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Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson
12 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
There are plenty of trippy movie scenes – but watching them sober makes you feel like the designated driver in a roomful of drunks
Thirty-six years ago, I dropped a tab of Lsd. It was Ok, but I never felt the urge to do it again, and never thought much about it – until the other day, when I was watching Taking Woodstock. To the sound of Love's The Red Telephone, Ang Lee serves up an acid trip so uncannily spot-on, I swear it gave me my first ever flashback.
It's not as though there's ever been a shortage of trippy scenes in films. It's just they always seemed to chime more with the experiences of the film-makers than with my own. Indeed, watching them sober, you often feel like the designated driver in a roomful of babbling drunks. In the aptly-named The Trip, Peter Fonda has a psychedelic experience in which, »
- Anne Billson
‘Mad Men’ Writer to Have a ‘Fright Night’
12 November 2009 5:33 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
As much as critics and movie fans seem to hate on remakes and reboots, you have to admit that a lot can be done with a remake in talented hands. Examples of this extend back to John Carpenter’s work on The Thing to David Cronenberg’s The Fly. It’s possible. It can be done right.
Which is why the news of Mad Men writer/producer Marti Noxon being attached to write a remake of Fright Night is pretty superb news: Noxon is a talented guy who helped shape Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a successful series. His knowledge of the source material and the fact that Mad Men is widely considered to be one of the best pieces of entertainment on television makes me excited to see what he does with a remake.
Remember: the original Fright Night came out in 1985, starred Jack Skellington himself, Chris Sarandon, and »
- John Cooper
Correction: Garris Hosting FearNet Series Post Mortem
11 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Correction: Garris wrote in to us to clarify that the show's episodes will run a half hour on FearNet's cable incarnation, while the webisodes will run five minutes. Filmmaker Mick Garris is returning to his roots: Interviewing fellow genre professionals. Before directing several Stephen King adaptions such as The Stand , The Shining and Desperation or creating the Showtime hit series Masters Of Horror , Garris hosted the local L.A. movie series The Fantasy Film Festival , which boasted a bevy of in-depth chats with directors such as David Cronenberg, John Landis and William Friedkin. Variety reports that Garris will now host Post Mortem With Mick Garris for FearNet, the site that most recently premiered the original web-series Fear Clinic in October. Already... »
Pat Seals of Flyleaf Shares His Top Ten Horror Films
9 November 2009 10:24 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
As we've mentioned previously, November 10th is the release date of the band Flyleaf's new CD, entitled Memento Mori, and to help celebrate the occasion, their bass player, Pat Seals, has taken time out of his hectic schedule to prepare for Dread Central readers a list of his Top Ten favorite horror films.
Nothing relieves the stress of the holidays -- or anything really -- like a good horror flick, and Pat certainly has prepared an eclectic catalog that shows he knows his shit about our genre.
Without further ado, here's Pat's list (click each image to see the full poster):
1. The Addiction (1995) - Dir. Abel Ferrara, Starring Lili Taylor
This is my favorite vampire movie. It is the best. The best. Morality and the darkness of human nature are the focus, and Lili Taylor's performance is brutal. Plus, Christopher Walken waltzes in for a philosophical cameo. The »
- The Woman In Black
Is David Cronenberg Still Adapting the Play The Talking Cure?
5 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
I love how the trades bury nuggets of info. At the bottom of the piece I used to source info about Michael Fassbender's upcoming role in A Single Shot was a throwaway sentence that suggests David Cronenberg is still at work on The Talking Cure, a project we've heard almost nothing about in the two years since it was first 'announced'. Almost exactly two years ago, a few reports said that Cronenberg was adapting The Talking Cure, a 2002 play by Christopher Hampton. (Ralph Fiennes, Cronenberg's star in Spider, appeared in one of the primary productions of the play.) The story's arc concerns the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and their parallel relationships with a beautiful patient, Sabina Spielrein. Shades of Dead Ringers in there, yeah? In some ways this sounds like the subtext of much of Cronenberg's work being brought right to the surface. Could »
- Russ Fischer
50 Influential Scream Queens: Part 1
27 October 2009 5:54 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Given man's unwavering fascination with woman, it's no surprise that the female star acts as the anchor to a dominant portion of horror pictures. I mean really, who wants to see a bare chested man tearin ass through the woods screaming at the top of his lungs while a bladed assailant nips at his heels? I don't - I know that much, although I'm certain there are plenty of men who would disagree (and that's okay with me, to each his own!). The simple fact remains however, women bring a unique appeal and certain sensual atmosphere to film that no man ever could. And it's not all about gratuitous T&A.
There's a comforting quality in the hands of the heroine; a fascinating maternal strength that, as a man I cannot genuinely relate to. I can however admire, and in many cases it's nearly impossible to not admire the lone »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
The Third Man Remake Rumor - Are Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio Planning a Trip to Vienna?
23 October 2009 4:32 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Well, you’ve been waiting for a big remake bombshell. One of those major “Don’t you Dare you touch that!!” kinds of licenses. There have been some “relatively” big pictures to receive the remake treatment in recent memory, such as “The Day the Earth Stood Still” but nothing to really stand in disbelief at. Not a “Citizen Kane”-esque level of audacity, but a recent rumor of there being a potential “The Third Man” remake starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire does tread dangerously close. Luckily, if proven to be true, there may be some talent to pull this off. Click on the jump, and let’s hop on this ferris wheel together.
First and foremost, this is still just a rumor, and as being reported by Chud it’s “still early enough in the game that it could all fall apart, but it’s also late enough in »
- Adam Charles
David Duchovny wants more “alien-oriented conspiracy”
22 October 2009 11:09 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Californication star David Duchovny has had a lukewarm relationship with the box office. His last feature, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, made a lackluster $10 million on its opening weekend and went on to make a mesely $68.1 million worldwide. If you ask Duchovny, who played the alien-loving Agent Mulder, what went wrong, he might tell you it was because the story was away from the heart of the popular Fox show. You know, cigerett smoking man and stuff?
“As far as the X-Files movie I’d like to do next, if we get a chance to do it, would be a return to the heart and soul of the mythology, which is the alien-oriented conspiracy,” Duchovny said. ” I think it’s natural for The X-Files to have another movie in 2012, so we’ll see if we get to do it.”
Source: The Daily Beast via Dark Horizons
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- Reel Loop News Staff
Terrible Yellow Links
15 October 2009 8:37 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Today's Must Read
Newsweek brings Maurice Sendak, Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze together for an awesome conversation while Where The Wild Things Are heads to theaters. It's a must read. Here's a little bit about Sendak's issues with Disney Do you think Disney is bad for children?
Sendak: I think it's terrible.
But you have all the Disney characters on your mantel behind you.
Sendak: I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. I stood on the chair screaming, "My hero! My hero!" He had a lot of guts when he was young. We're both about the same age; we're about a month apart. »
- NATHANIEL R
ID4…2?
12 October 2009 11:36 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
It often happens that movies that seem to end on a nicely wrapped up note still leave that slight dangling thread from which a sequel could potentially be weaved. This does not, however, mean that filmmakers should grab the opportunity to do so.
Independence Day is one such film that should be left alone. In 1996, writer and director Roland Emmerich gave audiences an action-packed movie that left us cheering for humanity, while also leading us to wonder about what would happen if aliens ever did attack earth.
After Jeff Goldblum’s computer genius and Will Smith’s flying skills give armies around the world the opportunity to take down the alien invaders, humans achieve victory, the aliens are blown to bits, the world is saved, and the 4th of July takes on a new significance. Although we can ponder what happens to the film’s characters after earth’s near-destruction, »
- Carly
Mandalay Grabs Hill By the Horns
12 October 2009 4:40 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Joe Hill, the son of legendary horror writer Stephen King, has a film on his hands: Mandalay Pictures has optioned the rights to his book “Horns,” which will be published this coming February.
Variety describes the book as “a love story driven by horror and vengeance that revolves around a 26-year-old man who wakes up one morning from a blackout hangover and finds horns sprouting out of his head. As the horns grow bigger by the day, the reason why seems to lie in the unsolved murder of his girlfriend.” Whoa. Stephen King meets David Cronenberg.
Hill, whose debut novel “Heart-Shaped Box” was picked up by Warner Bros. to be scripted and directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), will serve as an executive producer of the film.
I’m excited about Horns — the Stephen King-brand of horror novel adaptation seemed to end with the underrated 1408, and if Joe Hill »
- John Cooper
'Where The Wild Things Are' Gives Hope To Other 'Unfilmable' Books
12 October 2009 4:02 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
While 'Watchmen' and 'Fear and Loathing' made it to the big screen, 'On the Road' and others are still Hollywood headaches.
Photo: Warner Bros.
This weekend, "Where the Wild Things Are" finally comes to the big screen after being considered "unfilmable" for decades. But what, exactly, does that word even mean? And with this year's adaptations of "Wild Things" and "Watchmen," does it even still apply?
Below is a list of the books that have given Hollywood headaches for decades. Some have been filmed, some currently linger in development hell, and others will never be touched by any sensible filmmaker. Read on, and ask yourself the two questions that always seem to come up with such projects: "Why not?" or "Why bother?"
"Where the Wild Things Are" (2009)
It's a 20-page book with nine sentences in it. Massive parts of the "plot" are »
Listen To Genius Producer Jeremy Thomas
10 October 2009 11:24 PM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
I knew there was a reason that David Cronenberg’s enigmatic film of J.G. Ballard’s Crash is one of my favorite motion pictures. So its producer, Oscar-winner Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Naked Lunch, Sexy Beast, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Tideland, Fast Food Nation, and Creation), was the keynote speaker at Film Independent’s 5th annual Filmmaker Forum [...] »
- Nikki Finke
Emmet Duff: Austin Correspondent
9 October 2009 11:17 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Emmet Duff is a small town Ohioan reborn as an Austin, TX based artist and writer. He spent his youth either reading or watching movies, which is probably why he feels compelled to watch movies and then write words about them. In 2009, he graduated from Kenyon College with a double degree in Psychology and Studio Art and has yet to capitalize on that deadly combination. Once a kindly and humble Midwesterner, Emmet now eats a Tex Mex breakfast, sports a ten gallon hat, and refuses to be messed with. As an artist, Emmet enjoys photographing things, building things, and photographing things that he builds. Though his writing extends beyond cinema and criticism, he started his illustrious film writing career working for his older, very talented, brother in Sydney, Australia. Emmet has a enthusiastic love for all kinds of films and would be hard pressed to name a favorite filmmaker. But »
- Ricky
NYC’s Scary Movies 3 gets Red; free tickets to American Werewolf w/Landis!
8 October 2009 9:47 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
The Scary Movies 3 festival being held by Manhattan’s Film Society of Lincoln Center October 12-22 at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, upper level), which we first reported on last week, has updated its schedule, with the addition of fright filmmaker Eric Red and two of his movies to the lineup. And in conjunction with the Film Society, Fango is offering five free pairs of tickets to the Thursday, October 15 at 8 p.m. showing of An American Werewolf In London, with writer/director John Landis in attendance!
Red will be on hand for 1986’s original The Hitcher, which he scripted, and his new writing/directing venture 100 Feet; see the full updated schedule below. To enter to win tickets to American Werewolf with the Landis Q&A, send an e-mail by 12 noon Est on Tuesday the 13th to fangoscreening@starloggroup.com. You must list “American Werewolf” as your subject line; plus, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Fall Frights: The Fly (1986; DVD Review)
6 October 2009 6:05 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
In the spirit of Halloween '09, we're breaking out reviews (some new, some old) of some Fall Frights you may want to work into your monthly viewing.
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
This was the tag line for the 1986 film, The Fly. This was also the first theatrical film to have its broadcast premiere on Fox. To be honest, it’s not very often that I find a film so remarkably made that I can go back and watch it years later and still have a great time doing so, especially when the film is a remake and I don’t usually like remakes. However, when it comes to David Cronenberg's 1986 film The Fly, not only do I still love this film, but I honestly believe that The Fly is the best film ever made. No, let me rephrase that. The Fly Is the best film ever made period. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tristan Slaughter )
Exactly what the world needs: ‘Showgirls 2′
6 October 2009 4:56 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Apparently there’s a sequel to Showgirls in the works and the man behind the next round of gyrating breastisis is writer/director Marc Vorlander.
Entitled Showgirls: Story of Hope <snicker>, the story will revolve around model/actress Rena Riffel (Trasharella, small role in Showgirls, I think she’s the one doing the “lesbian dance” with Berkley) whose brother dies from a bad dose of cocaine. The stripper goes to Frankfurt to exact revenge on those dealers responsible. <snicker>
The film currently has a $25 million budget with two unnamed big shot Hollywood producers already on board.
The original Showgirls from hornball Paul Verhoeven was released in 1995 and make a lackluster $20 million. (It cost them $45 million to make it.) The film is easily the most popular Nc-17 release ever, ever. Partly because people (not me, I’m classy) wanted to see Jesse Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) work the pole. It also starred Gina Gershon. »
- Diego Mondesi
Nobody Shows Any Old Horror Movies In NYC - Except All Of These:
5 October 2009 2:22 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
A fellow writer on another site pointed out something today: We like to complain that there isn't any good horror movie programming going on in NYC, but there's almost always something going on if you look hard enough. Of course, you're not likely to see catch NYC's finest horror programming on many of the other sites, seeing as all those shockers are far too centrally located in disgusting California. (I see what you did there...) Who has the time to search through the hundreds of theater listings in Manhattan to find a good batch of flicks playing. We do! We do!
There's the Scary Movies 3 Film series at the Walter Reade Theater by Lincoln Center (classy!), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Bam) has a Creepy Cat series coming up and a number of other genre flicks programmed for October, and The Sunshine Landmark Cinema in Manhattan Always has a midnight cult-flick screening every Friday-Saturday-Sunday, »
Fall Frights: Silent Hill (Film Review)
4 October 2009 3:07 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
In the spirit of Halloween '09, we're breaking out reviews (some new, some old) of some Fall Frights you may want to work into your monthly viewing.
Silent Hill - Fangoria Archives: Originally Published 4/2006
Saying that Silent Hill is the best movie yet based on a horror video game will no doubt strike many as damning with faint praise. Sure, when the competition is the likes of Doom, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and the, ahem, oeuvre of Uwe Boll, there’s really nowhere to go but up. This time, though, you get more of a sense of a filmmaker committing to making a real movie out of the source material instead of just hitching a who-cares plot onto a marketable title. Not that the storyline of Silent Hill is especially complex, but director Christophe Gans and screenwriter Roger Avary are clearly committed to recreating the game experience in the cinematic medium; having never played it myself, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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