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Bad Lieutenants and Magnificent Sevens – the golden rules of the cinematic remake
31 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Magnificent Seven, The Ring, Psycho, The Preacher's Wife – some remakes are an improvement, some are an abysmal waste of time. Joe Queenan judges the pack
In 1992, Abel Ferrara made a very dark, very depressing movie called Bad Lieutenant. In it, Harvey Keitel played a morally bankrupt police officer who seeks redemption by investigating the rape of a nun who refuses to bring charges against her assailant, turning the Bad Lieutenant into the Mad Lieutenant. The film did nothing at the box office, and is remembered mostly because it is the motion picture in which Keitel shows off his penis. There was at the time no great demand for Keitel – a fine actor, but never a matinee idol – to show off his penis, even though it was a very splendid penis indeed, nor has there been any grassroots groundswell of support for this sort of thing afterwards.
Not so long ago, »
- Joe Queenan
Cinematic Letters of Note: The Birth of 'North by Northwest'
31 December 2009 8:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Are you familiar with the website Letters of Note? If not, the title is rather self-explanatory. It's a blog that shares with the interwebs interesting letters written by, well, interesting people. I'd recommend checking out the site wholesale, but since this is a movie blog after all, I am obliged to point you straight to their cinema category. There's a number of entries there that should pique the interest of even the most casual film buff - I particularly like Stanley Kubrick's letter to the Director of Culture in Italy asking him to reconsider the restrictive rating they had branded Full Metal Jacket with - but the one I'd like to focus on today deals with North by Northwest.
Alfred Hitchcock historians and trivia-loving fans of North by Northwest may already know the story behind how the concept of the Cary Grant starring thriller came to be, but if »
- Peter Hall
What We're Reading: The Art of the Title Sequence
29 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST | AMC - Script to Screen | See recent AMC - Script to Screen news »
FirstShowing.net has pointed us towards a very, very cool film blog: The Art of the Title Sequence. Title sequences, can indeed be works of art. Look at the Hitchcockian-inspired "Catch Me If You Can," the 13-minute continuous shot from "Snake Eyes" (with only 8 well hidden cuts in the entire sequence) and the stylized 2D animation in Pixar's "The Incredibles" for just a few examples of excellent work in title sequences and opening credits.
FirstShowing highlights Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" for special attention -- and while that sequence (and its accompanied John Williams score) is indeed brilliant, I think my favorite title sequence of the last ten years or so belongs to David Fincher's "Fight Club."
Click on the image or go here to watch the opening in its full glory.
However, if we're talking about truly amazing opening sequences that pass the test of time, look »
- Christina Warren
tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)
28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade. In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.
Click through for the next installment.
40. United 93 (2006)
It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)
28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade. In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.
Click through for the next installment.
40. United 93 (2006)
It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)
28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade. In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.
Click through for the next installment.
40. United 93 (2006)
It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)
28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade. In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.
Click through for the next installment.
40. United 93 (2006)
It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (40-31)
28 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
We continue our look at the Top 50 best films of the decade. In case you missed the previous list, see #50-41 here.
Click through for the next installment.
40. United 93 (2006)
It takes guts to make a movie about the four terrorists that took over United Flight 93 and plagued us Americans with a day we won’t ever forget. No doubt that Paul Greengrass would have to climb an uphill battle to get this movie the way he wanted it to look but he does the film justice, more importantly the victims on this flight get supreme recognition. He makes it impossible for us to take our eyes off of the screen. The camera style throws us unto the plane of the teary eyed, enraged passengers whose emotions are unexplainable. Its heart-wrenching seeing the passengers come as one and do what they have to do, risking their lives to save »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
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)
The Foywonder's Ten Worst Horror Films of the Decade
23 December 2009 8:31 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The first decade of the new millennium has come to an end, and that means it is now time for film sites all over the web to begin posting their various retrospectives and lists recalling the decade that was. I generally as a rule dislike such lists because they are always so subjective. Then I said screw it and took it upon myself to do one of my own naming the ten worst horror movies of the past decade. Besides, people love bitching on the Internet about lists like this, and who am I to deny readers yet another excuse to get into pointless flame wars over personal opinions.
Of course, this list is just my personal opinion which is not legally binding ... unless Proposition 304 passes. And we all pray that it will.
I set two rules when putting this list together: Only horror movies that received fairly wide theatrical »
- Foywonder
Cool Stuff: Mario Graciotti’s Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock and Pixar Poster Art
23 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
/Film reader and Brazilian artist Mario Graciotti has created a few series of posters I wanted to showcase on the site. The posters showcase the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, and Pixar Animation Studios. Check out some of Graciotti's minimalistic posters, after the jump. Paul Thomas Anderson inspired posters: .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } .gallery img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Pixar-inspired Posters: Alfred Hitchcock-inspired Posters: You can view more of Mario Graciotti's art on DeviantArt. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which »
- Peter Sciretta
Fairy Tales, Child Development, And Unconscious Learning
21 December 2009 11:25 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
I just read a review of what sounds like a fascinating new book by film historian David Thomson, called The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder. Thomson explores the far-reaching cinematic influence of this seminal film, a legacy that he argues lingers on today in the increasingly cool depiction of violence in movies and the growing disconnect between filmic images of gore and its actual emotional content. The famous, much-studied shower scene with its gouts of crimson (shot in black-and-white, no less) broke new ground in the way it aestheticized violence. Today, we routinely watch buckets of fake blood merrily exploding every which way in movies, on TV and the internet, all in the name of a quick adrenaline burst, a dark laugh, a gruesome visual. What's missing is the emotional, psychological and even cultural »
- Susan Kim
Bernard Cribbins talks Doctor Who special - and nearly playing a Time Lord
21 December 2009 7:03 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Veteran entertainer Bernard Cribbins reprises his role as Wilfred Mott in David Tennant's upcoming final Doctor Who episodes.
Cribbins, who turns 81 on December 29, can be seen in two-parter The End Of Time on Christmas Day and New Year's Day on BBC1.
Here's what he had to say:
How Does It Feel To Play The Doctor's Latest Glamorous Assistant?
I think I was far too good-looking for it - and too tall and all those things. But it was great fun, and I was delighted when I was told I would be the companion for these last few episodes. Terrific.
It's The End Of An Era For The Current Doctor Who. How Much Can You Reveal About The Christmas Two-parter?
I honestly, and I mean this sincerely, can't reveal anything because I didn't have the pages. They didn't give me the last three or four pages, because they knew I'm »
- David Bentley
Decade in Review: 2005 Top Ten
19 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
2009 is almost over and so many magazines and websites have already offered up their best of the year And decade that I'm afraid y'all will get sick of the retrospectives before The Film Experience has chimed on. Remember: the tortoise wins! 2005's top ten list (in its original form) follows. New comments in red.
Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith
Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich
My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess
Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped. »
- NATHANIEL R
Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all, »
- Paul Howlett
Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all, »
- Paul Howlett
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
Finals Week: 'The Ghost as Domestic Inheritance in Ursula Dabrowsky's Film "Family Demons"'
16 December 2009 12:50 PM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Family Demons: The Ghost as Domestic Inheritance by Donna McRae
Low cinematic genres – (as Clover, Williams and Robin Wood and others) have often pointed out – often handle explosive social material that mainstream cinema is reluctant to touch. — Joan Hawkins (1)
Can you make a film about the aftermath of incest and child abuse and its effect on three generations of women in the same family? Would this film contain an inherited ghost running through the narrative that could represent repressed feelings of colonial guilt on another level? Could this film prick the conscience of a nation that might be shuddering in silence for all its past sins? Would you get funding for this film from an Australian funding agency if you didn't have a track record? Would this very serious film fill cinemas, especially Australian ones? Could you get international profile actors to star in your film? Or would Australian film actors like Gracie Otto, »
- Superheidi
Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
15 December 2009 9:18 PM, PST | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
This message came to me from a reader named Peter Svensland. He and a friend have been debating about my qualities as a film critic, and they've involved a considerable critic, Dan Schneider, in their discussion. I will say that he has given the question a surprising amount of thought and attention over the years, and may well be correct in some aspects. What his analysis gives me is a renewed respect and curiosity about his own work.
¶
Dear Roger,
A friend and I would like to have your opinion. It's basically so that we can settle an argument (and small side bet) with a friend over what your opinion would be. My friend and I have carefully co-drafted this email to try to eliminate one or the other of our biases. I hope we succeeded!
I have read your columns and watched your tv shows for many years now »
- Roger Ebert
The Twelve Days of Festivus: Nine on-air breakdowns
15 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
On the ninth day of Festivus, TV gave to me... nine on-air breakdowns.
Director Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
Yes, having a camera stuck in your face for an hour or more a day must take a toll on your sanity. Your privacy is virtually limited. Your every move is scrutinized and criticized by faceless meanies. Your therapist is one session away from owning his own fishing trawler.
It's only a matter of time before the grasp of sanity is clipped away like a loose thread on a homemade snowman sweater and you turn into a blubbering, snotty, incoherent mess for all the world to enjoy. These are the personalities who lost it and may or may not have gained whatever "it" is back.
Continue reading The Twelve Days of Festivus: »
- Danny Gallagher
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