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Avatar | Film review

19 December 2009 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

At $500m, James Cameron's Avatar is the most expensive movie ever. Yet for all its brilliant imagery, is it any more than a smug sermon?

Before I read that James Cameron was born 55 years ago in Kapuskasing, Ontario, the only thing I knew about the town was that when, during their 1951 tour of Canada, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip stopped there for an hour, they were greeted by a banner headline in the local paper reading "Kapuskasing by no mere fluke, welcomes the Princess and the Duke".

He got his first film job in 1980 as art director on Roger Corman's low-budget Sf film Battle Beyond the Stars, a transposition to outer space of The Magnificent Seven. It was scripted by John Sayles, who was to remain an independent film-maker of personal, modestly financed movies, while Cameron was soon to make exponentially expensive blockbusters.

His seventh feature, Titanic, is …

- Philip French

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Scenes (Songs) We Love: "I Will Find You" From 'The Last of the Mohicans'

10 December 2009 3:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

As anyone who knows me can tell you, I'm not the most romantically inclined person in the world. But I recently attended the wedding of two of my closest friends, and as I watched the bride walk the aisle, I couldn't help but think about the songs that can make my heart skip a beat ... or even make me believe in things like love everlasting. Now, being the movie geek I am, my mind tends to always wander to the big screen, and I realized that probably one of the only songs that can make my inner girl melt is Clanaad's I Will Find You from Michael Mann's The Last of The Mohicans. Mann's loose 1992 adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel has gone down in history as one of the most romantic films of all time, which might come as a shock to some fans of Mann's trademark manly style. …

- Jessica Barnes

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Daniel Day-Lewis talks about Nine (and acting, reluctantly)

10 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Daniel Day-Lewis will live rough, break bones and work through pneumonia to get inside his characters. It may be absurd, he says, but then, he's in an absurd business. He talks about his latest film, Nine

The Daniel Day-Lewis interview is set for Friday and then it's set for Saturday. It's at 3.30pm; it's at 1.15pm; it may not happen at all. Inside the swish London hotel, the press handlers are all hunched over their clipboards while Italian journalists keep tripping over TV cables in the corridor. Eventually, a pair of publicists forge through the melee to assure me that yes, the interview will indeed take place – but not right now. "Can we bring you some food while you wait?" asks the first publicist. "There's no food," says the second.

By this point I'm starting to wonder whether the Nine press junket might be some ornate PR stunt by the Weinstein Company, …

- Xan Brooks

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In the November Notebook

6 December 2009 8:51 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

Acquarello

Now on DVD: "The Human Condition" (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-1961)

David Cairns

The Forgotten: Loose Talk

The Forgotten: Chains of Love

Now on DVD: "TheGoodTimesKid" (Azazel Jacobs, USA)

The Forgotten: Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden

Now Playing on The Auteurs: "Death in the Garden" (Luis Buñuel, Mexico/France)

The Forgotten: Strausswitz

Adrian Curry

Movie Poster of the Week: "Hausu"

Movie Poster of the Week: "Up in the Air"

Movie Poster of the Week: "Bright Star"

Movie Poster of the Week: "Home"

Manny Farber

Ways of Love, or the Best Films that Didn't Appear on Other "Ten Best" Lists...

The Trouble with Movies: II

Matthew Flanagan

53rd London Film Festival: "La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris" (Frederick Wiseman, USA)

Daniel Kasman

Video Sundays

Video Sundays: The Modern Charade

God and Man: Aleksandr Sokurov's "The Sun"

Images of the Day

Video Sundays: Auteur Pantomime in the …

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"Last Of The Mohicans": I Will Find You...

5 December 2009 8:32 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

"The Last of the Mohicans" written/directed by Michael "Miami Vice" Mann in 1992, is a historical feature set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, based on author James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel.

Cast includes Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe, with Russell Means, Wes Studi, Eric Schweig and Jodhi May.

The soundtrack, featuring music by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman, featured the haunting song "I Will Find You" by Clannad.

"Last Of The Mohicans" won an Academy Award for Best Sound.

Mann's film, like the novel is a romance, set against a turbulent era, with authentic wardobe and weaponry of the period.

"Last Of The Mohicans" opened in North America, September 25, 1992. By the end of its domestic run, the film earned $75,505,856.

Sneak Peek "Last Of The Mohicans"...

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- Michael Stevens

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Sir Links-a-Lot

14 November 2009 7:10 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Vanity Fair How the Fantastic Mr. Fox puppets were made. Cool slides

Boy Culture From Queer to Eternity

fourfour on Precious. I wish I'd read this days ago. Beautiful piece that will hopefully slap some people silly who have wanted to condemn this movie for existing.

Cinema Blend Romola Garai's Spider-Man surprise

Los Angeles Times good piece on Sir Ian McKellen (The Prisoner) on Gandalf, gay rights and Macbeth

The Auteurs looking back at Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans and seeing a conflict of movies within

In Contention Brenda Blethyn London River Fyc

Awards Daily Christian McKay Me and Orson Welles Fyc

Silly Hats Only remembers François Ozon's 8 Women

About this trailer to Leap Year, Amy Adams next romantic comedy...

I'm not one of those people who likes to trash romantic comedies, especially not before I've seen them. Like any genre it can contain brilliance as well as trash. …

- NATHANIEL R

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Hollywood and Its Antecedents: Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans"

14 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

 

The Last of the Mohicans screened in Chicago on October 26 as part of Doc Films' Michael Mann retrospective.

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The auteurist defense of Michael Mann tends to overlook that his creative freedom came only after years of playing by Hollywood's rules and that even his most personal films exist within popular genres.  Mann's debt to modern Hollywood is most evident in The Last of the Mohicans(1992), a film whose very conception—a big-budget action movie with specious literary pedigree—reflects the cake-and-eat-it mentality of the latter-day blockbuster.  Over and over, it eschews detail that would allow us to better understand character, setting, and conflict in favor of violent action; and often, what remains of the former is perfunctory, and bound to cliché.  I can’t attribute these faults entirely to Mann: IMDb reports that his original cut of the film was around three hours and that Twentieth Century Fox rushed him …

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Introducing AOL's SlashControl!

11 September 2009 10:45 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I know Cinematical readers are just like our writers in that they need a steady supply of free movies and television 24/7. That's why sites like Hulu and Netflix Instant have been a gift from the Powers That Be, as you can see almost anything your heart desires at the weirdest times of the day or night. Now you'll have a new instant watch option with AOL's SlashControl.

SlashControl has just launched this week, and has partnered with more than 30 sites to bring you lots and lots of free television shows and movies. You'll be able to access content from ABC, CBS, CW, Showtime, Hulu, A&E, The History Channel, National Geographic, Crackle and the WB, and that's just the beginning. The site is very well designed, and has a search function that's even faster than Hulu's, so you can quickly kick yourself for not watching Session 9 while it was still available. …

- Elisabeth Rappe

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Dances With Werewolves gets in step

30 June 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Noah Segan, the busy young genre star who’s got the acclaimed Deadgirl (pictured) heading for limited theatrical release next month, Someone’S Knocking At The Door doing the festival circuit and All About Evil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever waiting in the wings, gave us the heads-up about yet another horror project occupying his time.

It’s called Dances With Werewolves, and it reunites him with Someone’S Knocking director/co-writer Chad Ferrin.

“Dances With Werewolves is a working title, and the movie is a classic American romance which will be done mostly in the Lakota language,” Segan tells Fango. “Set against the pioneering days of the Wild West, the insecurity of Reconstruction after the Civil War and the tumultuous relationship between white settlers and Native Americans, we examine how encroaching civilization drives a tribe, as a last resort, to invoke lycanthropy to defend their land and way of life. …

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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In My Opinion: Ranking the Films of Michael Mann

29 June 2009 4:54 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

The films of Michael Mann

Photo: Universal Pictures Ranking the Films of Michael Mann In advance of this Wednesday's release of Public Enemies I thought it was only fitting to take a look back at the films from director Michael Mann and see how they would sort themselves out in a quick ranking session and what a wild last few days it has been. On Thursday, last week, I saw Public Enemies, later that night I watched Manhunter, the next day I watched Thief and The Last of the Mohicans -- then the weekend arrived. In a matter of 48 hours I watched Heat, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice and Collateral all in an attempt to make sure my mind was completely refreshed and ready to sort things out. You will notice I am only ranking nine films since I have never seen The Keep (1983) and it wasn't available through Netflix …

- Brad Brevet

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Stowe Captivates Jackman, Weisz And Pattinson

13 May 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Actress Madeleine Stowe is to step behind the camera to direct her own movie Unbound Captives - and she has tempted stars including Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson to join the project.

The Last of the Mohicans star wrote a script for the film in the 1990s but turned down a string of big money offers for the rights, because she was determined to play the lead female role.

But now she has relented and sold the script to bosses of another movie production company, who have agreed to let her helm the project.

And Stowe is delighted she waited for the right opportunity - as she has already signed up some high profile stars.

She tells Variety, "There are moments in life where you need to follow your heart. The script remained my singular focus, but directing it myself wasn't something I ever dreamed of.

"I saw three actresses, and knew after meeting with Rachel that she was the person I wanted to hand this role to. Robert said yes last fall, before everything broke with Twilight. Hugh said yes a couple of weeks ago." …

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Jackman, Weisz, Pattinson for 'Captives'

13 May 2009 6:13 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson have joined the cast of Madeleine Stowe's period drama Unbound Captives. Stowe, who has starred in films such as The Last Of The Mohicans,, Twelve Monkeys and Short Cuts, will make her directorial debut on the drama. The movie, set in 1859, revolves around a woman (Weisz) whose husband is murdered and her children kidnapped by a Comanche war party. Jackman will play a frontiersman who rescues Weisz and her son (Pattinson). Stowe wrote the Captives script with her husband Brian Benben in (more) …

- By Simon Reynolds

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