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  Tim Blake Nelson @ Filmbug
Nelson wrote and directed the film Eye of God, starring Martha Plimpton, Hal Holbrook and Kevin Anderson, which appeared at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States later that year.
Nelson's other credits include Oedipus, with Frances McDormand and Billy Crudup, Troilus and Cressida, Les Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Mac Wellman's Dracula, The Amazon's Voice, An Imaginary Life, The Baltimore Waltz, Mad Forest, The Innocents' Crusade, Richard III and Twelfth Night.
Nelson was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
www.filmbug.com /db/315510   (412 words)

  
 Long wait is finally over for Tim Blake Nelson's 'O'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
I met with Nelson during the world premiere of "O" in May. We were at the Rosebud Cafe while a block away, at the Egyptian Theatre, the movie played to a sold-out Seattle International Film Festival screening.
Nelson read it while acting in Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" and was offered a chance to direct based on "Eye of God," his directorial debut.
Nelson, however, is currently focused on "O," and he came to life when the conversation returned to the film itself.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/37285_nelson01.shtml   (1437 words)

  
 Tim Blake Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tim Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American character actor and film director.
Nelson steals the show from the other cast members in the film "Hoot" (including Luke Wilson and Robert Wagner).
Seldom metioned is Nelson's excellent performance in the television mini-series "Dead Man's Walk", the pre-quel to Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tim_Blake_Nelson   (308 words)

  
 Tim Blake Nelson
Multi-talented actor, writer, director Tim Blake Nelson has excelled both on and off camera.
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nelson graduated from Brown University and then from the Juilliard Theatre Center.
Nelson wrote and directed the film Eye of God (1997) starring Martha Plimpton, Hal Holbrook and Kevin Anderson, which appeared at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States later that year.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3440   (272 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - 'Othello'-inspired 'O'
turns war into basketball
In "O," Nelson and Kaaya put hip-hop slang into the mouths of its main characters to echo the rhetorical flavor of "Othello." Further, they suggest that Odin's street-cred brand of basketball is so universally appealing at Palmetto Grove that it's become a way of life.
Nelson and Kaaya use basketball symbolically, and to introduce the volatility that eventually underwrites Hugo's betrayal of O and O's murder of Desi.
For Nelson, this is what makes high school, and high school sports, such an appealing context for the story of "Othello." "(It) combines the acute and unwieldy passion of childhood with the … ability to act that comes with adulthood," he said in the Times.
espn.go.com /page2/s/neel/010907.html   (1761 words)

  
 Shakespeare after Columbine: Teen Violence in Tim Blake Nelson's "O" College Literature - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Nelson acknowledged the influence of such news coverage on this particular sequence of shots, admitting that "it was these [high school] shootings that interested me in making this film" (2002).
I argue that Nelson deliberately constructs his film as a surrogate for the high school literature classroom where, ideally, the skill of critical reading is first inculcated in our youth.
On the surface, at least, Nelson begins to look more like a parody of Matthew Arnold than an appropriator of William Shakespeare, suggesting rather naively that great literature is the most effective antidote to mass violence.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200510/ai_n15739718   (595 words)

  
 AboutFilm.com - The Grey Zone (2001)
Nelson seems to have included it to contrast the choices made by the women and the Sonderkommandos.
Nelson insists that he won't bring a work to the screen until he is sure it can be a movie and not a play, yet with its stagy conversational rhythms, The Grey Zone fails to shed its theatrical origins.
Nelson uses accents only to denote when Germans are speaking, to contrast with the Hungarian spoken by the Sonderkommandos.
www.aboutfilm.com /movies/g/greyzone.htm   (1110 words)

  
 News from Northeastern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Nelson, who starred with George Clooney in "O Brother Where Art Thou," and with Jennifer Anniston in "The Good Girl," will answer questions from the audience in the last 45 minutes.
Tim Blake Nelson is a graduate of Brown University and the Julliard Theater Center.
As an actor, Nelson recently co-starred in “The Good Girl” opposite Jennifer Aniston, in Steven Spielberg's “Minority Report,”; and the Coen Brother's acclaimed hit “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” with George Clooney and John Turturro.
www.northeastern.edu /newpr/5-03/timblakenelson.html   (364 words)

  
 Cherish | TIM BLAKE NELSON: Deputy Bill Daly
Tim Blake Nelson is an accomplished actor, filmmaker and playwright.
Nelson's most recent film, The Grey Zone, which he wrote and directed, stars Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino, David Arquette, Allan Corduner and Natasha Lyonne.
Nelson's debut as a filmmaker was the drama Eye of God, which he also wrote.
www.cherishthemovie.com /cast_nelson.html   (415 words)

  
 Tim Blake Nelson - CinemaReview.com....Cast/Crew
Nelson is also a mainstay on the independent film circuit, where, in addition to The Good Girl, he has co-starred in such projects as Finn Taylor’s charming comedy, Cherish (alongside Robin Tunney) and Mark Mylod’s upcoming comedy-drama, The Big White (with Robin Williams).
Nelson has also established himself as an accomplished filmmaker, commencing his career behind the camera with his 1997 feature, Eye of God, a somber drama based on his own play (which he adapted for the screen) starring Martha Plimpton, Hal Holbrook and Kevin Anderson.
In addition to his writings for the theatre, Nelson has also appeared on the New York stage in such plays as “Innocent's Crusade” and “Mad Forest” at the Manhattan Theatre Club, “An Imaginary Life” at Playwrights Horizons, and “Troilus and Cressida” at Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre.
www.cinemareview.com /castcrew.asp?id=2188   (462 words)

  
 BAM: Q&A: Tim Blake Nelson, Arts and Culture, March/April 2001
Tim Blake Nelson '86 stars alongside George Clooney and John Turturro in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Joel and Ethan Coen's award-winning adaptation of Homer's Odyssey set in the Depression-era South.
Nelson Well, Joel started his film six weeks after I had wrapped principal photography on O. So what ended up happening was that Joel housed me, my editor, and all my equipment on location in Mississippi, where he was shooting.
Nelson Well, I was a Latinist at Brown, more of an ancient-Rome classicist than someone who studied Greek.
www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=61   (717 words)

  
 Shades of Grey: Tim Blake Nelson talks about transferring The Grey Zone from stage to screen. Feature on ...
Before the round-tables begin, Nelson talks one on one with TheaterMania, explaining both the moral and personal reasons he felt compelled to create The Grey Zone for the stage and then to re-create it for the screen.
[Nelson's title comes from that essay.] Conditions in the camps...brought out shameful qualities in men, the most benign of which were mistrust, greed, xenophobia, and self-hatred.
Tim's story asks questions about our humanity that must be explored for the sake of our children." Nelson nods, saying, "I had to find a way to match Primo Levi's courage in finding nuance and shading in an event where neither is supposed to exist.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/2674   (1407 words)

  
 Fametracker :: Hey! It's That Guy! :: Tim Blake Nelson
In part, this confusion might arise thanks to the plague of tri-named actors: you've got your David Hyde Pierce, your David Ogden Stiers, your Charles Nelson Reilly, your Anthony Michael Hall, and, of course, the Phil(l)ips: Baker Hall and Seymour Hoffman.
Then you've got this other fella named Tim Blake Nelson, who looks like he can't tie his own boots or sign his own name, exceptin' for a big fl "X" wherever y'all tell him to put it.
But yes, gentle reader, this is one in the same man. Why Tim Blake Nelson -- respected actor, daring director, and seasoned writer -- is constantly typecast as a slack-jawed country dunce is beyond our ken.
www.fametracker.com /hey_its_that_guy/nelson_tim_blake.php   (405 words)

  
 Tim Blake Nelson
The pair will co-star in a Depression-era drama called "Seasons of Dust." Actor/director Tim Blake Nelson will be behind the camera on this one.
Ashley Judd ("Double Jeopardy"), Tim Blake Nelson ("Minority Report"), Diane Ladd ("Chinatown"), and Laura Prepon ("Lightning Bug") have recently climbed aboard the project, which, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has just started production in Arkansas.
Alison Lohman and Tim Blake Nelson have joined the cast of "The Big White," a dark comedy starring Robin Williams that Mark Mylod is directing.
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/tim_blake_nelson/news.php   (2137 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Nelson, Tim Blake: In the film festival zone
This is a searing human drama, which Nelson adapted from his own stage play, about life inside the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
I mean, there is a reason that a movie that takes place almost entirely inside one of the crematoria at Auschwitz hasn't been made (before this one).
The Grey Zone is Nelson's fourth film as a director.
jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/N/Nelson_Tim_Blake/2001/09/04/760502.html   (422 words)

  
 Lethal passions (Metro Times Detroit)
During the last presidential election, violence in the movies became a hot-button issue that both major parties trotted out for show-and-tell, and Columbine became the code word for tragedy caused by lax censorship.
But when I read the script, I realized that this would be the first time that anyone had attempted to reimagine one of Shakespeare’s tragedies in a high-school setting and that is credible.
As a filmmaker, Nelson wrote and directed the 1997 cult favorite Eye of God and recently completed a screen adaptation of his play The Grey Zone.
www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=2377   (925 words)

  
 TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2001
But here's the catch --- he knows so much about Judaism because he is a Jew, and as the film progresses, he begins to re-assimilate numerous Jewish customs back into his life.
The Jews didn't get much better treatment in The Grey Zone, a new film directed by Tim Blake Nelson, whose O is still in theatres.
Based on Nelson's play and set in a Polish concentration camp in 1944, the movie tells the true story of a group of Hungarian Sonderkommandos who volunteer to march their fellow prisoners into the ovens and help dispose of the bodies in exchange for privileges like food.
www.sick-boy.com /toronto2001.htm   (1335 words)

  
 Tim Blake Nelson: Official Hoot Movie Site about Burrowing Owls, on Floridas Endangered Species List
Tim Blake Nelson New Movie Releases in Theaters May 2006
Nelson is also a mainstay on the independent film circuit, where he has co-starred in such projects Miguel Arteta's dark comedy, "The Good Girl" (opposite Jennifer Anniston and John C. Reilly), Finn Taylor's charming comedy, "Cherish" (alongside Maura Tierney) and Mark Mylod's upcoming comedy-drama, "The Big White (with Robin Williams).
He followed that auspicious debut with the 1998 short film, "Kansas" (also penning the screenplay) before returning to the feature film arena with the Miramax release "0," a modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello," starring Martin Sheen, Julia Stiles, Josh Hartnett, and Mekhi Phifer.
www.hootmovie.com /tim_blake_nelson.html   (475 words)

  
 SPLICEDwire | "O" review (2001) Tim Blake Nelson, Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles
That kind of forgiveness is hard to apply to the awkward alterations that arise in Tim Blake Nelson's "O" -- an update of the treacherous tragedy "Othello," featuring a private school basketball hero standing in for the Moorish general driven to murdering his wife by a malicious, coldly calculating officer in his command.
Director Nelson (best known for playing the dimwitted Delmer in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") creates an effectively portentous atmosphere, spring-loading the film with palpable tension, as in the scene in which Hugo eats dinner in his father's office for the first time in years.
In "Othello," the political, racial (the Moor is a fl man leading a white army) and military overtones lend themselves to turbulence and the portent of violence in a way high school hoops just can't equal.
www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/o.html   (744 words)

  
 SPLICEDwire | "Cherish" review (2002) Finn Taylor, Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson
She throws herself at delivery boys, buddies up to her gay, Jewish, disabled dwarf neighbor (Ricardo Gil) and sexually baits the milquetoast monitoring officer (Tim Blake Nelson) who comes to visit whenever she breaks the rules, eventually forming a strange romantic attachment with him.
Talented and tantalizing but odd enough to have geek credibility, Tunney ("Vertical Limit," "End of Days") gives a fine performance as the twittering, insecure main character who learns a lot about independence from being incarcerated within reach of the outside world.
Nelson (best known as dimwitted Delmer in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") is good as well, as he allows himself to fall for Tunney and eventually help her against his better judgement.
www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/cherish.html   (525 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Nelson, Tim Blake
Some films -- because they are difficult, raw, tough-minded or challenging -- need a film festival milieu to prosper.
That's why Tim Blake Nelson is coming to Toronto.
Nelson will be here after the 26th annual Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday with the world premiere of Vancouver filmmaker Bruce Sweeney's quirky comedy Last Wedding.
jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/N/Nelson_Tim_Blake   (155 words)

  
 Tim Blake Nelson Biography, Filmography, News, Trailers,
Born 1965 - An accomplished playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor, former classics major Tim Blake Nelson is perhaps most familiar to the movie audience as the hilariously dim Delmar in Joel and Ethan Coen's goofy Oscar-nominated comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Born in Oklahoma, Nelson attended college at Brown University where he became a L...
Discuss Tim Blake Nelson with Starpulse members in the forums...
www.starpulse.com /Actors/Nelson,_Tim_Blake   (112 words)

  
 Tim Blake Nelson MovieEye.com Tim Blake Nelson Address Celebrity Contact Write Actor Actress Movie Posters, Film, ...
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 The Grey Zone (2002): David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, Tim Blake Nelson
The Grey Zone (2002): David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, Tim Blake Nelson
"his [Nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma, rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it."
"Tim Blake Nelson, credited as producer / screenwriter / play author / editor / director for “The Grey Zone” has taken a huge bite of a grim story of insurrection and destruction, leavened with spiritual salvation, and makes it, overall, boring and tedious"
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 Tim Blake Nelson Current Month TV Schedule
Starring David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Emily Mortimer, Larry Pine, Allyce Beasley, Lois Smith.
Starring Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Marsha Mason, Edward Herrmann, Michael C Hall, Timothy Daly.
Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, Zooey Deschanel, Mike White, Deborah Rush, John Carroll Lynch, John Doe, Roxanne Hart.
www.tv-now.com /stars/tbnelson.html   (643 words)

  
 Playbill News: Tim Blake Nelson Is Will in The Beard of Avon at New York Theatre Workshop, Starting Oct. 31
Playbill News: Tim Blake Nelson Is Will in The Beard of Avon at New York Theatre Workshop, Starting Oct. 31
Tim Blake Nelson Is Will in The Beard of Avon at New York Theatre Workshop, Starting Oct. 31
Other credits include A Question of Mercy, Othello, An Experiment with an Air Pump and Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone.
www.playbill.com /news/article/81830.html   (669 words)

  
 DIRECTORY - PEOPLE TIM BLAKE NELSON - ARTS AND PEOPLE TIM BLAKE NELSON
»IMDb: Tim Blake Nelson - His profile at the Internet Movie Database.
»Tim Blake Nelson - Yahoo Club with message board.
»Tim Blake Nelson - An interview with the actor and director by Kari Molvar.
www.themusichype.com /dir/Arts/People/N/Nelson,_Tim_Blake   (92 words)

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