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The Top Five Posthumous Performances

6 November 2008 11:05 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

5 - Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

4 - Bruce Lee - Enter the Dragon

3 - Massimo Troisi - Il Postino

2 - James Dean - Giant

1 - Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

                      Heath Ledger: Oscar-bound?

We're fortunate this week that Bernie Mac left us with a very funny final performance in Soul Men. He's never been better, so watching his work in that comedy is certainly bittersweet, but it's better to go out on top than, say, Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space or Emmitt Smith with the Arizona Cardinals.

Thanks for all the suggestions, which included Stanley Kubrick for directing Eyes Wide Shut, Brandon Lee in The Crow, John Candy (Wagon's East), Natalie Wood for Dreamscape, Adrienne Shelly (who wrote, directed and co-starred in Waitress), Oliver Reed in Gladiator, Clark Gable in The Misfits, and John Ritter's very funny supporting performance as the mall manager in Bad Santa,

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Lots of NYC-area horror screenings for Halloween & beyond

31 October 2008 11:02 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

With the scariest day of the year upon us, revival houses and specialty venues in the New York City area are breaking out the fright features. In addition to the IFC Center’s midnight screenings of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu and others (see item here), there are plenty more screenings where you can get a ghoulish flick fix:

• Manhattan’s Film Forum (209 W. Houston Street) is offering a new 35mm print of Roman Polanski’s classic Rosemary’S Baby for the movie’s 40th anniversary. Showing at 1:30 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:35 p.m. daily from today-Thursday, November 6, Polanski’s adaptation of Ira Levin’s best-selling novel (produced by genre legend William Castle) still chills with its tale of a young woman (Mia Farrow) who slowly discovers a devilish conspiracy around her.

• Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue) is having a special Halloween midnight show tonight

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Adaptation of Franz Kafka's Amerika in development for 2009

16 October 2008 1:48 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

"My intention was, as I now see, to write a Dickens novel, enriched by the sharper lights which I took from our modern times, and by the pallid ones I would have found in my own interior." -- Kafka

I haven't read "Amerika" yet but I know that it was published after Kafka's death in 1927. Apparently it's not quite as surreal as many of his other works like "Metamorphosis" or "The Trial" but still makes great use of putting protagonists in bizarre situations as a major theme.

The story describes the bizarre wanderings of a 16-year-old European emigrant named Karl Rossmann in the United States, who was forced to go to New York to escape the scandal of his seduction by a housemaid. As the ship arrives in America, he becomes friends with a stoker who is about to be dismissed from his job.

The film is currently in development

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Warner to Release Unrated Cut of 'The Devils'!

29 February 2008 10:26 AM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Warner Home Video has sent DVD Active official artwork for an Unrated edition (111 minutes) of the 1971 film The Devils, which stars Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, and Dudley Sutton. The Ken Russell directed horror will be available to own on May 20, and should retail at around $19.99. As far as we know, no extra material will be included. Read on for the cover art. Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial

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