Do you guys remember when Britney Spears had her own movie? DO YOU?
Art Gallery of NSW Film Series: Ain't there anyone here for love?
For anyone who lives in or who will be visiting Sydney over the next few weeks, the Art Gallery of NSW is doing a film series on changing representations of love in cinema. The tickets are free (!!!), though you’ve got to arrive at the gallery early enough to snap them up.
They’re already about half way through the line-up, but the remaining films are Badlands, Les Amants du Pont Neuf, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Dog Day Afternoon, A Short Film About Love, Happy Together, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and Two Lovers. I am swooning.
To grace the poster for its 66th edition, the Festival de Cannes has chosen a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed during the shooting of the aptly named A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963).
For the Festival it is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favoured co-star.
They were honoured at the Festival de Cannes in 1958 – the year of their marriage – with the selection In Competition of Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together. The links between their story and that of the Festival continued with a series of films directed by Newman, who cast Woodward in unforgettable roles in The Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Competition – 1973) and The Glass Menagerie (Competition – 1987).
The poster evokes a luminous and tender image of the modern couple, intertwined in perfect balance at the heart of the dizzying whirlwind that is love. The vision of these two lovers caught in a vertiginous embrace, oblivious of the world around them, invites us to experience cinema with all the passion of an everlasting desire. — Cannes 2013
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I'm trying to figure out who owns the rights to the movie Seance On A Wet Afternoon... any ideas? It was an Allied Film Makers Presentation....
I haven’t a clue, really. You may have already checked this out, but here’s IMDb’s company credits for the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058557/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co I hope that’s helpful in some way.
“The movie is not about ghosts, but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.”
The Shining, 1980
Jessica Chastain in Armani Prive - 2013 Oscars, February 24th 2013
Bringing this back because I’m still not over it
Count Olaf, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
The Academy Award Nominated Cinematography of Roger Deakins
