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Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009
15 November 2009 4:33 PM, PST
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Warren Beatty, who also won a best director Oscar for Reds in 1982, at the presentation of the Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Steven Spielberg, who also won two best directors Oscars, for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Dino de Laurentiis, the producer of classics such as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, The Great War, The Stranger, and Serpico
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Little Scene : Scarecrow
30 July 2009 6:07 AM, PDT
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(1973, Schatzberg)
When Scarecrow premiered (and won the Ex-aequo award) at Cannes in 1973 Al Pacino had was hot off The Godfather and Gene Hackman had just completed The Poseidon Adventure and had already won an Oscar for his role in The French Connection.
Popeye Doyle and Micheal Corleone face to face, two of the stars of the decade jostling for position. Pacino, buoyant, having just had Francis Ford Coppola fight for him to stay in the greatest family saga of all time, would walk straight into Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon for Sidney Lumet and into one of the greatest acting careers in history. Hackman, himself was about to star in the masterful The Conversation (again for Coppola) and was (arguably) at the peak of his career.
So what's this beautiful little dual character study called Scarecrow sandwiched, on IMDb between some of the most acclaimed and influential movies of the
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Reed’s Bargain Bin: S1m0ne
6 July 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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Reed’s Bargain Bin [1] is a recurring column where Reed Farrington tells us about a movie he bought for under $5, and whether or not he regrets the purchase.
Despite the clever title and participation of Al Pacino, S1m0ne did not receive much attention from critics or movie theatre audiences when it came out in 2002. The director, Andrew Niccol, had some acclaim as a result of having directed Gattaca (a smart science fiction film about a physically defective human in a genetically manipulated world) and having written The Truman Show (a smart allegorical film about a man who's oblivious to the fact that his life has been manufactured for the purposes of a television show). S1m0ne also has a high concept idea behind it: a movie director creates a computer generated actor who becomes a star while only he knows that the actor is computer generated.
I think I’ve had
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Japan Cuts Review: Confessions Of A Dog
1 July 2009 7:45 PM, PDT
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[Our thanks to Christopher Bourne for the following review.]
A very lengthy feature (three hours and fifteen minutes) which, like Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s film All Around Us (also screening as part of Japan Cuts), deals with the criminal justice system in Japan, and that is as deliciously engrossing as it is disturbing, Gen Takahashi’s Confessions of a Dog is perhaps the most devastating indictment of Japan’s police ever committed to film. Following in the great tradition of, and likely inspired by, Sidney Lumet’s stories of police corruption such as Serpico and Prince of the City (which this film is most analogous to), Confessions of a Dog maps out with surgical precision the anatomy of police crimes, and the system which supports and enables them.
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Michael Jackson Will Live On In Movie History
26 June 2009 9:57 AM, PDT
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A sad day indeed. Michael Jackson wore many hats over the course of his long career. He was an international superstar, and he leveraged that status to dip his toes into anything that interested him. In the world of film, Jackson enjoyed unparalleled access. He worked with luminaries, artists and auteurs who shaped the course of the medium as strongly as the pop star himself did in the music world.
Jackson was a pop cultural icon and his touch will forever be felt in all facets of entertainment. Here are just a few of the stars he hitched to in film during his long and storied career.
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet is a director’s director. He gave us classics like “12 Angry Men,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Network,” “Serpico” and the modern-day masterpiece “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” He also gave us “The Wiz,” a playful recasting of
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Scenes We Love: Serpico
21 May 2009 12:02 PM, PDT
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I may have disagreed with many of Esquire's "essential" manhood movies, but I heartily second their recommendation of Serpico as any sane person would. I revisited this film a few weeks ago, and it doesn't matter how many times you see it in your lifetime, it never ceases to be absolutely terrifying. It may be a biopic (and perhaps even more frightening because of it), but I think of it as The Turn of the Screw set in 1970s New York thanks to the beginning. Sidney Lumet doesn't tease you with Serpico's fate, he kicks off the film with it, and the entire movie is a long, tense, paranoid ride to get to that gunshot.
Everyone points to Dog Day Afternoon as the fiilm that really flaunts Al Pacino's skills -- and I wouldn't dare argue with that, but I don't think this performance gets enough love. Pacino is
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'Drunk' Pacino Thrilled To Lose Out On Serpico Oscar
22 February 2009 5:45 PM, PST
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Al Pacino was delighted he missed out on an Oscar in 1974 for cop drama Serpico, because he was so drugged and drunk at the ceremony he would never have made it onstage.
The star secured his second nomination for his role as honest cop Frank Serpico, but he missed out on the Best Actor prize to Save the Tiger star Jack Lemmon.
But Pacino wasn't disappointed. He says, "It was booze, pills, stuff to alter my mood. I thought, 'If I get this who knows if I'll be able to make it to the stage.' As Jack Lemmon won I smiled and applauded like the happiest man on the planet".
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