Actor says he and director who worked together on GoodFellas have another gangster film lined up
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Robert De Niro has confirmed that he is planning to reunite with director Martin Scorsese on a gangster film in the near future.
Speaking at a press conference in London for his latest film The Family, a gangster comedy directed by Luc Besson, De Niro said: "I have another gangster film I'm gonna do with Scorsese and it's a very interesting one ... We're preparing it. We have a script and Marty has another film he's doing before so it won't be for a while."
De Niro and Scorsese, of course, were paired together on a string of crime and gangster films including Mean Streets, GoodFellas and Cape Fear, and their...
• Robert De Niro: 'I'd like to see where Travis Bickle is today'
• John Patterson: Robert De Niro just keeps making crap movies
Robert De Niro has confirmed that he is planning to reunite with director Martin Scorsese on a gangster film in the near future.
Speaking at a press conference in London for his latest film The Family, a gangster comedy directed by Luc Besson, De Niro said: "I have another gangster film I'm gonna do with Scorsese and it's a very interesting one ... We're preparing it. We have a script and Marty has another film he's doing before so it won't be for a while."
De Niro and Scorsese, of course, were paired together on a string of crime and gangster films including Mean Streets, GoodFellas and Cape Fear, and their...
- 11/20/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinema, as Jean-Luc Godard wrote, is truth 24 times a second. Documentaries both prove and disprove the point; but the truth is their strongest weapon. Here, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best
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10. Man With a Movie Camera
To best understand this 1929 silent documentary, one ought to know that its director, the exotically named "Dziga Vertov", was actually born David Abelevich Kaufman in 1896. Some say the name derives from the Russian word for spinning top, but the pseudonym is more likely an onomatopeic approximation of the sound made by the twin reels of film as the director ran them backwards and forwards through his flatbed editor. For Vertov, film was something physical, to be manipulated by man, and yet, paradoxically, he also saw it as a medium...
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10. Man With a Movie Camera
To best understand this 1929 silent documentary, one ought to know that its director, the exotically named "Dziga Vertov", was actually born David Abelevich Kaufman in 1896. Some say the name derives from the Russian word for spinning top, but the pseudonym is more likely an onomatopeic approximation of the sound made by the twin reels of film as the director ran them backwards and forwards through his flatbed editor. For Vertov, film was something physical, to be manipulated by man, and yet, paradoxically, he also saw it as a medium...
- 11/12/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Danish director plans two edits of his new film, which will deal with 'the erotic life of a woman from infancy to middle age'
The big story (softcore edit)
One day, "Naughty Lars von Trier being naughty again" won't be enough of a headline to grab our attention. But for now, the Danish enfant terrible is back among our pages, cackling away about his plan to make two edits of his next film, Nymphomaniac - a softcore cut for the sensitive, and a hardcore version for those who thought The Idiots a touch conservative.
Previously, Von Trier has handled such fluff as genital mutilation and the end of the world. Nymphomaniac will deal with child sexuality, following "the erotic life of a woman from infancy to middle age," according to Von Trier's producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. "Lars wants to see the sexual arousement of a girl [on screen]," Jensen added. "If Lars...
The big story (softcore edit)
One day, "Naughty Lars von Trier being naughty again" won't be enough of a headline to grab our attention. But for now, the Danish enfant terrible is back among our pages, cackling away about his plan to make two edits of his next film, Nymphomaniac - a softcore cut for the sensitive, and a hardcore version for those who thought The Idiots a touch conservative.
Previously, Von Trier has handled such fluff as genital mutilation and the end of the world. Nymphomaniac will deal with child sexuality, following "the erotic life of a woman from infancy to middle age," according to Von Trier's producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. "Lars wants to see the sexual arousement of a girl [on screen]," Jensen added. "If Lars...
- 8/4/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Love is in the air, but there's a definite whiff of opportunism in there too
The big story
A nation holds its breath. Unshakeable from the collective imagination is the image of a tall, blond, regal-looking young man and his shapely dark-haired companion. In feverish newsrooms they check the wires for stories of surges in sales of booze, bunting and widescreen TVs among a recession-hit populace thirsty for a shot of euphoria. Yes, Lifetime TV's William & Kate: the movie, is coming to your screens this Sunday.
Not everyone was swept away in the excitement of the royal romance-themed Us movie. Indeed Lifetime's William, whose name sounds like one Beano writers might have concocted for a used car salesman, Nico Evers-Swindell, felt compelled to defend the film. Why? Well, the Daily Mail had shown it some tough love, calling it "truly terrible: a shoddily cast, poorly executed, badly edited and surprisingly...
The big story
A nation holds its breath. Unshakeable from the collective imagination is the image of a tall, blond, regal-looking young man and his shapely dark-haired companion. In feverish newsrooms they check the wires for stories of surges in sales of booze, bunting and widescreen TVs among a recession-hit populace thirsty for a shot of euphoria. Yes, Lifetime TV's William & Kate: the movie, is coming to your screens this Sunday.
Not everyone was swept away in the excitement of the royal romance-themed Us movie. Indeed Lifetime's William, whose name sounds like one Beano writers might have concocted for a used car salesman, Nico Evers-Swindell, felt compelled to defend the film. Why? Well, the Daily Mail had shown it some tough love, calling it "truly terrible: a shoddily cast, poorly executed, badly edited and surprisingly...
- 4/21/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Worried about what might get lost in Austin? Fear not: we'll be riding into town to provide full coverage of the SXSW festival
The big story
This week we've been dusting down our 10-gallon hats and preparing to round up some cinematic treats from the SXSW festival over in Texas. A Guardian team has been dispatched to Austin to wrangle with the best of the fest. We got the ball rolling today with a clip from The Rime of the Modern Mariner, Mark Donne's fond portrait of London's docks and Britain's declining shipping industry, narrated by Carl Barât of Libertines fame. Other festival highlights include Duncan Jones's new movie Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier who must repeatedly relive the last eight minutes of a train passenger's life, and Jodie Foster's The Beaver, about a troubled hand puppet who finds himself on the end of Mel Gibson.
The big story
This week we've been dusting down our 10-gallon hats and preparing to round up some cinematic treats from the SXSW festival over in Texas. A Guardian team has been dispatched to Austin to wrangle with the best of the fest. We got the ball rolling today with a clip from The Rime of the Modern Mariner, Mark Donne's fond portrait of London's docks and Britain's declining shipping industry, narrated by Carl Barât of Libertines fame. Other festival highlights include Duncan Jones's new movie Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier who must repeatedly relive the last eight minutes of a train passenger's life, and Jodie Foster's The Beaver, about a troubled hand puppet who finds himself on the end of Mel Gibson.
- 3/10/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Real-world intrigue is fertile ground for political thriller writers – but dramatising recent history is a dangerous game, warns John Patterson
Is it just me, or does watching the recent past on film always feel really weird?
I circled around Fair Game for a while before watching it, so reluctant was I to relive even a mere 108 fictionalised minutes of the Bush years. I also knew that this political melodrama – about CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson's persecution by White House operatives – would not conclude with the same teletyped litany of names, outcomes, convictions and sentences that brought All The President's Men to its deafeningly triumphant conclusion. This time the bad guys walked.
But the weirdness attendant upon seeing recent events on the big or small screen is amplified here by the choice of director for Fair Game. Doug Liman helped reinvent the action-thriller with The Bourne Identity,...
Is it just me, or does watching the recent past on film always feel really weird?
I circled around Fair Game for a while before watching it, so reluctant was I to relive even a mere 108 fictionalised minutes of the Bush years. I also knew that this political melodrama – about CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson's persecution by White House operatives – would not conclude with the same teletyped litany of names, outcomes, convictions and sentences that brought All The President's Men to its deafeningly triumphant conclusion. This time the bad guys walked.
But the weirdness attendant upon seeing recent events on the big or small screen is amplified here by the choice of director for Fair Game. Doug Liman helped reinvent the action-thriller with The Bourne Identity,...
- 2/26/2011
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
It's squeaky bum time, as football fans might say: who'll be jumping out of their seat to say their thankyous in La and which Oscar listees need to practise that 'I'm so happy for you' look?
The big story
Only one story in town this week, and it hasn't happened yet. Sunday night brings the pinnacle of the Hollywood year, the Oscars, and we at guardian.co.uk are already trying to manage our sleep patterns in anticipation of a through-the-night blitz. We limbered up with an interactive guide to the best picture contenders, taking in reviews, interviews, videos and trailers for the big 10. Then there was a look back at last year, with our Wordle acceptance speech quiz challenge.
Banksy stole a publicity march on his rivals, staying in the news over the ongoing mystery of his identity. Any hopes the street artist - whose film Exit Through the Gift Shop...
The big story
Only one story in town this week, and it hasn't happened yet. Sunday night brings the pinnacle of the Hollywood year, the Oscars, and we at guardian.co.uk are already trying to manage our sleep patterns in anticipation of a through-the-night blitz. We limbered up with an interactive guide to the best picture contenders, taking in reviews, interviews, videos and trailers for the big 10. Then there was a look back at last year, with our Wordle acceptance speech quiz challenge.
Banksy stole a publicity march on his rivals, staying in the news over the ongoing mystery of his identity. Any hopes the street artist - whose film Exit Through the Gift Shop...
- 2/24/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Why I would happily uninvent cinema rather than sitting through another of the Big Momma funnyman's movies says John Patterson
Philosophers have long pondered the question; scientists have ransacked their quivering, toad-like brains in search of answers; intrepid explorers have vainly sought the source of it across jungle and ocean, and arrived home blistered, malaria-ridden, half-insane and empty-handed. Their elusive quarry? The answer to this eternal cosmic question: What is the point of Martin Lawrence?
What indeed? The arrival of Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son – the most pointless threequel since Godfather III paid off Coppola's back-taxes – reminds me that this guy's career is apparently still a going concern. This surprises me, since his movies all seem to have been created under the terms of the most stringent and intensively monitored laugh embargo imaginable. Life? Black Knight? Blue Streak? I remember all these movies and each of them, along with...
Philosophers have long pondered the question; scientists have ransacked their quivering, toad-like brains in search of answers; intrepid explorers have vainly sought the source of it across jungle and ocean, and arrived home blistered, malaria-ridden, half-insane and empty-handed. Their elusive quarry? The answer to this eternal cosmic question: What is the point of Martin Lawrence?
What indeed? The arrival of Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son – the most pointless threequel since Godfather III paid off Coppola's back-taxes – reminds me that this guy's career is apparently still a going concern. This surprises me, since his movies all seem to have been created under the terms of the most stringent and intensively monitored laugh embargo imaginable. Life? Black Knight? Blue Streak? I remember all these movies and each of them, along with...
- 2/12/2011
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
With Fair Game, Into Eternity and Skyline, it's mutually assured destruction month at the box office
… and there's more nuclear armageddon thrills to come in Countdown To Zero
Call me paranoid, but there's something vaguely, menacingly apocalyptic about the forthcoming cinema schedules. In upcoming documentary Countdown To Zero we learn of internationally co-ordinated attempts to round up every last loose nuclear bomb on the planet (hence the tick-tick-tick title), in order to keep them away from people anxious to detonate one. It's a kind of "sensible adults save universe" scenario, filled with major-league, top-table talking heads like Gorby, Musharraf, his satanic midgetcy Lord Blair Of The Neverending Darkness, and old Mr Blood-Of-a-Generation-On-His-Hands, 1960s Us secretary of defence Bob McNamara.
That's an awful lot of tyrants and war criminals for a peacenik-sounding movie about securing loose nukes, but the presence of former spy Valerie Plame Wilson adds a touch of glamour, modernity and – I dunno – humanity, to an otherwise thoroughly unnerving documentary. At the very least, you...
Call me paranoid, but there's something vaguely, menacingly apocalyptic about the forthcoming cinema schedules. In upcoming documentary Countdown To Zero we learn of internationally co-ordinated attempts to round up every last loose nuclear bomb on the planet (hence the tick-tick-tick title), in order to keep them away from people anxious to detonate one. It's a kind of "sensible adults save universe" scenario, filled with major-league, top-table talking heads like Gorby, Musharraf, his satanic midgetcy Lord Blair Of The Neverending Darkness, and old Mr Blood-Of-a-Generation-On-His-Hands, 1960s Us secretary of defence Bob McNamara.
That's an awful lot of tyrants and war criminals for a peacenik-sounding movie about securing loose nukes, but the presence of former spy Valerie Plame Wilson adds a touch of glamour, modernity and – I dunno – humanity, to an otherwise thoroughly unnerving documentary. At the very least, you...
- 11/6/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Why does recession bring with it a thirst for dumb revenge dramas?
Law Abiding Citizen, which I should say at the outset is a terrible, terrible movie – either the stupidest of the year so far or the most unintentionally funny – takes the urban revenge movie and grafts on to it certain depressing innovations from other genres, including the serial killer-as-genius trope from The Silence Of The Lambs, and the post-Saw/Hostel enthusiasm for torture-porn and mega bloodshed. Let's just say it doesn't tell us much except that the revenge movie is back with, um, a vengeance.
Gerard Butler plays a man who takes complicated, detailed and violent revenge against the killers who raped and murdered his wife and daughter. Thing is, he's already in jail when most of the killings occur (cue evil genius!), which doesn't stop one victim from being surgically deprived of various extremities, up to and including his Johnson (hello,...
Law Abiding Citizen, which I should say at the outset is a terrible, terrible movie – either the stupidest of the year so far or the most unintentionally funny – takes the urban revenge movie and grafts on to it certain depressing innovations from other genres, including the serial killer-as-genius trope from The Silence Of The Lambs, and the post-Saw/Hostel enthusiasm for torture-porn and mega bloodshed. Let's just say it doesn't tell us much except that the revenge movie is back with, um, a vengeance.
Gerard Butler plays a man who takes complicated, detailed and violent revenge against the killers who raped and murdered his wife and daughter. Thing is, he's already in jail when most of the killings occur (cue evil genius!), which doesn't stop one victim from being surgically deprived of various extremities, up to and including his Johnson (hello,...
- 11/21/2009
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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