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[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
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
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
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
8 October 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | 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
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
The Pleasures of Putting a Team Together
18 August 2009 12:28 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
It's the first line of the last trailer for Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds": "I'm putting together a special team," Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine says. Most of Tarantino's movies pay homage to particular strains of genre cinema, from kung fu flicks to heist thrillers to grindhouse slashers, and with that pronouncement, Tarantino puts "Inglourious Basterds" in that cinematic tradition of pictures about the recruitment and implementation of a specialized squad of badasses.
"Putting a Team Together" is more a structural motif that crosses into different genres than a genre unto itself. There are musicals -- "The Blues Brothers," for instance, where Jake and Elwood Blues reassemble their former band in order to fulfill a "mission from God." There are superhero films like "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," the adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel in which one famous literary figure drafts several other famous literary figures »
- Matt Singer
Twilight Saga: ‘Eclipse’ Casts A New Male Role
12 August 2009 10:55 AM, PDT | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »
"Twilight Saga : Eclipse", the follow up movie to "Twilight Saga : New Moon" has made another casting decision.This time, it's a male role. They've cast Jack Huston who is the grandson of director John Huston, to play the role of Royce King II. He is a human from the Great Depression era. He will be joining other "Twilight Saga" actors Kristen Stewart,Robert Pattinson,Taylor Lautner,and the others for filming, over in Vancouver. »
- Andre@ontheflix
Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets Another Human Sacrifice
12 August 2009 7:21 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Nikki Reed is getting a new mate after New Moon. No, Kellan Lutz isn't getting the Rachelle Lefevre treatment. Rather, Rosalie Cullen's sour disposition—yes, it continues throughout New Moon—finally earns an explanation in Eclipse and that requires the appearance of a certain former fiancé. Let's put it this way (for the very few of you who haven't read the books): He's not such a nice guy. Jack Huston has been cast as Royce King II in the third installment of the Twilight Saga, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The 26-year-old grandson of John Huston (who looks a bit like Johnny Depp, no?) is also slated to star in ABC's new, witchy series... »
Spotlight on new ‘Eclipse’ actor Jack Huston
12 August 2009 7:08 AM, PDT | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’s cast will include Jack Huston as Royce King, II. Huston joins a growing line-up of Twilight series newcomers for the third film, including Xavier Samuel, Bryce Dallas Howard, and the one and only Jodelle Ferland. Huston is a relatively new actor, with about five years of experience, but he is of blue blood in Hollywood, and has already made a name for himself amongst the greats. Luckily enough for Huston, however, he has an excellent mentor - Al Pacino His grandfather is double Oscar-winner John Huston, legendary director of nearly 50 films (including The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, Casino Royale, Freud, The Unforgiven, Moby Dick, Moulin Rouge) and actor in over film films (including Chinatown, The Hobbit, De Sade, and A Walk With Love And Death). His aunt is Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston, who has starred in over 70 films (including Prizzi’s Honor, »
- thetwilightexaminer
Jack Huston Latest to Land Role in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
12 August 2009 5:28 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Jack Huston is the latest to be cast in Eclipse, according to the The Hollywood Reporter. He will play Royce King II, Rosalie Hale's "ideal" fiancé who turns out to be anything but.
Huston, grandson of legendary actor-writer-director John Huston, appeared in 2006's Factory Girl and Shrink, which is currently in theaters. He also stars the upcoming ABC series Eastwick, which premieres in September.
Next Showing:
Link | Posted 8/12/2009 by reelz
John Huston | Jack Huston | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | Shrink »
- reelz reelz
Spotlight on new ‘Eclipse’ actor Jack Huston
12 August 2009 3:34 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
The Hollywood Reporter has recently announced the news that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's cast will include Jack Huston as Royce King, II. Huston joins a growing line-up of Twilight series newcomers for the third film, including Xavier Samuel, Bryce Dallas Howard, and the one and only Jodelle Ferland. Huston is a relatively new actor, with about five years of experience, but he is of blue blood in Hollywood, and has already made a name for himself amongst the greats. His grandfather is double Oscar-winner John Huston, legendary director of nearly 50 films (including The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, Casino Royale, Freud, The Unforgiven, Moby Dick, Moulin Rouge) and actor in over film films (including Chinatown, The Hobbit, De Sade, and A Walk With Love And Death). His aunt is Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston, who has starred in over 70 films (including Prizzi's Honor, The Addams Family, Ever After, »
- Twilight Examiner
Chinatown Comes Back to DVD on October 6th
15 July 2009 10:37 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
You can bring one of Jack Nicholson's most treasured films home in a brand new edition this October. Chinatown will be released in a new Centenial Collection edition on October 6. We have no pricing details as of yet, but you can take a look at the cover art below. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
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, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Academy Award-winning script by Robert Towne, »
Salute Your Shorts: Why We Fight
2 July 2009 1:45 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.
Perhaps it's no surprise that the greatest patriotic films ever made about the United States were also made by the United States.and I’m not talking about how Michael Bay somehow convinces the army to help him make movies time and time again. During World War II, and also slightly before we actually entered the war, a number of Hollywood directors entered various branches of the military to make films supporting the war effort. The list of patriotic luminaries included such famed directors as John Ford, John Huston, William Wyler, Darryl Zanuck and, most importantly, Frank Capra. »
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