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Old time's Snake: Kurt Russell will revisit 'Escape from New York' at EW festival
28 March 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Kurt Russell will make a rare on-stage appearance on May 3, at Entertainment Weekly’s new CapeTown Film Festival in Los Angeles, where he will discuss the legacy of Snake Plissken and Escape from New York, the sci-fi cult classic that made headlines this month with news of a possible remake.
The Q&A at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will be followed by the screening of Escape from New York, the first of four genre feature films that teamed Russell with director John Carpenter. The tandem dug into frozen horrors with The Thing (1982); put the pedal down on daft, high-adrenaline »
- Geoff Boucher
Escape from New York: the Joel Silver remake
19 March 2013 6:40 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The producer plans a reboot of John Carpenter's cult action film with Studio Canal, but who will take on the Kurt Russell role?
Hollywood is to have a second crack at bringing the cult John Carpenter film Escape from New York back to the big screen. This time around, the project is being put together by producer Joel Silver as the first film in a proposed Rise of the Planet of the Apes-style reboot series, reports Deadline.
Six years ago, Underworld director Len Wiseman signed on to direct a remake of Escape from New York, with Gerard Butler tipped to take the lead. Jeremy Renner and Tom Hardy were also in the running at times, but production company New Line eventually let its rights lapse. It is not known who will take charge of the reboot, nor which actor could be lined up to headline.
The original 1981 Escape from New York »
- Ben Child
Producer Joel Silver Announces Escape from New York Reboot
18 March 2013 3:33 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Producer Joel Silver and StudioCanal are joining forces on a remake of John Carpenter's 1981 action classic Escape From New York. Neither a writer nor a director has been attached at this time.
No details were given regarding the story, but Joel Silver is working on an entirely new take on the plot. The original starred Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, a one-eyed convict in a future where New York has been turned into a maximum-security prison for the most dangerous criminals. Snake is tasked with rescuing the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence), who is being held captive by a dangerous inmate (Isaac Hayes) after his plane crashes into the city.
Joel Silver and his Silver Pictures partner Andrew Rona will produce, with Alex Heineman serving as executive producer. No production schedule was given.
An Escape from New York remake was in development at New Line Cinema, with actors such as Gerard Butler, »
- MovieWeb
Review: "Mr. Lucky: The Complete Series" On DVD From Timeless Media Group
15 February 2013 6:24 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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By Harvey Chartrand
Mr. Lucky: The Complete Series is now available for the first time ever as a 4-dvd box set from Timeless Media Group… all 34 episodes, with a running time of about 840 minutes. Mr. Lucky– created by writer/director Blake Edwards (Peter Gunn) – ran for only one season (from 1959 to 1960), even though it was a hit with viewers.
This adventure/crime drama is a sort of Peter Gunn Lite, featuring a lush, organ-powered theme song by Henry Mancini (a bonus CD of Mr. Lucky’s soundtrack is included in the set), an assortment of shady characters aboard a floating casino, and competent acting by series regulars John Vivyan (as suave professional gambler Mr. Lucky), Ross Martin (as his sidekick and business partner Andamo), Pippa Scott (as Mr. Lucky’s girlfriend Maggie Shank-Rutherford) and Tom Brown (as Lieutenant Rovacs, Mr. Lucky’s »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
"Marfa Girl" or the Bailout of Capital R Realism
4 February 2013 4:24 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
“Maybe I was straitjacketing myself because even back when I was doing Tulsa or Teenage Lust, I wouldn't go see movies about teenagers. I wouldn't look at books if they were about teenagers, because I was afraid that either I would be influenced or that someone had already done something that I had done, or someone was doing it better. I was just afraid to look at anything, because I didn't want any ideas. I don't know why, but I didn't. Just frightened. Scared to death.”
“I am a complete man, having both sexes of the mind.”
When you have nothing, the very wise Luc Moullet tells us, you should cultivate relentless artifice. These days, Larry Clark is almost there, down to one thing: Marfa, a bitty town in Texas. And Marfa has been oft blessed, first just obliquely by Edna Ferber, then harder by George Stevens, »
- Uncas Blythe
‘Nest of Vipers’ showcases Giulio Petroni’s complex plotting and atmospheric set pieces
23 January 2013 6:43 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Nest of Vipers (Night of the Serpent)
Directed by Giulio Petroni
Italy, 1969
Though Giulio Petroni has only rather few titles to his name when compared with his prolific, and better known, counterparts, the Italian director does have the bragging rights of working with both Lee Van Cleef (Death Rides a Horse, 1967) and Orson Welles (Tepepa, 1969).
It’s Petroni’s Nest of Vipers, recently released alongside Pierro Pierotti’s less successful Tails You Lose (1969), by Wild East Productions, that showcases the director’s talent for complex plotting and atmospheric set pieces.
Similar to the earlier Ringo series by Duccio Tessari, and to the now time-honored traditions of Leone and Corbucci, the structure of Nest of Vipers pits the outsider (here, and often, the“gringo”) versus a band of outlaws, where a largely unassuming and tight-knit community is caught in between and unawares.
Luke Askew, probably best known for roles in Easy Rider and Cool Hand Luke, »
- Neal Dhand
You've been Djangoed! Ten Spaghetti Cowboys that shaped the genre
21 January 2013 12:45 AM, PST | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Keeping up with his career plan of paying homage to every film genre going, Quentin Tarantino has moved onto the spaghetti western with Django Unchained (2012). It’s not a remake of the pasta classic Django (1966), or indeed a spaghetti western, but it has clearly taken its inspiration from those violent Italian productions that swamped the late sixties.
Hollywood may have dominated the field since the beginning of motion pictures but European westerns are not exactly new; the earliest known one was filmed in 1910. Sixties German cinema made good use of Kay May’s western heroes Shatterhand and Winnetou, and the British produced The Savage Guns (1961), Hannie Caulder (1971), A Town Called Bastard (1971), Catlow (1971), Chato’s Land (1972) and Eagle’s Wing (1979). When the genre showed signs of flagging in the mid-sixties, a clever Italian director named Sergio Leone took it upon himself to reinvent the western – spaghetti style!
What made the spaghettis »
Looking back at Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy
17 January 2013 3:12 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature Paul Martinovic Jan 18, 2013
With Django Unchained out now in the UK, Paul looks back at Sergio Leone's classic Dollars trilogy that helped inspire it...
Howard Hawks, one of the most successful Western directors of all time and a key influence on Sergio Leone, once said a great movie can be defined as one with "three great scenes, and no bad ones." There can be few directors who understood the power of great scenes quite as strongly as Leone, the director of the Dollars trilogy and de facto godfather of the spaghetti western.
Some might argue his emphasis on great individual moments was to his detriment, as the MacGuffin-laden plots of his films seem to exist mainly as devices on which he can hang his elaborate setpieces, and were subsequently labeled as exercises in pure style. While the artistic and intellectual merits of the three films are up for debate, »
- ryanlambie
Remembering Patty Shepard (1945-2013)
15 January 2013 7:04 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Born in 1945 in Greenville, South Carolina, Patty Moran Shepard died of a heart attack at her home on January 3 in Madrid, Spain, the same country that welcomed her in 1963, when she moved with her father, an Air Force officer.
After a successful career as a TV commercial model she debuted in the big screen in 1966, appearing in the years ahead in gialli (Mio Caro Assassino a.k.a. My Dear Killer 1972); spaghetti westerns, such as in Antonio Margheriti’s The Stranger And The Gunfighter (alongside two late, great action heroes, Lee Van Cleef and Lo Lieh), and in many horror movies shown in drive-ins through all the States in the late 70’s.
Her presence and talent will be eternally felt in our hearts, especially in those cold, full moon nights, when we can spot a graceful woman dressed in black walking softly between moldering tombs and hundred-year old crypts.
Muchas gracias for your work, »
- bigsmashproductions@gmail.com (Stephan Segantini)
Remembering Patty Shepard (1945-2013)
15 January 2013 7:04 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Born in 1945 in Greenville, South Carolina, Patty Moran Shepard died of a heart attack at her home on January 3 in Madrid, Spain, the same country that welcomed her in 1963, when she moved with her father, an Air Force officer.
After a successful career as a TV commercial model she debuted in the big screen in 1966, appearing in the years ahead in gialli (Mio Caro Assassino a.k.a. My Dear Killer 1972); spaghetti westerns, such as in Antonio Margheriti’s The Stranger And The Gunfighter (alongside two late, great action heroes, Lee Van Cleef and Lo Lieh), and in many horror movies shown in drive-ins through all the States in the late 70’s.
Her presence and talent will be eternally felt in our hearts, especially in those cold, full moon nights, when we can spot a graceful woman dressed in black walking softly between moldering tombs and hundred-year old crypts.
Muchas gracias for your work, »
- bigsmashproductions@gmail.com (Stephan Segantini)
Remembering Patty Shepard (1945-2013)
15 January 2013 7:04 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Born in 1945 in Greenville, South Carolina, Patty Moran Shepard died of a heart attack at her home on January 3 in Madrid, Spain, the same country that welcomed her in 1963, when she moved with her father, an Air Force officer.
After a successful career as a TV commercial model she debuted in the big screen in 1966, appearing in the years ahead in gialli (Mio Caro Assassino a.k.a. My Dear Killer 1972); spaghetti westerns, such as in Antonio Margheriti’s The Stranger And The Gunfighter (alongside two late, great action heroes, Lee Van Cleef and Lo Lieh), and in many horror movies shown in drive-ins through all the States in the late 70’s.
Her presence and talent will be eternally felt in our hearts, especially in those cold, full moon nights, when we can spot a graceful woman dressed in black walking softly between moldering tombs and hundred-year old crypts.
Muchas gracias for your work, »
- bigsmashproductions@gmail.com (Stephan Segantini)
DVD Review - Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
14 January 2013 10:38 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!), 1968.
Directed by Ferinando Baldi.
Starring Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Jose Torres and Pinuccio Ardia.
Synopsis:
After the cold-blooded execution of his wife, a lone gun-slinger, Django (Hill), becomes a vigilant for a town at the mercy of his wife’s murderer.
With increasing publicity for the Spaghetti Western genre (specifically those with the name “Django” in the title) thanks to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, there has never been a better time to seek out the 60s classics. It is worth noting that despite being advertised as a sequel to the Franco Nero-led Django, Django Prepare a Coffin seems more like a prequel with only a few corresponding features.
Django (recommended viewing before this film) has the essentials of many popular cult films – a cheap yet pleasing tone. Likewise, Ferdinando Baldi’s sequel/prequel is rife with dozens of embarrassing nuances though enjoyable nonetheless. »
- flickeringmyth
Making Of The West: Mythmakers and truth-tellers
3 January 2013 6:16 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The “adult” Western – as it would come to be called – was a long time coming. A Hollywood staple since the days of The Great Train Robbery (1903), the Western offered spectacle and action set against the uniquely American milieu of the Old West – a historical period which, at the dawn of the motion picture industry, was still fresh in the nation’s memory. What the genre rarely offered was dramatic substance.
Early Westerns often adopted the same traditions of the popular Wild West literature and dime novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries producing, as a consequence, highly romantic, almost purely mythic portraits the Old West. Through the early decades of the motion picture industry, the genre went through several creative cycles, alternately tilting from fanciful to realistic and back again. By the early sound era, and despite such serious efforts as The Big Trail (1930) and The Virginian (1929), Hollywood Westerns were, »
- Bill Mesce
Ricky D’s Favourite Cult Films #22: Essential Viewing for fans of ‘Django Unchained’ Part 3
2 January 2013 5:57 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
December was Tarantino Month here at Sos, and since January is dedicated to westerns, I thought it would be best to whip up some articles spotlighting films that influenced Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Since I began my list back in December, I’ve noticed similar lists popping up online – all of which are somewhat suspect, since they recommend some terrible films. For my money, all of the movies listed below are essential viewing for fans of Django Unchained, and come highly recommended.
Note: This is the third of a three part article.
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I Giorni dell’ira (Blood and Grit) (Day of Anger) (Gunlaw) (Days of Wrath)
Directed by Tonino Valerii
Written by Ernesto Gastaldi, Tonino Valerii, Renzo Genta
Italy, 1967
Day of Anger is a spaghetti western directed by Tonino Valerii, who began his career as Sergio Leone’s assistant and would later direct My Name Is Nobody (1973). Lee Van Cleef stars as Frank Talby, »
- Ricky
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