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Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 2 of 5)
24 May 2012 12:12 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Oliver Reed as Athos in The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973/1974, UK):
These films were actually shot all at once but ultimately released as two separate films telling one long story. As the musketeer with a dark past, Oliver Reed provides a lot of the heart and soul in these very entertaining and well-made films. Technically, since we have to isolate one film for our fantasy nomination, it would be The Four Musketeers as his role is more prominent in that film. Reed’s reunion scene with Faye Dunaway’s Milady is superb as is Reed’s intense swordplay with an array of opponents including Christopher Lee. An underrated actor whose career was damaged by well-documented alcohol problems and notorious off-screen behavior, Reed still logged in some truly incredible acting performances over the course of his career. His portrayal of Athos is definitely one of them.
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- Terek Puckett
Michael Apted: 56 Up and still going strong | Andrew Anthony
12 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He's a feted Hollywood director, whose career started with a bunch of children in Seven Up! And he is still charting their lives 49 years later in a landmark of documentary broadcasting
They understand longevity at Manchester's ITV Granada, which was Granada Television and is the only survivor of the original four independent TV franchisees awarded in 1954. Not only does it make Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, but this week sees the return of its Up series, which may be the world's longest-running documentary.
The first Up programme was the brainchild of Tim Hewat, the brilliant Australian producer behind the World In Action strand. Legend has it he walked into the World in Action office and quoted the Jesuit motto cited at the beginning of the film: "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." And then instructed a young trainee »
- Andrew Anthony
Michael Apted: 56 Up and still going strong | Andrew Anthony
12 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
He's a feted Hollywood director, whose career started with a bunch of children in Seven Up! And he is still charting their lives 49 years later in a landmark of documentary broadcasting
They understand longevity at Manchester's ITV Granada, which was Granada Television and is the only survivor of the original four independent TV franchisees awarded in 1954. Not only does it make Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, but this week sees the return of its Up series, which may be the world's longest-running documentary.
The first Up programme was the brainchild of Tim Hewat, the brilliant Australian producer behind the World In Action strand. Legend has it he walked into the World in Action office and quoted the Jesuit motto cited at the beginning of the film: "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." And then instructed a young trainee »
- Andrew Anthony
Roman Polanski To Direct Dreyfus Affair Drama 'D'
9 May 2012 12:09 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
While his personal/legal affairs unfortuantely continue to overshadow the late stage career of Roman Polanski, he continues to solider on, taking on challenging, intriguing fare. Last fall he delivered the drama/satire "Carnage," the big-screen version of the acclaimed play "God Of Carnage," and before that he helmed the underrated political potboiler "The Ghost Writer." And for his next effort, he's turning to a true-life tale.
The director has announced that his next film will be the single letter titled "D" based on the Dreyfus Affair. What is the Drefus Affair? That's why we have Wikipedia, but here's the rundown of what happened from the press release:
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, one of the few Jewish officers on the General Staff of the French Army, was subjected to a secret court martial for passing secrets to the Germans. Found guilty, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Devil’s Island. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Kate Moss And Christy Turlington Auction Topless Snaps
1 May 2012 12:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Supermodels Kate Moss and Christy Turlington have donated topless photos of themselves to raise money for a children's charity.
Moss wears just a pair of gold sequinned trousers as she covers her naked breasts with her arms in the snap she has donated to an upcoming auction in aid of Britain's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Nspcc).
Turlington's striking shot, snapped in 1986 by famed photographer Patrick Demarchelier, depicts the brunette beauty posing seductively with tousled, wet hair and a bedsheet wrapped around her waist.
Pictures of other stars including British rocker Florence Welch, fashion icon Twiggy and late actor Oliver Reed are also going under the hammer in the Bonhams auction in London on 17 May.
Jocelyn Phillips, Head of Photographs at Bonhams, says, "We are delighted to be working with the Nspcc to offer this exciting group of photographs for auction and to raise funds for a very worthwhile cause." »
Films To Watch Before You Die #96 - Gladiator (2000)
29 April 2012 11:19 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die...
Gladiator, 2000.
Directed by Ridley Scott.
Starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou and Richard Harris.
Gladiator is the epic Roman tale of a great and loyal general who is stabbed in the back by his new Emperor and left for dead only to rise through the ranks as a gladiator, battling in the great arenas and coliseums of Italy to get his vengeance on the man who took everything he had.
General Maximus Decimus Meridius (Crowe) is betrayed by Emperor Commodus (Pheonix) soon after Commodus murders his father and takes the seat as leader of Rome. After escaping execution in the Germanic forests of the northern empire, Maximus makes his way back home where he finds his wife and son murdered at the instruction of Commodus. Maximus »
- flickeringmyth
Another Cool Robert Pattinson/Cosmopolis Trailer
19 April 2012 1:50 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer, Cosmopolis Robert Pattinson's multibillionaire Eric Packer doesn't go on and on about wanting a haircut in this new Cosmopolis trailer — yes, another new Cosmopolis trailer. (Please scroll down.) This a more philosophical trailer, with cosmic statements such as "I smell sex all over you." Pattinson's reaction to that is priceless. And are they watching snuff films (minus the sex) at one point? [Check out another Cosmopolis trailer.] Now, this latest Cosmopolis trailer also offers a better look at the various supporting actors in the film. The English Patient / Hidden's Juliette Binoche looks particularly impressive. Cronenberg co-wrote the Cosmopolis screenplay with Don DeLillo, the author of the novel on which the film is based. In addition to Pattinson and Binoche, Cosmopolis features A Dangerous Method's Sarah Gadon, Sideways / Cinderella Man's Paul Giamatti, Sweet and Lowdown / In America's Samantha Morton, Resident Evil: Retribution / I Am Number Four's Kevin Durand, »
- Zac Gille
Awesome Cosmopolis Trailer: Robert Pattinson/David Cronenberg
18 April 2012 11:53 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis "I wanna a haircut," says Robert Pattinson's multibillionaire Eric Packer — sounding like a petulant, spoiled brat with too much power and all-too-mundane needs — at the beginning of the newly released Cosmopolis trailer. (Please scroll down.) But mere human power has its limits. What will Packer become when there's "no more money" and "no more sex" and "no more power"? What would any of us become, especially if we can't get the haircut we want? [Check out another Cosmopolis trailer.] As expected, considering that this is a David Cronenberg movie, the Cosmopolis trailer looks great, Pattinson looks and sounds flawless in the role of the billionaire whose universe is about to be radically rearranged, and the (audible) dialogue sounds as weird as what one gets to hear in real life, e.g., "The logical extension of business is murder" or, again, "I wanna a haircut." No wonder the Cannes Film Festival »
- Andre Soares
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
29 March 2012 9:42 PM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Directed by Michael Winner
Screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; original story by Michael Winner and Tom Wright
Featuring Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard, Helmut Lohner, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Carsten, Karin Baal
Just one look at the poster for Hannibal Brooks tells you United Artists didn’t know what to do with the film.
The promotional material focuses on the action, and the fact that Pollard is the action hero and not Reed, while ignoring the script’s attempt to portray warfare in shades of gray rather than stark black and white. But while the film has the best intentions, the script falters at the end, injecting a moralistic tone at odds with earlier scenes.
The film opens as Stephen Brooks (Reed), a British soldier in World War II, is captured by German troops. Brooks isn’t upset that he’ll spend the rest of the war as »
- Chris McMillan
Robin And Marian, The Three Musketeers Director, Richard Lester, Receives BFI Fellowship
26 March 2012 6:14 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Director Richard Lester (Superman II, A Hard Day’S Night) has been presented with the BFI.s highest accolade, the BFI Fellowship, following a screening of one of his best-loved films, Robin and Marian at BFI Southbank. The award was presented by BFI Chair, Greg Dyke.
Richard Lester said .When my career was just beginning, the elegant TV critic Bernard Levin came to see me in rehearsal with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. He wrote: ‘he seems an amiable young man who climbed into a lion’s cage and realised he’s forgotten his chair and his whip.’
Some 50 years later, I still haven’t found a whip, but with this extraordinary honour, the BFI has kindly given me a chair..
Greg Dyke said, .Richard Lester has created a unique body of work which has enriched the lives of millions with his brilliantly surreal humour and innovative style. Although born »
- Michelle McCue
Philip French's classic DVD: The Devils
24 March 2012 5:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
(Ken Russell, 1971, BFI, 18)
Ken Russell's best work was done by the early 1970s. First his poetic TV essays on Elgar and Delius. Then, for the big screen, his bravely flamboyant adaptation of Lawrence's Women in Love and this sensational adaptation of John Whiting's 1961 RSC play, based on The Devils of Loudun, Aldous Huxley's remarkable 1952 study of how the church and state conspired to exploit an apparent case of demonic possession in 17th-century France in order to destroy Father Urbain Grandier, a charismatic libertine who challenged their authority. The censors, the film's Hollywood producers and the tabloid press reacted to the film much the way the French authorities did to Grandier in 1634, and this excellent double-disc box contains the longest version yet released of this much cut movie, accompanied by a commentary (by Mark Kermode, Russell and others) and a documentary by Kermode and Paul Joyce that sets »
- Philip French
Brooding Robert Pattinson: Cosmopolis Poster
22 March 2012 10:38 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Cosmopolis poster: brooding Robert Pattinson The classy Cosmopolis teaser trailer was posted online last night. Now comes the classy Cosmopolis poster. Both center on star Robert Pattinson in the role of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire having a really difficult day. [Watch Cosmopolis teaser trailer. See Robert Pattinson covered in pie cream.] Veteran director David Cronenberg helmed Cosmopolis, in addition to co-writing the screenplay with Don DeLillo, author of the original novel. A highly likely Cannes Film Festival entry (Cosmopolis opens in France on May 23, a week after the festival opens), Cronenberg's latest also features A Dangerous Method's Sarah Gadon, The English Patient / Chocolat's Juliette Binoche, Rock of Ages / Win Win's Paul Giamatti, Minority Report / In America's Samantha Morton, I Am Number Four / Real Steel's Kevin Durand, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Quantum of Solace's Mathieu Amalric, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice / She's Out of My League's Jay Baruchel, Good Neighbors / The Trotsky's Emily Hampshire, »
- Zac Gille
DVD Review - The Devils (1971)
19 March 2012 6:16 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Devils, 1971.
Written and Directed by Ken Russell.
Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Max Adrian, Dudley Sutton, Murray Melvin and Gemma Jones.
Synopsis:
A promiscuous 17th century priest is accused of the demonic possession of a sexually-repressed nun.
“This film is based upon historical fact. The principal characters lived and the major events depicted actually took place.”
Opening with these words superimposed in blood red on black, Ken Russell’s The Devils strikes an assertive tone before we’ve even stepped into his world of nightmarish pain and zealotry. He’s not trying to validate a flimsy ‘true story’ like Marley & Me; this is an uncomfortable reminder that human cruelty is very real, and not so far in the past as we like to imagine.
17th Century France. In the provincial town of Loudun, bodies litter the streets in all directions, whether they’re victims of the plague outbreak or »
- flickeringmyth
Festivals round-up: Ken Russell Forever, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, BFI London Lgff, Annecy 2012
17 March 2012 3:13 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
In a tribute to British filmmaker Ken Russell, who died in November 2011 at the age of 84, a selection of his work is being presented at several London cinemas this month.
Among his credits are 1971's X-rated The Devils starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave; 1975's Tommy, a star-studded smash-hit film version of The Who's rock opera; the 1980 sci-fi film Altered States, adapted from Paddy Chayefsky's novel and providing the feature film debuts of William Hurt and Drew Barrymore; and the 1988 cult classic horror flick The Lair of The White Worm, based on Bram Stoker's novel and starring Hugh Grant.
The programme of the London season of screenings ranges from his earliest television documentaries through to his most acclaimed feature films, plus discussions and special events.
Ken Russell Forever, which began on March 10 and finishes on March 20, has already screened films including Gothic, Crimes of Passion, Whore, Tommy, Altered States, »
- David Bentley
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
9 March 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It's impossible to tell how genuine a controversy is. Were people really upset and outraged by this 1971 Ken Russell classic or was it more to do with organised, semi-professional complainers such as church groups and viewers' associations feeding a press frenzy?
Either way, the film still carries enough of a reputation to prevent it being released fully restored (in terms of both quality and content). While that's all rather fitting for a film about mass hysteria and witch-hunting, we're lucky to be seeing it at all, so this very well put-together DVD of the original theatrical version is something to be extra grateful for. Ken Russell had excellent taste, both good and bad. He was one of the few directors to exploit the visual flamboyance of cinema, having little time for the more earthy kitchen-sink concerns of his peers. While based on true events, Russell still made room »
- Phelim O'Neill
The Devils Arise With New X-Rated UK DVD!
7 March 2012 5:34 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Dread Central and genre fans alike were shocked and saddened last year with the passing of a great auteur – Ken Russell. UK fans can now look forward to a fitting DVD tribute to one of his best works courtesy of the British Film Institute.
The Oliver Reed film The Devils features a bumper treasure trove of extra material and the original X-rated print of the flick!
From the Press Release:
BFI has announced the release of The Devils for the 19th of March, priced at around £19.99. Details of bonus material can be found below, along with the artwork.
DVD premiere presentation of the original UK X certificate version Newly filmed introduction with broadcaster and critic Mark Kermode (2012, 2 mins) Audio commentary with Ken Russell, Mark Kermode, editor Michael Bradsell and Paul Joyce Hell on Earth (Paul Joyce, 2002, 48 mins): documentary exploring the film's production and the controversy surrounding its original release »
- Aaron Williams
Blu-ray Review: Dracula Prince of Darkness – Quintessential Hammer
7 March 2012 12:21 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Although he entered the literary world and, gradually, the public consciousness in the 19th century, Count Dracula is as important and iconic a 20th century character as almost any other. The Dracula story has been told so often in film and every other conceivable medium that seeing a new version is like hearing a cover of a familiar song; perhaps over-familiar, given the relative dearth of recent adaptations. That he is so easily mocked is further evidence of this; common points of reference are easy targets, a fact that took its toll, in some way, on both Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee. Lugosi only actually played the character twice onscreen, but when he returned to the role on stage late in his career the once-terrified audiences rocked with laughter. Lee too seems to have had a love-hate relationship with his most famous role.
As it is, »
- Adam Whyte
Blu-ray Review - Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
6 March 2012 11:05 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Dracula: Prince of Darkness, 1966.
Directed by Terence Fisher.
Starring Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Suzan Farmer, Charles Tingwell, Philip Latham and Thorley Walters.
Synopsis:
Four unsuspecting visitors are lured to Castle Dracula, paving the way for the resurrection of the fearsome Prince of Darkness.
Vampires don’t chat. They’re vicious, hungry predators who happen to be wearing their last victim’s body, like a perverse kind of trophy. Count Dracula, as written by Jimmy Sangster and portrayed by Christopher Lee, is far more animal than man. If you like your vampires buff and broody, go rent Buffy or Twilight, they’ve got you covered for hunks galore. If you’re after a horror film... look no further.
It all starts with a kind of ‘Previously on Dracula’ segment, where the climactic battle from Horror of Dracula (1957) is replayed, framed in a terrific burning eye effect. No »
- flickeringmyth
Looking back at Terry Gilliam's The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
24 February 2012 2:49 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Andrew takes a look back at Terry Gilliam’s fourth film, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, an 80s box office disappointment that deserves reappraisal…
This was originally going to be a look back at The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam's fourth film and the third in his Trilogy of the Imagination. Instead, it will partly be a rant interspersed with bouts of despair and misanthropy. For you see, Baron Munchausen was almost strangled at birth, and made $8 million at the Us box office due to receiving only a very limited release.
It was reported to have cost around $40 million to make in an eventually rushed production, but this figure has been denied by those who worked on the movie, estimating it at $35 million instead. Columbia were in the process of being sold as the movie was made, and the new owners were not interested in putting money into the film or promoting it. »
Review: Dracula Prince of Darkness Blu Ray
23 February 2012 4:00 AM, PST | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
A long time ago, in an obscure European country far, far away there existed creatures of the night who didn't sparkle, who didn't wander around with pained expressions on their faces, and who didn't look like they'd just stepped out of a My Chemical Romance video. The most famous, or should that be infamous, of them all was Dracula, the undisputed Lord of the Undead, and the subject of many, many movies over the years; but none of which captured the quintessential essence of a great vampire flick quite as well as Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966).
Described by Hammer Films historian Marcus Hearn, who appears in a new half hour retrospective of the flick in the extras, as perhaps the most representative of all the Hammer Dracula films due to the inclusion of several vital ingredients - including the brooding manservant, the remote European locale, the well-to-do English characters adrift abroad, »
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