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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
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
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
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
8 October 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | 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
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
Eminem Turns Method Actor In Vma-Nominated 'We Made You' Clip
11 September 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Director Joseph Kahn says Em would stay in character on set, in Behind the Lens.
By Gil Kaufman
Eminem in "We Made You"
Photo: Aftermath/ Interscope
Eminem's clip for "We Made You" might seem like a laugh, but for the rapper, the tabloid-target-blasting video was a chance to indulge in some deep method acting. Seriously.
"Having worked with him so many times, the thing people don't realize is that he's a fantastic actor," said music-video vet Joseph Kahn, who won a Grammy in 2002 for his work on Em's "Without Me" clip, which also won that year's Vma for Video of the Year. "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."
Kahn, who is up for Video of »
Eminem Turns Method Actor In Vma-Nominated 'We Made You' Clip
10 September 2009 12:23 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Director Joseph Kahn says Em would stay in character on set, in Behind the Lens.
By Gil Kaufman
Eminem in "We Made You"
Photo: Aftermath/ Interscope
Eminem's clip for "We Made You" might seem like a laugh, but for the rapper, the tabloid-target-blasting video was a chance to indulge in some deep method acting. Seriously.
"Having worked with him so many times, the thing people don't realize is that he's a fantastic actor," said music-video vet Joseph Kahn, who won a Grammy in 2002 for his work on Em's "Without Me" clip, which also won that year's Vma for Video of the Year. "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."
Kahn, who is up for Video of »
Zwick Lands Top Academy Post After Election Tie
30 July 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Moviemaker Edward Zwick has won a seat on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Directors Branch after winning an election run-off with longtime Oscars boss Gil Cates.
Director Zwick will serve his first term on the Board of Governors for the next year.
He'll join Martha Coolidge and Curtis Hanson as the third governor representing the branch.
Zwick's election battle with Cates made history - it was the first time in Academy history that there was a tie in the balloting.
The 2009-2010 Academy Board of Governors also features Annette Bening, Tom Hanks and Henry Winkler. »
Ed Zwick Wins Oscar Branch Run-Off
30 July 2009 12:33 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Will join Coolidge, Hanson as director representatives.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences press release:
Beverly Hills, CA –– The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that Edward Zwick has prevailed in the run-off for the open Directors Branch seat on the 2009-2010 Board of Governors; this will be his first term on the Board.
Zwick will join Martha Coolidge and Curtis Hanson as the third governor representing the branch.
Earlier this month run-off ballots were mailed to Directors Branch members when Zwick and Gil Gates tied for the seat. ... »
- Michael Speier
Warner Bringing Hitchcock's North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition to Blu-ray
21 July 2009 9:20 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Warner Home Video has announced plans to bring Alfred Hitchcock's classic North by Northwest starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint to Blu-ray Disc and DVD on November 3 to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary. To ensure the film's first foray into high definition is a positive one, Warner has scanned the original VistaVision production elements in 8K resolution. In Warner's words, the result "reveals a depth of field and clarity never before possible, only serving to heighten every thrill-packed moment of this beloved classic." North by Northwest on Blu-ray will be packaged in a digibook case with a 44-page booklet and include a pair of new documentaries detailed below. New: Documentary: The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style - Consists of interviews, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage to reveal what defines the unmistakable Hitchcock style. New: Documentary: North by Northwest: One for the Ages - Today's top directors Guillermo del Toro, »
A Night To Remember: A.M.P.A.S. Tribute To Hal Ashby And Screening Of "Harold And Maude"
14 July 2009 8:52 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Pictured here during the reception preceding the event (left to right): Peter Bart, Vice President and Editorial Director of Variety, Oscar®-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, singer/songwriter Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, Academy President Sid Ganis, writer/producer Judd Apatow, actor/writer Seth Rogen, Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and Oscar-winning writer/director Cameron Crowe. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S) By Mike Thomas Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
The recent A.M.P.A.S. screening of Harold and Maude in Los Angeles proved to be one of those completely unforgettable evenings for anyone fortunate enough to be in attendance. It was a night of intense drama as we entered, for it was taking place just hours after the announcement of the death of Michael Jackson, and a day after the thunderbolt announcement of the Academy’s decision to expand »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
The Flickcast – Episode 15: The Voyage Home
8 July 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Last time on on The Flickcast, your favorite trio of talented talkers discussed a whole slew of topics including the proposed remake of An American Werewolf in London, the Watchmen Director’s Cut, Comic-Con in San Diego, changes to the number of Best Picture Oscar nominees and the death of Michael Jackson.
This week, Chris, Matt and Christina are back with a brand new episode and ready for action. Among the subjects covered this time around are the T.J. Hooker movie, the “Red Band” trailer for Jennifer’s Body featuring Megan Fox, rumors of a new, live-action Star Wars TV series, Katie Holmes’ appearance on So You Think You Can Dance? and much more!
The team also makes more picks this week including Christina’s pick of the Curtis Hanson film Wonder Boys, Matt’s pick of the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood and Chris’ pick of the 1987 vampire biker movie Near Dark, »
- Joe Gillis
Now We Can Walk All Over Cameron Diaz
23 June 2009 8:10 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Call her No. 2,386. That's the number of Cameron Diaz's star on Hollywood's vaunted Walk of Fame, and the Shrek star and her celeb pals were on hand Monday to mark her sidewalk immortality. Vanilla Sky leading man Tom Cruise (accompanied by Katie Holmes), Charlie's Angels cohort Lucy Liu and directors Curtis Hanson and Nick Cassavetes joined the festivities, capped by Diaz's emotional tribute to her parents: "It was what has given me the strength and courage to live this extraordinary life and it is what powers the light that burns inside of me, bright enough for me to be honored today with this star on the Walk of Fame." »
CBS Renews ‘Cold Case,’ Picks Up ‘Medium,’ Cancels ‘Without a Trace’
20 May 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – In a relatively shocking announcement as a part of fall schedule upfronts this week, CBS actually pulled the trigger on “Without a Trace,” a show that had reportedly gotten too expensive for the network. There were rumors that they may do the same with “Cold Case,” but that show will return with on-the-bubble shows “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “Rules of Engagement” also being miraculously renewed and “Medium” being saved.
This Fall CBS adds the popular drama series Medium, starring Patricia Arquette, Fridays (9:00-10:00 Pm, Et/Pt), forming a hauntingly compatible two-hour block with Ghost Whisperer at 8:00 Pm.
Photo credit: Robert Voets/CBS CBS announced a number of interesting schedule changes, especially for a network that has been so successful over the last few years. They are moving two of their bigger shows - “The Big Bang Theory” and “The Mentalist” - and launching »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
CBS Announces 2009-2010 Primetime Schedule
19 May 2009 6:44 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
CBS, the only major broadcast network to grow its audience in all key ratings measures this season, announced today the addition of four new series to strengthen its already top rated primetime lineup for the Fall 2009-2010 season.
The new series include three dramas and one comedy. Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J star in NCIS: Los Angeles, a spinoff from the hit drama NCIS; The Good Wife stars Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies in a legal drama about a steadfast wife and mother who boldly returns to work as a lawyer when her husband is imprisoned for a high profile political scandal; Three Rivers, a medical drama that stars Alex O'Loughlin as the head of a renowned transplant surgery team, and Accidentally on Purpose stars Golden Globe Award winner Jenna Elfman in an ensemble comedy about a successful, single journalist who accidentally gets pregnant by a much younger man. »
Eminem's Road To Relapse, Part 3: '8 Mile'
14 May 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Semi-autobiographical film put Mc on top of music and movie worlds.
By Jayson Rodriguez
Eminem in "8 Mile"
Photo: Universal Pictures
As the May 19 release of Eminem's long-awaited Relapse album approaches, MTV News is taking a deep dive into our extensive Eminem archives and examining each phase of the Mc's storied career. Part one looked at his rise; part two at his initial stardom, and here in part three, we take a look at his semi-autobiographical feature-film debut, "8 Mile."
Grammy Awards, platinum plaques, controversies created and controversies averted: By 2002, Emimem was scorching hot, the untouchable blond don. Early in the year he released his third album, the deeply personal The Eminem Show, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, debuting at #1 on the Billboard charts.
Songs like "Cleanin' Out My Closet," "Hailie's Song" and "Sing for the Moment" showcased a more lyrically mature Em, as the rapper delved even deeper into »
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