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Motion Picture Purgatory: The Saragossa Manuscript

17 December 2009 11:33 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

You have to hand it to Trembles. When it comes to introducing Dread Central readers to the obscure ... the offbeat ... the just plain weird, no one does it better! On tap for this week's Motion Picture Purgatory is the 1965 Polish film The Saragossa Manuscript (aka Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie).

Here's how Amazon describes the flick: Based on the book by the highly esteemed Count Jan Potocki, the film is reputedly a respectful, mostly faithful adaptation of this literary cat's cradle set in the weird fantasy landscapes of arid 17th Century Spain. Characters pop in and out of each other's stories with the random logic of a trip. The characters includes sexy ghost princesses, demon possessions, and many a corpse. The intriguing stylistic flourishes sit against the wonderful soundtrack, which was composed by Krzyszt Penderecki, famous for the scores of The Shining and Wild At Heart.

"Meta within meta inside of meta on top of meta! »

- The Woman In Black

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ITV1 dominates list of 2009's most-watched TV shows

15 December 2009 11:42 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Channel claims six of the top 10 programmes, with Britain's Got Talent final drawing the biggest audience of the year

Table: most-watched TV shows of 2009

ITV1 is set to claim the 2009 ratings crown, with the Britain's Got Talent final proving the most popular show of the year and the broadcaster airing six of the top 10 most-watched programmes up to early December.

BBC1 will be hoping for strong figures for EastEnders and Doctor Who on Christmas Day, but neither is likely to overhaul the 18.3 million viewers who watched the final of the third series of Britain's Got Talent on 30 May, a 68% audience share, as the dance group Diversity beat Susan Boyle.

The Britain's Got Talent final was the highest-rating programme on any UK channel since 20 June 2006, when 18.5 million watched England v Sweden in the 2006 World Cup.

ITV1 had six out of the top 10 programmes on any channel this year, according to figures »

- Tara Conlan

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'Return of the Jedi,' Directed by David Lynch?

12 December 2009 8:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Even the thought of directing Wookies gave him a migraine headache. Still, out of respect, David Lynch met with George Lucas in the early 1980s to talk about directing the second sequel to his landmark blockbuster, eventually titled Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Lynch recalls Lucas telling him about Wookies and "a lot of other animals," having lunch at a restaurant where only salad was served -- "not that I have anything against salad" -- and developing a migraine headache so severe that he snuck off to call his agent and beg not to make the movie. Lynch's conversation at the Hudson Union Society was captured by Fora.tv and is embedded after the jump.

In hindsight, knowing that Lynch would go on to make Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Dr., it sounds like an insane idea, as in "What Was George Smoking? »

- Peter Martin

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Birthday Suits: The Blonde and the Bookish

29 November 2009 4:24 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Celebrating cinematic birthdays for 11/29. Which celebrity would you most like to spank today?

Blond³: Diane, Anna and Cathy

1832 Louisa May Alcott wrote the oft-adapted Little Women

1895 Busby Berkeley, legendary choreographer/director. What would the early musicals have been without him?

1898 C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia which were made into unfortunately generic movies. He also wrote The Screwtape Letters which I personally pray will never see the silver screen despite Hollywood's efforts. Some books just deserve the undiluted perfection of their original form. Sir Anthony Hopkins played him in the weepy bio Shadowlands (1993)

1901 Mildred Harris, silent film actress and Mrs Charlie Chaplin (for a few years)

1918 Madeleine L'Engle prolific author, most famous for Wrinkle in Time

1931 Shintarô Katsu the original blind swordsman Zatoichi

1932 Diane Ladd, if you don't love her Oscar nom'ed performances in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Rambling Rose and Wild at Heart, well... what's wrong with you? »

- NATHANIEL R

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Weekly Poll Results: Best Nicolas Cage Movie

26 November 2009 6:16 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Plenty of votes were cast in last week's poll, but in the end, The Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona was chosen as Nicolas Cage's finest film to date, followed closely by Spike Jonze's Adaptation. A ways behind those two films, Face/Off was a bit of a surprise at #3, while Leaving Las Vegas and Lord of War rounded out the top 5. All in all, the votes were spread around quite a bit, and various suggestions of additional films like Wild at Heart, Vampire's Kiss and Bringing Out the Dead make it clear that, contrary to popular belief, the man actually has a decent array of respected flicks under his belt. Do you agree with these results? Where would Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans rank in the list? 1. Raising Arizona -- 24% 2. Adaptation -- 21.4% 3. Face/Off -- 10.1% 4. Leaving Las Vegas -- 9.4% 5. Lord of War -- 8.3% 6. The Rock -- 8.1% 7. Matchstick Men »

- Sean

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Film Junk Podcast Episode #244: A Serious Man

23 November 2009 1:22 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

0:00 - Intro 6:00 - Headlines: Jackass 3-D, Oscar Documentary Short List, Warner Brothers DVD2Blu Program, American Gladiators Writer, McG Drops Out of 20,000 Leagues, Thor's Warriors Three, Carl Rinsch to Direct 47 Ronin, Will Ferrell Named Most Overpaid Actor of the Year, Top Grossing Movies of the Decade Are All Franchise Films 21:45 - Review: A Serious Man 40:50 - Other Stuff We Watched: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Wild at Heart, Black Dynamite, Thirst, Good Hair, Star Trek, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Sergio, Fight Club, Bruno, An Evening with Stephen King 1:19:45 - Trailer Trash: Crazy Heart, Blood Simple Remake, Grown Ups 1:29:25 - Junk Mail: Low Budget Movies / Money Shots in Trailers, Blu-ray Recommendations, Fj Demographics, Unusual Subjects Made Into Great Movies, Nic Cage Financial Trouble, Favourite Films Based on a Book 1:57:45 - This Week's »

- Sean

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Review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

22 November 2009 6:27 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Remember Nicolas Cage? He doesn't work very often so the name may not immediately ring a bell, but maybe some of his films might jar your memory... Birdy, Raising Arizona, Wild At Heart, Adaptation? (Not to be confused with Nicholas Z. Kage, an "actor" who sleepwalks through roles and films like Fire Birds, Trapped In Paradise, Snake Eyes, Gone In Sixty Seconds, National Treasure, Ghost Rider, Next, Bangkok Dangerous, and many, many more.) He's an actor who craves odd and interesting characters but manages to shape them into real, fully developed people that sometimes outshine the films they inhabit. Where other actors just present an idiosyncratic caricature he crafts people who are more than simply the sum of their quirks. So as I said earlier, Cage doesn't make a lot of movies. The good news though is that after a multi-year absence from movie screens he's finally returned in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Detective »

- Rob Hunter

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Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Interview

19 November 2009 11:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Nicolas Cage: Bad To The Bone

By

Alex Simon

It’s an inevitable event in every accomplished artist’s life: if you go back on the timeline of their existence and stop in adolescence, almost all of our greatest actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians and painters went through tumultuous, tortured teenage years, often scorned, almost universally ridiculed by their peers and elders alike for the cardinal sin of being “weird.” Most people run from their inner nerd as they grow into adulthood, masking it behind toned muscle, fine clothing and the right haircut, struggling to be that cool guy or gal whom we knew had all the answers and the clearest skin back when such things started to be de rigeur in our lives (and if you live in Southern California, continue to be).

Nicolas Cage is that rare movie star who not only never seemed to care if he was cool, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Nicolas Cage Takes On 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' Haters

19 November 2009 2:30 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

'Outside of the fact that the cop does drugs, it's quite different,' actor says to fans of the original.

By Larry Carroll

Nicolas Cage in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"

Photo: Millennium Films

Los Angeles — Seventeen years ago, the legendary Harvey Keitel launched the second act of his movie career with a pair of tough-guy instant classics: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant." A crack-pipe-smoking breath of fresh air, "Lieutenant" predated "The Shield" by a decade in telling the Nc-17 story of a junkie, gambler, killer cop on a downward spiral.

During the past year, film buffs have been up in arms over director Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." Starring Nicolas Cage as the type of at-wit's-end madman who puts a gun to an old lady's temple to get information, the flick co-stars Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer »

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Podcast: Werner Herzog

17 November 2009 9:28 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

From the official website of valiant filmmaker Werner Herzog's delightfully bonkers new feature, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which should not be called a remake of Abel Ferrara's grimy 1992 cult classic: Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs—while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (Eva Mendes). Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience. The result is a singular masterpiece of filmmaking: equally sad and manically humorous.

In my third annual chat with Herzog, »

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Nicolas Cage Interview Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans

17 November 2009 4:29 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Remember when you thought Nicolas Cage was one of the best actors in the business.  When he made films like Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona, Vampire’s Kiss, and Face/Off (and I don’t want to hear he wasn’t great in Face/Off, cause he was).  Well, I’m happy to report the amazing Nicolas Cage is back and he can be seen in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which opens in limited release this weekend.  While I was one of the people that wondered if Cage and Werner Herzog could do justice to the Bad Lieutenant name, I really shouldn’t have been worried, as Bad Lieutenant is an awesome movie and something that you should go see in a crowded theater this weekend.  Also, Cage hasn’t been this good in years.

So to help promote the film, I recently attended a press conference with Cage. »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Birthday Suit: Do You Dig Gig?

4 November 2009 11:39 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Celebrating the birthdays of the filmic and famous. Because, why not? If it's your big day, holla at us in the comments.

Gig and Matthew

Today's Birthdays 11/04

1868 La Belle Otero Spanish actress, courtesan to royalty, La Folies Bergere dancer and star of a scandalous silent short performing the "Valse Brilliante". Where's her biopic? In order to inject life into that zombie-like genre (no brains, only forward motion) I really think filmmakers need to look at more obscure but still fascinating figures, further back in time. If they stop trying to win Oscars and just try to tell interesting stories, I bet they'll still win the Oscars. Try harder, Hollywood.

1913 Gig Young won the supporting actor Oscar for They Shoot Horses Don't They?, a totally brilliant and Oscar historical film. Emcee roles are sometimes gold for awards contention, right?

1918 Art Carney of Harry and Tonto Oscar-winning fame

1946 Frederick Elmes, wonderfully expressive »

- NATHANIEL R

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Bsb: Nicolas Cage runs lines from Vampire's Kiss

26 October 2009 1:54 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Just for fun... I'm sure that more than a handful of you Fangorian's are fond of a little semi-lost late 80's horror satire called Vampire's Kiss.

Robert Bierman's film -which incidentally makes a fantastic double feature with Mary Harron's American Psycho - features a young, method acting Nicolas Cage as a soul dead corporate slug named Peter Leow who believes his one night stand (Jennifer Beals from Flashdance) was a vampire and that he himself is slowly sharing her bloodsucking fate. As his supernatural psychosis increases, Peter becomes more and more abusive to his poor, put upon secretary Alva (Maria Conchita Alonso) resulting in an uprorious scene where Cage leaps onto his desk and screams "Am I getting Through to youuuuu, Alva!" Check out the trailer here:

The film is berserk and Cage is brilliant. Outside of Wild At Heart and the upcoming Werner Herzog remake of Bad Lieutenant, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)

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Gloriana Debut 'How Far Do You Wanna Go?' Music Video

19 October 2009 11:46 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Country music group Gloriana have made public "How Far Do You Wanna Go?" music video on Cmt. Featuring their live performance, this video is directed by Kristin Barlowe (Martina McBride, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert) and was shot in downtown Nashville.

The song appears among new tracks in Gloriana's self-titled first studio installment "Gloriana". Led by single "Wild at Heart", the album has come out since August and so far peaked at number 3 on Billboard Hot 200 and climbed to number 2 on U.S. Top Country Albums chart.

Gloriana have been listed as one of the nominees for T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist at 2009 American Music Awards. In this category, they are facing off the likes of Zac Brown Band, Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Keri Hilson, Jeremih, Drake and Kid Cudi. Fans can visit ABC's official website to vote for the winner which will be announced on November 22 at Los Angeles' Nokia Theater. »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Dern teaches Fockers

18 October 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Not big casting news per say, but interesting in that it shows Laura Dern is still alive and well (and still looking good), and lets us now that the film is still happening. In case we weren't aware or didn't care. If it's the latter, then sorry, I guess. Dern, who will always stay branded in my head as the chick who gets repeatedly banged by Nic Cage in Wild At Heart, joins the new Fockers sequel as an elementary school teacher where Ben Stiller,s kids are getting bullied because of their »

- Tony Lang

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'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' trailer: Nic Cage, back to the nutty

9 October 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

"Hey man, I got on Swiss cotton underpants!" I'd go ahead and say that's the best line featured in a trailer, uh, ever, if it weren't for the equally fantastic morsel that comes about a minute later: "What are these iguanas doing on my coffee table?" Those two bits of unfettered nuttiness pretty much sum up Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, an awesomely off-the-wall sort-of remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult classic, Bad Lieutenant. This one stars Nic Cage as Terence McDonagh, a once honest cop in the Big Easy who gets addicted to pills, »

- Missy Schwartz

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Laura Dern's Enlightened green-lit by HBO

3 September 2009 11:08 AM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

We can add Laura Dern to the long list of big-time movie actresses who've moved into TV roles. Her comedy project with Mike White is moving forward with a pilot order from HBO.

Tentatively titled Enlightened, the single-camera comedy stars Dern as a self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening and decides to live an enlightened life. Of course, this creates all sorts of turmoil at home and work.

Dern's knock-out performance as Katherine Harris in 2008's Recount got the attention of HBO. White, her director on the 2007 feature film Year of the Dog, says he's "stoked," noting, "The only thing I can think of cooler than making a show at HBO is doing it with Laura Dern."

HBO continues to be a favorite of mine, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this show fares. I've been a fan of Dern's dating back to her roles in Rambling Rose and Wild at Heart, »

- Jane Boursaw

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Nicolas Cage Set To ‘Drive Angry’ In 3D

31 August 2009 9:35 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Think you’ve seen enough of Nicolas Cage? Well get ready for some more of him, in 3D no less!

Cage has signed on to a project called Drive Angry (yes, that’s the title), which is a revenge film about a man driven by rage (see what they did there?) who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and stole her baby. The rescue/vendetta then gets out of control, “as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.”

Sounds like Taken on wheels!…

 

Patrick Nussier is set to direct Drive Angry (he also co-wrote along with Todd Farmer) for Nu Image/Millenium. As hinted in the opening of this post, the film will be done in 3D. This is the first time Nu Image/Millenium have went down the 3D road (get it?), but Nussier (who got his start editing Wes Craven »

- Ross Miller

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Nicolas Cage vs. The Green Hornet?

21 July 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

A surprising piece of news has just recently popped up online: Nicolas Cage is reportedly in early talks to play the villain in the upcoming adaptation of The Green Hornet. He joins the previously rumored Cameron Diaz, who’s potential role in the film has been revealed as a “reporter and love interest” for the titular masked hero.

Variety is reporting that Cage is in early talks to be what is being described as the “gangster villain,” nemesis of our hero, The Green Hornet. There’s no more details on his character other than that I’m afraid, but if the talks get closer to a closed deal, you can be sure that more details will emerge.

 

This news comes to us not long after Stephen Chow sadly dropped out of the project as The Green Hornet’s sidekick, Kato. With Seth Rogen co-writing the film with his Superbad writing pal Evan Goldberg, »

- Ross Miller

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"Twilight" to be Honored as Film of Vision...Really?

10 June 2009 2:23 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

The vampire romance film "Twilight" is being considered as one of the best and brightest. The flick, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, is one of the movies being honored at the 36th Annual Vision Awards to be held on June 27 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Here's the complete press release, and for the Vision Awards website, click here.

Los Angeles, CA, June 5, 2009 - Many of Hollywood.s best and brightest in film, television and music will descend upon the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, on Saturday, June 27 for the star-studded, 36th Annual Vision Awards .. The gala fundraising event, which has become an annual Hollywood tradition, honors entertainment and business luminaries as well as medical professionals who have exhibited exceptional gifts of sight, foresight and insight in the creative arts, related technologies and medical research.

Presented by Rp International, the nation.s leading non-profit fighting Retinitis Pigmentosa and other blinding eye diseases, »

- Manny

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