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...people: Hollywood.Departing from their signature mockumentary format, the film follows a more traditional narrative style, although most scenes remain improvised. It follows a gang of down-on-their-luck actors as a little internet buzz launches one of their films into the public spotlight, just in time for Oscar season.Inspiration came, in part, from Levy’s own run-in with the internet.He first learned of his New York Film Critics Circle award for best supporting actor for “A Mighty Wind” after a friend informed him he had read it online...
...plot-line, the “mockumentary” gives attention to both the obscure and mundane in a light that exceeds most comedic standards. The film centers around the making of a small, low-budget picture entitled “Home for Purim” and the ensuing Oscar buzz that surrounds its actors. Hardly a single aspect of L.A.’s entertainment industry escapes lampooning: actors, directors, agents, publicists, makeup artists, morning talk shows, network entertainment reviews, internet movie sites, and even TRL are all poked fun at in one way or another. Giving himself...
...hair lover-to-be named Lionel (Robert Downey Jr.), who seems ripped from the pages of “Beauty and the Beast.” Sound interesting? It could have been, but instead, we’re given Kidman’s attempt to reprise her wonderfully restrained, Oscar-winning turn as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours”—a valiant effort, to be sure, but an unsuccessful one. And then there is Arbus, whose fascinatingly strange photographs you will sadly not see in this film. Arbus shows us people who are decidedly...
Richard Linklater doesn’t like fast food, and it’s not just because he cares about his waistline.“If you look at the whole system, it’s kind of a disaster on every level,” the Oscar-nominated filmmaker said of the fast food industry. “Bad for the animals, bad for the environment, bad for the workers, and bad for the consumer at the end, so lose, lose, lose, lose.”Linklater has written and directed a diverse array of films, including...
...DIED. Jack Palance, 87, hulking Hollywood iconoclast who won a best-supporting-actor Oscar for playing Curly, the hilariously creepy dude-ranch stud in City Slickers; in Montecito, California. The former heavyweight boxer shot to fame playing eerily calm, menacing heavies in films like Sudden Fear (Joan Crawford's deranged stalker) and Shane (a bullying gunslinger) in the 1950s. But his most memorable performance was at the 1992 Oscars. Accepting his award, Palance started to attempt a speech, then dropped to the floor, displaying his virility with a series of one-handed push-ups. Later asked what happened, he replied...