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My favourite film: Readers' comments – week seven
21 December 2011 9:21 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It's time for our weekly pick of your responses to our favourite film series, for which Guardian writers have selected the movies they just can't get enough of
Here's a roundup of what you thought in week seven, when the selections were The Goonies, Together, The Ladykillers, Night of the Hunter and Star Trek II – The Wrath of Kahn
My favourite film's fish and visitors moment finally arrived at the start of week seven. We'd got away with Back to the Future, slipped Predator past you in a cloak of respectability and zapped Ghostbusters's critical hot spots. Yet Matt Andrews's championing of The Goonies was a flashback too far for those suffering from nostalgia fatigue. "Is there anything edifying at this point in another Guardian contributor picking some 80s kids' movie as their favourite?" asked JohnBarnesOnToast. "The articles are basically the same (and in this instance it's not »
Here's looking at you, kid: how classic films are winning new fans
14 December 2011 7:55 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Buster Keaton, Bugsy Malone and the Wizard of Oz are captivating children at film clubs across the UK
Black and white images flicker across absorbed young faces as timeless stories unfold. To the delight of the education charity Filmclub, classic films are captivating children as young as seven.
In the past year, a quarter of all the films watched by its members have been pre-1979 movies and some, such as The Electric Edwardians (1900), date right back to the birth of cinema.
Launched in 2008 by film director Beeban Kidron and educationist Lindsay Mackie, Filmclub (@filmclub) helps schools set up film clubs and supplies a huge range of thoughtfully curated films.
Libby Serdiuk, aged 10, was "pleasantly surprised by The General (1926):
"I had never watched a film without sound or colour. Before I knew it my eyes were glued to the screen! The stunts were exhilarating to watch, Buster Keaton was mind blowing, »
- Judy Friedberg
Movie Ink: A List of the Top Five Movie Tattoos
12 December 2011 9:08 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Five Movie Tattoos As David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is making way to hit theaters on December 21, I thought it might be fun to take a look at tattoos in movies. In talking with some friends about the idea it was interesting which movie tattoos came to their minds first. Angelina Jolie's in Wanted seemed to be one everyone mentioned and Vin Diesel in xXx was another, both memorable, but neither really stood out to me. I took the question to Facebook where many people responded with four of the five tattoos that made my list along with tattoos from films such as Robert De Niro's tattoos in Cape Fear, Ed Helms' Mike Tyson tat in The Hangover Part II, Ralph Fiennes' back splash in Red Dragon, "Respect" in Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher, The Rock's sleeve in Faster and the »
- Brad Brevet
Movie Ink: A List of the Top Five Movie Tattoos
12 December 2011 9:08 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Five Movie Tattoos As David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is making way to hit theaters on December 21, I thought it might be fun to take a look at tattoos in movies. In talking with some friends about the idea it was interesting which movie tattoos came to their minds first. Angelina Jolie's in Wanted seemed to be one everyone mentioned and Vin Diesel in xXx was another, both memorable, but neither really stood out to me. I took the question to Facebook where many people responded with four of the five tattoos that made my list along with tattoos from films such as Robert De Niro's tattoos in Cape Fear, Ed Helms' Mike Tyson tat in The Hangover Part II, Ralph Fiennes' back splash in Red Dragon, "Respect" in Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher, The Rock's sleeve in Faster and the »
- Brad Brevet
My favourite film: The Night of the Hunter
8 December 2011 7:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Peter Kimpton tops up our writers' favourite film series with an ode to Charles Laughton's 1955 thriller, a tale as dark and disquieting as a half-forgotten dream
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Motionless for 90 minutes, I could not even remove my coat. I sweated and shivered. I felt in shock. Was the film recreating scenes from my sleep? I had never seen, as far as I can recall, The Night of the Hunter. That is until a cold, wintry night in the 1990s when, working in Glasgow, I went to the city's Gft cinema to catch a new 35mm print of Charles Laughton's 1955 masterpiece. It was his only film as a director. Critics panned it on its release, consequently killing off the actor's career behind the camera, and perhaps robbing history of further works of greatness. »
- Peter Kimpton
Secret Beyond the Door
12 November 2011 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
(Fritz Lang, 1947, Exposure, PG)
Fritz Lang, whose German expressionist movies helped create film noir, saw his disciple Alfred Hitchcock surge ahead of him in Hollywood. With this psychoanalytical thriller incorporating elements of Rebecca, Suspicion and Spellbound, he sought to establish he was Hitch's equal. It proved a critical and commercial disaster but is now widely seen as a key example of Lang's "fantastical realism". A sublime, delirious melodrama, it stars Joan Bennett as a sleepwalking heiress who meets a charming architect (Michael Redgrave) in Mexico, and marries in haste. He turns out to have a bizarre family past and a weird present that includes re-creating in the basement of his New England mansion the rooms where famous murders occurred. Redgrave was cast because of his schizophrenic ventriloquist in Dead of Night. The outstanding photography is by Stanley Cortez, who shot The Magnificent Ambersons and The Night of the Hunter. The »
- Philip French
Criterion Files #63: Things Aren’t What They Seem in ‘Carnival of Souls’
27 October 2011 9:46 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. Island of Lost Souls. The Most Dangerous Game. The Night of the Hunter. The Blob. For a company perhaps best known for releasing pristine editions of international arthouse classics, The Criterion Collection certainly has a healthy amount of cult films in its repertoire. Cult cinema is often a difficult beast to recognize, for such films avoid the roads best travelled in their journey towards recognition and renown. Unlike seminal films in the collection including The 400 Blows, 8 ½, or Rashomon, cult films aren’t typically met with immediate cultural or institutional recognition upon release, aren’t made by internationally-recognized talent, and don’t always have an immediately traceable history of influence. That is, however, what makes cult films so interesting and so valuable: they emerge without expectation or pretense and signal the most populist and anti-elite means by which a film can gain recognition, pointing »
- Landon Palmer
A Brief History Of Horror – Psycho And The 1960s
24 October 2011 4:08 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
By my reckoning three masterpieces of the genre were released in 1960. All three involve a character with obsessions that eventually destroy him, but only after a string of other deaths. All three got, at best, mixed reviews on their release, as edgy horror movies almost always get. And the three stand up as proof of what the genre can be in the hands of the right artists.
The centrepiece of this triptych, of course, is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho, which marks a turning point. Norman Bates goes in the list with Frankenstein’s monster and Nosferatu, but this time the monster had a perfectly normal, even likeable, face and voice, and an innocent charm. Many horror and crime movies since have been about characters with multiple personalities, but I struggle to think of any such movies made prior to this. Suddenly the danger had shifted from an external monster into »
- Adam Whyte
‘In the Land of Blood & Honey’ Trailer Hints At an Impressive Debut from Director Angelina Jolie
21 October 2011 9:28 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Actors turned directors are a fascinating breed as their natural desire to be seen and noticed is often forced to take a backseat to what and who is visible onscreen. Well, unless they insist on directing and starring for their directorial debut. The difference can be incredibly varied as anyone who’s seen both Gone Baby Gone and Harlem Nights can attest. For every The Night of the Hunter there are a handful of Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier‘s. And as a fan of movies both good and deliriously bad I wouldn’t have it any other way. And while Angelina Jolie isn’t the first actor to step behind the camera, she may be the first bobble-head to do so. I kid. But seriously, her head is too big for her body. Despite that physical impairment Jolie has carved a solid niche for herself as Hollywood’s go to action heroine with occasional side »
- Rob Hunter
Steven Spielberg & Martin Scorsese: the joy of celluloid
11 October 2011 8:12 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It's risky, imperfect, expensive – and the stuff of a thousand classics. As Tacita Dean's tribute to celluloid opens, some noted movie-makers give thanks for film
Steven Spielberg Director
My favourite and preferred step between imagination and image is a strip of photochemistry that can be held, twisted, folded, looked at with the naked eye, or projected on to a surface for others to see. It has a scent and it is imperfect. If you get too close to the moving image, it's like impressionist art. And if you stand back, it can be utterly photorealistic. You can watch the grain, which I like to think of as the visible, erratic molecules of a new creative language. After all, this "stuff" of dreams is mankind's most original medium, and dates back to 1895. Today, its years are numbered, but I will remain loyal to this analogue artform until the last lab closes. »
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #113
2 October 2011 10:41 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Well, I watched a lot more this week as I had a couple of nights where I just decided I was going to push work aside for a second and watch a few films I wanted to watch rather than had to watch. Below is the result of that decision as I saw four films I had never seen before.
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Upon hearing the news Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay and Alfonso Cuaron were on Warner's shortlist to direct a new Twilight Zone movie I decided to watch the original 1983 movie, which I rented from [amazon asin="B000SZS3VU" text="Amazon's Instant Video service"]. I think I may have seen a couple of episodes of the television show a long, long time ago, but this was the first time I can remember ever watching anything "Twilight Zone" related and I can't say I was blown away, though the fourth segment, Nightmare at 20,000 feet, is excellent. Correct me if I'm wrong, »
- Brad Brevet
Is Days of Heaven the most beautiful film ever made?
1 September 2011 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Terrence Malick's first film wowed audiences; his second, Days of Heaven, set a rapturous new standard in cinema aesthetics. David Thomson shines a light on its legacy
Terrence Malick's 1978 movie Days of Heaven was never a huge hit, but it was such a departure and so deliberate an attempt to have the audience stirred by beauty that it felt calming and inspiring. Without shame or caution it was trying to address the pre-modern era of American history, the natural conflict between landowners and newcomers. But it was just as interested in the vanity of men and women trying to tame and organise the wild parts of the country. Beyond that, was this perhaps the most beautiful picture ever made? Second films are famously hard, but with Days of Heaven, Malick was announcing that he would do things his way.
By common consent, his first film, Badlands (1973), was one »
- David Thomson
10 Greatest Films By First Time Directors!
13 August 2011 2:50 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
With the release of Alan Butterworth’s stylish debut feature film The Drummond Will this week, What Culture! were challenged to come up with our list of the greatest directorial debuts on film.
Many directors have started their career in the industry with a project they’d not only like to forget, but would like us to forget too. (Look no further than James Cameron’s first feature behind the lens, Piranha II…eeek!!). However, once in a while a truly talented director breaks on to the scene with a fantastic debut that blows both critics and audiences away.
Read on to discover what we came up with in our attempts to chronicle the very best of these…
10. Joe Cornish – Attack The Block (2011)
Rarely does a film come along that truly taps into an area, group of people or lifestyle. It’s even rarer for this film to include such »
- Stuart Cummins
Geek shows and movies on UK TV in the coming week
30 June 2011 9:29 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
The Itch of The Golden Nit, Falling Skies, The Killing and Teen Wolf all turn up in the UK this week. Plus, there are some top films, too...
A healthy start for a week of new programming begins tomorrow, with a 30 minute animated film that could serve as strong inspiration to encourage children's budding creativity and interest in film and animation. A joint project of Tate galleries and Aardman Animations, the film involved thousands of children and a few million pounds to produce.
Entitled The Itch Of The Golden Nit, the story surrounds superheroes and other fantastical characters, drawing on the original ideas, illustrations and sound effects of contributing children, and the vocal talents of comedians and performers, including David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Harry Enfield, Catherine Tate, Vic Reeves, Rick Mayall, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ralf Little, Miriam Margolyes, Lucy Montgomery, and Alexei Sayle.
It's all part of the Cultural Olympiad, a »
Geek shows and movies on UK TV in the coming week
26 May 2011 7:30 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Paul Merton's Birth Of Hollywood, Human Target, Lead Balloon and lots of Doctor Who in our look ahead at the UK TV week...
The holiday weekend telly schedule starts tonight, Friday, May 27th, with Paul Merton's Birth Of Hollywood at 9:30pm on BBC2. In the first of three episodes in a new series, the comedian looks at the early silent comedies of Charlie Chaplin and the pre-Police Academy Keystone Cops, and also reveals the first 'cliffhangers', for those not familiar with the serialised start of much of the earliest motion picture entertainment, with an unflinching look at the career of Dw Griffith, all in celebration of Hollywood's hundredth anniversary.
Human Target enjoys a season 2 double-bill tonight, Friday, May 27th at 8:00pm on Syfy. The first episode, Ilsa Pucci, is followed by The Wife's Tale at 9:00pm, in the first two of thirteen last ever episodes. »
Senna director Asif Kapadia: Britain's world champion
23 May 2011 9:52 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Londoner behind the Formula One documentary steps beyond the well-trodden path between home and Hollywood
"Write what you know", goes the counsel handed down to generations of would-be novelists – a simple but endlessly prudent nugget of advice. And the same sentiment has served a similar number of British film-makers just as well, with the gazes of untold directors falling to great effect on our scabby, sceptered isle. But what of those whose attention has travelled elsewhere?
Having spent the last fortnight in the purlieus of Clapham Junction rather than Cannes I haven't yet been able to see We Need To Talk About Kevin, the (genuinely) long-awaited comeback of Lynne Ramsay, but reliable reports suggest a portrait of the suburban Us every bit as richly steeped in local flavour as Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar were suggestive of their director's native Scotland. What I have seen, meanwhile, is Senna, the forthcoming »
- Danny Leigh
L.A. Noire Gold Film Reels Locations Guide
21 May 2011 4:14 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Rockstar's L.A. Noire is full of collectible goodies that make an already great game even better. Perhaps the most prominent hidden collectible are 50 Gold Film Reels canisters scattered amongst the game's four main areas.
Some of the L.A. Noire Gold Film Reels will be stumbled upon naturally through the course of playing the game. Many others are tucked away in nooks and crannies. Finding these hidden Gold Film Reels may require a lot of extra exploring or a little help to locate.
The following guide will walk you through how to find all 50 Gold Film Reels in L.A. Noire in the shortest amount of time possible. Right after the guide are four YouTube videos that will show you exactly what the guide is talking about. Collect all 50 Gold Film Reels and you'll earn an Achievement in the Xbox 360 version and a Trophy in the Playstation 3 version.
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John Sayles on "War Hunt"
10 March 2011 8:00 AM, PST | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Although it played mostly second feature dates, this acclaimed Korean war indie by the Sanders brothers (who began as second-unit directors on The Night of the Hunter) took home many kudos from international fim festivals.John Saxon is memorable in the lead as a soldier turned serial killer. This marked the beginning of a fruitful relationship between co-star Robert Redford and soon-to-be director Sydney Pollack, who has a supporting role. »
Worth Remembering: Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) – “Baby I Don’t Care”
27 February 2011 11:17 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The title of Lee Server’s acclaimed 2002 biography, Robert Mitchum: Baby I Don’t Care (MacMillan), offers a perfect encapsulization of the eponymous actor: a hard-partying Hollywood Bad Boy who didn’t give a damn what moralizing finger-waggers thought of him, or what his peers in the movie business thought, or the press, or even the public. He was going to go his own way and to hell with you, and anyone positioning themselves to make strong objection was just as likely to get a punch in the nose as shown the actor’s broad back. He worked hardest at conveying the idea that the thing he did for a living – acting – was also the thing he cared least about; an impression that may have been his most convincing performance.
The Bad Boy part of Mitchum’s reputation was honestly come by. As a youth, he’d been booted from more than one school, »
- Bill Mesce
The Berlinale Opens with True Grit
11 February 2011 8:30 AM, PST | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
True Grit, the Coen Brothers’ latest feature, opened the 61st Berlin Film Festival this evening. Based on a novel of the same name by Charles Portis, the Coen Brothers’ film is the second film adaptation of this Wild West tale: the first was in 1969 by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne. The Coen Brothers’ adaptation is more true to the original in that it tells the tale from the point of view of Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl whose quest drives the narrative. Her father was murdered by a man named Tom Chaney, and fearing that the law will never track him down, Mattie hires Rooster Cogburn, the meanest mercenary marshal in town. They reluctantly join forces with Laboeuf, a straight-laced ranger who has been chasing Chaney for some time: Chaney is also wanted for a murder in Texas, and a substantial reward has been offered to bring him in.
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- Alison Frank
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