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Jennifer Jones Tribute on TCM
18 December 2009 2:33 PM, PST
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Turner Classic Movies will present a four-film tribute to Jennifer Jones, who died yesterday at the age of 90, on Thursday, Jan. 7, beginning at 5 p.m. (Pt). The four films are:
Duel in the Sun (above, 1946), a campy Western in which Jones plays a fiery "half-breed" desired by two brothers, dour Joseph Cotten and smirky Gregory Peck. Veteran King Vidor was one of the men who directed this attempt by David O. Selznick — Jones was his protegee and future wife — to achieve two goals with one single megaproduction: to create another Gone with the Wind and to transform his beloved Jennifer into a superstar. Selznick failed on both counts even though Duel [...]
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Oscar Winner Jennifer Jones Dies
17 December 2009 11:36 AM, PST
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Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun
Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-winning star of the 1943 blockbuster The Song of Bernadette and the wife of Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick, died of “natural causes” earlier today at her home in Malibu. Jones was 90.
In addition to her Bernadette Soubirous in Henry King’s film about the young French peasant who claimed to see and talk to the Virgin Mary, Jones also received Oscar nominations for playing Claudette Colbert’s all-American daughter in John Cromwell’s Since You Went Away (1944, in the supporting actress category), an amnesiac who may have murdered her husband in William Dieterle’s psychological noir Love Letters (1945), a wilful "half-breed" in King Vidor’s scorching Duel in [...]
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- Andre Soares
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The New Breed of Filmmakers: A Multiplication of Myths
16 December 2009 9:38 AM, PST
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The difference between the two obsessive quests in The Searchers (1956) and French Connection II (1975) is one of quantity: Popeye Doyle’s one goal, revenging himself on the hedonistic narcotics king, Charnier, to hell with everything else! involves more staccato cuts, more bits of cheerful Mediterranean color, more focus changing, and, especially more mobility and paranoia in Hackman’s acting than occurs during the entirety of Ethan Edward’s (John Wayne) endless Monument Valley search for little white Debbie (Natalie Wood) who, unthinkable for a Wayne-Ford adobe epic, has been cohabiting rather sensibly with a Comanche chief named Scar.
Effulgence, luxuriance . . . the new Hollywood film multiplies everything, trying to get the mythic aspect as well as a very contemporaneous attitude about candidness, what does candidness mean as a way of life? Old studio works like Double Indemnity (1944) stick to one hard-boiled attitude about the Forties in the L.A. suburbs: the camera-lighting-acting-language is dry,
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As God Is My Witness.
16 December 2009 4:42 AM, PST
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Jose here with a post seventy years in the making.
On December 15th, 1939 the city of Atlanta celebrated what President Jimmy Carter would later call "the biggest event to happen in the South in my lifetime." The entire city had been holding a celebration for the previous three days which had them decorate their houses in Civil War era style, lined their streets with Confederate flags and hold the largest costume ball seen to the date.
The worldwide premiere of Gone With the Wind would become an event of such magnitude that even a recent bestseller dedicated an entire chapter to the effect it had on its characters.
If that was only the premiere, can you imagine the effect the movie had on the world?
Unrivaled to this day in scope, box office and critical acclaim (although that has come with its share of controversy...) the film remains the epitome of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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What's On Tonight: NCIS, X-Play, Gordon Ramsay, The Good Wife
15 December 2009 9:15 AM, PST
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At 8, ABC has A Charlie Brown Christmas, then new episodes of Scrubs and Better Off Ted.
CBS has a new NCIS at 8, followed by new episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
NBC has a new, two-hour episode of The Sing-Off at 8, followed by a new Jay Leno Show.
Fox has a new So You Think You Can Dance, then the premiere of Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live.
G4 has a new X-Play at 8.
Also at 8: TCM has Gone with the Wind.
Discovery has a new Dirty Jobs at 9, followed by a new Ghost Lab.
BBC America has a new Britain's Missing Top Model at 9.
At 10, Syfy has a new Ecw, then two new episodes of Outer Space Astronauts.
Bravo has a new Tabatha's Salon Takeover at 10.
A&E has the season premiere of Paranormal State at 10.
TBS has The Funniest Commecials of the Year 2009 at 10.
IFC has
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- Bob Sassone
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Blu-ray Review: The General
15 December 2009 2:09 AM, PST
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I was shocked to look over my DVD/Blu-ray collection and find I didn't actually own a single title from Kino, the eclectic home entertainment studio. They have several noteworthy films in their collection and on top of The General there's Battleship Potemkin, the Griffith Masterworks, Ballast, Metropolis, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari and their collection of F.W. Murnau films is impressive. Yet, I own none of them, which makes the addition of Buster Keaton's classic silent comedy The General on Blu-ray a special occasion.
First off, this film is great without any kind of high definition clean-up. My first time watching it was September of 2008 and it was on Netflix's Instant Play service and I loved it then as much as I loved it this time around, but the comparison stops there. Kino's restoration and presentation is immaculate. The General was released in 1927 and is now the oldest
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- Brad Brevet
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Films Of The Decade – Martyn’s List
14 December 2009 5:30 PM, PST
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The first decade of the new millennium would see an abundance of cinematic treasures, disasters and all things in between. It was the decade in which the Webbed-Wonder swung through the streets of New York and battled the Green Goblin, Doc-Ock, Sandman and Venom. It would be the decade of torture porn. It would be the decade in which The Matrix sequels thoroughly disappointed. It would be the decade Michael Bay came into his own as the purveyor of crash-bang action flicks and discovered the photogenic quality of Megan Fox’s ass. It would be the decade that many screen icons left us, whilst others were made. It would be the decade that belonged to high school musicals, vampires, wizards, hobbits and superheroes. It would be the decade that saw the return of Indiana Jones and would see the last screen performance of Clint Eastwood. So many films, so many hours.
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- Martyn Conterio
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GreenCine Holiday Gift Guide! 2009
13 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST
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Greetings holiday Gremlins! The GreenCine team is at your service to show you the best/quirkiest gifts out there for you/your cinephile friends and family this season. We've included a smorgasbord of goodies: books, DVDs, comics, games, fantasy-dream-list items (see: D-Box seats), and much much more. If we're missing anything, we'd love to read your recommendations in the comments section below (even though our wish-and-gift-buying list is already dangerously long).
Part 1: Special Edition DVDs, Compilations, Companion Books
Part 2: Staff Favorite Books and DVDs 2009
Part 3: Games, Gadgets and Oddities
Of course, #1 on our list for non-GreenCine members is GreenCine Gift Certificates! Good for 2 to up to 12 months at the 3-DVDs out at a time plan. Treat your friends to our eclectic selection and welcome them to our film-loving family.
Part 1: DVD re-releases, Compilations, and Companion Books
With the rise in the popularity of Blu-Ray in 2009, even
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Christmas Blu-ray roundup
11 December 2009 4:08 PM, PST
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The prices plummeted this year, so Blu-ray players are likely to be under plenty of Christmas trees. Phelim O'Neill advises what to play on them
Blockbusters
Jj Abrams's rebooted Star Trek (Paramount) was not only the sole moment of unbridled fun in this year's blockbuster season but the best, full bells and whistles Blu-ray issue, too. With its sparkling HD visuals (not a given for Blu-ray), vibrant soundtrack and exhaustive supplementary material, it's ideal for showing to anyone who dares ask, "Why all the fuss about Blu-ray?"
Documentary
Let's not forget the educational importance of Blu-ray. Actually, let's do, as the picture quality on series like David Attenborough's Planet Earth and Life (BBC) is so gobsmackingly pristine that the senses are too overloaded to take in any useful information. Better to go for slightly lower-fi stuff, documentaries where the pictures do all the talking
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- Phelim O'Neill
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Gone With The Wind 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray Giveaway!
11 December 2009 6:58 AM, PST
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I've sent you over to the Warner Blu Facebook Page before, but I really want to impress upon everyone out there with Blu-Ray capability that becoming a fan is a must. Considering the general scope of Facebook's potential, the people at Warner Brothers are really trying to get everything they can into this, and being a fan isn't much work. You'll get all the info on new titles coming to Blu-Ray, whether they're the things first hitting release, or classics coming to Blu-Ray like Gone With The Wind.
Best of all, from my perspective anyway, you get the early scoop on the special features that will be available on these releases, with not only trailers, but clips from the bonuses as well.
You've got to take a look, and become a Fan of Warner Blu on Facebook.
Today I have a great prize for you, as you already know, The
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- Marc Eastman
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Come Back to Me...Or Not.
11 December 2009 4:12 AM, PST
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Jose here with a look at one of the most misunderstood performances of the decade.
Nicole Kidman is arguably the actress of the decade. The woman did everything in the past ten years: thrillers, Ingmar Bergman redux, classy biopics, astonishing musicals, big special effects epics and even Lars von Trier. The last few years however have been full of incomprehensible Kidman hate (if this were the 1930's she'd be deemed box office poison and sent to oblivion).
The backlash began with the release of Cold Mountain Anthony Minghella's Civil War epic which some had decided would be the new Gone With the Wind the minute it started shooting. When it was released and Nicole's Ada Monroe just wasn't Scarlett O'Hara, it was as if people decided Nicole had cheated them from what they all thought would be a third consecutive Best Actress Oscar nomination (it says a lot that
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Blu-ray Review: Gone With the Wind
9 December 2009 10:32 AM, PST
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Packed in a velvet box filled with three discs full of bonus features, a 20-page reproduction of the original program, a 40-page book about the production, eight art prints, and a CD sampler, one might accuse Warner Home Video of gilding the lily for their premier release of Gone With the Wind on Blu-ray. Amazingly, however, the set manages to seem like exactly the amount of excess that would be necessary to properly celebrate one of American cinema's earliest masterpieces. Newly remastered in high definition and arriving with some eight hours of supplemental material, Gone With the Wind remains a classic by which all others should be judged, and now the same can be said of its home-entertainment iteration.
Initially I considered covering this film in Cinematical's "Shelf Life" column, but watching just a few of the film's opening scenes I knew it would be redundant to re-christen Gone With the Wind as amazing,
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- Todd Gilchrist
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Philip French's screen legends
6 December 2009 4:20 PM, PST
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No 76: Errol Flynn 1909-1959
Flynn was born in Tasmania, the son of an eminent marine biologist, and early on developed a passion for the sea and a reputation as a rebel. Spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout while a young, very minor actor in England, he became an overnight Hollywood star in 1935 as a last-minute replacement for Robert Donat as the swashbuckling hero of Captain Blood. By 1936 he was the leading contender to play Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind.
Flynn was tall, slim, graceful, debonair with a neatly trimmed moustache, a winning smile, a hearty, self-mocking laugh. Everything he did, both on screen and off, contributed to his legendary status: the colonial background (he claimed to be a descendant of Fletcher Christian); the celebrated characters he played (General Custer, Robin Hood); his sexual conquests; his prodigious phallic dimensions (according to Truman Capote in Music for Chameleons,
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- Philip French
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Tyrone Power VIII: Legacy
6 December 2009 1:01 AM, PST
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Tyrone Power VII: Popularity
If there is a failing in name recognition, I blame Turner Classic Movies for not licensing more Fox films. People who watch Turner think that the only stars worked for MGM, WB, and Rko. In point of fact, Tyrone Power was #5 in the world — above Gable — for the Gone with the Wind year, 1939, and #2 in 1940, and unlike Errol Flynn, who only made a top box-office list once, Power stayed a mega movie star until his death, demanding a percentage of his films’ gross.
If one looks at the Top Ten Reviews list, which lists actors according to box office and reviews, Power is listed as the #151st most popular actor. That [...]
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- Andre Soares
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Twice the glitz and glamour?
5 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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The Academy has decided to extend the shortlist for next year's best picture Oscar from five to 10 films. Is that a good idea? We can't quite decide…
It has to be a bad idea, doesn't it?
Ten best picture nominations in the Oscars instead of five? It's a cynical move by the Academy to boost viewing figures by opening the field to crowd-pleasers such as The Dark Knight, the exclusion of which last year caused fanboy outrage. The Oscars aren't exactly the gold standard where quality is concerned, but they remain the most important fixture in the movie calendar and the nomination process is not to be treated lightly. Now the list will be swamped with button-pressing blockbusters such as Avatar and Star Trek, which may deserve their box-office receipts but absolutely should not be honoured alongside the all-time greats: All About Eve! Lawrence of Arabia! The Godfather!
True, but
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- Killian Fox
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Gone With The Wind 70th Anniversary Blu-ray Review
4 December 2009 12:19 PM, PST
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There is nothing wrong with Gone with the Wind. Yes, it’s a bit racist. Heck, it’s a lot racist and you get to cringe listening to Clark Gable say things like “darkie.” The black characters are mostly shameful, and the film revels in the greatness and loss of the South. There are interesting ambiguities, though. Rhett Butler (Gable) recognizes that the civil war is stupid and bound for failure, but later on enlists. Okay, there’s a lot wrong with the film, but it’s also one of those films of such grand dramatic heft that it is also undeniable. My review of Gone with the Wind after the (Kris Kross will make you Jump) jump.
It’s hard not to wrestle with the history of the film, and Spike Lee has decidedly dismissed it. He’s not unfair for doing so; there are a lot of problems with the text.
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- Andre Dellamorte
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Shorts on Blu-Ray
4 December 2009 11:07 AM, PST
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Robert Rodriguez.s self contained digital world looks clear and real on Blu Ray. Shorts is about crazy stuff happening in the real world of suburbia, not the usual Robert Rodriguez hyper stylized green screen world. You see the sterile, plain homes and natural outdoors.
Gone With the Wind on Blu-Ray
You don.t see any grain because there was no film. It.s totally clear, but there.s no extra super detail. The crazy stuff blends the scene so it looks like it was actually part of the green outdoors or inside in the kitchen.
There is something flat about it. Rodriguez likes quick and easy, but you see everything. It.s so lit, there.s not much depth to the mise en scene. You do see some textures, like the instruction manual cover, scratches on the wishing rock, clothing fabric, the house walls, scales on the reptiles and the shiny black suited villains.
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MovieClips.com Launches
3 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST
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Tired of searching YouTube for your favorite movie scenes, only to come up empty handed? Yesterday saw the launch of a new site called MovieClips.com, which boasts a collection of over 12,000 film clips, most of them around two minutes in length, in order for fans to call up their favorite movie moments and quotes easily and quickly. Six of the major studios are on board with licensed clips -- Disney is notably absent at the moment -- that can be viewed on MovieClips' site or shared through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
The new site is still in the beta stage, so it's not totally perfect at the moment. And you may at first be frustrated with the number of big titles currently missing from the collection. For example, I used AFI's list of 100 greatest movie quotes to see just how thorough MovieClips is, and I was
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Gay Of The Dead #29 - Socket’s Alexandra Billings
1 December 2009 2:29 AM, PST
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December 1 is World AIDS Day, and I have the pleasure of knowing someone HIV+ who is both connected to the horror/sci-fi world and a huge fan, actress Alexandra Billings.
I met Alexandra ages and ages ago, right around when someone invented fire. We were both eyeballs deep in the Chicago theater community, doing show after show, sometimes two or even three different plays a night, with the energy only a 20-something possesses. We worked together, became friends, and eventually both moved to La around the same time. You can read a fairly detailed account of her Chicago days (through my eyes) including a lot of info about her transgender journey in my other blog here: http://zombietruckstop.livejournal.com/2006/12/01/ - and of course on her own website.
After so much theater, Alexandra now swims around the Los Angeles on-camera, TV and film pool, slowly but surely convincing forward-thinking casting
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Abley)
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Edward Cullen, stalker? Yes, but so is the hero of 'The Graduate'
30 November 2009 1:45 PM, PST
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Is Bella Swan an independent and sort of daring young lovesick renegade…or a doormat? A good role model...or a godawful role model? Or should she be considered a role model at all? And what of the Twilight saga itself: Is it liberating the fantasy life of a new generation of young women by inviting them to wallow in the kind of stormy-skies, trembling-damsel romanticism that has been a staple of popular fiction from Wuthering Heights onward? Or is it setting back the holy cause of women's enlightenment by 50 years?
These and other questions were debated, with rude and furious passion,
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- Owen Gleiberman
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