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Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs Address Good and Wax Philosophical about the Nazis

Brad Balfour | Posted 01.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fascism, Actors, Jason Isaacs, Viggo Mortensen, Nazi Era, Harry Potter, Film, CP Taylor, Good, Germany, Vicente Amorim, Adolf Hitler, Jewish, British Play, Movies, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Viggo Mortensen: There was this... little Hungarian kid about five years old, playing with the little swastika flag on our first day of shooting. [He was] sticking it in the sand castle, really having fun with it.

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Good the Movie is Only Somewhat So: Another Nazi Film About a Flawed Relationship

Michael Russnow | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nazi Germany, Boy in Striped Pajamas, Kate Winslet, Jason Isaacs, Anastasia Hille, Russnow, Jodie Whittaker, Ram Productions International, The Reader, Movies, Defiance, Good, JOhn Wrathall, Valkyrie, Gemma Jones, Viggo Mortensen, Vicente Amorim, Michael Russnow, Tom Cruise, C. P. Taylor, Daniel Craig, James Bond, Krystalnacht, Reichstag, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Good hasn't a prayer of making any money but if you don't care about only seeing what's in vogue you won't go away feeling unmoved.

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Review: Good -- Reflecting the Bush years

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.30.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Holocaust, Viggo Mortensen, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Good Movie Review, Bush Administration, Historical Movie, Nazi Movies, Historical Fiction, Moral Relativism, C.P. Taylor, In a Minute, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

"Hitler's a joke," Viggo Mortensen tells a friend in the new film, Good. "He won't last." Gee -- didn't they say that about George W. Bush? I've bee...

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Nazi Themes Dominate In Six Holiday Movies

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 12.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Kate Winslet, Award Season, Viggo Mortensen, Defiance, Good, Jeff Goldblum, The Reader, Tom Cruise, Film, Valkyrie, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — 'Tis the season to gather, be grateful for what we have and share what we can. But for cinephiles, it's awards season, and that me...

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Vast Leftwing Conspiracy as An American Carol Goes To The Dogs?

Lisa Derrick | Posted 10.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Leftwing Conspiracy, Brad Pitt, Richard Gere, Viggo Mortensen, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, An American Carol, New Movies, Entertainment News
Lisa Derrick

The cinematic geniuses who brought you An American Carol are convinced that a Vast Leftwing Conspiracy is behind the not-so-hot box office debut of their conservative yuk fest.

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Silencing Journalism

Sandra Fu | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Murder, Anna Politskovaya, Journalists, Russian Journalists, Viggo Mortensen, The Silencing, American Journalism, Alix Lambert, Moscow, Journalism, Edward R. Murrow, Media News
Sandra Fu

Why are most of our journalists less like Edward R. Murrow and more like show ponies? What they really need to do is consider the journalists in other parts of the world where more than a salary is at stake -- they pay with their lives.

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Who Should Win the Oscars -- The Major Categories

Alex Remington | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Hal Holbrook, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country for Old Men, The Oscars, Tilda Swinton, Ruby Dee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sweeney Todd, Juno, The Coen Brothers, Cate Blanchett, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Viggo Mortensen, American Gangster, Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tony Gilroy, Johnny Depp, In the Valley of Elah, Amy Ryan, I'm Not There, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, The Academy Awards, Away From Her, Laura Linney, Casey Affleck, Tom Wilkinson, The Savages, Atonement, George Clooney, Gone Baby Gone, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Tommy Lee Jones, Movie Reviews, Julie Christie, Into the Wild, Javier Bardem, Jason Reitman, Charlie Wilson's War, Julian Schnabel, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Eastern Promises, La Vie en Rose, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

This is it, guys. Here are my selections for who should win the Oscars for the big 6 catetgories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Bes...

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Oscar Nominees Lunch: Hopeful The Show Will Go On

AP | David Germain | Posted 02.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sarah Polley, The Academy Awards, Julie Christie, Viggo Mortensen, Ellen Page, Casey Affleck, Jason Reitman, Julian Schnabel, George Clooney, Oscars, Amy Ryan, Oscar Nominees, Entertainment News

Optimism was in the air among Academy Awards nominees -- both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike wil...

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Fundrace: What Celebrities Gave Candidates In 2007

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 02.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Viggo Mortensen, Jennifer Garner, Dave Matthews, Bradley Whitford, Hillary Clinton, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Fundrace, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Entertainment News

New campaign numbers are out, and available in a variety of search functions and mapping tools on Huffington Post's Fundrace. Now donations in the 4th...

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A Mash Note from the Toronto Film Festival: Alas, Poor Viggo

Thelma Adams | Posted 09.12.2007 | Entertainment

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Thelma Adams

I just saw Viggo's sinewy, naked Russian mobster Nikolai in David Cronenberg's brilliant Eastern Promises. My first reaction was to tear off my clothes and rush the screen. Wouldn't that have startled Ebert!

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How Male Nudity Has Gone Mainstream In Movies, Theater And On TV

New York Observer | Sarah Vilkomerson | Posted 09.12.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Lust, Ang Lee, Jane Alexander, Tang Wei, Caution, Daniel Radcliffe, Viggo Mortensen, Tell Me You Love Me, Emile Hirsch, Equus, Sean Penn, Entertainment News

In one of the many (many) startling scenes in the new HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me, which debuted Sunday night, a young, attractive married couple si...

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Viggo Mortensen's New Role: "I Have To Play This Naked"

LA Times | Gina Piccalo | Posted 09.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Viggo Mortensen Naked, Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, Entertainment News

As Viggo Mortensen and director David Cronenberg plotted the unforgettable bathhouse knife fight in their new crime thriller, "Eastern Promises," Cron...

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