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One day after Jeff Bridges earned a Golden Globe nomination for "Crazy Heart," the movie opens in selected cities today.

T Bone Burnett has scored and written songs for many high-profile projects, including "Cold Mountain" for Anthony Minghella as well as "The Big Lebowski" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" for the Coens.

Jeff Bridges is picking up chatter about the Best Actor award for Crazy Heart. Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up , the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski .

The story of an alcoholic over-the-hill singing star would make a perfect country ballad.

Multitasking French movie icon Isabelle Huppert just swept into town to appear in Robert Wilson 's production of Quartett at BAM and to promote Ursula Meier 's Home , the Swiss entry for the Oscar, in which a family is disrupted by a noisy highway that has opened near their secluded house and made them crazy.

Directed by Grant Heslov. Written by Peter Straughan. Photographed by Robert Elswit.

The local music community is still mourning the loss of harmonica hero Norton Buffalo, who died Oct.

David Thomson: I doubt that in the history of the movies we've ever before had women in their 50s standing above all others.

A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney's The Men Who Stare at Goats, and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: ''More of this is true than what you might imagine.'' This wry comment serves as a nod and a wink from the filmmakers, a license to do what they will to Jon Ronson's amusing nonfiction ...

Huppert in Robert Wilson's video-portrait homage to Edward Steichen's 1928 photograph of Greta Garbo.

Nia Vardalos, who hit pay dirt by adapting her one-woman play, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, to the screen in 2002, is in the middle of a big fat career slump.

It seems the recent little spate of publicity over Robert Redford's new film about Mary Surratt has motivated Steven Spielberg to break the silence surrounding his long-awaited Lincoln biopic.

To the list that includes Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate," Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and Steve Jobs's NeXT computer - that is, ventures that were pretty much universally derided as a colossal failures before most anybody actually had a chance to see them - are we going to have to add Barack Obama's 2009 education speech? ...

Heaven's Gate set in Glacier National Park. Jim Burnett photo. The 1980 movie Heavena s Gate , a mega-flop filmed in Glacier National Park , was so wretched that it destroyed the directora s reputation, helped extinct United Artists, and sent Hollywood westerns to the doghouse.

The best facial animation on the big screen that I've ever seen was shown to audiences last night throughout the country.

The best facial animation on the big screen that I've ever seen was shown to audiences last night throughout the country.

Isabelle Huppert: France's most treasured cinematic belle After two decades as the queen of arthouse cinema, the actress talks about success, monsters and surviving the biggest flop in film history.

After two decades as the queen of arthouse cinema, the actress talks about success, monsters and surviving the biggest flop in film history You might think it gauche to conflate actors with their roles, but in the case of Isabelle Huppert it's difficult not to.

Intense character actor Terry O'Quinn made a 30-year career from playing men of determination - " his lengthy c.v. of film and television roles was dotted with law officers, military men, captains of business like Howard.... Intense character actor Terry O'Quinn made a 30-year career from playing men of determination - " his lengthy c.v. of film ...

Willem Dafoe, one of Hollywood's most reliable and versatile actors, has always embraced a challenge, as evidenced by his acclaimed work in such films as "The Last Temptation of Christ," "American Psycho" and "The English Patient." As he's about to receive CineVegas' Vanguard Actor Award, Dafoe says he likes "the idea of being in the vanguard.