A extensive look at all those movies James Franco directed.
James Franco has done a lot of things, we’ve heard. Following a successful turn on Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks and a well-received starring spot on a TNT biopic on James Dean, he turned immediately to a litany of pursuits: from playwriting and English degrees to painting and directing no less than ten feature-lengths. The latter project interested me. Were they any good? In Franco’s Rolling Stone profile last year, Jonah Weiner ran around a thesaurus of words like “dizzying,” “indefatigable“ and, wait for it, “multihyphenate” to describe his subject but none of those words mean very much. Paul Klee painted over a thousand paintings in the penultimate last year of his life. So could I. So what?
“What did we do to deserve James Franco?,” asked Rex Reed in a slightly different era. Back then, even the The Guardian agreed with Jared Kushner...
James Franco has done a lot of things, we’ve heard. Following a successful turn on Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks and a well-received starring spot on a TNT biopic on James Dean, he turned immediately to a litany of pursuits: from playwriting and English degrees to painting and directing no less than ten feature-lengths. The latter project interested me. Were they any good? In Franco’s Rolling Stone profile last year, Jonah Weiner ran around a thesaurus of words like “dizzying,” “indefatigable“ and, wait for it, “multihyphenate” to describe his subject but none of those words mean very much. Paul Klee painted over a thousand paintings in the penultimate last year of his life. So could I. So what?
“What did we do to deserve James Franco?,” asked Rex Reed in a slightly different era. Back then, even the The Guardian agreed with Jared Kushner...
- 4/13/2017
- by Andrew Karpan
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad – the epic 3D CGI animated family film from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Media Group. The movie features the voices of Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin, Heidi Klum, John Cleese, James Franco, Anjelica Huston and Omar Sy, and is directed by Aaron Woodley. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films.
Open Road will release Arctic Justice wide in 2018. Animation work for the film is currently being done out of Ambi’s Toronto based studio, Aic Studios. The movie is fully financed and being produced by Ambi and its principals, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi.
Swifty (Jeremy Renner), an arctic fox, dreams of becoming one the famous Top Dogs, a team of huskies that deliver packages for the Arctic Blast Delivery Service. In the Arctic, every day trips can quickly turn into epic journeys,...
Open Road will release Arctic Justice wide in 2018. Animation work for the film is currently being done out of Ambi’s Toronto based studio, Aic Studios. The movie is fully financed and being produced by Ambi and its principals, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi.
Swifty (Jeremy Renner), an arctic fox, dreams of becoming one the famous Top Dogs, a team of huskies that deliver packages for the Arctic Blast Delivery Service. In the Arctic, every day trips can quickly turn into epic journeys,...
- 2/1/2017
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Glenn has been attending the 25th Stockholm Film Festival as a member of the Fipresci jury. Today he looks at James Franco's latest creative endeavour, 'The Sound and the Fury'.
James Franco’s latest isn’t a part of the films I was sent to Sweden to judge, but in my apparent need to one day become the pre-eminent expert on the 36-year-old’s career, I decided to find time for The Sound and the Fury. His second Faulkner adaptation after last year’s As I Lay Dying shows that Franco is improving as a director when it comes to the creation of coherent and engaging cinematic worlds, but while somebody like the equally fast-moving Xavier Dolan is able to take his inspirations and weave them throughout his own auteurial style, Franco’s films still feel like he’s merely copying what he has seen elsewhere without...
James Franco’s latest isn’t a part of the films I was sent to Sweden to judge, but in my apparent need to one day become the pre-eminent expert on the 36-year-old’s career, I decided to find time for The Sound and the Fury. His second Faulkner adaptation after last year’s As I Lay Dying shows that Franco is improving as a director when it comes to the creation of coherent and engaging cinematic worlds, but while somebody like the equally fast-moving Xavier Dolan is able to take his inspirations and weave them throughout his own auteurial style, Franco’s films still feel like he’s merely copying what he has seen elsewhere without...
- 11/13/2014
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Exclusive: Prolific jack-of-all-artistic-trades James Franco arrives on the Lido this week to accept the Venice Film Festival’s Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award, which goes to a personality who has made an original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema. Fitting then that his latest directorial effort, The Sound And The Fury, will have its world premiere out of competition at the fest (see the exclusive clip above).
Related: Telluride: Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ Wins Standing Ovation At Festival
The film is based on the novel of by William Faulkner; it’s Franco’s second time adapting the author — a notoriously tough challenge given the author’s penchant for stream of consciousness. Franco tells me he nevertheless stayed faithful to the book, which is broken into four sections and focuses on the decline and fall of the Compsons, a once-proud, aristocratic Southern family. A major obstacle to translating their story...
Related: Telluride: Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ Wins Standing Ovation At Festival
The film is based on the novel of by William Faulkner; it’s Franco’s second time adapting the author — a notoriously tough challenge given the author’s penchant for stream of consciousness. Franco tells me he nevertheless stayed faithful to the book, which is broken into four sections and focuses on the decline and fall of the Compsons, a once-proud, aristocratic Southern family. A major obstacle to translating their story...
- 9/1/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Following a first look at James Franco's forthcoming film The Sound and the Fury, a period drama that also stars Seth Rogen and Danny McBride and is premiering at the Venice Film Festival, we have a look at one of the actor's forthcoming starring roles currently in production. After going gay with a pivotal role in Milk previously, this time director Gus Van Sant is producing Michael, a drama which will see Franco playing Michael Glatze, a San Francisco gay activist who somehow evolved himself into an ex-gay Christian fundamentalist, as chronicled in the New York Times article "My Ex-Gay Friend" by Benoit Denizet-Lewis back in 2011. Now we have a first look photo from the set showing Franco at work, filming a scene. Look! Here's James Franco in Justin Kelly's Michael from the actor's Instagram page: Michael is directed by freshman filmmaker Justin Kelly who co-wrote the script...
- 8/11/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Despite his work being sometimes tepidly received at all corners of the globe, James Franco, the filmmaker, has been a major force on the world festival stage. He'll be showing up at Venice once again this year with his William Faulkner adaptation "The Sound and the Fury," but while he's there he'll be picking up some hardware. The festival has announced that Franco has been awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker prize, dedicated to a personality who has made an original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema. Calling the multi-hyphenate a "relentless 'manufacturer' of cultural imagery" (problem a great, non-value-judgment way of putting it), Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera said that Franco "is one of the most versatile and multi-talented auteurs on the current American scene, as an actor in cinema and theatre, director, screenwriter, producer, soap-opera star, video-artist and much more." Barbera went on to note that Franco's latest,...
- 8/8/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
This might sound like an elaborate piece of James Franco-brand performance art, but it’s a real thing: The actor, director, and writer will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival this year. Franco will also debut his latest directorial effort, an adaption of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, this year.
The Glory to the Filmmaker Award honors “a personality who has made an original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema.” Last year, the award went to Italian filmmaker and Fellini-collaborator Ettore Scola. Previous recipients include Spike Lee, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino,...
The Glory to the Filmmaker Award honors “a personality who has made an original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema.” Last year, the award went to Italian filmmaker and Fellini-collaborator Ettore Scola. Previous recipients include Spike Lee, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino,...
- 8/8/2014
- by Jackson McHenry
- EW - Inside Movies
Actor-director to receive Jaeger-Le Coultre filmmaker award.
Actor-director James Franco will receive the Venice Film Festival’s Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker award for 2014.
The prize is dedicated to “a personality who has made an original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema”.
Venice director Alberto Barbera said: “James Franco is one of the most versatile and multi-talented auteurs on the current American scene, as an actor in cinema and theatre, director, screenwriter, producer, soap-opera star, video-artist and much more – indeed, a relentless ‘manufacturer’ of cultural imagery.
“The adaptation of the great classics of American literature, like his new film based on a novel by Faulkner which will be presented in Venice, is a major thread in his creative approach, characterized by boldness, lucidity, courage and self-confidence. These values transform his omnivorous verve into a concept of total art performance, founded on considerable curiosity and intelligence”.
Franco’s film The Sound and the Fury, based on [link...
Actor-director James Franco will receive the Venice Film Festival’s Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker award for 2014.
The prize is dedicated to “a personality who has made an original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema”.
Venice director Alberto Barbera said: “James Franco is one of the most versatile and multi-talented auteurs on the current American scene, as an actor in cinema and theatre, director, screenwriter, producer, soap-opera star, video-artist and much more – indeed, a relentless ‘manufacturer’ of cultural imagery.
“The adaptation of the great classics of American literature, like his new film based on a novel by Faulkner which will be presented in Venice, is a major thread in his creative approach, characterized by boldness, lucidity, courage and self-confidence. These values transform his omnivorous verve into a concept of total art performance, founded on considerable curiosity and intelligence”.
Franco’s film The Sound and the Fury, based on [link...
- 8/8/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The super-busy James Franco has set aside time in each of the past several years to make a trip to the Lido where he’s become an increasingly familiar presence to Venice festgoers. His first appearance there as director/screenwriter was in 2011 with the Horizons entry Sal. In 2012, Spring Breakers, which he produced and in which he starred, was one of the big crowd pleasers when it screened in competition. Last year, Child Of God, which he wrote and directed, ran in competition while he was also the star of Gia Coppola’s Horizons title Palo Alto, based on Franco’s own […]...
- 8/8/2014
- Deadline
Requiem for a Cave Man: Franco’s McCarthy Adaptation Displays Growth
On a similar directorial trajectory as, let’s say, Joe Swanberg, where quality vs. quantity tends to have adversely affected the end product of many a project, actor/screenwriter/director James Franco has shown surprising growth with his latest directorial effort to hit theaters, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. Begrudging as many may be toward the film, especially rabidly committed fans of the source material, one has to admit that considerable growth has been evidenced in this recent sampling of Franco’s cycle-stomping over his literary idols, veering haphazardly over Faulkner, McCarthy, and Bukowski. Certainly, there are a few issues to haggle over, but there’s a captivating performance and a queasy ambience to the film that at least makes it a sober sort of hillbilly horror. Yes, perhaps this is sacrilege to those...
On a similar directorial trajectory as, let’s say, Joe Swanberg, where quality vs. quantity tends to have adversely affected the end product of many a project, actor/screenwriter/director James Franco has shown surprising growth with his latest directorial effort to hit theaters, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. Begrudging as many may be toward the film, especially rabidly committed fans of the source material, one has to admit that considerable growth has been evidenced in this recent sampling of Franco’s cycle-stomping over his literary idols, veering haphazardly over Faulkner, McCarthy, and Bukowski. Certainly, there are a few issues to haggle over, but there’s a captivating performance and a queasy ambience to the film that at least makes it a sober sort of hillbilly horror. Yes, perhaps this is sacrilege to those...
- 7/31/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exterior. The Heternormative: Franco & Matthews’ Experimental Exercise Takes Temperatures
James Franco, already cementing a reputation as one of the most eclectic and noteworthy cinematic commodities as actor, writer and director, teams up with queer filmmaker Travis Matthews for what has to be one of the most excitingly experimental queer cinematic projects of recent memory, Interior. Leather Bar, a re-imagining of the lost 40 minutes from William Friedkin’s infamous and controversial 1980 film, Cruising. Franco, an oddity for his ability to use fame and notoriety as a way to produce and finance challenging projects and bring them to the befuddled mainstream, manages to make this concoction with Matthews intriguing, but it’s too bad that it ultimately feels like a footnote to a much greater discussion. Conversations and impressions reveal that while surface societal mores have undergone an inherent PC facelift, fear and discomfort with the queer community still runs deep.
Opening...
James Franco, already cementing a reputation as one of the most eclectic and noteworthy cinematic commodities as actor, writer and director, teams up with queer filmmaker Travis Matthews for what has to be one of the most excitingly experimental queer cinematic projects of recent memory, Interior. Leather Bar, a re-imagining of the lost 40 minutes from William Friedkin’s infamous and controversial 1980 film, Cruising. Franco, an oddity for his ability to use fame and notoriety as a way to produce and finance challenging projects and bring them to the befuddled mainstream, manages to make this concoction with Matthews intriguing, but it’s too bad that it ultimately feels like a footnote to a much greater discussion. Conversations and impressions reveal that while surface societal mores have undergone an inherent PC facelift, fear and discomfort with the queer community still runs deep.
Opening...
- 3/4/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Given the eclectic nature of James Franco's projects, it was only a matter of time before someone thought to host a festival in Franco's honor, and it looks like the man himself plans to attend. New York's IFC Center will host FrancoFest, a retrospective celebrating the work of James Franco, from March 5-13, with Franco appearing at several screenings. The festival will showcase several of Franco's most notable performances ("127 Hours," "Howl," "Spring Breakers"), as well as a number of his efforts as a director ("As I Lay Dying," "The Broken Tower," "Sal"). Perhaps the most notable inclusion is Franco's Berlin and Sundance hit "Interior. Leather Bar.," which re-imagines the destroyed explicit scenes cut from William Friedkin's controversial thriller "Cruising." Friedkin's film will appear in concurrence with Franco's. Also scheduled to appear is Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho," which influenced the included films "My Own Private River" and "Idaho,...
- 2/27/2014
- by Max O'Connell
- Indiewire
With the recent release of the biopic “Sal,” its director James Franco once again takes on a story revolving around a central figure who’s gay. His propensity to do gay projects has certainly caused many to speculate about his sexuality – clearly it was a huge topic of the recent Comedy Central Roast in his honor. But, Franco takes all of that in stride. “Of course I’m for equal rights and will do whatever I can do to help make that happen,” Franco told The Daily Beast. Also read: ‘Scandal’s’ Kerry Washington: ‘I’ve Never Been Bothered...
- 11/5/2013
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
James Franco recently sat down with "The Daily Beast" to discuss -- in true Franco style -- everything under the sun. Much of what he says is articulate and thoughtful. This includes his recurring career fascination with gay characters, his image as an artist who refuses to be pigeon-holed, the "Consider This Shit" Oscar campaign (see below) for his "Spring Breakers" character and more. Interview highlights below. Ever prolific, Franco has had three films release this year: Faulkner adaptation "As I Lay Dying" (review here), documentary "Interior. Leather Bar" (review here), and the Sal Mineo biopic "Sal," which hit theaters November 1. He also headlined "Oz the Great and Powerful" and gave that brilliantly bizarre performance in Harmony Korine's "Springbreakers." And he turned to crowdfunding. Busy year. On the many gay roles he's played and gay projects he's undertaken:It’s not like it’s my mission to tell the stories...
- 11/5/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
No Salutation: Franco Resurrects Tragic Mineo to Aimless Effect
Like The Broken Tower, which documents the tragic end of poet Hart Crane, James Franco’s second directorial effort from 2011, Sal, also happens to resurrect an artistic queer figure from the past, this time Oscar-nominated actor Sal Mineo, murdered outside his West Hollywood apartment back in 1976. While the film is finally being granted a theatrical release, Franco has gone on to debut a slew of other directorial efforts, expanding his desire to provoke, titillate and subvert notions of queerness in a broader cultural discourse with items like his co-directed Interior. Leather Bar, and even adapting notable literary works, like Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. Considering an equally heavy acting schedule, Franco’s output is quantitatively impressive, but quality thus becomes the lack in his exploration of the last hours of the life of Sal Mineo.
Like The Broken Tower, which documents the tragic end of poet Hart Crane, James Franco’s second directorial effort from 2011, Sal, also happens to resurrect an artistic queer figure from the past, this time Oscar-nominated actor Sal Mineo, murdered outside his West Hollywood apartment back in 1976. While the film is finally being granted a theatrical release, Franco has gone on to debut a slew of other directorial efforts, expanding his desire to provoke, titillate and subvert notions of queerness in a broader cultural discourse with items like his co-directed Interior. Leather Bar, and even adapting notable literary works, like Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. Considering an equally heavy acting schedule, Franco’s output is quantitatively impressive, but quality thus becomes the lack in his exploration of the last hours of the life of Sal Mineo.
- 11/1/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Behind the scenes on the Sal set with James Franco and Val Lauren
No one has a career quite like James Franco. There are his big screen star turns in films like Milk, Howl or 127 Hours, but he’s just as likely to pop up on television in everything from The Mindy Project to General Hospital. Then there’s his own writing and directing projects such as Interior. Leather Bar. Franco always manages to compel us and keep us interested in what he’s up to, including his latest project.
He may have directed the film Sal a few years ago but it’s only been his busy schedule that has kept it from reaching theaters (and VOD) until now. The film, written by Stacey Miller, chronicles the final day in the life of Sal Mineo, the twice-Academy Award-nominated actor (for Rebel Without A Cause and Exodus) who came out in the 1960s and,...
No one has a career quite like James Franco. There are his big screen star turns in films like Milk, Howl or 127 Hours, but he’s just as likely to pop up on television in everything from The Mindy Project to General Hospital. Then there’s his own writing and directing projects such as Interior. Leather Bar. Franco always manages to compel us and keep us interested in what he’s up to, including his latest project.
He may have directed the film Sal a few years ago but it’s only been his busy schedule that has kept it from reaching theaters (and VOD) until now. The film, written by Stacey Miller, chronicles the final day in the life of Sal Mineo, the twice-Academy Award-nominated actor (for Rebel Without A Cause and Exodus) who came out in the 1960s and,...
- 11/1/2013
- by Jim Halterman
- The Backlot
More than a decade after playing James Dean in the 2001 TV biopic of the actor, ultimate multitasker James Franco went behind the camera to direct Sal, a film depicting the final day in the life of Sal Mineo, Dean’s co-star, two-time Oscar nominee, and openly gay former teen heartthrob who was murdered outside his L.A. home in 1976 at age 37.
Franco pursued the film after reading the 2010 biography of Mineo. Starring Val Lauren as Mineo, Sal was reportedly shot in nine days — “It was shot quickly,” Franco tells EW, adding that he couldn’t remember the exact number — and...
Franco pursued the film after reading the 2010 biography of Mineo. Starring Val Lauren as Mineo, Sal was reportedly shot in nine days — “It was shot quickly,” Franco tells EW, adding that he couldn’t remember the exact number — and...
- 11/1/2013
- by Shirley Li
- EW - Inside Movies
The first weekend of November is hallmarked by a continuing wave of prestigious Oscar contenders and pockmarked by the chaff that studios are still dumping into a handful of contractually obligated theaters. How else do you explain Last Vegas and Dallas Buyers Club landing on the same week? Beyond those we’ve got a boy vying to be the last starfighter, a pair of biopics that look difficult to swallow and a ton of limited releases that show promise. Get up off your knees, reach for the stars, and check out the trailer-ized list of movies coming out this weekend. The Big Names About Time Read our review Ender’s Game Free Birds Last Vegas Dallas Buyers Club Mr. Nobody Read our feature on it Diana Sal Read our interview with James Franco Le Week-End Man of Tai Chi Read our review The Specialty Stuff Aftermath (Poklosie) Angels Sing Big Sur The Broken Circle Breakdown Casting By Last...
- 10/30/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Like everything with James Franco's name on it, Sal might stand a little taller in the world if it had been dispatched to us pseudonymously, without expectation — that is, if a film this intimate and meandering might have been picked up for distribution at all without the stamp of its celebrity author. A stubbornly not-bad character study that's moldered on the shelf a few years, Sal purports to examine the final day of Rebel Without a Cause actor Sal Mineo, who was stabbed to death outside his West Hollywood apartment in 1976. As Sal, Val Lauren is a charismatic motormouth, jabbering happily to friends and family about his new play, a gay-themed comedy, opening soon. He swans about a featureless L.A. — the period setting and the micro...
- 10/30/2013
- Village Voice
James Franco‘s Sal follows actor Sal Mineo’s final hours with a fly-on-the-wall approach. In the film we see the bright young actor, played by Val Lauren, prepping a directorial feature he won’t make any compromises on. After seeing Sal, it’s easy to draw comparisons between Franco and Mineo in that regard. Franco has spent the last few years directing personal projects that are nothing if not uncompromising. Behind the camera, he’s taken on norm-defying adaptations like As I Lay Dying, the experimental recreation of lost scenes from Cruising and a documentary focused on his guest starring appearances on soap opera General Hospital. Those projects, along with Sal, aren’t overtly commercial endeavors (as you may have noticed), but Franco’s directorial features have certainly found their audience. He works fast, and, as Franco tells us, that work ethic isn’t a matter of simply rushing through project after project. Despite...
- 10/29/2013
- by Jack Giroux
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Heading into Afm Spotlight Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime thriller Child Of God in its third collaboration with RabbitBandini.
James Franco directed the film starring Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson and Franco.
The film premiered in Venice and received its North American premiere immediately afterwards in Toronto. Child Of God is based on the book by Cormac McCarthy.
Spotlight Pictures’ CEO Matt McCombs said: “We are thrilled to continue our relationship with James and Vince. They are among the most fearless and creative producers out there. We welcome the opportunity to represent all three of their films to international buyers at Afm.”
RabbitBandini’s Vince Jolivette added: “Our relationship with Spotlight so far has been extraordinary and we were excited to continue it with Child Of God.”
Jolivette of RabbitBandini negotiated the deal with Carlos Rincon of Spotlight Pictures. Spotlight and RabbitBandini previously worked together on Tar and Sal.
James Franco directed the film starring Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson and Franco.
The film premiered in Venice and received its North American premiere immediately afterwards in Toronto. Child Of God is based on the book by Cormac McCarthy.
Spotlight Pictures’ CEO Matt McCombs said: “We are thrilled to continue our relationship with James and Vince. They are among the most fearless and creative producers out there. We welcome the opportunity to represent all three of their films to international buyers at Afm.”
RabbitBandini’s Vince Jolivette added: “Our relationship with Spotlight so far has been extraordinary and we were excited to continue it with Child Of God.”
Jolivette of RabbitBandini negotiated the deal with Carlos Rincon of Spotlight Pictures. Spotlight and RabbitBandini previously worked together on Tar and Sal.
- 10/24/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Check out what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Before Midnight (romantic drama; Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy; rated R) The Conjuring (horror; Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor; rated R) R.I.P.D. (supernatural comedy; Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds, Mary-Louise Parker; available before disc and in 2D or 3D; rated PG-13) Sal (biographical drama; Val Lauren, James Franco; available now on Mod before theatrical release; unrated) Girl Most Likely (comedy; Kristen Wiig, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss, Annette...
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- 10/22/2013
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
He’s always up to something awesome, and James Franco is gearing up for the release of his new independent flick “Sal.”
The “127 Hours” hunk wrote, directed, and stars in the low-budget biopic, along with Val Lauren, Jim Parrack, and Trevor Neuhoff.
Scheduled to screen at the Austin Film Festival, “Sal” will hit theaters in limited release on November 1st.
Per the synopsis, “The film chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.”...
The “127 Hours” hunk wrote, directed, and stars in the low-budget biopic, along with Val Lauren, Jim Parrack, and Trevor Neuhoff.
Scheduled to screen at the Austin Film Festival, “Sal” will hit theaters in limited release on November 1st.
Per the synopsis, “The film chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.”...
- 10/2/2013
- GossipCenter
Long after playing the festival circuit in 2011, Tribeca Film has released the trailer for James Franco's directorial effort "Sal" ahead of its Fall debut. The biopic chronicles the final day in the life of actor Sal Mineo (Val Lauren), the 1950s teen idol and Academy Award nominee for his roles in "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Exodus," who found himself no longer the sensation he once was. Franco's films explores the actor's homosexuality and journeys with him as he tries to make his way to become the actor and director he always wanted to be. "Sal" will be available nationwide on VOD and iTunes on October 22 and will open in select theaters beginning on November 1, in Los Angeles at the Sundance Sunset Cinema. Watch the trailer below:...
- 10/2/2013
- by James Hiler
- Indiewire
James Franco knows a thing or two about being a teen idol. So perhaps it's no surprise he's making a film about one. The trailer for Sal, the 35-year-old actor-director's low-budget biopic on the late screen star Sal Mineo, has hit the web after premiering last month at the Venice Film Festival. Mineo shot to fame opposite James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as the adoration of millions of female fans. He went on to reteam with Dean in the following year's Giant and earned further accolades for his role in Otto Preminger's Exodus, for which he snagged a Golden Globe and another Oscar nod. The...
- 10/2/2013
- E! Online
Sneak Peek footage from director James Franco's "Sal", a biopic of murdered actor Sal Mineo, starring Val Lauren, Franco, Vince Jolivette, Jim Patrick, Trevor Neuhoff, Stacey Miller and Raymond T. Williams:
"...'Sal' chronicles the final day in the life of actor 'Sal Mineo' (Val Lauren), 1950's teen idol and an Academy Award nominee for his roles in 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Exodus'. Almost two decades later, Mineo is no longer the marquee sensation he had once been..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Sal"...
"...'Sal' chronicles the final day in the life of actor 'Sal Mineo' (Val Lauren), 1950's teen idol and an Academy Award nominee for his roles in 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Exodus'. Almost two decades later, Mineo is no longer the marquee sensation he had once been..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Sal"...
- 10/1/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Erik Lundegaard on lipsyching w/ talent via Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Jimmy Fallon
Guardian Kevin Smith talks about Ben Affleck's Bat Cave. errrrrr....
Empire The Help reunion! Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer will co-star in a James Brown biopic for Tate Taylor. Unfortunately neither won of them is playing James Brown (This aint no I'm Not There)
THR Hugh Jackman will play a supporting role in Chappie, the next sci-fi epic from Neil Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium)
Towleroad James Franco's Sal Mineo biopic Sal which seems like it was completed many years ago finally gets a trailer
Deadline good grief. They put up and then removed a Diana poster from the Princess's crash site in Paris?
NY Times Magazine talks to director Kimberly Peirce about her stop and start career, from Boys Don't Cry to Carrie
Today's Must Read
Interview Magazine is featuring a conversation between Darren Aronofsky and...
Guardian Kevin Smith talks about Ben Affleck's Bat Cave. errrrrr....
Empire The Help reunion! Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer will co-star in a James Brown biopic for Tate Taylor. Unfortunately neither won of them is playing James Brown (This aint no I'm Not There)
THR Hugh Jackman will play a supporting role in Chappie, the next sci-fi epic from Neil Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium)
Towleroad James Franco's Sal Mineo biopic Sal which seems like it was completed many years ago finally gets a trailer
Deadline good grief. They put up and then removed a Diana poster from the Princess's crash site in Paris?
NY Times Magazine talks to director Kimberly Peirce about her stop and start career, from Boys Don't Cry to Carrie
Today's Must Read
Interview Magazine is featuring a conversation between Darren Aronofsky and...
- 10/1/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
From the mind of our foremost Young Actor Turned Serious Artist James Franco comes the story of another young star who tried to shed his youthful image in Hollywood – Sal Mineo. Franco’s latest directorial venture, the Mineo biopic Sal, focuses on the time after his celebrated turn in Rebel Without a Cause that set him up for a long road of typecasting. Rebel would define Mineo’s (Val Lauren) career, and his struggles to be seen as more than a pretty face, as you can see in the trailer, made his life hellish. Historical spoiler: Mineo’s story ends (and this biopic, likely), with his tragic stabbing in the alley behind his apartment at the premature age of 37. While the source material is compelling, the trailer is just awful. It looks like Franco slapped some 1950s-period accurate clothing on Lauren and his cohorts and then filmed in sketchy areas of La when other people just conveniently...
- 10/1/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It.s been a long wait since Sal, a Sal Mineo biopic directed by Renaissance Man James Franco, made its world premiere at the prestigious Venice Film Festival in 2011. But at long last we have a trailer as the film readies for its theatrical opening. And as you can see above, this is not your typical Hollywood story of fame and fortune, but rather what can come after those things fade. Do you know the story of Sal Mineo? In the 1950s, he was a dashing young actor who was winning hearts from movie-going girls and praise from critics for his roles opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. Not only was he a heartthrob, but also he was a two-time Academy Award nominee. With a string of poignant performances, Mineo helped define the troubled teen on screen. Yet it was this typecasting niche that forced him...
- 10/1/2013
- cinemablend.com
Popular actor and supposed director James Franco has a busy release schedule, between his adaptations of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner novels and that movie where he fights Jason Statham. And now you can add in Sal, the biopic about Rebel Without a Cause Sal Mineo which Franco made a couple of years ago in the midst of what scholars now refer to as Franco’s Blue Period. The film stars Val Lauren as Mineo and explores the actor’s final hours. It’s available on VOD and iTunes on October 22.
- 10/1/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside Movies
James Franco isn’t content to offer up adaptations of William Faulkner novels and cook up “lost” footage from notorious films like “Cruising.” He’s going deeper into the pop culture bin with his latest directorial effort, “Sal.” The film centers on Sal Mineo, and checks in on the gay star of such films as “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Exodus” after his career in Hollywood was in ruins. “Sal” focuses on Mineo’s final days before his brutal murder in 1976 while he was dreaming of a comeback and playing a bisexual burglar in a stage show called “P.S.
- 10/1/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
The official trailer for Sal is posted below, via Tribeca Film. Directed by James Franco (127 Hours), Sal chronicles the final day in the life of actor Sal Mineo (Val Lauren), 1950s teen idol and an Academy Award® nominee for his roles in Rebel without a Cause and Exodus. Almost two decades later, Mineo is no longer the marquee sensation he had once been — but he has become open about his homosexuality and is finding his way to becoming the actor and director he has always wanted to be. Featuring a magnetic performance by Lauren, Franco's intimate portrait finds the human details in a larger-than-life Hollywood story. Sal will be available nationwide on VOD and iTunes on...
- 10/1/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
First announced in the halcyon days of 2010, the James Franco-directed Sal Mineo biopic—simply titled “Sal”—will finally see release this fall, after briefly hitting the festival circuit in 2011, stopping in Venice and Austin. And the first trailer has now arrived online. Released through Tribeca Films, the film focuses on Mineo who, like James Dean before him, struggled against being typecast as the troubled kid before seeing his life cut tragically short in the alley behind his home. Val Lauren stars as Mineo alongside Franco, Jim Parrack, Trevor Neuhoff, and Raymond T. Williams. The film looks to be a completely low-budget affair with seemingly little disguising the modern age it was shot in, so perhaps there is a reason why it took nearly two years to finally see the light of day. “Sal” hits VOD and iTunes on October 22nd, followed by a limited theatrical run on November 1st.
- 10/1/2013
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
In addition to acting, James Franco has been busy directing numerous passion projects, including "Child of God" and "As I Lay Dying." And now we have the trailer for his latest film, called "Sal," which is based on the life of actor Sal Mineo, who is best known for co-starring with James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" before falling into obscurity. Check out the trailer below. Plot: The film chronicles the final day in the life of actor Sal Mineo (Val Lauren), 1950s teen idol and an Academy Award nominee for his roles in 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Exodus.' Almost two decades later, Mineo is no longer the marquee sensation he had once been . but he has become open about his homosexuality and is finding his way to becoming the actor and director he has always wanted to be. Franco co-stars in the film as director Milton Katselas.
- 10/1/2013
- WorstPreviews.com
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Hgtv star David Bromstad has responded on Facebook to the criticism he’s received since announcing he’s teaming up with the Salvation Army.
Why Drag Queens Are Better Role Models Than Disney Princesses.
In ratings news, Once Upon A Time was down 33% from last season’s debut, but up 13% from last season’s finale. Meanwhile, Revenge was down 25% from last season’s debut, but up a whopping 41% from last season’s finale (and it had to deal with the finale of Breaking Bad). And Betrayal was Doa.
Here’s the official trailer for James Franco‘s Sal, with Val Lauren as Sal Mineo.
It’s on its way! This should be interesting.
Daniel Radcliffe stopped by The Today Show and discussed that gay love scene in Kill Your Darlings.
Hgtv star David Bromstad has responded on Facebook to the criticism he’s received since announcing he’s teaming up with the Salvation Army.
Why Drag Queens Are Better Role Models Than Disney Princesses.
In ratings news, Once Upon A Time was down 33% from last season’s debut, but up 13% from last season’s finale. Meanwhile, Revenge was down 25% from last season’s debut, but up a whopping 41% from last season’s finale (and it had to deal with the finale of Breaking Bad). And Betrayal was Doa.
Here’s the official trailer for James Franco‘s Sal, with Val Lauren as Sal Mineo.
It’s on its way! This should be interesting.
Daniel Radcliffe stopped by The Today Show and discussed that gay love scene in Kill Your Darlings.
- 9/30/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
After taking a film to Sundance, and more recently premiering Palo Alto at Telluride and Child of God at Venice, the ever-busy James Franco shows no signs of slowing down. Later this year, he'll be seen facing off against Jason Statham in the thriller Homefront, and now audiences will see another dramatic turn by the actor this fall. However, in this case, the film Sal was completed and premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in 2011, and Tribeca Film is bringing it to VOD and limited theaters. Franco directs the film following Sal Mineo, supporting star of Rebel Without a Cause, on the last day of his life, 20 years after his stardom. It's fitting that Franco made this film after playing James Dean in a TV movie years ago. Watch! Here's the first trailer for James Franco's Sal from Tribeca Film, via Vulture: James Franco directs Sal, written by...
- 9/30/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Leave it to James Franco! The prolific actor/director has created a new feature film about the last day in the life of "Rebel Without A Cause" star Sal Mineo from a script by Stacey Miller.
The film is called "Sal" and is set to premiere on-demand on Oct. 22nd with a debut at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles on Nov. 1st. Val Lauren (who also appeared in Franco's "Interior. Leather Bar.") stars in the title role.
Franco stars as Milton Katselas in the movie. Katselas was an American director and producer, as well as a Hollywood acting instructor and coach.
Just in 2013 alone, Franco has made "As I Lay Dying," "Interior. Leather Bar," "Child of God," and "Venice 70: Future Reloaded." On top of that, the actor has also appeared in "Spring Breakers" (fantastic performance, I might add), "Oz The Great and Powerful," "This is the End,...
The film is called "Sal" and is set to premiere on-demand on Oct. 22nd with a debut at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles on Nov. 1st. Val Lauren (who also appeared in Franco's "Interior. Leather Bar.") stars in the title role.
Franco stars as Milton Katselas in the movie. Katselas was an American director and producer, as well as a Hollywood acting instructor and coach.
Just in 2013 alone, Franco has made "As I Lay Dying," "Interior. Leather Bar," "Child of God," and "Venice 70: Future Reloaded." On top of that, the actor has also appeared in "Spring Breakers" (fantastic performance, I might add), "Oz The Great and Powerful," "This is the End,...
- 9/30/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
You might be wondering how it's possible that James Franco has yet another movie coming out. Simple: Sal, the Franco-directed biopic about the last years of Rebel Without a Cause star Sal Mineo's life, was finished years ago. The film premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. The film will be released on VOD on October 22, with it opening in select theaters on November 1. In the time it took you to read this post, James Franco wrapped production on 40 movies, and this was a short post.
- 9/30/2013
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
Prolific multi-hyphenate James Franco has yet another film coming out. This time it is not an adaptation of a William Faulkner or Cormac McCarthy novel but rather a biopic of actor Sal Mineo. Mineo is best remembered for co-starring with James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause before falling into obscurity. Franco directed Sal back in 2010 but it is just now getting a release courtesy of Tribeca Films. The indie has the look and feel of Franco's other films but for some reason Sal seems...
- 9/30/2013
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
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Lady Gaga revealed that she and Perez Hilton haven’t been BFFs since two days after her accident, when he texted her a picture of herself in a wheelchair with “Karma” written across it with Madonna pointing a gun at her.
The plot then thickened when a fan tweeted that Perez was in the lobby of her apartment building, allegedly trying to rent an apartment there. Security was dispatched while Gaga tweeted “Do I Need To Be Shot It In The Head For People To Understand That Him And Everyone Else That Harasses Me Has Gone Too Far? Im A Human Being.” For his part, Perez says she’s spreading lies about him [warning: link to his site] and he’s receiving death threats online.
The Butler dominated the box office this weekend with $25 million, with We’re the Millers taking second with $17.7 million,...
Lady Gaga revealed that she and Perez Hilton haven’t been BFFs since two days after her accident, when he texted her a picture of herself in a wheelchair with “Karma” written across it with Madonna pointing a gun at her.
The plot then thickened when a fan tweeted that Perez was in the lobby of her apartment building, allegedly trying to rent an apartment there. Security was dispatched while Gaga tweeted “Do I Need To Be Shot It In The Head For People To Understand That Him And Everyone Else That Harasses Me Has Gone Too Far? Im A Human Being.” For his part, Perez says she’s spreading lies about him [warning: link to his site] and he’s receiving death threats online.
The Butler dominated the box office this weekend with $25 million, with We’re the Millers taking second with $17.7 million,...
- 8/19/2013
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Kristen Stewart movie Camp X-Ray reportedly gets leading man: Peyman Moaadi Two Kristen Stewart movie projects were announced a couple of weeks ago: Olivier Assayas’ psychological drama Sils Maria, to co-star Juliette Binoche and Chloë Grace Moretz, and writer-director Peter Sattler’s political drama Camp X-Ray. The latter movie reportedly has found its leading man: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner A Separation star Peyman Moaadi. According to TheWrap, in Camp X-Ray the 43-year-old (or 42, or 41, depending on the source) Moaadi will play Ali, a Muslim inmate who has been languishing in Guantanamo for eight years. Kristen Stewart is set to play an American soldier recently assigned to the American concentration camp, where she strikes an unusual friendship with Ali. Could there be hope for the world? Don’t hold your breath, but one never knows… TheWrap adds that Joseph Julian Soria, among whose credits are Fast & Furious and the television series Army Wives,...
- 6/24/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
News
J.J. Abrams‘s production company has purchased the rights to adapt TV legend Rod Serling‘s last, uncompleted screenplay, The Stops Along the Way. It is hoped a network will order an adaptation of Stops that turns the teleplay into a mini-series. The details of the story are currently secret.
A magic-performing detective, perhaps? Please, Simpsons?
Will Arnett is bringing his voice to The Simpsons, TVLine reports. He’ll play an FBI detective who goes after Homer for illegally downloading a movie.
The upcoming season of Drop Dead Diva may be gaining a hunky new guardian angel but it’s losing its hunky boss as Josh Samberg is leaving the legal dramedy.
I guess Kim is going to have to take over all the grumpiness at Harrison & Parker.
Considering all the characters who have made a return appearance on Mad Men, Vulture asks, when will we get to see Sal again?...
J.J. Abrams‘s production company has purchased the rights to adapt TV legend Rod Serling‘s last, uncompleted screenplay, The Stops Along the Way. It is hoped a network will order an adaptation of Stops that turns the teleplay into a mini-series. The details of the story are currently secret.
A magic-performing detective, perhaps? Please, Simpsons?
Will Arnett is bringing his voice to The Simpsons, TVLine reports. He’ll play an FBI detective who goes after Homer for illegally downloading a movie.
The upcoming season of Drop Dead Diva may be gaining a hunky new guardian angel but it’s losing its hunky boss as Josh Samberg is leaving the legal dramedy.
I guess Kim is going to have to take over all the grumpiness at Harrison & Parker.
Considering all the characters who have made a return appearance on Mad Men, Vulture asks, when will we get to see Sal again?...
- 6/6/2013
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
James Franco seems to be everywhere on the IMDb (and on the world's screens) in 2013 Unlike the very unlucky Warner Bros., which has had no less than five box-office bombs so far this year (click on the link for more information), James Franco has been having a fantastic year so far, as he has been involved in some capacity or other in a number of widely debated films, among them two box-office successes, targeted to families of various shapes, fetishes, and entertainment orientations. (Pictured above: Franco with co-star Mila Kunis in Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful.) Directed by the Spider-Man movies' Sam Raimi, the fantasy Oz, in which Franco plays the man who becomes The Wizard of Oz, took the no. 1 spot at the worldwide box office last weekend and managed to do it again at the domestic box office this weekend, March 15-17. Also this weekend, Harmony Korine...
- 3/18/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Cinematographer-director Christina Voros, whose alma matters are Harvard and Nyu's Tisch Scool, debuted as a director with 2008's "The Ladies," which won 15 festival Grand Jury prizes. Her film "Kink" is the latest of many collaborations with James Franco; others include "As I Lay Dying," "Child of God," "Sal," and "The Broken Tower." Of their partnership she says, "Its safe to say I've learned as much from our collaboration over the years as I have from my formal training in film school." What it's about: "'Kink' is a peek behind the curtain of the fetish empire of kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of Bdsm content." What it's really about: "In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, the directors at kink.com spend their 9 to 5 works week creating sexual fantasies. In 'kink', we discover not only...
- 1/19/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
News broke last week that porn star Princess Donna is working on a new project with James Franco. While no other details were revealed at the time, today we can tell you that we believe the project is a film centring on the famous silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Franco released several photos from the production this week, one of which features a slate from the film dated December 20th, 2012.
From the photo, which is seen above, we can tell that the film features at least 28 scenes, which suggests at least a long form short film, if not a feature length project. The slate also tells us the film is being shot by Bruce Cheung, the Dop from Tar.
Interestingly enough, Franco wrote a piece for The Huffington Post on Jerry Stahl’s book I, Fatty back in June, so it isn’t surprising that he is now creating...
From the photo, which is seen above, we can tell that the film features at least 28 scenes, which suggests at least a long form short film, if not a feature length project. The slate also tells us the film is being shot by Bruce Cheung, the Dop from Tar.
Interestingly enough, Franco wrote a piece for The Huffington Post on Jerry Stahl’s book I, Fatty back in June, so it isn’t surprising that he is now creating...
- 1/3/2013
- by Blake Dew
- We Got This Covered
James Franco‘s directorial career hasn’t been lacking in production, with the notoriously hyper-creative 34-year-old artist having delivered two features — The Broken Tower and Sal — within the past year. For most of us, though, it’s his high-profile literary adaptations that we’re most eager to hear more about, but it’s been a discouragingly tough road for both of them.
We first got wind of these passion projects back in January 2011, when we announced that big-screen versions of William Faulkner‘s As I Lay Dying and Cormac McCarthy‘s Blood Meridian were both on the somewhat immediate horizon for Franco. (Later that same day, we got direct confirmation from the actor himself.) In only a few short weeks after that, Franco revealed his personal dream cast — Michael Shannon, Paul Dano, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Jenkins — for the As I Lay Dying adaptation, and also dropped the possibility of a...
We first got wind of these passion projects back in January 2011, when we announced that big-screen versions of William Faulkner‘s As I Lay Dying and Cormac McCarthy‘s Blood Meridian were both on the somewhat immediate horizon for Franco. (Later that same day, we got direct confirmation from the actor himself.) In only a few short weeks after that, Franco revealed his personal dream cast — Michael Shannon, Paul Dano, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Jenkins — for the As I Lay Dying adaptation, and also dropped the possibility of a...
- 8/21/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
For all his prolific work across a number of mediums, James Franco's ability to write and direct is, for the most part, still an unknown quantity. He's done a few shorts, and two documentaries, but his three feature films so far -- the comedy "The Ape," the Sal Mineo biopic "Sal," and Hart Crane tale "The Broken Tower" -- haven't exactly become big hits or critical favorites. However, his latest endeavor might change that. Showbiz411 are reporting that Franco has casted up for his adaptation of William Faulkner's classic "As I Lay Dying," with his "Pineapple Express" and "Your Highness" co-star Danny McBride (in what would be his first dramatic role since "All The Real Girls"?), his ex-girlfriend Ahna O'Reilly, and "Prometheus" co-star Logan Marshall-Green all on board along side former Franco-collaborators Tim Blake Nelson and Jim Parrack, both of whom worked with him on...
- 8/21/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Tiff announced their last batch of titles for their primo Gala and Special Presentation events and it comes as no surprise that we’ve got ourselves several future Venice (Bad 25, Love is All You Need, Spring Breakers, Passion and The Master) and left over Cannes titles (White Elephant, On The Road, The Paperboy) set for some Special Presentation spots, but it’s the World Premieres that Tonrot have managed to lasso that have got out attention. First up in the trio of Gala screenings announced, it’s their Closing Night Film in Song for Marion which may do wonders for both the fest and the title itself — as it may be this year’s The King’s Speech type. What Maisie Knew, Arthur Newman, Greetings from Tim Buckley and after a long post-production phase Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow (see pic above) are all repping the new wave of U.S...
- 8/14/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
As if the line-up couldn’t get any better, Toronto International Film Festival have went ahead with what looks to be their final announcement of premieres. Added to the slate is the oft-rumored The Master, showing in 70mm, as well as Brian De Palma‘s Passion, Harmony Korine‘s Spring Breakers, Peter Webber‘s WWII romantic drama Emperor, a Jeff Buckley biopic, as well as Cannes premieres such as Lee Daniels‘ The Paperboy (review here) and Walter Salles’ On the Road (review here). Check out the new additions below.
Galas
Song for Marion Paul Andrew Williams, UK Closing Night Film
A feel-good, heart-warming story about how music can inspire you. Song for Marion stars Terence Stamp as Arthur, a grumpy pensioner who can’t understand why his wife Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir. But choir director Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton...
Galas
Song for Marion Paul Andrew Williams, UK Closing Night Film
A feel-good, heart-warming story about how music can inspire you. Song for Marion stars Terence Stamp as Arthur, a grumpy pensioner who can’t understand why his wife Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir. But choir director Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton...
- 8/14/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx: On the Road poster Tom Sturridge (Effie / Waiting for Forever / Brothers of the Head) is seen above in the latest On the Road "character" poster. In director Walter Salles and screenwriter José Rivera's film version of Jack Kerouac's iconic novel, Sturridge plays the character Carlo Marx, which sounds a lot like Harpo Marx, but who's actually Kerouac's portrait of writer-poet Allen Ginsberg. [Watch the On the Road trailer.] Two years ago, James Franco played Ginsberg in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl. Next, Daniel Radcliffe will be playing Ginsberg in John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings (2013), co-starring Elizabeth Olsen, Michael C. Hall, and Ben Foster as William S. Burroughs (played by Viggo Mortensen, as Old Bull Lee, in On the Road). [Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee.] In addition to Sturridge and Mortensen, On the Road features Tron: Legacy / Inside Llewyn Davis' Garrett Hedlund, Byzantium / Woman in Love's Sam Riley, Twilight / Snow White and the Huntsman...
- 3/24/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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