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Birthday Suits and a Ballsy Actress

18 November 2009 8:47 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Today's stars! Well not literally today's but November 18th. Get a little history. Celebrate one of these cinematic entities today in whatever way occurs to you.

Senors Gilbert, Hemmings and Infante

1836 W.S. Gilbert of 'Gilbert & Sullivan' legend. If you've never seen Mike Leigh's exceptional biopic of this creative giant, Topsy-Turvy, drop everything right now and do so.

1908 Imogene Coca beloved comic actress, mostly known for TV roles

1917 Pedro Infante Mexico's biggest movie star ever. Here he is singing. Pedro Almodóvar fans will recognize this one immediately

1939 Margaret Atwood, best-selling much-awarded author. Strangely Hollywood doesn't seem to have taken to her in a big way. The Handmaid's Tale (1990) starring Natasha Richardson is one of the few adaptations

1939 Brenda Vaccaro, Midnight Cowgirl and she of one of the oddest Oscar nominations of all time... seriously, have you seen Once Is Not Enough? Here's StinkyLulu's look at that Oscar year.

1941 David Hemmings, »

- NATHANIEL R

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Roland Emmerich May or May Not Blow Up the World Again

6 November 2009 4:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

At a press junket earlier this summer for 2012, Roland Emmerich told reporters he's not doing any more blow-'em-up flicks. "I would not know how to top this... It's just one of these things, you know. I had a hard time deciding to do another disaster movie, but... you cannot make a disaster movie if there's not something --- an idea in this disaster which elevates it to something more than a disaster. And so it was this idea, you know, that there will be a global flood and it's a retelling of Noah's Arc."

Later he added, "It's not my last film, it's my last disaster film. And that's because I wouldn't know what else to do. It's just, you know what, I really didn't want to do this movie at first... But when I decided that the idea was too good to not do it for the reason I had done before, »

- Jenni Miller

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Tardy for the party and more, Atlanta Housewives meet Orange County

6 November 2009 9:07 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Feeling a little Tardy for the Party? Bravo fired over the Real Housewives of Atl Reunion Special with Kim's full "Tardy for the Party" and Kandi's "Fly Above" performances as well as Kim and NeNe's "Reconcilation." (Not) Also, the Oc Housewives started their fifth season off with a bang when they had their first fight...at a dinner party: All videos below: Rhoa For the First Time Performing on Stage Fly Above Kim and NeNe Reconcile Rhoc The Dinner Party Blow Up »

- April MacIntyre

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Errol Morris: Come Along On My Death Trip

4 July 2009 9:35 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Filmmaker Errol Morris

Errol Morris: Come Along On My Death Trip

by Jon Zelazny

The acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris once devoted an episode of his cable TV series First Person to a criminal behaviorist named Michael Stone, a pleasant, slightly nebbish intellectual of about sixty who analyzes and classifies “evil” behavior, from the mildly exasperating to the most disturbing outer reaches of violent insanity. Morris seems to take an odd delight in having this gentle man run through a true-crime litany of torture, murder, and unthinkable depravity, then at the end of the program, asks Stone how he developed an interest in such gruesome activities. Stone seems puzzled by the question. He thinks for a moment, and describes how he endured some bullying as a schoolboy: nothing too terrible; he was just picked on and pushed around a bit. Morris then asks something like, “Do you think there’s something mysterious inside you, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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DVD: Review: Zabriskie Point

26 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

After enjoying the biggest success of his career with 1966’s Blow Up, Michelangelo Antonioni spent two years (and $7 million of Hollywood’s money) making Zabriskie Point, an aloof, unfocused study of American crassness and its corrupting influence. By the time the movie arrived in theaters in 1970, critics and hip moviegoers were growing weary of anti-establishment screeds on the silver screen, so Antonioni got hammered for his already-dated take on hippie revolutionaries, as well as for his insistence on using a cast of inert, mumbly non-professionals. Then in the ensuing decades, Zabriskie Point’s critical standing improved, as ... »

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'Zabriskie Point' Gets 2Nd Life On DVD

26 May 2009 5:09 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Michelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point" (1970), one of the most controversial and notorious flops in Hollywood history, is getting another chance on DVD.

The most spectacularly unsuccessful attempt by a studio to cash in on the "youth market" it thought was created by "Easy Rider," this indictment of American society was savaged by critics and returned just $900,000 on MGM's $7 million investment.

Antonioni, an Italian director who had tapped into the zeitgeist with "Blow-Up" to the tune of a (then-huge) $20 million gross, cast a pair of unknowns, Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin, »

- By LOU LUMENICK

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Back Catalogue #1 - Synapse Films

29 April 2009 1:43 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Welcome to the first installment of a new column here at Fangoria.com, Back Catalogue. Sometimes the Catalogue will cover new releases of older films, and sometimes it will feature exactly what the title implies, back catalogue items. These will normally be from smaller specialty labels that have formed the backbone of the horror fans ability to build a truly representative collection of their favorite films. I'm proud to start this column back up after a two year hiatus and promise to work hard to recommend films that you're in danger of forgetting about, have maybe never heard of, or that might be ready to go out of print.

I'm also proud that the first edition of Catalogue is all about Synapse Films. Anybody who goes to conventions and has stopped by the Synapse table has not only seen first hand the amazing array of labor of love releases and Special Editions they produce, »

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Minority View: Chronicle of a Love by Michelangelo Antonioni

29 March 2009 5:16 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

Michelangelo Antonioni is arguably the most important Italian filmmaker and his L'Avventura (1960) represents one of the high points of European film modernism. After this film Antonioni made a large number of very influential films from La Notte (1961) to Blow-Up (1966) but, although the films are intriguing and visually striking, one senses a strange hollowness about them - it is like a great magician reworking from a bag of old tricks. Chronicle of a Love is an earlier film in which Antonioni was departing on his own from the vastly influential movement that Italian cinema will always be known by - neo-realism. »

- M. K. Raghavendra

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Natasha Richardson: 1963-2009

18 March 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Actress Natasha Richardson.

The telephone is the bane of most interviews. Rarely does it allow the interviewer to connect with his or her subject, resulting in a less-than-stellar conversation fit for reproduction. When Venice Magazine Publisher Nancy Bishop asked me in December of 2005 if I'd do "a phoner" with actress Natasha Richardson, I was a bit surprised at how quickly I jumped at the chance. I had interviewed Richardson's sister Joely just two months before and, like many cinefiles, have had a lifelong fascination and admiration for their parents: the late filmmaker Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave. Joely proved a charming, bright and engaging conversationalist during our lunch at The Chateau Marmont, with one of the most fascinating topics of conversation being her sister Natasha, their relationship, and their unconventional, albeit loving, upbringing. Needless to say, my appetite was whetted for more.

Natasha's sons with actor Liam Neeson could »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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The Ultimate Guide to TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Begins Here

31 January 2009 5:56 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

From this Sunday, February 1 through Tuesday, March 3 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) begins their annual 31 Days of Oscar, which brings you night after night of Oscar winning and nominated films uncut and commercial free on TCM and I have put together for you a mini guide for films to look for each day so you can either sit down and enjoy them as they play or set your DVR to record them for later. Either way, this is a great way to knock off so many of those classic films from your must see list. First, how about the TCM video montage preview. Can you name the films?

Now, for the full schedule you can click here to download the Pdf or you can browse TCM's online calendar at the 31 Days of Oscar official site. Because one thing is for sure, even though I list films for every single day below »

- Brad Brevet

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2009 | 2007 | 2005 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

10 articles from 2009

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