Don't hate Vincent Cassel for having it all: If it wasn't enough that he's one of the biggest matinee idols in France, he's also married to Monica Bellucci. It's fitting then, that someone of his stature would play a criminal like Jacques Mesrine in the new filmic diptych Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 -- though the murderous Mesrine did a lot of bad things in 1970s France, he somehow became one of the country's most popular celebrities.
The charming and candid Cassel sat down with Movieline this month to discuss his interpretation of Mesrine, his own love of celebrity, and the pair of English-language films he has on the way: Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.
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Just before the first season of The Real Housewives of Washington D.C. premiered, Movieline caught up with Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the alleged White House gate crashers who endured a world of criticism (literally) when the dubious timeline of events leading up to their attendance at a state dinner was revealed. I spoke with the couple about the Housewives brand, media firestorms, and even the prospect of a Salahis movie.
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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's regular showcase for the best in new nonfiction cinema. We return from our brief summer hiatus with filmmaker Dana Brown, whose doc Highwater opens Friday in New York, Los Angeles and Maui.
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Community earned a lot of buzz in its first season on the air, but there's still a lot of people who have yet to discover it, and Joel McHale met almost all of those people on the red carpet for the Chopard pre-Emmy bash in Los Angeles last weekend (among the odd questions he had to field: "Growing up, did you prefer the Backstreet Boys or N Sync?"). Needless to say, he was happy to actually talk about the show to Movieline, and dished on the cast's recent Comic-Con sojourn, guest star Betty White, and his favorite unaired pilot.
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Jesse Bradford has toplined projects ranging from Flags of Our Fathers to Swimfan to Bring It On, and now, in his first consistent TV role since The West Wing, he plays an Ivy League-educated upstart working in a law firm alongside former Supreme Court justice Jimmy Smits on NBC's upcoming drama Outlaw. Movieline recently caught up with Bradford to discuss his new role and grill him about his favorite film scene of all time.
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It isn't easy to lose an Emmy, but it's even harder to lose it your archenemy, as Kathy Griffin found out this past weekend when My Life on the D-List lost the reality series trophy to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, produced by her nemesis Ryan Seacrest. The next night at an Emmy bash at Cecconi's, Griffin rehashed the loss to Movieline.
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Heather McDonald, the Chelsea Lately comedienne affectionately nicknamed "Long Boobs," spoke with Movieline recently and played our game for cinephiles, "My Favorite Scene." Wouldn't you know it, the saucy panelist chose a moment of deliriously dirty sex.
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It feels like Jane Lynch is everywhere these days, even though Glee doesn't return until next month and her highly anticipated Saturday Night Live stint isn't until October. Last night, the ubiquitous star popped up at a Chopard pre-Emmy bash at Cecconi's (that's her in the Audi R8 Spyder above), and Movieline grilled her about new Glee adversaries, SNL jitters, and the iCarly gift she made to her daughter.
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In Rob Reiner's retro family film Flipped, the central, budding romance is handled in a novel way: first we see things from the perspective of aloof junior high schooler Bryce (Callan McAuliffe), and then we replay the same events through the perspective of his not-so-secret admirer, Juli (Madeline Carroll). For this edition of the Verge, then, let's check in with McAuliffe first (he's a 15-year-old Australian with a key role in the upcoming action film I Am Number Four), then hear from Carroll (already a TV and film veteran at the age of 14), two unusually self-possessed young actors.
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Last Thursday, I had a lengthy, terrific interview with James Cameron in advance of the special edition of Avatar (rereleased to theaters August 27), and all this week, Movieline will bring you pieces of that wide-ranging talk.
At the end of my conversation with James Cameron, was there any way I could let him go without asking him about "Reach," the only music video he ever directed? The deliciously surreal 1988 clip was made for Bill Paxton's band Martini Ranch, and not only did it feature frequent Cameron collaborators like Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, and Lance Henriksen, but it starred filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow as a sexy cowboy one year before Cameron married her, three years before they divorced, and twenty-two years before Bigelow won the Best Director Oscar over Cameron for The Hurt Locker.
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As vampire king Russell Edgington, Denis O'Hare has always been one of the best parts of True Blood's third season, whether he was seducing vampires to the dark side, wooing Sophie-Anne into marriage, or calming his tempestuous companion-for-life, Talbot. Now that Talbot's death has sent Russell spinning, O'Hare's work has reached new, dizzying heights, culminating in last week's instant-classic monologue about vampire superiority, which O'Hare delivered while holding a bloody spinal cord. The Tony-winning actor told Movieline all about it.
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The upcoming Emma Stone vehicle Easy A is all about how one simple thing can change your reputation overnight, so what will the highly anticipated high school comedy do for director Will Gluck? In advance of the film's Toronto Film Festival premiere, Movieline talked to Gluck about his postmodern approach to comedy, his next movie Friends with Benefits (which is competing against two other projects that want to use that title), and the asthma attack-inducing power of the female orgasm.
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Back at Sundance, I talked to director Amir Bar-Lev about his powerful documentary The Tillman Story, and now that the film is coming out in limited release, Movieline is republishing that very candid interview. Of particular note in this conversation? Bar-Lev's excoriation of General Stanley McChrystal (a key figure involved with the Pat Tillman cover-up), who's since been let go by President Obama following McChrystal's unflattering comments about the administration in Rolling Stone.
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Last Thursday, I had a lengthy, terrific interview with James Cameron in advance of the special edition of Avatar (rereleased to theaters August 27), and all this week, Movieline will bring you pieces of that wide-ranging talk.
Though it's looking very likely that James Cameron might set up a pair of back-to-back Avatar sequels as his next project, there are still a couple of other items on his slate clamoring for his attention. In fact, there's only one Cameron-directed film that's actually on the books: the Titanic rerelease, coming out in April of 2012. Since Cameron has inserted several new minutes into his Avatar special edition, can we expect Titanic to feature a similar handful of never-before-seen scenes?
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Last Thursday, I had a lengthy, terrific interview with James Cameron in advance of the special edition of Avatar (rereleased to theaters August 27), and all this week, Movieline will bring you pieces of that wide-ranging talk.
James Cameron has several long-held ideas for what he'd like to do with the Avatar sequels, including an exploration of the oceans of Pandora and a hope to shoot Avatar 2 and 3 back to back, but might his recent real-life adventures (including a trip to the Brazilian rain forest and involvement in the cleanup of the BP oil spill) affect those plans at all?
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