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Post by iluvtexas on Jun 20, 2011 13:31:46 GMT -5
Thanks for the scoop....am anxious to see this movie everyone is talking about how good it is...  PS Nice interview too.... Owen Wilson - Owen Wilson Regrets Not Studying In Paris
Owen Wilson would like to relive his student days and further his education in Paris, France so he could work part-time in the city's most famous bookstore. The movie star fell in love with the Shakespeare & Book Company while shooting new movie Midnight in Paris - which features the store - and he regrets not discovering the place earlier in his life. He tells WENN, "I love sitting around in the cafes. I love that Shakespeare & Book Company, which is the best book store in the world. I met the guy who owns it and he's, like, 97. People sleep there and I would love to have been a college student and gotten a job there and been able to sleep at the book store and look at these little sort of nooks all around. "I was a good reader as a kid and an English major. Now it seems all I read is World War Ii-type books, so I made a New Year's resolution to try and read 10 classics. Now I'm reading Lolita, which I actually picked up in Paris at the Shakespeare & Book Company in paperback. It's pretty scandalous. "I still like the experience of reading a book but I'm reading it on my iPad, and I have a program where you can just click on a word and get the definition." |
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Post by locke on Aug 31, 2011 16:41:41 GMT -5
I watched this last night, i quite liked it for the most part and he works well with Rachel Mcadams..
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Post by iluvtexas on Nov 26, 2011 0:13:06 GMT -5
Very nice compliment and well deserved for Owen.... Peter Fonda on Owen Wilson in 'Midnight in Paris'
SAG Preview 2011: Actors on Actors'Midnight in Paris' "Owen Wilson's performance in 'Midnight in Paris' is different than any other film incarnation I've seen in a Woody Allen film. As Gil, Owen's quirks, mannerisms, speech patterns and other tools on his palette seem to reflect what our culture views of Allen, but Owen made it all his own. Not only does Owen weave through the present and past in this film, so does his acting, which maneuvers between subtle, comedic and reflective. While Allen's film inspects the idea of nostalgia, I think in the coming years that people will look back and reflect on the touching acting that Owen displays in this wonderful film." |
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Post by ocw on Nov 27, 2011 23:42:19 GMT -5
Just saw Midnight in Paris. It was really good. Owen was great and I really hope it gets an Oscar nomination like a few news articles have mentioned.
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Post by nana on Dec 15, 2011 13:00:47 GMT -5
owen nominated for golden globe for midnight in paris!!!!
congrats!!
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Post by locke on Dec 15, 2011 15:03:22 GMT -5
Yes and i think its between him and Ryan Gosling also one of my favs
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Post by ocw on Dec 15, 2011 15:13:31 GMT -5
Congratulations Owen on your nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical. I have everything crossed for your win. #dance2# #woohoo# #loveyou#
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Post by iluvtexas on Dec 16, 2011 1:44:10 GMT -5
This is terrific news!!! Congratulations to Owen. This is long over due and it is about time. I know you will win!!!!
#flowers# #flowers# #flowers#
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Post by iluvtexas on Dec 18, 2011 17:03:37 GMT -5
Quote from Owen...  “It is an absolute honor to be nominated,” said Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical nominee Owen Wilson in a statement, who also picked up a SAG nomination for his work in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.” “It was a great movie to work on, and I couldn’t be happier to be recognized by the HFPA.” |
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Post by iluvtexas on Dec 21, 2011 9:08:19 GMT -5
Very nice interview with Owen.... www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/popcornbiz/Golden-Globe-Nominee-Owen-Wilson-I-Wasnt-Sure-Midnight-In-Paris-Would-Work-135935273.htmlNewly minted Golden Globe nominee Owen Wilson is about to take a trip back in time. Not all the way back to 1920s-era Paris to hobnob with the literati (again), but just far enough to share his memories of making writer-director Woody Allen’s critically hailed film “Midnight in Paris,” which bows Dec. 20 on home video and which nabbed him a Best Actor nomination (as well as a Best Director nob for Allen). Chatting exclusively with PopcornBiz, Wilson admits that all the acclaim kinda snuck up on him. It must be gratifying to see that the film has lingered so long in audiences’ favor, considering that it was released so much earlier in the year.
Owen...It's funny to think that it came out back in May. I was in New York the other day and it was still playing at a theater there. That seems pretty incredible.Did you feel like something special was happening with this performance while you were making the film? Owen...No – I didn't feel that way! I'm always a little bit pessimistic. I know that I enjoyed being in Paris, but I had no idea how the time travel stuff would all work, would it seem too far fetched, would people buy it, and it was a nice surprise when the movie came out and people seemed to enjoy it so much.What was the thing about the film that first attracted you to it? Owen...It was working with Woody Allen. That was kind of an exciting idea, and some of the people that were going to be in the movie. Also, making a movie in Paris. I would say that those were all sort of attractive ideas to me, more than did I read the script and go, 'Okay, this is great.' I really enjoyed reading it, but like I was saying, I just didn't have a sense of how this time travel element was going to work. So that was always sort of the wild card for me. Then that ends up being one of the things that people liked the most about the movie. So Woody pulled that off. It's funny, but I guess by not paying too much attention to it, nothing fancy, but just at midnight get in a car and I'm in the past. I always understood the logic of what was happening. It was just a question of if people were going to buy that one minute I'm here in modern day Paris, and then in the next minute I'm with Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Is that going to be a charming thing or is that going to be something where you don't really go along for the ride?Audiences did really lock on to that concept, that wish that you could visit a place in time that you never lived in but feel romantic and nostalgic about. Is there a time period that you fantasize about, wondering what it would've been like if you were around then? Owen...Yeah. I talked with Woody and I guess for him it was probably that time a little bit. That time would have to be in my top three, maybe, also. It seems pretty great.Can you relate to having romantic fantasies not be what they were in your head when you have a taste of the reality of it? Owen...Yeah. I suppose sometimes you build things up in your mind, like an expectation and sometimes something doesn't quite measure up. But I think that's the great thing about a city like Paris. It can live up to that romantic notion that you have of it. I would say that. You're asking if I've had a 'Breaking Away' type moment, like I'm excited for the Italians to come and then they come and they don't like me and they stick something in my tire and I crash by the side of the road. Have I had that? Not quite.
Has acting in some ways made you a better writer? Owen...I think just more experience, probably. I think the fact that I read a lot as a kid and was an English major and had to read a lot in college, I think that helped me as an actor and certainly as a writer just with having a sense of dialogue and story. Then I was just very lucky that my parents are both creative. It's just the way that I grew up. I was around really funny, creative people who were a great example.When you get something like your Golden Globe nomination last week for acting, does mean something a little different than having been nominated as a writer? Owen...I was very excited to hear that news. I was thrilled when we got nominated for 'The Royal Tenenbaums,' but maybe because I didn't necessarily think of myself as an actor, especially in the beginning, that is a sort of nice surprise because I continue to do it and make out a career out of it. Then to get recognized with that is exciting and unexpected. |
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Post by iluvtexas on Dec 27, 2011 10:20:56 GMT -5
I finally saw this movie on paid for view over the holidays. I liked it so much I watched it twice in the same day. The movie played like a good book for me and I sincerely hope not just as a "Wilsonette" but as a general movie "watcher" that Owen wins his Golden Globe Award. He is marvelous in this movie. This is my #1 favorite Owen movie other than Marley and Me and it's hard to watch Marley and Me without crying. Needless to say I adored the ending for Midnight in Paris, it left me wondering about all the possibilities of what if.... My top 10 Owen Movies are: "Midnight in Paris" "Marley and Me" "Shanghai Noon" "Shanghai Knights" "The Royal Tenenbaums" "The Wendell Baker Story" even tho this is not really an Owen movie (his character was so mean spirited in this movie) "Wedding Crashers" "Zoolander" "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" "Behind Enemy Lines" I enjoyed "Bottle Rocket" and have watched it more than once but each time I watched it I felt so sorry for his character and I felt like the movie should not have ended the way it did...altho "Bottle Rocket" does play like a good book as well. What are everyone else's top Owen movies? Happy New Year to all "Wisonettes" |
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Post by sld1164 on Jan 25, 2012 12:00:39 GMT -5
I purchased this BlueRay and I'm sitting here watching it. Gil Bender? My maiden name is Bender. Coincidence? hahaha
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Post by ocw on Feb 20, 2012 0:29:00 GMT -5
'Midnight in Paris,' 'Descendants' win WGA honors
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Woody Allen's romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris" and Alexander Payne's family drama "The Descendants" have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.
With his biggest hit in decades, writer-director Allen earned the guild's prize Sunday for original screenplay on "Midnight in Paris." The film stars Owen Wilson as a modern Hollywood writer who gets a chance to hang with his literary idols in the 1920s Paris of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Director Payne shared the adapted screenplay honor with co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, "The Descendants" stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian dad struggling to tend to his two daughters after a boating accident puts his wife in a coma.
The wins boost the prospects for both films to earn the same prizes at next Sunday's Academy Awards, where both movies also are in the running for best picture.
But not all key Academy Awards contenders were eligible for the Writers Guild honors, including Oscar best-picture front-runner "The Artist." The black-and-white silent film is competing against "Midnight in Paris" for original screenplay, but "The Artist" was ineligible at the Writers Guild awards because it was not made under the union's contract guidelines.
The guild's prize for big-screen documentary writing went to Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega for "Better This World."
Among the guild's TV winners:
— Drama series: "Breaking Bad," Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz and Moira Walley-Beckett.
— Comedy series: "Modern Family," Cindy Chupack, Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Carol Leifer, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O'Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Brad Walsh, Ilana Wernick, Bill Wrubel and Danny Zuker.
— New series: "Homeland," Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Gideon Raff and Meredith Stiehm.
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