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13 articles from 2009
Interviews: Christmas Stars Shine With Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren, Larry Hagman
24 December 2009 6:10 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – On this Christmas Eve, we will bask in the light of sparkling film stars, and honor their legacy. Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren and Larry Hagman met admirers at the Hollywood Celebrities Show.
The older stars are the most fascinating and best attended towards at these type of events. There is a sense of regal elements to their bearing, but at the same time a knowledge that they were possessed in another era, simpler perhaps, but still significant in this time of online and DVD assess to the older canon.
Let us spend time briefly this Christmas Eve with the following legends of film, as HollywoodChicago and the ace of all aces, photographer Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto, connect to the living embodiments of our film history past at the Hollywood Celebrities Show in Rosemont, Illinois.
Mickey Rooney, Film and Box Office Titan for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
The Mickster, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Last Minute Video Considerations: Clint Eastwood and Frank Sinatra
22 December 2009 5:53 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
MGM Home Video has offered up thirteen different star-centered CD packs, all conveniently priced at $24.95 but savvy shoppers can find them for as little as $14.95. Each box set features four films from the studio’s vast library and neatly packages them together.
What you pay for in convenience, though, you lose in the rich DVD experience that many aficionados want from their home video. The films come with commentary and maybe the trailer but little else. So, if your recipient is a major fan of the films and/or stars, be warned.
Having said that, two that were sent for review, are pretty nice. The Clint Eastwood Star Collection offers up A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, and Hang ‘Em High. That’s 721 minutes of Clint in his spaghetti western days and the birth of a film icon. Oddly, A Fistful of Dollars »
- Robert Greenberger
Movie Alert! "The Prize" On TCM Tuesday December 8
6 December 2009 8:09 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Since our readers have been fired up about suggesting worthy films for release on DVD, it should be noted that TCM (North America) will be telecasting the 1964 spy adventure The Prize, one of the few Paul Newman films not available on home video. It co-stars Elke Sommer and Edward G. Robinson. The showing is on Tuesday, December 8 at 3:30 Pm (Est) »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Abbott & Costello, Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Screenings
9 November 2009 10:52 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Packard Campus’ November Series Intro Schedule and film information from the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus website: Thursday, November 05 (7:30 pm.) The Miracle Worker (United Artists, 1962) The story of Anne Sullivan’s struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. Directed by Arthur Penn. With Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. 35 mm, black & white, 106 minutes. Copyright collection print. Friday, November 06 (7:30 pm.) Confessions Of A Nazi Spy (Warner Bros., 1939) An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S. Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Edward G. Robinson and Francis Lederer. 35mm, black & white, 104 minutes. Print preserved by the Library of Congress. Saturday, November 07 (7:30 pm.) Ride The High Country (MGM, 1962) Two aging gunslingers sign on to [...] »
- Andre Soares
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
Review: Bad Lieutenant - a truly orginal remake
26 October 2009 10:56 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
I've got to say, that the thought of handing over the keys of a cliche ridden traditional cop thriller to Werner Herzog and letting him drive it out of the showroom, is partly a stroke of genius and partly, or completely, totally and absolutely, insane. Not that Abel Ferrara's 1992 film (one which Herzog claims he's still never seen) was anything traditional of course. What's weird with this revamp (remake, reboot, re imagining... whatever) is that at first glance, it looks, walks and talks like an episode of a television cop show. Hey... I said at first glance. We're in New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (that bitch) and Terence McDonaugh (Cage - a jokey reference to trouble maker H.I McDonaugh in the Coen's Raising Arizona?) avoids the brow beating of a partner to rescue a crook from a jail cell. A shot sharp glance at a good side of someone who, »
- Neil Innes
Brando & Kelly's Home Movies To Hit The Big Screen
7 October 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Rarely seen home movies shot by and featuring Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly and the late Natalie Wood are to be screened as part of a quirky one-day film festival in Hollywood.
The candid footage will screen during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ presentation of Hollywood Home Movies II: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive on 17 October at the Linwood Dunn Theater.
The event is already sold out.
A spokesperson for the Academy says, "The Academy Film Archive houses a wide variety of such films and will present a selection of excerpts including footage of Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Judy Garland, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, Alfred Hitchcock, Harpo Marx, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Stewart, Esther Williams and Loretta Young."
Hollywood Home Movies II is being presented in conjunction with Home Movie Day, an annual international celebration of amateur films and filmmaking. »
Old Ass Movies: Kill For the Money with ‘Double Indemnity’
6 September 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Every week, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: Double Indemnity (1944) Where's the love for Billy Wilder? In discussions about the greatest film directors of all time, you'll hear all the usual suspects - Coppola, Godard, Scorsese, Kurosawa, Spielberg - but I bet you most people will neglect to mention Wilder in their first ten responses, if they even mention him at all. That's a damn shame. If ever there was an underrated director who deserved lavish praise, it's Wilder. Spanning a career in which he was active as a writer for five decades and a director for almost four, the Polish-born filmmaker accumulated 6 Oscar wins and 21 nominations. That's more wins than Coppola (5), Spielberg (3), and Clint Eastwood (4) and more nominations than Coppola (14), Stanley Kubrick (13), Scorsese (8) and both Joel and Ethan Coen combined (16). But maybe accolades aren't your »
- Jim Rohner
A Gangster's Demise: Jarrett vs. Rico vs. Dillinger
3 July 2009 4:53 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I am sure many/most of you clicking on this headline were interested enough to have also gone and seen Michael Mann's Public Enemies this weekend and saw Johnny Depp as bank robber John Dillinger get gunned down outside the Biograph theater in a haze of CG blood. Personally I thought the use of CG at that moment was perhaps the worst part of the entire movie and wish Mann had gone practical and instead of seeing Dillinger from the front we would have seen him from behind as the gun went off. But oh well, we can't get everything we want and I still enjoyed the movie. However, it got me to thinking about a couple of other gangster deaths and two I think are either the best or up there with the best. The first clip below is of James Cagney as Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett in White Heat »
- Brad Brevet
Key Largo | Review
12 May 2009 7:08 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: John Huston Writer(s): Maxwell Anderson (play), Richard Brooks and John Huston (screenplay) Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore It begins with Frank McCloud, played by Humphrey Bogart, traveling to, where else, Key Largo, to bring closure to the family of a war buddy killed in Ww II. Upon his arrival, he finds his fallen comrade's widow, Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), and her father-in-law, James Temple (Lionel Barrymore), held hostage in their own hotel by the notorious gangster, Johnny Rocco, played by Edward G. Robinson. Rocco takes pleasure in ridiculing Nora and her wheelchair-ridden father-in-law, and spends his idle time taunting his lush of a girlfriend (played by Claire Trevor) with visions of a Scotch on the rocks. McCloud finally has enough of the entire mess, and reluctantly becomes the liberator, facing down Rocco and his gang on a shoot em' up escapade at sea. »
- Dirk Sonniksen
Jane Bryan
11 April 2009 7:12 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jane Bryan, who played ingenues in several Warner Bros. productions of the late 1930s, died on April 8 at her home in Pebble Beach, California, following a long illness. She was 90. The Los Angeles-born (on June 11, 1918) Jane O’Brien had her name changed to Jane Bryan after landing a Warners contract in the mid ’30s. Bryan’s most notable role at the studio was as Paul Muni’s mistress in We Are Not Alone (1939), directed by Edmund Goulding. Apart from that, she was usually seen as forgettable sweet young things, supporting Bette Davis in Marked Woman (1937), Kid Galahad (1937), The Sisters (1938), and The Old Maid (1939); Edward G. Robinson in A Slight Case of Murder (1938); and Kay Francis in Confession (1937). Bryan also appeared in the popular B comedies Brother Rat (1938) and Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), playing opposite fellow contract players Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Eddie Albert, Ronald Reagan, and Jane Wyman. Her »
- Andre Soares
DVD Playhouse: April 2009
11 April 2009 11:58 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—April 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Milk (Universal) Sean Penn deservedly captured his second Best Actor Oscar (and Dustin Lance Black a statuette for his original screenplay) in director Gus Van Sant’s portrait of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold public office in the U.S. Alternately heartbreaking, infuriating and very funny, a film that both captures a bygone era and is still very timely. Fine support from Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, James Franco and Emile Hirsch. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Three featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Slumdog Millionaire (20th Century Fox) The Best Picture of 2008 is a kinetic, clever audience-pleaser about a determined lad (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai, who has his chance at literal and financial redemption as a contestant on India’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Best Director Danny Boyle dazzles »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
DVD Review: "The Outrage" Starring Paul Newman
7 February 2009 3:55 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Warner Home Video has recently released a series of Paul Newman titles that have not previously been available on DVD. We'll be taking a look at some of these titles, beginning with the 1964 western The Outrage.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Paul Newman and director Martin Ritt collaborated on six films of varying quality between the years 1958 and 1967, when both men were at the prime of the careers. One of their most notable misfires was The Outrage, an ambitious 1964 remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon redefined as a western. Kurasawa's film told of the kidnapping of an innocent couple by a bandit. The woman is raped and the husband is murdered. However, as various people recall the incident, it becomes clear there are radically different versions of what happened and who was responsible for the death. The premise of remaking the story as a Hollywood production starring Newman probably seemed like a winning proposal for MGM, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
2009 | 2008
13 articles from 2009
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