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Jennifer Jones obituary
20 December 2009 9:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood star who won an Oscar for her role as a saintly peasant girl in the 1943 film The Song of Bernardette
On the day of her 25th birthday, 2 March 1944, a fresh-faced, hitherto unknown performer stepped on to the stage of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles, to receive her best actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of The Song of Bernadette. It was officially the debut of Jennifer Jones, who has died aged 90. She had appeared four years earlier under her real name of Phyllis Isley, but only in a Dick Tracy serial and a B-western. (Actually, she had been born Phylis, but had added an "l".)
Ingrid Bergman, nominated for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls, said of The Song of Bernadette: "I cried all the way through, because Jennifer was so moving and because I realised I had lost the award." Jones, »
- Ronald Bergan
The Red Shoes | Film review
10 December 2009 3:20 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Rereleased, the 1948 ballet classic stands the test of time. By Peter Bradshaw
The Red Shoes, the 1948 classic by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, has now been vividly restored for a cinema rerelease and it just blazes out of the screen: profoundly serious, sublimely innocent, yet deeply and mysteriously erotic. This is the compelling parable of the destructive demands made by art upon the artist, and upon performing artists expected to sublimate their emotions into a quasi-sexual submission to their director – a parable that seems to change into a portrait of psychotic disorder or actual demonic possession. It is also, incidentally, a portrait of an age in which the marriage contract instantly nullified a woman's professional identity. Moira Shearer is the beautiful English ingenue Vicky Page, who, on the premature retirement of her ballet company's leading lady, is catapulted to the position of prima ballerina. She has been promoted by Boris Lermontov, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Film Weekly on John Hurt, The Red Shoes and Where the Wild Things Are
10 December 2009 3:38 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In this edition, Film Weekly twirls from discussing Jim Jarmusch films with John Hurt to stomping with the monsters in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are and does a dance of joy for the newly restored The Red Shoes.
First up, Jason Solomons talks to the great British actor John Hurt about his ability to make a cameo count and the pleasure of working with Jim Jarmusch on his new film, the highbrow hitman thriller The Limits of Control. The actor, who was conferred a BFI fellowship at the London film festival this year, shares how his collaboration with Jarmusch started on Dead Man and why he enjoys working with first-time directors.
Xan Brooks then joins Jason to review the week's key releases: they disagree on Spike Jonze's airy adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are and Jim Jarmusch's zen-like The Limits of Control, »
- Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps, Observer
Sally Potter: 'There was no such thing as an easy ride'
4 December 2009 1:56 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
More familiar with life on the fringes of British cinema, director Sally Potter finds herself the subject of a BFI retrospective. But she has no interest in looking back
In the late 1980s, Sally Potter was scratching around for funding to make Orlando, the Virginia Woolf adaptation widely considered her finest film, as well as a formative moment in the career of its star, Tilda Swinton. Potter's friend, the visionary director Michael Powell, had secured her a 10-minute meeting with Martin Scorsese, in which she hoped to convince him to extend a helping hand to a fellow maverick.
"Tilda and I went with our producer to meet Scorsese in New York," says the 60-year-old Potter, seated at a table in her east London office. "We walked into his place and nearly fainted with admiration. He then proceeded to spend the entire 10 minutes talking about how incredibly difficult life was for »
- Ryan Gilbey
BFI Announce December Events At Southbank, London
1 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the British Film Institute regarding their program of events for the month of December at the Southbank theatre facility in London. For full info and tickets visit the web site by clicking here.
Blonde Venus, one of the films screened as part of the Von Sternberg tribute.
This month we will celebrate the career of Josef von Sternberg – one of Hollywood’s most visionary directors – with a complete retrospective of his films. He was the man Marlene Dietrich called her master, and is perhaps best known for Underworld (1927), The Blue Angel (1930) and Macao (1952)
Sally Potter is one of the UK’s most innovative and original filmmakers, and we look forward to launching our comprehensive study of her career with a screening of Orlando (1993) followed by a Q&A »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Clip joint: gangs
26 November 2009 6:41 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week on Clip Joint, AJBee tries to rouse the rabble as he turns the spotlight on cinema's best gangs
In a world that's falling apart – or even just coming apart at the seams a little – we all need others to cling to for support. Strength comes in numbers, but also in togetherness. In cinema we can see that tribal feeling from 2001: A Space Odyssey's prehistoric man to the gangs of 60s Glasgow, or 80s Brighton. The protruding foreheads remain, only the accents alter.
Gangs provide a sense of belonging and identity, as well as protection from foes. They can also exclude, as so many high school-set teen flicks testify. We wrap our modern tribal behaviour in colours and call it sport, which begat other kinds of gangs, too often lionised in modern British cinema. But gang culture is common to every echelon of society, from the streets »
Surrealist artwork from The Red Shoes to go on display
20 November 2009 7:31 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
BFI Southbank to exhibit paintings and sketches of 'Freudian ballet' created for the film by Hein Heckroth
The Red Shoes, Powell and Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece, is one of the most visually spectacular movies in British history, and an abiding inspiration for artists such as Martin Scorsese, who counts it among his favourite films.
Now, ahead of its re-release in a newly restored version, its colours returned to their original Technicolor vividness, visitors to BFI Southbank in London will have the chance to see some of the original artwork for the film, created by surrealist painter Hein Heckroth.
The Red Shoes, the story of a dancer's struggle to achieve greatness against the demands of "normal" life, has entranced balletomanes and cineastes in the 61 years since it was made.
The most ambitious aspect of the film is the extended ballet sequence at the heart of the story, in which The Red Shoes »
- Charlotte Higgins
UK travel news round up
13 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Bath Film festival, Santa's grotto deep underground and courses in fossil collecting
It's ancient history
Those who don't know their ammonite from their belemnite can book a place at Lyme Regis's Jurassic Coast Centre next spring. In conjunction with London's Natural History Museum, it is to host short courses on palaeontology, botany, mineralogy and zoology throughout February and March. Accommodation is provided at Victoria House (non-residential guests also welcome). Prices from £210, shared occupancy.
0845 345 4071, field-studies-council.org/2010/walkingandgeology/jurassiccoast.aspx.
Hostel goes green
Youth hostels all over the country have been getting makeovers for a few years now, but this one must take the biscuit. The Lochranza Youth Hostel on the Isle of Arran has just been refurbished to the tune of £500,000 and now boasts rainwater harvesting, energy-efficient lighting and heating, new kitchen and shower facilities and six en suite family/group rooms. The whole thing – which, with five dorms as well, »
The Auteurs Daily: Angels Wanna Wear Her Red Shoes
9 November 2009 11:50 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Updated through 11/9. Once again, by necessity, a roundup of events in New York.
"By pure serendipity, two magnificent movies about ballet - one fiction, one fact; one a restored classic, one a brand-new work making its Us premiere - open within 48 hours of each other at Film Forum this week." Melissa Anderson in the Voice: "Frederick Wiseman's vérité La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet offers a portrait of suppleness and agility - not just that of the dancers' bodies, but also of the august institution of the title. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece, The Red Shoes, feverishly explores the demands of art at the expense of personal life.... Both films offer us the extraordinary experience of watching the burning commitment to perfection." »
Official Blu-ray and DVD Details for Duncan Jones’ Moon
9 November 2009 7:50 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
A few weeks back, director Duncan Jones revealed some of the DVD and Blu-ray release details for the import release of his highly acclaimed film Moon via his twitter account (@ManMadeMoon). And ever since, we've been waiting for official word from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Today, we have that official word in the form of the press release below. The film will hit Blu-ray and DVD here in the states on January 12th, and it will include what appears to be a solid amount of special features. This includes two commentary tracks, two Q&A featurettes and two behind the scenes featurettes. Not bad for a smaller release. I for one will be keeping an eye out for Moon and picking up this release, as this film is certainly on my list for year end awards. See the official press release below: Culver City, Calif. (November 9, 2009) – Sam Rockwell (Frost/Nixon, upcoming »
- Neil Miller
Scorsese on “The Red Shoes”: “It’s cinema as music”
5 November 2009 5:25 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Nearly ten years ago, at the turn of the millenium, Martin Scorsese selected “The Red Shoes,” co-directed by his closest collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker’s late husband, Michael Powell, to be the first movie he’d project in his private screening in the year 2000. Scorsese, Schoonmaker and a few company colleagues watched the movie together. And then they had a two-hour conversation about it. “This film is music,” Martin Scorsese said on Tuesday … »
The Red Shoes: Relaced and Restored
4 November 2009 7:15 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
Even in this age of Blu-ray and appreciation for all things high-def, many take for granted how complicated but vital a great film restoration can be. Buzzed about at this year's Cannes Film Festival as one of the most miraculous to date is the UCLA Film & Television Archive's restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece The Red Shoes, starring Moira Shearer as a gifted young ballerina forced to choose between her love for composer Marius Goring and a career as lead dancer and muse to ballet company impresario Anton Walbrook. In association with the BFI, The Film Foundation, ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., and Janus Films, the restored 35mm print—which Film Foundation founder Martin Scorsese has praised as one of his all-time faves and the most extraordinary use of the three-strip Technicolor process—dazzled a packed house at the DGA Theater last night. (The Red Shoes screens at »
Jim Wiatt Named To Indie AOL's New Board
26 October 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
Nice gig for the former William Morris Chairman/CEO turned independent consultant Jim Wiatt to be one of the 9 directors on the board of AOL when that company separates from Time Warner in December. Wiatt joins Michael Powell (former FCC Chairman) Michael Powell, Pat Mitchell (former president/CEO of PBS and The Paley Center For Media), and Fredric Reynolds (former CBS Corp Evp/Cfo and president/CEO of Viacom Television Stations Group). »
- Nikki Finke
Tati Leads Film Forum Winter Rep Slate
7 October 2009 9:42 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Film Forum, the non-profit cinema located in New York City, has unveiled its Winter repertory slate. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 film “The Red Shoes” is on tap for a two week run, November 6-19, while Jacques Tati’s “M. Hulot’s Holiday” will screen November 20-December 3. The prints of both films will be new, 35mm restorations. The films of director James Whale will be the focus of a week-long retrospective … »
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Rising Stars!
30 September 2009 11:19 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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As in the past, »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Rising Stars!
30 September 2009 11:19 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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As in the past, »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Rising Stars!
30 September 2009 11:19 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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As in the past, »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Updates: Top 50 Hottest Young Actors - Rising Stars!
30 September 2009 11:19 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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As in the past, »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Stage Fright: The Grand-guignol And The Popularity Of Horror
19 September 2009 7:54 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
While the phrase “grand-guignol” has become commonplace in describing anything bloody or gory, its origin has its roots in an almost forgotten theater at the end of one of Paris’ alleyways. This theater, which started out life as a Catholic church, became famous for showing blood, guts, dismemberment, thrown eyeballs, acid burned faces, and severed tongues.
The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (literally, The Theatre of the Large Puppet) was born in a part of town well-known for its roughnecks and whores in 1897. By the time it closed its doors for good in 1962 it had entertained hundreds of thousands of people and had a lasting influence on the worlds of literature, art, film, and theater.
The theater did not start out with the blood and guts, but was a theater dedicated to showing reality; taking its stories from the local papers. The theater had been running for several years before it hit »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (John Porter)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #7
6 September 2009 3:48 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I didn't watch a whole lot this week outside of the films I saw at the theater, thanks in large part due to the start of the U.S. Open. Speaking of which, anyone else watch that match between Maria Sharapova and Melanie Oudin (or who I like to call the American Justine Henin)? And then Isner beats Roddick in five. Good stuff so far, but let's get to the movies since that's what you guys came here for. As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. Now, here's the recap of my week in movies... Bowling for Columbine (2002) Quick Thoughts: I have a screening of Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story (9/23) coming up and on top of that Moore is coming to Seattle for interviews. So, I felt I should probably finally see Bowling for Columbine. I also have to check out Roger and Me, »
- Brad Brevet
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