ReelHeART Blogs

by Shannonn Kelly 

ReelHeART loves it when a favorite screenwriter turns Director.

Film buffs you can now get more “Bourne for your Buck”, as screenwriter Tony Gilroy who wrote all three Bourne films, takes his turn as director in the George Clooney vehicle “Michael Clayton”.

Read about Gilroy’s take on directing Clooney at Entertainment Weekly http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20147832,00.html

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by Shannonn Kelly 

Plum Pictures has signed William H. Macy to it’s upcoming “Bart Got A Room” about a teen trying to find a prom date amid the turmoil of his parents’ failing marriage.

Plum Pictures is also behind the upcoming John Cusack vehicle “Grace is Gone” due for major release in December 2007-

Read more about this William H. Macy’s role  at http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973130.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

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by Shannonn Kelly 

Scorcese will share producing credits with George Harrison’s wife Olivia, and Nigel Sinclair’s “Spitfire Productions” on a documentary about this much loved Beatles life-

Read more by clicking this link http://www.variety.com/VR1117972815.html

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by Shannonn Kelly 

When Hollywood needs a little old lady type, they call on Canadian born actress Frances Bay. Hailing from Dauphin Manitoba, Frances enjoyed success in all forms of the art of acting from stage to the silver screen. With over 150 TV and Film credits, you may not know the name Frances Bay but you do know her face and characters.

She’s a favorite of David Lynch (one of ReelHeART’s favorite directors) being in Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.

Highlights of her successful career are roles such as Fonzie’s Grandma in Happy Days, Grandma Gilmore in Happy Gilmore with Adam Sandler and Mabel Choate as the rye bread lady in Seinfeld—

We all hope she got her marble rye bread back!

Go To:  Friends of Frances Bay

http://www.petitiononline.com/franny/petition.html

Want to read ReelHeART’s signature—We’re #799

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 by Shannonn Kelly 

What would the Kevin Spacey and Venezuela’s left-wing president Hugo Chavez have to talk about for 3 hours? Venezuela’s petroleum industry, the environmental diversity of its territory and films….?

Read all about it here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_en_mo/venezuela_kevin_spacey_3

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by Shannonn Kelly  

British Director Ken Loach who last year won at Cannes for “The Wind That Shakes The Barley”, wins Best Screenplay at Venice for “It’s A Free World”.

Read about it here http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2414753.ece

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by Shannonn Kelly 

With a lukewarm reception for his film Black Dahlia in Venice 2006, De Palma hit back hard kicking Venice audiences in the gut with his re-telling of a horrific crime in Iraq perpetrated by US Soldiers in his latest film “Redacted”.

Read about his award and others http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070908195807.7ajr7p8z&show_article=1

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By Shannonn Kelly 

In 2005 with it’s haunting original score, Ang Lee won in Venice for Brokeback Mountain.

 2007 brings Lee another win for “Se, Jie (Lust, Caution)”, in which upon acceptance he dedicated his win to Ingmar Bergman. Read about it in Ireland on Line.

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By Shannonn Kelly 

Read about pre-production for Oliver Stone’s latest film focusing on the My Lai massacre.

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By Shannonn Kelly

Bernardo Bertolucci Awarded At Venice Film Fest

Read about this great Italian film legend and the Venice Film Festival

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070907093207.hn4s3ne3&show_article=1

And you can ‘Wiki’ him here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bertolucci

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