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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #1
19 July 2009 3:06 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
When you run a movie website you will undoubtedly come across people and commenters that say one of two things: "I can't believe you haven't seen that movie! "You need to watch more movies!" Depending on the site you run and the attitude you have I think these are two entirely legitimate comments. If you (in this case myself) intend to give an opinion on movies you should at least know a little something about what you are talking about, and not merely one single genre unless that is your site's target demographic. You can go back and look at reviews I wrote back in 2003 (when I started this site) and easily recognize how little I knew. I was overly congratulatory and simply inexperienced and tried making up for it with forced writing. I recognize it, but have only used my inexperience as a means to realize there is much,
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Brad Brevet
Film Print Gives Way To Digital Glint
16 July 2009 10:08 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
Symphony Space is presenting a classic film series with a new twist -- instead of being projected on 35mm film, the movies are being presented in a high-definition digital video format.
The series, which kicks off Sunday with Federico Fellini's "La Strada" and Victor Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive," is being billed as the first major digital retrospective series in New York.
Other titles being shown on Saturdays and Sundays -- mostly in double features -- include such repertory favorites as Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows," Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal,
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By LOU LUMENICK
Chinatown Comes Back to DVD on October 6th
15 July 2009 10:37 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news
You can bring one of Jack Nicholson's most treasured films home in a brand new edition this October. Chinatown will be released in a new Centenial Collection edition on October 6. We have no pricing details as of yet, but you can take a look at the cover art below. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Academy Award-winning script by Robert Towne,
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DVD Playhouse--July 2009
14 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
DVD Playhouse—July 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Do The Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Spike Lee’s groundbreaking fable about race relations in an ethnically mixed Brooklyn neighborhood during a sweltering New York summer remains as potent, timely and prescient as it was in 1989. Lee is among the cast, which also includes John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Rosie Perez (to name a few), that provide the tableaux-like framework for this stunning work. Criminally ignored by Oscar (it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, but did garner nods for Supporting Actor Danny Aiello and Lee’s screenplay), it endures as a timeless classic. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Wynn Thomas, Joie Lee; Documentary; Deleted and extended scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Coraline (Universal) A young girl moves into an old Victorian house with her parents
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Timothy Hutton Evens the Score with Leverage
13 July 2009 6:08 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news
The Oscar-winning actor talks about his popular TNT series, the upcoming second season and more
Timothy Hutton is an actor who's career shouldn't need any introduction. After becoming the youngest actor to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at age 20 for Ordinary People, Hutton never stopped working, launching a career full of diverse roles in film and television. Now the actor gets to portray many diverse characters in one series, playing Nathan Ford - who has to assume several identities to pull off these white-collar scams against the rich - in the wonderful TNT series Leverage, which comes back for a second season on Wedesnday, July 15 at 9 Pm Et, and you can also catch Leverage: The 1st Season in a four-disc DVD set on July 14 (check back for my full review of the first season DVD set by tomorrow). I had the privilege of speaking with Hutton over the
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Polanski's Lawyers Chase Appeal In Child Sex Case
9 July 2009 12:11 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Lawyers representing exiled moviemaker Roman Polanski have asked a California appeals court to reconsider throwing out a 32-year-old child sex case against their client.
In May, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza rejected a request by Polanski's attorneys to dismiss the criminal case, based on allegations of unethical and improper acts by a judge and prosecutor at the time of the director's original charges in 1977.
But the lawyers are refusing to give up and now insist Espinoza was wrong, adding the actions of the same court and past prosecution officials forced Polanski to flee to Europe and escape illegal imprisonment.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office maintains Espinoza's ruling was correct, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The prosecutors and the judge state they'll only consider a dismissal if the 75-year-old director appears in court to make his case - but Polanski risks arrest as soon as he sets foot on U.S. soil.
The moviemaker has made it clear through his lawyers that he has no intention of returning to America.
Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl as part of a deal with prosecutors, in which they agreed not to pursue rape, sodomy and other charges.
The case was revived last year when Polanski's attorneys filed motions to get the case dismissed based on interviews in an HBO TV documentary.
In the film, the original prosecutor and defence attorney said the trial judge, Laurence Rittenband, reneged on a sentencing agreement with Polanski after the director spent 42 days behind bars for a "diagnostic study".
Weekly Eye Candy: Chinatown via Fukunaga, Yong Kim and Arteta
3 July 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news
- This week's Eye Candy goes to Chinatown. Not Roman Polanski's 1974 film but filmmakers Miguel Arteta, Patty Chang, Jem Cohen, Cary Fukunaga, So Yong Kim & Bradley Rust Gray, Amir Naderi, Sam Pollard, Shelly Silver, Rose Troche, and Wayne Wang & Richard Wong's chinatown. While the cities of Paris, New York and Tokyo have all been showered with love via short film collectives, now the location specific neighborhood with an abundance of metropolitan settings will receive the same treatment. By way of the Museum of Chinese in America's youtube channel, and displayed on site, the helmers mentioned above will give their unique visions on how they perceive this lower Manhattan area. Personally, I'm curious to see if on of these filmmakers can somehow visually detail the putrid smell. Here's the official word from the folks curating the project: Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations,
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Beatty Likens Manson Murders To 'Nuclear Device'
3 July 2009 5:21 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Warren Beatty was terrified when the notorious Charles Manson murders swept California in the 1960s - he compares the killing spree to a nuclear bomb attack.
Beatty was one of the A-listers who stumped up cash in a bid to try and hunt down the killers of his pal Roman Polanski's pregnant wife Sharon Tate, who was slaughtered at her Los Angeles home by members of the Manson clan in 1969.
The cult-like group, led by Manson, was also responsible for killing six other L.A. high-flyers, and Manson was later jailed for life.
And Beatty recalls how Hollywood went into meltdown as the murders mounted - comparing the killing spree to a "nuclear device" going off.
Speaking just weeks ahead of the grisly event's 40th anniversary next month, he tells Los Angeles magazine, "This hit the movie community very deeply. On the 10-point scale, it disturbed me at around a 27.
"They were friends of mine. It was something that happened, and no one knew why. Everybody was trying to come up with a reason.
"The collective response to these killings was what you might expect if a small nuclear device had gone off."
And Beatty believes some media handled the story badly by putting the blame on Polanski's controversial movies.
He adds, "In their rush to assess what had happened, some of the mainstream press brought the nature of Roman Polanski's movies into the nature of the crime and held the movies responsible.
"Roman was a total innocent. Neither his life nor his movies had anything to do with this. But because he'd made Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby, he was made to seem responsible."
Beatty Relives Manson Agony
2 July 2009 10:40 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the notorious Charles Manson murder spree that terrified Los Angeles -- and Warren Beatty remembers the savagery like it was yesterday.
"This hit the movie community very deeply. On the 10-point scale, it disturbed me at around a 27," the Oscar-winning actor-director, who's wed to Annette Bening, recalls in this month's Los Angeles magazine.
Beatty was one of those who helped fund a $25,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the killers of Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, hairdresser Jay Sebring,
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Eiff 09: Review of Dario Argento's Giallo
1 July 2009 1:42 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news
Year: 2009
Directors: Dario Argento
Writers: Jim Agnew & Sean Keller
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 8 out of 10
Giallo means ‘yellow’, in Italian, and often refers to the yellow colored covers of cheap, paperback thrillers from the 30’s and 40’s, as well as pulp movies from Italian directors made during the 70’s and 80’s. Argento’s latest offering, since the disappointing Mother of Tears, is something of a pastiche of pulp detective stories, as well as a satirical take on modern ‘horror-porn’ films. Adrien Brody (The Jacket, King Kong, etc) stars as the classic, Chandler-esque, hard-nosed detective, skulking in his underground office; he’s charged with solving the very worst and most grisly cases in the city. After the disappearance of a young female model, he teams up with her anxious sister, and together they set about solving the case. While I’m not the most ardent Argento fan,
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The Pianist Hero Honoured In Berlin
19 June 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
A German army officer who found international fame in Roman Polanski's 2002 film The Pianist has been honoured by Jews in Berlin, Germany.
Capt. Wilhelm Hosenfeld saved the life of Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman during the Nazi genocide in Poland. He was portrayed by Thomas Kretschmann in the acclaimed movie.
Hosenfeld was posthumously honoured as one of the few German soldiers who aided Jews during the Holocaust. His son was present to receive the Righteous Among The Nations certificate and medal on Friday.
His son Detlev said, "We're aware of the fact that this is the highest honour the state of Israel awards to non-Jews."
The kin of Szpilman, portrayed by Oscar winner Adrien Brody in The Pianist, also attended the ceremony in Berlin. The late musician's son, Andrzej, told reporters, "He (Hosenfeld) was a person who helped very many different people from the beginning of the war."
Hosenfeld died in a Soviet prison in 1952.
Remake of Hitchcock's The Birds May Die, Thankfully
16 June 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news
There may be a brief reprieve in the hideous world of Hollywood remakes. Chud.com reports that producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form might shelf their planned rehash of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror classic, The Birds. These are the same two geniuses that thought it would be a great idea to remake Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. That project got the axe, and hopefully this one will too.
Did the dynamic duo come to the sensible conclusion that a classic shouldn't be touched? Did they realize that the movie's legendary sound design and subtle pacing couldn't be replicated? Hardly. Fuller is apparently only concerned with the birds as a plot device:
What do they do? They peck and poke ... so there's not a lot of variety as to what can happen. Had they not seen the original? You have to wonder if these basic bird traits came as a surprise.
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Rich Z Zwelling
'Bruno' Paris Premiere: A Rave Review, Glittery Hotpants And Roman Polanski (Photos)
15 June 2009 8:52 PM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news
Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno' had its Parisian premiere Monday night as an early review gave it a rave. As always, Cohen was in character in Paris as the flamboyant fashion journalist. He wore legless gold glittered lederhosen and was joined by a lederhosen-wearing entourage of models. Also at the premiere, but arriving separately, was Cohen's fiancee Isla Fisher, director Roman Polanski and Zach Galifianakis. The Sun has a first review, calling the film "unmissable":To say Br...
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Linkellaneous
4 June 2009 12:53 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Off Cinema
National Theater London, Greece & DC Film Experience readers take note: Dame Helen Mirren in Phèdre! Greece in July. DC in September.
Little Pixel classic records reimagined as Pelican books. Fun.
Time "10 Most Reclusive Celebrities". It's not at all surprising that the list is ancient history. I'd like someone to try a contemporary reclusive list. Who would be on it: Isn't everyone overexposed?
I'm Not Crazy. I Promise.
I didn't know where to put this and I probably shouldn't share but for the possible pity-party perks. I regret to inpform that I was repfused a one-on-one interview with Michelle Pfeiffer to celebrate Chéri's release. Perhaps they were apfraid I would only drool and spout gibberish? Or maybe ask archaic questions derived from interviews and anecdotes from the 1980s? Or that I would demand that she sign a pframed Jeff Bridges original from the set of The Pfabulous Baker Boys.
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My Book Shelf: 'Being Hal Ashby'
2 June 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | From Hitfix.com | See recent Hitfix news
You might think, given my lifelong love of movies and moviemaking, that reading biographies about filmmakers would be a big part of that. But... not really. It's sort of the opposite. I've said before, in regards to guys like Woody Allen or Roman Polanski or Victor Salva or whoever, any filmmaker whose personal life was ever torrid or difficult or painful or even criminal, that I believe you have to separate the art from the artist. I'm perfectly happy not knowing much about a filmmaker's early home life or how he treated his family or what his bad habits were, chemical...
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First Official Dark Woods Movie Trailer
30 May 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news
Take a look at the first official movie trailer from the upcoming thriller “Dark Woods” written by John Muscanero, and is based on true events. Click Here to watch the trailer. Synopsis: The story follows a couple who moves to a secluded cabin in the woods to cope with a terminal illness of the wife. As the wife’s condition drags her deeper into dementia and darkness, the husband’s friendship with a local teenage girl takes a dangerous and obsessive turn.. The film is said to be similar to Roman Polanski’s Repulsion or the works of David Lynch and Michael Haneke, with the feeling of the 1969 French classic “The Swimming Pool/La [...]
Brian Corder
Lionsgate Gives Us the Horror Blu's
21 May 2009 4:06 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news
Earlier this week we reported that Lionsgate was prepping The Haunting in Connecticut for a July 14 release, and today they’re telling us they’re about to introduce two catalogue titles into the world of 1080p resolution and lossless audio.
On August 11th Roman Polanski’s underrated The Ninth Gate will be making its Blu-ray bow alongside the WWE slasher flick See No Evil. Both films are priced at $19.99 and look to feature the same collection of extras found on their DVD counterparts.
Good to see Lionsgate reaching into the closets and bringing some unconventional choices to the table. I hope this means we’re a little closer to getting some of their more treasured horror titles on Blu-ray: the original My Bloody Valentine, Near Dark and The Monster Squad, to name a few.
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Polanski's Scariest Movie Getting Criterion Treatment
21 May 2009 3:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
The Roman Polanski horror movie everyone knows and loves is, of course, Rosemary's Baby (and to some extent The Ninth Gate, except for the "loves" part, though I think that one gets a bad rap). But the seriously scary Polanski film that is criminally underseen -- though generally appreciated by those who see it -- is his 1996 effort Repulsion, the first movie in his "apartment trilogy" that would conclude with Baby and The Tenant. Certainly it's the scariest movie about sex that you'll ever see, putting Teeth to shame. (Any other contenders?) A character study that gradually reveals a very disturbed psyche, it's super-creepy in insinuating, unconventional ways. (Remember the constantly ticking clock in Rosemary's Baby? It's here too. And mysterious bells. And sometimes the sound just cuts out...)
If you've never seen Repulsion -- as I hadn't until very recently -- you might hold out for July 28th, when
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Eugene Novikov
Ewan McGregor keeps busy with 'Angels & Demons' and hanging with George Clooney
14 May 2009 6:40 PM, PDT | From Hitfix.com | See recent Hitfix news
The other day I overheard someone dismiss Ewan McGregor by describing his career as 'over.' That industry insider should do their homework because the 'Moulin Rouge' star is about to hit the movie world with a number of highly anticipated films including this week's "Angels and Demons," the Sundance Film Festival surprise "I Love You Philip Morris," Hilary Swank's Oscar hopeful "Amelia" and Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare At Goats" with George Clooney. Oh, and did we mention he's currently shooting Roman Polanski's latest endeavor? Always a great interview, McGregor took some time this week to jump on the...
Gregory Ellwood
Terrifyingly Gnarly #13: Sam Gets Rad at Tribeca
13 May 2009 4:02 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news
This year I was awarded with my first experience at a fully robust film festival. I’ve been to the occasional movie screening or two, but unfortunately have never managed to get to multiple flicks at one particular event. So it is with great excitement that I can relay to you a roundup of the movies I was lucky enough to attend at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
Cropsey
If you’ve checked out my piece on the film (read it here), which I naturally encourage you to do, the sheer enthusiasm I have for this documentary is likely obvious. When I initially read the concept (filmmakers investigating their own hometown’s urban legend), I almost expected a ghost hunter kind of thing and wasn’t too hip to it. Thankfully, Cropsey is much smarter, more intriguing and more heartbreaking than a first person hunt for ghouls.
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