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19 articles from 2009
Federico García Lorca’s Remains to Be Exhumed
28 October 2009 3:40 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Javier Beltrán as Federico García Lorca, Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes According to reports, forensic experts have begun digging at a mass unmarked grave in search of the remains of poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (right), executed in the early days of Spain’s bloody 1936-39 civil war. The work is taking place on a remote hillside area near Granada, in Spain’s southern province of Andalusia. The assassins were members of a militia loyal to right-wing Gen. Francisco Franco. Approximately 500,000 people were killed during the civil war, which erupted after Franco, abetted by Spain’s business establishment and the Catholic Church, rebelled against the elected leftist Republican government. (Guillermo del Toro captures the brutality of this dark period [...] »
- Andre Soares
Like People in History (Part 1): An Assassinated Spanish Poet and An Idealistic German Youth
18 October 2009 5:50 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
In this series of articles, tMF puts the spotlight on films which deals with certain important historical events or the portrayal of important historical figures. - - -
- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump!
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The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German Youth
On November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop?
During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Like People in History (Part 1): An Assassinated Spanish Poet and An Idealistic German Youth
18 October 2009 5:50 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
In this series of articles, tMF puts the spotlight on films which deals with certain important historical events or the portrayal of important historical figures. - - -
- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump!
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The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German Youth
On November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop?
During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Like People in History (Part 1): An Assassinated Spanish Poet and An Idealistic German Youth
18 October 2009 5:50 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
In this series of articles, tMF puts the spotlight on films which deals with certain important historical events or the portrayal of important historical figures. - - -
- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump!
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The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German Youth
On November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop?
During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Like People in History (Part 1): An Assassinated Spanish Poet and An Idealistic German Youth
18 October 2009 5:50 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
In this series of articles, tMF puts the spotlight on films which deals with certain important historical events or the portrayal of important historical figures. - - -
- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump!
- - -
The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German Youth
On November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop?
During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Like People in History (Part 1): An Assassinated Spanish Poet and An Idealistic German Youth
18 October 2009 5:50 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
In this series of articles, tMF puts the spotlight on films which deals with certain important historical events or the portrayal of important historical figures. - - -
- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump!
- - -
The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German Youth
On November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop?
During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Little Ashes Review
29 August 2009 2:58 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
For a film about renowned artists, Little Ashes lacks style and imagination, a cumbersome clutter of poorly constructed scenes and amateurish acting.
A bland tale of Salvador Dali’s relationship with Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) attempts to explore a speculative sexual experimentation during the 20’s, a time for revolution and visionaries. Their lavish, homoerotic exploits are meant to shed the era’s repressed nature, but are told with little passion or conviction in a wholly pedestrian plot. The film is simply a paradox of stock storytelling for extraordinary figures.
The presence of Robert Pattinson from Twilight fame only gathers a wider audience for an undeserving work, and the portrait of a tortured artist will only be a torturous affair for his young fans. Pattinson barely transforms from his vampiric role as a brooding romantic into a brooding painter, forcing a delivery in a fleeting accent and overreacting to his cohorts. »
- Jeff Leins
The Best Fall Gay TV Guide Ever!
24 August 2009 5:32 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Prepare to be dazzled!
As difficult as it is to believe given our astounding amounts of copy and shocking levels of professionalism, AfterElton.com is less than five years old.
Needless to say, the site has seen a lot of changes in these past few years – not the least of which is our bi-annual TV-viewing previews.
At the beginning, it pretty much consisted of our doing a furious Google search of the words “gay” and “TV” thirty minutes before making the article live.
These days? Well, now we have virtually every TV star or showrunner imaginable available at the touch of a button.
In other words, access, thy name is AfterElton.com! Hey, we even talked to Padma friggin’ Lakshmi (who, for the record, is even more beautiful in person than she is on TV – we’re just sayin’).
And since we’ve watched preview copies of most of the new shows, »
- Brent Hartinger
DVD release inspirations including The Young Victoria
13 July 2009 2:57 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Three more days to go Boxwishers and then, yes then Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be out at cinemas. It’s the moment that so many of you have been waiting for and now we’re in sight of it it’s so exciting. To celebrate, we’re going Potter potty here at Boxwish with a week of features dedicated to the boy wizard kicking off tomorrow. And to help us while away the hours until Harry’s back, we’re checking out the new DVDs coming your way from today and we’ve got period pomp in The Young Victoria, canine capers in Hotel for Dogs and Robert Pattinson with a crazy ‘tache and sometimes very little else in Little Ashes.
If you see… The Young Victoria, a classy costume drama that looks at the British monarch’s early life including her ascension to the throne and marriage to Prince Albert, »
Little Ashes (review)
11 May 2009 9:26 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Not that the Twilight brigade will care -- because, Omg, Robert Pattinson is almost like totally naked here! -- but only indiscriminate vampire-swooning tweens will appreciate his portrayal of the surrealistic Spanish painter and filmmaker Salvador Dalí. For Pattinson’s interpretation of the man comes down to two hours of stultifying wide-eyed stares and mooning declarations such as “I’m Salvador Dalí, the savior of modern art” that play more as unintentional parody than as any attempt to understand a man whom -- Philippa Goslett’s script would like us to believe -- was a conflicted dreamer who was able to let loose in his art in a way he never was able to do in his own life. Director Paul Morrison (Solomon and Gaenor) makes some odd choices regarding what language we’re hearing this story in -- these native Spaniards speak English, except when Dalí’s onetime friend »
- MaryAnn Johanson
'Little Ashes': Tortured Artist, By Kurt Loder
8 May 2009 4:52 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Robert Pattinson trapped in strange new movie.
Robert Pattinson in "Little Ashes"
Photo: Regent
Some months before he began filming "Twilight," the movie that would ignite his career, Robert Pattinson shot a low-budget art-house film in Spain called "Little Ashes." "Twilight" was released last November; now comes the earlier picture. We can only imagine how Pattinson must feel about this.
The movie, directed by Paul Morrison, has an interesting subject: the 1922 meeting of three soon-to-be-renowned Spanish artists — filmmaker Luis Buñuel, painter Salvador Dalí and the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca — at the Residencia de Estudiantes, a Madrid arts institute. García Lorca is played by the Spanish TV actor Javier Beltrán, who somewhat resembles the young writer. Buñuel is portrayed by an Englishman, Matthew McNulty ("Control"), who looks nothing at all like the great director. And Pattinson has been cast, disastrously, as Dalí.
Actually, it's hard to imagine who could »
'Little Ashes': Tortured Artist, By Kurt Loder
8 May 2009 4:52 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Robert Pattinson trapped in strange new movie.
Robert Pattinson in "Little Ashes"
Photo: Regent
Some months before he began filming "Twilight," the movie that would ignite his career, Robert Pattinson shot a low-budget art-house film in Spain called "Little Ashes." "Twilight" was released last November; now comes the earlier picture. We can only imagine how Pattinson must feel about this.
The movie, directed by Paul Morrison, has an interesting subject: the 1922 meeting of three soon-to-be-renowned Spanish artists — filmmaker Luis Buñuel, painter Salvador Dalí and the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca — at the Residencia de Estudiantes, a Madrid arts institute. García Lorca is played by the Spanish TV actor Javier Beltrán, who somewhat resembles the young writer. Buñuel is portrayed by an Englishman, Matthew McNulty ("Control"), who looks nothing at all like the great director. And Pattinson has been cast, disastrously, as Dalí.
Actually, it's hard to imagine who could »
Summer Movie Preview
6 May 2009 4:12 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
We're all for getting out in the summertime, but there might not be anything more refreshing than cooling off in a movie theater... or seeing a movie in the comfort of your air-conditioned home on demand, on DVD, or online... or better yet catching a classic on the big screen at a nearby repertory theater. With literally hundreds of films to choose from this summer, we humbly present this guide to the season's most exciting offerings.
May 1
"Eldorado"
The Cast: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Philippe Nahon, Didier Toupy, Franise Chichy
Director: Bouli Lanners
Fest Cred: Cannes, Warsaw, Glasgow, Palm Springs,
The Gist: When Elie (Adde), a hapless young thief attempts to rob Yvan (Lanners), a 40-year-old car dealer, the two form a unlikely friendship that leads to a road trip across Belgium in this slight comedy that won the Best European Film at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes last year. »
- Stephen Saito
Chock Full Of Spock
4 May 2009 6:47 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
The arrival of "Star Trek" signals the start of blockbuster season (in our orbit, "Wolverine" doesn't count), and the indie world wastes no time with responding in kind with a few big name players of its own.
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Atom Egoyan landed himself a Palme d'Or nomination at last year's Cannes for the latest of his patented multi-stranded narratives of introspection, this one a meditation on the marginalization of truth and the role of technology in the post-9/11 mindset. Devon Bostick stars as Simon, an orphaned student whose class assignment translating a newspaper article about the would-be martyrdom of a pregnant woman has personal ramifications when he writes a fictionalized op-ed from the perspective of the now-grown child that takes on a life of its own once it hits the web.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles. »
- Neil Pedley
Pattinson Likely To Boost Art-House Flick
1 May 2009 2:37 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
The sudden rise of Robert Pattinson to teen-idol status as a result of his starring role in the hit Twilight is likely to draw big audiences to Little Ashes, an independent film originally aimed at the relatively small art-house crowd that was filmed before Pattinson's career took off, the film's director, Paul Morrison, told today's (Friday) Los Angeles Times. "I love the fact that an audience is going to be drawn to the film, partly through Rob, that wouldn't otherwise get to this kind of movie," Morrison said. In the film, Pattinson plays Spanish painter Salvador Dali, who had a homosexual affair with the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Morrison indicated that he was astounded when Pattinson became an overnight star. "It's just extraordinary, jaw dropping," he told the Times. "And great for us. For a little film like this you need a bit of luck." »
Twilight's Robert Pattinson Strips Down
2 April 2009 11:23 AM, PDT | India.com | See recent India.com news »
Expect a few million female fans screaming at the top of their voices - their heartthrob Twilight star Robert Pattinson does the Full Monty for his latest film.
The movie, named 'Little Ashes' is based on Salvador Dali's life, with Pattinson playing the famed homosexual surrealist painter.
'Little Ashes' chronicles the friendship between Salvador Dalí and the poet Federico García Lorca that develops into an unusual love affair. The film is directed by Oscar nominee Paul Morrison who earlier made 'Solomon and Gaenor', which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Pattinson, who shot to fame in last year's Twilight as the vampire Edward Cullen has already gathered some Oscar buzz for his role in 'Little Ashes'. He already has another British comedy 'How to be' lined up for 2009, apart from the sequel to Twilight - 'New Moon'.
By: Mihir Fadnavis | India. »
- mihirkula
Pattinson 'uncomfortable with sex scenes'
16 March 2009 9:26 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Robert Pattinson has confessed that he found it uncomfortable filming gay sex scenes for his upcoming movie Little Ashes. The Twilight star plays a young Salvador Dalí in the forthcoming period drama, which details the artist's pre-fame relationships with director Luis Buñuel, and poet Federico García Lorca. Speaking to GQ, he said: "In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff. "Here I am, with Javier [Beltrán], who plays Lorca, doing an extremely hardcore sex scene, where I have (more) »
- By Lara Martin
Rob Pattinson: 'My First Sex Scene Was With a Guy'
12 March 2009 10:59 PM, PDT | Celebuzz.com | See recent Celebuzz news »
What was supposed to be a working holiday in Spain gave actor Robert Pattinson such severe anxiety, he feared he wouldn't work again. "I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff," the actor tells GQ magazine of his work in Little Ashes, where Rpattz plays a young Salvador Dali. The film follows the love affair between Pattinson's Dali and poet Federico García Lorca, played by Javier Beltrán. "And here I am, with Javier, who plays Lorca, doing an extremely hard-core sex scene, where I have a nervous breakdown afterward,". »
- Celebuzz
Eleven Gay Historical Figures Worthy of the "Milk" Treatment
4 February 2009 8:14 PM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Whatever you think of Milk, there’s no denying that the Oscar-nominated biopic is putting a long-overdue spotlight on the life of Harvey Milk, allowing much of the mainstream audience to learn about his singular achievements for the very first time.
But why stop there? Now that Milk has proven that stirring gay life stories can appeal to more than just a gay audience, Hollywood should think about making movies about the following legends. We’ll even help them decide which to make first by throwing in a rating of 1-5 Harveys for each story’s eventual Oscar bait-ability. That should help land some big name stars.
Who he was: Gorgeous leading man of the 1950s (From Here to Eternity [1953], A Place in the Sun [1951]) who led a torturously closeted existence in Hollywood. Survived a somewhat disfiguring car accident during the filming of Raintree County (1957) opposite Elizabeth Taylor, »
- dennis
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