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Lots of NYC-area horror screenings for Halloween & beyond

31 October 2008 11:02 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

With the scariest day of the year upon us, revival houses and specialty venues in the New York City area are breaking out the fright features. In addition to the IFC Center’s midnight screenings of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu and others (see item here), there are plenty more screenings where you can get a ghoulish flick fix:

• Manhattan’s Film Forum (209 W. Houston Street) is offering a new 35mm print of Roman Polanski’s classic Rosemary’S Baby for the movie’s 40th anniversary. Showing at 1:30 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:35 p.m. daily from today-Thursday, November 6, Polanski’s adaptation of Ira Levin’s best-selling novel (produced by genre legend William Castle) still chills with its tale of a young woman (Mia Farrow) who slowly discovers a devilish conspiracy around her.

• Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue) is having a special Halloween midnight show tonight

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Mary

17 October 2008 8:16 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

'Mary" is a mess. An inter esting one, yet still a mess. But that's to be expected from its director, the erratic Abel Ferrara ("Bad Lieutenant," "King of New York," et al.).

The cast is noteworthy: Juliette Binoche plays both Mary Magdalene and an actress playing Mm in a movie called "This Is My Blood Matthew Modine plays the director of "Blood" and the actor portraying Jesus in it. There's also Forest Whitaker as a Charlie Rose-style TV host, and

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By V.A. MUSETTO

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Stuff and Things: October 15, 2008

15 October 2008 3:39 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Here's a round-up of some stuff (and things) currently making waves online ...

-- The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly features the pretty faces of Zachary Quinto (as Spock) and Chris Pine (as Kirk) in J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek (due out this winter May). When the mag hits stands on Friday, look for enough behind the scenes photos to make any Trekker blush. [via Just Jared] Also, JoBlo has debuted the first image of the film's main villain, Nero. Check it out below, then larger over at The Blo.

And then there's this one of Spock choking the sh*t out of some poor soul from AICN ...

And from Ugo, here's the entire cast ...

More Trek at TrekMovie.com and IGN and MTV.

-- Variety reviews the buzzed-about Frost/Nixon from London: "Although it all pays off in a potent and revelatory final act rife with insights into the psychology and calculations of power players,

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Erik Davis

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Bad Lieutenant Remake Still Sparking Baroque Threats From Ferrara

15 October 2008 10:00 AM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news

Hell hath no fury like Abel Ferrara underpaid for his intellectual property. In an lengthy interview with Nick Dawson for the Filmmaker Blog (pegged to the long-awaited Us first run of Ferrara's 2005 film Mary, which starts at Anthology Film Archives on Friday), the filmmaker has more complaints about the Nicolas Cage-starring, Werner Herzog-directed remake of Bad Lieutenant. The big problem seems to be that rather than offer Ferrara and his crew a big (or, biggish), Ed Press ...

Karina Longworth

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Opening This Week: Still President Bush get his biopic

13 October 2008 9:26 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

There's plenty to be pleased about this week as we get to spend time with both current and future presidents as part of an Ellen Burstyn double bill. There's also -- whisper it -- a movie based on a video game that might actually be worth seeing. Not to mention enough titular wordplay to make Richard Lederer's head spin. It's all just pun and games though, right?

"The Elephant King"

Built on the old adage that getting lost is the best way to find oneself, Seth Grossman's debut feature follows the travels of Oliver (Tate Ellington), a suicidal writer who's dispatched by Ellen Burstyn's frantic matriarch to the seedy bar scene of Thailand to bring back his brother Jake (Jonno Roberts) to face his considerable debts in the U.S. Once abroad, Oliver finds that he may be at odds with his brother, but

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Neil Pedley

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Eva Mendes: Whore

10 September 2008 7:50 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Eva Mendes will join Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which, it should be pointed out, is not a remake of the Harvey Keitel movie from the 1990s, although there have to be some similarities, you'd think, or else why keep the name?

Mendes told MTV that the film is a murder mystery set in post-Katrina New Orleans, but that's about all she said regarding the plot. Because, she insists, she doesn't really know how director Werner Herzog's movie will turn out.

"I have no idea what we made in a way because it was so experimental," she said. "I don’t know [what it's gonna wind up being]." One thing it won't be is as explicitly violent or sexual as the Nc-17 Bad Lieutenant directed by Abel Ferrara. "There is nothing that I was in this film that was like that," she swears.

We know from Cage's recent interviews that

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Colin Boyd

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Getting Even

16 August 2008 9:00 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

'As you suffer through another summer, don't take it out on your fellow pedestrians or subway passengers - come in, cool off, and let fictional vigilantes settle your score."

That's sound advice from Anthology Film Archives, which Thursday through next Sunday will screen five revenge flicks from the 1970s and '80s, when the streets of New York were, in the Anthology's words, "grittier and scummier" than now.

Three are directed by Bronx-born William Lustig, who will attend some of the screenings: "Maniac Cop" (1988), "Maniac Cop 2" (1990) and "Vigilante" (1983).

Also on the schedule are Abel Ferrara's "Ms.

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By V.A. MUSETTO

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Val Kilmer, Xzibit on board for ‘Bad Lieutenant’

3 July 2008 11:25 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Val Kilmer, Xzibit and Jennifer Coolidge have signed on to star in Werner Herzog’s upcoming remake of “Bad Lieutenant,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In Abel Ferrara’s original 1992 film, Harvey Keitel played a corrupt New York City cop investigating a young nun’s rape.

In the new version, Nicholas Cage will apparently play a cop who investigates the murder of a group of illegal immigrants. Eva Mendes and Brad Dourif co-star.

Kilmer is playing Cage’s partner, while Xzibit will star as one of the film’s villains. Herzog is directing a script by Billy Finkelstein.

Val Kilmer was last seen on the big screen in Tony Scott’s “Déjà Vu.” Justa few days ago, we reported he joined the cast of “Silver Cord,” which James Ordonez is directing.

Xzibit was last seen in “Gridiron Gang.” He will next star in Chris Carter’s “The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

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Franck Tabouring

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Kilmer + Xzibit Join Cage In Bad Lieutenant

3 July 2008 4:56 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Val Kilmer and rapper Xzibit have joined the all-star remake of cult movie Bad Lieutenant.

The film stars Nicolas Cage and Kilmer as tough cops, with Xzibit playing a crime kingpin.

Eva Mendes will also feature in the film, a remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 movie, which starred Harvey Keitel as a corrupt cop who finds redemption through the Catholic church.

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Val Kilmer signs for 'Bad Lieutenant'

3 July 2008 3:26 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Val Kilmer will star in Werner Herzog's crime drama Bad Lieutenant. He will star opposite Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in the remake of the 1992 Abel Ferrara movie. Rapper Xzibit, Fairuza Balk, Brad Dourif, Vondie Curtis Hall, Jennifer Coolidge and Shawn Hatosy have also signed up for the (more)

By Alex Fletcher

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Werner Herzog on "Encounters at the End of the World"

10 June 2008 7:55 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Aaron Hillis

Fearless filmmaking legend Werner Herzog ("Rescue Dawn," "Grizzly Man") has survived everything from active volcanoes to angry natives, stray bullets during interviews and Klaus Kinski himself, but what about global devastation? Shot entirely in Antarctica on the National Science Foundation's dime, "Encounters at the End of the World" has an ominous double meaning in our age of climate crisis, but that theme would be too simplistic by half for a resilient cinematic visionary like Herr Herzog. A mirthful and meditative quest for beauty, profundity and magic amongst those rare human beings . many scientists or other esoteric specialists . who choose to live and work in this isolated locale, Herzog's latest finds new vital questions to ask the world (prostitution and homosexuality among penguins?) through a filter of vibrant personalities, lyrical juxtapositions between man and nature, and the auteur's distinctive deadpan wit. Though my chat with Herzog was far too brief this time around,

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Aaron Hillis

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Lynch Teams with Herzog for Horror-tinged Murder Drama

14 May 2008 11:11 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for My Son, My Son, a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story. Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote "Son," loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March. Herzog, repped by Gersh, is having a busy 2008. He was set to film "Son" in the summer but postponed it to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" starting in July. In the fall, he will shoot the Victorian-era drama "The Piano Tuner" for Focus Features.

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2008 | 2000

12 articles from 2008

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