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Stars in Rewind: Goodbye, Bettie Page.
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy », Obits »
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I'm sorry to post that the LA Times has reported that Bettie Page passed away Thursday night at the age of 85. The news comes after the pinup icon had spent a few weeks on life support following her heart attack earlier this month. In her memory, I thought I'd whip up a rewind for the film based on her life -- The Notorious Bettie Page, which starred Gretchen Mol as the lady with the black bangs.
In the clip below, Page gets introduced to the world of modeling and pin-up girls, and soon finds her smiling face gracing a myriad of magazines. While the film only received moderate buzz, most seem in agreement -- Mol did a heck of a job as Page, and carried the film right into a number of decent reviews.
Rest in peace, Bettie. You'll be missed.
Warning: Not entirely safe for work -- brief nudity.
Bettie Page Suffers Heart Attack
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy »
There's really no one quite like Bettie Page. Less than a decade of work made her an indelible icon. But unlike Marilyn Monroe or James Dean, who lived in the public spotlight, Page became a mainstream icon through exotic fetish photography. Her decade of posing spawned a movement that thrives to this day in film, merchandise, and wide-spread spirit. Now Variety reports that the 85-year-old Page is critically ill.
Page was hospitalized three weeks ago for pneumonia, and just as she regained her health and was about to be released, she suffered a heart attack that has her in a coma in intensive care (the coma hasn't been officially confirmed, but it was not denied).
I hope she can pull through this. It's a rare person who can not only overcome terrible hardships, but also find a way to reconcile their current and past selves. Not every born-again Christian would autograph sexy pictures of themselves and say: "After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!" Our thoughts are with you, Betty.
Oscars 2006 And Schmuck Bait: Entertainment Weekly In 60 Seconds
Filed under: Casting », New Releases », RumorMonger », Celebrities and Controversy », Fandom », Entertainment Weekly in 60 Seconds », Newsstand », Home Entertainment », Movie Marketing », Lists », Oscar Watch »
A glossary of movie terms created by Scary Movie
4's David Zucker and his crew. My favorite is "Schmuck Bait." - Does critic Lisa Schwarzbaum always sit though the end credits of movies?
- New movies: they give The Notorious Bettie Page a B , while Scary Movie 4 gets a C , Hard Candy gets a B and Kinky Boots gets the same.
- New on DVD: instead of giving one overall grade to The Robert Altman Collection, they grade each movie individually. MASH gets a B , while A Wedding gets a C , Quintet a D, and A Perfect Couple a C . I haven't even heard of three of those movies (yes, I've heard of MASH).
- Dave Karger gives his Oscar picks for 2006: All The King's Men (Sean Penn and Jude Law), Dreamgirls, The Good Shepherd, Will Ferrell's Stranger Than Fiction, and The Good German. Soderbergh, Clooney, and noir? I am so there.
- An interview with Bill Paxton (including a "Must" list for his movies), and another chat, with Catherine Keener.
- So, who have been the best movie Jesuses anyway?
SXSW Interview: Mary Harron, director of The Notorious Bettie Page
Filed under: Drama », Independent », SXSW », Podcasts », Interviews », Cinematical Indie »
photo by Nicholas Branda
Director Mary Harron is quickly becoming the go-to gal for edgy period pieces. Her latest, The Notorious Bettie Page (starring sometime it girl Gretchen Mol as the titular pin-up queen), which premiered last night here in Austin, is the subject of most of the positive buzz I've heard over the past few days. I sat in on a roundtable interview with Ms. Harron yesterday (that's me throwing out the name "Halle Berry"), which you can listen to here
Notorious Bettie Page trailer up
Filed under: Drama », Movie Marketing »
Despite the fact that early reviews
of Mary Harron's The
Notorious Bettie Page have been fairly mixed, the film's slick new trailer is so charming that it's hard not to
be optimistic about its potential. Portraying fetish queen Page's life in a combination of period black and white and
bright, over-saturated color, Harron's film comes across as buoyant and carefree, which at first is a bit odd,
considering the difficulties faced by its subject. The mood of nostalgia the film creates, however, is so powerful that
to argue with its tone feels somehow unsporting - instead, you end up being completely sucked in by its sunny
optimism.In the title role, Gretchen Mol is potentially stunning - both because she looks so much like the iconic Page and because (at least in the glimpses we see) she appears to take to the role with such impressive ease. Could it be that Bettie Page will actually turn Mol into the star that magazine covers first declared her years ago? Based on festival reviews, it seems a distinct possibility.
The film will hit American screens in mid-April, with only a limited release planned by Picturehouse.
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Ambitious Picturehouse picks up Silk
Filed under: Documentary », Drama », Romance », Deals », Distribution »
François Girard's Silk
- an adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel - has been acquired for
distribution by Picturehouse and New Line International (the two companies will share the rights). The movie, as we discussed last month, is a period piece set in 19th
century Japan, where a French silk merchant becomes involved with a woman he really shouldn't be seeing. As a result,
all sorts of hot and angry chaos starring Keira
Knightley and Michael
Pitt erupts. The film, which has a budget around $25 million, will be shot in Japan, Egypt, and Italy starting in
February.Picturehouse is heading into only its first full year of life, but has lined up quite a slate for the next 18 months or so. In addition to Silk. they also own or share distribution rights to Fur (a biopic starring Nicole Kidman as photographer Diane Arbus), The Notorious Bettie Page, and Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.
More on SXSW headline films
Filed under: Documentary », Drama », SXSW »
News from Matt Dentler, the SXSW film festival producer, always brightens my day. Today
he announced a preliminary list of films premiering at SXSW 2006. The big opening-night event will be the North
American premiere of A Prairie Home Companion, directed by
Robert Altman and featuring an all-star cast including Lindsay Lohan. As posted earlier, Karina is happy the
lineup includes loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies, a
documentary about the Pixies reunion tour. I am a little more interested in The Notorious Bettie Page, a biopic starring Gretchen Mol in the
title role as well as David Straithairn and Lili Taylor, even though it's received mixed reviews. Other
big-name premieres include The King, which stars Gael Garcia
Bernal (as a guy named Elvis, natch) and William Hurt, and the world premiere of Tales of the Rat Fink, a documentary narrated by John Goodman
about hot-rod designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.I'm sure I'll like seeing some of these movies at SXSW in March, but my favorite films from the festival tend to be the movies I can't see anywhere else, the ones that may never receive wide distribution. For example, last year I enjoyed The Aggressives, which has not played Austin outside of SXSW. If I miss any of the big-name films, I usually can catch them in a theater later in the year. Still, it's fun to see the star-studded lineup of premieres that SXSW attracts, and even more fun to join the crowd lining up outside the Paramount to see a couple of these premieres before anyone you know.
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