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Brando, Depp, the missing millions and Divine Rapture, the lost movie
26 November 2009 2:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The first sign things were going wrong on the set of Divine Rapture was when Marlon Brando shaved his head. But that was the least of the film's troubles
If all the roads in Ireland were to converge at a final destination, you would probably find yourself in Ballycotton, Co Cork. A tiny village on a rocky headland, it is as removed and cosy as its name suggests. Its harbour is stocked with a colourful fishing fleet and traditional music seeps from the pubs on Main Street. Despite an annual running marathon that passes through the town, it is slow-paced, sleepy, and cocooned from the outside world. But although 200-ft cliffs keep the Atlantic at bay and an offshore lighthouse looks out for danger, nothing could protect Ballycotton from nature's cruellest force: Hollywood.
Back in 1995, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and Marlon Brando rolled into town to make a film called Divine Rapture. »
MSNBC's List Of Cinematic Turkeys Is A Turkey Itself
26 November 2009 9:58 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Is Eyes Wide Shut really one of the worst movies of all time?By Lee Pfeiffer
MSNBC has listed reader's choices for the biggest film turkeys of all time - and the list itself is the biggest turkey of all. Sure, there are the undeniable bombs that one would expect to find in any sane list of worst movies: Showgirls, Ishtar and Battlefield Earth. However, these readers must have been into the cooking sherry a bit too early to include Pulp Fiction (too much profanity), The Blair Witch Project (the camera was too shaky) and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which is regarded, at worst, as a noble failure but certainly not an outright turkey. Even the innocuous Mr. Bean is not spared. The readers must be of the same school of film criticism as the friend who once accompanied me to a screening of Lawrence of Arabia. At the conclusion of David Lean's masterpiece, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Brief Encounter – Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard – d: David Lean
26 November 2009 12:30 AM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Brief Encounter (1945) Direction: David Lean Screenplay: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan; from Noel Coward’s play Still Life Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter Synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (platonic) affair. The Pros: Shadow-bathed, smoke-enshrouded railway stations (cinematography by Robert Krasker) to the strains of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. David Lean’s delicate direction, and Lean, Ronald Neame, and Anthony Havelock-Allan’s sensitive adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Still Life. No Hollywood ending here, and no syrupy, cutesy moments, either. Best actress Oscar nominee and New York Film Critics winner Celia Johnson’s über-British performance as the sympathetic, adulterous, stiff-upper-lipped, and most sad-eyed housewife in all of England, and [...] »
- Andre Soares
A Passage To India – Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft – d: David Lean
25 November 2009 10:05 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
A Passage to India (1984) Direction: David Lean Screenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster’s novel Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth Judy Davis in A Passage to India Synopsis: In the early 20th century, a British woman, Miss Quested (Judy Davis), and her soon-to-be mother-in-law, Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft, right), arrive in India, where they’re met by Ronny Moore (Nigel Havers), a young and self-righteous representative of the British Empire. During their stay, a local Muslim physician, Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee), befriends the two women. All goes well until something strange happens in the dark and foreboding Marabar Caves. A distraught Miss Quested then accuses Dr. Aziz of having attempted [...] »
- Andre Soares
Ways of Love, or the Best Films that Didn't Appear on Other "Ten Best" Lists...
23 November 2009 10:57 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
In “Ways of Love” three vignettes directed by three top film makers add up to the year’s best foreign release. Marcel Pagnol’s “Jofroi” is about a senile farmer (Vincent Scotto) who shams suicide thirty times to protect some lovingly nurtured trees. This director feels that there is nothing more delightful than pondering the virtuosity of character actors—earthy types who immobilize the screen with chattered wisdom and time-wasting mannerisms. In Jean Renoir’s “A Day in the Country,” a pretty Parisian (Sylvia Bataille) is seduced while the camera fastens on the countryside in tender mimicry of Papa Renoir’s paintings. As usual Renoir maneuvers his motorless plot into splendid landscape to press home the idea that man is a handsome spot in nature. Rossellini’s controversial “The Miracle” is a powerful, messy slab of life, starring Anna Magnani as a talkative idiot made pregnant by a silent stranger she believes to be St. »
MTV: Chris Weitz On 'New Moon' To 'Eclipse' Transition
30 October 2009 10:12 AM, PDT | twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news »
Chris Weitz recently spoke with MTV concerning the transitions between The Twilight Saga movies both between Twilight and New Moon and now between New Moon and Eclipse. Chris also spoke about some major differences we might notice between styles in Twilight and New Moon.As a fan and a filmmaker Im excited to see finished stuff from Eclipse rather than anything in progress Weitz said. When you see works in progress theres always some guy standing in front of some big green curtain and its all terribly disappointing. You really want to see the good stuff once its all finished.After New Moon was finished filming Summit Entertainment announced that David Slade would be directing Eclipse. Weitz said he had some early chats with Slade to let him know what New Moon was going to look like and how he had filmed the story and then let Slade decide how »
'New Moon' Director Chris Weitz Hasn't Seen 'Eclipse' Footage
30 October 2009 3:52 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'I'm excited to see finished stuff from 'Eclipse' rather than anything in progress,' director says.
By Terri Schwartz
Chris Weitz and Kristin Stewart on the set of "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
With filming on "Eclipse" wrapping up, we couldn't resist asking "New Moon" director Chris Weitz whether he had seen any of the footage from next summer's blockbuster. He hadn't, he said, because he's been busy working hard to bring fans "New Moon," which hits theaters in less than a month. Surprisingly, he said he didn't really want to see the footage yet.
"As a fan and a filmmaker, I'm excited to see finished stuff from 'Eclipse' rather than anything in progress," Weitz said. "When you see works in progress, there's always some guy standing in front of some big green curtain, and it's all terribly disappointing. You really want to see the good stuff once it's all finished. »
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/27/2009
24 October 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 27, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.
It's the last big batch of new releases prior to Halloween, so choose carefully and gather up the frights!
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Robert Stephens stars as Sir Hugo Cunningham, a 19th-century amateur scientist and dabbler in psychic phenomena. His experiments in the new art of photography lead him to discover the Asphyx: an apparition that appears suddenly in the moment before death. He postulates that if the Asphyx can be trapped it may render a creature immortal. He begins humbly, experimenting first with a guinea »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Interview: Director John Woo on His ‘Red Cliff’ Premiere at the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
13 October 2009 3:55 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – John Woo, whose mastery of the action movie was once compared by director Sam Raimi to the suspense mastery of Alfred Hitchcock, premiered his new film, “Red Cliff” at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 9th.
Known primarily for his Hong Kong guns-and-gangster epics like “The Killer” (1989), “Hard Boiled” (1992) and “Bullet in the Head” (1990), Woo came to America in 1993 for his memorable turns in “Broken Arrow” (1996), “Face/Off” (1997) and “Mission Impossible II” (2002). He returns to his native China for the historical drama Red Cliff.
Portrait of an Icon: John Woo at the Chicago International Film Festival, October 9, 2009.
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Red Cliff is the story of the “Three Kingdoms” of China in 208 Ad, and the war between them that changed history for its country and people. It has a broad and epic scope, beautifully composed, with a sweep and acting passion worthy of David Lean. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Advertorial Feature: British Film In Bloom
12 October 2009 7:29 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
There was a time, not so long ago, when the British film ilm industry was a sickly thing. A few headline-grabbing productions asides, most British films were disdained by critics and shunned by audiences. The industry was routinely said to be in crisis; obituaries were written, last rites administered.
Flash forward to 2009 and the situation is radically different. British film is in robust health, both commercially and artistically . and frequently at the same time.
Looking For Eric is a useful example. Directed by Ken Loach, it is the story of a depressed Mancunian postman who turns his life around with help from the most unlikely of life-coaches: Eric Cantona. True, 'King Eric' may only be a hallucination but he's real enough to get our hero back on track just in time for the year's happiest ending. No wonder it was so acclaimed at the year's Cannes Film Festival, nor that »
What are the 25 Best Book to Film Adaptations?
10 September 2009 4:46 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Telegraph has posted a nice little list of what they consider to be the 25 best book to film adaptations and while most of the titles will likely not surprise you, perhaps the order in which they are placed will. Considering this is the Internet, the most discussed placement is sure to be The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the 25th spot while the Harry Potter filmed franchise comes in three spots earlier at 22. Unfortunately, I haven't read many of the books from this list, but I have seen all but a few of the films. I will say I am far more partial to Stephen King's "The Shining" than I was to Kubrick's adaptation and I hardly remember the Harry Potter books well enough to even say if I think they are great adaptations as much as I have simply enjoyed both the films and the books. »
- Brad Brevet
'Avatar' 'inspired by 'Lawrence Of Arabia'
4 September 2009 3:42 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
James Cameron has named David Lean's classic film Lawrence Of Arabia as one of his inspirations for Avatar. Speaking to Empire about his long-awaited action project, Cameron also claimed that the film has "its roots in the classic science fiction of the '40s and '50s". He said: "It owes a lot to good, old-fashioned, adolescent adventure storytelling like Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, Lawrence Of Arabia and John Carter Of Mars. There are also a lot of very recognisable archetypes in the story: the American frontier and the conflict (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
‘Ryan’s Daughter’ sequel sets Irish gossip abuzz! (IrishCentral)
10 August 2009 9:44 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
The 1970 Irish film “Ryan’s Daughter” was carpeted by critics and bombed at the box office but it put Dingle in County Kerry on the map. Now, English actress Sarah Miles - who played Rosy Ryan in the movie - is penning a sequel and Dingle locals are wondering what's next! Local historian Micheál de Mordha says Dingle was an off-the-map, quiet rural village, before legendary British director David Lean brought “Ryan’s Daughter” and its huge cast and crew to town. Famous faces such as Hollywood great Robert Mitchum, who played Rosy Ryan’s husband, schoolmaster Charles Shaughnessy, failed to impress the locals. Case in point: one day, during a break from filming, Mitchum took his Porsche out for a spin on Kerry’s country roads when he came across a traffic jam - a farmer walking his cattle in the road. The story goes that the actor impatiently »
'Ryan's Daughter' sequel in the works (IrishCentral)
4 August 2009 5:54 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
Many consider the original to be perfect, but “Ryan’s Daughter” star Sarah Miles has set out to pen a sequel to the classic Irish film. Miles’ agent announced that the English actress, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role as the unforgettable Rosy Ryan in the award-winning film, is currently conducting research in Ireland for the sequel. “She is writing a script and there is a producer for a film, but it's very early days,” her agent said. Miles’ husband, Robert Bolt, who penned “Doctor Zhivago” and “A Man for All Seasons,” wrote the original script, while David Lean, the famous director of “Lawrence of Arabia” and “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” directed. “Ryan’s Daughter” bombed in box offices when it was released in 1970, but has since become a beloved, classic Irish film, and is considered to be one of Lean’s best works. The »
Where Are They Now? Cinema Retro Tracks Down Hollywood Drop-out Christopher Jones
25 July 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 By Herbert Shadrak
In 1970, the charismatic actor Christopher Jones (then starring in David Lean’s epic Ryan’s Daughter) turned his back on movie stardom to lead a life of almost total anonymity. Today, Jones is a working artist who specializes in paintings with a classical antiquity theme and in portraits of Hollywood legends such as James Dean – to whom Jones once bore a striking resemblance.
Having studied at the Actors Studio and perfected his craft on episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Naked City, the extraordinarily handsome, Tennessee-born actor moved steadily up the Hollywood ladder through the late sixties. He starred in The Legend of Jesse James – a TV western that lasted through the 1965-66 season – and three B-pictures: the love story Chubasco (in which he appeared with then-wife Susan Strasberg); the sex romp Three in »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Best '60s Movies
17 July 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll! It was the clarion call of a generation, but only a little of that brand of hedonism is reflected in our picks for the best films of the decade. The counterculture axiom of not trusting anyone over 30 also didn't extend much to actors or directors.
Three old guard auteurs make our list -- David Lean, Robert Wise and Alfred Hitchcock -- with two films each. Paul Newman has no less than four starring roles among our best picks. And, really, you can't get any more establishment than a troika of musicals -- 'The Sound of Music,' 'West Side Story' and 'My Fair Lady' -- winning Best Picture Oscars ... now that's far out!
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Public Enemies: Depp-utizing the Thirties
3 July 2009 12:37 PM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
Michael Mann’s Public Enemies is epic filmmaking with B-movie content. It’s as if a wannabe David Lean got down and dirty Americana-style.
Yes, every prodigious moment is so artfully rendered, every frame so thoughtfully blocked, that even the machine gun bang-ups have a choreographed sensibility to them. Yet for all of this thoughtful grandeur, and possibly because of it, the film lacks the hit-you-in-the-bladder, shocking gutsiness of Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde.
John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), best known in recent decades for the urban myth his prodigious body part inspired, is the antihero of this crime saga.
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- Brandon Judell
Rakesh Roshan, Anurag Basu decide to release Kites in December
23 June 2009 3:10 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
The seeming deadlock over the release of the much-hyped Kites is now over. Producer Rakesh Roshan and director Anurag Basu have agreed on how different the English and Hindi versions of the film would be. While the supposed steamy scenes would be the same in both versions, there would be separate voice-overs in Hindi and English, both done by Hrithik Roshan, whose love story the film chronicles in a style that would recall David Lean's Brief Encounter and K Balachander's Ek Dujje Ke Liye. Director Anurag Basu refutes the report that the steamy scenes in the two versions will be different in Hindi and English. "We can't cheat Hindi audiences. The so-called steamy scenes will be the same in both versions. The visuals will remain unchanged in both. There won't be anything radically different in the two versions because Hrithik and Barbara Mori speak English-Hindi and Spanish, respectively in both English and Hindi. »
- Subhash K. Jha
Rakesh Roshan, Anurag Basu decide to release Kites in December
23 June 2009 3:10 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
The seeming deadlock over the release of the much-hyped Kites is now over. Producer Rakesh Roshan and director Anurag Basu have agreed on how different the English and Hindi versions of the film would be. While the supposed steamy scenes would be the same in both versions, there would be separate voice-overs in Hindi and English, both done by Hrithik Roshan, whose love story the film chronicles in a style that would recall David Lean's Brief Encounter and K Balachander's Ek Dujje Ke Liye. Director Anurag Basu refutes the report that the steamy scenes in the two versions will be different in Hindi and English. "We can't cheat Hindi audiences. The so-called steamy scenes will be the same in both versions. The visuals will remain unchanged in both. There won't be anything radically different in the two versions because Hrithik and Barbara Mori speak English-Hindi and Spanish, respectively in both English and Hindi. »
- Subhash K. Jha
Rakesh Roshan-Anurag Basu Come To An Understanding : “Kites Will Release By December”
22 June 2009 4:20 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
By Subhash K Jha
The seeming deadlock over the release of the much-hyped Kites is now over.
Producer Rakesh Roshan and director Anurag Basu have agreed on how different the English and Hindi versions of the film would be.
While the supposed steamy scenes would would be the same in both versions there would be separate voice-overs in Hindi and English, both done by Hrithik Roshan whose love story the film chronicles in a style that would recall David Lean’s Brief Encounter and K Balachander’s . »
- realbollywood
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