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Director: Steven Spielberg Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district. Directors: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman Stars: Kochi, Avijit Halder, Shanti Das Edit Storyline Biopic of billionaire Howard Hughes , starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of RKO studios but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding TWA as a rival to Pan AM airlines owned by his great rival Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph Owen Brewster accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many women in his life including a long relationship with actress Katharine Hepburn . From an early age however, Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe bouts of mental illness. Written by garykmcd Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner the passion he couldn't resist.

See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language and a crash sequence | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 25 December 2004 (USA) See more » Also Known As: $858,021 (USA) (17 December 2004) Gross: Company Credits Production Co: Did You Know? Trivia In his speech at the Golden Globes, Leonardo DiCaprio revealed that Michael Mann had a hand in writing the film's screenplay. See more » Goofs During lunch with the Hepburns, as Dr. Hepburn asks Hughes if he reads, Hughes handles a fork and a napkin. When Uncle Willy reacts to Hughes's use of the word "snuff", Hughes is leaned over to his right as he looks at Uncle Willy, then, two shots later, Hughes is upright again, and holds the napkin only. See more » Quotes See more » Crazy Credits The Miramax Films logo is also shown in 2-color Technicolor at the beginning of the movie, but before the Warner Bros. Pictures logo.

See more » Connections (Los Angeles) – See all my reviews Scorsese has such an encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of cinema that every shot, however inventive and daring, is effortlessly composed. The direction, editing and cinematography are all the first-rate work by individuals who are clearly masters of their profession and the production design, costumes and makeup are the best you'll see all year. Their efforts combine to create a world of rich and lavish color, of excitement and glamour. Who wouldn't want to visit THIS Cotton Club in 1935? It's hard to imagine who could trump the technical team for Oscars this year. With such a perfectly realized world in which to perform, the actors universally do an outstanding job. Despite the criticism of the hardcore DiCaprio-haters, the unprejudiced will observe an excellent performance that takes genuine risks and convincingly conveys the passing of more than twenty years. Importantly, DiCaprio more than holds his own when paired with Cate Blanchett and especially Alan Alda, who both give equally note worthy performances. Blanchett's interpretation of Katherine Hepburn seems spot on, and anyone familiar with the late actresses mannerisms will appreciate the hard work that clearly went into the recreation.

Alda, one of the most consistently underrated actors around, delivers another masterclass in restrained character building as he oozes ambition and political dishonesty from every pore. And yet, despite the obvious talent of all those involved and Scorsese's ability to effortlessly fill three hours, something about The Aviator fails to completely satisfy. Without wanting to sound like a film student, movies should, ultimately, be ABOUT something; love, honor, courage, redemption, the BIG ideas and themes that are the fuel of the plot. What was the drive of The Aviator? A rich guy recklessly spends lots of money to indulge his personal obsessions and gets away with it. We're never told how his experiences change him, and without change there's no journey. Considering the screenplay was written by John Logan, who usually displays a keen interest in showing the emotional evolution of his characters, the oversight is inexplicable. Ultimately then, much like Gangs of New York, The Aviator is simply the sum of it's parts, and however brilliantly those parts are realized, there doesn't seem to be a bigger theme to underpin and drive them. The Aviator is a perfectly realized recreation of the era and one well worth experiencing.

But the lack of a real emotional journey suggests 'all gloss and no substance', and ultimately prevents the movie from being truly great. 637 of 888 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes The Aviator Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 637 out of 888 people found the following review useful: Falling Short of Greatness...Again from Los Angeles 21 December 2004 Scorsese has such an encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of cinema that every shot, however inventive and daring, is effortlessly composed. The direction, editing and cinematography are all the first-rate work by individuals who are clearly masters of their profession and the production design, costumes and makeup are the best you'll see all year. Their efforts combine to create a world of rich and lavish color, of excitement and glamour. Who wouldn't want to visit THIS Cotton Club in 1935? It's hard to imagine who could trump the technical team for Oscars this year. With such a perfectly realized world in which to perform, the actors universally do an outstanding job.

Despite the criticism of the hardcore DiCaprio-haters, the unprejudiced will observe an excellent performance that takes genuine risks and convincingly conveys the passing of more than twenty years. Importantly, DiCaprio more than holds his own when paired with Cate Blanchett and especially Alan Alda, who both give equally note worthy performances. Blanchett's interpretation of Katherine Hepburn seems spot on, and anyone familiar with the late actresses mannerisms will appreciate the hard work that clearly went into the recreation. Alda, one of the most consistently underrated actors around, delivers another masterclass in restrained character building as he oozes ambition and political dishonesty from every pore. And yet, despite the obvious talent of all those involved and Scorsese's ability to effortlessly fill three hours, something about The Aviator fails to completely satisfy. Without wanting to sound like a film student, movies should, ultimately, be ABOUT something; love, honor, courage, redemption, the BIG ideas and themes that are the fuel of the plot. What was the drive of The Aviator? A rich guy recklessly spends lots of money to indulge his personal obsessions and gets away with it.

We're never told how his experiences change him, and without change there's no journey. Considering the screenplay was written by John Logan, who usually displays a keen interest in showing the emotional evolution of his characters, the oversight is inexplicable. Ultimately then, much like Gangs of New York, The Aviator is simply the sum of it's parts, and however brilliantly those parts are realized, there doesn't seem to be a bigger theme to underpin and drive them. The Aviator is a perfectly realized recreation of the era and one well worth experiencing. But the lack of a real emotional journey suggests 'all gloss and no substance', and ultimately prevents the movie from being truly great. Was the above review useful to you? 487 out of 677 people found the following review useful: A GREAT American TRAGEDY from Los Angeles, CA 17 December 2004 This is an astonishingly beautiful and moving film. Martin Scorcese has created a seminal work -- one that brings the harrowing, big-studio, adult movie making of the 1970's and totally reinvents and reinvigorates it for today's audience.

The story traces the rise and demise of billionaire Howard Hughes as he struggles to find meaning and purpose in a life unfettered by concerns of money, talent or opportunity. Whether trying to get a plane off the ground or a young starlet into bed, Hughes attacks life with a fierce gusto -- plagued and prodded by obsessive compulsive germphobia that constantly threatens to consume and defeat him. DiCaprio is amazing! It's the performance no one thought he was capable of. It is a dynamic, smart, funny, articulate, intense, mature and ultimately harrowing performance that relaunches his career as one of American's finest actors. At the end of the film, you just want to take him in your arms and sob. It's really that good. Cate Blanchett is incredible as Katherine Hepburn. At first, I was a little thrown by how bravely she attacked the Hepburn trademark voice, but I was completely won over by the second line. It is a tender, funny, incredibly convincing star turn that supplies the heart for the first half of the film. The scene where she takes Howard home "for dinner" with the family is a classic!

Kate Beckinsale does a surprisingly fine job with Eva Gardner -- conveying the slow burning passion of this Hollywood icon without ever lapsing into mere mimicry. But, in the end, this isn't a love story -- it's a war story -- a war between Howard's unstoppable will and his fierce inner demons battling for Howard's soul. It is the major relationship in the movie and the true heart of the film -- one that fuels his eccentric genius and yet constantly threatens to rip his life apart. He tries to ignore it by sleeping with every beauty in town. He tries to outrun it, building faster and faster airplanes. Yet, it is his one constant companion from early childhood to his ultimate, inescapable end. And it is this relationship that leaves you devastated at the end of the film. Brilliant! from New York, New York 6 December 2004 Martin Scorsese's most recent ambitious project does not disappoint. I just saw this film in a special preview for NYU film students, with Martin Scorsese there to discuss and answer questions after, and I must say, it was pretty phenomenal.

It is Martin Scorsese's best work since Goodfellas (this is obvious) and most probably his best work since Raging Bull. DiCaprio's character study of Howard Hughes, and his devotion to this role, is exquisite and reminiscent even of Robert De Niro's in Raging Bull. The film is lengthy, but this compliments it, for the story is riveting and the production is practically flawless (even the combination of computerized processes and more traditional photography was smooth and effective). The presentation of the film, in an evolving color (from two-tone Technicolor, as Martin explained it to us, to three-tone, to modern by the later sequences) is absolutely stunning, and the cinematography by renowned Robert Richardson, ASC, is some of the best I've seen (and, in my opinion, deserving of an Oscar). Cate Blanchett was impeccable as Katharine Hepburn, though, at times, I felt that the complexity of her character was never really deeper than a surface analysis.

She did her role flawlessly, but this is not to say that it really Alec Baldwin portrayed one of the flattest villains I've seen in a major motion picture, but, again, this is about Howard Hughes, and DiCaprio's performance is worthy of an Oscar nod at least, and perhaps an Oscar Win (certainly the best performance I've seen all year). One of my few complaints, though, is the lengthy sequences featuring Howard Hughes as a solo aviator. Though interesting, entertaining even, the film was long enough already, and did not require such an exhaustive analysis of individual flight procedures. Also, it seems that some of the themes were almost too redundant, such as the ways in which Hughes' psychological problems were performed. Much of the Hollywood history is good, even interesting, but it also sometimes seemed a bit self-indulgent, to the point where you questioned the necessity of ALL of those nightclub sequences in the film. But, besides those relatively few complaints, it is a spectacular film. In all: do not miss it. 3.5/4 from Charlottetown, Canada 26 December 2004 Before Howard Hughes was a recluse so reclusive as to out-Salinger J.D.

Salinger, he was a big time stud, who made big movies, flew fast planes, and courted gorgeous ladies; so say Martin Scorsese and John Logan, architects of this latest Hollywood biopic.' Leonardo DiCaprio continues his trend of turning in great performances with great directors, playing Howard Hughes between 1927 and 1947, the years where Hughes conquered the worlds of film and aviation, making room for romance with Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale). In later years, Hughes's mental problems would become legendary; at this stage in the game, he suffers only from pronounced germ phobia and mild obsessive-compulsive disorder. This is all expertly depicted by Scorsese, Logan, and DiCaprio. Stealing all her scenes is Cate Blanchett, who should start making room on her mantle for her Best Supporting Actress Oscar. It couldn't have been easy to play an iconic movie star like Katharine Hepburn, but Blanchett aces it.

Kate Beckinsale, Kelli Garner (Faith Demorgue), and Gwen Stefani (Jean Harlow) are the other women in Howard's life, although none are as clearly defined as Blanchett/Hepburn. The villains of the piece are Alec Baldwin and Alan Alda, playing, respectively, Pan-American Airways CEO Juan Trippe and Trippe's bought-and-paid-for politician, Senator Ralph Owen Brewster. Both excel, with Alda coming off as both slimy and goofy at the same time. Alec Baldwin, like Cate Blanchett, steals every scene he has, playing Trippe as a delightfully suave villain. In his final scene he delivers a wonderful monologue on the future of Hughes's Trans-World Airline, and caps it off with the most hysterical use of the F word in many years. Also appearing: the dependable John C. Reilly as Hughes's business manager Noah Dietrich; Jude Law, who apparently can't go two weeks without seeing himself in a different movie, as movie legend Errol Flynn; Brent Spiner (yay!) as airplane executive Robert Gross; and Willem Dafoe as a photographer.

"The Aviator" is overlong, and drags in places, but it is a great movie. I rate it a 9/10. Was the above review useful to you? 88 out of 106 people found the following review useful: Leo's Masterpiece from U.S. 19 January 2005 There is no doubt that THE AVIATOR is the masterpiece of both director Martin Scorsese and actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio becomes Howard Hughes. The actor is so profoundly absorbed in the role that the DiCaprio we know from other films cannot be found in this film. It is a bravura performance of great depth and magnitude. DiCaprio richly deserves his first Academy Award. I have never know much about Howard Hughes. This film opened my eyes to him as a personality, a businessman, aviator and his lavish lifestyle. DiCaprio no longer is the "pretty boy" from other films. The expressions he takes on are not handsome, the deeply furrowed brow, one could actually watch him, as Hughes' character, think his way through challenging situations, the mark of a highly gifted actor.

Watching DiCaprio evolve into the paranoid schizophrenic Hughes in the latter part of the film is a stunning example of pure acting. Leo deserves recognition for recreating a most difficult personality. Though the film is long, it never slows down nor gets boring and it commanded my attention from start to finish. It is masterpiece cinema for these two men and for other actors too. Cate Blanchette must be commended for her role as Katherine Hepburn. Every role was played by first rate actors. If you want to understand a piece of American history from the 30s through the 1940s, this film will illumine you. It may not be the greatest film ever made but it sure is cinema to the max and worth seeing, without a second thought. Was the above review useful to you? 83 out of 122 people found the following review useful: An Interesting Muddle from New Jersey, USA 22 January 2005 "The Aviator"--a biopic of Howard Hughes-- is clearly one of Scorsese's lesser works. Still, a lesser work from Scorsese is far superior to the greatest work of your average director.

Here's the rundown: The first quarter of the film is a total triumph, showing the young Hughes' bold endeavors in film when he produced what was at the time the most expensive and lavish film ever made. Scorsese tipping his hat to old Hollywood is the most fun he has had since "Goodfellas." The costumes, set designs, and pacing of this portion of the film are stunning and suck the viewer in. The rest of the film, despite Scorsese's amazing and vivid attention to detail, is a muddled mess, giving us glimpses into Hughes' obsessive (and compulsive) ways, his womanizing, his ambitious foray into aviation and the early days of commercial flight, his fight against Congress at the end of WWII, and the notorious plight and ultimately single flight of his infamous "Spruce Goose." It's all semi-educational and semi-entertaining, but in the end I think the complicated life of Hughes remains a mystery. As for the performances, they are amazing (thanks in most part to Scorsese, the ultimate actor's director).

Leonardo Dicaprio in the title role gives yet another performance that goes against my natural loathing of him, and although he seems a bit too boyish playing Hughes in the latter years (and the film really suffers for it), he's impeccable for the better part of the film. Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn is simply stunning and steals every moment she is on screen. Her look, her mannerisms, and her speech perfectly match the screen legend to a haunting degree. Alan Alda and Alec Baldwin in supporting quasi-villain roles are methodically perfect. And the nicest surprise was Kate Beckinsale, a normally flaccid actress, playing Ava Gardner. She came across as gorgeous, intelligent, and maximized her minimal screen time without ever overtly stealing her scenes. Like Sharon Stone in "Casino" and Cameron Diaz in "Gangs of New York" Scorsese once again coaxes a great performance out of an otherwise unremarkable pretty face. In the end, "The Aviator" flies high thanks to Scorsese and the acting, even if the real person it depicts remains lost in a muddle of half truths and speculation. Was the above review useful to you?

54 out of 73 people found the following review useful: For once the hype is accurate! A must see! from United States 22 January 2005 Leonardo Dicaprio, once again, shows his depth as an artist and his ability to carry a film. He deserves the Golden Globe, and his due as an outstanding actor. Howard Hughes, the man, remains a mystery and the portrayal of his obsessive compulsive disorder was a powerful view into his inner hell. The beginning scene set the pace for a journey into his privileged and dark world. The Aviator showed the torments and gifts of genius. Amazing job by all involved! Wardrobe, music, special effects, direction, acting...all award winning contributions. I left the film moved and disturbed, which shows the power of this film. Wonderful performances by all the cast and the time"flew" by... Was the above review useful to you? 43 out of 52 people found the following review useful: Open the Door... from Los Angeles, CA 13 February 2005 Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" is grand spectacle with a reverence for the nostalgic, set in simpler times.

As a snapshot of Howard Hughes's life from 1927 to 1947, "The Aviator" is a portrait of a man of genius and unmatched innovation, and also a man debilitated by severe obsessive compulsive disorder and extreme depression. "The Aviator" has an amazing performance by Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, and a mesmerizing performance by Cate Blanchett, who seems to inhabit the role of Katherine Hepburn-- the love of Hughes's life. However, the one indelible image I have of the film is the scene in which Hughes is frozen in the men's restroom, because he can't make himself touch the door knob for fear of germs and contamination. Granted this was a time before obsessive compulsive disorder existed as a diagnosis. The scene is intended as a dramatic arc, distinguishing a tragic flaw in Hughes. However, for me it seemed overly indulgent, and was curious regarding the scene length. Much like most of the nearly 3 hour movie, this is an exercise in indulgence, and attention to detail that is only that. Scorsese's balance between Hughes's genius and his great suffering is good melodrama, but not very inspiring.

I have a particular affinity for Howard Hughes the man. Had John Lone's (and Michael Mann's) story followed Hughes through the 1950's and beyond, the story would be even sadder. "The Aviator" illustrates the highs of genius, and the abyss of near insanity. This is an accurate depiction of an amazing man's life, but it is skewed toward the broken aspect. So just personally for me, it was frustrating to watch. To Scorsese's credit, one gets that he has immense compassion for Howard Hughes. Hughes' life sentence is established in the opening scene. Hughes's mother while bathing the young Hughes, tells him something that perhaps leads to his obsessive compulsive nature. Apparently he is incomplete in his relationship with his mother, and the story surrounding what she said. Fast forward to 1927, when Hughes left his father's wealthy drill bit tool company in Texas, to be a maverick film maker in California. Hughes is an ambitious and novice film director, but he is smart and has unmatched drive. However, his real genius is as a pilot and an innovative designer of airplanes. His gifts for fame and fortune are established.

Hughes (DiCaprio) then pursues a touching romance with Katherine Hepburn (Blanchett). This is the highlight of "The Aviator", even amidst the spectacular aerial cinematography, because it is just about relationships that move people. There is a wonderful moment when Hughes lets Hepburn take control of his plane as they fly above Los Angeles at night. As great as the chemistry is between Dicaprio and Blanchett, this romance part of the story goes on a little too long in the context of the movie. From this point on, the movie becomes increasingly darker. Sure, Hughes has his share of triumphs, but everything is tempered by his spiraling decline into depression and his debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder. The acting is outstanding throughout the picture. This is Leonardo DiCaprio's most mature performance. He truly captures Hughes's intensity, genius, and charm. His suffering also elicits great compassion. Cate Blanchett is outstanding as Kate Hepburn. At first one wonders whether she is doing a caricature of Hepburn. She is not. She is being Hepburn. Blanchett's performance is simply stunning. An unrecognizable Kate Beckinsale is awesome as Ava Gardner.

Beckinsale gives surprising layers to Gardner, who is really not all that she appears to be on the surface. John C. Reilly is fabulous as Hughes's CFO. In an understated fashion Reilly's performance anchors the movie. Alec Baldwin as Pan Am CEO, Juan Trippe, and Matt Ross as Hughes's engineer Glenn Odekirk give strong performances. Scorsese's "The Aviator" is spectacular to view, and has a sense of history and tragedy. He offers an interesting portrait of the dichotomy between genius and madness, with an emphasis on the dark. This choice really lost me. "The Aviator" is amazing work, that is not very inspiring, though it was probably not intended to do so. That is a bit of a disappointment. Was the above review useful to you? 52 out of 71 people found the following review useful: A Striking and Ambitious Saga 14 January 2005 *** This review may contain spoilers *** This film is about the world famous multi-millionaire Howard Hughes.

However, if the only thing you know about Hughes was that he was a recluse who secreted himself inside his hotel in Las Vegas and was obsessed with cleanliness, you may be in for a surprise. The film deals with Hughes' life before all that. After a brief prologue showing Hughes as a child with his mother advising him on cleanliness, we move forward to 1927 with an adult Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) directing his hugely risky film "Hell's Angels". "The Aviator" takes in Hughes' film-making achievements, his romances with some of the most beautiful women of the day (including Katherine Hepburn (a superb Cate Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale)) and his passion for aviation. The picture of Howard Hughes that emerges from the film is of a brilliant man who was a ruthless perfectionist, constantly risking ruin and even death for his goals. This all makes his eventual fate all the more sad. The film is brilliantly made, the cast are all very good in their roles (especially, as mentioned earlier, Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn) and despite lasting almost three hours, it is never dull. The main flaw, however, is that you never learn much about Hughes.

Some more on his background would certainly have been welcome. Any film by Scorsese, however, is worth seeing and this is no exception. Was the above review useful to you? 125 out of 218 people found the following review useful: Perhaps the best movie of 2004! from Phoenix, Arizona 14 December 2004 Leave it to Martin Scorsese, he is one of the few reliable directors who graces in age, still manages to make outstanding movies. I thought his previous film; GANGS OF NEW YORK was the best film of 2002 (and still stand by that comment). Scorsese who was once known for showing us the gritty realistic world of New York City's "Mean Streets" with the Little Italy thugs (MEAN STREETS), anti-hero loners (TAXI DRIVER), fallen hero (RAGING BULL), bizarre world of Soho (AFTER HOURS), realistic thugs (GOODFELLAS), gangsters controlling Las Vegas (CASINO; it wasn't in NYC, but it still had the similar theme), guilt ridden paramedic (BRINGING OUT THE DEAD), and the war between immigrants (GANGS OF NEW YORK).

This is the Scorsese that all of us know about and remember. Yet Scorsese was also responsible for telling us about a single mother in the southwest struggling to survive (ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE), the final farewell concert of a fantastic rock/folk group The Band (THE LAST WALTZ), and the story of Jesus Christ (LAST TEMPTATION OF Christ). Now Scorsese has become the storyteller of one of the most enthusiastic and eccentric billionaires of recent years, Howard Hughes. In THE AVIATOR, Scorsese portrays Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) as several different roles: filmmaker, womanizer, entrepreneur, engineer, germ-phobic, and aviator. The film tells about the achievements that Hughes accomplished such as the movies HELL'S ANGELS & THE OUTLAW, the building of an airplane that can fly above 20,000 feet, acquiring TWA and making it a international airline, and the design and building of the largest airplane ever the Hercules (now known as the Spruce Goose).

Yet Hughes went through so many conflicts with his business: Pan Am Airline chief Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), Maine Senator Ralph Owen Brewster (Alan Alda), Louis B. Mayer (Stanley DeSantis); his romance: Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett), Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsdale); and himself: paranoia, and obsession compulsion disorder. THE AVIATOR discusses all of those elements in rich detail, that after watching the movie, you begin to realize the amazing accomplishments that Hughes did. Wonder why the only thing we most remember about Hughes was being a recluse who was afraid of germs. And would like to know more about Howard Hughes and see the films that were discussed in the film. This isn't a Scorsese film that people want another TAXI DRIVER, GOODFELLAS, CASINO, or RAGING BULL would expect. This is a different kind of Scorsese, one who is telling a story about a man, who is no different that him. A dreamer who dreams big and ignores what his advisors, and partners tell him, then come up with projects with amazing results. DiCaprio proves that he his under-appreciated actor in this film.

While most of the public see him as that goofy kid who shouts, "I'm king of the world!" in TITANIC. Yet most don't realize his talent with such roles as in WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE and CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. THE AVIATOR shows that DiCaprio is a great actor, giving a realistic portrayal of the eccentric Hughes in some scenes, and a man who cleanses the germs that represent people he dislikes or negative incidents. Blanchett does a amazing job with her performance of Katherine Hepburn with the way her head is tilted back to the pronunciation of words to the snobbish like personality she has when she is around her parents. While Beckinsdale also does a great job playing the very sexy Ava Gardner who has a love/hate relationship with Hughes, a woman who hates him at times, but will help him when he needs help. The supporting performances by John C. Reily, Ian Holm, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Danny Huston, and Matt Ross are all top rate and also deserve recognition as well. And Scorsese proves that he one of the best directors of all time with several elements.

First the pacing of the story, the film never drags and at running time of 169 mins. it kept my attention on what was going to be happening next. Second, some of the scenes of the film were of complete beauty and wonder. One scene that blew my mind was during the filming of the aerial scenes from HELLS ANGELS which showed how dangerous it was filming the dogfight scenes from that film, seventy years before computer generated images would replace that technique. Third, the acting by the actors was top notch and very convincing. Finally, the story of Howard Hughes himself was unique and original and I think there will never be another person like Howard Hughes. This has been quite a year of movies: COLLATERAL, SIDEWAYS, KILL BILL VOL.

2, THE INCREDIBLES, RAY, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT, THE TERMINAL, FAHRENHEIT 9/11, BOURNE SUPREMENCY, OCEANS TWELVE, CRIMINAL, SPIDER-MAN 2, MEAN GIRLS, HARRY POTTER & PRISONER OF AZKABAN, and SPANGLISH were all films that were amazing and all were among my favorite films of this year (yet I still need to see LIFE AQUATIC and FINDING NEVERLAND). But I think it will be hard to beat THE AVIATOR, for it's story, characters, and epic feel. The Academy has snubbed Scorsese for 30 years; they did the same thing for Roman Polanski until THE PIANIST. Now I think its time for the Academy to acknowledge Scorsese for his craft and technique. While some people will believe that Scorsese should have won his Oscar back in 1980 with RAGING BULL, or in 1990 with GOODFELLAS, I feel that it's time to recognize Scorsese for something!

And THE AVIATOR is one film that I think that most Scorsese devotees (like myself) feel is worthy of recognition. Plus, if this movie wins both Best Director and Best Picture, then two of my favorite directors will win Oscars (Scorsese and Michael Mann, who produced AVIATOR). So that is why I am rooting and hoping that THE AVIATOR will collect Oscar gold. The best movie of the year, and don't miss it!!!!! ***** (Out of five) Was the above review useful to you? Page 1 of 81: DiCaprio to play Howard Hughes | Film | The Guardian Movies DiCaprio to play Howard Hughes Today, DiCaprio to play the legendary film-maker Howard Hughes, new Superman movie gets a lift and South Park creators hit out Friday 2 July 1999 05.38 EDT Close This article is 17 years old The latest Leonardo DiCaprio rumour is that he's considering playing Howard Hughes, the legendary film-maker and aviator. The Hughes project is being developed by Disney, and Michael Mann is thought to be in the director's chair. DiCaprio and Mann came close to working together once before on an aborted James Dean biopic.

The film is to be based on the book, Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, by celebrity biographer Charles Higham. Higham maintains that despite Hughes's notorious appetite for leading ladies (including Marilyn Monroe and Katharine Hepburn) his sexual orientation was ambiguous, and that he had affairs with Cary Grant and Errol Flynn. DiCaprio has played a homosexual before; he was the 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse when he was still relatively unknown. When asked about the possibility of casting DiCaprio, Higham said: "Hughes was childlike in many ways, pampered and spoiled, and he was very self-centred and self-absorbed. There is something in DiCaprio's personality which is very singular and concentrated, and I think [he'd] do well at conveying a self-obsessed, self-concerned personality." Is it a bird? The Superman saga gained another twist today when it was revealed that Warner Bros has hired William Wisher to write the latest Man of Steel story.

Wisher, who is best known for his work on Terminator 2 and Judge Dredd , is said to be ready to start the project once he has finished a "top-secret" assignment for director Robert Zemeckis and ImageMovers at DreamWorks. This controversial film has seen writers and stars come and go. In the new Superman story, which has been knocking around since 1997, Superman is killed by his arch-enemy Brainiac and ominously returns in a "new incarnation". Hollywood has been wary of making a fifth Superman film after Superman IV: The Quest for Peace , starring Christopher Reeves, bombed at the box-office in 1987. But with Nicolas Cage expressing an interest in playing the caped superhero, hopes that another movie will be made have been given fresh impetus. Far out, dude The producer-directors of South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut have been talking about the confused and arbitrary diktats which govern the workings of the MPPA, the American ratings board. The board cut two minutes from the film and changed its rating from an NC-17 to a potentially ruinous R-certificate, the British equivalent of an 18.

But creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker who wrote the animated musical, which features Winona Ryder doing amazing things with ping-pong balls, said the board was more concerned about bad language than violence. "They [the MPPA] have no set rules," Matt Stone told the Los Angeles Times. "It makes no sense In going through their notes we saw that they had no standards, so we decided these people are stupid and we'd just try to get [things] past them "If there was something they said couldn't stay in the movie we'd make it ten times worse and five times as long. And they'd come back and say 'OK, that's better'." Despite the duo's cries of financial ruin, it has been suggested that the film could gross $10 million more than the record-breaking Beavis and Butthead Do America. Go Gadget Go The whiff of disaster surrounding the soon-to-be-released Inspector Gadget is getting stronger. After recent mediocre test screenings, the production company is said to have chopped the film significantly. This news can't bode well for its leading man Matthew Broderick who was last seen in Godzilla .

Casting couch  Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce will star in Pavarotti in Dad's Room, an indie coming-of-age story to be directed by Sara Sugarman (Mad Cows). Shooting began in Wales on Monday.  Carrie-Anne Moss , hot star of The Matrix, is to play alongside Guy Pearce in an independent thriller, Memento.  Chris Issak, crooner and actor, has reportedly taken Nicolas Cage's place in the sequel to David Lynch's cult hit, Wild at Heart.  Indie queen Parker Posey has been given a lead role in Scream 3, the final chapter of the horror trilogy due to begin shooting on 7 July. The closely guarded plot, said to be more spoof than gore, reportedly concerns the lives of the Scream team after graduation.  Leslie Nielsen has announced that a fourth film in the Naked Gun series is in the works and may even be his next project.

Howard Hughes Movies: From Leonardo DiCaprio to (Almost) Jim Carrey Howard Hughes movies: Leonardo DiCaprio in 'The Aviator.' Howard Hughes movies Turner Classic Movies will be showing the Howard Hughes-produced, John Farrow-directed, Baja California-set gangster drama His Kind of Woman, starring Robert Mitchum, Hughes discovery Jane Russell, and Vincent Price, at 3 a.m. PT / 6 a.m. ET on Saturday, Nov. 8, '14. Howard Hughes produced a couple of dozen movies. (More on that below.) But what about “Howard Hughes movies”? Or rather, movies – whether big-screen or made-for-television efforts – featuring the visionary, “eccentric” (i.e., mentally unbalanced and filthy rich), hypochondriac , compulsive-obsessive, all-American billionaire as a character? From Leonardo DiCaprio to Jason Robards Besides Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays a dashing if somewhat off-kilter Hughes in Martin Scorsese's 2004 Best Picture Academy Award-nominated The Aviator, other actors who have played Howard Hughes on film include the following: Tommy Lee Jones in William A.

Graham's television movie The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977), with Lee Purcell as silent film star Billie Dove , Tovah Feldshuh as Katharine Hepburn , and Marla Carlis as The Outlaw's breast-popping Jane Russell. Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Jason Robards – as the old and haggard Howard Hughes – in Jonathan Demme's remarkable comedy-drama Melvin and Howard (1980), based on the story of Nevada gas station owner Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have met Hughes in the nearby desert and that the billionaire had left him more than $150 million. (The will was eventually declared a forgery.) Paul Le Mat played a sympathetic Dummar in Melvin and Howard, which also features Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen and, in a minor role, veteran Gloria Grahame (Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952).

Former child actor Dean Stockwell (Anchors Aweigh, The Boy with Green Hair) in Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), starring Jeff Bridges in the title role, plus Joan Allen , Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest , and Mako. Terry O'Quinn in Disney's Joe Johnston-directed The Rocketeer (1991), featuring Billy Campbell in the title role, in addition to Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, and Paul Sorvino. Besides Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, The Aviator features Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner , Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow , Kelli Garner as Faith Domergue, Jude Law as Errol Flynn , Alec Baldwin as Juan Trippe, Kevin O'Rourke as Spencer Tracy, Stanley DeSantis as Louis B. Mayer, and Alan Alda as U.S. senator Owen Brewster.

Additionally, George Peppard played a fictionalized Howard Hughes in Edward Dmytryk 's 1964 melodrama The Carpetbaggers, based on Harold Robbins' bestseller, and featuring Carroll Baker as the Jean Harlow-ish sex/romantic interest and veteran Alan Ladd in his last film role. And finally, Robert Ryan played another character inspired by Hughes in Max Ophüls ' Caught (1949), also starring James Mason and Barbara Bel Geddes. See also: “Warren Beatty to play Howard Hughes: Movie Project .” Howard Hughes movies that weren't Other Howard Hughes biopics that never came to fruition include: A pre-Batman Trilogy Christopher Nolan directing Jim Carrey, of all people, as Howard Hughes. Much like Warren Beatty's film project, the Jim Carrey movie would have covered Hughes' later years. Two-time Best Director Academy Award winner Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975; Amadeus, 1984) directing two-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton (Primal Fear, 1996; American History X, 1998).

Menace II Society and From Hell filmmakers Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes (a.k.a. The Hughes Brothers) – no relation to the billionaire – directing From Hell actor Johnny Depp. Veteran Brian De Palma directing Best Actor Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, 1995) as Hughes. 'Hell's Angels' with Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon: Most expensive movie up to that time? 'Hell's Angels' budget Howard Hughes claimed that his troubled 1930 World War I aviation epic Hell's Angels, featuring Ben Lyon, James Hall, and newcomer Jean Harlow (replacing Norwegian-born Greta Nissen)* was, at a cost of nearly $4 million, the most expensive motion picture ever made. Hughes and/or his p.r. people went as far as having the production expenses listed on the film's souvenir program on opening night. However, according to figures found in United Artists' production ledgers, Hell's Angels' actual price tag was a much more modest – though still hefty – $1.3 million. I should add that its reported $8 million gross, which is found in various online sources, also seems highly debatable.

At a cost of $3.96 million, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's problem-plagued 1925 version of Ben-Hur , (mostly) directed by Fred Niblo and starring Ramon Novarro in the title role, remained the most expensive motion picture until the Selznick/MGM co-production of the (mostly) Victor Fleming-directed Gone with the Wind in 1939. Vivien Leigh , Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland starred in the multiple Oscar winner. * Greta Nissen, who – supposedly – had a heavy Norwegian accent, had been cast in the silent version of Hell's Angels. It should be noted that voice-dubbing was already an option back in those days – e.g., Louise Brooks was dubbed by Margaret Livingston in the 1929 thriller The Canary Murder Case. Katharine Hepburn: One of Howard Hughes' girlfriends. Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn Unlike what is found in The Aviator, RKO contract player Katharine Hepburn was not yet considered box office poison when she met Howard Hughes in the mid-'30s.

Among Hepburn's hits were Lowell Sherman 's Morning Glory (1933), which earned her a Best Actress Academy Award; George Cukor 's Little Women (1933); and George Stevens' Alice Adams (1935), which earned her a Best Actress Academy Award nod. (She lost to Bette Davis in the Warner Bros. release Dangerous.) Katharine Hepburn was, however, included in an infamous – and really, for the most part so absurd as to be suspicious – box office poison list released in May 1938. Harry Brandt, president of the Independent Theater Owners of America, published an article in the Independent Film Journal complaining of the “nil” box office appeal of the following performers: Hepburn, Norma Shearer , Kay Francis , Mae West , Marlene Dietrich , Fred Astaire , Edward Arnold, Joan Crawford , Greta Garbo , Dolores del Rio, John Barrymore, and James Cagney (whose 1938 star vehicle Angels with Dirty Faces turned out to be one of his biggest hits).

Also worth noting, not mentioned in The Aviator is the fact that Howard Hughes loaned money to Katharine Hepburn so she could buy the film rights to her 1939 Broadway production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story. The play's phenomenal success led to Hepburn's triumphant return to films the following year. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the movie version was directed by George Cukor, adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart, and featured Cary Grant and James Stewart as her leading men. Katharine Hepburn would be eventually nominated for the year's Best Actress Oscar, but somewhat ironically lost to another Howard Hughes girlfriend, Ginger Rogers , in the RKO release Kitty Foyle. Hepburn, however, was chosen as the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Actress of the year. And finally, once again unlike what's found in The Aviator, by the time Katharine Hepburn met her Woman of the Year co-star Spencer Tracy in the early '40s, her affair with Howard Hughes had already come to an end. Howard Hughes: Movie producer and control freak.

Howard Hughes: Wrecking RKO Howard Hughes began producing movies, oftentimes without any screen credit, in the late 1920s. Besides Hell's Angels, his film productions, chiefly distributed by United Artists and later on by RKO, include: Lewis Milestone 's Two Arabian Knights (1927), with William Boyd, Louis Wolheim, and Mary Astor , and the winner of the Best Comedy Director Academy Award of 1927-28. The Aviator : Leonardo DiCaprio LEONARDO DICAPRIO July 12, 2004 SOME MEN DREAM THE FUTURE, HE BUILT IT. One of the 20th century’s most compelling figures, Howard Hughes was a wily industrialist, glamorous movie producer and unstoppable American innovator – but he thought of himself first and foremost as an aviator. In this spectacular epic, director Martin Scorsese focuses on the most prolific period in the life of Hughes (played by Best Actor Golden Globe winner DiCaprio): the mid-1920s through the 1940s.

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Cast: THE AVIATOR HOWARD HUGHES MOVIE LEONARDO DI CAPRIO KATE BEKINSALE ALEC BALDWIN MIRAMAX FILMS Leonardo Di Caprio as Howard Hughes However conventional Martin Scorsese might be in directing the biopic about Mr. Hughes, he wisely chooses key incidents (set down by scripter John Logan) in the man's life to give us new insight into what makes one of the most interesting figures of the 20th Century tick. A Renaissance man who. having early on inherited a dominant position in his deceased father's prospering tool business, he refuses to spend his life making mundane implements but instead takes great risks that threaten to bankrupt him should his grandiose ideas not pan outï¿½as they often do not. Fascinated by Hollywood particularly at a time that sound features are coming out for the first time, Hughes directs a World War I epic in 1930 called "Hell's Angels," a slow-moving corny story that introduces the world to Jean Harlow, a movie until then unmatched for visual spectacle.

His "Scarface" introduced Pul Muni to the screen while "The Outlaw" in 1941 featured Jane Russell in a role that has Hughes face a panel of motion picture censors concerned about the extensive "mammaries" of the celebrated actress. His activities in buying the RKO Pictures Corporation are skipped over by Scorcese to give the film audience time to watch the man in action as the founder of the Hughes Aircraft Company, personally flying to set a landplane speed record of 352 miles per hour, then lowering the transcontinental flight time record to 7 hours 28 minutes. Ultimately he would work on an eight-engine, wooden flying boat intended to carry 750 passengers, piloting the machine personally in 1947 for one mile. Key scenes in Scorsese's film at times glorify this larger-than-life figure, making us in the audience root for him when he lands in conflict with those out to crush his company (by now he had purchased TWA) and his spirit.

The film is dominated by two major aspects of his adult life: 1) his affairs with Hollywood actresses Katherine Hepburn and Ava Gardner; 2) his fanatical energy both in coming up with ideas and trying to put them into operation. In the role of Howard Hughes, Leonardo Di Caprio presumably hopes to pick up an Oscar trophy but which, though more than competently performed falls short of the kind of imaginative leap and sympathetic pull on the audience that can be attributed to, say, Don Cheadle as the hotel manager who saves 1,200 members of the Tutsi tribe from Hutu massacre in "Hotel Rwanda." Occasionally shown in extreme close-up, Di Caprio's Hughes comes off as a man whose eyes flash the fire of one possessed, an impatient businessman given to shake his legs impatiently when seated and, strangely enough in two instances to repeat the same words over and over at least a dozen times when he appears not to be under any particular stress. In fact the man comes off best when questioned by the chairman of U.S.

Senate committee led by the senator from Maine (played winningly by the always excellent Alan Alda), speaking clearly and strongly without the aid of a lawyer in getting the spectators on his side when accused by the senator of war profiteering. The Aviator - poster Scorsese also shows Hughes' fascination with liberated women who come off just short of being attainable. Cate Blanchett in the role of Katherine Hepburn speaks boldly to Hughes as she beats him at golf: close your eyes and listen to her voice and you'd swear that Blanchett is merely lip-synching the words of Hepburn herself. The film's best comic scene takes place in Hepburn's home where each member of her eccentric, extended family blathers on at dinner about a subject of his or her own choosing without focus. When one diner expresses the view that "we don't care about money," Hughes replies, "That's because you have it," an obvious retort but one which does not go over too well with these Connecticut aristocrats.

After Hepburn dumps Hughes because she is in love with the already married Spencer Tracy, he meets his match in an even stronger-willed Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale) who, insisting that she is "not for sale" refuses his offer of one of the most exotic sapphire necklaces ever made. "You can buy me dinner," sums her up, but despite her penchant for putting Hughes off, she turns up when the man needs support the mostï¿½when holed up in his home, adhesive tape setting the boundaries of almost every square inch to delineate a "germ-free zone." "The Aviator," which also features Alec Baldwin as the dapper owner of Pan Am seeking to buy Hughes's TWA and John C. Reilly taking care of the business end, is a must-see for students and holders of Master's degrees in Business Administration and by extension for major executives everywhere.

Whether it can be sold in the youth market given how young people seem to make heroes out of Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan, is an arguable point, but surely "The Aviator," which, if ever shown on airlines will surely cut a segment that finds Hughes severely injured in a graphically shown crash of his Hercules plane, is a mature, professionally made film, well cast and showing off John Logan's often crackling dialogueï¿½an epic adventure and a solid entry into the film world for the year 2004. Now He's The King of the Skies!' His name allegedly derives from his German mother Irmalin's having experienced a sudden kick from her unborn boy while enjoying a DaVinci painting at the Uffizi! In the year following his birth, she and his Italian father George were divorced. He grew up in Echo Park, then a particularly seedy, drug-dominated area of Los Angeles. At five he appeared on his favorite TV show, 'Romper Room,' and was nearly thrown off for misbehaving!

The Aviator - Leonardo Di Caprio takes to the skies After a string of commercials, educational films ('Mickey's Safety Club'), occasional parts in TV series, a debut film role as Josh in 'Critters 3' (1991), a continuing role as the homeless boy Luke in the TV series 'Growing Pains,' he got his break-through part as Toby in 'This Boy's Life' (1993), co-starring with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin. The part led the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics to name him runner-up for Best Supporting Actor. His first Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations came for the difficult role of Arnie in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' (1993). Equally challenging parts were a drug-troubled Jim Carroll in 'The Basketball Diaries' (1995), the tormented homosexual poet Rimbaud in 'Total Eclipse' (1995) and the male lead in a very updated 'Romeo + Juliet' (1996). True superstardom came to DiCaprio playing Jack Dawson in ' Titanic ' in 1997.

Chatting with the young man this afternoon, he is noticably tired due to the premiere last night of his new film, 'The Aviator' - in which the actor assumes the role of the young and complex Howard Hughes. Wearing a black t-shirt, black casual jacket, with his hair slicked back, the perennially youthful 30-year old star, has remained intensely passionate about bringing Hughes' life to the screen for several years. "As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character," DiCaprio explains, when asked why the fascination for Hughes. "Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him. He was one of the most complicated men of the last century and so I got this book, brought it to Michael Mann and John Logan came onboard and really came up with the concept, saying, 'you can do ten different movies about Howard Hughes. Let's focus on his younger years.

Let's watch his initial descent into madness but meanwhile, have the backdrop of early Hollywood, these daring pioneers in the world of aviation that were like astronauts that went out and went out and risked their lives to further the cause of aviation. [He was] the first American billionaire who had all the resources in the world but was somehow unable to find any sense of peace of happiness'. It's that great see-saw act in the movie that goes on. On one side, he's having all the successes in the world and on the other side the tiny microbes and germs are the things that are taking him downwards." What level of admiration do you have for this great man? "I think he certainly took things farther than I could ever imagine," the actor insists. "He was such an obsessed human being and remained so obsessive about everything he'd gotten involved with, whether it be planes, women or films, he made." While DiCaprio has remained as ferociously guarded about his private life as Hughes was intensely shy, the actor says those two apparent parallels are miles apart from each other. "I have to say, that for the most part, I am a pretty private person while his came from a genuine mental disorder and I'm just fundamentally not like that.

My reasons for being a private person are different from Mr. Hughes, in that because I'm an actor and want people to believe me in different roles and not necessarily know way too much about me. I want to be around in the business for a long time, while he had an intense fear of being around people and germs." While 'The Aviator' is a film about the early youthful ambitions of Howard Hughes, when it comes to DiCaprio's own childhood dreams and obsessions, the actor says there was really only one, "... ever since I got into this business at around 13 years old and that was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch, that bug, and said, it is possible to make a living doing this for the rest of my life, that is the only thing I really want to do. He had multiple dreams. I look at film and cinema as legitimate an art form as sculpture, painting or anything else. We're in the first hundred years of cinema, which is still in its infancy and I'm very curious to see what types of films last into the next thousand years, just like what paintings people still look at.

I want to be a part of pieces of art as far as cinema is concerned, that people will want to see for generations to come." Who was one of your greatest influences during your formative years? "I remember the casting session that I had where I was a break dancer, having this punk hair cut. They rejected me and I became really disillusioned with the business and said well this is what it's all about, and I haven't even got in to read a line. My father said don't worry, some day we're going to get you back into this and it's going to happen for you, which I kind of took to heart," DiCaprio recalls. "It was one of those situations where I was lucky and fortunate enough to be at the right places at the right time", he adds, referring to his early television breaks that included the likes of 'Parenthood' and 'Growing Pains.' "All of a sudden I was on the set of 'Growing Pains' and got this audition for 'This Boy's Life' and was able to jump into the feature film world. It's really been just simply the fact that I'd been able to work, you know what I mean?

I would probably still be trying to be an actor even if I was out of work, but I would probably become a little disillusioned at some point and move on to other things. But it's the one thing that I know that I love." As for future projects, DiCaprio says they do not include 'Alexander the Great,' which at one time was going to be a Scorsese project. "Alexander The Great was one of those things where Scorsese and I just share the same taste in similar things. We were both fascinated with Alexander The Great as well as Howard Hughes. They're completely different time periods and different men, but similar dynamics, men that keep on reaching for their ultimate goal and stop at nothing until they achieve that. It just happened to be that this script and project was way further advanced in the development stage than the script that landed in our lap from 'Alexander' and we wanted to go forth - we had an intention at one time of doing them both, but you don't get everything you want all the time." Director Martin Scorsese puts the disappointment of Gangs Of New York behind him to breathe life into complex American playboy Howard Hughes.

A legend in American history, the range and depth of his character needed a resourceful actor to capture his essence - Leonardo DiCaprio. Only lingering on Hughes' childhood to cast light on his cleanliness obsession (his mother terrified him with tales of cholera), Scorsese skilfully sketches in the character of the man courtesy of his sideline as movie producer. So we see the young movie mogul blowing millions on the World War I flying feature Hell's Angels, badgering a rival studio for cameras and ordering Ian Holm's meteorologist to "find clouds". The movie had to be re-shot to accommodate the new-fangled soundtrack and also cost the lives of three stunt pilotsbut proved a box office smash. Unencumbered by doubt and driven by an uncompromising quest for perfection, the obsessive maverick would go on to apply his obsessive standards to the Hughes Aircraft Company, and subsequently TWA. The aircraft-obsessed mogul also enjoyed a high-flying personal life, squiring the likes of Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Bette Davis. The spikily intelligent Katharine Hepburn (Blanchett, superb) is the irascible love of his life, while Kate Beckinsale gives good hair-toss as Ava Gardner.

Focused and beautifully paced, this doesn't disappoint visually, with some stunningly shot aerial shots, particularly Hughes' roof-tile shattering crash-landing in the Hollywood Hills. Hughes was such a larger-than-life character that he needed a director with larger-than-life skills to capture his spirit. Scorsese is well up to the task. THE AVIATOR (Cinematografo.it/ Adnkronos ) - The Aviator ï¿½ il miglior film del 2004. A incoronare il kolossal di Martin Scorsese sulla vita del miliardario produttore Howard Hughes ï¿½ stata la Conferenza Episcopale degli Stati Uniti (Usccb) che ha premiato, oltre al valore dell'opera, l'impegno del regista nel diffondere un messaggio allo stesso tempo didattico e ludico. Nella top ten stilata dalla Usccb compare, all'ottavo posto, anche il discusso film di Mel Gibson sulle ultime 12 ore di vita di Gesï¿½, La Passione di Cristo . Drame biographique rï¿½alisï¿½ par Martin Scorsese.

Avec Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilley, Kate Beckinsale. ï¿½A RACONTE : Les 20 premiï¿½res annï¿½es de la carriï¿½re professionnelle du milliardaire Howard Hughes, passionnï¿½ de cinï¿½ma, d'aviation, et de femmes. ON NOTE : Tournï¿½e en grande partie ï¿½ Montrï¿½al, cette imposante production est nï¿½e grï¿½ce ï¿½ l'entï¿½tement de Leonardo DiCaprio qui, aprï¿½s avoir travaillï¿½ un temps avec le cinï¿½aste Michael Mann, a ensuite fait appel ï¿½ Martin Scorsese (celui-lï¿½ mï¿½me qui l'a dirigï¿½ dans Gangs of New York) pour assurer la rï¿½alisation de ce drame biographique. Un parfum de l'Hollywood des annï¿½es de gloire.

FR : * * * * Dicaprio Wore Waist-pinching Corset To Play Hughes | Contactmusic.com Dicaprio Wore Waist-pinching Corset To Play Hughes Dicaprio Wore Waist-pinching Corset To Play Hughes Picture: Leonardo DiCaprio 'Shutter Island' special screening at the Ziegfeld Theatre - Arrivals New York City, USA - 17.02.10 Leonardo Dicaprio and Jude Law reeled in shock when they tried on their outfits for The Aviator - after the film's costume designer demanded they wore figure-enhancing corsets. DiCaprio played eccentric Hollywood director Howard Hughes in the 2004 movie, while Law portrayed dashing swashbuckler Errol Flynn. And the superstar pair was left aghast when they turned up to try on their period outfits - Oscar-winning designer Sandy Powell ordered them to slip into the waist-decreasing garments. She tells Britain's Daily Express, "Everybody still thinks of him (DiCaprio) as Jack in Titanic, like a boy. But he's a big man, surprisingly. About six foot. I wanted that really nipped in, poker up the back look, as slick as Fred Astaire.

"DiCaprio is naturally (a) slouchy jeans man. Completely not a suit man. But he looks fantastic in a suit. All men's evening wear looks much better when they are standing upright, and of course men slouch. The corset provides the base for the clothing over the top. They (DiCaprio and Law) were a bit shocked at first but they want to look good so of course they did it." Contactmusic Aviator - Cigarette Girl - YouTube Aviator - Cigarette Girl Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Sep 27, 2007 Howard Hughes hits on the cigarette girl Category

Question: Leonardo di Caprio played multi-millionaire Howard Hughes in which film?
Answer: The Aviator