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Retro Cinema: Ed Wood
Filed under: Comedy », Disney », Johnny Depp », Cinematical Indie », Retro Cinema »
I first saw Ed Wood at a midnight screening on opening weekend. Even 13 years ago, I was not much of a midnight-movie person, but I thought the late-night audience would be a lot more fun and responsive to a Tim Burton film than, say, the matinee crowd. It turned out not to matter much. Ed Wood isn't a movie that needs a packed house; although the black-and-white images look fabulous on a big theater screen, the movie is equally enjoyable at home, curled up on the sofa with the one you love and some popcorn or beer, and trying to mimic the Bela Lugosi love-spell hand movements along with the title character, as in the photo above.
Ed Wood is a sweet, touching movie about a guy who likes to make low-budget movies and wear women's clothing -- often at the same time. The movie was released in 1994, back in the day when Johnny Depp had a much smaller cult following of women who swooned over him ... and Ed Wood probably didn't do much to increase that cult unless you liked the look of a guy in angora and lipstick. Tim Burton directed -- his second time working on a feature with Depp. Currently, it is my favorite of all the Burton-Depp films. The script was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who also worked together on the biopics The People vs. Larry Flint and Man on the Moon.
Meet the French Angelina Jolie and the Mexican Kirsten Dunst
Filed under: Foreign Language », Casting », Fandom »
It must be a wonderful thing to have the kind of voice that gets you film and TV work. Getting paid handsomely to sit on your ass for a few hours is really the American dream, isn't it? There's a very entertaining piece over at theage.com about the people who dub America's biggest stars in other countries. The article shines the spotlight on these unsung heroes, who don't even get acknowledged in the credits. Claudia Motta is "Mexico's Kirsten Dunst." Any time KD graces the screen with her talents, Motta is there to translate. Motta made 10,000 pesos for playing Mary Jane in Spider-Man -- $1100 American dollars. Not too shabby for a job you can do in your sweat pants! And should Dunst ever stop making movies -- which I think might make a lot of Cinematical commenters happy -- Motta can always make money elsewhere. She's been dubbing Bart Simpson for ten years.Francoise Cadol is "France's Angelina Jolie." She is, naturally, chummy with "France's Brad Pitt." Cadol also dubs Gong Li, Patricia Arquette, Sandra Bullock, and Mary Alice from Desperate Housewives. Italian dubber Giuppy Izzo must have an incredibly obnoxious voice -- she does both Renee Zellweger and Ellen Pompeo on Grey's Anatomy. "China's Tom Cruise" -- Ren Wei -- has also been Ewan McGregor, John Travolta, and Hugh Jackman. Daniella Hoffman -- "Germany's Julia Roberts" -- got her gig by being able to do "a good, really filthy laugh, just like Julia." These voice actors really commit to their roles. They run around the studio, lie on the floor, whatever helps them get the voice perfect. The article is full of such interesting tidbits. In China, for example, dubbing is an incredibly quick process in order to beat the bootleggers. In France, dubbing is taken very seriously -- even leading to voice stalkers. I'll bet Gilbert Gottfried doesn't have to deal with that!
Speak No Evil With Jeffrey Sebelia: SAG Awards Fashion Watch
Filed under: Awards », Oscar Watch », Hold the 'Fone », Speak No Evil by Jeffrey Sebelia »
So this weekend I went to my parents' house and decided to watch the SAG awards with my 2-year-old son, Harrison, my stepdad, Bruce and my Mom. A little background: My son has been sick all week and now I am sick and all I wanted to do was go to bed and ask my mom to put Harrison to sleep for me. However, I came to watch the SAG awards, and watch the SAG awards I did. But I'm not that excited about it, especially after last week's Golden Globes. I couldn't help but wonder why this was so important to me. I mean -- yes, fashion is my life -- but why is it that I don't even care who wins any of these awards? I just want to see what they are wearing.
Not to mention I spent all weekend isolated in Orange County with my parents and my little boy just sick and in a bubble. I forgot all about the competitive world of clothes while losing myself in family and Disney movies. All that said ... this is what I have to say about the SAG awards ... WOW! How much fun was it to watch these women in their dresses? I was hard pressed to find a least favorite. But I am committed to popping a judgmental eye into my head like a dirty old microscope and seeing what I can dig up. So don't fret my fellow droogies, I will throw someone under the bus before my jjjittery cold-medicine-filled fingers stop typing, and hopefully will give a few of you (or at the very least PRsucks) something else to be pissed off about.
Linklater's Epic 12-Year Movie
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Cinematical Indie »
I have an incredible weakness for Richard Linklater. No, scratch that. I have an incredible weakness for his films that revolve around dialogue. The man will try anything. Although I don't think anyone would have thought he would remake Bad News Bears, he did. He's had some mainstream successes, and some that never quite hit a bigger audience. However, he's always got a vision that usually thrives when he gets to speak through a film. Before Sunset had very little to it, but it was a powerful movie all because of the dialogue. Maybe it's his interests in discussion that have led him to discuss his current work.In the midst of rotoscoping and fast food, Linklater has been working on another film since 2001, which he plans to complete over a 12-year span, wrapping up in 2013. The film, currently called both 12-Year-Movie and Boyhood, will follow the life of a young boy as he grows into a college freshman. However, it's not a documentary, although shot in that style, but a fictional account with one hell of a loyal cast. Ellar Salmon, the boy, is joined by Ethan Hawke (what a surprise!) and Patricia Arquette, who I assume are the divorced parents who are trying to raise their kid.
The Link has definitely decided to throw our expectations -- just when it seemed that he was starting to be repetitive with a Sunrise sequel and second take at rotoscoping. It's an epic idea, which could be monumentally good or bad. I am leaning towards the former, since he had no problem weaving seemingly-random bits together in Slacker when he was just getting started. Will trying to make a feature-length film out of twelve years of footage be any different?
RIP: Reel Important People (And a Dog) - July 3, 2006
Filed under: Obits »
Elkan Allan (1922-2006) - Writer and producer best known in the UK for creating the show Ready, Steady, Go!, who also made a documentary called Love in Our Time, which was one of the first films to address homosexuality. Also a member of BAFTA, he was very knowledgeable of cinema and he conducted interviews with film greats like Orson Welles and Richard Burton for The Times. He passed away on June 25. - Margara Alonso (c.1928-2006) - Argentinean actress who appeared in the films The Cloud and Captive. She died June 21 of emphysema, in Buenos Aires.
- Eileen Barton (1929-2006) - Singer best known for the song "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake", she also appeared in the infamous Jayne Mansfield film Promises! Promises! as "Girl in Doctor's Office". She passed away Tuesday.
- Fabián Bielinsky (1959-2006) - See Kim's eulogy from Saturday.
- Wayne Brown (1941-2006) - Actor who played a croupier in Vegas Vacation. He died June 25, of cancer.
- Lisa D. Kernan (c.1953-2006) - Arts librarian at UCLA and film scholar, whose expertise on movie trailers became the subject of her doctorate thesis, titled "Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers." She was also a consultant on and appeared in the doc Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer. She died of cancer on June 25, in Los Angeles.
- Casey Kono (?-2006) - Actor who played "Agent # 2" in Savage Beach.
- Nicolas Mazenda (c.1973-2006) - Zimbabwe dancer, choreographer and actor who appeared in the short film Kare Kare Zvako.
- Gene Montoya (c.1954-2006) - Dancer and choreographer whose credits include Barton Fink, The Mask and Can't Stop the Music. He died on June 23.
- Moose (1990-2006) - Dog that shared the title role in My Dog Skip with his son Enzo. The two dogs also both played Eddie on the sitcom Frasier. He had retired at the age of 10, at which time Enzo took over the part of Eddie, and his final role was as old Skip in the Frankie Muniz and Kevin Bacon film. He died of old age on June 22.
- Pinuccia Nava (1920-2006) - Italian actress who appeared in the films Mio Figlio Professore and Il Mantenuto.
- Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar (c.1976-2006) - One of the military recruiters featured in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. He was killed June 26 in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
- Roland Schlotzhauer (c.1956-2006) - Cinematographer who shot Raising Jeffrey Dahmer. He was killed Friday in a helicopter crash while filming scenes for The Final Season, in Walford, IA.
- Stephen Tiger (c.1949-2006) - Member of the Native American rock group Tiger Tiger who also appeared as a Seminole in The Whoopee Boys. He died June 26 of a head injury after a fall, in Miami.
- Lennie Weinrib (1935-2006) - Actor, writer and director with mostly voice work on his resume. In addition to many television cartoons, he also can be heard in the films Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales, and Riki-Tiki-Tavi. He died at his home in Chile.
- Gwen Wilson (1918-2006) - Actress whose most prominent role was "Mrs. Molinaro" in the film Gremlins. She died on June 25.
- Kathleen O'Hara Wood (c.1922-2006) - Widow of the infamously bad film director Ed Wood, she was portrayed by Patricia Arquette in the Tim Burton-directed biopic. Her film credits on the IMDb include Art Director on Night of the Ghouls and "Woman at Carnival" in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, which was made in 1998 from a script by Wood. She died June 26 from cancer of the esophagus, in Hollywood.
- Shiona Wood (1948-2006) - Education officer for Edinburgh's Filmhouse theatre as well as for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is also the founder of the charity Scottish Kids are Making Movies, which inspires teens to express themselves through film.
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