People are buzzing about Marilyn Monroe’s AI comeback, and not everyone’s thrilled. Fans and critics are scratching their heads, wondering what this means for her legacy. Sure, tech’s done some cool things, but bringing back the 36-year-old using AI? That’s got some folks raising eyebrows about ethics and morals.
Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl
Plus, this digital Monroe can supposedly read emotions and talk back. Folks worry it’s going to cheapen her whole vibe, and it might not be right to mess with her image like that.
AI Has Created a Marilyn Monroe Chatbot With Realistic Expressions
Alright, let’s break it down. So, there’s this new thing in AI that’s got everyone talking: a Marilyn Monroe chatbot. Yeah, you heard that right. Soul Machines, the tech company behind it, has brought back Monroe as a digital chatbot, and it’s seriously realistic.
Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl
Plus, this digital Monroe can supposedly read emotions and talk back. Folks worry it’s going to cheapen her whole vibe, and it might not be right to mess with her image like that.
AI Has Created a Marilyn Monroe Chatbot With Realistic Expressions
Alright, let’s break it down. So, there’s this new thing in AI that’s got everyone talking: a Marilyn Monroe chatbot. Yeah, you heard that right. Soul Machines, the tech company behind it, has brought back Monroe as a digital chatbot, and it’s seriously realistic.
- 3/10/2024
- by Muskan Chaudhary
- FandomWire
“A Haunting in Venice,” the latest all-star mystery film starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh, tells the story of the detective Hercule Poirot trying to uncover another killer after someone is murdered at a séance in Italy. With Branagh’s latest movie currently in theaters, let’s look back at his eight Oscar races and talk about how the actor-director finally won his first gold trophy just last year.
In early 2022, Branagh broke the record for nominations in the highest number of different categories at the Academy Awards. Of his eight Oscar mentions, he has competed in seven categories total — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay and Best Live Action Short Film. The first two he made it into were Director and Actor for “Henry V,” the William Shakespeare adaptation released in 1989. His directorial debut resulted in an Academy Award win for Best Costume Design,...
In early 2022, Branagh broke the record for nominations in the highest number of different categories at the Academy Awards. Of his eight Oscar mentions, he has competed in seven categories total — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay and Best Live Action Short Film. The first two he made it into were Director and Actor for “Henry V,” the William Shakespeare adaptation released in 1989. His directorial debut resulted in an Academy Award win for Best Costume Design,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Brian Rowe
- Gold Derby
Marilyn Monroe‘s star burned brightly and briefly before her untimely death in 1962 at age 36. Yet she managed to enter the pop culture lexicon with just a handful of films, becoming Hollywood’s most memorable sex symbol. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1926, Monroe started off as a model before moving into acting with a series of bit parts, most notably in “All About Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle,” both released in 1950. She became a leading lady with a trio of 1953 titles: the noir “Niagara,” the musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the romantic comedy “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
She became iconic thanks to Billy Wilder‘s “The Seven Year Itch” (1955), in which she played a young woman tantalizing her married neighbor (Tom Ewell). Her image was forever burned into our memories thanks to...
Born in 1926, Monroe started off as a model before moving into acting with a series of bit parts, most notably in “All About Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle,” both released in 1950. She became a leading lady with a trio of 1953 titles: the noir “Niagara,” the musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the romantic comedy “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
She became iconic thanks to Billy Wilder‘s “The Seven Year Itch” (1955), in which she played a young woman tantalizing her married neighbor (Tom Ewell). Her image was forever burned into our memories thanks to...
- 5/27/2023
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Hollywood Flashback: Michelle Williams Brought Marilyn Monroe Back to Life in ‘My Week With Marilyn’
Michelle Williams racked up her fifth Oscar nomination this year, for playing Mitzi Fabelman, a version of Steven Spielberg’s mother in his semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans. A decade ago, bringing screen legend Marilyn Monroe to life in My Week With Marilyn earned Williams her third nod.
The 2011 Simon Curtis biopic follows Monroe’s experience in London while making The Prince and the Showgirl with director and co-star Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). THR‘s David Rooney wrote in his review: “Michelle Williams gives a layered performance that goes beyond impersonation…[she] gets us on intimate terms with one of Hollywood’s most enduring and tragic icons…her work alone keeps the movie entertaining.”
Preparation for the role demanded intense research. “It’s lonely, lonely work,” Williams told THR in November 2011 of studying extensive footage of Monroe but shared how she discovered “Marilyn Monroe was a character she played, like a Groucho Marx...
The 2011 Simon Curtis biopic follows Monroe’s experience in London while making The Prince and the Showgirl with director and co-star Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). THR‘s David Rooney wrote in his review: “Michelle Williams gives a layered performance that goes beyond impersonation…[she] gets us on intimate terms with one of Hollywood’s most enduring and tragic icons…her work alone keeps the movie entertaining.”
Preparation for the role demanded intense research. “It’s lonely, lonely work,” Williams told THR in November 2011 of studying extensive footage of Monroe but shared how she discovered “Marilyn Monroe was a character she played, like a Groucho Marx...
- 3/8/2023
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s Women’s History Month! Celebrate the occasion with these powerful performances from some of TV and film’s finest actresses. Angela Bassett in…What’s Love Got to Do With It To borrow lyrics from one of Tina Turner’s hits, Bassett (above left) is simply the best in this 1993 biopic about the rock ’n’ roller. Sure, she may lip-synch to Turner’s tunes instead of singing, but she still captures the icon’s grit. Michelle Williams in…My Week With Marilyn Williams evokes the star quality and the quiet fragility of Marilyn Monroe in this 2011 drama set in 1956, as she connects with a production assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl. (Credit: Laurence Cendrowicz/©The Weinstein Company/courtesy Everett Collection) Katharine Hepburn in…On Golden Pond Hepburn won her record-breaking fourth and final Best Actress Oscar for playing Ethel, the aging Thayer family matriarch,...
- 3/12/2022
- TV Insider
Charles “Jerry” Juroe, who shepherded publicity campaigns in Europe for 14 James Bond films starting with the first, “Dr. No,” died Sept. 30 in southern Spain. He was 98.
Juroe was born in San Francisco and began his career as a publicist at Paramount in the 1940s. When America entered World War II, he joined the military and escorted stars to military bases until he was transferred to Europe, where he took part in the D-Day landing at Normandy.
He volunteered to serve in the Office of Special Services, booking entertainment for the allied troops, and meeting Bob Hope, who told him to get in touch if he wanted to work in entertainment.
At Paramount, he worked with Hope and Bing Crosby, and represented Marilyn Monroe in England during production of “The Prince and the Showgirl.”
Living in Europe for most of his career, he worked on campaigns for films by Alfred Hitchcock,...
Juroe was born in San Francisco and began his career as a publicist at Paramount in the 1940s. When America entered World War II, he joined the military and escorted stars to military bases until he was transferred to Europe, where he took part in the D-Day landing at Normandy.
He volunteered to serve in the Office of Special Services, booking entertainment for the allied troops, and meeting Bob Hope, who told him to get in touch if he wanted to work in entertainment.
At Paramount, he worked with Hope and Bing Crosby, and represented Marilyn Monroe in England during production of “The Prince and the Showgirl.”
Living in Europe for most of his career, he worked on campaigns for films by Alfred Hitchcock,...
- 10/6/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
The David di Donatello Awards, which are modeled on the Oscars, were established in the 1950s as Italy’s film industry started thriving amid the country’s postwar reconstruction effort.
Below are some milestones that provide a partial mini-history of postwar Italian cinema.
1956: The first David di Donatello awards ceremony takes place at Rome’s Cinema Fiamma. The gold statuette, which is a replica of Michelangelo’s David, is made by Bulgari. Vittorio De Sica, Walt Disney, and Gina Lollobrigida are among the year’s prizewinners.
1957: The Davids ceremony moves to Taormina’s Ancient Greek Theater, which will host the ceremony for many more years to come. Federico Fellini wins the best director prize for “Nights of Cabiria.”
1958: Anna Magnani wins best actress for George Cukor’s “Wild Is the Wind.” Marilyn Monroe is feted for her role in “The Prince and the Showgirl,” directed by Laurence Olivier.
Below are some milestones that provide a partial mini-history of postwar Italian cinema.
1956: The first David di Donatello awards ceremony takes place at Rome’s Cinema Fiamma. The gold statuette, which is a replica of Michelangelo’s David, is made by Bulgari. Vittorio De Sica, Walt Disney, and Gina Lollobrigida are among the year’s prizewinners.
1957: The Davids ceremony moves to Taormina’s Ancient Greek Theater, which will host the ceremony for many more years to come. Federico Fellini wins the best director prize for “Nights of Cabiria.”
1958: Anna Magnani wins best actress for George Cukor’s “Wild Is the Wind.” Marilyn Monroe is feted for her role in “The Prince and the Showgirl,” directed by Laurence Olivier.
- 5/8/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Marilyn Monroe would’ve celebrated her 93rd birthday on June 1, 2019. Her star burned brightly and briefly before her untimely death in 1962 at age 36. Yet she managed to enter the pop culture lexicon with just a handful of films, becoming Hollywood’s most memorable sex symbol. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1926, Monroe started off as a model before moving into acting with a series of bit parts, most notably in “All About Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle,” both released in 1950. She became a leading lady with a trio of 1953 titles: the noir “Niagara,” the musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the romantic comedy “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
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She became iconic thanks to Billy Wilder‘s “The Seven Year Itch” (1955), in...
Born in 1926, Monroe started off as a model before moving into acting with a series of bit parts, most notably in “All About Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle,” both released in 1950. She became a leading lady with a trio of 1953 titles: the noir “Niagara,” the musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the romantic comedy “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
SEE25 best couples in film history – Romantic movies in time for Valentine’s Day [Photos]
She became iconic thanks to Billy Wilder‘s “The Seven Year Itch” (1955), in...
- 6/1/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
It's been 56 years since Marilyn Monroe died, but she will forever be remembered as a Hollywood legend. The actress, who garnered fame after appearing in the first-ever edition of Playboy magazine in December 1953, starred in several films, including Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch, and The Prince and the Showgirl. Still, there are a couple things you may not know about the star - like her real name, for example.
While most people knew Marilyn by her stage name, the star was actually born Norma Jeane Mortenson and baptized Norma Jeane Baker. When she married her first husband, James Dougherty, in 1942, she took his last name and became Norma Jeane Dougherty. She began using her stage name in 1946 after she and James split but didn't legally change it until 1956. When she married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, she preferred to be addressed as Marilyn Monroe Miller and even used the initials Mmm.
While most people knew Marilyn by her stage name, the star was actually born Norma Jeane Mortenson and baptized Norma Jeane Baker. When she married her first husband, James Dougherty, in 1942, she took his last name and became Norma Jeane Dougherty. She began using her stage name in 1946 after she and James split but didn't legally change it until 1956. When she married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, she preferred to be addressed as Marilyn Monroe Miller and even used the initials Mmm.
- 6/7/2018
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
After her two early Oscar wins for “Kramer vs Kramer” (1979) and “Sophie’s Choice” (1982), Meryl Streep went through the next three decades earning a record-shattering 17 Academy Awards nominations by 2011. There was never any doubt that Streep would join the elite group of actors who’ve won three or more Academy Awards, but for which performance would it be?
See Oscars flashback: Meryl Streep exclaims ‘Holy mackerel’ winning her 1st Oscar for ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ [Watch]
That answer came with her third Oscar win as it finally arrived 29 years after her second for her transformative performance as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in director Phyllida Lloyd’s “The Iron Lady.” Watch the video above as she receives the award from Colin Firth and admits to the audience, “I’ll never be up here again!”
Though the film itself was not a huge critical or commercial hit, Streep received unanimous praise for her performance.
See Oscars flashback: Meryl Streep exclaims ‘Holy mackerel’ winning her 1st Oscar for ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ [Watch]
That answer came with her third Oscar win as it finally arrived 29 years after her second for her transformative performance as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in director Phyllida Lloyd’s “The Iron Lady.” Watch the video above as she receives the award from Colin Firth and admits to the audience, “I’ll never be up here again!”
Though the film itself was not a huge critical or commercial hit, Streep received unanimous praise for her performance.
- 2/28/2018
- by Jack Fields
- Gold Derby
This article marks Part 17 of the 21-part Gold Derby series Meryl Streep at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at Meryl Streep’s nominations, the performances that competed with her at the Academy Awards, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the contenders.
In 1979, while Meryl Streep was barnstorming cinemas with an exemplary trio of motion pictures (“Kramer vs. Kramer,” “Manhattan” and “The Seduction of Joe Tynan”), a glass ceiling was shattered across the pond with the election of Margaret Thatcher to the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The first woman to hold this office, Thatcher, leader of the country’s Conservative Party, would go on to serve three terms as Prime Minister. Her polarizing tenure was marked by the deregulation of the nation’s financial sector; reduction in the power and influence of unions; and victory in the Falklands War, waged...
In 1979, while Meryl Streep was barnstorming cinemas with an exemplary trio of motion pictures (“Kramer vs. Kramer,” “Manhattan” and “The Seduction of Joe Tynan”), a glass ceiling was shattered across the pond with the election of Margaret Thatcher to the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The first woman to hold this office, Thatcher, leader of the country’s Conservative Party, would go on to serve three terms as Prime Minister. Her polarizing tenure was marked by the deregulation of the nation’s financial sector; reduction in the power and influence of unions; and victory in the Falklands War, waged...
- 2/20/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
Christopher Plummer had to wait until his eighties to receive any attention from Oscar voters. The long-awaited first nomination for the 2010 film “The Last Station” followed an acclaimed career in “The Sound of Music,” “The Man Who Would Be King,” “Somewhere in Time,” and “The Insider.” Even with the sympathy vote and at his age, he wouldn’t win that night, losing to Christoph Waltz in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” for Best Supporting Actor.
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However, two years later, Plummer was offered the plum role of Hal in the indie dramedy Beginners starring Ewan McGregor. It was that role that did bring Plummer his first (and only, so far) Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played an elderly man dying of cancer who reveals to his son that he is gay with a young male lover.
At 82 Plummer...
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However, two years later, Plummer was offered the plum role of Hal in the indie dramedy Beginners starring Ewan McGregor. It was that role that did bring Plummer his first (and only, so far) Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played an elderly man dying of cancer who reveals to his son that he is gay with a young male lover.
At 82 Plummer...
- 2/6/2018
- by Jack Fields
- Gold Derby
The actress is mostly remembered for her good looks, but what about her impressive performances?
In Richard Dyer’s book Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society, he writes that Marilyn Monroe was “the most visible star”: an actress whose life was put on display, and remains so over 50 years after her death. She is one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time, her face instantly recognizable to even those who have never seen any of her movies. She is a symbol of beauty, glamor, cinema, femininity, blondness, sexuality, and tragedy. While the world speculates about her personal life — who was she romantically involved with? How did she die? What was she really like? — her career as an actress is overshadowed by her fame.
While she may not have been the greatest actress of all time, she certainly had her fair share of talent and intelligence, and always worked incredibly hard to bring her...
In Richard Dyer’s book Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society, he writes that Marilyn Monroe was “the most visible star”: an actress whose life was put on display, and remains so over 50 years after her death. She is one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time, her face instantly recognizable to even those who have never seen any of her movies. She is a symbol of beauty, glamor, cinema, femininity, blondness, sexuality, and tragedy. While the world speculates about her personal life — who was she romantically involved with? How did she die? What was she really like? — her career as an actress is overshadowed by her fame.
While she may not have been the greatest actress of all time, she certainly had her fair share of talent and intelligence, and always worked incredibly hard to bring her...
- 3/15/2017
- by Angela Morrison
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The recent box office success of The Boss firmly establishes Melissa McCarthy as the current queen of movie comedies (Amy Schumer could be a new contender after an impressive debut last Summer with Trainwreck), but let us think back about those other funny ladies of filmdom. So while we’re enjoying the female reboot/re-imagining of Ghostbusters and those Bad Moms, here’s a top ten list that will hopefully inspire lots of laughter and cause you to search out some classic comedies. It’s tough to narrow them down to ten, but we’ll do our best, beginning with… 10. Eve Arden The droll Ms. Arden represents the comic sidekicks who will attempt to puncture the pomposity of the leading ladies with a well-placed wisecrack (see also the great Thelma Ritter in Rear Window). Her career began in the early 1930’s with great bit roles in Stage Door and Dancing Lady.
- 8/8/2016
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Kristen Stewart joins Untitled Kelly Reichardt Project (photo: Kristen Stewart in 'Clouds of Sils Maria') This news bit has been everywhere online, but just in case you've missed it: History-making César Award winner Kristen Stewart has joined three-time Oscar-nominee Michelle Williams and two-time Oscar nominee Laura Dern in an as yet untitled drama set in Montana and to be directed by Kelly Reichardt.* Deadline.com first broke the story last week (Feb. 27, 2015). If all goes as planned, Kristen Stewart will play Boise lawyer Beth, who, nervous after accepting a teaching position in a small Montana town, befriends a local woman, Jamie, auditing her class.† Kelly Reichardt's usual partners Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani are producing the project, which is supposed to consist of a series of vignettes based on short stories by Maile Meloy. Also in the cast: James Le Gros (Point Break), Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows...
- 3/4/2015
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Newsflash: We still have awhile before the Oscars. It's like a month away. But we can prepare anyway by revisiting the greatest hits of our leading nominees in the acting categories. Put on your angriest Annette Bening face and join us for this trip into prestige pictures currently streaming on Netflix. "The Kids are All Right" (Julianne Moore) Julianne Moore didn't pick up a nomination, but costars Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo did in this family drama (with funny moments) about a lesbian couple attempting to embrace the new-found presence of their kids' sperm donor. "The Kids are All Right" feels like a lost James L. Brooks gem set in 2010, and every performance has endearing and (intentionally) maddening moments. Julianne might play the most conflicted character at all, and she wears that indecision and personal guilt well. "My Week With Marilyn" (Eddie Redmayne) Is this a great movie? No. In fact,...
- 1/27/2015
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
Sexting wouldn't be invented for another half-century. But that didn't stop Arthur Miller from expressing some rather explicit long-distance passion for Marilyn Monroe. In the months before the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Death of a Salesman wed the screen siren, then the most famous star in the world, he was head over heels in love with her - and then some. In a racy, never-before-seen letter he mailed to her on April 30, 1956, he writes that when they are back together again and she awakens next to him, "I will kiss you and hold you close to me and sensational things will then happen.
- 11/20/2014
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
Sexting wouldn't be invented for another half-century. But that didn't stop Arthur Miller from expressing some rather explicit long-distance passion for Marilyn Monroe. In the months before the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright of Death of a Salesman wed the screen siren, then the most famous star in the world, he was head over heels in love with her - and then some. In a racy, never-before-seen letter he mailed to her on April 30, 1956, he writes that when they are back together again and she awakens next to him, "I will kiss you and hold you close to me and sensational things will then happen.
- 11/20/2014
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
Playwright and screenwriter Terence Rattigan was an indubitable influence on mid-century British cinema. He authored several of the era’s most notable titles, including The Browning Version (1951), Lean’s The Sound Barrier (1952) Olivier’s troubled The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) and Anatole Litvak’s The Deep Blue Sea (1952), which was recently remade by Terrence Davies in 2011. But it would be a 1958 American adaptation of his play, Separate Tables, from director Delbert Mann that would prove to be his most critically lauded work, nominated for seven Academy Awards, and snagging two (Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress). By today’s standards, it’s a film that feels painstakingly melodramatic. Reconsidered within the framework of Rattigan’s own impressive oeuvre, the material hasn’t aged well, and as time has gone on, its cramped exploration of sexual dysfunction now plays like a euthanized product crippled by censorship of the author’s own...
- 7/29/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jessica Chastain has been cast as Marilyn Monroe in director Andrew Dominik's upcoming biopic Blonde.
Brad Pitt's Plan B and Worldview Entertainment will produce the adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's 2001 novel of the same title, which Naomi Watts originally signed up to star in.
From Michelle Williams to Kerry Katona, we compile 12 other actresses who have portrayed or paid tribute to Hollywood's original blonde bombshell below.
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams was Oscar-nominated for her critically-acclaimed performance as Monroe in Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn (2011). The movie centered on Monroe's fraught relationship with her then co-star Laurence Olivier, played by Kenneth Branagh, during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl in Britain.
Reflecting upon the role, Williams said: "Gosh, sometimes I can't even believe I did it because the challenges were just...
"In a way, you had to remove the fact that she was an...
Brad Pitt's Plan B and Worldview Entertainment will produce the adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's 2001 novel of the same title, which Naomi Watts originally signed up to star in.
From Michelle Williams to Kerry Katona, we compile 12 other actresses who have portrayed or paid tribute to Hollywood's original blonde bombshell below.
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams was Oscar-nominated for her critically-acclaimed performance as Monroe in Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn (2011). The movie centered on Monroe's fraught relationship with her then co-star Laurence Olivier, played by Kenneth Branagh, during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl in Britain.
Reflecting upon the role, Williams said: "Gosh, sometimes I can't even believe I did it because the challenges were just...
"In a way, you had to remove the fact that she was an...
- 4/23/2014
- Digital Spy
Jean Kent: ‘The Browning Version’ 1951, Gainsborough folds (photo: Jean Kent in ‘The Browning Version,’ with Michael Redgrave) (See previous post: “Jean Kent: Gainsborough Pictures Film Star Dead at 92.”) Seemingly stuck in Britain, Jean Kent’s other important leads of the period came out in 1948: John Paddy Carstairs’ Alfred Hitchcock-esque thriller Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), with spies on board the Orient Express, and Gordon Parry’s ensemble piece Bond Street. Following two minor 1950 comedies, Her Favorite Husband / The Taming of Dorothy and The Reluctant Widow / The Inheritance, Kent’s movie stardom was virtually over, though she would still have one major film role in store. In what is probably her best remembered and most prestigious effort, Jean Kent played Millie Crocker-Harris, the unsympathetic, adulterous wife of unfulfilled teacher Michael Redgrave, in Anthony Asquith’s 1951 film version of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version — a Javelin Films production...
- 12/4/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
British film and television actress Jean Kent has died after suffering a fall, per UK reports. She was 92. Kent made her name in the 1940s and 1950s starring in a number of melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures, including Fanny By Gaslight, Bees In Paradise, Madonna of the Seven Moons, and The Wicked Lady. On another Gainsborough film, 1946′s Caravan, she met actor and future husband Josef Ramart. They starred together again in the 1949 musical comedy Trottie True. Kent moved into television in the 1950s, appearing in shows including Epilogue to Capricorn, Sir Francis Drake, and Thicker Than Water. Notable film roles came opposite Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl and in Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse.
- 12/1/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Actress Jean Kent, whose film and television career in the U.K. spanned over five decades, died at age 92, BBC News reported. Family friend Michael Thornton shared the news, stating that the actress suffered an injury at her home in Suffolk and passed away at a hospital. Kent's roles included turns in Caravan (1946) and The Browning Version (1951), as well as appearing alongside Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). The British Film Institute honored Kent in 2011. When asked at the ceremony if she had a message for fans, the actress recalled her
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- 11/30/2013
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[Editor's note: Please welcome our newest contributor to Slackerwood, Matt Shiverdecker.]
There's an incredibly diverse slate of repertory films in town over the next week, starting with the continuation of the Traveling Circus series from the Austin Film Society. You'll want to head to the Marchesa for Max Ophuls' Lola Montes, a gorgeous Cinemascope spectacle bursting with colors that will leap off the screen in 35mm, tonight and Sunday night (Elizabeth's preview). For those of you who recently watched HBO's Love, Marilyn documentary, you won't want to miss out on Tuesday night's Essential Cinema selection of The Prince And The Showgirl, also screening at the Marchesa in 35mm.
The Paramount's Summer Film Series continues to serve up an eclectic batch of films over the next week including Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire and a digital screening of Truffaut's new wave classic The 400 Blows at the Stateside, both happening tonight. Also on deck, an Audrey Hepburn double feature Saturday...
There's an incredibly diverse slate of repertory films in town over the next week, starting with the continuation of the Traveling Circus series from the Austin Film Society. You'll want to head to the Marchesa for Max Ophuls' Lola Montes, a gorgeous Cinemascope spectacle bursting with colors that will leap off the screen in 35mm, tonight and Sunday night (Elizabeth's preview). For those of you who recently watched HBO's Love, Marilyn documentary, you won't want to miss out on Tuesday night's Essential Cinema selection of The Prince And The Showgirl, also screening at the Marchesa in 35mm.
The Paramount's Summer Film Series continues to serve up an eclectic batch of films over the next week including Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire and a digital screening of Truffaut's new wave classic The 400 Blows at the Stateside, both happening tonight. Also on deck, an Audrey Hepburn double feature Saturday...
- 7/12/2013
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
"Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe ... I was petrified." –'The Wizard of Oz' (1939)
Greetings from the apocalypse! As North Korea readies their nukes for a pre-emptive strike against the U.S., and Dennis Rodman plays a game of pick-up basketball with supreme leader Kim Jong-un with the very survival of the planet on the line, I'm ready for a solid weekend of moviegoing. How about you? Sure you are. If you're really worried about Kim's missiles made out of Campbell's Soup cans and old Sony Walkmans, then go to Home Depot and grab a 30-dollar tarp to cover your roof with. That oughta do the trick.
Friday, March 8
When he wasn't directing and starring in hardcore gay pornography, Jack-of-all-trades James Franco made a 200-million-dollar Disney film. That's how badass that guy is. "Oz the Great and Powerful...
Greetings from the apocalypse! As North Korea readies their nukes for a pre-emptive strike against the U.S., and Dennis Rodman plays a game of pick-up basketball with supreme leader Kim Jong-un with the very survival of the planet on the line, I'm ready for a solid weekend of moviegoing. How about you? Sure you are. If you're really worried about Kim's missiles made out of Campbell's Soup cans and old Sony Walkmans, then go to Home Depot and grab a 30-dollar tarp to cover your roof with. That oughta do the trick.
Friday, March 8
When he wasn't directing and starring in hardcore gay pornography, Jack-of-all-trades James Franco made a 200-million-dollar Disney film. That's how badass that guy is. "Oz the Great and Powerful...
- 3/8/2013
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
The star of Oz the Great and Powerful has come a long way since Dawson's Creek. Here's five of her most memorable moments in film – what would you add to the list?
Michelle Williams, currently starring as good witch Glinda in Oz the Great and Powerful, has racked up an impressive filmography since first coming to public attention for her role in Dawson's Creek (although some film fans might also remember a few notable pre-Dawson roles).
Here's some highlights from her film career, including recommendations from @guardianfilm Twitter followers @stugone, @Ben_Smith_123 and @eamonngriffin
What would you add to the list?
1. My Week with Marilyn
Michelle played Marilyn Monroe opposite Kenneth Branagh's Laurence Olivier, in a film charting the making of ill-fated light comed The Prince and the Showgirl. In his review, Peter Bradshaw said: "In art as in life, Olivier's spotlight is taken away by Marilyn, played terrifically...
Michelle Williams, currently starring as good witch Glinda in Oz the Great and Powerful, has racked up an impressive filmography since first coming to public attention for her role in Dawson's Creek (although some film fans might also remember a few notable pre-Dawson roles).
Here's some highlights from her film career, including recommendations from @guardianfilm Twitter followers @stugone, @Ben_Smith_123 and @eamonngriffin
What would you add to the list?
1. My Week with Marilyn
Michelle played Marilyn Monroe opposite Kenneth Branagh's Laurence Olivier, in a film charting the making of ill-fated light comed The Prince and the Showgirl. In his review, Peter Bradshaw said: "In art as in life, Olivier's spotlight is taken away by Marilyn, played terrifically...
- 3/8/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
My Week with Marilyn
Written by Adrian Hodges, based on the books My Week with Marilyn and The Prince, the Showgirl and Me by Colin Clark
Directed by Simon Curtis
2011, imdb, Josh Slater-Williams’ review, William Bitterman’s review
Hitchcock
Written by John J. McLaughlin, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello
Directed by Sacha Gervasi
2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review
Hyde Park on Hudson
Written by Richard Nelson
Directed by Roger Michell
2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review, Kenneth Broadway’s Nyff review, Lane Scarberry’s Telluride review
Lincoln
Written by Tony Kushner, based in part on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Directed by Steven Spielberg
2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review, The Mousterpiece Cinema Podcast on Lincoln, The Almost Arthouse/Sound on Sight podcast on Lincoln, Jeremy Caesar’s article on Lincoln‘s score,...
Written by Adrian Hodges, based on the books My Week with Marilyn and The Prince, the Showgirl and Me by Colin Clark
Directed by Simon Curtis
2011, imdb, Josh Slater-Williams’ review, William Bitterman’s review
Hitchcock
Written by John J. McLaughlin, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello
Directed by Sacha Gervasi
2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review
Hyde Park on Hudson
Written by Richard Nelson
Directed by Roger Michell
2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review, Kenneth Broadway’s Nyff review, Lane Scarberry’s Telluride review
Lincoln
Written by Tony Kushner, based in part on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Directed by Steven Spielberg
2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review, The Mousterpiece Cinema Podcast on Lincoln, The Almost Arthouse/Sound on Sight podcast on Lincoln, Jeremy Caesar’s article on Lincoln‘s score,...
- 12/27/2012
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Skyline Cinema, Cambridge
Cambridge has quite a pedigree in summer outdoor cinema, and the annual Silents On The Streets (free screenings along Magdalene and Bridge Street) and Lido Picture Show (at Jesus Green Lido) return on 9 Sep to herald the city's film festival. Before that, there are open-air screenings on the Varsity Hotel roof terrace, with old and recent classics including The Third Man, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Nolan's brain-frying Inception. Book through the Arts Picturehouse.
Various venues, Sun to 10 Sep
Julien Temple, London
He's come a long way from the Sex Pistols and Absolute Beginners, not to mention Whitney Houston, but from his music/cinema roots Temple is now perfectly set to become a cultural historian. So, who better when it comes to the city Temple has already been documenting for the past 30 years? His new film, London: The Modern Babylon, bracingly chronicles the capital's past century of social upheaval,...
Cambridge has quite a pedigree in summer outdoor cinema, and the annual Silents On The Streets (free screenings along Magdalene and Bridge Street) and Lido Picture Show (at Jesus Green Lido) return on 9 Sep to herald the city's film festival. Before that, there are open-air screenings on the Varsity Hotel roof terrace, with old and recent classics including The Third Man, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Nolan's brain-frying Inception. Book through the Arts Picturehouse.
Various venues, Sun to 10 Sep
Julien Temple, London
He's come a long way from the Sex Pistols and Absolute Beginners, not to mention Whitney Houston, but from his music/cinema roots Temple is now perfectly set to become a cultural historian. So, who better when it comes to the city Temple has already been documenting for the past 30 years? His new film, London: The Modern Babylon, bracingly chronicles the capital's past century of social upheaval,...
- 8/3/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – There is arguably no one in the history of Hollywood more iconic than Marilyn Monroe. Not only was she a massive star in her day but her tragic death turned her into a beauty that was frozen in time. She transcends movies and it’s possible that she’s never been more popular than she is in the ’10s with releases like “My Week with Marilyn,” “Smash,” and the new 7-disc Blu-ray box set, “Forever Marilyn,” a must-own for fans of Norma Jeane Masterson.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The seven-disc set from MGM/Fox includes two previously available Blu-rays — “Some Like It Hot” and “The Misfits” — along with five films that have not previously been available in HD — “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “How to Marry a Millionaire,” “River of No Return,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” and “The Seven Year Itch.” It’s undeniably a mix of peaks and valleys but...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The seven-disc set from MGM/Fox includes two previously available Blu-rays — “Some Like It Hot” and “The Misfits” — along with five films that have not previously been available in HD — “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “How to Marry a Millionaire,” “River of No Return,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” and “The Seven Year Itch.” It’s undeniably a mix of peaks and valleys but...
- 8/1/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
As the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death approaches, Lois Banner argues in this extract from her new book that the star – complex and powerful – had many qualities associated with the women's movement
In one of the most famous photos of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe stands on a subway grate, trying to hold her skirt down as a gust of wind blows it up, exposing her underpants. The photo was taken in New York on 15 September, 1954, in a photoshoot during the filming of The Seven Year Itch.
Marilyn is a vision in white, suggesting innocence and purity. Yet she exudes sexuality and transcends it; poses for the male gaze and confronts it. The photoshoot was a publicity stunt, one of the greatest in the history of film. Its time and location were published in New York newspapers; it attracted a crowd of 100 male photographers and 1,500 male spectators, even...
In one of the most famous photos of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe stands on a subway grate, trying to hold her skirt down as a gust of wind blows it up, exposing her underpants. The photo was taken in New York on 15 September, 1954, in a photoshoot during the filming of The Seven Year Itch.
Marilyn is a vision in white, suggesting innocence and purity. Yet she exudes sexuality and transcends it; poses for the male gaze and confronts it. The photoshoot was a publicity stunt, one of the greatest in the history of film. Its time and location were published in New York newspapers; it attracted a crowd of 100 male photographers and 1,500 male spectators, even...
- 7/21/2012
- by Lois Banner
- The Guardian - Film News
Mystery buyer steps in after Spielberg and others back petition – while in Miami, Donald Trump plans to open huge new studio
Twickenham film studios, used for productions as diverse as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and the Beatles films, is to be saved from closure following a campaign backed by figures such as Steven Spielberg and Colin Firth.
Administrator Gerald Krasner said in February that the studios were to be closed, just one year ahead of the facility's centenary anniversary, due to ongoing financial travails. However, opposition from film industry figures and local residents to a plan to demolish the site in favour of housing appears to have prompted a change of heart. Krasner, of joint administrators Begbies Traynor, told Sky News on Thursday that a mystery buyer has stepped in to purchase the studio and maintain its film-making facilities, with all current staff retained.
"It...
Twickenham film studios, used for productions as diverse as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and the Beatles films, is to be saved from closure following a campaign backed by figures such as Steven Spielberg and Colin Firth.
Administrator Gerald Krasner said in February that the studios were to be closed, just one year ahead of the facility's centenary anniversary, due to ongoing financial travails. However, opposition from film industry figures and local residents to a plan to demolish the site in favour of housing appears to have prompted a change of heart. Krasner, of joint administrators Begbies Traynor, told Sky News on Thursday that a mystery buyer has stepped in to purchase the studio and maintain its film-making facilities, with all current staff retained.
"It...
- 6/8/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Jack Cardiff's Girl on a Motorcycle is the first Blu-ray release on Kino's new Jezebel imprint. It is under the Jezebel name that Kino will begin releasing some of its sexier, non-horror, genre acquisitions. We've previously taken a look at the mondo style documentaries London in the Raw and Primitive London from Jezebel, and this title carries to titillating torch for sexy British films from the 60's admirably.Best known as one of the most well-known and talented cinematographers in the business, Cardiff (The African Queen, The Prince and the Showgirl), was also a director, but none of his films has enjoyed the lasting reputation of this adaptation from a French novel about a woman's liberation and quest for intimacy on the back of a...
- 5/27/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The Hollywood Museum is marking Marilyn Monroe's 86th birthday next week with a celebration of the star's short life.
"An Intimate Look At The Legend," opening June 1, features some of Monroe's most famous wardrobe pieces. The million-dollar dress she wore on her honeymoon with Joe Dimaggio, film costumes from "The Prince And The Showgirl" and "There's No Business Like Showbusiness" and some of her furs will be on display with photos of the star wearing them.
More intimate pieces in the collection include her personal cosmetics, annotated film scripts and a blouse she wore the week before she died.
The exhibit also includes photographs from Monroe's childhood and early modeling days, artwork inspired by Monroe and the unforgettable "red velvet" nudes she shot with photographer Tom Kelly.
The centerpiece of the exhibit are rare photos taken by famed photographer George Barris, who was the last person to shoot photos of Monroe before her death.
"An Intimate Look At The Legend," opening June 1, features some of Monroe's most famous wardrobe pieces. The million-dollar dress she wore on her honeymoon with Joe Dimaggio, film costumes from "The Prince And The Showgirl" and "There's No Business Like Showbusiness" and some of her furs will be on display with photos of the star wearing them.
More intimate pieces in the collection include her personal cosmetics, annotated film scripts and a blouse she wore the week before she died.
The exhibit also includes photographs from Monroe's childhood and early modeling days, artwork inspired by Monroe and the unforgettable "red velvet" nudes she shot with photographer Tom Kelly.
The centerpiece of the exhibit are rare photos taken by famed photographer George Barris, who was the last person to shoot photos of Monroe before her death.
- 5/24/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The Cannes film festival kicks off next week, and this shot of Marilyn Monroe will feature on all its official posters. Does it matter that she never went?
She is a perennially fascinating screen actress, the incidental subject of new TV drama Smash – and from next week she will be pouting down at us from every street corner in Cannes, the face of the official film festival poster. The photograph shows the beautiful, beguiling, funny leading lady of such pictures as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot blowing out the candle on her 30th birthday cake, giving a seductive air-kiss to the lens. In a press release, the festival organisers explain: "The poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality – a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the festival anniversary [Cannes turns 65 this year] … Their coming together symbolises the ideal of simplicity and elegance.
She is a perennially fascinating screen actress, the incidental subject of new TV drama Smash – and from next week she will be pouting down at us from every street corner in Cannes, the face of the official film festival poster. The photograph shows the beautiful, beguiling, funny leading lady of such pictures as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot blowing out the candle on her 30th birthday cake, giving a seductive air-kiss to the lens. In a press release, the festival organisers explain: "The poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality – a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the festival anniversary [Cannes turns 65 this year] … Their coming together symbolises the ideal of simplicity and elegance.
- 5/9/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The London Film Memorabilia Convention
Saturday May The 12 th ( 10 am – 4 pm )
Central Hall Westminster
UK’s longest running film convention!
Dealers from all over the UK , Europe and Canada!
Specialising in selling vintage film memorabilia and rare collectIbles. Items covering the history of cinema can be found.
From the silents to the present.
A Unique Event For Anyone With An Interest In Cinema!
Stills Posters Both Vintage & The Latest Releases
Programmes Books Rare And Hard To Find Soundtracks
& DVD’S Books Magazines Lobby Cards Autographs Postcards Vintage & Retro Film And Television Related Toys Props Actors Signings And Talks
Special Guests –
The legendary cult actor David Warner – Who will be signing and selling some personal memorabilia from such films as Star Trk V , Star Trk VI , Titanic , Planet Of The Apes and some Peckinpah related items!
Sylvia Syms – Who acted in such films as Ice Cold In Alex , Victim
Flame In The Streets...
Saturday May The 12 th ( 10 am – 4 pm )
Central Hall Westminster
UK’s longest running film convention!
Dealers from all over the UK , Europe and Canada!
Specialising in selling vintage film memorabilia and rare collectIbles. Items covering the history of cinema can be found.
From the silents to the present.
A Unique Event For Anyone With An Interest In Cinema!
Stills Posters Both Vintage & The Latest Releases
Programmes Books Rare And Hard To Find Soundtracks
& DVD’S Books Magazines Lobby Cards Autographs Postcards Vintage & Retro Film And Television Related Toys Props Actors Signings And Talks
Special Guests –
The legendary cult actor David Warner – Who will be signing and selling some personal memorabilia from such films as Star Trk V , Star Trk VI , Titanic , Planet Of The Apes and some Peckinpah related items!
Sylvia Syms – Who acted in such films as Ice Cold In Alex , Victim
Flame In The Streets...
- 4/26/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Oscar-winning star will appear opposite Emma Thompson in tale of genesis of classic Mary Poppins film
Tom Hanks is set to play Walt Disney in a film about the making of the children's classic Mary Poppins, reports Deadline. He looks likely to star opposite Emma Thompson as Australian author Pl Travers, who held out for more than 14 years before finally agreeing to allow Hollywood to adapt her book.
Saving Mr Banks, which has landed fittingly at studio Disney, is the latest example of the film industry delving into its own past in order to produce new entertainment. Last year's Oscar-nominated My Week With Marilyn centred on the troubled 1957 production of Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, while Anthony Hopkins and Scarlett Johansson are to star in the upcoming Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho about the director's struggle to bypass the studios and fund the iconic low-budget,...
Tom Hanks is set to play Walt Disney in a film about the making of the children's classic Mary Poppins, reports Deadline. He looks likely to star opposite Emma Thompson as Australian author Pl Travers, who held out for more than 14 years before finally agreeing to allow Hollywood to adapt her book.
Saving Mr Banks, which has landed fittingly at studio Disney, is the latest example of the film industry delving into its own past in order to produce new entertainment. Last year's Oscar-nominated My Week With Marilyn centred on the troubled 1957 production of Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, while Anthony Hopkins and Scarlett Johansson are to star in the upcoming Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho about the director's struggle to bypass the studios and fund the iconic low-budget,...
- 4/11/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Last year’s slate of Best Actress Oscar-nominees was among the weakest in recent memory. There was no clear front-runner since there was no picture worthy of the exemplary actress at its core. From Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady” to Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs,” 2011 deserves to be remembered as the year of great female performances trapped in subpar material.
Perhaps the most frustrating misuse of talent is contained within TV veteran Simon Curtis’s feature debut, “My Week with Marilyn,” an adaptation of a memoir written by Colin Clark, who served as Third Assistant Director on the set of 1956’s unremarkable romance, “The Prince and the Showgirl.” The film was most famous for teaming up the unlikely duo of Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who would subsequently go on to deliver some of the most acclaimed work of their careers.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
The unsatisfactory premise of...
Perhaps the most frustrating misuse of talent is contained within TV veteran Simon Curtis’s feature debut, “My Week with Marilyn,” an adaptation of a memoir written by Colin Clark, who served as Third Assistant Director on the set of 1956’s unremarkable romance, “The Prince and the Showgirl.” The film was most famous for teaming up the unlikely duo of Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who would subsequently go on to deliver some of the most acclaimed work of their careers.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
The unsatisfactory premise of...
- 3/22/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Kenneth Branagh, Lindsay Brunnock, Natalie Portman, Benjamin Millepied Kenneth Branagh, Oscar-nominee for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn — in which Branagh plays Laurence Olivier during the making of The Prince and the Showgirl with Marilyn Monroe — Lindsay Brunnock, Natalie Portman, and Benjamin Millepied at the 2012 Academy Awards held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26. [The back of George Clooney's head can be seen on the right; behind Natalie Portman are Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith's hair.] (Photo: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Kenneth Branagh was previously nominated for Oscars for Henry V (1989) as Best Actor and Best Director, for the live-action short film Swan Song (1992), and for the adapted screenplay of Hamlet (1995), which he also directed/starred in, alongside Julie Christie and Kate Winslet. Perhaps not coincidentally, Laurence Olivier was a Best Actor nominee for Henry V (1946) and won the Best Actor Oscar for Hamlet (1948), both of which Olivier also directed. Branagh 2012 competitors were Ingmar Bergman veteran Max von Sydow...
- 3/20/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
It’s been 50 years since the tragic death of Hollywood’s most tortured star, Marilyn Monroe, but her legacy lives on and her legend remains as popular today as when she was alive. My Week With Marilyn – released this week on Blu-ray and DVD – offers a tender and intriguing glimpse at the woman behind the façade. Read on for our review…
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougary Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week...
It’s been 50 years since the tragic death of Hollywood’s most tortured star, Marilyn Monroe, but her legacy lives on and her legend remains as popular today as when she was alive. My Week With Marilyn – released this week on Blu-ray and DVD – offers a tender and intriguing glimpse at the woman behind the façade. Read on for our review…
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougary Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week...
- 3/17/2012
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
This week: George Clooney plays a Hawaiian landowner who must reconnect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a terrible accident in "The Descendants," the drama by writer-director Alexander Payne that just won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Also new is Steven Spielberg's motion-capture 3-D animated film "The Adventures of Tintin," the maudlin Lars von Trier drama "Melancholia," Michelle Williams' turn as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn" and the Blu-ray debut of Martin Scorsese's controversial "The Last Temptation of Christ."
'The Descendants'
Box Office: $81 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Fresh
Storyline: Matt King (George Clooney) is a Honolulu lawyer who tries to connect with his two daughters when his wife slips into a coma after a boating accident. As his family comes to terms with his wife's secret life, Matt wrestles with the decision to sell 25,000 acres of pristine Kauai land in this...
Also new is Steven Spielberg's motion-capture 3-D animated film "The Adventures of Tintin," the maudlin Lars von Trier drama "Melancholia," Michelle Williams' turn as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn" and the Blu-ray debut of Martin Scorsese's controversial "The Last Temptation of Christ."
'The Descendants'
Box Office: $81 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Fresh
Storyline: Matt King (George Clooney) is a Honolulu lawyer who tries to connect with his two daughters when his wife slips into a coma after a boating accident. As his family comes to terms with his wife's secret life, Matt wrestles with the decision to sell 25,000 acres of pristine Kauai land in this...
- 3/12/2012
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
Title: My Week With Marilyn Directed by Simon Curtis Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Dougray Scott, Emma Watson and Judy Dench Running time: 99 minutes, Rated R, Available on DVD In the summer of 1956 and fresh from Oxford, 23 year old Colin Clark (Redmayne) is determined to make it on his own without the help of his overachieving family. He manages to get a job under family friend Sir Laurence Olivier (Branagh) as a 3rd assistant director (basically a gopher) on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl.” Marilyn Monroe (Williams) travels to England with her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller (Scott) to star alongside Olivier. [ Read More ]...
- 3/12/2012
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Back in 1956, young production assistant Colin Clark had an experience to die for, spending a week as Marilyn Monroe's assistant, friend and confidante during the filming of "The Prince and the Showgirl."
Well, we can't give you a week with Marilyn Monroe, but we can give you the next best thing: A lifetime's worth of entertainment thanks free copies of both the "My Week with Marilyn" Blu-ray and Clark's book.
Starring the incomparable Michelle Williams as Monroe, "My Week with Marilyn," which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray March 13, earned a slew of accolades this award season, including Oscar nominations in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories for Williams and co-star Kenneth Branagh. Seriously, it's a pair of performances you won't want to miss.
And since it's based on the memoir of the same name by Clark, we thought we'd give you the chance to both see the...
Well, we can't give you a week with Marilyn Monroe, but we can give you the next best thing: A lifetime's worth of entertainment thanks free copies of both the "My Week with Marilyn" Blu-ray and Clark's book.
Starring the incomparable Michelle Williams as Monroe, "My Week with Marilyn," which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray March 13, earned a slew of accolades this award season, including Oscar nominations in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories for Williams and co-star Kenneth Branagh. Seriously, it's a pair of performances you won't want to miss.
And since it's based on the memoir of the same name by Clark, we thought we'd give you the chance to both see the...
- 3/9/2012
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
Beautiful, insecure, talented, ambitious, shy, sexy, manipulative, charming, sweet, sad...Marilyn Monroe was all of these things and more. And Michelle Williams captured every side of Monroe in her Oscar-nominated turn in "My Week With Marilyn," a slice out of the legendary actress' life that serves as an illuminating window onto the price of fame, and the weight of expectation.
Directed by Simon Curtis, the drama centers on Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne), an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's production company, who documented the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the making of "The Prince and the Showgirl" during the late 1950s. Clark quickly became close with Monroe during the filming, and "My Week With Marilyn" is a dramatization of the brief time he spent with her. The movie features an all-star cast of supporting players including Kenneth Branagh as Olivier (also nominated for an Oscar), Dougray Scott,...
Directed by Simon Curtis, the drama centers on Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne), an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's production company, who documented the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the making of "The Prince and the Showgirl" during the late 1950s. Clark quickly became close with Monroe during the filming, and "My Week With Marilyn" is a dramatization of the brief time he spent with her. The movie features an all-star cast of supporting players including Kenneth Branagh as Olivier (also nominated for an Oscar), Dougray Scott,...
- 3/6/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Alfred Hitchcock is yet again the subject of new filmmaking with The Making of Psycho: a film about the making of a film.
Anthony Hopkins is Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren is wife Alma, Scarlett Johansson is Janet Leigh, and James D'Arcy is Anthony Perkins.
John McLaughlin wrote the script (he also wrote Black Swan, good sign) from the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello.
First of all: Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh? I'm not sure that sits right. Leigh was sharp-eyed, intense, and possessed of a quickness only small, cunning foxes have. Johansson, on the other hand, is slow, languid, bleary-eyed, like some kind of drugged turtle. Rachel McAdams wouldn't have been a bad choice; not sure why they're going with the too-young (Leigh was 30 at the time of the film, Johansson stopped aging at 11) Scarlett except that they're trying to make shittons of...
Anthony Hopkins is Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren is wife Alma, Scarlett Johansson is Janet Leigh, and James D'Arcy is Anthony Perkins.
John McLaughlin wrote the script (he also wrote Black Swan, good sign) from the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello.
First of all: Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh? I'm not sure that sits right. Leigh was sharp-eyed, intense, and possessed of a quickness only small, cunning foxes have. Johansson, on the other hand, is slow, languid, bleary-eyed, like some kind of drugged turtle. Rachel McAdams wouldn't have been a bad choice; not sure why they're going with the too-young (Leigh was 30 at the time of the film, Johansson stopped aging at 11) Scarlett except that they're trying to make shittons of...
- 3/2/2012
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
To celebrate the Blu-ray and DVD release of My Week With Marilyn available to own form March 12th, we are delighted to offer one lucky HeyUGuys reader the chance to win a signed poster from the movie and a copy of the film on Blu-ray. My Week with Marilyn has an all-star cast which includes Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper, Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Toby Jones, Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Zoë Wanamaker and Derek Jacobi.
In the summer of 1956, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) worked as an assistant on the British set of The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). Monroe, also on honeymoon with her new husband, Arthur Miller was chaperoned by Clarke when Miller left the country.
Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee My Week with Marilyn is based on Clark’s diaries which note how he introduced Monroe...
In the summer of 1956, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) worked as an assistant on the British set of The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). Monroe, also on honeymoon with her new husband, Arthur Miller was chaperoned by Clarke when Miller left the country.
Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee My Week with Marilyn is based on Clark’s diaries which note how he introduced Monroe...
- 2/23/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Credits roll for studios used for Repulsion, Blade Runner and Beatles films as owners sell up following financial losses
Twickenham Film Studios, which have been used for films as diverse as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and current Oscars hopeful My Week with Marilyn, are to be closed just one year ahead of the facility's centennial anniversary.
Administrator Gerald Krasner said the business was losing money and would be wound down between now and June, with half of its 17 employees having already left. It was unlikely to be maintained as a film studio by new owners, he said. "We are selling it on," Mr Krasner told the BBC News website. "Everyone will then be paid in full."
Twickenham opened in 1913 as St Margaret's Studios and was given its current moniker in 1929 by one of its most famous owners, British film magnate Julius Hagen. Built on the...
Twickenham Film Studios, which have been used for films as diverse as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and current Oscars hopeful My Week with Marilyn, are to be closed just one year ahead of the facility's centennial anniversary.
Administrator Gerald Krasner said the business was losing money and would be wound down between now and June, with half of its 17 employees having already left. It was unlikely to be maintained as a film studio by new owners, he said. "We are selling it on," Mr Krasner told the BBC News website. "Everyone will then be paid in full."
Twickenham opened in 1913 as St Margaret's Studios and was given its current moniker in 1929 by one of its most famous owners, British film magnate Julius Hagen. Built on the...
- 2/21/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Kenneth Branagh, Janet McTeer Kenneth Branagh and Janet McTeer have a conversation at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon held in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 6, 2012. Branagh is a Best Supporting Actor contender for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, in which he plays Laurence Olivier directing/co-starring with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) in The Prince and the Showgirl. McTeer is a contender for playing a butch lesbian in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, opposite woman-disguised-as-a-man Glenn Close. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Kenneth Branagh was previously nominated for Oscars for Henry V (1989) as Best Actor and Best Director, for the live-action short film Swan Song (1992), and for the adapted screenplay of Hamlet (1995), which he also directed/starred in, alongside Julie Christie and Kate Winslet. Laurence Olivier, I should add, was a Best Actor nominee for Henry V (1946) and Hamlet (1948), both of which Olivier also directed. Hamlet was the year's Best Picture winner,...
- 2/21/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Walter Mirisch, Michelle Williams Former Academy president Walter Mirisch, Best Actress Oscar nominee Michelle Williams, and possibly Harvey Weinstein's beard at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon, which took place in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 6, 2012. Williams is in the running for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe during the making of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, co-starring Kenneth Branagh and Eddie Redmayne. (Photo: Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S.) Williams' Best Actress competitors are six-time nominee Glenn Close in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, seventeen-time nominee Meryl Streep in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, two-time nominee Viola Davis in Tate Taylor's The Help, and first-timer Rooney Mara in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Michelle Williams has been nominated for two previous Academy Awards. Her first was...
- 2/21/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Viola Davis, Best Actress winner for her performance in Tate Taylor's The Help, holds her Actor statuette at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/WireImage.) Viola Davis Viola Davis' Best Actress competitors were Meryl Streep as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Glenn Close as a 19th-century Irishwoman passing for a man in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Tilda Swinton as the mother of a young mass murderer in Lynne Ramsay's British-made We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe (during the making of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl) in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn. A week or so earlier, Davis had lost the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Drama to Meryl Streep.
- 2/11/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
From Fred and Ginger to Jennifer and Ashton, romantic comedies used to be one of the safest bets in Hollywood. But it seems that rom is just not into com any more
Is it the end for the romcom? You can imagine the celebrity mag headlines: "Romcom's relationship on the rocks?" "Com: I'm just not that into Rom" "Rom: Com doesn't make me laugh any more."
After all, who says romance and comedy go together like a horse and carriage? It seems to be a chiselled Hollywood commandment that the two shall be forever conjoined in cinematic matrimony, but perhaps it's time they went their separate ways. Sure, they got off to a great start: in those early years it was all fun and games and sparkling repartee, but recently they haven't quite looked the happy couple; the spark just hasn't been there.
They've been stuck in the same repetitive formula: boy meets girl,...
Is it the end for the romcom? You can imagine the celebrity mag headlines: "Romcom's relationship on the rocks?" "Com: I'm just not that into Rom" "Rom: Com doesn't make me laugh any more."
After all, who says romance and comedy go together like a horse and carriage? It seems to be a chiselled Hollywood commandment that the two shall be forever conjoined in cinematic matrimony, but perhaps it's time they went their separate ways. Sure, they got off to a great start: in those early years it was all fun and games and sparkling repartee, but recently they haven't quite looked the happy couple; the spark just hasn't been there.
They've been stuck in the same repetitive formula: boy meets girl,...
- 2/11/2012
- by Steve Rose, Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
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