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Legend of Chen Zhen
28 December 2009 9:42 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
For the better or worse, in this complete overhaul and new twist on Chen Zhen, who just returns from Europe and speaks French, is dressed in Western suit rather than Zhongshan Zhuang, and sports a moustache and hairdo that look like William Clark Gable, "I hope everyone would change their opinions of action stars, their thinking in the past was all wrong, I'd be performing Chopin in Legend of Chen Zhen." »
Why we should give a damn about Victor Fleming
26 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Victor Fleming directed two of the greatest films ever, The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind. Yet he has rarely been given credit for their success. As the first critical biography of him is released, Philip French reassesses the legacy of the combative and intruiging director who created film magic with Judy Garland, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh
Seventy years ago, on 15 December 1939, one of Hollywood's most legendary movies, Gone With the Wind, a celebration of what the American South endured as a result of the Civil War, had its whites-only world premiere in Atlanta, Georgia. Its stars were there – Vivien Leigh, who played the brave, capricious, head-strong, thrice married heroine Scarlett O'Hara, and Clark Gable, Hollywood's democratically elected king, who played the handsome, pragmatic hero Rhett Butler; and also present, of course, was its producer, the "boy wonder" David O Selznick, who had been developing the film for three years, »
- Philip French
Interviews: Christmas Stars Shine With Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren, Larry Hagman
24 December 2009 6:10 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – On this Christmas Eve, we will bask in the light of sparkling film stars, and honor their legacy. Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren and Larry Hagman met admirers at the Hollywood Celebrities Show.
The older stars are the most fascinating and best attended towards at these type of events. There is a sense of regal elements to their bearing, but at the same time a knowledge that they were possessed in another era, simpler perhaps, but still significant in this time of online and DVD assess to the older canon.
Let us spend time briefly this Christmas Eve with the following legends of film, as HollywoodChicago and the ace of all aces, photographer Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto, connect to the living embodiments of our film history past at the Hollywood Celebrities Show in Rosemont, Illinois.
Mickey Rooney, Film and Box Office Titan for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
The Mickster, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
DVD Review: Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition)
21 December 2009 6:08 PM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
“As God is my Witness I’ll Never be Hungry Again.” And, you won’t ever be hungry again after picking up the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition of Gone With The Wind. At least, you won’t be hungry for a quality home video release. That’s because as of 2009, Warner Home Video has officially taken the title of lead publisher of quality DVD and Blu-ray Ultimate Collector’s Editions. The Gone With the Wind DVD Ultimate Collector’s Edition is no exception. In 1939, Victor Fleming brought to life Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The film captivated audiences with its cinematic storytelling of a timeless love affair. The story highlighted the several periods of the Civil War in the South, while simultaneously calling into question issues of race, sex and class. Clark Gable stars as Rhett Butler, a handsome bachelor who has had his heart stolen by »
- Bags
Free Flick of the Day: 'The 39 Steps'
17 December 2009 2:45 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
If you have 82 minutes of spare time right now, I can see no reason why you should not spend it watching Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, streaming for free at SlashControl. It's from 1935, and while the Master of Suspense had made more than a dozen films before it (including several during the silent era), this is the oldest one that's still seen and discussed with any regularity. With good reason, too: It's 74 years old, yet it still comes across as clever, witty, and suspenseful. How many 74-year-olds can say that?
It's one of Hitchcock's earliest uses of what would become a major theme for him, that of the innocent man pursued for a crime he didn't commit. In this case, it's a Canadian fellow named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) who, while visiting London, meets a beautiful spy who is then murdered in his apartment, leaving police to assume he's the culprit. »
- Eric D. Snider
SPhilip French's Screen Legend: Grace Kelly
12 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
No 77: Grace Kelly 1929-82
Born in Philadelphia, the beautiful daughter of a model and a self-made Irish-American multi-millionaire who won gold medals as an Olympic oarsman, Kelly was Hollywood's ice queen of the McCarthy era, a cold war figure of upper-middle-class Catholic rectitude. One uncle was the vaudeville star Walter Kelly, another the Pulitzer-winning playwright, George Kelly, and she determined on an acting career while at college. In the late 40s and early 50s she worked as a model and on live New York TV. She entered the movies playing a minor role in Fourteen Hours in 1951, just after the banishment of Ingrid Bergman, the Hitchcock blonde who preceded her, and she retired in 1956, the year Bergman returned in triumph.
She grew up in a world of cafe society where show people, media folk, the nouveau-riches and other conspicuous consumers mingle, and she didn't leave it when, in a carefully engineered marriage, »
Veteran TV Star Gene Barry Dead At 90
11 December 2009 12:29 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »
Gene Barry, who starred in three hit TV series, Bat Masterson, Burke's Law and The Name of Game, died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 90, his son, Fredric James Barry, said Thursday. The cause of death was not disclosed. In films, Barry had starred in the 1953 production of the War of the Worlds and appeared opposite Clark Gable in Soldier of Fortune in 1955. On stage, he received a Tony nomination in 1984 for his role as a gay night club owner in La Cage aux Folles.
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Actor Barry Dies
11 December 2009 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actor Gene Barry has died at the age of 90.
The star passed away of unknown causes on Wednesday in a care home in Woodland Hills, California.
Barry appeared in several Broadway plays and musicals before starring in the sci-fi hit Invaders From Mars in 1953 and 1955's Soldier of Fortune with Clark Gable.
He also appeared in the War of the Worlds in 1953 and made a cameo in the 2005 remake.
But he was best known for his small-screen work, including his roles on Bat Masterson, Burke's Law, and The Name of the Game.
He is survived by his three children, Michael, Fredric and Elizabeth. »
Blu-ray Review: Gone With the Wind
9 December 2009 10:32 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Packed in a velvet box filled with three discs full of bonus features, a 20-page reproduction of the original program, a 40-page book about the production, eight art prints, and a CD sampler, one might accuse Warner Home Video of gilding the lily for their premier release of Gone With the Wind on Blu-ray. Amazingly, however, the set manages to seem like exactly the amount of excess that would be necessary to properly celebrate one of American cinema's earliest masterpieces. Newly remastered in high definition and arriving with some eight hours of supplemental material, Gone With the Wind remains a classic by which all others should be judged, and now the same can be said of its home-entertainment iteration.
Initially I considered covering this film in Cinematical's "Shelf Life" column, but watching just a few of the film's opening scenes I knew it would be redundant to re-christen Gone With the Wind as amazing, »
- Todd Gilchrist
Tyrone Power VII: Popularity
6 December 2009 12:58 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Tyrone Power, wife Deborah Ann Minardos on the set of Solomon and Sheba. Power suffered a fatal heart attack during filming. Tyrone Power VI: Lana Turner, Sonja Henie, Janet Gaynor Why do you think that Tyrone Power isn’t as well-remembered today as, say, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and several other top stars of the studio era? I love this question because it’s such bunk. That’s nothing against you — I understand why it was asked, but it’s not true. If you go out on the street and ask any twenty-something about any of these people, they’ll tell you they don’t know who any of them are. I have a friend who is a voice teacher who just [...] »
- Andre Soares
Tyrone Power Interview – Intro
6 December 2009 12:26 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Among the romantic leading men of the studio era, Tyrone Power, 20th Century Fox’s top male star from the mid-’30s to the late ’40s, is my favorite. He wasn’t the best actor of the bunch — I’d say that honor belongs to Gregory Peck. He wasn’t the sexiest, either — I’d say that honor belongs to Errol Flynn. Yet, in my view Power was the one who, more than anyone else, from Clark Gable to John Payne, from Laurence Olivier to John Garfield, from John Gilbert to John Wayne, came across as genuinely warm, sensitive, and unaffected. (Ramon Novarro, of whom I’ve written a biography, also possessed most of those qualities; Novarro, however, sometimes failed in the [...] »
- Andre Soares
Gone With The Wind 70th Anniversary Blu-ray Review
4 December 2009 12:19 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
There is nothing wrong with Gone with the Wind. Yes, it’s a bit racist. Heck, it’s a lot racist and you get to cringe listening to Clark Gable say things like “darkie.” The black characters are mostly shameful, and the film revels in the greatness and loss of the South. There are interesting ambiguities, though. Rhett Butler (Gable) recognizes that the civil war is stupid and bound for failure, but later on enlists. Okay, there’s a lot wrong with the film, but it’s also one of those films of such grand dramatic heft that it is also undeniable. My review of Gone with the Wind after the (Kris Kross will make you Jump) jump.
It’s hard not to wrestle with the history of the film, and Spike Lee has decidedly dismissed it. He’s not unfair for doing so; there are a lot of problems with the text. »
- Andre Dellamorte
Actor Leighton Dies
29 November 2009 3:01 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
American character actor Jan Leighton has died, aged 87.
Leighton - who impersonated historical figures including William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and late Hollywood actor Clark Gable on U.S. television and film - died on 16 November of complications after a stroke.
He made his Broadway debut alongside Lucille Ball in 1960 musical Wildcat. In one of his most notable film roles, Leighton played Albert Einstein in a 1982 sci-fi comedy, Zapped!
In 1985, he won a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records after notching up over 2,407 roles on his resume.
In addition to doing character work, Leighton was also a hand model. He also did a number of voiceovers and also co-authored two books with his daughter, Hallie. »
Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic
28 November 2009 1:56 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right) Mike Lasalle on Norma Shearer: "Shearer was at her best in the films no one sees: her silents. When you see her in the masterpieces she made with Monta Bell – or even in fluff, such as Lady of Chance – there’s no question that she was a great silent-film actress. In the talkies, the work is uneven, sometimes in curious ways. … Generally, I think the mistake [...] »
- Andre Soares
DVD Review: Breathtaking 5-Disc Gift Set For ‘Gone With the Wind’
25 November 2009 10:48 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – If local news reports are to be believed, nearly everyone reading this will go holiday shopping sometime during the upcoming weekend. To those of you that are considering a DVD giftset purchase like the recent release of “The Wizard of Oz,” “Christmas Vacation,” or even “Mamma Mia!,” you couldn’t do much better than the breathtaking five-disc release marking the 70th anniversary of “Gone With the Wind”.
The lavishly-packaged new collector’s edition giftset of “Gone With the Wind” is one of those overwhelming releases in which the film itself practically becomes an afterthought to the collectibles and special features. Honestly, if you haven’t seen “Gone With the Wind,” it’s required viewing for the history of film. One of the most beloved movies ever made, even if you don’t love it (and I’ll admit that it’s not a personal favorite of mine like it »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Movieweb's 2009 Blu-ray Holiday Gift Guide!
24 November 2009 5:51 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Listen up hi-def humbugs and Blu-ray Scrooges! This is the year you'll not just want, but need, to buy a new hi-def plasma screen and a shiny black Blu-ray player for Christmas (and/or whatever other holiday you choose to celebrate with lavish gifts). Why? Because this technology has reached its performance plateau. And it is finally at a reasonable price most of us can afford. Not only that, it serves as the one prefect gift the entire family can enjoy together. With more Blu-ray titles being released right now than ever before, there simply couldn't be a better time to dive head first into this leading technological platform.
But wait! There's one thing you don't want to overlook after all that exciting new equipment has been unwrapped. Without a stack of Blu-ray discs strategically placed in each family member's stocking with care, your gorgeous new HD flat screen becomes a delectable serving tray, »
Irving Thalberg Biography: Mark Vieira’s Book Signing
22 November 2009 3:21 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
"I’m looking forward to being ‘onstage’ Sunday at the Egyptian. I love talking about Irving, Norma, and Joan." That’s author Mark A. Vieira, commenting on Allan Ellenberger’s post about his book signing at Larry Edmund’s Bookshop and the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Mark’s latest book, Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince, which has just been published by the University of California Press, tells the story of Irving Thalberg, MGM’s second-in-command from the studio’s formation in 1924 to Thalberg’s death in 1936. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Lon Chaney, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow owe their stardom to Thalberg, who was also a crucial creative force behind classics such as Ben-Hur (the 1925 version), Grand Hotel, Mutiny on [...] »
- Andre Soares
New on DVD This Week
17 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | 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 such as J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, Gone with the Wind, Thirst, Rome: The Complete Series and the Blu-ray debut of David Fincher’s awesome Fight Club (shown above with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton). We are Jack’s excitement at this release finally coming out.
Check them out:
Movies
Bruno ~ Sacha Baron Cohen, Paula Abdul (DVD and Blu-ray)
Clerks ~ Brian O’Halloran, Kevin Smith (Blu-ray)
Downhill Racer (The Criterion Collection) ~ Robert Redford, Gene Hackman (DVD)
Fight Club ~ Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray)
Galaxy Quest ~ Tim Allen, »
- Heather Toshiko
[DVD Review] Gone with the Wind - 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
17 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
For those of you who have been living under a rock (or were born in the last 15 years or so), here is a very abridged summary of Gone with the Wind: it enters on the lives of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), and their friends and families, and how they're affected by the Civil War.
I don't really know what else to say about it. I mean...it's Gone with the Wind. It was re-released about a million times, and, as far as I know, faces no real threat of a remake. It's a classic — a wonderful, untouchable classic. I didn't read the book, so I don't know personally how faithful the movie is. A friend recently told me, though, that one of our high school English teachers told him it was the best film adaptation of a book she had ever seen. And trust me — this woman's word is law. »
- Jess Goodwin
Next!
15 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy². Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer and Bogie. 'Coop' again. William Holden and Marlon Brando a few years late. Ernest Borgnine, Yul Brynner and Alec Guiness. David Niven, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. Maximillian Schell, Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier who made history. Rex Harrison, Lee Marvin, Paul Scofield, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson and 'The Duke'. George C Scott though he refused. Gene Hackman. Marlon Brando by way of Sacheen Littlefeather. Jack Lemmon, Art Carney, Jack Nicholson and (posthumously) Peter Finch. Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Henry Fonda. Ben Kingsley, Robert Duvall, F Murray Abraham, »
- NATHANIEL R
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