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20 items from 2013
Jodorowsky’s Dune | Cannes Review
31 May 2013 10:20 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Resurrecting Sci-fi Legend: Pavich Taps Alejandro
Frank Herbert’s epic novel Dune has been a sci-fi benchmark since it’s original release back in 1965, and since, there have been several attempts at a worthy film adaptation. No one guessed that psychedelic surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky, who rose to fame for his midnight oddities El Topo and The Holy Mountain, would be the man to stake his claim for the task. After a friend suggested he check out the book, Jodorowsky (without initially reading it first) decided it to be the follow up to his 1973 sleeper hit. His goal was to use the interstellar opera to expand the consciousness of youth the world over, reproducing the mind-bending effects of LCD without taking the drug itself. Fancying himself a movie-making martyr with a metaphysical mission, Jodorowsky remarkably amassed a past and future A-list cast and crew of ‘spiritual warriors’ (as he called »
- Jordan M. Smith
Sale on Universal's 100th Anniversary DVD and Blu-ray Sets
15 April 2013 12:34 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
It's rare I feel the need to post an item announcing the sale of a particular DVD and/or Blu-ray set, but Universal's 100th Anniversary Collection is a pretty swanky item and Amazon is offering both the DVD and Blu-ray editions at an incredibly marked down rate. Included are 25 films, though there is one difference between the DVD and Blu-ray editions (Click Here). Included in both sets are the 24 films listed below, but the Blu-ray set includes the Spanish version of Bela Lugosi's 1931 Dracula while the DVD set includes Schindler's List, which has since been released on Blu-ray following the initial release of this set: Despicable Me Mamma Mia! The Movie The Bourne Identity The Fast and the Furious Apollo 13 Jurassic Park Do the Right Thing Field of Dreams Out of Africa Back to the Future The Breakfast Club Scarface E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial National Lampoon's Animal House Jaws »
- 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 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
‘Man-Trap’ struggles to find a cohesive voice although it displays a few great noir qualities
5 April 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Written by John D. Macdonald and Ed Waters
Directed by Edmond O’Brien
U.S.A., 1961
Some people offer to keep promises whereas others are either forced or compelled to offer payback in return for another person’s deeds. The former sounds very much like a nice, virtuous act while the latter tends to fall into a more sour category, like a chore.. Funny then how easily those notions can be flipped on their heads, subverting expectations in the process. For instance, one can promise to avenge an affront or gladly pay back someone who was kind enough to assist them in the past. Both notions easily intertwine depending on the circumstances and neither is necessarily an indication of a purely good or evil intent. What one advertises as a promise to fulfil a good deed may hide ulterior, more nefarious motives. Edmond O’Brien, one of the great »
- Edgar Chaput
33 Things We Learned from the ‘Psycho’ Commentary
14 March 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock has many connections to this week. First of all, this past Tuesday was “National Alfred Hitchcock Day,” during which cinema fans revisit the master’s masterworks. Also, the biopic Hitchcock released on Blu-ray and DVD earlier this week. Easily the most famous and most recognizable Hitchcock film was the 1960 thriller Psycho, which helped revitalize his career and changed the face of horror movies in general. Considering that Hitchcock tells the story behind Psycho, and it’s based on the book “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho” (whose author, Stephen Rebello, performs the commentary here), it seems fitting to look at this classic thriller. Rebello’s commentary is available on the 2010 Blu-ray and subsequent DVD releases. Psycho (1960) Commentators: Stephen Rebello (Hitchcock historian) 1. His 47th film, Psycho is Hitchcock’s most famous movie and his biggest financial success. 2. The opening titles were created by Saul Bass, who served as storyboard artist and pictorial consultant »
- Kevin Carr
Friday Noir Special: Top 5 films
8 March 2013 12:00 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Friday Noir column has been tugging along at a steady pace for well over a year at this point. After being privy to so many double-crosses, back stabbings, bleak outlooks and cynical one-liners, it feels like the right time to shine some proverbial light on the sinister world of film noir. What follows is a list of five previously movies reviewed that best exemplify many of the alluring qualities of this fondly remembered and frequently emulated genre.
Some pertinent details details about the list below need be shared with the readers in the hopes of anticipating and preventing any head scratching. First, the list is comprised strictly of films from the classic noir era, thus limiting the candidates to such films made and released in the mid 1940s up until the late 1950s. Neonoirs, and there are excellent ones, make no mistake about it, are therefore ineligible. The list »
- Edgar Chaput
Robert Altman: The Hollywood Interview
15 February 2013 1:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Robert Altman.
Robert Altman: Eclectic Maverick
By
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Venice Magazine.
It's the Fall of 1977 and I'm a bored and rebellious ten year old in search of a new movie to occupy my underworked and creativity-starved brain, feeling far too mature for previous favorites Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and wanting something more up-to-date and edgy than Chaplin's City Lights (1931). I needed a movie to call my favorite that would be symbolic of my own new-found manhood (and something that would really piss off my parents and teachers). Mom and Dad were going out for the evening, leaving me with whatever unfortunate baby-sitter happened to need the $10 badly enough to play mother hen to an obnoxiously precocious only child like myself. I scanned the TV Guide for what »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Nominated for Nothing: 'Hunger Games'
1 February 2013 4:46 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Breathless, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: The Hunger Games. This action-adventure teen bait — based on the »
- Sandra Gonzalez
Cryptid Catalog: 'The Barghest Hound'
29 January 2013 2:30 PM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Cryptozoology is definitely a fascinating field. Unlike the purely scientific realm of traditional zoology, which mainly studies and catalogs animals from all eras based on empirical evidence, the study of “cryptids” focuses almost entirely on creatures whose existence has not yet been proven scientifically. While many scientists dismiss cryptozoology as nothing more than amateur monster-chasing dating back to early sailors' tales of mermaids and sea monsters, the field has nevertheless captivated both casual and serious observers for decades... and you may remember that the elusive giant squid was once considered one of those big fish fantasies until researchers finally got up-close and personal with one. For this new feature series, we'll pick a different cryptid with each installment, take a brief look at the legends and lore behind it, report any recent attempts to prove its existence scientifically, and its influence on popular culture and media. You've heard more than enough about Bigfoot, »
- Gregory Burkart
Nominated for Nothing: 'Magic Mike'
29 January 2013 7:00 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Breathless, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: Affectionately known as “Channing Tatum’s stripper movie,” the Steven Soderbergh »
- Mandi Bierly
Nominated for Nothing: 'Chronicle'
25 January 2013 2:00 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Breathless, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: Chronicle, the found-footage superhero thriller/high school drama about a »
- Darren Franich
Nominated for Nothing: Why the Academy should go back in time to honor 'Looper'
23 January 2013 4:31 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Breathless, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: Looper, writer-director Rian Johnson’s head-twisty sci-fi tale of Joe, »
- Adam B. Vary
Controlled Chaos: An Interview with John Hyams
23 January 2013 6:18 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Despite my lifelong affinity for the action genre, I'd never encountered the Universal Soldier franchise. Somewhere in the back of my head I knew of its reputation as a Terminator rip-off, but it wasn't until I read Vern's “Action Movies Don't Have to Suck” piece for the Village Voice that I was intrigued enough to seek out John Hyams'& Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Day of Reckoning. Hyams' elegant staging and disarming sincerity offer a refreshing alternative to the action adventure comic book slop dished out to teenagers and poked at by indifferent adult audiences that an entire generation of studio execs have chosen to ignore. Despite their relatively tiny budgets, Hyams' Universal Soldier movies, along with his other fictional feature, Dragon Eyes, are exquisite examples of digital cinema and personal storytelling. Rightfully, these movies should be dime store thrill rides, and in the best possible sense they are. They're also equal parts melodrama, »
- Sara Freeman
The 300 Greatest Films Ever Made (Part 18)
19 January 2013 9:33 AM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Our daily countdown continues with part 18 out of 30 in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made. These are numbers 130-121.
130) Touch Of Evil (1958) Orsen Wells USA
129) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki Japan Animated
128) Le Samourai (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville France/ Italy
127) The Night Of The Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton USA
126) The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) Peter Jackson USA
125) Et: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg USA
124) It’S A Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra USA
123) Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (1972) Werner Herzog Germany
122) Laura (1944) Otto Preminger USA
121) L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni France/ Italy
Numbers 120-111 coming next.
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- feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
Nominated for Nothing: 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'
18 January 2013 3:00 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Breathless, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky’s emotional »
- Hillary Busis
‘Touch of Evil’ sees Welles elevate both his game and film noir
18 January 2013 11:54 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Orson Welles
Written by Orson Welles, from the novel by Whit Masterson
U.S.A., 1958
Touted as one of the greatest films of all time, let alone one of the greatest American films of all time, Touch of Evil has had the misfortune of being bastardized by the studio system, in this case Universal Studios. The studio was far from content with the original cut the director Welles showed them. Certain scenes were re-shot, re-edited, re-whatever you can think of. Welles was most displeased with the fruit of the studio’s efforts and went as far as to write a lengthy memo which included a series of demands. The current article shan’t delve too much on these events given the amount of literature already available on the topic, but suffice to say that there are today 3 different versions of Touch of Evil.
The review »
- Edgar Chaput
Nominated for Nothing: Why 'The Dark Knight Rises' deserved some Oscar love
15 January 2013 5:48 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Breathless, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in director Christopher Nolan’s massive, »
- Adam B. Vary
DVD Review - Nowhere to Go (1958)
14 January 2013 4:53 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Nowhere to Go, 1958.
Directed by Seth Holt.
Starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries.
Synopsis:
After breaking out of prison, a thief and conman attempts to flee the country only to end up on the run in the Welsh countryside.
Don’t expect to sympathise with a man like Paul Gregory (George Nader). He’s used up his friends, burned all his bridges and leeched off the goodwill of strangers long enough. Cool indifference and conversational sleight of hand are his professional trademark. He engineers friendships, cultivates sympathy and expects everyone to consider human relations in the same manner.
Paul Gregory is a con man. It’d be more honest to call him a high-functioning sociopath, as the actions that lead him from one disaster to the next all hinge on his inability to truly feel anything for anyone else. He says his friends call him ‘Greg’. What friends? »
- flickeringmyth
When directors play movie villains
7 January 2013 5:00 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Odd List Ryan Lambie Jan 8, 2013
As Werner Herzog lights up the screen as the villain in Jack Reacher, we look at a few other directors who've turned evil for the movies...
It takes a certain kind of actor to bring a truly great villain to life. They need to be able to reach into the darkest recesses of their psyche, certainly, but they also need to bring a touch of something extra, too. They need to convince us not only that they're cruel, but that they're also human beings - after all, the best movie villains are often seductive and magnetic as well as unspeakably amoral.
While the finest antagonists are usually played by actors, there have been occasions where directors have stepped in front of the camera to indulge their inner demon. The list that follows attempts to deal exclusively with performances from people known primarily as directors first, »
- ryanlambie
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