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Awards Season Watch: Mortensen Trifecta
09 September 2008 13:35:02
Source:
Variety
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Viggo Mortensen followed up his three Lord of the Rings movies with two stellar performances, in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence and last year's Eastern Promises, for which Mortensen earned his first Oscar nom.
This put Mortensen in the Oscar Zone. And this fall Mortensen returns to the Toronto Film Fest with two pictures: the Ed Harris western Appaloosa (Groundswell, New Line/WB, 9/17) and the Holocaust drama Good (ThinkFilm, 12/08), which is the performance that Mortensen himself hopes is an Oscar-contender.
BTW, Twitch has a nice selection of Toronto trailers.
As usual, reactions of Toronto critics, press and audiences will tell the tale for the films hoping to push forward and go the distance for Oscar contention.
The Academy, with its elder voters, still harbors an affection for westerns. I hear good buzz on Appalooosa, but while actor-director Harris's Pollock did win an Oscar for Marcia Gay Harden (and Harris has been nommed as an actor four times), it's tough for a genre film to get serious Academy attention. In recent years, however, those barriers have become more breakable.
Also, WB is struggling to release and market all the pics it has piled up from New Line and Warner Independent. The studio is opening the Edward Norton-starrer Pride & Glory wide, and is sharing the release of WIP's Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, with Fox Searchlight. So it will be unlikely that the studio will be able to mount and sustain serious Oscar races for many of these films.
Mortensen adores Good, which ThinkFilm plans to release by year's end. But the film is directed by Brazilian director Vicente Amorim, who is not in the Academy directors' club.
Mortensen's third fall pic, John Hillcoat's film version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road, wasn't ready for the film fests. The 2929 Entertainment pic is set for release November 26 by Dimension/MGM, which suggests that despite its literary pedigree (and the Oscar Best Picture win for No Country for Old Men, based on McCarthy's book), the film may not be on Harvey Weinstein's Oscar must-push list. That could always change.
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Viggo's life philosophy
09 September 2008 09:28:40
Source:
Metro.uk
Found by: Chrissie
Thanks to Chrissie for bringing us this very interesting interview with Viggo.
Click here for the video.
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'Good' Premiere: TIFF 2008.
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He's been nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards, and now Viggo Mortensen has revealed his life philosophy.
"Every time you think you're good at something or you have something figured out, that's when you'll probably screw up," he said at the premiere of his new film, Good, in Toronto.
"So I think it's good to realise that life is a work in progress, no matter what. And I think in a way, that's what this movie talks about."
The film follows a man, who soon finds his career unexpectedly rising after writing a novel, and also stars Brit actor Jason Isaacs.
"All the decisions you make today, just because you call it a country, that's just an idea, a nation," Viggo continued.
"A nation is made out of the little decisions that individuals make. That's what a democracy is, that's what a government is, that's what a relationship between two people is. You call it a marriage, but it's an idea. A marriage is the process of somehow getting along - give and take, you know - and this movie deals with that on a personal level, so in a way, it's not about Germans or Germany.
"It's not like most movies are about that period, where you go, 'Yeah, look at the Germans. They're kind of easily led, they're weird, they have a propensity to follow dictators or something."
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Images from TIFF 'Good' Premiere
08 September 2008 21:59:00
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© Getty Images. Images C.J. LaFrance
   
© IPhoto. Images Joy Scheller
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LA Press Screening of 'Appaloosa' September 17 - Red Carpet Arrivals
08 September 2008 21:11:02
Source:
Warner Brothers Pictures
A special screening of Appaloosa with Red Carpet Arrivals will be held on Wednesday, September 17th at the Academy Theatre in Los Angeles. Please note that this event appears to be for the press only.
Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Producer/Co-Writer Robert Knott, Producer Ginger Sledge and Executive Producer Michael London are scheduled to attend. Red carpet arrivals begin at 6:00 pm; the screening begins at 7:00 pm. The Academy Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles.
Appaloosa will be released on Friday, September 19th in NY, LA and Toronto and expand on Friday, October 3rd.
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Viggo Relaxes at the Piano
08 September 2008 14:56:28
Source:
The Toronto Star
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TIFF: Good - 9.8.2008.
Image Mike Cassese (CANADA).
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As an oblivious world walked by - including hordes of media types attending TIFF - actor Viggo Mortensen sat openly in the lobby of the Sutton Place, gently tickling the ivories of a baby grand piano.
Dressed casually in a red t-shirt bearing a crest of Hungary and armed with a thermos, Mortenson, co-star of the soon-to-be-released western Appaloosa, remained serene as a publicist tried to shoo away an alert Reuters photographer.
Following his impromptu recital, the soft-spoken taciturn actor said, "I just made it up."
Asked to comment on whether the piano was properly tuned, he replied: "More or less."
His response to the question, "I didn't know you played:"
"I didn't either," followed by a loud, horsy laugh.
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