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Framed: Eastern Promises
Cinematical &bull Yesterday
Welcome to Framed, a column at Cinematical that celebrates the artistry of cinema -- one frame at a time. For most of his career, Canadian director David Cronenberg has been known for his intelligent and disturbing genre films. However, Cronenberg isn't just a horror filmmaker -- he's a genuine auteur with a keen visual eye and a recurring set of thematic concerns that turn up in the majority of his work. Unfortunately, it has taken the director crossing over into more mainstream fare to get people to notice how truly talented he is. Yet, even Cronenberg's more commercial cinema marries… Full Story »
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Viggo Mortensen to Star in Todos Tenemos Un Plan
MovieWeb &bull Aug 26, 2010
Viggo Mortensen to star in Todos Tenemos Un Plan In a story from Variety, Viggo Mortensen is going to star in Todos tenemos un plan (Everybody Has a Plan) from Argentina's Haddock Films. This is the first film from director… Full Story »
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Mortensen included in Argentina's 'Plan'
Variety &bull Aug 25, 2010
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's Haddock Films is producing features with Viggo Mortensen and Aida Bortnik, building on its success with "The Secret in Their Eyes." Mortensen will star in "Todos tenemos un plan" (Everybody Has a Plan), the freshman effort… Full Story »
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Watch Viggo Mortensen As Freud In Video From The Dangerous Method Set
Cinema Blend &bull Aug 24, 2010Feel free to analyze him. Full Story »
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ON THE ROAD: Walter Salles Happy with "Excellent Actors" and "Passionate Crew"
Alternative Film Guide &bull Aug 23, 2010In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Walter Salles finished shooting what the Brazilian daily O Globo calls "the first phase" of the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Filming began three weeks ago in Quebec. In a… Full Story »
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Vincent Cassel Promises More EASTERN PROMISES
Twitch &bull Aug 9, 2010
Good news for fans of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. In an interview with Coming Soon, in which Eastern Promises stars Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel were reunited under director David Cronenberg, Cassel spills that the trio talked at length about… Full Story »
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Mortensen, Adams to Trip 'On the Road'
News in Film &bull Aug 9, 2010
Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams are bringing their considerable talents to On the Road, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel that starts shooting next month under director Walter Salles. Francis Ford Coppola, who you might have heard of, is executive… Full Story »
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Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams Take Kerouac 'On The Road'
FilmSchoolRejects.com &bull Aug 5, 2010
Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams will play husband and wife in the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." Mortensen will play "Old Bull Lee" and Adams portrays his drug addicted wife Amy. The fictional "Old Bull Lee" is writer William S.… Full Story »
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Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen Go 'On The Road'
Hollywood.com &bull Aug 5, 2010
After 30 years trying to adapt Jack Kerouac's seminal 1957 Beat Generation travelogue On The Road into a feature film, producer Francis Ford Coppola's cast has finally come together. Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are the latest to join the… Full Story »
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Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams Taking a Trip 'On the Road'
FirstShowing.net &bull Aug 5, 2010
Within the past few months we've seen plenty of promising casting news to indicate Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Jack Kerouac's classic novel On the Road would finally get off the ground after a 30-year gestation period. Walter Salles is… Full Story »
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Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams Climb On the Road
Movie Web News &bull Aug 5, 2010
Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams join On the RoadAmy Adams and Viggo Mortensen have boarded the Walter Salles-directed adaptation On the Road, joining Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst, according to Deadline New York.Francis Ford Coppola has been working for 30… Full Story »
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BBC Films finds brand new home
Variety Online &bull Jul 10, 2010
Until now it has been a bit of a nomad, with its output -- around eight pics a year -- scattered across the net's four channels, but beginning July 17 all of its movies will screen on high-brow web BBC2 as part of BBC Films' rebranding. This month is a new start for BBC Films' relationship with our television audiences," says Jana Bennett, director… Full Story »
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Watch: John Hillcoat's Amazingly Poetic Levi's TV Commercial
FirstShowing.net &bull Jul 6, 2010
If you don't know who John Hillcoat is, let me remind you. Hillcoat is the Australian filmmaker who most recently directed The Road, the powerful post-apocalyptic thriller starring Viggo Mortensen that finally got released last year. It actually turned out… Full Story »
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First Look At Mortensen And Fassbender As Freud And Jung In Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD
Twitch &bull Jul 6, 2010
Well, now. Any film smart enough to cast Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as its leads is a film with fantastic taste regardless of any other factors but take a look at the photo above to get a glimpse of just how good the casting of the duo in Cronenberg's A Dangerous… Full Story »
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Costume Pics: Musketeers, Dangerous Method
News in Film &bull Jul 6, 2010
A few set pictures have surfaced online of Paul W.S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. A Two vastly different productions joined solely by myA curiosityA to peek at costumes early. The first is the 3D… Full Story »
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BBC2 bows new film schedule
Variety Online &bull Jul 1, 2010
It is launching the iniative with a special weekend of programming, starting on July 17, when the channel will host the U.K. TV premieres of helmer Tom Hooper's Michael Sheen starrer "The Damned United," about iconic soocer manager Brian Clough;… Full Story »
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A search for sunshine in the black pits of hell
The Japan Times Online &bull Jun 17, 2010
There's a terrible reality to "The Road" - a sickening, no-exit sensation of being in a waking nightmare. An old Woody Allen maxim has it that people don't want too much reality from the movies; "The Road" on the other hand, has no interest in what people want but what they can endure. Gray and cold and gritty with dust, "The Road" has the look and texture of… Full Story »
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Romero's zombie movie is lifeless
The Japan Times Online &bull Jun 3, 2010
Director George A. Romero kicked off the zombie genre in 1968 with his "Night of the Living Dead," and from the outset he used the undead menace to channel contemporary fears. Night," amid the spilling intestines and severed limbs, contained pitch-black commentary on racial tensions, generational conflict and the televised brutality of the Vietnam War, while predicting the Manson Family horrors that would follow a few months later. Its sequel,… Full Story »
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New on DVD & Blu-ray, Week of May 25: 'Dear John' & 'The Road'
Insider Movies Blog &bull May 24, 2010
Dear John' What It's About: Based on the novel by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, this is the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), an idealistic college student he meets and falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John's increasingly dangerous deployments overseas. While meeting only sporadically, they… Full Story »
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'The Road,' 'Dear John,' 'True Blood' second season
The Seattle Times &bull May 24, 2010
New DVDs for Tuesday, May 25, include the apocalyptic tale "The Road," with Viggo Mortensen, and the war romance "Dear John," with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. True Blood," sweat ("The Road") and tears ("Dear John") come out on DVD… Full Story »
