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Bill Plante, who spent more than a half-century with CBS News as one of the longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at his home in Washington, his family announced. He was 84.
Plante reported on the Vietnam War, covered the civil rights movement and all 13 U.S. presidential elections from 1968 to 2016 and anchored the CBS Sunday Night News from 1988-95 before retiring in 2016 after 52 years with the division.
The multiple Emmy winner was a White House correspondent for 35 years during the administrations of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He also covered the State Department while George H.W. Bush was president.
“I have no wasted sympathy on any occupant of the White House,” Plante once said. “They are out to present themselves in the best possible light, and it’s our job to find out,...
Bill Plante, who spent more than a half-century with CBS News as one of the longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at his home in Washington, his family announced. He was 84.
Plante reported on the Vietnam War, covered the civil rights movement and all 13 U.S. presidential elections from 1968 to 2016 and anchored the CBS Sunday Night News from 1988-95 before retiring in 2016 after 52 years with the division.
The multiple Emmy winner was a White House correspondent for 35 years during the administrations of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He also covered the State Department while George H.W. Bush was president.
“I have no wasted sympathy on any occupant of the White House,” Plante once said. “They are out to present themselves in the best possible light, and it’s our job to find out,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
British-Canadian documentarian and direct cinema pioneer Terence Macartney-Filgate has died in Toronto.
The filmmaker died on July 11 from complications resulting from Parkinson’s disease. He was 97.
A long-time collaborator with the National Film Board of Canada, he wrote, directed, produced and edited more than 100 documentaries across an illustrious career that began in 1956, with a series of post-war educational films.
A key figure in the cinema vérité movement of the 1960s, Terry Filgate – as he was known to most – worked with contemporaries including Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock and Al Maysles under the umbrella of American collective Robert Drew Associates, which produced seminal documentaries of the era, including “X-Pilot” (1961) and “Primary” (1960).
Filgate served as principal photographer on the latter film, which chronicled then-senator John F. Kennedy’s primary campaign against Hubert Humphrey.
American work aside, he will be remembered for his remarkable filmography with the Nfb, with which he made 31 documentaries across a 40-year period.
The filmmaker died on July 11 from complications resulting from Parkinson’s disease. He was 97.
A long-time collaborator with the National Film Board of Canada, he wrote, directed, produced and edited more than 100 documentaries across an illustrious career that began in 1956, with a series of post-war educational films.
A key figure in the cinema vérité movement of the 1960s, Terry Filgate – as he was known to most – worked with contemporaries including Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock and Al Maysles under the umbrella of American collective Robert Drew Associates, which produced seminal documentaries of the era, including “X-Pilot” (1961) and “Primary” (1960).
Filgate served as principal photographer on the latter film, which chronicled then-senator John F. Kennedy’s primary campaign against Hubert Humphrey.
American work aside, he will be remembered for his remarkable filmography with the Nfb, with which he made 31 documentaries across a 40-year period.
- 7/13/2022
- by Adam Benzine
- Variety Film + TV
Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, died Monday. He was 93.
The death of the former senator, ambassador and Minnesota attorney general was announced in a statement from his family. No cause was cited.
Mondale followed the trail blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, from Minnesota politics to the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency, serving under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
His own try for the White House, in 1984, came at the ...
The death of the former senator, ambassador and Minnesota attorney general was announced in a statement from his family. No cause was cited.
Mondale followed the trail blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, from Minnesota politics to the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency, serving under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
His own try for the White House, in 1984, came at the ...
- 4/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, died Monday. He was 93.
The death of the former senator, ambassador and Minnesota attorney general was announced in a statement from his family. No cause was cited.
Mondale followed the trail blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, from Minnesota politics to the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency, serving under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
His own try for the White House, in 1984, came at the ...
The death of the former senator, ambassador and Minnesota attorney general was announced in a statement from his family. No cause was cited.
Mondale followed the trail blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, from Minnesota politics to the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency, serving under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
His own try for the White House, in 1984, came at the ...
- 4/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and advised many Democratic presidential campaigns, died Friday at age 89. His daughter, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski, announced the news on Friday night. The elder Brzezinski, a Polish-American diplomat who had advised campaigns from Hubert Humphrey and Barack Obama, had appeared on his daughter’s program to discuss security issues as recently as last November. Mika took to Twitter to honor her father in a series of tweets. My father passed away peacefully tonight. He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his… https://t.
- 5/27/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Well over a month in Donald Trump‘s presidency, Democratic Sen. Al Franken is still not backing down on his harsh criticism of the now-commander-in-chief.
Franken, Minnesota’s junior senator, has been a staunch opponent of Trump‘s platform and policies, and strongly questioned the president’s cabinet nominees during confirmation hearings – namely, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has just now come under fire for lying under oath in one such hearing about meeting with the Russian envoy twice last year.
Sessions has since recused himself from any investigations into the president’s campaign, while still maintaining that he’s done nothing wrong.
Franken, Minnesota’s junior senator, has been a staunch opponent of Trump‘s platform and policies, and strongly questioned the president’s cabinet nominees during confirmation hearings – namely, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has just now come under fire for lying under oath in one such hearing about meeting with the Russian envoy twice last year.
Sessions has since recused himself from any investigations into the president’s campaign, while still maintaining that he’s done nothing wrong.
- 3/9/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Warren Beatty may have played a senator in 1998’s Bulworth, but don’t expect life to imitate art when it comes to politics.
The 79-year-old actor and political activist — who has supported Democratic presidential candidates including Robert Kennedy, George McGovern and Jimmy Carter — has never run for office, and he’s just fine with that.
“What people who volunteer for public service now are subjected to in the media, I’ve grown to think that to run for office is more like running for crucifixion,” he tells People in this week’s issue. “And in some sense, I think the...
The 79-year-old actor and political activist — who has supported Democratic presidential candidates including Robert Kennedy, George McGovern and Jimmy Carter — has never run for office, and he’s just fine with that.
“What people who volunteer for public service now are subjected to in the media, I’ve grown to think that to run for office is more like running for crucifixion,” he tells People in this week’s issue. “And in some sense, I think the...
- 11/23/2016
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Chicago – When encountering film producer, director, writer and “movie star” Warren Beatty, I entered into an interview that would be truly one of a kind. The spontaneous Mr. Beatty works a talk in a give-and-take Socratic method, searching for the truth underneath the rhetoric, as he did with his new film “Rules Don’t Apply.”
The film is a quasi-biographical profile of the legendary American billionaire Howard Hughes, but don’t mention that to writer/director Beatty (who also portrays Hughes). What he wanted to explore was the truth around Hughes, in the personification of a fictional couple (Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins) working for the billionaire. Set in 1958 Hollywood – the same year a young Warren Beatty arrived there – the film highlights the clash between the sexual looseness that existed in the movie business, and the potential seekers that “got off the bus” in tinsel town, still mired in their 1950s puritanism.
The film is a quasi-biographical profile of the legendary American billionaire Howard Hughes, but don’t mention that to writer/director Beatty (who also portrays Hughes). What he wanted to explore was the truth around Hughes, in the personification of a fictional couple (Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins) working for the billionaire. Set in 1958 Hollywood – the same year a young Warren Beatty arrived there – the film highlights the clash between the sexual looseness that existed in the movie business, and the potential seekers that “got off the bus” in tinsel town, still mired in their 1950s puritanism.
- 11/21/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Robert Schenkkan is a very sought screenwriter after the HBO’s All The Way and the upcoming anticipated Hacksaw Ridge will be in theaters next month.
Most recently, his movie adaptation All The Way was nominated for eight Primetime Emmys for HBO. The all-star cast drew praised for Bryan Cranston’s portrayal of former President Lyndon B. Johnson during his turbulent presidency during the civil rights movement after the JFK assassination.
As for Hacksaw Ridge, it marks the return of Mel Gibson in the director’s chair since Apocalypto in 2006. This story follows World War II Army medic Desmond T. Doss who managed to save many American soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa despite his refusal to kill people and carry a weapon. He became the first Conscientious Objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor in American history.
Schenkkan has a good writing resume for writing episodes for 2010’s The Pacific,...
Most recently, his movie adaptation All The Way was nominated for eight Primetime Emmys for HBO. The all-star cast drew praised for Bryan Cranston’s portrayal of former President Lyndon B. Johnson during his turbulent presidency during the civil rights movement after the JFK assassination.
As for Hacksaw Ridge, it marks the return of Mel Gibson in the director’s chair since Apocalypto in 2006. This story follows World War II Army medic Desmond T. Doss who managed to save many American soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa despite his refusal to kill people and carry a weapon. He became the first Conscientious Objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor in American history.
Schenkkan has a good writing resume for writing episodes for 2010’s The Pacific,...
- 10/10/2016
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Dci John Luther (Idris Elba) speaks in terse, staccato sentences, as if to match the impression his heavy gait and muscular frame leave on his interlocutors: “Aight mate?” the owner of a gangland watering hole asks him in the fourth installment of “Luther.” “Lookin’ a bit militant there.”
Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), by contrast, speaks in stem-winding, breathless paragraphs, holding his reedy figure still as if to conserve energy for his acumen: “You’re clearly acclimatized to never getting to the end of a sentence,” he tells Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) in “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.” “We’ll get along splendidly.”
This battle of British detectives, in which we might include “The Night Manager”‘s Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), recruited by British intelligence to infiltrate the inner circle of an international arms dealer (Hugh Laurie), points to a few of the complicating factors in the race for Outstanding...
Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), by contrast, speaks in stem-winding, breathless paragraphs, holding his reedy figure still as if to conserve energy for his acumen: “You’re clearly acclimatized to never getting to the end of a sentence,” he tells Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) in “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.” “We’ll get along splendidly.”
This battle of British detectives, in which we might include “The Night Manager”‘s Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), recruited by British intelligence to infiltrate the inner circle of an international arms dealer (Hugh Laurie), points to a few of the complicating factors in the race for Outstanding...
- 9/14/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
The first rule of politics — especially presidential candidates — is always kiss babies. The tradition goes back to Andrew Jackson in 1833 and the George W. Bush Presidential Library’s even has a “Path to the Presidency” exhibit featuring the political history of baby kissing from Jackson to Hubert Humphrey. But on Tuesday, Donald Trump broke that tradition by kicking a crying baby and its mother out of his rallies, and he’s getting suitable ripped on social media for his faux pas. Also Read: Why Melania Trump Hasn't Been More Heavily Criticized for Nude Photos, Plagiarism Scandal The Gop presidential nominee...
- 8/2/2016
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Jay Roach for President.
HBO’s gripping docudrama “All the Way” chronicled the ruthlessness of American politics, as captured within a tumultuous eight months during the term of President Lyndon B. Johnson. But behind the scenes, under Roach’s administration, the production couldn’t have been more idyllic.
In the movie, Johnson fights hard to bring more equality to America. On set, Roach, who directed the film, was effortless in creating a more perfect union.
“Jay is like this with everybody,” Bradley Whitford, who played Hubert Humphrey, told IndieWire. “He doesn’t treat the craft services guy any differently than he treats me. One of my pet peeves about Hollywood is that it’s full of lefty, ‘fancy yourself a humanist’ liberals like me and then you get on a movie set and it’s like a 15th century serfdom. People are treating other people like shit because they’re...
HBO’s gripping docudrama “All the Way” chronicled the ruthlessness of American politics, as captured within a tumultuous eight months during the term of President Lyndon B. Johnson. But behind the scenes, under Roach’s administration, the production couldn’t have been more idyllic.
In the movie, Johnson fights hard to bring more equality to America. On set, Roach, who directed the film, was effortless in creating a more perfect union.
“Jay is like this with everybody,” Bradley Whitford, who played Hubert Humphrey, told IndieWire. “He doesn’t treat the craft services guy any differently than he treats me. One of my pet peeves about Hollywood is that it’s full of lefty, ‘fancy yourself a humanist’ liberals like me and then you get on a movie set and it’s like a 15th century serfdom. People are treating other people like shit because they’re...
- 6/23/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
As far as politicians go, Lyndon Baines Johnson was the boss hog. Just as he had in his days in the Senate, President Johnson would take to strong-arming his agenda past any suit unlucky enough to cross him, using everything from trapping folks in an elevator to whipping out his own President Johnson (aka “Jumbo”) and waving it at adversaries to imaginably stupefying effect.
Thankfully, there’s no appearances by the Executive Branch in All the Way, Jay Roach’s adaptation of the play by Robert Schenkkan, airing Saturday on HBO. The story follows Johnson, here played by Bryan Cranston, over his year-long “first term” as president, from Parkland in ‘63 to the polls in ‘64, mostly eyeing his role in passing the latter year’s Civil Rights Act. No shortage of gushing will be given to Cranston for “resurrecting” or “disappearing into” Lbj (he won a Tony for it on Broadway,...
Thankfully, there’s no appearances by the Executive Branch in All the Way, Jay Roach’s adaptation of the play by Robert Schenkkan, airing Saturday on HBO. The story follows Johnson, here played by Bryan Cranston, over his year-long “first term” as president, from Parkland in ‘63 to the polls in ‘64, mostly eyeing his role in passing the latter year’s Civil Rights Act. No shortage of gushing will be given to Cranston for “resurrecting” or “disappearing into” Lbj (he won a Tony for it on Broadway,...
- 5/21/2016
- by Joe Incollingo
- We Got This Covered
Accidental president. Vietnam. Civil Rights Act. Bully. This is Lyndon B. Johnson’s legacy, or at least how he’s often remembered. New HBO film All the Way seeks to illuminate many sides of the man who stepped into the highest office in the land after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Bryan Cranston plays Lbj in the film, premiering on HBO tonight, following his Tony-winning turn as the president in All the Way on Broadway. After he’d already done extensive research and study of the play’s text (itself thoroughly researched by playwright Robert Schenkkan), Cranston went on a second visit to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, TX, and that’s where the person of Lbj really clicked for the actor. “The character is always outside of you until you hopefully allow it to seep in. Then it becomes a part of you,” Cranston told HitFix.
- 5/21/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
“The Democratic Party just lost the South for the rest of my lifetime, and maybe yours,” President Lyndon B. Johnson tells Vice President Hubert Humphrey ebullient about civil rights gains. “What the f–k are you so happy about?” Such was the style of Lbj, the profane, bullying, politically calculating 36th president of the United States. In an earlier time of congressional gridlock, Johnson — by turns charming and tyrannical, jovial and autocratic — practiced an in-your-face style of politics that frustrated and terrified adversaries and allies alike in the year after the Kennedy assassination. HBO’s “All the Way” revisits the civil.
- 5/19/2016
- by Michael E. Ross
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Bradley Whitford, an Emmy winner for The West Wing and then most recently for Amazon’s Transparent last year, has signed with ICM Partners for representation. On the film side, he most recently appeared in Sony Pictures Classics’ Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light opposite Tom Hiddleston, which bowed in March. Whitford is next up playing Hubert Humphrey in HBO’s Lbj movie All The Way, which debuts May 21. Also in the can: Netflix's Sundance pic Other…...
- 5/5/2016
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Bradley Whitford, an Emmy winner for The West Wing and then most recently for Amazon’s Transparent last year, has signed with ICM Partners for representation. On the film side, he most recently appeared in Sony Pictures Classics’ Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light opposite Tom Hiddleston, which bowed in March. Whitford is next up playing Hubert Humphrey in HBO’s Lbj movie All The Way, which debuts May 21. Also in the can: Netflix's Sundance pic Other…...
- 5/5/2016
- Deadline
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The Criterion Collection has unveiled its July 2016 line-up (click covers for more details):
Speaking of Criterion, Joachim Trier visits the closet:
The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody on when the Maysles filmed the Beatles:
The birthplace of the modern American documentary is Wisconsin, where Robert Drew brought a crew in early 1960 to film the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in that state’s Democratic Presidential primary. Albert Maysles was the cinematographer of its most iconic sequence, a long hand-held tracking shot following Kennedy from backstage to a lectern. There, Maysles caught Kennedy in the magic moment—the transformation from private to public, from casual manner to stage manner.
The Criterion Collection has unveiled its July 2016 line-up (click covers for more details):
Speaking of Criterion, Joachim Trier visits the closet:
The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody on when the Maysles filmed the Beatles:
The birthplace of the modern American documentary is Wisconsin, where Robert Drew brought a crew in early 1960 to film the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in that state’s Democratic Presidential primary. Albert Maysles was the cinematographer of its most iconic sequence, a long hand-held tracking shot following Kennedy from backstage to a lectern. There, Maysles caught Kennedy in the magic moment—the transformation from private to public, from casual manner to stage manner.
- 4/18/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Take a look at the roots of American campaign image consciousness, and the then-new techniques of cinéma vérité to bring a new 'reality' for film documentaries. Four groundbreaking films cover the Kennedy-Humphrey presidential primary, and put us in the Oval Office for a showdown against Alabama governor George Wallace. The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates Blu-ray Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, Faces of November The Criterion Collection 808 1960 -1964 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 53, 52, 53, 12 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 26, 2016 / 39.95 Starring John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, McGeorge Bundy, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Goodwin, Albert Gore Sr., Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Pierre Salinger, Haile Selassie, John Steinbeck, George Wallace, Vivian Malone, Burke Marshall, Nicholas Katzenbach, John Dore, Jack Greenberg; Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Peter Lawford. Cinematography Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“The President’S Reality Show”
By Raymond Benson
Robert Drew was a pioneer who changed the way we think about the documentary film. As first a writer/editor at Life Magazine in the 1950s, and then the head of a unit that produced short documentaries for Time Inc., Drew knew how to tell a story visually. When he formed his own company, Robert Drew & Associates, he was the guiding force for other talented (and later, more well-known) filmmakers such as D. A. Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back, Monterey Pop), Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter), and Richard Leacock, among others. Together they invented a novel way to present a documentary film, something historians coined “direct cinema.”
Documentaries had previously been scripted, usually shot to order, and more often than not, were textbook dull. Drew and his colleagues developed the you-are-there style of following subjects around as they did their business,...
By Raymond Benson
Robert Drew was a pioneer who changed the way we think about the documentary film. As first a writer/editor at Life Magazine in the 1950s, and then the head of a unit that produced short documentaries for Time Inc., Drew knew how to tell a story visually. When he formed his own company, Robert Drew & Associates, he was the guiding force for other talented (and later, more well-known) filmmakers such as D. A. Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back, Monterey Pop), Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter), and Richard Leacock, among others. Together they invented a novel way to present a documentary film, something historians coined “direct cinema.”
Documentaries had previously been scripted, usually shot to order, and more often than not, were textbook dull. Drew and his colleagues developed the you-are-there style of following subjects around as they did their business,...
- 4/9/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
"Politics is war by other means." Damn it's great to watch Bryan Cranston act! HBO has debuted this new teaser trailer for the cinematic feature version of All the Way, the play turned movie starring Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson, who becomes the president after JFK is assassinated. The cast features Anthony Mackie as Martin Luther King, Jr., Melissa Leo as Lady Bird Johnson, Bradley Whitford as Hubert Humphrey, Stephen Root as J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Langella as Sen. Richard Russell; also starring Joe Morton, Aisha Hinds, Ethan Phillips, Mo McRae, and Toby Huss. This truly looks powerful and engaging, with Cranston giving one hell of a performance. Debuting on HBO starting this May. Here's the newest "teaser" trailer for Jay Roach's All the Way, from HBO's YouTube (via SlashFilm): Lyndon B. Johnson (Bryan Cranston) becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath...
- 4/4/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The much-anticipated trailer for HBO's "All the Way" was released on Monday (watch it above). The telefilm focuses on President Lyndon Johnson (played by Bryan Cranston) and his effort to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It co-stars Melissa Leo as Lady Bird Johnson, Anthony Mackie as Martin Luther King Jr., Bradley Whitford as Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Frank Langella as Senator Richard Russell Jr., among others. And it's directed by Jay Roach, a four-time Emmy winner for his telefilms "Recount" (2008) and "Game Change" (2012). "All the Way" premieres on the premium cable network on May 21. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Emmy Predictions The film is based on the stage production that won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play. Cranston also played the lead role on stage and earned his very first Tony for Best Actor in a Play. But Cranston is already an Emmy darling.
- 3/21/2016
- Gold Derby
Bryan Cranston breaks far away from his role as meth magnate Walter White to transform into former Commander-in-Chief Lyndon B. Johnson. Cranston reprises his Tony Award–winning performance as the 36th President of the United States in the new HBO film “All the Way.” “All the Way” follows Johnson’s first year in the White House after President Kennedy’s assassination. Johnson is immediately tasked with passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 upon entering office. “It ain’t gonna be easy, Dr. King,” Cranston says as Johnson during a phone call to Martin Luther King Jr. (Anthony Mackie) regarding the contentious bill. Jay Roach directs a script from Robert Schenkkan, who adapts his own play. “All the Way” received the Best Play honor from the Tony Awards in 2014. The film features an all-star ensemble including Oscar winner Melissa Leo (“The Fighter”) as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, Bradley Whitford (“Transparent”) as Vice President Hubert Humphrey,...
- 3/21/2016
- backstage.com
Bryan Cranston has been gracing our screens for more than three decades, but it was the pilot episode of Breaking Bad, back in 2008, that made us realize what a formidable performer he truly is. It hardly seemed possible that the man who played Hal in 151 episodes of Malcolm In The Middle could also embody the ultimate anti-hero, playing the meth-cooking chemistry teacher, Walter White. But, embody him he did, and now, every Cranston performance is highly anticipated. All The Way is no exception to that rule – bringing, as it does, the actor’s Tony-winning stage performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson to HBO.
“Bryan Cranston (Trumbo, Breaking Bad) reprises his Tony-winning role in All The Way, a riveting behind-the-scenes look at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s tumultuous first year in office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Staking his presidency on what would be an historic, unprecedented Civil Rights Act,...
“Bryan Cranston (Trumbo, Breaking Bad) reprises his Tony-winning role in All The Way, a riveting behind-the-scenes look at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s tumultuous first year in office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Staking his presidency on what would be an historic, unprecedented Civil Rights Act,...
- 3/21/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The actors formerly known as Josh Lyman and Walter White are teaming up to take the White House.
Bradley Whitford has signed on to play Hubert Humphrey in HBO’s upcoming Lyndon B. Johnson movie All the Way, our sister site Deadline reports.
The Steven Spielberg-produced film is based on the Tony-winning play of the same name and stars Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston, revisiting the role he had in the Broadway production, as President Johnson.
Photos Memories From the Set: Bradley Whitford Talks Stints on West Wing, ER, Frasier and More
All the Way takes place in 1964 — during...
Bradley Whitford has signed on to play Hubert Humphrey in HBO’s upcoming Lyndon B. Johnson movie All the Way, our sister site Deadline reports.
The Steven Spielberg-produced film is based on the Tony-winning play of the same name and stars Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston, revisiting the role he had in the Broadway production, as President Johnson.
Photos Memories From the Set: Bradley Whitford Talks Stints on West Wing, ER, Frasier and More
All the Way takes place in 1964 — during...
- 7/23/2015
- TVLine.com
Bradley Whitford has landed a lead role opposite Bryan Cranston in All The Way, the adaptation of the Tony-winning Robert Schenkkan play that Jay Roach will direct for HBO. Whitford will play Hubert Humphrey alongside Cranston, Melissa Leo and Anthony Mackie. Shooting begins next month. Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the film covers Lbj (Cranston) from the moment the assassination of John F. Kennedy made Johnson the 36th president of the United States, and…...
- 7/23/2015
- Deadline TV
Kino Lorber is proud to announce the acquisition of all North American rights to Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht‘s How To Smell A Rose: A Visit With Ricky Leacock In Normandy, a moving tribute by one cinema verité master to another.
Opening at New York’s Film Forum on Wednesday, August 12, 2015, How To Smell Of Rose: A Visit With Ricky Leacock In Normandy was co-directed by Les Blank and his longtime creative partner, Gina Leibrecht. How To Smell A Rose: A Visit With Ricky Leacock is the penultimate film directed by Les Blank, before he passed away on April 7, 2013.
During its theatrical run at Film Forum, How To Smell A Rose will be screened with the Leacock-Joyce Chopra classic, Happy Mother’S Day, on the 1963 birth of the Fischer quintuplets in Aberdeen, South Dakota. In further national theatrical engagements “Rose” will be presented with Les Blank’s now classic...
Opening at New York’s Film Forum on Wednesday, August 12, 2015, How To Smell Of Rose: A Visit With Ricky Leacock In Normandy was co-directed by Les Blank and his longtime creative partner, Gina Leibrecht. How To Smell A Rose: A Visit With Ricky Leacock is the penultimate film directed by Les Blank, before he passed away on April 7, 2013.
During its theatrical run at Film Forum, How To Smell A Rose will be screened with the Leacock-Joyce Chopra classic, Happy Mother’S Day, on the 1963 birth of the Fischer quintuplets in Aberdeen, South Dakota. In further national theatrical engagements “Rose” will be presented with Les Blank’s now classic...
- 7/22/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Read More: SXSW: Les Blank's Leon Russell Doc Gets a Proper Premiere and a Trippy New Poster Les Blank and longtime collaborator Gina Leibrecht's documentary "How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy" has been acquired by Kino Lorber. The film paints a portrait of the British documentarian and his partner Valerie Lalonde while in France. It features clips of Leacock's films. One such film, "Primary," follows the 1960 Wisconsin Primary election between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. "Canary Bananas," also featured in the documentary, was made by Leacock at 14 years old on his father's Canary Island plantation. "How to Smell a Rose" will be screened at art house theaters and film festivals during the fall, followed by a VOD and home media release. Read More: Leon Russell Gets Reflective at 'A Poem is a Naked Person' NYC Opening...
- 7/22/2015
- by Kaeli Van Cott
- Indiewire
Everyone always talks about the first season of HBO’s True Detective as part of the McConaissance, marking star Matthew McConaughey’s ascension to the top of the A-list, so it’s easy to forget that the series also featured a stunning performance from co-lead Woody Harrelson. Luckily, enough people have their heads screwed on straight that Harrelson is still landing lead roles, and today brings news that the actor has boarded a project seemingly primed for awards attention: biopic Lbj.
Rob Reiner, the veteran helmer whose best films include Stand By Me, A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally…, is sitting behind the camera for the biopic, which has been gathering steam for years. Though it was previously thought that Reiner would be adapting biography Means of Ascent by Robert Caro into a script, the latest news has it that the helmer is working from Joey Hartstone’s screenplay Lbj,...
Rob Reiner, the veteran helmer whose best films include Stand By Me, A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally…, is sitting behind the camera for the biopic, which has been gathering steam for years. Though it was previously thought that Reiner would be adapting biography Means of Ascent by Robert Caro into a script, the latest news has it that the helmer is working from Joey Hartstone’s screenplay Lbj,...
- 6/17/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Back at the start of March, the world of film lost one of its most revered documentarians, Albert Maysles. He and his brother David made three of Sight & Sound’s Top 50 Documentaries of all time, and to pay tribute to the late director, Turner Classic Movies is tonight changing their schedule to air three of those films, along with one of his early shorts.
TCM’s Albert Maysles Memorial Tribute will air Grey Gardens, Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Meet Marlon Brando, starting at 8 Pm Et tonight. We first reported on the series back in our film Week in Review. Here’s the schedule:
TCM Remembers Albert Maysles– Monday, March 23
8 Pm Grey Gardens (1976)
10:00 Pm Salesman (1968)
11:45 Pm Gimme Shelter (1970)
1:30 Am Meet Marlon Brando (1968)
Grey Gardens recently received a restoration via the Criterion Collection, while the controversial Gimme Shelter is an absolute must-see and pinnacle of music history, ranking along...
TCM’s Albert Maysles Memorial Tribute will air Grey Gardens, Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Meet Marlon Brando, starting at 8 Pm Et tonight. We first reported on the series back in our film Week in Review. Here’s the schedule:
TCM Remembers Albert Maysles– Monday, March 23
8 Pm Grey Gardens (1976)
10:00 Pm Salesman (1968)
11:45 Pm Gimme Shelter (1970)
1:30 Am Meet Marlon Brando (1968)
Grey Gardens recently received a restoration via the Criterion Collection, while the controversial Gimme Shelter is an absolute must-see and pinnacle of music history, ranking along...
- 3/23/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
While James Brown fans already got the opportunity to see Chadwick Boseman as the Godfather of Soul in this summer's Get on Up, Alex Gibney (Finding Fela, Taxi to the Dark Side) tackled the real thing in HBO's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, a new documentary on the singer that premiered Monday night.
More hagiography than warts-and-all bio — the film omits Brown's arrests on weapons charges and only mentions one instance of many domestic abuse allegations in passing — the Mick Jagger-produced film still enlists many of Brown's former musicians,...
More hagiography than warts-and-all bio — the film omits Brown's arrests on weapons charges and only mentions one instance of many domestic abuse allegations in passing — the Mick Jagger-produced film still enlists many of Brown's former musicians,...
- 10/28/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Editor's note: Robert Drew passed away today at age ninety. We revisit a 2003 interview with the filmmaker. Wisconsin, 1960. An unlikely setting perhaps for one of the most crucial showdowns in the wide-open race for the presidency. The Democrats had to decide whom to nominate to run against Richard Nixon. John F. Kennedy realized that if he beat Hubert Humphrey in the Wisconsin primary (and if he could prove that a Catholic senator from New England could triumph over a Protestant senator from a neighboring state), he could also prove his national appeal. It's quite a story and Primary tells it like no documentary ever had before.>> - Jonathan Marlow...
- 7/31/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Editor's note: Robert Drew passed away today at age ninety. We revisit a 2003 interview with the filmmaker. Wisconsin, 1960. An unlikely setting perhaps for one of the most crucial showdowns in the wide-open race for the presidency. The Democrats had to decide whom to nominate to run against Richard Nixon. John F. Kennedy realized that if he beat Hubert Humphrey in the Wisconsin primary (and if he could prove that a Catholic senator from New England could triumph over a Protestant senator from a neighboring state), he could also prove his national appeal. It's quite a story and Primary tells it like no documentary ever had before.>> - Jonathan Marlow...
- 7/31/2014
- Keyframe
Documentary filmmaker Robert Drew, widely regarded as "the father of American cinéma vérité," has died at the age of 90. As Vadim Rizov writes at Filmmaker, "It’s not oversimplifying to note that Drew’s Primary (covering the JFK-Hubert Humphrey faceoff in the 1960 Wisconsin primary) and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (examining the administration’s standoff against segregationist George Wallace) are two of the key documents of the Kennedy presidency, whose levels of candor, access and good judgment about where to point the camera when remain startlingly fresh." » - David Hudson...
- 7/30/2014
- Keyframe
Documentary filmmaker Robert Drew, widely regarded as "the father of American cinéma vérité," has died at the age of 90. As Vadim Rizov writes at Filmmaker, "It’s not oversimplifying to note that Drew’s Primary (covering the JFK-Hubert Humphrey faceoff in the 1960 Wisconsin primary) and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (examining the administration’s standoff against segregationist George Wallace) are two of the key documents of the Kennedy presidency, whose levels of candor, access and good judgment about where to point the camera when remain startlingly fresh." » - David Hudson...
- 7/30/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
A press release prepared by documentarian Robert Drew’s family announced his death today at age 90. Drew is remembered as a pioneer of cinéma vérité — now a term thrown around carelessly to denote just about any documentary assembled without talking heads or a narrator, which is a radical oversimplification of vérité’s possibilities. It’s not oversimplifying to note that Drew’s Primary (covering the JFK-Hubert Humphrey faceoff in the 1960 Wisconsin primary) and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (examining the administration’s standoff against segregationist George Wallace) are two of the key documents of the Kennedy presidency, whose levels of candor, access […]...
- 7/30/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A press release prepared by documentarian Robert Drew’s family announced his death today at age 90. Drew is remembered as a pioneer of cinéma vérité — now a term thrown around carelessly to denote just about any documentary assembled without talking heads or a narrator, which is a radical oversimplification of vérité’s possibilities. It’s not oversimplifying to note that Drew’s Primary (covering the JFK-Hubert Humphrey faceoff in the 1960 Wisconsin primary) and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (examining the administration’s standoff against segregationist George Wallace) are two of the key documents of the Kennedy presidency, whose levels of candor, access […]...
- 7/30/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
As Bryan Cranston hinted in a recent interview, HBO is the lucky network to acquire the rights to All the Way, the Tony-winning Broadway musical starring Cranston as a newly inaugurated President Lyndon B. Johnson fighting to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act. THR reports that the adaptation will take the form of an HBO movie, not a miniseries, and that Cranston is onboard to reprise his role, with Steven Spielberg executive producing and playwright Robert Schenkkan adapting it for the screen. It might be a stretch, but Aaron Paul isn't too young to play a passable Hubert Humphrey, right?...
- 7/17/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
Joan Mondale, who became Second Lady when her husband Walter Mondale was elected Jimmy Carter's vice president in 1976, died Monday afternoon with her husband, sons Ted and William, and other family members by her side, the family said in a statement. She was 83. "Joan was greatly loved by many. We will miss her dearly," the former vice president said in a written statement. Former President Bill Clinton also added to the tributes. In a statement released late Monday, he said, "Hillary and I were saddened to learn of the passing of Joan Mondale. Joan was as wise and graceful...
- 2/4/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
As I write this, the Super Bowl Xlviii kick-off is still 36 minutes away.
I’ve been thinking a lot about football the last couple of weeks. It’s a showdown between the best offensive team, the Afc Denver Broncos, led by Peyton Manning, who has had what may be the greatest quarterback season ever while breaking numerous statistical records, and the Nfc Seattle Seahawks, whose cornerback Russell Wilson is the *ahem* cornerstone of the best defensive team of the 2013 season.
It’s also the first Super Bowl in which the physical dangers and complications of the sport on its players have been as discussed and picked over as much as any debate about the game and who is going to win.
This season also saw the NFL going over the top in its security efforts, this year dictating what size pocketbook a woman may carry into an arena – and also...
I’ve been thinking a lot about football the last couple of weeks. It’s a showdown between the best offensive team, the Afc Denver Broncos, led by Peyton Manning, who has had what may be the greatest quarterback season ever while breaking numerous statistical records, and the Nfc Seattle Seahawks, whose cornerback Russell Wilson is the *ahem* cornerstone of the best defensive team of the 2013 season.
It’s also the first Super Bowl in which the physical dangers and complications of the sport on its players have been as discussed and picked over as much as any debate about the game and who is going to win.
This season also saw the NFL going over the top in its security efforts, this year dictating what size pocketbook a woman may carry into an arena – and also...
- 2/3/2014
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Nov. 22nd assassination of President John F. Kennedy with a primetime lineup on Thursday Nov. 21 featuring five powerful documentaries about Kennedy’s election, presidency and tragic death. Also included is a popular drama about Kennedy’s service during World War II.
TCM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination will open with four works by documentary filmmaker Robert Drew, considered a pioneer of the cinéma verité. Drew’s use of new light-weight cameras traditional allowed him to capture reality as never before, leading to a filmmaking movement known as “direct cinema.” He utilized the new cameras for the first time while chronicling the election of John F. Kennedy in Primary (1960), airing at 8 p.m. (Et), which focuses on the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic Primary contest between Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.
Primary will be followed by the...
TCM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination will open with four works by documentary filmmaker Robert Drew, considered a pioneer of the cinéma verité. Drew’s use of new light-weight cameras traditional allowed him to capture reality as never before, leading to a filmmaking movement known as “direct cinema.” He utilized the new cameras for the first time while chronicling the election of John F. Kennedy in Primary (1960), airing at 8 p.m. (Et), which focuses on the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic Primary contest between Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.
Primary will be followed by the...
- 10/8/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Frank Underwood’s behaviour fascinates us because it is dark, scandalous and perhaps because we believe it might just happen. Us politics is regularly shaken by scandal, most recently when it was revealed that members of the Obama administration may have targeted political opponents for tax inspections. This Top 10 considers some of the more dubious practices in Us politics.
1. Plenty of politicians use their office to gain personal wealth. One of the earliest such scandals to break in public was the ‘Teapot Dome’ scandal of the early 1920s. Despite the comedy title, there were no domes and no teapots involved. There were oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, sold the rights to the reserves, for cash, and cattle.
2. A more recent bribery case won attention when $90,000 was found in the home freezer of Louisiana Representative William J. Jefferson. Jefferson had been filmed apparently taking...
1. Plenty of politicians use their office to gain personal wealth. One of the earliest such scandals to break in public was the ‘Teapot Dome’ scandal of the early 1920s. Despite the comedy title, there were no domes and no teapots involved. There were oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, sold the rights to the reserves, for cash, and cattle.
2. A more recent bribery case won attention when $90,000 was found in the home freezer of Louisiana Representative William J. Jefferson. Jefferson had been filmed apparently taking...
- 6/10/2013
- by John Herbert
- Obsessed with Film
By Rachel Bennett
Television Editor & Columnist
***
After months of campaigning, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney will square off tonight for one last time before the Nov. 6 presidential election.
The debate could be the deciding factor for undecided U.S. voters, as many political pundits agreed President Obama performed poorly at the Oct. 3 debate but came back to barely edge out Romney at the Oct. 16 debate.
The significance of televised presidential debates can be pinpointed to the first one, which took place Sept. 26, 1960, between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. Kennedy, who was a Massachusetts senator, had numerous disadvantages going into the election: He was Catholic, young, fairly unknown and competing with the man who had been vice president for almost eight years.
However, Kennedy’s luck changed once cameras began rolling, and the night became a staple of history textbooks for years to come.
Before the debate,...
Television Editor & Columnist
***
After months of campaigning, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney will square off tonight for one last time before the Nov. 6 presidential election.
The debate could be the deciding factor for undecided U.S. voters, as many political pundits agreed President Obama performed poorly at the Oct. 3 debate but came back to barely edge out Romney at the Oct. 16 debate.
The significance of televised presidential debates can be pinpointed to the first one, which took place Sept. 26, 1960, between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. Kennedy, who was a Massachusetts senator, had numerous disadvantages going into the election: He was Catholic, young, fairly unknown and competing with the man who had been vice president for almost eight years.
However, Kennedy’s luck changed once cameras began rolling, and the night became a staple of history textbooks for years to come.
Before the debate,...
- 10/22/2012
- by Rachel Bennett
- Scott Feinberg
Former United States Senator, and Presidential candidate, George McGovern.
In 2005, I had the good fortune to interview former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern for Venice Magazine, in conjunction with the release of Stephen Vittoria's documentary "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," which looked at McGovern's ill-fated 1972 bid for the White House. During our interview, and during a lengthy dinner at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills several months later, (which happened to fall on what would have been the 80th birthday of his close friend, Robert F. Kennedy), McGovern was thoughtful, direct, and kind-hearted; a gentleman and a gentle man. When we raised a glass to toast Bobby Kennedy's memory, Senator McGovern said quietly "Bobby made us all want to be better people." A more fitting valediction of George McGovern couldn't be said. Rest in peace.
George McGovern Shines On
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
In 2005, I had the good fortune to interview former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern for Venice Magazine, in conjunction with the release of Stephen Vittoria's documentary "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," which looked at McGovern's ill-fated 1972 bid for the White House. During our interview, and during a lengthy dinner at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills several months later, (which happened to fall on what would have been the 80th birthday of his close friend, Robert F. Kennedy), McGovern was thoughtful, direct, and kind-hearted; a gentleman and a gentle man. When we raised a glass to toast Bobby Kennedy's memory, Senator McGovern said quietly "Bobby made us all want to be better people." A more fitting valediction of George McGovern couldn't be said. Rest in peace.
George McGovern Shines On
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
- 10/22/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
As America anticipates the first general election Presidential debate of 2012 tonight, it’s clear that there’s one thing on everyone’s mind: what does The Criterion Collection have to say about American politics at the executive level? The Collection certainly has a multitude of world leader’s represented, from Idi Amin in Barbet Schroder’s General Idi Amin Dada (1974) to Ivan the Terrible in Sergei Eisenstein’s two-part masterpiece of the same name. But Criterion also has three of the best movies made about real and fictional 20th century American Presidents and Presidential candidates… #602: The War Room (1993) The cinema verite documentary more or less began in the field of Presidential politics with Robert Drew’s Primary (1960), a film that chronicled the Wisconsin Democratic primary battle between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. It was a fly-on-the-wall’s-eye-view of presidential politics, and revealed the exhausting process of campaigning between hands shaken and speeches given. More...
- 10/3/2012
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Stuntman Hal Needham boasts in his autobiography that he “broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.”
Those are the trophies from a life spent falling off horses, crashing cars, and plummeting from buildings for the sake of the movies. Now he can add a less painful one to the list — an honorary Academy Award.
Needham, 81, is one of four Hollywood figures selected late Wednesday to receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the upcoming Governors Awards, joining documentarian D.A. Pennebaker, American Film Institute founder George Stevens,...
Those are the trophies from a life spent falling off horses, crashing cars, and plummeting from buildings for the sake of the movies. Now he can add a less painful one to the list — an honorary Academy Award.
Needham, 81, is one of four Hollywood figures selected late Wednesday to receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the upcoming Governors Awards, joining documentarian D.A. Pennebaker, American Film Institute founder George Stevens,...
- 9/6/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
Sidney Reznick, a comedy writer who penned jokes for showbiz legends Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope and Johnny Carson -- not to mention presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey -- died July 24 in Los Angeles, five days before his 93rd birthday, his son reported. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2012 One of the last surviving writers from radio and TV's Golden Age, Reznick served as a staff writer for Carson on The Tonight Show in New York and Los Angeles. He was on stage when ukulele player Tiny Tim ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips") memorably wed Victoria Mae Budinger (aka Miss Vicki) on the late-
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- 8/1/2012
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first time I saw him, he was striding toward me out of the burning Georgia sun, as helicopters landed behind him. His face was tanned a deep brown. He was wearing a combat helmet, an ammo belt, carrying a rifle, had a canteen on his hip, stood six feet four inches. He stuck out his hand and said, "John Wayne." That was not necessary.
Wayne died on June 11, 1979. Stomach cancer. "The Big C," he called it. He had lived for quite a while on one lung, and then the Big C came back. He was near death and he knew it when he walked out on stage at the 1979 Academy Awards to present Best Picture to "The Deer Hunter," a film he wouldn't have made. He looked frail, but he planted himself there and sounded like John Wayne.
John Wayne. When I was a kid, we said it as one word: Johnwayne.
Wayne died on June 11, 1979. Stomach cancer. "The Big C," he called it. He had lived for quite a while on one lung, and then the Big C came back. He was near death and he knew it when he walked out on stage at the 1979 Academy Awards to present Best Picture to "The Deer Hunter," a film he wouldn't have made. He looked frail, but he planted himself there and sounded like John Wayne.
John Wayne. When I was a kid, we said it as one word: Johnwayne.
- 5/28/2012
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Is Pump Up The Volume Christian Slater’s best movie? Simon champions an apparently long-forgotten teen movie, that very much deserves a fresh chance….
“Do you ever the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?”
When writer/director Allan Moyle’s work is celebrated, it’s generally Empire Records that gets the acclaim (and with some justification). Furthermore, if the conversation then moves on to cult movies starring Christian Slater, then it’s almost sacrilege to not start with Heathers.
Me? In both cases, I go for Pump Up The Volume every time, a thoughtful film masquerading behind a name that doesn’t necessarily do it a lot of justice. It’s certainly not the first story about a shy-by-day high school kid who assumes an anonymous identity out of hours – although this is a film in pre-Internet days, remember – but it’s comfortably one of the best.
“Do you ever the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?”
When writer/director Allan Moyle’s work is celebrated, it’s generally Empire Records that gets the acclaim (and with some justification). Furthermore, if the conversation then moves on to cult movies starring Christian Slater, then it’s almost sacrilege to not start with Heathers.
Me? In both cases, I go for Pump Up The Volume every time, a thoughtful film masquerading behind a name that doesn’t necessarily do it a lot of justice. It’s certainly not the first story about a shy-by-day high school kid who assumes an anonymous identity out of hours – although this is a film in pre-Internet days, remember – but it’s comfortably one of the best.
- 4/5/2012
- Den of Geek
For me the best news produced by the Florida primary was Newt Gingrich's vow to take his fight all the way to the floor of this year's Republican convention. It has been way too long since a national political convention was more than a coronation stage-managed by public relations experts. It seems likely that Mitt Romney will be this year's Gop nominee, although with the party's revolving-door Surges of the Week we can never be sure. It is unlikely to be any of the other remaining candidates, although Ron Paul may use his pledged delegates to win a speaking slot. I'll enjoy that. He has the rare quality of talking turkey, and is funnier than his rivals. He is, in fact, the only candidate in either party who is likely to say something unexpected (on purpose) every time he speaks.
Newt is a seasoned politician and surely doesn't believe...
Newt is a seasoned politician and surely doesn't believe...
- 2/3/2012
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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