More State of Play the movie casting news:
Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn and Rachel McAdams are joining the cast.
Cordelia: You're him. You're Angel's son. Connor: It's not like I got to choose.
'Hell Bound'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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sumi - Sep 26, 2007 7:16:00 am PDT #1469 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Scrappy - Sep 26, 2007 8:23:17 pm PDT #1470 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just saw Eastern Promises.
Do NOT go see it if you are squicked by violence or gore. However, if you like amazing acting, powerful themes dealt with in cinematically interesting ways and beautifully shot action (oh, and Viggo Mortenson naked and tattooed), then run to the nearest theater.
Fred Pete - Sep 27, 2007 4:42:04 am PDT #1471 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Heads up: Tomorrow night (technically 3:30 Saturday morning) ET, TCM will show Die! Die! My Darling! It's one of those '60s "older stars in horror movie" genre, this one with Tallulah Bankhead.
I saw it when I was in college. Camp classic.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 27, 2007 5:37:06 am PDT #1472 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Viggo's a little past his sell-by date for me (and I'll always have The Indian Runner), but when I get in the mood for Cronenbergian darkness I'm sure his preparation and committment to the part will be a selling point.
sumi - Sep 27, 2007 6:28:00 am PDT #1473 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes are starring in a movie about the Duchess of Devonshire.
Beverly - Sep 27, 2007 6:34:51 am PDT #1474 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
TCM will show Die! Die! My Darling!
Oh! That's the one with Stephanie Powers as the ingenue, and a very young Donald Sutherland in a very creepy role.
megan walker - Sep 27, 2007 6:54:16 am PDT #1475 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes are starring in a movie about the Duchess of Devonshire.
I've read the biography that it's based on. Georgiana was a fascinating character.
megan walker - Sep 27, 2007 7:39:56 am PDT #1476 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also of note for royal watchers:
Georgiana was a Spencer, and so the great-great-etc. aunt of Diana. There are a number of parallels between their lives, except Georgiana was much more involved in politics, being a friend and supporter of Charles Fox and the Whigs. She was also friends with Sheridan, who based one of the main characters in School for Scandal on her.
Jessica - Sep 27, 2007 9:25:40 am PDT #1477 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sondheim likes Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd:
“It’s not the Broadway show,” he warned me. “It’s only an hour and 45 minutes. A lot of the score has been cut. They’ve made it its own thing. You have to go in knowing that. But what they’ve done is great.”
(Quote randomly buried down near the bottom of this story.)
Unfortunately, quotes from the creators of things I love saying "They changed everything, but I really liked it!" always make me nervous. Under two hours? Missing a lot of the score? Noooooooo....
Dana - Sep 27, 2007 9:45:53 am PDT #1478 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sondheim has always been fairly unsentimental about cutting his own work, or reframing it. (See: the London production of Follies, the revised version of Merrily We Roll Along.)