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Really long first trailer for The Killer Inside Me
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST
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Straight out of the American Film Market comes this almost 6 minute long trailer for Michael Winterbottom's upcoming The Killer Inside Me. The cast on this film is pretty hefty with Casey Affleck leading as the sheriff of a small town who slowly goes from mild-mannered lawman to murdering psychotic trying to cover his own tracks. Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty and Bill Pullman also star. The film is an adaptation of the classic book by Jim Thompson, who also wrote the book that Stanley Kubrick's The Killing was based on
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Really long first trailer for The Killer Inside Me
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST
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Straight out of the American Film Market comes this almost 6 minute long trailer for Michael Winterbottom's upcoming The Killer Inside Me. The cast on this film is pretty hefty with Casey Affleck leading as the sheriff of a small town who slowly goes from mild-mannered lawman to murdering psychotic trying to cover his own tracks. Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty and Bill Pullman also star. The film is an adaptation of the classic book by Jim Thompson, who also wrote the book that Stanley Kubrick's The Killing was based on
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Weird Trailer for Casey Affleck's 'Killer Inside Me'
5 November 2009 6:38 PM, PST
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I read The Killer Inside Me about 25 years ago, and in general I'm an admirer of the work of pulp novelist Jim Thompson. His most recognized works are probably that title, The Killing (later turned into an early Kubrick film), The Getaway, and The Grifters, released as a film over 10 years after his death. I heard about him while growing up in Oklahoma, because that's where he was from.
The Killer Inside Me is a whale of a book. I wouldn't say it's a must-read, but it's tougher than a bus station corndog. It's been turned into a movie before, and a new version was filmed this summer mostly in Oklahoma, even though Thomspson's book is set in Texas. Casey Affleck plays the sociopathic lawman Lou Ford, and you'll see what I mean when you watch this promo trailer.
According to The Playlist, this is very likely what's being used
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- Colin Boyd
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Promo Trailer for Winterbottom's 'The Killer Inside Me'
5 November 2009 1:18 PM, PST
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Thanks to The Playlist we have been made aware of a promotional trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me based on the Jim Thompson novel and starring Casey Affleck, Simon Baker, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty.
Thompson, as many of you may already know co-wrote Stanley Kubrick's killer heist flick The Killing, which was part of my list of top ten heist films back in early 2008. This also isn't the first time "The Killer Inside Me" has been adapted for a feature film as Burt Kennedy directed a version in 1976 starring Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell.
The story centers on a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer. The cast also includes Jessica Alba as a prostitute and Kate Hudson as the sheriff's schoolteacher girlfriend. Baker plays a county attorney
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- Brad Brevet
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Mr. September: Eli Roth
9 September 2009 12:11 PM, PDT
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Interview by Staci Layne Wilson
Eli Roth is a cutie — he's got those dark-chocolate brown eyes and a sweet smile that could charm even the most hard-hearted Hannah. But Roth is also a complete, total and utter Basterd. He's best-known for making some of the most violent, grisly, and controversial horror movies of the 00's. His feature length horror films Hostel and Hostel II shocked the mainstream, as did his over-the-top fake movie trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double-dip (in his slasher-trailer Thanksgiving, Roth gives 'cheerleader splits' and 'stuffing the turkey' whole new meanings). He’s also gearing up make a feature-length version of Thanksgiving and a PG-13 creature-feature called Endangered Species.
So what's a nice boy like Eli doing in Tarantino's latest movie, Iglourious Basterds? Why, killing Nazis, of course! And not just killing them… he's beating, scalping, burning, and basically putting on the hurt in every way
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- Superheidi
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On the Qt: Exploring the Films of Quentin Tarantino, Part I
1 August 2009 9:05 PM, PDT
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With his seventh feature, Inglourious Basterds, due out from The Weinstein Company on August 21, this seemed like a good time to genuflect on the films of writer/director Quentin Tarantino. From humble beginnings as a video store clerk in Los Angeles, Tarantino developed into one of the more influential filmmakers of the past two decades, his name becoming synonymous with a style that features violence, black humor, and pop culture references in abundance.
His oeuvre of past films are all interesting, even if some weren’t as big commercial successes as others, and they frequently pay homage to obscure or forgotten genres—among them, blaxploitation, kung fu and samurai films, and B-grade slasher movies. This has fueled debate for years over whether Tarantino is a true artist who practices appropriating, or is merely a copycat.
Either way, I would argue that every film he has made is noteworthy in some way,
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'Killer's Kiss' Still Has Punch
17 June 2009 11:27 PM, PDT
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Stanley Kubrick was an upstart kid from The Bronx when, in 1955, he borrowed $40,000 from an uncle and directed, wrote, edited and photographed a movie thriller called "Killer's Kiss."
Kubrick would not make a name for himself until his next movie, "The Killing" (1956), a yarn about a racetrack heist featuring Sterling Hayden. But more than half a century later, "Killer's Kiss" remains a watchable work of raw energy.
Rarely shown on the big screen, the black-and-white noir will unreel tomorrow and Saturday at midnight at
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- By V.A. MUSETTO
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The Long Goodbye: Elliott Gould Remembers Robert Altman
10 May 2009 2:01 PM, PDT
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(Elliott Gould, above, as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye.)
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: this article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on November 14, 2008.
With the back-to-back success of his Oscar-nominated role in the off-beat wife-swapping hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and the even bigger off-beat hit Mash (1970), Brooklyn’s own Elliott Gould skyrocketed to worldwide fame.
While perhaps best known to those under 40 as Ross and Monica’s dad on “Friends,” or Vegas financier Reuben Tishkoff in the blockbuster Ocean’s 11 series, cine-scholars generally regard Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) as Gould’s most iconic starring role. 2008 marks the 35th anniversary of their extraordinary modern-day reinterpretation of Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe.
Elliott Gould invited me to his home in west Los Angeles, where he generously spoke at length of his three major collaborations with Altman, who passed away two years ago.
I read
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Lots of horrific screenings around the U.S. and UK!
8 May 2009 1:54 PM, PDT
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Horror cinephiles, take notice: Fango has the news on a host of upcoming genre-film screenings, premieres and festivals, in both various United States and Britain, to keep you out of the sunlight this summer. The films range from silent classics to contemporary favorites and brand new indie fare.
• New York City’s Film Forum (209 West Houston Street) is presenting Tod Browning Monday Evenings starting next week. Every Monday from May 11-June 8 will see a different silent-movie double feature, spotlighting the work of pioneering horror director Browning and actor Lon Chaney, with select shows featuring live piano accompaniment. Better yet, each presentation boasts a two-for-one admission price.
May 11
Freaks (1932): 6 and 9 p.m.
The Unholy Three (1925): 7:35 p.m.
May 18
The Devil Doll (1936): 6:35 and 9:35 p.m.
Where East Is East (1929): 8:10 p.m.
May 25
The Unknown (1927): 7 and 9:40 p.m.
Fast Workers (1933): 8 p.m.
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Duplicity Review
19 March 2009 2:44 PM, PDT
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It’s not unfair to say that Duplicity is Michael Clayton on laughing gas. What’s remarkable is that both movies pretty much work. Duplicity sets up the “she’s (mostly) still got it” Julia Roberts opposite Clive Owen as sexy intelligence operatives who may or may not be working together to pull off some incredibly complex scam.
I’m a sucker for Duplicity’s gimmick. Used best and most boldly by Stanley Kubrick in The Killing, the shtick is to hop around in time, so that a scene you may’ve just seen (or saw a handful of scenes back) will take on an entire different meaning after further revelations. What’s not to like about this? There is some hardwired desire on our parts, I imagine, to travel back through the narratives of our lives and revisit episodes from a more current point of view. There is great
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