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Clip joint: the best film clips featuring montages
10 December 2009 7:35 AM, PST
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This week Pinkos wants your help to assemble a sequence of clips featuring Eisenstein's much-copied creation
Sergei Eisenstein presented his theory of montage to an august group of cineastes in the 1920s. It was, he said, "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema". Eighty odd years later, his theory finally came to the attention of the wider world, as the subject of a song in Team America: World Police.
The word can be taken in several different ways. Deriving from the French word for "assembly", in Gallic film practice it simply refers to the editing process. For Eisenstein's Soviet colleagues, it was a means to derive an abstract meaning from a combination of shots in sequence. Nowadays, thanks to Rocky et al, a montage is a cliched sequence where a song (usually a pounding rock anthem) or
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'Red Cliff' Just the Latest Film Re-Edited for American Consumption
26 November 2009 9:10 PM, PST
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Last Friday marked the arrival of Red Cliff (read our review here) the new war epic by Chinese action-meister John Woo. But this wasn’t the same version that graced Asian theaters prior to its international release: In its home country, Red Cliff was released as two films, the first in mid-2008; the second in early 2009.
Rather than unleash a nearly six-hour magnum opus on audiences worldwide, Woo pared both films down into a single two-and-a-half hour cut. In interviews, he said the deleted scenes mostly placed the film’s events in historical context, which might not have appealed to Westerners unfamiliar with Chinese history. Woo’s movie depicts the famous Battle of Red Cliffs, which was fought around early 200 A.D. between warlords from the northern and southern regions of China.
It’s too early to tell how successful Red Cliff will be with North American viewers (In mainland China,
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Jean-Jacques Beineix: The Hollywood Interview
14 July 2009 4:20 PM, PDT
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French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Jean-jacques Beineix:
Divas and Lions and Moons, Oh My!
By Alex Simon
The Noveulle Vague, or “French New Wave” was launched by a group of film critics and cinefiles who began France’s legendary Cahiers du Cinéma magazine in the 1950s. With Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in 1959, the movement was launched, emphasizing behavior over aesthetics, content over form, and pastiche of other film genres (particularly those born in the U.S., with a healthy dollop of Italian neorealism) over the more traditional narratives of French films from years past. Francois Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda (see our interview with her below) Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette all fell under the spell of magazine co-founder and theorist Andre Bazin, laying the groundwork for a series of articles, monographs and critiques that formed the so-called “auteur theory,” (or more specifically “"La politique des auteurs" ("The policy of authors,
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Enemies in Public: Top 10 Gangster Movies
1 July 2009 9:39 AM, PDT
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"Okay, we know Transformers: Return of the Fallen is out," you say, "but what blockbuster is there for me, someone who’s already seen Megan Fox’s rack and isn’t a racist?" Into that breach steps Public Enemies, recounting the pursuit of legendary pirate Willy Wonka Dillinger by noted law-and-order type The Batman. Here are the top 10 gangster movies you should watch to psych yourself up for Johnny Depp rocking out with his Tommy gun.
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Johnny Depp | Public Enemies | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | The Departed | Boyz N the Hood | Once Upon a Time in America | Pulp Fiction | The Godfather | The Godfather, Part II | Eastern Promises | Scarface | GoodFellas
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Sergio Leone In London: Inside The Private Tribute With Dario Argento And Sir Christopher Frayling
7 May 2009 7:08 PM, PDT
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Dario Argento and Sir Christopher Frayling at the Sergio Leone tribute in London.(Photo: Mark Mawston) In honour of what would have been Sergio Leone’s 80th
birthday, Sir Christopher Frayling, the late director’s internationally
acclaimed biographer, hosted a celebration of the legenary filmmaker’s work at
the Italian Cultural Institute in London on Wednesday evening.
Sir Christopher, who has penned the foreword to Dave
Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer’s upcoming book ‘The Westerns of Clint Eastwood’,
invited Dave, along with Cinema Retro contributors, and authors in their own
right, Matthew Field and Howard Hughes, and photographer Mark Mawston to this
private tribute.
Posters from Sergio Leone’s movies adorned the walls,
providing a fitting backdrop to the evening, which began with a talk on Leone’s
career by Frayling (illustrated with a slideshow) followed by an on-stage
interview with famed Italian director Dario Argento,
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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Scarface named the public's top gangster movie
26 March 2009 5:56 AM, PDT
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Famous for its swearing, violence and Al Pacino’s invitation to “say hello to my little friend”, Brian De Palma’s 1983 gangster epic Scarface has been voted the public’s favourite gangster film in a poll by entertainment website IGN. It’s not surprising that the flick proved popular in the survey as 26 years after Al’s Tony Montana climbed to the top of Miami’s underworld drug hierarchy, hygienically-challenged boys still emulate him, quoting his famous phrase, plastering his image on their walls and wishing they had a chance with Michelle Pfeiffer. But being named more popular than The Godfather, really? The masterpiece that always sits smugly at the top of best film ever lists? That’s a shock. Click over to find out where the Oscar-winning mafia classic did chart in the poll.
Missing out on the top spot, the Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino (him again!
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Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Action/Adventure Edition
13 March 2009 2:12 PM, PDT
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When referring to a movie that nabbed a second life, typically home video is the savior. There are countless movies that didn’t fare well in their original theatrical runs but have earned a so-called second life thanks to profitable video sales and rentals that make them much stronger than they ever were when they first arrived. Examples of this trend vary greatly, whether you’re referring to genre, era, proliferation (or magnitude of the “second life”) and, of course, how deserving it is. Most that get a boost long after its premiere got where it is now slowly, spread wide by word of mouth and critical re-analysis. Most of them were not well received during the initial run, and many are re-evaluated, and mistakes are mended. Among them: 2001, The Princess Bride, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Office Space and Dazed and Confused. These
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Once Upon A Time in America: A Great Swansong
12 March 2009 6:05 AM, PDT
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Not many realize that Sergio Leone was offered the chance to direct Puzo's The Godfather but opted to make Once Upon a Time in America. They say he regretted this decision later in life--but it would be pertinent to know why someone like Leone would have made such a decision.
Any Leone fan would know the importance the director gives to music, structure of the story, the importance of money and how it corrupts many values. All these elements are underlined in this gangster film. In Coppola's work, the story afforded more importance to social details, character details and fabulous camera-work. Both works are monumental--but I preferred Leone's work, truncated to less than 4 hours than his original cut of 6 hours.
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Roger Ebert Pays Tribute To Gene Siskel On The 10th Anniversary Of His Death
20 February 2009 3:07 AM, PST
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Noted film critic Roger Ebert devotes his column to his long time former co-host on At the Movies, Gene Siskel on the 10th anniversary of his death. The pair had an often abrasive relationship on the air that cut through the fluff most entertainment shows are known for. They often agreed on the merits (or lack thereof) of a movie, but just as often disagreed, often passionately. They once both named Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America as the worst movie of the year, but after seeing Leone's unedited director's cut, then named that version as the best picture of the year! Although there were rumors the two really hated each other offscreen, Ebert sets the record straight and movingly notes that he thinks of his friend and former co-host every single day, even as he battles against major health issues that have left him unable to speak.
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The Dark Knight IMAX ticket winners!
23 January 2009 12:02 PM, PST
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I don't want to publish the Twitter identities of those who have won tickets to see The Dark Knight on IMAX, a contest we announced yesterday, but I will tell you what movies they told us, via Twitter, what movies they'd like to see released on the IMAX screen:
Caligula
Blade Runner
Mulholland Drive
Once Upon a Time in America / Once Upon a Time in the West
Titanic
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- Chris Thilk
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The Dark Knight IMAX ticket winners!
23 January 2009 12:02 PM, PST
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I don't want to publish the Twitter identities of those who have won tickets to see The Dark Knight on IMAX, a contest we announced yesterday, but I will tell you what movies they told us, via Twitter, what movies they'd like to see released on the IMAX screen:
Caligula
Blade Runner
Mulholland Drive
Once Upon a Time in America / Once Upon a Time in the West
Titanic
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- Chris Thilk
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