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TCM Classic Film Festival 2013
1 May 2013 9:19 AM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
This is my second year in a row reviewing The TCM Classic Film Festival, which is quickly becoming one of the largest, most important, and most fun fests in Los Angeles. Like last year, I ran from screening to screening, giddy with excitement and wired from the constant stream of images.
The festival ran from Thursday through Sunday. I was only able to attend the last two days, but over the course of the weekend I managed to watch ten feature films and a 90-minute program of Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Usually, when I go to things like this I try to watch as many film noir and pre-code movies as I can. On Saturday, I was determined to make variety my theme of the day, and TCM made this easy for me. At any given time, there were five or six movies playing — everything from silent films and early classics to musicals, »
- Jonathan Weichsel
Cannes 2013: 'Cleopatra' Restored and 'The Last Emperor' in 3D to Play Cannes Classics
29 April 2013 10:28 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival lineup continues to grow, today with the announcement of the films playing in the Cannes Classics selection as well as the titles playing on the beach at night as part of the Cinema de la Plage selection. It was already announced Kim Novak would be in attendance to present the restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, but the restorations that will be screening don't end there. In addition to Vertigo a restored print of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Cleopatra will screen along with restorations of Billy Wilder's Fedora, Yasujir? Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon, Hal Ashby's The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson and a 3-D conversion of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor. Additional notable names include films from Alain Resnais, Marco Ferreri, Chris Marker and Rene Clement. In addition to those titles a special presentation of Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete »
- Brad Brevet
Toronto Silent Film Festival 2013: ‘The General’ Showcases Buster Keaton’s Inimitable Feats of Glaring-Do
10 April 2013 9:40 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Railrodder
Directed & Written by Gerald Potterton
Canada, 1965
Directed by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
Written by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
USA, 1926
Tsff festivities came to a comedic crescendo at the Revue Cinema on Tuesday night with a pair of locomotive laugh-getters starring “The Great Stone Face”, Buster Keaton. First on the program was a throwback silent short made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1965, just a year before the comedian’s death. The film was introduced by International Buster Keaton Society “Porkpie” Scholarship recipient R. Edwin Barnett, whose current research project aims to reintegrate The Railrodder into the main body of Keaton criticism (most books/essays on the actor/auteur simply name-check the movie as one of his “industrial” films during the rush to ring down the curtain on Keaton’s career). After seeing the film, Barnett’s point seems manifest. The Railrodder may not be a great film, »
- David Fiore
Toronto Silent Film Festival 2013: ‘My Best Girl’ is a charming proto-screwball romance
9 April 2013 3:06 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Sam Taylor
Written by Allen McNeil & Tim Whelan
USA, 1927
Tsff made its merry way up to Casa Loma on Monday night for a special screening of Mary Pickford’s final silent film on the occasion of the star’s 121st birthday (the organizers even served birthday cake during the intermission). Despite an interminable, bone chilling rain (which looked rather cozy sliding down the other side of the hundred-year old Gothic Revival castle’s windows), there was a packed house on hand to experience an authentic presentation of the film as it would have been shown at a cinema palace of the era, complete with accompaniment by the irrepressible Clark Wilson on the Toronto Theatre Organ Society‘s justly celebrated Wurlitzer organ. This magnificent instrument, which once enlivened screenings at Shea’s Hippodrome on Bay Street, was designed to put the power of an entire orchestra »
- David Fiore
Pulitzer Winner Ebert Dead at 70: 2001, La Dolce Vita Among Top Movies
4 April 2013 3:33 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Pulitzer Prizer winner Ebert died earlier today at the age of 70 Probably the best known movie critic in the United States, Roger Ebert passed away on Thursday in Chicago, Illinois, following a decade-long battle against cancer. Ebert, who was 70, had announced the recurrence of his illness in a tweet two days ago. (Pictured above: An Ebert closeup, as found on his Twitter account.) The renowned critic was best known alongside Gene Siskel for their "two thumbs up" routine, which was watched by millions on the nationally syndicated television show At the Movies (previously known as Sneak Previews and later as Siskel & Ebert [and the movies]). But populism or no, Ebert was a well-regarded and quite influential movie pundit. He began writing for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967; eight years later, he became the very first film reviewer to take home a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. (That particular Pulitzer branch had been set up in »
- Andre Soares
2013 TCM Classic Film Festival Adds More Movies, Stars & Frank Capra’s The Donovan Affair (1929) To Lineup
13 March 2013 3:48 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival continues to expand, with newly added appearances by legendary stars at screenings of some of their most memorable films, including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Winters, Marvin Kaplan, Barrie Chase, Polly Bergen,Coleen Gray, Theodore Bikel and Norman Lloyd, as well as producer Stanley Rubin, Clara Bow biographer David Stenn, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) film collections manager Katie Trainor and director Nicholas Ray’s widow, Susan Ray. In addition, TCM’s Essentials Jr. host and Saturday Night Live star Bill Hader will present screenings of Shane (1953) and The Ladykillers(1955).
And The Film Forum’s Bruce Goldstein will present a special screening of Frank Capra’s The Donovan Affair (1929), complete with live voice actors and sound effects to replace the film’s long-lost soundtrack.Mel Brooks is slated to talk about his comedy The Twelve Chairs (1970). Carl Reiner, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Winters, Marvin Kaplan »
- Melissa Thompson
Tugg's Crowdsourcing Model Has Helped Bring 180 Films to Theaters
6 March 2013 4:52 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Just as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized the way independent filmmakers can finance their films, Tugg has begun to have an impact on the way filmmakers distribute them. The web platform, which lets people pick a film they want to see in theaters and gather support for screenings, announced a series of milestones on Wednesday in advance of this year's South by Southwest Festival. The service launched at the festival last year and has since amassed a library of more than 1,100 films ranging from Buster Keaton's landmark comedy "The General" to »
- Lucas Shaw
The 300 Greatest Films Ever Made (Part 25)
26 January 2013 11:05 AM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Our daily countdown continues with part 25 out of 30, in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made. These are numbers 60-51.
60) Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen USA
59) The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme USA
58) Wuthering Heights (1939) William Wyler USA
57) Shane (1953) George Stevens USA
56) Frankenstein (1931) James Whale USA
55) Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock USA
54) Stagecoach (1939) John Ford USA
53) The General (1926) Buster Keaton USA Silent
52) A Night At The Opera (1935) Sam Woods USA
51) Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) John Houston USA
Numbers 50-41 coming next.
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- feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
Which film was the best box-office flop?
16 January 2013 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts
What is the most critically acclaimed film that was a box-office disaster on release?
The Fall of the Roman Empire, directed by Anthony Mann in 1964, is frequently cited as being the most intelligently written, the most strongly cast, and most capably acted of all the movies in the sword-and-sandal genre that was so fashionable in Hollywood in the 1960s. Yet it lost a then-record $14.25m at the box office, at a time when studios were not able to recoup some of those losses by video or DVD sales.
Since 1964, and allowing for inflation, only a dozen films have lost more money, and given that they include such turkeys as Heaven's Gate and The Adventures of Pluto Nash, it is safe to say that none of them are in the same league as Mann's »
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