Justin Bieber's legal troubles with the paparazzi continue. A Florida judge ordered the pop star to report for a deposition in Miami within the next 30 days as a part of an ongoing lawsuit, according to the Associated Press. If the 22-year-old fails to show up for the sit-down, he faces the threat of being arrested and brought into court. Two years ago, Manuel Muñoz, a Miami-based photographer, filed a lawsuit against Bieber allegedly claiming that the singer's bodyguard got into a physical altercation with him in a January 2014 incident. The "Sorry" hitmaker will be in Europe until November for...
- 9/30/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Justin Bieber's legal troubles with the paparazzi continue. A Florida judge ordered the pop star to report for a deposition in Miami within the next 30 days as a part of an ongoing lawsuit, according to the Associated Press. If the 22-year-old fails to show up for the sit-down, he faces the threat of being arrested and brought into court. Two years ago, Manuel Muñoz, a Miami-based photographer, filed a lawsuit against Bieber allegedly claiming that the singer's bodyguard got into a physical altercation with him in a January 2014 incident. The "Sorry" hitmaker will be in Europe until November for...
- 9/30/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Can we talk about the official Oscar site for a minute? The past few years they've really improved it but some things are questionable. Like their live blog of the nominee luncheon being just a series of photos or this weird article about the biggest Oscar surprises evers that seeks to rewrite history and imagine a world where everyone didn't know that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were winning Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. Lmfao. Everyone knew that. But I have to say that I love their nominee questionnaire. Especially the handwritten responses from various celebrities and filmmakers.
Okay, Links
Pajiba Fox News' hilariously dumb war against the "anti-capitalist" The Lego Movie. Hahaha. I swear they get dumber every year over there and they were pretty stoopid to begin with
Glenn Dunks Laura Dern's greatest faces
i09 the cast of Frozen, including Idina, did a live concert. Will Disney...
Okay, Links
Pajiba Fox News' hilariously dumb war against the "anti-capitalist" The Lego Movie. Hahaha. I swear they get dumber every year over there and they were pretty stoopid to begin with
Glenn Dunks Laura Dern's greatest faces
i09 the cast of Frozen, including Idina, did a live concert. Will Disney...
- 2/11/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
For Jodie Foster Week I invited guests to talk about favorite Foster films. Here is one of my favorite authors Manuel Muñoz ("What You see in the Dark," "The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue") on a pre-Taxi Driver Scorsese/Foster collaboration. - Nathaniel R]
Coming up with another word for “precocious” is hard, since its precision begs no real qualification. The word bothers me a little as a go-to choice to describe Jodie Foster’s brief appearance in 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. What are we seeing in her portrayal of a girl who dislikes her real name (Doris) so much that she ditches it in favor of another (Audrey)? I thought my pleasure in rewatching Alice would come in getting to see Foster in that vulnerable adolescence where few of us had learned to mask, moderate, or amplify our sexual identities. How much more apparent would this be on camera,...
Coming up with another word for “precocious” is hard, since its precision begs no real qualification. The word bothers me a little as a go-to choice to describe Jodie Foster’s brief appearance in 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. What are we seeing in her portrayal of a girl who dislikes her real name (Doris) so much that she ditches it in favor of another (Audrey)? I thought my pleasure in rewatching Alice would come in getting to see Foster in that vulnerable adolescence where few of us had learned to mask, moderate, or amplify our sexual identities. How much more apparent would this be on camera,...
- 11/19/2012
- by Manuel Muñoz
- FilmExperience
Yesterday I received my invitation to Hitchcock and I nearly let out a scream of delight. Not that the trailer convinced me a masterpiece awaited me or that I've rushed to read "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" in preparation but I do tend to get excited for most things Hitchcock. The power of branding! I still remember the day I received the Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection box set (a gift from a generous reader some years ago) which felt like 15 Christmases at once.
Wouldn't it be neat if more Golden Age era directors had the sort of modern profile that The Master of Suspense still enjoys? Wouldn't it be neat if baby cineastes pored over every page of "William Wyler and the Making of Jezebel" (not a real book) or if the film version of "Billy Wilder and the Making of Some Like It Hot" (not a real book...
Wouldn't it be neat if more Golden Age era directors had the sort of modern profile that The Master of Suspense still enjoys? Wouldn't it be neat if baby cineastes pored over every page of "William Wyler and the Making of Jezebel" (not a real book) or if the film version of "Billy Wilder and the Making of Some Like It Hot" (not a real book...
- 10/25/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Manuel Muñoz one of my favorite writers on his "sometime love" for director Hal Ashby
Vanity Fair on the Scientology auditions to be Tom Cruise's girl. He's been on 7 of their covers. Won't this spoil their chances at an 8th?
Nfb Sarah Polley on her next film Stories We Tell
Pajiba on "The Death of the Movie Theater" a super depressing but otherwise enjoyable read. It's really too bad the nation's theater owners don't get how they've let us all down.
I Need My Fix Alexander Skarsgard for GQ
Guardian Shia Labeouf's antics keeps people talking
Hollywood Elsewhere Will Terrence Malick's To The Wonder inspire twitter brawls?
New York Times Rip. the legendary lyricist and Oscar winner Hal David ("Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head") dies at 91.
i09 first image of Lee Pace (yay) in The Hobbit as Legolas' father. My what good genes those elf boys have.
Vanity Fair on the Scientology auditions to be Tom Cruise's girl. He's been on 7 of their covers. Won't this spoil their chances at an 8th?
Nfb Sarah Polley on her next film Stories We Tell
Pajiba on "The Death of the Movie Theater" a super depressing but otherwise enjoyable read. It's really too bad the nation's theater owners don't get how they've let us all down.
I Need My Fix Alexander Skarsgard for GQ
Guardian Shia Labeouf's antics keeps people talking
Hollywood Elsewhere Will Terrence Malick's To The Wonder inspire twitter brawls?
New York Times Rip. the legendary lyricist and Oscar winner Hal David ("Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head") dies at 91.
i09 first image of Lee Pace (yay) in The Hobbit as Legolas' father. My what good genes those elf boys have.
- 9/2/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
It took a surprisingly long time but three of my friends independently read the book What You See in the Dark these past two weeks. I had recommended it emphatically a few months back but dropped the topic when nobody bit. All three of them told me much they liked it in separate conversations. Some of you may recall that I interviewed the author Manuel Muñoz right here, hoping some of you would pick it up as well.
Since it was on my mind again, I thought I'd share a passage so I flipped the book open and skimmed until I found one of the passages about the Actress (who it won't surprise you to hear was my favorite character in the novel... although not by much, which surprised me).
The scene takes place as the Actress is contemplating a scene she'll be shooting the next morning and her mind wanders.
Since it was on my mind again, I thought I'd share a passage so I flipped the book open and skimmed until I found one of the passages about the Actress (who it won't surprise you to hear was my favorite character in the novel... although not by much, which surprised me).
The scene takes place as the Actress is contemplating a scene she'll be shooting the next morning and her mind wanders.
- 8/26/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The heated relationship of actor, director, and camera proves more durable a flame than a gossiped-about crosstown romance in Manuel Muñoz’s debut novel, What You See In The Dark, an evocation of small-town ’50s America slowly letting in the outside world. Teresa, a Bakersfield shoe-store clerk who dreams of becoming a singer, is scrambling to an audition for her first gig when she meets and falls for nightclub manager Dan Watson. The most sought-after bachelor in town, Dan pursues Teresa over the objections of his mother and their Latino and white neighbors alike (including Teresa’s coworker, who ...
- 4/14/2011
- avclub.com
If you don't love Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and much to my surprise I heard from two readers who don't at all, this past week has probably been a bit of a "???" on the blog. So much Psycho excitement. And all on account of a book. You know those, right? It's the oddest thing but they're made of paper and they have no moving pictures!
If you missed my interview with "What You See in the Dark" author Manuel Muñoz it's here. I had three copies to give away and entrants had to name their favorite thing about Psycho. I drew the winners randomly from the entries.
Congratulations to...
Lindsay in Oregon who loves Psycho because it always scares her.
Dan in Michigan considers himself a musicologist. His favorite thing about Psycho?
I've always obsessed about the meaning of that shot of the Beethoven Eroica Symphony. That and the resemblance...
If you missed my interview with "What You See in the Dark" author Manuel Muñoz it's here. I had three copies to give away and entrants had to name their favorite thing about Psycho. I drew the winners randomly from the entries.
Congratulations to...
Lindsay in Oregon who loves Psycho because it always scares her.
Dan in Michigan considers himself a musicologist. His favorite thing about Psycho?
I've always obsessed about the meaning of that shot of the Beethoven Eroica Symphony. That and the resemblance...
- 4/4/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Towleroad a few words about what's out in theaters and about Black Swan's midnight movie plans.
Av Club Chloe Moretz to play La Pfeiffer's daughter in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows..
Movie|Line interviews Barbara Hershey on Black Swan and her new role in Insidious. She also name checks some of her best work. Yay, Hershey.
The Awl a "write in" campaign for a particularly stone faced Best Villain performance at the MTV Movie Awards
My New Plaid Pants "ways not to die" visits Psycho's staircase. Yes, it's been a Psycho heavy week. I blame Manuel Muñoz.
Self Styled Siren one more Elizabeth Taylor tribute but it's wonderful. The Siren always is.
Cinema Blend All Superman movies are coming out in a dvd box set. My fav is #2 of course.
Kneel before General Zod!
Tom Shone reviews Mildred Pierce in full. I didn't finish the article though it was...
Av Club Chloe Moretz to play La Pfeiffer's daughter in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows..
Movie|Line interviews Barbara Hershey on Black Swan and her new role in Insidious. She also name checks some of her best work. Yay, Hershey.
The Awl a "write in" campaign for a particularly stone faced Best Villain performance at the MTV Movie Awards
My New Plaid Pants "ways not to die" visits Psycho's staircase. Yes, it's been a Psycho heavy week. I blame Manuel Muñoz.
Self Styled Siren one more Elizabeth Taylor tribute but it's wonderful. The Siren always is.
Cinema Blend All Superman movies are coming out in a dvd box set. My fav is #2 of course.
Kneel before General Zod!
Tom Shone reviews Mildred Pierce in full. I didn't finish the article though it was...
- 4/1/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Thank God March is over! It's basically Sad Bridge Month between Oscar Insanity and "okay so what's this year going to be like?" Then our Beloved Dame Elizabeth Taylor died and so the month was a bit of a bummer. But, I must add, for our time spent getting to know you with Reader o' the Day! In case you've been a fair weather reader -- it's a pleasant 78° in here year round. There's no need to migrate -- here's what'cha missed on Tfe.
It was unusually animated. Pun intended.
A History of Women in Film -From "American's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford to Best Director winner Kathryn Bigelow.
101 Dalmatians 50½ thoughs on its 50th anniversary. Woof woof.
Salo and Dogtooth Robert bridged the distance between two shock classics.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot We all shouted "Stelllllaaaa" with Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. (As part of a weeklong Tennessee Williams...
It was unusually animated. Pun intended.
A History of Women in Film -From "American's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford to Best Director winner Kathryn Bigelow.
101 Dalmatians 50½ thoughs on its 50th anniversary. Woof woof.
Salo and Dogtooth Robert bridged the distance between two shock classics.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot We all shouted "Stelllllaaaa" with Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. (As part of a weeklong Tennessee Williams...
- 4/1/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
In this weekly series "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", we look at a pre-determined movie and select what we think is the best (or at least our favorite) shot.
Let's stare this down right away.
The best shot in Alfred Hitchcock's immortal Psycho (1960) comes from arguably the most famous single scene in cinema's 100+ year history. It's that devastating slow clockwise turn (mirroring blood swirling down the drain) paired with a slow zoom out. Marion Crane is dead or thereabouts. Dying in the shower allows her final posthumous tears.
In what is arguably Hitchcock's most brilliant decision in a film filled with them, this moment turns the movie's fabled voyeurism (and explicit understanding of cinema's very nature) back at the audience. We've been staring at Marion Crane, foolish bird-like Marion, for 49 minutes watching her squirm in her "private trap". We couldn't (didn't want to?) save her. Now it's her turn to stare back.
Let's stare this down right away.
The best shot in Alfred Hitchcock's immortal Psycho (1960) comes from arguably the most famous single scene in cinema's 100+ year history. It's that devastating slow clockwise turn (mirroring blood swirling down the drain) paired with a slow zoom out. Marion Crane is dead or thereabouts. Dying in the shower allows her final posthumous tears.
In what is arguably Hitchcock's most brilliant decision in a film filled with them, this moment turns the movie's fabled voyeurism (and explicit understanding of cinema's very nature) back at the audience. We've been staring at Marion Crane, foolish bird-like Marion, for 49 minutes watching her squirm in her "private trap". We couldn't (didn't want to?) save her. Now it's her turn to stare back.
- 3/31/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Interview
The Film Experience doesn't often push books upon you, but it's time for an exception. Manuel Muñoz's debut novel "What You See in the Dark" hits bookstores, virtual and otherwise, this week. While it is a work of fiction, it borrows from reality for its backdrop. The pre-production and eventual release of Alfred Hitchcock's immortal Psycho (1960) figure into the narrative in crucial and evocative ways and both The Actress and The Director in question are characters.
Consider this amazing "double feature"
Full Disclosure (as I always believe in such things): I met Manuel Muñoz at a poetry event about four years ago and he introduced himself as a reader of The Film Experience. Though predisposed to rooting for him as a result (I'm only human!) we hadn't really kept in good touch. In the intervening years, I bought a copy of his second short story collection.
The Film Experience doesn't often push books upon you, but it's time for an exception. Manuel Muñoz's debut novel "What You See in the Dark" hits bookstores, virtual and otherwise, this week. While it is a work of fiction, it borrows from reality for its backdrop. The pre-production and eventual release of Alfred Hitchcock's immortal Psycho (1960) figure into the narrative in crucial and evocative ways and both The Actress and The Director in question are characters.
Consider this amazing "double feature"
Full Disclosure (as I always believe in such things): I met Manuel Muñoz at a poetry event about four years ago and he introduced himself as a reader of The Film Experience. Though predisposed to rooting for him as a result (I'm only human!) we hadn't really kept in good touch. In the intervening years, I bought a copy of his second short story collection.
- 3/30/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
This Wednesday's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" topic is Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Try to look at it with fresh new eyes somewhen in the next 48 hours and join us for the conversation at 10 Pm Est.
In other news, I have three copies of Manuel Muñoz's debut novel "What You See in the Dark" to give away. It's a haunting read that takes place in the small town of Bakersfield in 1959. It focuses on a sudden talk-of-the-town romance between a young couple as well as an older waitress who brushes up against Hollywood in the form of "The Actress" and "The Director" who are scouting locations for a movie (Guess which one? You got it.) I'll have an interview with the author up tomorrow. But if you'd like to enter the contest, here's what you do.
Send Nathaniel and e-mail by Thursday, 9 Pm Est containing the following info.
In other news, I have three copies of Manuel Muñoz's debut novel "What You See in the Dark" to give away. It's a haunting read that takes place in the small town of Bakersfield in 1959. It focuses on a sudden talk-of-the-town romance between a young couple as well as an older waitress who brushes up against Hollywood in the form of "The Actress" and "The Director" who are scouting locations for a movie (Guess which one? You got it.) I'll have an interview with the author up tomorrow. But if you'd like to enter the contest, here's what you do.
Send Nathaniel and e-mail by Thursday, 9 Pm Est containing the following info.
- 3/29/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Hit Me With Your Best Shot continues with A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). This week's film was chosen in light of the Tennessee Williams Centennial, the great writer's 100th anniversary is this weekend. If this is your first "best shot," partipicants are asked to watch a film, and select its best shot (or their favorite, natch) and post it, with or without an accompanying essay.
Stanley: Yknow there are some men that are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and some men that just aren't.
Blanche: I'm sure you belong in the second category.
Stanley: That's right.
Blanche: I cannot imagine any witch of a woman casting a spell over you.
Stanley: That's right.
Elia Kazan's masterful adaptation of Tennessee Williams happens to be, by a significant margin, the best film version of any of his work. It moves more elegantly around Hollywood's censorship of then risque material than...
Stanley: Yknow there are some men that are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and some men that just aren't.
Blanche: I'm sure you belong in the second category.
Stanley: That's right.
Blanche: I cannot imagine any witch of a woman casting a spell over you.
Stanley: That's right.
Elia Kazan's masterful adaptation of Tennessee Williams happens to be, by a significant margin, the best film version of any of his work. It moves more elegantly around Hollywood's censorship of then risque material than...
- 3/24/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
This series was a big hit last year so we're bringing it back for round two in exactly two weeks time. Participating is easy. You just rent the movie, take a screencap of your favorite shot in the film and post it on your blog, journal, flickr, wherever. You can write an explanatory essay, a brief note or nothing at all. Let us know you posted it and we'll link up at 10 Pm Est when The Film Experience post goes up.
Wed March 16th - Memento (2001, Tenth Anniversary Celebration)
Wed March 23rd - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Tennessee Williams Centennial Week)
Wed March 30th - Psycho (1960, in celebration of the excellent debut novel "What You See in the Dark" by Manuel Muñoz that comes out that week. I read it in galley. More on that book/author soon.)
April Titles - Tba
So put those films on your queue. If...
Wed March 16th - Memento (2001, Tenth Anniversary Celebration)
Wed March 23rd - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Tennessee Williams Centennial Week)
Wed March 30th - Psycho (1960, in celebration of the excellent debut novel "What You See in the Dark" by Manuel Muñoz that comes out that week. I read it in galley. More on that book/author soon.)
April Titles - Tba
So put those films on your queue. If...
- 3/2/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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