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Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
Criterion Collection: Richard III | Blu-ray Review
7 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
More than 500 years later, historians and archaeologists have unearthed, and then validated the skeleton remains of the two-year term King of England, and in the same token, the Criterion folks issue the crisp, restored Blu-ray edition of Laurence Olivier’s Richard III, his third feature as a director following 1944′s Henry V and 1948′s Hamlet. In 1957, the film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. During the same year, the film won Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film.
The great Olivier is Richard the Duke of Gloucester, a man with an insatiable appetite for power. He often smiles but his heart is full of poison. Assisted by the corrupt Duke of Buckingham (Ralph Richardson, Doctor Zhivago), he plans to kill his brother George (John Gielgud, The Elephant Man) and two nephews, while winning the heart of the vulnerable The Lady Anne (Claire Bloom, »
- Larry Peel
'The Sopranos' Creator David Chase's Must See Movies Include 'Barry Lyndon,' 'Bicycle Thieves,' 'Something Wild' & More
3 May 2013 6:38 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
There’s a fun little series on NPR, titled “Watch This,” which occasionally takes a look at the favorite films from filmmakers such as William Friedkin, Paul Feig, and Kevin Smith. The latest edition features “The Sopranos” creator David Chase and it’s filled with a lot of interesting choices. It’s always fascinating to learn more about what influences certain filmmakers and Chase’s list definitely reflects that. His list includes Stanley Kubrick's “Barry Lyndon,” Vittorio De Sica's “Bicycle Thieves,” Laurel and Hardy’s “Saps at Sea,” Powell and Pressburger’s “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” and “A Canterbury Tale” (check out our recent retrospective on the filmmakers), Lindsay Anderson’s “O Lucky Man!,” Luis Bunuel’s “Tristana” and “Viridana,” and Johnathan Demme’s “Something Wild” (the most contemporary picture of the bunch). David Chase cites “Barry Lyndon” as his favorite Kubrick movie, saying “What’s great about it, »
- Ken Guidry
In the mood for love: is Brief Encounter still the most romantic film ever?
23 April 2013 2:39 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Time Out has put its heart on its sleeve and shouted its Brief Encounter infatuation from the rooftops. Will you join them in their lovebombing of the 68-year-old classic? Or have your tastes in romantic movies moved on?
Sam played it again, now it's our turn to plug in the turntable and petition you once more for your top romance films of all time. The peg? Time Out's 100 Most Romantic Films of all Time poll, which has been announced today, and which names Brief Encounter as the title most likely to get your heart a-flutter.
But by our reckoning, the Time Out folk are cruising for a bruising; when we came to the same conclusion three years ago, the readers felt we'd done them wrong, and suggested Casablanca was Mr Right when it came to romantic movies.
Do you feel the same? Has your taste for gin joints endured over the past three years? »
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp Criterion Blu-ray Review
18 April 2013 5:37 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were a cinematic match made in heaven. The duo began collaborating on movies in 1939, and worked together off and on for over three decades. Though their films were credited to both as the writers, directors and producers, Powell was more of the director of the two, while Pressburger was the writer. Though their works have been spotlighted by the Criterion collection since they started making laserdiscs, they are the sort of filmmakers that will never be as well known as David Lean or Danny Boyle, but are arguably among the best - if not the best - filmmakers that England ever produced. 1943’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a strong contender for their greatest film. Criterion has just released it on Blu-ray and our review follows after the jump. As would be known to the viewers of the day, Colonel Blimp was »
- Andre Dellamorte
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
"Colonel Blimp" Lives On Blu-Ray
2 April 2013 10:08 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Viewing it nowadays, it’s hard to view The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as anything but hopelessly quaint. Its world is one of duels, of columns marching towards each other, of warfare as an essential (but largely harmless) rite of manhood. Its spiritual turning point is the second World War; the horrors revealed even at the end of that war (to say nothing of Vietnam or later genocides), familiar now to all people, would be unimaginable by these characters. But as more and more is revealed to us about the good old days (and how they weren’t that good at all), it becomes even more important that we understand just how our forebears perceived themselves and in what image our ancestors crafted our world. Though Colonel Blimp has considerable other virtues as a film (it is an Archer production, after all), that may be its greatest: a reminder of the simple, »
- Anders Nelson
Criterion Collection: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Blu-ray Review
2 April 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Before the legendary British filmmaking duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger lensed the classics The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus or A Matter of Life & Death, they raised quite a stir with their life long tale of an aging army officer, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The directors were working as hired guns on British war propaganda films in the midst of World War II when they started work on the picture. Featuring the well-known British cartoon icon created by David Low, Colonel Blimp was a satirical symbol of low brow soldiery and politics of the time, and when Powell and Pressburger decided to recast the character as Clive Candy, placed by the amorphous Roger Livesey, and have him befriend a German soldier, a sworn enemy of the state at the time, British officials, including Winston Churchill himself, were outraged and tried desperately to dissuade the film’s completion. »
- Jordan M. Smith
New to Blu-ray: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Badlands Criterion, Zero Dark Thirty, and More
19 March 2013 12:32 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Here’s a look at this week’s new Blu-ray releases: Badlands (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] - $26.86 (33% off) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD + UltraViolet Digital Copy Combo Pack) - $27.99 (38% off) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Blu-ray/DVD + UltraViolet Digital Copy Combo Pack) - $21.99 (39% off) Les Misérables (Two-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet) - $19.99 (43% off) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] - $31.99 (20% off) Rust and Bone [Blu-ray] - $24.99 (31% off) This Is 40 (Two-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet) - $19.99 (43% off) Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy) - $22.99 (44% off) Hit the jump for details on the extras included on all the aforementioned releases. Badlands (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Writer/director Terrence Malick’s brilliant first film gets the Criterion treatment, and as usual the disc comes complete with some fascinating extras. The disc includes the original trailer for the film, a new 42-minute »
- Adam Chitwood
'Hobbit', 'Zero Dark', 'Badlands' and 'Les Mis' Top Huge Week of New DVD and Blu-ray Releases
19 March 2013 7:43 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Zero Dark Thirty Two of my top ten films of 2012 arrive on DVD and Blu-ray today, the first being Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. Despite the procedural nature of this film, I've found it immensely rewatchable and beyond that I want to watch it again every time I see an advertisement for this release.
Rust and Bone A great movie that, for the most part, seemed like it was sadly overlooked once it didn't become a major awards contender. At least now people will be able to check it out for themselves. I can't wait to see what Jacques Audiard has up his sleeve next.
Badlands (Criterion Collection) Before Terrence Malick fell in love with images of water and the sun peeking through trees he made a film called Badlands. I personally don't love this film and find Days of Heaven and Thin Red Line to be Malick's greatest, »
- Brad Brevet
In March, Criterion Collection Meets "The Blob", "Monsieur Verdoux", Colonel Blimp in the "Badlands"
18 March 2013 2:36 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Self-professed cinephiles the world over appreciate the Criterion Collection's mission to preserve classic and contemporary films deemed culturally or artistically important. Every month they select somewhere between 4 to 6 features and digitally remaster them for new Blu-ray and DVD releases to ensure that some of the world's best cinematic works survive the transfer to today's high-definition era. This March the releases include the horror classic The Blob (starring a young Steve McQueen), the celebrated British dramatic comedy The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Fritz Lang's war drama Ministry of Fear, the Charlie Chaplin comedy Monsieur Verdoux, Terrence Malick's directorial debut Badlands, and Robert Bresson's jailbreak drama A Man Escaped.
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- Lex Walker
Martin Scorsese's Incredible Editor
12 March 2013 12:02 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
This is an exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming Film issue of Port magazine, guest edited by Daniel Day Lewis.
Thelma Schoonmaker has worked as Editor on all of Martin Scorsese's movies since Raging Bull. She has been nominated for seven Oscars, winning three times.
The Editor
Interviewed by Dan Crowe
I got into movies by a series of wonderful accidents of fate. Having been raised overseas, I wanted to become a diplomat. But the State Department thought I was too “liberal” to be happy with that job.
I read an advertisment in The New York Times for an assistant to a film editor, who I later discovered was butchering great European films for late-night TV slots on American television. He would just lift a reel out of a film – Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers for example – and make it conform to a requested length. I learned »
- Andrew Losowsky
Stuart Freeborn obituary
8 February 2013 4:08 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Makeup artist who created Yoda and Chewbacca for the Star Wars films
If there was a film made in Britain between the early 1940s and early 1980s that required innovations in makeup and prosthetics design, chances are that Stuart Freeborn, who has died aged 98, was involved in it in some capacity. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, David Lean's adaptation of Oliver Twist, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Omen, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back: all these benefited from Freeborn's pioneering approach to makeup. When audiences gaze with wonder upon the apes in the "dawn of man" sequence at the beginning of 2001, or fall under the spell of the 2ft tall guru Yoda and his gnomic proclamations, their response is a testament to Freeborn's persuasive artistry.
He was born in Leytonstone, east London, where it was assumed that he would follow in the footsteps of his father, »
- Ryan Gilbey
Stuart Freeborn, Yoda's maker, dies
7 February 2013 12:18 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Stuart Freeborn, the British pioneering movie makeup artist behind creatures such as Yoda and Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died. He was 98.
LucasFilm confirmed Wednesday that Freeborn had died, "leaving a legacy of unforgettable contributions".
Star Wars director George Lucas said in a statement that Freeborn was "already a makeup legend" when he started working on the space epic.
"He brought with him not only decades of experience but boundless creative energy," Lucas said. "His artistry and craftsmanship will live on forever in the characters he created. His Star Wars creatures may be reinterpreted in new forms by new generations but at their heart they continue to be what Stuart created for the original films."
Freeborn's granddaughter, Michelle Freeborn, said he died on Tuesday in London from a »
'Star Wars' Makeup Man Stuart Freeborn Dies at 98
6 February 2013 3:59 PM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Stuart Freeborn, the legendary British makeup artist who worked on films for Stanley Kubrick and David Lean and created such creatures as Yoda and Chewbacca for the Star Wars films, died Tuesday in London. He was 98. Freeborn transformed Alec Guinness into Fagin for Lean's 1948 version of Oliver Twist and aged Roger Livesay through the decades in another British film classic, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 His other makeup credits include Powell’s The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),
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- Mike Barnes
In memoriam: makeup artist Stuart Freeborn
6 February 2013 11:03 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
News Ryan Lambie Feb 6, 2013
We're sad to learn that British makeup artist Stuart Freeborn, whose work included Star Wars and 2001, has passed away at the age of 98.
Yoda is surely among the most recognisable and loved characters in sci-fi cinema, and it says so much about the enduring fan affection for the old sage that, more than 30 years after he first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, there are rumours that he may soon appear in his own Star Wars spin-off movie.
How sad, then, to hear that Stuart Freeborn, the makeup designer who created Yoda's distinctive green features, has passed away at the age of 98.
The credits in Freeborn's long career include The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, David Lean's Oliver Twist and The Bridge Over The River Kwai. He was responsible for the makeup effects in Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, which transformed Peter Sellers into an effete British army captain, »
- ryanlambie
Yoda Creator Stuart Freeborn Dies
6 February 2013 9:29 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
British make-up great Stuart Freeborn has died. The prosthetics designer, the man who gave Yoda his distinctive look and worked closely with actors of the calibre of Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, was 98.Born in East London as the Great War began, Freeborn was a pioneer in cinema whose refusal to follow a traditional career path led him to Alexander Korda's door in the 1930s. At the producer's Denham Studio he worked with Alec Guinness to create the haggard Fagin in David Lean's Oliver Twist, and with movie stars such as Marlene Dietrich and Vivien Leigh. "I never stopped from that moment," remembered Freeborn of a career that took in The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove. He created the 'Dawn of Man' sequence on the former, and worked with the director to pinpoint Sellers' many looks in the latter. »
R.I.P. Stuart Freeborn, the Make-Up Artist Behind Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Many More
6 February 2013 9:09 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Prolific make-up artist Stuart Freeborn has died in England earlier today at the age of 98. Per Film Buff Online, his career spanned almost six decades and included classic films such as Victoria The Great, The Thief Of Bahgdad, The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, and David Lean's Oliver Twist. His best-known work began with Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by transforming Peter Sellers into three different characters. Freeborn continued to work with Stanley Kubrick by designing the apes in the "Dawn of Man" sequence. But perhaps Freeborn's most famous work was serving as make-up supervisor on the original Star Wars trilogy, and helping to craft the look of Chewbacca, Yoda, and Jabba the Hutt. Our deepest condolences go out to Mr. Freeborn's family and friends. »
- Matt Goldberg
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