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Birthday Suits: Immortal Beloveds

8 November 2009 6:27 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Who needs holidays? Make your own with the birthdays of movie people.

Parker, Oleg and Vlad the Impaler (as interpreted by Gary Oldman)

Today's Birthdays 11/08

1431 Vlad the Impaler would have turned 578 years old today if not for that stake through the heart. To be accurate, his exact birthday is unknown but sometimes he's listed on this date which probably has something to do with...

1847 Bram Stoker who wrote the original Dracula, which gave Vlad the immortality that he had mythically already won as the original nosferatu... vampyr. The cinema loves him harder and deeper than Lucy Harker ever could.

1900 Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind. She didn't have to impale anyone or renounce heaven to achieve immortality. She just had to write one mammoth book. The movie based on her novel is still the highest grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. One of only four films »

- NATHANIEL R

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Tsr Exclusive: John Woo at Chicago Film Festival with Red Cliff wants to do Avatar-style action flick

10 October 2009 11:28 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

The stars are not too visible in the skyscraper lit skies of Chicago – instead, they are glowing at the 45th annual Chicago International Film Festival.

Click Here for complete Tsr coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival

On Thursday, Uma Thurman was in town to promote her film Motherhood, which opened the festival. On Friday night, super-action director John Woo walked the red carpet at the festival for the United States premiere of his Chinese epic, Red Cliff. The film was met with resounding applause, followed by an excited Q&A from the audience afterward (I will have a review of Red Cliff available in the near future).

Released in China as two movies and condensed to one for American audiences, Red Cliff is an epic war film about the end of the Han Dynasty, and the fight by Liu Bei and Sun Quan to remain free from the order »

- Nick Allen

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Sophie Barthes' Top Ten Films of All Time

6 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (interview with filmmaker with an upcoming theatrical release), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month, Sophie Barthes (the filmmaker behind Cold Souls - Samuel Goldwyn Films 08/07/2009) gave her top ten as of July 2009. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)"Watching Cléo from 5 to 7 is like strolling for a day in Paris in the summer. This film is so charming in its simplicity and it’s beautifully shot. It goes from light and frivolous moments to extremely moving sequences. Another poetic and powerful insight in the feminine psyche." The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)"I love the story and its execution. It’s a fascinating character study. The production design and locations are incredible. A happy marriage between cinema and architecture. »

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Cannes '09 Watch: "Vengeance"

19 May 2009 10:07 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

If you ask me who the coolest director working in Hong Kong right now, the first name to pop in my head would be Johnnie To's. Though he's known as a chameleonic director who has dabbled in various genres (my very first exposure to To was the Chow Yun-Fat tearjerking family drama All About Ah-Long), he's understandably popular in the West for his Triad and cop movies.

What seperates him from his contemporaries is his approach to action scenes, which is less kinetic and huge compared to the gonzo action of John Woo or Tsui Hark. Johnnie To takes his cues from Sergio Leone and makes his shootouts all about the buildup. Do yourself a favor and rent Exiled to see how a bunch of guys shooting at each other can look like gorgeous painting in motion. To is at Cannes this year with another crime story, the upfront-sounding Vengeance. »

- Arya Ponto

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Cinema Retro Issue #14 Now En Route To All Subscribers

11 May 2009 10:39 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Those Brits who subscribe to Cinema Retro can stop gloating over already having the latest issue of the magazine. We can now report that issue #14 arrived in the USA and was shipped immediately to all subscribers in North America. For those of you who have still not taken the plunge and subscribed, try resisting this:

Our 8 Page Film In Focus: Director Jack Cardiff'S Cult Hit Girl On A Motorcycle Starring Alain Delon And Marianne Faithfull - The Full Behind-the-scenes Story With Dozens Of Rare, Sexy Photosexclusive Interview: Oscar Nominee James Caan Recalls His Early Days In The Film Industry As Well As Making El Dorado With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum And Howard Hawks.Exclusive Interview: Oscar Winner Ernest Borgnine Recalls Making The Wild Bunch, Willard And The Poseidon Adventureexclusive Interview: Karen Black On Working With Alfred Hitchcock On Family Plotexclusive Interview: Screenwriter Gerry Wilson On The Making Of The »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Jcvd DVD Review -- Ruminations on a Failing Career, and a Falling Star – Dellamorte reviews Jcvd

12 April 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Written by Andre Dellamorte I love Jean-Claude Van Damme. I do. When I first saw Bloodsport, I thought that I’d be watching this guy for ages. But times change, and so has the industry. From that amazing film in 1989 to 1998, when Van Damme finished his run working with Hong Kong filmmakers for the big screen, people like John Woo, Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark. But then, the industry and action was changing; moving away from Hong Kong after a decade long dalliance. Van Damme was heading to video, and where Steven Seagal got another bite at the apple or two playing support to rappers, Van Damme trafficked in international films that – one after another – went Dtv. Van Damme was the most emotive of the action legion that tried to take up the Chuck Norris Mantle. His face was like a bruised and stupider version of Alain Delon’s, but »

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Exclusive Interview: The Many Lives of Mark Damon (Part One)

12 January 2009 12:53 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Some time ago, while perusing the special features on my DVD re-issue of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath (contained in Anchor Bay's magnificent Bava Box Set Vol. 1) I was pleasantly surprised by the addition of an interview with an actor by the name of Mark Damon. See, I was a rather huge fan of , not only the Bava masterpiece (Damon starred as the young hero in the chilling Boris Karloff episode in Black Sabbath called The Wurdulak) but also of the legendary and groundbreaking 1960 Roger Corman / Poe/ Vincent Price creeper House Of Usher and perhaps even more relevantly, the 1973 soft core Eurotrash shocker The Devils Wedding Night.

 

When I was 11, I caught The Devils Wedding Night on late night pre-teen masturbation staple Elvira's syndicated Movie Macabre TV show and was really shaken by it. Director Luigi Batzella's kinky vampire yarn cast a very shaggy and pork chop side »

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