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Jose Gives Thanks.

26 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Jose here.

Although we don't have anything resembling Thanksgiving in my culture (Penélope Cruz was talking about that on Letterman the other day) I have a special place in my heart (and stomach) for turkey, gravy and pumpkin pie.

I also feel very grateful for the following: Technicolor, Woody Allen banter, Judy Garland's smile, the millisecond of suspense between normal talking and spontaneous singing in the musicals, post-Volver Penélope, the Truffaut/Hitchcock book, still being thrilled by the sepia-to-color switch in The Wizard of Oz, Nino Rota and La Strada, Julia Roberts' laugh, Scarlett and Rhett, Bette Davis' eyes, Ingrid Bergman's Italian phase, Jett Rink, Jacques Tourneur horror flicks, The Blob, pre-supermom Gwyneth, Wall-e, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Hathaway at award shows, Brando as Kowalski, Meryl!, Gene Kelly's butt, subtitles...

Audrey Hepburn's weird morning eating habits circa '61, Nathaniel letting me write all of this, »

- Jose

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Jerry Lewis Film Festival At Anthology Film Archives, New York

11 November 2009 2:50 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Directed By Jerry Lewis November 12-19

Jerry Lewis:

Check out the notices:

Village Voice

The New Yorker on Cracking Up (scroll down)

A Flavorpill pick

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Jerry Lewis was born into a world of cinema, of images that fascinated him. Brought as a performer and star to the place where films are made, he learned film as a child learns the ways of the world. Like a child, obsessed with finding out things, he took apart the toys he was given, trying to see what was inside them and how they worked. When he won the chance to direct his own films, he used the opportunity to launch a relentless examination of his own relationship with filmic and verbal language." -Chris Fujiwara

This fall, Anthology addresses one of the questions that has challenged thinkers throughout the ages: could the French have gotten Jerry Lewis right? Though famously beloved by many »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Cinematical Seven: Directorial Double Whammies

13 October 2009 8:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Reading about movies, you hear stories of some films shot in five days and other films shot over three years. Some of the poverty-row directors and B-movie makers cranked out as many movies as they could during a calendar year, while filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin and Stanley Kubrick waited years between projects (making each release a new "event"). Most filmmakers, I think, given the chance would probably release one film per year, keeping their toes in without burning out. But sometimes, whether it's a trick of the calendar, or some peculiar rhythms of timing, some of the greatest directors manage to release two films per year. And even less often, both of these films turn out great. The following is my not-exactly-extensive, but enthusiastic celebration of the one-two punch or the director's double-whammy.

1. Jacques Tourneur: I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man (1943)

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- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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Old Ass Movies: Know the Horror of ‘I Walked with a Zombie’

30 August 2009 11:18 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: I Walked With a Zombie (1943) I realize it's been a few weeks since Oam has been in hiding, waiting around the corner to pounce on its latest victim, so I figured it was a great idea to come back from the break by taking a look at a fantastic example of 40s era suspense while Halloween 2: The Second 2 and The Final Destination are in theaters. If anything, it should give you a solid alternative. In 1942, the team of producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur released the horror film Cat People - one of the most famous horror films to date. The next year they would deliver I Walked with a Zombie, a gripping tale told in the similar trademark suspenseful style which used light and »

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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Repulsion (DVD Review)

29 July 2009 12:02 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Roman Polanski’s second feature film, Repulsion (1965), is considered a classic of the slow-burn, first-person psychological-study genre. Just out on a special-edition DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, it messily observes and records the unraveling of the sanity of an unbalanced young woman (played by an especially delicate Catherine Deneuve) when she’s left home alone for the weekend by her older sister.

That’s really it for plot, folks; this is more of a non-narrative character study than a densely plotted thriller. But if you hook up with the film’s wavelength, settle in with it and allow the flow of images to lead you along, you’ll find yourself taking an interesting and disturbing journey.

The movie is expertly photographed by Gil Taylor (who would reunite with Polanski a year later on Cul-de-sac), who imbues the first half of the movie with a rather natural look. But once the long, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Scooter McCrae)

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Tom Cruise Goes To Wichita

28 May 2009 12:29 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Tom Cruise has been circling several projects over the last few months, but it looks like he's finally spun the Wheel of Fortune and chosen one. Yes, he has approved the script for, and is in advanced negotiations to star in, Wichita with Cameron Diaz. James Mangold is set to direct.The film, which is nothing to do with the Jacques Tourneur Wyatt Earp Western of the same name from 1955 or indeed the Wichita Lineman (who is still on the liiiiiiiiine), apparently sees Cruise play a spy.That bit is familiar ground there for him, but this time he's not engaged in impossible missions but is "popping in and out" of the life of a single woman (Diaz). It's an action-comedy, with several action set-pieces (we're told), so we're guessing he keeps appearing in her life through a series of bizarre coincidences, rather than this being a Mr and Mrs Smith-style set-up. »

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Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies

21 April 2009 6:00 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher. Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series. Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night.  The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June 2), Fritz Lang (June 8), John Huston (June 11), Jacques Tourneur (June 12), Robert Wise (June 16), Blake Edwards (June 19), Otto Preminger (June 23), David Lean (June 26) and Sidney Lumet (June 29). Weeknight primetime directors include John [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Branagh Eyes 'Night of the Demon' Remake

20 March 2009 9:58 PM, PDT | ESplatter.com | See recent ESplatter news »

Remakes, remakes, remakes. One of the best horror movies of the 1950s, "Night of the Demon" is now set for the redo treatment by none other than Kenneth Branagh, director of "Much Ado About Nothing" and, yes, that terrible 1990s "Frankenstein" film, "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." He tells Fangoria that he's working on a remake of "Night of the Demon", the 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. An adaptation of M. R. James' Casting the Runes (1911), the plot revolves around American Professor John Holden going to England and investigating a Satanic cult suspected of being responsible for more than one death in recent months. "I think it's a sensational movie and I think it's ripe for redoing," he told Fangoria."We can be quite different with a new version of it." Currently, Branagh is getting ready to film a comic book »

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Branagh Has His Eye on Night of the Demon

17 March 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Film journalist, and overall horror scene personality, Chris Alexander got an opportunity to chat, on behalf of Fangoria, with Kenneth Branagh about his interpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . Asked if he would return to the genre, Branagh revealed that he "loves" Jacques Tourneur's 1957 film Night of the Demon and is "actively" trying to secure the rights to update the film. "I think it's a sensational movie and I think it's ripe for redoing," he tells Alexander. Since Tourneur's film is based on Montague Rhodes James's "Casting the Runes" Branagh says, "We can be quite different with a new version of it." Of course, this will probably have to wait until he directs Thor for Marvel which is opening in May 20, 2011. »

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Exclusive Interview: Kenneth Branagh talks about Frankenstein and remaking Night Of The Demon

16 March 2009 10:34 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Hello Blood Spattered disciples. I'm on a roll. First Nic Cage, then Alex Proyas and now my third audio interview this week, iconic Shakespearean Kenneth Branagh. In this exclusive interview for my Blood Spattered Blog conducted last Friday, I talk to the Irish born, British raised actor/director about his underrated 1994 adaptation of Frankenstein and - in what I think is a first - the idea of him remaking Jacques Tourneur's brilliant 1957 shocker Night Of The Demon.

Have a look/listen...

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Rko’s I Walked With a Zombie Remake Gets Director

16 March 2009 7:51 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Rko has found a director for its upcoming remake of the 1943 horror classic, “I Walk with a Zombie”. His name is Adam Marcus, and he last directed the Val Kilmer starrer “Conspiracy” (you’ve probably never heard of it, cause mostly it sucked), and before that, “Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday”, which as it turns out, wasn’t really the final Friday. Variety has more on the remake: The film focuses on a private tutor who discovers a terrifying family secret while working at the ancient estate of a New Orleans businessman. The original was a forerunner of the corps of walking corpse films that followed. Hartley called the film one of the most valuable in the Rko library. The 1943 original was directed by Jacques Tourneur, and starred Edith Barrett, James Bell, and Tom Conway. Marcus will adapt the remake with his writing partner Debra Sullivan, while Ted Hartley, »

- Nix

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Adam Marcus Has Walked With a Zombie

16 March 2009 1:30 AM, PDT | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »

Ding. Ding. Ding. Time to remake another classic. Sticking to the horror genre, Twisted Pictures has hired Adam Marcus to direct the remake of the 1943 classic, I Walked With a Zombie.

I Walked With a Zombie Remake Coming

Originally directed by Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With a Zombie focuses on a private tutor who discovers a terrifying family secret while working at the ancient estate of a New Orleans businessman. The film launched an entire genre of horror movies.

Adam Marcus wrote the script with Debra Sullivan. »

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Jason Goes To Hell director tackles Zombie remake

15 March 2009 10:08 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Variety reports that Adam Marcus, who helmed Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, has been attached to the remake of I Walked With A Zombie. The 1943 Rko classic, produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur, is being updated by the new Rko’s Roseblood Movie Co. and Twisted Pictures, which has produced the Saw series among others.

Marcus also scripted the new Zombie with Debra Sullivan; the story is set on a New Orleans estate where a private tutor discovers a family secret involving voodoo. Overseeing the project is busy Andy Fickman (see item here), who’s also supervising revisitations of Lewton’s The Body Snatcher, Bedlam and Five Came Back. “Adam and Deborah have created a chilling screenplay that along with Adam’s vision would make Lewton proud,” Fickman tells the trade. »

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Adam Marcus To Walk With A Zombie

15 March 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Adam Marcus, director of the underrated, if erroneously titled, Friday The 13th sequel, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, is finally making a return to horror after over fifteen years away.The 40 year-old director has signed on to direct the remake of Rko’s cult classic, I Walked With A Zombie.Directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton in 1943, the original was a creepy, eerie affair that isn’t a typical zombie film, at least, not in the way that we understand the term now. There are no flesh-eating ghouls here – just a dark and macabre tale involving a Caribbean island, voodoo, and a patient stricken by an apparent illness which seems to involve zombie-like symptoms.The original was also only 69 minutes long, so there’s plenty of room for Marcus’ remake to expand, and hopefully, improve upon what’s gone before.Indeed, he’s already begun, »

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Dwayne Johnson Lends Voice In CG-Animated Film "Holy Cow!"

6 March 2009 5:17 AM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

Former professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson is lending his voice to a new CG-animated feature "Holy Cow!" for White Buffalo Media and Prana Animation Studios.

The actor, whose former ring name is The Rock, will voice a macho Texas steer in the film based on an original idea by Peter Kalmach and Teddy Grennan, Variety reports.

The film will follow a Texas bull who decides to seek refuge in India, where cattle are venerated and not eaten.

Johnson will executive produce along with Dany Garcia, while Jack Turner, Kristin Dornig, Arish Fyzee, and Kalmbach will produce.

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What Movies Died with VHS?

1 March 2009 6:32 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

New technologies often lead directly to the death of old technologies, and that's what happened with VHS. It changed home viewing habits forever, and then itself was killed off by DVD. It was a slow death that finally ended last fall, when the last major supplier of VHS tapes quit the business.

That might be that -- out with the old, in with the new, and all that rubbish -- except when VHS died, it might have taken an untold number of innocent victims along with it to the grave. "Hundreds of important and critically acclaimed films [are] no longer readily accessible for home viewing," reports Anthony Kaufman at Moving Image Source. "In the wake of video-store shutdowns across the country, and a move toward DVD-only subscription services modeled after Netflix and digital download initiatives, the non-digitized movie is becoming an endangered species. The death of VHS has long been foretold »

- Peter Martin

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I Walked With a Zombie Up First for Rko Pictures

10 February 2009 2:58 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

A while back we reported that Rko Pictures was planning to remake four of their own horror classics with Twisted Pictures (the company behind the Saw franchise). Well, in a conversation with Race to Witch Mountain director Andy Fickman, ComingSoon found out that the zombie classic I Walked With a Zombie will be the first of the foursome to get remade. It looks like Adam Marcus, of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, is set to direct this, with production starting in New Orleans in the next few months. The original film first debuted in 1943 and was directed by Jacques Tourneur and starred James Ellison. Based on the 1943 film of the same name, I Walked With a Zombie is about a nurse who uses voodoo to resurrect the wife of a plantation manager. As Twisted Pictures is now a part of Rko, I'm sure there will be »

- Brandon Lee Tenney

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Bruce Dickinson presents Crowley on DVD March 10th!

30 January 2009 6:31 AM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

What happens when ancient evil marries 21st-century technology? Behold Crowley. Also known under its international title Chemical Wedding, Anchor Bay Entertainment will unleash this one-of-a-kind supernatural shocker on DVD on March 10, 2009 .

Crowley stars Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, Phantom of the Opera), two-time BAFTA Award nominee and SAG Award winner and is directed by Julian Doyle (editor of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits and Brazil). Doyle co-wrote the screenplay with Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of the legendary heavy-metal rock group Iron Maiden. Dickinson also co-wrote the film’s music score with Dave Howman, Andre Jacquemin and Rod Melvin.

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was the most notorious occultist who ever lived. A man whose appetites for corruption, sadism, sexual excess and moral degradation knew no bounds. His sphere of influence extended far beyond England to the world at large, »

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