Uggie: 'The Artist' dog star. Uggie, 'The Artist' scene-stealing dog star, has died The biggest non-human movie star of the 21st century, Uggie, whose scene-stealing cuteness helped to earn Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist the 2011 Best Picture Academy Award, has died. According to his official Facebook page, Uggie had been suffering from prostate cancer; he was euthanized last Friday, Aug. 7, '15. Born in 2002, Uggie was 13 years old. An announcement posted on Tuesday night, Aug. 11, on the Fb page Consider Uggie read: We regret to inform to all our friends, family and Uggie's fans that our beloved boy has passed away. We were not planning on posting anything until we healed a little more but unfortunately somebody leaked it to TMZ and they will be announcing it. In short, Uggie had a cancerous tumor in the prostate and is now in a better place not feeling pain.
- 8/12/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hitchcock's silents are now on the Memory of the World register – I can think of five others that deserve the same recognition
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
- 7/12/2013
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Courtesy of AMPAS
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate canine stardom with “Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin to Uggie” on Wednesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will feature Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, animal trainers Sarah Clifford and Omar von Muller sharing behind-the-scenes secrets, and a screening of ”Clash of the Wolves” (1925), starring Rin Tin Tin, with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.
“Man.s best friend” has gotten a wonderful publicity boost from the movies. Canine cinema mythology has enhanced human appreciation of the dog.s loyalty, heroism, humor and intelligence from the earliest days of film with such immediate audience favorites as “Rescued by Rover” (1905) and “The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog” (1905).
More than any other four-legged actor, the dog has achieved a...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate canine stardom with “Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin to Uggie” on Wednesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will feature Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, animal trainers Sarah Clifford and Omar von Muller sharing behind-the-scenes secrets, and a screening of ”Clash of the Wolves” (1925), starring Rin Tin Tin, with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.
“Man.s best friend” has gotten a wonderful publicity boost from the movies. Canine cinema mythology has enhanced human appreciation of the dog.s loyalty, heroism, humor and intelligence from the earliest days of film with such immediate audience favorites as “Rescued by Rover” (1905) and “The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog” (1905).
More than any other four-legged actor, the dog has achieved a...
- 5/3/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Based on a novel by Louis de Bernières which in turn was inspired by a real incident, Red Dog is the most popular Australian movie of the past year. Told in flashback as the eponymous pooch lies sick in the back room of a remote pub in Western Australia, a variety of tough guys relate how the Red Dog became a local legend around the remote coastal town of Dampier and brought together a community of lonely working men. Red Dog is played in the film by an Australian breed of sheepdog known as a red cloud kelpie, and there's now a bronze statue of him in the area. The film gathers incidents from every dog movie you ever saw, from Rescued by Rover and Rin Tin Tin to Greyfriars Bobby and Lassie Come Home. It's guaranteed to bring tears and laughter to popular audiences, and those who turn up...
- 2/26/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/687664/world_cinema_in_appreciation_of_silent_cinema.html"><img title="World Cinema: In appreciation of silent cinema" src="http://www.denofgeek.com/siteimage/scale/500/800/171606.jpg" alt="Metropolis" /></a></div> <br/><i><strong>Inspired by the recently restored theatrical release of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, we look back on an era of classic silent movies…</strong></i><br/><p>A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend a screening of the recently restored ‘complete' version of <em>Metropolis</em>, with a live score provided by a full orchestra. As the opening music swelled in perfect time with the film's opening, and the hairs on the back of my neck tingled, I thought to myself that film doesn't need clever dialogue and intricate sound effects to thrill. It just needs incredible visuals and in this case, an evocative score.</p> <p>It was a thought which I returned to throughout much of that evening, especially during the powerful destruction of the machine sequence. Film just needs visuals to convey its sense of power. That is what brings us back time and time again, and is why film succeeds on its basic level.
- 12/1/2010
- Den of Geek
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