Earlier this month, Steve Zahn rang Movieline from his Kentucky farm to discuss Treme, HBO's ensemble drama about post-Katrina New Orleans. As his character, Davis McAlary -- a charismatic disc jockey, amateur politician, and advanced stoner -- grows frustrated with the Big Easy's gradual recovery from disaster, so too have some Treme viewers grown frustrated with David Simon's sprawling series. Hopefully, this Sunday's finale will remind audiences why they enjoyed the series when it first premiered in April, and to celebrate the conclusion of his freshman year at HBO, Steve Zahn joined us for a round of the age-old Movieline classic, My Favorite Scene.
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Irish actor Ciarán Hinds has been in roughly 47 percent of the film and television shows produced in the last decade or so, most notably in key supporting roles from There Will Be Blood to Margot at the Wedding to the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and as Julius Caesar on HBO's Rome. But only now are American audiences seeing him carry a feature film, and what a doozy: Straight outta Ireland, the tiny drama/ghost story/romantic potboiler The Eclipse mashes genres and scares with literally shocking ease. You'll be hearing more about the film here in Hinds's own words when it opens next month, but for now, let's steal a few minutes from one of the hardest working men in show business to play My Favorite Scene!
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Tina Majorino's history in refined television series (Veronica Mars, Big Love) has led her into revealing that she's a bit refined herself. Just before the premiere of her new ABC legal series The Deep End, we caught up with the 24-year-old actress and grilled her about her favorite film scene of all time. She whistled a happy tune, and no one suspected that I was afraid she'd bring up Waterworld.
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When I checked in with Nina Garcia last week and discussed, among other things, the new batch of Project Runway contestants, she lit up when I asked her to pick a favorite film scene of all time. Get this: Her answer combines style, elegance, romance, and timeless luxury. There's also some thrown-in hotness, if you're into that sort of thing.
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At last night's Crazy Heart premiere where Jeff Bridges told us how to win a Subaru, Maggie Gyllenhaal forded the mammoth red carpet and stopped to discuss her favorite film moment of all time -- featuring one of the most believably insane characters in cinema. It has nothing to do with Josh Hartnett's chastity streak.
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Last weekend, Movieline bumped into Alan Cumming at the Savannah Film Festival. He's not only on the festival's advisory board, he gave a master class to students at Savannah College of Art and Design (which hosts the festival), advising them to, among other things, "always wear a condom." And then he imparted his favorite movie scene:
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Sofia Vassilieva may face off against exclusively modern-day problems on the big and small screen -- like a parental lawsuit in this summer's My Sister's Keeper and a psychic mother on CBS's Medium -- but in real life she claims to be old-fashioned. The 17-year-old star put aside her A.P. U.S. History homework and talked to Movieline about her favorite film scene, one that she says reflects a long-missed era.
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When we sat down with him recently to get the skinny on his performance as an incontinent-albino-snake wrangler in Gentlemen Broncos, oddball auteur and all-around nice guy Mike White was good enough to submit himself to Movieline's favorite celebrity parlor game. What is White's favorite movie scene of all time? It's after the jump.
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Though Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody's completed projects include just Juno, Jennifer's Body, and the Showtime series United States of Tara (plus a little gem entitled Father Approved), the 31-year-old's varied viewing tastes are well-known. In the past she has championed classic horror, There Will Be Blood, Mamma Mia, and the updated 90210 -- a piquant platter! Somehow, the explanation of her all-time favorite cinematic scene combines elements of all four -- and a tribal ceremony. And Jennifer Grey.
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The Scene: Great Missenden, about an hour outside of London -- the Platonic ideal of the English countryside village, lined with perfectly tended row houses and gardens. It's home to Roald Dahl's estate and the Roald Dahl Museum, which today is overrun by international press who've gathered to interview the cast and crew of Fantastic Mr. Fox -- Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of the Dahl classic. At The Nags Head Pub, Bill Murray pours pints for starstruck onlookers from behind the bar, as a small group of journalists sit around a table grilling Anderson on his animated opus. It seemed as good a moment as any to play My Favorite Scene with the director -- though I must admit we never saw his answer coming.
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Little-known Hollywood fact: It's easier to chat with Zachary Quinto when he's not on dog-walking dates with an unfriendly steak. Movieline ran into the Star Trek star at last night's Hollywood Style Awards (where the 32-year-old presented a statuette to Heroes co-star Hayden Panettiere) and asked him about his favorite scene in cinematic history. Nope, Shatner isn't in this one either.
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Joan Holloway had a pretty humiliating day interfacing with Pete Campbell on yesterday's Mad Men, and Movieline is here to rub cinematic salve on the burn. We caught up with Christina Hendricks, the actress behind Sterling Cooper's former doyenne, and asked her about her favorite scene in film history. Though she was flustered upon fielding the question, her answer is spirited and (somehow, in a tangential way) quintessentially Joan.
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