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Albert Nobbs

In a role she’s carried with her for nearly 30 years, Glenn Close stars as the titular waiter, a “sweet little man” whose attention to detail and ability to blend in with the wallpaper has rendered him a valuable, if not indispensable, staff member at Dublin’s Morrison Hotel. Albert doesn’t look guests in the eye out of deference but also because he harbors a secret: Albert is a woman. And in 19th-century Ireland, with abject poverty lurking right around the corner, it’s worth wrapping one’s breasts for three decades to ensure a decent living and perhaps even a shop of...  read more

Restless

Meet Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), a sad, possibly suicidal lad who crashes strangers’ funerals wearing a three-piece suit. Meet Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska), a lively lass who sketches birds and insects and dresses like a boy. Theirs is a tragic love story designed to tug, hard, at the heartstrings: She has cancer, and she’s going to die....  read more

Terrence Malick To Direct Christian Bale In New Film

After finishing _The Tree of Life_, Terrence Malick has been on a filming frenzy. Normally he takes years for a new project to formulate, but as of late he seems to be taking the opposite approach that he took his entire career. He’s already working on an IMAX film called _Voyage of Time_ featuring scenes not included in _Tree of Life_. Malick currently has a film in post-production starring Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem and Rachel Weisz.  read more

Jim Jarmusch Working on Stooges Documentary, Nikola Tesla Opera

Pokerfaced filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, the man behind fantastic films like Ghost Dog and Dead Man, talked to Pitchfork recently about a few upcoming projects that it seems only he could announce....  read more

The Kids Are All Right Review

Director: Lisa Cholodenko Writers: Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg Cinematographer: Igor Jadue-Lillo Starring: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson Studio: Mandalay Visions/Focus Features …and so are the lesbian parents, and the surrogate father “Family” is a fairly fluid notion these days, but Hollywood has been awfully slow to catch up to the zeitgeist: from the Griswolds to the Tenenbaums, the all-American nuclear clan has been a steady mom-dad-sister-brother affair, at least on film. But The Kids Are All Right, the latest from writer/director Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon), shows that the white-picket-fence fantasy doesn’t...  read more

20 Paste-Approved Actors Age 20 and Under

Being successful in the acting world—especially in big-budget films and TV shows—is no easy feat, and actors have to pay their dues. But who’s to say that process can’t start when the actor is not even old enough to drive a car? There have been Oscar-winning performances from children who are barely in the double-digit age range, and there’s a whole new crop of talented young actors showing up in TV shows and movies, and they’re often placed in the starring role. So, Paste gathered this list 20 actors age 20 and under who we think will be gracing television...  read more

Shooting Starlets: Three Soon-to-be Leading Ladies

Young actresses these days are more likely to get press for...  read more

High Art Director Nabs Julianne Moore, Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo for Next Flick

Lisa Cholodenko, the director of High Art and Laurel Canyon, has set Julianne Moore, Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo to star in The Kids Are All Right, a comedy about a brother and sister with lesbian parents who set out to find the sperm donor who made them possible. ...  read more

Tim Burton to cast Johnny Depp as Hatter in Wonderland?

Wonderland and Wonkaland may have some denizens in common (ahem, Johnny Depp), if Tim Burton has anything to say about it. And as director of a new 3-D version of Alice in Wonderland, he actually has a lot to say about it. ...  read more