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...dictates of Dogme remind us that cinema isn't just about thrills, spills and special effects - it's about telling a story and telling it well. "We thought it would be fun to forbid everything we normally do in film - music, makeup, effects - everything that comes between the actor, the pure product and audience," says Vinterberg. "That was maybe the highest creative moment in my life." Von Trier and Vinterberg only made one Dogme film each, but they extended the invitation to other Danish directors they thought could follow the rules and make movie magic. The 10th Danish Dogme film...
With the Ninth Symphony in heavy rotation on his iPod, ED HARRIS is diligently transforming himself into yet another artistic savant. "He's the greatest musician that ever walked the planet," says Harris, who starred in and directed a 2000 biopic of painter Jackson Pollock. "I'm an actor from New Jersey." To master the maestro for Copying Beethoven, currently filming in Budapest, Harris, who has been in about a gazillion movies but may be best known for The Right Stuff or Apollo 13, has picked up piano, a pastime he abandoned in fourth grade. He's also learning...
Died. Sir John Mills, 97, versatile, much loved British actor; in Denham, Britain. While touring Asia with a traveling theater company, the young Mills was spotted by Nol Coward, who helped him find good parts in London, some in plays (Cavalcade) and films (In Which We Serve) by Coward. Mills won an Oscar for his supporting role as a mute in David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter. Lean also directed him in Great Expectations and Hobson's Choice. The nimble, enduring Mills, who appeared in more than 100 movies, made four with his daughter Hayley, including Tiger...
...this weekend’s timely presentation of Sharbari Ahmed’s wryly comedic script, the Harvard South Asian Association (SAA) and South Asian American Theater (SAATh) team up to bring Islam to front and center stage with complexity. It portrays Islam, as actor Neilesh Bose (who plays Rezwan) puts it, “as both a victim and a perpetrator...
Most attention-getting, however, is Solondz’s device of having the main character be played by seven actresses and one actor over eight segments, from an overweight African-American woman to a Caucasian red-head to “Single White Female” Jennifer Jason Leigh. During the ninth segment, all the actors appear...