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Film: Review:Police, Adjective
23 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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In the famous last scene of The Untouchables, Eliot Ness, the straight-arrow federal agent tasked with hunting down Al Capone, is asked what he’ll do if Prohibition gets repealed. “I think I’ll have a drink,” he responds. Point being, Ness doesn’t complicate his job by questioning the letter of the law; whatever society dictates through its lawmakers, he’s duty-bound to carry out those rules. That rigid fidelity would make Ness the villain in Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, a clever, exceedingly wonky procedural about a undercover cop (Dragos Bucur) who quietly refuses to do what he
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Five Questions with Patricia Clarkson
4 December 2009 6:02 PM, PST
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In an industry where actresses face fewer options as they get older, Patricia Clarkson has defied the odds. Years after making her debut in Brian de Palma's 1987 crime pic The Untouchables and landing a breakthrough role in 1998's High Art, she's hit her stride and become one of Hollywood's most popular character actresses. In the decade of the '00s alone, the plaudits and awards have come left and right: an Oscar nomination for Pieces of April, two Emmy wins for HBO's "Six Feet Under,"and critics' awards for Far From Heaven, The Station Agent, Good Night, and Good Luck. (In 2009, the Year of the Cougar, Clarkson was also handpicked to star in Saturday Night Live's "Motherlover," an honor of another kind.)
So when Cinematical met Clarkson during last month's Savannah Film Festival, we jumped at the chance to talk with the actress about her career - past,
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- Jen Yamato
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Audio/Visual: Ennio Morricone and Me
18 November 2009 4:52 AM, PST
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Ennio Morricone turned 81 last Tuesday, and more than a few people celebrated his brilliant career spanning decades. Reading up on the famous composer, I discovered that he began as a jazz musician writing and arranging pop music for RCA’s branch in Italy. This makes sense but also came as an immense surprise to me because he is so known as a composer. Morricone’s success is in part due to his versatility and accessibility, but what I feel makes Morricone a true master is the legendary passion which he embraces in his role not as both film score composer and (more importantly) a musician bringing imagination to life.
My first encounter with Morricone was with DePalma’s “The Untouchables”. His work on that film is a perfect example of Morricone’s admirable ability in style and concept. His experience with other genres of films were likely helpful in devising
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Waterworld Blu-ray Review
15 November 2009 9:14 AM, PST
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Hollywood has figured something out, which is that even if you spend a shit-ton of money on a film, that in and of itself can attract an audience. It’s hard to look at the relative success of Waterworld at the box office as anything more than rubbernecking on the freeway, and it was worthwhile for many who had grown tired of Kevin Costner. My review of Waterworld after the jump.
Though somewhat stiff at times, Costner was the leading man of the late 80’s, even more so than Tom Cruise, with his sexual charisma and aw-shucks charm. No Way Out, The Untouchables, Bull Durham, and Field of Dreams said “hey world, check me out.” Then came Dances with Wolves, which won him a couple of Oscars, defeating the (now seen as obviously superior) Goodfellas. Some resentment sets in with success and the oddball A Perfect World, and the terrible
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- Andre Dellamorte
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New On DVD This Week
10 November 2009 4:15 PM, PST
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Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as Michael Mann’s awesome film Heat (shown above with Robert De Nero and Val Kilmer), Logan’s Run, Up, Monsters, Inc. and the Watchmen “Ultimate” Cut. Plus, there’s the second volume of Batman: The Brave and the Bold coming out this week as well.
Check them out:
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The Accidental Husband ~ Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Sam Shepard (DVD and Blu-ray)
The General (1926) (Silent) ~ Buster Keaton (Blu-ray)
Heat ~ Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer (Blu-ray)
Logan’s Run ~ Michael York
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- Joe Gillis
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Scenes We Love: Miller's Crossing
6 November 2009 11:02 AM, PST
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In the Great Coen Debates that occur among film fans, there's one that I never feel gets enough love: Miller's Crossing. It's probably my favorite next to The Big Lebowski. The film is deliciously dark and dreary (you can watch this in summer and still feel cold), but punctuated by that startling Coens humor. The dialogue and character quirks are not as exaggerated as they are in other Coen films, and when a character does get theatrical, it's appropriate to the setting. These are thugs who find themselves in positions of great wealth and power, after all, and they'll never know quite how to behave in the real world.
The film has a level of tension I don't think the Coens matched until No Country For Old Men. Tom's white-knuckle walk into Miller's Crossing is probably my favorite scene (actually, it's difficult to pick just one), but it doesn't appear to be on YouTube.
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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Torso Isn't Dead Yet ... So Says Bendis
22 October 2009 5:58 PM, PDT
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Torso, by Brian Michael Bendis, is one of the best graphic novels out there. A gritty and gripping hunt for a serial killer, its attention to detail is staggering, and its pace is better than most bestsellers. To say it'd make a great movie is a no-brainer, which is why I'm surprised that it's taken so damn long to get made!
Despite numerous false starts (once with David Fincher attached to direct), the author himself is telling us that there's still a chance we might see the serial killer epic realized for the big screen. Bendis talked to MTV recently about the status of the project:
"Last December we got the green light ... and then three days later there was no green light," he said. "Imagine you get a call, you won the lottery... [then] no, you didn't. It's much worse than never getting the call. It was a very exciting moment,
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Loews Jersey City Launches Fall Season With "The Untouchables", The Marx Brothers And Harold Lloyd
23 September 2009 3:11 PM, PDT
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The legendary classic movie palace, The Loews Theatre in Jersey City, New Jersey will launch its fall movie season on October 2-3. Films include The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery, The Cocoanuts starring The Marx Brothers in their first feature film, and the Harold Lloyd silent classic Safety Last! with live organ accompaniment. The magnificent theater is just minutes from mid-town Manhattan. For details click here
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Robert Stack Is Eliot Ness
7 September 2009 3:23 AM, PDT
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The Untouchables is the classic crime TV series that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC, based on the novel by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, following the adventures of Ness, the Prohibition agent, who fought gangsters in 1930's Chicago with the help of a special team of agents nicknamed the 'Untouchables'.
The mostly violent stories revolved around Ness' enmity with the criminal empire of Chicago mob boss 'Al Capone', starring actor Robert Stack as Ness and Bruce Gordon as 'Frank Nitti'.
Desilu produced 118 episodes, introduced by radio newsman Walter Winchell, featuring memorable orchestrated theme music by Nelson Riddle.
Notable guest-stars included actors Jack Lord, Lee Marvin, James Caan, Mike Connors, Martin Balsam, Peter Falk, Telly Savalas, Lee Van Cleef, Charles Bronson, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York.
Click on any of the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek a clip from an episode of The Untouchables.
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Sean Connery Takes Top Prize in Worst Accent Poll
1 September 2009 4:22 AM, PDT
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I have no idea where John Malkovich's Teddy Kgb is on the list, but he didn't crack the top ten. Empire conducted a poll of the worst movie accents of all time. The ones that did crack the list are also doozies, though, so don't worry about a big letdown.
Sean Connery has been inducted in the hall of shame for his Oscar-winning...uh..."Irish" accent in The Untouchables. Other icons, like Charlton Heston, Meryl Streep, and Sir Laurence Olivier, also made their marks on voters, as did less-esteemed performers like Heather Graham and Keanu Reeves. But no Teddy Kgb, which I just can't wrap my head around.
Anyway, here's the list. See if one of your favorites made the cut:
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- Colin Boyd
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Sean Connery’s ‘Untouchables’ Irish accent voted worst in movie history (IrishCentral)
31 August 2009 8:37 AM, PDT
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Video / Sean Connery as Irish cop Jim Malone in "The Untouchables / Click here
Story / Top 10 worst Irish accents in Hollywood movies / Click here
Looks like IrishCentral movie critics had it right: legendary Scottish actor Sean Connery has the worst movie accent of all time, according to film fans.
Connery may have won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of tough Irish cop Jim Malone in 1987’s “The Untouchables,” but according to a new U.S. cinema ticket agency poll, his Irish accent in the film was less than to be desired.
The Edinburgh-born actor has often been criticized for failing to lose his famous Scottish brogue when playing non-Scots, like Irish cop Malone in “Untouchables” and Russian Captain Marko Ramius in “The Hunt for Red October.”
Right behind Connery in the run for worst movie accent is his “Untouchables” co-star Kevin Costner, whose English accent in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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Connery Has Worst Movie Accent
31 August 2009 1:06 AM, PDT
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Sir Sean Connery's Irish-American accent in 1987 film The Untouchables has been voted the worst of all time in a new poll.
The former James Bond star played a cop in the hit movie and received an Academy Award for his turn - despite failing to lose his native Scottish dialect.
Connery's role saw off competition from Kevin Costner's portrayal of the English folk hero in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with his American accent landing him second place in the survey by a U.S. ticket agency.
In third was Tom Cruise who put on an Irish lilt for his part in 1992's Far and Away.
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DVD Giveaway: The Untouchables Season 3 Volume 1
27 August 2009 7:31 AM, PDT
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Now available on DVD from Paramount Home Entertainment is The Untouchables: Season Three Volume One on DVD.
Fill out and submit the entry form below for a chance to win one of five Untouchables on DVD sets we're giving away in this contest. Return and or every day the contest is running and enter again for increased chances of being chosen a winner with each additional entry.
The Untouchables ran four seasons from 1959-1963 and starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness in a struggle against organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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David Mamet to Adapt The Diary of Anne Frank Once Again
11 August 2009 11:18 PM, PDT
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Acclaimed filmmaker David Mamet (House of Games, Homicide, Heist, Redbelt) is set to write and direct a new rendition of The Diary of Anne Frank. According to Variety, Disney (of all studios) has recently acquired the rights to the 15-year-old Holocaust victim's diary first published in English in 1952. The film is going to be an amalgamation of Frank's own writings, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich's stage play, and (of course) Mamet's own original take on the material. Supposedly, this take may explore the young girl's right of passage. Now, I'm no fan of David Mamet. At least not when he's sitting in the director's chair...
He's written a couple of my favorite films -- The Verdict and The Untouchables - and he even wrote The Edge, which, you've got to admit, is a classic. But when Mamet retains complete control, both writing and directing, it's all a bit too much.
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- Brandon Lee Tenney
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New International 'Public Enemies' Trailer
9 April 2009 3:55 PM, PDT
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Universal Pictures have debuted their new international trailer for Public Enemies, which you can watch by clicking the Trailer tab above.
Having seen the first trailer in the theater with Watchmen — and now looking at this slightly modified int. trailer — it's hard not to believe that director Michael Mann has a hit on his hands. First up, it has all the requisite elements for a great film: colorful characters; a terrific and true story; guts, guns and action; a wonderful A-list cast...and a director who knows how to meld story and atmosphere with the best of them. The story of outlaw John Dillinger — the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public — is iconic in the annals of American history.
At the very least,
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7 Villains More Likeable Than Their Heroes
30 March 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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This whole entry probably suggests more about me than it does about the failings of any of these particular films (granted I have not even seen the entirety of A Few Good Men, but don’t really think I need to to make a judgment like this), but I have the strangest feeling that there are many more people who feel exactly the same way that I do about this. I mean, let’s be honest.
The point is that each of these clips left me with the same exact feeling: this hero sucks. He’s whiny, he’s moralizing, and he takes all of the fun out of wanton greed and careless self-absorption. This wouldn’t be such a problem (let’s face it: lots of movie protagonists are like that) if they weren’t placed against such commanding leading men as Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, and Michael Douglas.
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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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Scenes We Love: The Untouchables
10 March 2009 2:15 PM, PDT
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It's no secret Robert De Niro has fallen on hard times in recent years, especially insofar as "hard times" are defined as "choosing to appear in terrible movies almost exclusively." But he's played several iconic characters in the past, including Al Capone in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables.
This film has many famous scenes. Here's one of my favorites, in which Capone has a friendly meeting with his associates, discusses his love of baseball, and then hits a line drive up the middle. His speech leading up to it is great ("Enthusiasms... enthusiasms... enthusiasms"), and the tension is unbearable -- especially if, say, you first watched this movie years ago and know how the scene will end but don't remember exactly when it's going to happen.
The scene is based on a legend about Al Capone that may or may not be true. Albert Anselmi, John Scalise, and Joseph
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- Eric D. Snider
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Universal Studios Public Enemies Trailer
3 March 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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Depp is back as Dillinger and he is kicking butt and taking names in Public Enemies! Below from Universal you can checkout the new trailer for Public Enemies. It reminds me of the classic crime tale The Untouchables which starred Costner and Sean Connery.
Helmed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann, Public Enemies boasts a star-studded cast that includes Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard.
Public Enemies tells the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp)—the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the
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Jolie And Hanks Named Most Popular Oscar Winners Ever
21 February 2009 6:10 AM, PST
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Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts have come out triumphant in a poll to find America's favourite ever Academy Awards winners.
Hanks has twice walked away with the Best Actor Oscar, for 1993's Philadelphia and the following year's Forrest Gump.
He saw off competition from Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and late star Paul Newman (The Color of Money) to be crowned America's most popular winner of the trophy, according to a joint survey by U.S. magazine Parade and Entertainment Tonight to mark the annual ceremony on Sunday.
Morgan Freeman was named the top Best Supporting Actor for 2004's Million Dollar Baby, seeing off Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and George Clooney (Syriana).
Roberts, who won an Oscar for her turn in Erin Brockovich in 2000, was America's favourite Best Actress winner, beating Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line) and Jodie Foster (The Accused) to the honour.
Jolie was recognised as Best Supporting Actress in 1999’s Girl, Interrupted, and saw off Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain) and Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost) in the Parade poll.
1997's Titanic remains the public's favourite Best Film winner, ahead of The Godfather and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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