Joaquin Phoenix

Cannes: Marion Cotillard Shines in James Gray's The Immigrant

SNL Sound-Off: Phoenix

Here is a brief list of the things I found more engaging in this week's episode of Saturday Night Live than Phoenix's performance: - Dennis Rodman's 12-second cameo in the cold open, in which he stumbled over saying "Saturday Night Live" - Melissa McCarthy driving a golf cart - Melissa McCarthy wea ... More >>

Disabilities Will Permeate The Oscar Nominees

Get sick on screen, cough a little too hard, and you've got a nomination all locked up. Here are some of the frontrunners for nomination consideration, who will suddenly feel much better if they're announced among the chosen this Thursday. Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone (above). The French favo ... More >>

Three Big Names Think Oscar Campaigning Is B.S.

It's perfectly understandable that many actors and auteurs feel uncomfortable being urged to schmooze and booze it up to get awards consideration. Wasn't it enough that they already gave a great performance? Do they have to give another one at some embarrassing promotional luncheon? Wonderfully en ... More >>

Three Locks For Best Actor Already

That's what insiders are saying--the kind of insiders who are usually right sometimes. Oscar's Best Actor locks already seem to be: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln Duh. We knew this the second the movie was announced. Denzel Washington for Flight People are so happy he got a quality script agai ... More >>

TIFF: Meet the Monsters

From Toronto, a glimpse of this year's most bracing films

Why You Must See The Master!

(1) Because it's brave. Going against Scientology (and in fact anything that preaches a "Cause") is a bold move, though as the film continues to make lots of money, it will probably seem a little less brave. (2) Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman give a master class in screen acting. Th ... More >>

The Master: From the Window to the Wall

You aren't expecting what Paul Thomas Anderson is giving

Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master's Master

Talking 70mm, Joaquin Phoenix, and researching Scientology for his sixth and most anticipated film

Ben Affleck Is Back On Top

Ben Affleck was a Hollywood golden boy who got sucked into some crappy pictures as well as a destructively over-publicized relationship before settling into a simpler life and emerging as a fine director with films like Gone Baby Gone and The Town. And now he's getting Oscar buzz all over again. A ... More >>

The Master Gets Its Scientology On in 2nd Trailer

The second trailer to Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film The Master was just released, and this time we get a look at Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams along with Joaquin Phoenix. We gave PTA credit for being wily with his first trailer -- for years, we've all been waiting to see how much The ... More >>

VIDEO: Dianetics Day 2012! See People Who Can't Wait to Go "Clear"!

Our tipsters continue to funnel us the best Scientology material at a rapid rate. May 9 was Dianetics Day -- 62 years since the day in 1950 when L. Ron Hubbard first published Scientology's Ur-text, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health -- and already we have in our hot little hands the vid ... More >>

Coming of Age, Indie-Style, in the Oh-So-Familiar Skateland

Jesus Identified on Lawn Chair

A couple in California has discovered an image of Jesus on their lawn chair, and are using it as inspiration to do good. Of course, if you can identify Jesus on an old wooden chair, you're probably headed in that direction anyway. Personally, we see Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Caribbean, or mayb ... More >>

Live: Brooklyn's Hedonistic Waffles & Tits Party Takes On Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Just your average Sunday afternoon. Pics by Chris, more below.​Waffles & Tits 3: Heavy Metal Parking Lot House of Yes Sunday, October 24 Waffles & Tits, Brooklyn's traveling shit-show of a Sunday-afternoon party, is equal parts rock opera, Vaudeville revival, and Gathering of the Juggalos-esq ... More >>

Adieu, Fair Pop-Tarts World; Justin Bieber Has a Thing for Sap

As always, we appreciate you spending the week with us here at Fork in the Road. But, in case you missed it, here's what the other food blogs have been up to... Eater bemoaned the fact that Pop-Tarts World will close this fall to make room for a new public plaza. Grub Street wondered whether Steph ... More >>

Letterman Writer Outed Joaquin Phoenix Last Year, Contradicting New York Times Report

​The now-infamous 2009 Joaquin Phoenix appearance on the David Letterman show was a hoax. The whole druggie rapper with a beard thing was, too, the New York Times "broke" this week when I'm Still Here director Casey Affleck called the entire stunt "the performance of [Phoenix's] career." But n ... More >>

Gossip About Steve Carell, Joaquin Phoenix, and Katie Holmes

Plus Amy Ryan: not your everyday Jane

This Week in the Voice: The Endless Bummer of Staten Island

​All the way out on the south shore of Staten Island lies a quiet, tucked-away community called the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a "poor man's Bermuda" for the few Staten Islanders who knew about it and summered there. That's all over now, as the city's Parks Department plans to turn the 200-acre p ... More >>

Gossip About Lagerfeld, Joaquin Phoenix, and Katie Holmes

​CLICK HERE for my new column in which I interview Oscar nominated Amy Ryan, who's in the new Philip Seymour Hoffman-directed movie in which she's a funeral home worker who romances a limo driver played by Hoffman himself. Ryan tells me about that film, her Oscar night for Gone Baby Gone, and ... More >>

Joaquin Phoenix Goes a Very Long Way to Prove a Very Minor Point in I'm Still Here

This Week in the Voice: Infiltrating the Gathering of the Juggalos

​Pop culture -- especially music -- has always had its own respectively fringe and seemingly misunderstood populations. From Phish Phans, to Justin Bieber's bloodthirsty teenage following, and beyond, there always seems to be a group of people deeply saturated in a culture of fanatic obsession ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Gathering of the Juggalos, Pavement's New York City, Jay-Z and Eminem in Detroit, Sonny Rollins, and More

Jay-Z and Eminem kick-start Detroit's recovery. Photo by Kevin Mazur.​In this week's Village Voice, Camille Dodero reports live from Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Juggalos, Michael D. Ayers compiles an oral history of Pavement's New York City, Tom Breihan heads to Detroit to see the fi ... More >>

Best of Etsy: Joaquin Phoenix/Hipster Hunter DIY Bearded Beanie

via taraduff on Etsy Click to Enlarge​A Runnin' Scared tipster brought this gem to our attention, noting the knitted hat's uncanny resemblance to Joaquin Phoenix 2.0, about whom a movie trailer for I'm Still Here; The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix surfaced last week (after the jump). We think i ... More >>

Shepard Fairey's Joaquin Phoenix: Comeback, or Final Blow?

​Shepard Fairey, creator of the frequently vandalized mural on Houston and Bowery, is back in the game with a series of street installations depicting bearded crazy person/actor Joaquin Phoenix. Vulture reports that the Joaquins have been spotted in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Bo ... More >>

Joaquin Phoenix Will Snort Your Drugs, Sleep With Your Girlfriend and Take Your Shit

​This extended Joaquin Phoenix stunt -- in which he acted like part Andy Kaufman and part Crispin Glover, but plus rapping -- will soon enough be a part of the public record. I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, the resulting film by Casey Affleck, is being shopped to buyers who " ... More >>

BEHIND BARS

Return to Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash

10th Annual Film Critics' Poll: The Abridged Results

94 critics voted. The results are in.

Billy Bob Thornton: Asshole, Genius, or Both?

Well, it's not as spectacular as Joaquin Phoenix's mumblefest on David Letterman. In fact, Billy Bob Thornton -- interviewed here with his band the Boxmasters for a radio show -- seems quite lucid, but behaves like a total asshole. It starts about 1:15 in, when the DJ asks when the band formed, an ... More >>

Yo! Joaquin Phoenix Raps, Swears, Jumps Heckler

Wondering how Joaquin Phoenix's rap career is going? Here's a clip of JP regaling the crowd at a Miami nightclub and looking much more cheerful than he did on the Letterman show. Unfortunately the videographer bleeps the swears, which really messes up his flow, but the UK Sun has some details of P ... More >>

Mickey Mantle's Touching "F*** Yogi" Ball Is Auctioned

This video of Joaquin Phoenix getting booed for not signing autographs may explain why he was so crazed and morose on the Letterman show. Phoenix should learn that it helps to cultivate a favorable impression with fans; then you can do whatever you want. For example, Mickey Mantle always found time ... More >>

Joaquin Phoenix Refuses to Cooperate with David Letterman

Share with us here the somnolent agony of Joaquin Phoenix on the David Letterman show last night. In this compilation clip the star of Walk the Line, hiding behind a giant beard and shades, mumbles answers, reacts badly to laughter ("What d'you gas 'em up with? Is this nitrous?"), and thumb-wrestl ... More >>

James Gray Gets Goofy in Two Lovers

James Gray's We Own the Night

Movies To Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival

Going for the Gold

Get Your War Off

Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan, and Peaches bring it home

NY Mirror

Lovesick Blues

Cash in hand but slightly out of focus, in Mangold's leisurely paced, well-acted biopic

La Dolce Musto

Open Season

Fall brings hope of a brave New World and a historic Violence

Freeze Frame: Stabs of Beauty in a Chilly Romantic Dystopia

It Takes Evangelicals, Reruns, and Pot to Make a Village

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Keep It Together

NY Mirror

Next of Kin in Shades of Gray

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

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