Arriving on Blu-ray courtesy of Optimum (now Studio Canal), Ice Cold in Alex is the latest in a line of HD restorations in the Optimum Classics range. Probably familiar to many for the Carlsberg advert that it spawned, even if they have not seen the film itself, this World War II thriller was originally released in the UK in 1958 following its success as the International Critics Award winner at the Berlin Film Festival that year. The film did not have an easy journey across the Atlantic though and was not released in the Us until 1961, by which point it had been retitled Desert Attack and lost over forty minutes of its two hour running time.
The film centres on Captain Anson (John Mills) and Tom Pugh (Harry Andrews), who are tasked with transporting an army ambulance and two nurses across the unforgiving Libyan desert to their final destination, Alexandria. Mills...
The film centres on Captain Anson (John Mills) and Tom Pugh (Harry Andrews), who are tasked with transporting an army ambulance and two nurses across the unforgiving Libyan desert to their final destination, Alexandria. Mills...
- 7/7/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Father’s day is on the horizon and a whole bunch of cool Blu-ray’s are being released to celebrate that fact, a few films of which are particularly some of my Dad’s favourites.
Sam Peckinpah’s bloody anti-war movie Cross of Iron (out June 3rd), the British Wwi classic The Cruel Sea (June 13th) and the excellent Ice Cold Alex (June 13th), all digitally restored and available on the first time in Blu-ray. Excitedly if you are in London on father’s day weekend, the Odeon Panton St are showing Cross of Iron and Ice Cold in Alex from June 17th!
Owf have three copies of all three films to give away…
6 June: Cross Of Iron – Only On Bluray – Digitally Restored
Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross Of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle...
Sam Peckinpah’s bloody anti-war movie Cross of Iron (out June 3rd), the British Wwi classic The Cruel Sea (June 13th) and the excellent Ice Cold Alex (June 13th), all digitally restored and available on the first time in Blu-ray. Excitedly if you are in London on father’s day weekend, the Odeon Panton St are showing Cross of Iron and Ice Cold in Alex from June 17th!
Owf have three copies of all three films to give away…
6 June: Cross Of Iron – Only On Bluray – Digitally Restored
Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross Of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle...
- 6/3/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
UCLA alumnus Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning "Milk" screenwriter, will be honored with UCLA's Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Award on June 10 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.
The award will be presented to Black, a 1996 honors graduate of UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, during UCLA's Screenwriters Showcase, staged readings of student screenplays and teleplays selected by a jury of industry professionals in an annual competition.
The showcase is part of UCLA Festival 2009: New Creative Work, a nine-day celebration of the newest work by students from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, which takes place at UCLA and other sites June 5-13.
The event will be hosted by screenwriter and UCLA alumnus Mike Werb, whose credits include "The Mask," "Face/Off" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."
The Showcase feature winners are: Barbara Curry, "Talk of the Town"; Meg Gifford, "Paint It Black"; Ed Goodman, "Limbo Larry vs. Death Et Al"; Joseph Hartstone,...
The award will be presented to Black, a 1996 honors graduate of UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, during UCLA's Screenwriters Showcase, staged readings of student screenplays and teleplays selected by a jury of industry professionals in an annual competition.
The showcase is part of UCLA Festival 2009: New Creative Work, a nine-day celebration of the newest work by students from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, which takes place at UCLA and other sites June 5-13.
The event will be hosted by screenwriter and UCLA alumnus Mike Werb, whose credits include "The Mask," "Face/Off" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."
The Showcase feature winners are: Barbara Curry, "Talk of the Town"; Meg Gifford, "Paint It Black"; Ed Goodman, "Limbo Larry vs. Death Et Al"; Joseph Hartstone,...
- 6/4/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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