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The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective. We're reminded of Altman's recent interest in setting films against the backdrop of dramatic weather events during one particular ballet (we recall that a hurricane is approaching all throughout the course of The Gingerbread Man ; Dr. Interspersed with the film's chronicling of one season in the life of The Joffrey Ballet is the story of the romance between a dancer in the company, Ry (Neve Campbell), and a young chef named Josh (James Franco). Earlier in the film, there's another silent (except for the music) scene to go in the Altman pantheon: the director cuts between Ry coming home to her tiny apartment, unwinding and relaxing, with a fellow Joffrey dancer, Alec (Davis Robertson) rehearsing in the studio. www.thefilmjournal.com /issue9/thecompany.html

The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective. We're reminded of Altman's recent interest in setting films against the backdrop of dramatic weather events during one particular ballet (we recall that a hurricane is approaching all throughout the course of The Gingerbread Man; Dr. Interspersed with the film's chronicling of one season in the life of The Joffrey Ballet is the story of the romance between a dancer in the company, Ry (Neve Campbell), and a young chef named Josh (James Franco). Earlier in the film, there's another silent (except for the music) scene to go in the Altman pantheon: the director cuts between Ry coming home to her tiny apartment, unwinding and relaxing, with a fellow Joffrey dancer, Alec (Davis Robertson) rehearsing in the studio. www.thefilmjournal.com /issue9/thecompany.html

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Robert Downey Jr. @ Filmbug UK In 1997, Downey was seen in Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, starring with Kenneth Branagh, Daryl Hannah and Embeth Davitz; Hugo Pool, directed by his father Robert Downey Sr., starring Sean Penn and Patrick Dempsey; and in New Line Cinemaís One Night Stand, directed by Mike Figgis and starring Wesley Snipes and Nastassja Kinski. In October 2003 Downey will star in the ICON film The Singing Detective, a musical drama remake of the popular BBC hit, which also stars Mel Gibson and Robin Wright-Penn. In addition, he will star with Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz in the Warner Bros. film Gothika. In January of 1999, he starred with Annette Bening and Aidan Quinn in the Dreamworks SKG film, In Dreams, directed by Neil Jordan, playing the villain. www.filmbug.co.uk /db/2927   (662 words)

Internet Archive: Details: Noveltoon: Tarts and Flowers Little Audrey makes a gingerbread man, then takes a nap and dreams that the Gingerbread Man goes to cakeland where he tries to marry his sweetheart, Angel Cake. The baking iconography which permeates the film is amusing, and the story is clever. Audrey helps Angel get all dolled up for the wedding, then watches as she strolls down the aisle, meets her beau and then is abducted and carried away by the evil Devilfood. www.archive.org /details/noveltoon_tarts_and_flowers   (466 words)

JoBlo's movie review of Shrek 2: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz I also liked seeing the old crew back in action, especially Eddie Murphy's Donkey, which is pretty much the only thing Murphy seems to have done right in the past few years, as well as the cute side-kicks a la Pinocchio and the Gingerbread Man, who all make valiant "cameo" appearances nearing the film's conclusion. A creepier, darker side of the film also helped keep things fresh, including a nice rendition of an evil Fairy Godmother, as well as a run-down drinking hole featuring Captain Hook drunkenly playing the piano for such notables as the headless horseman and others (I don't want to give too much away). The new addition that really took this film to another level though was the introduction of its latest star, Puss 'n Boots, voiced brilliantly by Antonio Banderas, and featuring one of the more unforgettable animated character "sad faces" of all-time. www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_movies&id=872   (466 words)

Shrek 2 The episode of "Knights" is seen by Pinocchio, Gingerbread Man and the Three Little Pigs on television (the magic mirror) as they house-sit Shrek's swamp abode. ``Shrek 2,'' expected for a 2004 release, is being co-written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, the same team behind the original ``Shrek'' and the 1992 hit Disney-animated film ''Aladdin.'' Voice work for the original film reportedly took four years to record, with several stops and starts. Deciding to rescue Shrek and Donkey, the film moves into high gear as the Fairytale group resort to a ridiculously entertaining way to save them and storm the castle. www.ez-entertainment.net /prod/shrek2.htm   (2076 words)

A Brief History of Ken While in Savannah, Branagh arranged for a special showing of Hamlet for the cast and crew of The Gingerbread Man since none of the cinemas in town could be bothered to show the film. Branagh was nominated for an Academy Award(®) for Best Director, as well as for Best Actor In A Leading Role, and the film was also nominated in the category of Costume Design, winning that Oscar(®) for Costume Designer Phyllis Dalton. Emma Thompson is an acclaimed actress in her own right, and not only has she starred with Kenneth Branagh in a number of films (some directed by him, others not), she was nominated for and won an Academy Award(®) for her screen adaptation of Jane Austin's Sense And Sensibility. www.kenneth-branagh.com   (1923 words)

Apple - Games - Shrek 2 Later you play as Puss in Boots, hired by the king to off Shrek when Fairy Godmother reminds him that he had agreed to marry Fiona to Prince Charming, and as Giant Gingerbread Man, a variation on the same character from the first film. Like the film, the game opens with Shrek and his wife, Fiona, getting ready to go see her parents, who don’t know that she’s really an ogre, as revealed in the first movie. Yes, Far, Far Away just happens to be the setting of Aspyr Media’s Shrek 2, based on the wildly popular animated movie. www.apple.com /games/articles/2004/06/shrek2   (919 words)

slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Surviving Christmas urviving Christmas rings in the yuletide yucks with an opening montage of miserable people beset by the anti-holiday spirit, including a man who throws a poorly wrapped present out the window and an old granny who puts her head, instead of dour-looking gingerbread man cookies, into the oven. However, what's really off-putting is how the film chastises Drew (during the requisite third-act crisis) for mistakenly thinking he can purchase the past, yet allows the whorish Valco clan to have its Christmas cake and eat it too by accepting Drew as a surrogate member of the family while still keeping his money. Gags about incest, Sonny Bono's fatal skiing accident, and Drew's freakishly long, ahem, "candy cane" are emblematic of the film's unimaginative sense of humor. www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1308   (295 words)

BBC NEWS Entertainment UK's indie film festival to open The Gingerbread Man features a man who tracks down his daughter's abductor via the internet, while French actors Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteil star as battling policemen in drama 36 Quai des Orfevres. Other films include Buy It Now, which follows a 16-year-old's attempt to sell her virginity on internet site eBay. Past Oscar nominee Night Watch is based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukanenko. news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/entertainment/4289260.stm   (302 words)

The DVD Journal: Shrek Rescue the Princess is an easy adventure game, Character Morph lets you create your own silly versions of the movies characters (put Farquaad's head on Donkey's shoulders and Fiona's legs, for example), and Dress Up the Gingerbread Man features the cute cookie tarted up like a farmer, a sailor, a dog, and more. The list includes Shrek's ReVoice Studio (dub your own voice over the characters'), Learn to Draw Shrek, Gingerbread Hangman, Soup Slam, Fairy Tale Lanes (bowling game), Bugs and Slugs, Charming Dragon, Coloring Pages, Color a Scene, Ogre Masks, Pin the Tail on Donkey, Fire Donkey, and Shrek Pinball. The trivia game in particular seems to be just an excuse to show clips from the movie — each answer, right or wrong, leads to a relevant snippet from the film. www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/shrek.shtml   (1650 words)

Famke Janssen And indeed Janssen received more chances--in films large and small, a couple in the latter category with such luminaries as Robert Altman and Woody Allen, who cast her in The Gingerbread Man and Celebrity, respectively. But what he and Janssen certainly have a lot to say about is Love & Sex, an experience that she more favorably compares to the ones she's had as an X-Man and a 007 nemesis. Movies don't usually get much more fanciful than Janssen's other film this summer, the comic book-based sci-fi extravaganza (er, x-travaganza) X-Men. www.shagpro.com /mrbrown/famke.html   (1562 words)

The Dukes of Hazzard - HazzardNet.com - Sonny Shroyer Sonny has also appeared in many movies including playing Coach Bear Bryant in the feature film Forrest Gump and in two John Grisham films, The Rainmaker and The Gingerbread Man. Sonny has two sons named Mark and Christopher who own the Sinfully Good Candy Company. The Dukes of Hazzard- HazzardNet.com - Sonny Shroyer Sonny enrolled in an acting class (the instructor was future Sheriff of Hazzard County, James Best) and together he and James worked in the Burt Reynolds movie Gator. www.hazzardnet.com /printfriendly.php/18   (160 words)

Conrad Vernon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia After Antz proved a success as the first animated feature film to be produced by DreamWorks, Vernon signed on as a writer for Shrek, where he was responsible for the Gingerbread Man, and eventually lent his vocal talents to that character, and served as a sort of utility player during production of the movie. He also provided vocal talents to Shrek 4-D and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Conrad Vernon, born 1974, is an American director, writer, and voice actor, probably best known for his work on Shrek and Shrek 2. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conrad_Vernon   (200 words)

IGN: Shrek 2 Review Shrek suffered from the same gaping pit that traps so many movie-to-game licenses -- it was rushed to coincide with the movie, without any thought to content or playability. Shrek 2 loosely follows the plot of the film. You ride around on a giant gingerbread man. This entails kicking knights and throwing trolleys at bridges whilst avoiding milk bombs. pc.ign.com /articles/521/521590p1.html   (1217 words)

Conrad Vernon @ Filmbug UK Conrad Vernon makes his directorial debut with Shrek 2, in which he also reprises the role of the popular Gingerbread Man. He first did the voice of Gingy in Shrek, on which he also served as a storyboard artist and additional dialogue writer. In 1994, Vernon went to Film Roman where he was a storyboard artist on the popular animated television comedy The Simpsons. Vernon joined DreamWorks in 1996, and worked as a storyboard artist on PDI/DreamWorks' first computer-animated feature, Antz, as well as the traditionally animated comedy The Road to El Dorado. www.filmbug.co.uk /db/344074   (1217 words)

Conrad Vernon - free-definition After Antz proved a success as the first animated feature film to be produced by DreamWorks, Vernon signed on as a writer for Shrek, where he was responsible for the Gingerbread Man, and eventually lent his vocal talents to that character, and served as a sort of utility player during production of the movie. Conrad Vernon, born 1974, is an American director, writer, and voice actor, probably best known for his work on Shrek and Shrek 2. Vernon started his career as a storyboard artist on Rocko's Modern Life, after being hired by the animation department by Cal Arts in Valencia, California. www.free-definition.com /Conrad-Vernon.html   (1217 words)

60 Minute Man - Travel - Joe Nick Patoski Twenty-eight miles south of Dealey Plaza is about the most perfect small town in Texas, an opinion shared by dozens of film crews that have used Waxahachie, its gingerbread homes and the surrounding countryside as stage sets. Surrounded by a wide-open landscape of rolling hills that sprawl west all the way to the foothills of the Rockies, the town was settled by German immigrants in 1889. Muenster, a small, close-knit community of 1,500, is 73 miles from Dallas and Fort Worth on U.S. Highway 82, just south of the Oklahoma line, and it plays to the stereotype. www.joenickp.com /travel/sixtyminuteman.html   (1924 words)

U2 NEWS SERVICE - YouTwo.net : Insider's view on U2/Polygram troubles There was a movie that was being made called The Gingerbread Man in whichIsland Films was releaseing in association with Polygram Filmed Entertainment.Robert Altman was the director and the movie was doing fine in the productionstages and everything seeemed fine. The movie was released and was released as the cut thatAltman had wanted but the film did SO poorly in the theatres because therewasnt much backing on it and because of well..Polygram Filmed Ent...takingtheir sweetass time argueing over the final cut. Polygram Filmed Ent said then he will have to take his nameoff of it. www.u2world.com /news/article.php3?id_article=797   (1924 words)

Amazon.com: The Directors - Robert Altman: DVD: Lionel Jospin Fortunately, Altman is a lively interviewee who isn't afraid to name names when describing the botched release of The Gingerbread Man, and he's equally animated when discussing how studio mogul Jack Warner nearly sabotaged Altman's career by seizing control of Altman's early film Marooned. Granted, Altman has produced a goodly number of films in his day and to give all of them due coverage would not be practical for a DVD aiming to span his entire career. Even then, Altman was beginning to experiment with unconventional uses of dialogue mixing and visual style; we can be grateful that he continued to cut a unique path to filmmaking greatness. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004TJR6?v=glance   (1081 words)

Altman's "Gingerbread" Makes Cut - Sep 10, 1997 - E! Online News About a month ago, Altman announced he would petition the Directors Guild to erase his name from Gingerbread if PolyGram Pictures insisted on releasing a recut version of the movie. After a series of disappointing test screenings, PolyGram brought in editor Don Cambern to recut the film which had been edited by Geraldine Peroni, Oscar-nominated for her work on Altman's The Player. Altman seemed to be lining up potential allies to wage a publicity war with PolyGram in case the studio did go ahead with the recut version. movies.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,1746,00.html   (1081 words)

Amazon.ca: DVD: Gingerbread Man It's a totally absorbing movie made in the modern film-noir tradition; what's most interesting here (and most underrated by critics at the time) is the combination of Grisham's mainstream mystery and the offbeat style of maverick director Robert Altman. Sporting a spot-on Georgian accent, Kenneth Branagh plays a Savannah attorney who comes to the assistance of a troubled woman (Embeth Davidtz) and finds himself enmeshed in a scenario involving the woman's father (Robert Duvall) that grows increasingly complex and dangerous, where nothing, of course, is really as it seems. Rather, it's based on an original screenplay by Grisham that displays the author's familiar flair for Southern characters and settings within a labyrinthine plot propelled by his trademark narrative twists and turns. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/630511286X   (1102 words)

A Brief History of Ken While in Savannah, Branagh arranged for a special showing of Hamlet for the cast and crew of The Gingerbread Man since none of the cinemas in town could be bothered to show the film. Emma Thompson is an acclaimed actress in her own right, and not only has she starred with Kenneth Branagh in a number of films (some directed by him, others not), she was nominated for and won an Academy Award (®) for her screen adaptation of Jane Austin's Sense And Sensibility. She has recently won critical kudos and positive box-office numbers for some more 'up-to-date' roles in movies like Wings of The Dove and The Theory of Flight in which she stars (as a paraplegic looking to be deflowered before she dies) opposite Kenneth Branagh. www.kenneth-branagh.com   (1102 words)

Area 51 - Skateboard Videos and DVDs The skateboarders and filmmakers are featured as, and along side of: a Gingerbread Man, a Cowboy, a fleet of Camaros, A Life-Sized Magical Doll, a Canadian parade, Cupcake Espionage, Tiffanyland animation, special effects, synchronized dance, a Little Professor, and MUCH MORE. The Reality of Bob Burnquist is a film which captures the true essence of skateboarding through the eyes and mind of Bob Burnquist, world famous, multiple X-Games medal winner, and owner of some of the most devious feats in skatgeboarding history. Villa Villa Cola has sought out these skateboards from all over the world and is now proud to bring you the first ever female skateboarding video made by female skateboards themselves. www.a51.ca /videos.html   (1633 words)

Robert Duvall --  Encyclopædia Britannica Critique of the film The Gingerbread Man directed by Robert Altman, written by John Grisham and Al Hayes, and featuring Kenneth Branagh and Robert Duvall. From Hollywood, big-budget box-office winners of the year included Steven Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park, with magical special-effects creations of prehistoric animals but a banal script and two-dimensional human characters; Barry Sonnenfeld's cool and witty science fantasy Men in Black, about sombre-suited agents battling extraterrestrials; Wolfgang Petersen's... Robert Duvall had a talent for seamlessly assuming the personalities of his characters. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9106373&query=oscars&ct=   (682 words)

Robert Duvall The Gingerbread Man - Director: Robert Altman Writers: Al Hayes and John Grisham Director of Photography: Gu Chang-wei... Robert Duvall: the consummate character actor takes a giant step up to stardom with his first Oscar-winning performance. Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival; First tango; At 72, Robert Duvall is still capable of some fancy footwork. www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0746250.html   (280 words)

Robert Downey Jr goes Pop Downey's film credits include The Singing Detective, Wonder Boys, Bowfinger, U.S. Marshals, The Gingerbread Man, One Night Stand, Restoration, Richard III, Natural Born Killers, Short Cuts, Less Than Zero and The Pickup Artist. Downey has written the songs, sings vocals and plays piano. Actor Robert Downey Jr has signed a record deal with Sony Classical and will release his debut album later this year. www.undercover.com.au /news/2004/sept04/20040923_robertdowneyjr.html   (234 words)

Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Shrek 2 Even though the first contained some unbeatably funny moments, such as the torture of the gingerbread man or the unexpected love between donkey and the dragon, this one manages to keep it up. I appreciated the donkey's more truthful and vain self when he was a magnificent white stallion, he didn't really want to be returned to his ordinary donkey self. There were a few laughs with Donkey and Puss, but Shrek and Fiona were the ultimate bores. www.hour.ca /redirect.aspx?iIDCritique=2002   (5901 words)

FILM REVIEW HHH: ‘Shrek,’ for All Ages -- The Greatest Fairy Tale Ever Told Lord Farquaad enjoys torturing the Gingerbread Man by dunking him in milk. In exchange, Lord Farquaad will return peace to Shrek& swamp, where noisy fairy tale characters have been “relocated.” Of course, every animated fairy tale has a sidekick, and Shrek unwillingly brings along a talking donkey (featuring the voice of Eddie Murphy). The tale begins when the evil Lord Farquaad (demonically and comically played by John Lithgow) sends the ogre Shrek (whose Scottish brogue comes from Mike Myers) to save Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from, of course, a remote castle guarded by a fiery dragon. www-tech.mit.edu /V121/N26/Shrek_-_Annie.26a.html   (811 words)

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