Oliver Stone - World-of-Newave.info http://answers.world-of-newave.info/oliver-stone.htm Latest news and articles about Oliver Stone en-us Copyright (c)2004-2008. All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:23:25 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:23:25 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Video: Reel Review: Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic W http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/video-reel-review-oliver-stone-s-george-bush-biopic-20081110016.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/video-reel-review-oliver-stone-s-george-bush-biopic-20081110016.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:12:31 GMT Xan Brooks rates Josh Brolin's mimickry but thinks Oliver Stone's Bush biopic as a "hurried mess" with "the attention span of a gnat" Guardian.Co.Uk Video: Reel Review: Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic W {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Xan Brooks rates Josh Brolin's mimickry but thinks Oliver Stone's Bush biopic as a "hurried mess" with "the attention span of a gnat"
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Film Weekly podcast: interview with Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/film-weekly-podcast-interview-with-waltz-with-bashir-20081188710.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/film-weekly-podcast-interview-with-waltz-with-bashir-20081188710.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:04:26 GMT This week, Jason Solomons meets Ari Folman, the Waltz with Bashir director whose animated documentary about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre has been lauded everywhere, even his native Israel; Xan Brooks joins Jason to review Oliver Stone's Bush biopic W as well as Agnès Jaoui's Let's Talk About the Rain and the police drama Pride and Glory; and Heather Croall, director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, talks through the lineup for this year's event Guardian.Co.Uk Film Weekly podcast: interview with Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - This week, Jason Solomons meets Ari Folman, the Waltz with Bashir director whose animated documentary about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre has been lauded everywhere, even his native Israel; Xan Brooks joins Jason to review Oliver Stone's Bush biopic W as well as Agnès Jaoui's Let's Talk About the Rain and the police drama Pride and Glory; and Heather Croall, director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, talks through the lineup for this year's event
Film Weekly podcast: interview with Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman | Film | guardian.co.uk {...} Jason Solomons talks to director Ari Folman about his lauded animated film about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, and Heather Croall, director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, talks through the lineup for this… {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {ENTERTAINMENT > PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA} - UK debut for Stone's Bush biopic http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/entertainment/publications-and-media/uk-debut-for-stone-s-bush-biopic-20081058125.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/entertainment/publications-and-media/uk-debut-for-stone-s-bush-biopic-20081058125.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:10:25 GMT London has welcomed the stars of W - Oliver Stone's biopic of the outgoing US president - for its European premiere. News.Bbc.Co.Uk UK debut for Stone's Bush biopic {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - London has welcomed the stars of W - Oliver Stone's biopic of the outgoing US president - for its European premiere.
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]]> Arts > Entertainment > Publications and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - UK debut for Stone's Bush biopic http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/uk-debut-for-stone-s-bush-biopic-20081090932.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/uk-debut-for-stone-s-bush-biopic-20081090932.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:06:29 GMT London has welcomed the stars of W - Oliver Stone's biopic of the outgoing US president - for its European premiere. News.Bbc.Co.Uk UK debut for Stone's Bush biopic {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - London has welcomed the stars of W - Oliver Stone's biopic of the outgoing US president - for its European premiere.
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Younge America: Silence please for the real election drama http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/younge-america-silence-please-for-the-real-election-20081041235.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/younge-america-silence-please-for-the-real-election-20081041235.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:21:12 GMT The introductory call of Roanoke's No Shame Theatre is that it's a place where "anything can happen." To which the crowd responds: "And it usually does." The idea is simple. You pay $5, you get five minutes and the stage is yours. There are only a few rules, the most intriguing being that you have to keep your clothes on - apparently the state of Virginia has decreed that nudity and alcohol should not cohabit the same social space. No Shame Theatre went for the booze. Otherwise people do their own thing -poetry, stand-up, soliloquies, songs, you name it. It's like Amateur night at the Apollo in Harlem without the Tree of Hope and the Sandman.Some of the performances are bizarre. One woman had a puppet monkey she called George - as in George Bush - and a bag full of different hats. Her entire skit consisted of putting a different hat on the Monkey every 15 seconds and matching it with a one-liner about Bush. "George is clutching at straws," she'd say and on would go the straw hat. "George has been smoking something," and on goes a rasta hat. Much more cringe than fringe.But most are good and some have a political edge. Todd Ristau, the founder of No Shame and director of the graduate programme in playwriting at Hollins University, near Roanoke, came up with the idea when he was in Iowa City and launched it on the back of a pick-up truck.The night I went, Ristau performed a parody of the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. It ended with Biden telling the audience: "Look I'm just going to lay in on the line, if you vote those people into the White House, you deserve whatever the fuck happens to you."For a town of this size (96,000) Roanoke has an impressive cultural life. It boasts a symphony, an opera, an arthouse cinema (currently showing both Bill Maher's Religulous and Oliver Stone's W), several art galleries and museums of transport, science, transportation and history as well as one dedicated to the photography of Winston Link and another to African-American life in the town. There are at least two decent independent book shops and Ristau is in the process of building another theatre. Moreover it is just about to see the opening of a huge new art museum - the Taubman http://www.artmuseumroanoke.org/ , downtown. While I have been here, the local Jefferson centre has staged a production of Falstaff and played host to Wynton Marsalis."I'm passionately in love with this town, partially because of the way that this very admittedly blue collar community embraces a cultural life," Ristau says. "And there isn't that kind of antagonism between people in the community and the so-called artist or intellectual elites. There isn't that division. Everyone takes part in the cultural life kind of equally. And I think it's a testimony to the city in some ways that they had the vision to place the centre in the square in the middle of the town and say 'no - our cultural life is going to be in the heart of this community'."And like the the No Shame Theatre , some culture has been geared towards the election. In 2004, culture was at the crux of the polarisation between Democrats and Republicans, with Michael Moore's Faranheit 9/11 and Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, laying out the battle lines. Nationally, this year it has played a far less prominent role, despite Sarah Palin's attempt to introduce hockey moms and Joe sixpack as the John and Jane Doe of American cultural life. But in Roanoke, thev ibrant cultural life has been quite politically engaged - albeit almost exclusively among liberals. Three weeks ago, Ann Trinkle, an artist who was the local delegate to the Democratic convention, put on an art auction called Fine Art To Elect A Fine man which raised $4,100."When I heard [Obama] speak four years ago at the Democratic convention in Boston, I was sold right then. He has touched something in a lot of us... not since John F Kennedy, it's all about the hope, it really is. It's about the best in each of us. He's really awoken that."Meanwhile, another local artist, Katherine Devine, is dedicating herself to painting yard signs and handing them out.Back at the No Shame Theatre, Ben Williams gives a minute-by-minute breakdown of his viewing the vice-presidential debate."9pm - My television is tuned to CNBC. Let's do this thing!9.02pm - It has become clear that if I'm going to sit through another hour and 28 minutes of this horseshit, I'm going to need a drink.9.03pm - The only remaining alcohol I have is a half-bottle of terrible legalised absinthe. Perhaps I'll just have to abstain tonight.9.05pm - I pour myself a tall glass of absinthe. It clouds nicely upon the addition of sugar and cold water. It certainly looks the part, but inside it's pure poison. I have accidentally made the perfect drink for watching this debate.9.10pm - Sarah Palin explains her views to the American people in the same way that you'd explain the basics of mathematics to a small child. Joe Biden, on the other hand, explains his views to America in the way that you'd try to talk a suicidal retarded man down from a ledge. They are both right."US elections 2008guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Younge America: Silence please for the real election drama {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - The introductory call of Roanoke's No Shame Theatre is that it's a place where "anything can happen." To which the crowd responds: "And it usually does." The idea is simple. You pay $5, you get five minutes and the stage is yours. There are only a few rules, the most intriguing being that you have to keep your clothes on - apparently the state of Virginia has decreed that nudity and alcohol should not cohabit the same social space. No Shame Theatre went for the booze. Otherwise people do their own thing -poetry, stand-up, soliloquies, songs, you name it. It's like Amateur night at the Apollo in Harlem without the Tree of Hope and the Sandman.Some of the performances are bizarre. One woman had a puppet monkey she called George - as in George Bush - and a bag full of different hats. Her entire skit consisted of putting a different hat on the Monkey every 15 seconds and matching it with a one-liner about Bush. "George is clutching at straws," she'd say and on would go the straw hat. "George has been smoking something," and on goes a rasta hat. Much more cringe than fringe.But most are good and some have a political edge. Todd Ristau, the founder of No Shame and director of the graduate programme in playwriting at Hollins University, near Roanoke, came up with the idea when he was in Iowa City and launched it on the back of a pick-up truck.The night I went, Ristau performed a parody of the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. It ended with Biden telling the audience: "Look I'm just going to lay in on the line, if you vote those people into the White House, you deserve whatever the fuck happens to you."For a town of this size (96,000) Roanoke has an impressive cultural life. It boasts a symphony, an opera, an arthouse cinema (currently showing both Bill Maher's Religulous and Oliver Stone's W), several art galleries and museums of transport, science, transportation and history as well as one dedicated to the photography of Winston Link and another to African-American life in the town. There are at least two decent independent book shops and Ristau is in the process of building another theatre. Moreover it is just about to see the opening of a huge new art museum - the Taubman http://www.artmuseumroanoke.org/ , downtown. While I have been here, the local Jefferson centre has staged a production of Falstaff and played host to Wynton Marsalis."I'm passionately in love with this town, partially because of the way that this very admittedly blue collar community embraces a cultural life," Ristau says. "And there isn't that kind of antagonism between people in the community and the so-called artist or intellectual elites. There isn't that division. Everyone takes part in the cultural life kind of equally. And I think it's a testimony to the city in some ways that they had the vision to place the centre in the square in the middle of the town and say 'no - our cultural life is going to be in the heart of this community'."And like the the No Shame Theatre , some culture has been geared towards the election. In 2004, culture was at the crux of the polarisation between Democrats and Republicans, with Michael Moore's Faranheit 9/11 and Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, laying out the battle lines. Nationally, this year it has played a far less prominent role, despite Sarah Palin's attempt to introduce hockey moms and Joe sixpack as the John and Jane Doe of American cultural life. But in Roanoke, thev ibrant cultural life has been quite politically engaged - albeit almost exclusively among liberals. Three weeks ago, Ann Trinkle, an artist who was the local delegate to the Democratic convention, put on an art auction called Fine Art To Elect A Fine man which raised $4,100."When I heard [Obama] speak four years ago at the Democratic convention in Boston, I was sold right then. He has touched something in a lot of us... not since John F Kennedy, it's all about the hope, it really is. It's about the best in each of us. He's really awoken that."Meanwhile, another local artist, Katherine Devine, is dedicating herself to painting yard signs and handing them out.Back at the No Shame Theatre, Ben Williams gives a minute-by-minute breakdown of his viewing the vice-presidential debate."9pm - My television is tuned to CNBC. Let's do this thing!9.02pm - It has become clear that if I'm going to sit through another hour and 28 minutes of this horseshit, I'm going to need a drink.9.03pm - The only remaining alcohol I have is a half-bottle of terrible legalised absinthe. Perhaps I'll just have to abstain tonight.9.05pm - I pour myself a tall glass of absinthe. It clouds nicely upon the addition of sugar and cold water. It certainly looks the part, but inside it's pure poison. I have accidentally made the perfect drink for watching this debate.9.10pm - Sarah Palin explains her views to the American people in the same way that you'd explain the basics of mathematics to a small child. Joe Biden, on the other hand, explains his views to America in the way that you'd try to talk a suicidal retarded man down from a ledge. They are both right."US elections 2008guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {NEWS > ALTERNATIVE} - Oliver Stone's "W." -- A Catastrophe Worthy of the Worst President http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/alternative/oliver-stone-s-w-a-catastrophe-worthy-of-the-worst-20081045936.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/alternative/oliver-stone-s-w-a-catastrophe-worthy-of-the-worst-20081045936.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:00:01 GMT You can practically feel Oilver Stone sitting behind you, breathing on the back of your neck and willing you to see the brilliance of his vision. Alternet.Org Oliver Stone's "W." -- A Catastrophe Worthy of the Worst President {new window}   Www.Alternet.Org - You can practically feel Oilver Stone sitting behind you, breathing on the back of your neck and willing you to see the brilliance of his vision.
Oliver Stone's "W." -- A Catastrophe Worthy of the Worst President | Movie Mix | AlterNet {...}
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]]> News > Alternative {NEWSPAPERS > UNITED STATES} - Review: 'W.' http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/newspapers/regional/united-states/review-w-20081073927.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/newspapers/regional/united-states/review-w-20081073927.htm Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Rushed out before Election Day, Oliver Stone's biographical take on the president offers no new insight into George W. Csmonitor.Com Review: 'W.' {new window}   Www.Csmonitor.Com - Rushed out before Election Day, Oliver Stone's biographical take on the president offers no new insight into George W.
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]]> News > Newspapers > Regional > United States {MOVIES > REVIEWS} - W. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/movies/reviews/w-20081026721.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/movies/reviews/w-20081026721.htm Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:18:40 GMT Starring: Josh Brolin Review: Toss professionally incendiary Director Oliver Stone in the biopic ring with the worst president in U.S. history, and you rightly expect something more than a walk on the mild side. Josh Brolin is truly electrifying in the role of George W. Bush, from fuck-up son of privilege to fuck-up commander in chief, but Stone and Wall Street screenwriter Stanley Weiser can't decide whether to stick it to our departing president or just hug it out. Whatever you think of Dubya, he has balls. The movie doesn't. It's not that W. fails to score points. It's watchable, often fun and, on rare occasion, suitably fierce. But from Stone you expect a fire in the belly or the gravitas he showed in Nixon. Here, only Brolin and James Cromwell as George Sr. are allowed to play it for real. The film opens with a... Rating: 2.5 Stars Rollingstone.Com W. {new window}   Www.Rollingstone.Com - Starring: Josh Brolin Review: Toss professionally incendiary Director Oliver Stone in the biopic ring with the worst president in U.S. history, and you rightly expect something more than a walk on the mild side. Josh Brolin is truly electrifying in the role of George W. Bush, from fuck-up son of privilege to fuck-up commander in chief, but Stone and Wall Street screenwriter Stanley Weiser can't decide whether to stick it to our departing president or just hug it out. Whatever you think of Dubya, he has balls. The movie doesn't. It's not that W. fails to score points. It's watchable, often fun and, on rare occasion, suitably fierce. But from Stone you expect a fire in the belly or the gravitas he showed in Nixon. Here, only Brolin and James Cromwell as George Sr. are allowed to play it for real. The film opens with a... Rating: 2.5 Stars
W. : Review : Rolling Stone {...} Toss professionally incendiary Director Oliver Stone in the biopic ring with the worst president in... {...}
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]]> Arts > Movies > Reviews {ENTERTAINMENT > PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA} - Mixed reviews for Bush movie http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/entertainment/publications-and-media/mixed-reviews-for-bush-movie-20081018810.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/entertainment/publications-and-media/mixed-reviews-for-bush-movie-20081018810.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:40:49 GMT Oliver Stone's biopic of President Bush leaves some reviewers unimpressed after its first screening in the US. News.Bbc.Co.Uk Mixed reviews for Bush movie {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Oliver Stone's biopic of President Bush leaves some reviewers unimpressed after its first screening in the US.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bush movie receives mixed reviews {...}
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]]> Arts > Entertainment > Publications and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Oliver Burkeman talks to Oliver Stone about his biopic of the US president http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/oliver-burkeman-talks-to-oliver-stone-about-his-2008102446.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/oliver-burkeman-talks-to-oliver-stone-about-his-2008102446.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:09:29 GMT Oliver Burkeman talks to the director Oliver Stone about his biopic of the US president Guardian.Co.Uk Oliver Burkeman talks to Oliver Stone about his biopic of the US president {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Oliver Burkeman talks to the director Oliver Stone about his biopic of the US president
Oliver Burkeman talks to Oliver Stone about his biopic of the US president | Film | The Guardian {...}
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