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The Guardian
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Michael Madsen – a life in pictures
Michael Madsen in his high school yearbook photo Photograph: Alamy Madsen in the TV series Our Family Honor, in New York in 1985 Photograph: Walt Disney Television Photo Archives/ABC Madsen in Kill Me Again, 1989 Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock Photograph: Everett/Shutterstock Val Kilmer (center) and Michael Madsen (right) in The Doors, 1991 Photograph: Tristar Pictures/Allstar Madsen with actors Susan Sarandon (center left) and Geena Davis, and director Ridley Scott on the set of Thelma And Louise, 1991 Photograph:Madsen in Reservoir Dogs, 1992 Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Feature From left, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Chris Penn, Lawrence Tierney, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi and Edward Bunker in Reservoir Dogs Photograph: Rank Film/Allstar Madsen in The Getaway, 1993 Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy From left, Dennis Quaid, Linden Ashby, Kevin Costner and Michael Madsen in Wyatt Earp, 1994 Photograph: Kobal Collection From left, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Ben Kingsley and Marg Helgenberger in Species, 1994 Photograph: MGM/Allstar Madsen in Mulholland Falls, 1996 Photograph: Kobal Collection From left, Chris Penn, Nick Nolte, Michael Madsen and Chazz Palminteri in Mulholland Falls Photograph: THA/Shutterstock From left, James Russo, Al Pacino and Michael Madsen in Donnie Brasco, 1997 Photograph: Tristar/Sportsphoto/Allstar Photograph: Mark Liley/Allstar Madsen at the 43rd Monaco TV festival in Monaco, 2003 Photograph: Alain Benainous /Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Madsen in Blueberry, 2004 Photograph: AJ OZ Films/Allstar Madsen in Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 Photograph: Miramax/Allstar Madsen in Hell Ride, 2008 Photograph: Dimension Films/Allstar Madsen at the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes international film festival in 2014 Photograph: DPA Picture Alliance/Alamy Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Guardian Madsen at the 2015 Ambi Gala in Toronto, Canada Photograph: Arthur Mola/Invision/AP Madsen in Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, 2015 Photograph: Andrew Cooper/Weinstein Company/Allstar Madsen in the Red Bull racing garage during qualifying for the Formula One Grand Prix of Austria at Red Bull Ring in July 2016 Photograph:Madsen in Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha, 2024 Photograph: Everett/Shutterstock Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Guardian
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
David Lynch's Red Director Chair Stops by Variety's Office Ahead of Live Auction
Julien's Auctions and Turner Classic Movies, hosts of a live auction of David Lynch's possessions, recently toured his director's chair around several locations in Los Angeles, ending with a stop at Variety's office Monday. The auction, called The David Lynch Collection, will be held Wednesday at the Peninsula Beverly Hills as well as at More from Variety Kyle MacLachlan 'Borrowed' Some of David Lynch's Mannerisms for 'Twin Peaks' Character Dale Cooper: He Had 'Great Enthusiasm for Certain Things' Like 'Trees, Coffee and Pie' Secrets of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery: David Lynch's Grave, a Stolen Head and Rudolph Valentino's Ghost 'Twin Peaks' Returns to Rimini: Italian Global Series Festival Honors David Lynch's Legacy In anticipation of that event, the red leather chair commenced a mystery tour around the city to locations that have significance within Lynch's life and filmography, with clues posted on social media to allow fans to guess the locations. The tour started off at the 'Mulholland Drive' location Winkie's Diner on June 12 and continued to the Mulholland Drive street sign, the area of Hollywood and La Brea (where Lynch once held a For Your Consideration protest for Laura Dern) and Bob's Big Boy, the Toluca Lake diner where Lynch often met with stars like Dern and Kyle MacLachlan. The tour stops were also live streamed from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. PT on Julien's Instagram. The chair, which is personalized with Lynch's name and is estimated at $5,000 to $7,000, is a focal point of the auction, which includes more than 450 objects such as Lynch's musical instruments, furniture, props, home decor and more. Bids can be placed at the in-person event, online, over the phone or through an absentee bid form. Lynch, the filmmaker behind 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Wild at Heart' and 'Twin Peaks,' died Jan. 15. 'Julien's and TCM are honored to represent and offer to the public for the first time this incredible collection of one of the greatest and most revered filmmakers of all time, David Lynch,' Catherine Williamson, managing director of entertainment for Julien's Auctions, previously said in a statement. 'These historical and cherished pieces reflecting David Lynch's singular artistic vision, as well as his passions and pursuits ranging from his director's chair, espresso machine to his guitar, record collections and 'Twin Peaks'-style decor, come directly from the home of the visionary artist whose enigmatic films stirred our most imaginative and collective surreal dreams.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? 25 Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar
The Verge
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Apple is making a five-part documentary on Martin Scorsese
After directing dozens of documentaries over his 60-year career, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will now have his own life chronicled for Apple TV Plus. In its announcement, Apple says the five-part Mr. Scorsese documentary series will explore how themes like 'the place of good and evil in the fundamental nature of humankind' have shaped Scorsese's filmography as far back as his student work at New York University. Apple hasn't mentioned a release date for the docuseries, which is being directed by Rebecca Miller (She Came to Me, Personal Velocity). Mr. Scorsese will benefit from 'exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese's private archives,' according to Apple, alongside extensive interviews with Scorsese himself that dive into how his own life experiences have influenced his work. The series also includes 'never-before-seen interviews' with the filmmaker's friends, family, and creative collaborators, including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Steven Spielberg, and Miller's husband, Daniel Day-Lewis. '[Scorsese's] work and life are so vast and so compelling that the piece evolved from one to five parts over a five-year period,' said Miller. 'Crafting this documentary alongside my longtime collaborators has been one of the defining experiences of my life as a filmmaker.'
Times
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Wes Anderson — every movie ranked
Wes Anderson is in a league of his own among film-makers in modern cinema, having carved out a reputation for quirky, eccentric and visually arresting movies often featuring eclectic ensemble casts. His 12th feature, The Phoenician Scheme, is in cinemas from Friday and will surely join a long line of films that have delighted audiences since his debut Bottle Rocket was championed by the master film-maker Martin Scorsese in 1996. Since then his movies have attracted some of the biggest stars — from Ben Stiller, Edward Norton and Gwyneth Paltrow to Bruce Willis, Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray — in some fascinating and intriguing tales. But which is the best Wes Anderson movie? Here we take a journey through Anderson's filmography and take a
Digital Trends
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
10 best Tom Cruise movies, ranked
Table of Contents Table of Contents 10. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 9. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 8. Rain Man (1988) 7. Jerry Maguire (1996) 6. Tropic Thunder (2008) 5. Collateral (2004) 4. Minority Report (2002) 3. Magnolia (1999) 2. A Few Good Men (1992) 1. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) With Tom Cruise, nothing ever really ends. May 23 marks the release of his latest Mission: Impossible adventure, and while it's subtitled The Final Reckoning, Cruise and his regular director Christopher McQuarrie have confirmed there are more films to come. Through doggedness, dedication, and risk to life and limb, the 62-year-old Cruise has built a lasting career as a leading man that seems never to wane. Here are his ten best films, featuring performances both solidly in and out of his comfort zone. Recommended Videos 10. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Like most of Cruise's filmography, Top Gun: Maverick, the long-delayed sequel to the abysmal '80s schlock-fest Top Gun, is more than the sum of its parts. Its maneuvering of a sixty-year-old Cruise from flight instructor back into the cockpit is labored, its decision to actively avoid the identity of a country against which Cruise goes on a bombing run is cowardly (it's clearly Russia), and Cruise's love scenes with Jennifer Connelly are borderline silly. However, Maverick is an old-fashioned Hollywood adrenaline rush, chock-full of vintage Cruise stunt work, and the aerial photography looks spectacular. 9. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Cruise's third and best collaboration with writer Christopher McQuarrie, Edge of Tomorrow, adapts a bonkers Japanese novel that is essentially a cross between Groundhog Day and Independence Day. Cruise is Major William Cage (a perfect Tom Cruise character name), enlisted in a war against an invading alien species called the Mimics. Long story short, Cage gets trapped in a time loop on the day of his death at the Mimics' hands that allows him to learn their strategies. Emily Blunt delivers a superior action performance as his love interest and comrade-in-arms. 8. Rain Man (1988) Cruise made his name as the everyman ballast for performances by more outwardly dynamic character actors (Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, Tim Curry in Legend). The prototypical example is Rain Man, the only Tom Cruise movie so far to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Here, Cruise is the frustrated steward of his estranged brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant. The film has its weaknesses, but Cruise hits all of his beats ably, and his exasperation with Raymond's eccentricities is a perfectly tuned demonstration of audience surrogacy. 7. Jerry Maguire (1996) Cruise's nose for a football movie that would wind up being endlessly quotable has put him in any number of iconic scenes over the years, and Cameron Crowe's script for Jerry Maguire has a panoply of them. (Cruise alone has both 'Help me help you' and 'You complete me,' Renee Zellweger gets 'You had me at hello,' and Cuba Gooding Jr. gets the unbeatable 'Show me the money.') The movie is the ultimate instance of Cruise's trademark wide-grinning mania thanks to Cruise's titular Jerry, a sports agent stretching himself to his limit as he struggles to do the unprofitable work of representing his clients ethically (unthinkable!). 6. Tropic Thunder (2008) Cruise is, along with Tom Hanks, the defining cinematic leading man of the past forty years, but a little of him can often go a long way. No surprise that some of his most sneakily memorable performances have been supporting roles, including in Ben Stiller's gonzo Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder. Cruise plays Les Grossman, a studio executive transparently based on Harvey Weinstein, who is called on to negotiate when the star of a Vietnam War film he's producing is kidnapped by a drug cartel. Cruise famously gave Stiller two conditions for taking the role: 'I want to have fat hands, and I'm gonna dance.' Mission accomplished. 5. Collateral (2004) Michael Mann's action thriller stars Cruise in a rare villain role as Vincent, a hitman who commandeers the taxi of Los Angeles cabbie Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx). It's a great, clean setup, with a finely structured beginning that establishes Max's attention to detail and pride in his craft — Max is a man who has control of his car and whose car is his control. Then, when Cruise explodes in the frame with a gray shock wig that looks so wrong on him, Mann drives home the point that Vincent is from another universe. Collateral is electric movie-making, lean and tight most of the way through. 4. Minority Report (2002) The smartest film Steven Spielberg directed in the first decade of the twenty-first century was the Philip K. Dick adaptation of Minority Report. Cruise plays a police chief utilizing psychics to arrest criminals before they commit their intended crimes. Scott Frank's (The Queen's Gambit) script raises moral conundrums years ahead of its time, and Cruise quite effectively applies his regular action-film persona to its worthy explorations. 3. Magnolia (1999) Cruise's third Oscar nomination came for his outrageous performance as misogynistic motivational speaker Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia. In a role that predated widespread public knowledge of the icky 'pickup artist' movement of seduction, Cruise deconstructs the bravura front that had not yet come to be known as toxic masculinity. 'Women are sheep,' he tells his followers in a riveting monologue delivered straight to the camera; 'they have patterns that must be stopped, interrupted, and resisted.' But of course, such walls as these are made to fall, and in a later scene at the deathbed of his father (Jason Robards), Cruise powerfully conveys the trauma, loneliness, and pain that have led Mackey to this point. 2. A Few Good Men (1992) Aaron Sorkin was a bartender at Broadway's Palace Theatre when he began writing what would become his 1989 play A Few Good Men on the back of cocktail napkins. The film Sorkin would later adapt from his Broadway smash is among the smartest and most quotable studio films of the 1990s. Naturally, the courtroom movie is ultimately stolen by Jack Nicholson, whose role as a Marine colonel implicated in a murder earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. But Cruise, as the Navy lawyer prosecuting the case, is one of the worthiest screen partners Nicholson has ever had, with herky-jerky, caffeine-inflected energy that steels to certainty in the courtroom. 1. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) The other picture from Cruise's banner year of 1999, Eyes Wide Shut, is a perfect storm of world-beating celebrity (he co-starred with his then-wife Nicole Kidman), Hollywood royalty (it was writer-director Stanley Kubrick's final film), and superb mise-en-scène. It was a story of sexual jealousy decades in the making, and Cruise was the perfect choice for the role of a repressed elite who falls apart trying to see behind the curtain of a world closed to him. (Just imagine if Kubrick had made the film in the 1960s and cast his original choice for the lead, Woody Allen!)
