Why, in troubled times, does America turn to a hard-drinking, half-blind Us marshal? Frank Rich on how True Grit speaks to the Obama generation as profoundly as it did to Nixon's
A month before John Wayne won the 1969 best actor Oscar for True Grit, Richard Nixon wrote him a "Dear Duke" fan letter from the Oval Office: "I saw it in the Wh with my family and for once we agree with the critics – you were great!" Some four decades later, his rave was echoed by another Republican warrior, this time in praise of the True Grit remake with Jeff Bridges in the role of the old, fat, hard-drinking, half-blind 19th-century Us marshal Rooster Cogburn. Shortly after New Year, Liz Cheney, daughter of former vice-president Dick, told the New York Times that her parents saw True Grit at the Teton theatre in Jackson, Wyoming, and gave it "two thumbs up...
A month before John Wayne won the 1969 best actor Oscar for True Grit, Richard Nixon wrote him a "Dear Duke" fan letter from the Oval Office: "I saw it in the Wh with my family and for once we agree with the critics – you were great!" Some four decades later, his rave was echoed by another Republican warrior, this time in praise of the True Grit remake with Jeff Bridges in the role of the old, fat, hard-drinking, half-blind 19th-century Us marshal Rooster Cogburn. Shortly after New Year, Liz Cheney, daughter of former vice-president Dick, told the New York Times that her parents saw True Grit at the Teton theatre in Jackson, Wyoming, and gave it "two thumbs up...
- 2/7/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
If you have seen Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest of the Rolling Stones hanging around a lot lately, it's because they are celebrating the release of a remastered anniversary edition of their classic 1972 album Exile on Main St. (which hits store shelves today). The newly remastered version features a second disc of songs, all 10 of which have been previously unreleased and were from the same sessions that yielded Exile on Main St.
Here's the thing about Exile on Main St.: While it's an excellent album and contains some of the band's signature hits ("Tumbling Dice," "Loving Cup," "Shine a Light") and some excellent deep cuts ("Rip This Joint," "Casino Boogie"), it's profoundly overrated — especially in the context of the rest of the Stones' catalog. It's way too long and bloated in places, and the stuff at the back end seems a little perfunctory (especially "Let It Loose...
Here's the thing about Exile on Main St.: While it's an excellent album and contains some of the band's signature hits ("Tumbling Dice," "Loving Cup," "Shine a Light") and some excellent deep cuts ("Rip This Joint," "Casino Boogie"), it's profoundly overrated — especially in the context of the rest of the Stones' catalog. It's way too long and bloated in places, and the stuff at the back end seems a little perfunctory (especially "Let It Loose...
- 5/18/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
This is the 6th post in a series covering the most outrageous moments in underground film history. You can follow the entire series here.
Film: Empire
Director: Andy Warhol
Year: 1964
During his entire filmmaking career, artist Andy Warhol filmed lots of outrageous stuff. With films with titles like Lonesome Cowboys, Nude Restaurant, Mario Banana, Suicide, Bitch — and worse! — it was clear Warhol liked to shock, enrage and embarrass his audiences.
However, the most outrageous thing Warhol ever filmed? The Empire State Building. One shot. For six hours straight. Well, Warhol filmed the topmost portion of the then world’s tallest building for six hours, but when projected he slowed the film down so that he expected audiences to watch a single, static shot for over eight hours.
According to Warhol assistant Gerard Malanga in the Victor Bockris biography The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, filmmaker John Palmer came up with the concept for Empire.
Film: Empire
Director: Andy Warhol
Year: 1964
During his entire filmmaking career, artist Andy Warhol filmed lots of outrageous stuff. With films with titles like Lonesome Cowboys, Nude Restaurant, Mario Banana, Suicide, Bitch — and worse! — it was clear Warhol liked to shock, enrage and embarrass his audiences.
However, the most outrageous thing Warhol ever filmed? The Empire State Building. One shot. For six hours straight. Well, Warhol filmed the topmost portion of the then world’s tallest building for six hours, but when projected he slowed the film down so that he expected audiences to watch a single, static shot for over eight hours.
According to Warhol assistant Gerard Malanga in the Victor Bockris biography The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, filmmaker John Palmer came up with the concept for Empire.
- 1/27/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Obnoxious drag queens, sleepy hustlers, washed-up starlets, effeminate vampires, and sickly junkies were among the miscreants and lowlifes that inhabited a series of films made in the 60’s and 70’s under the banner of the Andy Warhol “Factory” label. Though the eccentric artist himself had virtually no creative input, Andy Warhol’S Flesh (1968), Andy Warhol’S Trash (1970), and Andy Warhol’S Heat (1972) though low-budget and mostly improvised, were milestones in underground independent cinema. The final film made under the Warhol banner was 1977’s Andy Warhol’S Bad, one of the most shocking black comedies of the 1970’s. Andy Warhol’S Bad differs from the earlier Warhol films because of its higher production values (a 1.5 million dollar budget) and studio-friendly casting, but retains its sense of underground cred thanks to a demented script by Pat Hackett and George Abagnalo that breaks many taboos of the time to create a hilarious deadpan satire.
- 7/14/2009
- by Tom
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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