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Top 5: Where Are They Now? Brits on TV
3 December 2011 2:56 PM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
To celebrate ITV Studios Home Entertainment’s fantastic Christmas DVD box set collection, including classics such as Prime Suspect, Jeeves & Wooster, Darling Buds of May and The Catherine Cookson Collection, we’ve taken a look at stars past and present – unearthing some modern-day stars with very humble beginnings on the little square box that sits in the corner of the living room…
Although Catherine Zeta Jones began acting in her local theatre, she found her breakthrough role in playing Mariette Larkin in The Darling Buds of May at the tender age of 22. Jones has seen gone on to become a Hollywood A-lister, married to A List resident Michael Douglas and acting with someone of the biggest film stars including Sean Connery, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Liam Neeson, Tom Hanks, and Billy Crystal, in such films as The Mask of Zorro, America’s Sweethearts, The Haunting, Intolerable Cruelty and Chicago, »
- Phil
‘The Skin I Live In’ a well-crafted but unsatisfying psycho-thriller
10 November 2011 3:57 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Skin I Live In
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2011
The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his »
- John
Ready to Revisit 'The Theatre Bizarre'?
4 November 2011 4:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
A hit on the festival circuit, The Theatre Bizarre is getting a sequel - and it hasn't even landed theatrically yet. The Theatre Bizarre 2. W2 Media will co-finance the sequel, and distribute both films. Original producers Severin Films and Metaluna Productions will return for the sequel. We've got more details after the jump. The original The Theatre Bizarre was inspired by France's Grand Guinol theatre, popular at the turn of the century for its portrayal of sex and gore. A woman sneaks into a long-abandoned theatre and discovers a bizarre scene before her, one that leads into the six separate short films. Tom Savini, Jeremy Kasten (The Wizard of Gore), Richard Stanley (The Island of Dr. Moreau), and »
Island of Lost Souls: Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
4 November 2011 10:10 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
In 1896, acclaimed author H.G. Wells released his novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, a chilling tale that was equally disturbing and controversial. Since then, Hollywood has consistently tried to bring the story to the screen, often with mixed to mediocre to flat out awful results. One of these films, however, serves the original story justice while at the same time existing on its own merits and that film is 1933's Island of Lost Souls.
A long thought lost classic from the beginnings of the sound era (resurrected and brought to the High Def world by the always wonderful Criterion Collection), Island of Lost Souls is a tremendous horror/thriller that manages to work on one level as a genre picture, but also has a layer of social commentary that touches on some subjects that is still to this day a bit taboo, making it even more so in the 30's when it was released, »
DVD: DVD: Island Of Lost Souls
25 October 2011 10:03 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
“Are we not men?” a fur-covered Bela Lugosi asks a crowd of man-beasts as part of his role as Sayer Of The Law in Island Of Lost Souls, a 1932 adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel The Island Of Dr. Moreau. His audience may have an answer, but the movie doesn’t. Set on a fog-drenched island where mad scientist Charles Laughton believes that “all life is tending toward the human form” and works to speed up the process, Island Of Lost Souls is a horror film based on the premise that the divide between humanity and the animal »
Home Invasion: DVD & Blu-Ray Releases for October 25, 2011
25 October 2011 8:40 AM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
The Tuesday before Halloween is bound to have a lot of genre titles. There are some good ones too like Attack the Block, Blue Underground releases Fulci in High-Definition with Zombie and The House by the Cemetery, also Criterion releases The Island of Lost Souls on DVD & Blu-Ray and the most talked about film of last year, A Serbian Film finally hits the shelves. Read below, if you dare, for all your DVD and Blu-Ray releases for this week and if you plan on purchasing any films through Amazon, click on the buttons provided as they help us out with paying the bills around here.
Animal Attack Two Pack (Maneaters Are Loose/ Shark Kill)
Two savage and rare TV movies in the 1970s “Animal Attack” genre that have rarely been seen since their initial release, now back in print and together at last on DVD.
Buy the DVD @ Amazon. »
- Andy Triefenbach
A Brief History Of Horror – Frankenstein And The 1930s
18 October 2011 10:06 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
‘It’s alive!’ must be among the most famous exclamations in cinema history, but the scene is less often quoted in full:
Henry Frankenstein: Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive… it’s alive!
Victor: Henry! In the name of God…
Henry: Oh, in the name of God, now I know what it feels like to be God!
Blasphemy aside, that’s a lot of ‘it’s alive’s. The reason it doesn’t sound idiotic is because of the delivery by the young English actor Colin Clive. The passion, inflexion and variation he gives to the somewhat repetitive line makes it positively musical. He is one of a group of incredibly talented individuals who arrived at Universal in the early 1930s and helped instigate »
- Adam Whyte
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma: ‘The Skin I Live In’ a well-crafted but unsatisfying psycho-thriller
13 October 2011 9:00 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Skin I Live In
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2011
The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his »
- John
New Release: Island of Lost Souls Blu-ray and DVD
5 August 2011 7:02 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Release Date: Oct. 25, 2011
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Charles Laughton takes science into his own hands in Island of Lost Souls.
A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, the 1932 film Island of Lost Souls is a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Doctor Moreau.
In one of his first major movie roles, Charles Laughton plays a mad doctor conducting ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor (Richard Arlen) who finds himself trapped there.
Directed by Erle C. Kenton (House of Frankenstein) and elegantly shot by Karl Struss (a two-time cinematography Oscar winner for 1927’s Sunrise and 1941’s Aloma of the South Seas), the movie also features groundbreaking makeup effects and a gruesome co-starring turn by Bela Lugosi.
The Blu-ray and DVD feature a high-definition »
- Laurence
Marlon Brando on TCM: The Wild One, Julius Caesar, The Chase
1 August 2011 12:10 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Marlon Brando is the first star in the 2011 edition of Turner Classic Movies' annual Summer Under the Stars series, which kicks off August 1. [Marlon Brando Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, none of the 11 scheduled Marlon Brando movies is a TCM premiere; in fact, nearly all of them were shown on Brando Day three years ago. In other words, don't expect The Island of Dr. Moreau, Morituri, A Bedtime Story, Burn!, A Dry White Season, or The Appaloosa. And certainly no frolicking with Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris. That's too bad. But then again, those who would like to check out Julius Caesar for the 118th time will be able to do so. And perhaps they won't be sorry, as this great-looking Joseph L. Mankiewicz effort remains one of the best-liked film adaptations of a Shakespeare play. Those not into Shakespeare can take a look at The Fugitive Kind and A Streetcar Named Desire, both from Tennessee Williams' plays. »
- Andre Soares
Two Horror Classics Hit the Criterion Collection This October - Island of Lost Souls and Kuroneko
18 July 2011 6:37 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Oh, how we love when a new Criterion Collection Blu-ray release comes our way. Simply put, these discs are the gold standard in home video releases, and two true classics are set to make their debut this October.
First on October 18th we'll see Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko.
Synopsis
In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. From Kaneto Shindo, director of the terror classic Onibaba, Kuroneko (Black Cat) is a spectacularly eerie twilight tale with a shocking feminist angle, evoked through ghostly special effects and exquisite cinematography.
Special Features
New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition) Video interview with director Kaneto Shindo »
- Uncle Creepy
Island Of Lost Souls Coming on Criterion Blu-ray
17 July 2011 8:28 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Fans of classic horror can rejoice. DVD’s most glaring omission from the Golden Age of Horror, 1932′s Island Of The Lost Souls, is finally making its debut on DVD this October and it’s a Criterion Blu-ray no less!
I wrote about Island Of Lost Souls last April in my ‘Not Available on DVD’ column and wrote at that time: “Produced by Paramount, it’s never looked good (on home video)and I suspect its absence on DVD may be due to an unavailability of acceptable elements. The long-ago releases on VHS and laserdisc (double-billed with 1933′s Murders At The Zoo, another pre-code shocker from Paramount) were the same foggy and soft prints that Turner Classic Movies occasionally runs. Island Of Lost Souls is one of the best horror films of its era and deserves proper restoration” (read that entire column Here). It should be interesting to see what »
- Tom Stockman
The Criterion Collection Announce October Blu-ray Slate Including The Four Feathers
15 July 2011 10:15 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Today, the lovely and dedicated folks at The Criterion Collection announced 7 (four new, three upgrades) Blu-ray releases for the month of October, and between them it's going to be quite the month! The four new titles entering the Collection are Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman, Erle C. Kenton's 1932 monster movie Island of Lost Souls, Kaneto Shino's samurai ghost story Kuroneko, and, receiving its first Us release ever, Zoltán Korda's 1939 Technicolor masterpiece The Four Feathers. (For those interested, Kuroneko and The Four Feathers are currently streaming via Criterion's channel on Hulu+.)
Alongside these new additions, Criterion has picked three of their most popular releases to receive the high definition upgrade, and I couldn't possibly recommend these three films enough. There's Masaki Kobayashi's acclaimed Samurai tale Harakiri, Richard Linklater's timelessly nostalgic Dazed and Confused (which many find quite surprising considering Universal is releasing their bare-bones edition »
Criterion Plans a Visit to The Island Of Lost Souls!
15 July 2011 2:46 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Criterion unleashes a pre-code horror classic!
So this announcement just happened:
Pre-Code horror gem, Island Of Lost Souls, comes to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time ever 10/26! http://ow.ly/5FGnnJuly 15, 2011 12:30 pm via HootSuiteReplyRetweetFavorite@CriterionCriterion Collection
Which is superb news.
The Island of Lost Souls is a legendary pre-code horror film, which means that there’s some racy and lurid stuff in the movie. (Pre-code films were not at all afraid of pushing moral boundaries.) It’s never been released on DVD or Blu Ray before and it features an early performance from the great Charles Laughton, who we’re big fans of around here.
You don’t need me telling you this, though. You need Joe:
One of the greatest yet most neglected thirties’ horror films is Paramount’s The Island Of Lost Souls, based on H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau. Except for a vhs »
- Danny
'The Theatre Bizarre': Check out this new horror anthology's very very Very Nsfw trailer
8 July 2011 11:49 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
I’ve been a fan of horror anthology films ever since a formative viewing of the 1972 Brit movie Asylum, in which Herbert Lom constructs a tiny, killer robot version of himself, Peter Cushing orders a bespoke suit that can bring the dead back to life, and Robert Powell must guess which inmate at an institution for the incurably insane is the establishment’s former head doctor. Now, what other movie can claim to have all that? (Apart, obviously, from Turner & Hooch.)
Anyway, the good news — for me! — is that there a bunch of portmanteau terror flicks coming down the road, »
- Clark Collis
South Africa's Celludroid Film Festival Announces Full Line-up with Special Guest Richard Stanley
1 July 2011 5:23 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
It is time again to get abducted to South Africa's Celludroid Film Festival! In addition to a wide range of exciting sci-fi, anime, and fantasy movies, this year will feature special visiting guest director Richard Stanley (with his movies, documentaries, short films, and new book), and for the first time short film collections will be part of the line-up.
The venue will again be the legendary Labia Theatre, Orange Street, Cape Town; and the event will run across 5-14 July.
From the Press Release:
Expatriate director, esoteric scholar, anthropologist, and author Richard Stanley (aka The Nagloper) will attend Celludroid with some of his classic movies (including Hardware and Dust Devil), his documentaries, and short films. His new book, Shadow of the Grail, will be discussed after the screening of his related doc, The Secret Glory; and he’ll take on the controversy around The Island of Dr. Moreau with a live commentary track. »
- The Woman In Black
Thoughts on... The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
11 May 2011 9:23 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1996.
Directed by John Frankenheimer.
Starring David Thwelis, Fairuza Balk, Ron Perlman, Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Temuera Morrison and William Hootkins.
Synopsis:
On a remote island a visionary doctor combines animal DNA with that of humans, upsetting the balance of nature.
Dante described nine circles of hell. Various Chinese beliefs speak of anywhere from four to eighteen levels of fiery torment. However, whilst you are still alive, the closest thing that could probably approximate to the feeling of never-ending torment and woe of being cast down into some unintelligible, indescribable horror is The Island of Dr. Moreau.
This is not to say that there isn't some kind of perverse pleasure to be had from the film, it's just more akin to being a sado-masochist in hell than any kind of healthy, expected experience. Part of the horror is seeing so many fine actors wading their way through the crappy script, »
- flickeringmyth
'Fringe' Mystery Finale: We've solved it! Plus: John Noble, Joshua Jackson talk cliffhanger, renewal and more
8 May 2011 8:57 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
“It’s radical. It could wipe clean the entire slate of Fringe.”
So said Joshua Jackson in an interview with EW.com a few weeks ago about the season finale of the Fox sci-fi series. It was a bold claim, and hard to appreciate without knowing what was going to happen in “The Day We Died.” But now we know. Spoiler Alert For The DVR Set! The finale was part Crisis On Infinite Earths and part “Days of Future Past” with a touch of A Christmas Carol (“Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come” section): After activating the so-called “doomsday »
- Jeff Jensen
A Brief History of the Movie Title Design
16 March 2011 3:08 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Here's a fantastic video created by Ian Albinson that gives us a brief history of the art of the movie title design. The video presentation was made for the SXSW Excellence in Title Design competition screening.
A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.
Here's the list of movie title shown:
Intolerance, Phantom Of The Opera, King Kong, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, Make Way For Tomorrow, Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Gun Crazy, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Lady In The Lake, Fallen Angel, The Thing, Singing In The Rain, The Man With The Golden Arm, Anatomy Of A Murder, Psycho, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Grand Prix, To Kill A Mockingbird, Dr. No, The Pink Panther, Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove, Bullitt, Barbarella, Soylent Green, Mean Streets, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Superman, Alien, Raging Bull, The Terminator, Brazil, The Untouchables, Do The Right Thing, Forrest Gump, »
- Venkman
A Brief History of Title Design
16 March 2011 2:37 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Put together to compete in the SXSW Title Design Competition, Ian Albinson has edited a large mix of some of the greatest film and television titles ever made. Slashfilm reports that the websites mission is:
A compendium and leading web resource of film and television title design from around the world. We honor the artists who design excellent title sequences. We discuss and display their work with a desire to foster more of it, via stills and video links, interviews, creator notes, and user comments.
It is a wonderful video, full of amazing titles, many of which I had forgotten about. The song featured is Ghostwriter by RJD2. You can view the video as well as a list of all the titles featured in their order below.
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A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.
Titles Featured:
Intolerance, Phantom of the Opera, King Kong, »
- Yiannis Cove
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