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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
Harry Knowles’ ‘Butt Numb-a-Thon’ A Success
14 December 2009 3:00 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
With it’s common threads of obsession and neckwear, the Harry Knowles-hosted birthday bash was also host to a number of movie premieres and rare to find films this year. First was the coup of getting Avatar screened in 3-D, which garnered praise from most of the audience of guests and film critics. Knowles was also able to get a copy of Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese’s latest which has been pushed back until next year.
About this film, according to Anne Thompson’s blog, a viewer said: “It’s a version of Angel Heart without The Devil…I figured it out a third of the way through.” I still hold out that it’ll blow me away, much like it seemed to “Head Geek” Knowles, who called it a “brilliant movie.”
But apparently, the movie that overshadowed them all was Matthew Vaughn’s comic book adaptation Kick-Ass, which »
- John Muth
Top 10 films of 2009
11 December 2009 2:59 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
What’s in a list? Probably little more than an opportunity to show off, indulge in a some lazy cultural showboating and maybe even a chance to stir up a dash of barroom provocation. Perfect. So, in no particular order, here is my attempt to do just that. Any disagreements, disputes, outraged contempt, please feel free to comment..... 1. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) Haneke’s latest masterpiece. Beautifully scripted, shot and acted it is a glorious examination of the potential for human cruelty and moral collapse, issued down from one generation to the next. Bleak, disturbing but staggeringly beautiful. 2. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen) Only the Coen brothers could make the hopelessness of life seem so funny. We can only laugh at our impending demise in this retelling of the story of Job. 3. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard) Audiard, channelling the very best of Jean-Pierre Melville and the Nouvelle Vague, »
- Nick Clarke
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
This week's new cinema previews
4 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Box (12A)
(Richard Kelly, 2009, Us) Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella. 116 mins
Will Kelly ever make another movie as good as Donnie Darko? There are signs here that he might, but he hasn't this time. The Twilight Zone plot – press the button on this box and you'll get $1m, but someone will die – opens up more moral/conspiracy/sci-fi elements than the film can handle. Still, too much is better than not enough, especially when it's as smoothly sinister, visually sophisticated and borderline bonkers as this.
Me And Orson Welles (12A)
(Richard Linklater, 2008, Us/UK) Zac Efron, Claire Danes. 114 mins
Efron graduates from High School backstage to Welles's 1930s theatre troupe in this sweet coming-of-age flick, holding his own against Christian McKay's rakish, bombastic Welles – even when they fall for the same girl.
Cracks (15)
(Jordan Scott, 2009, UK) Eva Green, Juno Temple. 104 mins
Set within the confines of a posh girls' boarding school, »
- Steve Rose
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)
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
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." »
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 »
Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
3 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Tim Burton invades New York, New Italian Cinema hits Los Angeles, Harold and Kumar spread holiday cheer in Austin and everywhere you look, they're celebrating All Tomorrow's Parties -- just some of the holiday film fun you can have this winter at your local repertory theater.
More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
In November, the 92YTribeca Screening Room will have some special guests in the house when it hosts the already sold out "A Conversation with Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman" on November 10th, with the two longtime collaborators discussing their latest film "Fantastic Mr. Fox." But tickets are still available for the night before (Nov. 9th), when actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman will screen their acclaimed new post-war drama "The Messenger". Much of the rest of the month is devoted to Cinema Tropical's Ten Years of New Argentine Cinema series with screenings of Adrián Caetano's immigration »
- Stephen Saito
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 … »
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
The Ten Steps to Erotic Possession
3 September 2009 4:51 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: Criterion Collection
Last night I watched Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947 Oscar-winning Black Narcissus telling the story of a group of nuns who set out to establish a school in the desolate Himalayas. Of course, that short description does nothing to describe what actually happens in this film. There are hints along the way, and you realize the setup is perfect once you go back and watch it again (which I did this morning), but the most striking character arc belongs to Sister Ruth played by Kathleen Byron. We are first introduced to Sister Ruth as an empty chair and Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) saying, "But Sister Ruth is ill," and asking, "Do you think our vocation is her vocation?" To which Mother Dorothea (Nancy Roberts), "Yes, she's a problem. I'm afraid she'll be a problem for you, too." With that said, here are ten screen captures of »
- Brad Brevet
The greatest movies ever made
2 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorsese's favorites, or Herzog's? The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines. The most respected poll, the only one I participate in, is the vote taken every 10 years by Sight & Sound, the British film magazine, which asks a large number of filmmakers, writers, critics, scholars, archivists and film festival directors.
1. The Night of the Hunter, 1955
That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film. Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown out again. »
- Roger Ebert
Tetro—A Question for Francis Ford Coppola
1 July 2009 5:15 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Shortly before the hordes began chanting, “The Daily is dead; long live The Daily”, David Hudson gathered reviews of Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, first from its Cannes debut, and then later mid-June when it opened stateside. Here in San Francisco, Coppola met with his audience at the film’s first screening at the Sundance Kabuki.
Outlining how The Godfather created a “tsunami of success” that irrevocably changed his life and filmmaking, Coppola has gleaned from the passing of years a restoration of creative spirit leaning into what he admits is his “second career.” Tetro is, in fact, the second film of his second career; Youth Without Youth being the first. Lustrously shot in digital and projected in 35mm, the film is a rapture to watch, even as its rich visuals disguise an anemic narrative that doesn’t quite ring true. One is grateful for what one has seen; but, »
- Michael Guillen
Scorsese To Introduce Red Shoes At Cannes
6 May 2009 1:10 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Martin Scorsese is to introduce a special screening of restored movie classic The Red Shoes at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
The cleaned-up version of the beloved 1948 masterpiece will premiere in Cannes on 15 May.
The film has undergone an extensive two-year digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, in association with the British Film Institute and ITV Global Entertainment Ltd and Janus Films.
The restoration was funded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
Scorsese, the founder of The Film Foundation, jumped at the chance to be a part of the new screening, stating, "Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger created a vision in The Red Shoes, one that has never really been matched.
"There's no question that it's one of the most beautiful colour films ever made, and one of the truest to the experience of the artist, the joy and pain of devoting yourself to a life of creation." »
Jack Cardiff Dies
23 April 2009 5:46 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Jack Cardiff passed away yesterday at the age of 94. An Oscar winner for Black Narcissus, in 1948, Cardiff's career as cinematographer spanned an astonishing eight decades, with his career in films going all the way back to an 1918 acting job.Cardiff will be best remembered for his long collaboration with directors Powell & Pressburger on films like A Matter of Life & Death and The Red Shoes, but he also worked on classics like The African Queen for John Huston, The Barefoot Contessa for Joseph L. Mankiewicz and King Vidor's War and Peace.Cardiff also directed films of his own, the most successful of which was probably Sons and Lovers, starring Trevor Howard and Dean Stockwell. He was working well into this century, and leaves behind a wife and four sons.Asked once which of his many credits he was most proud of, Cardiff replied, "Naturally, I am proud of successful films »
Jack Cardiff
22 April 2009 5:55 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff’s work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston’s The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor’s War and Peace (1956), and to low-brow commercial fare such as Conan the Destroyer (1984) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). I’ve never watched Conan or Rambo, but I have watched more than 20 of Cardiff’s 60 or so features, and I can testify that whether working in art-house or commercial fare, Cardiff’s cinematography was invariably one of his films’ chief assets. At times, his work was those films’ only asset. Born on Sept. 18, 1914, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to music hall entertainers, Cardiff began his film career as a cinematographer in the mid-1930s, »
- Andre Soares
DVD Review: A Matter of Life and Death
30 March 2009 5:33 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
This 1946 film, a romantic fantasy set in the backdrop of the 2nd World War, was named as the second greatest British film ever made - after "Get Carter" - in a poll by the Total Film magazine of Britain in 2004. Directed by the writer-director-producer duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, together known as The Archers, this 104-minute long Black & White film was released in the United States under the title "Stairway to Heaven", the name coming from the fantasy-inspired setting of a broad escalator linking the "Other World" and the "Earth". »
- Utpal Borpujari
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