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Original screen costumes on display at Gone with the Wind exhibition
6 November 2009 7:23 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
70 years ago audiences first fell for the spirited love affair between southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) and certified scoundrel, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), and now, as the American civil war classic makes its Blu-Ray debut (out on 16th/ 17th November here in the UK and here in the Us) it’s a great time to relive the splendor of the multi Oscar-winning epic with a trip to the Gone with the Wind exhibition. Having opened in April, this fantastic showcase is hosted at the Hollywood Boulevard Cinema in Woodridge, Illinois and features the Shaw-Tumblin Gwtw Collection, which boasts the distinction of being the world’s largest collection of Gwtw memorabilia – definitely worth giving a damn about. »
Birthday Suits: Tilda's Frontal & Sam's Moon
5 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I was going to try out this new quickie daily birthday feature. Only it's not quickie it's longie. I can't even do filler without breaking my back. Sigh, I'll never be a mega famous blogger. I care too much!
Today's birthdays 11/05
For those prone to celebrating the filmic and famous.
1905 Joel McCrea undervalued 40s star. Read this great piece on his career
1913 Vivien Leigh, more on her soon
1931 Ike Turner didn't deserve Tina. But, ugh, remember how great Laurence Fishburne was in What's Love Got To Do Without It?
1940 Elke Sommer, the German movie star turns 69 years young today. She was very generous with her birthday suit back in the 60s. Wouldn't you be if you looked like that? On a sad note I have never seen the infamous movie The Oscar (1966) which is about the Oscars that she co-stars in. Is it as bad as they say? I must see it. »
- NATHANIEL R
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
Monologue: "He was a boy..."
26 October 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here bringing you the Monday Monologue, this time taken from Elia Kazan's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
"Blanche, can I ask you a question?" says shy Mitch (Karl Malden) to Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) during one of their dates. She says yes and he proceeds "How old are you?". With this simple question Leigh takes us on a trip down memory, and insanity, lane as she reminisces about her unsuccessful marriage to a "boy" named Allan.When I was sixteen I made the discovery: love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.
But I was unlucky. Deluded. There was something about the boy. The nervousness, the callousness, an uncertainty and I didn't understand.
I didn't understand why this boy, »
- Jose
Alec Baldwin Returns As Co-Host Of "The Essentials"
9 October 2009 2:10 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
"30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin will be back for a second season as a co-host of Turner Classic Movies' "The Essentials," joining Robert Osborne in the show.
The 10th season of "The Essentials" will kick off in March with the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.
The season will also showcase four Academy Award Best Picture winners "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), "Gigi" (1958), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)," and "The Sting" (1973), as well as Best Foreign Language Film winner "Black Orpheus" (1959).
Baldwin said, "I have enormous respect for TCM and Robert Osborne. TCM has stayed true to its mission, with a vast library of movies from many different decades. I'm proud to be able to sit down with Robert again."
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DVD Playhouse--September 2009
26 September 2009 1:01 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—September 2009
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The Human Condition (Criterion) Masaki Kobayashi’s epic (574 minutes) adaptation of Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel was originally made and released as three separate films (1959-61), and is rightfully regarded as a landmark of Japanese cinema. Candide-like story of naïve, good-hearted Kaiji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor, to Imperial Army solider, to Soviet Pow, and Kaiji’s struggle to maintain his humanity throughout. Unfolds with the mastery of a great novel, beautifully-shot, and a stunning example of cinematic mastery on the part of its makers. Four-disc set bonuses include: Interview with Kobayashi; Interview with Nakadai; Featurette; Trailer; Essay by critic Philip Kemp. Widescreen. Dolby 3.0 surround.
State Of Play (Universal) Russell Crowe stars as a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter investigating the murder of an aide to a rising congressional star (Ben Affleck), who also happens to be an old friend. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
New Criterion DVDs: Tell Me About It
9 September 2009 4:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The Criterion Collection releases two new DVDs today, two movies with nothing much in common. They were originally released in theaters almost exactly fifty years apart, in 1941 and 1991. One is an elegant, period romance set during the Napoleonic Wars, and the other is a gritty, modern-day urban cop story. The only thing I can think that makes them kindred spirits is their endings. I can see the two heroes, played by Vivien Leigh in the former and Joe Mantegna in the latter, sitting together at the end of their tales. They're both staring off into space, thinking about what an odd hand life has dealt them, thinking about what lies ahead, if anything. The cop looks over at the lady. "What's your story?" he asks. She might respond, "I used to be somebody." And he might retort, in a New York accent, "Tell me about it."
And maybe she would. »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
In Defeat: Defiance.
8 September 2009 6:02 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here with a bit of history and the movies. The title of this post appears in Winston Churchill's WWII memoir The Gathering Storm, but might as well describe Sarah Miles; Julianne Moore's character in The End of the Affair.
The 1999 film, based on Graham Greene's semi-autobiographical novel takes place in WWII London where Sarah, who is married, has an affair with writer Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) until the Blitz provokes the film's title.
You see, it was 69 years ago today that the German Air Force began bombing England for almost a whole year. Once it began, London was bombed continuously for 57 days. One one of those days Sarah faces her greatest fear.
During one of their illicit rendezvous, she sees Maurice leave the room as the bomb alarms fill the city. A sudden blast (and a chance for cinematographer Roger Pratt to shine) makes Maurice disappear »
- Jose
'Gone With the Wind' 70th Anniversary Blu-ray Details
23 August 2009 8:26 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
It's one of those great movie stats: Adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind has made over $1.4 billion in the U.S. Of course, everything's different now and movies don't stay in theaters for years at a time and everybody gets to see them all at once, more or less. But the fact is, by almost any measure, it's the biggest movie ever. And it might always be.
Now, to celebrate the film's 70th anniversary, Warner Bros. will release the Gone With the Wind Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray on November 17th. It will come with a limited edition copy of the original 1939 movie poster, which I'm going to assume is a cheap re-print, because originals would be worth several hundred to many thousands of dollars. The interior of the box, however, is genuine velvet, daddy.
This new Blu-ray has a documentary about the making of the film, plus features on the restoration, »
- Colin Boyd
Gone with the Wind Breezes Onto DVD and Blu-ray November 17th
18 August 2009 5:03 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Gone with the Wind is set to hit both DVD and Blu-ray in a new five disc 70th Anniversary box set on December 1st. Here is the official press release from Warner Home Video:
Winner of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and still history's all time domestic box-office champion ($1.5 billion), Gone with the Wind has long been considered the most celebrated motion picture of all time. On November 17, Warner Home Video will honor the romantic epic with a stunningly restored and remastered version, available for the first time on Blu-ray. Gone with the Wind [70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition] is sure to be a "must-have" for collectors of classic films, available both in Blu-ray as well as on DVD.
The highlight of this new Blu-ray version of Gone with the Wind is how it looks and sounds. As they've done with Wizard of Oz, Warner Home Video continues to maximize what the Blu-ray format »
70th Anniversary Edition of Gone With The Wind coming to DVD and Blu-Ray this November
10 August 2009 2:19 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Warner Brothers has announced that they will release a 70th Anniversary Edition of the classic Gone With The Wind on November 17th of this year (Us).
This romantic epic arrives in a "stunningly restored and remastered version" that features a bonus disc with three new documentaries:
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year is a fascinating tribute to a year considered to be one of Hollywood's greatest. This documentary, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, had its on-air premiere in July as part of TCM's month-long festival saluting that year's 'bumper-crop' of films.Gone with the Wind: The Legend Lives On is an exploration of the legacy of this most beloved film through illuminating interviews, footage and visits to historical sites, events and museums.Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara Wars -- a 1980 Wbtv Special, never before seen on home video.
The release will also include a 40-page hardcover book with photos, production notes and more; a »
- Paul
'New Moon' Stars Preview Bella And Jacob's Chemistry At Comic-Con
26 July 2009 4:04 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'It's not tough when you're working with someone like this,' Taylor Lautner says after receiving a joke kiss from co-star Kristen Stewart.
Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart
Photo: MTV News
San Diego — It isn't often that, right in the middle of an interview, one of the subjects will suddenly lean over and nearly give the other one a full-on, passionate kiss. But when we caught up with "Twilight" saga stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner recently at Comic-Con, love was in the air.
As thousands of Twilighters walked around the Con wearing Burger King crowns that showed their support for either Team Edward or Team Jacob, 17-year-old Lautner knew the pressure was on. Not even a year ago, Robert Pattinson and Kristen created a rare chemistry that made them superstars, as they mixed their youthful good looks with the sort of classic romance that made the »
Karl Malden (1912 - 2009)
4 July 2009 8:57 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Academy Award winner and Hollywood legend Karl Malden died yesterday at the age of 97 of natural causes. He has had one of the longest and most successful careers of any American actor and starred in some of the most Iconic films of all time (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Patton) and starred in the 1970s TV drama The Streets of San Francisco. But what made Malden a house hold name were the American Express commercials he made in the 70s and 80s with the catchphrase “Don’t leave home without it.” Born Mladen Sekulovich on March 22, 1912 in Chicago, he was the son of a Serbian father and a Czech mother. His father was a steelworker and as a young man Malden took up the profession for a few years. He began acting in high school and in 1937 moved to New York to try his hand on Broadway. »
- Anthony Nicholas
Karl Malden (Rip)
1 July 2009 7:45 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 [via]
This past week has been very rough on the entertainment industry and our cultural history. Today, with Karl Malden's death, we've lost the last remaining principal cast member of Tennessee William's legendary play turned movie A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Now, Malden's career was much larger than mama's boy Harold "Mitch" Mitchel but that classic role, which he originated and owned, is a vital part of his legacy.
Strangely, Jessica Tandy's Tony honor (the original "Blanche DuBois") was the show's only attention from 'Broadway's Oscars' if you will. All the principles transferred to the movie except Tandy who was replaced by the cinema's most legendary southern belle (even though she was British) Vivien Leigh. When it came to the Oscars, three of the four actors (including Malden) collected statues. In typical Oscar fashion the performance most often regarded as game changing for the entire »
- NATHANIEL R
Karl Malden Passes Away at the Age of 97
1 July 2009 5:34 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
It has been a rough two weeks for the entertainment business when it comes to the passing of major celebrity names as Karl Malden has passed away at the age of 97. Malden died in his sleep about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, his manager Bud Ross tells CNN. Malden won an Oscar for his performance alongside Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and was also nominated for another one of his performances opposite Brando in On the Waterfront in 1955. Only five years ago at the 2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards he was recognized with a Life Achievement Award and has long been recognized as a Hollywood icon. My personal experience with his movies has been relatively limited considering the overal breadth of his career but I have seen him in films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, How the West Was Won, The Cincinnati Kid, Patton »
- Brad Brevet
Katharine Hepburn Theater Exhibition Opens 6/10 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
4 June 2009 12:19 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The personal theatrical papers of Katharine Hepburn, which were acquired by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in 2007, will be on view for the first time in the new library exhibition, Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files, opening Wednesday, June 10. Her long and rich theater career is documented through typescripts (some, like the script for Coco, annotated in Hepburn?s hand), hundreds of photographs (publicity shots and formal portraits, as well as informal snapshots and rehearsal candids), scrapbooks, promotional ephemera, and sixty years of correspondence (fan mail, congratulatory notes, and general letters from such notable friends and admirers as Judy Garland, Richard Burton, John Ford, Vivien Leigh, Peter O?Toole, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Jeremy Irons, among scores of others. She saved telegrams from her friends and from stage crews and even the cards that come with flower bouquets, including many signed ?Pot,? Hepburn?s »
Scenes We Love: Gone with the Wind
30 May 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Scott Weinberg is right -- in this day and age, there's no movie that can't be remade. While I don't necessarily believe in sacred cows (and I feel like if there's a novel at the source it can be excused), there are some films that got it right the first time -- and one of these is Gone with the Wind. First, I'll begin by saying that I know all the arguments against it and Margaret Mitchell's book. I've got history credentials, after all. In fact, I find the story even more fascinating because of its social and historical problems. At it's heart, Gone with the Wind is more about the Depression than the Civil War, and functions as historiography and American mythmaking.
But on a pure fluff level, I get sucked in by its costumes and loyalty to the source material. Every time I watch it (and my »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Victor Fleming: Did the Auteurist Theory Do Him Wrong?
27 May 2009 11:59 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
You must... you simply must set aside ten minutes today to read this terrific piece at The New Yorker on Victor Fleming and 1930s Hollywood. It digs into Fleming's heavily debated contributions to the twin immortals of 1939 (Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz -- he was a replacement director on both) and what it unearths is fascinating, indeed. Frankly my dears, I gave a damn... several damns if you're counting.
For instance, I knew that Vivien Leigh didn't like Fleming and was angry that George Cukor who worked with her closely on her performance was fired. But I had no idea how complex and influential Fleming's relationships to Hollywood's top actors (Gable prominent among them) and actresses actually were (nor what an actressexual -- ok womanizer but we're splitting hairs here -- Fleming was. He had affairs with Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, Lupe Velez and Ingrid Bergman »
- NATHANIEL R
Don't you wish old photos came with audio tracks?
3 March 2009 1:44 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Or that you could time travel into the room as they were being taken.
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And if either of those things were possible, wouldn't you grab every Old Hollywood candid you could find in order to listen in or join the party? What exactly would Rosalind Russell, Greer Garson and Merle Oberon chat about anyway? Roz only cares about the camera but who are Greer and Merle all smiles about?
I mean just fantasize for a moment about a night at ... on the bar with Marlene Dietrich and Claudette Colbert.
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How much would you have to drink to not be starstruck and join right in. Too much. Too much I say. The mind clouds. The hangover would be epic.
Here's a photo I've cherished my whole life from an old out of print Natalie Wood book from the 80s. It's Dennis Hopper and Wood discussing acting styles as they screen A Streetcar Named Desire »
- NATHANIEL R
Casablanca named top movie kiss
14 January 2009 3:16 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
What makes a classic onscreen smooch? That was the riddle presented to female patients at Manchester’s private dental practice, Kissdental who were asked to name their favourite silver screen snog in a new survey. The 500 participants clearly had some serious and weighty issues to consider. Is it attractive co-stars with electric chemistry? A physical release to lots of pent-up emotion or just lusty slobbering? Whatever their definition of cool kissing, they opted for the one between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in 1942’s timeless romance Casablanca. Apparently that kiss is one that Sam can definitely play again.
Coming in second was the embrace between two-time Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in their first onscreen pairing in the tragic Titanic. On an equally epic scale but more old-school like the winner is the third placed puckering up between Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in 1965’s David Lean masterpiece Doctor Zhivago. »
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