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19 articles from 2009
Predictions 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Babluani, Fabrega and Jarecki
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
The Sundance selection committee headed by 1st term Festival Director John Cooper are probably butting heads, making and breaking dreams as I publish this. Official selections are less than 2 weeks away, so I figure, as I do every year, that I'll have some fun predicting what'll be watching/covering 2 months from now. If the tradition of nurturing the new generation of filmmakers and bringing back old family members from previous editions continues, most of my predictions (at least half of the 45 I'll name) should materialize. - The Sundance selection committee headed by 1st term Festival Director John Cooper are probably butting heads, making and breaking dreams as I publish this. Official selections are less than 2 weeks away, so I figure, as I do every year, that I'll have some fun predicting what'll be watching/covering 2 months from now. If the tradition of nurturing the new generation of filmmakers and bringing »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Join Cinema Retro At The Players Club Gala Tribute To Robert Vaughn, November 22 In New York City
18 November 2009 6:54 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
On Sunday, November 22, The Players, the legendary New York City private club for the performing arts, will honor member Robert Vaughn with a gala dinner. Cinema Retro Editor in Chief Lee Pfeiffer will interview Vaughn on-stage for a discussion of his remarkable career and his recent autobiography A Fortunate Life. There will be screenings of relevant clips from Vaughn's work including The Magnficent Seven, Bullitt, The Towering Inferno,S.O.B, his current hit British series Hustle, Washington:Behind Closed Doors (for which he won the Emmy), Superman 3 and, of course, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. There will also be rarely seen early career footage of Vaughn's TV appearances. Ben Gazzara, Vaughn's co-star from The Bridge at Remagen, is scheduled to speak, as is actor Joseph Sirola, who guest-starred in several episodes of U.N.C.L.E. The date has special significance for Vaughn: it is his birthday and it is »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Viff 2009: 'Empire State Building Murders'
3 October 2009 11:39 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Based almost entirely on found footage — and a clever script to thread that footage together — Empire State Building Murders is a loving tribute to classic Hollywood films.
French director William Karel, who co-wrote the script with Jerome Charyn, has crafted a film in which they've pulled footage from classic films and edited them together to tell a completely original story.
It's a mashup, a remix of some of the best gangster and noir films from the '30s, '40s and '50s. "Starring" Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and James Cagney as the main players in a love triangle set in post-Second World War New York, when the movies of the time would have us believe the Mob was in complete control.
Douglas is the face of Jim Kowalski, a former New York cop who receives a letter addressed to him but postmarked Aug. 17, 1949, some 60 years earlier, that has been »
Spike TV to Honor the Late Patrick Swayze
15 September 2009 8:09 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Spike TV will celebrate the work of the late Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze in one of his cult-classic roles in the film Road House this Saturday, September 19 (10:00 Pm - 12:30 Am, Et/Pt). This special movie telecast will also include a special tribute to the Golden Globe-nominated actor who died yesterday at age 57 due to pancreatic cancer.
The 1989 action film Road House stars Patrick Swayze as "Dalton," a bouncer with a philosophical side, who takes on the chore of cleaning up a rowdy Missouri honky-tonk and runs into trouble with a local corrupt businessman. The film also stars Ben Gazzara, Sam Elliott and Kelly Lynch.
Spike's telecast of Road House will include a short tribute to the actor. Spike.com will feature its own tribute where fans can post their own messages or favorite Swayze movie moments at Spike.com.
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Paris, je t'aime
1 September 2009 10:32 AM, PDT | Anh Khoi Do and Movies | See recent Anh Khoi Do and Movies news »
Once in a while, one has to try something new when it comes to films. Unlike Toronto Stories, which is another anthology movie I'd recommend, Paris, je t'aime uses a rather different approach while showing as much audacity as its Canadian counterpart. All in all, the film is a rather enjoyable gem.
First of all, to put it shortly, Paris, je t'aime uses 18 short segments directed by internationally acclaimed directors. Of course, each segment takes place in a different district of Paris. In each segment, the directors, through their own vision, offer their own interpretation of the meaning of love in none other than the most romantic city in the world.
Obviously, the first praise that you'd like to offer for this film is certainly its photography. Without looking like a postal card, Paris, je t'aime has no difficulty to capture the city's beauty in order to fit it into »
- noreply@blogger.com (Anh Khoi Do)
Hollywood Agent Korman Dies
21 August 2009 9:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Legendary Hollywood talent agent Tom Korman has died after suffering heart failure. He was 76.
Korman, whose clients included Tony Curtis, Ethel Merman and Ricardo Montalban, passed away on 30 July in Los Angeles.
He also managed talent including Rod Taylor, Florence Henderson and Ben Gazzara under his company,Tom Korman Management and directed stars' careers through Grey Advertising in his native New York.
He went on to run the Ashley Steiner talent agency, Agency for the Performing Arts and the Artists Group - a company he formed in 1963, where he represented Anthony Perkins, Elliott Gould and Julie Harris.
In the 1970s Korman made his move to Los Angeles and formed Contemporary Korman Artists with Ronald Leif.
Korman was honoured for his charity work with the Project Angel Food Hour Glass award in 2006.
He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Pamela. »
New On DVD This Week
18 August 2009 4:45 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray version of The Last Starfighter, Dexter Seasons 1-3 on Blu-ray and the debut of season one of Sons of Anarchy on DVD.
Check them out.
Movies
The 5 Deadly Venoms ~ Five Deadly Venoms (DVD)
Hannah Montana The Movie (3-Disc Combo Pack Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) ~ Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lucas Till, and Emily Osment (Blu-ray)
Husbands (Extended Cut) ~ Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, and Jenny Runacre (DVD)
Julia ~ Tilda Swinton (DVD)
Kagemusha – Criterion Collection ~ Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, and Jinpachi Nezu (Blu-ray)
Last House on the Left (2009) ~ Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn »
- Joe Gillis
DVD Playhouse--August 2009
10 August 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—August 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
DVD: Review: The Strange One
23 June 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Calling 1957’s The Strange One homoerotic is an understatement. Part of its homoeroticism is attributable to its setting in a Southern military college; any gathering place for young, virile men with hyperactive libidos and no socially acceptable outlet for their raging hormones is going to be rife with same-sex flirting and charged glances. Strange ups the ante by making its villain (Ben Gazzara) a sadist who derives entirely too much pleasure from watching his fellow cadets get spanked or viciously beaten. The cast, largely culled from the talent pool of the legendary Actors Studio, uses body language and smoldering ... »
Out on DVD: A vintage gay oddity, TV teens, showtunes and talking back at the screen
17 June 2009 5:48 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
An eccentric and rarely-seen gay classic makes its DVD debut this week, alongside another season of South of Nowhere, a show-tune fave and a series of movies for people who get shushed in theaters.
Read on for more!
The 1957 film version of The Strange One turns up on DVD with several censored scenes — which suggested homosexuality — restored, but it's still a fascinatingly odd duck. Cassavetes favorite Ben Gazzara makes a riveting screen debut as, I kid you not, Jocko de Paris, an oily manipulator at an all-boys' military academy. George Peppard and Pat Hingle co-star in the film, which was written by Calder Willingham, based on his novel End as a Man. Vito Russo extensively discussed the chopped-up Strange One in The Celluloid Closet; one can only wonder what he'd make of this director's cut.
Also new to DVD is Chess in Concert, featuring the vocal talents of Josh Groban »
- ADuralde
DVD Playhouse--June 2009
3 June 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—June 2009
By
Allen Gardner
The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
[DVD Review] Voyage of the Damned
22 April 2009 9:12 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Throughout Voyage of the Damned, I was reminded of Stanley Kubrick’s famous criticism of Schindler’s List: “The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. Schindler's List was about six hundred people who don't.” In contrast to that film, Damned concludes its action in 1939, well before several of the major concentration camps opened their gates and the “final solution” went into effect. In short, this represents the exact same sort of narrow perspective on the Holocaust that List does, but at least acknowledges it in a way that List (or, more accurately, its supporters) perhaps does not. But as a result, the film lacks the grounding or insight that would elevate it beyond a mere historical account, because in its current form, it is severely lacking in the category of raison d’etre.
Voyage of the Damned was produced at the point when Hollywood was just initially »
- Anders Nelson
Jeff Dowd: The Hollywood Interview
17 April 2009 11:03 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(Indie film producer, producer's rep, and Big Lebowski inspiration Jeff Dowd, above.)
Ten Years After Lebowski, The Real Dude Still Abides
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on EightMillionStories.com on September 26, 2008.
September 9th saw the release of a new 10th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of the Coen brothers’ cult favorite The Big Lebowski, their “Raymond Chandler on acid” saga of two middle-aged L.A. slackers (Jeff Bridges & John Goodman) who get caught up in a Byzantine kidnapping plot.
It used to be a little show biz secret that Jeff Bridges’ amiable character, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, was based on the Coens’ real-life friend and colleague, indie film producer and producer’s rep Jeff Dowd, but that began to change in 2002 when four Lebowski fanatics in Louisville, Kentucky promoted the first annual Lebowski Fest, an event so successful, they’re now staging three a year in various cities. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Seven Short Films From U.S. To Compete In The Miami International Film Festival's Shorts Program
16 February 2009 10:26 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
The 26th Annual Miami International Film Festival (Miff) has selected seven films, including Demi Moore directed "Streak," from the United States to compete in their shorts program this March. A total of nineteen highly regarded films with women-centric story lines, are selected from all over the world.
"Streak," about a college senior struggling with self-acceptance, is directed by Demi Moore and stars Brittany Snow, Madeline Zima and Demi's daughter, Rumer Willis. The film is inspired by a true story that was submitted to Glamour Magazine's Reel Moments contest.
After generating interest at Cannes, Venice and The Hamptons, the Natalie Portman's directorial debut, "Eve," is another high-profile short selected by Miff. The film stars Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara and Olivia Thirlby in a story that revolves around a girl who accidentally intrudes on her grandmother's romantic date.
"The Crooked Eye," directed by actor and voice over artist D.C. Douglas, is »
Play Without Gossip?
4 February 2009 10:08 PM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
'Goode Friends, for friendship's sake forbeare to utter what is gossipt here in social chat lest unaware thy tongue offend thy fellow players."
This is the inscription that is borne out in metal script over the main fireplace at The Players Club off Gramercy Park here in New York.
I have been in the Players many times, but never noticed this before. I had to laugh. I had just embraced actor Ben Gazzara on the stairs, and he'd said, "You look even better than when I sat on the beach with »
- By LIZ SMITH
Movie Production Update: January 16, 2009
16 January 2009 1:26 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
This week we have the second installment of the weekly Production Update as I bring you all the latest films and casting announcements out of the trade papers as well as a couple of websites around the Net. I am previewing 22 film titles this week and a few of them are already in the database and linked where that is the case. One story, however, I am held from posting until today comes from Variety in which Anne Thompson does a little Twilight franchise rumor passing as she gives the following update on the potential directors for the third film in the franchise, Eclipse: Don't believe everything you hear about Twilight and its sequels. Things are heating up already on the third installment, Eclipse. They haven't even started the second one yet, New Moon. When you've got a robust franchise, filmmakers are eager to get on board. Word is, »
- Brad Brevet
Daily news dose: Nine films competing for foreign Oscar; Summit to adapt 'If I Stay'
14 January 2009 11:11 AM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Here's your dose of quick news bits for Jan. 14, 2009...
• Here are the nine semifinalists for the best foreign-language Oscar: "Revanche" from Austria; "The Necessities of Life" from Canada; "Entre les murs" (The Class) from France; "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex" from Germany; "Waltz With Bashir" from Israel; "Departures" from Japan; "Tear This Heart Out" from Mexico; "Everlasting Moments" from Sweden; and "3 Monkeys" from Turkey. (Academy Awards)
• Summit Entertainment has aquired the big-screen rights to Gayle Forman's novel "If I Stay." The story focuses on a musician and her boyfriend whose lives change when they get caught up in a tragic train wreck.
• Emmanuelle Chriqui has joined the cast of Géla Babluani’s remake "13." Michael Shannon, Ben Gazzara and Alex Skarsgard also recently jumped on board. The film follows a man who gets a hold of a mysterious package with a set of instructions leading to a fortune. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Alex Holmes »
- Franck Tabouring
Chriqui is 13 again
14 January 2009 8:45 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Sultry brunette minx Emmanuelle Chriqui has joined the cast of 13, the English language remake of the French thriller 13 Tzameti. The Gela Babluani directed film also stars the recently ubiquitous Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, 50 Cent, Ray Winstone, Sam Riley, Michael Shannon, Ben Gazzara and Alex Skarsgard in a story centering on a young man who's forced into a high stakes game of Russian Roulette where "wealthy gamblers bet on human lives" and ridiculously hot brunettes do sexy... »
- Omar Aviles
Emmanuelle Chriqui to Star in 13
14 January 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Emmanuelle Chriqui ("Entourage") is joining the cast of Gela Babluani's 13 , a remake of the French thriller 13 Tzameti . Michael Shannon, Ben Gazzara and Alex Skarsgard also recently have been added to the cast, which includes Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, 50 Cent, Ray Winstone and Sam Riley. 13 concerns a young man who is forced to participate in a high-stakes game of Russian Roulette where wealthy gamblers bet on human lives. »
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