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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
Box Office 2.0: Assessing 2009’s Dox Office From “Capitalism” to “The Cove”
17 November 2009 2:23 PM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
While the box office monster that is “Precious” and the first weekend of studio backed limited release “Fantastic Mr. Fox” sat high atop this week’s box office chart, and got primary focus in the last weekend estimates report, there were nevertheless interesting numbers happening just below them. A notable seven films walked away with per-theater-averages of $10,000+ (add an eighth if you include the restoration of “The Red Shoes”), including three … »
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, »
What to see this Christmas
13 November 2009 1:40 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Blockbusters don't come much bigger in our guide to the best films this Christmas
Zac Efron proves he's ready to graduate from high school in Richard Linklater's latest. He plays Richard, a callow young fellow in the 1930s, who manages to persuade no less a figure than Orson Welles to give him a small role in the legendary Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar. Released on 4 December.
The famous illustrated children's book about a strange wonderland populated by marvellous, scary creatures with fur and horns has been fleshed out into a feature film by Spike Jonze, where a little boy runs away to this mythical land and installs himself as their king. Released on 11 December.
James "Titanic" Cameron returns to mainstream movie-making, bringing us this state-of-the-art spectacular. Sam Worthington plays Jake, a disabled former combat soldier who is recreated »
- Peter Bradshaw
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." »
Cassel, Ryder And Hershey Join Black Swan
9 November 2009 2:18 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
According to a Slash Film story published this morning Darren Aronofsky's fifth feature film Black Swan - set to start shooting later this year in New York City - has picked up a few new cast members in the form of Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder and Barbara Hershey.
The film is already set to star Natalie Portman as a veteran dancer at the New York Ballet who finds herself in violent competition with a younger dancer (Mila Kunis) in the run-up to a big performance.
Ryder will feature as a friend of Portman's character, and a fellow ballerina who has been playing the much sort-after lead roles for many years but is now reaching the end of her career. Hershey will play Portman's mother (a role she has taken over from Meryl Streep who had been previously tipped for the role), while Cassel will take on the task of »
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 »
Emily Blunt Films With Matt and Poses With John
4 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Emily Blunt joined Matt Damon Monday for a long afternoon on the NYC set of The Adjustment Bureau. After working on a few scenes, they took a quick lunch break before heading home afterward in the dark. Emily had another late night yesterday, when she joined fiance John Krasinski for a premiere of The Red Shoes. We've been pondering what it would be like if John's The Office met Mad Men, but he was all about posing and smiling with Emily as they checked out the movie alongside newly announced Oscar host Alec Baldwin. View 20 Photos › To see more of Matt and Emily, just read more. View 20 Photos › Images include: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Emily Mortimer, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Alessandro Nivola »
- PopSugar
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
Michael Jackson's movie ambitions included 3-D film of 'Thriller,' 'Red Shoes' remake
30 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
In a sadly ironic twist, This is It has become the hit movie that Michael Jackson never managed to make while he was alive. Jackson’s most prominent big-screen role was as the Scarecrow in the 1978 flop The Wiz, but he continued to explore his love of movies with projects like the 14-minute “Thriller” video and Captain Eo, the short science-fiction film he made with Francis Ford Coppola in the mid-1980s. In an interview for EW’s recent cover story, This Is It director Kenny Ortega revealed that Jackson continued to harbor cinematic ambitions right up to the end of his life. »
- Josh Rottenberg
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 … »
Cinema Retro #15 Now Shipping Worldwide!
16 September 2009 3:15 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Issue #15 of Cinema Retro has just been mailed to all subscribers in North America and territories outside of Europe. As a reminder, this is the last issue of season 5. Subscribers will find a renewal form inside this issue, but you don't need to wait. You can re-subscribe for next season at any time. If you haven't subscribed yet, this is a great chance to enjoy all three issues of the current season - #13, #14 and #15. You will receive them all in one package along with a renewal form should you wish to continue subscribing for next season.
Here are the highlights of issue #15 :
Lee Marvin Tribute Issue Featuring Rare Unpublished 1974 Interview In Which Marvin Discusses His Key Films; Plus Steve Mori's On-location Report From The Set Of "The Klansman" Starring Marvin, Richard Burton, O.J. Simpson And Luciana Paluzzi - Featuring Unpublished Behind The Scenes Set Photos Taken By Steve.We »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
David Gordon Green's Suspiria Remake to Shoot in 2010
13 September 2009 4:35 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
David Gordon Green's career as a director has traveled through a variety of genres, starting in indie fare like All the Real Girls and Snow Angels before finding box office success with the stoner comedy Pineapple Express. Green's adding another genre to his resume with the upcoming horror thriller Freaks of the Heartland and a remake of Dario Argento's horror classic, Suspiria.
Green has been working on Suspiria for some time now, but, as Variety reports, shooting will finally begin in 2010. Green excitedly described the movie to ReelzChannel over a year ago:
It's great. You just have to see it. [I'm going for] the vivid technicolor achievement of The Red Shoes with the intensity and fear and anxiety of The Silence of the Lambs. Natalie Portman has been rumored for the lead, but while no confirmation has been made, Portman is currently shooting the comedy fantasy Your Highness with Green and »
- Ryan Gowland
A Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor Gets Documentary Treatment In The Man On The Radio In The Red Shoes
31 August 2009 9:44 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
If you're a fan of Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion, there's a good chance you're already familiar with the documentary The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes. It's just the nature of Keillor fans to find out what's going on. The touring dates sell out practically before anyone knows they're on sale. If you happen not to be aware, and have any interest in Garrison Keillor at all, you simple must check out this wonderful documentary. More than a year of filming put together by Peabody, DGA and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen, showcases the brilliantly indescribable man who brought radio variety back to a world that had no idea it was interested. Originally airing on PBS' American Masters, the DVD is available with more than an hour of extras, and they are decidedly worthy additions. »
- Marc Eastman
Shuffled Island, Scorsese's Schedules
23 August 2009 9:54 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I neglected to mention the news of Shutter Island's shift to 2010 when it spread across the internet Friday (I swear, if you don't have your laptop grafted onto your body these days...). This shuffling happens to movies every year and everyone (including myself sometimes) acts surprised and put out as if it's never happened before. We have agreed to collective amnesia.
Dennis Lehane's 6th novel Mystic River was on screen two years after it
was published. His 7th, Shutter Island, is taking longer to crossover.
Generally speaking such schedule switcheroos prompt three distinct reactions each year
The studio lacks confidence in the movie and/or the movie isn't any good (suggesting that good = Oscar which it doesn't but that's another story)
This movie wasn't going to be AMPAS's cuppa anyway, no matter when it opened. Might be a good decision financially.
Yay. Something that's not total garbage is »
- NATHANIEL R
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
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