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DVD Release: Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
11 June 2013 9:43 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: June 13, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: First Run Features
Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore.
The 2010 documentary film Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder takes an insightful and entertaining look at the American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The movie explores Ferlinghetti’s vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America, including the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Also covered is the 1953 opening of San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore by Ferlinghetti, which quickly evolved into an iconic institution symbolizing social change and literary freedom. Six decades later, it is still going.
Directed by Christopher Felver, the unrated Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder received a limited release to a theater in New York in February, »
- Laurence
Mel Brooks: Exclusive Cinema Retro Interview
17 May 2013 11:03 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Mel Brooks: Comedy As The Currency Of Friendship
By Eddy Friedfeld
(Photo copyright Steven R. Stack)
Mel Brooks is profiled in a superb American Masters documentary entitled Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, which premieres nationally on PBS stations on May 20th. One of 14 Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners, he has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer, and shows few signs of slowing down. With new interviews with Brooks, his friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, Rob Reiner, and his close friend, with whom he created The 2000 Year Old Man, Carl Reiner. A DVD with bonus material will be available Tuesday, May 21 from Shout Factory.
"When they called me to say I had been chosen as the next 'American Master,' I thought they said I was chosen to be the next Dutch Master. So I figured what the hell, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Winona Ryder Is Nerdier Than You Think
30 April 2013 5:19 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
There was definitely some nervous apprehension on my part before meeting Winona Ryder -- which, having done this sort of thing hundreds of times before, doesn't happen often. This most likely stems from my preexisting notion that she's shy or reserved -- or, at the very least, media shy and reserved in front of the press. Soon after meeting the petite actor -- who still doesn't look all that different from the person who danced to Harry Belafonte's "Jump in the Line" at the end of "Beetlejuice" -- I discovered something that would have put my nervous mind at ease: Winona Ryder is, well ... a bit of a nerd.
Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, but she is a fan of the original "Star Trek" television series and used to have a life-size poster of Ellen Ripley on her wall.
Ryder's new movie is "The Iceman," the latest »
- Mike Ryan
10 Previously Great Movies That Have Dated Horribly
14 April 2013 12:34 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Cinema has been around for more than a century and in that time has evolved from a static actuality to action packed spectacles with CGI. No matter the technology, a truly great film will not fall victim to time. For all of its studio staginess, “The Wizard of Oz” still provides the same amount of vivid magic and imagination as it did in 1939. A Charlie Chaplin film such as “The Kid” or “City Lights” still has the sweetness and humanity that transcends sound and color.
In that time, however, some films have fallen victims of age. They seem antiquated or outdated by today’s standards. All the following films fall into several of the same categories. There are the message films in which it acts like an afterschool special. Then there are the special effects or action films that does not compare to modern quality. In a sense, these also »
- Patrick Hao
How Many of the Movies from Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies Have You Seen?
10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 363 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies, the Up docs and Decalogue) and of those 363, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »
- Brad Brevet
How Many of the Movies from Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies Have You Seen?
10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 362 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies and Decalogue) and of those 362, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »
- Brad Brevet
Ioncinephile of the Month: Eleanor Burke & Ron Eyal (Stranger Things)
8 April 2013 7:30 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This April, we’ve got a first: two for the price of one. Husband and wife filmmaking team of Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke premiered Stranger Things at such fests as Slamdance (Winner Grand Jury Prize Best Narrative Feature), Raindance (Winner Grand Jury Prize Best U.K. Feature), Woodstock, Karlovy Vary, and is now they’ve got a one week theatrical run (April 5 – 11) at the reRun Theater in Brooklyn. Here is our profile on the filmmaker team and worth checking out is our accompanying original/combined personal Top Ten films list.
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?
Eleanor Burke: I remember going to the cinema as a very young child. The ceremony of it all was impressive: the velvet curtains, the hush as the lights went down. »
- Eric Lavallee
Ardaban Hires Seth Eisman for Production
4 April 2013 10:02 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Ardaban, a division within Shine America, has tapped Seth Eisman as senior vice prez of production.
Eisman will oversee production for all Ardaban unscripted programming developed for Shine. He joins the banner after serving as senior veep at Iac’s Notional, where he oversaw production on shows including 17 seasons of Food Network’s “Chopped.”
“Seth’s depth of experience in producing unscripted programming is second to none,” said Chachi Senior, CEO of Ardaban, who has a history of working with Eisman. “I am ecstatic to have him join our ever-growing team of A-list talent as we prepare to feed the globe the next wave of unscripted format hits.
Before his tenure at Notional, Eisman logged years at City Lights Media and First Motionless Pictures. »
- AJ Marechal
Robert Altman: The Hollywood Interview
15 February 2013 1:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Robert Altman.
Robert Altman: Eclectic Maverick
By
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Venice Magazine.
It's the Fall of 1977 and I'm a bored and rebellious ten year old in search of a new movie to occupy my underworked and creativity-starved brain, feeling far too mature for previous favorites Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and wanting something more up-to-date and edgy than Chaplin's City Lights (1931). I needed a movie to call my favorite that would be symbolic of my own new-found manhood (and something that would really piss off my parents and teachers). Mom and Dad were going out for the evening, leaving me with whatever unfortunate baby-sitter happened to need the $10 badly enough to play mother hen to an obnoxiously precocious only child like myself. I scanned the TV Guide for what »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Brooks Back for 'Nemo 2', More 'Twilight' Fan Fiction Set for Big Screen and a List of Kubrick's Favorite Films
13 February 2013 6:59 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
1.) Albert Brooks is returning to voice Nemo's father, Marlin, in Finding Nemo 2. Ellen DeGeneres is also expected to return as the forgetful Dory with Andrew Stanton set to direct. At this point there are no plot details, though a 2016 release date is expected. Deadline 2.) Safe House director Daniel Espinosa is attached to direct an adaptation of John Grisham's "The Racketeer" for Fox and New Regency. The book sees a federal judge murdered at a lakeside cabin and the contents of his safe emptied. The only man who knows the whos and whys is a former attorney serving time in federal prison who hopes to parlay that into getting revenge on the people who put him there. THR 3.) More Twilight fan fiction is targeting a big screen adaptation while Universal tries to figure out what they're going to do with Fifty Shades of Grey. Constantin Film has acquired movie »
- Brad Brevet
The Top 10 Actors Turned Directors
1 February 2013 5:28 AM, PST | Scott Feinberg | See recent Scott Feinberg news »
By Joey Magidson
Film Contributor
***
I’ve always had a soft spot for films that are directed by actors. In one of my recent pieces, I spoke about how the Academy looks at actors who direct. Now, I’ll be continuing my interest by focusing in on which of these multi-hyphenates are the best at what they do.
By and large, the films that actors make when they choose directorial projects have some sort of significance for them or at least play to their strengths, so disasters are few and far between. This makes it a lot of fun to celebrate the best of the bunch, since I’m able to draw from a larger pool than you normally can when looking at one particular type of filmmaker.
I take some comfort in knowing that most films directed by actors tend to be at least decent, if not better. I »
- Joey Magidson
The 300 Greatest Films Ever Made (Part 28)
29 January 2013 1:58 PM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Our countdown is in the home-stretch, with part 28 out of 30 in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made. These are numbers 30-21.
30) City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin USA Silent
29) High Noon (1952) Fred Zinnemann USA
28) Singing In The Rain (1952) Gene Kelly USA
27) Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) Frank Capra USA
26) To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan USA
25) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick USA
24) Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese USA
23) The Godfather; Part 2 (1974) Francis Ford Coppola USA
22) Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock USA
21) Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey USA
Numbers 20-11 coming up next.
film cultureClassicslist300 »
- feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
Emma Stone Strips Down for 'W' Magazine
18 January 2013 10:53 AM, PST | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »
Emma Stone dons nothing but a black bra and a completely off-the-shoulder leather jacket for the February cover of W Magazine, in what's easily the steamiest pic yet of the 24-year-old starlet.
Shot by famous photographer Juergen Teller -- famous for his iconic Marc Jacobs ads -- who worked closely with W's Editor at Large Lynn Hirschberg, Emma sports little to no makeup and brunette roots for the jarring cover. The Gangster Squad star is featured in the magazine's Best Performances issue, in which she talks about what movie makes her cry, how she has to try hard not to be funny and about her scene-stealing Oscars presentation last year with Ben Stiller.
Pics: The Amazing Emma Stone's Best 'Spider-Man' Looks
"The end of City Lights makes me cry every time I see it -- when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his »
Top 10: Actors turned Directors
6 January 2013 2:15 PM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Just released in UK cinemas, Quartet is Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut. He has followed the path of many great actors before him that have turned their attentions and talents towards directing. In this Top 10 we take a look at some other note-worthy actors turned directors to put on your must watch list.
Sean Penn - With a career like Sean Penn’s, which includes award-winning films Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam and Milk, he was set as a Hollywood legend. Wanting more, Penn decided to follow in his father Leo Penn’s footsteps and begin directing. Thankfully he did pick up the camera or we wouldn’t have film greats like The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard, The Pledge and Into the Wild.
George Clooney - The silver fox of Hollywood made his big break at the cape crusader Batman back in 1997’s Batman and Robin and since then, »
- Phil
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