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'Young Frankenstein' Has been Making Us Laugh for 35 Years!
16 December 2009 2:55 AM, PST
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Marty Feldman as Igor in Young Frankenstein
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As the story goes, Gene Wilder's agent, Mike Medavoy, approached him with the idea of doing a movie combining his talents with Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle. Wilder considered this and thought they could actually make for a great collaboration. "What made you think of that combination?" Wilder asked his agent. Medavoy, in what Wilder calls a moment of "wonderful artistic basis," replied, "Because I now represent you, Marty and Peter." Sometimes this is how classics get made and yesterday was its 35th birthday!
Obviously, Medavoy's proposal became just the right project for the three of them to combine their talents. They had a treatment of a satire on the Frankenstein story, and now all they needed was a director. Wilder - who first worked with Mel Brooks on The Producers - just finished working with him again
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- Andre Rivas
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‘The Fourth Kind’ Abduction Featurette and Genre Picks
2 November 2009 10:15 AM, PST
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If you have been eagerly anticipating Friday’s release of The Fourth Kind, here is a creepy little featurette from Universal and Yahoo Movies to prime you for the movie — which you can watch after the jump. It’s no spoiler to note that the plot of the movie has to do with missing people in Alaska, and possible alien abduction. This featurette provides a back-story, so to speak, about the four different kinds of alien encounters.
Still can’t sate your appetite for alien abduction? If so, take a look at these other genre titles while you are biding your time. And, look for our review of The Fourth Kind on Friday.
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – Arguably the best known in the genre. This movie terrified me when I saw it as a child. Steven Speilberg’s follow up to Jaws racked up several oscar nominations and won for best cinematography.
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- Shannon Hood
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Top 7 Films Directed by Actors Turned Directors
30 October 2009 4:34 AM, PDT
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We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.
The old joke is that all actors want to direct. Though it’s maybe not true of all, I still had plenty to choose from in making this list. The directors on this list all started life as actors, some still are, but I’d argue that they’re better known as directors. This month, two well known actresses have tried their hand at direction, Drew Barrymore with Whip It (which was a great movie, I have no idea why it did so badly) and Natalie Portman doing a segment of New York I Love You. Who knows, maybe one (or both) has a second career around the corner.
7. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Directed by John Cassavetes
Recap: A portrait of family in crisis when a woman (Gena Rowlands) goes mad and her husband (Peter Falk) tries to understand it.
Reason:
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- Megan Lehar
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Fun For Everyone Halloween Films – Part III!
28 October 2009 8:01 AM, PDT
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The belfry has struck twice in the land of Fun For Everyone Halloween Films here at Screen Rant, and the third, final chime is preparing to strike!
Join the Screen Rant team as we detail this last entry for our 2009 Fun For Everyone Halloween Films listing and “chime in” with your own!
5. Edward Scissorhands (1990): I would love to see how something like Edward Scissorhands would go over in today’s society. Clearly, if the school he’d be attending observed any of today’s weapon policies, he’d be expelled instantly and have at least 4 interviews on news programs and talk shows before the week was over about how the institution is “denying his fundamental right to express himself.” Edward Scissorhands reminds me a lot of many of the movies that came out in the late 80s, up until 1990. Lots of teen angst with a dash of fantasy – lots
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- Mike Wilkerson
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Film Independent Now Accepting Director’s Lab Applications
28 August 2009 11:30 AM, PDT
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If you happen to be an aspiring director then this is for you. Film Independent, the non-profit devoted to artists and independent filmmaking is now accepting applications for its 9th Annual Director’s Lab, an eight-week course designed to help directors who are in the midst of prepping films. Sound good? Well, read on to get all the latest details on the program, how to apply and other goodies.
Film Independent Now Accepting Applications
For 2010 Directors Lab
* Deadline is October 5, 2009 -
Film Independent’s 9th Annual Directors Lab is an intensive eight-week incubator designed to help directors who are prepping their feature films, and is sponsored by Kodak.
Taking place in Los Angeles during the winter, the Lab assists directors with strong, original voices develop new narrative feature films, improve their craft, and advance their filmmaking careers in a nurturing, yet challenging creative environment.
To apply, please visit: http://filmindependent.
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- Joe Gillis
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John Hughes Made 'Mr. Mom' A Surrogate Father
6 August 2009 4:22 PM, PDT
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I'm at a loss my friends. I don't know what John Hughes was to you. He was my teacher and my babysitter, a third parent of sorts. A powerful force throughout my childhood and beyond, I can think of no other filmmaker who had such a profound impact on my life. Looking back over his career, I'm staggered by the number of movies that I've seen 10 times, 20 times and more, favorites that I continue to rely on as "comfort" movies even today.
All of that past brilliance remains, but it breaks my heart to know that I'll never again walk into a movie theater and see his name on the title card of a new release. In a summer that has already been filled with tragic losses, this one hits me particularly hard. And I know for a fact that many of my peers are feeling the same way. Such
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- Adam Rosenberg
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Charles N. Brown, 'Locus' publisher, 1937-2009
13 July 2009 12:33 PM, PDT
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Sadly, and yet appropriately, from Locus itself:
Locus
publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown, 72, died peacefully
in his sleep July 12, 2009 on his way home from Readercon.
Charles
Nikki Brown was born June 24, 1937 in Brooklyn NY, where he grew up. He
attended the City College of New York, taking time off from 1956-59 to
serve in the Us Navy, and finished his degree (Bs in physics and
engineering) at night on the GI Bill while working as a junior engineer
in the '60s. He married twice, to Marsha Elkin (1962-69), who helped
him start Locus, and to Dena Benatan (1970-77), who co-edited Locus
for many years while he worked full time. He moved to San Francisco in
1972, working as a nuclear engineer until becoming a full-time Sf
editor in 1975. The Locus offices have been in Brown's home in the Oakland hills since 1973.
Brown co-founded Locus
with Ed Meskys and
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- Glenn Hauman
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Brooks To Be Honoured By Academy
1 July 2009 6:36 PM, PDT
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Moviemaker and funnyman Mel Brooks is to be the subject of a star-studded tribute at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles later this month
The comedian, director, actor and writer, who is one of only 12 people to win an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award, will be feted by famous fans, friends and stars of his movies.
Special guests will include Richard Benjamin, Young Frankenstein co-stars Teri Garr and Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Tracey Ullman and Lesley Ann Warren.
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Academy To Pay Tribute To Mel Brooks 7/24
1 July 2009 1:36 PM, PDT
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a tribute to comic legend Mel Brooks on Friday, July 24, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by film historian Leonard Maltin, the evening will feature Brooks in person, along with numerous film clips and stories from his artistic collaborators and friends. Special guests will include Richard Benjamin, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Tracey Ullman and Lesley Ann Warren (schedules permitting).
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Streep Noms #4-5 and Oscar Trivia
20 June 2009 2:07 PM, PDT
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Streep at 60: More movie discussions to follow but today we're discussing Oscar competitive fields again
(the winner links take you to their acceptance speech)
The Best Actress races of 1982 and 1983 hold special meaning for me as they were my inaugural Oscar years. On April 11th of 1983 I saw my first Oscar ceremony. My only point of reference for the glitzy tradition was that my parents and my older siblings didn't like it -- something about Star Wars being way better than Woody Allen??? --and even though my parents didn't take me to that many movies, I had somehow seen and liked 3 of the 5 Best Picture nominees (Gandhi and the two blockbusters Tootsie & E.T.) For the first two years of my Oscar watching I saw a total of Zero Best Actress nominees. My how life has changed.
1982...Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria -this is the one I desperately wanted to see,
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- NATHANIEL R
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News Bites: Sarah Jessica Parker Gets a New Assistant & Rita Wilson Befriends Meryl Streep
9 March 2009 6:02 PM, PDT
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Here are some romcom news bites for your Monday:
Move over, Jennifer Hudson! Just last year, Sarah Jessica Parker had a romantic assistant who passworded all of her love letters with "love." Now THR reports that the Sex and the City star is getting a new assistant for her upcoming romcom Did You Hear About the Morgans? (The same project I mentioned here.) The assistant in question: Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss. But unlike her meek television personality, Moss will get to be a "controlling and almost obsessive-compulsive personality" -- which must get set off when her boss is shoved into witness protection.
Anyhow, it's about time she got a mainstream gig! Moss has had some other big feature work like Girl, Interrupted (she played Polly, the burned girl) and Virgin, which got her an Independent Spirit nomination, but it's been all television and low-buz gigs these days. It might be a romcom,
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- Monika Bartyzel
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