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Even The Rain Review: Timely & Brilliantly Conceived
15 May 2012 7:14 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
(Our review from the Berlin Film Festival re-posted as Even The Rain is finally released in UK cinemas this weekend).
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Tambian la Iluvia (Even the Rain) may be directed by the Goya-winning Iciar Bollain, but it is really a passion project for its writer Paul Laverty, whose fascination with Latin American history has shaped much of his work – which notably includes Ken Loach’s Carla’s Song. Laverty and star Luis Tosar were on hand to introduce the film as it screened in the Panorama section here and presented something quite self-consciously polemical in its approach as (like Alex Cox’s superior Walker) it likens events in recent history to those of the colonial past, with emphasis on the exploitation of local people in the pursuit of resources and wealth.
Tosar plays Costa, a movie producer who has moved production of a Christopher Columbus epic to »
- Robert Beames
Top Five for the Week of April 1
8 April 2012 8:04 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Our 5 most popular trailers. Find out what they are below!
The love for the Nsfw-quality of Tromeo and Juliet not withstanding, you guys are getting a little predictable. As with last week, three holdovers in the top five and two new ones enter. If you want to see something else, get over to our YouTube channel and start exploring.
Lloyd Kaufman on Tromeo and Juliet
The Bard gets Troma-tized. The story’s the same, but Troma adds all the toilet humor, explicit sex scenes and gratuitous gore that old Will thoughtlessly left out of his version.
Jack Hill on The Big Doll House
Jack Hill recalls the making of his mega-hit, the Roger Corman/Cirio Santiago jungle prison flick that started the avalanche of busty-broads-behind-bars pix that packed the drive-ins throughout the 70s.
John Landis on King Kong vs. Godzilla
Original Kong animator Willis O’Brien never got credit (nor »
- Danny
Allan Arkush on Sid And Nancy
29 March 2012 10:00 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Roger Ebert called Alex Cox’s unexpectedly romantic dissection of the destructive relationship between Sid Vicious and Cloe Webb “Punk Rock’s Romeo and Juliet”. Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon) was no fan of the film, claiming he’d been intentionally bypassed and that the movie was “the lowest form of life”. The soundtrack contains no songs by Sid Vicious or the Sex Pistols. Instead the music is contributed by Pray for Rain, Joe Strummer and The Pogues.
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- Danny
Underground Film Links: March 4, 2012
4 March 2012 6:00 AM, PST | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
This Week’s Must Look At: The artist book Don’t Kill the Weatherman by Martha Colburn has an online photograph preview and it looks stunning! I love Martha’s animation, but it always moves so quickly that it’s tough to savor the actual art. But, now I can! The above borrowed image is from frames from the film Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical, the first Colburn film I ever saw way back in 2000. (If you go to the photo set, you can find details on how to purchase this limited edition.)Craig Baldwin has published issue #22 of Otherzine. You can read the whole thing here. But, two highlights are: An interview with Dominic Gagnon, who is seeking to save “censored” online videos; and curator Brenda Contreras reviews Sylvia Schedelbauer’s found footage film, Sounding Glass.This one’s for Canyon Cinema members only: But if you are one, »
- Mike Everleth
DVD Review: 'Repo Man' (Eureka's Masters of Cinema Blu-ray)
1 March 2012 4:23 AM, PST | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ Re-released on Blu-ray under Eureka's Masters of Cinema label, 1984 cult classic Repo Man is the debut film of actor, writer and director Alex Cox, and become a sleeper hit amongst sci-fi fans upon release thanks to its hugely entertaining mix of surreal humour and light satire, engaging everything from conspiracy theories to aliens. The film follows Otto (played with great comic dexterity by Emilio Estevez), a down-on-his-luck urban punk who has lost both his girlfriend and job in one day.
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- CineVue
Over/Under: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ vs. ‘Repo Man’
28 February 2012 9:26 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
John Huston’s 1941 detective tale The Maltese Falcon gets credit for a lot of things. Not the least of which is the launching of both Huston’s career and the career of its star, Humphrey Bogart. It also gets credit for beginning the longstanding and successful onscreen pairing of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, and heck, more often than not it’s pointed to as the beginning of the entire film noir movement of the 40s. That’s a lot of acclaim for a pretty simple mystery story about a salty detective named Sam Spade trying to find the whereabouts of a statue shaped like a bird. The late 70s and early 80s were a time when genre films were king. Not only were the titans of the industry, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, tearing up the box office with huge event franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones, but lots of other directors were getting in »
- Nathan Adams
Sid & Nancy and The Apartment Blu-ray Reviews
28 February 2012 5:03 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Fox has released two of the most romantic anti-romances of all time on Blu-ray: Sid and Nancy and The Apartment. Both show the negatives of dating, and the headaches that come from love, which sometimes include being arrested for murder. Billy Wilder does career best work (which is saying something) with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacClaine and Fred MacMurray in The Apartment, while Alex Cox creates some of his most indelible imagery with stars Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb in Sid and Nancy. Both are well worth checking out on Blu-ray and our reviews follow after the jump: C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) is climbing in corporate business. All his supervisors love him, and he’s only been at the job for a year. There’s a catch, though. The reason that he’s a rising commodity is because he allows three of them to use his apartment at night to entertain »
- Andre Dellamorte
Alex “Repo Man” Cox insists you pirate his movies (and other adventures in social networking)
27 February 2012 5:16 PM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw yesterday and today: • Pretty please... Can Someone Fix the Academy Awards? Please? Anyone? • This: "Now they want to have longer copyright periods because they say the young artists are relying on this money. The young artists never see any money because they sign away that money to big media corporations, like Universal and Viacom. We, the artists, lose all of our rights to these massive corporations, who then come down heavy on these kids for downloading films and music that we never see a penny from. It's complete bullshit. I want to encourage your audience to go and pirate a bunch of my stuff right away." Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed • You have not seen product placement until you have seen this... What is the Brand and What is Not? Stephen Colbert Discusses Wheat Thins • Totally fascinating read about »
- MaryAnn Johanson
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
25 February 2012 8:40 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Special Effects Artist Yasuyuki Inoue Passes Away
24 February 2012 10:41 PM, PST | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
Yasuyuki Inoue, one of the most innovative and influential Special Effects artists in movies, has died. Inoue spent his entire career at Toho Studios creating creatures and miniatures for all of Toho’s scifi and fantasy movies, including Godzilla.
His career began by chance when, while hanging around the studio, Inoue was hired to design and build props and models for movie sets. Inoue was ultimately recruited by Eiji Tsuburaya (1901-1970) for his SFX team—a collaboration that would become legendary. It was Tsuburaya who established the signature SFX of Godzilla being played by a man in a specially designed latex costume and the use of miniatures.
Throughout the 1950s and 60s Inoue and his creative team designed and built every piece of SFX magic in Toho’s films. Cities like Tokyo and Yokohama were built with meticulous detail only to be destroyed by a man in a suit. »
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Blu-ray Review: Repo Man – Politicised, Satirical & Highly Quotable
20 February 2012 5:06 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
What is Repo Man all about? The enduring debut of Alex Cox, it’s a melting pot of bizarre ideas, philosophical musings and potent social commentary, yet it’s quite hard to define exactly what the abiding message is. There’s certainly fear of the bomb, echoes of government conspiracy and the Roswell cover-up, talk of revolution in Latin America (one of Cox’s major themes), and a few very funny pops at religion. But aside from bringing together these disparate elements from the fringes of American life, what does it have to say? Perhaps it’s a fairly nihilistic film. In it’s comic juxtaposition of so many contradictory moral and spiritual codes, perhaps it’s fair to say that Repo Man’s anarchic central philosophy is that nothing really matters.
All of its characters are, at their best, amoral and anti-social and it is »
- Robert Beames
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray releases
17 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Comedy, thriller, satire, science fiction, punk rock movie: Repo Man is all these things. And none of them. Perhaps these hard-to-classify qualities are the reason why it's still watched today while many far more financially successful movies of the time are forgotten. It's like a drive-in movie scripted by Philip K Dick. But not. Both utterly of and completely out of its time, Alex Cox's 1984 feature debut trades in typical Us iconography such as cars and guns but in an off-kilter fashion. For Cox the mundane is exotic, the exotic is mundane. He delivers a view of the Us that American directors either wouldn't or couldn't – shooting around a landmark-free downtown La, something the recent Drive was enthusiastically praised for. Emilio Estevez plays disillusioned youth Otto, who falls in with a team of automobile repossessors as they search for a Chevy Malibu with a high bonus and »
- Phelim O'Neill
Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great
9 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Hailed by John Hurt as the 'best of the bunch', Oldman is a working-class hero acclaimed for his acting and directing
Gary Oldman returns to London this weekend in the role of prodigal son, the wayward talent brought in from the cold. He arrives from California to find a landscape very different from the one he left in the early 1990s.
The fiery social-realist BBC teleplays that provided an early calling card have bitten the dust. The cult of the raw-boned working-class British performer has been largely replaced by a roll call of Etonians and Harrovians: a rash of Redmaynes, Hiddlestons and Cumberbatches. And so, at the age of 53, Oldman touches down like some disreputable Rip Van Winkle, a reminder of times gone by. All of which makes him more striking – and arguably more necessary – than he was before.
If they handed out awards for nuance and subtlety, shade and stealth, »
- Xan Brooks
Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great
9 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hailed by John Hurt as the 'best of the bunch', Oldman is a working-class hero acclaimed for his acting and directing
Gary Oldman returns to London this weekend in the role of prodigal son, the wayward talent brought in from the cold. He arrives from California to find a landscape very different from the one he left in the early 1990s.
The fiery social-realist BBC teleplays that provided an early calling card have bitten the dust. The cult of the raw-boned working-class British performer has been largely replaced by a roll call of Etonians and Harrovians: a rash of Redmaynes, Hiddlestons and Cumberbatches. And so, at the age of 53, Oldman touches down like some disreputable Rip Van Winkle, a reminder of times gone by. All of which makes him more striking – and arguably more necessary – than he was before.
If they handed out awards for nuance and subtlety, shade and stealth, »
- Xan Brooks
A Classic Sid Vicious Love Letter To Nancy Uncovered
7 February 2012 10:04 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
If we sifted through your old drawers and boxes and published all the love letters you wrote at 20 years old, chances are there would be some embarrassing phrases.
And what if we went back even further? A likely treasure trove of "Do You Like Me? Check Yes Or No" letters would rain down from the attic, heart-dotted i's and terrible poetry abounds.
If you're Sid Vicious, the former bassist for the Sex Pistols and one of the world's most renowned punk rock musicians, your love letters are apparently pretty straightforward. At least the one recently published by Letters of Note, a blog that highlights past correspondences.
In his letter, which can be read here in full, Vicious writes a list of things he loves about his then girlfriend, the punk groupie Nancy Spungen, on a piece of torn-out notebook paper.
(Warning: cover you children's eyes for number nine. Or at »
- Huffington Post
Sid & Nancy
6 February 2012 1:06 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Sometimes the tragedy of a rocker’s death is as big a part of their legacy as their music; it’s a fact you see mirrored in many of the musicians taken before their time and whose deaths the world could have prevented. Though Kurt Cobain has become the poster child for such an occurrence, the flash in the pan known as The Sex Pistols, which effectively kicked off the punk rock in the UK, fell apart as Sid Vicious spiraled further and further into drug addiction and the rest of the band splintered. Egging him on along the way was Nancy Spungen, his soulmate, parasite, and enabler. Was it love or just a mutual respect for self-destructive behavior? Or maybe it was something in between. Alex Cox’s Sid & Nancy shows it all through their eyes, for better or for worse. Thanks to a brilliant performance by Gary Oldman, »
- Lex Walker
More Details on Award-Winning Composer Daniel Licht's Score for Silent Hill: Downpour
3 February 2012 3:00 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Konami has provided a bit more information on yet another great team member working on the highly anticipated Silent Hill: Downpour: award-winning composer Daniel Licht, known for his work on Showtime's "Dexter", who will be adding his eerie touches to the upcoming game.
From the Press Release
Award-winning composer Daniel Licht scores Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.'s Silent Hill: Downpour. The highly anticipated game will be released on March 13, 2012, for Playstation Network and Xbox 360. Downpour will bring a completely original storyline and an all-new haunting soundtrack to the video game series. The soundtrack is available March 13, 2012, on Milan Records, featuring the game’s theme “Silent Hill” by Jonathan Davis, front-man of nu metal band Korn, and score by Daniel Licht. Licht is best known for his scores to every "Dexter" episode.
In describing Silent Hill: Downpour, Licht stated, “I’m inspired by the mood and the story. »
- Amanda Dyar
Sid & Nancy Blu-ray Review!
23 January 2012 10:00 PM, PST | The Movie Pool | See recent The Movie Pool news »
The Movie Pool gets vicious over the first-ever Blu-ray release of the cult classic Sid & Nancy!
Blu-ray Specs
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Rating: R
Running Time: 113 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio
Subtitles: English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Special Features: "For the Love of Punk" featurette, "Junk Love" featurette, Theatrical Trailer
The Set-up
Sid & Nancy tells the true story of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, whose self-destructive relationship with Nancy Spungen would ultimately lead to tragedy.
Directed by: Alex Cox
The Delivery
The 1986 cult classic that tells the incredible but tragic story of Sid Vicious and his drug-addicted girlfriend Nancy Spungen gets a Blu-ray release for the first time. The appeal of the story and the fact that it is a great film has earned fans over the years, but this is hardly a sympathetic tale for either lead character.
Sid & Nancy may perhaps be »
- medina.victor@sbcglobal.net (Victor Medina)
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Sid & Nancy’
11 January 2012 9:13 PM, PST | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
Shortly after Repo Man (which still has no Blu-Ray release scheduled for North America), Alex Cox followed up his cult classic with a biopic about Sid Vicious. Instead of the sensationalism of the punk scene or how influential the Sex Pistols were to punk, Cox decided to focus on Vicious and his junkie girlfriend Nancy, an American who was visiting London at the time they met, and their descent in a drug induced downward spiral towards the end of their short lives.
The Film
Sid Vicious (played amazingly by Gary Oldman) is the bassist for the British punk band Sex Pistols who meets American groupie/junkie/drifter Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). While initially blowing her off, something in him takes an interest to her and once Sid and Nancy team up and start shooting up heroin together, they begin to rely on and confide on each other. What follows is »
- Andy Triefenbach
Blu-ray Review: ‘Sid & Nancy: Collector’s Edition’
9 January 2012 12:05 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – When I interviewed Tomas Alfredsson, the director of “Let the Right One In” and “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” he told me a wonderful story about Gary Oldman watching daily footage of himself on the set of “Tinker” as his character, George Smiley, fried an egg in his robe. Exciting stuff. Gary turned to Tomas and said, “I used to be Sid Vicious.” See what he meant by that with the Collector’s Edition of this 25-year-old film.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
There are only a few people in the history of rock ‘n’ roll that can accurately be called forces of nature more than mere musicians — Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Robert Plant, the people who changed their art not by attempting to do so but by being honest to their own vision. Sid Vicious didn’t set out to change music by basically inventing punk, but that’s exactly what he did. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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