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The Leigh dynasty
17 December 2009 3:15 PM, PST
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Leo Leigh, son of Mike, is the latest in a burst of directorial scions to be making names for themselves
Leo Leigh, the 28-year-old son of Mike Leigh, is grim-faced when his dad's name crops up in conversation. "Who?" he says, impatiently. "Yeah, yeah, fine." When he gets going, though, Leigh – whose documentary, Swansea Love Story, is released online this week – chats away merrily about his childhood. One of his early memories is being on the set of Life is Sweet, which featured his mum, Alison Steadman; a makeup artist gave him and his brother Toby fake burns. He reckons he learned more about lighting in half an hour watching cinematographer Dick Pope shoot a scene on Vera Drake than he did in three years of film school: "It's the best free education ever."
As for Swansea Love Story, it's a thoughtful and depressing film about young heroin addicts, starring
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- Cath Clarke
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Cinematographers to Honor Chris Menges
3 December 2009 6:21 PM, PST
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By Wrap Staff
Oscar-winning cinematographer Chris Menges will receive the American Society of Cinematographers' 2010 International Achievement Award, presented annually to a cinematographer who has made significant and enduring contributions to the international art of filmmaking.
The award will be presented during the 24th annual Asc Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Feb. 27.
The British cinematographer won Oscars for "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission" and was nominated for "Michael Collins" and "The Read
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- Lisa Horowitz
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Asc honors Chris Menges
3 December 2009 10:33 AM, PST
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Variety:
The American Society of Cinematographers has selected Chris Menges as the recipient of its International Achievement Award.
The kudo will be presented at the 24th Annual Asc Outstanding Achievement
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- Ryan Adams
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Film review: Ninja Assassin delivers action with every punch
23 November 2009 4:05 AM, PST
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"Ninja Assassin"
Warner Bros. Pictures
I am an action movie fan. I readily admit it. Growing up watching TV shows like "Kung Fu" or movies such as "The Killing Fields" from a young age, I learned quickly the difference between campy and impressive when it came to fight scenes. "Power Rangers" is campy. "The Bourne" series is not. I put "Ninja Assassin" is the same category as Matt Damon's action-spy thriller trilogy. However, the plot isn't the high point of the movie, which is set to hit theaters Nov. 25 in the U.S. and Jan. 8, 2010, in the U.K. The storyline definitely plays second fiddle to the fast-paced action scenes. If you can handle the gore -- think gruesome Quentin Tarantino style movies like "Kill Bill" -- then you'll love watching each swipe of a blade, kick and punch as it's delivered.
Moviegoers won't have to wait long for the action to start.
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- Angelique Moon
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Film review: Ninja Assassin delivers action with every punch
23 November 2009 4:05 AM, PST
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"Ninja Assassin"
Warner Bros. Pictures
I am an action movie fan. I readily admit it. Growing up watching TV shows like "Kung Fu" or movies such as "The Killing Fields" from a young age, I learned quickly the difference between campy and impressive when it came to fight scenes. "Power Rangers" is campy. "The Bourne" series is not. I put "Ninja Assassin" is the same category as Matt Damon's action-spy thriller trilogy. However, the plot isn't the high point of the movie, which is set to hit theaters Nov. 25 in the U.S. and Jan. 8, 2010, in the U.K. The storyline definitely plays second fiddle to the fast-paced action scenes. If you can handle the gore -- think gruesome Quentin Tarantino style movies like "Kill Bill" -- then you'll love watching each swipe of a blade, kick and punch as it's delivered.
Moviegoers won't have to wait long for the action to start.
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- Angelique Moon
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Birthday Suits: Giant Sized Edition
17 November 2009 11:05 AM, PST
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11/17 ~ Todays special boys and girls. Are you one of them?
Mischa, Marty and Rachel
1897 Frank Fay, aka Mr. Barbara Stanwyck. The theory goes that their troubled marriage was the basis of A Star is Born. That story is so big it's practically it's own franchise. I can't stop thinking about it today: Stanwyck through the lens of Gaynor, Garland, Streisand. Yummy!) Even if it's only an urban La legend, I love to think about it. Fay, a popular comedic actor, was also the originator of the Harvey role (on stage) before Jimmy Stewart got to it.
1901 Lee Strasberg, the hugely influential acting teacher that helped popularize "The Method" Students included... well, basically a whose who of late 40s / early 50s giants of the silver screen.
1905 Mischa Auer, very tall actor of oversized comic turns. You'll remember him from the blissfully funny My Man Godfrey and best picture winner You Can't Take It With You
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- NATHANIEL R
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Lake Mungo Joins After Dark Horrorfest 4 Line-Up!
1 September 2009 12:32 PM, PDT
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After Dark Films have announced Lake Mungo as their 3rd acquisition for the upcoming Horrorfest 8 Films To Die For, the 4th of the annual festival set to hit theaters on January 29th, 2010. Lake Mungo joins the already announced Dread (the latest Clive Barker adaptation written & directed by Anthony Deblasi) and The Graves. Here's the official press release and a pair of images:
Los Angeles, CA (August 27, 2009) — After Dark Films CEO Courtney Solomon has announced that After Dark has inked a deal with Arclight Films to feature Lake Mungo in it’s next incarnation of After Dark Horrorfest®: 8 Films to Die For. The supernatural mystery is written and directed by Joel Anderson making his feature debut. Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger and Martin Sharpe star. Georgie Nevile and David Rapsey produced. Dana Lambert, VP of Acquisitions at After Dark brokered the deal with Arclight Films who represented the filmmakers in the negotiations.
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From the Files of Fangoria: Beware the Warning Sign
31 August 2009 8:36 PM, PDT
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It’s been a relaxing break, but now it’s time to get back to work and dive right back into the files. This week’s full review is a little biological terror from 1985 known as Warning Sign. A preachy little number about the dangers of biological warfare, this film pulls no punches when it comes to paranoia and its “don’t trust the government” message.
Taking place in Any Midwestern Town America, Warning Sign is the story of a chemical spill that occurs in the wackiest of ways. Think The Stand if the biological spill was caused by sticky tape and The Three Stooges. Even though the film can be admired as an early example of rage zombie-like behavior, preachy dialogue, melodramatic leads, and lousy extras make the film almost unwatchable. Even more disappointing, despite having such a “progressive” message, the female leads are extremely weak. Also, for some
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (David McKendry)
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The revenge of Opus Dei
26 August 2009
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In response to "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", Opus Dei finances a movie about its founder, José Maria Escriva de Balaguer.
After not coming off very well in "Angels and Demons", members of Opus Dei are taking this opportunity to give the public their side of the story, thanks to the movie that Roland Joffé is currently filming in Argentina, "There Be Dragons".
The biopic takes on the life and works of Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the Opus Dei founder who was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, and was known both for having supported Spain's fascist dictator Francisco Franco and defended Nazi Germany¹s sickening ideology.
In an interview about the project, Roland Joffé, maker of the excellent "The Mission" and "The Killing Fields", said he believed "The Da Vinci Code" stupidly and ignorantly shows an Opus Dei monk and that the movie uses religious symbolism to confuse people.
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- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
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Roland Joffe To Direct There Be Dragons
24 August 2009 11:54 PM, PDT
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If you’re anything like Empire, then you’ll know only the following about Catholic Church organisation, Opus Dei:a) It was featured in The Da Vinci Code, involved Paul Bettany flogging himself, and looked slightly shadyb) Erm, that’s it.Naturally, there’s more to it than albinos hitting themselves with homemade switches and Alfred Molina scheming to do whatever the hell it was he was doing (we’ve tried to banish The Da Vinci Code from our minds as best as we can, but it keeps provoking 3am sweats), and Opus Dei is keen that you should know that.Which is why they’ve recruited Roland Joffe, director of The Mission and The Killing Fields, to make There Be Dragons, a biopic of Opus Dei founder, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, which promises to give the much-maligned organisation, erm, a fair crack of the whip.Escriva, who died in 1973, is
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Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?
5 August 2009 5:00 AM, PDT
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Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters, Bachelor Party, This is Spinal Tap, Footloose, and The Terminator. Movies that were the exact opposite of the highfalutin' offerings from 1939 -- the year critics always cite as the greatest Hollywood vintage of all time. Don't get us wrong, there were some decent high-brow movies from 25 years ago, too, like Amadeus and The Killing Fields. But mostly we were talking about movies that were, you know, fun.
And while some of you agreed with us about 1984's greatness, others were outraged. Apoplectic. Even concerned for our sanity. Some even made cases for other "greatest years". And we listened. That's what we do. So now, we've tallied up your nominees and narrowed it down to your
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- Chris Nashawaty
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Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?
5 August 2009 5:00 AM, PDT
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Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters, Bachelor Party, This is Spinal Tap, Footloose, and The Terminator. Movies that were the exact opposite of the highfalutin’ offerings from 1939 — the year critics always cite as the greatest Hollywood vintage of all time. Don’t get us wrong, there were some decent high-brow movies from 25 years ago, too, like Amadeus and The Killing Fields. But mostly we were talking about movies that were, you know, fun.
And while some of you agreed with us about 1984’s greatness, others were outraged. Apoplectic. Even concerned for our sanity. Some even made cases for other “greatest years”. And we listened. That’s what we do. So now, we’ve tallied up your nominees and narrowed it down
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- Chris Nashawaty
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The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands
3 August 2009 2:13 PM, PDT
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On the screen, Julian Sands is known for a wide spectrum of roles that make the most of his seemingly contradictory mixture of glowering, antihero intensity and ethereal leading man looks. On the telephone, he presents an equally formidable hybrid: Sands has got delightfully prickly down to an art. The British-born actor, who began his film career in "The Killing Fields" in 1984 and broke through the next year as George Emerson in "A Room With A View," has worked steadily in film and television for the last 25 years, starring in cult classics like "Warlock" and working with directors like David Cronenberg, Mike Figgis and Dario Argento, and gaining a television following with roles on shows like "24." Currently, Sands is starring as expat actor Reg Hunt in IFC's upcoming miniseries "Bollywood Hero." I spoke with him about his career, what sparks his interest in a role, and what audiences want from a golf movie.
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Clive Barker's Dread Picked Up For After Dark Films' Horrorfest 4!
22 July 2009 8:51 PM, PDT
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Just as word came back from our staffer at the San Diego Comic-Con that Dread got picked up as the 2nd film in After Dark Films' upcoming 8 Films To Die For fest, we got the official press release confirming the news. This means it'll hit theaters on January 29th, 2010. Here's the full release:
"After Dark Films CEO Courtney Solomon announces the latest addition to After Dark Films’ Horrorfest 4 lineup today in Hollywood . Anthony Diblasi directs his own script of the eagerly anticipated Clive Barker tale, “Dread,” which goes out to theatres January 29, 2010 as part of After Dark Films HorrorfestÒ4 “8 Films To Die For”.
Dread is the second film in the Book of Blood franchise. The action follows three college students who set out to produce a documentary about fear, only to find themselves the subjects of an experiment in terror. Diblasi, a producing partner of Barker’s on such
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The Graves Trailer! Now After Dark Films Selection!
22 July 2009 11:28 AM, PDT
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Firstly, the new trailer for The Graves has made it's debut on-line. The Graves is about sisters Megan and Abby whose visit to Skull City Mine turns into a mind bending fight for survival against menaces both human, and supernatural. It stars (super hot) Clare Grant (Masters of Horror), Jillian Murray (The Fun Park), Bill Moseley (The Devil's Rejects, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II), Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare on Elm St., Dexter), D. Randall Blythe (Screamer, Lamb of God), Shane Stevens, Patti Tindall (Death of a Ghost Hunter), Barbara Glover (Red Rock West), Calabrese and Tony Todd (24, Candyman). Watch the trailer below!
Also, After Dark Films has announced The Graves as the first of next years 8 Films To Die For, an annual festival that showcases the latest in horror on screens across the country. It will play theatrically on January 29th, 2010. Below is the full press release!
The first addition to
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Puttnam Urges Filmmakers To Make A Difference In British National Party Battle
23 June 2009 6:30 PM, PDT
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David Puttnam has urged British moviemakers to find ways of making positive films about integrity and life lessons in an effort to thwart growing film propaganda funded by hardline members of the British National Party.
As part of his keynote address at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland on Sunday, the revered film producer, aka Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, Cbe, insisted more arts cash and private funding had to be made available for stirring message-laden films like his acclaimed projects The Killing Fields, The Mission and Chariots of Fire.
He said, "I’m not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can cut through, let alone solve significant social or cultural problems; but through illuminating the sometimes very different lives and experiences of others... it can help create that vital context of understanding within which the type of change that sometimes looks impossible begins to look at least possible.
"If we ever cease to believe that we will also cease to make movies. In a tiny way it’s what I was trying to do in the films I produced that dealt with factual or historical events; most obviously in The Killing Fields, The Mission and Cal, but also in their own ways, Chariots of Fire, The Duellists and even Local Hero.
"In every case I tried to produce films that adhered to some definable concept of cultural integrity.
"We desperately need some of our most talented filmmakers to find ways of helping to ensure that the insidious propaganda of (BNP leader) Nick Griffin and his gang of thugs fails in its attempt to capture impressionable young minds in some of our more vulnerable communities.
"If the BNP are allowed to get away with exploiting complex issues to their own God knows what ends, then we have stepped on to a very slippery slope indeed."
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Puttnam: 'The Killing Fields Helped Prevent Civil War In The Ukraine'
23 June 2009 3:00 PM, PDT
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British movie mogul Lord Puttnam Of Queensgate is convinced of the power of film after learning The Killing Fields helped thwart a civil war in the Ukraine.
Shortly after the powerful 1984 movie, about the harsh realities of the Cambodian War, won big at the Oscars, producer Puttnam was asked to screen the film in the Ukraine, as part of a British cultural week in Kiev.
Delivering the keynote address at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland on Sunday, Puttnam explained how impactful that screening was.
He said, "The British Film Council felt it was appropriate to screen the movie there (Kiev) and it didn’t take long to realise that I'd been rather badly briefed about the Ukraine - I had no understanding at all of the tensions that existed: political, religious, economic and cultural.
"We ran the film on a Saturday morning, in a huge cavernous cinema, to an audience of mostly young people - about 2,000 of them. After the screening, in an otherwise terrific question and answer session, no one mentioned Cambodia. All of the talk was of the Ukraine and its problems, and whether any such series of events (chronicled in the film) could possibly happen to them."
Unbeknown to Puttnam, the film was subsequently pirated and became a must-see for Ukranians. And the Brit learned of the full impact of the movie upon meeting the then-new Ukranian President Viktor Yushchenko.
The moviemaker explained, "I heard one of the interpreters mention that I was the producer of The Killing Fields, at which point he grabbed me and excitedly explained that shortly after my visit the film had begun to circulate among their schools and colleges.
"Apparently lots and lots of VHS copies of The Killing Fields were shown in schools all over the Ukraine. In fact as far as I could make out, every kid in the Ukraine has at some point seen the movie. He asked me if I’d ever noticed that during the Orange Revolution (post-election protests of 2004 and 2005) there was never any discussion, at any point at all, about the possibility of a civil war breaking out.
"He said, 'Because of your film we understood all too well what civil war did to a nation. We saw what happened in Cambodia, and determined that it was not going to happen in Ukraine.'"
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Tuesday Top Ten: The Best of 1984
16 May 2009 4:13 AM, PDT
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For no reason whatsoever I have declared today 1984 day! It's a 25th Anniversary Jamboree or some such. (Don't ask questions. Just go with it) Herewith a tripled top ten: What the public liked, what Oscar liked, what I liked from the year that was. All movie title links go to their Netflix page in case you're interested in giving them a looksie. First a little historical entertainment context: Vanessa Williams was not starring on Ugly Betty but resigning her Miss America tiara due to nude photos (the more things change...), Ricky Martin was a new member of Menudo, people were just discovering what Madonna looked like on MTV, and Scarlett Johansson was fresh out of the womb.
What Oscar Liked
The Oscar nominees for Best Picture were the Mozart bio Amadeus (11 noms / 8 wins), the legendary David Lean's swan song A Passage to India (11 noms / 2 wins), Roland Joffé's war
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- NATHANIEL R
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“Spalding Never Got Normal”: Jonathan Demme on Swimming To Cambodia
12 May 2009 10:34 PM, PDT
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Last night, Stranger Than Fiction and the Woodstock Film Festival co-presented a screening of Swimming to Cambodia, Jonathan Demme's 1987 performance document of Spalding Gray's monologue ruminating on sex, drugs, genocide, "perfect moments" and "invisible clouds of evil." Inspired by Gray's real-life experience playing a small role in Roland Jaffe's The Killing Fields ("I'm not making up any of these stories I'm telling you tonight," he swears. "Except for the fact that the banana sticks to wall when it hits. Everything else is true."), Swimming, the first of three films based on Gray's monologues, easily eclipses Jaffe's film in contemporary freshness and replayability. Gray's stream-of-consciousness style of deeply personal social documentary has never been equalled on as mainstream a scale. Gray may have been great at self-documentation, but it's the subtle sinematic shaping employed by Demme, cinematographer John Bailey</
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- Karina Longworth
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Ask AfterEllen.com (March 31, 2009)
30 March 2009 7:08 PM, PDT
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Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Send your entertainment-related questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and we'll try to answer as many as we can.
Question:What's Erin Kelly (Loving Annabelle) up to?
— Emily, England
Answer: I contacted Erin with your question (which was one of many about her from multiple readers) and she told me:
Last week I launched my first, very own personal website, erinkellygirl.com. Being that I am the least computer savvy person on the planet, I am actually very proud of this, as I have figured out how to do everything on my own. I'm excited about this site because I am using it as a platform both to keep fans up to date on what I am up to, things I like,
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