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‘Tron Legacy’ Actor Garrett Hedlund In Talks To Star In Walter Salles’ ‘On The Road’

Edward Davis — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:40:00 +0000

Here’s a project we thought we’d never hear about again — the long-gestating adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 beat generation novel, “On The Road” about a cross-country bohemian odyssey.

The novel has been stuck in development for almost three decades. Francis Ford Coppola optioned the book back in the 1970s, but in August, 2005, the filmmaker — along with Focus Features and Coppola’s American Zoetrope who were co-developing the project — hired “The Motorcycle Diaries” director Walter Salles and screenwriter José Rivera to helm and adapt the novel (btw, Focus tell us they are now no longer involved).

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The Playlist: The Best Soundtracks Of The Decade

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Yes, here at the Playlist it’s been an exhausting month. Anticipating the end of the aughts we’ve done the Best Films of the Decade (00-08), the Best Documentaries, Music Documentaries, and Best Animated films. Today we finally have our fairly comprehensive Best Soundtracks of the Decade (and Best Scores comes tomorrow).

As you can imagine, these lists could go on and on and on (and in a way they already do) and some of the rough lists we made are dizzying long.

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Walter Salles Returns With ‘Motorcycle Diaries’ Scribe For ‘American Rust’

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:38:00 +0000

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles is finally returning after a lost in the wilderness period.

His 1998 film “Central Station” was so fantastic it earned not only an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film, but also a Best Actress nod for its female protagonist Fernanda Montenegro (run don’t walk if you’ve never seen this film). Then in 2004, he delivered what we humbly submit as one our favorite films of the decade in “The Motorcycle Diaries,” with Gael García Bernal portraying a young Che Guevara far before his time as a Cuban revolutionary — the picture is a luminous portrait of a thoughtful soul waking up to the consciousness of the planet and the suffering of humanity.

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Four For Friday: All The Real Girls, Motorcycle Diaries, Masked & Anonymous, Laurel Canyon

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:55:00 +0000

Another Friday, another very-infrequent installment of “Four For Friday”: we pick four random soundtracks and four not-so-random songs we happen to love from said disc.

Today we pick, David Gordon Green’s “All The Real Girls,” Walter Salles’ “The Motorcycle Diaries,” “Laurel Canyon” and the ill-fated Dylan-penned/Larry Charles directed (‘Borat’) film, “Masked & Anonymous.”

We’ve blogged about “All The Real Girls,” and its excellent soundtrack many times, it’s one of our ’00 faves.

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