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10 items from 2012
Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 2 of 5)
24 May 2012 12:12 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Oliver Reed as Athos in The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973/1974, UK):
These films were actually shot all at once but ultimately released as two separate films telling one long story. As the musketeer with a dark past, Oliver Reed provides a lot of the heart and soul in these very entertaining and well-made films. Technically, since we have to isolate one film for our fantasy nomination, it would be The Four Musketeers as his role is more prominent in that film. Reed’s reunion scene with Faye Dunaway’s Milady is superb as is Reed’s intense swordplay with an array of opponents including Christopher Lee. An underrated actor whose career was damaged by well-documented alcohol problems and notorious off-screen behavior, Reed still logged in some truly incredible acting performances over the course of his career. His portrayal of Athos is definitely one of them.
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- Terek Puckett
Let Matthew McConaughey Sleaze His Way into Your Heart in Two Clips and the Trailer for William Friedkin's 'Killer Joe'
23 May 2012 3:30 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Besides my love of the film's name (which I plan to use when I introduce myself from now on), I'm looking forward to director William Friedkin's film for a couple of reasons. Friedkin's directed four of the greatest American films of all time (The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer and To Live and Die in L.A.), and his last movie was the underrated Bug. His latest has an amazing cast -- including Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon, and the cute-as-a-bug's-nose Juno Temple. It's also got Matthew McConaughey as a psychopathic killer. McConaughey is almost always at his best when he plays a creep, as opposed to the romantic-comedy hero he's become typecast as; and it's hard to think of a »
William Friedkin Discusses Frustrating Lawsuit Over His Undersung '70s Film 'Sorcerer'
11 May 2012 4:19 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
When discussing the scrappy and hirsute "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" generation of 1970s filmmakers, the narrative arc of William Friedkin is a fun one to tell, and is often the stuff of legend. While he doesn't rank up there among some of the peers of that era like Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, he was the first of them to deliver what many call the first true blockbuster before "Jaws" and "Star Wars" with 1973's "The Exorcist." Arriving just two years after his critical hit "The French Connection" (which earned him an Academy Award for Best Director; 4 wins and 8 nominations total), "The Exorcist" became one of the highest-earning movies of all time during its era, grossing over $441 million worldwide (which is still a great figure by today's standards).
The narrative goes downhill from there. Thought to be the the youngest person to win the Best Director Oscar at »
- Edward Davis
Jazz Starter Kit - 50 Albums
30 April 2012 6:56 AM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
Monday, April 30, is International Jazz Day, proclaimed by Unesco goodwill ambassador Herbie Hancock. There will be streaming concerts and much more on jazzday.com. It seems like an apt time for a solid historical overview of jazz. Over the years, people have asked me, "I've just started listening to jazz, what should I get?" and "What jazz albums do you think everyone should have in their collection?" Here are my top recommendations to provide a broad foundation for understanding jazz through classic performances that have stood the test of time.
By putting the essential albums in chronological order, the development of jazz is outlined. Usually I recommend just one album per artist, but there are three among them who tower over the history of jazz so monumentally that they are represented by multiple albums: Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. Figures as protean as these three cannot be represented »
- SteveHoltje
News Shorts: April 16th 2012
16 April 2012 9:02 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Photos from G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Prometheus, The Chernobyl Diaries, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Expendables 2, Rust and Bone and Lawless.
Posters for The Amazing Spider-Man, Wreck-it Ralph, Take This Waltz, Moonrise Kingdom and The Raven.
"Open Road is setting a February 8th 2013 release date for Steven Soderbergh's "Bitter Pill" which is currently shooting in New York. Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Vinessa Shaw star…" ( full details)
"William Friedkin is suing Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios over rights to exploit his 1977 thriller 'Sorcerer'. Friedkin filed his complaint last week and seeks a declaration on his rights…" (full details)
"Joe Gazzam has been tapped to write an untitled family adventure set in Hawaii for Disney. Details of the project are being kept under wraps…" (full details)
"Paramount Pictures has acquired Sascha Rothchild and Randi Barnes's script pitch "Status Update", a high school comedy that utilizes social media. »
- Garth Franklin
Sorcerer Director Friedkin Files Suit Against Studios
13 April 2012 3:56 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Oscar-winning director William Friedkin has filed a lawsuit over the ownership of his Roy Scheider film Sorcerer.
The Exorcist filmmaker has allegedly been banned from screening the 1977 thriller by Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios executives, who claim Friedkin doesn't own the legal rights to the project.
But on Thursday Friedkin launched a legal battle against both distribution companies, who co-produced the film, in bid to solve the dispute.
The documents were filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court and an excerpt, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, reads, "Each has recently disclaimed rights to exploit the Picture in the United States, and admitted ignorance as to who, if anyone, currently has such rights. Bafflingly, however, defendants persist in denying that Friedkin has any rights to exploit the Picture." »
William Friedkin wants some of the cash that probably doesn't exist from his movie Sorcerer
13 April 2012 2:15 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
William Friedkin, last seen in these parts trying to get the Nc-17 rating attached to his forthcoming Killer Joe overturned, is suing Paramount and Universal over the domestic rights to his 1977 film Sorcerer, as well as a share of the profits that no one has ever previously accused the movie of having earned. Sorcerer, a remake of the French classic The Wages Of Fear, was a labor of love for Friedkin that he made when he was riding high after the back-to-back blockbuster successes of The French Connection and The Exorcist. The movie earned mostly middling reviews and suffered »
William Friedkin Sues Paramount, Universal Over 'Sorcerer' Ownership
13 April 2012 5:12 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Oscar-winning director William Friedkin is baffled by why he's not being allowed to screen his 1977 thriller Sorcerer and is suing Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios over rights to exploit the film. Friedkin filed his complaint Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court and seeks a declaration on his rights. The director, who won an Oscar in 1972 for The French Connection and was nominated again in 1974 for The Exorcist, followed those films up in 1977 with Sorcerer, starring Roy Scheider about a bunch of criminals who end up in South America and must transport highly volatile nitroglycerin to
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- Eriq Gardner
Why Bertolucci's The Conformist deserves a place in cinema history
22 February 2012 4:34 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Italian director's 1970 expressionist masterpiece offered a blueprint for a new kind of Hollywood film, which is why Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese and co owe him a huge debt
Bernardo Bertolucci's expressionist masterpiece of 1970, The Conformist, is the movie that plugs postwar Italian cinema firmly and directly into the emerging 1970s renaissance in Hollywood film-making. Its account of the neuroses and self-loathing of a sexually confused would-be fascist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) aching to fit in in 1938 Rome, who is despatched to Paris to murder his former, anti-fascist college professor, was deemed an instant classic on release.
It was, and is, a highly self-conscious and stylistically venturesome pinnacle of late modernism, drawing from the full range of recent Italian movie history: a little neo-neorealism, a lot of stark and blinding Antonioni-style mise-en-scène, some moments redolent of Fellini. And it was all framed within an evocation of the frivolous fascist-era film-making style derided »
- John Patterson
Tom Hardy Preparing To Play Al Capone In David Yates' Trilogy 'Cicero'; Film(s) Aiming For 2013 Start
6 January 2012 8:53 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Everyone is banking on Tom Hardy becoming a big, big star. Harvey Weinstein has already moved "The Wettest County" to the end of the summer, hoping to ride the wave of the actor's post-"The Dark Knight Rises" fame and Warner Bros. is anxious to keep the actor in house. He's already set to spend the a good chunk of 2012 filming George Miller's long awaited "Fury Road" for the studio, and they are already getting the actor started on another role, one that he won't tackle until next year. First rumored over the summer, it now seems the wheels are beginning to turn for Hardy to star in the potential gangland trilogy "Cicero" for other WB fave, director David Yates, who has made the studio a ton of cash with his "Harry Potter" films. Written by Walon Green (”The Wild Bunch,” “Sorcerer,” “The Brink’s Job”), with Yates doing a rewrite, »
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