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13 articles from 2009

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Exclusive: More on the Plot of McTeigue's The Raven

13 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Early this morning, ComingSoon.net/ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to talk to director James McTeigue ( V For Vendetta ) about his gory action-thriller Ninja Assassin . Being that the movie was shot well over a year ago, McTeigue is already well into development on his next project, called The Raven , which isn't in fact a literal adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story which spawned a classic bit of '60s horror which teamed Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff under the auspices of Roger Corman. McTeigue told us a little more about the general plot of the movie which looks to start production sometime next year. "There's basically a serial killer loose in 1850's Baltimore and he's using Poe's stories as his methodology, so then he leaves clues at each... »

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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! »

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Today's (Ghoulish) Short: "Hair-Raising Hare"

31 October 2009 5:29 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Hair-Raising Hare is an old Bugs Bunny cartoon from 1941, featuring the first appearance of Gossamer, the red-haired monster that would later appear in many Looney Tunes shorts. In this Chuck Jones-directed classic, Bugs is being stalked by a Peter Lorre-esque evil scientist (voiced by the great Mel Blanc) who wishes to capture a rabbit to feed his monstrous creation.

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- Arya Ponto

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Fan Made Trailers: 'Raiders' '51 and 'Forrest Gump' '49

15 September 2009 12:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I like to pride myself on having a pretty good memory for classic films, but man, my powers of recollection are nothing up against a dedicated film fan by the name of whoiseyevan. A couple of weeks ago I brought you his reworked Ghostbusters trailer as a 1954 classic starring Bob Hope and Dean Martin, and now he's back at work making trailers for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Forrest Gump as if they had been made in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

First up is Raiders, which was an ode to adventure serials of the '30's, but for the remake we've jumped ahead about thirty years. Now, it stars Charlton Heston as Dr. Jones, Anthony Quinn as Sallah, and the great Peter Lorre as everyone's favorite melty-face Nazi, Toht. Once again, you have to marvel at whoiseyevan's ability to find the perfect clips, and if you're as familiar with Raiders as I am, »

- Jessica Barnes

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Minds In Progress (Part III): When the Mind Goes Very, Very Wrong

7 September 2009 11:30 AM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

By Simon Augustine, M.Div [Continued from "Part II" here.] Horrors The Mobile Spectrum of Sanity: Man-Made Monsters and Man Made a Monster If dramas about madness focus on the attempt to heal, to understand, to gain a new awareness of the causes of suffering, then horror films show us what happens when causes are not revealed and assuaged, but twisted into increasingly perverse appearances. When the mind works, sonatas, calculus and spiritual growth result; when it goes wrong, both in movies and life, it can go very, very wrong. Spectacularly wrong, in fact; the consequence being amazing characters like Peter Lorre in M, Norman Bates, and Hannibal Lecter. Horror takes the tragic, sad shades of the word "sick," and exploits them for purely sensationalist punch, infusing the word with all its blasphemous, lurid, humorous, campy, frightening and shocking manifestations. A mind is a many-beleaguered thing—dense with paradoxes, dilemmas, fragilities, and riddles. We all »

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Where My Heart Lies: My Favorite Actors. And Yours?

29 August 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

instead of a tues top 10, a 25.

I did this once for the actresses but I'm always giving the ladies their due. So, here's to the silver screen men that have enriched my movie-life. I admit up front that I haven't investigated Classic Hollywood actors to the extent I've investigated their leading ladies, so this list is highly subject to change the more old movies I see in my life.

Nathaniel's 25 all time favorite leading men

In no particular order and extremely subject to change

Gene Kelly | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai |

Montgomery Clift | Jeff Bridges | Paul Newman

Jude Law | James Dean | William Holden | Gene Hackman | Rock Hudson

Jack Lemmon | Gael García Bernal | Ewan McGregor | James Stewart | Gregory Peck

Steve Martin | Marlon Brando | Jack Nicholson | Burt Lancaster | Richard Burton

Brad Pitt | Johnny Depp | Cary Grant | Warren Beatty | William Hurt

Because sometimes you just want to name names

The list is not comprehensive, not set in stone, »

- NATHANIEL R

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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #4

16 August 2009 2:46 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Back again with my weekly wrap-up of what I watched that wasn't an upcoming theatrical release, although I will admit this isn't the complete list. There is one old school film I am prepping a review of and there are six others that have something in common with the final title on this list that will be part of a feature article on Monday so I decided not to mention them here. However, I do have four titles for you to chew on. The first two are definite must-sees and the third one I am assuming many of you have already seen, but may have something to say about my comments. As always, after checking out what I watched, add your thoughts in the comments as well as share some of the films you watched recently and suggest future titles for myself and others to add to our Netflix queues, »

- Brad Brevet

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Peter Lorre's Rarely Seen Masterpiece "The Lost One" Now On-line In German-language Version With English Sub-titles

13 July 2009 5:43 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

By Herbert Shadrak

Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 While subtitled versions of The Lost One/Der Verlorene (1951) – the only film Peter Lorre ever directed – are in circulation, the documentaries featured in the Arthaus Premium Edition German-language DVD extras will, in all likelihood, not be available soon. With that in mind, a Swiss film scholar who prefers to identify himself only as “Nordenwald” has posted a subtitled version of the Robert Fischer documentary: "Displaced Person: Peter Lorre and his film, 'Der Verlorene'" on YouTube. To view the first of seven clips and find out everything you always wanted to know about this relentlessly disturbing film, click here.

This subtitling project was strictly a labor of love, Nordenwald tells Cinema Retro. “I think this documentary should be available to the non-German speaking public somehow, as it sheds light on a side of Peter Lorre that audiences from »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Interview: Rachel Weisz Creates Magic With ‘The Brothers Bloom’

22 May 2009 8:36 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Beautiful, brilliant and expressively talented, Rachel Weisz showcases a comedic side in her latest film, “The Brothers Bloom”, also featuring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo and written/directed by the eclectic Rian Johnson (“Brick”).

Rating: 4.0/5.0 Brody and Ruffalo play the brothers Bloom, two foster brothers who develop skills as con artists to survive their childhood. They grow into professional grifters, looking for the final score that will allow them to retire from the game.

Oscar winner Rachel Weisz portrays Penelope Stamp, a New Jersey oil heiress living alone in her deceased parent’s mansion, and who recently has discovered that a childhood immunity disease was misdiagnosed. Isolated while growing up, she filled her time learning multiple skill sets (from photography to unicycle juggling). She seems the perfect pigeon for the brothers Bloom to exploit.

Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz and Mark Ruffalo of ‘The Brothers Bloom’

Photo credit: Summit Entertainment HollywoodChicago. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Motion/Captured Must-See: 'M.'

6 April 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

I'd argue that "Metropolis" is the most famous of Fritz Lang's films.  After all, even if you've never seen it, chances are you recognize the image of the Maria robot, or at the very least, you've seen some of the 10,000 movies that have borrowed ideas in production design from the influential Sf movie.  But "M" is a far superior work of cinema overall, a mood piece propelled by a fearless performance from one of cinema's most recognizable character actors.  And when you consider that this was one of the first things Peter Lorre ever did, it's even more astonishing.  It's... »

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Peter Lorre: The Lost One Is Found - An Interview With Stephen D. Youngkin, Author Of "The Lost One - A Life Of Peter Lorre"

4 April 2009 5:48 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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By Herbert Shadrak

Let’s face it. Many Hollywood biographies are cut-and-paste jobs, recycling (if not actually cribbing) material from other sources – yellowing issues of Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, vintage tabloids or previously published biographies – and retelling the same old anecdotes. Happily, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is no such hack job. It is one of the finest biographies of an actor ever written, on a par with Patricia Bosworth’s Montgomery Clift and Charles Winecoff’s Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins. However, the time it took to research and write the Lorre tome may well be unprecedented. Author Stephen D. Youngkin started working on The Lost One in the early 1970s and the book was finally published in 2005, so there are many first-hand accounts by Lorre’s friends and colleagues (most of whom have died over »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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M Movie Review

26 January 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

"M" is one of those nostalgic foreing movies that will keep you in the edge of your seat--guaranteed (unless of course you've been living in a cave and don't know what the word "suspense" and "drama" mean). This German movie from 1931 is a cinematic classic and is the first cinematic movie (at least foreign) that depicting a serial killer of children as it's main storyline ( I bet it was controversial in those days and I wonder if Hitler ever saw it. Mind you this was two years before he came into power, interesting, no?). Peter Lorre is brilliant ( I didn't even know he was German born) as ... »

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Disney shanghais McG for '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'

8 January 2009 4:15 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

Because Disney has done so well with sea pictures lately, they've just signed a deal with McG (real name Joseph McGinty Nichol, currently at work on Terminator: Salvation) to direct its family picture 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, according to  Variety. Based on the Jules Verne novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Disney's first adaptation of the book came out in 1954 with Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas and that big old visual effects Oscar winning giant squid. It was the studio's first live-action movie.

But the big question I have is this: since they gutted the original 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride at Walt Disney World to make room for a Finding Nemo ride, what's going to be the next creative demolition at the park? Frontierland better watch its back... »

- Glenn Hauman

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