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Yesterday | DailyFill

Robert Pattinson Does One Billionth James Dean-Inspired Photo Shoot

Tags: Robert Pattinson http://assets.dailyfill.com/images/misc/favorited.gif Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:04 AM Ita s fine to look sad when youa re all wet, but please dona t drive your car over a cliff.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Twilight

Wednesday | Philadelphia Weekly Online

Pop Rocks Edy's Wild Berry Popsicles Dipped in Whole...

Summertime, and the livin's tasty. Here's the scoop: Grab an Edy's black cherry or wildberry fruit popsicle and snag yourself some 365 lemonade from Whole Foods.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, River Phoenix

Fri Jul 03, 2009

The Independent

Keanu Reeves - An A-list slacker grows up

His next role sees him playing the toy-boy next door. But is Keanu Reeves really the guitar-strumming, eternal teenager of popular repute? Kaleem Aftab finds out AP Mysterious dude: Keanu as Chris Nadeau in 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee', with co-star Robin Wright Penn.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Speed, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, History Movies, Dangerous Liaisons, Horror Movies, Feeling Minnesota, Chain Reaction, The Last Time I Committed Suicide

Wed Jun 10, 2009

The New York Times

The Moment: Feeling For a Number (N)ine

Looks from Number ine's fall 2008, left, and spring 2009 collections. Bruce Pask, T Magazine's men's fashion director, writes on style every two weeks.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies

Mon May 11, 2009

The Oregonian

For filmmakers, Oregon is a great place to shoot

Oregon may not be Hollywood, but our state has played itself in movies that range all over the cinematic map.

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Related Topix: Portland, OR, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Apr 29, 2009

Mountain Xpress

Chimes at Midnight

Fighting the uphill battle inherent in all international co-productions of its time and the limitations of recording dialogue in post-production, Orson Welles, nonetheless, emerged victorious with Chimes at Midnight - perhaps the only one of his films that can really give Citizen Kane a run for its money as the filmmaker's finest work.

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Related Topix: Gothic, Orson Welles, Drama Movies, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Apr 01, 2009

OhNoTheyDidnt

James Franco's Top 10(ish) Criterion DVDs

You can add James Franco to the list of Criterion's most ardent fans. This month, the actor, seen left in a photo recalling My Own Private Idaho, taken by Gus Van Sant in Oregon in fall 2008, has contributed to our ongoing collection of Criterion top ten lists.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, Drama, Gus Van Sant, Columbia University, Opening Night, Gena Rowlands

Sat Mar 14, 2009

Daily Herald

'Milk' celebrates rather than mourns its hero

"Milk" The best thing about this stirring biopic is its tone. Most biopics treat their subjects with dreary reverence.

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gus Van Sant, Role Models, Happy-Go-Lucky, Musical Movies

Thu Feb 26, 2009

The Eagle Eye

New film series: A winding road

Following last semester's successful "Dysfunctional Families" theme, the new theme for the spring semester Film Series is the "Road Films!" What films does that theme entail exactly? This semester's selections ...

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Related Topix: Transamerica, Drama, Comedy Movies, Adventure

Mon Feb 23, 2009

Vancouver Sun

And the winner is . . .

This is the prize that really establishes where the academy's collective headspace is at because the entire membership votes for it.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Slumdog Millionaire, Terrorism, Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gus Van Sant

Sat Feb 21, 2009

The Globe and Mail

From the margins to the mainstream

Close-up, in conversation, he has the startled look of Tony Perkins, the diffident manner of Andy Warhol and, sporting orange sneakers and a blue hoodie and hole-in-the-knee jeans, the dress code of a ...

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Psycho, Last Days, Crime Movies, Horror, Music!, Thriller, Gus Van Sant, Portland, OR, Entertainment

Thu Feb 19, 2009

Vancouver Sun

Katherine Monk's line on the Oscars: Who should win - and who will win

When the likes of Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Montgomery Clift and Alfred Hitchcock went to the grave without an Oscar a ' not counting the consolation statuettes for lifetime achievement a ' the average moviegoer ...

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Related Topix: Oscars, Arts, Cinema, Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire

Tue Feb 17, 2009

Earth Times

PROFILES: Best director Oscar nominees

The following have been nominated for the best director Oscar:David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Known for his dark and stylish movies, Fincher, 45, first rose to prominence as the director of ...

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Related Topix: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Crime Movies, Drama, Thriller, Panic Room, Comedy Movies, Milk, The Reader

Fri Feb 13, 2009

Spiked

Milk: a new blend of politics

On 1 February, Johanna Sigur ardottir became prime minister of Iceland, and in doing so became the world's first gay head of government .

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gay/Lesbian, Gus Van Sant, Crime Movies, Biography Movies, Capote, Tom Hanks

Fri Feb 06, 2009

The Age

Films forces for change

Sean Penn as gay-rights campaigner and visionary Harvey Milk. February 7, 2009 Andrew Stephens looks at the power of film to change lives and societies.

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gay/Lesbian, San Francisco, CA, Gus Van Sant, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Wed Jan 28, 2009

New York Times

Video-Game Competitors at Verge of Mortal Combat

The high school years of Generation Y - steeped in video games, Columbine, prescribed drugs and sexual ambiguity - are the subject of Damon Krometis's ambitious if mannered "When in Disgrace ," a production ...

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Related Topix: Video Games, Drama, Arts

Wed Jan 21, 2009

Financial Times

Love, freedom and bad hair

What better bonfire is there for a movie star's vanity? A dorky 1970s barber's cut for Penn's portrayal of the first openly gay American elected to public office; a receding crinkle-cut for Langella's Richard ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Milk, Frost/Nixon, Drama, Horror, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Frank Langella, Gus Van Sant

Sun Jan 18, 2009

Digital Spy

Promo Graphic

Director: Gus Van Sant Screenwriters: Dustin Lance Black Starring: Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna Running Time: 128 mins Certificate: 15 Race riots had begun to change the face ...

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gus Van Sant, Gay/Lesbian

Mon Jan 12, 2009

Gay Times

Gus Van Sant's new movie "Milk"

Read interviews in GT with two of the Hollywood co-stars James Franco and Emile Hirsch... The movie's going to be a queer cinema milestone a ' and deservedly so.

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gus Van Sant, James Franco, Emile Hirsch

Sat Jan 10, 2009

PR-inside.com

Brolin Stalked Van Sant

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network 2009-01-09 03:00:03 - JOSH BROLIN was so desperate to star in a GUS VAN SANT movie he travelled to the moviemaker's hometown hoping he'd ...

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gus Van Sant, Portland, OR

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