Weekend Recap: Abrams May Direct Lance Armstrong Biopic, Sundance News, 'Lovelace' and 'Stoker' Clips, 'Les Mis' Cast to Perform at Oscars and More

 - J.J. Abrams is developing a film regarding disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. Bad Robot, Abrams' production company, secured the rights to a HarperCollins' book proposition "Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong." The book are going to be posted by NYT reporter Juliet Macur, that has covered Armstrong to get more than just a decade. Sony Photos possess reportedly deserted their Armstrong show in light of Armstrong's recent confession. Even more TOH reporting regarding the Armstrong scandal and also how it impacts on the movies here.

- Clips! Click here to watch Nicole Kidman in Park Chan-wook's "Stoker" and Amanda Seyfried in a sweet first clip from "Lovelace."

- Director Paul Thomson Anderson has revived some lost performance footage of late indie songwriter and performer, Elliott Smith. Anderson uploaded the VHS footage to YouTube on Thursday, to the delight of Smith's fans. Watch here or below for 43 minutes of wonderful music.

- Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne and Samantha Barks might sing onstage at the Oscars --exact songs remain unconfirmed. (Also, reportedly, Russell Crowe will not join his co-stars.)

- Weinstein Co. possess quizzed toy maker NECA todiscontinue their "Django Unchained" action figures, soon after issues the dolls trivialized the history of slavery in America. 

Sundance News:
- Brooks Barnes at the NYT goes for it -- and also calls Park City's festival "Porndance." Barnes quotations a Hollywood executive: “I’ve seen 5 movies now, and it was nonstop. Im virtually no prude, however it s a quick much.” 

- Daniel Radcliffe is confused by all of the attention that gay sex scene in "Kill Your Darlings" is receiving -- especially soon after "Equus," a really sexualized play in which Radcliffe appeared naked onstage. See the actor handle these concerns maturely within the video below.

- Head in this case for a clip from Sundance movie "Emanuel and also the Truth Regarding Fishes" with Jessica Biel and also Kaya Scodelario from manager Francesca Gregorini ("Tanner Hall"). The movie applies a troubled kid who ends up being preoccupied having a following doorway neighbor. 

- Not in Park Region? Here's a great article regarding six ways to enter with the Sundance action.

- Casting watch: Tom Hardy and also Noomi Rapace are really going to squad up for "Animal Rescue" directed by Michael Roskam ("Bullhead") based on top of a brief tale by Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River," "Gone An infant Gone"). The film centers upon a forlorn bartender in New York, which happens on a pup in a rubbish can and also ends up being the target of the dog's harmful former owner.

 
- Check out Brian Stelter's review of David Fincher's "House of Cards" at just NYT. The Netflix adaptation of the 1990 BBC mini-series (regarding Parliament around there) is among one of Netflix's initial significant attempts to create their own personal broadcasting. Every thirteen of the shows, which Stelter calls a bit of the modern "Macbeth," could be available February 1st.

Source: blogs.indiewire.com  

Sundance Review: 'It Felt Like Love' Captures The Beauty & Confusion Of Burgeoning Female Desire During A Brooklyn Summer

The first feature movie from writer/director Eliza Hittman, "It Felt Such as Love," is a poetic, expressive exploration of the small girl's sexuality during one hot Brooklyn summertime. Lila is lonely and inexperienced, tagging along together with her friend Chiara and her sweetheart Patrick as the couple explore Rockaway beach - and any single other. Lila desperately would like to fit in, however she also wants even more than which, because she lusts following the older Sammy. The film fully catches which budding desire so characteristic of hormonal teenage girls, but so often denied upon movie, just where nubile young females are really always the topic of the camera's gaze.

Sundance 2013: Anita Hill and the power of telling the truth

Indeed there exists now a complete age bracket of younger females that weren’t produced when Anita Hill, a small African-American legislation professor, sat pointing a phalanx of 14 white, middle-aged-to-oldie U.S. senator.s and also testified within a Senate Judiciary Hearing scheduled over Columbus Day regular in 1991. Composed and also individual, she explained to this girl interrogators - since well as to all of the America, riveted before of the TV - the sexual harassment she had acquired inside the past from then-Supreme Courtroom justice nominee Clarence Thomas. For that new demographic of young ladies, along with for every one of the whom keep in mind the dazzling celebration and also accept the important changes her bravery caused in the awareness of workplace gender equality, the documentary ANITA makes for rapt viewing.

Image Credit: American Film Foundation

Within the twenty working years since those hearings, presided over by then-Delaware Senator Joe Biden, Anita Hill is, apparently to her own shocker, a feminist heroine, in demand because a powerful inspirational speaker. Filmmaker Freida Mock spends a countless time with now s Ms. Hillside, interviewing this girl since well as trailing soon after this girl since she gives speeches and also obtains honors. Which elements acceptable, if each of the over the place. The archival footage, however, is powerful, and stirring, and much more than just a little shocking, too: The following is one woman, stepping into a mess of political, racial, and also sexual energy performs, and additionally not just retaining this girl dignity however also, it moves out, leading a movement which the males who had been grilling this girl couldn’t start to comprehend had begun.
Nice detail: Ms. Hillside brings the now-famous bluish dress she wore to this girl grilling from the wardrobe. Different nice detail: Its thrilling to watch after ANITA at just Sundance on top of a weekend which occurs to fall prior to the confluence of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day and also the inauguration of re-elected Chief executive Barack Obama.

Source: insidemovies.ew.com 

Sundance 2013: Daniel Radcliffe and Joseph Gordon Levitt do good work

Both have been famous since there were kids. Each is which makes smart, interesting career choices. And also on the very first full day of Sundance 2013, their most recent tasks aired back-to-back, making for a exceedingly pleasing Sundance-y day-into-night.