Michael Fassbender’s recipe for making a robot

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Jun 072012
 

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plays a robot in the upcom­ing film Pro­meth­eus, a pre­quel to the Alien tri­logy. Sur­pris­ingly Fass­bender doesn’t take off his clothes in this one as the robot doesn’t have any nude scenes.

TIME magazine asked him what it takes to play a robot:

The inspir­a­tion we used was David Bowie and The Man Who Fell to Earth, and for films there were the rep­lic­ants in Blade Run­ner. Greg Lou­ganis, in terms of phys­ic­al­ity. Lawrence of Ara­bia of course, and Peter O’Toole as Lawrence, and Dirk Bog­arde. They were the ingredients.

Photo: Peter O’Toole + Dirk Bog­arde + Rut­ger Hauer in Blade Run­ner + David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth + Greg Lou­ganis = Michael Fass­bender as David in Prometheus

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Oscar nominations 2012

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Jan 242012
 

Academy Awards Oscar nominations 2012Mar­tin Scorsese’s Paris adven­ture “Hugo” leads the Academy Awards with 11 nom­in­a­tions, among them best pic­ture and the latest dir­ector hon­our for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Also nom­in­ated for best pic­ture today: the silent film “”; the fam­ily drama “The Des­cend­ants”; the Sept. 11 tale “Extremely Loud & Incred­ibly Close”; the Deep South drama “The Help”; the romantic fantasy “Mid­night in Paris”; the sports tale “Money­ball”; the fam­ily chron­icle “The Tree of Life”; and the World War I epic “War Horse.”

“The Artist” ran second with 10 nom­in­a­tions, among them writ­ing and dir­ect­ing nom­in­a­tions for French film­maker Michel Hazanavi­cius, a best-actor hon­our for Jean Dujardin and a supporting-actress slot for Berenice Bejo.

Dujardin, who won the Globe for best actor in a musical or com­edy as a silent-era star whose career goes kaput with the arrival of talk­ing pic­tures, will be up against Globe dra­matic actor win­ner for “The Des­cend­ants,” in which the Oscar-winning super­star plays a dad try­ing to hold his Hawaiian fam­ily together after a boat­ing acci­dent puts his wife in a coma.… [con­tinue reading]

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Venice Film Festival comes to a close with Russia talking the top prize

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Sep 102011
 

Rus­sian dir­ector Alex­an­der Sokurov’s “Faust,” loosely based on Goethe’s clas­sic Ger­man text, won the Golden Lion for best pic­ture at the film fest­ival this even­ing. The best dir­ector Sil­ver Lion went to Chinese film maker Shangjun Cai for “People Moun­tain People Sea.” Italian immig­ra­tion movie “Ter­raferma,” dir­ec­ted by Emanuele Crialese, picked up the spe­cial jury award.

As expec­ted, Irish actor won the best actor prize for his acclaimed per­form­ance in “Shame,” Steve McQueen’s tale of a sex-obsessed young pro­fes­sional liv­ing in New York. Fass­bender, seen as one of the rising stars in inde­pend­ent cinema, also appeared in another Venice com­pet­i­tion entry this year, David Cronenberg’s “A Dan­ger­ous Method.” Best act­ress went to China’s Deanie Ip for her pro­trayal of an aging maid in Ann Hui’s “Tao Jie” (A Simple Life).… [con­tinue reading]

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