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Apr 22,2013
Reese Witherspoon attended at the Mud Screening at The Museum of Modern Art tonight in New York City. Check out the pics in our gallery! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and get the latest news from Reese!
Apr 20,2013
May 28,2012
Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey ham it up at the premiere of their film Mud at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Reese and her co-star were joined on the red carpet by director Jeff Nichols and actors Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland. Reese wore a Versace gown and shoes and finished her look with Chopard jewelry.
May 27,2012
As posted on our Tumblr and our Facebook page, we provide links to all the audios and videos directly from the official site of the Cannes Film Festival. Now, thanks to WitherspoonFan, we have two videos directly from Youtube. You can watch below!
May 27,2012
Mud, American writer/director Jeff Nichols’ underwhelming follow-up to the masterfully visceral “Take Shelter,” is a shallow and contrived coming of age story. While both ‘Shelter’ and “Shotgun Stories,” Nichols’ promising debut feature, explore their respective characters’ motives and emotions, Mud instead offers pat sentiments and bland bathos.
While his parents talk about separating, Ellis (Tye Sheridan, one of the boys in Malick’s “The Tree Of Life”), an adolescent native of DeWitt, Arkansas, helps Mud (an accomplished performance from Matthew McConaughey), a fugitive, reunite with his lover. Ellis isn’t initially sure why he confides in Mud. But ultimately, Ellis sticks by the titular Byronic redneck in a predictably vain attempt to understand his parents’ break-up and why self-evident displays of affection cannot be taken at face value. Every ounce of mystery and promise established in the first half hour of Mud evaporates once it becomes clear that Nichols is more earnestly interested in using Mud to disabuse Ellis of his romantic ideals. Mud isn’t a dud because it’s more easy-going or more bloated than Nichols’s previous films, though it is both of those things. It’s a misfire because unlike Nichols’s previous narratives, Mud just isn’t as well-conceived or even that theoretically rewarding.
Ellis spends much of Mud ignoring the obvious ways that the people he cares about don’t conform to his expectations. He ignores repeated warnings from people like concerned neighbor Tom Blankenship (Sam Shepard), who insists Mud isn’t the good person Ellis thinks he is. And with the help of his best friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), Ellis decides to help Mud reunite with Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), Mud’s fair-weather lover. Juniper is, in other words, not the “pretty” and loyal person Mud makes her out to be, either. In that sense, it’s essential for Ellis’s growth as a character for him to reluctantly see for himself just how unfaithful Juniper is (a bar scene that establishes this point is especially tedious).
May 27,2012
Mud, a touching coming-of-age tale set on the Mississippi River and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, brought the Cannes film festival competition to a close on Saturday, earning warm applause at a press screening.
The film, which echoes Mark Twain and his novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, centers on Ellis – played by up-and-coming actor Tye Sheridan, who was 14 at the time. Along with best friend Neckbone, he comes across the mysterious Mud (McConaughey) who is living alone on an island. The boys discover he is on the run for a serious crime, but has come back to the area to find the love of his life Juniper, played by Witherspoon, whom he dreams of whisking away to Mexico by sea. They help him to rebuild a boat stuck up in a tree in the floods, and are drawn into an dangerous race against time as the family of Mud’s victim shows up to get revenge.
Director and scriptwriter Jeff Nichols admitted he borrowed freely from the novels of Twain.
“If you’re going to steal stuff from somebody you should steal stuff from somebody really intelligent and I stole things from Mark Twain,” he told reporters ahead of the film’s world premiere later on Saturday.
“Mark Twain is one of my favorite authors and there’s a scene in Tom Sawyer where Tom swims into the middle of the Mississippi River and takes a nap on the sand bar. I think I read that in eighth grade in English class and I just never could get it out of my head.”
Jacob Lofland, the 15-year-old first-time actor who played Neckbone, said he and Sheridan noticed the similarities.
“Me and Tye got to read Huck Finn on the set.. and we found a lot of stuff that happened to wander on to the script, and we did question Jeff on that one.”
Nichols chose the young actors because they were from the south of the United States and so would appear more authentic than trained performers from, say, Los Angeles.
Sheridan’s first film role was in Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”, which won the top prize – the Palme d’Or – in Cannes last year.
For Witherspoon, a best actress Oscar winner for “Walk the Line”, the story had immediate appeal.
“I grew up with my brother in a creek on a dirt bike riding around, doing motocross, down in the dirt, fishing in Tennessee, so when I read Jeff’s script it just felt like home. I never get to see home on the big movie screen and Jeff brought such an authentic, beautiful story to the place and it was just very appealing for me. There’s very few movies about the American South that are accurate, and I feel like this is one of them.”
The 12-day Cannes film festival closes on Sunday with a red carpet awards ceremony, where Mud and 21 other competition entries are eligible for prizes including the coveted Palme d’Or. Critics’ favorites include Michael Haneke’s “Amour” (Love), Cristian Mungiu’s “Beyond the Hills” and Jacques Audiard’s “Rust & Bone”.
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