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Isabella Rossellini On Seduce Me, Possibly Returning to 30 Rock and 6-Foot Penises

She may be the daughter of legendary Italian director Roberto Rossellini and screen icon Ingrid Bergman, but Isabella Rossellini is not above dressing up in a praying mantis costume and simulating the insect’s mating ritual for your amusement. The Wildlife Conservation Network board member has been, ahem, doing it two seasons now on the Sundance Channel’s Green Porno series, which the actress also writes and produces. Rossellini’s new series Seduce Me premieres April 20 on SundanceChannel.com. The reproductive habits of salmon, bats and bed bugs are the new focus in this round of nature nookie, shot with the same simple comic style that made her first series so successful. In anticipation of Seduce Me ‘s premiere, Rossellini phoned Movieline to discuss animal mating, recall who was laughing during those sadomasochistic scenes in Blue Velvet , and reveal how she does not plan on celebrating the centennial of her mother.

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David Blue on Stargate Universe, Twitter’s Dark Side, and His Galaxy Quest Obsession

If you’re a fan of the Stargate franchise, you’ve got an inside man in David Blue. The actor doesn’t just play Eli on Stargate Universe — he’s also a sci-fi junkie who’d watched every episode of previous Stargate incarnations before he was cast in the part. It’s that kind of insider knowledge that leads Blue to say with confidence that the latter half of Universe’s season one (which began airing last week after a hiatus) is its best yet. Now shooting the second season, Blue took some time out to dish on the fanbase he’s accrued with past roles (including a stint as Marc’s boyfriend on Ugly Betty ), whether he reads sci-fi blogs, and how exactly Universe’s Robert Carlyle resembles Alan Rickman.

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Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek on New Doc, Old Influences and Oliver Stone’s Folly

Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. This week, we hear from Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek about the band’s new documentary When You’re Strange , which opens Friday in limited release. For a rock band whose filmed legacy includes at least a dozen concert and video compilations — not to mention a full-scale Hollywood biopic — it’s not just a little bizarre that The Doors were never the subject of a feature documentary until now. Enter When You’re Strange , director Tom DiCillo’s fairly straightforward doc (narrated by Johnny Depp) interweaving archival performance and interview footage with extended, never-before-seen footage of late vocalist Jim Morrison’s own experimental film, HWY : An American Pastoral . Some of it looks like it was shot yesterday, reinforcing Morrison’s enduring mythology as a half-martyr, half-ghost whose mission is carried forward here by surviving members Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore. In a candid, freewheeling discussion recently with Movieline, Manzarek explained the film’s mission, the Doors’ cinematic influences, Oliver Stone’s blundering and how making a movie is like “World War III. ”

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Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek on New Doc, Old Influences and Oliver Stone’s Folly

Moment of Truth: Michel Gondry Opens Up About His Thorn-y Doc Debut

Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. This week we hear from Oscar-winner Michel Gondry, whose documentary Thorn in the Heart _opens Friday in limited release.- Michel Gondry is known to make warm, densely tricky and unfailingly personal films; one can even imagine him subverting the superhero genre with his forthcoming big-budget adaptation of The Green Hornet. But what might Gondry do with a documentary? His new film Thorn in the Heart delivers the answer, training his camera on his own family — his aunt Suzette in particular, whose decades of success as an educator are starkly contrasted against the more haunting pitfalls and woes of matrimony and motherhood. It’s an unsparing yet sensitive approach for the first-time docmaker, whose most probing inquiries are woven into animation and vintage home movies until a typically handmade Gondrian tapestry results. In the same candid spirit in which he dismissed Lady Gaga to Movieline a few weeks ago, Gondry he shared his take on nonfiction, grilling one’s own family and the thrill of confronting failure.

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