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Sidney Lumet death at 86

Sidney Lumet, despite having a very Hollywood career, was a New Yorker at heart, and the city he loved was the backdrop for many of his greats, including Serpico (1973) and The Pawnbroker (1964). “Locations are characters in my movies,” he said. “The city is capable of portraying the mood a scene requires.” Sidney Lumet, the director behind American movie classics such as 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and The Verdict, died Saturday. He was 86. Lumet died from lymphoma at his home in New Yor

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Is Jessica Biel About To Get Her Ass To Mars?

When last we checked in on the Colin Farrell-led remake of Total Recall , Bryan Cranston had been cast as baddie Vilos Cohaagen (as in “Gif de peeple der ahhr, Cohaagen”) and the movie would actually have precious little to do with Mars, centering instead on “Euromerica.” Well, the worm has turned, Mars could be back in play and Jessica Biel may join the merry crew.

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New Arthouse Anatomy in Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia

Danish aerophobe Lars Von Trier may be an insufferable jerk who hates everyone, especially his critics (and oh, do they hate him right back), but damned if his movies aren’t chock full of nudity. The trailer for Von Trier’s new movie, Melancholia , has been released and it looks very, very promising for fans of Kirsten Dunst , who was recently skinitiated into the world of nude acting with her topless scene in All Good Things. Melancholia stars Dunst as a reluctant bride celebrating her marriage at the home of her sister ( Charlotte Gainsbourg ). Threatening the happy day is a mysterious red star, which is rapidly headed towards the earth. Melancholia is being billed as a “psychological disaster movie,” and is being released in the UK on July 1. (The film has been picked up for distribution in the US, but doesn’t have a firm release date yet.) If the trailer is any skindication, Melancholia won’t leave you blue on the nudity front. 1 minute and 14 seconds in, we get a faraway flash of full frontal nudity; we’re not sure if it’s Kirsten’s keyster, but it certainly is a fully nude blonde woman! Then at 1 minute, 39 seconds, we get a pendulous side boob that is most certainly Kristen’s as she bends nude over a bathtub. And this is just the trailer! Our crack team of nippleologists is analyzing the footage for hints of Kirsten’s sweater kittens, so stay tuned on MrSkin.com’s Kirsten Dunst page!

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New Arthouse Anatomy in Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia

What Meg Ryan Really Wants to Do Is Direct, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies inching ever closer to a director… Jackie Chan’s will won’t include his son… Sylvester Stallone’s latest film loses its director… and more ahead.

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What Meg Ryan Really Wants to Do Is Direct, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Oh, Baby: Natalie Portman’s Father Writes Pregnancy Thriller

Ripped from the conversations at his own dinner table! Long Island fertility specialist Dr. Avner Hershlag — the man better know Natalie Portman’s father — is shopping his debut novel Misconception to publishing houses. A “reproductive thriller” about cloning and embryos, don’t be surprised when Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman team up again in five years to adapt Misconception , and take another swing at the whole Rosemary’s Baby thing they did in Black Swan . [ NYO ]

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Poor Christopher Walken Has Creepy, Grabby Criminal Doppelganger

New Yorkers viewing their local newscasts Tuesday night were faced with the disturbing story of Tony Kadyhrob, a 68-year-old Lawrence, N.J., resident banned from state college campuses after allegedly grabbing a female Rider University student; he’d also been spotted at and escorted from the College of New Jersey as well. He’s now on bail facing charges of criminal luring — which would be creepy enough without looking just like Christopher Walken .

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Why Did The Hangover Part II Trailer Get Pulled From Theaters?

While discussing the underwhelming first trailer for The Hangover Part II recently, director Todd Phillips bemoaned the fact that he couldn’t reveal all the good stuff in the marketing . “[T]he truth is, we’re constrained by the fact that we’re R-rated, so you can’t give — even the trailer you just saw, that’s a PG-13 trailer, so by the nature of the movie, we’re holding so much stuff back just because you can’t show it.” Maybe he should have held back even more? At least according to the MPAA.

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REVIEW: Blank City Overexplains NYC’s Late-’70s DIY Scene, with Great Footage

In Blank City , a discursive oral history of New York’s DIY film scene in the late 1970s and 1980s, Lydia Lunch says she doesn’t the mind the “No Wave” moniker coined to describe the work she and her friends were doing. “We need to have a category in which to define movements, I guess,” she says. “I have no problem with ‘No Wave,’ because it says No Wave. So again, it’s defined by what it isn’t. What is it? I don’t fucking know.”

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REVIEW: Blank City Overexplains NYC’s Late-’70s DIY Scene, with Great Footage

Black and Yellow: The Dark Knight Rises to Pittsburgh

From the Steel City to Gotham City. Christopher Nolan will shoot The Dark Knight Rises in Pittsburgh this summer, to the delight of Wiz Khalifa and Troy Polamalu. “Pittsburgh is a beautiful city,” Nolan said in a statement. “We have been able to find everything we were looking for here, and I am excited to spend the summer in Pittsburgh with our final installment of Batman.” Sorry, Chicago; you’re stuck with Michael Bay. [ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ]

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Can Thor Broker Hunger Games Peace Between Team Peeta and Team Gale?

Chris Hemsworth , the Norse god Thor himself, revealed recently that he helped brother Liam rehearse for his Hunger Games auditions by reading the part of Katniss aloud . Liam eventually landed the part of Gale , one of two young men in love with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) in Lionsgate’s 2012 adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s YA novels, but lest you assume that means the elder Hemsworth is unequivocally on Team Gale, think again. Talking with Movieline he explains his ties to Liam’s future on-screen rival, Josh Hutcherson, and how they’ve landed him firmly in the middle of the Peeta-Gale conflict.

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