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Clip joint: the best film clips featuring bridges
3 December 2009 4:31 AM, PST
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This week, nilpferd wants us all to link up, join together and only connect with the best film clips featuring bridges
Bridges are essential film furniture. And not just because they are large, iconic objects whose construction, capture or destruction can take up whole afternoon matinees. A dauntingly high bridge is the ideal suspense building bottleneck in an action film – and if it happens to be a hanging walkway with rotting boards and fraying twine, so much the worse for vertigo-stricken heroes and the better for us viewers.
Slow the pace down, and the bridge's function as a connector comes into focus – crossing it can bring irreversible changes, but it can also act as a facilitator of exchange and interaction. Yet beyond these functional roles, bridges possess magical qualities which make them ideal for cinema. Neither here nor quite there, they exist somewhere in-between.
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Director Races To Complete Scheider's Last Film
1 December 2009 2:06 PM, PST
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Moviemaker Joshua Newton is racing to complete the film that has become Jaws star Roy Scheider's final project, so the actor can be considered for a posthumous Best Actor Oscar.
Scheider was twice nominated for an Academy Award during his life, and Newton is determined to do what he can to make sure his late star lands a third nod.
The director must screen his unfinished movie at least once before Christmas for it to meet consideration deadlines.
Roy Scheider, who earned his nominations for All That Jazz and The French Connection, died after losing his battle with cancer in 2007.
Newton tells the Los Angeles Times he has turned his Beverly Hills home into a 24/7 production house with teams of editors and sound mixers working in shifts to complete the drama, in which Scheider plays a Holocaust survivor and retired cop who travels to Nuremberg to reconcile with his son, and unexpectedly encounters a man he suspects is the the Nazi commander responsible for his family's deaths during World War Two.
The director says, "This is what Roy would have wanted. Battling with cancer, Roy put every ounce of effort into his performance. His performance is magnificent, but obviously it's up to other people to decide that. We are honouring Roy Scheider by putting this up for the academy."
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Review: ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’
19 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST
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Not many people say it, but Nicolas Cage gets a bad rap. Often, even from me. Sure, he’s made some questionable script choices in the past, and been known for a few colorful and even over-the-top performances, but if there’s one thing he is known for, it’s consistency in a role. That’s exactly what he brings to the table with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
The film is an almost-modern-day reboot of the 1992 film starring Harvey Keitel. This time, rather than the rough streets of New York City, the setting has been changed to a post-Katrina New Orleans, with crime high and morals low, the only thing left to keep the streets safe is a deranged lieutenant on a path to his own personal hell.
There are certainly many problems with the film, which we’ll go into, but the most important positive thing
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- Matt Raub
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If Nolan Doesn't Direct 'Batman 3' Who Would You Like to See Take Over?
17 November 2009 4:14 PM, PST
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Batman On Film posted a short story last week saying "there's some scuttlebutt that in early 2010, Warner Bros. and Chris Nolan will finalize the plan for Batman 3." While many sites are running with the story and saying there will be an announcement of sorts, Batman On Film clearly states whether there will be an announcement or not remains to be seen, but the question of Nolan's involvement as director remains in the air.
I guess one would have to assume WB and Nolan would be smart to get things sorted out by at least June of 2010 so interviews for Nolan's new film Inception won't be bogged down with conversation asking about the next Batman feature, or at least kept to a minimum.
Will Nolan be back? My gut tells me yes he will be, but I could also see how the death of Heath Ledger and perhaps the expectation The
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- Brad Brevet
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Bicycle Messengering Gets Intense With David Koepp's 'Premium Rush'
12 November 2009 3:03 PM, PST
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When was the last time you recall seeing an actual bicycle messenger? Unless you live in a densely populated, car-hating metropolis, chances are rather slim that you ever see someone on a bike with a package under their arm, ducking and diving all manner of obstacles before screeching to a halt in front of a skyscraper and racing inside to drop off said package just in the nick of time. Which is why it is simultaneously bizarre and fascinating to me that David Koepp would pick the high-stakes world of two-wheeled courier services as the frame for his next directorial project.
What's even more fascinating is the scale Premium Rush, which I am 99% positive is the name of a Capri Sun flavor I used to drink in the '90s, is set up to be. Sony is bankrolling the production, which Variety says they see as "a big-budget actioner, much
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- Peter Hall
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Birthday Suits: Oscar-Snubbed
10 November 2009 5:11 PM, PST
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Today's birthday list doesn't make me feel celebratory so much as oscarighteously furious. Perhaps I should explain. It's only the four first birthday boys whipping me into a golden frenzy. Then things calm down.
Claude, Ann and Dick
Todays Birthdays 11/10
1889 Claude Rains, never won an Oscar. This despite being a great screen actor, whose filmography reads like a catalogue of Golden Age greatness. He's an actor who made indelible contributions to not 1, not 2 but 7 Best Picture nominees, a number that doesn't even reflect films like Notorious, Now Voyager, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, Mrs. Skeffington or The Greatest Story Ever Told. He didn't even get an honorary statue!
1925 Richard Burton, never won an Oscar. This despite winning exactly as many nominations as Liz Taylor won husbands.
1928 Ennio Moriccone has never won an Oscar. This despite being a world reknowned composer, being worshipped by film fanatics and revolutionizing how people scored Westerns.
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- NATHANIEL R
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The gutting of Miramax, Pt. II: Is this the end of New York movie culture?
2 November 2009 3:58 PM, PST
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Last week, it was announced that Miramax Films would close its New York offices, and that its president, Daniel Battsek, was being asked to step down. If that sounds like an unhappy day for the world of independent film -- well, it is. Yet as far as Miramax is concerned, it's really just one more nail in a coffin that was already slamming shut. In case you missed the news, here's the post I wrote back on Oct. 11 about the gutting of Miramax that took place last month, and what it could portend, in general, for studio specialty divisions.
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- Owen Gleiberman
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Super-8 Movie Madness 2
26 October 2009 10:10 AM, PDT
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“Super-8 Movie Madness 2” Night at the Way Out Club will be held on Tuesday November 3 from 8pm to Midnight. The cover charge is a bargain at a measly $2.00.The first Super-8 Movie Madness was a big hit, so we’re going to do it the first Tuesday of every month. If you’re not familiar with the madness, here’s a brief rundown: Remember (before video tapes) the Super-8 films they used to sell in the 1950’s and 60’s that were condensed versions of features? In the 1970’s they sold Sound versions of these films and 16 of these will be projected on a large screen at the Way Out Club (they average about 15 minutes each).
Condensed versions of the following films will be screened November 3: The Three Stooges in Three Sappy People, Marlon Brando in The Wild One, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, Alien, Joan Crawford in Straight-jacket, The French Connection,
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- Tom
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Movie Art As Life
22 October 2009 3:53 AM, PDT
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our second date in my studio apartment, my wife shared her spaghetti dinner with
a decaying corpse who had just climbed out of his grave.
This
not-for-the-squeamish image was from the 1972 horror anthology Tales from the Crypt, which also
featured a skull with cobwebs in its black eye socket. Dirty
Harry’s, .44 magnum pointed at her from another wall, while a hand beckoned
her into 1973’s The Vault of Horror.
You’re
an unusual decorator, she’d said. I told
her it was only art. That I wasn’t the
Starry Night type.
The
rest of my 350 square foot apartment was consumed with over 25 framed pieces of
movie memorabilia from the 1970s, horrifying and violent artwork which
symbolized, paradoxically, the nostalgia I felt for the innocence of my
movie-going youth. Equinox. Race with the Devil. Westworld. Straw
Dogs.
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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Columbia Pictures Greenlights Ghosts In The Slammer Pic SuperMax
29 September 2009 4:34 PM, PDT
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Here’s the pitch. An elite prison guard gets assigned to the maximum security wing of a prison that incarcerates inmates of a supernatural nature. After a riot, the guard must buddy up with the baddest, most monstrous inmate in the wing. The film is called “SuperMax”, not to be confused with Super Max, where DC Comics Green Arrow must escape from a prison of superdudes.
Mitch Rouse and Christopher Nelson wrote the script and I have to admit, it’s a fine idea who’s time has come. Plenty of room for wack tonnes of awesome. Fangoria has an interview with the fellas. Let’s listen in.
Influenced by ’70s classics like The French Connection, Marathon Man, Alien and a whole lot of John Carpenter, the two writers are clear that they want Supermax to be, above all, fun. “Dark, rich, cavernous, heartbreaking and relentless,” Nelson elaborates, and Rouse adds,
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Super-8 Movie Madness at The Way Out Club!
27 September 2009 9:48 PM, PDT
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Next Tuesday, October 6th is Super-8 Movie Madness Night at The Way Out Club in St. Louis! Younger movie geeks might not be familiar with Super-8 movie madness, so a brief history of the malady is in order. Besides waiting for a favorite film to pop up on TV, what did movie buffs do before home video? That’s not a rhetorical question because I have the answer: Super-8 millimeter Films! I’m not talking about the kind our dads made of us on vacation in the 60’s and 70’s but the kind that were sold at stores and through mail-order that were condensed versions of popular feature films. Ken Films, Castle Films, and Blackhawk were just some of the distributors of these digest versions of famous movies. I remember the ads that ran in the back of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine advertising mini horror films and I collected them as a kid.
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Chris Nelson and Mitch Rouse talk Supermax
11 September 2009 6:44 PM, PDT
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Special FX artist/actor Christopher Allen Nelson (pictured), whose onscreen credits include Kill Bill and the title role in The Tripper, and his writing partner Mitch Rouse have sold their original screenplay Supermax to Sony Pictures. The horror/action project is about a maximum security prison for the supernatural, and a skilled prison guard who, trapped during a riot, must team up with one of its monstrous inmates to survive. Fango got a chance to chat up the two writers and find out what’s in store for us when Supermax eventually hits screens.
“First off, this has nothing to do with the Green Arrow project!” says Nelson, who felt that needed clearing up, since the prison setting and title echo the stuck-in-development superhero movie Super Max. “That said, we wanted to write a movie with everything we like about the genre in it. Something we would want to see.
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Angelina & Shiloh -- The French Connection
30 August 2009 11:56 PM, PDT
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You took your kids to the mall to shop at Old Navy this weekend -- Angelina Jolie took her daughter Shiloh shopping in Ajaccio, France.Although we doubt Angie found cargo shorts for under $20.
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Meryl Streep: Has she ever starred in a masterpiece?
28 August 2009 7:42 AM, PDT
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Meryl Streep is arguably our best living actress, and she's by all accounts awesome and interesting and smart, etc. But this mock editorial in the Onion, called "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In," by Meryl Streep is really, really on the money.
I know it's a joke, and that Meryl Streep didn't really write it, but the very funny piece is totally right. Por ejemplo: "... the name Meryl Streep isn't really synonymous with one truly unforgettable film. It's weird to think about, but it's undeniably true. Go ahead, try and name a classic movie I've starred in. Not a classic character I've portrayed, mind you, but an overall amazing piece of cinema. You can't. You just can't." Then it runs through some of the Streep filmography:
Kramer vs. Kramer: "Let's be honest, Kramer Vs. Kramer isn't really a masterpiece in the same way that, say, The French Connection
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- Margaret Lyons
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Some Great News About The Exorcist Blu-ray!
24 August 2009 1:26 PM, PDT
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If there's one thing I hate, it's when directors 'revisit' their films Years after having made them and begin to tinker with their material. Let's not even mention George Lucas, but instead Walter Hill (what the hell did you do to The Warriors, goddammit!) and William Friedkin (sir, your new French Connection Blu-ray transfer is an abomination). These guys have come very close to destroying films of theirs once heralded as masterpieces. And what's worse? The studios that decide to release these 'improved' versions only, leaving the theatrical cuts nowhere to be found on DVD or Blu-ray! Thankfully, Warner Bros. seems to have smartened up regarding the upcoming Bd release of the ultimate horror film, The Exorcist.
Agent DVD got word from Warner Bros. that we'll be getting a special restoration of The Exorcist next year and that both the 1973 and the 2000 versions will be included in the set.
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Gene Hackman's Magnificent Seven Trips to the Wild West
14 August 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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Gene Hackman may be best known for movies like The French Connection and Superman but before he swore off violent roles in 2002, he managed to make quite a few trips to the Wild West. The dusty terrain suited him perfectly -- it's no coincidence that Gene Hackman earned the second of his two Oscars playing likable villain Little Bill in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Since he's pretty much retired
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Gene Hackman's Magnificent Seven Trips to the Wild West
14 August 2009 9:01 PM, PDT
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Gene Hackman may be best known for movies like The French Connection and Superman but before he swore off violent roles in 2002, he managed to make quite a few trips to the Wild West. The dusty terrain suited him perfectly -- it's no coincidence that Gene Hackman earned the second of his two Oscars playing likable villain Little Bill in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Since he's pretty much retired
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Little Scene : Scarecrow
30 July 2009 6:07 AM, PDT
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(1973, Schatzberg)
When Scarecrow premiered (and won the Ex-aequo award) at Cannes in 1973 Al Pacino had was hot off The Godfather and Gene Hackman had just completed The Poseidon Adventure and had already won an Oscar for his role in The French Connection.
Popeye Doyle and Micheal Corleone face to face, two of the stars of the decade jostling for position. Pacino, buoyant, having just had Francis Ford Coppola fight for him to stay in the greatest family saga of all time, would walk straight into Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon for Sidney Lumet and into one of the greatest acting careers in history. Hackman, himself was about to star in the masterful The Conversation (again for Coppola) and was (arguably) at the peak of his career.
So what's this beautiful little dual character study called Scarecrow sandwiched, on IMDb between some of the most acclaimed and influential movies of the
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- Neil Innes
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Director Friedkin To Direct CSI Episode
2 April 2009 2:34 AM, PDT
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Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, whose films include The French
Connection, The Exorcist, and Cruising, has directed the
200th episode of CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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Steve McQueen's Bullitt named top car chase movie
31 March 2009 3:09 AM, PDT
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Sometimes the results of a poll as voted for by the public can take you by surprise, prompting you to dare others to name who came top as “they’ll never guess”. Well, that is seriously not the case with this new survey conducted by AOL Autos asking folks to reveal their favourite car chase movie as coming in at the coveted top spot is Bullitt. The Steve McQueen classic from 1968 is a firmly established masterpiece of motoring movie magic (read up on it here) often walking away with such honours. But what other films made the list? Click over to find out.
Another retro classic fared well in the survey as 1969’s The Italian Job joins Robert De Niro’s Ronin in the top three. Making do with lower positions are a further combination of old timers and modern newbies such as Burt Reynolds caper The Cannonball Run, Quentin Tarantino
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