Catalina Sandino Moreno plays Sylvia, a Mexican immigrant working in the food industry in the U.S. in Richard Linklater's fact-based drama, “Fast Food Nation.” Moreno made her screen debut as the title character in the critically acclaimed film “Maria Full of Grace.” For her performance, Sandino was nominated for an Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
John Wayne: Pro Vietnam War, Against Brando’s Rejection of his Oscar
November 13, 2006 by
Brando protested against the treatment of Indians, on and off-screen, sending an Apache activist to accept His Oscar Award (for The Godfather”) in his name and deliver a decidedly political message. John Wayne said, “It was sad that Brando did what he did. If he had something to say, he should have appeared that night and stated his views, instead of taking some little unknown girl and dressing her up in an Indian outfit.”
Steel, Eric: Director Profile
November 13, 2006 by
“The Bridge,” a study of the numerous suicides from the famous Golden Gate Bridge, is Eric Steel‚Äôs directorial and documentary debut. Steel began his career as a creative executive at Walt Disney Pictures after graduating from Yale University in 1985. Later he worked as a vice president at Cinecom, at the time, the leading art film distributor.
John Wayne: Conservative Traditionalism, Aesthetics
November 12, 2006 by
Obsessed with projecting a positive image of Hollywood and America, John Wayne denounced every film, which he felt, hurt the public's notion of the industry and the country. Wayne deplored the new trend of “anti-hero” films (Rebel Without a Cause, Hud, Midnight Cowboy), with “psychotic weaklings as heroes,” because they were “unfair to the He-Man.” “Ten or fifteen years ago, audiences went to pictures to see men behaving like men,” whereas at present, “there are too many neurotic types.”
Movie Stars: Icons Never Die on Screen–Gable, Stewart, Bogart
November 10, 2006 by
Have you ever wonder why movie stars seldom get killed off in the various roles that they play on screen?
The only major Hollywood stars who have experienced multiple deaths on the big screen were those "specializing" in the crime-gangster genre, most notably James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
It's noteworthy that Bogart's anti-heroes were shot and killed in no less than one third of his film output (25 out of 75 pictures). Eighteen of these, however, are in movies made prior to "The Maltese Falcon," in 1941, the movie which made him a major star. In thos early roles, Bogart often played the heavies and villains in films that co-star Jimmy Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, or George Raft.
