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8 items from 2011
Robert Towne To Re-Tell The Battle Of Britain
4 October 2011 11:20 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Deadline reports that Graham King’s Gk Films have hired famed screenwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown) to write The Battle of Britain, a World War II movie about the largest and most famous air battle in history of warfare when Adolf Hitler’s German Luftwaffe and Winston Churchill’s Royal Air Force locked horns over the skies of London. The famous battle is usually seen as one of the crucial landmarks of the war as it prevented a Nazi invasion of Britain.
A celebratory movie with amazing flying sequences and costing a huge fortune to produce was made in 1969 and it starred a whole host of famous Brits; Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Laurence Oliver, Robert Shaw, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave and many more including even a young Ian McShane and Canadian Christopher Plummer captured the importance of the historic event. It was directed by frequent Bond helmer Guy Hamilton but it »
- Matt Holmes
Cliff Robertson Obituary
14 September 2011 2:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011
American actor Cliff Robertson died at the age of 88 on Saturday September 10 from natural causes.
To the younger generation (God…I sound like my Dad!) Cliff Robertson will be best remembered as Uncle Ben in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, also seen in flashback in Spider-Man 2 and 3.
In my childhood, he was a very familiar face in the mid sixties and seventies. Many of the films that he appeared in probably won’t register with most people but he made a big impact with me. Maybe it was Robertson’s calming demeanour and intelligent delivery that made you believe in every character that he played. You also felt that you knew him like some favourite Uncle.
He played Mosquito pilot wing commander Roy Grant in the British war film 633 Squadron (64). At the time I didn’t think that it was at all strange for an American officer to fly with the Raf. »
- Mark Foker
Ice Cold in Alex Blu-ray Review
7 July 2011 9:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Arriving on Blu-ray courtesy of Optimum (now Studio Canal), Ice Cold in Alex is the latest in a line of HD restorations in the Optimum Classics range. Probably familiar to many for the Carlsberg advert that it spawned, even if they have not seen the film itself, this World War II thriller was originally released in the UK in 1958 following its success as the International Critics Award winner at the Berlin Film Festival that year. The film did not have an easy journey across the Atlantic though and was not released in the Us until 1961, by which point it had been retitled Desert Attack and lost over forty minutes of its two hour running time.
The film centres on Captain Anson (John Mills) and Tom Pugh (Harry Andrews), who are tasked with transporting an army ambulance and two nurses across the unforgiving Libyan desert to their final destination, Alexandria. Mills »
- Craig Skinner
Win Ice Cold in Alex on Blu-ray
6 June 2011 5:57 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
To celebrate the digitally remastered release of Ice Cold in Alex on Blu-ray released on June 13th, Optimum Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the Blu-ray to give away. The movie is directed by J. Lee Thompson and stars John Mills, Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Sym.
A fatigued transport officer, Captain Anson, his loyal Msm, two stranded nurses and a mysterious South African officer endure a gruelling journey across the North African desert and enemy lines in a battered old ambulance in WWII. All that sustains them is Anson’s promise of the tall, frothy, ice-cold glasses of beer that await them upon their arrival in Alexandria (the “Alex” of the title).
Adapted by Christoper Landon from his own classic novel and based on his own experiences serving in North Africa, Ice Cold In Alex is a rip-roaring tale of determination, courage and ingenuity in the most unforgiving of environments, »
- Competitons
Win: Cross of Iron, The Cruel Sea, Ice Cold Alex on Blu-ray!
3 June 2011 8:49 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Father’s day is on the horizon and a whole bunch of cool Blu-ray’s are being released to celebrate that fact, a few films of which are particularly some of my Dad’s favourites.
Sam Peckinpah’s bloody anti-war movie Cross of Iron (out June 3rd), the British Wwi classic The Cruel Sea (June 13th) and the excellent Ice Cold Alex (June 13th), all digitally restored and available on the first time in Blu-ray. Excitedly if you are in London on father’s day weekend, the Odeon Panton St are showing Cross of Iron and Ice Cold in Alex from June 17th!
Owf have three copies of all three films to give away…
6 June: Cross Of Iron – Only On Bluray – Digitally Restored
Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross Of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle »
- Matt Holmes
Today – Vincentennial: Theatre Of Blood, Pit And The Pendulum
21 May 2011 6:54 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Theatre Of Blood will play at the Vincentennial Vincent Price Film Festival in a 35mm print at 2:30pm on Saturday, May 21st at the Hi-Pointe Theatre. Ticket information can be found Here
In the early 1907′s Vincent Price’s career was at a high point. The Doctor Phibes films were unexpected hits. How would he capitalize on these? In 1973 he took on a role in a film with a similar plot structure. In fact, many fright film fans consider Theatre Of Blood an unofficial finale in a Phibes trilogy. Produced by United Artists rather then American International Blood differed from the Phibes film in that it was set in modern times and boasted one of the most prestigious casts that Price ever worked with. Price portrays Edward Lionheart , a stage actor thought to be dead , who returns to murder the critics that denied him a thespian award. Many of »
- Tom Stockman
Top Ten Tuesday: The Best of Vincent Price
10 May 2011 5:21 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Born in St. Louis on May 27, 1911, iconic actor Vincent Price retained a special fondness for his place of origin, and that love is now reciprocated with Vincentennial, a celebration of his 100th birthday in his hometown. Price was not only a notable St. Louisan but one of the 20th century.s most remarkable men. To do full justice to the range of his accomplishments, Vincentennial features not only a 10-day film festival but also a pair of exhibits, a stage production, two publications, and illuminating discussions by Price experts and film historians. We decided to do a special edition of Top Ten Tuesday here at We Are Movie Geeks in honor of the many great films that Vincent Price starred in, and after we had assembled the list we realized that all ten of these films will be showing at the »
- Movie Geeks
Nicholas And Alexandra Review – Janet Suzman, Michael Jayston – d: Franklin J. Schaffner
2 February 2011 5:30 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Nicholas And Alexandra (1971) Direction: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Irene Worth, Laurence Olivier, Tom Baker, Harry Andrews, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, John McEnery, Eric Porter, Michael Redgrave, Alan Webb, Curd Jürgens, Lynne Frederick, Roderic Nobel Screenplay: James Goldman; from Robert K. Massie's 1967 historical novel Oscar Movies Nicholas and Alexandra is surely one of the most sumptuous productions ever made. The elaborate sets and costumes, Richard Rodney Bennett's lush musical score, and the richly textured cinematography (courtesy of frequent David Lean collaborator Freddie Young) provide the perfect period atmosphere for this historical epic. Missing, however, is a screenplay that offers dialogue instead of speeches, and a directorial hand that brings out truth instead of melodrama. Nicholas and Alexandra begins when, after several unsuccessful attempts, Tsar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) finally becomes the father of a boy. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife, »
- Andre Soares
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