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10 Greatest Movie Cops
15 hours ago | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Cinema has always had an obsession with cops, and probably always will. Famous and iconic directors such as Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet have all made movies focusing on the profession and the people involved in it. Cops are ever involved in drama on various scales, and their job has to be done with a right balance of emotion and ruthlessness and their days at work feature a more than average level of emotion. Corrupt cops are also a permanent staple of cinema as everyone loves an anti-hero/villain, but this list is for the cops on the (relatively) straight and narrow.
Few professions have been detailed as intrinsically and often as that of a cop. The life of a cop is often glamourised extensively in the movies with gun fights and car chases being common occurrences in cop movies, though most cops go their whole »
- Sam Moore
4 Different Takes on ‘Rashomon’
18 hours ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they take 4 different views on Akira Kurosawa‘s Rashomon because they think they’re clever. In the #24 (tied) movie on the list, a bandit, a samurai, his wife, and a woodcutter each tell their version of a violent encounter on a forest road. With each new entry, conflicts and distortions arise, ultimately bending and challenging what we think of as the truth in storytelling and in life. Landon Palmer: As with Seven Samurai‘s influence on »
- FSR Staff
Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
Blu-ray Review - The Long Riders (1980)
3 June 2013 7:26 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Long Riders, 1980.
Directed by Walter Hill.
Starring David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid.
Synopsis:
Following the Youngers, the Jameses and the Millers – all notorious outlaws back in the Old West, who raided and stole from banks across the country.
The Western film craze was said to have ended with Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, though there was still one director adamant at making his own. Walter Hill – whose work before The Long Riders foamed at the mouth with motifs reminiscent of quintessential Westerns – always needed to add to the genre. The Long Riders may not be a masterpiece yet it’s grounded in appreciation and understanding of the specific style, constructed fantastically well.
Being released in 1980 it was a striking and off-beat project in amongst the buddy movies, spoofs and slasher movies. However, the other Western from that year, Heaven’s Gate, »
- Flickering Myth
Cannes Film Festival 2013: 'Michael Kohlhaas' review
29 May 2013 6:25 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ The 66th Cannes Film Festival just got medieval on our asses with Arnaud des Pallières' Palme d'Or outsider Michael Kohlhaas (2013), a tale of injustice and revolt set in 16th century France. Adapted from the Heinrich von Kleist novella, Pallières' latest follows the plight of its eponymous hero (Denmark's Mads Mikkelsen), a happy and prosperous family man and horse trader who suffers an injustice at the hands of an arrogant young baron. Kohlhaas seeks redress legally, only to be rebuffed and threatened. Tragedy strikes when Judith, his wife (Delphine Chuillot), is murdered, leading our protagonist on the path to vengeance.
The towering Mikkelsen wowed Cannes last year as a teacher stubbornly refusing to bow to injustice in Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt (Jagten, 2012). Injustice is one again on the menu here; however, as an actor in possession of a range as epic as the Cevénnes landscape against which his latest film plays against, »
- CineVue UK
10 Dream Actor/Director Collaborations
25 May 2013 10:42 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
A good actor/director relationship is like a good rhythm section – they compliment each other effortlessly and they’re never quite the same separated. Careers and reputations are built on collaboration. When people think of Martin Scorsese, they think of Robert De Niro and vice versa. Often, all the great directors have an actor they continually go to, and actors will also have a director who is a favourite who they work repeatedly with.
Some actors and directors are just made to work with each other. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune worked together 16 times and they both valued their collaborations together more than any of their other work. Laura Dern may have only worked with David Lynch 3 times, but she acted for him unlike anyone else and she could never get close to her performances in his films elsewhere. Sometimes, there is just an indefinable synergy between two people that turns into magic. »
- Sam Moore
Somerset House Announce Fantastic Film4 Summer Screen 2013 Line-Up
23 May 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
One of the staples of the outdoor summer screenings in London is undoubtedly the Film4 Summer Screen season at the glorious Somerset House. Even though you’re in the middle of busy London, you’re very much away in a world of your own, well, with a few hundred other film lovers.
We’re very excited to announce the new line-up of films that’s been announced and – take note – tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10am but be quick, they sell out fast! This year, also sees the World Premiere of Richard Curtis’s About Time and two UK Premieres: The Way Way Back and Prince Avalanche.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 24 May 2013
Tickets from £14.50 available online: www.somersethouse.org.uk/film4summerscreen
There’s an extended run out there this time around, so instead of me waffling on just check out the full »
- Dan Bullock
'About Time' for Film4 Summer Screen Somerset House world premiere
21 May 2013 12:33 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Richard Curtis's romantic comedy About Time will have its world premiere at the Film4 Summer Screen programme on August 8.
The annual film event, which takes place at London's Somerset House, will host the UK premieres for a pair of Us comedies: Steve Carell's coming of age film The Way Way Back and Paul Rudd's Prince Avalanche.
The 14-date programme also includes screenings of classic films What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Red Shoes and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
Three double or triple bills feature with Mean Girls, Carrie and The Loved Ones screening back-to-back and Predator and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and Badlands and Raising Arizona showing together on separate nights.
The Film4 Summer Screen runs from August 8 to August 21. The full lineup is as follows:
August 8 - About Time (world premiere)
August 9 - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
August 10 - Mean Girls »
Weinstein, Yen Talk ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel
19 May 2013 5:07 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Getting one phone call from Harvey Weinstein would be enough for many actors to commit to a role. But it took one phone call a week, for several weeks, to get martial arts star Donnie Yen to commit to the Weinstein Co.‘s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” sequel.
“At first I was a little hesitant,” Yen said during a discussion with Weinstein and director Yuen Woo-Ping at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
The kung-fu expert, who has shown off his skills in pics like Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” and the “Iron Monkey” films, praised the original 2000 “Crouching Tiger,” and said he had concerns about how to improve on it. Eventually, though, Yen said that “as an actor,” he couldn’t pass up the challenge.
Weinstein’s love of Asian cinema and martial arts is well-known, and he talked about being influenced by Akira Kurosawa.
Weinstein said that when »
- Rachel Abrams
The Noteworthy: Bertolucci Heads Venice, Serge Daney Explores Mannerism, Miyazaki Interviews Kurosawa
15 May 2013 11:51 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
News.
The 70th Venice Film Festival now has its head juror: Bernardo Bertolucci. Indiewire reports. Werner Herzog will be awarded the Pardo d’onore Swisscom at the 66th Festival del film Locarno.
Finds.
Above: Via blogger John Sisson at Dreams of Space, the daily science publication io9 has unearthed a hilarious comic strip adaptation of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey from, of all things, a 1968 Howard Johnson's children's menu.
"Coppola's films, like those of Brian de Palma or some of Spielberg's, are the mannerist side of American cinema. How can one define this mannerism? Nothing happens to human beings, everything happens to images - to Images. Images become characters with pathos, pawns in the game. We tremble for them, we want them to be kindly treated, they are no longer just produced by the camera, but manufactured outside it, and its 'pre-visualization,' thanks to video, is the object »
- Notebook
Jane Campion's Top Nine Films on Criterion Include 'Contempt,' 'Seven Samurai,' 'Tokyo Story' and More
14 May 2013 9:35 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Criterion has posted Jane Campion's "Top 10" list, in which she ranks her favorite titles put out by the prestigious DVD and Blu-ray company. The list includes only nine films, but among them are Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt," Federico Fellini's "La Strada" and Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story." Full list below. Campion will receive the Carosse d'Or and head the Short Film and Cinefondation jury at Cannes later this week. The director's excellent mystery series, "Top of the Lake," which she co-wrote, produced and directed in part, recently concluded on the Sundance Channel. You can read Campion's comments on each film here. Campion's Top 9 for Criterion: 1. The Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 2. The Night Porter (dir. Liliana Cavani, 1974) 3. The Firemen's Ball (dir. Milos Forman, 1967) 4. That Obscure Object of Desire (dir. Luis Bunuel, 1977) 5. Contempt (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) 6. Tokyo Story (dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 7. La Strada (dir. Federico Fellini, 1954) 8. Scenes from »
- Beth Hanna
“Corman’s Drive-In” Launches This Summer On YouTube Paid Channel
9 May 2013 2:26 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
As one of the first major Hollywood filmmakers to launch a paid channel on YouTube, Roger Corman, along with his longtime producer partner Julie Corman, will unveil “Corman’s Drive-In” on YouTube, which reaches more than one billion unique users monthly. Corman’s new channel is part of YouTube’s new platform offering viewers more channels through a paid subscription model.
“Corman’s Drive-In” – set to launch this summer – gives the legendary Oscar winning director the opportunity to take the treasured library of more than 400 classic films directly to his fan base, as well as reach a new millennial audience.
“I have always approached filmmaking with the desire to reach a broad audience, and YouTube is clearly where the viewers are now,” said Roger Corman. “In today’s ever-connected marketplace, I couldn’t think of a better platform on which to unveil “Corman’s Drive-In.”
Under the banner of New Horizons Picture Corp. »
- Michelle McCue
10 Most Iconic Foreign Language Filmmakers
8 May 2013 4:33 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Despite not being particularly popular at the moment, foreign films have always held a special place in cinema. Freed from the constraints often found in Hollywood, foreign language films tend to take more risks, deal with more complex topics, and often pay more attention to the human element than English language productions. Despite many people being wary of foreign language films because of subtitles, good movies are good movies regardless of what language they’re in.
The influence of some of the best foreign film directors permeates throughout Hollywood. George Lucas drew on the films of Akira Kurosawa while creating Star Wars, Woody Allen was heavily influenced by the films of Ingmar Bergman, and the examples of other directors inspired by foreign cinema are endless.
The following directors not only made great films that have stood the test of time, but they are also incredibly influential on modern films in »
- Paul Sorrells
Hey Australia, Win Lone Wolf And Cub Ultimate Collection DVD Boxset As We Celebrate Toho Month At Twitch!
2 May 2013 6:30 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Oh Australians, you lucky so-and-so's and devoted readers of our fine site. You have an awesome month ahead of you as we celebrate Toho Studios and give away prizes galore in the process!Founded in 1932 and still going strong today Toho Co. Ltd. is a Japanese film and distribution company. It is headquartered in Tokyo and outside Japan it is best known as the producer and distributor of many kaiju (monster) and tokusatsu (special effects) movies, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli. Its most famous worldwide creation is Godzilla.Twitch along with Madman Entertainment are celebrating May as the month of Toho and as such have five weeks of fantastic giveaways up for grabs!This is week one which means the chance to...
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You Always Remember Your First Time: Prince Of Darkness
1 May 2013 7:20 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
I’ve seen a lot of movies, but yet I haven’t. This is the story of my life. Is it possible to see every film ever made? No, but you can work on seeing the ones that interest you. A rational starting point would to be watching the classics of cinema, and then venturing off to the stranger pastures it has to offer. I have willingly done the opposite. I’ve seen the 16mm Canadian masterpiece Things multiple times over instead of cinema’s masterpiece Citizen Kane (even though I own it). I’ve gladly purchased Evil Dead II on three formats instead of taking a chance on a film I’ve never seen before. If there were a screening of The Last American Virgin the same time as Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, you can guarantee my touche would be planted in a seat for the former.
Why? »
- Justin Edwards
Portman and Fassbender Sign Up for Yet Another Strict Retelling of Shakespeare's Work
1 May 2013 7:05 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
If you listened to the podcast last Friday you heard how I ended up missing a screening of Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, but I can't say it has irked me to any great extent. Adaptations of Shakespeare's work that stick strictly to Shakespeare's language tend to irk me, recent examples being Julie Taymor's The Tempest and Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus. Around the corner, along with Whedon's Nothing, we have Carlo Carlei's Romeo and Juliet and the adaptations are sure to continue from there as yet another has been set up in the last few days. Like the adaptations I mentioned above, Justin Kurzel's take on Shakespeare's Macbeth will be filmed in the play's original language with Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender in the leading roles. Kurzel previously brought us the primal story of Australia's serial killer John Bunting in Snowtown (read my review here »
- Brad Brevet
The Truth Lies "At The Gate Of The Ghost"
29 April 2013 6:29 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
As long as films are going to be remade (as trends suggest that they will), you could actually do worse than Rashomon. While it's unlikely that any reinterpretation will ever dethrone Akira Kurosawa's classic, its themes are universal enough that they can bear reexamination. To its credit, At The Gate Of The Ghost never pretends to be anything but an updating, taking the original set-up and dramatizing with the benefit of what must be a better budget and the technical resources of the modern day. Even if it doesn't make the same impression, it's a suitably sturdy interpretation.
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- Anders Nelson
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Treats Cult Hit ‘Repo Man’ Like Classic Film
29 April 2013 3:33 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – One of the many things I love about The Criterion Collection is the even battlefield that it creates within its own archives. A film by Alfred Hitchcock or Akira Kurosawa or Charles Chaplin can sit next to a cult hit like “Repo Man.” I grew up in the era of “Repo Man“‘s growing cult status and it’s amazing to me to see this midnight movie given the same level of respect as films widely recognized as classics. “Repo Man” is a classic in its own way and the people at Criterion recognize that. Fans of the movie, and there are Many, will be more than satisfied.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Repo Man” is such a defiantly weird, punk rock movie that its unique nature has made it timeless. The film would be a cult hit if it came out today, nearly three decades after its release. Do you know how few ’80s films, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Michael Fassbender to play Macbeth
29 April 2013 8:03 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Prometheus and Inglourious Basterds star to lead Shakespeare movie, directed by Snowtown's Justin Kurzel
Michael Fassbender is to play Macbeth in a new film version of the William Shakespeare tragedy, produced by the company behind Steve McQueen's Shame and the Oscar-winning The King's Speech. Screen Daily reports that the picture will be directed by the Australian film-maker Justin Kurzel, best known for his 2011 crime drama Snowtown.
Macbeth charts the rise and fall of a Scottish general, who seizes the throne with the help of his ambitious wife and eventually sparks a civil war. Shakespeare's play has been tackled in the past by directors such as Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa and Orson Welles, who described his 1948 adaptation as "a violently sketched charcoal drawing of a great play".
The Kurzel version will be produced by See-Saw Films from a script adapted by Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff. The casting of the play's other roles, »
- Xan Brooks
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