Viggo Mortensen

"Great Man" Theory? History Is Driven by the Little Guy

Viggo Mortensen | Posted 12.11.2009 | Entertainment

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Viggo Mortensen

When looked at from below, rather than from the "great man" perspective, history shows that whenever change has happened, it has been through protest, dissent, and defiance from ordinary people who are struggling.

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On Making The Road

John Hillcoat | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Road, John Hillcoat, The Road Movie Review, The Road Movie, Viggo Mortensen, Entertainment News
John Hillcoat

The Road is the most poignant love story between a father and son that I know of, so I wanted, above all, to respect the book, to be authentic and not 'Hollywoodize' it, to use great restraint and focus upon its core qualities.

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Movie review: The Road will rivet you

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

I worry about the fate of The Road, John Hillcoat's film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer-winning novel. It's a moving and u...

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Viggo Mortensen Hits The Road

Jenna Busch | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

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Jenna Busch

For Viggo Mortensen, the star of the new movie, The Road, the worst part of the demanding role was his fingernails. No mater how much he bathed, he couldn't get them clean.

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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Day 4

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Road, Ricky Gervais, Viggo Mortensen, The Invention of Lying, Toronto Film Festival, Cormac McCarthy, Marshall Fine Blog, Applause, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Sunday in Toronto saw three films back to back that offered powerful, sometimes disturbing ruminations on the idea of family.

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The (Looonnng and Winding) Road Out of Telluride

Michael Bialas | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Viggo Mortensen, Movie, Film Festival, Venice, Colorado, Charlize Theron, Cormac McCarthy, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Telluride Film Festival, Entertainment News
Michael Bialas

The unemployment rate and health care issues getting you down? Try living in a post-apocalyptic world, where bad taste (as in cannibalism) is prevalent and fuel and more wholesome foods are not.

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Telluride Report: Nic Cage Gets Wack with Crack in Bad Lieutenant; Viggo Hits The Road; Clooney's Comically Existential Up in the Air

Chris Willman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

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Chris Willman

Before we decamp from the Colorado mountains, here's a brief look at some of the 36th annual confab's more notable or notorious entries.

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Viggo Mortensen: Love Or Lose His Bob Haircut? (PHOTO, POLL)

Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

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Viggo Mortensen is at the Venice Film Festival to premiere his long-awaited cinematic version of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" Thursday night. Thur...

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

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.13.2009 | 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 02.07.2009 | Entertainment

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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 01.30.2009 | Entertainment

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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 01.24.2009 | Entertainment

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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 11.08.2008 | Entertainment

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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 06.20.2008 | 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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Oscar Nominees Lunch: Hopeful The Show Will Go On

AP | David Germain | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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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 03.28.2008 | 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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How Male Nudity Has Gone Mainstream In Movies, Theater And On TV

New York Observer | Sarah Vilkomerson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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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 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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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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