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My Life As A Mankiewicz: An Insider’s Journey Through Hollywood
29 May 2012 12:00 AM, PDT | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
If you love Hollywood anecdotes—not the same old stuff you’ve heard before but fresh material, related first-hand by a master storyteller—you simply must get this book. I didn’t so much read as devour it, and now I feel impelled to tell everyone I know how good it is. Tom Mankiewicz grew up the privileged son of writer-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz. His fabled uncle Herman co-wrote Citizen Kane. Humphrey Bogart gave him his first stiff drink. Elizabeth Taylor used him as a beard when she was “seeing” Richard Burton but still married to Eddie Fisher. Joe Mankiewicz made a point of taking his family along on location whenever he could, which...
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- Leonard Maltin
Tivoli Announces Matinees of their Midnight Movies
27 May 2012 9:05 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Do you love the movies The Muppet Movie (1979), Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Citizen Kane? Did you here that these films are on the Tivoli’s new Reel Late Midnight show schedule but are distressed because you can’t stay up that late? I have good news. The Tivoli has announced that they will be showing these four select films at 11am on the Saturdays that they are scheduled to be shown at midnight. Here’s the rundown:
The Muppet Movie – June 2
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory – June 9
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – June 16
Citizen Kane – June 30
Now you have no excuse to see these classic on the big screen. The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop. Visit Landmark.s The Tivoli.s website Here
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm
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- Tom Stockman
The 50 greatest matte paintings of all time
27 May 2012 5:35 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
The art of the glass shot or matte painting is one which originated very much in the early ‘teens’ of the silent era. Pioneer film maker, director, cameraman and visual effects inventor Norman Dawn is generally acknowledged as the father of the painted matte composite, with other visionary film makers such as Ferdinand Pinney Earle, Walter Hall and Walter Percy Day being heralded as making vast contributions to the trick process in the early 1920’s.
Boiled down, the matte process is one whereby a limited film set may be extended to whatever, or wherever the director’s imagination dictates with the employment of a matte artist. In it’s most pure form, the artist would set up a large plate of clear glass in front of the motion picture camera upon which he would carefully paint in new scenery an ornate period ceiling, snow capped mountains, a Gothic castle or even an alien world. »
Friday Noir: ‘The Third Man’ is morally ambiguous but unquestionably great
25 May 2012 10:09 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Carol Reed
Written by Graham Green
U.K, U.S.A., 1949
*This review will avoid some of the story’s major details
In the years immediately following the second World War, many of Europe’s countries were left in a pile of rubble, their economies destroyed, and their people still reeling from the all too real nightmare they had endured for 6 long years. Even some of Europe’s most historic, near-mythic cities had been the victim of intensive bombing or urban warfare, or both in the worst cases. Among said cities which were forced to endure a period of strenuous recovery was Austria’s capital, Vienna. Vienna was in an even greater political quagmire than Berlin. While the latter was occupied by two of WWII’s victorious nations, Vienna had four adoptive fathers, the British, the French, the United States and the Soviet Union. What greater setting, »
- Edgar Chaput
Preparing for Film School at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy
24 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
1. Watch as many movies as you can. At the core of every great filmmaker is a great student of films, so this is always the first bit of advice I give my future students. Before you pick up a camera, you should certainly get to know the greats (like Chaplin, Kubrick, Scorsese and Spielberg, to name a few), but also try to venture outside of your cinematic comfort zone. Explore the breadth of the classic American and foreign cinema canon. Pay close attention to similarities and differences among filmmakers of different generations, styles, and cultural backgrounds. But perhaps most importantly, get intimately familiar with what you, the film watcher, love to experience at the movies. To get you started, here are my picks for the top six essential films for aspiring film students (in alphabetical order): ♦ Casablanca ♦ Citizen Kane ♦ The Godfather ♦ Psycho ♦ Raging Bull ♦ Singin' in the Rain For even more selections, »
Citizen Kane, Cool Hand Luke, A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist Part Of Cinemark’s Summer Classics Series
23 May 2012 8:46 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Cinemark Holdings, Inc., the world’s highest attended motion picture exhibitor, is pleased to announce that the “Summer Classics Series,” featuring eight legendary Hollywood movies, will take place in over 100 Cinemark theatres across the country. All of these digitally restored movies, from the Warner Bros. film catalogue, will be scheduled to play each Wednesday, during the months of June and July, at two separate show times, 2 pm and 7pm.
“Cinemark’s Classic Film Series presents a great opportunity for movie-lovers to revisit some of the greatest Hollywood films of all time,” states James Meredith, VP of Marketing & Communications for Cinemark. “Our customers can experience all of these celebrated movies as they were meant to be seen, on the big screen, with crystal clear digital projection and incredible surround sound.”
Cinemark has worked with Warner Bros. to select eight titles that were visionary films at their time of release, and still »
- Michelle McCue
The Tivoli Announces its Midnight Series Line-Up for June and July!
21 May 2012 8:20 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
What do Tommy Wiseau and the Muppets have in common? If you said they’re both moth-infested hand puppets, you’d be incorrect! They’re both coming to the Tivoli midnights this summer and Mr. Wiseau will be here live and in person. The Muppet Movie and The Room are just two of the films that will be showing as part of The Tivoli’s Reel Late Midnight Movie series. There are two different films shown each weekend, one in the Tivoli.s large auditorium and one on one of the smaller screens. We Are Movie Geek.s own Tom Stockman will be there each night with trivia questions about the films and always has DVDs, posters, and other cool stuff to give away. Ticket prices are $8 (except Rocky Horror which is $10, and The Room with Tommy Wiseau live which is $15). We hope to see everyone late at night this Spring. »
- Tom Stockman
Rocky Producer To Tackle Rebekah Brooks Movie
19 May 2012 7:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The producer behind Rocky is set to turn former British tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks' fall from grace into a big screen movie.
Brooks quit as CEO of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International company in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal last year. She had previously edited the defunct title as well as daily newspaper The Sun.
She was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice earlier this week (begs14May12), and now there are plans to turn her meteoric rise to the top of British media and the subsequent demise of her career into a film.
Gene Kirkwood, who produced Sylvester Stallone's hit Rocky, insists he was drawn to Brooks' life story due to its comparison to Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations.
He says, "She's a great story. Her rise is almost like Great Expectations - with a moral. (The film will be) a porthole into Murdoch's world. I see it as a Citizen Kane approach."
The project will start rolling when the phone hacking scandal reaches some sort of conclusion. Kirkwood adds, "As soon as there is an ending, we're going forward. Murdoch might retire - who knows?" »
Ask Libby...: Libby Gelman-Waxner answers your questions about the 'Citizen Kane' of male stripper movies
11 May 2012 11:37 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
It may still be early May, but after The Avengers smashed the box-office last weekend, it’s officially summer at the movies. Marvel’s superhero mash-up has raised the bar, and there’s still plenty of enormous blockbusters on the way. The Dark Knight Rises. The Amazing Spider-Man. Prometheus. Magic Mike? Not surprisingly, EW’s Libby Gelman-Waxner is highest on Channing Tatum’s star-studded male stripper movie. She explains her excitement for the “Citizen Kane of male stripper movies,” and answers your pop-cultural questions below.
To Libby:
I realize you may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of summer movies coming out, »
- Libby Gelman-Waxner
Delusions of Grandeur: Your Favorite Movie Isn’t the Best One Ever Made
10 May 2012 1:30 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
On Tuesday, the good folks at Film School Rejects posted a story immodestly if not unfairly titled “The 10 Greatest Movies of All Time (According to the Internet),” based on 40 or so all-time Top Ten lists from a variety of critics across the country. The end result assembled a list of titles that were mostly obvious, especially for a generation of critics and cinephiles who came of age in the 1980s or later: Although stalwart “best ever” movie Citizen Kane topped the list, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Back to the Future followed not very far behind. Here was their list: 1. Citizen Kane (73 points) 2. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (61) 3. The Godfather (57) 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (53) 5...
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- Todd Gilchrist
Best Movie Ever?: "Working Girl"
9 May 2012 1:46 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Usually I have a specific reason for picking each week's candidate for "Best Movie Ever" -- say, if Jane Fonda goes back to work or summer is approaching -- but with 1988's Working Girl, it's just a matter of necessity. It has to be considered for Best Movie Ever because 1) I can watch it again and again, 2) It doesn't mind being ridiculous, and 3) It spends most of its time being right. Plus, this Mike Nichols jam is a beaming strobe light of '80s ferocity, and not just because Joan Cusack's teal eyeshadow and Sigourney Weaver's vermilion blazer will char your retinas. This movie is a celebration of self-respect, floor-length leather jackets, and drive. Let's count up its greatest assets and see if it comes out looking better than Citizen Kane.
1. Melanie Griffith is so, so right for this role. Or so, so wrong!
As my asthmatic obsession »
- virtel
‘Kick Ass 2′ Gets A Less Than Kick Ass Director
9 May 2012 8:47 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
We at Thn bloody well loved Kick Ass and were very, very excited to hear news of a sequel in the works with Matthew Vaughan involved, I mean he wouldn’t get a director on board who directed teen-tripe like Never Back Down would he…oh he has! Yes that’s right director Jeff Wadlow, whose other credits include Cry Wolf, has been signed up and now starts the process of getting all the main actors on board.
Now as I said we’re all massive fans of the original but there is a huge amount of trepidation around this, but hey Never Back Down, whilst no Citizen Kane, had some nice fight-scenes and we aren’t a group to put a project down before we’ve set a reviewer on it, so we’ll await the finished product with intrigue.
But what do you think? Does the new director »
- Sam Carey
Sam Green’S Love Song At Sfiff
7 May 2012 7:19 AM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
One of the highlights of the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival, which boasted a great lineup of films and filmmakers, was the new “live documentary” by Sam Green, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, featuring Green and Yo La Tengo live on stage. The notion of the live documentary is exciting as a new film movement, a far more powerful one than the overrated reemergence of 3-D.
As part of their Buckminster Fuller exhibit, Sfmoma commissioned Green to create a live documentary on Fuller in the spirit of the filmmaker’s previous work Utopia in Four Movements. Fuller is most well known as the designer of the geodesic dome for use as an event space or home for individuals. However, Green uses this project to delve into Fuller’s life; he was a unique man who believed that wars over natural resources were unnecessary, and he promoted the idea »
- Mike Plante
Your Kentucky Derby pop culture party planner: Because you need something else to do besides watch horses run for two minutes
5 May 2012 7:31 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Old sports writers (mainly Pardon the Interruption host and professional crank Tony Kornheiser) like to remind anybody listening that for most of the pre-World War II era, the biggest sports in America were baseball, boxing, and horse racing.
If you really want to get your 1930s on this weekend, you’ll have that chance: The baseball season is in full swing (Let’S Go Mets!), there’s a huge title fight in the boxing world between Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto, and on Saturday evening, the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby begins.
The Kentucky Derby is an excellent excuse for a party, »
- Kyle Anderson
Actress Patricia Medina Dead At 92
2 May 2012 12:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Patricia Medina has died after a long battle with ill health at the age of 92.
She died at Barlow Respiratory Hospital on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.
The British-born beauty began her acting career in England in the late 1930s and moved to Hollywood after marrying The Adventures of Robin Hood TV star Richard Greene.
Medina became a big star following leading roles opposite Fernando Lamas in Sangaree, Glenn Ford in Plunder of the Sun and Alan Ladd in Botany Bay.
Her additional film credits include Mr. Arkadin, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Phantom of the Rue Morgue, Fortunes of Captain Blood, Lady in the Iron Mask, and The Lady and the Bandit.
In 1960, the actress married Citizen Kane star Joseph Cotten and two years later she made her Broadway debut opposite her new husband in Calculated Risk. »
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
28 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol; The Wicker Tree; The Iron Lady
After blotting his copybook with the drearily disappointing Knight and Day, Tom Cruise regains his multiplex action mojo with the surprisingly sprightly Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Paramount, 12). Thrown into the wilderness by an absurdly contrived chain of conspiratorial events culminating in the near-destruction of the Kremlin, the now-rogue Ethan Hunt ventures to Dubai, Mumbai and various other scenic locales where he and his crack team of elite outcasts must reclaim their mission status against predictably impossible odds.
Having clearly workshopped the audience responses from previous films, the writers (Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec are credited) contrive to bring comic sidekick Simon Pegg to the fore in the manner of Joe Pesci in the Lethal Weapon sequels, while simultaneously breaking up the all-boys club with ass-kicking heroine Paula Patton.
If it all sounds terribly cynical on paper, the on-screen results are far more likably playful, »
- Mark Kermode
Smaug Tops List of Fictional Billionaires, Joined by Salander, Wayne, Stark and Cullen
28 April 2012 12:44 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
With the coming release of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, the recent release of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the excitement over "Game of Thrones", the release of The Avengers around the world, the upcoming release of The Dark Knight Rises, the coming 25th season of "The Simpsons" and this year signalling the end of the Twilight franchise at the movies with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Forbes' "Fictional 15" list is extraordinarily timely on top of pain-stakingly detailed. Topping the list is the dragon Smaug from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and if you're wondering how much effort was put into the list. Here's a snippet from Michael Noer's original research, which was then questioned by Tolkien fans prompting him to revisit his list once again this year: Taking into account a variety of factors including the estimated length of a dragon (64 feet), how »
- Brad Brevet
Stan Lee: 'I’ve Never Stopped Feeling Like A Kid'
28 April 2012 8:28 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Stan Lee is not only the co-creater of Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and Iron Man (to name a few), but he is also a true American legend. His ability to craft characters, his passion for collaboration and his creative genius are just a few of the attributes of his impressive and prolific career.
The Huffington Post was given the privilege of interviewing the man behind the Marvel mask. As it turns out, we think he's the greatest superhero of them all.
HuffPost: It’s 2012. Young boys can be seen across the country wearing Iron Man shirts and being Spider-Man for Halloween. Why do you think the characters you created almost 50 years ago still resonate with today’s youth?
Stan Lee: I would guess it’s because we tried to make our characters as human and empathetic as possible. Instead of merely emphasizing their super feats, »
- Lucy Blodgett
The Forbes Fictional 15: 2012's Richest Film Characters
27 April 2012 3:04 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Wait, no... that's the wrong Tywin
Forbes have released their annual 'Fictional 15' list - a summary of the richest film characters in relation to how they gross worldwide:
1. Smaug, The Hobbit ($62 billion)
2. Flintheart Glomgold, Uncle Scrooge ($51.9 billion)
3. Carlisle Cullen, The Twilight Saga ($36.3 billion)
4. Jed Clampett, The Beverly Hillbillies ($9.8 billion)
5. Tony Stark, Iron Man ($9.3 billion)
6. Richie Rich, Richie Rich ($8.9 billion)
7. Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane ($8.3 billion)
8. Bruce Wayne, Batman ($6.9 billion)
9. Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump ($5.7 billion)
10. Mr. Monopoly, Monopoly ($2.5 billion)
11. Lisbeth Salander, the Millennium series ($2.4 billion)
12. Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire ($2.1 billion)
13. C. Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons ($1.3 billion)
14. Robert Crawley, Downton Abbey ($1.1 billion)
15. Jo Bennett, The Office ($1 billion)
Here's how they came up with those figures:
To qualify for the Fictional 15, we require that candidates be an authored fictional creation, a rule which excludes mythological and folkloric characters. They must star in a specific narrative work or series of works. »
- Chris Villeneuve
The greatest films of all time
27 April 2012 9:59 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
I am faced once again with the task of voting in Sight & Sound magazine's famous poll to determine the greatest films of all time. Apart from my annual year's best lists, this is the only list I vote in. It is a challenge. After voting in 1972, 1982 and 1992, I came up with these ten titles in 2002:
Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog) Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Citizen Kane (Welles) Dekalog (Kieslowski) La Dolce Vita (Fellini) The General (Keaton) Raging Bull (Scorsese) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Vertigo (Hitchcock)
To add a title, I must remove one. Which film can I do without? Not a single one. One of my shifts last time was to replace Hitchcock's "Notorious" with "Vertigo," because after going through both a shot at a time during various campus sessions, I decided that "Vertigo" was, after all, the better of two nearly perfect films.
The other »
- Roger Ebert
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