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A Fistful of Dollars (1964) More at IMDbPro »Per un pugno di dollari (original title)
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9 items from 2012
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
Get ready for 'Mrs. Eastwood & Company' with 12 classic Clint Eastwood movies
20 May 2012 11:45 AM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
On Sunday (May 26), the citizens of E! -- The Kardashians, Ice T and Coco, Chelsea Handler -- get some Oscar-level company with the premiere of "Mrs. Eastwood & Company."
While Clint Eastwood's second wife of 16 years, Dina, is at the center of the new reality offering (along with a couple of teenagers and about 30 family pets), Clint will appear in two episodes.
And any excuse to have a Clint Eastwood movie marathon is a good excuse ...
"A Fistful of Dollars" (1964): During a hiatus from his television Western "Rawhide," Eastwood went to Spain to work with director Sergio Leone on what would be the first Man With No Name saga. The rest, as they say, is history.
"Hang 'Em High" (1968): Proving he also could make an effective screen Western in the American style, Eastwood played a wrongful hanging victim saved, deputized ... and filled with vengeance.
"Where Eagles Dare" (1968): »
- editorial@zap2it.com
The Essentials: The Films Of Don Siegel
20 April 2012 9:04 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
In the credits to his masterpiece "Unforgiven," Clint Eastwood included a dedication: "for Don Siegel and Sergio Leone." Leone was a no-brainer, one of the great filmmakers who worked with Clint on a trio of films ("The Good The Bad And The Ugly," "A Fistful Of Dollars" and "For A Few Dollars More"). But Siegel was less beloved of cinephiles. A cosmopolitan Chicago native who studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, he started directing montages at Warner Bros. (including the opening scene of "Casablanca"), before breaking into features, with a string of B-movies with everyone from Robert Mitchum to Elvis Presley (the latter on 1960's "Flaming Star"), but became most notable for his work with Eastwood on five pictures from 1968's "Coogan's Bluff" to 1979's "Escape From Alcatraz."
Siegel was an unpretentious, unprecious director, best known for tough, muscular crime movies, but he never became an auteur favorite, despite his obvious »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Whitechapel Squad: The Detective Comics of Warren Ellis
2 April 2012 3:33 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
I’ve long believed Warren Ellis is a crime-fiction writer at heart. The first series of Wolfskin was a clear example of sword-and-sorcery comics, but had that distinct Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars feel, a dyed-in-the-wool crook playing both sides. Comics like Aetheric Mechanics and Captain Swing are solid steampunk works, yet revolve around cops-and-robbers shenanigans. One of the driving tenets of our work here at Criminal Complex is that any good story is going to have a vital aspect of crime fiction in there, even if it’s a small one, and the oeuvre of Warren Ellis is about as nearly perfect an example of that as I can find.
But what of the standard detective story? Good, old-fashioned, book-‘em-Dano procedurals? Those may not have the flash-and-bang, the gee-whiz of Ellis’s Doktor Sleepless or Gravel, but they are still a very important aspect of the man’s body of work. »
- Jimmy Callaway
Dexter Fletcher: the film that changed my life
19 March 2012 3:05 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actor turned director Dexter Fletcher on Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight
I was out in America. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels had happened a few years before, it was maybe 2000 or 2001, and I went out to La. I was just pursuing my acting, like you do, out there for the pilot season looking for work.
I stumbled across Hard Eight [also known as Sydney] rather than being directed towards it – I think I saw it first on a movie channel. I had seen Boogie Nights by the director Paul Thomas Anderson; this is his first film. The title is a gambling term for craps on the craps table. I don't understand the finer workings of craps but I know that a "hard eight" is a particularly difficult number to hit.
It's the story of an old guy in Las Vegas played by Philip Baker Hall who takes a young man, John C Reilly, »
TV News: Who, Bones, Cards, Community
9 March 2012 6:28 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Set photos have emerged of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan at work in the southern Spanish town of Almeria where the third episode of the seventh season "Doctor Who" is being shot.
Rumored to be titled "The Gunslinger" and with a script by UK "Being Human" show runner Toby Whithouse, the story involves half-robot half-human enemies in a Victorian-era western town.
The location itself used in over a hundred films including "A Fistful Of Dollars" along with the nearby Tabernas landscape which is where "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" was shot. [Source: DWSpoilers]
"Bones" creator/executive producer Hart Hanson and executive producer Stephen Nathan revealed at PaleyFest that the series will definitely get an eighth season and possibly a ninth.
The majority of the seventh season has yet to air and kicks off from April. With another season set, the producers are ending the season on a cliffhanger that'll "change the course, »
- Garth Franklin
Top Ten Tuesday: The Best Of Clint Eastwood (The Actor)
31 January 2012 6:51 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
When J. Edgar was released last Fall, We Are Movie Geeks published our Top Ten Tuesday article on Clint Eastwood’s best films as director. With word that Eastwood has come out of acting retirement, it’s time for another Top Ten list, this time of movies that Clint has starred in. Trouble With The Curve is currently filming and stars Clint as an ailing baseball scout in his twilight years who takes his daughter (played by Amy Adams) on the road for one last recruiting trip. This will be Clint’s first acting role since Gran Torino in 2008.
Super-8 Clint Eastwood Movie Madness will be a great way to celebrate the life and films of this legendary American actor. It takes place February 7th at the Way Out Club in St. Louis (2525 Jefferson in South City). Condensed versions of these memorable Clint Eastwood films will be shown on a »
- Movie Geeks
Films To Watch Before You Die #46 - A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
15 January 2012 11:22 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die...
A Fistful of Dollars, 1964.
Directed by Sergio Leone.
Starring Clint Eastwood.
A Fistful of Dollars is the first in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western ‘Dollars’ trilogy and introduces us to the ‘Man with No Name’ (Eastwood). On his arrival in a small Mexican border town the Man with No Name is told of the bitter feud between two rival families vying for control. The Rojos are a band of criminals and the Baxters are the law enforcement. The Man with No Name sets about trying to make himself some money out of this feud and begins to play the rival families off against one and other.
When a detachment of Mexican soldiers passes through the town on their way to swap American soldiers the gold for weapons the Rojos massacre the soldiers and steal the gold. »
- flickeringmyth
Five Essential... Hollywood Remakes (The Remake)
6 January 2012 3:01 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Simon Moore selects his Five Essential Hollywood Remakes...
Remakes are easy targets. Anyone who wants to make Tim Burton cry, for instance, need only whisper ‘Planet of the Apes’ in his pale, elfin ear. Even seeing Conan the Barbarian rehashed with an Easter Island statue in the title role gets film buffs nostalgic for Arnie’s bouncing biceps. Bear in mind though, if you go to see a film about a guy in a loincloth, you’re getting all the homoerotic mental images you deserve.
Ho there, pilgrim. Let’s be sensible here. Conan is only the tip of the iceberg. The absolute worst remakes are like the worst sequels; it’s the same old story, same old beats, usually even the same bloody sets if they can manage it. So it follows that the remakes that work... aren’t remakes at all. They start over. They look at the »
- flickeringmyth
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