Louisa Mellor Nov 25, 2017
The Twilight Zone casts a long shadow over today’s film and TV. We salute the legacy left by Rod Serling’s seminal series…
“Damn near immortal” is how Stephen King described The Twilight Zone in his 1981 study of creepy fiction Danse Macabre, and who could argue with that. Like any decent horror monster, Rod Serling’s 1960s anthology series keeps coming back from the grave. Only last week it was announced that CBS is planning to resurrect its award-winning show once again. The new series will be the latest of several revivals over the decades, including an upcoming stage production set to enjoy its world premiere at London’s Almeida Theatre this December.
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The Twilight Zone doesn’t just keep returning in its own right,...
The Twilight Zone casts a long shadow over today’s film and TV. We salute the legacy left by Rod Serling’s seminal series…
“Damn near immortal” is how Stephen King described The Twilight Zone in his 1981 study of creepy fiction Danse Macabre, and who could argue with that. Like any decent horror monster, Rod Serling’s 1960s anthology series keeps coming back from the grave. Only last week it was announced that CBS is planning to resurrect its award-winning show once again. The new series will be the latest of several revivals over the decades, including an upcoming stage production set to enjoy its world premiere at London’s Almeida Theatre this December.
See related Black Mirror series 3 review Black Mirror series 3 interview: Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones How Black Mirror series 3 is eerily coming true
The Twilight Zone doesn’t just keep returning in its own right,...
- 11/7/2017
- Den of Geek
Dislocation is something that everyone has experienced in their life, or at least can relate to; be it from friends, family, or co-workers. Sometimes we feel alone, or conversely wish that we were left that way. No horror film captures a sustained sense of isolation and dread better than Carnival of Souls (1962), Herk Harvey’s only narrative film and a low budget miracle.
Released by Herts-Lion International Corporation stateside in September as part of a double feature with The Devil’s Messenger (1961), Carnival of Souls was lucky to have any distribution at all on a budget of $30,000 (!) and it came and went with nary a notice. Until 1989, that is; a critical reappraisal was in order and the film was rereleased for a new generation to discover it through home video, where it rightly holds a place as one of the finest and influential horror films of the ‘60s. Not a...
Released by Herts-Lion International Corporation stateside in September as part of a double feature with The Devil’s Messenger (1961), Carnival of Souls was lucky to have any distribution at all on a budget of $30,000 (!) and it came and went with nary a notice. Until 1989, that is; a critical reappraisal was in order and the film was rereleased for a new generation to discover it through home video, where it rightly holds a place as one of the finest and influential horror films of the ‘60s. Not a...
- 5/6/2017
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Cinema Art from Lawrence, Kansas? Industrial filmmaker Herk Harvey comes through with a classic horror gem for the ages. A haunted church organist begins to suspect that her hallucinations are more than just nerves. And who is that ghoulish man who keeps appearing in reflections, or popping up out of nowhere? Carnival of Souls Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 63 1962 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 78 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date July 12, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt, Herk Harvey. Cinematography Maurice Prather Film Editor Dan Palmquist, Bill de Jarnette Original Music Gene Moore Assistant Director Raza (Reza) Badiyi Written by John Clifford Produced and Directed by Herk Harvey
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Herk Harvey's marvelous Carnival of Souls is an anomaly in screen horror, a regional effort that transcends its production limitations to deliver a tingling encounter with the uncanny. Harvey was a prolific producer of industrial films,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Herk Harvey's marvelous Carnival of Souls is an anomaly in screen horror, a regional effort that transcends its production limitations to deliver a tingling encounter with the uncanny. Harvey was a prolific producer of industrial films,...
- 7/8/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Although this bittersweet French adventure-drama was one of Alain Delon’s biggest domestic hits in 1967, it was dumped onto double bills by U.S. distributor Universal two years later and is undeservedly obscure today. Director Robert Enrico, perhaps best known to American audiences for the short film "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," directs Delon, Lino Ventura, and Joanna Shimkus as three amiable losers who strike out on a misbegotten search for buried treasure. Unavailable on home video, it’s a little gem, and was remade as a 1974 Japanese production titled "The Homeless."...
- 2/1/2016
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Although this bittersweet French adventure-drama was one of Alain Delon’s biggest domestic hits in 1967, it was dumped onto double bills by Us distributor Universal two years later and is undeservedly obscure today. Director Robert Enrico, perhaps best known to American audiences for the short film Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, directs Delon, Lino Ventura and Joanna Shimkus as three amiable losers who strike out on a misbegotten search for buried treasure. Unavailable on home video, it’s a little gem. Remade as a 1974 Japanese production titled The Homeless.
- 2/1/2016
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
"Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth." -- Louis (Danny Aiello) in "Jacob's Ladder" I first viewed "Jacob's Ladder" on VHS several years after its release in theaters, when it received a lukewarm response from audiences (it grossed around $26 million by the end of its run) and received a polarizing response from critics: Roger Ebert called it "powerfully written, directed and acted" while The Washington Post's Hal Hinson charged it with being "garbled and cliched." My initial reaction to...
- 12/31/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Brian De Palma has become the directorial litmus test of cinephiles everywhere. To supporters, he stands as a startling visual genius with a penchant for set pieces and lurid subject matter. To naysayers, he remains a lowbrow imitator who spends his studio budgets chasing the ghosts of Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard. Great director or high class hack? Inconsistent misogynist or Master of the Macabre? Much like his fractured narratives, the answer is never an easy one to attain.
Both sides provide ample support for their case. De Palma’s resume is riddled with enough hollow imitations (Sisters [1973], Raising Cain [1992]) and bloated commercial flops (The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990], The Black Dahlia [2006]) to sink any director. But even in misfires such as these, an undeniable attention to detail remains.
The split screen cover-up of Sisters or the heartbreaking screen tests of The Black Dahlia are breathtaking in scope and execution,...
Both sides provide ample support for their case. De Palma’s resume is riddled with enough hollow imitations (Sisters [1973], Raising Cain [1992]) and bloated commercial flops (The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990], The Black Dahlia [2006]) to sink any director. But even in misfires such as these, an undeniable attention to detail remains.
The split screen cover-up of Sisters or the heartbreaking screen tests of The Black Dahlia are breathtaking in scope and execution,...
- 11/13/2015
- by Danilo Castro
- CinemaNerdz
Robert Enrico's literally searing terror tale from the French occupation is not for the faint of heart. Fearing reprisals, surgeon Philippe Noiret sends his wife Romy Schneider out of harm's way of the retreating Germans -- but things go horribly wrong. What follows is an ordeal of vengeance even more brutal than Straw Dogs, fought to the finish in a medieval castle. The Old Gun MGM Limited Edition Collection DVD-r 1975 / Color / 1:78 enhanced widescreen / 102 87 min. / Le vieux fusil / Street Date September 8, 2015 / available through Screen Archives Entertainment / 19.95 Starring Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Robert Hoffmann, Karl Michael Vogler, Madeleine Ozeray, Caroline Bonhomme, Catherine Delaporte, Daniel Breton, Jean-Paul Cisife, Antoine Saint-John. Cinematography Étienne Becker Film Editor Ava Zora Original Music François de Roubaix Written by Robert Enrico, Pascal Jardin, Claude Veillot Produced by Pierre Caro Directed by Robert Enrico
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Some of us can remember...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Some of us can remember...
- 9/22/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Eraserhead
Written and directed by David Lynch
1977, USA
Midway through Eraserhead, David Lynch’s midnight-black dreamscape, the terror is momentarily interrupted by the hauntingly breathtaking song, whispered by the disfigured chipmunk-cheeked chanteuse, Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near), as if to let the audience in on something indescribable, to give them an out from the ceaselessly tiresome domestic grind.
”In heaven everything is fine,” she sings, willed into form from inside a radiator, in a tone that is both gentle and calm, and touchingly naïve.
While equally as otherworldly as what has been shown before it, it is nestled somewhere that is associative of the limitless bounds of the moving image, looking in from a point at which such problems as family, loneliness and child-rearing live, no matter the reality.
After all, Lynch establishes in this first feature of his, there is warmth, beauty and peace to be found against...
Written and directed by David Lynch
1977, USA
Midway through Eraserhead, David Lynch’s midnight-black dreamscape, the terror is momentarily interrupted by the hauntingly breathtaking song, whispered by the disfigured chipmunk-cheeked chanteuse, Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near), as if to let the audience in on something indescribable, to give them an out from the ceaselessly tiresome domestic grind.
”In heaven everything is fine,” she sings, willed into form from inside a radiator, in a tone that is both gentle and calm, and touchingly naïve.
While equally as otherworldly as what has been shown before it, it is nestled somewhere that is associative of the limitless bounds of the moving image, looking in from a point at which such problems as family, loneliness and child-rearing live, no matter the reality.
After all, Lynch establishes in this first feature of his, there is warmth, beauty and peace to be found against...
- 10/29/2014
- by Fiman Jafari
- SoundOnSight
“Certain experiences you can’t survive, and afterward, you don’t fully exist, even if you failed to die. Everything that happened…is still happening, only now it’s 20 years later, and what happened is just story.”—from the novel Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
“Strange is the night where black stars rise.” – from The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
True Detective is many things at once—an immersive character study, a gripping head-trippy murder mystery, a psychological profile of the anti-hero zeitgeist, a tour de force for Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. But simply and deeply, it is...
“Strange is the night where black stars rise.” – from The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
True Detective is many things at once—an immersive character study, a gripping head-trippy murder mystery, a psychological profile of the anti-hero zeitgeist, a tour de force for Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. But simply and deeply, it is...
- 1/13/2014
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW - Inside TV
Though fans of AMC’s Breaking Bad are likely still coming down off a meth-like high induced by the show’s brilliant finale “Felina” (check out our review here) last fall, show creator Vince Gilligan is currently hard at work on an upcoming spin-off series called Better Call Saul, which is set to focus on the misadventures of skeevy criminal lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk).
During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gilligan revealed that Better Call Saul may relate more closely to the narrative of Breaking Bad than previously realized. The showrunner hinted in October that the door was open for Breaking Bad protagonists Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to make cameo appearances, and now he has picked one key player from the original series whom he wants to see pop up on Better Call Saul: professional ‘cleaner’ Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks).
Gilligan was...
During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gilligan revealed that Better Call Saul may relate more closely to the narrative of Breaking Bad than previously realized. The showrunner hinted in October that the door was open for Breaking Bad protagonists Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to make cameo appearances, and now he has picked one key player from the original series whom he wants to see pop up on Better Call Saul: professional ‘cleaner’ Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks).
Gilligan was...
- 1/2/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
2013 was the breakout year for Breaking Bad. The critically adored meth drama, which had enthralled a fervent yet modest-sized fanbase, went next level with its final eight episodes, rocketing to record ratings while dominating talk on Twitter and around watercoolers. Before the New Mexico dust had settled, the show also scored its first Outstanding Drama Series Emmy. For those reasons and more, Breaking Bad was named as one of EW’s Entertainers of the Year and EW critic Melissa Maerz’s No. 1 TV show of 2013, while season 5′s “Ozymandias” topped our Best Episodes of 2013 list. Series creator Vince Gilligan talked...
- 12/31/2013
- by Dan Snierson
- EW - Inside TV
In town for the UK premiere of his film Motivational Growth (review) at Sheffield's Celluloid Screams festival, self-described "Engine of Delight" Don Thacker gracefully sat down with us for a lengthy chat about the film and his work past, present and future. What's in that head of his?
The Mold knows, Jack. The Mold knows...
Dread Central: What was the motivation behind Motivational Growth?
Don Thacker: Well, the motivation was to make a movie (laughs). No... I'd actually pitched a completely different film called 'Flexure', which is this awesome sci-fi love thriller that I want to make. I'd actually written it, and I spent a couple of years at Fermilab, the National Accelerator laboratories in Illinois and was visiting there a couple of times a week doing research. I have some guys over there who want to be consultants on the picture. It's a story about a guy who...
The Mold knows, Jack. The Mold knows...
Dread Central: What was the motivation behind Motivational Growth?
Don Thacker: Well, the motivation was to make a movie (laughs). No... I'd actually pitched a completely different film called 'Flexure', which is this awesome sci-fi love thriller that I want to make. I'd actually written it, and I spent a couple of years at Fermilab, the National Accelerator laboratories in Illinois and was visiting there a couple of times a week doing research. I have some guys over there who want to be consultants on the picture. It's a story about a guy who...
- 11/6/2013
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
Somehow, I survived my six-movie day yesterday at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. My mind was amazed to have held firm throughout the day, but my body was basically operating on fumes if today was any indication. I stayed alert and awake through the four films I watched, but there were a couple of moments where I was thankful for the Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline for offering an espresso chocolate milkshake. Anything to keep me buzzing. (Sorry for all the buzzing, Fantastic Fest friends. It’s the only way I can stay awake!) As you’ll see from the end of this post, this was my last day at the festival proper. Before I get into what I saw today, I just want to say exactly how much damn fun I’ve had these past few days. I met a lot of Twitter friends in person and, if I’m lucky,...
- 9/24/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
“The End of the Whole Mess” by Stephen King Available in the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes, this disturbing piece of literature does not deal with the supernatural or crazed maniacs. No demonic monsters, serial killers or the like cause the horror that makes this story so chilling. Rather it is human error (and perhaps even arrogance) and that's what makes this story hit home. Like much of Stephen King's work, it has been adapted for the screen. I first read this as a teenager, and its frightening conclusion has stayed with me ever since. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce It's a good guess that just about everybody has read this story at least once in school, or has heard about it, or has seen one of the numerous films adapted from or inspired by it. Written in the late 1800s, Bierce captures that sense of...
- 9/5/2013
- by Nancy Greene
- FEARnet
Amit Kumar’s ten year long journey culminates in a midnight screening at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Amit first pitched Monsoon Shootout to the UK Film Council in 2003 but waited for eight years to start shooting in 2011. In an exclusive interview to DearCinema.com, Amit Kumar talks about his film, working with international co-producers and his decade long struggle to make Monsoon Shootout happen.
How does it feel to have your film in the official selection at Cannes?
It’s a great honour. Waves of excitement interspersed with tonnes of work!
For the two years while I was hunting for finance, it was by and large the same story- okay we love your short film and your script but…let’s cast some star in it. I just wanted to work with good actors; I wanted to make a certain kind of film. So, it took much longer
How...
How does it feel to have your film in the official selection at Cannes?
It’s a great honour. Waves of excitement interspersed with tonnes of work!
For the two years while I was hunting for finance, it was by and large the same story- okay we love your short film and your script but…let’s cast some star in it. I just wanted to work with good actors; I wanted to make a certain kind of film. So, it took much longer
How...
- 4/22/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
An Academy Award-winning short film produced in France, this dreamy, nearly-silent dramatization of a story by Ambrose Bierce starts with a man about to be hanged over a river. The Twilight Zone, Episode #142: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (original air date Feb. 28, 1964) The Plot: A sentence of death is about to be carried out. On a bridge above a river, a noose is looped over the girders and a man (Roger Jacquet), bound by rope, awaits his execution. The plank on which he is standing is kicked out, he plummets downward, the rope tightens ... ... and then it breaks. Underwater, the man cannot believe he is still alive. He frees himself from the rope that ties his hands and swims...
- 1/17/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Thought #1: contact sports have given us an unusual number of fine actors. George C. Scott's nose testified to his travails in the ring, as did John Huston's. France offers Michel Simon, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Italian emigre Lino Ventura. Ventura, a former boxer and wrestler, is perhaps the least celebrated of this triumvirate, but he is beyond great. Initially typed as toughs, understandably given his squat frame and flattened menhir of a nose, he demonstrated such conviction that he could be cast as an art dealer in Montparnasse 19 and as an intellectual freedom fighter in Melville's Army of Shadows. His combination of muscle and brains makes him a perfect choice to play an engineer in—but wait...
Thought #2: It's remarkable how many truly horrible character Alain Delon has played. Impressive that he'd do that—either he's unusually interested in villainy, or directors just see him that way,...
Thought #2: It's remarkable how many truly horrible character Alain Delon has played. Impressive that he'd do that—either he's unusually interested in villainy, or directors just see him that way,...
- 1/12/2012
- MUBI
Well, it’s a new year so we have tons of films that we liked from last year to be released on DVD & Blu-Ray. Also, later this year, we will see films that maybe either never got a DVD release before or receive a hi-def upgrade. Here is the first Home Invasion post of 2012 and there are a couple of titles might catch your eye.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Five
Reunite with the “Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock, for more of the mind-boggling twists and devious thrills synonymous with one of TV’s greatest shows, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In the fifth season, delve into 38 stories of greed, larceny, revenge and murder where every...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Five
Reunite with the “Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock, for more of the mind-boggling twists and devious thrills synonymous with one of TV’s greatest shows, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In the fifth season, delve into 38 stories of greed, larceny, revenge and murder where every...
- 1/3/2012
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Chicago – One of the exciting events at the Chicago International Film Festival is the “City & State” Short Film Spotlight, highlighting local filmmakers presenting new or emerging short films. Two notable directors from the October 10th screening are Anna Musso (”L Train”) and Alaric S. Rocha (”Winter”).
“Winter” and “L Train” were shown, along with “The Vacuum Kid,” “The Ghosts,” “The Doctor’s Wife” and “The Truth” on City & State Shorts night, and HollywoodChicago.com caught up with two directors at the afterparty, talking to them about the background for their passionate short films.
Anna Musso, Writer and Director of “L Train”
“L Train” is remarkable, using Chicago’s transit system as a symbol for life’s journeys. Sunny (Khadijah Davis) is a high school student whose misery is apparent on her daily commute. A chance encounter with a fellow passenger replaces that misery with something different, something that may be a cause for redemption.
“Winter” and “L Train” were shown, along with “The Vacuum Kid,” “The Ghosts,” “The Doctor’s Wife” and “The Truth” on City & State Shorts night, and HollywoodChicago.com caught up with two directors at the afterparty, talking to them about the background for their passionate short films.
Anna Musso, Writer and Director of “L Train”
“L Train” is remarkable, using Chicago’s transit system as a symbol for life’s journeys. Sunny (Khadijah Davis) is a high school student whose misery is apparent on her daily commute. A chance encounter with a fellow passenger replaces that misery with something different, something that may be a cause for redemption.
- 10/13/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Good things come in small packages (or so my wife assures me), and that can certainly be the case when it comes to films. Part of the genius of short films is that when they’re good they are just as entertaining and rewarding as something twenty times the length, and when they’re bad, well, at least they’re over quickly. In all walks of life there’s a satisfying beauty to brevity, and in filmmaking it’s nearly always the case that less is best – as anyone who has sat through Judd Apatow’s self-indulgent snore-fest Funny People can attest (surely Irritating People would have been a better title?).
But I digress – I’m here to praise, not malign, and so below I’ve compiled a little list of what I consider to be among the five best short films of all time. Of course, like a lot...
But I digress – I’m here to praise, not malign, and so below I’ve compiled a little list of what I consider to be among the five best short films of all time. Of course, like a lot...
- 9/16/2011
- by Jez Gee
- Obsessed with Film
I cannot count the number of times that spoilers have been an issue for me, either by ruining -- or at least altering -- my enjoyment of a film or TV show, or by not ruining a story: that is, I’ve seen more than a few movies and TV shows after which I’m glad I knew nothing about it beforehand, for advance knowledge of even tiny details would have significantly altered my experience of watching it. So I doubt the results of a study mentioned the other day at the A.V. Club: Psychologists [at Uc San Diego] recently ran an experiment in which a group of 30 people were given 12 separate short stories they’d never read before, by the likes of Raymond Carver, Agatha Christie, Anton Chekhov, Roald Dahl, and John Updike—some presented as-is, some with an introductory paragraph that gave away the ending, and some with that paragraph incorporated into the text.
- 8/12/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 (Blu-Ray) Just released from Sue Procko Public Relations: It’s time to enter the fifth season of the fifth dimension when The Twilight Zone: Season 5 comes to Blu-ray™ on August 30, 2011. All 36 episodes from the groundbreaking sci-fi/fantasy series’ final season are here, remastered and presented in pristine 1080p high-definition and uncompressed Pcm audio. In addition, the 5-disc set includes hours of entertaining bonus features specially created for this Blu-ray™ release, as well as the bonus features from the Definitive Collection DVD release. Srp is $99.98, and pre-book is August 2.
Submitted for your approval, is the wildest and (dare we say) weirdest season of Rod Serling’s iconic series, containing such memorable episodes as "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," "A Kind of a Stopwatch," "Living Doll" and the Oscar® nominated short film "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." This season also rolls out some great guest stars including Bill Mumy,...
Submitted for your approval, is the wildest and (dare we say) weirdest season of Rod Serling’s iconic series, containing such memorable episodes as "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," "A Kind of a Stopwatch," "Living Doll" and the Oscar® nominated short film "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." This season also rolls out some great guest stars including Bill Mumy,...
- 5/28/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Mitch Glazer spoke with us about his upcoming film “Passion Play”, starring Megan Fox, Bill Murray, Rhys Ifans, and Mickey Rourke, whom Glazer has known since childhood. “It’s the movie I always dreamt it would be,” the writer/director said. The inspiration for “Passion Play”, a film about a musician (Rourke) who falls in love with Lily, a Bird Woman, is threefold. “My mother was a high school English teacher and taught both Mickey [Rourke] and I,” said Glazer. “She showed us a short film called ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge‘,” which featured a character hallucinating during the last moments of his life. The film, Glazer said, was shown by...
- 5/27/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
Grouplove are among the more affable bands to land in recent memory. Drawn together by a series of events that frankly sounds too weird to be fabricated, the five-piece coalesces beneath punchy vocals, tight harmonies, and youthful abandon. They are an “La band” but their story begins beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. The tale is best told by the band itself:
“Maybe it starts the night Hannah (Hooper) met Christian (Zucconi) at one of his acoustic shows in New York in the summer of 2008. Their connection was instantaneous and they ended up listening to tapes under the Brooklyn Bridge until the wee hours of the morning. Hannah had just been invited to an artist’s residency in the small village of Avdou, Crete and was set to leave in a week. She was worried that if she left she would never have contact with Christian again, so she invited him…and he said yes.
“Maybe it starts the night Hannah (Hooper) met Christian (Zucconi) at one of his acoustic shows in New York in the summer of 2008. Their connection was instantaneous and they ended up listening to tapes under the Brooklyn Bridge until the wee hours of the morning. Hannah had just been invited to an artist’s residency in the small village of Avdou, Crete and was set to leave in a week. She was worried that if she left she would never have contact with Christian again, so she invited him…and he said yes.
- 4/11/2011
- by Theo Spielberg
- Huffington Post
After six years of nuclear bombs, voices in the jungle, black rocks, tricky dynamite, cabins, temples, time-travel, flashbacks, flash forwards, flash sideways, heroes, villains, philosophy, science, polar bears, shirtlessness, convoluted plots, dinosaurs, dogs, Hostiles, Others, Hansos, love triangles, numbers, insanity, statues, escapes, returns, deserts, wheels, assassinations, gay lovers, straight lovers, hatches, flowers, buttons, airplanes, questions, partial answers and smoke monsters, everything gets tied together tonight at 9Pm with the series finale of Lost.
Interestingly, the finale is being shown almost instantly around much of the world. England is getting it at the same time the West Coast is. Other countries are seeing it subtitled. Other countries still are getting it live, then rebroadcast at their local, regular time.
What about you? What are you hoping to get out of tonight's show? What questions do you want answered? What mysteries are you hoping will endure.
Here-be-space to discuss all the craziness...
Interestingly, the finale is being shown almost instantly around much of the world. England is getting it at the same time the West Coast is. Other countries are seeing it subtitled. Other countries still are getting it live, then rebroadcast at their local, regular time.
What about you? What are you hoping to get out of tonight's show? What questions do you want answered? What mysteries are you hoping will endure.
Here-be-space to discuss all the craziness...
- 5/23/2010
- doorQ.com
If you haven't ever read Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," you've surely been exposed to it in one way or another. Maybe you saw a copy of it on Lost or experienced its influence on films like Donnie Darko and Jacob's Ladder. Perhaps you saw Robert Enrico's 1962 short film adaptation, which won an Oscar and a prize at Cannes before being aired on TV as an episode of The Twilight Zone (watch it free here). Other versions include a silent film by King Vidor, an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and now a music video directed by Johnny Depp for the band Babybird, which is basically a short film adaptation of the story if you remove the shots of singer Stephen Jones.
I'm not too keen on the song, but it's great to see more behind-the-camera work from the Pirates of the Caribbean star.
I'm not too keen on the song, but it's great to see more behind-the-camera work from the Pirates of the Caribbean star.
- 4/22/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Cinema audiences want to be fooled. Our desire for a juicy twist is surely related to our pleasure in a magician's sleight of hand
Martin Scorsese's latest film has a twist ending. That's all I'm going to write about Shutter Island, because I try to avoid spoilers of recent releases. But I reckon older films are fair game, as are films so stupid they're impossible to spoil, which is why I'm issuing a spoiler warning. If you've been on Mars, you might want to stop reading now.
François Truffaut once said the key to a great film ending was to create a combination of spectacle and truth, and there was a time when audiences would have been satisfied with that. Today, though, we like the rug to be pulled from beneath our feet as well.
Agatha Christie made a career out of wrongfooting readers; the killer in Ten Little Indians...
Martin Scorsese's latest film has a twist ending. That's all I'm going to write about Shutter Island, because I try to avoid spoilers of recent releases. But I reckon older films are fair game, as are films so stupid they're impossible to spoil, which is why I'm issuing a spoiler warning. If you've been on Mars, you might want to stop reading now.
François Truffaut once said the key to a great film ending was to create a combination of spectacle and truth, and there was a time when audiences would have been satisfied with that. Today, though, we like the rug to be pulled from beneath our feet as well.
Agatha Christie made a career out of wrongfooting readers; the killer in Ten Little Indians...
- 3/12/2010
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
By Todd Garbarini
Since its inception in 2006, Severin Films, the film and DVD company that is responsible for releasing special editions of many well-known films such as Roman Polanski’s What?, Gwendolin with Tawny Kitaen, Patrice Leconte’s The Hairdresser’s Husband and The Perfume Of Yvonne, Richard Stanley’s Hardware, and Enzo Castellari’s Inglorious Bastards to name a few, now adds Lucio Fulci’s directorial swan song to its roster. Fulci, who passed away in 1996, made Door into Silence (Le Porte del Silenzio) in 1991 (not to be confused with Dario Argento’s Door into Darkness, a series of four, one-hour episodes for Italian television in 1973). It stars - of all people - John Savage of The Deer Hunter and Do the Right Thing as a man who buries his father and takes a strange trip through Louisiana behind a hearse in a modern day variation of Steven Spielberg’s Duel,...
Since its inception in 2006, Severin Films, the film and DVD company that is responsible for releasing special editions of many well-known films such as Roman Polanski’s What?, Gwendolin with Tawny Kitaen, Patrice Leconte’s The Hairdresser’s Husband and The Perfume Of Yvonne, Richard Stanley’s Hardware, and Enzo Castellari’s Inglorious Bastards to name a few, now adds Lucio Fulci’s directorial swan song to its roster. Fulci, who passed away in 1996, made Door into Silence (Le Porte del Silenzio) in 1991 (not to be confused with Dario Argento’s Door into Darkness, a series of four, one-hour episodes for Italian television in 1973). It stars - of all people - John Savage of The Deer Hunter and Do the Right Thing as a man who buries his father and takes a strange trip through Louisiana behind a hearse in a modern day variation of Steven Spielberg’s Duel,...
- 2/16/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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Forgive Jason Reitman if he can't remember exactly how it came about that he would be guest programming the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Even though he can easily recall first stepping inside the repertory shrine for a program of Alfred Hitchcock miscellany including WWII propaganda shorts and the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" when he was 16, these are busy times for the writer/director, who has either been shuttling around town collecting awards for "Up in the Air" or holed up adapting Joyce Maynard's novel "Labor Day" in recent months. Still, he's taking a break to show some of his favorite films this week at the theater, and introducing each double feature on first night they show. He also found the time to tell us about his choices, so even if you aren't in L.A. this week, you can...
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
[Repertory Calendar for the Coasts]
Forgive Jason Reitman if he can't remember exactly how it came about that he would be guest programming the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Even though he can easily recall first stepping inside the repertory shrine for a program of Alfred Hitchcock miscellany including WWII propaganda shorts and the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" when he was 16, these are busy times for the writer/director, who has either been shuttling around town collecting awards for "Up in the Air" or holed up adapting Joyce Maynard's novel "Labor Day" in recent months. Still, he's taking a break to show some of his favorite films this week at the theater, and introducing each double feature on first night they show. He also found the time to tell us about his choices, so even if you aren't in L.A. this week, you can...
- 2/16/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Technical difficulties have delayed these postings, and perhaps that’s appropriate when it comes to this reimagining of Patrick McGoohan’s 1960’s genre TV classic, The Prisoner. It’s now a six-hour mini-series made by ITV and broadcast over three nights in the USA on AMC. Evening One was reviewed here and Evening Two here. Now, at last, on to the final parts!
To recap, Six (tortured Christ figure Jim Cavieziel) has awakened to find himself in the Village, a picturesque locale far from everywhere, deep in the desert, a refuge run by the smilingly sinister Two (Sir Ian McKellen). Six gets involved with the lives of various other villagers, namely ______, the doctor and cabbie Lennie James, not always to the good. Villain that he may (or may not) be, Two is a devoted family man- with a wife who sleeps her life away and a troubled teenish son. Episode Five,...
To recap, Six (tortured Christ figure Jim Cavieziel) has awakened to find himself in the Village, a picturesque locale far from everywhere, deep in the desert, a refuge run by the smilingly sinister Two (Sir Ian McKellen). Six gets involved with the lives of various other villagers, namely ______, the doctor and cabbie Lennie James, not always to the good. Villain that he may (or may not) be, Two is a devoted family man- with a wife who sleeps her life away and a troubled teenish son. Episode Five,...
- 11/21/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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