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13 articles from 2009
The autumn leaves of red and gold
8 November 2009 6:40 PM, PST | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
One day not long ago in the country I gathered a small pile of dried leaves and started a little fire. Then I closed my eyes and remembered. The aroma was a trigger as intense as the taste of Proust's madeleine, the little cake from childhood that summoned his remembrance of time past. It evoked nostalgia but it also evoked curious excitement and desire.
For me it is not spring but autumn that is the season of new beginnings. Spring, in school, is a time of taking final exams and saying goodbye to friends. Autumn is the start of a new year, and for me at least it always held the promise of new romance. I was now a freshman, or a sophomore, or whatever, and had left behind childhood things, and perhaps Marty would be at the Tiger's Den on Friday night and we could slow-dance to "Dream" by the Everly Brothers. »
- Roger Ebert
Raymond Benson Reviews The New Criterion DVD Of Costa-gavras' "Z"
1 November 2009 5:46 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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Directed by Costa-Gavras, Z was a landmark thriller from 1969, a political film that pointed to the kinds of pictures Oliver Stone would make two decades later. It was the first film to be nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Film the same year (it won the Oscar for the latter, as well as for its innovative, dynamic editing). The mostly French production was filmed in Algeria, doubling as Greece—which at the time would never have allowed the crew to film there.
Based on true events that occurred in Greece in the early 60s, the story concerns the government-backed assassination of a pacifist political candidate (played by Yves Montand) and the subsequent investigation (led by charismatic Jean-Louis Trintignant) that eventually brought down the chief of police, head of security, and other government officials. The location is never »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Z Criterion DVD Review
1 November 2009 7:34 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Costa-Gavras’s Z is the ultimate political thriller. Much like the earlier Battle of Algiers (1968) it takes a real event, and uses it as fodder for cinema. And as a paranoia piece, 1969’s Z is a masterpiece. It’s an angry film, spurned by the events of 1963, where a Greek politician was assassinated, and was murdered partly by the police, and the regime at the time. It’s a film that can make you angry about events of nearly a half century ago, and yet the echoes of the actions are still resonant. My review after the jump.
The leftist politician at the center of the film is called The Doctor (Yves Montand), and he’s brought in to have a political rally, but the organizers are denied their first location, and locals in with a half gang/half political organization - that hates the leftists and typifies them as »
- Andre Dellamorte
DVD Playhouse--October 2009
15 October 2009 12:34 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—October 2009
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The Wizard Of Oz 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’S Edition (Warner Bros.) A true highlight in digital restoration technology, Warner Bros. restoration of the 1939 classic is cause for celebration. The Technicolor of the late ‘30s looks as though it was shot yesterday, and is especially stunning on Blu-ray, which was produced by scanning each of the film’s original Technicolor camera negatives using 8K resolution. From this scan, a final “capture” master was created in 4K, yielding twice the resolution seen in the master utilized for the film’s previous DVD release. Judy Garland’s Dorothy is charming as ever, and the entire cast: Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch, are all stellar. Four disc set bonuses include: Sing-along track; Documentaries and featurettes; Two 1914 silent films produced by Oz author L. Frank Baum, based on his stories »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
DVD Playhouse--August 2009
10 August 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—August 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Jean-Jacques Beineix: The Hollywood Interview
14 July 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Divas and Lions and Moons, Oh My!
By Alex Simon
The Noveulle Vague, or “French New Wave” was launched by a group of film critics and cinefiles who began France’s legendary Cahiers du Cinéma magazine in the 1950s. With Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in 1959, the movement was launched, emphasizing behavior over aesthetics, content over form, and pastiche of other film genres (particularly those born in the U.S., with a healthy dollop of Italian neorealism) over the more traditional narratives of French films from years past. Francois Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda (see our interview with her below) Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette all fell under the spell of magazine co-founder and theorist Andre Bazin, laying the groundwork for a series of articles, monographs and critiques that formed the so-called “auteur theory,” (or more specifically “"La politique des auteurs" ("The policy of authors, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Scenes We Love: The Wages of Fear
8 July 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Not unlike the South American town that holds captive the film's heroes, Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear grabs onto its audience and refuses to let go. The story of a group of desperate men who enlist in a suicide mission driving nitrogycerine across unpaved and highly volatile terrain, the film is a case study in suspense thanks not only to its set-up but the shockingly complete and effective performances of its stars, who seem to literally endure what their characters go through en route to a great reward - be it in this world or the next.
Yves Montand and Charles Vanel play Mario and Jo, two schemers who attach themselves to one another only to discover that both are equally without prospects. After exhausting the commercial possibilities of the dusty border town they are otherwise unable to escape, they stumble across a dangerous but profitable opportunity: drive »
- Todd Gilchrist
Cannes in 60 Seconds: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
20 May 2009 12:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The uproar about Lars Von Trier's Antichrist spurred interest even higher for attendees who wanted to decide the film's merits for themselves. (For one thing, rumor is circulating that the Cannes version will never be seen again. For another, Mick Jagger hated it, calling it "horrible.") During this morning's screening, however, the "projector broke thirty seconds in," says Todd Brown at Twitch, and this afternoon's was "shut down by a major power outage." His conclusion? "God hates Lars."
Robert Pattinson flew in from filming New Moon in Canada and posed on the beach. He confirmed that the fourth film in the Twilight saga, based on Breaking Dawn, will be made as soon as possible. Penelope Cruz suffered food poisoning last night, but recovered sufficiently to promote the new Almodovar flick (see below). She's also talking about her upcoming musical Nine.
Key Screenings. Competition: Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces (a »
- Peter Martin
Blu-Ray Review: Classic ‘Wages of Fear’ Thrills in HD
27 April 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The Criterion Collection continues their brilliant Blu-Ray release pattern this week in which they induct a new film into the collection (“In the Realm of the Senses,” which will be reviewed separately) and bring one of their most beloved titles on to the next-gen format on the same street date. The classic this week is the amazing and timeless “The Wages of Fear,” better than ever in HD.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0 “The Wages of Fear” is about a group of men caught in a desperate, isolated situation in a small South American town. From all over the world, these people are literally stuck. They can’t afford the plane ticket to leave and don’t really have anywhere to go if they could. They are lost souls.
The Wages of Fear was released on Blu-Ray on April 21st, 2009.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Criterion Collection
On the outskirts of this small town, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Blu-ray Review: The Wages of Fear (Criterion Collection)
21 April 2009 3:09 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I saw Wages of Fear for the first time earlier this year, and approximately three weeks later Criterion announced it for a Blu-ray release and I couldn't have been any more ecstatic. My version of Wages of Fear is the bare bones DVD edition that comes in Criterion's Essential Art House Collection, so on top of now getting the special features from the previously released DVD edition, I was also going to get the film in HD. Hard to complain with that. First off, the film itself sounds incredibly tedious if someone were to describe it to you in short as the majority of the film follows two pair of men as they are transporting two trucks filled with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain and jungle route where even the slightest bump could cause the entire truck to explode. Hearing this you would think it is two-and-a-half hours of slow moving trucks, »
- Brad Brevet
Woh Chicago: Masters of Italian Horror
27 March 2009 11:35 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
The last panel I attended at the Chicago Weekend of Horrors this year was The Masters of Italian Horror. This presentation featured host Paolo Zelati interviewing three true horror legends; Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), Lamberto Bava (Demons) and FX master/director Sergio Stivaletti (Waxmask, Cemetary Man/Dellamorte Dellamorte).
In conversation with me Deodato stressed what a good time he was having,
“When I looked into coming to the conventions I kept hearing from everyone, “Fangoria, Fangoria, Fangoria!” I’ve only been doing this since last year and it has been thrilling. Fangoria is the most professional of the organizations I’ve been working with.”
And for Bava it was like a homecoming, and a breath of fresh air all at once
“Fangoria was one of the first magazines that ever interviewed me all those years ago. I love these conventions because they put you right at ground zero with the »
Criterion Announces 'Wages of Fear' Coming to Blu-ray
16 January 2009 4:38 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Just last night I took a regular trip over to the Criterion Collection website and noticed a couple of new Blu-ray release dates had been added as well as a few DVD dates. Most notable of the bunch was that the 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot classic The Wages of Fear was getting a brand new Blu-ray treatment and released on April 21. I actually just watched this film for the first time about three weeks ago and was absolutely floored as I believe it has one of the best film endings I have ever seen. If you think the end of All Quiet on the Western Front is good (which I do) just wait if you have not seen this flick and on Blu-ray it is a must buy. The film takes place in the poor South American oil town of Las Piedras where money is scarce as the American oil company Southern »
- Brad Brevet
Sarkozy Gives Nod To Late French Filmmaker Berri
12 January 2009 11:12 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has led the tributes to late director and producer Claude Berri, praising him for his lasting influence in international cinema.
Berri died aged 74 following his hospitalisation at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris at the weekend (begs10Jan09) for a serious neurological condition.
Announcing his passing on Monday the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy said, "He could work in every register and make us laugh or cry, but above all, he made his public think and ask questions; he educated the viewer."
Berri's most popular works include international hit Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, starring Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand and Emmanuelle Beart.
As a producer, his credits included Roman Polanski's 1979 drama Tess, and 2008 film Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis - regarded as the most successful French film made to date. »
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