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U.S. Postal Service Honors Directors Capra, Ford, Huston and Wilder With ‘Forever Stamps’ Award
23 May 2012 5:51 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Four extraordinary film directors .Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston and Billy Wilder . received a stamping ovation today with the issuance of the Great Film Directors First-Class Forever stamps. The dedication took place at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center where some of their works were showcased. Available nationwide today, the stamps can be purchased online at usps.com/shop, by calling 1-800-stamp-24 (1-800-782-6724) or by visiting Post Offices.
“With these stamps, we’re bringing these filmmakers out from behind their cameras and putting them in the spotlight so that we can learn more about them,” said Samuel Pulcrano, U.S. Postal Service vice president, Corporate Communications in dedicating the stamps. “Movies offer a window into our history and heritage and tell the story of America. Similar to movies, stamps honor our past and celebrate our achievements while encouraging us to learn more about the people, »
- Michelle McCue
Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer, and the Private Eye on Screen and on the Page
18 May 2012 2:58 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Mickey Spillane grabbed his position in the pop culture pantheon much like his iconic creation, private eye Mike Hammer, made his way through a case: through a sort of literary brute force, blasting away with heavy doses of graphic violence, steamy sex, and a style which reviewers often considered the prose version of a blunt object.
As a mystery writer, Spillane wasn’t as clever as Evan Hunter, nor as introspective as late career Ross MacDonald, nor did he have the insider’s street savvy of George V. Higgins, or the prose command of Raymond Chandler. Read today, some of his stuff seems so familiar and stale and excessive it borders on camp. But, whatever one’s qualitative judgment on Spillane and his canon, there’s no doubt his impact on the mystery genre – and the private eye tale in particular – was both massive and indelible, reaching beyond the printed »
- Bill Mesce
Casablanca To Stream — Free — On Facebook
16 May 2012 11:02 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Warner Bros. is going all-out to promote its 70th anniversary edition of the Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman classic Casablanca including a one-night-only streaming of the movie on Facebook on May 16 — free. Warner Bros. Digital Distribution said that it will stream at 7:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Western time zones, but it was not clear whether that meant that viewers in the West would be able to watch the movie at 4:00 p.m. and viewers in the East, at 10:00 p.m. To make matters even more confusing, the company said that viewing must begin “within two hours of the Pacific start time.” The free availability of the movie comes following the release of the Blu-ray/DVD combo package of Casablanca, containing almost everything you wanted to know about the movie, including the documentaries Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic; Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard of; The Brothers Warner; You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story and Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul. If that still doesn’t satisfy film buffs, there’s also an ebook being released called Inside the Script, containing Hal Wallis’s shooting script and additional items including Warner Bros. founder Jack Warner’s telegrams and memos concerning the movie. »
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Warner Brothers to Stream ‘Casablanca’ on Facebook – One Night Only
16 May 2012 6:53 AM, PDT | Tubefilter.com | See recent Tubefilter News news »
The average age of a Facebook user is older than you think. In 2010 it was 38 (and trending even older). But that still means your run of the mill individual on the world’s largest social network was born at least 32 years after one of the greatest films in the history of American cinema hit theaters. Casablanca debuted in 1942. That means the Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman flick about an American expatriate who meets a former lover while owning and operating a gin joint set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War 2 (that’s often considered one of the best movies ever made) celebrates its 70 anniversary this year. To commemorate the occasion, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is doing a few things: Releasing a three-disc Blu-ray and DVD combo edition gift set featuring the original film, two never-before-seen documentaries about the film, and more than 14 hours of bonus material. Creating »
- Joshua Cohen
DVD Release: Casablanca: The Complete Series
15 May 2012 10:21 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: June 26, 2012
Price: DVD $39.95
Studio: Olive Films
David Soul (l.) and Hector Elizondo are Rick and Louie in Casablanca.
The “Oh Yeah, I Forgot About That One” Award for the week goes to Casablanca: The Complete Series, the 1983 television show drama based on the legendary 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen) and Ingrid Bergman (Notorious).
Set in the years prior to when the movie takes place, the series stars David Soul (TV’s Starsky and Hutch) in the Bogie role as Rick Blaine, an American expatriate and the owner of Rick’s Café in unoccupied Africa during the early days of WWII. Fighting for “the cause” in his own detached fashion, Rick tries to keep things cool whenever trouble rears its head in the form of Nazis and other evil-doers.
Executive produced by David L. Wolper, the show also stars Hector Elizondo (Pretty Woman) as Captain »
- Laurence
Ryan Gosling's 'Gangster Squad' Trailer: Five Key Scenes
10 May 2012 9:09 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Gosling reunites with Emma Stone in the star-studded, Tommy gun-packed clip.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in "Gangster Squad"
Photo: Warner Bros.
One of the fall's most anticipated releases, "Gangster Squad," packs an all-star cast, old-school vibe and a bunch of Tommy guns. Needless to say, we're interested.
The film from "Zombieland" director Ruben Fleischer just got its first trailer, so we've broken it down for you into these five keys scenes.
"Every kingdom comes up bloody"
A centerpiece of the trailer, it's hard to miss Sean Penn even under all of that makeup. In "Gangster Squad," Penn plays Mickey Cohen, an east coast gangster who has come to Los Angeles to become "a god." Cohen is the ultimate evil that the Gangster Squad is going to stop at nothing to put out for good. The trailer gives lots of screen time to Penn, and when »
Gangster Squad Trailer: Our Review & Reactions
10 May 2012 3:21 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Warner Bros are about to embark on a resurgence of the period gangster movie, the genre that the studio was built on in the 30′s and 40′s. The playground that James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson played in so regularly and to so much success with classic movies like “White Heat” and “Angels With Dirty Faces” among dozens of others.
They have several scripts in development right now for tommy gunn filled rat-a-tat-tat movies, including one intriguing prospect of a movie trilogy about the life of the notorious Al Capone that would star Tom Hardy for Harry Potter director David Yates. But that movie, as well as others they are plotting, will probably be dependent on the success of their first period gangster out of the blocks, “Gangster Squad”.
The forthcoming movie is based on Paul Lieberman’s series of articles in the L.A. Times some years »
- Matt Holmes
AFI's Master Class Looks at Art of Collaboration with David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg
8 May 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
TCM Presents AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration with David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg is filmed in front of an audience of AFI fellows studying at the AFI Conservatory. It's the second in AFI's series exploring artistic film collaborations; the first was between Steven Spielberg and John Williams. TCM will air the special on May 8 (10pm Et). The pair will discuss their meeting, their collaborative process and some of the films that have inspired them, including two films with James Cagney that will bookend the special's screening on TCM; "The Roaring Twenties" (1939; with Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Priscilla Lane) and "Man of a Thousand Faces" (1957, also with Cagney), as well as Frank Capra's Jimmy stewart-starrer "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) and François Truffaut's New Wave classic "The 400 Blows" (1959). Russell and Wahlberg's collaborations include "Three Kings"...
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- Sophia Savage
‘The Treasure of Sierra Madre’ shows how greed can make a great film
4 May 2012 8:23 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed John Huston
Written by John Huston
U.S.A., 1948
Gordon Gekko, the central figure of Oliver Stone’s famous Wall Street, once uttered the phrase ‘Greed is good.’ That same individual was, understandably, also that film’s antagonist. To willfully adhere to the aforementioned philosophy is one thing, yet the reality of human frailty tells an altogether different, more subtle tale of ill advised deeds and nefarious scheming despite people continuously arguing for humanity common decency. John Huston’s directorial filmography includes some entries which explore that very theme, his most recognized success being 1950′s The Asphalt Jungle. Yet another came two years before, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, his second collaboration with actor Humphrey Bogart.
Dobbs (Humphrey Boggart) is not only down in Mexico, but down on his luck as well. Without nary a red cent to call his own, this bum is relegated to the streets, »
- Edgar Chaput
Humphrey Bogart Executors Hit With New Lawsuit
3 May 2012 12:16 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Humphrey Bogart's executors have been counter-sued by bosses at fashion house Burberry over the use of the icon's image.
Bogart's estate officials threatened legal action against the retailer last month after an image of the actor wearing a Burberry trenchcoat in classic movie Casablanca was used in a recent promotional campaign on Facebook.com.
But on Wednesday Burberry fired back by filing legal documents against the executors at a New York federal court, claiming First Amendment protection.
And Bogart LLC attorney Michael O. Crain isn't pleased, stating, "Just as Burberry needed to obtain (Burberry model) Emma Watson's consent before using her name and image to promote Burberry's brand and products, it needed to obtain permission from the Bogart Estate to use Humphrey Bogart's name and image in its social media marketing campaign."
Burberry bosses claim they licensed a photo from an agency of Bogart in the final scene of the 1942 film and simply intended to use it to illustrate "the significance and influence of Burberry fashion in society."
They insist the use of the iconic image isn't commercial, adding, "It's a historical positioning of the image within an educational project along with numerous other photographs of people wearing Burberry apparel over the last century." »
Humphrey Bogart 'Casablanca' Photo on Facebook Prompts Lawsuit Against Burberry
3 May 2012 7:56 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The owner of Humphrey Bogart's name and likeness is being sued by UK outerwear retailer Burberry LLC, which says it is under legal threat for posting a picture of the actor from Casablanca on Facebook wearing one of its trenchcoats. Burberry says it created a historical look at the evolution of its products dating back to its first store opening in 1856 and posted the images through social media, including on Twitter and Instagram. The retailer says it licensed a photo from Corbis of Bogart in the final scene of the 1942 classic film and intended to use it to
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- Eriq Gardner
Friday Noir: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ is indeed the treasure people make it out to be
27 April 2012 4:15 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by John Huston
Written by John Huston
U.S.A, 1941
It has often been written and said that John Huston’s 1941 classic, The Maltese Falcon, brought it in the era of film noir, or that it is the definitive entry within the genre. The origins of the genre and where Huston’s picture comes into play in that debate shall not be discussed, primarily because there is still no genuine consensus, even after all these years. As for its quality and worth as part of the long line of noir adventures, it is safe to say that the verdict is clear cut and has been for decades already: The Maltese Falcon is a masterpiece. Why? Far be it from this amateur film fanatic to enlighten the readers as to why exactly. That venture shall be left for the historians and appointed experts in the field of film studies. »
- Edgar Chaput
The lengths that some short men will go to
23 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A newly emerged picture shows one trick Beatles drummer Ringo Starr used to appear taller, but he's not the only one with issues about their height
A freshly unearthed photograph of Ringo Starr from the set of the 1964 Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night reveals – yet again – the lengths some vertically challenged celebrities will go to "maximise" their height. The image – taken by Peter Allchorne, the props manager at Pinewood Studios, and being auctioned next month – shows the 5ft 6in Starr perched rather precariously on a stool with his feet on three concrete blocks.
Standing next to taller co-stars or partners has long been a bear trap for the shortest percentile of celebrities. It was the 5ft 11in Nicole Kidman who remarked upon being granted a divorce from 5ft 7in Tom Cruise: "At least I can wear high heels again." Cruise has long been the source of speculation when »
- Leo Hickman
Jack Nicholson At 75: 5 Of His Most Underrated Performances
23 April 2012 7:56 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
There can be little doubt that Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest movie stars in the history of the medium. He's had more Oscar nominations (twelve) and wins (three) than any other actor and has been an A-list star for over forty years now, remaining a legitimate box office draw in films like "Something's Gotta Give" and "The Departed" even in his seventh decade. He's worked with everyone from Antonioni to Scorsese, and given some of the most iconic screen performances ever, from "Easy Rider" to "The Shining."
Indeed, ask a cinephile for their favorite Nicholson performance, and the same few films are likely to come up: "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "Carnal Knowledge," "The Last Detail," "Chinatown," "The Passenger" (an amazing, nearly back-to-back six-year-run), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," "The Shining." But this means that some of the actor's equally strong performances never quite made it into the canon, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Casablanca: Movie Classic or Movie Farce?
20 April 2012 3:35 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the 1943 Best Picture Oscar winner, Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt. Not only is Casablanca still regarded as one of the greatest American movies ever made, it features one of the most beloved romantic songs ever written ("As Time Goes By"), and one of the most-quoted, iconic movie lines of all-time ("Play it again, Sam"). To be named Best Picture of 1943, Casablanca had to overcome some formidable competition. The other nominees that year were: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, The Human Comedy, In Which We Serve, Madame Curie, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette, and Watch on the Rhine. But despite the accolades, there are some gaps in this movie's pedigree. For one, "As Time Goes By" not only didn't win the Academy Award for Best Song, »
- David Macaray
Friday Noir: ‘Double Indemnity’ shows a cool cat’s frightening dual nature
20 April 2012 1:08 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Billy Wilder
Written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler
U.S.A., 1944
There is a perverse sort of delight a film viewer can extract from witnessing the fall of someone too cool for school. How many times have vintage film noirs featured a protagonist which always had the right words to say at the right time, who could juggle aloofness with a total capacity to gauge and react to any imaginable predicament? Those character are typically the ones to end up on top. The Maltese Falcon has the greatest example of them all, with the Humphrey Bogart’s Sam Spade being the coolest cat around. Seeing that archetype character suddenly stumble, show signs of severe weakness, both of the emotional and psychological variety, makes for a fresh twist. Fred MacMurray, had the behest of director Billy Wilder, suffers that very fate in the highly acclaimed Double Indemnity. »
- Edgar Chaput
TCM Presents Casablanca 70th Anniversary Encore
16 April 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Bogie and Bergman light up the big screen once again for a special Turner Classic Movies Presents Casablanca 70th Anniversary Encore Event on Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. local time in more than 450 select movie theaters. The initial Casablanca events were presented through Ncm.s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network in movie theaters on March 21 with many locations selling out across the country. Presented by Ncm Fathom Events, Warner Home Video and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), this rare encore presentation has been scheduled to meet the high demand from fans to see this great classic in theaters.
Tickets for the Turner Classic Movies Presents Casablanca 70th Anniversary Encore Eventare available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the Ncm Fathom website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
.Tens of thousands of fans nationwide celebrated the 70th »
- Michelle McCue
Hal E Chester obituary
16 April 2012 5:33 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Shrewd film producer behind School for Scoundrels and Night of the Demon
Hal E Chester, who has died aged 91, was a juvenile actor, then a producer of low-budget movies in Hollywood, before he moved in 1955 to Britain, where he set up his own production company to take advantage of the lower costs of filming. Over the next 15 years he turned out a wide range of pictures, which often featured American stars such as Mickey Rooney, Dana Andrews, Yul Brynner and Paul Newman. For a period he specialised in British comedies. The first and best of these was School for Scoundrels (1960), loosely based on the popular Gamesmanship books of Stephen Potter. The impressive cast included Alastair Sim, Terry-Thomas and Dennis Price, with Ian Carmichael as the intrepid hero trying to impress Janette Scott.
Small, dynamic and fast-talking, Chester was perhaps a typical example of the shrewd and ambitious Hollywood producer. He »
- Joel Finler
Photos: Now You Too Can Ride The African Queen
13 April 2012 7:54 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Key Largo, Fla. -- The African Queen, the iconic original vessel from the classic film of the same name, is plying nearshore waters and canals in the Florida Keys again.
Keys sailing charter operators Lance and Suzanne Holmquist inked an agreement with the 100-year-old boat's owner and invested some $70,000 to restore the boat that carried Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn to movie history. The boat was originally brought to Key Largo in 1983 and restored then, but has languished as an out-of-the-water display for the past 11 years.
Stephen Bogart, son of the film star, was present during a re-launch event Thursday for the vessel, registered as a national historic site.
Next week, the Holmquists are to begin daily cruises for Keys visitors from the Holiday Inn Key Largo. »
- AP
Movie Poster of the Week: “Assignment - Paris” and the Anselmo Ballester Posters of Märta Torén
13 April 2012 7:51 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
On its way to Italy the title of this little known 1952 film about an American reporter in Paris got changed from Assignment - Paris to Destination Budapest. Perhaps, in the midst of the cold war, Budapest was more alluring and dangerous than Paris, which certainly suits the typically dramatic artwork of the great Anselmo Ballester (1897-1974). What Leonard Maltin describes as a “fitfully entertaining drama of reporter Dana Andrews trying to link together threads of plot between Communist countries against the West” looks, in Ballester’s hands, like the most torrid of noirs. As in his great poster for Affair in Trinidad, Ballester renders his male lead in monochrome, all the better to highlight his leading lady, here resplendent in a tight yellow sweater and a shimmering green skirt (who ever painted the folds of women’s clothes more transcendently than Ballester?).
The Ballester website maintained by his grandson Claudio »
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