Humble Marty Piletti finally gets to home video in its proper widescreen format. Paddy Chayefsky’s TV play-turned theatrical feature really shines in Kino’s new 4K remaster. The performances of Betsy Blair and especially Ernest Borgnine provide the gentle magic, as non-glamorous Bronx-ites learn that two lonely people can find romance. It’s a winning formula and a thoughtful meditation on social reality in the pursuit of happiness. With a new audio commentary by Bryan Reesman and Max Evry.
Marty
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1955 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen + 1:37 flat open matte / 90 94 min. / Special Edition / Street Date July 19, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Esther Minciotti, August Ciolli, Karen Steele, Jerry Paris, Frank Sutton, James Bell, Jack Klugman.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Art Directors: Ted Haworth, Walter Simonds
Editing Supervisor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Original Music: Roy Webb
Written by Paddy Chayefsky from his teleplay
Produced by Harold Hecht,...
Marty
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1955 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen + 1:37 flat open matte / 90 94 min. / Special Edition / Street Date July 19, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Esther Minciotti, August Ciolli, Karen Steele, Jerry Paris, Frank Sutton, James Bell, Jack Klugman.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Art Directors: Ted Haworth, Walter Simonds
Editing Supervisor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Original Music: Roy Webb
Written by Paddy Chayefsky from his teleplay
Produced by Harold Hecht,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Spanish actress Elena Anaya is in an enviable position. After first working with Pedro Almodóvar 10 years ago in a small role in "Talk to Her," the Spanish filmmaker responsible for creating some of cinema's juiciest female roles asked if she'd like to take the lead in his latest, "The Skin I Live In" (La Piel que Habito). Honor Roll is a daily series for December that will feature new or previously published interviews, profiles and first-persons of some of the year's most notable cinematic voices. Today we're revisiting an interview with "The Skin I Live In" actress Elena Anaya. Not without some resemblance to Almodóvar's most famous muse, Penélope Cruz, Anaya seduces the screen in her Frankenstein-like complexity. In the film, heroine Vera Cruz is molded by Dr. Robert Ledgard, played by another Almodóvar discovery, Antonio Banderas, in his first role with the director since 1991's "Tie...
- 12/29/2011
- Indiewire
The Skin I Live In
Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 21, 2011 (Chicago)
Plot: A scientist (Banderas) uses the body of another woman (Anaya) to try to recreate the entire body of his dead wife.
Who’S It For? Anyone who has seen an Almodovar movie will have an idea of what to expect from tone, including the movie’s “telenovela” tendencies. Fans of psychological dramas might be sucked into this movie, so long as they are patient with its step-by-step storytelling. However, there’s no guarantee for anyone as to how the ending will settle with you.
Expectations: Outside of Banderas and Almodovar, I knew little about this movie. Those two names were all I needed to dive curiously into the director’s followup to the quite good Broken Embraces.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Antonio Banderas as Robert Ledgard: Simply put,...
Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 21, 2011 (Chicago)
Plot: A scientist (Banderas) uses the body of another woman (Anaya) to try to recreate the entire body of his dead wife.
Who’S It For? Anyone who has seen an Almodovar movie will have an idea of what to expect from tone, including the movie’s “telenovela” tendencies. Fans of psychological dramas might be sucked into this movie, so long as they are patient with its step-by-step storytelling. However, there’s no guarantee for anyone as to how the ending will settle with you.
Expectations: Outside of Banderas and Almodovar, I knew little about this movie. Those two names were all I needed to dive curiously into the director’s followup to the quite good Broken Embraces.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Antonio Banderas as Robert Ledgard: Simply put,...
- 10/21/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Actor James Franco accidentally ripped off a piece of his thumb while filming new biopic The Broken Tower in a remote town in Mexico.
The star was shooting the low-budget film - about tragic American poet Hart Crane - last year, when he injured himself with a set piece while the cameras were still rolling.
But Franco, who directs and stars in the movie, was forced to conceal his pain because the production team only had one chance to capture the scene.
He says, "It was this part right before his suicide where he thinks he's lost his talent and he's destroying his typewriter and he's supposed to throw it down a few times and then stomp on it. So I said, 'Action,' ran in, picked up the typewriter and threw it. Picked it up, threw it again. And by that time it was mangled, so when I threw it down the third time, it took part of my thumb with it.
"But I was the director, and I knew we only had one typewriter, (and we were filming) out in the middle of nowhere. And I knew I had to stomp it after that, so I... just kind of held my thumb. We finally got the shot and I said, 'Cut.' And it's bleeding all over."
Unfortunately for Franco, he was stationed too far from a major city with proper health care.
He adds, "The local production team took me to not a clinic, but, like, an ambulance garage. We went in and, for some reason, there was a TV on, playing a horror movie at full volume. So it was just screams. And I'm just trying not to pass out... And so the guy went in and woke the surgeon up... And then he (the surgeon) starts arguing with his assistant about which tool to use...
"My producer, at that point, said, 'No, we're going to find another place.' So they put some gauze on my hand until we got back to Vera Cruz. I met a doctor that said he would just zap it with a laser for free. So I said, 'That's great thanks, thank you very much. It's a low-budget movie.' And he fixed it!"...
The star was shooting the low-budget film - about tragic American poet Hart Crane - last year, when he injured himself with a set piece while the cameras were still rolling.
But Franco, who directs and stars in the movie, was forced to conceal his pain because the production team only had one chance to capture the scene.
He says, "It was this part right before his suicide where he thinks he's lost his talent and he's destroying his typewriter and he's supposed to throw it down a few times and then stomp on it. So I said, 'Action,' ran in, picked up the typewriter and threw it. Picked it up, threw it again. And by that time it was mangled, so when I threw it down the third time, it took part of my thumb with it.
"But I was the director, and I knew we only had one typewriter, (and we were filming) out in the middle of nowhere. And I knew I had to stomp it after that, so I... just kind of held my thumb. We finally got the shot and I said, 'Cut.' And it's bleeding all over."
Unfortunately for Franco, he was stationed too far from a major city with proper health care.
He adds, "The local production team took me to not a clinic, but, like, an ambulance garage. We went in and, for some reason, there was a TV on, playing a horror movie at full volume. So it was just screams. And I'm just trying not to pass out... And so the guy went in and woke the surgeon up... And then he (the surgeon) starts arguing with his assistant about which tool to use...
"My producer, at that point, said, 'No, we're going to find another place.' So they put some gauze on my hand until we got back to Vera Cruz. I met a doctor that said he would just zap it with a laser for free. So I said, 'That's great thanks, thank you very much. It's a low-budget movie.' And he fixed it!"...
- 8/2/2011
- WENN
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Deal Alert: I don't catch the deals at Amazon all that often, but when I do I like to share them and I noticed that right now you can buy the Alien Anthology (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection) on Blu-ray for only $52.99 (list price $139.99) and for anyone that read my review you already know I consider this one of the best Blu-ray sets ever released. Click here to purchase.
Additionally, the Back to the Future Blu-ray trilogy is on sale for just $24.99 (list price $79.98) and it's another one where I reviewed it and was thoroughly impressed with the transfers. You can click here to purchase that one.
That said, the deals are done, though one thing I point out below is that with this week's releases all of the ten films in my top ten movies of 2010 are now available to own.
Deal Alert: I don't catch the deals at Amazon all that often, but when I do I like to share them and I noticed that right now you can buy the Alien Anthology (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection) on Blu-ray for only $52.99 (list price $139.99) and for anyone that read my review you already know I consider this one of the best Blu-ray sets ever released. Click here to purchase.
Additionally, the Back to the Future Blu-ray trilogy is on sale for just $24.99 (list price $79.98) and it's another one where I reviewed it and was thoroughly impressed with the transfers. You can click here to purchase that one.
That said, the deals are done, though one thing I point out below is that with this week's releases all of the ten films in my top ten movies of 2010 are now available to own.
- 6/7/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Director Pedro Almodóvar is a true master at weaving multiple relationship threads and themes in a seemingly nonchalant fashion. His ability of control seems uncanny, and it is further exemplified in his new psychologically disturbing film The Skin I Live In. Despite being labeled a horror film, Almodóvar is careful to not indulge in any excessive blood or violence, which is smart for his target audience familiar with his style, who have grown to love his intricately designed films and richly nuanced characters. By exploring themes of sexuality and identity, Almodóvar has taken an innately disturbing story and made it his own by adding the trademarks of his cinematic flair that make his films so enjoyable.
Based on Thierry Jonquet‘s novel Tarantula, it is a deeply unsettling examination of revenge and obsession. Starring Antonio Banderas, who the director has not worked with for nearly 21 years despite making many of his early films with him,...
Based on Thierry Jonquet‘s novel Tarantula, it is a deeply unsettling examination of revenge and obsession. Starring Antonio Banderas, who the director has not worked with for nearly 21 years despite making many of his early films with him,...
- 5/19/2011
- by Raffi Asdourian
- The Film Stage
Our good friend, filmmaker and photographer Mike Pecci, delivers another exciting short film and photo set featuring Suicide Girl Rydell. This new work has now been given a release date and you can read all about it below…
Press Release:
The latest project from Director and photographer Mike Pecci is his first photo set for Suicide Girls on 4 years. It.s an epic story based shoot that focuses on a strong silent female lead, the kind that fans of Pecci.s work expect to see. Accompanying the photo set is a .Photo Film. that is pumped with suspense and Grindhouse action!
Pecci: I have been getting emails and messages from Sg members and models for years now asking me to do another set. It took awhile for everything to be in place. I needed a model that was willing to be an intense female character, I needed a set idea...
Press Release:
The latest project from Director and photographer Mike Pecci is his first photo set for Suicide Girls on 4 years. It.s an epic story based shoot that focuses on a strong silent female lead, the kind that fans of Pecci.s work expect to see. Accompanying the photo set is a .Photo Film. that is pumped with suspense and Grindhouse action!
Pecci: I have been getting emails and messages from Sg members and models for years now asking me to do another set. It took awhile for everything to be in place. I needed a model that was willing to be an intense female character, I needed a set idea...
- 8/24/2010
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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