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Deborah Kerr: Socially Dubious Desires
22 May 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Deborah Kerr movies: with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity Deborah Kerr Pt.2: Sexual Outlaw As an unhappily married woman having a torrid affair with an army officer shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Deborah Kerr is equally powerful in one of her best-remembered movies, From Here to Eternity (1953), stealing the romantic melodrama from her male co-stars. Fred Zinnemann’s Academy Award-winning blockbuster marked one of the rare times when Kerr’s physique played a part in her erotic persona, as she parades around Hawaii in Lana Turner-type shorts and frolics on the wet sand with brawny Burt Lancaster. Less obvious is Kerr’s headmaster’s wife in Tea and Sympathy (1956), who, despite her discreet clothing and demeanor, ends up seducing one of her husband’s teenage students. It’s all for a good cause, of course — the "sensitive" adolescent thinks he may be gay »
- Andre Soares
Father of the Bride I & II Blu-ray Review
19 May 2012 1:03 PM, PDT | The Movie Pool | See recent The Movie Pool news »
The Movie Pool gets hitched to the Father of the Bride I & II Blu-ray set!
The Set-up
In Father of the Bride, George (Martin) finds his life turned upside down when his daughter (Kimberly Williams) gets engaged and the wedding plans become more extravagant. His wife (Diane Keaton) and an outrageous wedding planner (Martin Short) only manage to make the situation worse.
In Father of the Bride Part II, George thinks he is moving into a new phase of his life, but finds his plans turned upside down once again when both his daughter (Williams) and wife (Keaton) get pregnant.
Both films directed by: Charles Shyer
The Delivery
Disney finally releases the Steve Martin Father of the Bride films on Blu-ray in a special 3-disc set that includes a Blu-ray with both films and two DVDs, each with one of the films on it. 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first film, »
- feeds@themoviepool.com (Victor Medina)
Cine-files: Genesis Cinema, Mile End, London
15 May 2012 8:34 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Each week we ask a reader to tell us about where they go to watch films. This week, a historic cinema on the site of a 19th-century east London music hall
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Every week we invite our readers to tell us about where they go to watch films. This week it's the turn of Tyrone Walker-Hebborn, who runs the Genesis Cinema and also has a close family attachment it to.
Location
Mile End, London
The Building
Standing on Mile End Road in Whitechapel, London E1, the Genesis Cinema is built on a site with over 150 years of tradition in entertainment. Originally opened as a music hall back in 1848, then as the Paragon Theatre of Varieties hosting acts such as Charlie Chaplin, the venue first functioned as a cinema in 1912 – making it the oldest cinema in east London – and was known as the Mile End Empire. »
ShockYa’s Top 10 Wedding Films
29 April 2012 10:28 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
It’s springtime, and for many people in the country, that means it’s also wedding time! Since spring is the biggest season for weddings, ShockYa is celebrating the season of love with our list of the our top 10 wedding films. 1. “Father of the Bride” (1950, 1991): Both versions of this story about a father who has to deal with the conflicting emotions of his daughter getting married and the bills that come with it are delightful and humorous. While we all feel for the father’s turmoil (Spencer Tracy in the 1950 version, Steve Martin in the 1991 version), we also understand that all of that pain and heartache is [ Read More ] »
- monique
Hedy Lamarr/Samson And Delilah: Ahead of The Hunger Games?
24 April 2012 1:02 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Algiers Hedy Lamarr can be seen later this month on Turner Classic Movies: I Take This Woman (1940) will be shown on Saturday, April 28, and The Conspirators (1944) on Monday, April 30. I Take This Woman was a troubled production that took so long to make — W.S. Van Dyke replaced Frank Borzage who had replaced original director Josef von Sternberg — that punsters called it "I Retake This Woman." Spencer Tracy co-stars as a doctor who marries European refugee Lamarr. Jean Negulesco’s The Conspirators has several elements in common with Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, including an "exotic" World War II setting (in this case, Lisbon), conflicting loyalties, male lead Paul Henreid, and supporting players Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Curiously, at one point Lamarr had been considered for the Casablanca role that eventually went to Ingrid Bergman. Neither I Take This Woman nor The Conspirators did much for Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood career. »
- Andre Soares
Clara Bow, Andrei Tarkovsky, Audrey Hepburn Movies
20 April 2012 7:23 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Clara Bow, Mantrap What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They'll all be featured in some form or other at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, in May. [Packard Campus screening schedule.] Andrei Tarkovsky will be represented by the classic sci-fier Solaris (1971), billed as the Soviet Union's answer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and by the classic period drama Andrei Rublev (1969), a meditation on art, religion, spirituality, and human brutality and stupidity. A technicality: Solaris will actually be screened on April 27. Edward G. Robinson stars in The Little Giant (1933), a pre-Code crime comedy featuring Mary Astor. The (at the time) energetic Roy Del Ruth (The Maltese Falcon, Taxi!, Employees' Entrance) directed. Clara Bow is the star of Mantrap (1926), a fluffy romantic comedy of interest chiefly because of Bow and because neither of her two leading »
- Andre Soares
'Supernatural' Star Talks Ghost Rules & A Monstrous Concern
20 April 2012 9:31 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Death has never been much of an obstacle on The CW's "Supernatural" (Fridays at 9 p.m. Et), where our two lead characters have both been to heaven, hell and back again without missing a beat.
So when the cult hit chose to kill off one of its most enduring and beloved characters, Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver), earlier this season, our mourning was tempered by the hope that we might see that trademark trucker hat again sooner rather than later.
The show returns tonight (April 20) with the first of five uninterrupted episodes leading up to the May 18 season finale, and by the looks of things, dearly departed Bobby isn't letting his ghostly transformation get in the way of his hunting prowess. HuffPost TV caught up with Beaver to discuss what's coming up for Bobby now that he's no longer in the land of the living, and the difficulties he's encountered while »
- Laura Prudom
'Supernatural' Star Talks Ghost Rules & A Monstrous Concern
20 April 2012 9:29 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Death has never been much of an obstacle on The CW's "Supernatural" (Fridays at 9 p.m. Et), where our two lead characters have both been to heaven, hell and back again without missing a beat.
So when the cult hit chose to kill off one of its most enduring and beloved characters, Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver), earlier this season, our mourning was tempered by the hope that we might see that trademark trucker hat again sooner rather than later.
The show returns tonight (April 20) with the first of five uninterrupted episodes leading up to the May 18 season finale, and by the looks of things, dearly departed Bobby isn't letting his ghostly transformation get in the way of his hunting prowess. HuffPost TV caught up with Beaver to discuss what's coming up for Bobby now that he's no longer in the land of the living, and the difficulties he's encountered while »
- Laura Prudom
Director Kenny Leon Juggles 'Dinner,' 'Steel Magnolias,' and Tupac Musical
12 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Director Kenny Leon asserts, "Thank God I'm working!" In fact the Tony-nominated Leon is juggling several projects. He's helming an African-American version of Robert Harling's "Steel Magnolias" for Lifetime TV; a staged adaptation of the iconic 1967 film, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"; and a Broadway-bound musical inspired by the work of rapper Tupac Shakur, with each property reflecting Leon's interest in diversity, inclusion, and relevance.Consider his spin on "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," slated to debut this summer at the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts in Atlanta. Originally starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn, the story centers on a while liberal couple who find themselves in an unexpected bind when their daughter comes home with a black fiance.'Why now?' Leon asks rhetorically. 'Why is America still America? Think of what happened in Florida [the shooting death of Trayvon Martin]. Just when we think race is not »
- help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
My Top 10 Disaster Movies of All Time -- Is Your Favorite on My List?
4 April 2012 9:40 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
The unsinkable .Titanic. sets sail into theaters once again. This time, writer/director James Cameron remastered and converted the original to 3D format. Marking the 100th anniversary of the ship.s doomed voyage, the Oscar-winning .Titanic. still stands as a great disaster film.
Any film that showcases a catastrophe as its subject with characters attempting to escape or cope with the impending or ongoing disaster belongs in the disaster movie genre. Here.s my list of the Top 10 Disaster Movies of All Time.
10. .The Day After Tomorrow. . Global warming is the culprit behind this film from director Roland Emmerich. Dennis Quaid stars as a Paleoclimatologist who discovers the looming disaster and must race against time to save his son (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) who is trapped in New York. The film may be scientifically inaccurate but it still offers a plausible .what if. scenario.
9. .Cloverfield. . Director Matt Reeves teams up »
- Manny
Episode Recap: Navy NCIS - 8.08: "Enemies Foreign"
2 April 2012 5:13 PM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
A girl strolls down the street wearing headphones and scans people for their credit card details using a scanner. Then comes out of a store with shopping bags. McGee (Sean Murray) and Tony (Michael Weatherly) arrest her for terrorism and espionage. McGee demos the device she was using. One card she scanned has been alerted on the terrorism watchlist. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is letting her stew in interrogation, whilst he talks to Vance (Rocky Carroll) who is going to be in conference with former NCIS Directors, reviewing case files. Former NCIS director Tom Morrow is mentioned but not actually shown. He was Jenny Sheppard's predecessor. Three DBs have been found off the Florida coast who were shot by the Coastguard. That would have been a good opportunity to bring back Coastguard Investigation in the form of Cgis in 7.18 Jurisdiction. One was in the navy. Vance tells Gibbs the girl is ready to talk. »
- mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
Little Caesar: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
30 March 2012 5:14 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glenda Farrell, Little Caesar Little Caesar Review Pt.1 More cogent is the claim that Little Caesar represents a look at American capitalism without the blinders. Rico is like many of the Gilded Age thugs who made violence and murder an accepted practice of business. In much the same way that the Rockefellers and Carnegies avoided being publicly seen with blood on their hands, so too do the big movers and shakers of the city’s underworld. Diamond Pete Montana (Ralph Ince) and the Big Boy (Sidney Blackmer), both of whom are several notches above Rico, survive because they keep low profiles — in the world of Big Business, too, the CEOs that stay behind the scenes survive the longest. Rico, on the other hand, does his Al Capone and John Gotti-like best to court the press and as a result, is doomed. Now, while nowhere near great cinema, »
- Dan Schneider
'Laverne & Shirley's' Cindy Williams: Ron Howard, Penny Marshall were destined to direct
28 March 2012 3:10 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Cindy Williams didn't doubt two of her best-known co-stars would become well-known filmmakers.
The actress played Ron Howard's girlfriend in the 1973 movie classic "American Graffiti," then worked with him again on the ABC sitcom "Happy Days" ... which yielded the hugely successful spinoff "Laverne & Shirley," teaming Williams with Penny Marshall. Still good friends, the women will reunite when their enduringly popular show gets the Fan Favorite honor at the TV Land Awards, to be televised by the nostalgia-driven network Sunday, April 29.
"Ron kept jumping out of the car during 'American Graffiti' and talking to Haskell Wexler, the cinematographer," Williams recalls to Zap2it about making the George Lucas-directed ode to teen life circa 1962. "He'd get back in the car -- we had no dressing rooms, so we'd sit in the car between takes -- and I'd ask him, 'What are you doing?' And he'd say, 'I'm »
- editorial@zap2it.com
From the Missing Films of Favorite Auteurs: Frank Borzage's "Big City" (1937)
27 March 2012 7:56 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
I was recently alerted to the fact that Frank Borzage's 1937 masterpiece Big City is finally available on DVD in the Us, thanks to Warner Archive's Luis Rainer Collection. As such, I've pulled from Notebook's Archive of the Unpublished an unfinished piece I worked on some time ago on this terrific film, gleaned, as you will see from the images, from Turner Classic Movies in France (ignore the subtitles—the images were chosen for the images, not the words on them). It's not particularly finished or even unified and it's more description than anything else, but I hope it inspires you to see this film.
A fan of director Frank Borzage has to be a bit of a patient crate-digger, finding his films as they pop up in rare retrospectives (7th Heaven, not-so-rare on the Old Film Circuit, but the rest are sporadic) or unexpectedly on Turner Classic Movies, which »
Review: Deep Red (Blu-ray)
19 March 2012 8:27 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Poor David Hemmings. First, Michelangelo Antonioni puts him through the wringer in the ultra stylish giallo, Blow Up (1966), and then Dario Argento gets the idea to cast him in a reworking of Blow Up in 1975, with Deep Red. This guy can’t go anywhere without being thrown into a murder mystery, and thus risking his life at every turn.
In Deep Red, Hemmings plays Marcus Daily, a British pianist working in Italy. One night he witnesses the murder of his neighbor Helga (Macha Meril), a renowned psychic, in their apartment building. While being interrogated by the police he meets Gianna Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi), a plucky journalist who quickly ropes Marcus into investigating the murder with her.
Daria Nicolodi and David Hemmings’ relationship is reminiscent of a 1940’s comedy starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. In a memorable sequence where the two are in Gianna’s car, she is driving, while »
- Derek Botelho
Myrna Loy: Never Oscar Nominated
12 March 2012 3:19 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Myrna Loy Q&A Pt.2: Political Activism, Hollywood blacklist While doing research on Myrna Loy and her times, was there anything that came as a shock to you? Any major difficulties while trying to uncover aspects of Loy's life and career? Was there a "most enjoyable" area of research? Or perhaps a "least enjoyable"? I sometimes felt frustrated by Loy's success in covering her tracks. I longed for more revelations, but her step-granddaughter Deb Hornblow warned me when I first got going on this book that it was going to be tough to find original material that was going to unlock secrets. Also, time has passed, and most of those closest to her are not around any more. Most enjoyable to me was watching Myrna Loy movies. She was a really terrific actress, a natural, without formal training or a background in theater, who had a grace, intelligence and »
- Andre Soares
Myrna Loy Biography
12 March 2012 3:17 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Myrna Loy biography: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood Many believe that Myrna Loy is the best American actress never to have been nominated for an Academy Award. Despite having played leads and supporting roles in more than 100 movies (in addition to a few dozen bit parts during the silent era), Loy was invariably bypassed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But that's the Oscar and the Academy's loss. For starters, Loy was a delightful light comedienne in movies such as W.S. Van Dyke's The Thin Man and Jack Conway's Libeled Lady. One of the greatest — and most beautifully politically incorrect — dialogue exchanges in movies can be heard in Rouben Mamoulian's 1932 musical Love Me Tonight: Jeanette MacDonald: "Don't you think of anything but men, dear?" Myrna Loy: "Oh yes, schoolboys." Loy could be a remarkable dramatic actress as well, as can »
- Andre Soares
San Francisco Earthquake Movie: Brad Bird/1906
12 March 2012 11:07 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, San Francisco Brad Bird's film adaptation of James Dalessandro's novel 1906, about San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake, will definitely not be coming out this year. It's not that the editing or the score isn't ready. The screenplay is yet to be written, according to an interview with Bird posted at ifc.com. Bird explains: “I mean, in a movie like Titanic, there’s a certain amount of healthy limitation in the fact that it’s one ship in the middle of the ocean. With 1906, it’s a city, and it becomes exponentially harder to sort of reign in the storylines and take advantage of all the amazing things that were happening in this place at that particular moment in time. The script and the story is what’s elusive on 1906 more than it is any hesitations with me as a filmmaker.” Starring Tom Cruise, »
- Anna Robinson
Hedy Lamarr: Shoplifting, Ecstasy And Me
11 March 2012 2:58 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Hedy Lamarr Hedy Lamarr was a major MGM star in the early 1940s. Among her movies at the studio were I Take This Woman, Boom Town, Comrade X, Ziegfeld Girl, and White Cargo. Her co-stars included Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, William Powell, and Walter Pidgeon. As the decade came to a close, Lamarr had her biggest box-office hit: Cecil B. DeMille's Paramount release Samson and Delilah, starring Victor Mature. After her movie stardom had faded, Lamarr was involved in a few bizarre incidents. In 1965, she was arrested in Los Angeles for shoplifting. Though later cleared of all charges, she lost a small role in the B movie Picture Mommy Dead because of that incident. Zsa Zsa Gabor replaced her. Curiously, there would be another shoplifting charge in Florida in 1991, this time for $21.48 worth of laxatives and eye drops. Lamarr's attorney explained that the shoplifting was actually a case of absentmindedness: Lamarr, »
- Andre Soares
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers – review
3 March 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A sexually obliging bartender dishes the dirt on Hollywood royalty, but are we really any the wiser?
As if the appalling movie W.E. was not wound enough, here is news that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, on miserable occasions, when driven to depths of boredom, actually had sex with each other instead of with members of their own sex. All of a sudden the devastated looks on their haggard faces is explained. Who says this? It is "Scotty Bowers"– a name that had me thinking of the Bowers who perished with the great, gloomy Scott 100 years ago in the Antarctic; if only our author had been in that tent. And you almost feel he might have been, to judge by Gore Vidal's endorsement of this book: "I have known Scotty Bowers the better part of a century … Scotty doesn't lie."
Neither does he supply his book with an index, »
- David Thomson
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