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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #14

25 October 2009 3:17 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I saw quite a bit this week, but some of it I have already detailed such as my reviews for Trucker and Tormented. I also watched the Blu-ray for Love, Actually (a personal favorite and a review is forth-coming) as well as the following three films.

The second two (The Sniper and 5 Against the House) are both from the November 3 release from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Film Noir Collection Volume One. You can get more details on the complete set right here and I hope to discuss the other three films (The Big Heat, The Lineup and Murder by Contract) next Sunday or perhaps in a complete review.

As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. I now have 50 friends on the movie rental site and would love to have a few more if those of you out there with accounts are interested. Now, »

- Brad Brevet

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Christina Hendricks: The Hollywood Interview

15 October 2009 2:43 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Actress Christina Hendricks.

Christina Hendricks Drives ‘Em Mad

By

Alex Simon

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho and Fairfax, Virginia, actress Christina Hendricks made her debut in the TV movie Sorority in 1999, following a successful modeling career in London and New York. After appearing in dozens of television productions, including recurring roles on hits like ER and Firefly, Christina landed the plum role of seductress secretary Joan Holloway on American Movie Classics’ lauded original series Mad Men. Created by former Sopranos scribe Matthew Weiner, Mm takes place in 1960, and follows the denizens of fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency Sterling-Cooper, led by eponymous characters played by John Slattery and Robert Morse, respectively, with the main focal point being rising hot-shot Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a dynamo whose checkered personal life and shady past come to light in each new episode. The show is a delicious blend of drama, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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'Project Runway' and film noir: What are your favorite femme-fatale fashions?

25 September 2009 1:24 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Last night, Project Runway went Hollywood: the designers had to create a look based on classic Hollywood genres, one of which was film noir. Althea, Louise, and Irina all picked this über cool category, and I had high hopes that the ladies would crank out some fierce femme fatale frocks. Wrong! Louise failed miserably (a 1940s actress going to a party dressed as a flapper...huh?), while Irina merely squeaked by with a too-revealing gown paired with an out-of-place poufy cape. Only Althea (whose design is pictured, left) came close to capturing the sexy, dangerous allure of screen goddesses like Barbara Stanwyck (far left) and Rita Hayworth. She even got the hair right. The challenge got me thinking about the rich history of film noir heroines and the drop-dead duds that made them so thrillingly naughty. It's hard to top Stanwyck's shoulder-padded blouses and pencil skirts — not to mention that ankle bracelet! »

- Missy Schwartz

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Credits Report: Kiss Me, Stupid

23 September 2009 12:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Here in Austin, the Billy Wilder movie Kiss Me, Stupid is playing tonight as part of a series about Wilder's later films, and I suspect I am driving people crazy, trying to convince them to see it with me. I may have scared a local filmmaker at a screening of Wilder's One, Two, Three a couple of weeks ago, urging the poor man -- whom I hardly know -- to return for this film.

Kiss Me, Stupid is often considered one of Wilder's worst films, a smutfest from 1964 that helped end the Production Code in Hollywood, a black-and-white comedy that is the opposite of the sophisticated sex comedies of the early 1960s (Doris Day and that crowd). It might have been a very different movie with its original lead actor, Peter Sellers, but he was ill and had to be replaced by Ray Walston. And yet there's something about this »

- Jette Kernion

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Mystery Woman

18 August 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

Lucrecia Martel, a serious, bespectacled maker of socially conscious and subtly destabilizing dramas, is a shining star in the resurgent Argentine cinema. Her latest, The Headless Woman, is a mystery–not a conventional whodunit, but a challenging, loosely unwinding coil of questions. Driving home one day, a middle-aged woman (Maria Onetto) suddenly runs off the road. Did she hit something? A dog? A boy?  Neither the camera nor anyone else has an answer, but the incident pulls her out of her comfortable daily routine. Entranced by it, she enters that opaque realm similar to the one inhabited by Kim Novak in Vertigo. Martel's film becomes both a subtle class commentary and a hauntingly subjective portrait of alienation along the lines of Polanski's Repulsion (minus the rape visions) and Coppola's The Conversation. »

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The Sound of Falling: Bernard Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo.

14 June 2009 11:15 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Bring up Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo (1958) in conversation to anyone who has seen it and you are bound to get one of two responses; complete and utter contempt over its baffling complexity or hyperbolic gushing over the film’s genius. Whatever your opinion of Vertigo, the film does have a lot of talking points. One of Vertigo’s most striking and memorable elements is Bernard Herrmann’s lush, predominantly string score. Using motifs (small phrases of melody or even just a few notes attributed to a character, object, and emotion etc.), Herrmann was able to imbue scenes that had little to no dialogue with meaning that might have otherwise been lost on the viewer. Vertigo’s narrative concerns an ex-police detective, Scottie (James Stewart), who suffers from a condition known as acrophobia, or vertigo, which causes him to essentially lose his shit when he is even just a few feet off the ground. »

- Clare Nina Norelli

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Sony Releases 6-dvd Jack Lemmon Collection

11 June 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Sony has released a six-dvd boxed set tribute to Jack Lemmon, marking the first-time release of these films in the DVD format. Here is the official press release. Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In a career that spanned half a century, Jack Lemmon was truly America’s Everyman. Although he worked in every genre from musical to western, he truly excelled at comedy, turning in a series of nuanced performances that garnered worldwide acclaim. On June 9, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Sphe) honors one of the most versatile and accomplished actors in Hollywood history with The Jack Lemmon Film Collection, in partnership with Chris Lemmon, Jack’s son and biographer. This must-have six-disc boxed set features five classic performances from the gifted two-time Academy Award® winner for Save the Tiger (1973) and Mister Roberts (1955). The set includes Phffft! featuring Kim Novak, Operation Mad Ball, featuring the film debut of Ernie Kovacs, »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Chris Lemmon: The Hollywood Interview

9 June 2009 12:28 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Actor and author Chris Lemmon.

Chris Lemmon Sheds Light On Jack Lemmon: The Man Behind The Magic

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Alex Simon

Contrary to popular belief, not all movie stars’ offspring had dysfunctional lives filled with drug abuse, domestic violence and self-destruction. Some children of stars have even gone on to live “normal” lives outside of La-la land, and hold their famous parents in high esteem. Take the case of Chris Lemmon. Born June 22, 1954 in L.A., Chris is the son of two-time Oscar winning actor Jack Lemmon and actress Cynthia Stone. Although his parents divorced when he was young, Chris remained close to both throughout their lives and penned a tribute to his father, (who passed in 2001) called A Twist of Lemmon in 2006, published by Algonquin Books.

A successful actor in his own right and a graduate of Cal Arts, Chris Lemmon most recently has collaborated with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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DVD Playhouse--June 2009

3 June 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—June 2009

By

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

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Photo Flash: Bell Book & Candle Bewitches At Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theatre 6/2-28

2 June 2009 1:05 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

"How much are you willing to change for the one you love?" is the premise of Bay Street's first Main Stage production of the 2009 Summer Season, the betwitching romantic comedy Bell, Book and Candle. Written by John Van Druten, the play served as the inspiration for the hit television series Betwitched and was also a 1958 film starring Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. »

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May Flowers, Vertigo

31 May 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

For the finale of May Flowers I thought we should gaze at Alfred Hitchcock's immortal Vertigo(1958). Aside from Vertigo descendants like Robert Altman's Three Women or David Lynch's Mulholland Drive what film is more appropriate for this time of year when we're ruled by twin sign Gemini? Hitchcock films generally deserve complete dissertations but we don't have Scottie Ferguson's (Jimmy Stewart) stamina when it comes to fetishizing doppelgangers. So in the space of this blogpost we merely glance at his introductions to Madeleine/Judy (Kim Novak).

Ferguson has been hired to follow Madeleine and as he first spots her in the deep rose red restaurant, Hitchock slow zooms out from Scottie (far right) at the bar and pans left, following his gaze, into the dining area filled with flowers and well heeled customers and even a painting of a floral arrangement framed by floral arrangements before it finally stops at Madeleine (tiny, »

- NATHANIEL R

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Bell Book & Candle Bewitches At Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theatre 6/2-28

21 May 2009 4:59 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

"How much are you willing to change for the one you love?" is the premise of Bay Street's first Main Stage production of the 2009 Summer Season, the betwitching romantic comedy Bell, Book and Candle. Written by John Van Druten, the play served as the inspiration for the hit television series Betwitched and was also a 1958 film starring Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. »

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Tony Award Nominations / Movie Connections

5 May 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

The Tony Award Nominations are upon us. As is my inconsistent tradition, I thought I'd share a little bit about a movies you can rent or think about to create an unfulfilling celluloid guilty-by-association approximation of the Broadway experience of the 2008/2009 season before the TONYs roll around on June 7th. Not everyone gets to New York to see the shows. And even if you live here, like me, you don't get to them in your financially challenged years. Tony Winners Cynthia Nixon (who seems to be everywhere lately, right?) and In the Height's man Lin-Manuel Miranda are announcing them live any minute now.

If you want a reminder of what's eligible which you can use to see who got snubbed check out this eligibility chart.

P L A Y R E V I V A L

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

This is the 2nd in August Wilson's famous 10 play »

- NATHANIEL R

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Don't you wish old photos came with audio tracks?

3 March 2009 1:44 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Or that you could time travel into the room as they were being taken.

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And if either of those things were possible, wouldn't you grab every Old Hollywood candid you could find in order to listen in or join the party? What exactly would Rosalind Russell, Greer Garson and Merle Oberon chat about anyway? Roz only cares about the camera but who are Greer and Merle all smiles about?

I mean just fantasize for a moment about a night at ... on the bar with Marlene Dietrich and Claudette Colbert.

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How much would you have to drink to not be starstruck and join right in. Too much. Too much I say. The mind clouds. The hangover would be epic.

Here's a photo I've cherished my whole life from an old out of print Natalie Wood book from the 80s. It's Dennis Hopper and Wood discussing acting styles as they screen A Streetcar Named Desire »

- NATHANIEL R

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The Ultimate Guide to TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Begins Here

31 January 2009 5:56 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

From this Sunday, February 1 through Tuesday, March 3 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) begins their annual 31 Days of Oscar, which brings you night after night of Oscar winning and nominated films uncut and commercial free on TCM and I have put together for you a mini guide for films to look for each day so you can either sit down and enjoy them as they play or set your DVR to record them for later. Either way, this is a great way to knock off so many of those classic films from your must see list. First, how about the TCM video montage preview. Can you name the films?

Now, for the full schedule you can click here to download the Pdf or you can browse TCM's online calendar at the 31 Days of Oscar official site. Because one thing is for sure, even though I list films for every single day below »

- Brad Brevet

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Favorite Movie Theaters: Bob Collins' Video Tribute To The Uptown In Washington D.C.

28 January 2009 9:44 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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By Bob Collins

There was a time in the grand era of movie palaces where the theater we saw a movie at was as important as the film itself. Names like Marcus Loew and William Fox built and operated theater palaces that were created to give the common man a feeling of royalty, even if only for a couple of hours while they were entertained by the latest fare from Hollywood.  Studios, too, built monuments to showmanship where the movies they made could be seen in all their splendor.

 

Many of these theaters still exist; Grauman’s Chinese in Hollywood, The Loew’s Jersey in Jersey City, the Fox Theatres in Atlanta and Detroit, among others.  Some are now performing arts centers, but a few still operate the way they were originally conceived – as movie theaters.

 

Washington, D.C. does not come »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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The Pervert's Guide To Cinema

15 January 2009 8:40 PM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

'The Pervert's Guide to Cin ema" is a lot more thoughtful than the salacious title might indicate.

To be precise, it is a fun romp through the annals of cinema by pop Slovenian philosopher and prolific writer Slavoj Zizek, who finds deep psychological meaning in a slew of movies.

Hitchcock, Lynch, Chaplin, Kubrick, the Marx Brothers, even "The Wizard of Oz," among others, are fair game for Zizek's rambling psychoanalysis.

Director Sophie Fiennes (Ralph's sister) adds to the outrageousness by sticking Zizek in odd locations, including reconstructed sets of the movies he talks about. »

- By V.A. MUSETTO

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17 articles from 2009

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