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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Anne Hathaway to Dance with Shiva |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 3:01 pm |
| Tags: Anna Deveare Smith, Annadevearesmith, Anne Hathaway, Annehathaway, Bill Irwin, Billirwin, Cinematical, Dancing Shiva, Dancingwithshiva, Debra Winger, Debrawinger, Film, Jenny Lumet, Jennylumet, Jonathan Demme, Jonathandemme, Movies |
| 1988's Running on Empty. Jonathan Demme has been tapped to direct and produce the film, and a solid cast has already been lined up.Anne Hathaway, who just became Jane Austen, will star, with Sesame Street's Mr. Noodle, Bill Irwin (who I always mix up with My So-Called Life dad Tom Irwin), The West Wing's Anna Deveare Smith and that Dangerous |
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| Universal Summons 'Jeff the Immortal' |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 3:32 pm |
| Tags: Angelina Jolie, Chris Bishop, Christopher Lambert, Highlander, Jeff The Immortal, Jonathan Demme, Night Of The Living Dorks |
| book flick Wanted and the Jonathan Demme comedy Dancing with Shiva. Since Jeff is still in the early stages of production, there is no word on a director or star. But lately, comedies have proven they can pull in the box-office, so I would guess that Universal will want to get to work as soon as possible.Read Permalink |
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| TIFF Watch: 'Man from Plains' Wins Three Awards at Venice |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 8:51 pm |
| Tags: Heart Of Gold, Heartofgold, Jonathan Demme, Jonathandemme, Man From Plains, Manfromplains, Philadelphia, Stop Making Sense, Stopmakingsense, The Silence Of The Lambs, Thesilenceofthelambs, Toronto International Film Festival, Torontointernationalfilmfestival, Venice F |
| And now filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense, Neil Young: Heart of Gold) has scored with a documentary about him, called Man from Plains. Now playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was at the Venice fest, too, where it picked up three prizes last weekend.The international critics' jury give the |
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| The Jimmy Carter Experience: Row, Jimmy, Row... |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 12:53 pm |
| Tags: Guinea Worms, Jimmy Carter, Jonathan Demme, Movies, The Jimmy Carter Experience |
| He was a mild-mannered peanut farmer from Georgia with lust in his heart. She was a confused Middle East state violently divided by religion. Together, they dreamed of a better day. Jimmy Carter: The... |
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| The Jimmy Carter Experience: Row, Jimmy, Row... |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 1:06 pm |
| Tags: Guinea Worms, Jimmy Carter, Jonathan Demme, Movies, The Jimmy Carter Experience |
| book tour, director Jonathan Demme rolls out “Jimmy Carter, Man From Plains.” We fully expect the pic to address that whole rabbit attack thing during a fishing trip back in the 1970s (“It was menacingly hissing at me!” Don’t worry, Mr. President. Didn’t, like everyone do mescaline back then?). For the |
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| Jimmy Carter Makes Us Feel Like Losers |
| Published: October 25, 2007, 11:39 am |
| Tags: Party Lines, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Jonathan Demme |
| of The Man From the Plains, Jonathan Demme’s new documentary about the former president, Carter was still adjusting to being a leading man. "I’m waiting to see whether I’m going to be a villain or a hero," he joked. Making the movie, he said, made him empathize with the plight of reality-TV stars. "Demme intruded in my life |
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| The Jimmy Carter Movie Could Be So Much Better [The Jimmy Carter Experience] |
| Published: October 26, 2007, 1:07 pm |
| Tags: Carter, Ex Presidents, Jimmy Carter, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Demme, Movie, Movies, The Jimmy Carter Experience |
| Politico’s gossip grunt Anne Schroeder reports today that Jimmy Carter was in town at the MPAA to catch the preview of Jonathan Demme’s cinematic blow job to him. And, again, as we said... |
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| The Jimmy Carter Movie Could Be So Much Better [The Jimmy Carter Experience] |
| Published: October 26, 2007, 1:07 pm |
| Tags: Carter, Ex Presidents, Jimmy Carter, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Demme, Movie, Movies, The Jimmy Carter Experience |
| MPAA to catch the preview of Jonathan Demme’s cinematic blow job to him. And, again, as we said before, we’re having a hard time wrapping our heads around the idea of viewing a movie about a book tour (pandemonium ensues when the tip of Jimmy’s Sharpie gets mushy!) without falling asleep. Surely Demme could have spiced things up |
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| No Bob Marley for Marty Scorsese |
| Published: May 21, 2008, 1:10 pm |
| Tags: Bob Marley, Bobmarley, Cinematical, Jonathan Demme, Jonathandemme, Martin Scorsese, Martinscorsese |
| Silence of the Lambs helmer Jonathan Demme has taken over.The film is still set to be released on the 65th anniversary of the musician's birth -- February 6, 2010, so this change shouldn't disrupt anything. As for Demme's involvement, it shouldn't change things much. He's made docs on both the Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense in 1984) and Neil |
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| Jonathan Demme Does Scorsese A Solid |
| Published: May 21, 2008, 3:30 pm |
| Tags: Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Trade Roundup |
| Jonathan Demme has stepped in for the departing Martin Scorsese on the authorised Bob Marley documentary project. This is the movie Marley's estate want released before the Weinstein's Bob biopic, a scheduling snafu that caused an irate Harvey to whip a can of Diet Coke at an assistant's head as he taunted the incapacitated call-roller |
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| No Marty, no cry |
| Published: May 22, 2008, 10:55 am |
| Tags: Bob Marley, Movies, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Biography |
| to worry, though: Jonathan Demme has got some spare time and is stepping in to the project instead. There are now a slew of producers who seem to move from one music biopic to the next. Doubtless if Demme had also been busy, Pennebaker would have been next on the |
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| Werner Herzog and Jonathan Demme Talk About Life, Cinema |
| Published: June 11, 2008, 11:02 pm |
| Tags: Aguirre, Aguirre Wrath Of God, Aguirrewrathofgod, Bavaria, Bavarian, David Schwartz, Davidschwartz, Dennis Lim, Dennislim, Encounters At The End Of The World, Encountersattheendoftheworld, German, Germans, Germany, Jonathan Demme, Jonathandemme, Momi, Moving Image Source |
| conversation with director Jonathan Demme at the Times Center, or the two crazed climbers who attempted to scale the New York Times building right next door just a few hours earlier. In some ways, the two occurrences worked together: It was later announced that one of the climbers did it in order to raise awareness about global warming, a |
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| The Once-Great Jonathan Demme's Cold Streak Continues With 'Rachel Getting Married' [Start Making Sense] |
| Published: August 12, 2008, 8:50 pm |
| Tags: Start Making Sense, Anne Hathaway, Jenny Lumet, Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married, Trailers |
| wasn't so long ago that Jonathan Demme was considered one of Hollywood's preeminent directors. Actually, scratch that — after checking out his IMDB profile, we now realize that the last time he made a film that had any sort of cultural impact (or, for that matter, even approached the state of being "watchable") was 1993's landmark Academy |
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