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First Look: Catherine Zeta-Jones in A Little Night Music
2 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Chicago Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones is making her Broadway debut as 40-ish actress Desiree Armfeldt in the highly anticipated revival of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim's 1973 classic A Little Night Music, which is set to open Dec.13. People.com has a first look at the star onstage. Zeta-Jones, 40, stars opposite five-time Tony-award-winner Angela Lansbury, who plays her worldly wise mother in the musical. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film romance Smiles of a Summer Night, the sophisticated show looks at the highs and lows of life and love and contains the hit song - delivered by Desiree - "Send in the Clowns. »
Bette Davis, Ronald Colman, Woody Allen at the Packard Campus
1 December 2009 10:27 AM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Ronald Colman, centenarian Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, and Mary Astor (in the Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda); Fairbanks again, with Irene Dunne and Lucille Ball (in the not-so-classic comedy Joy of Living); Bette Davis, Monty Woolley and Ann Sheridan (in the comedy classic The Man Who Came to Dinner); John Gilbert and Renée Adorée (in the anti-war classic The Big Parade); Humphrey Bogart, Joan Bennett, and Peter Ustinov (in the demi-classic allegorical comedy We’re No Angels); Woody Allen and Diane Keaton (in the middle-age-crisis classic Manhattan); James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Gloria Grahame (in the horror classic It’s a Wonderful Life); Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning classic Fanny and Alexander; and, inevitably, several Walt Disney classic shorts [...] »
- Andre Soares
Jay Dipietro's Top Ten Films of All Time
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Jay Dipietro, helmer behind Peter & Vandy which receives its theatrical release via Strand Releasing on October.9th. - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Jay Dipietro, helmer behind Peter & Vandy which receives its theatrical release via Strand Releasing on October.9th. He gave us his top ten (as of October 2009). Midnight Run (1988) Martin Brest An all time favorite. I could recite that movie at one point. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Liv Ullmann, François Truffaut and, well, "The Princess and the Frog"
25 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
"Liv Ullmann wasn't Ingmar Bergman's muse, she was his partner in angst - a fellow weary existential traveler conspiring with him to invent some of the most psychologically complex men and women in cinema history." In the L Magazine, Benjamin Strong previews BAMcinématek's Ullmann retrospective (through December 6), arguing that it "provides a timely opportunity to reassess the oeuvre, to see anew how varied and experimental a body of work it really is." Persona, for example, is "a movie that's too often remembered solely for its gorgeous B&W framing of its two lead actresses and not for the pair of rather startling montages (is that a hairy penis I see before me?) with which the film begins and ends - philosophical passages that still look as formally daring as anything by more celebrated postmodern radicals like Jean-Luc Godard." »
Criterion Collection DVD & Blu-ray Disc Sale @ Amazon.com
25 November 2009 1:07 AM, PST | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »
Bargain time for all you cinephiles out there! Amazon.com has started a Criterion Collection sale with DVDs from $13.99 and Blu-ray Discs from $15.99. The sale includes 29 titles including Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Kagemusha, Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and the controversial Japanese thriller In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida). European buyers should note that Criterion has so far region coded all their releases to Region A, so bad luck for most of us… »
- Ulrik
Joe Flaherty on the Glory Days of Second City TV—and Why Old People Aren't Funny
16 November 2009 12:35 PM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
From December 11 through 13, alumni of improvisational comedy’s most influential training ground, The Second City, will congregate in Chicago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the theater’s founding. And as part of my reporting on the theater’s history and its illustrious roster of alumni for this month’s Fanfair section (Laugh Factory: Second City Celebrates 50 Years), I interviewed one of my favorite Second City veterans: Joe Flaherty. Fans of another school of comedy—Judd Apatow University—will remember Flaherty from his role as Harold Weir, father of Lindsay and Sam Weir in the beloved but short-lived Freaks and Geeks. But I revere Flaherty for his work on the always funny, often brilliant Second City television series—Sctv—that began in Toronto and eventually moved to the NBC network on Friday nights as a stepsister to Saturday Night Live, which has counted such Second City alumni as Bill Murray, »
The World's Longest Film Is ...
11 November 2009 11:15 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
... 150 hours long.
You may have thought that Titanic was long with its 3 hour and 14 minute running time, but that's nothing. Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander is an impressive 312 minutes. Cleopatra lounges in a director's cut of 320 minutes. The 1968 Soviet film War and Peace boasts an impressive 484 minutes, and Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz had to be shown in segments on television since it's a whopping 15+ hours long.
But now all of those have been trumped, made to look like short films with this new sucker. As foreign sister site Moviefone Canada reports, there's a new film called Cinematon, which is the world's longest film. What length does it take to get such an honor? One hundred and fifty hours. In this short-attention-span world, that's pretty much unfathomable. But luckily, it's not one continuous story -- that would take almost a week without sleep to see all at once. The film is »
- Monika Bartyzel
Blu-ray Review: Wings of Desire (Criterion Collection)
3 November 2009 3:42 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is able to capture your attention despite its sparing plot for the main reason you know its about something even if that something takes its sweet time in fully revealing itself. The film follows two guardian angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), as they watch over humanity from up high above the streets of Berlin, and, more often than not, at street level.
As they walk the streets, an often visited library and ride the trains we listen in on the thoughts of others as those Damiel and Cassiel encounter can be heard. However, their thoughts don't come across as a string of cohesive sentences as much as they are fragments of ideas, occasionally offering something of substance, but most often an example of the mundane. To that effect you could say Wings of Desire is about just that, an appreciation for the simpler things in life, »
- Brad Brevet
Sony Picture Classics Embraces Mother and Child
2 November 2009 1:18 PM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
New York, NY (November 1, 2009)- Sony Pictures Classics announces its acquisition of United States’ rights to Rodrigo García’s Mother And Child from Wme Global. The film debuted at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival as a Gala Presentation, where it was actively pursued by several Us distributors.
Mother And Child is the moving tale about the choices we make, the chances we miss, the opportunities we seize and the power of the unbreakable bond between a mother and her child.
The film was written and directed by Rodrigo García (Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her and Nine Lives) and produced by Lisa Maria Falcone through her Everest Entertainment and Julie Lynn via her Mockingbird Pictures. The films’ director of photography is Xavier Grobet (City Of Ember, The Woodsman, Nacho Libre,) Steven Weisberg edited (Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Permanent Midnight), with music by Ed Shearmur (Wings Of The Dove, »
The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies
27 October 2009 10:11 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
When you sit down to a horror film, you know, at least on a basic level, what you're getting into. Whether or not the movie delivers, what you've been promised, and what you're braced for or looking forward to, are scares. Which is why, when we look back on those truly traumatic movie memories, the titles that come to mind often are not horror films at all.
The most frightening movie moments can arrive out of nowhere, in the midst of where they shouldn't belong, catching you when you're vulnerable -- which is why there are a few alleged children's films on this list. But they can also creep up on you, working a different kind of dread, which is where some of the documentaries included below fit in. Fear is a funny thing. It comes in different varieties, it can work its way on you in unanticipated, and, as our collection here proves, »
- Alison Willmore
Robert Englund's 'Hollywood Monster' Excerpt
22 October 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Each day this week we're going to bring you a look inside Robert Englund's (A Nightmare on Elm Street series) new book, Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams, which is available at booksellers now. In today's excerpt Robert talks about meeting Wes Craven for the first time. Be sure to stop by tomorrow for our final preview of Robert's new book. And don't forget to check out Robert Englund in FEARnet's latest original series, Fear Clinc. Wes's first movie, Last House on the Left, was released in 1972, right when I moved back to California. A cross between Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring and a contemporary, no-holds-barred horror movie, Last House on the... »
Satan's Churches
21 October 2009 7:04 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Those who say that "Antichrist" is without redeeming value don't know what the hell they're talking about. Because despite Lars von Trier's images of child death, bodily torture and forest animals in various states of evisceration, not to mention dialogue that could cause temporary damage to the brain, "Antichrist" does have genuine healing power. A short time before the grieving parents known only as He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) are (spoiler alert!) genitally mutilated, He teaches She the "five, five, and five" method of breathing -- that's five seconds each for the inhaling, holding, and exhaling of breath. Stress relief in just 15 seconds! Try it now -- it's free and it really works! Thanks, Lars!
Another Halloween-season cure for what ails -- albeit longer to take, at 93 minutes -- is "The House of the Devil." This is a horror film without pretentious chapter breaks, psychotherapy spews, intimations »
- Rob Nelson
[Movie Review] An Education
20 October 2009 9:23 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
After having his novels adapted into feature films by others; either brilliantly (High Fidelity), less brilliantly (About a Boy) or just plain sour (Fever Pitch); Nick Hornby writes his first original screenplay in An Education, based on the real life memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber’s coming-of-age experience in post-war England.
It’s an odd period for the country, stuck between the dour chaos of World War II and the madcap shenanigans of the Swinging Sixties; an adjusting stage Hornby applies to the movie’s heroine, a bright sixteen-year-old high school student named Jenny (Carey Mulligan), on track to become an Oxford student. While this pleases her stickler of a father (Alfred Molina), Jenny herself is unsure of the fixed path already laid out upon her, which opens her up to the seducing of an older gentleman, the freewheeling David (Peter Saarsgard).
Let’s take a moment to get this out of the way. »
- Arya Ponto
DVD Weekly Roundup – Mon 19th October 20099
18 October 2009 4:54 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
It’s quite unfortunate that the X-Men films having started strong are now reduced to this shoddy piece of cinema really. Let’s face it; it all started going downhill around number 3 but this attempt at a prequel just doesn’t deliver at all.
The script is all over the place, not knowing if it wants to be taken seriously or just be a no brainer action film. What we get is cheap dialogue being delivered like it’s Shakespeare. Hugh Jack man is charismatic enough but he hasn’t exactly had a good year, what with the complete bollocks that was Australia and now this.
I think Origins biggest failure is treating Wolverine’s relationship with his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) like some sort of Eastenders sub-plot. That’s what it is! The whole film feels like a daytime soap opera. The romantic element of »
- Alex Wagner
A Serious Man
9 October 2009 8:09 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Plot: A man (Stuhlbarg) whose life is slowly falling apart in 1967 seeks wisdom from his local rabbis.
Who’S It For? This is open to anyone who wants to experience a film that is thought provoking, and almost soul searching. It is not a “black comedy,” as some have said. This is a realistic drama, but it never has a dull moment.
Expectations: I had not seen the trailer before hand. But when the Coen Brothers are involved, no preview should be necessary.
Click Here to read Allen’s interview with Michael Stuhlbarg
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik: With the world constantly turning away and leaving him behind in the ruins that are fragments of his pride, this constantly cornered character never rings untrue. »
- Nick Allen
Good Morning, Oscar: October 2
2 October 2009 9:09 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
In today’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, a Swedish auction house conclusively proves that it’s better to be nominated for an Oscar than to win a Golden Globe.
More on that sale of Ingmar Bergman’s belongings in Stockholm earlier this week: it turns out that while the Bukoswkis auction firm couldn’t legally resell Bergman’s Oscars, they did auction off three of the Academy Award nomination plaques he received for his films “Wild Strawberries,” “Through a Glass Darkly” and “Autumn Sonata.&rdq... »
- Steve Pond
Eric Hatch: News Correspondent
1 October 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Growing up watching the same three films over and over (Ghostbusters, The Goonies and Annie), Eric Hatch discovered that a whole new world of film was waiting to be watched after viewing Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. He then watched every Hitchcock film and branched off to other classic suspense films, later discovering Swedish films and, his personal favorite, horror. At the age of 15, Eric knew that his future was destined to be film related. He attended Dawson College and studied Cinema and Communications under the impression that he was going to become a successful film producer. After studying film for three years at Concordia University, Eric decided to combine his passion for film with journalism, with the hopes to beginning his own film related magazine or radio show. Now, Eric is an aspiring journalist, studying in Concordia's Journalism Graduate Program and is proud to be a member of Sound on Sight. »
- Ricky
Good Morning, Oscar: October 1
1 October 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
In today’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, Ingmar Bergman goes on the auction block, “Transformers” wins a prize, and the best-actress category needs a babysitter.
Thank heaven for little girls: Guy Lodge notices that many of the top best-actress contenders are young, and playing younger. Saoirse Ronan, Carey Mulligan, Gabourney Sidibe, Abbie Cornish – only the first is a teenager, but the others are in their twenties but playing teenagers. Will they split the youth vote and hand the award to Meryl Streep? Is there a youth v... »
- Steve Pond
Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal chess set fetches over £90,000 at auction
30 September 2009 7:17 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
A piece was missing, many were chipped and yet the chess set from 1957’s The Seventh Seal was the star lot at an auction selling belongings from the estate of the classic film’s late writer/ director Ingmar Bergman. The Swedish filmmaker whose career spanned over six decades died in July at the age of 89 leaving instructions for his assets to be sold at auction and as such 337 objects went under the hammer with all proceeds going to his family. In total, the estate earned an incredible 19.9 million kroner (that’s over £160,000) with the chess set contributing more than £90,000 (one million kroner). »
400 Screens, 400 Blows - The Best of the Best
27 September 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Recently, my uncle -- a film buff to put most other film buffs to shame -- sent me a clipping from the Seattle Times, in which critic John Hartl celebrated the greatest movie year of all time. Not 1939, as is generally accepted, but 1959. And I have to agree with him. It was an amazing time when the old Hollywood guard was winding down and creating their final masterpieces, new upstarts were coming in with fresh new films and the most outrageously artistic of European cinema was getting released (and being watched) in America. Not taking into account any weird release patterns -- such as the fact that Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957) was released here in 1959 -- and based on the IMDb's list of 1959 movies, here's my top ten list for that great year.
1. Rio Bravo. On most days, this is my favorite Western, with its combination of breathless suspense »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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