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5 Things You Might Not Know About David Lean's 'Lawrence Of Arabia'
18 May 2012 12:12 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Is there a greater film than "Lawrence of Arabia?" Perhaps. There are certainly few longer ones, or few that are more epic and sweeping in their scope (thanks to the timeless Panavision 70 photography by Freddie Young). But even if the film isn't your absolute favorite, it is the number one of many, including Steven Spielberg, who credits the picture with making him want to be a filmmaker.
David Lean's tale of T.E. Lawrence's adventures in Arabia in World War I is fifty years old this year, and ahead of a brand-spanking-new Blu-ray release next month, a glorious new 4K restoration of the film is screening at Cannes tomorrow night. To mark the occasion, as well as the anniversary of the death of Lawrence himself, who died 77 years ago tomorrow, we've assembled five things you might not know about Lean's unassailable classic.
1. David Lean nearly directed a biopic of »
- Oliver Lyttelton
14 Gifs For Barbra Streisand's 70th Birthday
24 April 2012 4:42 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Barbra Streisand turns 70 today. The singer and actress has two Academy Awards, five Emmys, eight Grammys, a Special Tony and a Peabody. And today, she has 14 GIFs.
HuffPost Entertainment searched high and low for a gift for the woman who has it all, and nothing seemed suitable. Instead, we combed the internet for animated photos of Babs throughout her storied career. You can see the gifs in the slideshow below -- be sure to vote for your favorite.
But first, some highlights from 70 extremely well spent years.
Streisand was born in in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York (believe the hype!). She went on to record an astounding 33 studio albums and appeared in 20 films. She has been featured on 47 soundtracks.
Her career branched into politics and philanthropy. She reportedly earned a spot on Nixon's Enemies List and has raised over $25 million for charitable organizations through her live performances.
She's perhaps still best »
- Kia Makarechi
The Lion In Winter Producer Martin Poll Dead
16 April 2012 10:43 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter Martin Poll, best known for producing Anthony Harvey's 1968 Best Picture Oscar nominee The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, died of "natural causes" on April 14 according to various online sources. Poll was 89. An Avco Embassy release, The Lion in Winter was considered the favorite for the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. The film had won the Best Film Award from the New York Film Critics Circle, while Harvey was the year's Directors Guild Award winner. However, Carol Reed's Columbia-distributed musical Oliver! turned out to be the winner in both categories. (Curiously, the previous year another Embassy release, Mike Nichols' The Graduate, unexpectedly lost the Best Picture Oscar to Norman Jewison's United Artists-distributed In the Heat of the Night. But at least Nichols came out victorious. »
- Andre Soares
[Now Streaming] Your ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘The Raid,’ and ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ Alternatives
22 March 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to Hunger Games, The Raid, and The Deep Blue Sea.
This week the hotly anticipated tale of Katniss Everdeen hits screens, and its only competition in theaters is an Indonesian action-extravaganza and a star-studded romance. If you want more action and tales of love and heartbreak, we’ve got you covered with some of the best titles Now Streaming.
Based on Suzanne Collins’s wildly popular Ya novel of a dystopian future, this teen-centered drama stars Jennifer Lawrence as a girl forced into a life or death battle on a nationally televised competition known as The Hunger Games. Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson co-star; Gary Ross directs.
For more tales of fierce heroines:
Winter’s Bone (2010) This gritty indie not only scored Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar nod, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Tonino Guerra obituary
22 March 2012 4:16 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Screenwriter and poet who co-scripted films with Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing »
- John Francis Lane
Morning Meme: Justin Bieber Is Complex, Alison Brie Spoils "Mad Men," and Omar Sharif, Jr. Comes Out – Twice!
20 March 2012 4:44 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
I don't know a lot about Kiwi chef Jason Roberts beyond the fact that he's cute, and most internet pictures I see of him have him kissing various girls.But he's joining The Chew on ABC as a correspondent.
Disney formally announced they expect a $200 million write down for losses related to John Carter, which is at the high end of expectations.
Meanwhile Apple announced some plans of what they intend to do with their $100 billion in cash reserves. A dividend and a stock repurchase plan should burn through about $45 billion over three years. I remember when numbers like that were only spoken of by large countries.
And so you can get the most out of those shiny Apple products, the Faa intends to reexamine restrictions on portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing.
The Advocate has a story from Omar Sharif, Jr., grandson of the Hollywood legend, in which »
- lostinmiami
Omar Sharif Jr, Kirk Douglas, Melissa Leo
19 March 2012 10:00 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Omar Sharif Jr, Kirk Douglas, Melissa Leo Omar Sharif Jr, in the news after publicly coming out as a gay (Canadian-born, internationally raised) Egyptian man whose mother happens to be Jewish, is seen above with veteran Kirk Douglas while presenting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to The Fighter's Melissa Leo at the 2011 Academy Awards. The ceremony was held at the back then still known as Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland on February 27. (Photo: Michael Yada / © A.M.P.A.S.) Melissa Leo went on to make Oscar history: she is the first person to (audibly) use the word "fuck" — in any form — while onstage at an Oscar show. At least Leo's is the first expletive that has gone on record. Kirk Douglas never made a movie with Sharif Jr.'s grandfather, Omar Sharif, but he did get three Best Actor nominations: for playing a boxer in Mark Robson's »
- Andre Soares
Omar Sharif Jr: Gay, Half-Jewish, Egyptian Political Woes
19 March 2012 7:17 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Omar Sharif Jr., grandson of the Doctor Zhivago star, is currently in the news because he has come out as a gay man who happens to be half-Jewish (on his mother's side) in an essay found in The Advocate — one accompanied by a photograph showing a hairy, buffed-up, bare-chested man (Sharif Jr.?) holding the Egyptian flag. In the essay, the 29-year-old Montreal-born actor explains he wrote the piece out of "fear for my country, fear for my family, and fear for myself." As per Sharif Jr., the problem is that in Egypt "the full spectrum of equal and human rights are now wedge issues used by both the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Islamist parties, when they should be regarded as universal truths." Further down in his piece, he adds: And so I hesitantly confess: I am Egyptian, I am half Jewish, and I am gay. »
- Andre Soares
Omar Sharif Jr. outs himself as gay, half-Jewish
19 March 2012 3:32 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
In a new piece published in The Advocate, actor Omar Sharif's grandson, Omar Sharif Jr., writes that he fears returning to Egypt after coming out as gay and half-Jewish.
"I write this article in fear. Fear for my country, fear for my family, and fear for myself. My parents will be shocked to read it, surely preferring I stay in the shadows and keep silent, at least for the time being. But I can't," writes Sharif.
He goes on to describe the failure of 2011's Egyptian uprising that, he says, has not resulted in a more tolerant society but has instead beeen "hijacked" by those who look to deny basic human rights, not grant them.
"I anticipate that I will be chastised, scorned, and most certainly threatened," he writes. "From the vaunted class of Egyptian actor and personality, I might just become an Egyptian public enemy." »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Freida Pinto and the rise of the 'pan-ethnic' star
6 March 2012 5:29 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Slumdog Millionaire star is returning to her roots in Trishna, but her international roles hint at the declining importance of actors' ethnicity
Since Slumdog Millionaire, Freida Pinto has played a Palestinian orphan, an American primatologist, an ancient Greek priestess and an Arab princess. Either by adventurousness or design, it looks like she's striving to be a new kind of film star: one not bound in her roles by ethnicity, and able to appeal freely across those boundaries, too.
A few years ago, people were talking about Vin Diesel in similar tones. He was a throwback to 80s juiceheads like Arnie, but, with his mixed-race background, he also looked like an action star for multicultural times. That dream ended with the failure of his signature antihero Riddick's "chronicles". But then his Fast & Furious franchise, into its fifth instalment last year, weirdly impervious in its urban-petrolhead elysium, all peoples equally inaudible »
- Phil Hoad
William Wyler: Oscar Actors Director
21 February 2012 4:48 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood — or any other film industry — has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Frank Capra, or even Howard Hawks most likely because, unlike Hitchcock, Ford, or Capra (and to a lesser extent Hawks), Wyler never focused on a particular genre, while his films were hardly as male-centered as those of the aforementioned four directors. Dumb but true: Films about women and their issues tend to be perceived as inferior to those about men — especially tough men — and their issues. The German-born Wyler (1902, in Alsace, now part of France) immigrated to the United States in his late teens. Following a stint at Universal's New York office, he moved to Hollywood and by the mid-'20s was directing Western shorts. His ascent was quick; by 1929 Wyler was directing Universal's top female star, Laura La Plante in the »
- Andre Soares
Is Arab cinema on the cusp of a potential renaissance?
15 February 2012 4:41 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Increased exposure and support for the Arab film industry offers hope for the future despite a wider backdrop of political upheaval
The Arab spring has focused western attention on the Arab world in an unprecedented way. While events in Bahrain, Libya and Syria have turned progressively more violent, there was a period last year when Arab youth inspired onlookers with their courage and thoroughly modern attitudes. However, for a region of more than 300 million people, and with a rich tradition of folklore and storytelling, the Arab world has been historically underserved by its cinema. Egypt can boast of a proud film-making industry that dates back more than a century but, beyond that, the picture has often been less encouraging.
When I began my career as a film producer in Tunisia in the 1970s, there was nothing remotely resembling an Arab film industry. Potential financiers, particularly those in the petro-dollar fuelled economies of the Gulf, »
Catherine Deneuve: Film Society of Lincoln Center Chaplin Award Recipient
11 January 2012 2:59 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve, 68, will be the recipient of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 39th Chaplin Award. The annual fundraising gala benefiting Lincoln Center programs will be held on Monday, April 2, at the Alice Tully Hall in New York. The evening will include films clips and a party. [Full list of Film Society of Lincoln Center (Fslc) Chaplin Award Honorees.] Catherine Deneuve's career spans more than five decades, from André Hunebelle's Les collégiennes / The Schoolgirls (1957), Jacques-Gérard Cornu's L'homme à femmes / Ladies Man (1960), and Michel Fermaud and Jacques Poitrenaud's Les Portes claquent / The Door Slams 1960) to her latest efforts: Christophe Honoré's Les Biens-aimés / The Beloved, shown at last year's Cannes Film Festival; Thierry Klifa's Les Yeux de sa mère / His Mother's Eyes; and Laurent Tirard's upcoming Astérix et Obélix: Au Service de Sa Majesté / Astérix et Obélix: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, as Cordelia, the Queen of England, opposite frequent co-star Gérard Depardieu and Edouard Baer. »
- Andre Soares
Watch Dr. Zhivago’s Love Story at PVR Rare Film Club on Jan 12
6 January 2012 6:46 PM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
For those who swear by classic love sagas, there is Dr. Zhivago on January 12 at PVR Rare Film Club.
Based on the novel ‘Dr. Zhivago’ by Boris Pasternak, the 1965 film directed by David Lean is a love story set during the Bolshevik Revolution. The poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is married to Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), but carries on an affair with Lara (Julie Christie) who has been raped by a politician Komarovsky.
Dr. Zhivago is ranked 7 in the American Film Institute’s ‘America’s Greatest Love Stories’ and 39 in America’s Greatest Movies. As of 2010, Doctor Zhivago was the 8th biggest grossing film of all time.
The film that became immensely popular wasn’t received well by the critics. It is said that David Lean was so deeply affected by the criticism that he swore to never make a film again. Before Dr. Zhivago, Lean has made the epic »
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Blu-ray Review: Flawed ‘Blackthorn’ Bolstered By Superb Visuals, Extras
3 January 2012 8:33 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – I frankly can’t imagine how any moviegoer could favor Mateo Gil’s somber, low-key genre exercise, “Blackthorn,” over George Roy Hill’s marvelously entertaining 1969 classic, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” Sure, Western buffs have often criticized Hill’s film for romanticizing its subject matter, yet there was a dark edge and tragic poignance in William Goldman’s script that earned the film its shattering ending.
Moviegoers seeking similar thrills from “Blackthorn” will be sorely disappointed. The picture is a wholly unremarkable rethinking of the Butch Cassidy legend that fails in its aspirations to leave an equally iconic imprint on the oft-mythologized tale. Miguel Barros’ script bases its premise off the conceit that Butch and Sundance’s death in the 1908 Bolivian standoff was based on unsubstantiated evidence. It’s an intriguing premise, but Barros just uses it as an excuse to concoct a less whimsical retread of Goldman’s formula. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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