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Obscure Pa film to find: 1979's The Ravagers starring Richard Harris

9 June 2009 8:04 AM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

The Ravagers is another in a long line of Hollywood backed Pa films from the 70s that, despite sporting some pretty big names, just seems to have disappear off the face of the earth. That's right folks. No DVD. Nadda. There was a VHS copy released in England ages ago but other than that the film has become something of a Pa legend over the years and a real coveted item for collectors.

The quality of the film itself is up there with another of the era, Ultimate Warrior which, like The Ravagers, starred big names like Max Von Sydow and Yul Brenner. A little dated maybe, but still great fun. That film was recently releases on DVD as part of a double feature with Montgomery Tully's Battle Beneath the Earth so I still have hopes that we'll see The Ravagers hit home video one day.

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Weekly Body Count: Trap Them and Eat Them

20 May 2009 9:02 PM, PDT | From SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news

One of the many disadvantages of living in a place like New Hamsphire is that you have to live on the edge vicariously through the lives of people who live closer to the action through correspondence so it was a while before I got into the depths of crazy horror movies. Though I'd been watching horror for years, we never had the convenience of one of those video stores that bought one of everything from their distributors and the horror sections around these parts were woefully understocked. If you wanted to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street 6, you could find it just about anywhere but if you wanted to go out on a limb and see something wildly exotic, you were screwed. Getting your hands on stuff bearing names like Lenzi, D'Amato and Deodato you had to drive into Boston and pay premium prices on factory pre-records and overpriced bootlegs.

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Bryan White

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Potter, Dumbledore in 'Half-Blood Prince' Featurette

20 May 2009 5:27 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince represents the most we'll see of Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) working together. In the past, it has been a handful of scenes, but in this chapter, Dumbledore will play a much more significant role. Hell, he even has his own poster this time.

I think I've mentioned before that I'd like to see Gambon earn an Oscar nomination for his contribution to the Potter series, much the way Ian McKellen received one for Lord of the Rings. He replaced a legend, Sir Richard Harris, and has really made the role his own. You would think that this would be the best chance he has, although I doubt it would ever happen.

You can get a better look at Harry and Dumbledore carrying the weight of Half-Blood Prince in this new featurette. Mind the subtitles...

Colin Boyd

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Tribeca, French Actresses, Gay History

1 May 2009 11:03 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Next week blogging will return to normal but this weekend I'm mostly offline. That's normally hard for me (My name is Nathaniel and I'm an internet addict) but this wedding weekend is such a blast that I haven't much though of movies... except for when we passed the Alamo Ritz earlier.

Before I left I took in my last Tribeca film, All About Actresses [Q & A] which is a French mockumentary about actresses and their neurosis. The actresses play themselves... but comedic false versions of themselves. The writer/director/star Maïwenn looked So familiar to me and I just couldn't place her. This is what IMDb is for. Turns out she played the diva Plavalaguna in The Fifth Element. Well, how about that? I always loved her scene in that movie. Her new film is... unusual... but despite my francophilia, I feel like more knowledge of French cinema would have definitely helped

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NATHANIEL R

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Jared Harris Discusses The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

1 May 2009 1:31 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

The actor talks about his role in the film, working with Brad Pitt and David Fincher, Fringe and more

Jared Harris has the acting bug in his genes, but that doesn't mean he didn't forge his way through the biz on his own. Jared, the son of legendary actor Richard Harris, became first known for his portrayal of Andy Warhol in the 1996 indie I Shot Andy Warhol, which lead to a spate of work throughout the 90s that lead to bigger studio films like roles in Mr. Deeds, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Ocean's Twelve and Lady In the Water. Harris' latest role was in the Best Picture nominee The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which will be released on DVD, a very rare new-release Criterion Collection two-disc DVD and Criterion Collecton Blu-ray on May 5. I had the chance to speak with Harris, who portrayed Captain Mike in the film, over the phone,

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Amanda Peet Joins Gulliver's Travels Remake

28 April 2009 5:06 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news

Amanda Peet -- The Whole Nine Yards, Something's Gotta Give, and Syriana -- is the latest to join Twentieth Century-Fox's upcoming version of Gulliver's Travels. Peet joins a cast that already includes Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, and Jack Black in the title role. She landed the role of Gulliver's editor, who in this version serves as a potential love interest.

This will be the ninth adaptation of Jonathan Swift's literary classic, whether for film or television. Other feature-length versions include the 1939 animated movie, a Columbia Pictures release in 1960, and the 1979 release starring Richard Harris. Production began last month, and the movie is scheduled to open in June 2010.

Next Showing:

Link | Posted 4/28/2009 by Rich Z

Amanda Peet

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Gabriel Byrne: The Hollywood Interview

10 April 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news

Actor Gabriel Byrne.

Gabriel Byrne: Talk To Me

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Alex Simon

Editor's Note: The following article appears in the April issue of Venice Magazine.

Gabriel Byrne was born in Dublin May 12, 1950, the eldest of six children. After schooling under the stern tutelage of The Christian Brothers and five years in Catholic seminary, Byrne attended University College in Dublin, where he studied linguistics and archeology, as well as honing his love of soccer, playing with the renowned Stella Maris Football Club.

Byrne discovered acting late compared to most of his peers, spending his 20s working in a variety of professions including schoolteacher, where his students inadvertently helped him discover his true calling (see below for more details). Since then, he has starred in over 45 films for some of cinema's finest contemporary directors both in the Us and Europe (John Boorman, Costa Gavras, Michael Mann, Ken Loach, David Cronenberg, and the Coen Brothers,

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Kiss Him, He's Irish

17 March 2009 1:37 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

see also: Kiss Her She's Irish

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Can you guess which famous actor these lips belong to?

Which pair are you most eager to plant one on?*

Hollywood sure does loves Irish men. If you know of friends who do... forward this link on and see how well they can do guessing these.

Updated: Highlight the text below for all the names (not in order) and you can try to figure it out on your own if you're just joining us:

Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender, Richard Harris, Stuart Townsend, Spencer Tracy, Colin Farrel, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Aidan Quinn, Kenneth Branagh, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, Peter O'Toole, Cillian Murphy and Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Answers are now posted in the comments. All that's left is the kissing.

* Straight boy and lesbian readers are non-exempt from this comment game but should probably avoid tongue so as to keep it platonic.

NATHANIEL R

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Full-On 'Half-Blood Prince' Trailer

5 March 2009 1:13 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Wisely, this new internet exclusive trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince shifts the focus away from Harry, Hermione, and the red headed kid, and puts the spotlight on the Tom Riddle/Voldemort angle. I mean, that is the main conflict in the film, so it's good to finally see that instead of the teenage romance stuff we've mostly had to this point.

And just so that we get it out there: How about Michael Gambon as Dumbledore? Stepping into that role after Richard Harris passed away, and he's been great each time out. We get to go back a number of years with Dumbledore in this chapter, and as you'll see in this trailer if you haven't already, he gets away from the grounds of Hogwarts in the sixth film.

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Colin Boyd

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Did Composer Jerry Goldsmith Recycle His Score?

1 March 2009 4:27 AM, PST | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news

Issue #4 covers the filming of 100 Rifles in our tribute Jim Brown: The First Black Action Hero. Here, big Jim gets up close and personal with Raquel Welch in their groundbreaking love scene. Following our recent reference to the 1976 western The Last Hard Men, Graham Rye wrote to tell us that Jerry Goldsmith's score for the film was primarily lifted from his earlier work on 100 Rifles.

See if you agree with Graham's observations:

"It was more or less the same score, slightly differently arranged, but the main them was the same. I remember from when I originally saw The Last Hard Men in the cinema. As I sat watching it, I thought, "Blimey, he's used the same score from 100 Rifles (a score I particularly enjoyed in 1969) - crafty bugger!" I had a LeRoy Holmes LP that covered a number of western themes, one of which was 100 Rifles. I think

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BAFTA Winners and Moments

9 February 2009 8:13 AM, PST | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

The BAFTAs were once a shrug. Then a raised eyebrow. This year they were a scratched head. To me at least. So let me just speed through this. The last round of pre-Oscar winners. In other words, rehearsals for Oscar speeches. That's the only point.

Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Score & Sound (and more prizes later too) Slumdog Millionaire

I wish there was a Best Craft Services Oscar so Slumdog Millionaire could win that one, too.

Best MakeUp, Visual Effects & Art Direction The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I know there's been a lot of talk about Button going 0 for 13 at Oscar which would be a record but it's not going to happen. It should have an easy time in a couple of technical categories as it did here at BAFTA.

Carl Foreman Award Steve McQueen Hunger

That is such an amazing movie and I happy that they recognized it in a small way.

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NATHANIEL R

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Brad Pitt Serves As Butt of Mick Jagger's Joke

9 February 2009 2:45 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Mick Jagger delivered the top prize – to the evening's big winner, Slumdog Millionaire – and the best line of the evening – about Brad Pitt – at Sunday's 2009 British Academy Film Awards. Explaining what he was doing at a movie event the same night as the Grammys, the Rolling Stone said he was part of a rock star-movie star exchange program. "Sir Anthony Hopkins is in the recording studio with Amy Winehouse," joked Jagger, "and we are hoping that next week Sir Brad and all the Pitt family will be performing The Sound of Music at the Brit awards." Sitting in the audience

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Stephen M. Silverman

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Brad Pitt Serves As Butt of Mick Jagger's Joke

9 February 2009 2:45 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Mick Jagger delivered the top prize – to the evening's big winner, Slumdog Millionaire – and the best line of the evening – about Brad Pitt – at Sunday's 2009 British Academy Film Awards. Explaining what he was doing at a movie event the same night as the Grammys, the Rolling Stone said he was part of a rock star-movie star exchange program. "Sir Anthony Hopkins is in the recording studio with Amy Winehouse," joked Jagger, "and we are hoping that next week Sir Brad and all the Pitt family will be performing The Sound of Music at the Brit awards." Sitting in the audience

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Stephen M. Silverman

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Rourke's Racy Acceptance Speech

8 February 2009 5:40 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Mickey Rourke turned the air blue at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards as he credited The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky with rescuing his career.Rourke won the prestigious Leading Actor gong at the BAFTAs in London on Sunday night for his role as Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in the acclaimed movie.

And he caused much laughter among the star-studded audience at the awards ceremony with a reference to his years in the wilderness and a cheeky nod to his co-star Marisa Tomei.

Accepting the award, Rourke said: "Darren Aronofsky gave me a second chance after I f**ked up my career for 15 years...

"I want to thank my publicist Paula for having the hardest job in showbiz - telling me where to go, what to do, when to do it. What to eat, what to dress, what to f**k. It's such a pleasure to be here and back out of the darkness.

"Marisa Tomei for putting up with me - she's a hell of a talent and was very brave for taking her clothes off all the time. I enjoyed looking at her!"

But Rourke showed his softer side by dedicating the win to veteran star Richard Harris, who died in 2002.

He adds, "Last but not least... I would like to dedicate this to an actor who is not here anymore that was a great friend of mine. His spirit and his talent live on; the great Richard Harris."

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Richard Harris Was Caught Drinking Elizabeth Taylor's Perfume

28 January 2009 8:00 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Elizabeth Taylor once kicked legendary hellraiser Richard Harris out of her Hollywood home, after catching him drinking her expensive perfume. Harris, who died in 2002, was a famous Hollywood party animal and lifelong drinker - part of a booze-loving fraternity of British and Irish stars including Oliver Reed, Peter O'Toole and Taylor's late husband Richard Burton.

His embarrassing encounter with the glamorous actress was revealed to his actor son Jared when he worked with fellow actor Jason Flemyng on new movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Jared Harris explains, "His (Flemyng's) dad and my dad were friends when they were young men in Hollywood.

"They went to a party Elizabeth Taylor was giving.

"She cut off the alcohol and kicked everyone out. She went up to bed and found Jason Flemyng's father and my father upstairs downing all the Chanel No.5."

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Japanese Trailer: Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince -- Daniel Radcliffe says 'Konichiwa'. Really.

23 January 2009 | From Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is seven months away when it really should be two months old. No, I won't let this go. I don't care how much money "The Dark Knight" made for Warner Bros., I need a new "Harry Potter" movie every eighteen months or else I get cranky. I also start grasping at any new footage I can find and since Warner Bros. probably won't be cutting a final domestic trailer for the new movie any time soon (I'm guessing March is when we'll see it), I have to head to the Land of the Rising Sun and check out this new, full-length trailer. While it has some stuff we've seen before, there's also a bit of new footage, including a joke from Dumbledore which is sorely needed since Gambon plays the guy with none of the mirth of the character from the books or how

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The Oscar will now be taken back from ...: Seven winner who can give back their golden boys

21 January 2009 11:41 AM, PST | From Planetallstar.com | See recent Planet All-Star news

There’s no end of blogging about wrong-headed Oscar wins. The litany of complaints about “Shakespeare in Love” winning over “Saving Private Ryan,” or “Forrest Gump” over “Pulp Fiction,” or “The Greatest Show on Earth” over any of the other nominees that year, not to mention how Gwyneth Paltrow won over Cate Blanchett for “Shakespeare,” or Costner over Scorsese for “Dances with Wolves.”

Sometimes, though, the win is totally justified; it’s the body of work after the win that drags the winner down, and makes you wonder if maybe the Oscar win wasn’t just some sort of one-trick point, a gold-plated piece of lightning in a bottle. That’s why there’s no quibbling in this post about the quality of the performances, but rather about everything that came afterwards.

With the 2009 nominations coming out tomorrow, and with plenty of nitpicking sure to abound, I’m presenting seven

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Chad

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Harris And Fox File For Divorce

13 January 2009 11:06 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

British actress Emilia Fox and her The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button star husband Jared Harris have filed for divorce.

The couple has faced months of speculation surrounding the state of its union after Fox was spotted out without her wedding ring.

In November, pals of the pair told British newspaper The Mail on Sunday, "They are not suited to each other. She is very successful and incredibly nice, whereas Jared is darker and more troubled."

A spokesperson for the couple refused to comment on the rumours at the time.

But, in legal documents filed at Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, Harris filed his declaration, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, according to TMZ.com.

Fox met Harris - the actor son of late Irish film star Richard Harris - in 2003 after working together in West End show Les Liaisons Dangereuses. They wed in 2005. They have no children together.

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