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HQ Jennifer Garner pics

Jennifer Garner, who has catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the series "Alias" (2001), has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother Pat, a retired English teacher, and her father, Bill, a former chemical engineer, Jennifer was the middle sibling of three girls. She spent nine years of her adolescence studying ballet and describes her years in dance as ones characterized by determination rather than talent, being driven mostly by a love of the stage.

Jennifer took this determination with her when she enrolled at Denison University as a chemistry major, a decision that was later changed to a drama major when she found that her passions for the stage were stronger than her love of science. New York attracted the young actress after college where she worked as a hostess while pursuing a career in film and television. Her most recent move has been to Los Angeles, a decision that led to a role on the show "Felicity" (1998), where she met her future husband Scott Foley. The couple divorced in 2004.

She appears on television as Agent Sydney Bristow, who works for the CIA. For her work, Garner has received three consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She has also received four Golden Globe nominations and won once, as well as received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and won once.

She has appeared in numerous other television production as well as such films as Elektra (2005), 13 Going On 30 (2004), Daredevil (2003), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Dude, Where's My Car? (2000). Aside from filming "Alias" (2001), Jennifer enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking, and inspired by her character on the show, kickboxing.

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Dave

The Fog, saved by the ...producers

Sometimes movieproducers make decisions that actually make sense. That was the case with the latest remake of The Fog (2005). And even I think most of the times they do more harm than good, I have to admit they played this one just right when they agreed NOT to pre-screen the movie for the press. They knew the movie was awful and tried to save their investment by keeping it away from journalistic scrutiny. This resulted in a massive box-office success the first week of its release, with a bit over 11 million. And for a film with a production cost of 18 million, this is a gift send by heaven. Truth to be told, there was no great competition for The Fog. I mean Flightplan (with Jodie Foster) and Elizabethtown (with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst) are just movies you can easily see on DVD.

But now the film has been released, the critics are mad as hell, and slamed this turkey down the toilet. The critics at Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an appalling 3%. Here is a selecting of what the critics had to say:



"proof that maybe even moviegoers should sue"
Keith Breese, FILMCRITIC.COM

"It attempts to apply too much logic to the events going on that it distracts the viewer from pleasure and replaces it with boredom."
Michael Ferraro, FILM THREAT

"It is all utterly formulaic and predictable, and there's not even a rooting interest in trying to figure out who might live and who might die."
Pam Grady, REEL.COM

"The Fog is a bore, laden with unspectacular special effects and dreadful acting from television-trained youth who don’t have the experience to truly deliver the goods."
Brian Orndorf, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"Horror remakes like this one paint all the others with a huge and objectionable brush, because this flick absolutely stinks of half-hearted effort and assembly-line cynicism."
Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"Who knows? Maybe if we ignore these pointless remakes enough, pretty soon they’ll all go away."
David Cornelius, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"...enduring The Fog is like trying to swim effortlessly through a giant bowl of dripping and sticky pea soup—it’s messy and just as pointless."
Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE

"A textbook example of how not to make a horror film."
Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM

"Lock your doors. Bolt your windows. And for heaven's sake, stay away from the multiplex."
Lisa Rose, NEWARK STAR-LEDGER


***Dutch Version***
21/10/2005: Slimme producers redden The Fog van de ondergang

Let's test this baby

Hi there,

My name is Dave and I am a young filmmaker from Belgium who has started a quite popular Dutch FilmBlog "Boy Meets Girl" a.k.a. "De Ultieme FilmBlog". You might of heard of it.

Since I wrote everything in Dutch, I was thinking to make another version of the filmblog in English. But I am still testing this blogspot system. What do you think about it? Have you heard or seen my previous blog (http://boy-meets-girl.skynetblogs.be) ?

A week ago I saw a list on Cinematical, from some influential directors who made up a top 10 list of their greatest films. Of course, those lists change from time to time. I remember Quentin Tarantino giving up films like: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Chungking Express, Iron Monkey, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Switchblade Sisters. But of course, this depend for which magazine you are writing the article.

I am still young, and I was not yet born while those directors were making movies, but I ended the list with my personal top 10 list. I am curious to know yours. Please tell me. If I have any reaction, I would consider to write more filmrelated news on this system. There is however one thing that already bugs me. There is no undo-button, and the lay-out possibilities are limited. Anyway, enjoy the list and post some comments.

Cheers,

Dave

Filmmakers choose their Favorite Films

STEVEN SPIELBERG
1. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
2. Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. It's A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. A Guy Named Joe (Fleming, 1947)
7. War of the Worlds (Haskin & Pal, 1953)
8. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
9. Day For Night (Truffaut, 1973)
10. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

QUENTIN TARANTINO
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
2. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
4. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1939)
5. Rolling Thunder (Flynn, 1977)
6. They All Laughed (Bogdanovich, 1981)
7. The Great Escape (J Sturges, 1963)
8. Carrie (De Palma, 1976)
9. Coffy (Hill, 1973)
10. Five Fingers of Death (Chang, 1973)

TIM ROBBINS
1. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
2. The Clowns (Fellini, 1971)
3. Don't Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)
4. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa, 1957)
5. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Altman, 1971)
6. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
7. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
8. Network (Lumet, 1976)
9. Underground (Kusturica, 1995)
10. Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996)

PAUL VERHOEVEN
1. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
2. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Eisenstein, 1958)
3. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
4. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951)
5. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
6. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)
7. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
8. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
9. Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)
10. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)

TERRY GILLIAM
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
2. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
3. Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. Sherlock Jr (Keaton, 1924)
7. Pinocchio (Luske & Sharpsteen, 1940)
8. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)
9. One-Eyed Jacks (Brando, 1961)
10. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
1. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
2. Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi, 1954)
3. Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini, 1947)
4. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)
5. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
6. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
7. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
8. Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
9. Accattone (Pasolini, 1961)
10. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

JOHN BOORMAN
1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
2. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)
3. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1977)
5. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
7. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
8. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
9. La Roue (Gance, 1923)
10. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)

JIM JARMUSCH
1. L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
2. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
3. They Live by Night (N Ray, 1949)
4. Bob le flambeur (Melville, 1955)
5. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
6. The Cameraman (Sedgwick, 1928)
7. Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)
8. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
9. Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919)
10. Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)

MILOS FORMAN
1. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
2. American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
5. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
6. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)
7. Giant (Stevens, 1956)
8. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
9. Miracle in Milan (De Sica, 1951)
10. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

CAMERON CROWE
1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
2. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
3. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
4. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
5. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
7. Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971)
8. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
9. Quadrophenia (Roddam, 1979)
10. Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)

SAM MENDES
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
3. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
4. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
5. The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger, 1948)
6. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
8. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
9. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

MIKE NEWELL
1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
2. Bad Day at Black Rock (J Sturges, 1955)
3. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
4. La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)
6. Lacombe Lucien (Malle, 1974)
7. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)
8. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
9. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
10. War and Peace (Vidor, 1956)

MICHAEL MANN
1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
2. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
5. Faust (Murnau, 1926)
6. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
7. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
9. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
10. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

KEN LOACH
1. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)
2. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
3. A Blonde in Love (Forman, 1965)
4. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
5. Closely Observed Trains (Menzel, 1966)
6. Fireman's Ball (Forman, 1967)
7. Jules et Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
8. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
9. The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Olmi, 1978)
10. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)

SIDNEY LUMET
1. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
3. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
4. The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940)
5. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916)
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
7. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
8. Roma (Fellini, 1972)
9. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1952)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

THE ULTIMATE FILMBLOG (DAVE)
1. The Godfather part II (Coppola, 1974)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
3. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
4. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
5. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
6. Heat (Mann, 1995)
7. Blood Simple (Coen, 1984)
8. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
9. Les 400 Coups (Truffaut, 1959)
10. Alien (Scott, 1979)