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A symphony of voices
23 May 2012 12:56 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
The video on this page was an undercover project, I learn, at Ebertfest 2012. Most of my Far-Flung Correspondents and Demanders were there in person, and those who couldn't be contributed their voices via audio files. The idea originated with Kevin B. Lee, who did the audiotaping and editing. It was the inspiration of Michael Mirasol to use the foreign languages of those who spoke one. The video essay is the first in a series about critics by Kevin B. Lee, who is editor of the Press Play video essays at Indiewire.com--which he and Matt Zoller Seitz have built into the best video essay source on the web. Kevin was a special correspondent for our TV show, "Ebert Presents at the Movies." He had the idea of beginning with my list of the Greatest Films of All Time for the 1982 Sight & Sound poll. This was rather inspired, because that first list is my "purest, »
- Roger Ebert
Alex Pettyfer Calls Them the 'Diamond Dogs'
17 May 2012 7:12 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Alex Pettyfer has been pulled out of the oxygen tent and asked for the latest party.
The "Magic Mike" star has signed on for "Diamond Dogs," a movie that, despite that fun bit of lyrics-quoting above, doesn't look like it has anything to do with David Bowie's 1974 concept album (or song) of the same name, according to Variety.
Bowie's album was produced as an alternative to his planned stage musical production of "1984" after he was denied the adaptation rights by George Orwell's estate. The songs describe a glam totalitarian post-apocalyptic world — a far cry from the premise of the film of the same name, which deals with a popular high school quarterback (Pettyfer) whose life is turned upside down after he accidentally kills someone, a crime that the local sheriff — who also happens to be his father — is covering up.
"Diamond Dogs" (the movie) is actually based on »
- Bryan Enk
'The Dictator' And Five Other Terrible Film Tyrants
17 May 2012 7:23 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
by Matt Adler
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator” has invaded theaters, featuring His Excellency, the incomparable Admiral General Aladeen, in his feature film debut.
But the beloved Admiral General is far from the only despot to reign over the big screen throughout the years, so as a celebration of this momentous occasion in his glorious reign, we thought it might be instructive (not to mention entertaining) to take a look a back at some of filmdom’s other most feared (or mocked) tyrants.
Pharaoh Rameses II
A heavyweight among our lineup of autocrats, Rameses II has roots that are not just historical, but biblical to boot. But it was the screen presence of Yul Brynner that brought him to life in modern times, as the vindictive and arrogant Pharaoh in 1956’s "The Ten Commandments," who just doesn’t know when to quit, even after Moses (Charlton Heston) tells him to “Let my people go! »
- MTV Movies Team
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: love in a time of war
12 May 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Capa and Taro lived, loved and died on the frontline, becoming the most famous war photographers of their time. As a new novel about them is published, we explore their real relationship
It begins with a photograph. In 1934 a struggling Hungarian photographer, André Friedmann, living in exile in Paris, is commissioned to take publicity pictures for a Swiss life insurance company's advertising brochure. On the lookout for potential models, he approaches a young Swiss refugee, Ruth Cerf, in a café on the Left Bank and convinces her to pose for him in a Montparnasse park.
Because she does not entirely trust the scruffy young charmer, Ruth brings along her friend Gerta Pohorylle, a petite redhead with a winning smile and a confident manner. So begins the most iconic relationship in the history of photography, and an intertwined and complex story of radical politics, bohemianism and bravery that, in the intervening years, »
- Sean O'Hagan
James Cameron only wants to make more Avatar (and documentaries)
7 May 2012 2:57 PM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Acclaimed, Oscar-winning, box office record breaking director James Cameron recently summed up the planned rest of his career as follows:
“So I’m not interested in developing anything. I’m in the Avatar business. Period. That’s it. I’m making Avatar 2, Avatar 3, maybe Avatar 4, and I’m not going to produce other people’s movies for them.”
So, apart from the news that there may (eventually) be a fourth Avatar film, this presumably means that James Cameron won’t be making Battle Angel, or working with his Dark Angel star Jessica Alba again (unless he casts her in one of the Avatar sequels), or making another TV series (unless it’s an Avatar one, which at this stage would seem prohibitively expensive). It would also rule out Cameron's involvement in any follow-ups to his previous movies, such as a True Lies sequel, another Terminator film, or anything in the Alien/Prometheus franchise. »
The Complete Humphrey Jennings: Volume Two: Fires Were Started
5 May 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
(1941-43, BFI, E)
Created in 1930 by John Grierson, the British documentary movement reached its apotheosis during the second world war as the Crown Film Unit. Its dominant figure was Humphrey Jennings, "the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced", as Lindsay Anderson put it in the influential 1954 Sight & Sound essay reprinted in the excellent booklet accompanying this outstanding second part of the BFI's three-volume collection of Jennings's work.
The war transformed the Cambridge literary scholar and surrealist painter into a great artist, his heart beating with that of the nation in five masterly movies. First came two 10-minute patriotic-propagandistic films: The Heart of Britain (1941) (narrated for its American audience by Ed Murrow) and Words for Battle (1941), where Laurence Oliver reads from Milton, Blake, Browning, Kipling, Churchill and Lincoln. These were followed by the near flawless Listen to Britain (1942), a paean to communal music-making; Fires Were Started (1943), a feature-length »
- Philip French
Interview: Allan Sekula
23 April 2012 1:30 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The photographer's new film, about global maritime trade, has been hailed by Occupy activists. Its maker has spent a life challenging new forms of capitalism
Water has always played a large part in the photographer Allan Sekula's life. As a student in San Diego at the end of the 1960s, he used to wander downtown and gaze up at the flophouse hotels through whose windows he could see money being exchanged between prostitutes and sailors. "It was Edward Hopper on military steroids," he recalls. "That was the time of Vietnam, and there were even mutinies on some ships – especially among African-American sailors who were protesting against racism in the navy. Young guys my age from the west coast were being dehumanised and turned into a few good men.
"They'd come to the fence of the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot and say: 'If I can get over this fence will »
- Sukhdev Sandhu
Videogame Developer Ken Levine Talks Bioshock Infinite and Politics
20 April 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Getty Images Videogame Developer Ken Levine
The day before I was scheduled to meet with Ken Levine, I caught a brief glimpse of him walking around the floor of Pax East. I didn’t recognize him at first, but standing in a long line of devotees and cosplayers—fans who dress up in elaborately constructed costumes of their favorite characters—a low and fevered murmur spread through the crowd. “That’s Ken Levine!” a woman nearby whispered excitedly. She was »
- Yannick LeJacq
Community Review: Fresh and Funny
29 March 2012 6:30 PM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Congratulations, Subway. You have made up for relentlessly jamming your "$5 Footlong" jingle inside my head. And it was all thanks to the "Digital Exploration of Interior Design."
A Community episode that insulted Mitt Romney, all men named Kim and whoever the heck owns the world's longest fingernails, this installment all came back to Subway. The sandwich chain. Not the handicapped pet-adoring student parading around as a corporate entity.
Taking product placement to a new, absurd, hilarious level, Community played off Romney's famous remark at a campaign event last year that "corporations are people." But it did in a Community-esque way, overt yet subtle, taking no direct political stance, just extending that statement to its illogical conclusion.
And letting Britta work some of her whoresmanship along the way. Sorry, it's the 21st century: whoreswomanship.
As usual, Britta's outrage was little match for reality this week, only this time the reality featured blue eyes, »
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
The New Cinematic Dystopia of ‘The Hunger Games’
28 March 2012 10:30 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Most dystopian science-fiction narratives feature stories in which a protagonist experiences a process of ‘waking up,’ transitioning from a state of blind ignorance to one of newfound enlightenment. The protagonists of The Matrix (1999), Brazil (1985), and the ur-text for dystopian futures, George Orwell’s 1984 (and its numerous film adaptations), all feature primary characters who transition from a state of passivity and complicity in an oppressive and manufactured society and transition to a newly critical, empowered state of being in which they are able to see beyond the veil of ignorance and witness the world for what it ‘really’ is for the first time. These protagonists are made capable of seeing beyond the structures of propaganda and carefully constructed illusion that they previously accepted to be objective reality and develop a political impetus in direct reaction to their previous state of complicity and ignorance. As someone previously uninitiated to the world of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (I »
- Landon Palmer
Imagine Entertainment Producing New Adaptation of Orwell’s 1984
28 March 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Way back in (surprise!) 1984, there was a Michael Radford (King Lear) directed big0screen adaptation of George Orwell‘s classic dystopian novel 1984, which starred John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton. Surprisingly, there hasn’t been an adaptation of the novel since then. That’s all about to change, thanks to Ron Howard and Brian Grazer‘s production company Imagine Entertainment.
THR reports that Imagine is teaming up with Julie Yorn‘s Lbi Entertainment to develop a new take on the classic novel. Imagine and street artist Shepard Fairey, best known for creating the Barack Obama “Hope” poster were simultaneously pursuing Orwell’s estate for the rights to 1984 and decided to pair up. Fairey will likely take on a producer role once the project is underway.
Orwell’s 1984 is set in a dystopian society in a perpetual state of war, which in turn leads to a state of paranoia. Propaganda, »
- Jason Moore
'Hunger Games' Withdrawal: Five Post-Movie Cures
27 March 2012 11:45 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Judging by the insane box office success that "The Hunger Games" had this weekend, we're guessing that a lot of you probably went to see the movie. And there's a decent chance that a good portion of you hadn't read the novels before you watched the film, and are new to this whole craze.
It seems like we've spent years waiting for "The Hunger Games" to hit theaters and, now that it finally has, we've got to wait 20 more months until "Catching Fire" follows suit. So to help ease the passing of time for fans new and old, we have compiled a list of five ways to keep yourself entertained in the interim period.
Read (or re-read) the books
If you liked "The Hunger Games" film, you're definitely going to love Suzanne Collins' novels. Unlike the movie, the books are told from Katniss's first-person perspective, so you get a »
- Terri Schwartz
1984 Might Be Coming To A Theater Near You!
26 March 2012 10:18 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
1984 Might Be Coming To A Theater Near You!
Imagine Entertainment is looking to bring George Orwell's dystopian classic, 1984, to the big screen. Shepard Fairey may not be a household name, but chances are you have caught a glimpse of his 'Hope' poster that was a staple in the campaign for Barack Obama's presidential race in 2008. If you're into documentaries, you may have also seen him in Exit Though The Gift Shop, which was released in 2010.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered »
- Lindsay Sperling
New 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Film Adaptation
26 March 2012 5:10 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Shortly before the release of Gary Ross' The Hunger Games yesterday, a new adaptation of George Orwell's similarly dystopian-orientated book Nineteen Eighty-Four was announced.
The Hollywood Reporter, well, um, reports that both Imagine Entertainment (run by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard) and Lbi Entertainment were circling the rights to the book at the same time. Rather than descend into battle, the two production companies chose to team up on the project.
For those who didn't pay attention in English Literature at school and think that Big Brother is just the Geordie chap who does the show's narrative voice-over, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book by George Orwell, first published, annoyingly, in 1949. It follows a dystopian society, perpetually involved in war with unseen enemies, both domestic and abroad, and controlled by the ubiquitous dictator Big Brother. Orwell wrote it at the time as an allegory for the recently defeated Nazi »
- Chris Villeneuve
'Hunger Games' Exposes Big Myth About Technology
24 March 2012 6:32 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
By: Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer
Published: 03/23/2012 02:28 Pm Edt on InnovationNewsDaily
Tomorrow's world of "The Hunger Games" doesn't just showcase the reality TV spectacle of teenagers battling to the death — it also features futuristic hovercraft, force fields and bioengineered "Mutt" creatures. Those technological marvels represent tools of oppression for the dystopian nation of Panem, where the Capitol elite live in high-tech luxury supported by the old-fashioned sweat of district coal miners, farm hands and factory workers.
But the popularity of the "Hunger Games" series has not stopped some fans from eying the technological imbalances of the story. Some question why a post-apocalyptic North America filled with futuristic technologies would still rely upon coal for its electricity needs; others wonder about the story's complete absence of the Internet. One character in "The Hunger Games" books complains about "forgotten" military technologies such as high-flying planes, military satellites and robotic drones, even »
- David Freeman
New Film Version of George Orwell’s ’1984′ Starts from Shepard Fairey
24 March 2012 5:25 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Shepard Fairey, the street artist associated with an iconic image from the 2008 presidential campaign, whose ‘Hope’ poster of Barack Obama became an enduring symbol of it has been a major part of trying to get the new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 off the ground. The Los Angeles graphic designer has teamed up with [...]
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- Nick Martin
Hollywood’s proposed 1984 movie: what will be left of Orwell’s novel?
23 March 2012 7:32 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Could an adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 survive a trip to Hollywood? Ryan looks at the best and worst case scenarios…
Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984, as we’ll refer to it here for search-based reasons). What more can we say about one of the most influential and widely read sci-fi novels yet written? A common set text in English lessons, and full of ideas and terms that have since seeped into our everyday language, it’s easy to forget just how brutal and urgent George Orwell’s novel is.
Already adapted several times since its publication 63 years ago, 1984, we learned last week, is going to Hollywood. Two production companies (Lbi Entertainment and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment) are teaming up to bring a new version of Orwell’s dystopia to the big screen. A screenwriter is still being sought – and there’s no word yet as to who will direct it »
George Orwell's 1984 Being Adapted By Imagine Entertainment
22 March 2012 6:30 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
What do George Orwell, Shepard Fairey, and Imagine Entertainment have in common? Orwell's 1984 may be getting a new movie adaptation. Imagine Entertainment (Brian Grazer and Ron Howard) are teaming with Lbi Entertainment to develop the project.
The classic tale is set in "a dystopian society in a perpetual state of war, which in turn leads to a state of paranoia. Propaganda, surveillance, mind control and cult of personality—all concepts seen in totalitarian and fascist states such as Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union—were taken to new levels in the book, originally written in 1948 and published in 1949." The story centers on "a man named Winston Smith who works for a government branch named the Ministry of Truth, where he alters facts and histories but secretly harbors desires of rebellion (as well as desires of a forbidden love affair). The ideas in the novel became hugely influential in the worlds of politics and art, »
- Tiberius
Daily Briefing. San Francisco to honor Pierre Rissient
22 March 2012 3:41 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The April 2012 issue of frieze is out and artist Lis Rhodes has taken on the "Life in Film" column. Also: Jonathan Griffin reviews work by Alex Israel, who "claims to believe in the 'stardust' of Hollywood, in the magic that transforms an object just through its appearance on film, pictured in association with a star whose image is just as fictitious as the movie itself."
"In the mid-1980s, film novelizations were messages in bottles for those without video recorders or access to a cinema," writes George Pendle. "Even if you had seen the film in question, these novelizations acted as memento vidi, forceful reminders of what you had seen." And yet, they're still being written:
In his 2005 essay "Novelization, a Contaminated Genre?," the cultural theorist Jan Baetens declares novelizations as a unique, if non-canonical, genre: "Novelization does not so much aspire to become the movie's other as it wants to be its double, »
19 Ways Hollywood Can Ruin The New 1984 Movie
22 March 2012 2:19 PM, PDT | BestWeekEver | See recent BestWeekEver news »
George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 is on track to be adapted into another feature film. Noted street artist Shepard Fairey is said to be co-producing the project, but we’re still highly confident Hollywood will find a way to ruin it. Here are 19 simple ways Hollywood can do exactly that: 19. CGI’d Big Brother 18. Victory Gin Replaced With Ciroc 18. Constant Winking Allusions To ‘Future’ Events 16. Movie re-set in the distant, dystopian future year of 2014. 15. Foster The People cover Prince’s “1999″ (rewritten as “1984″) over the opening and closing credits (and quietly on the Truth Radio in the background of one scene) 14. Slogans “War Is Peace,” “Freedom Is Slavery,” and “Ignorance Is Strength,” joined by fourth phrase, “Impossible Is Nothing – Adidas” 13. 60% of footage recycled from V For Vendetta 12. Other 40% of footage recycled from Mars Needs Moms 11. All characters are in flying cars throughout entire movie. 10. Big Brother is gonna be “Tough, edgy, »
- Dan Hopper
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