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17 items from 2012
May. It's a Wrap
11 hours ago | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
For reasons beyond my control, May was a tremendously difficult month and the least active in The Film Experience's long history of daily postings. But it wasn't without highlights. If you've been drifting away, [cue Keira's chokey Atonement voice] "come back..." because June will be hopping.
Ten Highlights from the Month...
Cast out your inner monster!
Annette Bening as Myra Langtry Still on the Grift
Tilda, Candied still the most peerlessly iconoclastic actress
Thoughts I Had... while staring at Tom Cruise's W Cover
The Exorcist and Nothingness Beau's fascinating guest post
Maleficent Now with more... Mike Leigh?
Tennis in the Movies - a top ten list
Raise the Red Lantern - my favorite installment of this month's "Best Shots"
Smash - that "bombshell" finale
Most Eyeballs: The Avengers Reviewed.
Most Discussed: "Goodbye Dad." Thanks for all your support out there in the dark.
Coming In June: Witches of Eastwick week for its 25th anniversary, »
- NATHANIEL R
Gong Li: Marco Polo Movie
29 May 2012 3:53 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Gong Li in (but not as) Marco Polo? Director Tarsem Singh (Immortals / Mirror Mirror) and producer Gianni Nunnari (300 / 300: Battle of Artemisia) are reportedly working on a film project about the life of the Italian explorer, previously incarnated on screen by the likes of Gary Cooper (in Archie Mayo’s The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1938), Rory Calhoun (Piero Pierotti and Hugo Fregonese’s Marco Polo, 1962), Horst Buchholz (Denys de La Patellière and Raoul Lévy’s Marco the Magnificent, 1965), and Ian Somerhalder (Kevin Connor’s TV movie Marco Polo, 2007). According to Screen Daily, the Chinese Gong Li would play a Mongolian princess. In Memoirs of a Geisha Gong played a Japanese geisha. She hasn’t played any Swedes yet, I don’t think, even though that would be karmic. After all, Swedish-born Warner Oland was a frequent "Chinaman," including Charlie Chan, in numerous Hollywood movies of the ’20s and ’30s. The »
- Andre Soares
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "The Exorcist"
9 May 2012 7:19 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
The Hit Me With Your Best Shot series is deceptively simple. Choose a single shot from a pre-selected movie that you think is best, best being in the eye of the beholder. Tonight we're looking at The Exorcist (1973). And for me at least, it's the first time I've looked at it. That's not quite as shocking as your 12 year old daughter's head spinning 'round 180º, but maybe it's close.
Nearly every horror classic I've seen I've resisted in some ridiculous way: I saw Halloween at a sleepover movie marathon but it took my horror-loving friend five holidays to convince me; I first saw Silence of the Lambs because I had five nightmares about it beforehand and wanted them to end; I can't remember what prompted Rosemary's Baby but I'm willing to bet that I rented the video five times before actually watching it. And so on.
If I was ever going to watch The Exorcist, »
- NATHANIEL R
CAA Signs Chinese Helmer Zhang Yimou
9 May 2012 7:59 AM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: As CAA continues to bolster its presence in China, the agency has added one of the country’s premier filmmakers to the client roster. It has signed Zhang Yimou, whose film Ju Dou became the first Chinese feature to be nominated for an Oscar, and who also directed the dazzling opening ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The agency will rep his Chinese films, and bring him into the Hollywood fold as well. His films include the BAFTA-winning Raise The Red Lantern, Hero, House Of Flying Daggers and most recently the Christian Bale-starrer Flowers Of War. The filmmaker continues to be managed by Mo Zhang and Catherine Pang in China. »
- MIKE FLEMING
Best Shot: "Pariah"
2 May 2012 7:30 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
On this season of Hit Me With Your Best Shot we've looked at 80s fantasy (Ladyhawke), 60s zeitgeist drama (Bonnie & Clyde), 40s musical (Easter Parade), 30s gamechanger (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), 00s science fiction western (Serenity), and a 90s Asian masterpiece (Raise the Red Lantern). For this week's film, I chose something up to the minute, Dee Rees' Pariah (2011) just out on DVD.
I found this film so moving late last year that I cursed Focus Features for letting it be crushed in the December glut where it had no business being in the first place. The coming out story of a shy Brooklyn lesbian was far too small and ethnic and gay and feminine an indie to hook Oscar voters so why make it compete for that attention? This selection was my excuse to promote the film as it enters its second and hopefully warmly embraced »
- NATHANIEL R
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "Raise the Red Lantern"
1 May 2012 6:22 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
In the Hit Me With Your Best Shot Series we look at pre-selected films from all decades, genres and countries and choose the shots that mean the most to us. Today, Zhang Yimou's Oscar nominated masterpiece Raise the Red Lantern (1991) starring the exquisite Gong Li. You could stare at her face for hours and Zhang Yimou knows it, framing his sensational then muse dead center close-up in an unbroken shot for the film's very first moment, a conversation that's more like a self-annihilating monologue.
Introducing Songlian (Gong Li), the The Fourth Mistress...
Songlian: Mother, stop! You've been talking for three days. I've thought it over. All right, I'll get married.
Mother: Good! To what sort of man?
Songlian: What sort of man? Is it up to me? You always speak of money. Why shouldn't I marry a rich man?
Songlian's Mother: Marry a rich man and you'll only be his concubine. »
- NATHANIEL R
We're Making Gong Li Wait...
25 April 2012 4:17 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Tsk-tsk.
This week's edition of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" has been postponed. It couldn't be helped. But if you've already watched it, start discussing over at The Film's The Thing where one entry is already posted. We'll do two episodes in a row next week on Tuesday May 1st (this one, Raise the Red Lantern) and Wednesday May 2nd (Pariah, 2011). For more of what's on the "hit me" schedule, click here. »
- NATHANIEL R
Coming Soon to "Hit Me..."
16 April 2012 6:58 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Have you been following along with season three of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"? This series thrives on your comments and/or visual participation and dies without them. So don't leave us in solitary confinement staring at the movies obsessively. In season three we've already covered Snow White (30s Disney), Easter Parade (40s musical), Bonnie & Clyde (60s landmark) and Ladyhawke (80s fantasy). Because we aim for a true variety of genre and time periods in this series, here's the next six weeks of the movie schedule.
Please consider joining the fun.
Apr 18th Serenity (2007) and/or Firefly (2005)
Joss Whedon is having a huge film year (Avengers, Cabin in the Woods, Much Ado About Nothing) so we're looking back at his directorial (feature) debut. Or if you have never seen the TV series on which Serenity is based for this episode only of the cinematic series you can do "best shot" with a television pilot. »
- NATHANIEL R
Hmwybs: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
11 April 2012 7:23 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
In the "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" series we invite everyone to choose their favorite shot from a movie and explain why. This week's film is the impossibly influential Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) which launched Disney's feature animation empire. Given that the Snow White myth is the subject of two new films Mirror Mirror (reviewed) and the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsmen (interview tease) we thought it was time to take a look way back.
So Heigh Ho Heigh Ho, it's off to work we go.
When I think of Snow White these days my first thought is no longer the movie itself but my first trip to Disney World just three years ago with friends. On the last day of the lengthy trip my friends realized I hadn't been to the part of the park that had the oldest rides, the ones that were considered »
- NATHANIEL R
Academy 1992 Were Right… Silence of the Lambs Still Deserving Best Picture Oscar
9 March 2012 2:24 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Some say that the best barometer for a film’s success is not the box office popularity upon release, not the reviews of critics, not the amount of awards and Oscars it wins or even how the film beds itself into the popular culture of the time. The true test, some say, is the test of time.
This is why the 20/20 Awards are so smart and fun and in its own way, significant. The awards ceremony is something of a revisionist one, they reflect back on a year in film some two decades later with the benefit of hindsight, to see what movies and performances really were the best from a particular year.
This is the 3rd time the 20/20 awards have taken place and the winners were announced last week at Seattle’s Central Cinema and incredibly as many as 8 Awards were given the ‘Felix’ statue that were also given »
- Matt Holmes
New Domestic Poster for The Flowers Of War Starring Christian Bale
21 January 2012 | The Daily BLAM! | See recent The Daily BLAM! news »
In The Flowers Of War, Director Zhang Yimou (Raise The Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Hero, House Of Flying Daggers) tells an epic story of love and sacrifice. The film, set during Japan's 1937 invasion of China, is told from a young girl's point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic church. There he meets a beautiful Chinese courtesan who helps him rescue a group of schoolgirls from a terrible fate at the hands of the Japanese. The Flowers Of War was adapted by Liu Heng and Geling Yan from the novel by Geling Yan. The film is produced by Zhang Weiping (marking his tenth collaboration with Zhang Yimou) under his New Pictures Film banner. The »
- Pietro Filipponi
The Flowers Of War Exclusive Movie Clip
21 January 2012 12:55 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
New clip from The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang and Paul Schneider. Helmed by Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Hero, House of the Flying Daggers) from the script by Liu Heng, based on the novel by Geling Yan, The Flowers of War tells an epic story of love and sacrifice. The new clip is called "Permit," courtesy of Yahoo Movies. The film, set during Japan’s 1937 invasion of China, is told from a young girl’s point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic church. There he meets a beautiful Chinese courtesan who helps him rescue a group of schoolgirls from a terrible fate at the hands of the Japanese. »
The Flowers Of War Exclusive Movie Clip
21 January 2012 12:55 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
New clip from The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang and Paul Schneider. Helmed by Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Hero, House of the Flying Daggers) from the script by Liu Heng, based on the novel by Geling Yan, The Flowers of War tells an epic story of love and sacrifice. The new clip is called "Permit," courtesy of Yahoo Movies. The film, set during Japan’s 1937 invasion of China, is told from a young girl’s point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic church. There he meets a beautiful Chinese courtesan who helps him rescue a group of schoolgirls from a terrible fate at the hands of the Japanese. »
Exclusive Clip from The Flowers Of War Starring Christian Bale
20 January 2012 11:26 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
We’ve been provided with an exclusive clip from the upcoming historical drama The Flowers of War. Directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero), the film is set during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and stars Christian Bale as a priest who seeks refuge in a local church, where he meets a beautiful Chinese courtesan who helps him rescue a group of schoolgirls from a terrible fate at the hands of the Japanese. The pic is the most expensive movie that China has ever made, and the production values are on full display in the impressive trailers. Hit the jump to check out the clip. The Flowers of War is in select theaters now. Here’s the official synopsis: Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Hero, House of the Flying Daggers) tells an epic story of love and sacrifice in The Flowers Of War, starring Christian Bale and introducing Ni Ni. »
- Adam Chitwood
Exclusive Clip & Interview: Flowers of War Director Zhang Yimou
18 January 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
For over thirty years, director Zhang Yimou has been one of his country's most respected exports thanks to award-winning films like Red Sorghum , Raise the Red Lantern , Hero and House of Flying Daggers . When the Olympics were held in China, he was called upon to direct the opening and closing ceremonies, and to date, no other Chinese filmmaker has had more films put forward for consideration in the Oscar Foreign Language category than him. His new film The Flowers of War moves forward in time from his previous war epics, which were set hundreds of years in China's past, to the more recent atrocities committed by the Japanese during the invasion of Nanjing in 1937 at the beginning of World War II. It also teams the prestigious Chinese director with a recent Oscar winner »
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 35 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘The Flowers of War’ With Christian Bale
14 January 2012 2:13 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – In our latest foreign-language edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the Golden Globe-nominated foreign-language film “The Flowers of War” starring Christian Bale from the director of “Hero”!
“The Flowers of War” from director Yimou Zhang also stars Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe, Dawei Tong, Tianyuan Huang, Bai Xue, Takashi Yamanaka, Shawn Dou, Kefan Cao and Hai-Bo Huang from writer Heng Liu based on the novel by Geling Yan. The film opens in Chicago on Jan. 20, 2012.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Flowers of War” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Christian Bale's 'Flowers of War' is a box-office smash in China
4 January 2012 5:41 PM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
What’s the Chinese word for blockbuster? The historical drama The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale and directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero, Raise the Red Lantern), has already collected $83 million at the Chinese box office in just 17 days, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
That makes Flowers of War the sixth-highest grossing film ever in China, behind such American exports as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ($145.5 million) and Avatar ($204 million), the latter of which remains the country’s top-grossing movie. The film’s stellar box-office tally should come as a relief to producer Zhang Weiping, whose New Picture Company financed »
- John Young
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