Did Easy Rider's Predictions About America Come True? Nov 21, 2009
The movie's dour, inquisitive spirit found its way into other films as well, often embodied by Jack Nicholson, whose characters in films like Five Easy Pieces and The Last Detail sometimes appear to be responding to lessons learned at a Louisiana campsite. Following their on-screen path 40 years later, I didn't find what Wyatt and Billy were looking for, either. (Slate)
Sony Pictures Classics stays small Nov 16, 2009
The documentary, airing at 10 p.m. Wednesday on KTEH, aims cameras at cinematographers Laszlo Kovcs and Vilmos Zsigmond, who risked their lives on the streets of Budapest filming the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then fled, moved to Hollywood and became key collaborators on such films as "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "The Deer Hunter" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind.". Documentary maker James Chressanthis interviewed actors Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Sharon Stone among others for... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Actor trying to get shampoo out of his hair Nov 10, 2009
Although Martino was in the middle of recording an original song, "In America," at a local sound studio and also learning lines for a film role in a TV sitcom pilot, "You Make Me Laugh," with Karen Black (among her credits -- "Five Easy Pieces" with Jack Nicholson), he rented a U-Haul. "My 22-year-old son Johnny and I picked (the 13,000 bottles of hair product) up. It took us seven hours to load," Martino said. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Business)
Here are 10 films to put you in a '60s mood Jul 12, 2009
" Jack Nicholson, playing a boozy lawyer, became a star in this movie. A strong cast helps offset the dated material. "Five Easy Pieces" 1970 -- Jack Nicholson is back as a talented musician who gives up that career to work on an oil rig. Performances are outstanding in this excellent film which captures the mood of discontent of the era. "Forrest Gump" 1994 -- This really isn't a '60s film, but rather a survey of those years. Tom Hanks is so engaging as Gump, however, that children might get a... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Charles Eastman, 'gifted,' 'eccentric' film writer Jul 11, 2009
Mr. Eastman, the brother of the late Five Easy Pieces screenwriter Carole Eastman, died July 3 of complications of heart disease at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, said Dave Schultz, a friend ... Towne said Mr. Eastman was very particular, very quirky, very much like his sister, who wrote Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson, under the pen name Adrien Joyce. (Boston Globe)
Golden Age Theater Performances Receive Highest Rating From CBS Radio Entertainment Critic Apr 10, 2009
"With such notable actors as Phil Proctor (co-creator of the Firesign Theatre), Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces), Josh Robert Thompson (the real 'Fake' Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Martin Kove (Karate Kid), these performances make for a full night of entertainment," said Joni Labaqui, Golden Age Theater entertainment director. "No matter who's performing, it's always an exciting evening.". (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Ciné Anniversary Film Festival schedule Mar 27, 2009
Less erotic, but equally confrontational, are the arresting woodcuts of Swoon, full-size portraits of street people cut laboriously from plywood on the floor of her tiny apartment, and Belgrade-born artist, Marina Abramovic, makes us take a deep breath as she performs her grueling work Five Easy Pieces. Hangartner s notes: These women are truly inspiring. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Inside Slumdog actor Dev Patel's Bafta suit Feb 11, 2009
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Eye on the Oscars: Tech Roundup Feb 11, 2009
"West Side Story," "Nashville," "Midnight Cowboy," "Five Easy Pieces" -- they don't have much. This is such a moving and technically astounding film on so many levels. (Variety)
