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Vincent Cassel on A Dangerous Method

September 13, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Vincent Cassel,David Cronenberg,A Dangerous Method,Michael Fassbender,Viggo Mortensen,Keira Knightley

Cassel on Otto-pilot

Cassel is irrepressible as Otto Gross, a Freud-Jung fellow traveler whose motto was: “never repress any thing.”

Last year, in the ramp up for Oscar season, Black Swan star Cassel joined me at NYC’s Mercer Hotel. While discussing his then-current movie, he gave me a preview of coming attractions — and whet my appetite for David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, which I finally saw — and loved — at this week at TIFF11. Here’s an excerpt of that interview:

TA Tell me about the David Cronenberg movie. It’s about the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, right?

VC Freud, Jung and I’m Otto

TA Who was Otto?

VC He was actually…he would have been the spiritual son of Freud and Jung. He was really really bright except that the guy was insane, more than they were.

TA They were obsessive. Otto Gross was insane?

VC No, he was really like pushing the boundaries in terms of psychotherapy at the time, but the thing was that he was a cocaine addict, a really strong one. He was having sex with, literally every body. He was having kids every where. His motto was to never repress any thing. He was really living it. so at some point freud sent him to Jung, saying to Jung I would like to cure this guy. He knew that Otto would push Jung further

TA Did he, according to the movie, or in actuality?

VC Yes. In the film, Viggo Mortensen is Freud and Michael Fassbender is Jung.

TA That’s an intense group.

VC You know what It’s funny because it was a lot of fun

TA Does Cronenberg take himself pretty seriously, or no?

VC No, no. He’s experienced. He’s very subtle. He’s a lot of fun — a lot of people don’t know that watching the movies. I think he’s very elegant. I don’t think he takes himself seriously. He’s one of the directors who still reinvents himself and he’s sixty.

TA Did you have scenes with Keira Knightley, who plays Sabina Spielrein, who plays Jung’s Russian Jewish patient and lover?

VC I didn’t have any thing to do with her unfortunately. They were really happy with what she was doing. Insane!

Tomorrow I’ll continue my festival coverage with my chat with Keira Knightley at the Sony Pictures Classic dinner in Toronto…

Filed Under: Celebrity, Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: A Dangerous Method, Black Swan, Carl Jung, cocaine addiction, David Cronenberg, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Race, Otto Gross, repression, sexualtiy, Sigmund Freud, TIFF11, Toronto International Film Festival, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel

And the Oscar goes to….

February 28, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

2011 Academy Awards,Social Network,King's Speech,True Grit,The Fighter,Black Swan,Melissa Leo

Oscar the Grouch

Here’s the list of winners for the Academy Awards:

Best picture Winner:
“The King’s Speech” (The Weinstein Company), A See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

Performance by an actor in a leading role Winner:
Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role Winner:
Christian Bale in “The Fighter” (Paramount)

Performance by an actress in a leading role Winner:
Natalie Portman in “Black Swan” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role Winner:
Melissa Leo in “The Fighter” (Paramount)

Best animated feature film of the year Winner:
“Toy Story 3” (Walt Disney), Lee Unkrich [Read more…]

Filed Under: Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: 127 Hours, Academy Awards, best actor, best actress, best picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best supporting actress, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Colin Firth, goldderby.com, Inception, James Franco, Melissa Leo, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Oscars, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone

Independent Spirit Award Winners

February 26, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Black Swan,Oscars,Best Picture,Best Actor,Best Actress,Natalie Portman,James Franco,Colin Firth,Movies,Awards,Goldderby.com

The complete list of Spirit Award winners:

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
Black Swan

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronfosky, “Black Swan”

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
Get Low

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer)
Daddy Longlegs

BEST SCREENPLAY
“The Kids Are All Right”

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
“Tiny Furniture”

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Natalie Portman, “Black Swan”

BEST MALE LEAD
James Franco, “127 Hours”

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Dale Dickey, “Winter’s Bone”

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
John Hawkes, “Winter’s Bone”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
Exit Through The Gift Shop

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
The King’s Speech

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
(Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast)
“Please Give”

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
Anish Savjani (“Meek’s Cutoff”)

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Mike Ott (“Little Rock”)

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Jeff Malmberg (“Marwencol”)

Filed Under: Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, Independent Spirit Awards, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Winter's Bone

New Racetrack Odds on who’ll win the oscars

February 24, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Oscar,Predictions,Academy Awards 2011,Winners,Movies

By Gold Derby News Desk

Jan 26 2011 | 18:57 pm

Here are the latest racetrack odds on the top Academy Academy contests based upon the Oscar predictions of our team of experts from leading media. Click HERE to see their forecasts in all 24 categories

BEST PICTURE
“The King’s Speech” – 2/5
“The Social Network” – 4/1
“The Fighter” – 20/1
“True Grit” – 25/1
“Black Swan” – 40/1
“Inception” – 50/1
“Toy Story 3” – 80/1
“The Kids Are All Right” – 85/1
“127 Hours” – 90/1
“Winter’s Bone” – 100/1 [Read more…]

Filed Under: Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: 127 Hours, best actor, best actress, best picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best supporting actress, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Colin Firth, goldderby.com, Inception, James Franco, Melissa Leo, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Oscars, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, The Town, Tom O'Neil, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone

Goldderby.com Oscar predictions from top experts

February 23, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Oscar,Predictions,Academy Awards 2011,Winners,Movies

Here are the latest Oscar predictions from these top experts: Thelma Adams (Us Weekly, Thelmadams.com), Brooke Anderson (CNN), Tim Appelo (Hollywood Reporter), Erik Davis (Cinematical), Scott Feinberg (ScottFeinberg.com), Pete Hammond (Deadline Hollywood), Tariq Khan (Fox News), Joseph Kapsch (Zap2It), Dave Karger (Entertainment Weekly), Peter Knegt (Indiewire), Kevin Lewin (WENN), Guy Lodge (In Contention), Michael Musto (Village Voice), Tom O’Neil (Gold Derby, The Envelope), Kevin Polowy (NextMovie), Steve Pond (The Odds, The Wrap), Paul Sheehan (Gold Derby), Keith Simanton (IMDB), Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Kris Tapley (In Contention), Anne Thompson (IndieWire)  Bob Tourtellotte (Reuters), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Stu Van Airsdale (Movielie),Chuck Walton (Fandango), Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood-Elsewhere), Susan Wloszczyna (USA Today).

Click HERE to see the racetrack odds based upon these predictions. Click HERE to see how our pundits fared predicting nominations. (Congrats to Steve Pond for leading the way!)

BEST PICTURE
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
“Inception” — Simanton
“The Kids Are All Right”
“The King’s Speech” — Adams, Anderson, Appelo, Feinberg, Hammond, Karger, Khan, Knegt, Lewin, Lodge, Musto, O’Neil, Pond, Sheehan, Tapley, Thompson, Tourtellotte, Van Airsdale, Walton, Wloszczyna
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network” — Davis, Kapsch, Polowy, Stone, Travers, Wells
“Toy Story 3”
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone”

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan”
David O. Russell, “The Fighter”
Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech” — Adams, Anderson, Ebert, Feinberg, Musto, Pond, Tapley, Van Airsdale, Walton, Wloszczyna
David Fincher, “The Social Network” — Appelo, Davis, Hammond, Kapsch, Karger, Khan, Knegt, Lewin, Lodge, O’Neil, Polowy, Simanton, Stone, Thompson, Tourtellotte, Travers, Wells
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “True Grit” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: 127 Hours, best actor, best actress, best picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best supporting actress, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Colin Firth, goldderby.com, Inception, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Oscars, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network, The Town, Tom O'Neil, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone

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