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Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946 in New York City) is an Academy Award-winning American film director.
Stone attended Yale and the New York University. He has won two Academy Awards for Directing for Platoon
and Born on the Fourth of July.
A distinct feature in Oliver Stone's movies is the use of a multitude of different cameras and film formats, from VHS to 8mm film to 70mm film.
Stone has written or taken part in the writing of every film he has directed, except for
U Turn (1997). He also had a hand in the screenplays for Midnight Express
(1978), Conan the Barbarian
(1982), Scarface
(1983), Year of the Dragon (1985), 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) and Evita (1996).
Critics contend that Stone is a conspiracy theorist, and that his films manipulate the viewers and distort history; in spite of that, many consider Stone "one of the best directors in Hollywood", and the most controversial as well.
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Actor Josh Brolin, who starred in Oliver Stone's W, will not face charges after a fight in a Louisiana bar.
Published: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:47:00 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleEurope2008 in the arts: A fine year for war, exile, violence ... and old men
The tone for the year was set in its first weeks by three deeply serious films: the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, and Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. All based on celebrated literary works, they featured performances of great intensity from, respectively, Javier Bardem, Daniel Day-Lewis and Mathieu Amalric. The title of the Coens' film was to be challenged by the 84-year-old Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and the 99-year-old Manoel de Oliveira's Belle Toujours: the cinema can indeed be a country that welcomes old men.Much of the year's seriousness was to be found in the numerous pictures about the morale-sapping wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the turbulence in the Middle East. Every few weeks there was a feature film or a documentary, ranging from Nick Broomfield's docudrama Battle for Haditha to Mike Nichols's bitterly comic Charlie Wilson's War. The best documentary was Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side, which skewered the demon prince of the political pantomime, Dick Cheney, as did Oliver Stone's disappointing Bush biopic, W. The same issues leaked into every genre, including Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, Ed Harris's western, Appaloosa, and the new Bond, Quantum of Solace. Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's movie on organised crime in Naples, alerted us to terrible things going on elsewhere, while fine films of exile like Couscous, The Edge of Heaven and The Visitor reminded us of the consequences of colonialism and war. In this atmosphere animators tackled urgent current concerns in memorable movies as different as Wall-E, Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir. On the other hand Hollywood comedy hit the dreck in a succession of vulgar, witless farces, of which I've seen more than I can shake a withered slapstick at. Horror thrived, Juan Antonio Bayona's remarkable debut, The Orphanage, being the year's highpoint. The French cinema picked up a little, especially with I Loved You So Long. The British produced much that was mediocre and a few movies of distinction: I admired Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky and Martin McDonagh's In Bruges; I respected Steve McQueen's Hunger and Terence Davies's Of Time and the CityTop ten1 Appaloosa (Ed Harris)2 Changeling (Clint Eastwood)3 Couscous (Abdellatif Kechiche)4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)5 The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)6 Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)7 In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)8 Man on Wire (James Marsh)9 No Country for Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen)10 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)Turkey: Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)Awards The John Sergeant Prize for Strictly Selfless Contributions to Song and Dance Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and Colin Firth in Mamma Mia!.The Sarah Palin Half-Baked Alaska Award for Unrequited Hype Quantum of Solace.guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Published: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:05:57 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the articleEuropeBarack won in Washington, but Hillary is the victor in Hollywood
There are many disconcerting moments in the new Keanu Reeves sci-fi action thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still; in fact, the film is almost entirely composed of such moments. But its most discomfiting aspect is the fact that the US government is represented by a badass secretary of defence, played by Kathy Bates, who does not believe in making nice with the incoming aliens, but rather kicking their little green butts. Very clearly, Bates's character is influenced by Hillary Clinton's tough act - the act she displayed in her notorious 3am Phonecall TV campaign and the interview in which she made a point of declaring that if the Iranians launched a nuclear attack on Israel, a Hillary-led government "would obliterate them".Kathy Bates's character in the film was conceived at a time when it was pretty likely Hillary would win the Democratic nomination, and therefore very possibly the presidency, but the fact that the president is not shown in the movie - he is spoken to on the phone, but his voice is not heard - itself acknowledges the possibility that Barack Obama would win. Because Hollywood has always been very reluctant to imagine an African-American in the White House. As Mark Ravenhill notes in a recent column, the black presidents in the movies are either in sci-fi or comedy, such as Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact or Chris Rock in Head of State, which suggests the idea is only appropriate for something far-fetched or absurd. (On TV, however, Dennis Haysbert was a dignified African-American president in 24.)The Hillary-a-like defence secretary in The Day the Earth Stood Still is a queasy throwback to the 90s, when we saw loads of Bill Clinton facsimiles on the big screen: attractive-ish, middle-aged white commanders-in-chief who were very much in the Bill mould, and flatteringly cast in romantic action-hero roles. There was Michael Douglas in The American President, Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day, John Travolta in Primary Colors and Jeff Bridges in The Contender. There was no Dubya figure that I can recall in the noughties, though there was of course a real, and rather underpowered Dubya in Oliver Stone's respectful film of the same name. So will there be a surge of Obamas in the cinema? Maybe. But I suspect that there are plenty of people in Hollywood who will think that whatever's happened in the real world, in commercial and entertainment terms, a black president is still too "urban" an idea. (Notoriously, the relative commercial failure of HBO's magnificent TV show The Wire is attributed to its predominantly African-American cast - despite the endorsement of Barack Obama, who gave a newspaper interview saying that it was the best show on American television.)I think there will be a new indirectness, even coyness, and the "president" will, just as in The Day the Earth Stood Still, be imagined offscreen but with an onscreen representative, a representative more amenable to conventional Hollywood drama, and this representative will be a Hillary-a-like. It will be this subordinate Hillary-a-like who will stride into top-level meetings with the military top brass, and who will be ushered into sleek black limos, surrounded by security guards in black suits. It will be the Hillary-a-like who will tell her colleagues and us, the audience, what the president is thinking. She will be a government figure whose existence is an acknowledgment of the progressive times: a tough, capable, hawkish woman with a tender, even vulnerable side. We have already had one of these, in fact, in the form of Meryl Streep's dragon-lady CIA leader in the war-on-terror drama Rendition.Barack Obama might have won in Washington, but I have a sinking feeling Hillary is going to win big in Hollywood ...Science fiction and fantasyHillary Clintonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Published: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:32:00 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the article
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