David Mamet's Redbelt, will open the joint ESPN/ Tribeca Sports Festival Program on April 25. Showcase your own competitive side and check out AMC's picks for the Greatest Sports Movie since 1975.
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If our Long Live Awards poll is any indicator, the playing field for the Academy Awards isn't as level as anyone thought -- and the Coen brothers better start writing their speeches. The front-runners are way out in front. Does this mean that on Sunday we'll be treated to a rare evening of unanimous approval? Or to one blistering upset after another?
While Cate Blanchett has a head start on Best Supporting Actress, Amy Ryan and Ruby Dee are closing in fast, suggesting that brilliant stunt casting is no substitute for solid, diamond-in-the-rough performances. Otherwise, the results are unequivocal...
The writers' strike may look threatening to this year's Academy Awards, but that hasn't stopped some people from calculating the odds for this year's nominees. The British bookies at Ladbrokes.com released their numbers for the top categories within hours of the announcement. (You can go to AMC's Oscars poll page and cast your vote for who you think will win in all the major categories.)
According to the site, the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men is the current favorite with 4-6 odds. Michael Clayton didn't fare nearly as well, pulling a paltry 12-1 odds for taking home the statue.
Variety reports that the always-controversial British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has declared cinema officially dead.
Speaking to a master class at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea, Greenaway said that all of the interesting work these days is being done in video and electronic filmmaking.
Putting the death of cinema at 1983, “when the remote control was introduced to the living room" (guess they got VCRs in his neighborhood later than we did), the director of such groundbreaking films as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Prospero’s Books dismissed the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films as merely illustrated books, and called adaptations of Jane Austen novels “a waste of time.”
Let me admit that I’m a great fan of Greenaway and his films, which I generally find delightful to look at even if they are way over my head. I’ve heard him speak a number of times, and recognize that he likes to provoke an audience. I’ve heard him say a lot of these things before, and I suspect the Variety article just pulled the juciest quotes.
Still, just because some kinds of classic cinematic storytelling have been done over and over again doesn’t mean I would never like to see them again. Rock and roll may all be the same three chords, but that doesn’t mean a teenaged bar band can’t still knock your socks off by playing old Chuck Berry songs.
We all have our favorite eras in movie history. So let’s take a poll: Do you think that the art and craft of moviemaking peaked years ago, and that we've just been seeing variations ever since? Or are movies getting better all the time?
This week's Shootout addresses the topic of celebrities keeping their private lives private.
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Robert Downey, Jr. was an unlikely leading man for a superhero movie, but his past battles with addiction gave him the world-weary air necessary to bring Iron Man's Tony Stark to life.
The Festival's two co-founders, Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro, discuss how the festival's original goals have evolved from its post-9/11 days to the present.
Movie stills from David Mamet's Redbelt, Tina Fey's Baby Mama, and the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer.
