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What's On Tonight: Gary Unmarried, Maltese Falcon, Eastwick, Nip/Tuck
16 December 2009 9:12 AM, PST
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At 8, CBS has a new Old Christine, followed by new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
NBC has a new, two-hour episode of The Sing-Off, then a new Jay Leno Show.
Fox has the two-hour season finale of So You Think You Can Dance at 8.
TCM has The Maltese Falcon at 8, followed by Casablanca.
At 9, Discovery has a new Mythbusters.
DirecTV has a new Friday Night Lights at 9.
Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, then a new Ghost Hunters Academy.
History Channel has a new Nostradamus Effect at 9.
Showtime has a new Inside the NFL at 9.
At 10, ABC has a new Eastwick.
FX has a new Nip/Tuck at 10.
TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns at 10.
A&E has two new episodes of Steven Seagal: Lawman at 10.
Bravo has the Top Chef: Las Vegas Reunion Special at 10.
There's a new Man vs.
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- Bob Sassone
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Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST
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Screenwriter and filmmaker Robert Towne.
Forget It Bob, It’S Chinatown
Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary
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Alex Simon
The haunting trumpet wailing plaintively over the closing credits. The bandage covering star Jack Nicholson’s nose. The best last line of a movie, ever: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown"; all elements of a film now regarded by scholars, critics and cinefiles alike as one of the greatest pieces of American celluloid ever made. Chinatown was a collaboration between a who’s-who of ‘70s film icons. Directed by Roman Polanski, produced by Robert Evans, written by Robert Towne, starring Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, shot by John Alonso, and scored by Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1974, but brought home only one: for its writer. Robert Towne was barely 40, and Chinatown his first produced original screenplay, his previous efforts having been literary adaptations, such as 1973’s The Last Detail.
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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST
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"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!
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/27/2009
24 October 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 27, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.
It's the last big batch of new releases prior to Halloween, so choose carefully and gather up the frights!
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The Asphyx
Robert Stephens stars as Sir Hugo Cunningham, a 19th-century amateur scientist and dabbler in psychic phenomena. His experiments in the new art of photography lead him to discover the Asphyx: an apparition that appears suddenly in the moment before death. He postulates that if the Asphyx can be trapped it may render a creature immortal. He begins humbly, experimenting first with a guinea
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A Glimpse into the Origins of Film Noir
18 October 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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A term that translates to 'Black Film' already sounds interesting. Add to that dramatic, highly stylized cinematography and hard-hitting, gritty writing, and the appeal of film noir is clear. The term is mostly attributed to works such as Double Indemnity, Scarlet Street, and The Maltese Falcon, all major works which helped popularize the genre after its debut in the early 1940s.
Film noir has its origins in literature, birthed in the middle of the 20th century when urban development and social unrest were creating a new world that demanded new literary styles. Coming into prominence at a time of expanding social consciousness in the context of urban life, authors such as Dashiell Hammett found a passion for writing in a 'hard-boiled,' street-smart manner. Hammett's Two Sharp Knives is such a piece, with its stylized narrative, moody characters and dark setting, later to be enhanced in film by stark black and white imagery.
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- Daniel
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Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown
30 September 2009 8:40 AM, PDT
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The curious timing and conspiratorial goings-on surrounding Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland this week bring to mind, for me, the Polish director’s most fascinating film, Chinatown. Arrested for a crime he confessed to thirty-two years ago, but the punishment for which he has avoided ever since, Polanski appears to have been drawn into a world of smoke-and-mirrors and legalese, finally bought down by the very system that has permitted his freedom from extradition since he fled the Us in 1977. It promises to be a distorted and confusing affair and like that experienced by Jake Gittes, the increasingly buffeted and bewildered detective protagonist in his 1974 neo-noir masterpiece, one that might prove impossible to truly unravel.
Chinatown was, and remains, a dazzling exercise in cinematic intelligence and, even in that golden era of post-classical Hollywood, when directors as spiky and gifted as Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, Kubrick and Malick were at their towering,
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- Nick Clarke
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'Project Runway' and film noir: What are your favorite femme-fatale fashions?
25 September 2009 1:24 PM, PDT
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Last night, Project Runway went Hollywood: the designers had to create a look based on classic Hollywood genres, one of which was film noir. Althea, Louise, and Irina all picked this über cool category, and I had high hopes that the ladies would crank out some fierce femme fatale frocks. Wrong! Louise failed miserably (a 1940s actress going to a party dressed as a flapper...huh?), while Irina merely squeaked by with a too-revealing gown paired with an out-of-place poufy cape. Only Althea (whose design is pictured, left) came close to capturing the sexy, dangerous allure of screen goddesses like Barbara Stanwyck (far left) and Rita Hayworth. She even got the hair right.
The challenge got me thinking about the rich history of film noir heroines and the drop-dead duds that made them so thrillingly naughty. It's hard to top Stanwyck's shoulder-padded blouses and pencil skirts — not to mention that ankle bracelet!
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- Missy Schwartz
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: September 1, 2009
1 September 2009 2:08 AM, PDT
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No major new reviews this week, but if you have some time I too a rather extensive look at the Warner Bros. Archive title Don't Be Afraid of the Dark yesterday. It's a film being remade with Guillermo del Toro producing and may be of interest as well as it will introduce you to Warner's attempt to creatively distribute some of their never-before-released titles on DVD. You can check that piece out right here if you are interested.
Paramount Blu-ray Sapphire Series
Braveheart / Gladiator
I am expecting to have review copies of these two in my hands any day now, and I will hustle through them as fast as I can. However, considering the two titles in question I would expect many of you are already eying one or both of them. I know I would definitely be looking
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- Brad Brevet
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 9/01/2009
29 August 2009 11:06 PM, PDT
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Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, September 1, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions. Want a glimpse into the future? Click here for the master list, which just received a major update on titles through September!
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Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas - Lionsgate
Considered to be one of America's most notorious serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas admitted to committing over 350 murders with partner and fellow serial killer Ottis Toole while drifting through multiple states in the American South from 1975 until his arrest in 1983.
Earth Day - R Squared Films
Earth Day tells the tale of a
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Spotlight on new ‘Eclipse’ actor Jack Huston
12 August 2009 7:08 AM, PDT
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’s cast will include Jack Huston as Royce King, II.
Huston joins a growing line-up of Twilight series newcomers for the third film, including Xavier Samuel, Bryce Dallas Howard, and the one and only Jodelle Ferland. Huston is a relatively new actor, with about five years of experience, but he is of blue blood in Hollywood, and has already made a name for himself amongst the greats. Luckily enough for Huston, however, he has an excellent mentor - Al Pacino His grandfather is double Oscar-winner John Huston, legendary director of nearly 50 films (including The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, Casino Royale, Freud, The Unforgiven, Moby Dick, Moulin Rouge) and actor in over film films (including Chinatown, The Hobbit, De Sade, and A Walk With Love And Death). His aunt is Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston, who has starred in over 70 films (including Prizzi’s Honor,
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Spotlight on new ‘Eclipse’ actor Jack Huston
12 August 2009 3:34 AM, PDT
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The Hollywood Reporter has recently announced the news that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's cast will include Jack Huston as Royce King, II.
Huston joins a growing line-up of Twilight series newcomers for the third film, including Xavier Samuel, Bryce Dallas Howard, and the one and only Jodelle Ferland.
Huston is a relatively new actor, with about five years of experience, but he is of blue blood in Hollywood, and has already made a name for himself amongst the greats.
His grandfather is double Oscar-winner John Huston, legendary director of nearly 50 films (including The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, Casino Royale, Freud, The Unforgiven, Moby Dick, Moulin Rouge) and actor in over film films (including Chinatown, The Hobbit, De Sade, and A Walk With Love And Death). His aunt is Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston, who has starred in over 70 films (including Prizzi's Honor, The Addams Family, Ever After,
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SFSFF09—Underworld (1927) Introductory Remarks
14 July 2009 2:40 PM, PDT
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I first caught Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld (1927) at the Pacific Film Archive von Sternberg retrospective earlier this year accompanied by Judith Rosenberg on piano. I welcomed the opportunity to watch the film again projected on the Castro’s giant screen with live piano accompaniment by the indefatigable Stephen Horne for the specific intent of savoring the scene where “Feathers” McCoy (Evelyn Brent) first comes to the attention of “Rolls Royce” Wensel (Clive Brook); namely, by way of an ostrich feather shaken loose from McCoy’s outfit, drifting down to Wensel who is sweeping the floor below. Entrances are rarely so insinuating.
Eddie Muller, the “Czar of Noir”, had the honors of introducing Underworld to its Sfsff audience. Often asked—in his capacity as the Czar—what he considers to be the first film noir, Muller admitted he rarely answers the question because he considers trying to pin down the
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- Michael Guillen
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