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Ridley Scott Says Blade Runner 2 Must Have Harrison Ford
5 hours ago | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
There’s only one film on the lips of every film fan this week and that’s “Prometheus”. Well, more or less anyway. Despite the “Alien” universe film now just days away from opening in the UK this Friday and the buzz at an all time high, when The Independent spoke to the 74-year-old legendary director Sir. Ridley Scott recently they somehow thought about asking something non-”Prometheus” related.
Though when that film in question is a similarly exciting “Blade Runner” sequel, we can’t really blame them.
Announced last year when Scott was deep into directing “Prometheus”, a return to the world of replicants is in the offing for Scott with Hampton Fancher, writer of the very first draft that eventually became “Blade Runner”, recently hired to develop the film’s story. Unlike “Prometheus”, this film will be a sequel though won’t follow Harrison Ford’s replicant killer Deckard as the main character, »
- Matt Holmes
Mindy Newell: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Writing
21 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Ah, the joys of writing.
Well, not when you’re working on your capstone project, the culmination of the past 18 months, the paper that will lead me to that walk down the aisle in mortarboard and gown to the hallowed, somber notes of Pomp and Circumstance. How did that get to be the graduation processional march anyway? Wait, I’m going to look it up. Tawk amongst yawselves….
This is what Wikipedia says: “The Pomp and Circumstances Marches, Op. 39” are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar. In the United States, the Trio section,” Land of Hope and Glory” of March No. 1 is sometimes known simply as” Pomp and Circumstance” or as “The Graduation March,” and is played as the processional tune at virtually all high school and college graduation ceremonies. It was first played at such a ceremony on 28 June 1905, at Yale University, where Samuel Sanford, »
- Mindy Newell
Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer, and the Private Eye on Screen and on the Page
18 May 2012 2:58 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Mickey Spillane grabbed his position in the pop culture pantheon much like his iconic creation, private eye Mike Hammer, made his way through a case: through a sort of literary brute force, blasting away with heavy doses of graphic violence, steamy sex, and a style which reviewers often considered the prose version of a blunt object.
As a mystery writer, Spillane wasn’t as clever as Evan Hunter, nor as introspective as late career Ross MacDonald, nor did he have the insider’s street savvy of George V. Higgins, or the prose command of Raymond Chandler. Read today, some of his stuff seems so familiar and stale and excessive it borders on camp. But, whatever one’s qualitative judgment on Spillane and his canon, there’s no doubt his impact on the mystery genre – and the private eye tale in particular – was both massive and indelible, reaching beyond the printed »
- Bill Mesce
The Top Ten Films Noir According to ‘Road to Perdition’ Writer Max Allan Collins
14 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Editor’s Note: Max Allan Collins has written over 50 novels and 17 movie tie-in books. He’s also the author of the Road to Perdition graphic novel, off which the film was based. With his new Mickey Spillane collaboration “Lady, Go Die” in great bookstores everywhere, we thought it would be fun to ask him for his ten best films noir. In true noir fashion, we bit off more than we could handle… We have to begin with a definition of noir, which is tricky, because nobody agrees on one. The historical roots are in French film criticism, borrowing the term noir (black) from the black-covered paperbacks in publisher Gallimard’s Serie Noire, which in 1945 began reprinting American crime writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Horace McCoy, Jim Thompson, Mickey Spillane, W.R. Burnett and many others. The films the term was first applied to were low-budget American crime thrillers made during the »
- Guest Author
Double Indemnity Playing at the Hi-Pointe Theater This Weekend
10 May 2012 8:30 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Cold-blooded, brutal, and stylishly directed by Billy Wilder with a dark sense of humor, Double Indemnity, made back in 1944, is a prime example of the film noir genre and remains highly influential in its look, attitude and storyline. Lucky St. Louis-area film buffs will have a chance to see Double Indemnity in all its big-screen glory when it plays this weekend at The Hi-Pointe Theater.
Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces smooth-talking insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple’s passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other’s motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff’s boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation.
Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the novel by James M. Cain and Hollywood veterans Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson give some of their best performances in Double Indemnity. »
- Tom Stockman
How I Spent My Summer Vacation review
10 May 2012 8:26 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Mel Gibson attempts to reboot his career with the crime caper, How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Here’s Michael’s review of a surprisingly good action film...
Let’s face it. If you were Mel Gibson, you would want a holiday. But he’s not jetting off into the sunset just yet. No, with his public reputation in tatters, and his movie career in freefall, the actor-filmmaker has drafted his own action-packed comeback, the sweat-soaked, bullet-ridden lark How I Spent My Summer Vacation.
Gibson stars as a grizzled career criminal - a Man-With-No-Name listed in the production notes as Driver - who within minutes literally jumps the USA-Mexico border with a car full of cash. Apprehended by the corrupt Mexican police force, the crook is banged up in an open-plan prison-cum-slum, while the coppers make off with the dough. Left to fend for himself in this minimum-security favela, Driver »
Blood In The Gutters: Week’s Crime Comics – Fatale, The Pro, Thief of Thieves, Punisher
8 May 2012 2:50 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
This Wednesday, the following pieces of sequential art shall be available at only the finest retailers everywhere: The crimes of the horrific; Tina goes to work; Like father, like son; It’s not you, it’s me and this unending war I’m fighting.
Fatale #5–Things are starting to come to a head in this opening arc; in fact, unless I’m very much mistaken, this is the last issue in said arc. The lovely Jo and her machinations to try to outwit the creepy cult dudes/demons have ended in much heartbreak and bloodshed, but the promo copy tells us that the love triangle between her, Hank, and Walt comes to an end. If you’ve read this comic at all, you know it will not likely be a happy ending for anybody. Also, I kinda wish they’d start letting us know who’s going to be writing »
- Jimmy Callaway
Le quai des brumes – review
5 May 2012 4:03 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A BFI Southbank season of films starring the great Jean Gabin has put a new print of this 1938 masterpiece of poetic realism back on to the big screen at lucky cinemas around the country. Raymond Chandler said that Bogart could be tough without a gun, and Gabin was France's Bogart. He was at his best in the 1930s playing doomed, blue-collar losers, gangsters and military deserters (as in Le quai des brumes), most especially for Duvivier, Carné and Renoir. His postwar films were less good, though Becker's Touchez pas au Grisbi and Renoir's French Cancan are excellent, and he got to play Maigret three times as well as the French president, and to co-star with Bardot in one of her better films, En cas de malheur.
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- Philip French
Which Glee Star Bought This House to the Tune of $1.4 Million?
25 April 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
This Glee star has a new direction to go in when headed home at night. Situated at the base of the Hollywood Hills, a hot spot for homes straight out of Raymond Chandler, this two-bedroom, two-bathroom bungalow has been snatched up for the very 21st-century price of $1.4 million. So, who just graduated to single-family home ownership? Lea Michele is the one planting roots in Hollywood—and there's plenty of room for Rachel Berry and her two dads! The 1,800 square-foot home went up in 1920, but has since been remodeled extensively with modern kitchen appliances and new bathroom fixtures. There are hardwood floors throughout and French doors along the back of the house lead to a private »
Which Glee Star Bought This House to the Tune of $1.4 Million?
25 April 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | E! Online - UK | See recent E! Online - UK news »
This Glee star has a new direction to go in when headed home at night. Situated at the base of the Hollywood Hills, a hot spot for homes straight out of Raymond Chandler, this two-bedroom, two-bathroom bungalow has been snatched up for the very 21st-century price of $1.4 million. So, who just graduated to single-family home ownership? Lea Michele is the one planting roots in Hollywood—and there's plenty of room for Rachel Berry and her two dads! The 1,800 square-foot home went up in 1920, but has since been remodeled extensively with modern kitchen appliances and new bathroom fixtures. There are hardwood floors throughout and French doors along the back of the house lead to a private »
Blood In The Gutters: Week’s Crime Comics – Supercrooks, Footprints, Moon Knight, Gotham Central
24 April 2012 8:36 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
This week on the new releases shelf at your neighborhood comics shop: Supervillainy goes abroad; Proof that genre-bending still exists; Marc Spector’s last stand; The final days of the Gcpd.
Supercrooks #2–Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (for what I’m certain is not the final time): Mark Millar is a good comic-book writer, no matter what anybody might think about him otherwise. Millar has made no bones about the fact that he uses his comics as springboards into Hollywood and also the fact that he is a very talented writer indeed. This continues to ruffle the feathers of a lot of us purists in the comics community, but again as I’ve said before, a) I don’t have to watch any of his crappy movies, and b) as long as the guy backs up his claims to quality writing, he »
- Jimmy Callaway
Book Review: 'Westlake Soul' by Rio Youers
23 April 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Last year, Rio Youers, author of Mama Fish, Old Man Scratch, and End Times, released one of the best horror short story collections ever written, Dark Dreams, Pale Horses, but with his new novel, Westlake Soul, Rio has outdone himself. Everything you'd expect from Rio is there—the smooth prose, the clever wordplay, similes and metaphors just this side of Raymond Chandler's—but something's changed. He's grown. He's matured. When I read Dark Dreams, Pale Horses, I read the work of a writer—I thought—at the height of his powers, in full control, and with a voice no less powerful than the best speculative fiction has to offer. Now, I know that what I'd read was only the beginning. With »
Friday Noir: ‘Double Indemnity’ shows a cool cat’s frightening dual nature
20 April 2012 1:08 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Billy Wilder
Written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler
U.S.A., 1944
There is a perverse sort of delight a film viewer can extract from witnessing the fall of someone too cool for school. How many times have vintage film noirs featured a protagonist which always had the right words to say at the right time, who could juggle aloofness with a total capacity to gauge and react to any imaginable predicament? Those character are typically the ones to end up on top. The Maltese Falcon has the greatest example of them all, with the Humphrey Bogart’s Sam Spade being the coolest cat around. Seeing that archetype character suddenly stumble, show signs of severe weakness, both of the emotional and psychological variety, makes for a fresh twist. Fred MacMurray, had the behest of director Billy Wilder, suffers that very fate in the highly acclaimed Double Indemnity. »
- Edgar Chaput
Film London’s Adrian Wootton talks Dickens in film during Miff
18 April 2012 8:31 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Chief executive of Film London, Adrian Wootton will give one of his Illustrated Film Talks focusing on Charles Dickens in film. The talk is part of Melbourne Celebrates Dickens in association with the Melbourne International Film Festival, held on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 of August.
The announcement:
Former British Film Institute and London Film Festival Director Adrian Wootton returns to Melbourne for another series of his acclaimed Illustrated Film Talks, this year focusing on Charles Dickens and Film to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the author’s birthday.
The Illustrated Film Talks kick-off a wider Melbourne Celebrates Dickens season running from 17-26 August, as part of the global Dickens 2012 initiative, that combines events from the Melbourne International Film Festival, Miff 37ºSouth Market & Accelerator and The Wheeler Centre, as well as Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) and the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Presented exclusively in Melbourne by the Melbourne International Film »
- Colin Delaney
The Criminal Complex Line: What Are The Odds That Inside Llewyn Davis Will Turn Out To Be A Crime Movie?
8 April 2012 6:12 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Though largely regarded as humorists, directors Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the finest crime movies ever committed to film. Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, and their adaptation of No Country for Old Men are straight-ahead crime movies enriched with the Coens’ visual style and lip-smacking dialogue. Even Fargo, though the thick Minnesota dialect draws huge laughs, couldn’t be more of a crime movie.
The Coens, though, have diverted from their crime path here and there, not that you’re going to hear me complaining. But lighter comedies like their remake of The Ladykillers or their more darkly comical A Serious Man hover around the crime genre like eyewitnesses. However, their current effort, which began shooting this past February, Inside Llewyn Davis, is an examination of the folk music scene in 1960s Greenwich Village. This subject matter itself would severely test my enthusiasm if it was anyone but the Coens making it. »
- Jimmy Callaway
Notes and queries: Who is the greatest fictional detective?
4 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Plus: Is the air fresher in a forest? Why do men bother shaving?
Who is the greatest fictional detective? Holmes? Marlowe? Marple?
Philip Marlowe didn't solve all his crimes; his main business was doing what his clients wanted and getting beaten up occasionally. He never sorted out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep (unsurprisingly, because Raymond Chandler, when asked, didn't know either). So it must be one of the other two, and I don't know whether to prefer Holmes because he did it with cocaine or Marple because she did it with knitting. Could we compromise on Father Brown?
jno50
For me, the greatest fictional detective is the virtually unknown Nigel Strangeways, created by Nicholas Blake (which was the pen name of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis). If you're into detective fiction I highly recommend checking him out (secondhand only, though, as just about all the books are out of print, »
5 April DVD Titles You Should Know About, Including 'Chinatown,' 'A Trip To The Moon' & 'Girl On A Motorcycle'
4 April 2012 11:05 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
While the future of home entertainment may be rapidly moving towards a digital streaming-led future, we can't be the only movie nerds who still love owning a physical copy of something. Sure, BluRay and DVD might be scratchable, easily lost and adorned by terrible box art, but there's something about the feeling of finding an undiscovered gem in the depths of a store, or getting a rarity in the post, that doesn't quite compare to clicking and watching something on Netflix.
As such, starting with this column, every month we're going to pick out five BluRays or DVDs new to the market that no self-respecting cinephile's shelves could do without. Some are shiny new versions of stone-cold classics, some are obscurities, some might even be brand new releases (although less often: those are covered pretty well elsewhere). Read on for more.
"Chinatown" (1974)
Why You Should Care: Simply put, it's one »
- Drew Taylor
The Films Of Billy Wilder: A Retrospective
27 March 2012 1:44 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
"I want to thank three persons,” said Michel Hazanavicius, accepting the 2012 Best Picture Oscar for “The Artist.” “I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder.” He wasn’t the first director to namecheck Wilder in an acceptance speech. In 1994, Fernando Trueba, accepting the Foreign Language Film Oscar for "Belle Epoque" quipped, "I would like to believe in God in order to thank him. But I just believe in Billy Wilder... so, thank you Mr. Wilder." Wilder reportedly called the next day "Fernando? It's God."
So just what exactly was it that inspired these men to expend some of the most valuable seconds of speechifying airtime they'll ever know, to tip their hats to Wilder? And can we bottle it?
Born in a region of Austria/Hungary that is now part of Poland, Wilder's story feels like an archetype of »
- Oliver Lyttelton
'L.A. Noir': Jon Bernthal steps out of his 'Walking Dead' boots to get into character
23 March 2012 12:52 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
As Jon Bernthal mentioned in the first part of our interview, he's ready to step out of the boots he wore as Shane Walsh on AMC's "The Walking Dead" for two seasons. Literally.
"I've been wearing Shane's boots for the last two years," Bernthal tells Zap2it. "I don't want you to think I'm a weirdo, but I guess I just don't shop very much and I wear a lot of Shane's clothes."
Bernthal's new TNT pilot "L.A. Noir" is set in the 1940s and, says Bernthal, it isn't too early to start getting into character.
"It's time for me to start wearing some of Joe Teague's clothes," he says of his character, an Lapd cop hot on the trail of gangster Mickey Cohen. "It makes a difference in the way you walk, the way you carry yourself and I need to start shedding a lot of the modernisms that »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Simon Pegg to Join Frank Darabont's L.A. Noir Series
15 March 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Hot Fuzz and Star Trek's Simon Pegg might be headed to the small screen in Frank Darabont's TNT series, L.A. Noir. If he ends up taking the role, he will join Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead) who was recently confirmed as the star of the series, as well as Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes). I would love to see Pegg in this series. He's such a likeable actor, and I hope he takes it on.
The story follows Joe Teague (Bernthal), Los Angeles cop that examines corruption in the Lapd and ties between police and underworld figures such as Captain William Parker (Neil McDonough) and mobster Mickey Cohen in the 1940s and '50s. Ventimiglia plays a former marine who served with Teague during WWII, who became a lawyer that was groomed to be a master "fixer" for the mob. There's no word on who Pegg would play in the series, »
- Venkman
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