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February 8, 2010
Recent video interviews for The Last Station:
The Independent
ABC - Plummer, Mirren on GMA
In the House on Encore. Or, check here.
BBC News

February 2, 2010
Congratulations to Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren on receiving Oscar nominations for the Last Station, for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus received two nominations for Art Direction and Costume Design. Up received five nominations, including Best Picture.

December 17, 2009
Congratulations to Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren on receiving Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations this week for The Last Station.

December 2, 2009
LA Times interview - Christopher Plummer keeps evolving

The Last Station and Precious lead the 25th Independent Spirit Award nominations, each receiving five nominations. The Last Station was nominated for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Helen Mirren) and Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Plummer)

November 23, 2009
92nd Street Y - On December 1, there will be an advance screening of THE LAST STATION at the 92nd Street Y in NY at 7:15pm, with a Q&A with Christopher Plummer and Michael Hoffman.

November 21, 2009
Film Forum; Cinema Retro - A tribute to Christopher Plummer with Q&A will be held at Film Forum in New York on November 30, 2009.

LA Times - Portman, Plummer and a new Oscar voting rule

NY Times, The House of Tolstoy, in His Winter

November 16, 2009
Movie City News - Christopher Plummer interview

From the AFI Fest and Christopher Plummer tribute:
Youtube - From the Q&A, posted by Kris Tapley of Incontention.
AFI video - From the Dr. Parnassus screening.
AFI - Report from the Christopher Plummer tribute

Booklounge.ca interview

Video of Christopher Plummer and others recording lines for "9."

October 14, 2009
Incontention (with the press release) - Christopher Plummer and Viggo Mortensen will receive tributes at this year's AFI FEST. Plummer's tribute event will precede the screening of his film The Last Station on November 3. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has been selected as the festival's Centerpiece presentation, with the film making its U.S. premiere Nov. 2. The film will be released Christmas Day. Plummer and Gilliam are scheduled to attend.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has a new featurette at
Yahoo Movies - UK and a new official UK site.

October 13, 2009
Indiewire, Oscar Sees Double.
According to LA Times, Pete Hammond and In Contention, The Last Station is being played by Sony Pictures Classics as a vehicle for a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Christopher Plummer, rather than for Best Actor. However, Sony is suggesting Plummer for Best Actor category for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Of the two films, The Last Station seems to be getting the more Oscar buzz for acting nominations.

October 10, 2009
ComingSoon.it (here or here) has six new video clips from The Last Station. The movie will be screened at The Rome Film Festival as an official selection on October 18 - 20, 2009. The movie will also be screened at the AFI Fest October 30 - November 7, 2009.

Sony Pictures Classics has an official site covering The Last Station and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, with some great high res photos.

Cinemablend - "Gay fave Ewan McGregor will play the son of Christopher Plummer in the upcoming film Beginners. The plot will apparently revolve around Ewan's character's discovery that his elderly father is not only terminally ill, but is also about to come out of the closet. They're currently casting for the father's "handsome younger boyfriend." Any fantasy casting picks? "

Comingsoon - Christopher Plummer has joined the cast of Priest. According to Chud   (and Director Scott Stewart's twitter.com/robotproof), Priest has been filming in and around Los Angeles. IMDB - "The story is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire and follows a warrior priest who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece. Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Madchen Amick, Stephen Moyer, Maggie Q., Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif and Alan Dale all star."

October 3, 2009
In Contention - From the 'Last Station' release
Oct. 2, 2009, Times Online - UK - Christopher Plummer talks about his roles in three new films, Up, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus and 9, which all open in October in the UK.
Sept. 20, 2009, Hartford Courant interview - This was for a Q&A and screening of Man in the Chair at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Sept. 26, 2009, attended by Christopher Plummer and Michael Schroeder.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - UK trailer at official site
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - official poster at Screencrave.com
Some recent Terry Gilliam interviews for Parnassus:
Movie City News - David Poland interviews Terry Gilliam at TIFF
Traileradict interview for at TIFF
Slashfilm interview at BFI
The are more Terry Gilliam interviews, film festival Q&A'a, etc. at Youtube.
Verne Troyer interview on Johnathan Ross Sept. 25, 2009.
For more news on Dr. Parnassus, check out ImaginariumofDrParnassus (unofficial site) and The Dreams messageboard.

October 2, 2009
Indie Wire - Anne Thompson - Sony Pictures Classics Acquires The Last Station - Sony "will push for Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer and James McAvoy for Oscar nominations."
In Contention - Confirmed: 'The Last Station' goes to Sony Classics
Screen Daily reports that Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North America and Latin American rights to The Last Station. SPC is also a distributor for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus.
Anne Thompson (at Twitter) also has confirmed that Sony is releasing the film for Oscars.

September 30, 2009
This site is overdue for recent news updates, but here's some great awards buzz for The Last Station. It is rumored that Sony Classics will distribute the film, with an opening in December.

Sept. 29, 2009 - LA Times - 2009 awards season gets a 'Last'-minute entry, by Pete Hammond: "Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti are going to try to shake up the awards season. Look for their new film, "The Last Station" -- written and directed by Michael Hoffman and based on the final months in the life of Leo Tolstoy, which premiered sans distribution at the Telluride Film Festival on Sept. 4 -- to be released by the specialty division of a major studio (with a slew of other art house contenders already this year including three more Best Actress possibilities) and opened in December in order to qualify for the Academy Awards."

"The movie provides a great comedic and dramatic showcase for its stars, Mirren and Plummer, as they tear into each other with the ferocity of a Russian version of "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf." Mirren, of course, is a recent Best Actress Oscar winner for "The Queen" but it's hard to believe Plummer, who turns 80 in December and made his film debut more than half a century ago (in 1958's "Stage Struck"), has never even been NOMINATED. Interesting that Plummer, who starred in 1965's Best Picture winner "The Sound Of Music" among many other Oscared movies, was only just invited to join the academy's actors branch as a voting member less than two years ago. As a dying Leo Tolstoy he certainly will have his best chance at a nomination (albeit against tough competition), especially in a year where he also has two other high-profile turns in the animated "Up" and the title role in another upcoming December entry, Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus." His brutally honest memoir, "In Spite Of Myself." was published last year."

Trailer - The Last Station (in German)

Sept. 14, 2009 - Toronto Star interview for the Toronto Film Festival

Aug 26, 2009, Toronto Star - Plummer returns to Stratford in The Tempest in 2010.

YouTube - Christopher Plummer Addresses Graduating Class at the University of Guelph June 11, 2009.

May 22, 2009
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has opened at the Cannes Film Festival. Press conference videos. Reviews are mixed, but here are some of the better early reviews and articles:
Variety
Screen Daily
BBC
LA Times - The Envelope
In Contention
For more coverage and photos see The Dreams messageboard and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

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