Results tagged “antoniobanderas”

Oliver Stone may have already unleashed on moviegoers his melodramatic vision of 9/11 with but even if you don't want to see the wreckage recreated on screen, there's way more filling New York movie screens.

This week's new film releases are a lovely New York melting pot: ballroom dancing teens, Arab/Israeli anxieties, motor skills-challenged geeks, neurotic female friends, and a thoughtful Polish director thrown in for good measure. Spring may have sprung outside but it's also a great time to be inside at the movie.

Some of the couples they look at are Drew Barrymore and Fabrizio Moretti ("young love"), the new Governor of California and his Kennedy wife ("This is a strained kiss..."), Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith ("...he feels that she is fragile and has to protect her"), and Madonna and Britney Spears ("There's no pleasure there - just faking it for a photo op.").

The new trailer for Shrek 2 offers the delightful addition of Puss-in-Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas (and we say delightful because we do like to see animals in clothes). In an interview with USA Today, Banderas describes how he shakes up things between Shrek and Donkey: "Shrek thinks he's cute. Donkey feels threatened. He doesn't want to be replaced by this idiot." Cute, idiotic, animal in (some) clothes - we love Puss-in-Boots.

The recent release of Claire Denis' Vendredi Soir, a languorous film about a one night stand, has provoked some questioning about what makes a great movie sex scene. Is it fantasy or realism? Anticipation or the act? The Guardian looked at two lists of "hottest movie scenes" from Premiere and Playboy.

There's nothing more intriguing than a lady robber. A woman has apparently been knocking off banks left and right, at an amazing pace: Two on Wednesday, four yesterday. As I keep telling Jake, an attractive woman with a yen for money and thrills plus sleepy suburban banks equals pay day.

- Chris Kattan on Lorne Michaels. Funny thing is Gothamist believes it.

Ananova reports that Charlotte Church turned the role of Christine in the Phantom of the Opera movie because she refused to lose weight for the role. (Producers had been considering waifish stars whose musical abilities are more questoinable, like Katie Holmes.) Church told The Face magazine, "Yeah, my arse is a bit big but I'm happy with myself. As long as I can sing it doesn't matter about the fame, it's disposable. I won't conform to the crap."

According to the Times, 60 Thom is stirring up beef with its neighbors on Thompson Street between Spring and Broome. I live one block up, and often pass by while various black limos are disgourging the rich and famous (and their scurrying assistants) in front of the hotel. The neighbors are saying that the hotel is destroying the quality of life in the neighborhood, which, defying all the laws of physics, had until now defied the gentrification and putrification that has affected the rest of SoHo. All the usual complaints are alleged- noise, rats, construction violations. I'd like to add a few of my own: