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King of cool
5 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped and confirming his place among the greats of French cinema. Jason Solomons talks to a director who wants his audience to fly with him
Jacques Audiard wears a hat. It's a trilby that, the 57-year-old director says, keeps him warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He was wearing it in the heat of Cannes last May when I first met him, on a blazing roof terrace; and he's wearing it again today, in London, on an autumnal Monday when I catch him smoking his pipe outside the hotel where we're due to meet.
With horn-rimmed glasses, smart jacket and a cravat, he looks a bit like an English gentleman, a »
- Jason Solomons
Warner Bros goes ahead and makes your day with a Clint Eastwood box set
30 November 2009 4:25 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya? You should, if you’re a Clint Eastwood fan, because Warner Brothers has announced the forthcoming release of a massive retrospective box set of his work at the studio. Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Bros. is set to hit stores Feb. 16 at $179.98, and will cover a large swathe of the squinting icon’s filmography, from 1968’s Where Eagles Dare to last year’s Gran Torino (which by my fifth-grade math skills, is 40 years, but I’m not complaining). It will also include Eastwood Factor, a documentary on the filmmaker by Time magazine critic Richard Schickel. »
- Keith Staskiewicz
Robert Gives Thanks
25 November 2009 11:01 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I love slow movies. Really slow. For the longest time I thought everyone else considered that word to signify the worst in movies. Slow meant bad enough to put you to sleep. I love movies that put me to sleep. I’ve a whole collection of movies that I can pop in the DVD player whenever I can’t sleep and they’ll do the trick. If we can agree that music peaceful enough to put you to sleep can still be great, why not movies?
So this year I’m thankful for slow movies. But I’m also thankful for others who love them, because together we inspire filmmakers to keep making them. Great modern films like Goodbye, Solo and The Assassination of Jesse James..., and The Band’s Visit and Silent Light.
I’m thankful that cinema hasn’t been completely overrun by the desire to make anything »
- Robert
Film review: Ulysses
19 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This is a bold and high-minded stab at the ultimate unfilmable book, writes Peter Bradshaw
In 1967, the American film-maker Joseph Strick took a bold and high-minded stab at the ultimate unfilmable book: Joyce's Ulysses. Inevitably, it's a disappointment, though watched again now for this rerelease, it doesn't seem as much of a disappointment as all that. Milo O'Shea gives a very decent performance as Leopold Bloom: he is dignified, vulnerable, sensitive and tragicomic. However, Maurice Roëves's Stephen Dedalus is flat and uninteresting; his opening dialogue scenes with Mulligan and Haines in the Martello Tower are odd and stilted, yet maybe there's no other way of doing them. I was reminded of Manoel De Oliveira's 2002 film I'm Going Home, in which John Malkovich plays a film-maker directing a new version of Ulysses, and unhappily attempting to direct Michel Piccoli's elderly French actor, whom he has stupendously miscast as Buck Mulligan. »
- Peter Bradshaw
DVD Round Up, Nov. 19, 2009: ‘Spread,’ ‘Open Road,’ ‘Train’
19 November 2009 3:17 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The DVD Round-Up is back! Did you miss us? HollywoodChicago.com’s intermittent column designed to serve as a safety net for releases that may otherwise fall without notice is back with a motley crew of titles that have nearly nothing in common. Classic TV, drama, horror, copious sex, and Justin Timberlake. You make the connections.
“The Fugitive: Season Three, Volume One” was released on October 27th, 2009
“The Dead” was released on November 3rd, 2009.
“Spread” was released on November 10th, 2009.
“The Canyon,” “Open Road” and “Train” were released on November 17th, 2009
“The Fugitive: Season Three, Volume One”
Photo credit: Paramount
Synopsis: “The hit series The Fugitive is back, featuring the first 15 Season Three episodes, on DVD for the first time ever! Golden Globe Award winner David Janssen expertly portrays Dr. Richard Kimble, the pediatrician falsely accused of killing his wife, who needs to prove his innocence by leading the obsessive Lt. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 3 (Farber Before Negative Space)
18 November 2009 7:43 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
You don’t necessarily think of Manny Farber as your Baedeker to the shadings and luridities of mainstay American movie acting, as a dab hand of the concise plot summary that uncoils into deft film critique, or associate him with audience recommendations and words like “marvelous,” “sensitive,” “poignant,” and “sparkling.” You particularly don’t think of Farber this way if your experience of his writing is confined to Negative Space. Yet consider three short illustrative moments from his many, sometimes-weekly film columns of the 1940s and '50s.
This is Farber on Frank Sinatra & Co. in From Here to Eternity for The Nation, August 29, 1953:
The laurel wreaths should be handed out to an actor who isn’t even in the picture, Marlon Brando, and to an unknown person who first decided to use Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed in the unsweetened roles of Maggio, a tough little Italian American soldier, »
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
By
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
[DVD Review] The Dead
6 November 2009 2:08 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
If there’s one type of film that simply doesn’t float my boat, it’s the late 1800s/early 1900s period European costume drama. I’m not into it, I feel I can’t relate to many of the characters. The films which fall into this category that I can watch at length are few and far between, and if anyone mentions Brideshead Revisited to me I’ll likely slip into a light coma.
John Huston’s final film, The Dead, falls under this heading. It was the immortal director’s dream project for many years. He did not live to see the film’s release. Directing from an oxygen tent, he meticulously adapted James Joyce’s short story in the most non-indulgent manner a director of his stature and ability could endure. With the help of an Oscar-nominated screenplay penned by his son, Tony Huston, and with his »
- Saul Berenbaum
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Screenwriter and filmmaker Robert Towne.
Forget It Bob, It’S Chinatown
Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary
By
The haunting trumpet wailing plaintively over the closing credits. The bandage covering star Jack Nicholson’s nose. The best last line of a movie, ever: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown"; all elements of a film now regarded by scholars, critics and cinefiles alike as one of the greatest pieces of American celluloid ever made. Chinatown was a collaboration between a who’s-who of ‘70s film icons. Directed by Roman Polanski, produced by Robert Evans, written by Robert Towne, starring Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, shot by John Alonso, and scored by Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1974, but brought home only one: for its writer. Robert Towne was barely 40, and Chinatown his first produced original screenplay, his previous efforts having been literary adaptations, such as 1973’s The Last Detail. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Standing Eight Count
2 November 2009 4:38 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Yesterday I sat down once again to watch Martin Scorsese’s 1980 masterpiece Raging Bull, taking my viewings somewhere into double figures. I consider it to be the director’s finest film (just edging out Mean Streets), and De Niro’s titular Bull, Jake Lamotta, the actor’s premier performance. It is a film that exercises an extraordinary hold, drawing me in time and again in search of new meaning. And it never fails to deliver. But as the credits role I always ask myself the same question: “Why does the film industry have such an abiding love affair with the sweet science?” Like a punch-drunk journeyman surviving on a mix of experience, gut instinct and crude reflex, the fight film, despite its often indelicate and rough-edged familiarity, continues to bewitch filmmakers and confound audiences with an Ali-esque dexterity. From noir-ish The Set Up, On The Waterfront, The Harder They Fall »
- Nick Clarke
Governors Awards presenters to include trio of Oscar winners
30 October 2009 7:26 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Oscar champs Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs"), Anjelica Huston ("Prizzi's Honor") and Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction") as well as honorary Oscar winner Kirk Douglas are the first presenters announced for the inaugural Governors Awards on Nov. 14. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event will fete Thalberg honoree studio exec John Calley and honorary Oscar recipients actress Lauren Bacall, producer Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis. Douglas will no doubt salute Bacall, his onetime acting school classmate and co-star ("Young Man With a Horn"). Huston -- daughter of director John Huston, who worked with Bacall and her husband Humphrey Bogart on "Key Largo" -- could also be talking about Bacall's talents.... »
- tomoneil
The Death of Hollywood?
23 October 2009 2:29 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.” – John Huston The sagacious Huston may have been right, once, but if recent reports are to be believed, and there is no reason to doubt them, the finances of the major Hollywood studios are in freefall. Battered by both the rise of digital, and thus the manner in which people are choosing to consume entertainment, and a quickening drought in funding, production is predicted to fall by more a third over the coming year. In response to the broader global economic meltdown banks have withdrawn much of their investment in the West Coast industry ($12bn from a total of $18bn has been made unavailable) and the ascent of Internet piracy, and even the legitimate but far less profitable download and video-on-demand sectors, is ripping the DVD market asunder. Foreign language films, too, are chipping away at the assumed »
- Nick Clarke
Irish Participants at Équinoxe Screenwriting Workshop
14 October 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
Irish screenwriters Brian Ó Tiomáin and Shane Grealy Perez have been chosen as part of a group of nine European writers to attend the latest Equinoxe screenwriting workshop currently being held in Elmau, Bavaria in Germany. The residential workshop sees experienced industry advisors work intensively with screenwriters on selected scripts. Advisors include James V Hart, writer of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' and renowned script supervisor Angela Allen, who started her career on 'The Third Man' and went on to work with countless luminaries, including 13 of John Huston's films. »
HuffPost Review - Trick 'R Treat (2009)
10 October 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Trick 'R Treat 2009 82 minutes Rated R (for horror violence, some sexuality/nudity and language) Available on DVD, Blu Ray, On Demand, and iTunes download October 6th from Warner Bros. by Scott Mendelson An old film professor of mine used to talk about something called the 'uh-oh moment'. It was that moment, usually at the end of a foreign and/or artsy-fartsy film, when the credits started to roll and you realized that the movie was over and you really had no idea what it was thematically about. That in itself is not necessarily a criticism of the movie. Some films like John Huston's The Dead require either a second viewing or a familiarity with the original source material to really get it, since the movie only really reveals itself at the climax. But it is absolutely a problem for a movie when... »
- Scott Mendelson
New On DVD This Week
6 October 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Trick ‘r Treat (pictured above with Anna Paquin), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Chinatown, Bones Season 4 and the complete Stargate: Atlantis series.
Check them out.
Movies
Anvil: The Story of Anvil ~ Robb Reiner (DVD)
Assassination of a High School President ~ Kathryn Morris, Michael Rapaport, Bruce Willis (DVD and Blu-ray)
Chinatown ~ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston (DVD)
Contact ~ Jodie Foster (Blu-ray)
Dance Flick ~ Damon Wayans (DVD and Blu-ray)
The Gate ~ Christa Denton, Stephen Dorff (DVD and Blu-ray)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ~ Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray »
- Joe Gillis
Roman Polanski's Chinatown - Special features clips and more from the DVD.
1 October 2009 12:39 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"Chinatown" is coming to DVD via Paramount Home Entertainment on October 6th. See great clips including special features from the Roman Polanski film starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Fritzi Burr and Cecil Elliott. Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair »
Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown
30 September 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
The curious timing and conspiratorial goings-on surrounding Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland this week bring to mind, for me, the Polish director’s most fascinating film, Chinatown. Arrested for a crime he confessed to thirty-two years ago, but the punishment for which he has avoided ever since, Polanski appears to have been drawn into a world of smoke-and-mirrors and legalese, finally bought down by the very system that has permitted his freedom from extradition since he fled the Us in 1977. It promises to be a distorted and confusing affair and like that experienced by Jake Gittes, the increasingly buffeted and bewildered detective protagonist in his 1974 neo-noir masterpiece, one that might prove impossible to truly unravel. Chinatown was, and remains, a dazzling exercise in cinematic intelligence and, even in that golden era of post-classical Hollywood, when directors as spiky and gifted as Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, Kubrick and Malick were at their towering, »
- Nick Clarke
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
9 September 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Walter Hill.
Kicking Ass with Walter Hill
by Jon Zelazny
Action flicks. Two-fisted tales. Guy movies. Whatever you want to call them, writer, producer, and director Walter Hill is one of the living masters, with a resume full of classics from The Getaway (1972), to the Alien series, and the definitive eighties action-comedy blockbuster, 48 Hrs. (1982).
2009 marks the 30th anniversary of The Warriors (1979), Hill’s surreal “street gang on the run” cult classic, and his breakout success as a director.
Jon: A couple years ago, you did an audio commentary and on-camera intro for a new DVD edition of The Warriors. It was the first time I’d ever seen you; is it my imagination, or have you kept a low profile over the years?
Walter Hill: I’d never done a commentary before on one of my films. I don’t like the idea of explaining a movie; I »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Halloween II Set Visit Report. Update: Post-Screening Verdict
28 August 2009 3:03 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Post-Screening Update: In short, my verdict on Halloween 2 is that it's superior to Rob Zombie's first effort and a far more entertaining film. Zombie definitely listened to criticism that the first film wasn't holiday-oriented. In this one, he stages a trippy Last Supper with Jack-o-Lanterns. And moreover, it works for chrissakes. The critics labeling the film a by-the-numbers "rote slasher picture" either didn't see the movie or haven't been paying attention to recent "rote" horror flicks like Prom Night and Platinum Dunes' stillborn Friday the 13th. I ask these critics to show me a comparable "rote" horror film this well-shot that stars the excellent Brad Dourif (Blue Velvet, John Huston's Wise Blood) reminiscing about Lee Marvin. Or how about one with a fun Malcolm McDowell thinly and hilariously disguising contempt for movie journalists who trash certain directors with trigger-happy aimlessness. The early hospital scenes set to The »
- Hunter Stephenson
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: An overwhelming study of life and illusion
21 August 2009 8:26 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
There are many things in this world that I find truly baffling. Why are we destroying our marine habitats so that rich Japanese restaurants can sell expensive soup? Why do we demand that politicians solve all our problems for us, while secretly willing them to fail? Why do we keep expecting Guy Ritchie to make another good film? But perhaps the most baffling of all is the fact that Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has never been released on DVD in Britain. It is perhaps the finest filmic adaptation of a stage play ever rendered on celluloid. But only American audiences are able to enjoy it in the comfort of their own homes. Adaptations of plays can often be morbidly dull. They rely on the same visceral energy and tension that works so well in a theatre but is almost impossible to transfer onto a video recording that will be »
- Nicholas Deigman
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