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DVD Playhouse--November 2009
7 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book) - Blu-ray Review
13 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
North by Northwest has come to be the definitive film by Alfred Hitchcock. It hits all the right notes and features a suave, debonair Cary Grant, a ravishing Eva Marie Saint, sinister doings from James Mason and Martin Landau, and a finale of presidential proportions. It.s perfection in both film and Blu-ray presentation. Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is a Madison Avenue advertising agent who is mistaken for George Kaplan (Archibald Leach) and taken to the estate of Lester Townsend. There he is interrogated by a man (James Mason) he believes to be Townsend. Thornhill insists that he.s not Kaplan, but the man doesn.t buy it and orders his servant Leonard (Martin Landau) to dispose »
- Jeff Swindoll
Trailer - Tina Fey and Steve Carell in 'Date Night'
12 November 2009 2:24 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Ok, I'm game: Tina Fey and Steve Carell are starring in what is essentially a married update of North by Northwest. Mistaken identity, chased by thugs, chase thing at the end...with a married couple instead of Cary Grant. And Date Night actually looks like it works.
Most of that has to do with casting Carell and Fey, and how in the world did struggling NBC/Universal let this one slip through its grasp? It's a Fox product, and it's directed by Shawn Levy, which does not inspire much confidence. Good supporting players, though, like Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, and Mila Kunis, plus what appears to be a fair number of opportunities for the overexposed Fey and the overexposed Carell to dance with new partners.
I'm not saying this is going to re-write the rules of screen comedy or anything, but it's a fairly entertaining two minutes of your day. »
- Colin Boyd
Jason Reitman's Interview Pie Chart
11 November 2009 3:35 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Jason Reitman, whose next film Up in the Air comes out on December 4th, posted a very funny image on Twitter recently - a pie chart detailing the different things that people have asked him in recent interviews. The top three were about George Clooney (111 people), the economy (96 people), and his next project (78 people). The fourth is a little more confusing, as it just reads "Real People," so apparently 77 people asked him about real people. Maybe they wanted to know if the people being laid off in the movie were real people? Who's to say what goes through the murky depths of the mind of a journalist?
I humbly ask Jason Reitman to make a pie chart of his answers. Here's what I picture it to look like.
111 people: "Clooney is such a prankster! But he's also a great serious actor. He's the Cary Grant of our times. Sometimes we have moustache contests. »
- Jenni Miller
Blu-Ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock Makes Striking HD Debut With ‘North by Northwest’
11 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – It is as difficult for me to write critically about “North by Northwest” as it would be for someone to discuss their first love. The films of Hitchcock are, without question, why I do what I do and my only concern, as they start to be released on Blu-Ray, is that they won’t live up to the bar set by the package put together for first Hitch movie on the next-gen format - “North by Northwest”.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
What more could possibly be written about “North by Northwest”? As co-star Martin Landau recently told me, it played to him like a “greatest hits” of Hitchcock’s career to that point. This is Alfred Hitchcock at the top of his game playing with themes that had been a part of his career since silent film. Released in between “Vertigo” and “Psycho,” “North by Northwest” is one of the most »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Linda Eder Comes To The Van Wezel 12/9 With A Holiday Concert
9 November 2009 2:18 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Linda Eder, the songstress whose larger-than-life voice has been called "the human equivalent of a Stradivarius" (theatermania.com) returns to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 9 with a concert of holiday songs and favorites from her CDs. Tickets to the concert, at 8 p.m., are $40-$55 (with a limited number of "smart seats" at $10).
Often compared to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, two of her musical influences, the Minnesota native first captured public attention with her unprecedented 12- week winning streak on the TV show Star Search. The success expanded her fan base nationally and led to a leading role as Lucy Harris in the 1990 Broadway- bound musical Jekyll & Hyde. The mainstay of Eder's career, however, remains the concert stage.
Reviewing a recent concert, Chicago Tribune Arts Editor Howard Reich raved that Eder has "the most voluptuous voice in pop music today."
Over the years, passionate fans »
Old Ass Movies: North By Northwest
8 November 2009 8:59 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: North By Northwest (1959) I swore when I started this column that I would do my best to protect you, the dear reader, from my incessant love of Alfred Hitchcock and his films. I've probably failed at this considering that I've still covered a lot of his movies, but with the release of North By Northwest on Blu-ray and the fact that it's my favorite Hitchcock film, I can't avoid it any longer. Everything about this movie is beyond perfection. Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken by a group of spies for a CIA agent who may have committed murder. While searching for the real agent, Thornhill meets Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) who both protects him and gets him deeper into trouble. For »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
North By Northwest Blu-ray Review
7 November 2009 10:02 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Going back to the old masters, going back to the classics is always illuminating. Someone like Alfred Hitchcock knew how to frame a film. He knew where he was putting his camera, and why it was there. As in North by Northwest he achieved one of the great visual representations of sex. Cary Grant lifts Eva Marie Saint up to bed, and then a train enters a tunnel. Not exactly subtle, but undeniably brilliant. My review after the jump.
North by Northwest is one of Hitchcock’s most pleasurable films. In his cycle of “wrong man on the run” films, which includes The 39 Steps and Foreign Correspondent, North by Northwest has one advantage over those others films: It stars Cary Grant. And Grant’s dapper persona adds a level of debonair to whatever he did. Here he stars as Roger Thornhill, who’s mistaken for secret agent George Kaplan. He »
- Andre Dellamorte
[DVD Review] North by Northwest - 50th Anniversary Edition
7 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
I’m gonna explain my real feelings on North by Northwest as carefully and explicitly as I can. Of course, my opinions are for you to take or leave. If you’re as understandably attached to the film as so many people still are, please have at it, I encourage you to enjoy it as many times as you can before the next 5 or 10-year anniversary comes along to celebrate with a new release. Though honestly, despite my feelings on the film itself, I sincerely doubt a more impressive release will be seen on this format.
North by Northwest is a relic of a bygone age of cinema to me. More than most of Hitchcock’s works, North by Northwest feels far too much like a movie to work as an effective thriller for me. Antiquated effects sequences, bizarrely cut sequences which are distracting to the modern cinematic eye and »
- Saul Berenbaum
North By Northwest 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray
6 November 2009 1:28 PM, PST | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
When it comes to classic movies, there aren't many around with a shot at topping North by Northwest. The treasure of cinema fans and frequent bane of film students is now available in a wonderful Blu-Ray treatment, fully remastered, and with great bonuses. Cary Grant (as the ultimate man-on-the-run in his fourth Hitchcock teaming) gives a superlative performance while Eva Marie Saint (perfect Hitchcock heroine Eve Kendall) is at her sultry and sexy best in this heart-pounding thriller. Grant plays Manhattan adman Roger Thornhill, who is at once plunged into the world of spies and counterspies, abducted, framed for murder, chased, and (in the signature set-piece) crop-dusted. At the films’ end, he hangs on for dear life from the facial features of Mount Rushmore’s Presidents where he ultimately rescues Miss Saint. »
- Marc Eastman
Free Flick of the Day: Charade
6 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I hate saying "They just don't make movies like they used to" because it really yearns for a golden age that I don't believe ever truly existed in Hollywood. Every age has had its share of studio dreck, every decade has its gems, and audiences have always complained that movies were better in a mystical "back then." But with a film like Charade, the grumpy adage rings true. They don't make movies like this anymore. But luckily they did once upon a time, and you can watch this one on SlashControl.
If you've never seen Charade, you are in for a dizzying treat. I won't describe the plot too much as the knots are half the fun. The rest of the charm rests solely on the shoulders of Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, who are thrown together in a plot of intrigue, romance, politics, and war crimes. Despite all the deaths and danger, »
- Elisabeth Rappe
All Hail The 50th Anniversary Of Alfred Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest'
5 November 2009 2:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I spend far too much of my day reading about silly movie projects – this absurd remake, that insulting franchise extension. Sometimes I forget how good film can be – how good it has been. A couple days ago, I sat down to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" – a picture I'd seen several times before but never in its newly restored and remastered DVD form – and came away wishing, surely fruitlessly, that 2009 could deliver a thriller that even approached the twisty coolness of this 1959 masterpiece.
Even at the time of its original release, "Northwest" was ahead if its time, as co-star Martin Landau made clear in an interview with MTV News coinciding with the film's 50th anniversary. The actor played Leonard, a henchman assisting with his boss' criminal enterprise and attempting to eliminate a perceived threat from Madison Avenue exec Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant).
"I chose to play him as a gay character, »
- Eric Ditzian
Behind the Scenes on the Fantastic Mr. Fox Voice Recordings
5 November 2009 11:33 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Yahoo has an interesting behind the scenes look at the recording of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. What makes it so unique is that the actors are not sitting in a cramped, enclosed, isolated studio. They are actually acting out the parts as they are recorded, presumably so that they seem more authentic, while the other actors are there to deliver their lines. Producer Allison Abbate also compares George Clooney to Cary Grant. I don’t see it, but Clooney does do a very authentic Hawkeye whistle at the end. Maybe he has elements of Donald Sutherland within him. »
- Jacob
A Peek at George Clooney Voicing 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
5 November 2009 9:46 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Yahoo! has posted an incredibly cool video of George Clooney acting out his role as Mr. Fox in the freakin' adorable Fantastic Mr. Fox. The video shows cool side-by-side comparisons of Clooney acting out different scenes on a farm with costar Wallace Wolodarsky, who voices loopy sidekick Kylie, as well as just running around pretending to be Mr. Fox, down to rolling around on the ground and doing his super cool whistle.
This behind-the-scenes peek at Mr. Fox also offers mini-interviews with director Wes Anderson, producer Allison Abbate, and Bill Murray (Badger) about working with Clooney on the film. The funniest part shows an argument between Mr. Fox and Badger, which involves growling and swiping, split-screened against the actors themselves doing the voices in an office.
As Abbate notes, "There couldn't be a more perfect Mr. Fox, because he has the Cary Grant suave, debonair sparkle where he can talk »
- Jenni Miller
New On DVD This Week
3 November 2009 3:35 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, North by Northwest, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Rockford Files. Plus, there’s some classic Dr. Who coming out this week as well.
Check them out.
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A Christmas Carol ~ Alastair Sim, Jack Warner (Blu-ray)
Aliens in the Attic ~ Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts (DVD and Blu-ray)
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1 (The Big Heat / 5 Against the House / The Lineup / Murder by Contract / The Sniper) ~ (DVD)
The Claudette Colbert Collection (Three-Cornered Moon / Maid of Salem / I Met »
- Joe Gillis
cinemadaily | “North by Northwest” Celebrates 50 Years on BluRay
3 November 2009 10:34 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant (as a wrongly followed ad exec) brought to the screen one of the most intense, mystifying chase films ever to grace the big screen. Fifty years later, with a restored print that reportedly cost Warner Brothers one million dollars to work on, “North by Northwest” is available again for home viewing today on a new BluRay release. On DVD Talk, Randy Miller III champions … »
This Week In DVD: November 3rd
3 November 2009 10:31 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as Roger Thornhill's personal drycleaner... between the dust-ups and the crop dusters, Thornhill has lots of suits in need of cleaning. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. And don't forget to check out Neil Miller's hilariously titled This Week In Blu-ray column for reviews on the latest high definition Blu-ray releases! The Edge of Darkness: The Complete BBC Series Pitch: A dead daughter. A »
- Rob Hunter
DVD of the Week: 'North by Northwest' 50th Anniversary Ed.
3 November 2009 10:18 AM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
One of my absolute favorite Hitchcock movies finally comes to Blu-ray, and Warner Home Video has outdone itself with this release (also available in a 2-disc DVD set) starring Cary Grant (in his final collaboration with the director) as a victim of mistaken identity who lands in a whole mess of hot water that could wind up with him dead. His only ally seems to be the gorgeous Eve (Eva Marie Saint), but everything isn't what it seems--is it? The colors pop, the scenery (Mount Rushmore, Park Avenue, flat farmland) looks as Technicolor-crisp as if you were standing in it, and the Dolby 5.1 Surround sound treats the dialogue and Bernard Hermann's classic score sharply and effectively. Extras: All the bonus features from the film's 2000 DVD release are here (commentary, a Cary Grant...
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Blu-ray Review: North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition)
3 November 2009 3:50 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
There was talk earlier this year that it wasn't in the studios' best interest to continue to release classic films on DVD/Blu-ray as the demand for them was dwindling and the cost of restoration was climbing. The article in question even quotes Warner Home Video senior vice president George Feltenstein saying "most of the studios have pretty much said 'Screw it, we're out of here, we're not going to do this.'" Strangely enough, it just so happens Warner Home Video is the home entertainment studio releasing the very first Alfred Hitchcock film on Blu-ray, 50 years after its theatrical release with a restoration price tag I have read cost upwards of $1 million. Perhaps studios are slowing down the release of their classic films, but with Warner's recent Blu-ray release of The Wizard of Oz, the upcoming release of Gone With the Wind and this release of North by Northwest »
- Brad Brevet
Interview: 50 Years of Filmmaking With Martin Landau
2 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The legendary Martin Landau was recently in Chicago with two films in special presentation at The 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival - the classic “North by Northwest,” also releasing on Blu-Ray tomorrow, November 3rd, 2009, and the new drama “Lovely, Still,” co-starring Ellen Burstyn.
Very few actors will ever have an experience like Mr. Landau did at the film festival in October, bringing two experiences from such different eras of their working life. We spent a lot of time with Martin discussing what’s important to him as an actor and he made clear that it’s the arc of his character that’s essential to the projects he chooses.
Landau explains, “The interesting thing is that I’ve had an interesting cross-section of directors - Joe Mankiewicz, George Stevens, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Tim Burton, Francis Coppola, Woody Allen, Steve Spielberg. The good directors create a playground for »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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