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Oscar MythBusting: One Day They'll Be Nominated!
2 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Most fans of established actors believe that one day their favorite will be nominated for an Oscar. In 2009 campaigns hopes are particularly high for Sandra Bullock, Alfred Molina, Colin Firth and Christopher Plummer. Fans of James McAvoy and Sam Rockwell still hold out longshot hope. But guess what? The odds are, generally speaking, against them on February 2nd (two months hence!) when the lucky 20 are called.
Most actors aren't ever nominated for the big prize. People seemed surprise to read in an old Oscar Mythbusting column I wrote years ago that the majority of nominated actors (approximately 67%) never receive a second nomination. But I did the research and it's true. Even less likely than a second nomination: a first one. Consider this...
The following (living) legends have still never been nominated despite rich bodies of work and several classic films or exuberantly praised performances: Mia Farrow, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Plummer and Donald Sutherland. »
- NATHANIEL R
'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee' review (2/5) - Director Miller smothers it with numerous stereotypes of little invention.
2 December 2009 5:42 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Like its troubled heroine, 'Pippa Lee' lacks a creative spark. The Private Lives of Pippa LeeWriter and filmmaker Rebecca Miller stands in the face of countless superhero blockbusters and male-oriented comedies and delivers a rare big-screen feature, a character-driven, female-focused, ensemble melodrama. Sadly, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee", the fourth feature from Miller, is not nearly as good as one would hope from the director of standout dramas "Personal Velocity" (2002) and "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" (2005). A drama about a woman facing middle- aged malaise (played subtly by Robin Wright Penn), "Pippa Lee" shares many of the same setbacks as its heroine. The film lacks creative spark and powerful drama. Despite its impressive cast and storytelling potential, Miller fails to deliver with "Pippa Lee". Talented as she may be, Miller is proof that sometimes a filmmaker stumbles even with a story that appears to be a perfect fit. »
Hitting Theaters This Weekend
2 December 2009 3:00 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
New Moon and The Blind Side have had a choke-hold on the box office for the last two weeks, and although some big names hit the screen this weekend in new releases, I'm betting vampires and a blonde Sandra Bullock will once again earn 1st and 2nd place when Sunday rolls around. December kicks off with an action-packed heist, a widower traveling the country to connect with his kids, and the remake of a 2004 Danish film. Also hitting theaters in limited release is Jason Reitman's latest buzz-worthy offering:
Armored featuring Matt Dillon and Columbus Short
Brothers starring Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal
Everybody's Fine with Robert De Niro and Kate Beckinsale
Up in the Air (Limited) starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick New and Expanded Photo Galleries
Avatar Photos - Sam Worthington/Sigourney Weaver
Invictus Photos - Morgan Freeman/Matt Damon
Iron Man 2 Photos - Robert Downey Jr »
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Movie Review
30 November 2009 8:40 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
A heart felt effort but too slow to be called completely entertaining. Plenty of time to think in between crises Writer director Rebecca Miller lays life bare in her latest film about a woman who has it all and sometimes wishes she didn.t. Following her successes in the introspective .Personal Velocity: Three Portraits,. .Angela. and .The Ballad of Jack and Rose. (starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis) Miller has had the time and confidence to sit down and develop a substantial screenplay and deliver a demanding directorial effort. The result is an entertaining, if not engrossing, drama that is a heart-felt slice of life. The movie features a prestigious cast and crew that are a joy to behold. Robin Wright Penn »
- Ron Wilkinson
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
30 November 2009 4:35 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: Nov. 27 (limited) Director/Writer: Rebecca MillerCinematographer: Declan Quinn Starring: Alan Arkin, Robin Wright Penn, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Blake Lively Studio/Run Time: Screen Media Films/98 mins. In The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller adapts her own novel of the same name in order to tell the overly melodramatic story of its title character’s life. As she’s grown older, Lee and her husband have slowly been breaking down but in order to understand Lee’s current situation, we have to start at the very beginning of her life and learn about what it’s taken to end... »
Tracking Shot October 2009: The Social Network, The No Game, Cedar Rapids
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a half of a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October (2009), we are keeping tabs on.... - At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a half of a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October (2009), we are keeping tabs on.... Arteta's Youth in Revolt got pushed back to 2010, by then he'll be in post-production with Cedar Rapids. Backed by Ad Hominem and Alexander Payne, hot off The Hangover, Ed Helms will play a sad-sack insurance agent who goes to an industry. convention to try to save the jobs of his colleagues. I imagine the comedy will film in a tax incentive friendly city with a convention center for rent. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Robin Wright Penn Interview - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
29 November 2009 7:11 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Robin Wright Penn stars in the title role in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a moving tale of self-discovery. Rebecca Miller adapted her own novel and directed Pippa Lee, the story of a woman who marries a much older man (played by Alan Arkin), raises a family, and then embarks on a journey to confront her past and face the resentment she now feels over her seemingly perfect life and marriage.
Miller and Wright Penn worked together extensively to craft Pippa Lee, a 50 year old homemaker who examines her past and finds her own identity late in life, over the course of a year while the film was seeking funding. "I worked on the costumes, the sets and the script. And I was also able to talk to Robin for a whole year about it, much to the benefit of the movie. It was a wonderful collaboration," said Miller. »
Wright Penn: 'Love scenes are difficult'
28 November 2009 7:04 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Robin Wright Penn has admitted that she finds filming sex scenes difficult. The actress has said that she was relieved that it only took one take to film the love scene with Keanu Reeves in The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee. Speaking to USA Today, Wright Penn said: "Any kind of vulnerability is always hard to do. Just being exposed in that way is difficult. People say it's hard to do those scenes revealing the blood and soul of your heart, crying. "That's easy-peasy for me. Intimacy is far more challenging. (more) »
- By Marcell Minaya
Robin Wright's cinematic quickie with Keanu: 'Thank God... in one take'
27 November 2009 2:26 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Robin Wright was relieved when it only took one take to film her sex scenes with Keanu Reeves. The 'Forrest Gump' actress - who recently ended her marriage to Sean Penn - found it hard to shoot parts of her new movie, 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee', especially when her character had to make love to Keanu's in the back of a truck. She said: "Any kind of vulnerability is always hard to do. Just being exposed in that way is difficult. People say it's hard to do those scenes revealing the blood and soul of your heart, crying. That's easy-peasy for me. Intimacy is far more challenging. Thank God we did it in one take." Robin also »
Robin Wright's sex scene relief
27 November 2009 2:26 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Robin Wright was relieved when it only took one take to film her sex scenes with Keanu Reeves. The 'Forrest Gump' actress - who recently ended her marriage to Sean Penn - found it hard to shoot parts of her new movie, 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee', especially when her character had to make love to Keanu's in the back of a truck. She said: "Any kind of vulnerability is always hard to do. Just being exposed in that way is difficult. People say it's hard to do those scenes revealing the blood and soul of your heart, crying. That's easy-peasy for me. Intimacy is far more challenging. Thank God we did it in one take." Robin also revealed »
Robin Wright's sex scene relief
27 November 2009 1:45 AM, PST | Virgin Media - Movies | See recent Virgin Media - Movies news »
Robin Wright was relieved when it only took one take to film her sex scenes with Keanu Reeves. The 'Forrest Gump' actress - who recently ended her marriage to Sean Penn - found it hard to shoot parts of her new movie, 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee', especially when her character had to make love to Keanu's in the back of a truck. She said: ''Any kind of vulnerability is always hard to do. Just being exposed in that way is difficult. People say it's hard to do those scenes revealing the blood and soul of your heart, crying. That's easy-peasy for .. »
Wright Asked Animators For Boobs
26 November 2009 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Robin Wright has discovered a new way of boosting her breasts without going under the knife - get animated.
The Forrest Gump star was amazed with what the experts could do with motion capture for her part in Jim Carrey's new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
She says, "It's actually your movement - all of your acting is seen and they paint over you.
"I said, 'Can you give me really large breasts please?' and they said, 'Yeah, we'll just paint those in post-production.'" »
'Pippa Lee' Stars Keanu Reeves, Robin Wright Penn Talk Love And Loss
25 November 2009 12:16 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf,' Penn says of her character's changing life.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Robin Wright Penn and Keanu Reeves
Photo: MTV News
Robin Wright Penn wasn't supposed to be in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," at least not in the way it was originally conceived by indie filmmaker Rebecca Miller ("The Ballad of Jack and Rose"). The writer/director conceived her newest movie's heroine as a 55-year-old woman coming to terms with her shady past and contending with her older husband's declining health.
But when Penn came into the picture, the story line stayed the same, while Pippa's age dropped 15 years. "Really and truly, age is just a number," the actress told MTV News. "I think we do it in stages in our life. It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf. [Pippa's] at that crossroads. »
Film: Review:The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
24 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Rebecca Lee Miller’s melodrama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee—which she based on her own novel—is told from the perspective of the title character, a former free spirit who suffers a spell of sleepwalking and uses the incidents as impetus to look back at why she settled down in the first place. Robin Wright Penn plays Pippa, the wife of aging book editor Alan Arkin. As Arkin eases awkwardly into semi-retirement—dragging his much younger wife along with him—she reflects on her turbulent childhood, which involved fleeing the confines of the suburbs and the mania of ... »
'The Princess And The Frog,' 'Me And Orson Welles' And 'The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee' In This Week's unLimited
24 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's another big holiday weekend with plenty of new releases to consider following your Thanksgiving feast this Thursday (and following your subsequent leftovers feasts through Sunday). In the same way that many Americans prefer alternatives to the traditional turkey and stuffing dinner on the day of gratitude, many moviegoers want something other than a studio tentpole release the day after Thanksgiving. Really, why would you want a popcorn movie when you're still full from the night before?
There are a couple of limited release options this week, including an important studio film getting a surprisingly soft opening, to appease such a film diet. Check these films out if you want something different as or additional to your main course this weekend:
What is is: Richard Linklater, director of "Dazed and Confused" and "School of Rock," returns with a fictionalized coming-of-age drama set during production of Orson Welles »
- Christopher Campbell
Cursed Celeb Name Changes
24 November 2009 8:48 AM, PST | newser.com | See recent newser news »
Heidi Klum is officially Heidi Samuel, taking a last name that even husband Seal doesn’t use—and it may not be a good PR move. Olivia Allin recalls other not-so-smart celebrity name changes on The Frisky : Pamela Anderson: When she gained the “Lee” on the end of her name, she also gained Hepatitis C and a sex tape. Robin Wright: Now that she’s finally dropped the “Penn,” she has a starring role and seems poised for a career comeback. Sarah Michelle Gellar: She’s officially Sarah Michelle Prinze as of September—but her career downturn seemed to start before the official... »
In Theaters: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
24 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
As the adult Pippa Lee, the comely, gracious, unfailingly appropriate wife of a newly retired New York publisher, Robin Wright speaks in a small, high voice that suggests a kind of atrophy. It's the kind of voice that might result from years of unuse, of sealing even the most meager opinions behind the warm but empty smile of a literary consort, and Pippa is the kind of woman who has endured countless cocktail party conversations without once being spoken to herself. In the opening scene of Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, she disappears into that smile when one of the guests at the dinner party she is throwing to celebrate her husband Herb's (Alan Arkin) new home in a Connecticut retirement community pays her a tribute that doubles as a dismissal: "You are the very icon of an artist's wife." This now-common misuse of the term »
Writer-Director Rebecca Miller opens up to MakingOf about her film "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"
24 November 2009 7:48 AM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
Rebecca Miller is an independent filmmaker whose latest work "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" opens this Friday. The movie is an adaptation of Miller's first novel that shares the same name and the title character is played by both Robin Wright and Blake Lively. The story focuses on one woman's journey and the timing jumps between the past and present throughout to show how past events form the foundation of who people become.
During this interview with MakingOf, Miller reveals her writing and directing influences, how she prepares for sudden changes on set and why her depth of knowledge is a key part of the production process. She also identifies the line of dialogue from this film that she feels is the driving force of the story.
To hear more about this personal adaptation click here.
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Blake Lively Comforting Maria Bello in New 'Pippa Lee' Clip
24 November 2009 1:02 AM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Just few days before the film is released in limited U.S. theaters on Thanksgiving weekend, November 27, Screen Media Films has provided another sneak peek at "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee". Making its way out via Zap2it, the footage features Blake Lively as young Pippa Lee, who is calmly speaking to her mother Maria Bello's Suky Sarkissian, when she becomes emotional.
When she is a teenager, Pippa runs away from her rural home and seeks refuge with her father's sister Trish in New York City since she is nearly driven mad by her complacent pastor father Des Sarkissian and bipolar mother Suky. Falling under the influence of Kit, her aunt's lesbian partner, Pippa rapidly descends into an underworld of illegal drugs and promiscuous sex. She is rescued from her decadent lifestyle by Herb Lee, a charismatic publisher who is 30 years her senior.
The two later wed and »
- AceShowbiz.com
Blake Lively Done With Her Mom in New 'Pippa Lee' Clip
23 November 2009 11:42 PM, PST | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »
Before fans get to check out Blake Lively's performance in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" in theaters, Screen Media Films teases a look at her as teenage Pippa Lee through a brand new clip. Coming out courtesy of Zap2It, the sneak peek focuses on the scene between the "Gossip Girl" star and Maria Bello.
A little more than a minute long, the clip revolves around the moment young Pippa breaks the news to her bipolar mother, Suky Sarkissian, that she will no longer live with Suky. The news quickly upsets Suky, leading to her questioning what she has done to make Pippa being secretive with and unhappy living with her.
Lively has earlier talked to Collider about her part as young Pippa. In particular, she revealed about her experience shooting a bed scene for the movie. "Well, I think it's uncomfortable, laying in strategically placed clothes that are taped on your body, »
- celebrity-mania.com
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