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[Cannes Interview] Rodney Ascher On Stanley Kubrick, ‘The Shining,’ and His Documentary ‘Room 237’
25 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
At this year’s Sundance film festival there was one film that stuck out as anomaly of a new kind of documentary that re-examines the very essence of film critique. Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 is a study of Stanley Kubrick’s much beloved horror film The Shining, dissected by a series of obsessive fans of the film who have seemingly uncovered a laundry list of potential revelatory theories that put the film in a new light. Room 237 is playing in the Directors Fortnight here in Cannes, and I was fortunate enough to sit down one-on-one with the film’s director Rodney Ascher and producer Tim Kirk as they discuss new theories they’ve heard since premiering the film, other fascinating stories about other Kubrick films and how the film has slightly changed since premiering at Sundance.
The Film Stage: How did you guys first become aware of the »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Iron Sky Review
23 May 2012 3:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Roll up, roll, up! For one day only (Wed) you can check out the Finnish/German/Australian sci-fi comedy Iron Sky on limited cinema screens before it’s unceremoniously dumped onto DVD the following week. The question remains, is the film is actually worth trekking out to the big screen to catch during that tiny release window?
The year is 2018 and two Us astronauts touch down on the moon. Unbeknownst to them, they are far from alone as the dark side of the moon is actually home to a legion of Nazis who fled the earth at the end of World War II to set up shop there. One of the surviving astronauts, a model (?) by the name of Washington, is taken captive and driven to a huge swastika–shaped mega fortress. Inside, he is introduced to a giant battleship which the Nazi finally manage to power through the use of Washington’s smartphone. »
- Adam Lowes
Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 1 of 5)
23 May 2012 12:39 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
With the Academy Awards for the 2011 film year in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to take a look at one of the event’s most consistently fascinating categories: Best Supporting Actor. The most interesting story in the category this year isn’t who got nominated, it’s who didn’t. More specifically, Albert Brooks was completely robbed of a nomination for his performance as film producer turned lethal gangster Bernie Rose in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.
As much as I’d like to say I was surprised by this, considering both the quality of performance and Brooks’ slew of nominations from other critical circles, in light of the Academy’s history of overlooking outstanding supporting performances, I simply can’t.
Following is a chronological look at a number of performances richly deserving of a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination.
In some cases, the performances are in films »
- Terek Puckett
Tumblr Round-Up: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ – ‘Avengers’ – ‘The Expendables Two’ – ‘Amazing Spiderman’ and more
13 May 2012 11:01 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the stuff we love.
If you have any interesting items that you think we should plug, please email us at admin@soundonsight.org
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NextMovie.com recently posted 10 of this summer’s Blockbusters re-imagined as indie films. Here are four examples. You can check out all the posters at NextMovie.com
The Dirty Dozen poster by Grzegorz Domaradzki
Poster for Shame by Zoe Jones
Check out this Tintin/Indiana Jones mash-up poster by Vesa Lehtimäki.
Doctor Who fans will appreciate this Dogtor Woof photo by Cosplay
The #Avengers are just a bunch of jocks.
Animator Mr. Whaite made this Batman, »
- Ricky
Friday Noir: The legendary Kubrick impressed early in his film career with ‘The Killing’
11 May 2012 4:26 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Killing
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson
U.S.A., 1956
Stanley Kubrick, now there is a name evocative of so many immediate thoughts and emotions for movie buffs everywhere. Infuriating, coldly mechanical in his depiction of people, difficult to comprehend. He was also an intelligent screenwriter, deeply profound in the exploration of themes in his films, and meticulous with his sets and camerawork like only a handful of other directors were before his time, during his time, and ever since his passing in 1999. His films consist of a laundry list of all the major film genres, save the western, which he never ventured into. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick seemingly told thought provoking tales through a wide variety of cinematic prisms. Lest it be forgotten that the man began his career as a creator of major motion pictures in the film noir genre. »
- Edgar Chaput
'Re-Animator: The Musical': Director Stuart Gordon talks about his singing-and-beheading theatrical spectacular
3 May 2012 12:37 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
A few years back, film director Stuart Gordon had the thought that his gore-filled 1985 horror movie Re-Animator might be improved with the addition of some songs. It was an odd idea — but an ultimately successful one. In the spring of 2011, Re-Animator: The Musical opened at Hollywood’s Steve Allen Theater to great reviews (Variety hailed it as “an entertainment of rich rewards and high accomplishment”) and tonight the play officially starts a second run at the Hayworth Theatre, prior to engagements at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. The H.P. Lovecraft-inspired tale stars Graham Skipper »
- Clark Collis
John Cusack Receives Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame
25 April 2012 1:07 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
John Cusack was surrounded by family and friends Tuesday at the presentation of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 2,469th star is in front of one of Los Angeles' most famous literary landmarks, Larry Edmunds Bookshop.
"To come up here and see my name next to Gene Autry is very, very surreal," said the Hollywood luminary.
"To the best of my knowledge, I've tried to screw my career up as much as I possibly could, but even with all my best efforts to screw it up, I managed to have lasting friendships, and some of the best friends I've ever met in the business," continued Cusack.
Some of the friends he's made throughout his prolific career include Jack Black, Dan Aykroyd and Billy Bob Thornton, who all joined in honoring the actor on Hollywood Boulevard.
"With John, we don't have to lie," said Billy Bob Thornton. "He »
- Lucy Blodgett
DVD Review: "Hellgate" (1952) Starring Sterling Hayden, Joan Leslie And Ward Bond
21 April 2012 3:03 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
By Lee Pfeiffer
Vci Entertainment have released the 1952 B Western Hellgate as a burn-to-order DVD. Viewing it is a worthy experience, as this film is representative of so many fine features that have largely been lost to time. Sterling Hayden plays Gil Hanley, a quiet veterinarian living in post-Civil War Kansas. The place had been terrorized during the war by marauding parties of renegades fighting on both sides. These raiders often killed and tortured indiscriminately (see The Outlaw Josey Wales). With the war over for two years, the U.S. Army is trying to track down these criminals and bring them to justice. Hanley's life changes for the worse when he treats an escaped criminal for injuries without knowing his identity. Circumstantial evidence leads the army to arrest him and, in a kangaroo court held by a military tribunal, he is sentenced to hard labor at Hellgate Prison. The place is appropriately named, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Exclusive Interview: David McIntosh (Vice President of Sony Digital Cinema) Talks 4K & the Future of Cinema
18 April 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
A couple of weeks ago, I got to conduct my first interview in a cinema (and I now wish all my interviews could take place in that environment) as I got to sit down and chat with David McIntosh who is the Vice President of Sony Digital Cinema. We met up in Vue Cinema in Fulham surrounded by billboards of upcoming movies which set the scene nicely for our topic area.
He’s an extremely knowledgeable chap and has worked for Sony for nearly 25 years. In that time he has moved from Chief Financial Officer to the technical side of the business to Sony’s Vice President of Digital Cinema.
I got to chat with him about how technology has changed, where we see it going and he gives me the full low-down on their newest cinema technology Sony 4K which Sony believe is the future of cinema. Since it’s inception, »
- David Sztypuljak
5 Things You Might Not Know About Steven Spielberg's Game-Changing 'Jaws' As It Finally Heads To Blu-Ray
11 April 2012 8:23 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
You know what’s a fun task? Trying to convince anyone that Steven Spielberg’s 1975 “Jaws” is not an American classic and a nearly flawless film. It’s kind of impossible, and if you were to somehow take this position, you would either be painfully foolhardy, Armond White, or both.
The film is regarded as the first bonafide summer blockbuster, one that, along with subsequent seasonal smashes like "Star Wars," were part of the death of the 1970s silver-age era of indie American filmmaking. Its enormous box-office success made irrevocable changes to the the studio business model that has turned the months between April and September into a frenzy of special effects and explosions. But "Jaws" shouldn't be demonized for that, because unlike most of today’s blockbusters, it was and is much more than a spectacle-driven piece meant to lure audiences to the theaters.
In fact, for much of the maligned production of “Jaws, »
- The Playlist
Yahoo! Lists the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die
10 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
It's not easy to put together a top 100 of just about anything, but the folks over at Yahoo! Movies have really thrown down the gauntlet this time with a list of the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die. In describing the list, they maintain that their goal was to choose the "funniest" movies out there, not necessarily the "best" comedies. With that in mind, you might think they'd stay away from critically acclaimed classics and lean more toward low brow, quick and easy laughfests. But you'd be wrong. There are a lot of classics on this list, everything from The Apartment to Dr. Strangelove to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and Buster Keaton's The General. There are also movies on here that aren't really "comedies" per se, such as Pulp Fiction and Martin Scorsese's After Hours. More than anything, this serves as a reminder that what is »
- Sean
Stanley Kubrick: Master of Contradictions
9 April 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic, epic, maudlin and humane. Then there’s Welles, the ill-fated genius, abused by producers but beloved of critics. Spielberg, even in his seventh decade, is still the boy wonder; Scorsese the mad scientist. Griffith is the wise forefather, deeply flawed but idolized nonetheless, while Hawks is ageless, just as sly and self-assured as he was at the time of “The Big Sleep” (1946).
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned, »
- Graham Daseler
The Films Of Sidney Lumet: A Retrospective
9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.
Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.
Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).
His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
The best damned film list of them all
5 April 2012 6:00 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Long-suffering readers will have read many times about my dislike of lists, especially lists of the best or worst movies in this or that category. For years they had value only in the minds of feature editors fretting that their movie critics had too much free time. ("For Thursday's food section, can you list the 10 funniest movies about pumpkin pie?") Now their value has shot way up with the use of slide shows, a diabolical time-waster designed to boost a web site's page visits.
In a field with much competition, Number One on my list of Most Shameless Lists has got to be Time mag's recent list of the "Best 140 Tweeters." How did the magazine present this? That's right, on 140 pages of a slideshow. Considering that the list had no meaning at all except as some hapless intern's grindwork, I'd say that was a bold masterstroke. I say so even though I was on it. »
- Roger Ebert
Alternative Titles for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Revealed
4 April 2012 5:41 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Thirteen years have passed since Stanley Kubrick’s death, but he still manages to fascinate a new generation of cinema buffs. First there was the announcement last August that three of his unproduced projects were finally being developed for film and television. Then there was Room 237, Rodney Ascher’s documentary on the sometimes crazy, but never boring theories surrounding Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. Now another Kubrick-related curiosity has surfaced, and while it’s not as significant as the first two, it does give some insight to the enigmatic filmmaker’s creative process.
ScreenCrush reported on a list of 15 unused titles for his war satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and they definitely don’t disappoint. The names were deciphered from the scrawls out of one of Kubrick’s notebooks, but the legendary title never appears among them. My favorite »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Stanley Kubrick's Notes on Possible Titles for 'Dr. Strangelove'
3 April 2012 3:16 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
While often referred to simply as Dr. Strangelove, the full title for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 dark, political comedy is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and as you can see from the image below, pulled from "The Stanley Kubrick Archives" by Lists of Note (via Flavorwire), Kubrick had several different and curious ideas when it came to possible titles for the film. And considering it's based on Peter George's less than adventurously titled "Red Alert" makes Kubrick's exploration for a title of whim and meaning even more fascinating. The titles on the page, as compiled by Lists of Notes, include the following: Doctor Doomsday Don't Knock the Bomb Dr. Doomsday and his Nuclear Wiseman Dr. Doomsday Meets Ingrid Strangelove Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying Dr. Strangelove's Bomb Dr. Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus My Bomb, »
- Brad Brevet
'Dumb & Dumber' Sequel: Oh, It's Happening!
3 April 2012 2:50 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Things are about to get even dumberer with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
Director Peter Farrelly confirmed to ComingSoon.net he and brother Bobby will be shooting a sequel to their 1994 comedy "Dumb & Dumber," with Carrey and Daniels reprising their roles.
At the junket for their latest comedy, "The Three Stooges," Peter Farrelly said, "We're getting set to shoot 'Dumb & Dumber 2' in September. It's the first sequel we've ever done and we've got Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels back. »
Veneration and Its Discontents
26 March 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Film is dying, but the cinema still lives. To mark the death of one cycle in the age of motion pictures and the beginning of another, Film Forum recently ran a series called "This Is Dcp" to introduce us cinephiles to our inevitable digital future. Dcp, for those of you who’ve been hiding in a mineshaft the last few years, stands for Digital Cinema Package, the new industry standard for digital projection that has just recently replaced 35mm film as the most common means of presenting movies in the United States. On the first day of the series, I went to see a presentation by Grover Crisp—Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Executive Vice President of Asset Management, Film Restoration, and Digital Mastering—that was billed as Dr. Strangelove Side-by-Side but which probably should have been called Dr. Strangelove A-Few-Minutes-of-One-Followed-by-a-Few-Minutes-of-the-Other. Film Forum projected a version of the movie on an »
The Horror! The Horror! Must-See War Films
1 March 2012 2:56 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
You can't show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience's head every night, you know, and have actual casualties in the theater. -- Sam Fuller, film director and author
War is a grisly business, a horror of epic proportions. In terms of human carnage alone, war's devastation is staggering. For example, it is estimated that approximately 231 million people died worldwide during the wars of the 20th century. However, this figure does not take into account the walking wounded -- both physically and psychologically -- who "survive" war. Eventually, war will be our undoing. As Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and author Chris Hedges observes: War is like a poison. And just as a cancer patient must at times ingest a poison to fight off a disease, so there are times »
- John W. Whitehead
Daily Briefing. "The Great Digital Changeover"
29 February 2012 10:06 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Dr. Strangelove is one of 13 digitally restored classics
to be digitally projected at Film Forum starting Friday
As David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson wrap their series, "Pandora's digital box," Film Forum launches another on Friday, This Is Dcp. Leah Churner in a preview for the Voice: "Formalized in 2005 by a collective of the six major studios in Hollywood, the Digital Cinema Package, or Dcp, has replaced 35mm as the standard format for theatrical exhibition. It's a set of high-definition video files delivered on a hard drive encrypted with copyright protection, and it plugs into a system of proprietary servers, software, and projectors. Today, two-thirds of American theaters have converted to Dcp."
Churner's overview is a fine snapshot of what Bordwell calls "the Great Digital Changeover," and Churner cites his observation that, in her words, "one of the odder circumstances of the digital age is that as restoration gets easier, conservation gets harder. »
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