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Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, The Village People, Valerie Perrine: Out at the Pictures
7 December 2009 11:02 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom in The Haunting (top); The Village People in Can’t Stop the Music (bottom) "Out at the Pictures" at London’s bfi Southbank: Robert Wise’s horror-house classic The Haunting (1963), starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn Nancy Walker’s costly box-office disaster Can’t Stop the Music (1980), starring a rollerblading Steve Guttenberg (in some tight, tight shorts that would get him arrested today for indecent underexposure), Valerie Perrine, and The Village People The Haunting is one the best horror movies ever made. Julie Harris is sensational, and Claire Bloom is almost as good in a less showy role — a Lesbian. Now, who’s that knocking at the door? Can’t Stop the Music would have been better had the [...] »
- Andre Soares
30 Years Ago Today 'Star Trek' Debuted on the Big Screen
6 December 2009 9:50 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Happy Anniversary 'Star Trek'!
On this day in 1979, Paramount Pictures released Star Trek: The Motion Picture in theaters, thus beginning three decades of 'Star Trek' on the silver screen, and culminating in this year's reboot of the franchise with director Jj Abrams' Star Trek. One might also argue that the relative financial success of Star Trek: The Motion Picture also paved the way for the franchise's return to television with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture didn't begin as a feature film, however. The erstwhile series' extraordinary popularity in syndication prompted Paramount Pictures and Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to begin developing a new 'Star Trek Phase II' series in May 1975—part of the cornerstone of a new television network Paramount had planned. Work on the series stalled, however, when the proposed Paramount Television Service folded.
Following the landmark success of Star Wars »
In the November Notebook
6 December 2009 8:51 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Acquarello
Now on DVD: "The Human Condition" (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-1961)
The Forgotten: Loose Talk
The Forgotten: Chains of Love
Now on DVD: "TheGoodTimesKid" (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
The Forgotten: Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden
Now Playing on The Auteurs: "Death in the Garden" (Luis Buñuel, Mexico/France)
The Forgotten: Strausswitz
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Hausu"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Up in the Air"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Bright Star"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Home"
Ways of Love, or the Best Films that Didn't Appear on Other "Ten Best" Lists...
The Trouble with Movies: II
53rd London Film Festival: "La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris" (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
Daniel Kasman
Video Sundays
Video Sundays: The Modern Charade
God and Man: Aleksandr Sokurov's "The Sun"
Images of the Day
Video Sundays: Auteur Pantomime in the »
News: Star Trek Marathon at the La American Cinematheque
29 November 2009 9:47 AM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
Looking for something to do on the 4th and 5th of December? How about back-to-back Star Trek movie marathons, with an accompanying panel discussion?
If you are in or around Los Angeles, the American Cinematheque, in association with TrekMovie.Com, is doing a tribute to 30 years of Star Trek Films. On Friday the 4th, they'll be showing the Jj Abrams reboot Star Trek, at 7:30Pm, followed by Free Enterprise and a panel immediately afterwards.
On Saturday the 5th, it's an all-day Trekaganza, a triple feature, consisting of Warth Of Khan, The Search For Spock and The Voyage Home. Plus panels. Who doesn't like a panel?
From the Cinematheque's website:n 1979, Robert Wise's Star Trek: The Motion Picture kicked off a mania for TV-to-movie adaptations that has thrived ever since and spawned multiple sequels, tributes, and spinoffs. To celebrate the Star Trek film series, we've chosen some of the best films in the franchise, »
Blu-ray Review: Moon
9 November 2009 2:25 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”
Duncan Jones is a genius. In bringing his feature debut Moon to the big screen he has made a film that pays graceful homage to such luminaries as Kubrick, Spielberg, and Robert Wise to name a few, and can stand proudly in their company with his beautiful metaphysical movie which is as accomplished in its execution as it is limitless in its ambition.
Jones’s Moon is a unique and intelligent thriller with the twin benefits of an outstanding (and Oscar-worthy turn) by Sam Rockwell and a script which takes familiar sci-fi concepts and draws out a superior narrative without ever relying on the conventions of the genre. It is an incredibly difficult trick to pull off, but as I was watching the film I sat literally breathless in admiration as Jones let the story flow, »
- Jon Lyus
Standing Eight Count
2 November 2009 4:38 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Yesterday I sat down once again to watch Martin Scorsese’s 1980 masterpiece Raging Bull, taking my viewings somewhere into double figures. I consider it to be the director’s finest film (just edging out Mean Streets), and De Niro’s titular Bull, Jake Lamotta, the actor’s premier performance. It is a film that exercises an extraordinary hold, drawing me in time and again in search of new meaning. And it never fails to deliver. But as the credits role I always ask myself the same question: “Why does the film industry have such an abiding love affair with the sweet science?” Like a punch-drunk journeyman surviving on a mix of experience, gut instinct and crude reflex, the fight film, despite its often indelicate and rough-edged familiarity, continues to bewitch filmmakers and confound audiences with an Ali-esque dexterity. From noir-ish The Set Up, On The Waterfront, The Harder They Fall »
- Nick Clarke
Martin Scorsese Picks 11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time!
30 October 2009 5:51 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
If there is anyone I would want to choose what movies I watch this Halloween weekend (besides Stephen King or Wes Craven), I'd want it to be Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese. He's a genius filmmaker and I'm sure he knows great horror when he sees it. I think this would've been much better coordinated if his new movie Shutter Island was actually out in theaters (damn you Paramount), but either way this is a great list. The Daily Beast asked Scorsese to choose some horror movies for Halloween and he came up with his own list of the 11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time. Read on to see what great classics he chose! 1. The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963) 2. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson, 1945) 3. The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, 1944) 4. The Entity (Sidney J. Furie, 1981) 5. Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1945) 6. The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980) 7. The »
- Alex Billington
Horror Hero Sam Raimi Reveals His Favorite Scary Movies For Halloween
29 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's the eternal dorm-room debate, the stuff of boozy smack-talking sessions and stony, less-than-coherent arguments: what's the scariest movie of all-time? It's a (sober) discussion we've been having at MTV News as Halloween sneaks up on us and a question we've been throwing out to folks in the film biz who truly know their fright-fest stuff.
When I had a chance to talk with Sam Raimi – he of the many righteous "Evil Dead" pictures – I had to get his thoughts on the matter. The first thing he told me was that the horror genre scares the crap out of him. "It's hard to sit through them," he confessed. "I really enjoy it when I'm in the middle of it, it's just hard to approach the theater." The second thing he said is that he loves them dearly. The third and fourth and fifth and sixth? Those scary movies he cherishes »
- Eric Ditzian
MattFini's Halloween Top 10 Lists: Ghost Stories!
26 October 2009 4:47 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Editor's Note: We're always on the lookout for good new writers here at Dread Central, and with the addition of MattFini we hit pay dirt! Matt's not only one of our best and brightest, but he's also as opinionated as they come. You're almost always guaranteed to be either infuriated or amused at his musings. Each day this week he'll be posting his own Halloween Top 10 lists. Agree? Disagree? Laugh! Cry! Sound off inside!
Without further ado ... the man, the myth, the lunatic, our very own Masked Slasher, MattFini!
This past weekend saw the upset of the ages as sleeper hit Paranormal Activity bested the reigning champion that is the Saw franchise at the box office. So, in honor of one of the scariest films to come along in a while, we thought it’d be fun to offer a countdown of the 10 greatest ghost films ever made.
In the end, »
- Masked Slasher
The Enigma of Horror Vérité
24 October 2009 10:06 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
The notion of a film using a vérité style and false claims of “it really happened” is nothing new to the horror genre. In 1974, Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, made use of a now famous John Larroquette narration, a group of amateur actors and a gritty shooting style to make mid-70s drive-in movie-goers question the reality of what they had just seen. 1980 brought horror fans the still controversial Cannibal Holocaust, a film that not only invented the now popular “found footage” horror film, but still even today manages to make some of its viewers question if what they are watching is in actuality, “snuff”.
The trend continued into the 1990s with films like the morbidly comical Man Bites Dog (1992), the widely overlooked and heavily flawed The Last Broadcast (1998) and of course the hugely profitable and arguably overrated The Blair Witch Project (1999); a film whose success, though »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (The Horror Professor)
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)
The world has frankly been »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 10.09.09
9 October 2009 2:28 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Couple’S Retreat Studio: Universal Rated: PG-13 for sexual content and language. Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love and Kristin Davis Directed by: Peter Billingsley What it’s about: Four couples face a wide array of relationship problems and travel to a tropical resort for a getaway. Unfortunately, they must also face a barrage of couples’ counseling, which puts a greater strain on their relationships. What I liked: I know this movie is just a big roaring pot of cliches, but I thought it was funny. The cast is the key, and it is loaded with some hilarious people. That’s not just the dudes with Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau and Faizon Love (who is the fat black dude that no one seems to remember but throws down the comedy as good as the rest of them). It’s also the ladies with the Kristen/Kristin double bill (yes, I »
- Kevin Carr
Scores from Outer Space
30 September 2009 7:38 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Undertones: Volume 6 The classic science fiction film emerged during a period of great societal paranoia in the Us in the early 1950s. The post-WW2 environment saw an increased concern with nuclear armament and a fear of the infiltration of communism on the American way of life. Essentially, the sci-fi film was Hollywood’s great metaphor for these threats; its power largely dependent on playing on the fears of the cinema-goer. Many of the films were low-budget affairs pumped out by the studios; a steady stream of high-camp and cheap thrills in order to provide what one can only assume was constant necking-fodder for teens at drive-ins. Amongst these ‘B’ pictures, many of which have been long lost in time to the more technologically-savvy audiences of recent years but considered charming nostalgia to retro film junkies, are films that stand out for their innovation and social commentary and are considered classics by modern cinophiles. »
- Ricky
Han Shot First! John Scalzi Examines SciFi's Special Extended Director's Cuts
16 September 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | amctv.com - John Scalzi | See recent amctv.com - John Scalzi news »
Last week I ranked the directors of the Star Trek movies, and I had ranked Robert Wise -- director of Star Trek: The Motion Picture -- fairly low on the totem pole: 5th out of 8, actually. To which some folks in the comment thread responded, "Yes, that's accurate, but to be fair, the 'director's cut' of the film is much better." They're not wrong. The director's cut is only »
Wood That She Were Still Here
18 August 2009 3:50 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
Forty years after it opened the 1969 New York Film Festival, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon will return to Lincoln Center this weekend for two screenings of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice."
Paul Mazursky's satiric comedy about swinging couples is among the 12 films being shown as part of "Yesterday's Angel: Natalie Wood," a tribute to the actress who died 1981.
The film series kicks off tonight with a new 35mm print of Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' "West Side Story" (1961), partly »
- By LOU LUMENICK
Shirley Jackson's Castle Being Adapted
18 August 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Shirley Jackson gave us one of the finest haunted house stories ever: "The Haunting of Hill House." The novel was adapted into the 1963 Robert Wise classic The Haunting . Now her '62 tale "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is being primed for the screen by Michael Douglas' Further Films and Literal Media. Mark Kruger ( The 4400 ) has written the script. The story - once adapted in '66 by Hugh Wheeler - is told from the point of view of 18-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood. She, her sister and her uncle live in seclusion after their family members were poisoned by arsenic. As THR reports, "the plot is further complicated by the arrival of a dubious, long-lost cousin who seeks to secure the family's fortune." A director is »
Best '60s Movies
17 July 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll! It was the clarion call of a generation, but only a little of that brand of hedonism is reflected in our picks for the best films of the decade. The counterculture axiom of not trusting anyone over 30 also didn't extend much to actors or directors.
Three old guard auteurs make our list -- David Lean, Robert Wise and Alfred Hitchcock -- with two films each. Paul Newman has no less than four starring roles among our best picks. And, really, you can't get any more establishment than a troika of musicals -- 'The Sound of Music,' 'West Side Story' and 'My Fair Lady' -- winning Best Picture Oscars ... now that's far out!
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- Moviefone Staff
Jean-Jacques Beineix: The Hollywood Interview
14 July 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Divas and Lions and Moons, Oh My!
By Alex Simon
The Noveulle Vague, or “French New Wave” was launched by a group of film critics and cinefiles who began France’s legendary Cahiers du Cinéma magazine in the 1950s. With Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in 1959, the movement was launched, emphasizing behavior over aesthetics, content over form, and pastiche of other film genres (particularly those born in the U.S., with a healthy dollop of Italian neorealism) over the more traditional narratives of French films from years past. Francois Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda (see our interview with her below) Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette all fell under the spell of magazine co-founder and theorist Andre Bazin, laying the groundwork for a series of articles, monographs and critiques that formed the so-called “auteur theory,” (or more specifically “"La politique des auteurs" ("The policy of authors, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Treknobabble #71: A Reappraisal of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
13 July 2009 1:11 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Treknobabble [1] is a continuing series of columns written by uber-Trekkie Reed Farrington about Star Trek and how it has influenced his life. When I first watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Sttmp) in a theatre in 1979, I must admit that I thought that Gene Roddenberry could do no wrong. I was one of those Trekkies who were eager for new adventures after years of watching reruns. I think I watched the theatre screen with rapt attention even with the interminable fly-throughs of the V’Ger spacecraft. I must admit that I didn’t clue in to the twist even when the crew approached the Voyager type spacecraft. I remember being disappointed by the simple resolution of the threat. And I did miss the fun factor even though I had thought most of the humor in the television series was hammy. Visually, I liked the monochromatic design with the gray and muted colors. »
- Reed
Love is Undying in new supernatural film
15 June 2009 8:21 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Director Steven Peros sent along some info and a bunch of exclusive photos (see them below), from The Undying, his new supernatural film from Roscommon Pictures. Peros, best known for scripting Peter Bogdanovich’s Kirsten Dunst-starrer The Cat’S Meow from his own play, also wrote Undying with producer David M. Flynn.
Robin Weigert (first photo, with Paul David Story), who nabbed an Emmy nomination for playing Calamity Jane in HBO’s acclaimed series Deadwood, stars as Dr. Barbara Houghton, who moves into a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse as she starts a job at a hospital. Still reeling from the death of her fiancé, she becomes intrigued by the story of Elijah, a Civil War soldier whose ghost supposedly haunts her new home. When Jason (Anthony Carrigan, second photo), a stabbing victim she has treated, is taken off life support, she steals his body and takes it to the farmhouse, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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