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‘Mad Dog Morgan’ Comes To DVD Uncut
11 November 2009 11:51 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Philippe Mora's Mad Dog Morgan, a violent true story and a 70's classic that forever changed the way international audiences saw Australian cinema, is being released in a two-disc limited edition DVD set on November 24 from Troma. Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now) plays Mad Dog Morgan, Australia's most notorious criminal, with all the bravado that turned him into the decade's most radical screen icon. Critics at the Cannes Film Festival praised Mad Dog Morgan and awarded it the John Ford Memorial Award for Best Western before it became a worldwide hit. The new two-disc set includes the shocking uncut version of Mad Dog Morgan (with graphic violence previously censored in North America!), That's Our Mad Dog (a conversation with writer/director Philippe Mora and Dennis Hopper), a rare radio interview with Mora, new interviews with crewmembers, a locations featurette, and more! One of the inaugural films of the Australian New Wave, »
- Ricky
Stana Katic: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Actress Stana Katic looking tailored as Detective Kate Beckett in Castle.
Storms The Walls Of Castle
By
Actress Stana Katic is on a roll. After scoring supporting roles in two of last year’s highest-profile films, Quantum of Solace and The Spirit, the statuesque Canadian stunner landed the female lead in ABC’s new police drama/romantic comedy Castle, playing Detective Kate Beckett, a tough-as-nails NYPD officer who finds herself with the regrettable assignment of allowing cocky, best-selling crime novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) to shadow her for research on his next book. Not only does she find that Castle’s creative instincts for the criminal mind help her solve some of the city’s most challenging murders, she finds her tough exterior melting under Castle’s considerable charms. The show airs Monday nights on ABC.
Stana Katic sat down with us at a local »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Top Ten Movies About U.S. Politics
3 November 2009 9:45 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Life is political. Hollywood is political. And yesterday in the U.S., the state elections were very political in the broad sense of the term, since many pundits kept arguing that they served as a referendum on President Obama and his policies.
We make no such claims. We're not here to talk U.S. politics specifically, but with all this political fever in play, what better time than to reflect back on what we believe are the ten best movies about American politics?
There are some terrific contenders here; not surprisingly some from decades gone by. But in most, the themes of power and corruption going hand-in-hand is front and center. It's material that's inherently rife with conflict, making for some of the best drama to be found anywhere.
So have a look at the following pages and our selections for the best movies about American politics. And when you're finished, »
Wagon Master - DVD Review
11 October 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
.But .hell. ain.t cussing. It.s geography.. John Ford.s favorite film finally stampedes onto DVD. It.s not the picture we think of when we think of Ford. It.s not going to supersede The Searchers in fame, but it.s obvious why he liked the picture so much. Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) is leading a group of Mormons across the plains to establish a settlement. They approach horse traders Travis (Ben Johnson) and Sandy (Harry Carey Jr.) to lead them through the hostile territory. They encounter a traveling medicine show led by Dr. A. Locksley Hall (Alan Mowbray), who imbibes too much of his stock, along with showgirls Denver (the lovely Joanne Dru) and Fleuretty (Ruth Clifford). The group »
- Jeff Swindoll
Six for the Road - Howard Hawks' All Too Rare Trips Out West
25 September 2009 9:01 PM, PDT | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »
There are John Ford people, and there are Howard Hawks people. Me, I'm more of a Howard Hawks guy. A workmanlike director who came from a screenwriting background, Hawks made stories that were less interested in myth-making than in the quirks of human interaction. From the gangster drama Scarface to the classic screwball comedy of His Girl Friday, Hawks made a bewilderingly wide range of movies that feature some »
The 50 Greatest Directorial Debuts of All Time?
22 September 2009 10:15 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
If you're a list-maker, sometimes it's fun to give yourself limitations, such as allowing only one film per director or only movies with vampires in them. Making a list of debut films is tougher because it's sometimes hard to know when to start. (Do you count short films as debut films? What if, as in the cases of Kathryn Bigelow and Federico Fellini, the first credit is a shared one?) Some of the greatest filmmakers made really unremarkable debuts: can anyone name, or has anyone actually seen, John Ford's debut? And David Cronenberg's official debut is a deadly dull film he made at college. Then there's the sticky question as to how valuable a debut film really is if the filmmaker did not live up to his or her promise (Justin Lin, etc.)? Not to mention that this kind of list requires actual research. I don't think you »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Harry Carey Jr. talks Wagon Master, John Wayne, Ben Johnson and John Ford
22 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Harry Carey Jr. is a name that you may not recognize, but if you're a western or John Ford fan you'll certainly recognize his face. You may also recognize the name in that he's the son of the famous western star Harry Carey. Long known as a member of John Ford's stock company, along with the likes of John Wayne, Ward Bond and Jack Pennick, he was given the opportunity to headline Wagon Master with Ben Johnson. Wagon Master finally sees a release onto DVD and it even includes a commentary with the gregarious Carey and Peter Bogdanovich. M&C had a wonderful opportunity to call in and interview the delightful gentlemen as well. M&C: Hello, »
- Jeff Swindoll
Breaking up with Hughes: Learning to let go of the legend that ruined my life (PopWire)
22 September 2009 3:21 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »
The Chicago Tribune (McT) -- To begin an academic year without the bard of high school around? Is it a bit like Mickey Mouse without Walt Disney, the muse no longer tethered to its artist? Like the Western without John Ford, free to wander off on a permanent tangent? Or rather, is it an invitation to right the wrongs of Hughes — to sneak back the skeleton key and release the shackles from, as a character in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" puts it, "the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids and dweebies"? High school cliches, you have nothing to lose but the protractors in… »
- By Christopher Borrelli
Directors We Love: John Ford
16 September 2009 8:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
On the comprehensive movie list site, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, John Ford currently ranks #4 on the list of the all-time 100 greatest film directors (with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini ahead of him), though he has placed more films than anyone else, 18, on the list of the all-time top 1000. I think the reason he doesn't rank higher is that he was one of the few great film directors to be fully appreciated in his own time. He won the Best Director Oscar four times -- still a record -- and took home an additional two Oscars for his wartime documentaries.
Welles was once asked whose films he studied when he made Citizen Kane in 1941, and he replied: "the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford." Of course, even by the time he was an "old master," Ford would continue to make films like They Were Expendable, »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
The Quick and the Dead (Blu-Ray Review)
11 September 2009 5:41 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
The Quick and the Dead on Blu-Ray
Main Feature (1H 47M 46S)
Since the first time I first saw this film I have felt that it’s under-rated, not to mention misunderstood. The Quick and the Dead is directed by none other than Sam Raimi, famous for his wonderful gore-filled yet tongue-in-cheek Evil Dead trilogy, so it should come as no surprise that this, too, brings together a variety of genres.
This is of course a Western film and the core of the film stays true to the more common themes found in that genre. There is no doubt which of the characters are the goodies and which are the baddies and even the reformed bad guy causes no upset because you know he is a good guy at heart. This clear-cut approach comes from the earlier and more common Western films from the likes of John Ford in which everything is black and white. »
- Tigervamp
.Toronto is like going to the war with a fork. - Adrian Biniez
11 September 2009 1:24 AM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
In Adrián Biniez.s .Gigante,. security guard Jara falls in love as he supervises staff through the closed-circuit cameras at a supermarket. First voyeur, then guardian angel, he protects and pursues the cleaning woman who has unknowingly captured his heart. The film screens as part of Toronto.s Discovery section. indieWIRE contacted the film.s director to discuss her career and the film. We gave Biniez and others a free-form style interview to gather their thoughts on their individual projects.You.We finished this film in Amsterdam 24 hours before the first screening in Berlin. It was a nightmare; zero degrees, infernal cold and I was so nervous ... I lost my voice.Your Filmmaking Career and Process.I started with music, I continued with scripts, then the shorts and now here we are..Gigante....Having a film at the Festival is like a ghost in a town because three hundred movies »
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
9 September 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Walter Hill.
Kicking Ass with Walter Hill
by Jon Zelazny
Action flicks. Two-fisted tales. Guy movies. Whatever you want to call them, writer, producer, and director Walter Hill is one of the living masters, with a resume full of classics from The Getaway (1972), to the Alien series, and the definitive eighties action-comedy blockbuster, 48 Hrs. (1982).
2009 marks the 30th anniversary of The Warriors (1979), Hill’s surreal “street gang on the run” cult classic, and his breakout success as a director.
Jon: A couple years ago, you did an audio commentary and on-camera intro for a new DVD edition of The Warriors. It was the first time I’d ever seen you; is it my imagination, or have you kept a low profile over the years?
Walter Hill: I’d never done a commentary before on one of my films. I don’t like the idea of explaining a movie; I »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Downey, Favreau Play Cowboys & Aliens
2 September 2009 12:44 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Cinema history is replete with great director / actor partnerships. John Wayne and John Ford. Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel. Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe. Paul Ws Anderson and Jason Isaacs. Now it looks like we can add Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau to that pantheon, with Variety's report that the pair are likely to immediately follow Iron Man 2 with the long-gestating Cowboys and Aliens.You might infer from the title that the film is a sci-fi western, which sees cowboys and indians fighting in Arizona until an alien spaceship crash-lands and gives them a new focus, and you'd be right. It's based on an indie comic by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, published in 2006.Downey has been attached to the project since it was first announced last summer, but until now it's lacked a director. The last we heard, the script was being written by Iron Man »
Rmr: Posters Galore, 'Ponyo' On a Boat, 'Avatar' Tix and Pics and More
30 August 2009 2:58 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: Universal Pictures Anne Thompson reports Angelina Jolie is reading the new Wanted 2 script. Will she spark to the idea of her character's resurrection? [Anne Thompson] Tom Cruise apparently flew into New Zealand to take a meeting with Peter Jackson leading some to speculate whether Cruise and Jackson will be teaming for a future film. Of course, Cruise's involvement with MGM most likely involves further production work on The Hobbit as a script is rumored to be completed with the casting of Bilbo also underway. [Sydney Morning Herald via IGN] If you haven't read it yet, The Onion has a fantastic satirical piece written by a faux Meryl Streep headlined "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In". It's an entertaining read. The "Los Angeles Times" has posted an interesting piece looking at Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and asking "Do Tarantino's 'Basterds' jibe with Jewish beliefs?" Box Office Mojo reports Seth Rogen's The Green Hornet »
- Brad Brevet
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
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Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds »
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
- - -
Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds »
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
- - -
Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds »
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
- - -
Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds »
Blu-Ray Review: Criterion Edition of Akira Kurosawa’s Legendary ‘Kagemusha’
20 August 2009 6:43 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Now that he is widely recognized as one of the best filmmakers of all time, it’s almost hard to believe that there was a period in the career of Akira Kurosawa when he couldn’t get financing to make a film. Kurosawa went through a very dark time in the ’70s, punctuated by his disastrous experience with “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” and needed the weight of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas to help with his comeback, “Kagemusha,” now available in a beautiful Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0 I adore stories like the one behind the making of “Kagemusha” because they reflect the ripple throughout the ages that comes with amazing creativity. In the excellent special feature, “Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa,” the interviews draw a definitive line from John Ford (whose “The Searchers” influenced Kurosawa) to Kurosawa’s work to “The Godfather” to “Star Wars” to “Kagemusha,” which itself inspired countless filmmakers. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Maggie Q Joins Paul Bettany's Priest
13 August 2009 1:26 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Maggie Q: Which actress has just signed on to join Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet in the horror Western, Priest, playing a vampire huntress extraordinaire?Maggie A: Maggie Q.Yes, the Live Free Or Die Hard star has joined the cast of Scott Stewart’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to Legion (a movie which is generating all kinds of positive buzz), a demented thriller about a vampire-killing priest (Bettany) and a sheriff (Gigandet) who team up to hunt down a group of bloodsuckers that have kidnapped Bettany’s niece.Q will play a priestess who rivals Bettany in the vamp-killing stakes (sorry) in the movie, which is based on a TokyoPop comic that had the good sense to recognise that the only way to improve upon the basic plotline of John Ford’s The Searchers – and, indeed, virtually anything - was to introduce vampires.Screen Gems, which also backed Legion, is »
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