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Justin Bieber Meets Celine Dion In New York
11 hours ago | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
There's no question that Justin Bieber is hot right now, and the holiday season has kept him busy and in demand. After spending the weekend hanging out with Jordin Sparks and covering an Eminem tune, Bieber jetted to New York City to catch Monday (December 7) night's Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. (In a rare show of team competence, the Knicks beat the Portland Trail Blazers 93-84; perhaps they should request that Bieber be present for all subsequent home games.)
But the night's greatest moment had nothing to do with David Lee's double-double or Danilo Gallinari's 14 points. Rather, it happened behind the scenes. Like the Lakers, the New York basketball team attracts a number of celebrities (like director Spike Lee, a courtside staple for years). In addition to Bieber, fellow Canadian singer Celine Dion was in attendance, and Bieber snapped a picture with her, which he then posted to Twitter. »
- Kyle Anderson
John’s Top Eleven Films of the Decade
6 December 2009 3:47 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
I was just under 11 years old as we entered the 2000s, and in the last decade I have made it my mission to fill the space in my mind that should be reserved for academics to remembering the details of far too many films. In looking back upon this decade, it seems that we’ve had quite a good chunk of time for movies — there are only two years absent on my top ten list: 2000 and 2005, while 2006 is represented by three films. I still cheated, though, by extending my list to eleven entries. Some were just too good to decide between.
I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. And before you start — don’t cry. The Dark Knight isn’t on here.
11. The Royal Tenenbaums – 2001
Spoiler: you’re going to find that comedy is slightly underrepresented on this list, with Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums »
- John Cooper
Kobe Doin’ Work – Mvp Limited Edition DVD
6 December 2009 8:36 AM, PST | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
While not particularly a basketball fan, and certainly not much of a Kobe Bryant fan, the Spike Lee venture Kobe Doin' Work is a fairly fascinating work. An all-access look at the life of the 2008 Mvp, you get to see every part of the road to the game, and what goes on behind-the-scenes in a way rarely captured. From the locker room to strategy meetings, this is an intense and uncensored look at not only one particular player, but the world of sports in general. It's all captured and put together in a way that really has Spike Lee's fingerprints all over it, and you likely won't watch basketball in quite the same way again. Sports fans can experience unlimited access to the intensity and immeasurable talent of 2009 NBA Finals Mvp Kobe Bryant when Espn Home Entertainment, in conjunction with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, present Kobe Doin' Work, »
- Marc Eastman
Gone With The Wind 70th Anniversary Blu-ray Review
4 December 2009 12:19 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
There is nothing wrong with Gone with the Wind. Yes, it’s a bit racist. Heck, it’s a lot racist and you get to cringe listening to Clark Gable say things like “darkie.” The black characters are mostly shameful, and the film revels in the greatness and loss of the South. There are interesting ambiguities, though. Rhett Butler (Gable) recognizes that the civil war is stupid and bound for failure, but later on enlists. Okay, there’s a lot wrong with the film, but it’s also one of those films of such grand dramatic heft that it is also undeniable. My review of Gone with the Wind after the (Kris Kross will make you Jump) jump.
It’s hard not to wrestle with the history of the film, and Spike Lee has decidedly dismissed it. He’s not unfair for doing so; there are a lot of problems with the text. »
- Andre Dellamorte
The Year of Apolitical Cinema?
3 December 2009 11:57 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
In 1989, Spike Lee picked up a trashcan and hurled it into the front window of Sal's Pizzeria, stirring chaos in Bed-Stuy and sending movie audiences into a tizzy about race relations in America. That same year, Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma were reopening heated debates about Vietnam ("Born on the Fourth of July," "Casualties of War"), while Steven Soderbergh and Peter Greenaway were making us squirm by challenging conventional moral codes ("sex, lies and videotape," "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover"). Jump ahead 20 years: today's watercooler cinema holds nary an ounce of subversive content. On the contrary, the most talked-about upscale American films of the year uphold such conservative myths as the sanctity of family and community.
Much has already been written about the reactionary elements of Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which, despite its confrontational scenes of rape, »
- Anthony Kaufman
Salute Your Shorts: Arnaud Descplechin's L'Aimée
3 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.There’s always been something interesting about seeing documentaries made by feature filmmakers. Whether it’s Martin Scorsese’s odd view of who embodies the spirit of the times in "American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince" or Spike Lee’s moving chronicle When the Levees Broke, there’s something to these movies beyond simply their topics. They help us to interpret the director’s features and also emphasize what they see as truly important outside the world of their own... »
Decade in Review: 2002 Top Ten
2 December 2009 7:58 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
As with 2000 and 2001, I'm reprinting my original top ten lists and commentary. If I've got something new to say, it'll be in red below.
Please note: This list was based on NYC release dates in the year 2002. Some movies are listed as different years at the IMDb based on when they were produced or released in their home country or in La or whatnot.
Undervalued: Morvern Callar, Roger Dodger, About a Boy, White Oleander, Panic Room and Kissing Jessica Stein Top 10 Runners Up: Chicago, Monsoon Wedding, Punch Drunk Love and Spirited Away I still am glad I championed most of these movies though I am sad that some of them aren't in the top ten... particularly Morvern, Monsoon and the Miyazaki. The MMMs. Though I'm not sure I'd know what to remove to make room for them.
10. 8 Women (François Ozon)
Ever since I a French teacher took my friends and »
- NATHANIEL R
Spirit Awards: The Nominees (Final)
1 December 2009 8:01 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
The nominations for the 25th Anniversary Spirit Awards have been announced in Los Angeles. Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson welcomed attendees to the nominations this morning, touting the legacy of the awards and the early nominees, including Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch and others. “We are living in the world that they created,” she said this morning, “This years nominations reflect the same criteria that were important to … »
What are the best TV ads of the noughties?
1 December 2009 3:53 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Let us know the TV commercials that have stood out for you over the past decade
Looking back at the TV adverts of the past decade, it's difficult not to be struck by the creativity on show. Rather than the movie-influenced blockbuster ads of the 90s, much of the industry turned to quirky conceptual ideas. Advertisers also exploited the growing power of the web – not only did successful campaigns make their mark on TV, they also went viral.
Some relied on special effects, some relied on exhaustive preparation by art teams – but some of the best were just a clever idea, simply executed. Who would have guessed that a man in a gorilla suit playing the drums would have been one of the most talked-about ads of the decade?
Below are some of our favourite ads of the noughties – let us know what you think we've missed out.
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- Dugald Baird
Spike Lee's Upcoming Film Slate
30 November 2009 1:52 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Director Spike Lee recently talked to IGN about some of his rumored/announced upcoming projects. Here's the rundown from the man himself:Inside Man 2Spike Lee: Waiting on Universal Pictures. They have the script. They have the budget and we'll see if they wanna make it. Denzel's ready. Clive Owen's ready. I'm ready. Jodie's ready. Everyone's ready. It's like, "Coach, put us in!" Save Us, Joe Louis [biopic] Spike Lee: I've been unable to get the financing. What's really sad about that is that I had made a promise to the late great Budd Schulberg that we'd get it done and Budd passed recently. He was 95. Budd being, of course, the screenwriter of On the Waterfront and the novelist of What Makes Sammy Run. Great, great, great, great writer. James Brown biopic Spike Lee: Financing. I had the all-time biopic trilogy: Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and James Brown. »
DVD Review: Kobe Doin’ Work
30 November 2009 11:59 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
While I’m not the biggest fan of basketball or the NBA, it was with mild interest that I watched Spike Lee’s latest ode to the game he loves in Kobe Doin’ Work.
Focusing on L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant, Lee centers this documentary around one pivotal game against the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals in the ‘07/’08 season. Would the short film appeal only to fans of the game or can Lee create something which speaks beyond the hoops? The answer is a resounding “meh.”
For the first three quarters of the game, Lee has microphones and an absurd amount of cameras around the star that captures everything from on-the-bench talks, conversations with teammates, coaching staff and more. Kobe Doin’ Work sparks interest from a voyeuristic standpoint, which, come on, is pretty easy to do, but where this video shines is through Bryant’s narration. »
- Erik Buckman
A Serious Man and the odd movie out
29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background. »
- Joe Queenan
Birthday Suits, An Oscar For Ed!
28 November 2009 6:20 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Each day we're celebriting the birth of various cinematic persons. Can someone in Hollywood please give their Oscar to Ed Harris today? I mean, my god how long does he have to wait for that damn thing? The rest of today's Sagittarians are less easy to shop for. What could we give Jon Stewart, for example, that he doesn't already have?
Ed, Laura and Jon
1896 Lilia Skala, Oscar nominated actress (Lilies of the Field)
1923 Gloria Grahame, Oscar winner (The Bad the Beautiful)
933 Hope Lange, Oscar nominated actress (Peyton Place, The Young Lions, Death Wish)
1941 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress, sex symbol
1946 Joe Dante He'll always have Gremlins, such a great 80s picture.
1949 Alexander Godunov, like Baryshnikov, he was a Russian ballet star who defected to America and co-starred in movies. It didn't go quite as well. He never achieved anything close to Misha's level of fame though he made for a memorable screen presence (Witness, »
- NATHANIEL R
'Kobe Doin Work' is More Than Just Hoopla
27 November 2009 11:18 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
I have only been to one NBA game in my life and that was 10 years ago (the Vancouver Grizzlies against Portland, I think it was). I didn't understand the rules of this high-scoring sport so I thought the half time acrobat show was the most entertaining part of the event. Nevertheless, I was intrigued when I received a review copy of the Espn basketball documentary Kobe Doin' Work.
Helmed by renowned film director Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Summer of Sam, Malcolm X), Kobe Doin' Work focuses on a "game in the life" of La Lakers star Kobe Bryant. From it, I hoped to learn something about how the game of basketball is played and about the life of one of the biggest sports stars in the world. As a fan of other sports (particularly English Premier League soccer) I was also curious to get a sense of what »
Lee To Receive Charity Honour
27 November 2009 4:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Moviemaker Spike Lee's devotion to good causes is to be recognised by a children's charity in New York.
The director will be presented with the 20th Anniversary Mickey Mantle Community Service Award by officials at the Camp Brooklyn organisation next month.
The ceremony will include an auction to raise funds for the charity, which helps disadvantaged kids in the New York City suburb, and will be hosted by its founder, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
Markowitz will present Lee with the coveted award for his ground breaking film work, as well as his on-going community service in the Big Apple. The fundraiser will take place on 9 December at Mickey Mantle's restaurant in New York City. »
[Movie Review] Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
27 November 2009 2:35 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Movies would be so much simpler if we measure them by their sympathy factor. Precious would be a top-scorer, racking up points as it lines up social hardship like bullseye targets. It's a capably-acted film; I hope to see its star Gabby Sidibe in more films after this. Unfortunately, that's all the film could accomplish. Outside of a very nicely nuanced central performance, Precious is—how should I put this—a piece of shit.
This is a social worker's fetish porn, a freak show of ghetto blows constructed to go for the cheapest vote. Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, it tells the grimy life of Precious, a sixteen-year-old girl in mid 80's Harlem whose existence so far bears the stink of God's perverted sense of humor. She's black, obese, illiterate, and pregnant for a second time by an absent father who only comes home when he feels like raping her. »
- Arya Ponto
Spike Lee To Be Honored At Charity Auction
26 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | Look to the Stars | See recent Look to the Stars news »
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will present the 20th Anniversary Mickey Mantle Community Service Award to director and actor Spike Lee at an annual sports and entertainment fantasy auction benefiting Camp Brooklyn on December 9th.
Camp Brooklyn was founded by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to give children from low-income homes an opportunity to attend a sleep-away camp no cost to the camper. The Camp Brooklyn Fund gives these children a chance to leave their urban environment and learn about teamwork, loyalty, wholesome health habits, responsibility, personal respect and appreciation for nature, all of which are a part of a child¹s education at summer camp.
Since 2002 Camp Brooklyn sent more than 1500 Brooklyn children to summer camp. To help raise funds – - and send over 400 children to camp in 2010 – - Camp Brooklyn will auction off a number of unique and exclusive items at the event, including:
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The Decade: Film's 10 Best Music Moments In The Aughts
24 November 2009 5:43 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
The Doors and Apocalypse Now. Simon and Garfunkel and The Graduate. Richard Strauss and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Some of the greatest scenes in cinema history would be nothing without their added soundtracks. What if Tarantino had used "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath instead of "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel for Reservoir Dogs? What about "You Light Up My Life" instead of "Fight The Power" in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing? There were more than a couple mistakes of this nature in the past decade - the entire Watchmen soundtrack comes to mind - but with the aughts coming to a close let's celebrate the ones that got it right 10. Superbad - 2007 Song: "Panama" by Van Halen Few songs can pump someone up more than 80's hair metal (basically the reason it was invented), and no band did it better than Van Halen. So when »
This Week on DVD: Funny People, Angels & Demons, Gomorrah
24 November 2009 9:48 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Tom Hanks is back as the almighty all-knowing symbologist Robert Langdon this week as Ron Howard's Angels & Demons hits DVD and Blu-ray, along with Judd Apatow's underperforming Funny People and the Robert Rodriguez family adventure flick Shorts. Also this week, Criterion releases the acclaimed mafia film Gomorrah, Uwe Boll's Far Cry video game adaptation goes direct to DVD, and Spike Lee's Kobe Bryant doc Kobe: Doin' Work finally hits stores. On Blu-ray we have Fred Dekker's The Monster Squad, Jackie Chan's New Police Story, and the first season of The Sopranos. What will you be renting or buying this week? Angels & Demons [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) Four Christmases [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) Funny People [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) Shorts [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8]) Gomorrah: Criterion Collection [9] (DVD, Blu-ray [10]) The Golden Age of Television: Criterion Collection [11] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [12] Far Cry [13] Three Monkeys [14] Santa Buddies [15] (DVD, Blu-ray [16]) Taking Chances [17] National »
- Sean
Gems of the 1980's: Susan Seidelman Remembers Desperately Seeking Susan
22 November 2009 8:01 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(Filmmaker Susan Seidelman, above.)
by Jon Zelazny
In the early 80’s NYC cultural lull between Patti Smith’s retirement and Jay McInerney’s breakout, Nyu film school graduate Susan Seidelman did the scrappy shoestring indie film thing, resulting in her acclaimed feature debut Smithereens (1982).
Best known for her hit sophomore effort, Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Seidelman continues to direct movies and TV shows featuring female protagonists… including the pilot for “Sex and the City” and her Oscar nominated short film The Dutch Master (1994), about a shy dental technician who ventures “into” a museum painting for flights of erotic fantasy.
Susan Seidelman: My husband Jonathan Brett—who co-wrote and produced The Dutch Master—and I had committed to living in Paris for a year because I was set to direct a feature for Polygram, a company that unfortunately went bankrupt. So we were kind of in a funk over there, and »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
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