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Salute Your Shorts: Why We Fight
2 July 2009 1:45 PM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.
Perhaps it's no surprise that the greatest patriotic films ever made about the United States were also made by the United States.and I’m not talking about how Michael Bay somehow convinces the army to help him make movies time and time again. During World War II, and also slightly before we actually entered the war, a number of Hollywood directors entered various branches of the military to make films supporting the war effort. The list of patriotic luminaries included such famed directors as John Ford, John Huston, William Wyler, Darryl Zanuck and, most importantly, Frank Capra.
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Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis
23 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news
Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.
Infographic: The Microgrid Dream House
In April 2007, a helicopter landed in a backyard in Johnson Valley, California, a desert hamlet of 440 residents on the outskirts of Joshua Tree National Park. "One of the neighbors went out and asked them what they were doing just a few hundred feet from his house," Jim Harvey, a local landowner, recalls. "They said, 'We're the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and congratulations! You're the lucky lottery winners of a brand new power line that's going to come right through the middle of your town.' "
That power line is called Green Path North -- an 85-mile-long high-voltage transmission wire from Los Angeles through public and private lands, connecting the city to potential geothermal and solar-thermal resources,
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Anya Kamenetz
AFI Gives Michael Douglas an Lifetime Achievement Award. No, Really.
14 June 2009 3:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Maybe it gives away my age, but I really do think I remember a time when awards were given to people purely because an organization thought they'd actually earned them. I'm not crazy, am I? That really used to happen, right?
Well, this week Michael Douglas was honored by the American Film Institute, who threw a gala black-tie shindig at Sony Pictures Studio and handed him their 37th AFI Life Achievement Award. Bob Dylan sang a song, and Douglas' wife Catherine Zeta-Jones performed an adorable little tap dance number, and Jack Nicholson was Jack Nicholson, and a stuntman fell through the ceiling in an homage to the ending of The Game. All in all, a nice evening of entertainment that'll be televised next month. But ... Michael Douglas?
The AFI award started out as a true Lifetime Achievement trophy -- the first went to John Ford in 1973. Over the next two decades,
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Dawn Taylor
Wise Blood
29 May 2009 9:12 AM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news
Release Date: May 12
Writer: Flannery O’Connor (novel), Benedict & Michael Fitzgerald
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Gerry Fisher
Starring: Brad Dourif, John Huston, Harry Dean Stanton
Studio/Run Time: Anthea, 108 mins.
Intense adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s first novel lacks her poetry
“No man with a good car needs to be justified!” screeches delusional street preacher Hazel Motes of his self-made “Church Without Christ” in Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, Wise Blood, which legendary director John Huston faithfully adapted to the screen in 1979. Unfortunately, said car is a scrapheap—and the film clangs about, too. While intensely acted by the lock-jawed Brad Dourif (Billy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) Motes is a repulsive sort of ascetic, as he lashes out at the twisted, unsympathetic freaks surrounding him. Lacking the poetry of O’Connor (as well as her underlying faith), Huston opts for a dissonant tone throughout the film.
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Howard: 'I'll direct 'til I drop'
27 May 2009 4:10 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Ron Howard has revealed that he does not plan on retiring from filmmaking anytime soon. The Angels & Demons director said his first and last love of his life is making movies, People reports. "I want to do this until I drop," he told Aarp The Magazine . "When John Huston was directing his last movie, he was in a wheelchair and on oxygen. That's my idea of a good goal." The 55-year-old helmer said he became entranced by films when he saw 1967’s The Graduate starring Dustin (more)
By Tim Parks
Ron Howard Will Direct 'Til He Drops
27 May 2009 7:15 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
He may have made his first splash as adorable Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, but the first and last love of Ron Howard's life is making movies, and you can expect him to be doing it until the very end. "I want to do this until I drop," he tells Aarp The Magazine in the July/August issue. "When John Huston was directing his last movie, he was in a wheelchair and on oxygen. That's my idea of a good goal." The 55-year-old director of Angels & Demons, who says he fell in love with movies when he saw 1967's The Graduate,
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DVD: Review: Wise Blood
19 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
In the opening scenes of John Huston’s 1979 film Wise Blood, Brad Dourif is discharged from the Army thanks to an “injury” whose nature he chooses not to disclose; returning to his home town, he finds most of it gone. Everyone, it seems, has drifted away via an interstate that a local tells him has been around “just long enough for everyone to drive off on it.” Adapting Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel, Huston visits an American South where the divide between tradition and modernity has grown even sharper than in O’Connor’s time. Leaving his hometown ...
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Rian Johnson – Director of The Brothers Bloom
19 May 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news
Editors Note: Nick Allen interviewed Rian Johnson back in November 2008, because The Brothers Bloom was originally set to release in December 2008.
Rian Johnson is my friend. Considering my interview skills were a bit rusty, (the last “celebrity” I interviewed was the keyboardist of Harry Potter rock group, Harry and the Potters), I was a bit intimidated by the idea of asking Rian Johnson questions. He is the writer-director behind indie-classic Brick and has now worked with Oscar nominated and winning actors/actresses in The Brothers Bloom. However, the ego I assumed he would (rightfully) have was nonexistent. The dialogue between the us was natural, somewhat professional, and at times egregiously nerdy. He fielded my odd questions and welcomed me into the world of The Brothers Bloom like a friend. In fact, Johnson’s amicability made my shy wave to critic Michael Philips (who had interviewed him before me) more of a celebrity-like scenario.
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Nick Allen
Tuesday Top Ten: The Best of 1984
16 May 2009 4:13 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
For no reason whatsoever I have declared today 1984 day! It's a 25th Anniversary Jamboree or some such. (Don't ask questions. Just go with it) Herewith a tripled top ten: What the public liked, what Oscar liked, what I liked from the year that was. All movie title links go to their Netflix page in case you're interested in giving them a looksie. First a little historical entertainment context: Vanessa Williams was not starring on Ugly Betty but resigning her Miss America tiara due to nude photos (the more things change...), Ricky Martin was a new member of Menudo, people were just discovering what Madonna looked like on MTV, and Scarlett Johansson was fresh out of the womb.
What Oscar Liked
The Oscar nominees for Best Picture were the Mozart bio Amadeus (11 noms / 8 wins), the legendary David Lean's swan song A Passage to India (11 noms / 2 wins), Roland Joffé's war
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Key Largo | Review
12 May 2009 7:08 AM, PDT | From SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news
Director: John Huston Writer(s): Maxwell Anderson (play), Richard Brooks and John Huston (screenplay) Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore It begins with Frank McCloud, played by Humphrey Bogart, traveling to, where else, Key Largo, to bring closure to the family of a war buddy killed in Ww II. Upon his arrival, he finds his fallen comrade's widow, Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), and her father-in-law, James Temple (Lionel Barrymore), held hostage in their own hotel by the notorious gangster, Johnny Rocco, played by Edward G. Robinson. Rocco takes pleasure in ridiculing Nora and her wheelchair-ridden father-in-law, and spends his idle time taunting his lush of a girlfriend (played by Claire Trevor) with visions of a Scotch on the rocks. McCloud finally has enough of the entire mess, and reluctantly becomes the liberator, facing down Rocco and his gang on a shoot em' up escapade at sea.
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Dirk Sonniksen
DVD Playhouse--May 2009
11 May 2009 11:22 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
DVD Playhouse—May 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount Studios releases two more classic titles from its library on special edition DVD: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford’s last masterpiece (although he would go on to direct two more very good films) from 1962: about an Eastern lawyer (James Stewart) who travels west only to find primal brutality in the form of sadistic bandit Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin, great as always) and pragmatic brutality in local rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), each two sides of a coin that represent a way of life slowly dying out as Stewart’s modern brand of civilization tames the West. A perfect film, period. Howard Hawks’ El Dorado is essentially a remake of his earlier classic Rio Bravo, with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan as lawmen joining forces against corrupt cattle barons. Great fun. Two disc sets.
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Jack Cardiff Dies
23 April 2009 5:46 AM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news
Legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Jack Cardiff passed away yesterday at the age of 94. An Oscar winner for Black Narcissus, in 1948, Cardiff's career as cinematographer spanned an astonishing eight decades, with his career in films going all the way back to an 1918 acting job.Cardiff will be best remembered for his long collaboration with directors Powell & Pressburger on films like A Matter of Life & Death and The Red Shoes, but he also worked on classics like The African Queen for John Huston, The Barefoot Contessa for Joseph L. Mankiewicz and King Vidor's War and Peace.Cardiff also directed films of his own, the most successful of which was probably Sons and Lovers, starring Trevor Howard and Dean Stockwell. He was working well into this century, and leaves behind a wife and four sons.Asked once which of his many credits he was most proud of, Cardiff replied, "Naturally, I am proud of successful films
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Mia DVDs 3-D
20 April 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | From GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news
By Craig Phillips Yet another in my series of fully biased reports on movies that are frustratingly absent a current DVD release here in the United States (the other two lists are here, and here.) Here are ten more neglected films -- and this is one article I wouldn't mind seeing become dated, when/if these films finally do arrive on disc:
The List of Adrian Messenger: I'll confess that I haven't seen this one since I was a pre-teen (on television one night), but it was one of the first mystery films I both really loved and even understood, aside from the 70s all-star Agatha Christie films. Even if there's a chance it's now dated, the pedigree -- director John Huston, actors Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Robert Mitchum, et al -- should alone be enough to get this one its due on DVD. A real head-scratcher that it's
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Robert Forster: The Hollywood Interview
14 April 2009 12:19 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
Actor Robert Forster at West Hollywood eatery The Silver Spoon.
The Whole World Is Watching: Robert Forster Remembers Chicago ‘68
by Jon Zelazny
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on EightMillionStories.com August 21st, 2008
When the Democratic National Convention begins next week, a deeply divided party will strive to reunify, and attempt to forge a nationally acceptable policy to extricate the nation from a failed war.
Forty years ago this week, the Democratic Party was in similar straits. But the political wrangling at the 1968 convention in Chicago’s International Auditorium was wholly eclipsed by the events happening directly outside: the heavily-televised spectacle of brutal, ongoing street battles betweens thousands of Vietnam war protesters, the Chicago police, and the Illinois National Guard.
Robert Forster was there. Best known for his 1997 Oscar-nominated role as bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, the veteran actor covered the tumultuous ‘68 convention as a local TV news cameraman.
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Caine Thrilled To Play Bogart's Role In Huston Classic
2 April 2009 12:35 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Michael Caine jumped at the chance to star in John Huston's epic 1975 movie The Man Who Would Be King after learning his role had been intended for his hero Humphrey Bogart.
Huston met with Caine in Paris, France and asked him to be a part of the film, opposite Sir Sean Connery. The director didn't have to sell the movie hard - he simply explained his first choice was Bogart.
Caine recalls, "He said, 'I was originally going to do this with Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart, but they both passed away on me.'
"I said, 'I'll do it.' Humphrey Bogart was one of my favourite actors and I got to play his part, which I thought was fantastic."
Bradford International Film Festival Diary Day 3:
28 March 2009 3:22 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
Lee Pfeiffer reports on the Bradford International Film Festival -Day 3
Today's events began at 10:00 Am with a crowd gathering in the Pictureville Cinema for Cinerama Ventures, a festival of documentaries hosted by Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch, producers of the acclaimed documentary Cinerama Adventure. The presentation included new featurettes about the making of How the West Was Won that were frustratingly dropped from the recent deluxe DVD release. One documentary looked at the film's return engagement in the 1990s at the Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Theatre and featured moving interviews with attendees who spoke about how much the film meant to them. Another fascinating documentary centered on the film's legendary run at the small Neon Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. The theater was specially fixed to conform with Cinerama projection standards and How the West Was Won was intended to run for a matter of weeks...instead it ran for years,
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How Come There Are No Great Soccer Films?
26 March 2009 11:32 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
If soccer movies were as exciting as sportscaster Andrés Cantor makes scoring in real-life soccer matches sound ("Goooooooooooooool!!!'), we wouldn't be asking this question. But even die-hard fans of both cinema and soccer must ask, Why have there been no great movies about the most popular sport in the world?
You might easily dismiss my thinking since I'm an American and I live in a city where (American) football is considered a religion, so why not listen to more informed opinions? Simon Clifford, team owner and manager, trained players for soccer film The Damned United, which opens in the UK tomorrow. He told Glenn Moore of The Independent UK: "If the football doesn't look right the whole film can fall flat."
Director Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Fame, Angela's Ashes) observed: "It's an impossibly difficult sport to replicate because football is seen primarily in wide-shot. The excitement unfolds seeing at
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Peter Martin
Yahoo's 100 Movies To See Before You Die
24 March 2009 12:48 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
Yahoo! Movies has put together a list that its writers and editors claim reflect the 100 most essential movies. It's a pretty solid list, and while there are always things you can debate with these lists, especially something as exclusive as this one, I have to say there are really only five or six that I wouldn't think would make other lists using the same criteria. That list might balloon to a full 10 if I'm in an especially argumentative mood one day.
Many classics, old and recent, have their names called, as well as smattering of great genre moments and foreign films. Unless my math is wrong, Spielberg places the most films on the list (four), followed by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Coppola, Peter Jackson (for the Lotr trilogy, although that may just count once), and Billy Wilder. Welles, John Huston, William Friedkin, Scorsese, Kurosawa, Frank Capra, James Cameron, and Rob Reiner each
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Colin Boyd
Bad Movie Alert! "The Kremlin Letter" On Fox Movie Channel Tomorrow
26 February 2009 4:52 AM, PST | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
by Lee Pfeiffer
There will be a rare American TV showing of John Huston's mega-bomb 1970 spy thriller The Kremlin Letter shown tomorrow (Friday, February 27) on the Fox Movie Channel at 2:00 Pm (Eastern Standard Time). The misguided flick boasts an impressive cast including Patrick O'Neal, Bibi Anderson, Max Von Sydow, Orson Welles and Richard Boone in a plot so incomprehensible, you'll be lost within minutes. There are some great locations (it's one of the few films to be allowed to be shot in London's legendary Reform Club) and does boast the unique opportunity to see George Sanders playing a spy master in drag. (This had to be J. Edgar Hoover's favorite movie!) This Cold War thriller laid a Siberia-sized egg at the box-office, but it's a "must have" for all bad movie lovers out there in Cinema Retro Land. Incidentally, a couple of years ago, Retro writer Eddy
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nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Blu-Ray Review: ‘The French Connection’ Loses None of Its Power, But Video Disappoints
25 February 2009 10:50 AM, PST | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0 Chicago – “The French Connection” is one of those rare movies that’s always better than I remember it to be. Not that I think poorly of William Friedkin’s masterful procedural, a multiple Oscar winner and game-changer in the world of detective cinema, but that it’s a film that blows me away every time see it. So why did William Friedkin have to mess with the picture?
Maybe I’m too much of a purist, but I’m not alone in responding very negatively to the unusual video tampering done by William Friedkin on his amazing “The French Connection,” the winner for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Director. Both Jeffrey Wells and Glenn Kenny have expressed similar disappointment in Friedkin’s remastering for arguably one of the best films of the ’70s.
The French Connection was released on Blu-Ray on February 24th, 2009.
Photo credit: Fox Essentially,
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adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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