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Apocalypse Now tops London critics' 30th anniversary poll
18 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Francis Ford Coppola's nightmarish vision of the Vietnam war is named best film of the past three decades, beating Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List to the top spot
Apocalypse Now was today named as the best film of the past three decades by the London Film Critics' Circle (Lfcc). Francis Ford Coppola's nightmarish vision of the Vietnam war beat out Steven Spielberg's 1994 holocaust drama Schindler's List to take top spot in the poll, held to celebrate the organisation's 30th anniversary.
Third place went to German film The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winner for best foreign language film in 2007. The top five was rounded out by two very different movies with western themes: Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, from 1992, and Ang Lee's 2005 tale of gay cowboys, Brokeback Mountain.
Chair of the circle and Observer writer Jason Solomons said: "I'm delighted that such a powerful and »
- Ben Child
DVD Review: ‘North By Northwest’ 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray
26 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
One of the most visually stunning, action packed, clever and suspenseful of all Alfred Hitchcock movies, his 1959 masterpiece North By Northwest finally gets the Blu-ray treatment it deserves. Featuring a terrific remastering with lots of great supplemental material and beautiful packaging the movie really shines and Warner Bros. has clearly pulled out all the tops to bring this classic film to a new generation of audiences.
Just in case you’re not familiar with this Hitchcock masterpiece, it stars Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a young Martin Landau in a story featuring one of Hitchcock’s signature conceits: the wrong man. Grant’s Roger Thornhill, mistaken for superspy George Kaplan by a group of sinister agents led by James Mason’s Phillip Vandamm, is taken to a county house, forceably intoxicated and almost murdered. He barely manages to escape with his life, mostly due to his high »
- Chris Ullrich
MovieWeb's 2009 DVD Holiday Gift Guide
24 November 2009 5:51 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Black Friday is approaching, fellow readers. No, I'm not talking about some sort of economic free-fall or any apocalyptic event that we might see in 2012. I'm talking about the shopper's paradise/nightmare that is the day after Thanksgiving, where all the hot holiday items are paraded about with slashed prices galore. While this day does wonders for your pocketbook, it takes a toll on your sanity with malls full of shoppers packed in like sardines, scurrying to complete their lists. We all know how trying these times are, so we here at MovieWeb are trying to make it a little easier on our readers. No, we won't be selling Blu-ray players for under $100, but we are compiling a tidy little list of our own complete with our top DVD buys of the season. Below you'll find a comprehensive guide to all of the hot titles that will be on the shelves this season, »
Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: Roger Corman and His Oscar
12 November 2009 9:08 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The list of Roger Corman protégés is amazingly long and stuffed with goodies of all persuasions. There are the famous men: Scorcese (Box Car Bertha); Demme (Caged Heat, Crazy Mama), Nicholson (Little Shop of Horrors), Joe Dante (Cockfighter), Francis Coppola (Battle Beyond the Sun), Ron Howard (Grand Theft Auto) Sylvester Stallone (Death Race 2000), Bruce Dern, Robert De Niro (Bloody Mama) Peter Fonda ( The Wild Angels), Peter Bogdanovich (Saint Jack) Curtis Hanson (Sweet Kill) and Jonathan Kaplan (Night Call Nurses) and those are just a few of the guys who wrote to the Motion Picture Academy to advocate for the award that Corman is finally getting this weekend. Corman with Jonathan Demme. They said, "it is virtually impossible to separate our various entries into the film industry from Roger Corman and his obsession with working with newcomers." Or how about... »
- Patricia Zohn
Kevin Williamson to Open Your Bedroom Window
12 November 2009 6:20 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
While sitting down with MTV for an interview, scribe Kevin Williamson offered an update on his long attachment to Curtis Hanson's 1987 thriller Bedroom Window.
"I’ve got a great plan for it; I’m really excited," Williamson tells MTV. "It’s based on the book 'The Witnesses' [by Anne Holden] and I’m going to balance out the book; I’m going to pull more from the book [than Hanson did]. I’m doing it in between Scream 4 and 5."
"Basically, a guy is having an affair with his boss’ wife. They’re finishing up after a night of sex, and she goes towards the window to smoke a cigarette, and she sees a murder outside her window. She sees the killer, and they call the police, but she can’t be there because she’s the boss’ wife. So she tells all of her information to [the man she’s sleeping with], and he becomes the witness."
"But he never »
- Uncle Creepy
Kevin Williamson talks 'Bedroom' remake
12 November 2009 2:01 PM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Kevin Williamson has said that he plans to update 1987 film The Bedroom Window. The 44-year-old writer told MTV that he is to pen the movie, which was originally directed by Curtis Hanson and starred Steve Guttenberg and Elizabeth McGovern as illict lovers who witness a murder. Unlike the first picture, Williamson wants to base part of his adaptation on novel The Witnesses by Anne Holden, which was the source material for Hansons's homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. He said: "I've (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Kevin Williamson to Script Remake of The Bedroom Window Between Screams 4 and 5
12 November 2009 11:28 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We're in the current of a raging river of Kevin Williamson at the moment, with Scream 4 news popping up almost every day and his new TV series The Vampire Diaries - which I've yet to see any of, being in the UK - proving to be a fairly strong performer. It's just like 1998 all over again when Scream 2 was giving way to hype for Scream 3 and Dawson's Creek was clogging up the pages of TV Guide. I'm pretty happy about this comeback myself. I like Williamson and I definitely love Scream. As well as revving up his own horror franchise for another spin around the block, Williamson has another gig in his datebook. Between completing the Scream 4 script and embarking on the pages for the fifth, he's set to write and direct a remake of Curtis Hanson's The Bedroom Window. Actually, as the film was »
- Brendon Connelly
Kevin Williamson's 'The Bedroom Window' Remake Coming Between Fourth And Fifth 'Scream' Movies
12 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Between launching hit shows like “The Vampire Diaries” and writing three (!) eagerly anticipated scripts for the upcoming “Scream” sequels, you’d think Kevin Williamson would be a pretty busy dude. You’d think he wouldn’t have time to focus his abundance of creative energy anywhere else. Well, think again.
“The other thing that’s exciting that’s coming up is I’m doing a remake of ‘The Bedroom Window,” the “Dawson’s Creek” mastermind explained when we caught up with recently. “It was Curtis Hanson’s first film. With Steve Guttenberg and Elizabeth McGovern. Go look it up. Put it on your TiVo; it’s fun.”
Released in 1987, “Bedroom” was a modest hit based on the novel “The Witnesses” by Anne Holden. Similar in theme to the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Rear Window” (or for anyone under the age of 20 reading this, “Disturbia”), it was a modest hit that helped »
- Larry Carroll
Williamson Talks The Bedroom Window
12 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
While chatting with MTV, writer Kevin Williamson talked a bit about his upcoming project The Bedroom Window , a remake of Curtis Hanson's 1987 thriller which he's been attached to for some time now. "I.ve got a great plan for it; I.m really excited," Williamson said. "It.s based on the book ' The Witnesses ' and I.m going to balance out the book; I.m going to pull more from the book [than Hanson did]. I.m doing it in between Scream 4 and 5 ." Of the plot, he explains, "Basically, a guy is having an affair with his boss.s wife. They.re finishing up after a night of sex, and she goes towards the window to smoke a cigarette, and she sees a murder outside her window. She sees the killer, and they call the police, but she can.t be there because she.s... »
Blu-Ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock Makes Striking HD Debut With ‘North by Northwest’
11 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – It is as difficult for me to write critically about “North by Northwest” as it would be for someone to discuss their first love. The films of Hitchcock are, without question, why I do what I do and my only concern, as they start to be released on Blu-Ray, is that they won’t live up to the bar set by the package put together for first Hitch movie on the next-gen format - “North by Northwest”.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
What more could possibly be written about “North by Northwest”? As co-star Martin Landau recently told me, it played to him like a “greatest hits” of Hitchcock’s career to that point. This is Alfred Hitchcock at the top of his game playing with themes that had been a part of his career since silent film. Released in between “Vertigo” and “Psycho,” “North by Northwest” is one of the most »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
North By Northwest Blu-ray Review
7 November 2009 10:02 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Going back to the old masters, going back to the classics is always illuminating. Someone like Alfred Hitchcock knew how to frame a film. He knew where he was putting his camera, and why it was there. As in North by Northwest he achieved one of the great visual representations of sex. Cary Grant lifts Eva Marie Saint up to bed, and then a train enters a tunnel. Not exactly subtle, but undeniably brilliant. My review after the jump.
North by Northwest is one of Hitchcock’s most pleasurable films. In his cycle of “wrong man on the run” films, which includes The 39 Steps and Foreign Correspondent, North by Northwest has one advantage over those others films: It stars Cary Grant. And Grant’s dapper persona adds a level of debonair to whatever he did. Here he stars as Roger Thornhill, who’s mistaken for secret agent George Kaplan. He »
- Andre Dellamorte
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Screenwriter and filmmaker Robert Towne.
Forget It Bob, It’S Chinatown
Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary
By
The haunting trumpet wailing plaintively over the closing credits. The bandage covering star Jack Nicholson’s nose. The best last line of a movie, ever: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown"; all elements of a film now regarded by scholars, critics and cinefiles alike as one of the greatest pieces of American celluloid ever made. Chinatown was a collaboration between a who’s-who of ‘70s film icons. Directed by Roman Polanski, produced by Robert Evans, written by Robert Towne, starring Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, shot by John Alonso, and scored by Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1974, but brought home only one: for its writer. Robert Towne was barely 40, and Chinatown his first produced original screenplay, his previous efforts having been literary adaptations, such as 1973’s The Last Detail. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Schizo Miracles
3 November 2009 5:59 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Samuel Fuller had one of the most fascinating of Hollywood careers -- a 50-plus-year self-mythologizing rampage that began with scriptsmith work in the mid 1930s at the age of 24, evolving into one of the most distinctive auteurs America has ever produced, writing/directing some 25 movies and having a hand in writing 25 more, helplessly manufacturing himself into a crusty man's-man Hollywood gadfly in the process, readily available for manic interviews and iconic appearances in young auteurs' self-conscious films.
There are always corners in his career that you, whomever you are, haven't yet explored (honestly, any single Fuller film remains half-experienced if you've only seen it once), and so the new Sony set of Fulleriania is a prize, beginning as it does with "It Happened in Hollywood" (1937), Fuller's first screenplay credit, and an utterly freakish, Charlie Kaufman-esque launch of meta-ness that centers on Hollywood's discomfiting transition from silents to talkies, barely »
- Michael Atkinson
Blu-ray Review: North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition)
3 November 2009 3:50 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
There was talk earlier this year that it wasn't in the studios' best interest to continue to release classic films on DVD/Blu-ray as the demand for them was dwindling and the cost of restoration was climbing. The article in question even quotes Warner Home Video senior vice president George Feltenstein saying "most of the studios have pretty much said 'Screw it, we're out of here, we're not going to do this.'" Strangely enough, it just so happens Warner Home Video is the home entertainment studio releasing the very first Alfred Hitchcock film on Blu-ray, 50 years after its theatrical release with a restoration price tag I have read cost upwards of $1 million. Perhaps studios are slowing down the release of their classic films, but with Warner's recent Blu-ray release of The Wizard of Oz, the upcoming release of Gone With the Wind and this release of North by Northwest »
- Brad Brevet
Review: 'North by Northwest' on Blu-ray
1 November 2009 7:10 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Thrillers today are filled with fast cuts, pounding music, poor excuses for plotting and characterization, and seem designed to do nothing more than collect your cash and deliver the same old. You usually see every twist and turn coming and are rarely surprised.
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock, at the height of his moviemaking career, unleashed the ultimate thriller in North By Northwest. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Warner Home Video releases the Blu-ray edition on Tuesday and it’s a cause worth partaking in.
Students of Hitchcock see the familiar bits from the frosty blonde to the case of mistaken identity but here, he mixes them all together and adds in some fresh touches. Rewatching the film in its new, crisp edition, is revelatory. The opening scene establishes Roy Thornhill as a busy advertising man, a man used to dealing in artifice and then slowly strips away everything that is a »
- Robert Greenberger
Weekend Shopping Guide 10/30/09: Lawyer Approved Spam
1 November 2009 12:31 AM, PDT | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
(Please support Quick Stop by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
There’ve been many, many attempts over the years, but I think we’ve finally gotten a definitive, comprehensive documentary about those 5 loveable English lads (and one American) in Monty Python: Almost The Truth - The Lawyer’s Cut (Eagle Rock, Not Rated, DVD-$29.99 Srp). With 6 hours of actual, bona fide documentary and scads of cut footage, I certainly walked away satisfied that I »
- UncaScroogeMcD
The Family That Slays Together: Ten Domestic Slashers
15 October 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
If you feel like you've seen this week's new slasher flick "The Stepfather" before, you probably have, even if you're not a fan of the 1987 original starring "Lost"'s Terry O'Quinn. That's because the family-bands-together-to-fend-off-the-one-member-who-turns-on-the-rest trope is at the heart of dozens of horror movies.
Need proof? Here's a list of ten different types of immediate and extended family members and a notable cinematic example of each going medieval on their loved ones.
Killer Mom
I'd wager that everybody has said "My parents are crazy!" at least once in their lives. But the filicidal mother in 2008's "Baby Blues" is so far gone into Crazytown that she'll make you want to call your own mom to apologize for ever implying she was nuts. Colleen Porch plays the killer in question, an exhausted mother of four with a truck-driving husband, who snaps one day and begins picking off her own children slasher movie-style; at one point, »
- Matt Singer
Does Oscar Ever Get It Wrong?
1 October 2009 3:15 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Even the most intelligent people in the world make mistakes. The brightest minds once thought the world was flat. Over the years I think there have been great injustices at the Academy Awards. Films that were not so deserving have walked off with the Best Picture Oscar. Actors & Directors have picked up that coveted statue even though someone better should have received it. Let’s take a look at some of those moments and of course as always, if you don’t agree or can think of a different time I haven’t covered feel free to let us know via the comments section.
The Date: 25th March 1991
Location: Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles
The Victim: Martin Scorsese
The Crime: The Best Director Oscar goes to… Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves! Pardon me? Come again? I’m sorry but even if you are the most die hard Kevin Costner »
- Alex Wagner
Bacall, Corman, Gordon Willis Earn Honorary Oscars
13 September 2009 3:15 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
This year's list of honorary Oscar recipients has been announced, and it's a varied list, but I don't think you can argue against any of the picks. Lauren Bacall, one of the most legendary film noir actresses who has remained active into her 80s, will be honored by the Board of Governors at next year's Academy Awards.
Joining Bacall, who co-starred with her future husband Humphrey Bogart in several mysteries of the 1940s, will be the one and only Roger Corman. Now, if you only know Corman as a director and producer of low-budget B-movies, you should be hipped to the fact that Corman is the root of one of the most significant family trees in movie history. He's influential in starting the careers of Coppola, Scorsese, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Curtis Hanson, Nicolas Roeg, and John Sayles, among others. Six of those guys »
- Colin Boyd
Eminem Lets The Characters Play Him: The MTV Quote Of The Day
11 September 2009 1:36 PM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
"Having worked with him so many times, the thing people don't realize is that he's a fantastic actor. He actually stays in character on set. So when he's Tony Romo, he's Tony Romo the whole time. If he's Bret Michaels, he talks like Bret Michaels. He learned it from ['8 Mile' director] Curtis Hanson. He's a method actor, like Daniel Day Lewis."
-"We Made You" director Joseph Hahn discussing the acting prowess of Marshall Mathers. Hahn, who also directed Eminem's "Without Me" (which won Video of the Year in 2002), said that the rapper wasn't sure he'd be able to pull the concept off simply because he rhymes too fast on the track. Like "Without Me," the video was mostly improvised over two days on the set. "I'm confident in his improvisational ability to come up with a million things on set, which he always does," Kahn told MTV News. Slim Shady is »
- MTV News
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