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20 items from 2012
Ten Ways To Survive An Alien Invasion
23 May 2012 6:48 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Barely a year goes by that our cinema screens aren’t attacked by some cheeky alien menace. And this year is no exception, as the long-awaited Men In Black 3 is set to hit the multiplexes later this week. This time around, Agent J (Will Smith) travels back to the 1960s to tackle a particularly nasty alien thingy.
As we await the movie, now is a good time to reflect on some of the past alien attacks on this planet we call Earth. And in preparation for the latest extra-terrestrial assault, we could take a few pointers on just how to survive the next alien invasion…
10. Leave The Tap On
Signs (2002)
Poor old Mel Gibson – his wife is dead, his son has chronic asthma, and his daughter is a mental case who leaves glasses of water all over the house. And now some green buggers are making crop circles in »
- David Agnew
Ronan O'Casey obituary
10 May 2012 2:19 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
My father, Ronan O'Casey, known as Case to family and friends, has died aged 89. He was a distinguished actor, producer and writer who enjoyed a picaresque life and career to the full.
He was born in Montreal, Canada, to a poet father, Michael Casey, and actor mother, Margaret Sheehy, from Dublin, who had co-starred with the young James Joyce in his first stage role. Ronan began acting in his mother's company in Montreal at the age of eight and, following theatrical and vaudeville touring, moved to Dublin and then to London.
He found early success as a stylish character actor in such postwar films as The Mudlark (1950), Talk of a Million (1951) and Norman Wisdom's Trouble in Store (1953), going on to play the prisoner of Room 101 in 1984 (1956) and the sergeant in Nicholas Ray's war film Bitter Victory (1957). While starring in the West End in Detective Story he met my mother, »
What to Watch: The TVLine-Up for Monday
7 May 2012 4:51 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
On TV this Monday: The Voice‘s final sing-off, the Broke Girls and Castle hope for sweet finishes, House is Awol, Bones goes to the movies, Five-0‘s McGarrett and Wo Fat find something in common and more. In addition to TVLine’s features (linked within), here are nine programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm The Voice (NBC) | In the final phase of the competition, the remaining four artists of coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton’s teams perform live.
8 pm 2 Broke Girls (CBS) | Hour-long season finale: Max and Caroline plot to attend a »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
This week's new film events
4 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Acre After Acre, Mile After Mile, London
If you've had the feeling in recent years that British cinema has become a story of steadily eroding national identity, then here's where you need to be looking. The season's subtitle – Tradition, Memory & Journey In British Folk Cinema – tells you what you need to know: that there's a solid, albeit underfunded, core of film-makers still out there looking for the soul of Britain, and many of them crop up here. Like Chris Petit, who this Thursday accompanies his seminal late-70s road trip Radio On. Or Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair, who'll be previewing their pedalo-powered journey to the Olympics later. Or, fresh to their ranks, Ben Rivers, here with his Scottish wilderness film Two Years At Sea. Look out too for more commercial fare such as The Long Good Friday and The Elephant Man.
Sugar House Studios, E15, Thu to 28 Jun
Jean Gabin, »
- Steve Rose
Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Survivor
29 April 2012 9:52 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Brian Trenchard-Smith created this trailer for an Aussie supernatural thriller that never made it to American theaters. Director David Hemmings (star of Blow-Up) was determined to class up what was initially intended as a lowly horror movie, and rewrites of David Ambrose’s script continued throughout production. Actor’s Equity frowned on so many overseas cast members and refused to allow Susan George and Samatha Eggar to perform. Thom Eberhardt’s 1983 Sole Survivor uses the same premise to a degree that it should almost be considered a remake, although there’s no official connection.
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- Marty Melville
Homeland: season one, episode 11
29 April 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Carrie's off her meds and on the case in an episode that brilliantly sets us up for the series finale next week
Spoiler Alert: This blog is for people watching Homeland on Channel 4. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode 11 – and if you've seen further in the series, please do not leave spoilers
Rebecca Nicholson's episode 10 blog
The Vest
Not the most promising episode title, I grant you (next week: The Pants?), but it does brilliantly set us up for the series finale next week.
Brody
Never mind blowing himself up with that suicide vest: Brody almost drowned in symbolism this week, with the family outing to Gettysburg, where he got to explain that sometimes men who feel like they're doing the right thing have to make hard decisions. Even daughter Dana, despite her fondness for bongs, sensed that there was more than just a history lesson »
- Rebecca Nicholson
Clip joint: Photographs
11 April 2012 8:11 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Photos capture a moment in time – and we pin down the best happy, sad and sinister snapshots in cinema
This week's Clip joint is by Dallas King, who blogs about film at Championship Celluloid.
Think you can do better than Dallas? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Photographs are used to capture a single moment in time. It could be a moment of joy, sadness, love, documenting history, proof of supernatural or extra-terrestrial existence, or in the case of Blow Up, possibly even a murder. They say that a picture says a thousand words but I don't need that many to explain why these particular cinematic photographs are so important to their moving pictures.
Everyone has been in a photo they wish they could erase, especially after being tagged on Facebook after a night out, »
More Cinema Obscura on the Way from Scorpion Releasing ... The Survivor
8 April 2012 11:28 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The lovable loonies over at Scorpion Releasing have done it again! Another long lost gem has been uncovered and given the DVD treatment - The Survivor! Read on for release details!
From the Press Release
On April 17th, Scorpion Releasing presents The Survivor, based on the terrifying best seller by master horror writer James Herbert (The Fog)! A 747 jetliner, piloted by Captain Keller (Robert Powell, Jesus Of Nazareth), suffers an explosion just after take-off and 300 passengers are incinerated. Keller is found wandering from the wreckage unharmed and unable to understand how he has survived. As Captain Keller embarks on his fateful odyssey, he is joined by a psychic (Jenny Agutter, Logan's Run, An American Werewolf In London) to solve what really happened to his plane. Directed by David Hemmings (Deep Red, Blow Up) and also starring acclaimed actor Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane), Scorpion Releasing proudly presents the complete uncut version of The Survivor. »
- Uncle Creepy
Rockefeller's Melancholy
2 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
In conjunction with La Furia Umana, Notebook is very happy to present Ted Fendt's original English translation of Luc Moullet's "Rockefeller's Melancholy," on Michelangelo Antonioni. Moullet's original French version can be found at La Furia Umana. Our special thanks to Mr. Moullet, La Furia Umana and Ted Fendt for making this possible.
Above: "John D. Rockefeller" (1917) by John Singer Sargent.
Drifting is the fundamental subject of Antonioni’s films. They are about beings who don’t know where they are going, who constantly contradict themselves, and are guided by their momentary impulses. We don’t understand what they feel or why they act as they do.
Psychological cinema could be defined in this way: it is psychological when you don’t understand the motivation of emotions and behaviors. If you understand, it means it’s easy, immediately, at a very superficial level... The filmmaker must therefore let it be »
Mad Men at the Movies: Gillian Hills and 'Zou Bisou Bisou'
26 March 2012 5:38 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
It's been so long since the best series on television was airing (17 months!) that this new version of The Film Experience has never seen an episode of "Mad Men at the Movies". Last night the miserable sexy funny smart complex men and women of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce returned to take us all back to the sixties once again. In this series we document the show's love affair with the cinema. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is a movie buff and references tend to be sprinkled in for vintage flavor, character detailing and thematic resonance. Unfortunately this two hour premiere had no movie references. Damn!
5.1 "A Little Kiss, Part 1"
5.2 "A Little Kiss, Part 2"
The episode opened oddly with none of the familiar characters and a confrontation between African American picketers and immature men at an ad agency (not Scdp). By the time the episode ended, a small plot detail in the »
- NATHANIEL R
Megan Draper as pop star? French tune from Mad Men premiere released as single
26 March 2012 6:15 AM, PDT | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
That Don Draper sure is a lucky guy. Witty co-workers, central-casting kids, a hot wife: he's got it all. Then why is he such a dour bastard? Could you remain so sternly aloof if your wife was the Liv Tyler-ish Jessica Pare and she sang you a sexy birthday song like you were JFK? (That's a rhetorical question. No, no you could not.) In case you missed it (it must be cold under that rock), last night's Mad Men premiere featured the delightful Megan Draper serenading her husband Don during his fortieth-birthday "surprise" party. The flirty little French number she sings is actually an old pop song called "Zou Bisou Bisou", roughly translating to "Oh! Kiss Kiss!", originally recorded by French "ye-ye" singer Gillian Hills. The tune was famously featured in 1966's Blow-Up. (Anachronism-seekers foiled again.) Pare's [...] »
Tonino Guerra, 1920 - 2012
23 March 2012 6:42 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Tonino Guerra, the poet and screenwriter from Emilia-Romagna who has worked with so many directors, died this morning," reports Camillo de Marco at Cineuropa. "He had turned 92 on March 16."
Even the honed-down list at Wikipedia of directors for whom Guerra wrote is rather astounding: "Michelangelo Antonioni with L'avventura, La notte, L'eclisse, Red Desert, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point and Identification of a Woman, Federico Fellini with Amarcord, Theo Angelopoulos with Landscape in the Mist, Eternity and a Day and The Weeping Meadow, Andrei Tarkovsky with Nostalghia and Francesco Rosi with the militant politics of The Mattei Affair, Lucky Luciano and Illustrious Corpses."
All in all, he wrote more than 100 screenplays, was nominated for an Oscar three times (for Casanova '70, Blow-Up and Amarcord), won Best Screenplay at Cannes (for Angelopoulos's Voyage to Cythera) and the Pietro Bianchi Award at Venice, among many other prizes.
The Golden Apricot Film Festival Board has issued »
Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Tonino Guerra, Who Wrote 'Blow-Up' and 'Amarcord,' Dies at 92
22 March 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, the man behind Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" and Federico Fellini's "Amarcord," has died at 92. The three-time Oscar nominee had been battling illness for several months in Rimini in central Italy, the Afp reported. Born in 1920, Guerra began writing while imprisoned in a German concentration camp during World War II. Since penning his first script for Giuseppe De Santis' "Men and Wolves" (1956), Guerra has gone on to write for some of the top Italian filmmakers of all time, including Vittorio De Sica ("Marriage Italian Style"), Mario Monicelli ("Caro Michele") and Francesco Rosi ("Lucky Luciano"). He also collaborated with Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos on the dreamlike "Voyage to Cythera," and with Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on "Nostalgia." All in all, he's responsible for more than 100 screenplays over the course of »
- Nigel M Smith
Tonino Guerra – a career in clips
22 March 2012 10:32 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The legendary Italian scriptwriter and novelist, who died yesterday, worked with a host of Europe's greatest auteurs. Here we pick the highlights of his extraordinary oeuvre
It was Tonino Guerra's fate to become the scriptwriter of choice for a string of master directors whose status as auteurs – "authors" of their films – tended to diminish the status of the writers involved. Nevertheless, Guerra established himself as a major figure in Italian cinema during its golden period in the 1960s and early 70s, as well as venturing further afield to collaborate with the likes of Tarkovsky and Angelopoulos.
But it is the amazing string of films he made with Michelangelo Antonioni for which he will primarily be remembered. After spending time as a schoolteacher in his 20s, he broke into the film industry in his 30s, receiving his first credit aged 37 for Man and Wolves, by Bitter Rice director Giuseppe de Santis. »
- Andrew Pulver
Screenwriter Guerra Dies
22 March 2012 5:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Hollywood screenwriter Tonino Guerra has died at the age of 92.
The Italian moviemaker worked on more than 100 scripts and was best known for his regular collaboration with director Michelangelo Antonioni, earning an Oscar nomination for best screenplay for their film Blow-Up in 1967.
He was also nominated for an Academy Award for 1973 movie Amarcord, with fellow writer Federico Fellini, and in 1966 for Casanova 70.
Guerra was born in 1920, and honed his writing skills after he was imprisoned in a German concentration camp during World War II.
He was part of the famed neo-realism movement in Italian cinema during the late 1940s and '50s, but later worked with contemporary directors including Steven Soderbergh and Giuseppe Tornatore.
Italy's former culture minister Walter Veltroni said, "We have lost a poet, a genius and marvellous person."
Guerra was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival in 1994. »
Tonino Guerra obituary
22 March 2012 4:16 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Screenwriter and poet who co-scripted films with Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing »
- John Francis Lane
Italian screenwriter, Fellini collaborator Tonino Guerra dies
21 March 2012 2:54 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Tonino Guerra, the screenwriter who collaborated with Italian neorealist greats Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, and Michelangelo Antonioni, has died at the age of 92, reports the Afp. He had been battling illness for several months at his home in the central Italian city of Rimini.
Guerra’s start as a writer was as dramatic as his films themselves: He began working on his earliest screenplays while imprisoned in a German concentration camp during World War II. After getting his start on Giuseppe De Santis’ 1956 release Men and Wolves, Guerra became a staple of the Italian film industry, co-writing more than 100 screenplays in his 52-year career. »
- Lanford Beard
Review: Deep Red (Blu-ray)
19 March 2012 8:27 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Poor David Hemmings. First, Michelangelo Antonioni puts him through the wringer in the ultra stylish giallo, Blow Up (1966), and then Dario Argento gets the idea to cast him in a reworking of Blow Up in 1975, with Deep Red. This guy can’t go anywhere without being thrown into a murder mystery, and thus risking his life at every turn.
In Deep Red, Hemmings plays Marcus Daily, a British pianist working in Italy. One night he witnesses the murder of his neighbor Helga (Macha Meril), a renowned psychic, in their apartment building. While being interrogated by the police he meets Gianna Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi), a plucky journalist who quickly ropes Marcus into investigating the murder with her.
Daria Nicolodi and David Hemmings’ relationship is reminiscent of a 1940’s comedy starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. In a memorable sequence where the two are in Gianna’s car, she is driving, while »
- Derek Botelho
Here's All The Music That Pumped Up 'Project X' Including The xx, Four Tet, Kanye West, LCD Soundsystem & More
3 March 2012 8:22 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
You wanted it, you got it. Whatever you think of this weekend's outrageous found footage party movie "Project X" there is no denying that the filmmakers provided a serious playlist to accompany the debauchery on screen. And while 13 of those songs were collected for the official soundtrack that was released earlier this week, we've heard from more than a few readers that they want to know every song that was featured in the film. Well, we've tracked down that list and here it is: all the music that rocked your eardrums in "Project X."
And really, there is something here for everybody. For people looking for straight up party bangers there are more than a few options, but for stuffier folks who like their music to be critically approved and maybe slightly more underground, bands like The xx, Four Tet, Amon Tobin, Animal Collective and LCD Soundsystem are all featured. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Sergio Larrain obituary
24 February 2012 8:54 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Experimental Chilean photographer whose short career resulted in a string of inspirational images
Although he was photographically active for scarcely more than a decade and was the author of just four books (all of them now collectors' items), the stature and reputation of the Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain, who has died aged 80, continued to grow after he withdrew from the vibrant European world of street photography to live in a meditational retreat.
Born into a professional family in Santiago (his father was an architect), he began by studying music. At the age of 18, he went to the Us and studied forestry at the University of California, Berkeley, before transferring to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1954. He also travelled through Europe and the Middle East, taking a camera. When he returned home, he began freelancing for the Brazilian magazine O Cruzeiro with a heart-searing series on street children living on the banks of the Rio Mapuche. »
- Amanda Hopkinson
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