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They blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night but will they greenlight a movie in Hollywood? Rumors are swirling that a film may be in the works about Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album “Nebraska”, released in 1982. A Bruce biopic seems almost like a given at this point in his life and career; that this supposed project will focus on his most unique and thematically heavy album is all the more promising. Word right now is that Springsteen is in talks with director Scott Cooper, whose Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace and Black Mass had some dark influences themselves.
“Nebraska” – released between double album “The River” and his reigning best-seller “Born in the USA” – captures some of Springsteen’s darkest lyrics, with songs about people who, as he put it, “just get shot off somewhere where nothing seems to matter.” To give a more direct example, the opening...
“Nebraska” – released between double album “The River” and his reigning best-seller “Born in the USA” – captures some of Springsteen’s darkest lyrics, with songs about people who, as he put it, “just get shot off somewhere where nothing seems to matter.” To give a more direct example, the opening...
- 1/13/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
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Bruce Springsteen returned to the Colts Neck, New Jersey bedroom where he recorded much of his “masterpiece” Nebraska for a new interview with CBS Sunday Morning that commemorated his 1982 classic.
“If I had to pick one album out and say ‘This is going to represent you 50 years from now,’ I’d pick Nebraska,” Springsteen told Jim Axelrod.
“I just hit some sort of personal wall that I didn’t even know was there. It was my first real major depression where I realized ‘Oh, I gotta do something about it.
“If I had to pick one album out and say ‘This is going to represent you 50 years from now,’ I’d pick Nebraska,” Springsteen told Jim Axelrod.
“I just hit some sort of personal wall that I didn’t even know was there. It was my first real major depression where I realized ‘Oh, I gotta do something about it.
- 4/30/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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The 1990s were a different time in Hollywood, and it’s worth wondering how one of the most controversial movies ever made became both a box office hit and cultural touchstone. Indeed, the lurid American crime spree depicted in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers has remained a haunting fever dream lodged firmly in the collective consciousness over the past three decades despite public outcries and attempts to ban the film. The themes of Americans’ obsession with violence as magnified through mass media have only gotten more topical since the movie’s release, but the production itself was grueling and the movie elicited major post-release outrage.
Let’s get all riled up and find out Wtf Happened to this Movie!
Natural Born Killers came from a screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino, with a story focusing on a man and woman who get married and go on a cross-country killing spree.
Let’s get all riled up and find out Wtf Happened to this Movie!
Natural Born Killers came from a screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino, with a story focusing on a man and woman who get married and go on a cross-country killing spree.
- 3/30/2023
- by Jake Dee
- JoBlo.com
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There are some smart and even provocative ideas motivating Nicola B. Marsh’s four-part Showtime docuseries The 12th Victim, which aims to separate and rehabilitate Caril Ann Fugate from the legacy of notorious spree killer Charles Starkweather, whom she accompanied — whether willingly or unwillingly is the matter up for debate — on a multi-state rampage that left 11 people dead in 1958.
Fugate, still alive and now living in Michigan, has spent decades trying first to appeal her conviction, then for parole and finally for a full pardon. The 12th Victim, which features Oscar winner Morgan Neville among its producers, focuses less on clearing Fugate’s name in a legal sense and more on clearing her name in a cultural sense. The documentary targets the true crime genre and the way Hollywood’s mythologizing of society’s darkest and most unspeakable elements can become a proxy for the truth. This is especially true...
Fugate, still alive and now living in Michigan, has spent decades trying first to appeal her conviction, then for parole and finally for a full pardon. The 12th Victim, which features Oscar winner Morgan Neville among its producers, focuses less on clearing Fugate’s name in a legal sense and more on clearing her name in a cultural sense. The documentary targets the true crime genre and the way Hollywood’s mythologizing of society’s darkest and most unspeakable elements can become a proxy for the truth. This is especially true...
- 2/16/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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While most of you are excited about the Super Bowl, I'm excited about what follows -- Next Level Chef!
Star Trek: Picard and Carnival Row begin their final seasons this week, and Apple debuts a gem of a dramedy called Hello Tomorrow!
The 12th Victim on Showtime promises Caril Ann Fugate some long-overdue understanding. The 14-year-old girl was caught with Charles Starkweather after he killed her family and others, prompting the media to deem them the next Bonnie and Clyde, ruining her life forever.
Saturday, February 11
8/7c The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (Lifetime)
Lifetime is back with another Ripped From the Headlines tell that will give you chills and have you admiring one woman’s resilience.
Kara Robinson, abducted from her friend’s backyard, endures 18 hours of sexual abuse by her captor (Orphan Black’s Kristian Bruun) before she successfully escapes while he’s asleep.
Shortly after,...
Star Trek: Picard and Carnival Row begin their final seasons this week, and Apple debuts a gem of a dramedy called Hello Tomorrow!
The 12th Victim on Showtime promises Caril Ann Fugate some long-overdue understanding. The 14-year-old girl was caught with Charles Starkweather after he killed her family and others, prompting the media to deem them the next Bonnie and Clyde, ruining her life forever.
Saturday, February 11
8/7c The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (Lifetime)
Lifetime is back with another Ripped From the Headlines tell that will give you chills and have you admiring one woman’s resilience.
Kara Robinson, abducted from her friend’s backyard, endures 18 hours of sexual abuse by her captor (Orphan Black’s Kristian Bruun) before she successfully escapes while he’s asleep.
Shortly after,...
- 2/11/2023
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
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Showtime is exploring an infamous teenage couple who were convicted of murdering 11 people in the 1950s in the network’s latest docuseries. The 12th Victim is a four-part docuseries following the crimes of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, the series reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
On Tuesday, Showtime released a trailer for the series and announced it will debut on February 17.
In 1958, a grisly string of murders terrified the Midwest, as 18-year-old Starkweather killed 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming with his girlfriend Fugate by his side. Fugate went on to become the youngest female in U.S. history to be tried...
Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, the series reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
On Tuesday, Showtime released a trailer for the series and announced it will debut on February 17.
In 1958, a grisly string of murders terrified the Midwest, as 18-year-old Starkweather killed 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming with his girlfriend Fugate by his side. Fugate went on to become the youngest female in U.S. history to be tried...
- 1/24/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
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It’s the dying fish that sticks in the mind. You don’t see one in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) or any of the other US movies about murderous young lovers on the lam. Director Terrence Malick’s astounding debut feature Badlands (1973), which started production just over 50 years ago, has a simplicity that is completely out of kilter with its time. While his contemporaries Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma were making gritty, violent urban movies exposing the racial, sexual, and political tensions in an America coming to terms with the disasters of Watergate and the Vietnam War, Malick was recreating the midwest of the late 1950s in loving fashion. Nostalgia reigned.
It’s not that Badlands skimps on the violence. This is a story about a serial killer who leaves corpses wherever he goes. In the film, the South Dakota garbage collector and James Dean lookalike Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen...
It’s not that Badlands skimps on the violence. This is a story about a serial killer who leaves corpses wherever he goes. In the film, the South Dakota garbage collector and James Dean lookalike Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen...
- 12/16/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- The Independent - Film
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By Todd Garbarini
Some of the best literary achievements and their respective motion picture counterparts had their genesis in real-life. Robert Bloch made the grave-robber and necrophiliac Ed Gein into the motel manager Norman Bates in Psycho (1960); William Peter Blatty took the ostensibly possessed boy in Cottage City, MD and gave him the identity of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973); and Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek breathed celluloid life into Kit and Holly respectively in Badlands (1973), based upon Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra’s brilliant 1985 film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s equally excellent 1966 short story “Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going?", is no exception. While it may seem odd to begin this review of what is on the surface, and for all intents and purposes, a story of a teen-age girl’s sexual awakening,...
By Todd Garbarini
Some of the best literary achievements and their respective motion picture counterparts had their genesis in real-life. Robert Bloch made the grave-robber and necrophiliac Ed Gein into the motel manager Norman Bates in Psycho (1960); William Peter Blatty took the ostensibly possessed boy in Cottage City, MD and gave him the identity of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973); and Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek breathed celluloid life into Kit and Holly respectively in Badlands (1973), based upon Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra’s brilliant 1985 film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s equally excellent 1966 short story “Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going?", is no exception. While it may seem odd to begin this review of what is on the surface, and for all intents and purposes, a story of a teen-age girl’s sexual awakening,...
- 7/17/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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There are few filmmakers who can lay a legitimate claim to being one of the great American poets, but Terrence Malick is one of them. The reclusive director has made a career out of elegiac dramas about love, death, nature, faith and the interconnectivity of all things, using eye-popping cinematography and unconventional editing techniques to turn the experiences of a few into stories that connect to everybody. When his films are great, they are among the very greatest films. When they falter, no matter his good intentions, they can be insufferable. Let’s look over Malick’s narrative feature films to explore his predilections, his unique style, and his occasional missteps.
9. “Knight of Cups” (2015)
The best Terrence Malick movies look like they are capturing important moments that would otherwise be lost to time. The worst Terrence Malick movie, “Knight of Cups,” looks like a bunch of actors trying to make that magic happen,...
9. “Knight of Cups” (2015)
The best Terrence Malick movies look like they are capturing important moments that would otherwise be lost to time. The worst Terrence Malick movie, “Knight of Cups,” looks like a bunch of actors trying to make that magic happen,...
- 12/17/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint | Written and Directed by Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick’s small-yet-mythic 1973 crime drama Badlands has its troubling aspects – on the surface, anyway – but it is a stunning debut feature. Based on the murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, it’s set in the late 1950s, and it is fascinating to see the period before the Sexual Revolution being depicted from the perspective of its immediate aftermath.
Martin Sheen was in his early thirties and Sissy Spacek in her early twenties when they played Kit and Holly. He 25 and she 15, they fall in love in their small Dakotan town. Holly’s father (Warren Oates) naturally disapproves of their courtship. Kit kills him, and so begins the adventure which to the lovers seems like a lifetime, but in reality covers only a matter of months. They build a treehouse in the woods,...
Terrence Malick’s small-yet-mythic 1973 crime drama Badlands has its troubling aspects – on the surface, anyway – but it is a stunning debut feature. Based on the murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, it’s set in the late 1950s, and it is fascinating to see the period before the Sexual Revolution being depicted from the perspective of its immediate aftermath.
Martin Sheen was in his early thirties and Sissy Spacek in her early twenties when they played Kit and Holly. He 25 and she 15, they fall in love in their small Dakotan town. Holly’s father (Warren Oates) naturally disapproves of their courtship. Kit kills him, and so begins the adventure which to the lovers seems like a lifetime, but in reality covers only a matter of months. They build a treehouse in the woods,...
- 5/20/2019
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Terrence Malick, 1973
Terrence Malick based his peerlessly poetic debut on the real-life story of Charles Starkweather, a teenage James Dean wannabe who fled across the midwest on a killing spree, his 14-year-old girlfriend in tow. But the film couldn't be further from a pulpy true-crime tale, or a hip New Wave homage like Bonnie and Clyde. It's a true original: eloquent about the intersection of crime, romanticism and myth-making in America, and highly innovative in its use of colour, editing and voice-over. Martin Sheen, who was cast as the Starkweather surrogate, Kit, believed Badlands was the best script he had ever read. "Still is," he says. "It was mesmerising. It disarmed you. It was a period piece, and yet of all time. It was extremely American, it caught the spirit of the people, of the culture, in a way that was immediately identifiable." Sissy Spacek played Holly, the baton-twirling schoolgirl...
Terrence Malick based his peerlessly poetic debut on the real-life story of Charles Starkweather, a teenage James Dean wannabe who fled across the midwest on a killing spree, his 14-year-old girlfriend in tow. But the film couldn't be further from a pulpy true-crime tale, or a hip New Wave homage like Bonnie and Clyde. It's a true original: eloquent about the intersection of crime, romanticism and myth-making in America, and highly innovative in its use of colour, editing and voice-over. Martin Sheen, who was cast as the Starkweather surrogate, Kit, believed Badlands was the best script he had ever read. "Still is," he says. "It was mesmerising. It disarmed you. It was a period piece, and yet of all time. It was extremely American, it caught the spirit of the people, of the culture, in a way that was immediately identifiable." Sissy Spacek played Holly, the baton-twirling schoolgirl...
- 10/17/2010
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
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Award-winning Chinese moviemaker Zhang Yuan has been arrested on suspicion of drug use following a raid at his home in Beijing.
The film director was allegedly found to be taking a variety of drugs with four friends, according to a Beijing Television report.
A subsequent urine sample tested positive for ketamine and ice, the report added.
Local reports claim Zhang appeared "excited and delirious" and shouted at police, "I don't know who you are and why you're in my apartment" before being taken away.
Zhang, 45, who won an award at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival for his movie nm0823371 autoLittle Red[/link] Flowers, is one of China's most popular directors.
The film director was allegedly found to be taking a variety of drugs with four friends, according to a Beijing Television report.
A subsequent urine sample tested positive for ketamine and ice, the report added.
Local reports claim Zhang appeared "excited and delirious" and shouted at police, "I don't know who you are and why you're in my apartment" before being taken away.
Zhang, 45, who won an award at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival for his movie nm0823371 autoLittle Red[/link] Flowers, is one of China's most popular directors.
- 1/10/2008
- WENN
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