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‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Director Blake Edwards is Dead at 88
17 December 2010 7:27 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – If you love movies, you love Blake Edwards. The iconic comic director, best known for teaming with Peter Sellers in a series of wacky Pink Panther adventures, also directed such classics as “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “The Great Race” “10” and “Victor Victoria.” Blake Edwards died Wednesday at age 88.
Born William Blake Crump in 1922 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards began his career as a writer/director in Hollywood’s “Silver Age” in the 1950’s, after a stint as an actor in the 1940’s, mostly playing uncredited military types in such films as “They were Expendable” and “The Best Years of Our Lives.” He began in radio, writing the popular “Richard Diamond” series, and moved on to television with Diamond star Dick Powell with “Four Star Playhouse.”
Peter Sellers (left) and Blake Edwards (right) trying out a gag during their memorable collaboration
Photo credit: BFI
Edwards went »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Film Feature: ‘The 27th Annual Music Box Christmas Show’ Brims With Nostalgic Warmth
15 December 2010 11:55 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The most memorable moviegoing experiences of your life are often circumstantial. They may depend entirely on the audience that you see them with. There are few things more magical than the moment when an ageless work of cinema manages to move and invigorate your soul, along with those of the surrounding audience.
That’s precisely the experience I had while attending the annual Music Box Christmas Show a few years ago. It’s impressive to see how much the event has grown over time, with its double feature of holiday classics now extended into a five-day marathon. In its twenty-seventh year, the show has become somewhat of a family affair. Returning audience members have been invited to submit photos of their past visits for inclusion in a pre-show slideshow. Young moviegoers (and the young at heart) will enjoy the intermission festivities where Santa Claus materializes and leads the audience in a series of carols. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Director Spotlight: William Wyler
13 November 2010 8:00 AM, PST | Filmology | See recent Filmology news »
In our inaugural Director Spotlight, we’d like to pay tribute to one of the greatest, most successful filmmakers in Golden Era Hollywood history: William Wyler. Recipient of three Academy Awards for directing and nominated for a record twelve, Mr. Wyler is responsible for some of the most beloved and critically acclaimed American films ever, including Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman Holiday, and Ben-Hur, which remains tied with Titanic and The Return of the King for the most Oscars awarded to a single film. A chameleon of styles and tones, genres and stories, Wyler became notorious for his meticulous attention to detail and often brutal relentlessness in capturing the perfect take.
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- Brett Warner
Sliff 2010 Review: A Marine Story
12 November 2010 6:30 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
A Marine Story takes a story as old as movies itself and gives it a fresh new spin. The Best Years Of Our Lives through In The Valley Of Elah have explored the theme of soldiers returning home. This time the focus is a female soldier and a military policy that has been much in the news in the last few years.
Alexandra Everett (Dreya Weber) is a career marine who return to her rural, dusty California hometown after a log hitch in the Middle East. After getting off the train with no one to welcome her back , she walks through the streets and sees all the boarded up businesses. Stopping at a convenience store she forcibly detains a young man shoplifting while his girlfriend who was distracting the clerk takes off. The local sheriff chastises Alex for getting involved, although they are severely understaffed and can’t handle the »
- Jim Batts
Cinematic Soldiers for Veteran's Day
11 November 2010 8:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here. For many of us being a soldier is an experience we'll only get vicariously courtesy of the movies. In honor of Veteran's Day, I thought I'd share some of my favorite portrayals of American soldiers. They aren't always the most famous actors or the biggest roles, but they've made impressions. If you've not seen any of the particular films listed and don't want to know who lives or dies, you may want to skip to the next entry.
General George S. Patton played by George C. Scott in Patton (1970)Starting off with a big one. Patton is such a towering figure in American History and Scott's Oscar winning portrayal gives us an understanding of the man who often found himself caught in a place between his own talents and the stern hand he felt was needed and the more careful policies of those he served.
Steven Pushkov played »
- Robert
Movies About Veterans
9 November 2010 8:24 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
It's Veterans Day on Thursday, and inspired by the holiday and the men and women it honors, this week's IFC News podcast turns to films about life after combat. We look at the differences and recurring themes of representations of on-screen veterans from "The Best Years of Our Lives" to "Stop-Loss."
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This week's keyword game giveaway is the Espn 30 for 30 documentary "The Two Escobars," which comes out on DVD tomorrow -- four winners will each get a new copy. The film, directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, looks at the 1994 World Cup, "Narco-soccer" and the murder of Andrés Escobar -- check out a clip below.
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- Alison Willmore
October. It's A Wrap.
1 November 2010 4:02 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Oh, 2010. We're just getting to know you and you're already approaching history's grave. Stay a little while longer please? Two months... give us two months. Here are a dozen Film Experience highlights from October in case you missed 'em.
Claremont & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Mutants"
Jake Gyllenhaal Speaks a revealing evening with the star. Quotes on his three key movies.
Bpftoi The popular series returned for a drive with Miss Daisy and the war heroes of The Best Years of Our Lives. This is one of my personal favorite eppys of the whole series.
Modern Maestros Robert closes off his provocative year-long series with an intense rundown of auteurs he didn't cover.
To "Snikt" or Not to "Snikt" on Darren Aronofsky and Wolverine 2
Hit Me With Your Best Shot concludes its first season with Mean Girls and Night of the Hunter.
A History of... Julie Andrews from magically gifted infant »
- NATHANIEL R
15 Directors Who Shaped My Movie Love
25 October 2010 11:20 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
So there's this meme going around that Paolo tagged me with. So why not? The idea is that you list 15 directors, mainly off of the top of your head, that contributed to the way you experience and think about the movies. This is not a list of my all time favorites though half of the list would probably overlap. This is the list I come up with when I think briefly on the formative masterminds and/or the ones that have or had some sort of claim on my soul if you will. Three of them I could definitely live without at this point but I'm trying to be honest about the exercize.
Wise with Wood ~ West Side Story So here goes in no particular order...
Robert Wise (1914-2005)
When I was a kid West Side Story and The Sound of Music were the most Epically ! Epic !!! movies to me. »
- NATHANIEL R
Comment Party in Aisle 3
19 October 2010 11:18 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
What we're (still) talking about in case you haven't been paying attention. Comments are like blog oxygen. They're like applause for desperate performers. Don't sit on your hands. Type! Consider this a whip cracked. You know you like that.
Andrew answers a question we asked back in the Oscar's Favorite Foreign Film Directors article: why wasn't Akira Kurosawa's Ran nominated for Best Foreign Film in 1985?
Manuel wonders why no one is remembering Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer) and Danielle thinks I'm underestimating Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) in the Lead/Supporting Actress thread. Do you?
Dana Andrews has nightmares in The Best Years of Our Lives.
But boy is that movie a dream.
Classic Film Boy has astute thing to say about Best Picture winner The Best Years of Our Lives "When the realism of war began showing up in films like Platoon or Saving Private Ryan, it gave me »
- NATHANIEL R
30 Seconds To Link
12 October 2010 5:10 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Time Warner Do you want to be an indie film icon? Time Warner is hosting a short film competition on their YouTube channel. The prize is a trip to Sundance and presumably the festivities there.
Spangle the slippery slope of the new MPAA ratings. Yes, they're now warning you if a movie shows male nudity. Female nudity is the regular kind, see. No funny stuff!
Self Styled Siren great rangey entertaining review of the Romanian drama Tuesday After Christmas. Though I have to disagree on one major point: I thought the oaf at center was hot in the ways one can be if one happens to be oafish...
/Film Daniel Craig on the set of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
TCM Fredric March is the star of the month. Yay. Make sure to watch The Best Years of Our Lives... since we just discussed it (in case you haven't »
- NATHANIEL R
Fredric March on TCM: A Star Is Born, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Alexander The Great
12 October 2010 12:10 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Adolphe Menjou, Lionel Stander, Fredric March, Janet Gaynor in William A. Wellman's A Star Is Born (top); March in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (bottom) Fredric March, Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month, can be seen tonight at his best in two films and at his very worst in one. March is excellent as the John Gilbert-John Barrymoreish soon-to-be has-been in William A. Wellman's A Star Is Born (1937), the tale of a small-town girl (Janet Gaynor) who, thanks to lots of luck and lots more screenplay contrivances, becomes a major Hollywood star. The fact that A Star Is Born actually works is a testament to the talent of those involved in this Technicolor David O. Selznick production, including versatile director Wellman (the man handled all sorts of movies), Fredric March as the tragipathetic alcoholic has-been, Gaynor as the newcomer, May Robson as Grandma, »
- Andre Soares
Interviews: Juliette Lewis, Director Tony Goldwyn Create ‘Conviction’
11 October 2010 6:06 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “Conviction” tells the true story of siblings Betty Anne (Hilary Swank) and Kenny (Sam Rockwell) Walters, and the quest of Betty Anne to free her brother from a prison sentence for murder. Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis lends her talent as key prosecution witness Roseanna Perry, and the film is directed by Tony Goldwyn.
Featured star Lewis and Director Goldwyn were in Chicago recently to promote the film. HollywoodChicago.com sat down for interviews with both of them, talking about the general themes of Conviction and their expansive careers.
Juliette Lewis, Roseanna Perry in “Conviction”
Juliette Lewis is a familiar presence in the Hollywood canon of the last twenty years. Beginning her career as a teenager in the 1980s, she had a transcendent breakthrough as Danielle Bowden in Martin Scorsese’s remake of “Cape Fear” (1991). From that point to the end of the decade, Lewis worked with directors as diverse »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Bpftoi: Driving Through the Best Years of Miss Daisy's Lives
9 October 2010 7:54 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
"Best Pictures From the Outside In" is back. But, oh fiddle, because the series is so infrequent we have to keep explaining it. It's a joint production between Mike at Goatdog's Blog, Nick at Nick's Flick Picks and Nathaniel at The Film Experience. We began in 2008 pairing the most recent winner No Country For Old Men with the first winner Wings and we've been working our way inward ever since from both ends of the Oscar chronology. Get it? Got it? Good. We've now reached 1946 vs. 1989.
These men have been through enough Daisy. Let Hoke take the wheel!
Nathaniel: Just when you get used to things a certain way...
Nothing is more certain in life than change so it's something of a human mystery as to why we're always so surprised or discomforted by it. In the Oscar winners The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989), we »
- NATHANIEL R
Start at the top and work your way down
2 October 2010 10:47 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
• Introduction to The Great Movies III
You'd be surprised how many people have told me they're working their way through my books of Great Movies one film at a time. That's not to say the books are definitive; I loathe "best of" lists, which are not the best of anything except what someone came up with that day. I look at a list of the "100 greatest horror films," or musicals, or whatever, and I want to ask the maker, "but how do you know?" There are great films in my books, and films that are not so great, but there's no film here I didn't respond strongly to. That's the reassurance I can offer.
I believe good movies are a civilizing force. They allow us to empathize with those whose lives are different than our own. I like to say they open windows in our box of space and time. »
- Roger Ebert
Best Pictures From the Outside In
7 September 2010 12:37 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Have you seen all of the Best Picture winners over the years? I'm nearing my personal finish line. (Mea culpa. 5 remain unseen: Gentlemen's Agreement, Hamlet, A Man For All Seasons, The French Connection and *gulp* The Godfather Part II. I am deeply ashamed) If you're semi-new to The Film Experience, check out this tri-blog series wherein Nick, Mike and Nathaniel (c'est moi), rescreen the winners starting from both ends of Oscar's chronologally. (We began in 2008 which is why Slumdog Millionaire and The Hurt Locker do not kick the festivities off)
Best Pictures From the Outside In (so far)
episode 1 No Country For Old Men (07) and Wings (27/28)
episode 2 The Departed (06) and Broadway Melody (28/29)
episode 3 Crash (05) and All Quiet on the Western Front (29/30)
episode 4 Million Dollar Baby (04) and Cimarron (30/31)
episode 5 LotR: The Return of the King (03) and Grand Hotel (31/32)
episode 6 Chicago (02) and Cavalcade (32/33)
episode 7 A Beautiful Mind (01) and It Happened One Night »
- NATHANIEL R
Loy-lapalooza
3 August 2010 | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I think August 2nd should be declared an international holiday, Myrna Loy Day.
I first saw her in The Thin Man and last month I was watching The Best Years of Our Lives and marvelling that she just might have been the perfect movie wife, whoever she happened to be married to onscreen. She exudes warmth and love but it doesn't come with anything like sticky sentiment so much as a purifying cool. She's timeless even though she has one of those faces that only seems to have existed in the 1930s.
I love her.
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- NATHANIEL R
Mm@M: Live From Times Square
28 July 2010 2:02 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
TV's greatest show has a love affair with the movies. So we have a love affair with TV's greatest show. We call it Mad Men @ The Movies.
The world premiere party for Mad Men Season 4 kicked off in Times Square a few hours before the show on Sunday night. I was honored to be invited so I must give thanks to the wonderful Lipp sisters of Basket of Kisses who always keep me in the swing of things when it comes to Sterling Cooper, excuse me, Scdp (Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce). It's always good to hang with the vivacious Lipps and I also got to chat with other Mm fans including the adorable talented Carol Hannah of Project Runway fame.
The VIP crowd got Barbies. I managed to procure a Don & Betty set. (More on these dolls here. They retail for $75)
Left: Me (the hat was with the gift bag); Right: Girl from costume contest. »
- NATHANIEL R
Thoughts I Had While Watching... Alice in Wonderland
12 July 2010 10:14 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
[Sigh]. You guys...
"Where have you been lurking?"
I've been meaning to write about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland for weeks now. But every time I so much as thought about doing so I felt a pit in my stomach as deep as that rabbit hole to Underland. I hate the movie sooooooo much. The flames... breathing... on the side of my face.
Why must it exist to taunt me with its billion dollar gross? Way to reward a filmmaker for lazy stagnation. Just pick a famous property, collect your usual coconspirators and then throw shit at the screen. Literally! You can convert it to 3D later. A billion dollars will be yours! As long as the masses recognize the title and you have a bankable star, you're gold. (See also: Sherlock Holmes).
I can't bear to watch the movie a second time. I usually skim back over when I »
- NATHANIEL R
June. It's a Wrap
1 July 2010 4:24 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
June ends. Now we just have to make it through the two hottest months of the year. I'm melting. Here's the best of June in case you missed anything. I have no idea why summer makes me so nostalgic but there was an awful lot of 80s happening this month at the blog.
Woody and Buzz and other Toys we played with this month!
Jamie Lee Curtis is Perfect a deep immersion into 80s culture. Put on your unitard.
"I Heard Of It" why people flock to reboots, franchises and crossovers.
Earliest Cinema Memory: Jaws... albeit a second hand memory.
Conviction (née Betty Anne Waters) A trailer overview: Supporting players, Swank, and loveable loathsome Tony Goldwyn.
Cocoon: Cinema's first Viagra joke Because I couldn't help myself
Tony live blog & fashion review Broadway's big night honored film stars.
Death Becomes Her in which Meryl Streep spoofed her past and pointed to her future. »
- NATHANIEL R
Blu-ray Review: Saving Private Ryan
31 May 2010 10:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
One of these days, when I've had more experience, I will have to sit down and make a list of top ten World War II films. Would Saving Private Ryan make the list? Before you answer take a look at this list of films: From Here to Eternity, Au Revoir, Les Enfants, The Thin Red Line, Schindler's List, Casablanca, Stalag 17, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Dirty Dozen, Mrs. Miniver, Patton, The Big Red One, The Great Escape, Das Boot, The Train, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Guns of Navarone, The Longest Day, A Walk In the Sun, The Pianist, Europa, Europa, The Diary of Anne Frank and To Hell and Back.
Obviously, just asking whether or not Saving Private Ryan would make a top ten list of WWII films means it's pretty damned good and Paramount's Blu-ray release of the film serves to verify that. »
- Brad Brevet
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