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The "Dollars Trilogy" Free on Hulu
5 November 2009 10:27 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
A quick heads-up for Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood fans. All three of their "Man with No Name" westerns are now up on Hulu for free viewing. Hulu is only going to have these movies up until the end of November, so don't waste time, pilgrim. You can watch all three films right here.
A Fistful of Dollars originally followed the trend of remaking Akira Kurosawa's samurai films as westerns. I say trend, but really there was only, what, The Magnificent Seven? Fistful uses the plot of Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its premise, then reshapes it into Leone's own signature style. Then came the pseudo-sequel, For a Few Dollars More. Leone never meant for the three films to be a trilogy, but it just turned out that way due to Eastwood's same look and acting style in all three. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is a prequel of sorts, »
- Arya Ponto
Villains We Love: Angel Eyes
19 October 2009 2:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Great villains are scattered throughout the Westerns, but some of the most memorably savage come from the films of Sergio Leone. While Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West gets a lot of props for the way he mows down the McBain family (including its youngest and most adorable moppet), it was nothing that Lee Van Cleef hadn't already done in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Angel Eyes seems to be dismissed as something akin to Leone fan fiction, and it's his relation (or lack of) to Van Cleef's Col. Mortimer in A Few Dollars More that people find to be more interesting than his villainy.
But he's a great villain, mostly because he's absent for much for so much of the film. Leone gives him a ruthless introduction (a scene Quentin Tarantino mirrored perfectly with Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds) and promptly yanks him out of the narrative. »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Top 10 Great Movie Deaths
27 August 2009 12:16 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Top 10 Great Movie Deaths Movies love to kill people, and actors love to die (preferably slowly and with a great close-up). Yet, more often than not, film fatalities are an accountant's errand. Just another tally mark in the body count. This isn't a list celebrating the art of ludicrous squibs and exploding craniums. The following movie deaths deliver more oomph than henchmen #4 getting steamrolled by the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile. These are the death scenes we remember long after the actors have screamed, slobbered, cried, coughed, wheezed, or drawn out to William Shatner-esque lengths their final words. They are a perfect combination of acting, writing, filmmaking, image and idea. Some are shocking. Some are sad or bittersweet. Others funny. Some deaths you cheer on. All are memorable. Let's begin to experience ten (technically eleven) great ends, and considering the nature of this list, yes, there are spoilers, »
- David Frank
Weekly Poll Results: Best Revenge Flick
26 August 2009 10:40 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Revenge is, as the Klingons say, a dish that is best served cold. I'm not exactly sure what relation that has to last week's poll about revenge films except to say that Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill placed second, right behind Chan-wook Park's Oldboy. Tony Scott's Man on Fire was at #3, followed by Once Upon a Time in the West and The Crow. I'm a bit surprised that The Last House on the Left placed dead last, but with so many other great choices I guess it was just outclassed. Do you agree with these results? 1. Oldboy -- 26.9% 2. Kill Bill -- 25.8% 3. Man on Fire -- 12.1% 4. Once Upon a Time in the West -- 9.6% 5. The Crow -- 8.3% 6. Straw Dogs -- 4.1% 6. Death Wish -- 4.1% 8. Payback -- 3.6% 8. I Spit on Your Grave -- 3.6% 10. The Last House on the Left -- 1.8% For More Daily Movie Goodness, Visit Filmjunk.Com! »
- Sean
'Inglourious Basterds': Playing spot the Tarantino reference
19 August 2009 1:17 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Take your seats, class: Senior writer Chris Nashawaty continues his in-depth weeklong tutorial on all things Quentin Tarantino for the latest installment of EW University. Check out our gallery of 20 Tarantino movie and movie poster faves , our Quentin Tarantino trivia quiz, and our take on the original 1978 Inglorious Bastards. Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Playing spot the reference Any time you sit down to watch a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino, you're not just watching that movie, but all of the movies he's ever seen. Let's face it, the guy has never been shy or apologetic about his movie-love. You could say that when Tarantino name-checks some arcane chop socky movie or slyly alludes to a Eurotrash cheapie, he's giving a shout-out to the cognascenti -- his fellow movie geeks -- in the audience. In other words, when you watch a movie by Qt, you're actually watching two movies »
- Chris Nashawaty
Tarantino’s Spaggetti War film: Inglorious Basterds
17 August 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
The words "Understated" and "Quentin Tarantino" go together like peas and ice cream. The worlds most confident director and self confessed blabber mouth has hardly been quiet about his slow cooking project and I'm sure everyone already knows that his Basterds have been waiting in the wings for their que for more than 10 years. So now that they're here, is this Tarantino's much whispered about "return to form"? Well.. if, like me, you think that a film on par with Jackie Brown would be a more welcome return to form then, no. If the Kill Bill films more fantastical approach to the sly nod and hard hit film making that Tarantino does best is more up your alley, then even you may be left feeling just a tiny bit disappointed. The film's main focus is split three ways, in true Tarantino style... you didn't think it was going to be that easy did you? »
- Neil Innes
Cjamango
15 August 2009 3:36 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »
Sergio Corbucci's Django revolutionised the Spaghetti Western genre in many ways. The low-budget retelling of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars – itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo – ramped up the violence, the amorality, the bloodletting and the insanity factor to an unprecedented scale, spawning a glut of rip-offs, cash-ins and unofficial sequels of varying degrees of quality. It also, quite unintentionally, began a trend for titular heroes whose names ended in the letter 'o' and when said quickly enough could possibly be mistaken for Django.
There was Anthony Steffen - the Spaghetti Western standard-bearer, himself no stranger to playing Django - starring as the main man in both Garringo and Shango. 'Sword and Sandal' star Brad Harris as the fast gun in Durango is Coming, Pay or Die. Montgomery Clark (Dante Posani) as the gambling gunslinger in Djurado and Ivan Rassimov in this, 1967's Cjamango. »
- Nick
Film: Review:Spread
14 August 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
“How can you trust a man who wears a belt and suspenders? Man can’t even trust his own pants.” These words of wisdom, uttered by Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West, might have saved the women of Los Angeles from the scourge of Ashton Kutcher’s heartbreaker in Spread. Strutting around in designer casual that threatens to slide off his lean frame—hence the belt and suspenders—Kutcher plays a professional cad who’s somewhere between Warren Beatty in Shampoo and a Bret Easton Ellis character. He’s ingratiating and slightly pathological, using his metrosexual ... »
Giallo trailer
7 July 2009 4:21 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
It should be difficult for true horror fans to discuss the genre and not mention influential veteran Dario Argento. The Italian master has dabbled in various material during his lengthy career (he co-wrote Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West, for example), but is undoubtedly best known for his "giallo" works like Suspiria, Tenebre, Deep Red and Inferno. He's taking a page from his own book with his latest, bluntly titled Giallo. The movie features Oscar-winner Adrien Brody as an... »
- Dave Davis
Five: Spaghetti Westerns not directed by Sergio Leone
10 June 2009 2:01 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »
Jeffman from Head Full Of Snow recommends five Spaghetti Westerns not directed by Sergio Leone.
A bruised and battered stalwart of the late night cinema circuit, the Spaghetti Western held a bastardised, custom-job revolver to the head of its inferior American cousin and relieved it of both its basic premise and last shred of decency; joyously blurring the line between right and wrong and leaving morality swinging from a ragged noose in the hot, desert sun.
The Spaghetti Western was an Italian phenomenon, mostly financed by Rome's famous Cinecitta Studios, although there were plenty of co-productions with other Euro countries like Spain and Germany, even stretching as far afield as Israel if you count the soul-sapping awfulness that is God's Gun. One man is responsible for popularising the Spaghetti Western, Sergio Leone. If you're a follower of LateMag's frequent forays into the weird and wonderful worlds of cult cinema you'll probably know his films already. »
- Nick
iReel Gets Real With Major Releases
6 June 2009 9:16 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
iReel is a new web-based streaming VOD, Svod, Dto service, offering HD movies viewable directly from a special player on site. The iReel service, available in Canada and the Us, is noted as the only online movie service that does not require a downloadable player. With no cost to join, film content includes major studio, classic and independent features, with a "focus on ease of use and high quality..." This week's major studio iReel pick is Revolutionary Road , directed by Sam "American Beauty" Mendes, starring actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet of Titanic fame. Screenplay by Justin Haythe is based on the 1961 novel by author Richard Yates, set in 1955, following 'Frank' (Leonardo DiCaprio) and 'April Wheeler '(Kate Winslet) as they move to 'Revolutionary Road' located in one of New York City's wealthiest Connecticut suburbs, where they live a life, raise a family and challenge each other with bitter arguments and physical abuse. »
SFIFF52: A Recap
10 May 2009 8:46 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The San Francisco International Film Festival came to its curtain call Thursday night with the closing night film Unmade Beds, followed by a party at the Mezzanine club in Soma. Instead of going, I reflected on the fact that I saw over thirty films at the festival this year. Not all of them good—some were terrible, some weren’t even worth writing about.
I’ll be having a rundown of the festival’s best and worst films Monday night Live on the air, as I’ll be joining the good folks at Worst Show on the Web for their second show focused on Sfiff. Be sure to tune in starting 8 Pm, or you can download the show later at any time.
In the mean time, here’s what I have to say briefly about the festival this year... What threw me off a little was that while I’m »
- Arya Ponto
Sergio Leone In London: Inside The Private Tribute With Dario Argento And Sir Christopher Frayling
7 May 2009 7:08 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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Dario Argento and Sir Christopher Frayling at the Sergio Leone tribute in London.(Photo: Mark Mawston) In honour of what would have been Sergio Leone’s 80th birthday, Sir Christopher Frayling, the late director’s internationally acclaimed biographer, hosted a celebration of the legenary filmmaker’s work at the Italian Cultural Institute in London on Wednesday evening.
Sir Christopher, who has penned the foreword to Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer’s upcoming book ‘The Westerns of Clint Eastwood’, invited Dave, along with Cinema Retro contributors, and authors in their own right, Matthew Field and Howard Hughes, and photographer Mark Mawston to this private tribute.
Posters from Sergio Leone’s movies adorned the walls, providing a fitting backdrop to the evening, which began with a talk on Leone’s career by Frayling (illustrated with a slideshow) followed by an on-stage interview with famed Italian director Dario Argento, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Waking Life Goes Western In Hired Guns
5 May 2009 9:41 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Well now, here’s an intriguing fusion of the old and new. Executive producer Sergio Donati (Once Upon A Time In The West) is backing Andrew McKenzie’s Hired Guns, a spaghetti western due to start shooting in July with an in-talks cast of Will Patton, Jeff Fahey, Karl Urban, Keith David, Danny Trejo, Tom Savini and Zoe Bell and the score provided by Andrea Morricone who, yes, is the son of Ennio. This alone would be enough to catch the attention. The cast fits, Donati obviously knows the score and speaking of the score ... well, it’s hard to argue with the Morricone heritage, now isn’t it? But here’s where things get interesting: The film is going to be shot digitally on the Red camera and then put through the same rotoscope animation technique pioneered on Waking Life and subsequently employed for A Scanner Darkly and others. »
- Todd Brown
SFIFF52 Day 11: Moon, Once Upon a Time in the West
4 May 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
England, 2008, 97 minutes
Director: Duncan Jones
Despite its low budget and one-set limitations, Moon doesn’t fail to evoke a grand sense of wonderment by putting its idea and execution its means. Resolving the mystery of its narrative quickly, the film’s heart and drive is in its treatment of its (two of the same) main character—supported by a strong performance by Sam Rockwell.
It’s a smart and memorable example of brainy science fiction, but more importantly, it’s also a sad portrayal of loneliness and the human trait of desiring relationships being the defining mark of a person.
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Italy/USA, 1968, 165 minutes
Director: Sergio Leone
Sunday proved to be a very fine day as I also got to see the newly restored Once Upon a Time in the West, one of my favorite movies of all time. Despite already owning the film on DVD, »
- Arya Ponto
52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Opens
22 April 2009 11:41 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The San Francisco International Film Festival opens today for yet another two weeks of great films from all over the world: Bulgaria, Ecuador, Philippines and even all the way from San Francisco! It’s the festival’s 52nd year and it looks like it’s shaping up to be an exciting one, pointed by the number of big guests in attendance. There are a couple of screenings of great oldies, as well, particularly two westerns I hold dear.
I will, of course, be going to as many films as my body would allow me. I have seen a few in advance, though, and here are some of the highlights that would be paramount to try and get into.
Atom Egoyan's newest film Adoration is the best one I've seen so far. The story of an orphaned boy who reimagines his dead parents as players in a terrorist bombing plot, »
- Arya Ponto
Jason Statham Updating Charles Bronson Hitman Role
22 April 2009 1:31 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
I don’t think it will be too much longer until we can look at the back catalog of every movie ever made and check the box next to every one that says “Remade?” It seems that a single day can’t go by without news of a remake being announced, this time it is the 1972 action/crime-thriller The Mechanic which starred The Coolest Actor Of All Time (fact, not opinion…) Charles Bronson.
Bronson himself sadly passed away back in 2003, so needless to say it’ll have to be a fresh face who portrays the character of Arthur Bishop. So which modern day tough guy is it going to be?
Well none other than the Transporter and the (apparently) immortal Chev Chelios (from Crank) himself, Mr Jason Statham.
The project hasn’t been in the works for that long so not many details have been released yet, other than the »
- Ross Miller
Prachi Desai, Ekta Kapoor go Shopping to Chor Bazaar
8 April 2009 10:53 PM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
At last Ekta Kapoor’s favorite protegee Prachi Desai is doing a film for Ekta’s Balajee Films.
The petite beauty who played Farhan Akhtar rock steady wife in Rock On is all set to play underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s soul mate Mehjabeen in Milan Luthria’s Once Upon A Time In The West.
Ekta and Prachi have been catching up on all the video footage that’s available on on the lady, and they’ve been hunting for clothes all over. In fact Prachi went all over the Muslim localities of Mumbai last month including Haji Ali to pick up authentic salwar-kameez.
Says Prachi, “That’s. »
- realbollywood
Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Action/Adventure Edition
13 March 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
When referring to a movie that nabbed a second life, typically home video is the savior. There are countless movies that didn’t fare well in their original theatrical runs but have earned a so-called second life thanks to profitable video sales and rentals that make them much stronger than they ever were when they first arrived. Examples of this trend vary greatly, whether you’re referring to genre, era, proliferation (or magnitude of the “second life”) and, of course, how deserving it is. Most that get a boost long after its premiere got where it is now slowly, spread wide by word of mouth and critical re-analysis. Most of them were not well received during the initial run, and many are re-evaluated, and mistakes are mended. Among them: 2001, The Princess Bride, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Office Space and Dazed and Confused. These »
- Matt Medlock
Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani's Top Ten Films List
10 March 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- It was a little late in the game when I asked Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop) to take part in our Ioncinephile of the month feature, so the exercise of asking Ramin to come up with his definite top ten was perhaps a little much to ask considering that this month happens to be a busy one for the filmmaker filling in requests from media and festivals for the upcoming release of his third film, Goodbye Solo [Roadside Attraction 03/27]. Instead, Ramin was kind enough to offer us an alternative list of top ten films (it pans out to be eleven, you'll see why below) that he has "been thinking about recently". Here is that list (in alphabetical order) as of March 2009. Aguirre, The Wrath of God Au Hasard Balthazar Cool Hand Luke The Flowers of St. Francis The Godfather The Godfather Part II The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance »
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