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Five Ways to Put the I in I.T.
18 December 2009 2:01 PM, PST
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So, here we are, in our home office. And we like it, we really do. We like the fact that we can pretty much do what we want, whenever we want to. We like the fact that there's no boss breathing down our necks (good oral hygiene or not). That we can stroll into the kitchen and make ourselves cups and cups of tea. What we wear on the job--or what we don't wear, naturism fans. When we work. But what we don't like--and I think I can speak for all of us here, is when tech goes bad, when all your base are belong to the nasty little gizmo gremlin and it seems that nothing can fix it. And these moments make me long for the days when I.T. support was just a four-digit extension away.
A long, long time ago, when I was a rookie feature writer,
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- Addy Dugdale
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cinemadaily | Season’s Screenings
18 December 2009 12:29 PM, PST
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Two bona-fide classics return to New York today for extended runs this holiday season: Carol Reed’s existential thriller “Third Man” begins a 12-day engagement at Film Forum for its 60th anniversary, while Howard Hawks’ screwball masterpiece “His Girl Friday” gets a week-long run at Bam. The A.V. Club: “A sharp, exciting thriller that beautifully captures a dispirited Europe nowhere near recovered from WWII, Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’ is one of …
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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- Garth Franklin
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
| Dark Horizons
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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- Garth Franklin
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Me and Orson Welles
12 December 2009 5:00 AM, PST
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Me and Orson Welles
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Cast: Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes
Running Time: 1 hr 55 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: December 11, 2009 (limited)
Plot: A young wannabe actor (Efron) is taken under the wing of directing genius Orson Welles (McKay) as he works with his Mercury Players theatre company to revolutionize Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in 1937.
Who’S It For? Fans of Welles will likely cherish this wonderful impersonation even more so than
squads of slightly grown up Efron fans who experiment with the High School Musical actor’s attempt at something a bit different. The film isn’t exclusive to either of these groups, as its comedy reaches past those who are aware of Welles’ quirks or Efron’s looks.
Expectations: How would the expected drama with Efron balance with the true story of Welles’ magnificence? Would the legend’s impersonator, McKay, be able to effectively duplicate
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- Nick Allen
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Five For The Ages:[p]Orson Welles Stories
11 December 2009 8:06 AM, PST
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As far as cults of personality go, you'd be hard-pressed to find one as ruthlessly self-created as that of Orson Welles. A provocateur before he even made it into the movies, Welles' cinematic ambitions were equally present in the personal stories and myths he created to shroud himself. While many of those tales - like the claim that he was the great-grandson of Gideon Welles, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy - proved to be entirely false, there are nevertheless plenty of odd stories that cropped up over the years, most of which feel like they belong in his movies - or someone's, anyway. With the recent release of Richard Linklater's Zac Efron and Christian McKay-starrer Me and Orson Welles, celebrating the young auteur's staging of Julius Caesar in 1937, and an upcoming run of The Third Man at Film Forum, we decided it'd be appropriate to throw
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Me and Orson Welles
5 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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A schoolboy stumbles upon a major role in Welles's production of Julius Caesar in this sublime adaptation of Robert Kaplow's book
It is difficult to recapture the excitement Orson Welles generated 50 years ago among cinephiles and serious theatregoers. When George Coulouris joined the Bristol Old Vic Company in 1950 after a lengthy sojourn in the States my fellow sixth-formers and I were thrilled beyond measure to have in our city an actor who'd played Mark Antony opposite Welles in the Mercury company's fabled 1937 modern dress production of Julius Caesar and had a leading role in Citizen Kane. Yet none of us had seen Citizen Kane which had been out of distribution since shortly after its opening in 1941. We only knew of him through a few film appearances, most notably The Third Man, and his reputation for brilliance, wit and innovation, and what a few years later we'd learn to call charisma.
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- Philip French
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War of the Welles: Seven Actors Who've Played Orson
26 November 2009 7:15 AM, PST
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Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" is about one man from many perspectives. As a reporter travels the country in search of the meaning of Charles Foster Kane's last words, he hears stories about the man from wives, co-workers, friends, and guardians, all of whom see Kane's life differently. In the trailer, Welles describes the many dimensions of his character in the narration: "Kane is a hero, and a scoundrel, a no account and a swell guy. A great lover, a great American citizen and a dirty dog."
Certainly, Welles believed that one man could encompass all of these dissimilar traits. And in recent years, enough actors have portrayed enough variations of Welles himself to suggest that the acting/directing wunderkind, like Kane, was just as complex an individual. Some films have portrayed him as a hero, others as a scoundrel. Some, like Richard Linklater's new film "Me and Orson Welles,
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- Matt Singer
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Farber in the Forties
23 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST
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I was going to begin by saying that it would be hard to find two consecutive sentences in the film writings of Manny Farber that do not immediately signal his unmistakable presence. But on trying the experiment, I have to amend that: it’s impossible to find even one sentence that could have been written by anyone else. One way to evoke him would be simply to string together a succession of such phrases, like comparing Orson Welles in The Third Man to “a nearly satiated baby at the breast” or describing the protagonist of Rossellini’sOpen City as “so strained, shrunken and starved he reminds you of a wet string” or writing of the home front drama The Eve of St. Mark: “the father and mother and the sweetheart...go around with a pleased-as-Punch look, as though they were eating each other and finding they were all made of delicious candy.
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Michael Winner: 'The only purpose of life is to avoid boredom'
16 November 2009 1:37 AM, PST
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The notorious film director on cheating death, the awfulness of restaurants – and how he can't stand boring people
It is with a mixture of fear and exhilaration that I approach Michael Winner's large house – he likes to describe it as a mansion – in London's fashionable Holland Park. God knows how much it's worth – £25m maybe. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin lives next door, in an even bigger house. An attractive, slightly forbidding young woman answers the door – I later discover she is a resting actress called Ruby – and she shows me into Winner's private cinema, filled with memorabilia from half a lifetime of movie-making and an entire lifetime of trouble-making.
There are seats for 30 people, a bar, a director's chair with Winner's name on it, the Winner puppet from Spitting Image, a signed photograph of Marilyn Monroe, pictures of some scantily clad starlets, and hundreds of photographs of stars
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- Stephen Moss
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The Third Man Is Criterion’s First Blu-ray To Go Out of Print
6 November 2009 11:54 AM, PST
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Part of what makes Criterion Collection films so valuable, aside from the company’s commitment to the best transfers and special features, is that some times a title will go out of print which makes the film more valuable, both in price and in lording your copy over people that didn’t get one.
“The Third Man” was one of the first Blu-ray titles released when Criterion began their foray into the format on December 18, 2008. Now “The Third Man” is the first title of the Blu-ray line to go out of print which means the only ones left are those that have already been shipped to retailers. If you want to get one, now’s the time as the price will most likely rise among eBay and Amazon sellers in the coming months. I just picked up my copy online from Barnes & Noble for $34.55 (including shipping) which, after searching online,
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- Matt Goldberg
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La Roux Don Huge Glasses, Melting Plastic In New Video
28 October 2009 11:36 PM, PDT
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'I nearly burnt my back!' frontwoman Elly Jackson says of melting jacket from 'In for the Kill' clip.
By Adam Murphy
La Roux's Elly Jackson
Photo: MTV News
If you've been keeping up with the female-driven wave of emerging Brit-pop acts over the past two years, you've probably heard the synthy, upbeat stylings of La Roux. From the retro-futuristic surrealist beachscapes of "Bulletproof" to the ultra-chic irony of "I'm Not Your Toy," the band's music videos thus far have cultivated an enigmatic image for Elly Jackson. The frontwoman recently sat down with MTV News to discuss their "In for the Kill" clip.
Principally consisting of Jackson behind the wheel of a Delorean-looking, quite possibly flux-capacitor-equipped vehicle, the video shows a highly determined woman on a mission. "The actual song is about me going to Paris and telling someone something," Jackson said. "I literally just jumped on the Eurostar [train] and I went,
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DiCaprio & Maguire In Third Man Remake?
27 October 2009 1:58 AM, PDT
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Let me stress before I go any further that this is just a rumour at this point. The rumour goes like this…
It seems Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire could be up for collaboration with screenwriter Steven Knight to bring to the screen a remake of the seminal film noir classic The Third Man starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.
The 1949 original is a bonafide classic and if you haven’t seen it, Shame On You!
It is the story of a man that arrives in Vienna with the promise of a job. When he gets there he discovers his friend has been killed, or has he? He realises that not everything in post war Vienna is as it seems.
Orson Welles is fantastic in it and if indeed they are planning to remake it I hope that DiCaprio doesn’t think he can match the performance by any length.
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- Alex Wagner
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Rep: Leonardo DiCaprio "Not Involved" in Third Man Remake
26 October 2009 5:14 AM, PDT
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Leonardo DiCaprio certainly has his plate full right now. He hasn't even started promoting Shutter Island yet and is already busy on another movie set. But it's not The Third Man like other media outlets have been reporting.
"He isn't involved with that project," DiCaprio's rep tells Hollyscoop exclusively in regards to reports that he's set to star in The Third Man alongside good pal Tobey Maguire.
The 1949 Carol Reed remake centers on novelist Holly Martins as he arrives in Vienna to discover that the friend that invited him, Harry Lime, has died in
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DiCaprio remaking The Third Man?
26 October 2009 3:39 AM, PDT
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Could Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey Maguire really be working on a remake of Carol Reed's classic The Third Man?
Before you scream heresy (and if you screamed "what's that?", get thee to a rental store and find out now), we'd gently point out that's it's only a rumour at this point.
Still, Chud thought it possible enough to fun a story on the idea that DiCaprio and Maguire might be planning a collaboration with Eastern Promises writer Steven Knight, with the trio part of a package that Canal Plus is apparently shipping out to...
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- James White
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DiCaprio, Maguire for 'Third Man' Remake?
25 October 2009 9:45 PM, PDT
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Why remake one of the greatest films (and that’s not just my opinion) ever made? If you can get Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire to star in it, the better question for any studio might be: Why not?
According to Chud, the two box office mega-stars may sign on for a remake of The Third Man. The original 1949 film-noir, directed by Carol Reed, starred Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a pulp author who visits post-World War II Vienna for his friend’s funeral. The dead pal is Harry Lime, a mysterious figure whose grin from out of the shadows was immortalized by the great Orson Welles.
Eastern Promises screenwriter Steven Knight is penning the remake for Canal Plus, which will put the package out for bidding. The outstanding questions regarding Knight’s screenplay are: Will it be updated for a modern setting? Will the action be transposed from Vienna to somewhere else,
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The Truth May be Stranger Than Fiction: Classic Film Rumored For Remake
24 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT
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A few days ago there was an inconceivable rumor that had Steven Spielberg directing a new Star Wars trilogy. That seemed about as likely as The Third Man remake. Well, now there’s a rumor of The Third Man remake, straight from Chud. It is usual of me that I have no desire to report on rumors (it is an active thought on my part to be incredulous), but this one is interesting precisely because some films are considered untouchable – the films that are so great you might as well not even try. Amongst these, perhaps The Third Man is low hanging fruit. There wouldn’t be the sheer outcry of a Casablanca remake, for instance, and it’s not impossible to imagine the film in a totally new reincarnation (though no one does noir like Joseph Cotton, and Orson Welles casts a long shadow). Chud says:
Leonardo DiCaprio and
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- Jacob
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DiCaprio, Maguire to Remake 'The Third Man'
24 October 2009 10:40 AM, PDT
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There's a rumor floating around, one Chud says is pretty strong, that Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire may team up to remake Carol Reed's The Third Man, one of the best movies of the 1940s, and that's saying something. The film is primarily known for Orson Welles' Harry Lime, mentioned in nearly every scene in the movie for about an hour without ever being seen, and then making one of the most memorable appearances in cinema.
Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) is apparently working on a screenplay, and the project is real; it's happening. THe rumor is whether or not Leo and Tobey will actually be involved, and if they are, who would play Lime and who would play the everyman Holly Martins (originally portrayed by Joseph Cotten).
My instinct is that Leo would play Lime. It's a showcase role, it's the one that moves the chains. My instinct
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