Globes confirm Oscar favourites Nov 1, 2009
Veteran film-maker Martin Scorsese looks likely to pull off a similar double, his best director Globe for The Departed putting him in pole position to finally win the Academy Award that has thus far eluded him. His main competition at the Oscars will come from Mexican director Inarritu and Hollywood stalwart Clint Eastwood, who beat Scorsese the last time they went head to head two years ago. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
DVD Report: Knowing a hawk from a handsaw Nov 1, 2009
The segments include efficient interviews with Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter, and others, but clips with Hitchcock are the highlight. He boils down suspense to the image of two people sitting around talking baseball. (Boston Globe)
British actors dominate TV Globes Nov 1, 2009
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U2 eclipse Mariah Carey at Grammys Nov 1, 2009
The film director Martin Scorsese, yet to win a best director Oscar, won the Grammy for best long-form music video for his Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home. The Democratic senator Barack Obama won the best spoken word album Grammy for his reading of Dreams From My Father. (Yahoo News -- Grammy Awards)
Manhattan moves to Doha for Tribeca film festival Oct 30, 2009
" Martin Scorsese and Ben Kingsley were among the stars who graced the digital red carpet at the entrance of the new Islamic Museum of Doha, designed by Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. "We want to bring the best of world cinema to this part of the world, we want to inspire the new generation to make films," festival director Amanda Palmer told AFP. New York's Tribeca Film Festival -- founded by Robert De Niro in a bid to reinvigorate cultural life in Manhattan after the terror attacks... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Shredding light on their art Oct 30, 2009
One of my favourite documentaries is Bob Dylan's No Direction Home [by Martin Scorsese] and what's fascinating about it is that it spends the whole time circling this idea of what made Dylan brilliant - but it never doe 00004000 s [define it. It never says it out loud. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Tourist' checks in at GK Oct 29, 2009
King also produced with Martin Scorsese, Headington and Sarah Fergun The Young Victoria, which Bob Berneys Apparition opens in December, with Emily Blunt starring. The Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group continues to add solid pictures to the Columbia Pictures release schedule. (Variety)
‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ available on Comcast Free Movies Oct 28, 2009
(HBO on Comcast) Or, as it will probably be called in Martin Scorsese s house, Taxi Driver Lite. Jodie Foster plays a New York City radio talk show host who goes on a vigilante bender when she and her boyfriend are assaulted. (Boston Globe)
People who should host the Academy Awards Oct 27, 2009
Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese. Michael Buckner / Getty ImagesQuentin Tarantino. (MSNBC -- News)
David Denby: Tales of Amelia Earhart, Valery Gergiev, and the Paris Opera Ballet. Oct 26, 2009
But Martin Scorsese did a lot better in The Aviator, by aggressively styling Howard Hughes and the heroic-aviation period as a kind of Art Deco poster. Alas, the impression of fervent clich. (New Yorker)
Dreamgirls Wins Big at the Golden Globes Oct 26, 2009
10:24 p.m. Martin Scorsese wins for The Departed ... 9:17 p.m. Cameron Diaz presents a clip from The Departed, but director Martin Scorsese is too busy kissing Cate Blanchett on the cheek to watch the scene. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
U2 eclipse Mariah Carey at Grammys Oct 26, 2009
The film director Martin Scorsese, yet to win a best director Oscar, won the Grammy for best long-form music video for his Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home. The Democratic senator Barack Obama won the best spoken word album Grammy for his reading of Dreams From My Father. (Yahoo News -- Grammy Awards)
Polanski refused bail in Swiss court Oct 25, 2009
Some high-profile filmmakers, such as Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodovar, have called for his release. Others, including actors Kirstie Alley and Paul Petersen, refuse to defend him. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Globes confirm Oscar favourites Oct 25, 2009
Veteran film-maker Martin Scorsese looks likely to pull off a similar double, his best director Globe for The Departed putting him in pole position to finally win the Academy Award that has thus far eluded him. His main competition at the Oscars will come from Mexican director Inarritu and Hollywood stalwart Clint Eastwood, who beat Scorsese the last time they went head to head two years ago. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (Oct. 25) Oct 25, 2009
(Supplements include appreciations from Martin Scorsese, Curtis Hanson, and others. The visually stylish Underworld is more straightforward than Kimono but also more consistently absorbing, with Robertson working both sides of the law to carry out a vendetta against the mob heavies who killed his father. (Boston Globe)
Daily television listings Oct 24, 2009
Martin Scorsese s study of New York mob life. Ray Liotta. (Boston Globe)
A celebration of book and director Oct 24, 2009
The last time I worked with Bob, it was right here at Elaine s. He used me and Martin Scorsese as background. (That was 2004 s Tanner on Tanner. (Boston Globe)
British actors dominate TV Globes Oct 24, 2009
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Aviator and Vera take Bafta glory Oct 24, 2009
Her director Leigh, who beat Martin Scorsese to the best director award, told the audience: "We always say it was a surprise and sometimes I've said it and not meant it. On this occasion, given the other names, it's a real surprise and an extraordinary honour. "It's an immense privilege to have been allowed the freedom to make as uncompromising a film as I think Vera Drake is and an epic with such a small budget. " Best actor Foxx could not make the ceremony, but actress Helen Mirren read out... (Yahoo News -- Film Awards)
Remembering concert documentaries that rock Oct 23, 2009
By 1978, one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the modern era, Martin Scorsese, tried his hand at a concert film. Not surprisingly, he came up with something great, The Last Waltz, which captured the original lineup of the Band playing its final, emotionally charged gig. (MSNBC -- News)
Amelia boresA lazy coffee-table book of a movie, "Amelia" is dressed to the... Oct 23, 2009
The latter keeps telling us about Amelia's love of flying -- at one point plagiarizing Walt Whitman -- but Nair fails to find any coherent way to communicate this visually, as Martin Scorsese did in "The Aviator.". What we get is a series of travelogue scenes tracing Earhart's final flight, an attempt to become the first pilot to circumnavigate the globe that ended with her still-unexplained disappearance over the Pacific in 1937. (New York Post -- News)
Editorial Help FilmColumbia celebrate 10 years Oct 23, 2009
If you peruse the list of films at the festival this year, you ll notice a lot of A-List names, such as actors George Clooney, Joseph Fiennes, the late Heath Ledger, Bebe Neuwirth, or the Coen Brothers and Martin Scorsese. What about singers Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz in the highly anticipated and award-winning film Precious. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't Oct 22, 2009
Well before the 1970s explosion of rebellious American cinema that brought Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg to worldwide fame, London was the center of its own low-budget film renaissance, one that saw American expatriates like Stanley Kubrick and Joseph Losey working alongside young British upstarts like Lindsay Anderson, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Alan Clarke. (A certain who's been in the news lately also worked in England in the '60s. (Salon)
Johnny Depp Presents 'SCREAM Rock Immortal' to Keith Richards at Spike TV's 'SCREAM 2009' Oct 21, 2009
Spike TV also debuted world premiere and exclusive never-before-seen footage from highly anticipated theatrical releases, including the upcoming Martin Scorsese directed "Shutter Island," which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland" starring Johnny Depp, and the upcoming "Star Trek" sequel. Also presented was an extensive preview of the forthcoming ABC series, "V.". (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Big Fan' a big break Oct 19, 2009
"He'd walk onto the set and say, 'All right, we'll use the light coming in from there, this'll be the frame and OK, here we go.' We'd do a couple of takes, and boom - movin' on. "Not like a Martin Scorsese, who's also great, but making a film every couple of years and tears his hair out making it, putting all his passion into it. Curtiz made 'Casablanca' like in a couple of weeks. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Hollywood’s love affair with aviation has had its ups, downs Oct 18, 2009
Such movies can be as old as Wings, winner of the first best picture Oscar (called best production back then) or as recent as Martin Scorsese s The Aviator. The genre is part of Hollywood s DNA. The film industry and the aviation industry grew up together in Southern California (Lockheed and Warner Bros. (Boston Globe)
Sitting In: A funny thing happened on the way to my autopsy Oct 17, 2009
Martin Scorsese depicted this beautifully in his movies. Our papers were not in good order. (Georgetown Record, MA)
Law Abiding Citizen: Hannibal Lecture Oct 16, 2009
" in Michael Dukakis's measured tone, putting principle above vengeance. But that heroic restraint wouldn't make for a good movie. Then again, neither does the drearily sadistic Law Abiding Citizen. Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is the mild, happily married Philadelphian who's forced to watch his family's atrocity up close. The two killers are arrested, but Assistant D.A. Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who's wary of trying a case he might lose, cuts a deal, letting one perp testify against the other.... (Time.com)
Click to read: Star Jones: Polanski Allowed to Evade Jail Oct 14, 2009
such as Debra Winger, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, etc. You are mean people and like they say, mean people suck. (CBS News -- Early Show)
HBO brings Atlantic City to life Oct 14, 2009
"Boardwalk Empire," written and created by Terence Winter ("The Sopranos"), has attracted some of the biggest names working behind the camera in Hollywood, including Martin Scorsese, who produced the pilot episode ... "Executives at the premium cable network last month ordered 11 hourlong episodes of the period drama, which is scheduled to begin production this fall at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn for a 2010 premiere.Set in 1920 at the beginning of Prohibition and inspired by Nelson Johnson's... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Stars Illuminate The Greek Theatre For Spike TV's 'SCREAM 2009' Premiering On October 27 At 10 PM ET/PT Oct 13, 2009
Never-Before-Seen Content From 'Star Trek' To Be Featured'SCREAM 2009' To Reveal An Exclusive Preview From The Upcoming Martin Scorsese Thriller 'Shutter Island,' starring Leonardo DiCaprioTaylor Lautner To Unveil World Premiere Footage From 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'Quentin Tarantino To Honor Horror Legend George RomeroAppearances By Tobey Maguire, Megan Fox, Hugh Jackman, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Carpenter, Eliza Dushku, Jackie Earle Haley, David Paymer, Sam Raimi, John C. Reilly, Eli Roth, 'The... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Oscars in the wings: Nerves, tears and cheers just offstage Oct 12, 2009
Best-director presenter Martin Scorsese was waiting for Daniel Day-Lewis as the There Will Be Blood actor walked offstage with his best-actor trophy. The two are old friends. (Yahoo News -- Academy Awards)
NY state of blind Oct 12, 2009
Just about anything Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese made ... Martin Scorsese shifted his focus to other cities (Boston, The Departed ) or other realms (the upcoming Shutter Island ) ... Just about anything Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese made. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Stone's 'killer' diet Oct 11, 2009
The actress didn't eat for a week before filming a crucial scene because she was so desperate to impress director Martin Scorsese by looking "skinny and out of it". Recalling her preparation for the role - which saw her nominated for the 1995 Best Actress Academy Award - Sharon said: "I nearly actually physically killed myself making 'Casino' "We did the death scene on the last day because Scorsese knew I wanted to get just so completely skinny and out of it. (iAfrica.com)
Chinese film "Red Cliff" debuts at Chicago film festival Oct 11, 2009
The Chicago International Film Festival since its inception has brought in first the brightest and boldest new films and filmmakers from "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Reservoir Dogs," to Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and WernerHerzog. Zhang Yimou's movie "Judou" won the Gold Hugo Award at the Chicago festival in 1990. (Xinhuanet, China)
Daily TV and radio guide Oct 10, 2009
Martin Scorsese s charged tale of two moles, one on either side of the law. Matt Damon. (Boston Globe)
Real Olympic Event Is Making Excuses Oct 10, 2009
Debra Winger, Martin Scorsese and more. They even signed a petition demanding his release because it was just a case of morals. (Townhall.com)
YouTube views over one billion a day: co-founder Oct 10, 2009
It announced on Thursday, for example, that the 1976 Martin Scorsese film "Taxi Driver" starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster is currently available for US viewers on YouTube's Crackle channel. YouTube has yet to make money but Google executives have said recently that it is getting closer to becoming profitable. (Business Report, South Africa)
Fall films 2009: From sci-fi to horror to family-friendly, Hollywood promises something for everyone this autumn Oct 9, 2009
Pretty simple equation: Leonardo DiCaprio plus Martin Scorsese equals a movie with a real shot at Best Picture. Worst film prediction: Youth in Revolt. (Carroll County Times, MD)
ANOTHER UP-AND-COMER: Michael Stuhlbarg of 'A Serious Man' Oct 9, 2009
"It's Martin Scorsese and HBO.". Posted. (USA Today -- Life)
Whoopi wrong: Assaulting a child IS a ‘rape rape’ Oct 8, 2009
Famous movie directors like Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese have presented us with many fine works of fiction over the years. Columns and blogs. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Kathryn Lopez: Can morality prevail in Polanski debate? Oct 8, 2009
About 110 Hollywood luminaries, including Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Woody Allen, signed a petition in immediate reaction to the long-overdue arrest of director Roman Polanski for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Polanski, who directed Rosemary's Baby, among other movies, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in 1978 and then fled the country. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Anti-War Movements in the U.S. Oct 7, 2009
The anti-draft riots of 1863 dramatized in the 2002 Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York were sparked by opposition to the government's recently-passed Conscription Act and, in part, by fears among Irish immigrants that freed slaves would come North and take jobs away. Conscription would play a recurring role in protests for the next century. (Time.com)
Hollywood rallies as Polanski bail decision looms Oct 6, 2009
Top US directors Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese were among the first to sign, followed by the likes of Michael Mann, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Darren Aronofsky, and Terry Gilliam. A dual citizen of both France and Poland, Polanski fled the United States in 1978 having agreed in a plea bargain to admit to "unlawful sexual intercourse" with the girl, who testified that he had drugged and sodomised her. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Child Rape and the Values of People Who Make Films Oct 6, 2009
As Britain's Guardian newspaper wrote: "The list of supporters giving Polanski their impassioned support read like a Who's Who of the cream of the movie-making world. It included, among many others, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Harvey Weinstein, Pedro Almodovar and Ethan Coen.". In addition to signing -- along with over a hundred other members of the film industry from Europe and the United States -- a petition on behalf of Polanski that never mentions his crime, producer Harvey... (Townhall.com)
Read the 'News Watch' transcipt Oct 6, 2009
And Martin Scorsese, among others, showing their support for the filmmaker. Juan, if Roman Polanski were a gym teacher or truck driver, would he be getting the same kind of treatment from these Hollywood big shots. (Fox News)
Stuhlbarg goes with flow in 'Serious Man' Oct 3, 2009
One wonders if he might have shown some of his drawings to Martin Scorsese, who is directing Stuhlbarg in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire," a miniseries about the rise of Atlantic City. Stuhlbarg plays Arnold Rothstein, one of the gamblers who fixed the 1919 World Series, and is part of an all-star cast headed by Steve Buscemi. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Rosemary's Crybabies Oct 3, 2009
As did Martin Scorsese, a true giant of cinema, whose depiction of psychotics, mobsters, teenager prostitutes, drugs, mayhem and crass violence can only be called genius. But moral. (Townhall.com)
LA prosecutor hits back at Polanski criticism Oct 2, 2009
His arrest drew an angry response from officials in France and Poland and was criticised in a petition signed by Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Penelope Cruz and other mostly European film-makers. Cooley also took issue with a comment made by famed producer Harvey Weinstein, who referred to Polanski's offences as a "so-called crime.". (Yahoo! Asia News)
Robinson: Hollywood's moral compass pointedly wrong on Polanski Oct 2, 2009
More than 100 movie-business heavyweights - including directors Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Mike Nichols and Pedro Almodovar - have signed a petition calling on Swiss authorities to set Polanski free. Piling chutzpah upon gall, Woody Allen is among the petitioners. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Love the artist, hate the criminal Oct 2, 2009
His fellow directors, including Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, David Lynch, Jonathan Demme and that scamp Woody Allen were among hundreds of luminaries who expressed their outrage about Mr. Polanski's arrest and possible extradition to America to face justice that has already tarried for 32 years. They forgive him for fleeing the country when he thought more time would be imposed on the 42 days he'd already done. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Extradition: Succumb and deliver Oct 2, 2009
Film-industry luminaries such as Woody Allen, Pedro Almod;var and Martin Scorsese are supporting a petition calling for his immediate release. For Mr Polanski s fans, the extradition decision is vindictive and sinister. (The Economist)
Bob Dylan's 1964 TV "Quest" Oct 2, 2009
Quest features an excellent, understated performance that was included in its entirety on the DVD release of the Martin Scorsese documentary film on Dylan, No Direction Home. 5. (Suite101.com)
British actors dominate TV Globes Oct 1, 2009
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Regard for his art, disdain for his act Oct 1, 2009
A petition was immediately organized calling for his release, signed by prominent fellow directors including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Demme, Ethan Coen and David Lynch, as well as actresses Penelope Cruz and Tilda Swinton. Roman Polanski. (MSNBC -- News)
Globes confirm Oscar favourites Oct 1, 2009
Veteran film-maker Martin Scorsese looks likely to pull off a similar double, his best director Globe for The Departed putting him in pole position to finally win the Academy Award that has thus far eluded him. His main competition at the Oscars will come from Mexican director Inarritu and Hollywood stalwart Clint Eastwood, who beat Scorsese the last time they went head to head two years ago. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
Aviator and Vera take Bafta glory Oct 1, 2009
Her director Leigh, who beat Martin Scorsese to the best director award, told the audience: "We always say it was a surprise and sometimes I've said it and not meant it. On this occasion, given the other names, it's a real surprise and an extraordinary honour. "It's an immense privilege to have been allowed the freedom to make as uncompromising a film as I think Vera Drake is and an epic with such a small budget. " Best actor Foxx could not make the ceremony, but actress Helen Mirren read out... (Yahoo News -- Film Awards)
Filmmakers demand Polanski's release Oct 1, 2009
Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese among group protesting peer's arrest ... ZURICH, Switzerland (CNN) -- Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese have "demanded the immediate release" of fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on a U.S. arrest warrant related to a 1977 child sex charge. (CNN -- World)
Hollywood And Vile Oct 1, 2009
Dozens of movie icons, like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, signed a petition demanding Polanski's immediate release. Whoopi Goldberg on ABC claimed, "I know it wasn't 'rape' rape." Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum's argument was little better: "Polanski's mother died in Auschwitz.". (Investors Business Daily)
U2 eclipse Mariah Carey at Grammys Oct 1, 2009
The film director Martin Scorsese, yet to win a best director Oscar, won the Grammy for best long-form music video for his Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home. The Democratic senator Barack Obama won the best spoken word album Grammy for his reading of Dreams From My Father. (Yahoo News -- Grammy Awards)
French drop Polanski release call Oct 1, 2009
Martin Scorsese is supporting his fellow director. He added that despite a "leading Polish director" being involved, it is still a "case of rape and of punishment for having sex with a child". (BBC News -- Americas)
Across the Web, regard for Polanski the artist clashes with disdain for the man and his act Oct 1, 2009
Meanwhile, the director of "Rosemary's Baby," ''Chinatown" and "The Pianist," which won him a best director Oscar, is in jail, arrested just as he arrived in Zurich to be honored at a film festival a development that stunned his colleagues. A petition was immediately organized calling for his release, signed by prominent fellow directors including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Demme, Ethan Coen and David Lynch, as well as actresses Penelope Cruz and... (FOX61, CT)
Dreamgirls Wins Big at the Golden Globes Oct 1, 2009
10:24 p.m. Martin Scorsese wins for The Departed ... 9:17 p.m. Cameron Diaz presents a clip from The Departed, but director Martin Scorsese is too busy kissing Cate Blanchett on the cheek to watch the scene. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
Ask and Mick LaSalle shall answer Sep 30, 2009
Hi Mick: Martin Scorsese is in the process of doing a biopic on Frank Sinatra ... Ask Mick LaSalle Articles Hi Mick: Martin Scorsese is in the process of doing a biopic on Frank Sinatra. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Polanski faces weeks in custody Sep 30, 2009
The directors Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese yesterday signed a petition protesting at Polanski's detention. Ms Geimer joined the campaign, saying she wanted the case to be over. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
