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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
18 May 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Django Unchained; Trouble With the Curve; Vehicle 19; A Dark Truth
Quentin Tarantino is a lot of things, but concise isn't one of them. Buried inside the sprawling 165 minutes of Django Unchained (2012, Sony, 18), there's a very decent two-hour retro-ploitation romp struggling to escape the indulgence of Hollywood's most under-edited auteur. On the plus side, we have knife-sharp central performances from Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz as (respectively) the recently freed titular slave and sharpshooting "dentist" Dr King Schultz, on a mission to rescue Django's wife from the slimy clutches of Leonardo DiCaprio's Calvin Candie.
The real jaw-dropper, however, is a brilliantly counterintuitive turn from Samuel L Jackson as Candie's insanely loyal house-servant, Stephen, a terrifying portrait of head-turned devotion that offers the film's most potentially radical element. It's here that whatever rude "politics" this possesses (including the usual fetishisation of the "N word") has gnarly bite. Elsewhere, it's more fan-boyish fare, »
- Mark Kermode
Competition: Win 'Django Unchained' on Blu-ray
17 May 2013 6:21 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
A startling return to form for cult director Quentin Tarantino, action-packed spaghetti western Django Unchained (2012) was nominated for five Academy Awards earlier this year, taking home the Oscars for Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino) and Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz). To celebrate the Blu-ray and DVD release of Tarantino's blood-soaked revenge story, we're delighted to be able to offer Three Blu-ray copies of Django out to our devoted readers, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
Jamie Foxx stars as the titular Django, a freed slave who, under the tutelage of German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Waltz), becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself. After taking down some villainous sorts for a tidy profit, the gun-slinging due eventually track down Django »
- CineVue UK
Hannibal 1×01 – “Aperitif” Season Premiere Review
4 April 2013 11:40 PM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne | Created by Bryan Fuller
One thing is very clear from the first few minutes of Bryan Fuller’s new series, “Hannibal,” it’s his own take on the characters invented in the world of literature by Thomas Harris and then essayed onscreen in film as “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Hannibal,” “Hannibal Rising,” and “Manhunter/Red Dragon.” He’s not cribbing from source materials to create a pastiche of overly clichéd characters to make a by-the books procedural. No, this is his world and he’s simultaneously managed to create a world that feels like Harris’ and those aforementioned films and yet still makes this his own. It doesn’t feel like his previous works, even the sadly truncated “Mockingbird Lane” felt like a new Fuller take on an old classic.
The opening scene sets everything up for how our lead, »
- Nathan Smith
‘Hannibal’ – Series Premiere (P)review
31 March 2013 2:58 PM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne | Created by Bryan Fuller
Possible Spoilers Lie Beyond Here:
One thing is very clear from the first few minutes of Bryan Fuller’s new series, Hannibal, it’s his own take on the characters invented in the world of literature by Thomas Harris and then essayed on screen in film as The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising and Manhunter/Red Dragon. He’s not cribbing from source materials to create a pastiche of overly clichéd characters to make a by-the books procedural. No, this is his world and he’s simultaneously managed to create a world that feels like Harris’ and those aforementioned films and yet still makes this his own. It doesn’t feel like his previous works, even the sadly truncated Mockingbird Lane felt like a new Fuller take on an old classic.
The opening scene sets »
- Nathan Smith
Blu-ray Review: Luis Buñuel’s ‘Tristana’ Gets Exemplary Restoration
26 March 2013 11:38 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – At the dark heart of Luis Buñuel’s Oscar-nominated 1970 classic, “Tristana,” is a character so spectacularly hypocritical and richly fascinating that he upstages everyone including the titular heroine. As played by the great Fernando Rey, ignoble nobleman Don Lope is a self-professed libertine bound by traditional values. He passionately believes in the virtues of freedom, but only on his terms.
Lope may insist that his beloved Tristana (Catherine Deneuve, never lovelier nor icier) is free to leave his murky mansion whenever she pleases, but she knows all too well that’s not the case. After taking on the role of the parentless 19-year-old’s guardian, Lope quickly falls for the wide-eyed woman, alternately treating her as his daughter and wife. Rey is both comically ludicrous and deeply pitiful as he attempts to claim the heart of a woman who can’t stand the sight of him.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Taken out of its historical context, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Damiano Damiani obituary
11 March 2013 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Italian director whose 1966 film A Bullet for the General, set in revolutionary Mexico, began a wave of 'tortilla westerns'
Damiano Damiani, who has died aged 90, was a director of Italian popular films and television. He was best known for La Piovra (The Octopus, 1984), an internationally successful TV series about the mafia, and made several mafia-themed films and TV movies, but his range was much wider.
Born in Pordenone, north-east Italy, he began his career in the 1940s, working in the art department and directing documentaries. As popular Italian cinema boomed in the 1960s, he began to make personal pictures, westerns, comedies, political thrillers and horror films. If you have only seen Amityville II: The Possession (1982), his one American movie, you have seen Damiani at his least inspired. In that film, the camera followed potential victims around a haunted house in a style made tedious four years earlier by John Carpenter's Halloween. »
- Alex Cox
Damiano Damiani obituary
11 March 2013 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Italian director whose 1966 film A Bullet for the General, set in revolutionary Mexico, began a wave of 'tortilla westerns'
Damiano Damiani, who has died aged 90, was a director of Italian popular films and television. He was best known for La Piovra (The Octopus, 1984), an internationally successful TV series about the mafia, and made several mafia-themed films and TV movies, but his range was much wider.
Born in Pordenone, north-east Italy, he began his career in the 1940s, working in the art department and directing documentaries. As popular Italian cinema boomed in the 1960s, he began to make personal pictures, westerns, comedies, political thrillers and horror films. If you have only seen Amityville II: The Possession (1982), his one American movie, you have seen Damiani at his least inspired. In that film, the camera followed potential victims around a haunted house in a style made tedious four years earlier by John Carpenter's Halloween. »
- Alex Cox
11th Annual Tsr Movie Awards – Final Results – 2012
25 February 2013 7:55 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
11th Annual Tsr Movie Awards
Here are the results for the 11th Annual Tsr Movie Awards. This year 738 voters chose from a variety of films and categories. Thank you to everyone who voted.
Click Here for instructions on the Tsr Movie Awards.
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7.74 The Avengers
7.60 Skyfall
6.89 The Hunger Games
6.59 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
6.22 Brave
6.12 Ted
5.45 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
5.35 Madagascar 3: Europe’S Most Wanted
Funniest
7.41 21 Jump Street
7.03 Ted
5.43 This Is 40
5.21 The Dictator
4.85 Wanderlust
4.59 Think Like A Man
4.58 The Watch
4.46 Casa De Mi Padre
3.98 Tim And Eric’S Billion Dollar Movie
Scariest
6.53 Sinister
6.18 The Woman In Black
5.91 The Grey
5.69 Compliance
5.36 Kill List »
- Jeff Bayer
2013 Oscar Preview: Part 1
21 February 2013 10:36 PM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
The 85th Annual Academy Awards will take place Sunday February 24th at 7pm Eastern time. This is our overview of the major awards nominees in case you didn’t get to see them yourself.
There’s always a lot of talk leading up to the big day about who will win what awards. We try to make our predictions based on trends from the past, but we can’t help to be swayed by our own personal opinions. Some movies truly strike a chord with us, while others aren’t interesting at all. Furthermore, Oscar films are usually heavy in the drama department and therefore they aren’t always the easiest or most entertaining movies to watch.
That’s why we’re here. Here is your guide to the nominees of this year’s Academy Awards. I’ve compiled the following brief summaries, interesting facts, and critical reviews for all these films and people. »
- feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Tristana
20 February 2013 3:12 PM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 12, 2013
Price: DVD $19.98, Blu-ray $24.98
Studio: Cohen Media/Entertainment One
Catherine Deneuve is Tristana.
The 1970 film drama Tristana is a late masterpiece by one of world cinema’s most provocative and iconoclastic directors, Luis Buñuel (Belle de Jour).
After the death of her mother, beautiful young Tristana (Catherine Deneuve, of Belle de Jour and Potiche) goes to live with her new guardian, Don Lope Garrido (Fernando Rey of Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire), who has an unhealthy lust for his young ward. He quickly makes Tristana his lover, but as she grows older, she starts finding her own voice and demands to study music and art. Tristana later falls in love with a young artist (Franco Nero, Bathory; Countess of Blood), and leaves Don Lope to live with him, but later falls seriously ill and returns to her guardian, who is now rich from an inheritance. »
- Laurence
Casting Net: Jennifer Lawrence, together again with David O. Russell; Plus Quentin Tarantino
15 February 2013 5:44 PM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Academy Award-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence will team up again with her Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell for his next film – a drama formerly titled American Bulls—. The film is about the 70s and 80s FBI sting operation Abscam, which exposed the corruption and misdoings of public officials, resulting in convictions for a number of members of Congress. Her Silver Linings Playbook co-star and fellow acting nominee Bradley Cooper is set to star the film as well, alongside Amy Adams and Christian Bale, both of whom worked with Russell on The Fighter. Best Director nominee Russell isn’t messing with the formula. »
- Lindsey Bahr
Best Cameo in a 2012 Film? Vote Now — 11th Tsr Movie Awards
15 February 2013 7:00 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
11th Annual Tsr Movie Awards
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Nominations for Best Cameo in a 2012 Film
Franco Nero – Django Unchained
Cillian Murphy – The Dark Knight Rises
Sam Jones – Ted
Stan Lee – The Amazing Spider-man
Johnny Depp And Peter Deluise – 21 Jump Street
Billie Joe Armstrong – This Is 40
Sigourney Weaver – The Cabin In The Woods
Michael Pitt & Michael Stuhlbarg – Seven Psychopaths
This is just one of the categories in the 11th Annual Tsr Movie Awards. Categories range from the typical (Best Overall Cast, Best Actor, Best Film) to the atypical (Best Ending, Best Quote, Funniest).
If you have seen two movies or 200, it doesn’t matter. You only vote for the films you have seen.
Click here to vote Click Here and “like” The Scorecard Review on Facebook. That way you’ll make sure to get all of the »
- Jeff Bayer
10 Greatest Cameos In Tarantino Films
3 February 2013 8:01 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Quentin Tarantino loves his cameos. As a cinephile, his interest in actors spans many genres and countries and his latest, Django Unchained, is proof of a director trying to cram as many of his favourite performers into one film as is humanly possible. So many that he placed usually loquacious-types in dialogue-free roles (Michael Bowen, Ted Neeley), wrote new dialogue for others (Franco Nero, Bruce Dern) or invented new characters altogether, then realised he had no extra money to give those actors anything to do (Zoe Bell, Amber Tamblyn).
Truth is, Quentin Tarantino has always been something of a king of the cameo, his encyclopaedic film-boffinness regularly allowing him to fit the right actor with the right part, in a way that non-film geek filmmakers often find it so hard to get right. Featuring blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em performances from among the eight feature films Tarantino has directed, rather than simply written, »
- Brogan Morris
Spaghetti Westerns: ‘Django’, ‘The Mercenary’, ‘The Great Silence’ / Sordid Cinema Podcast #50
28 January 2013 3:48 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
On episode 50 of the Sordid Cinema podcast, we focus on critic-turned-director Sergio Corbucci. We start by discussing his 1966 masterpiece Django, featuring Belgian actor Franco Nero playing the soon to be iconic titular character. After, we turn the spotlight on The Great Silence, arguably Corbucci’s most critically acclaimed film, and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski. Finally, we top it off with The Mercenary, one of Quentin Tarantino’s biggest inspirations.
Playlist:
Luis Enríquez Bacalov – “Django Theme song”
Luis Enríquez Bacalov – “The Grand Duel”
Ennio Morricone – “L Arena”
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You've been Djangoed! Ten Spaghetti Cowboys that shaped the genre
21 January 2013 12:45 AM, PST | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Keeping up with his career plan of paying homage to every film genre going, Quentin Tarantino has moved onto the spaghetti western with Django Unchained (2012). It’s not a remake of the pasta classic Django (1966), or indeed a spaghetti western, but it has clearly taken its inspiration from those violent Italian productions that swamped the late sixties.
Hollywood may have dominated the field since the beginning of motion pictures but European westerns are not exactly new; the earliest known one was filmed in 1910. Sixties German cinema made good use of Kay May’s western heroes Shatterhand and Winnetou, and the British produced The Savage Guns (1961), Hannie Caulder (1971), A Town Called Bastard (1971), Catlow (1971), Chato’s Land (1972) and Eagle’s Wing (1979). When the genre showed signs of flagging in the mid-sixties, a clever Italian director named Sergio Leone took it upon himself to reinvent the western – spaghetti style!
What made the spaghettis »
Django Unchained – review
19 January 2013 4:32 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The director's consummate revival of the spaghetti western journeys deep into America's unpalatable past
The Italian western appeared in the mid-1960s, its aim both to compensate for the reduced number of American westerns and their lack of action. Shot in Spain by directors usually adopting American pseudonyms, they rapidly became known for ultra-violence, sadism, operatic staging, sharp colours, enormous close-ups and emphatic music. In the dubbed and heavily cut versions that reached the English-speaking world they had a crude quality that offended the few critics who saw them.
They did, however, have a vigour and a broad Marxist thrust in their attitude towards capitalism and third world exploitation. They made a considerable impact on the Hollywood western in its last days (especially on those featuring Clint Eastwood, the only American actor to become a star through working in Italy), though the name of only one Italian director, Sergio Leone, »
- Philip French
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
18 January 2013 10:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Django | American Mary | From The Sea To The Land Beyond | The Sweeney | Above The Street, Below The Water
This Django, the 1966 original, may not be unchained but it is uncut, retaining all the infamous grislier moments as it finally arrives on Blu-ray.
Other than Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django is the key title in the Italian western genre, making a star of Franco Nero and spawning countless unofficial remakes and sequels; the Tarantino movie is really just part of a long line of movies that take the Django name (along with, in this instance, the theme song, a cameo by Nero, and the rampant bloodlust). In Japan and Germany the Django name would be attached to almost all Franco Nero movies – even his Jaws rip-off, The Shark Hunter, was renamed Django Django for some markets. The entertaining Django, Prepare A Coffin starring Terence Hill has »
- Phelim O'Neill
A Guide to the Film References in Django Unchained
18 January 2013 4:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
(This article contains some minor spoilers for Django Unchained and be warned that most of the clips included are Nsfw)
Like many of Tarantino’s previous films Django Unchained is filled to the brim with film references. Below I’ve attempted to guide you through some of these references and links to other films.
I’ve only seen the film once at a screening and am sure that given the opportunity to sit down with the film on Blu-ray I will undoubtedly find even more, so the following is in no way definitive but hopefully provides some answers to for those wondering what Tarantino was referencing in Django Unchained. Also, most importantly, hopefully it will lead you to check out some of the films in question.
The most obvious film reference in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is right there in the title. Django was a 1966 ‘spaghetti western’ directed by »
- Craig Skinner
Django Unchained – review
18 January 2013 12:53 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Quentin Tarantino makes a dizzy return to form with a horribly funny slavery western – and Samuel L Jackson is extraordinary as the ultimate Uncle Tom
When I first saw Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, I wrote that it was as deplorable and delicious as a forbidden cigarette. This second time around I'm still dizzy, from something meaner than nicotine. This brilliant and brutal revenge western, with its bromcom double act from Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz, is set among the slave plantations of pre-civil war America. It is partly based on the 1960s cult Django westerns starring Franco Nero (who returns in cameo here) and partly on the notorious 1975 exploitation picture Mandingo, but it's distinctive on its own fantastically outrageous terms: an audacious and horribly funny comic-book nightmare.
Tarantino, king of the comeback, famously returned John Travolta to the pop-culture frontline for Pulp Fiction and indeed renewed crime writer Eddie Bunker »
- Peter Bradshaw
The James Clayton Column: Quentin Tarantino - Necromantic movie maestro
17 January 2013 2:31 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature James Clayton Jan 18, 2013
As Django Unchained revives the spaghetti western, James salutes Quentin Tarantino's ability to reanimate forgotten actors and genres...
“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.” But that’s okay, because Quentin Tarantino can probably bring him back to life. It’s one of his specialities, though it’s not as widely discussed as his amazing gabbiness, his knack for sharp, highly-quotable dialogue or his talent for painting stylish violence on screen. With Django Unchained now in cinemas, I reckon it’s an ideal time to reassess his dark artistry and raise his reputation as a necromancer.
Death is not a certain state in Tarantino’s world, and that’s not just because the director favours non-linear timelines - a storytelling structure that means murdered characters may reappear on screen again before the credits roll.
Qt is outstanding as a moviemaker in manipulating what was presumed extinct, »
- ryanlambie
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