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DVD Playhouse--November 2009
16 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Free Lecture, Screening to Highlight Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, 12/6
21 hours ago | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre invites you to look, listen and learn during an evening devoted to the great film director Alfred Hitchcock.
On Dec. 6, the theatre will host a free lecture by film expert Martin Leichter, "Hitchcock: The Mayhem Behind His Movies," about the director's 18th film, The 39 Steps. Leichter will serve as a tour guide to the film, illuminating key points, and telling the audience what to watch for in the 1935 thriller, which will be screened immediately following the lecture.
Nearly 30 years after his death, Hitchcock's name remains synonymous with great film. The silver screen would be decidedly less glittering without such masterpieces as Rebecca, Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest and The 39 Steps. And who can forget his countless cameos on the big screen, and his droll introductions to his Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series?
In The 39 Steps, Robert Donat plays an innocent man framed »
Old Ass Movies: North By Northwest
8 November 2009 8:59 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: North By Northwest (1959) I swore when I started this column that I would do my best to protect you, the dear reader, from my incessant love of Alfred Hitchcock and his films. I've probably failed at this considering that I've still covered a lot of his movies, but with the release of North By Northwest on Blu-ray and the fact that it's my favorite Hitchcock film, I can't avoid it any longer. Everything about this movie is beyond perfection. Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken by a group of spies for a CIA agent who may have committed murder. While searching for the real agent, Thornhill meets Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) who both protects him and gets him deeper into trouble. For »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
North By Northwest Blu-ray Review
7 November 2009 10:02 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Going back to the old masters, going back to the classics is always illuminating. Someone like Alfred Hitchcock knew how to frame a film. He knew where he was putting his camera, and why it was there. As in North by Northwest he achieved one of the great visual representations of sex. Cary Grant lifts Eva Marie Saint up to bed, and then a train enters a tunnel. Not exactly subtle, but undeniably brilliant. My review after the jump.
North by Northwest is one of Hitchcock’s most pleasurable films. In his cycle of “wrong man on the run” films, which includes The 39 Steps and Foreign Correspondent, North by Northwest has one advantage over those others films: It stars Cary Grant. And Grant’s dapper persona adds a level of debonair to whatever he did. Here he stars as Roger Thornhill, who’s mistaken for secret agent George Kaplan. He »
- Andre Dellamorte
[DVD Review] North by Northwest - 50th Anniversary Edition
7 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
I’m gonna explain my real feelings on North by Northwest as carefully and explicitly as I can. Of course, my opinions are for you to take or leave. If you’re as understandably attached to the film as so many people still are, please have at it, I encourage you to enjoy it as many times as you can before the next 5 or 10-year anniversary comes along to celebrate with a new release. Though honestly, despite my feelings on the film itself, I sincerely doubt a more impressive release will be seen on this format.
North by Northwest is a relic of a bygone age of cinema to me. More than most of Hitchcock’s works, North by Northwest feels far too much like a movie to work as an effective thriller for me. Antiquated effects sequences, bizarrely cut sequences which are distracting to the modern cinematic eye and »
- Saul Berenbaum
Words From the Saint, Eva Marie
6 November 2009 7:32 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In her first movie, she kissed Marlon Brando. And then she won an Oscar. How many actresses get that kind of a debut? But then, how many actresses are as wonderful as Eva Marie Saint? A performer (and woman) of elegance, vulnerability, charm, beauty, intelligence and great wit, Miss Saint remains, not just a movie star, but a real actor, one of the innovators. And she's still a powerful presence on screen. A woman who has worked with talents ranging from Kazan to Wenders, Brando to Shepard, Preminger to Mulligan, Frankenheimer to Singer, Hope to Segal, Clift to Beatty, Grant to Grammar and then, a man named Hitchcock, Miss Saint has enjoyed sixty years of experience, and more to come. With the 50th Anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense, action, sex-tastic classic North by Northwest, the funny, personable Miss Saint took the time to talk to me about her beautiful, »
- Kim Morgan
North By Northwest 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray
6 November 2009 1:28 PM, PST | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
When it comes to classic movies, there aren't many around with a shot at topping North by Northwest. The treasure of cinema fans and frequent bane of film students is now available in a wonderful Blu-Ray treatment, fully remastered, and with great bonuses. Cary Grant (as the ultimate man-on-the-run in his fourth Hitchcock teaming) gives a superlative performance while Eva Marie Saint (perfect Hitchcock heroine Eve Kendall) is at her sultry and sexy best in this heart-pounding thriller. Grant plays Manhattan adman Roger Thornhill, who is at once plunged into the world of spies and counterspies, abducted, framed for murder, chased, and (in the signature set-piece) crop-dusted. At the films’ end, he hangs on for dear life from the facial features of Mount Rushmore’s Presidents where he ultimately rescues Miss Saint. »
- Marc Eastman
Fat Guys at the Movies Ep. 139 – The Fat Kind
6 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
On This Week's Show: Kevin and Neil say good-bye to scary movies (well, not really, considering two are released this week) and decide to ring in the Christmas season early. They stare at some goats, grumble about not being allowed to open a box, visit the uncanny valley and debate whether Kevin is spoiling the viewing experience for The Fourth Kind. They also lay down a Fat Guy Five about awesome UFO movies, and Kevin gloats over Neil's not-so-accurate box office predictions from last week. Films Reviewed this Week: A Christmas Carol, The Fourth Kind, The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Box [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://media.filmschoolrejects.com/audio/episode139.mp3] Download this Episode Episode Schedule: Segment 1 [8:50] - Reviews of The Box and The Men Who Stare At Goats Segment 2 [10:40] - Review of A Christmas Carol and The Fourth Kind Segment 3 [12:45] - Box office gloatation and the Fat Guy Five: Five Awesome UFO Movies Segment 4 [6:35] - DVD Round-Up: Neil's picks are G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, North by Northwest »
- Kevin Carr
All Hail The 50th Anniversary Of Alfred Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest'
5 November 2009 2:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I spend far too much of my day reading about silly movie projects – this absurd remake, that insulting franchise extension. Sometimes I forget how good film can be – how good it has been. A couple days ago, I sat down to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" – a picture I'd seen several times before but never in its newly restored and remastered DVD form – and came away wishing, surely fruitlessly, that 2009 could deliver a thriller that even approached the twisty coolness of this 1959 masterpiece.
Even at the time of its original release, "Northwest" was ahead if its time, as co-star Martin Landau made clear in an interview with MTV News coinciding with the film's 50th anniversary. The actor played Leonard, a henchman assisting with his boss' criminal enterprise and attempting to eliminate a perceived threat from Madison Avenue exec Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant).
"I chose to play him as a gay character, »
- Eric Ditzian
New On DVD This Week
3 November 2009 3:35 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, North by Northwest, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Rockford Files. Plus, there’s some classic Dr. Who coming out this week as well.
Check them out.
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A Christmas Carol ~ Alastair Sim, Jack Warner (Blu-ray)
Aliens in the Attic ~ Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts (DVD and Blu-ray)
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1 (The Big Heat / 5 Against the House / The Lineup / Murder by Contract / The Sniper) ~ (DVD)
The Claudette Colbert Collection (Three-Cornered Moon / Maid of Salem / I Met »
- Joe Gillis
This Week on DVD: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Food Inc.
3 November 2009 1:59 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
The biggest DVD and Blu-ray release for this week is probably G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. It pains me to know that this week some brave souls will give it another chance, while others will discover its sheer idiocy for the first time. If you're looking for something slightly better but still mediocre, you might try Tony Scott's remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. Other smaller releases for the week include Dolph Lundgren's direct-to-dvd action flick Command Performance, the Spanish post-apocalyptic flick Before The Fall, and the G.I. Joe Resolute animated microseries. Also keep an eye out for a few noteworthy documentaries this week including Food Inc., The English Surgeon, and the John Hughes doc Don't You Forget About Me (in Canada only). Plus: James Bond and Rocky collections on Blu-ray, and the only partially redundant Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut! Will you be picking anything up this week? »
- Sean
cinemadaily | “North by Northwest” Celebrates 50 Years on BluRay
3 November 2009 10:34 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant (as a wrongly followed ad exec) brought to the screen one of the most intense, mystifying chase films ever to grace the big screen. Fifty years later, with a restored print that reportedly cost Warner Brothers one million dollars to work on, “North by Northwest” is available again for home viewing today on a new BluRay release. On DVD Talk, Randy Miller III champions … »
This Week In DVD: November 3rd
3 November 2009 10:31 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as Roger Thornhill's personal drycleaner... between the dust-ups and the crop dusters, Thornhill has lots of suits in need of cleaning. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. And don't forget to check out Neil Miller's hilariously titled This Week In Blu-ray column for reviews on the latest high definition Blu-ray releases! The Edge of Darkness: The Complete BBC Series Pitch: A dead daughter. A »
- Rob Hunter
'G.I. Joe' Rises With A Bang, Denzel Catches A Train And More In The DVD Report For November 3
3 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
After weeks of rather lackluster releases ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" being a prominent exception), we finally have a Tuesday jam-packed with first-run titles and notable catalog additions. From the on-screen debut of an elite military team to John Cusack's ode to love, we're covering them all in this DVD Report for Tuesday, November 3.
For any child of the '80s, the thought of "G.I. Joe" receiving the theatrical treatment was an intriguing proposition, and one fraught with worry. And for die-hard fans of writer Larry Hama's epic "G.I. Joe" comic book run, it was especially scary. In stark contrast to the campy animated series, Hama infused his 155-issue run with deeply developed character arcs, ever-twisting conspiracies and, to his credit, pulled no punches when it came to violence and death. Which "G.I. Joe" would the film rely on for its story and tone? While producers insisted they'd »
- Brian Jacks
This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: November 3, 2009
3 November 2009 4:53 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
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Before we get into this week's releases I thought I would alert you to an upcoming 50% off Criterion Collection titles at Barnes and Nobles beginning on November 10 and running for two weeks. The full details, and a $5 off coupon, can be found in the DVD Talk forums.
Wings of Desire (Criterion Collection) This is a huge week for major title releases on Blu-ray as Criterion's release of Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is just the first of three titles I reviewed and most likely blew my word count for the next two weeks trying to get all of my thoughts squared away.
As for this title specifically, it was my first time seeing it and as it played on and on I began to enjoy it more and more. However, if you read my lengthy review, you will »
- Brad Brevet
Blu-ray Review: North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition)
3 November 2009 3:50 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
There was talk earlier this year that it wasn't in the studios' best interest to continue to release classic films on DVD/Blu-ray as the demand for them was dwindling and the cost of restoration was climbing. The article in question even quotes Warner Home Video senior vice president George Feltenstein saying "most of the studios have pretty much said 'Screw it, we're out of here, we're not going to do this.'" Strangely enough, it just so happens Warner Home Video is the home entertainment studio releasing the very first Alfred Hitchcock film on Blu-ray, 50 years after its theatrical release with a restoration price tag I have read cost upwards of $1 million. Perhaps studios are slowing down the release of their classic films, but with Warner's recent Blu-ray release of The Wizard of Oz, the upcoming release of Gone With the Wind and this release of North by Northwest »
- Brad Brevet
Interview: 50 Years of Filmmaking With Martin Landau
2 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The legendary Martin Landau was recently in Chicago with two films in special presentation at The 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival - the classic “North by Northwest,” also releasing on Blu-Ray tomorrow, November 3rd, 2009, and the new drama “Lovely, Still,” co-starring Ellen Burstyn.
Very few actors will ever have an experience like Mr. Landau did at the film festival in October, bringing two experiences from such different eras of their working life. We spent a lot of time with Martin discussing what’s important to him as an actor and he made clear that it’s the arc of his character that’s essential to the projects he chooses.
Landau explains, “The interesting thing is that I’ve had an interesting cross-section of directors - Joe Mankiewicz, George Stevens, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Tim Burton, Francis Coppola, Woody Allen, Steve Spielberg. The good directors create a playground for »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Interview with Martin Landau
2 November 2009 2:29 PM, PST | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Nov 02, 2009
Martin Landau is a living legend. He recently flew into Chicago with two films to present at the 45th Chicago International Film Festival, a remastered print of North by Northwest and a new drama entitled Lovely, Still. The former is now available on Blu-ray (release date: November 3rd, 2009). The latter is a small film co-starring Ellen Burstyn about an elderly romance with a twist. GA_googleFillSlot("movieretriever_blogpost_inline_rectangle_new"); Landau is still working harder and more consistently than most actors half his age. We were honored to have a one-on-one with the Oscar-winning actor and covered ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Top 250 Movies as a Subway Map
2 November 2009 1:45 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Here's a different way of thinking about well-known movies: imagine each one is a stop on a subway line! Designed by David Honnorat and posted at Vodkaster, the cinematic subway map is based on the top 250 movies as voted by IMDb users on June 19 (which, I suppose, is why The Hangover made it). Honnorat created 16 different imaginary subway lines, including "Universally Acclaimed Masterpiece," "Political drama," "Drama about tolerance," "Dark and weird drama," and other, more traditional categories, and then placed each film on one of the lines. He asked: "How would you go from Alien to North by Northwest without crossing The Godfather: Part II? Which station have you not visited yet?"
The placement of movies on the map can be amusing (Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction side by side with Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America on the gangster line) as well as bizarre yet strangely fitting »
- Peter Martin
AFI Fest 2009: Something’S Gonna Live, About Elly, Doctor Parnassus
1 November 2009 5:20 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (top); A Lake by Philippe Grandrieux (middle); Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (bottom) AFI Fest 2009 highlights, Nov. 2: Daniel Raim’s documentary Something’s Gonna Live, which features interviews with several behind-the-scenes veterans, including Robert Boyle, Conrad Hall, and Haskell Wexler Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which marks Heath Ledger’s last film appearance Asghar Farhadi’s drama About Elly, winner of the Silver Bear for best director at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival Andrea Arnold’s family drama Fish Tank, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats, about the obstacles faced by a couple of Iranian teenagers trying to form a rock band [...] »
- Andre Soares
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