Starting with the magic of Gilda: "I DIE. I die a thousand Classic Hollywood beautiful deaths. There's a pantheon of perfect moments in cinema, and this moment resides there, right between the moment when Paul Heinreid lights Bette Davis' cigarette in Now, Voyager and Claudette Colbert hikes up her skirt on the side of the road in It Happened One Night. (Feel free to add your own classic moments [...], but realize that this one wins by default.) The film doesn't need anything else but that moment, but it one-ups itself with Hayworth singing 'Put the Blame on Mame.' TWICE." It all ends tragically, but still! Go read this. [The Hairpin]
Happy Friday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Helena Bonham Carter has some concerns about Dark Shadows... Hailee Steinfeld is close to playing Ender's Game... The latest on the quest for the Razzies... War Horse finally finds some awards traction (sort of)... and more.
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We're all gagging on Oscar bait at the moment, so free yourself (and your esophagus) with a glimpse at the film's playing in four Sundance out-of-competition sections, including Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, Next <=> and New Frontier. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, the tantalizing, all black UK version of Wuthering Heights, and that amazingly harsh Indonesian film The Raid are all set up for their Utah debuts. Check out the full roster after the jump.
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Attention all spy genre enthusiasts, Cold War buffs and Gary Oldman fans: Movieline is giving away three (3) pairs of VIP tickets to the Los Angeles premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to the trio of readers who come up with the most clever haiku poems dedicated to one of the film's stars.
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The actors in War Horse whinny for Oscar cred in the new promotional spot for the Spielberg epic. Though the elegance of the Broadway play's amazing horse puppetry has been shamefully replaced by real horses, we're supposed to believe the cinematic adaptation is just as poignant. Sigh. Let's hear them out.
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Fantastic news, west coast Potter fans! You can stop saving up for that pricey trip to Orlando because Universal is planning on opening a second Wizarding World of Harry Potter location at Universal Studios Hollywood. The question is: How long will you have to wait to sip your first novelty cup of butterbeer?
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In a blog entry yesterday, Roger Ebert announced that Ebert Presents At the Movies, the public television film review show hosted by the AP's Christy Lemire and Mubi's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, will indeed be forced to go on hiatus at the end of December while he and Chaz Ebert search for funding. "We hope our hiatus will be brief. You have told us you like the show. And we now have options. A touching number of viewers offered to send us money directly. One of the avenues we may take is a Kickstarter campaign, as you suggested. We will let you know as soon as that is worked out." [Roger Ebert's Journal]
I think it's the best thing ever, but others' mileage seems to vary -- convincingly so, regarding films like The Hangover Part II and The Change-Up: "It's ridiculous; it's like, one minute the skeevy dude in the married dude's body is like 'I'M GOING TO BANG YOUR WIFE' and then he's overcome by feelings and can't and the uptight dude in the player-dude's body is like 'I'M GOING TO BANG THIS HOT WONDERFUL CHICK' and then he just can't because of also his feelings. So... somehow, no one ends up having sex." Hmm. May I suggest Shame? [The Awl]
Happy Thursday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Adam Shankman may take on The Nutcracker... Fox boss vents over Prometheus leak... Sean Penn's son strips... '90s movie cosplay takes on weirdly riveting dimension... and more.
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Every month at Movieline, we collect the best interviews, smartest features, and most compelling reviews we've produced, and curate them in one easy-to-use table of contents called the Virtual Newsstand, which pays tribute to our print magazine history. Here's the Virtual Newsstand for November 2011.
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Throw on your fur and gaze sinisterly by a swimming pool, because those collectible toys of Oscar season, the "Consider" campaigns posters, are busting out. The first one up for inspection is the campaign for Warrior, the gritty MMA drama starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, and Nick Nolte. Let's take a look at the wordy one-sheet and see if it makes us feel any differently about its positioning in the Oscar index.
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Steven Spielberg couldn't be at the AFI Fest premiere of The Adventures of Tintin because he was filming Lincoln in Virginia -- and now we know that the Lincoln production process is a completely-effing-serious one. Not only does star Daniel Day-Lewis look remarkable as Lincoln in this new candid photo, but Variety's Jeff Sneider Tweeted a report that he "hasn't broken his Lincoln accent since March" and his "real name doesn't even appear on the call sheet." That is commitment. And insanity. And the new photo will haunt you like a specter in Ford's Theatre.
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Drive fanaticism is still in (groan) overdrive. The team of Bruno et Tom have created an alternative trailer for Drive featuring The Driver's silver scorpion jacket, well-lit stoicism, and a bit of musical mimicry. He's an animated hero! And an animated human being! Coming soon to the Fox Kids lineup. Check all out the cartoon facestomping after the jump.
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Photoshoot homages are a dime a dozen at this point, and it's hard to separate one starlet's Breakfast at Tiffany's tribute from any of the hundreds of others. That's why Lady Gaga's new cover shoot for Vanity Fair, in which she toasts My Fair Lady and Funny Girl, is so ideal: Unlike most celebrities, she can take iconic images, juxtapose them with her own persona, and make them mean something new. She's not just aping Barbra Streisand's pucker like Jennifer Aniston, she's relating a muse to herself, and that's impressive even in a bombastic Annie Leibovitz shoot like this one. It's what really makes her the new Madonna, not sheer popularity. Photos after the jump.
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"I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel," the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo lead opined in a recent interview when the subject of attention-craved stars came up. "You can't buy your privacy back. Ooh, I want to be alone. F-- you. We've been in your living room. We were at your birth. [...] It is a career; I'm not being cynical. And why wouldn't you? Look at the Kardashians, they're worth millions... I don't think they were that badly off to begin with, but now look at them. You see that and you think, 'What, you mean all I have to do is behave like a f--ing idiot on television and then you'll pay me millions?' I'm not judging it. Well, I am, obviously." [EW]
