5 articles from 2009
The Forgotten: Loose Talk
5 November 2009 2:58 AM, PST
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Can any Alfred Hitchcock film be called truly forgotten? It could certainly be argued (though not by me) that some of the Master's lesser works have received more attention than they deserve. Anthony Mann's Raw Deal is a far better film than I Confess, goes the argument, and has been unjustly robbed of the consideration and popularity which is its due.
Yeah, but, as Homer Simpson might muse, what you gonna do?
There are still corners of the Hitchcock oeuvre which might reward more attention, however, such as the deeply eccentric, nay inscrutable Rich and Strange, and I would suggest that some corners of Hitch's work in television remain relatively unappreciated. True, Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a much-admired show to this day, and classic episodes such as "Breakdown" and "Lamb to the Slaughter" have received justifiable plaudits. But Hitch's work outside that show is less easy to see, and less often discussed.
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/03/2009
31 October 2009 9:00 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, November 3, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.
With Halloween behind us, the list of frights is a little light this week, but if you look hard enough you just may find a couple of gems.
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Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: from time immemorial, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved...
Bleach: Uncut Box Set Season 4, Part 1: The Bounty
The supernatural anime comes to DVD with more soul-sucking adventure.
Bloody Beach
One summer day, eight members of an internet chatters club,
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Remembering The "R.C.M.P." (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) T.V. Series
19 September 2009 4:09 AM, PDT
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Star Gilles Pelletier in a 1960 publicity photo.
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By Herbert Shadrak
In
1959-60, the distinguished Quebec actor Gilles Pelletier (who had earlier
appeared in Otto Preminger’s The 13th
Letter and in Alfred Hitchcock’s I
Confess) came to Ottawa to shoot 39 episodes of the R.C.M.P. television series, coproduced by Crawley Films, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Executive
producer F.R. “Budge” Crawley cast Pelletier as Corporal Jacques Gagnier, a
Mountie working at a detachment in rural northern Saskatchewan. Interiors were
shot on a brand-new soundstage near Ottawa at Old Chelsea, Quebec. Exteriors
were filmed in nearby Aylmer, Quebec, and in Outlook, Saskatchewan, which stood
in for the fictional western town of Shamattawa, the center of the action of
this contemporary adventure series.
Casting
a Québécois in the lead role was considered a gutsy move at the time, but
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R.I.P. Karl Malden (1912-2009)
1 July 2009 2:07 PM, PDT
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The Los Angeles Times has reported that Acting legend and Academy Award Winner Karl Malden has died.
While the versatile actor was most famous for his starring turn in The Streets Of San Francisco and as the man who made "Don't leave home without it" a catch phrase for American Express, he was no stranger to the horror and thriller genres, having appeared in Dario Argento's Il gatto a nove code (1971) aka Cat O' Nine Tails, Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess! (1953), and Roy Del Ruth's 1954 film Phantom Of The Rue Morgue among others.
Born in 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Gary, Indiana (birthplace of the recently-deceased Michael Jackson), Malden studied acting at Chicago's Goodman Theatre before moving to New York, where he made his stage debut in 1937. He picked up an Oscar in 1951 for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire, one of many accolades received during his long career.
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Eleven Gay Historical Figures Worthy of the "Milk" Treatment
4 February 2009 8:14 PM, PST
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Whatever you think of Milk,
there’s no denying that the Oscar-nominated biopic is putting a long-overdue
spotlight on the life of Harvey Milk, allowing much of the mainstream audience
to learn about his singular achievements for the very first time.
But why stop there? Now that Milk has proven that stirring gay life stories can appeal to more
than just a gay audience, Hollywood
should think about making movies about the following legends. We’ll even help
them decide which to make first by throwing in a rating of 1-5 Harveys for each story’s eventual Oscar bait-ability.
That should help land some big name stars.
Montgomery Clift
Who he was:
Gorgeous leading man of the 1950s (From Here to Eternity [1953], A
Place in the Sun [1951]) who led a torturously closeted existence in Hollywood. Survived a
somewhat disfiguring car accident during the filming of Raintree County (1957) opposite Elizabeth Taylor,
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