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Check This: Hitchcock and Fuller in Sticky Tape
3 November 2009 4:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
When one thinks of great art, there's often the expectation of carefully prepared canvasses, lush materials, and skilled, complex detail. But it doesn't always take a horde of materials to make something impressive -- sometimes all it takes is a little plastic and some brown packing tape. CNN reports that Philly artist Mark Khaisman is taking these seemingly mundane materials and turning them into a series of scenes from Hitchcock films (The 39 Steps and Spellbound) plus a number of glimpses into Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street. The image above -- that's Spellbound. (The rest are housed in a gallery at CNN.)
This is nothing more than clear plastic panels and brown, translucent tape. Looking at the shirt -- it's fathomable -- a series of strips that, when laid on top of each other, creates areas of light and shadow. But look at the faces, and most especially, the hair. »
- Monika Bartyzel
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
The Samuel Fuller Collection
29 October 2009 2:35 PM, PDT | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Rating (out of 5): *****
In his autobiography, filmmaker Samuel Fuller wrote that he did not speak a word for the first several years of his life, and then suddenly, at age 4 or 5, he blurted out the word "hammer!" The abruptness of this word, and its punchy imagery, practically defines Fuller's work.
He was a hard crime reporter as a teenager, and then a dogface soldier in World War II. He wrote books and stories and screenplays -- he called them all "yarns" -- filled with hammer-like dialogue and phrases and ideas. Due to the lurid subject matter and low budgets of his films, he rarely earned the respect and admiration he deserved (he never received a single Oscar nomination). Many of his films are still Awol on DVD, but Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has taken a major step toward righting that wrong with The Samuel Fuller Collection, »
- underdog
DVD: Review:The Samuel Fuller Collection
27 October 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Because writer-director Sam Fuller tried his best to skirt the Hollywood system, his filmography tends to be scattered, erratic, and difficult to collect. Sony’s 7-dvd box set The Samuel Fuller Collection features only two movies that Fuller directed (The Crimson Kimono and Underworld U.S.A.), along with two he merely co-scripted (It Happened In Hollywood and Shockproof), and three based on Fuller stories. The latter three range from the dry Foreign Legion plugger Adventure In Sahara to two punchy portraits of the tabloid media: Power Of The Press and Scandal Sheet. It’s an eclectic batch overall, covering ... »
New On DVD This Week
27 October 2009 3:30 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, and not-so-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 versions of movies and TV shows such as Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Night of the Creeps, the original Stargate, The Sam Fuller Collection, Orphan and the complete The Prisoner series starring and created by Patrick McGoohan (pictured above).
Check them out.
Movies
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan ~ Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer (DVD and Blu-ray)
42nd Street Forever 5: Alamo Drafthouse Edition ~ Charlton Heston, Robert Englund (DVD)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ~ Ray Romano (DVD and Blu-ray)
Into Temptation ~ Kristin Chenoweth, Jeremy Sisto (DVD and Blu-ray)
Messiah of Evil: The Second Coming ~ Michael Greer, »
- Joe Gillis
This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: October 27, 2009
27 October 2009 3:19 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Ugh, I did not like this movie and, like the sequels to Shrek, will never be returning to watch it. There must come a point during the writers' meetings where the inevitable poop or sex joke enters the dialogue and people snicker and laugh, and perhaps even the whole room begins rolling and shouting between breaths, "That's great! Keep that in there." Then the movie gets made and animated little characters are regurgitating these lines and unless you have the mental capacity of a 12-year-old or are so easily amused all it takes is a poop joke to get you to laugh you sit and stare in bewilderment, unimpressed and shocked this is the best they can come up with. My theatrical review is here. Orphan I just reviewed the Blu-ray for this, »
- Brad Brevet
Thirst: Chan-wook Park’s Vampire Curveball
20 October 2009 7:22 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Chan-wook Park's draw to the horror genre has always been apparent. The dark brutal subject matter of his films, revolving around revenge, mystery, the unattainable and ultimately themes of regret, redemption and water (which signifies trouble and death in all of Park's Films) could almost be part Alfred Hitchcock, part Roman Polanski and part Sam Fuller. The beautifully lit and gorgeous locked off compositions apparent in his Vengeance trilogy especially, often evokes Kubrick and his humour, which always bubbles under the surface, a kind of playfulness with gore, is perhaps reserved only for the Sam Rami's or George Romero's of the world. Cut, his short film (along with Fruit Chan's Dumplings and Taekashi Miike's Box) which made up one third of Three... Extremes could be seen as his most horrorfied (yes its a word...) film to date. A kind of Saw like situation where a kidnapper cuts »
- Neil Innes
Blu-ray Review: Pierrot le fou (Criterion Collection)
23 September 2009 12:20 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
In 1966 Roger Ebert reviewed Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou and gave it a 3 1/2 star review, 41 years later he reviewed it again and gave it only 2 1/2 stars quoting his earlier review calling the film "Godard's most virtuoso display of his mastery of Hollywood genres," only to now say he sees "it more as the story of silly characters who have seen too many Hollywood movies." Strangely enough, I have to wonder if Pierrot le fou is really about characters at all. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as Ferdinand and Marianne, but does their "road trip" really serve as anything more than a medium for Godard to lovingly fawn over his then-wife while at the same time speak ill of American culture and the Vietnam War? I recently reviewed Criterion's release of Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, a film made two years after Pierrot le fou and »
- Brad Brevet
Who Wants More Noir? Columbia's B-Movies Hit The Roxie
17 September 2009 12:56 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
More good news for my favorite film genre! Back in May, I attended and wrote about the great “I Wake Up Dreaming” noir film festival at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater, hosted by Elliot Lavine. Showcasing old and rare B-movies from the 30s to the 50s, the festival was so successful that it was extended for another week.
Consider this a further extension two changing seasons later, as starting this Thursday Mr. Lavine will once again bring 22 rare noir gems to the Roxie for two weeks of betrayals, knife-sharp suspense and treacherous women.
This time around, the films are newly restored 35mm archive prints from Columbia Pictures—directed by acclaimed directors like Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang, Samuel Fuller, Don Siegel, and king of gimmicks William Castle. As with “I Wake Up Dreaming,” the films are shown as double features: two films for $11.
This collection offers a couple of noir-horror hybrid, »
- Arya Ponto
Little Scene: The Films of Alejandro Jordorowsky
10 September 2009 9:36 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Alejandro Jordorowsky certainly is a strange and amazing fellow. It's extremely sad though that only a small amount of people have had the chance to find out just how strange and amazing the artist's works actually are. He has heavily influenced everyone from The Beatles to David Lynch to Sam Fuller and Bob Dylan. Despite his popularity, it has been his own film's content which has in many cases helped put his own head in the stocks and his films on the shelf. Their confronting, bizarre, often overtly religious, and always graphic imagery puts viewers through the ringer and his disregard for convention is almost seizure inducing. In the man's own words; "I ask of film what most people ask of psychedelic drugs" and anyone who has seen any of his amazingly surreal work will know for sure that he doesn't lie. But it isn't all just weird for werid's sake. »
- Neil Innes
What "Inglourious Basterds" Owes to History
9 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
[Spoilers ahead for those who haven't seen "Inglourious Basterds."]
There have been two moments in film this year that have moved me to my cine-loving core. Both involved individuals stirred by the power of image, art and mythology. And both illustrated a personal investment for each character (some, real-life characters), revealing a potent significance and identification -- something that ascended beyond mere fandom. Simple and yet complex, these moments were meaningful to these people.
One, occurred in Michael Mann's "Public Enemies." Watching John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp) fatefully sitting inside the Biograph watching Clark Gable as Blackie, essentially playing a version of Johnny (John Dillinger) in "Manhattan Melodrama," the look on J.D.'s face was gripping. And not only because we know what's going to happen to the legendary gangster once he steps out of that theater, but for all of the imagined ideas going through Dillinger's head at that moment. How could he not think »
- Kim Morgan
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
9 September 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Walter Hill.
Kicking Ass with Walter Hill
by Jon Zelazny
Action flicks. Two-fisted tales. Guy movies. Whatever you want to call them, writer, producer, and director Walter Hill is one of the living masters, with a resume full of classics from The Getaway (1972), to the Alien series, and the definitive eighties action-comedy blockbuster, 48 Hrs. (1982).
2009 marks the 30th anniversary of The Warriors (1979), Hill’s surreal “street gang on the run” cult classic, and his breakout success as a director.
Jon: A couple years ago, you did an audio commentary and on-camera intro for a new DVD edition of The Warriors. It was the first time I’d ever seen you; is it my imagination, or have you kept a low profile over the years?
Walter Hill: I’d never done a commentary before on one of my films. I don’t like the idea of explaining a movie; I »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Directors We Love: Kathryn Bigelow
28 August 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
How would you go about programming a weeklong retrospective of Kathryn Bigelow double features? We could put the vampire movie with the futuristic sci-fi movie, and then maybe the skydiving/bankrobber movie with the biker movie. Let's see... then we could put the war movie with the submarine movie, but then the time-switching murder story would have to go with the lady cop movie. Hmm. Let me start over...
Or rather, let me just take a minute to gush about one of my favorite directors, who just now seems to be getting the praise she has long deserved for her current movie The Hurt Locker. She began her career by attending the San Francisco Art Institute and studying painting, which slowly segued into film. Her bold, painterly images can be seen to this day, throughout all her work. She has taken a tough, genre approach to filmmaking, following in the »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Basterds, Sam Fuller and Snoopy: Talking to Tarantino
20 August 2009 11:22 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Inglourious Basterds is a gorgeous, violent, beautifully acted, gut-punching, genre-blending jolt that doesn't make you want to scalp Nahtzies (as Brad Pitt's hillbilly Aldo Raine so memorably intones), it makes you want to watch a lot of movies. Or rather, live in a world of movies. Escape into a world of movies. Envelop yourself in your most demented revenge, cinematic, conversational, and yes, sexual fantasies on screen. Tarantino wants you to get your rocks off. Some will hate this. That's their prerogative. But I will not only love this, I will wrap my arms (and to be complete, my legs) around such complicated pulp with hearty approval. If all of this sounds pornographic, fine. Send me the prequel in a brown paper bag. But I'm not talking soley about the those scalp-hunting, Nazi-hating basterds. Contrary to advertising, to certain enraged critics and to all of those "opinion shapers," Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is not. »
- Kim Morgan
Sam Fuller Collection: Collector's Choice Hits DVD on October 27th
17 August 2009 5:13 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Sam Fuller fans have something new to get excited about. On October 27th, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the Sam Fuller Film Collection: Collector's Choice [7 Discs] DVD set for the price of $79.95 Srp. And it looks to be an exciting roster of films, highlighting the acclaimed director's storied career.
The box set will include the masterworks It Happened in Hollywood, Adventures in Sahara, Power of the Press (1943), Shockproof, Scandal Sheet (1952), The Crimson Kimono, and Underworld U.S.A.. Most of these films have never been released on DVD, or are out of print and very hard to find. Which makes this the ultimate gift for Fuller fans and film enthusiasts alike.
Special Features:
- Martin Scorsese On Underworld U.S.A.
- Cutis Hanson: The Culture Of The Crimson Kimono
- Sam Fuller's Search For Truth With Tim Robbins
- Sam Fuller Storyteller
»
Inglorious Bastards (Review)
7 August 2009 11:58 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Inglorious Bastards Directed by Enzo Castellari When Tarantino opened the retrospective 'The Italian King of B's' at the 2004 Venice Biennale with Joe Dante, he publicly declared his love for Italian B-cinema of the 60s and 70s, helping to shine a spotlight on many forgotten gems of Italian genre/exploitation cinema including The Inglorious Bastards. Also known under the alternate titles of Hell's Heroes, The Deadly Mission, and G. I. Bro, Enzo G. Castellari's Bastards may have been a cash in on The Dirty Dozen, but its a successful one. A film with a concept so rich that one would understand it's influence on Tarantino, it's a fast paced knock-off reeking of untapped potential, just waiting for someone to remake it. While the film's obvious low budget prevented it from becoming a North American success, it still found a significant cult following (mostly in Europe) and is reputedly one of Quentin's favorite films. »
- Ricky
6 Films to Celebrate Shark Week
6 August 2009 4:11 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
A wise man once said, "Live every week like it's Shark Week," and we've adhered to that rule religiously for 51 weeks. Now, we're lucky enough to live like it's Shark Week during Shark Week. In fact, we're so crazy for the Discovery Channel feature that we're DVRing most of it in order to watch its programming throughout the year. And to throw a massive shark-themed party. That's a massive party with a shark theme, not a party with a theme of massive sharks. Actually, I guess it could go either way. Since we are celebrating this week in a big way, we've decided to throw together a list of movies that you might want to check out when you're not watching wall-to-wall shark footage on television. Because you know what goes great with sharks? More sharks. Shark! (1969) The Pitch: This is by no means a good movie. It's not even close to being a good movie. But »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Turner Classic Movies To Salute 36th Annual Telluride Film Festival With Labor Day Celebration
28 July 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Turner Classic Movies will be saluting the 36th Annual Telluride Film Festival with a Labor Day celebration that will feature an all-day film marathon.
The marathon will include films recently screened at Telluride, along with tributes to stars and filmmakers that were honored at the fest.
The following is a complete schedule of TCM's Labor Day, Sept. 7, salute to the Telluride Film Festival:
6:00 a.m. Godless Girl (1929) 8:00 a.m. I'm King Kong: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005) 9:00 a.m. King Kong (1933) 11:00 a.m. Uncle Silas (1951) 1:00 p.m. The Black Book (1949, aka Reign of Terror) 2:45 p.m. The Men Who Made Movies: Sam Fuller (2002) 3:45 p.m. Park Row (1952) 5:15 p.m. An Optical Poem (1938) and The Dot and the Line (1965) 5:45 p.m. The Phantom Tollbooth (1969) 7:30 p.m. Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009) 8 p.m. They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) 10 p. »
Turner Classic Movies To Salute 36th Annual Telluride Film Festival With Labor Day Celebration
28 July 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Turner Classic Movies will be saluting the 36th Annual Telluride Film Festival with a Labor Day celebration that will feature an all-day film marathon.
The marathon will include films recently screened at Telluride, along with tributes to stars and filmmakers that were honored at the fest.
The following is a complete schedule of TCM's Labor Day, Sept. 7, salute to the Telluride Film Festival:
6:00 a.m. Godless Girl (1929) 8:00 a.m. I'm King Kong: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005) 9:00 a.m. King Kong (1933) 11:00 a.m. Uncle Silas (1951) 1:00 p.m. The Black Book (1949, aka Reign of Terror) 2:45 p.m. The Men Who Made Movies: Sam Fuller (2002) 3:45 p.m. Park Row (1952) 5:15 p.m. An Optical Poem (1938) and The Dot and the Line (1965) 5:45 p.m. The Phantom Tollbooth (1969) 7:30 p.m. Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009) 8 p.m. They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) 10 p. »
Open the hurt locker and learn how rough men come hunting for souls
25 July 2009 1:17 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
"The Hurt Locker" represents a return to strong, exciting narrative. Here is a film about a bomb disposal expert that depends on character, dialogue and situation to develop almost unbearable suspense. It contains explosions, but only a few, and it is not about explosions, but about hoping that none will happen. That sense of hope is crucial. When we merely want to see stuff blowed up real good in a movie, that means the movie contains no one we give a damn about.
We care a lot about the people in "The Hurt Locker." It does what many good movies does, and gives us a feeling for the personalities and motivations of its characters. What happens to Staff Sgt. William James matters to us. He is a brave and complicated man, and we worry about him. It is a good thing he is doing. He is risking his life to »
- Roger Ebert
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