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2009 | 2006
12 articles from 2009
Bad Lieutenants and Magnificent Sevens – the golden rules of the cinematic remake
31 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Magnificent Seven, The Ring, Psycho, The Preacher's Wife – some remakes are an improvement, some are an abysmal waste of time. Joe Queenan judges the pack
In 1992, Abel Ferrara made a very dark, very depressing movie called Bad Lieutenant. In it, Harvey Keitel played a morally bankrupt police officer who seeks redemption by investigating the rape of a nun who refuses to bring charges against her assailant, turning the Bad Lieutenant into the Mad Lieutenant. The film did nothing at the box office, and is remembered mostly because it is the motion picture in which Keitel shows off his penis. There was at the time no great demand for Keitel – a fine actor, but never a matinee idol – to show off his penis, even though it was a very splendid penis indeed, nor has there been any grassroots groundswell of support for this sort of thing afterwards.
Not so long ago, »
- Joe Queenan
Jack Lemmon, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier on TCM
11 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award winners Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a four-film presentation beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, the night before TCM’s sister networks TNT and TBS present a live simulcast of the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Of the four films — the short Tit for Tat, and the features The Out-of-Towners, A Raisin in the Sun, and Last Train from Gun Hill — I’ve only seen the moderately entertaining John Sturges Western Last Train from Gun Hill, whose most memorable feature is Carolyn Jones as the female lead [...] »
- Andre Soares
Stana Katic: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Actress Stana Katic looking tailored as Detective Kate Beckett in Castle.
Storms The Walls Of Castle
By
Actress Stana Katic is on a roll. After scoring supporting roles in two of last year’s highest-profile films, Quantum of Solace and The Spirit, the statuesque Canadian stunner landed the female lead in ABC’s new police drama/romantic comedy Castle, playing Detective Kate Beckett, a tough-as-nails NYPD officer who finds herself with the regrettable assignment of allowing cocky, best-selling crime novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) to shadow her for research on his next book. Not only does she find that Castle’s creative instincts for the criminal mind help her solve some of the city’s most challenging murders, she finds her tough exterior melting under Castle’s considerable charms. The show airs Monday nights on ABC.
Stana Katic sat down with us at a local »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Why You Shouldn’t Avoid Subtitled Movies
6 August 2009 3:39 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
It is a a sad, sad truth that most English-speaking movie-goers will not watch foreign (and therefore subtitled) movies. No matter the type of film… Regardless of actors, the director, or whatever - if it’s not in English and subtitles have to be read, the choice will usually be made to opt for something else that doesn’t require reading while watching a movie.
There are several weak reasons for this: The most basic reason is that one has to Actually Read (blasphemy!) in order to understand what’s going on. Then there’s the fact that (most) subtitles appear along the bottom of the screen and therefore takes some of a viewer’s concentration off the action that’s taking place. Finally, subtitles require more attention be paid to a movie that’s not in one’s native language (English).
But as a lover of all types of cinema, »
- Ross Miller
Director Rob Cohen To Get ‘Medieval’ On Our… Well… You Know
10 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
That headline literally called me up and begged to be used. Who am I not to oblige? “xXx” and “The Fast and the Furious” director Rob Cohen is finished working with Vin Diesel for the forseeable future. Cohen, who had been set to direct the gravelly-voiced actor in “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage,” has now backed out of the project, according to a report in Variety. Cohen has instead turned his attention to “Medieval,” a blockbuster action romp that the director describes as “‘The Maginificent Seven’ in the Middle Ages.”
Cohen will be working off of a script from Alex Litvak and Michael Finch, with New Regency financing/distributing the film through Fox and “Terminator Salvation” director McG serving in some sort of production role. Cohen studied anthropology and European history at Harvard, which is what sparked his interest in the project. The Variety report offers no story details, »
- Adam Rosenberg
Rob Cohen Ditches xXx Sequel for McG's Medieval Movie
9 June 2009 8:40 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Remember that new xXx sequel called xXx: The Return of Xander Cage? It might actually turn out pretty good! One of Hollywood's worst directors, Rob Cohen, has decided to ditch that xXx sequel to instead take on a project called Medieval that McG will produce. We first wrote about Medieval back in March, when it was rumored that McG might direct it. Cohen describes it as The Magnificent Seven in the Middle Ages, though I can assure you this will be the farthest from John Sturges's work you will ever see. New Regency, which will finance this and distribute through Fox, acquired the spec script for upwards of seven figures. "It was a tough decision about xXx," Cohen told Variety. "I talked to Vin [Diesel] over the weekend and said I hoped they would wait, but that if they find another director who's right for the sequel, I certainly wouldn't »
- Alex Billington
“Nazis. I hate these guys.”: 15 WWII Movies Worth Watching Before You See Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
26 May 2009 4:10 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Who knew that the Nazis -- one of the most brutal regimes in the history of brutal regimes -- would be responsible for such fun, mind-blowingly awesome entertainment? The second I see a dude in a grey German uniform and an eye patch enter the frame, I’m like ‘Whoa. That Nazi is going to provide me a great amount of entertainment this evening’. So, with Inglorious Bastards having recently premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, I figured I'd put together a list of some awesome WW2 films as a resource for anyone wanting to beef up their WW2 film knowledge before checking out Tarantino's self-proclaimed 'masterpiece'. It's worth noting that I focused on older films -- pre-1980 for the most part -- and only the stories featuring Nazi's. It was tough to cut this down to 15 films, but I'm sure you all will be able to come up with »
- Jay C.
Robert Vaughn At Lincoln Center Steve McQueen Tribute; Reflects On "The Magnificent Seven"
24 May 2009 5:57 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Cinema Retro Editor-in-Chief Lee Pfeiffer (L) and contributing writer Todd Garbarini with Robert Vaughn, who is holding both his recently-published memoir and an ultra-rare promotional brochure for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Photo copyright: Mark Yuknevitch) By Lee Pfeiffer
On Saturday May 23, actor Robert Vaughn appeared at The Film Society of Lincoln Center's tribute to Steve McQueen, introducing a screening of John Sturges' 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven. Hundreds of classic movie lovers gave Vaughn an enthusiastic greeting, as he reflected on the making of the film in his introduction. He quipped that he got the gig by default because he's the last remaining member of the legendary "Seven". Vaughn recalled how Sturges cast him after seeing the 27 year-old actor's Oscar-nominated performance in The Young Philadelphians.Sturges then asked him if he knew a "Gary Cooper-type" to play the part of Britt, the knife-thrower. Vaughn instantly recommended his college buddy James Coburn, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Robert E. Relyea- The Man Behind The Legends Part II
8 March 2009 6:59 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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By Graham Hill
Welcome back to my visit with producer Robert E. Relyea, who continues to share with us some more anecdotes from his remarkable career. If you remember from part one, the principal wooded exterior location for the Elvis Presley picture Kid Galahad (1962), was the small mountain community of Idyllwild, California, near Palm Springs. Relyea had kept the location in mind for his next film, The Great Escape (1963). As hard as it is to believe, director John Sturges and United Artists were all set to shoot right there in sunny southern California, building the Pow camp in the California hills with only some second unit shots done on location in Germany. This strategy would have obviously ensured that the movie was shot on a relatively low budget. Relyea told Sturges “It’s not exactly the Black Forest, but it does have »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Some Westerns Come With a Side of Wasabi
20 February 2009 9:00 PM, PST | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »
The Western might seem as native as apple pie, but in the 1960s gunslinging American filmmakers began to take their cues from Japan. Their biggest influence was the legendary director Akira Kurosawa. The John Sturges epic Magnificent Seven transformed Kurosawa's Seven Samurai into a Western classic that wisely retained the original's bittersweet ending. In A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone swiped the plot of Kurosawa's Yojimbo -- and set »
Some Westerns Come With a Side of Wasabi
20 February 2009 9:00 PM, PST | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »
The Western might seem as native as apple pie, but in the 1960s gunslinging American filmmakers began to take their cues from Japan. Their biggest influence was the legendary director Akira Kurosawa. The John Sturges epic Magnificent Seven transformed Kurosawa's Seven Samurai into a Western classic that wisely retained the original's bittersweet ending. In A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone swiped the plot of Kurosawa's Yojimbo -- and set »
Robert E. Relyea: The Man Behind The Legends
1 February 2009 1:14 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Robert E. Relyea with writer Graham Hill By Graham Hill
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 For those of you out there in Cinema Retro Land, who are not familiar with the name Robert E. Relyea –well how about I drop a few other names… ? The Magnificent Seven, The Alamo, West Side Story and Bulllitt for starters – all films on which Mr. Relyea has served as a valued member of the production. Whether he was in the role of Assistant Director, Assistant to the Producer, Unit Production Manager or even Executive Producer, Relyea played an important part in the making of those great, iconic pictures. At 78, he’s still as sharp as ever and for the first time , he has decided, at the bequest of son Craig, to document his career in the recently published autobiography Not So Quiet on the Set –My Life in Movies During Hollywood’s Macho Era. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
2009 | 2006
12 articles from 2009
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