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To Sing and Die in L.A.
18 December 2009 8:27 PM, PST
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Glenn from Stale Popcorn here to share some thoughts on 2004, the current year of retrospective here at The Film Experience.
Two of my favourite films from 2004 share Los Angeles as a setting. One is about a serial killer driving around the streets in a taxi while the other is about lesbian musicians trying to catch a break. So the similarities pretty much end there. I like to imagine that they filmed right around the corner from each other and that they accidentally caught each other on film. Hiding in the background.
The first title I speak of is Michael Mann's Collateral. Perhaps the best pure thriller of the decade, the film is noteworthy for many reasons. First and foremost there is the decade-topping cinematography by Paul Cameron and Dion Beebe. Truly an awe-inspiring piece of camerawork there, don't you agree? Expressions like "I've never seen that on screen before
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- Glenn Dunks
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The Limits of Control | Film review
14 December 2009 7:12 AM, PST
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Jim Jarmusch sets his latest enigma in Madrid, Seville and Almería. Existentialist mystery ensues…
Jim Jarmusch has been writing and directing intriguing, highly accomplished independent movies for a quarter of a century now and occasionally acting in those of fellow independents. His budgets remain relatively modest by Hollywood standards, but he has attracted leading performers like Johnny Depp and Robert Mitchum to work with him, as well as musicians such as Tom Waits and Joe Strummer.
His films are mysterious without being obscure and are sometimes carefully patterned and sometimes linear stories of journeys of discovery. Mystery Train, for instance, retraces the same few hours as it interweaves several stories of Presley fans in Memphis, while in Broken Flowers Bill Murray crisscrosses America visiting old girlfriends (all played by well-known actresses) to discover which one bore him a son. Despite the fact that few of the characters actually meet each other,
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- Philip French
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DVD Review: ‘Public Enemies’
11 December 2009 12:15 PM, PST
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Public Enemies, the latest film from director Michael Mann (TVs Miami Vice, Manhunter, Heat, Collateral), hit DVD shelves this week, and if you were a fan of the film in the theater, you’ll want to pick it up on DVD or Blu-Ray. In the film, Johnny Depp plays Depression-era Robin Hood John Dillinger who rose to fame as a notorious bank robber and the F.B.I.’s first public enemy #1.
The film is a loose interpretation of many events such as Dillinger’s empathy for sharecroppers and out on their luck everyday individuals, his famous escape from an Indiana jail, and his eventual demise at Chicago’s Biograph Theater at the hands of F.B.I. agent Melvin Purvis and his band of intrepid G-Men.
Some exciting features on the Blu-Ray and DVD include a documentary about both Dillinger and Purvis who became media adversaries as both rose to both fame and infamy.
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- Douglas Barnett
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Public Enemies - Blu-ray Review
9 December 2009 7:27 AM, PST
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Michael Mann.s Public Enemies reminds of the classic films of the gangster genre while having the modern slick feel of his other crime films . such as Heat, Collateral, and even Miami Vice. Mann (who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman) is one of my favorite directors, and this film is an example of why I like his work. The director is at home in the crime genre, and fills the film with actors that are perfect in their roles, production and costuming that sells the time period, and a pace that holds the viewer from start to finish. The film sees Johnny Depp taking on the role John Dillinger and playing the character with
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- Patrick Luce
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Public Enemies (Two-Disc Special Edition) DVD Review
8 December 2009 9:49 AM, PST
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It’s no secret that I think Michael Mann is the greatest director of all-time, dead or otherwise. One can throw all the Scorsese, Kurosawa, Ford, or Spielberg they want and I’ll still conclude that Mann is better than all of them. His style is unparalleled and has influenced my own approach to the way I make films. Maybe it’s how cool he makes everyone appear in his movies, or maybe it’s how no one does action better than him. Mr. Mann just has a touch to his films that really speaks to me. I’m awed by how well and how different he’ll shoot his material and how he builds his characters for the actors. While not every one his films has been masterworks (Ali and The Keep come to mind) he rarely misses. Public Enemies, I’m proud to say, falls into the latter category.
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- Philip Barrett
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Collider Holiday Giveaway - We Finally Have a New Server! Win Free DVD’s, Blu-rays and Books!
6 December 2009 7:12 PM, PST
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With the holiday’s fast approaching and everyone struggling to find enough money to buy presents, we’ve come up with a novel way to save money: get free stuff from us! Thanks to a bunch of PR films, I’ve got a huge box filled with DVDs, Blu-rays and books and I’m going to give everything away to our readers. So if you’d like to know what you could win and how to enter, just hit the jump for all the info:
And one bit of news before you click on the jump…if you’re a regular reader of Collider, you’ve probably noticed we’ve had a lot of problems keeping the site online over the past few months. Due to heavy traffic and an old server, the site was crashing almost everyday. But after many weeks of work behind the scenes, we have a
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Hollywood Man Peter Berg Shows Off His Battleship
2 December 2009 6:51 AM, PST
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Actor-turned-director Peter Berg has been discussing his latest projects with Latino Review and gave updates on Hancock 2, The Rundown 2 and even talked about why he dropped his planned remake of sci-fi classic Dune last month.
It’s been an interesting career for Berg who began in bit parts and supporting roles in a plethora of top films: from Copland to Collateral. Earlier this decade he switched from his acting day job to directing features. He is currently one of Hollywood’s most entertaining filmmakers. Scoring a massive hit with last year’s Will Smith anti-superhero actioner Hancock, he’s seemingly picking his next projects with glee. Next on the slate (after Lone Survivor) is the boardgame adaptation called Battleship.
Berg picked up the film back in May, but since that initial announcement cinephiles have been scratching their heads over how the simple boardgame might be converted into film. You
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- Martyn Conterio
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Public Enemies Blu-ray Review
1 December 2009 6:52 AM, PST
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I root for Michael Mann even when he missteps, because he is one of America’s premier filmmakers, and one of the great visionaries of cinema. And, really, he’s only been building up steam. TV seemed to occupy him in the 80’s (even with three efforts, the best being Manhunter), but it wasn’t until 1995 that he really struck gold with Heat, and followed that up with The Insider. Both of which qualify as two of the best films of the 90’s. Since then it’s been a film every two or three years, and though none have been as great as those two, they run from the interesting to awesome. Public Enemies falls more into the interesting than awesome camp, but it is definitely solid, albeit familiar ground. My review after the jump.
Johnny Depp stars as John Dillinger, the bank-robbing, folk-hero of his era. A little bit Robin Hood-ish,
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- Andre Dellamorte
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DVD Giveaway: Public Enemies
23 November 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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Johnny Depp and Christian Bale square off in Public Enemies, the story of bank robber John Dillinger who became the FBI's first official "public enemy," that is coming to Blu-ray Disc and DVD on December 8.
I have three copies of Public Enemies on DVD and a Public Enemies bottle opener that will be award to a trio of randomly chosen winners. For a chance to win, fill out and send in the completed entry form below. You are also encouraged to return any or every day thereafter to enter again.
From award-winning director Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) comes the film inspired by one of the country's most captivating and infamous outlaws . John Dillinger. Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean series) stars as the charismatic and elusive bank robber marked by the FBI as America's first "Public Enemy Number One." Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) plays Billie Frechette,
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Get ready for Public Enemies with a copy of the DVD and bottle opener
19 November 2009 1:20 PM, PST
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Award-winning director Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Collateral) transports audiences back to the era of the 1930s American gangster in the critically acclaimed crime saga Public Enemies . hitting DVD on Dec. 8th from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. M&C.s giving away five copies of the DVD and five Public Enemies bottle openers! In Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary outlaw John Dillinger (Depp) . the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover.s fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.
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- Patrick Luce
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Blu-Ray Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ a Modern Masterpiece
11 November 2009 1:23 PM, PST
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Chicago – Michael Mann might first seem the ideal fit for Blu-Ray. He’s a notorious perfectionist, apparent in every frame of his remarkable output of films that includes such great modern classics as “Manhunter,” “The Insider,” “Collateral,” and “Public Enemies”. But one of Mann’s best films, “Heat,” recently released on Blu-Ray, is an interesting example of a director who has a vision that shouldn’t necessarily be overly polished by the HD format. The film looks like Mann wants it - gritty, dark, and like, well, actual film. It’s a release that some buyers may think doesn’t look “HD enough,” but to this Mann aficionado thinks that it looks just right.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
As for the film itself, it’s one of the rare ’90s films that gets better every time I see it. It’s a battle of wills between two of the most legendary actors
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Jamie Foxx Bringing Back Wanda Is Nothing New: Here Are Five Other Cross-Dressing Oscar Winners
10 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST
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Yesterday, I saw a lot of people calling for Jamie Foxx's Oscar to be revoked following the announcement that he and Martin Lawrence are confirmed for "Sheneneh and Wanda," a comedy in which the duo will play female bank robbers. Both roles are based on earlier cross-dressed characters from the actors' TV days (Lawrence's Sheneneh is from "Martin" and Foxx's Wanda is from "In Living Color"). Foxx, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2004 for "Ray" (he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor that same year for "Collateral), returning to this drag shtick seems like a huge step backward to a lot of people.
"Seems" is the key word here, though, because it doesn't have to be a regression. Plenty of Oscar-caliber actors have cross-dressed before and since being nominated and/or winning an Academy Award, and plenty of performers have won for dressing like the opposite sex.
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- Christopher Campbell
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Foxx and Lawrence are ‘Sheneneh and Wanda’
9 November 2009 6:08 AM, PST
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Do you remember when Martin Lawrence was funny? Neither do I.
Do you remember when he was talented? Trick question.
Do you remember when Jamie Foxx had a supremely promising career track? Yes, I do.
And that’s why the news of Foxx and Lawrence being paired together in the comedy vehicle Sheneneh and Wanda is so frustrating to me. I look at Foxx and I think of his great turn in Collateral and Ray, and just weep for his future. He’s dropped off the face of the earth, only to resurface this way?
Apparently, Sheneneh and Wanda are female comic characters that the duo played in their old days, and they’re making a comeback. Foxx is writing the script for the film himself, with Lawrence producing. According to Variety, “the project originated as a parody of a movie trailer for a film called “Skank Robbers,” which Foxx
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- John Cooper
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DVD Review: Public Enemies
1 November 2009 4:41 PM, PST
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“I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars and you. What else do you need to know?”
Public Enemies is Michael Mann’s first venture into true-life territory since 1999’s The Insider. He has long been a master of slick fictionalised crime – his CV is a roll call of criminal capers and cops. The first twenty minutes of Public Enemies is this familiar Mann – the man who made Heat, Collateral and Miami Vice is here you think. The screen, the very room filled with slick staccato sights and sounds. It is cool; it looks period but feels contemporary, fast paced; a jail break, a bank heist, bang, bang, rapid-fire images, bang, bang. A car crests a hill with the robbers on the running boards clutching hostages to them, pretty girls, big guns, devil-may-care men; Gangsters. It explodes out of the screen burning with the same white-hot intensity that Mann believes
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- Emily Breen
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #15
1 November 2009 2:16 AM, PST
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On top of the titles listed below I also watch the Criterion Blu-ray for Howards End and the Blu-ray for Warner Home Video's North By Northwest, both of which will be reviewed on Tuesday along with the Criterion Blu-ray for Wings of Desire. On top of that I watched the Blu-ray for Disney/Pixar's Up, which will be reviewed in a couple of weeks along with the Blu-ray versions of Monsters, Inc. and Cars.
As for the titles listed below, the first three are the final three of Sony's November 3 release of Film Noir Collection Volume One after I discussed my thoughts on The Sniper and 5 Against the House last week. You can get more details on the complete set right here and a link to buy the set is included with all three films below. As a quick note, the only one of the five I didn't particularly
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- Brad Brevet
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October 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
16 October 2009 12:58 PM, PDT
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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but there’s all this vengeance to be doled out and all those injustices to be put right. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Law Abiding Citizen this weekend?” you can reply, “No, I indulged in the long history of vigilante cinema and checked out the long history of extralegal fantasy ass kicking.”
Instead Of: Law Abiding Citizen, the vigilante action flick about grieving, angry husband and father Gerard Butler taking vengeance against Da Jamie Foxx for setting free the man who murdered his family...
Watch: The granddaddy of vigilante flicks, 1974’s Death Wish, in which Charles Bronson goes all badass on bad guys who done bad. Just as the Vietnam War spawned the
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- MaryAnn Johanson
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'Law Abiding Citizen' Flat Screen TV Blog Contest!
14 October 2009 5:38 PM, PDT
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Who wants to win a brand new Panasonic 32-inch 720p LCD HDTV?! Along with Bang and Olufsen earbuds, 3 posters from Law Abiding Citizen, a t-shirt and 3 DVD's: Italian Job (directed by F. Gary Gray), Collateral (starring Jamie Foxx) and 300 (starring Gerard Butler)! To enter, just add a comment (one comment per entrant) to this here blog post by end of day Friday, October 23rd, 2009, telling us which actor you favor, Jamie Foxx or Gerard Butler, and which film you liked them in best. We'll randomly select one lucky winner to get all of the goods.
For more on the film (in theaters 10/16), click here for Law Abiding Citizen photos, videos, showtimes and tickets.
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Exclusive Clip, Contest for Law Abiding Citizen!
13 October 2009 10:34 AM, PDT
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This Friday, audiences will feel the wrath of Gerard Butler when Law Abiding Citizen hits theaters Nationwide. Overture Films has supplied Fangoria with an Exclusive new TV spot called "Inside", which you can view below along with details on a killer prize pack we'll be giving away to one lucky Fango reader!
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice.
Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Insert Caption: Law Abiding Citizen
9 October 2009 2:02 PM, PDT
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Welcome back to another edition of Insert Caption -- the game that's definitely law abiding ... except for that one time back in '87, but we won't go there. Last week we asked you to slam dunk some captions for a photo from the LeBron James basketball doc More Than a Game. Congrats go out to our three players of the game -- next time don't hog the ball so much.
1. "We're looking at making a sequel to Kazaam. Interested?" -- Drew T.
2. "Lebron James reacts to the news that he lost out on the part of B.A. Baracus in the new A-team movie." -- Tim P.
3. "Lebron, I'm really proud of you, and imma let you finish, but Space Jam was the best basketball-star movie of all time!" -- Zach B.
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This week we're meeting Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx in a dark
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- Erik Davis
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Robert Capa according to Michael Mann
7 October 2009
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Director Michael Mann plans biopic of legendary war photographer Robert Capa.
Born in Austria-Hungary, Robert Capa escaped the growing Nazism of Budapest in 1933 and began his career by photographing the Spanish Civil War, later covering the Japanese invasion of China, WWII, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, and the 1954 war in Indochina, where he died stepping on a mine.
Capa is know for saying: "If your picture isn't good enough, you're not close enough". Together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, he founded Magnum Photos.
Michael Mann, the maker of "Collateral", "Heat" and "The Insider" has yet to find an actor to play Ca
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- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
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