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Saturday, 08 August 2009 00:00 |
Over 100 rare and vintage cars and hot-rods from film and television, plus never before seen props and costumes from hit movies, will be sold at auction on Saturday, Aug. 15, at Los Angeles Center Studios, located at 450 South Bixel Street.
...From The Gift:a 10k gold wedding band and metal ring worn by Keanu Reeves; the Timex watch and pair of open brass bracelets worn by Cate Blanchett; and the deck of faded blue and white ESP cards with blue and white cardboard case (the case reads, “ESP Cards – Developed in Parapsychology Lab at Duke University.
The auction is a joint effort between Premiere Props (an L.A.-based firm that markets, authenticates, packages and distributes exclusive movie memorabilia) and Picture Car Warehouse (a picture vehicle facility located inside the Los Angeles Center Studios).
People unable to attend the auction in person will be able to bid online, through iCollector.com. The action will be streamed live on the site -- both audio and video. Visitors to iCollector.com can easily scroll to the icon for the sale, titled Movie Car and Movie Prop Auction. Once inside, descriptions and photos for all 318 lots are presented, along with bidder registration and other pertinent information.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:00 |
Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival is pleased to announce the addition of two Gala Presentations and eight Special Presentations to the programming lineup for this year's Festival, running September 10 to 19. Included are works from critically acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, Werner Herzog, Rebecca Miller, Michael Moore and Oliver Parker, and featuring on-screen performances by Drew Barrymore (in her directorial debut), Jim Broadbent, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Colin Farrell, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Val Kilmer, Christopher Lee, Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, Eva Mendes, Julianne Moore, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Robin Wright Penn and Keanu Reeves.
Ticket packages for the Festival are now available for purchase by cash, debit or Visa†. Purchase online at tiff.net/thefestival, by phone at 416-968-FILM or 1-877-968-FILM (10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, closed weekends and holidays) or in person at the Festival Box Office at Nathan Phillips Square (10 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week), located at 100 Queen Street West, in the white tent, west of the square.
GALAS
Dorian Gray Oliver Parker, United Kingdom
World Premiere
In Victorian London, the handsome Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic and cunning Lord Wotton (Colin Firth). Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty - even his soul. Based on the Oscar Wilde novel, Dorian Gray examines the destructive power of beauty, the blind pursuit of pleasure and the darkness that can result from both.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Rebecca Miller, USA
North American Premiere
From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) leads a charmed existence. An anchor of feminine serenity, she is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher (Alan Arkin) 30 years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, a trusted friend and confidant. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life in a staid Connecticut retirement community, her idyllic world and the persona she has built over the course of her marriage will be put to the ultimate test. Adapted from writer-director Rebecca Miller's novel of the same name, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee presents the complex portrait of the many lives behind a single name.
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Friday, 10 July 2009 00:00 |
Rebecca Miller adapts her own book for this enjoyable drama. Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) is married to the much older Herb (Alan Arkin). When the couple move to a retirement community, Pippa's main concern is her husband's health. Turns out she's got her own problems… all of which lead her to her neighbour's son, Chris (Keanu Reeves), a frank-speaking convenience store attendant.
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 00:00 |
This new tale from writer-director Rebecca Miller is impeccably acted and manages to be sharp satire, dark comedy and wrenching drama. Until now, the gifted writer-director Rebecca Miller has always conveyed her spiky intelligence more effectively in print rather than on screen; her films Personal Velocity and The Ballad of Jack and Rose felt sketchy and hesitant.
But her latest effort, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, is of a different order. In the title role, the splendid Robin Wright Penn gets to tackle work worthy of her talents. She plays the fiftyish wife of Herb, a veteran New York publisher (Alan Arkin), who now shares his twilight years in a Connecticut retirement community.
Penn's Pippa is unknowable: beautiful, charming, a perfect hostess, and faintly bland. Yet inside she's unravelling: tired of being an enigma, she wants to break free of her constraints.
The film propels us via flashbacks to her earlier life. As a child she was dominated by her speed-freak, pill-popping mother (Maria Bello, fabulously over the top). As a teenager (the promising Blake Lively) she became involved in explicit photo shoots directed by her gay aunt's partner (Julianne Moore). As a restless, aimless young woman, she met the charismatic Herb.
Pippa's soul-searching reveals her alarming sleep-walking habit and her attraction for danger (in the shape of a neighbour's emotionally damaged son, played by Keanu Reeves.) Clearly she's more complex than the face she presents to the world.
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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 00:00 |
Screen Media Films is believed to have paid roughly $1m for US rights to Rebecca Miller’s ensemble drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee. The distributor plans a theatrical release in October after it negotiated the deal with the film’s US representatives CAA. The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee screened recently at the Edinburgh International Film Festival following its world premiere in Berlin last February and is scheduled to open in the UK through Icon on July 10.
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