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John Wayne Emerges From the Inside Out
6 June 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Michael Goldman’s book John Wayne: The Genuine Article opens with two prologues. The first is from Ethan Wayne, the Duke’s youngest son. The other is from President Carter, who’s long been one of the most hated political figures among the right-wing circles of which Wayne was a proud member.
If the latter author seems surprising to Wayne fans, it’s the first of many unexpected shadings that the book provides to the seemingly straightforward cowboy icon. (Upon Carter’s election, Wayne sent the new president a congratulatory telegram from the “loyal opposition” — he had sent similar missives to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as well — and he later also supported him on the Panama Canal Treaty, breaking with his friend and fellow California Republican Ronald Reagan.)
The genesis of the book came during a charity auction of some of Wayne’s personal items. Assembling the lots, »
- Andrew Barker
The Spirit of ’68 in the Criterion Collection: ‘Medium Cool’ and 11 Other Films About Revolution
30 May 2013 1:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool is a film whose immediacy and docu-realism was all too fitting for an America that could, for the first time, see its wars on television. Shot during the protests and riots that accompanied the Democratic National Convention in August 1968, Wexler’s film seamlessly mixed narrative storytelling and documentary – Medium Cool is a Hollywood-made document of America in ’68 if there ever was one, a stunning portrait of the chaotic state of politics and its relationship to media in one of the most tumultuous years in American (or, perhaps, world) history. But Criterion’s long-anticipated release of Medium Cool isn’t the only A/V flashback to ’68 occurring this summer. Olivier Assays’s Something in the Air reflects on the student protests surrounding the similarly turbulent demonstrations in France in May of that year, while Season 6 of Mad Men has just entered the sweltering summer that will climax in the events in Chicago that »
- Landon Palmer
Best of the Week: Dissecting the New 'Star Trek,' Loving the New 'Fast and Furious,' Cannes Buzz and More
24 May 2013 8:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Features, Reviews and Interviews Why 'Fast and Furious 6' Is Just As Cool As 'The Avengers' by Peter Hall Boldly Going Wrong: Why There's No 'Star Trek' in 'Star Trek Into Darkness' by Todd Gilchrist Director’s Notebook: Oscar Winner Haskell Wexler on Filming the Controversial, X-Rated 'Medium Cool' by Jason Guerrasio A 'Fast and Furious' Guide for Beginners: the Plots, the Cars and the Life Lessons by Rick Marshall Early Buzz on the Biggest Movies Premiering at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival by Mike Bracken The 10 Greatest Moments from 'The Hangover' Trilogy (So Far) by Tara Bennett Six Things We Learned While Watching 'World War Z' with Brad Pitt by Rick...
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- Peter Hall
5 Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton Movies To Watch
22 May 2013 9:02 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
With Cannes screening Cleopatra (marking its 50th anniversary) two nights ago and yesterday’s re-release screenings at 75 theaters countrywide, we’re feeling the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton love. The twice-divorced, Vatican-condemned couple continues to capture the public’s imagination and interest. In the past three years, we’ve seen Sam Kashner’s Furious Love and Richard Burton’s diaries become bestsellers, Liz & Dick being the most notable thing in Lifetime’s line-up, and John le Carré writing in The New Yorker just last month about working with Burton on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and those are just a few things that spring to mind. Although their film collaborations have gotten a bit of a bum-rap over the years (somewhat deservedly), here are five Taylor-Burton films that we think are worth watching, out of the eleven that they made together. Feel free to share your own »
- Diana Drumm
Director’s Notebook: Oscar Winner Haskell Wexler on Filming the Controversial, X-Rated 'Medium Cool'
20 May 2013 6:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
In this monthly column we spotlight new Blu-ray/DVD releases by interviewing directors about the scenes that stood out most for them while making their movies. This month we talk to legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bound for Glory) about his landmark 1969 directorial debut, Medium Cool (out on Blu-ray and DVD May 21, 2013). Starring Robert Forster as a Chicago TV cameraman, Wexler mixes a scripted story of the media’s perspective of a city on the verge of revolt with the actual anti-Vietnam War-fueled confrontation with police that ensues during the city’s hosting of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Opening in very limited release in ’69 due to its X rating, the film became a cult hit through...
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- Jason Guerrasio
Kathryn Bigelow, Jon Avnet, Anne Coates Tapped For AFI Degrees
14 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The American Film Institute will confer honoraray doctorate of fine arts degrees upon Kathryn Bigelow and Anne V. Coates and a doctorate of communications on Jon Avnet.
Avnet will be recognized for his contributions to AFI while Bigelow and Coates are being heralded for their “contributions of distinction” to the art of the moving image.
The degrees will be presented during the AFI Conservatory’s commencement ceremony on June 12 at the El Capitan Theater.
Previous AFI honorary degrees have been given to Robert Altman, Maya Angelou, Mel Brooks, Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, James Earl Jones, Nora Ephron, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kathleen Kennedy, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Helen Mirren, Haskell Wexler and John Williams.
Avnet is an AFI alumnus and serves as vice chair of the board of trustees. His credits as a director, writer and producer include “Black Swan,” “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Risky Business” and “The History Boys.”
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- Dave McNary
Albert Maysles & Joan Churchill On 'Gimme Shelter,' The Rolling Stones, Bad Acid Trips & More
10 May 2013 2:03 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Another great conversation at the recently wrapped TCM Classic Film Festival found famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler discussing the landmark Rolling Stones doc “Gimme Shelter” with filmmaker Albert Maysles (“Salesman,” “Grey Gardens”) and camera operator Joan Churchill. Wexler acted as host and introduced the film with Maysles. After the film, Wexler, Maysles and Churchill sat down for a discussion that turned into a brief impromptu Q&A with the three discussing everything from the Hell’s Angels to being on acid to a few near-death experiences, with some additional comments by ‘Gimme Shelter’ producer Ron Schneider. Below is a selection of highlights from the conversation.Meeting The Rolling Stones “Haskell’s the one who made it all possible for us to meet the Rolling Stones. We got a call one day from him in California and we’re in New York. He says, ‘The Stones arriving in New York tomorrow, they »
- Diana Drumm
Days of Ebertfest: The 2013 schedule
3 May 2013 3:27 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Press Release: Champaign, Ill. -- Terrence Malick's 1978 film "Days of Heaven" won an Oscar for best cinematography, and Roger Ebert likely found that no surprise. It is "above all one of the most beautiful films ever made," Ebert said in a 1997 review. So it's only appropriate that the film will open the 15th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival on April 17 in the big-screen, newly renovated Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign.
Also among the 12 features and two shorts to be screened during the five-day "Ebertfest" -- running through April 21 at the Virginia and at the University of Illinois -- will be a kabuki-inspired drama from Japan; a recent silent film from Spain that deserved as much attention as "The Artist," according to Ebert; a sympathetic take on the "mad" painter Vincent Van Gogh, directed by frequent festival guest Paul Cox; and a documentary, which will close the festival, about »
In May, Criterion has Men in Hats, Snacks, and Protests
2 May 2013 1:36 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
If you're a cinephile then you don't mark the coming and going of months by birthdays, holidays, or any of that nonsense, you go by the monthly slate of new releases from the Criterion Collection as they push on in their mission to preserve classic and modern films deemed artistically and culturally deserving of preservation for future generations. For May 2013, Criterion unleashes upon Blu-ray two westerns by Delmer Daves (3:10 to Yuma, Jubal), Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, and Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. For the full details on each of these Blu-ray releases, just keep reading.
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- Lex Walker
Revisiting 'Colors' On The 25th Anniversary Of Its Release
30 April 2013 10:37 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
If last September's End of Watch and its $41 million domestic gross was any indication, police procedural movies have never been bigger or more lucrative, and their history never as storied. This week marks the 25th anniversary of the cop drama Colors' rise to number one at the U.S. box office (the weekend of April 29th- May 1st 1988), ousting Tim Burton's eclectic Beetlejuice and its four week reign at the top. Directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, Colors was a film with a heavy pedigree, and thus, clout – the film was shot by two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler and scored by the great Herbie Hancock. The film dealt with a serious »
- Erik Luers
Stephen Poster Re-elected as Cinematographers Guild Prexy
27 April 2013 5:26 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Steven Poster has been re-elected to a three-year term as president of the Intl. Cinematographers Guild after running unopposed.
The guild, which operates as Local 600 of the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, is Hollywood’s biggest below-the-line local and reps 6,600 camera crew workers and publicists.
Poster, whose credits include “Donnie Darko” and “Cats and Dogs 2,” also ran unopposed in 2010. He topped Haskell Wexler for the post in 2007.
In contested races, John Toll won re-election as second VP as did incumbent national secretary-treasurer Alan Gitlin and assistant national secretary-treasurer Bruce MacCallum.
Along with Poster, three other officers ran unopposed — VP Lewis Rothenberg, first VP Paul Varrieur and sergeant-at-arms Michael St. Hilaire.
Poster said Local 600′s board will continue to “strongly support” the leadership of Iatse Intl. President Matthew D. Loeb. The local also said national executive director Bruce Doering continues in that role. »
- Dave McNary
Ebertfest 2013: Festival kicks off in grand fashion with “I Remember”, ‘Days of Heaven’, and a singalong
18 April 2013 7:45 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
As a film lover and alumnus of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (I-l-l!), Ebertfest, or Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival, has been on my radar for years. I didn’t hear about it until late into my tenure at Uiuc, but since then I’ve managed to attend a screening or two each year and it’s always a great time. Held at the beautiful Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign, an enormous venue from the 1920s which has been newly restored this past year and just opened back up in time for the festival, Ebertfest brings in a huge, welcoming crowd of cinephiles each year and it’s an absolute pleasure to watch great films with such an engaged audience in such a gorgeous theatre with such a massive screen (56’ wide). This year, however, the festival has extra meaning. Roger Ebert was extremely hands-on in the planning of Ebertfest and, »
- Kate Kulzick
Days of Ebertfest: The 2013 schedule
23 March 2013 4:47 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Press Release: Champaign, Ill. -- Terrence Malick's 1978 film "Days of Heaven" won an Oscar for best cinematography, and Roger Ebert likely found that no surprise. It is "above all one of the most beautiful films ever made," Ebert said in a 1997 review. So it's only appropriate that the film will open the 15th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival on April 17 in the big-screen, newly renovated Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign.
Also among the 12 features and two shorts to be screened during the five-day "Ebertfest" -- running through April 21 at the Virginia and at the University of Illinois -- will be a kabuki-inspired drama from Japan; a recent silent film from Spain that deserved as much attention as "The Artist," according to Ebert; a sympathetic take on the "mad" painter Vincent Van Gogh, directed by frequent festival guest Paul Cox; and a documentary, which will close the festival, about »
- Roger Ebert
Affleck's Political Thriller Wins More Top Awards: Oscars Next?
18 February 2013 4:19 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Affleck's political thriller wins awards from the American Cinema Editors, Writers Guild of America Ben Affleck's Argo, a the story of the rescue of a handful of American hostages held in Iran in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, continues to win awards this season. After victories at the PGA Awards, the DGA Awards, and the SAG Awards (Best Ensemble), this past weekend the thriller won the Ace Award for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic (William Goldenberg) and the WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Chris Terrio). [Pictured above: Director and co-producer Ben Affleck also stars in Argo.] The film has now come out victorious in the five most important guilds (for a Best Picture Academy Award win): actors, producers, directors, screenwriters, and editors. Needless to say, it is the odds-on favorite to nab the Best Picture Oscar, despite the fact that it doesn't have a Best Director Oscar nomination as well. If Argo does take home the Best Picture Oscar, »
- Anna Robinson
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Medium Cool
15 February 2013 2:44 PM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 21, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Verna Bloom and Robert Forster tries to figure things out in Medium Cool.
The 1969 film drama Medium Cool is the first narrative film directed by the famed documentarian/cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who shot One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Days of Heaven, among other greats.
In, with the U.S. in social upheaval, Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on and plunge audiences straight into the moment. With its mix of scripted fiction and seat-of-the-pants documentary technique, the film’s story looks at the working world and romantic life of television cameraman John Cassellis (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown). Set in Chicago, Cassellis finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention, just as he’s forced to deal with a whole lot of romantic and lifestyle issues. »
- Laurence
Criterion's May Slate Includes '3:10 To Yuma,' Haskell Wexler's 'Medium Cool,' Mike Leigh's 'Life Is Sweet' & More
15 February 2013 12:12 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Saddle up, because Criterion has dropped the veil on the May releases and they've got a couple of gunslinging classics to share, along with some works from a couple auteurs and much more. So let's dive in. First off, Delmar Davies gets a nice hat tip as both "3:10 To Yuma" and "Jubal" are getting stamped with the C. The former is probably the best known of the pair (partially due to remake by James Mangold in 2007 starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale) about a mild mannered rancher who brings a wanted outlaw to the train station. This disc will carry a high-def transfer, but not much else in the way of extras. Same goes for "Jubal," about a cattleman who becomes the centerpiece in a roiling drama on a ranch. But hell, two movies with Glenn Ford shoud be enough to please anyway. Meanwhile, cinematographer Haskell Wexler's directorial »
- Kevin Jagernauth
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