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David Thomson on Frank Langella

19 November 2009 3:55 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature'

Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979). But he wasn't ready. Something in his lofty mien suggested that he scorned movies, or simply didn't know how to behave in them. But now … well, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes on changing its own rules the way they seem inclined, Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature.

The Box is opening, as they say, »

- David Thomson

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Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema unzips on November 10

3 November 2009 8:44 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Sex in the cinema is in the spotlight on Starz, November 10. Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema looks at many films that test the limits, from mainstream studio films to product that in its time has been considered pornographic. Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema premieres on Starz, Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 p.m. (et/pt). Take a steamy trip through the milestones of erotic cinema and how movies have reflected our changing attitudes towards sex over the decades. Those appearing in the special include: Adam Rifkin, Director . Look, Alonso Duralde, Film Critic . MSNBC, Andrew Fleming, Director . Threesome, Candis Cayne, Actress . .Dirty Sexy Money,. Dennis Hensley, Author . .Shooting Party,. Dominique Swain, Actress . Lolita, »

- April MacIntyre

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Kier and Carradine’s Fall Down Dead coming to theaters

13 October 2009 2:19 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Indie filmmaker Jon Keeyes, whose credits include the well-received American Nightmare and Suburban Nightmare, sent along news that his latest chiller Fall Down Dead will receive limited theatrical release via his Highland Myst Entertainment and New Film International. The movie will open in December in select cities nationwide; Keeyes passed on some photos, which you can see below.

Fall Down Dead stars genre fave Udo Kier (first photo) as The Picasso Killer, a serial murderer who turns his victims into works of art, and Lolita’s Dominique Swain (second photo) is Christie, a young woman trapped (along with six others) in a building one night with the madman. The late Carradine (third photo) appears as Wade, a bumbling security guard, and R. Keith Harris and Mehmet Gunsur co-star as detectives.

“This movie has everything I love about horror films,” Keeyes tells Fango. “Quirky characters with great conflict, an original twist on the killer, »

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

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Dysfunctional Marriages Go Blu: 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Fatal Attraction'

9 June 2009 2:13 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Adrian Lyne is arguably the king of modern day dysfunctional marriage movies. Even though I haven't seen 9 1/2 Weeks or Lolita -- in which a man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter -- I know from Unfaithful, Indecent Proposal and Fatal Attraction he has the genre nailed. Of course Flashdance and Jacob's Ladder are a couple of sidesteps, but you can't expect a guy to always delve into the darkness of matrimony... but it sure seems like he tries. Paramount is releasing both Indecent Proposal and Fatal Attraction on Blu-ray on June 9 bringing two more of Lyne's notable features to high-definition following Fox's release of Unfaithful back in January. Neither of these two releases comes with any supplemental material you haven't seen before. Indecent Proposal coming with a lone commentary track by Lyne and Fatal Attraction includes all the features that were released on the 2007 Collector's »

- Brad Brevet

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Unfaithful Blu-ray Review -- Infidelity and the Price of Pleasure

17 February 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Adrian Lyne is one of those directors best known for his soft core approach to many projects. Raised in the British commercial school, he emerged, like Ridley Scott, Hugh Hudson and Alan Parker as one of the proto-mtv voices that created a sub-genre unto itself. Lyne directed some huge hits, many of which were dismissed for their content, films like Flashdance, 9 ½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction. Some saw art in Jacob’s Ladder, but most saw Demi Moore rolling in a pile of money for Indecent Proposal. It’s hard to say if he matured, or that Lolita changed him. His 1997 film attempted to best Kubrick (arguably he didn’t), but he got something of the Nabakov book that didn’t interest Stanley’s vision. Lyne may be at his best when he has sympathy for those who may not deserve it, those with bad and forbidden longings in their heart. »

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