10 items from 2012
8 May 2012 11:29 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »
Apple’s much-rumored TV set will look like its Cinema Display monitor “only much larger,” the website Cult of Mac reported on Monday, citing a source who claims to have seen a prototype. The set features Apple’s Siri voice-recognition software that can be used in conjunction with an Apple iSight camera to make free telephone calls, according to the report. The camera features a zoom-and-pan feature that will allow users to take close-up video of themselves from across a room. Presumably the Siri feature will also allow viewers to “tell” the TV what shows or movies they wish to watch live, record, or play back. In a mock-up of the set shown on Cult of Mac, the viewer tells Siri, “I’m in the mood for a movie, maybe one of my favorites. Can you make a suggestion?” Siri suggests Three Days of the Condor. No information is provided about possible shipping dates, »
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12 March 2012 10:17 AM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
A navy commander, a technical advisor for a navy weapon being developed by a civillian company is discovered dead on the beach. They find info on the murder by use of a satellite. Gibbs: (Mark Harmon) posits Tony (Michael Weatherly) took " a wave for the team," i.e. stopped the Db from being made wet by a wave and thus preventing the loss of any forensics/vital evidence thus having to endure the eternal shame of having to wear one of Ducky's (David McCallum) "spare" overalls which were about two sizes too small!. Tony should write a letter according to the man at reception at the naval base. Gibbs pointing out Tony's wet clothes and referring to them as "shrinkage." More references to Tony needing a diet, (see later episodes still to come.) and exercising in the gym. Kate's (Sasha Alexander) reference to Tony's bars being non-nutritious and eating donuts. »
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18 February 2012 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 9/11 novel begins promisingly, but soon drowns in treacly sentimentality
In 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Centre were an unloved New York landmark that became overnight a palpable absence on the skyline and a complex emblem for our tormented times. In his distinguished book Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, published in December of that year, architect and film-maker James Sanders called them "that most overbearing symbol of the new city": he was discussing their unlovely role in Three Days of the Condor (the film's villain, the CIA, had its headquarters there), and in the 1976 version of King Kong.
The book was in proof the week of 9/11 and Sanders considered removing these opprobrious references, but wisely decided this would distort the way Manhattan was perceived by both himself and his readers. Others reacted more precipitately, and film-makers cut shots of »
- Philip French
17 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds are along for the ride as Swedish director Daniel Espinosa follows the Scandinavian trail to Hollywood blazed by Nicolas Winding Refn
When people readabout what it actually is they say, 'Oh, that's nothing. You lay down, they put a wet towel over your face and then they pour water over it,' but the sensation is horrific. YouTube it! Most people couldn't handle a second."
Chilean-Swedish director Daniel Espinosa is cheerfully describing the mechanics of waterboarding. It seems as apt a topic of discussion as any for a director described by Ryan Reynolds, the star of his new film, as an "intuitive, intellectual thug". But this isn't just sadistic small talk. Espinosa's latest, Safe House, contains a prominent waterboarding scene, with Denzel Washington as the victim, and Espinosa is at pains to stress that the film's portrayal was as accurate as possible. "I wanted it »
- Gwilym Mumford
15 February 2012 10:26 PM, PST | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Max von Sydow is a little intimidating. Not only does he tower over everyone in the room and have a deep, distinctive voice, but he's also one of cinema's most acclaimed actors, having spent 63 of his 82 years making films. The intimidation factor may also have something to do with the characters he's played over his long career. There are the religious figures: Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told," Father Merrin in "The Exorcist" and "The Exorcist II," and Reverend Abner Hale in "Hawaii." Then there are the villains: Ming the Merciless in "Flash Gordon," G. Joubert in "Three Days of the Condor," and Lamar Burgess in "Minority Report." His baritone was even used in "Ghostbusters II" as the voice of evil Vigo the Carpathian.However, upon meeting the Oscar nominee for "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," one immediately senses his warmth, class, and love for the craft of »
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10 February 2012 12:24 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Robert Redford, 75, has been slated to star in All Is Lost, the story of an old man fighting to survive in open sea. To be directed by J.C. Chandor, All Is Lost won't be exactly an ensemble piece along the lines of Chandor's Margin Call (which featured Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Penn Badgley, and Zachary Quinto, among others). After all, Redford will be the film's sole cast member. Shooting of the adventure drama should begin this summer at Mexico's Baja Studios in Rosarita Beach, where Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio loved and suffered while James Cameron's Titanic sank into the tank. Lionsgate will release All Is Lost in the U.S. Now, let's get Oscar 2014 (or whereabouts) buzz going: does All Is Lost mean a potential Oscar nomination for Redford? Well, why not? If you have fewer actors on screen, you can focus your attention on one single performance. »
- Anna Robinson
31 January 2012 9:00 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
"'Lethal Weapon 2.' People laugh at that. Look, obviously I have many movies that are near and dear to me. From 'Girl on the Bridge' to 'City of God' to 'Three Days of the Condor,' 'Cool Hand Luke,' things like that.
But I watched 'Lethal Weapon 2' and I thought, 'If they can have that much fun and get paid for it, I want that job!'
It's 'The Three Stooges' is what it is, and that's why I like it. It made me want to make movies."
Sam Worthington can currently be seen on the big screen as "Man on a Ledge" and on the small screen in "Texas Killing Fields," which hits DVD and Blu-ray today. »
- Elizabeth Snead
24 January 2012 3:55 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Alexa here. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was one on my favorite movies this year, so I was a bit disappointed this morning at its lack of notice by the Academy for Best Picture. But I wasn't surprised, what with most of the predictions not mentioning it (including Nathaniel's). Perhaps it was too professorial, too quiet, too stodgy for most. Thankfully Gary Oldman got his nomination for managing to seep George Smiley from every pore, and its le Carré-adapted screenplay got notice.
Thinking about it while listening to the nominations I was reminded of another one of my favorite spy-intrique films with a 70s setting, Three Days of the Condor, similarly ignored by the Academy in its time (save for an editing nomination), despite its timely post-Watergate release. Sydney Pollock's film is certainly the sexier of the two, with Redford and Dunaway in their heyday, but one glance at Max Von Sydow »
- Alexa
23 January 2012 4:22 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
To most, John Madden will always be the director of such period classics as Mrs Brown and Shakespeare in Love. Oscar-nominated for Best Director on the latter, he steered the film to a staggering 13 Academy Award nominations and seven wins, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Gwyneth Paltrow and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dame Judi Dench. Since then, he’s branched out, adapting Louis de Bernières’s best-selling novel Captain Corelli’s Mandoli, David Auburn’s play Proof and Elmore Leonard’s book Killshot for the big screen. Yet, with his latest movie, Madden takes on a different type of source material – that of the 2007 Israeli film Ha-Hov, directed and co-written by Assaf Bernstein.
Remaking Ha-Hov as The Debt, it tells a complex story about secrets, lies, history and guilt, starting in East Berlin in the 1960s and continuing in Tel Aviv in 2007. Cutting back and forth between the two, »
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4 January 2012 7:12 PM, PST | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Randy conspires to find a great bottle.
It would happen this way: You may be walking one day and a car will slow down beside you. A door will open and someone you you know – perhaps someone you trust – will smile and offer you… a bottle of wine.
The 1970s brought a new kind of spy movie to us – the kind where the government wears the black hat. These modern spies are corporate killers who do what they do not for love of anything. They do what they do because that’s what the memo said to do.
Robert Redford may not be the spy in “Three Days of the Condor,” but he sure has the thrill-a-minute life foisted upon him. This guy can’t pick up the mail without dodging bullets. Of course, nowadays that’s not so unusual. Don’t watch this movie if you skipped giving your mailman a holiday tip. »
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10 items from 2012
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