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The significance of Nine for Anthony Minghella's legacy

26 November 2009 2:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Two years after his sudden death, what may turn out be Anthony Minghella's final work, Nine – an all-star musical about a director in dilemma – is about to appear. David Thomson hymns his friend 'Ant'

Nine will open wide in America on Christmas Day, and it is certain to be a major contender in the Oscar race. It is the movie version of the musical (book by Arthur Kopit, music by Maury Yeston) that opened on Broadway in 1982, with Raul Julia in the lead role of Guido Contini. In a New York revival, Antonio Banderas played Guido, and when it was given in a concert performance in London Jonathan Pryce played the lead. This is the movie, from the Weinstein Company, and everything has been upscaled. Beyond the astonishing female cast (more anon), it has Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido. There is a hint that in this version, Guido has been upgraded just a little, »

- David Thomson

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10 Great Films That Prove Slow Isn’t Always Boring

16 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

I'm not a constant reader of Landon Palmer's Culture Warrior column for various reasons. For one thing, there's not enough time in the day to parse my way through his weekly post and have it make even the slightest bit of sense. (There's a whole world outside and I'd rather be out there enjoying the sunshine!) Believe me I try, but I simply can't stay focused long enough to find his cleverly hidden thesis and watch it play out throughout the seventy-four paragraphs that follow... and I kid obviously, but it's no joke to say Palmer's columns are an education unto themselves and have a lot more to say about film than my usual posts about hot Asian chicks taking baths and fighting the Yakuza. Once in a while though, Palmer chooses a Culture Warrior topic that's compelling enough for me to force myself to slog through his dense prose from beginning to end, and »

- Rob Hunter

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Mourn Your Doomed Existence at the ‘Port of Shadows’

12 July 2009 2:01 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Every week, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: Port of Shadows (1938) Pre-war French cinema gave us, among other things, the poetic-realism school of aesthetics. The team of Jacques Prévert and Marcel Carné was the steady duo of that school, the poet and the director who made a bunch of memorable films together. One of those is Port of Shadows and it begins like this... After a shot of a ship laying still in a foggy harbor, we see the headlights of a truck before zooming to the driver. Then, from the opposing view, a silhouette of a man appears in the dark. He turns around and facing the lights he demands for the truck to stop. He is Jean (Jean Gabin), a soldier who just got back from fighting in Tonkin, Indochina »

- Loukas Tsouknidas

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French Producer Bar Dies

3 February 2009 4:20 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

French producer Jacques Bar has died. He was 87. The producer of more than 80 films passed away in Paris last month. No further details of his death are known as WENN goes to press.

Bar founded Cite Films in 1947, produced his first movie, La Maternelle, in 1949, and went on to become one of the most revered talents in French cinema.

His most famous French-language films include My Father, The Hero starring Gerard Depardieu, Henry Verneuil's Any Number Can Win and Rene Clement's Joy House.

He also oversaw seven of legendary French actor Jean Gabin's 'late period' movies, which were claimed to be the best of his career.

Most recently, Bar produced Depardieu's 1999 TV mini-series The Count of Monte Cristo, and director Stephen Soderbergh's segment of 2004's Eros. »

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