Oscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?
There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still... read more
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Today, Harvey Milk is remembered as a local hero... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsOn Long Island, Memories of Harvey Milk Have Expired
The irony of Bay Shore Furriers and Leather Salon is that, while it’s the only building on the block that survived a fire six years ago, nobody seems to remember the lanky kid... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesFox Searchlight drinks Gus Van Sant's Kool-Aid
Director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black must have made a good team on the upcoming political biopic Milk, because the two have already made a deal with Fox Searchlight to reunite. ... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsJames Franco, many more cast in Allen Ginsberg biopic
In the grand tradition of attractive Hollywood stars portraying iconic literary figures (think Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen, Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare, etc.), James Franco has been cast as groundbreaking beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg in the biopic Howl.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsParanoid Park
Gus Van Sant's newest film bears his fingerprints. read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsGus Van Sant begins production on Milk
Paste loves Gus Van Sant. Seriously*, that dude owes us a round for all the publicity we give him. But his work is just that good and we can’t get enough of it, so news that he decided to travel south for the winter for his newest film Milk to start production in San Francisco has us excited. We hope that Fred Phelps is too busy to try and protest filming. Milk stars Sean Penn as San Francisco gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk who is known as being the first openly gay politician in California (some posit in... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsGus Van Sant's Paranoid Park trailer hits the web
Gus Van Sant's upcoming feature Paranoid Park has been completed for the better part of a year since it premiered last May at Cannes, where it won the 60th Anniversary Prize. Check out the film's trailer below: Once again, Sant's focusing on adolescence, while this time taking a look at skateboarding sub-culture. While the feature looks to continue the trends of his last few independent features, it also seems a little less mumblecore improvised and a little more polished. Probably a good change in his career, especially with Sant moving onto a more professional production on his next feature. Paranoid... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsLast Days
Gus Van Sant's Kurt Cobain-inspired meditation on the final hours of a gifted musician... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesElephant
Gus Van Sant’s latest film, Elephant, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last spring despite vociferous denunciations from certain American critics. With its U.S. release, it’s certain to be one of the most talked-about and controversial films of the year. The controversy might be its selling point, but the movie has more than enough credibility to justify the hype. The story is an obvious adaptation of the Columbine shootings, despite its Portland, Oregon setting. The movie opens on the fateful morning, following various students as they wander the school’s grounds. One blond boy is late because his father was too... read more
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