Holiday movie preview: Viggo Mortensen isn't roasting chestnuts but trying to keep from getting roasted in the cannibal-crazy "The Road." Earthlings aren't exactly welcome when they visit Smurf-colored aliens in James Cameron's "Avatar." Even Daniel Day-Lewis can't find any peace in "Nine." Hopefully for Hollywood all this strife will result in what they really want under their collective Christmas trees: A big box of envelopes that say: "And the nominees are ..."
Wes Anderson is “absolutely, totally convinced” that if he and co-writer Noah Baumbach had not been given the opportunity to live and work at author Roald Dahl’s famous “Gipsy House” in the English countryside — “a lot of the essence of Dahl might be missing from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox.’”
Viggo Mortensen takes being a cool actor to extremes. For his new end-of-the-world drama “The Road,” he had to jump into a very cold ocean on location in Oregon. One wonders: Why can’t the world end in, say, Miami?
“That water was cold,” says Mortensen. “They had ambulances standing just in case. Of course, I asked for a second take and everyone was shocked because it was also 41 degrees outside in a howling wind.”
This weekend, you could pay $10 to see the cinematic vampire love story "New Moon," stand in line for overpriced snacks with your new tween buddies and then jostle for a seat in a crowded theater.
It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like to be the eldest daughter of film legend Orson Welles, a man so wrapped up in his cinematic vision, and raising money for that vision, that to have him in your life meant playing by his rules.
Chris Welles Feder unravels the experience in her subtly captivating memoir, In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles.
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• Nicolas Cage turns in fearless performance in 'Bad Lieutenant'
• Backstage at the opera, in cinema-verite style
• Arthouse films
• New on DVD
• Ben Foster feels stress of soldiering in 'The Messenger'
• Learning how to be a family
• 'Twilight' time in L.A., and fan gets first bite
• Bullock has more fun
• Disaster fans flood theaters to see '2012'
• Oscar season comes early for 3 film veterans
• Vampire or werewolf? What's a girl to do?
• Supporting vampires feel the love
• Q&A with Robert Pattinson
• Q&A with Taylor Lautner
• 'Z-Movie' king is unlikeliest Oscar winner
• Gotta wear shades? Try the new Maysles
• Bringing out the DeMille for Scorsese
• Young film talents from Iberia at fest
• Arthouse films
• New on DVD
• What's in a name? Not much, Goldberg hopes
• Girls just wanna see vampires
• Ciao, Bella: 'New Moon' stars talk about breakup
• New Scrooge blessed with No. 1 opening
• 'Pirate Radio' set was one big 1960s music fest
• John Cusack saves the world in apocalyptic '2012'
• Five questions with Woody Harrelson
• Review: 'American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood' by Marc Elliot
• Review: 'High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly' by Donald Spoto
• The Scriptures on sexuality
• Art house films: 'Afghan Star'
• A Hitchcock classic hits 50
• Review: 'Robert Altman: The Oral Biography' by Mitchell Zuckoff
• New on DVD
• 21st Polish Film Festival offers a broad scope
• Sakey: Pine beamed up for South Side tale
• 'Carol' to cash in on early-bird Christmas spirit
• No high-tech tyranny for 'Carol'
• Hosting 2010 Oscars will be a two-man job
• Film studio planned for West Side
• Jim carries Dickens tale as Scrooge, six others
• 2 weeks won't be 'It' for Jackson fans
• Mo'Nique steps away from comic roots for 'Precious'
• Israeli fest lauds a nation and its culture
• Arthouse films
• 'Slumdog' kids may learn hard way that school pays
• New on DVD
• 'This Is It' director quits new 'Footloose'
• Michael Jackson film is 'the show of all shows': director
• 'Saw' taunted by a horror newcomer
• Gray's 'Law Abiding' makes plea as 'something serious'
