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12 items from 2012
Liam Neeson Kicks More Ass in First Images from Taken 2
17 May 2012 8:43 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Liam Neeson’s career path is an interesting one. He first broke out with dramatic roles in films like The Mission, Les Miserables, and Schindler’s List, but now approaching the age of 60, Neeson has become the go-to actor when you need a badass lead. He’ll be seen taking names and such later this year in director Olivier Megaton's (Colombiana) sequel Taken 2, and the first images from the film have landed online along with a few quotes from the actor himself. Naturally the images show Neeson as a guy you do not want to mess with, especially if you want to keep your neck from being snapped in half. Hit the jump to check out the images and to find out what we can expect from the follow-up. We already know that Taken 2 finds Neeson enjoying a nice vacation in Istanbul with his wife (Famke Janssen »
- Adam Chitwood
Corpo Celeste – review
30 March 2012 6:46 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This accomplished, naturalistic tale of a girl preparing for her confirmation in southern Italy feels autobiographical
This first fiction feature from a 30-year-old Italian director feels densely observed, transparently personal and autobiographical, despite being notionally based on a novel of the same name by Anna Maria Ortese. Marta, played by non-professional newcomer Yle Vianello, is a 13-year-old preparing for confirmation in southern Italy under the tutelage of Don Mario, a withdrawn and jaded priest, secretly angling for a more prestigious living elsewhere. He is played by Salvatore Cantalupo, last seen here in Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah. Marta and the other kids are being coached by the motherly, stressed-out Santa (Pasqualina Scuncia) who has to deal with her complex feelings of betrayal at Don Mario's plans, which climax in his faintly bizarre quest to salvage a crucifix from an abandoned church in his home village – whose elderly priest has an ambiguous, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Liam Neeson Confirmed for The Dark Knight Rises
28 March 2012 12:31 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
It was rumored earlier this year that Liam Neeson would return to reprise his role as Ra's al Ghul in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. He was spotted on the set of the film, but until today there's been no confirmation of his involvement. Warner Bros. made the announcement in the production notes for the film that says,
Neeson next appears in Peter Berg's actioner "Battleship," and he also will be seen in Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated action thriller "The Dark Knight Rises.
It makes perfect sense to me that his character would be back as this Batman finale as we've heard Nolan would bring everything back around in full circle in the franchise. I can't wait to see what this film has in store for us! I just can't help but think it's going to be mind blowing.
Josh Pence is playing Ra's al Ghul in the films flashbacks. »
- Venkman
9 Great Posters for 9 Not-So-Great Movies (That I Haven't Seen)
15 March 2012 8:34 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
9 Great Posters for 9 Not-So-Great Movies (that I Haven't Seen) If you missed it, yesterday I explored 11 great posters from 11 not-so-great movies, and I promised today I would take a slightly different angle at the same idea. Yesterday's 11 posters were for films I had seen, today's collection come from nine films I have never seen and I can't take full credit for this list. After I had compiled a list of my own I reached out to a few friends and one of them provided me a Ton of suggestions, several of which I had never seen. David Frank, who used to provide content on a regular basis for me, is a big poster buff and of the nine posters here, he suggested seven of them. As for the other two, well, I'll explain below and perhaps in too much detail on one of them. This list also differs from my »
- Brad Brevet
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
25 February 2012 8:40 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
The Woman in Black & Ghosts of the Past
20 February 2012 4:59 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Since its first publication in 1983, Susan Hill’s Gothic chiller The Woman in Black has been terrorising audiences, from teenagers studying the novel in English lessons to horror aficionados like Mark Kermode, who wrote a chapter on the novel for his PhD in horror fiction. Its reputation has been subsequently enhanced by the long-running stage play, which left the author of this piece so scared, he had to be prised from his chair with a crowbar.
The most recent incarnation of The Woman in Black (our review Here) was released in cinemas on February 10th, with the backing of the reformed Hammer brand and the star power of Daniel Radcliffe in his first proper post-Potter role. It joins a ream of recent ghost stories to make it to our screens, including The Others, The Orphanage and The Awakening. What explains this resurgence for old-fashioned horror of creaks, shadows and suggestion? »
- Daniel Mumby
Forest Whitaker To Play Desmond Tutu
16 February 2012 6:53 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Forest Whitaker is set to play Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Roland Joffe's South African prison movie at Lightmotive which currently has the working title of "The Archbishop And The Antichrist" says Screen Daily.
Based on the play by Michael Ashton, the story imagines a meeting between the real Tutu and a boorish white South African mass murderer called Piet Blomfeld.
Joffe ("The Mission," "The Killing Fields") has adapted the play himself. The helmer is currently in post-production on his $30+ million part colonial India-set "Singularity" and is also prepping the thriller "In God We Trust". »
- Garth Franklin
Forest Whitaker Will Be Desmond Tutu
15 February 2012 3:36 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The last time he played a real person (in The Last King Of Scotland), Forest Whitaker walked away with a shiny Oscar. So you can understand the appeal of him starring as another actual man, albeit one on the side of good this time. He’s on board to play Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Roland Joffe’s The Archbishop And The Antichrist.Joffe has adapted Michael Ashton’s play, which puts the very real Tutu in a fictional story about the Archbishop meeting a bigoted South African mass murderer called Piet Blomfeld who says he's seeking redemption. The plot is set during Tutu's work with the country’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings.It sounds like the sort of film that the man who made The Mission and The Killing Fields could really do something with. But it’s not the only project he’s developing at the moment.He’s »
Blu-ray, DVD Release: 1900
14 February 2012 9:40 AM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 24, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Olive Films
Bernardo Bertolucci’s (The Last Emperor) monumental 1977 film 1900 is both an epic history of 20th century Italy and an intimate portrait of two friends, both born on Jan. 1, 1900.
Set in Bertolucci’s ancestral region of Emilia in Northern Italy, 1900 zeroes in on same-day birthday boys Olmo Dalcò (Gerard Depardieu, Potiche), the son a socialist peasant farmer and Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro, Stone), the son of the fascist landowner. The two youths grow into men (and ultimately old men!) and pass through the upheavals of the modern world, their personal conflicts becoming an allegory of the political turmoil of their ever-changing country.
1900‘s international cast includes Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell of Success), Donald Sutherland (The Eagle), Sterling Hayden (The Killing), Dominique Sanda (Damnation Alley), Alida Valli (Senso) and Stefania Sandrelli (The Conformist). It’s superlative production credits include cinematography »
- Laurence
DVD Review - There Be Dragons (2011)
10 February 2012 10:43 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
There Be Dragons, 2011.
Written and Directed by Roland Joffé.
Starring Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott and Olga Kurylenko.
Synopsis:
In the wake of the Spanish Civil War, a journalist discovers a dark and devastating connection between his estranged father and a candidate for canonization.
Okay I’ll admit it, when first tasked with writing a review for this, and seeing the cast involved but no synopsis, I assumed that this would be a cheap fantasy flick about dragons. I’d hoped for a bit of cheesy, slightly lame entertainment with probably slip-shod CGI dragons that looked like a relic of the early 90s water-testing delves into computer animation. As it transpires this is about metaphorical dragons. Metaphorical dragons breath no fire, nor do they have talons - they just exist inside us all as we struggle internally to overcome them.
There Be Dragons, when it’s not duping fools like myself, »
- flickeringmyth
Jeremy Irons, Aida Takla-o'Reilly Photo: Golden Globes 2012
17 January 2012 5:42 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jeremy Irons, Aida Takla-o'Reilly Jeremy Irons and Dr. Aida Takla-o'Reilly, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Jeremy Irons, an Oscar winner for Barbet Schroeder's Reversal of Fortune (1990), was a presenter at the 2012 Golden Globes ceremony. Irons has been nominated for six Golden Globes, winning twice: for Reversal of Fortune and for the television miniseries Elizabeth I (2005). Irons received three other television nods — Brideshead Revisited (1982), Georgia O'Keeffe (2009), and The Borgias (2011) — and one for his starring role in Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986). Other presenters at this year's Golden Globes were Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Julianne Moore, Paula Patton, Piper Perabo, Brad Pitt, Seth Rogen, Madonna, Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Biel, Robert Downey Jr., Jimmy Fallon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Salma Hayek, and Channing Tatum. Jeremy Irons, Aida Takla-o'Reilly Photo: Golden Globes 2012 © HFPA »
- D. Zhea
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch
10 January 2012 10:35 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Bob Hoskins, Jessica Rabbit in Robert Zemeckis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Who Framed Roger Rabbit (top); Willem Dafoe in Martin Scorsese's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated The Last Temptation of Christ (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1970s: Odd Men Out Bob Fosse, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman 1980 DGA Michael Apted, Coal Miner's Daughter AMPAS Roman Polanski, Tess DGA/AMPAS Robert Redford, Ordinary People David Lynch, The Elephant Man Richard Rush, The Stunt Man Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull 1981 DGA/AMPAS Warren Beatty, Reds Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire Louis Malle, Atlantic City Mark Rydell, On Golden Pond Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982 DGA Taylor Hackford, An Officer and a Gentleman AMPAS Sidney Lumet, The Verdict DGA/AMPAS Richard Attenborough, Gandhi Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot Sydney Pollack, Tootsie Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1983 DGA Lawrence Kasdan, The Big Chill Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff AMPAS Mike Nichols, »
- Andre Soares
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