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Five Favorite Films With Bai Ling (36 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Tuesday, Apr. 14 2009, 04:01 PM

Rotten Tomatoes caught up with actress Bai Ling (Red Corner, Southland Tales) on the verge of her latest film, Crank: High Voltage, to talk movies and learn more about the bold and sensual artist, who at times is better known for her off-screen persona than her expansive body of work. Below, find out which romantic classics and modern films Bai Ling names among her Five Favorite Films and, and read on for our in-depth conversation about her work, her life, and her pursuit of happiness as we peel back the layers of the force of nature known as Bai Ling.

Five Favorite Films With Billy Ray Cyrus (84 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Tuesday, Apr. 07 2009, 08:01 AM

Art imitates life (and vice versa) in Hannah Montana: The Movie, in which teen idol Miley Cyrus stars as the titular character, a 16-year-old A-list celebrity desperately trying to balance stardom with her normal life. That normal life is her "real" life as Miley Stewart, a high schooler whose pop identity is only known to family and friends and who is about to get a wake-up call in the form of an extended stay in the homegrown Tennessee countryside where she grew up, courtesy of dad Robby Ray Stewart (played by Miley's real-life father, country music star-turned-actor Billy Ray Cyrus). RT talked to the elder Cyrus about his favorite films, his transition from "Achy Breaky Heart" recording artist to Hollywood thespian, and how he credits David Lynch (and a letter from Johnny Cash) with helping daughter Miley become the teen entertainment phenomenon that she is today.

Five Favourite Films with James Marsters (47 comments)

by Orlando Parfitt on Tuesday, Apr. 07 2009, 05:25 AM

James Marsters is perhaps best known to audiences as the blonde-haired Sid Vicious-alike Spike on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The vampire who earned his nickname by impaling his victims on railway spikes, he went from Big Bad to Buffy's boyfriend when a shadowy government cell called The Initiative fitted a chip in his brain that prevented him from doing harm. He stars this week in Dragonball: Evolution, based on the Japanese Manga comic, as Lord Piccolo, the megalomaniacal villain out to destroy the world by uniting the seven Dragonballs. Continue on as he shares his five favourite films with RT.

Five Favourite Films with Bill Nighy (29 comments)

by Joe Utichi on Thursday, Apr. 02 2009, 10:40 AM

There can be few actors better suited to starring in a film about the golden age of British rock and roll than Bill Nighy. No wonder, then, that he's front and centre as part of the ensemble cast of Richard Curtis' latest comedy, The Boat that Rocked. RT catches up with Nighy the day after the world premiere of The Boat that Rocked and he's remembering a late night that involved hanging out with one of his heroes, Paul McCartney. His passion for music is evident is pretty-much any interview he gives, and as he chooses his five favourite films it's incredibly obvious that a killer soundtrack has a big impact...

Five Favorite Films with Greg Mottola (32 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Wednesday, Apr. 01 2009, 04:50 PM

Most directors debut their deeply personal passion project before moving on to studio gigs, but indie helmer-turned-Apatow Buncher Greg Mottola (The Daytrippers, Superbad) flipped the script with Adventureland, his semi-autobiographical tale of love, angst, '80s pop and corndogs that opens nationwide this week. Adventureland follows recent college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) -- an uptight, overeducated intellectual who reads poetry "for fun" -- who takes a job at a low-rent carnival one summer working with excitable bosses (SNL's Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig), unmotivated slackers (Martin Starr of Freaks and Geeks), a surly, punk-loving love interest (Twilight's Kristen Stewart), and lots and lots of righteous retro tunes. (Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" has never borne such loathing, or been heard so often, since 1985.)

Five Favorite Films with Slumdog Millionaire's Anil Kapoor (24 comments)

by Alex Vo on Tuesday, Mar. 31 2009, 07:10 PM

Slumdog Millionaire's American audiences were enticed to watch by the name of director Danny Boyle or the movie's kinetic exploration of an exotic, far-away underbelly. In India, the selling point very well may have been Anil Kapoor. Kapoor, who portrays the movie's shifty host of India's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, is the movie's biggest Bollywood name, something fashioned over three decades of work, which includes Mr. India (an early work by Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur for which Kapoor received great critical acclaim). The story of Kapoor's first international movie is a story we know well now -- the plot, the controversies, the international box office success, and ithe endless trophies (including an ultimate Oscar Best Picture and Kapoor's own share of a SAG oustanding cast award). As he pursues new projects in America, RT sat down with Kapoor to get his Five Favorite Films.

Five Favourite Films with Greg Kinnear (15 comments)

by Rich Cline on Tuesday, Mar. 17 2009, 09:44 AM

How do you describe the career of a guy who started as the host of Talk Soup on E! and within five years was Oscar nominated for a role opposite Jack Nicholson? Greg Kinnear is now on screen as the inventor Bob Kearns in Flash of Genius, and he was happy to be playing a real-life character no one's ever heard of. Later this year he'll be sees in Paul Greengrass' new film Green Zone, about the hunt for WMDs in Baghdad after the American invasion. When asked about his five favourite films, he looks to the ceiling and comments that he's going through his mental Rolodex...

Five Favorite Films with Alex Proyas (35 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Monday, Mar. 16 2009, 05:38 PM

This month, Alex Proyas returns with a new film for sci-fi audiences: Knowing, in which a professor (Nicolas Cage) discovers that predictions sealed 50 year prior in a time capsule had accurately predicted a series of disasters in modern history. Among his influences for the film are William Friedkin, whose Exorcist he says partially inspired him during filming. Below, we talk with Alex Proyas as he shares his Five Favorite Films, discusses Roger Ebert's idea of "generosity" in a filmmaker, and demonstrates his appreciation of the film critic's efforts to seriously analyze his 1998 film, Dark City.

Five Favorite Films with Rosario Dawson (23 comments)

by Matt Atchity on Friday, Mar. 13 2009, 04:41 PM

Rosario Dawson is an actress that seems equally comfortable working on smaller, independent productions (Kids, Clerks II, and her current film Explicit Ills) as she does big-budget studio blockbusters (Men in Black II, Sin City, Eagle Eye). She recently took some time out of her busy schedule to talk with RT about her favorite movies, reveal a bet she made with Quentin Tarantino on the set of Death Proof, and admit to knowing that some movies were going to be bad even before shooting began (i.e. Pluto Nash).

Five Favorite Films with Carla Gugino (30 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Wednesday, Mar. 11 2009, 01:01 PM

A certain quest for variety has allowed Carla Gugino to cultivate a fan base within two distinctly divergent demographics, alternating between femme fatale and strong maternal figures in films like Sin City and the Spy Kids trilogy, respectively. The juxtaposition has never been more apparent than it is during this month, in which she appears in back-to-back weeks as the pin-up superheroine Silk Spectre in Zack Snyder's Watchmen and then as Dr. Alex Friedman, a brainy UFO specialist who teams up with a cab driver (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) to help a pair of alien teens in this week's Race to Witch Mountain.

Five Favorite Films with John Cena (1 comments)

by RT Staff on Monday, Mar. 09 2009, 09:44 AM

With "12 Rounds" hitting theaters, wrestler turned actor John Cena stopped by Current TV's Rotten Tomatoes Show to share his favorite films.

Five Favourite Films with Bill Pullman (29 comments)

by Joe Utichi on Tuesday, Mar. 03 2009, 07:02 AM

Few can forget Bill Pullman's rousing speech as the US president in Independence Day, but it's only one of a long string of vast and diverse roles that have seen him cast as romantic lead, action hero, comedy star and dark villain. In more than twenty years of screen acting he's defined himself as a hard-working, engaging talent. Of his five favourite films, Pullman says his choices depend on mood and context. "I always feel like there are a lot of different types of favourites," he tells RT. "there are some that I look to for interesting things, some that I look to for acting things, others that I watch again and a again. I don't know if this is in any sort of order!"

Five Favorite Films with Jerry Bruckheimer (41 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Wednesday, Feb. 11 2009, 05:02 PM

Super producer Jerry Bruckheimer has earned a spot amongst Hollywood's elite players by producing some of the most successful and bombastic films of the last three decades, from Beverly Hills Cop to Armageddon, to Black Hawk Down and all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. (They don't call him "Mr. Blockbuster" for nothing.) So what's Bruckheimer doing producing this week's estrogen-powered Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring a radiant Isla Fisher alongside the fab fashion mise-en-scenes of Sex and the City designer Patricia Fields?

Five Favorite Films with Djimon Hounsou (48 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Thursday, Feb. 05 2009, 06:01 PM

After giving critically-acclaimed performances in Oscar-nominated films like Amistad, In America, Gladiator, and Blood Diamond, Benin-born actor Djimon Hounsou finally gets to play a villain in this week's science fiction thriller, Push. Rotten Tomatoes spoke with Hounsou about his Five Favorite Films of all time and discussed the two-time Oscar nominee's philosophies on the nature of acting, the perils of creating a signature style, and more.

Five Favorite Films with Jean Reno (33 comments)

by Alex Vo on Monday, Feb. 02 2009, 06:52 PM

American audiences who know Jean Reno strictly from Luc Besson productions (The Professional, Nikita, The Big Blue, Wasabi) and smart action blockbuster (Ronin, Mission: Impossible, The Crimson Rivers) will be surprised how little ass-kicking he does in his role as Ponton in The Pink Panther 2, opening this Friday. As family man partner to eternal-bumbler Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin), Reno's character is indeed one of the few to escape the mystery without slipping, falling, or crashing into solid objects. But it's representative of Reno's career, a varied body of work that frequently crosses over into video games, French slapstick, and romantic comedies that are rarely seen in the States. RT spoke with Reno recently to get his Five Favorite Films.

Five Favorite Films with Push Director Paul McGuigan (42 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Tuesday, Jan. 27 2009, 05:14 PM

Given his filmography of stylized thrillers, Scottish director Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin) seemed a fitting choice to helm February's supernatural actioner Push, a Hong Kong-set sci-fi adventure about normal people endowed with super powers starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, and Djimon Hounsou. Accordingly, one may be taken aback to hear that McGuigan names romantic auteur Wong Kar-Wai among his favorite directorial influences, but as he demonstrates in Push -- which captures the vibrant streets of Hong Kong in lush detail, appropriately -- McGuigan possesses a strong visual finesse that belies his history of making brutal crime movies and Hollywood suspense flicks.

Five Favorite Films With Ernest Borgnine (42 comments)

by Tim Ryan on Friday, Jan. 23 2009, 05:51 PM

Ernest Borgnine is one of Hollywood's most venerable character actors, with a career that spans more than five decades. To celebrate Borgnine's 92nd birthday this week, Turner Classic Movies will air the interview special Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine on Jan. 26, which will be followed by screenings of several of the actor's greatest films, including Marty and From Here to Eternity. In an interview with RT, Borgnine shared thoughts on some of his favorite movies (and a few of his own performances that mean a lot to him).

Five Favourite Films with James Franco (23 comments)

by Rich Cline on Wednesday, Jan. 21 2009, 02:25 AM

Having established his name in the Spider-Man movies, these days James Franco is clearly making some more personal career choices. He was in three films in 2008, notable for their vastly different styles. His extended cameo as Richard Gere's son in the weepy Nights in Rodanthe, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, was followed by two far less forgettable roles; opposite Seth Rogan in Pineapple Express (for which he received a Golden Globe nomination) and as Sean Penn's boyfriend in Milk (for which he has been nominated with the cast for the SAG ensemble award). He's been studying film at New York University, and chooses five favourites that are all firmly rooted in authenticity...

25 Favorite Films with Broken Lizard! (26 comments)

by Jen Yamato on Friday, Jan. 16 2009, 07:07 PM

After a successful run of studio comedies (most recently, 2006's Beerfest), the Broken Lizard gang is returning to their indie roots with the self-produced Slammin' Salmon, a restaurant-set comedy co-written by and starring all five members (and directed by Lizard and first-time helmer Kevin Heffernan). Rotten Tomatoes caught up with the Lizards en route to Park City, Utah, where they'll premiere Slammin' Salmon at the Slamdance Film Festival, to find out their 25 Favorite Films of all time!

Five Favourite Films with Golden Globe-Winner Danny Boyle (50 comments)

by Joe Utichi and Jen Yamato on Friday, Jan. 09 2009, 04:30 AM

After sweeping the Critics' Choice Awards this week, visionary and eclectic director Danny Boyle shares his five favourite films with Rotten Tomatoes. As you'd expect from his body of work, they're diverse and disparate. "I've got an odd list," he told RT. "Things like your 'top films' or your 'top end playlist songs' -- these are the things that keep me awake at night."