Articles tagged "george clooney"

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‘Goats’ director Heslov and star George Clooney go way back

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Nov.09] :. Nearly 20 years ago Grant Heslov met fellow struggling actor George Clooney at an audition. Clooney was too poor to purchase a set of head shots, so Heslov lent him the money. It was the beginning...

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Seven ways ‘ER’ changed TV in 15 years

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[2.Apr.09] :. Some shows change TV, and some change lives. Then, there are a few - very few - that actually accomplish both. As “ER” comes to an end after 15 seasons (Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT, NBC),...

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[24.Mar.09] :. In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

Burn After Reading (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[21.Dec.08] :. The Coen Brothers remains the most predicable unpredictable artists in Hollywood. You can be guaranteed that the minute you think you have them pegged - post-modern nostalgists, retro Hollywood...

Leatherheads (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[20.Sep.08] :. The media just loves to fawn over George Clooney. With his combination of classic Hollywood charisma and contemporary self-effacing nerve, he tends to enhance, and sometimes overwhelm, the projects...

Being John Malkovich brings many movie roles

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[18.Sep.08] :. TORONTO - John Malkovich is, well, being John Malkovich, although no portals affording entry to his mind seem to be in operation here at the Four Seasons Hotel. The actor, who starred as himself, of...

Burn After Reading

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.08] :. Ozzie (John Malkovich) embodies the problem of the CIA, of the "intelligence community," which is that it reacts to data, then fashions a story about it to comport with the reaction.

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

Tale of bin Laden’s driver to go Hollywood

by Carol Rosenberg [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Aug.08] :. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba - It’s true that a production company owned by Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney optioned the story of Osama bin Laden’s driver. Not quite true are...

George Clooney picked ‘Leatherheads’ for the fun factor

by Rich Copley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Apr.08] :. In 2005, between his Oscar-nominated directing turn with “Good Night, and Good Luck” and his Oscar-winning performance in “Syriana,” George Clooney became known as a...

Leatherheads

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Apr.08] :. Pleasant and clever, Leatherheads is not built for surprises.

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

Sand and Sorrow

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.07] :. The outrage of the continuing genocide in Darfur -- that it has been named, the numbers are known, and witnesses have testified -- makes Sand and Sorrow matter.

Movies 101

by Gavin Williamson

[4.Dec.07] :. Movies101invites you to audit the NYU course with a Special Edition, four-DVD box set with interviews with 16 recent guests including Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Willem Dafoe, and Julianne Moore.

Darfur Now

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.07] :. The documentary showcases small steps, its subjects' work moment by moment to confront a crisis that appears overwhelming -- to feed one child, shelter one rape victim.

Filmmaking is part of the family tradition for Tony Gilroy

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Oct.07] :. "All the way through trying to get the movie made, George was at the top of the list," he says, speaking of the guy in the title role, Clooney, who eventually came in as a producer, too.

In suit-hairdo uniform, Tilda Swinton becomes legal evil

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Maybe it’s the military lineage (she comes from a long line of generals), but Tilda Swinton is probably one of the few actresses working today who can slip guy-rope into her...

The Good German (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[27.Jul.07] :. Instead of a deeply involving present-tense drama, we get an essay on how such dramas used to look and work.

Jerry Weintraub is the ‘heart and soul’ of the ‘Ocean’s’ trilogy

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[8.Jun.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Frank Sinatra lived two doors down. Cary Grant dropped by regularly. Tom Cruise just bought the house next door. George Clooney sits by the pool. Brad and Angelina have...

Oceans Thirteen (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jun.07] :. Every time George Clooney or Bernie Mac admits to the lameness of Number Two, the third film in the franchise can't help but promise improvement.

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

The Good German (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.06] :. The Good German's visual evocations of 1940s movies only underscore its many deconstructions, of nostalgia, heroism, and political coherence.

George Clooney is a movie star in the classic Hollywood mode

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News]

[15.Dec.06] :. NEW YORK - Among all the other things he is in Hollywood and for fans, George Clooney is also the only star working today who would fit right in during earlier Hollywood golden eras, when giants like...

Syriana (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.06] :. If you come away with nothing else from Syriana, it's that this concept -- winning -- is an illusion, at least in any sort of long run.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Mar.06] :. Lamenting the loss of 'people who are uncompromising,' Clooney says, 'For us, this movie is a success if some kid in Austin, Texas sees it, who is studying journalism, and says, 'That's the guy I want to be like.' Then we win.'"

Syriana (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Nov.05] :. This Middle Eastern spy thriller is complex and earnest, a film that repays close attention.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. Shot in exquisite black and white, George Clooney's portrait of Edward R. Murrow is partly reverential, partly probing.

K Street

by James Oliphant

[13.Oct.03] :. What does make K Street fascinating is the pinpoint accuracy with which it details the day-to-day lives of its principals.

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.03] :. The Coen brothers' latest venture is a rat-a-tat romantic comedy of the Preston Sturges persuasion, at least for its first hour or so.

Solaris (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.03] :. 'The one thing you'll see as you watch the film, what you'll take note of, is how still it is.'"

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jan.03] :. His redemption, Barris abruptly realizes, can come only in detailed recollection, specifically, in his decision to confess his many sins.

Solaris (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. The liveliest moments in Steven Soderbergh's Solaris belong to Jeremy Davies' hands.

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.01] :. The background surf, unbuttoned shirt, and look away from the camera -- all this demonstrates just how movie-starness is done. The plot, like I say, is beside the point.

Three Kings (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Puke green bile, dark blood, convulsing pink. tissue. A close-up shot following a bullet's path into and through internal organs is a frankly terrible image. In most war movies, bullets do tend to fly. But you only see their external effects: blood spurts, faces contort, handheld cameras zig and zag, explosions-effects create aestheticized, often slo-mo, chaos. In David O. Russell's Three Kings, however, you see the insides: the bullet rushes forward, stops, lodging in mangled, throbbing flesh while fluids accumulate. It's visceral and immediate. It's surreal and nasty.

The Perfect Storm (2000)

by Mike Ward

In a coincidence I assume is meaningless, Das Boot has bubbled up twice this summer movie season, after snoozing for close to 20 years. First evoked in the backhanded homage of Jonathan...

The Perfect Storm (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs.'

Here’s how the world ends: Marky Mark afloat on a dark and turbid sea, alone and Pip-like, channeling his true devotion to his loyal girlfriend back on shore. “There’s no...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

It's a Depression-era musical laid on top of a chain gang escape film, inspired at once by Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Preston Sturges' screwball comedies. But outrageous as it might seem, this ultra-high-concept project suffers from a lack of inspiration.