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DVD Playhouse--November 2009
11 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Clive Owen: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Clive Owen Gets Back
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Clive Owen is one of those actors that keep surprising you. Just when you think the audience, and the Hollywood establishment, has pegged him as an action hero, a leading man, or a romantic comedy pin-up, Owen pulls an about-face and does something unexpected.
It all started October 3, 1964 in Coventry, England. Owen’s father, a country music singer, abandoned the family when he was just three. His mother later remarried, with Clive and his four brothers raised by his mother and stepfather, who worked for British Rail. Owen has characterized those early years as "rough." A self-described “solidly working class” kid, Owen was bitten by the acting bug at age 13 and followed his dream to The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art several years later. Initially cutting his teeth on high-profile British television programs such as “Chancer” and “Sharman,” as well as art house »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Greatest Scream Queens
1 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Debbie Rochon, often described as a scream queen herself, wrote in an article originally published in Gc Magazine that "a true Scream Queen isn't The Perfect Woman. She's sexy, seductive, but most importantly 'attainable' to the average guy. Or so it would seem." Nastassja Kinski Films: To the Devil a Daughter (1976) [1] Cat People (1982) [2] The Day the World Ended (2001) [3] Inland Empire (2006) [4] Kinski will always be remembered for the iconic photograph shot by Richard Avedon (with a snake coiled around her body) and her role in Paul Schrader's (not so good) remake of Cat People. Needless to say, it was a hit at the box office and Kinski deservingly received a Saturn Award for Best Actress. Caroline Munro Films: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) [5] Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) [6] Dracula A.D. 1972 [7] Maniac (1980) [8] Faceless (1987) [9] Demons 6 (1989) [10] Caroline Munro seduced audiences in her Hammer roles in films like Dracula A.D. 1972, but for gore hounds, »
- Ricky
Reminder! Midnight Shock Event: Prophecy (1979)
17 July 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
One summer afternoon, when I was a kid, my father called me into the living room and said, "You've gotta check this out!" He hit play on the rented VHS player we had and showed me a clip of a guy, tied to the top of a truck. Then, this giant, lumbering mutant bear moves in front of the camera and takes the dude's head off! Was I terrified? Hell no. Fascinated? Yes! From that point on, my love affair for director John Frankenheimer and writer David Seltzer's 1979 environmental horror flick Prophecy . (Hell, the damn thing haunts my Twitter account.) Many, many years later, I'm happy to announce that ShockTillYouDrop.com and the New Beverly Cinema (7165 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles) are prepping to kick your ass - and deliver a poignant message about pollution -... »
Karl Malden Passes Away at the Age of 97
1 July 2009 5:34 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
It has been a rough two weeks for the entertainment business when it comes to the passing of major celebrity names as Karl Malden has passed away at the age of 97. Malden died in his sleep about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, his manager Bud Ross tells CNN. Malden won an Oscar for his performance alongside Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and was also nominated for another one of his performances opposite Brando in On the Waterfront in 1955. Only five years ago at the 2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards he was recognized with a Life Achievement Award and has long been recognized as a Hollywood icon. My personal experience with his movies has been relatively limited considering the overal breadth of his career but I have seen him in films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, How the West Was Won, The Cincinnati Kid, Patton »
- Brad Brevet
Sam Mendes--The Hollywood Interview
14 June 2009 9:44 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Sam Mendes.
Sam Mendes Hits The Road With Away We Go
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Alex Simon
Sam Mendes is one of the rare hyphenates who remains active directing on the stage and in film, in a time when the two worlds have become largely segregated from one another. Having been lauded with virtually every prestigious award for stage and screen by time he was in his mid-30s, Sam Medes was a wunderkind almost from the start.
Born August 1, 1965 in Reading, Berkshire, England to a university lecturer father and a mother who authored children’s books, Mendes’ parents divorced when he was five. Upon reaching Cambridge University, he quickly fell in love with theater and film, joining the Chichester Festival Theater after graduation in 1987. Soon, he was directing Dame Judi Dench in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, winning the Critics Circle Award for Best Newcomer. Following work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
DVD Playhouse--June 2009
3 June 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—June 2009
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Allen Gardner
The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Action Helmer Morel Soon to Be Big in Japan
28 April 2009 8:46 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Pierre Morel (best known to those who still insist on calling them “freedom fries” as the director of Taken) is slated to helm an action/espionage thriller set in Tokyo. Variety sums up the plot of said unnamed flick thusly: “Story follows a CIA operative, stationed in Japan but on the verge of retirement, who is ordered to carry out a final mission. He finds himself caught in the middle of an international conspiracy.” The takeaway message here — and in Taken — is that CIA agents never really retire. They’re just put on ice for awhile until it’s time to crack some muthafuckin’ heads. I don’t know about you, but I don’t see how this can be anything but good news. For starters, anything associated with Japan is instantly awesome (see: Hello Kitty, Audition and the Datsun B210 (yes, the B stands for Badass). Second, the fight scenes and overall pace of Taken were »
- J.L. Sosa
Blood-Spattered Blog: The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1996)
27 April 2009 8:25 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
I’m extremely happy that the fine fiends at Fango have given me this tiny corner of the world weird web to rant about whatever slice of cinema shakes my creepy tree. Who else would allow me to throw down truth about director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate)’s 1996 adaptation of H.G. Wells influential science fiction/horror shocker The Island Of Doctor Moreau, a movie loathed by most, forgotten by many, unseen by legions and only admired by a few filmy freaks like myself?
No one, I says.
So on that note, the picture I’ve opted to muse on this week is indeed that very same beast-man riddled oddity, one of iconic actor Marlon Brando and legendary director Frankenheimer’s final features . What a way to go…and I’m being only mildly ironic when I say that.
If you’ve read the book or seen any of the »
Playing it Straight
7 April 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
While Sean Penn’s recent Best Actor Oscar win for Milk helped bring Harvey Milk’s message to a wide audience — both from the increased visibility of the film and from Penn’s moving acceptance speech — the occasion marked another instance of a Hollywood tradition: a gay character played by a heterosexual actor.
Penn, like Tom Hanks (Philadelphia [1993]) and William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman [1985]) before him, was praised for his “bravery” for taking on the role and even — eek! — kissing another man.
Gay actors, on the other hand, get no such credit for playing gay roles; let’s not forget the year that Rupert Everett’s hilarious supporting turn in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) was ignored by the Academy, with the implication that queer thespians need merely show up to play queer characters, with no actual acting involved. (To add insult to injury, that same year saw »
- dennis
Composer Maurice Jarre Passes Away
30 March 2009 2:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
"One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head and that only I can hear."
The week starts with some unhappy news, as the Afp reports that Academy Award composor Maurice Jarre has passed away at the age of 84. He wrote music for over 150 films, and many of them for the great directors: John Frankenheimer, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Luchino Visconti, David Lean, and Peter Weir.
In his long career, he was nominated for an Oscar nine times, and took home three. His three Oscar wins were for what are probably his most recognizable scores: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Passage to India. Doctor Zhivago will alwaos be one of my favorites, »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Tobey Maguire Finds The Limit
29 March 2009 6:46 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Tobey Maguire’s got his timing bang-on.No sooner has Formula 1 made its triumphant return to the sporting schedules, than it was announced that the Spider-Man star will star and produce in Columbia’s The Limit, a drama based on the real-life rivalry between two Ferrari drivers in the 1961 Grand Prix.Maguire will play Jeff Hill, the only American to ever – Spoiler! – win the World Drivers’ Championship. During the ’61 season, he battled against his team-mate, Wolfgang von Trips, in a battle that went right to the wire, taking a truly tragic twist along the way.The movie will be based on Michael Cannell’s forthcoming novel (of the same name), which Tony Peckham will turn into a screenplay. Maguire Entertainment’s Jenno Topping will produce, along with her boss.Given that its natural mix of speed, intrigue and drivers’ egos the size of planets, F1 seems innately cinematic. Yet, apart »
Lansbury Slams Manchurian Remake
26 March 2009 6:25 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Angela Lansbury has slammed Denzel Washington's The Manchurian Candidate remake, insisting it was destined to flop.
Lansbury was Oscar-nominated for her role as the domineering mother of a brainwashed soldier in the John Frankenheimer film, and she admits she was shocked when the 1962 movie was remade in 2004, starring Washington and Meryl Streep.
The new version was warmly received by critics - but Lansbury insists it 'failed' because too many film fans knew about the twist at the end.
She says, "I love Denzel. And for that reason I was interested in it. But I don't know how you can make a movie which you know the end result. The cat was out of the bag before it even began. For that reason it did not succeed." »
Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Action/Adventure Edition
13 March 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
When referring to a movie that nabbed a second life, typically home video is the savior. There are countless movies that didn’t fare well in their original theatrical runs but have earned a so-called second life thanks to profitable video sales and rentals that make them much stronger than they ever were when they first arrived. Examples of this trend vary greatly, whether you’re referring to genre, era, proliferation (or magnitude of the “second life”) and, of course, how deserving it is. Most that get a boost long after its premiere got where it is now slowly, spread wide by word of mouth and critical re-analysis. Most of them were not well received during the initial run, and many are re-evaluated, and mistakes are mended. Among them: 2001, The Princess Bride, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Office Space and Dazed and Confused. These »
- Matt Medlock
DVD Playhouse--March 2009
10 March 2009 11:25 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2009
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Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Blu-Ray Round Up, Feb. 26, 2009: ‘Futurama,’ ‘Ronin,’ ‘Vanishing Point’
26 February 2009 1:55 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Still trying to get over an Oscar hangover? There’s no better way to deflate the pomposity of awards season than with a wicked car chase. Of course, one of the best of all time hit Blu-Ray this week in the controversial Blu-Ray release of “The French Connection,” but the same studio also released another pair of movies dedicated to automobile aficionados and an animated sci-fi comedy when all the metal destruction gets too much to take.
Two of the best car movies of all time - 1971’s “Vanishing Point” and 1998’s “Ronin” - hit Blu-Ray for the first time this week and the final “Futurama” movie, “Into the Wild Green Yonder” also hit the format. All three of these titles were released on February 24th, 2009.
“Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder”
Photo credit: Fox I was as excited about the “Futurama” movies as much as anyone, but now »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Blu-Ray Review: ‘The French Connection’ Loses None of Its Power, But Video Disappoints
25 February 2009 10:50 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0 Chicago – “The French Connection” is one of those rare movies that’s always better than I remember it to be. Not that I think poorly of William Friedkin’s masterful procedural, a multiple Oscar winner and game-changer in the world of detective cinema, but that it’s a film that blows me away every time see it. So why did William Friedkin have to mess with the picture?
Maybe I’m too much of a purist, but I’m not alone in responding very negatively to the unusual video tampering done by William Friedkin on his amazing “The French Connection,” the winner for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Director. Both Jeffrey Wells and Glenn Kenny have expressed similar disappointment in Friedkin’s remastering for arguably one of the best films of the ’70s.
The French Connection was released on Blu-Ray on February 24th, 2009.
Photo credit: Fox Essentially, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
[DVD Review] The French Connection II
24 February 2009 12:56 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
It’s hard to follow a movie as acclaimed as The French Connection. If you stick too closely to the first film, you’d only be walking in its shadow. If you try to do something new, you’re not living up to the name. Because of this, The French Connection II is one of the most underrated films of the 1970’s, often dismissed simply because it’s not The French Connection.
The sequel sees our hero Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) arriving in Marseilles, France, to capture the fugitive villain Charnier (Fernando Rey). With an all-French cast, Hackman and Rey are the only two actors returning. John Frankenheimer replaced William Friedkin as director and to his credit, he devised a sequel that is as brilliant of a film as the first, but rocks to a completely different tune. Instead of a hard-nosed investigation where the thrill is in seeing Popeye »
- Arya Ponto
[DVD Review] The French Connection II (Blu-ray)
24 February 2009 12:56 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
It’s hard to follow a movie as acclaimed as The French Connection. If you stick too closely to the first film, you’d only be walking in its shadow. If you try to do something new, you’re not living up to the name. Because of this, The French Connection II is one of the most underrated films of the 1970’s, often dismissed simply because it’s not The French Connection.
The sequel sees our hero Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) arriving in Marseilles, France, to capture the fugitive villain Charnier (Fernando Rey). With an all-French cast, Hackman and Rey are the only two actors returning. John Frankenheimer replaced William Friedkin as director and to his credit, he devised a sequel that is as brilliant of a film as the first, but rocks to a completely different tune. Instead of a hard-nosed investigation where the thrill is in seeing Popeye »
- Arya Ponto
The Week Ahead on DVD and Games. "The French Connection" series on Blu-ray, Sex Drive, 50 Cent Blood on the Sand, Resistance: Retribution and more!
23 February 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Fittingly enough, since the Oscars® just took place, this week sees the release of the eagerly anticipated "The French Connection" and its sequel "French Connection II." The first Academy Award-winning crime thriller is helmed by William Friedkin, known for several other critically acclaimed films like "The Exorcist" and "Bug." Friedkin did not direct the sequel, instead, John Frankenheimer ("The Manchurian Candidate," Reindeer Games") took over the reigns.In "The French Connection" Hackman stars as "Popeye" Doyle, a brash New York City detective who uncovers a heroin-smuggling operation. The car chase under the elevated train tracks is movie legend. Another film which was nominated for two Academy Awards was 1987's "Ironweed" starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, two veterans who have stood the test of Hollywood. Streep was last in the critically acclaimed "Doubt" alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams and Jack Nicholson kicked the bucket along with Morgan Freeman in "The Bucket List. »
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