki
Summary: Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.
Analysis: A year after "Thelma and Louise" came "The Living End", an independent film which had a similar premise but made the protagonists two gay HIV+ men. It was raw, intense and signalled the arrival of a new talent in the form of filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the subsequent two decades, he's delivered several trippy films involving young, good-looking omnisexual people having lots of graphic sex and dealing with some wacky cobbled together plot shenanigans.
The tone has ranged the light-hearted "Splendor" and "Nowhere" to the darker "Mysterious Skin...
- 1/12/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The old Gregg Araki is back!
It started with The Living End in 1992, when a gay hustler and a movie critic, both HIV positive, set out on a road trip. The following year brought Totally F***ed Up, which pulled James Duval into Araki's cinematic world. Then there was the introduction of Rose McGowan and the bloody road trip of Doom Generation, a little 90210 on acid with Nowhere, and bubble-gum three-way romance with Splendor. In 2004, Araki's resume was turned upside down with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Mysterious Skin, and again in 2007 with Anna Faris' stoner comedy Smiley Face. Now? The funny and strange world of sex, dysfunction, and death are back with Araki's Kaboom.
The film has screened at Cannes, Joe Utichi gave it a great review, and video clips are lurking online, which you can see after the jump. (Should the videos be removed, you can see them on Cannes' Kaboom page.
It started with The Living End in 1992, when a gay hustler and a movie critic, both HIV positive, set out on a road trip. The following year brought Totally F***ed Up, which pulled James Duval into Araki's cinematic world. Then there was the introduction of Rose McGowan and the bloody road trip of Doom Generation, a little 90210 on acid with Nowhere, and bubble-gum three-way romance with Splendor. In 2004, Araki's resume was turned upside down with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Mysterious Skin, and again in 2007 with Anna Faris' stoner comedy Smiley Face. Now? The funny and strange world of sex, dysfunction, and death are back with Araki's Kaboom.
The film has screened at Cannes, Joe Utichi gave it a great review, and video clips are lurking online, which you can see after the jump. (Should the videos be removed, you can see them on Cannes' Kaboom page.
- 5/18/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Bring on the Araki! After getting busy with candy-coated 3-ways in Splendor, Gregg Araki concocted a little yin and yang. First came the gritty drama of Mysterious Skin, which revealed a range we didn't know existed. Then came the exact opposite -- the ridiculous Anna Faris-starring stoner comedy Smiley Face. But now the cult director is heading back to the green sprouts of sexual exploration.
The Hollywood Reporter posts that Araki is shooting his latest feature, Kaboom, and he's tapped Roxane Mesquida (Fat Girl), Thomas Dekker (Sarah Connor Chronicles), Kelly Lynch (Charlie's Angels), and Rooney Mara (Youth in Revolt) to star. Not much is being revealed at this time, but here's what I could find online. As THR notes, Kaboom will focus on "the sexual awakening of a group of college students." Araki started the feature last month, Helen STELLaR is performing in a scene, and Ann Magnuson (Panic Room...
The Hollywood Reporter posts that Araki is shooting his latest feature, Kaboom, and he's tapped Roxane Mesquida (Fat Girl), Thomas Dekker (Sarah Connor Chronicles), Kelly Lynch (Charlie's Angels), and Rooney Mara (Youth in Revolt) to star. Not much is being revealed at this time, but here's what I could find online. As THR notes, Kaboom will focus on "the sexual awakening of a group of college students." Araki started the feature last month, Helen STELLaR is performing in a scene, and Ann Magnuson (Panic Room...
- 10/6/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
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