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Arsenic & Old Lace
26 December 2009 4:04 AM, PST
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Based on Joseph Kesselring’s play, the black comedy is about a drama critic (Cary Grant) who must cope with his bizarre extended family on his wedding day, including his two spinster aunts who have an unusual habit of poisoning lonely old men.A filmmaker who effectively captured the mood of America going through the depression, he made movies which were immensely popular both with the masses and the classes. A creative tsunami behind films like It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) And It's A Wonderful Life (1946), he knew the pulse of a nation, rather a planet.
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Free Flick of the Day: 'The 39 Steps'
17 December 2009 2:45 PM, PST
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If you have 82 minutes of spare time right now, I can see no reason why you should not spend it watching Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, streaming for free at SlashControl. It's from 1935, and while the Master of Suspense had made more than a dozen films before it (including several during the silent era), this is the oldest one that's still seen and discussed with any regularity. With good reason, too: It's 74 years old, yet it still comes across as clever, witty, and suspenseful. How many 74-year-olds can say that?
It's one of Hitchcock's earliest uses of what would become a major theme for him, that of the innocent man pursued for a crime he didn't commit. In this case, it's a Canadian fellow named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) who, while visiting London, meets a beautiful spy who is then murdered in his apartment, leaving police to assume he's the culprit.
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The Bounty Hunter Poster Now Online
16 December 2009 1:40 AM, PST
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The poster for The Bounty Hunter, the action comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, has gone online over at Yahoo! Movies, and it’s… intriguing.The central image of Butler, who plays a bounty hunter forced to transport his ex-wife across country, and Aniston handcuffed together instantly brings to mind classic mismatched-or-handcuffed couples road movies of the past, such as It Happened One Night, Midnight Run and, erm, Fled, even if it’s a little static.The splashes of blood on the beleaguered Butler’s shirt also could be a hint that this won’t be the play-safe, happy-go-lucky, PG-13 comedy we were expecting, but perhaps a harder-edged, swearier, violence-flecked effort. Which would seem unlikely coming from Andy Tennant, director of Hitch, especially giving the hugely perky day-glo font. (Yes, we’re the font police)Click the image above for more pictures on Yahoo! MoviesSo we’re no closer
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Sony Pictures Entertainment redesigns museum web site
4 October 2009 6:21 AM, PDT
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Sony Pictures Entertainment launched a completely re-designed museum web site offering a look at the studio's storied lot and productions ranging from On the Waterfront to Spider-Man.Sony Pictures established a web-based museum along with an annex in the lobby of the Sony Pictures Plaza building at its world headquarters in Culver City.The web museum maintains one of the most comprehensive collections of hundreds of early film photos and clips in its theatrical library. Hundreds of video clips of classic movies like It Happened One Night, His Girl Friday,
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Geek Deal: Columbia Best Picture Collection for $60
17 September 2009 11:30 PM, PDT
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Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is the Columbia Pictures' Best Pictures Collection for $59.99, 56% off the $136 suggested retail price. This 14-disc set features 11 films from Columbia Pictures' Best Picture Oscar winners spanning the years from 1934 to 1982, including "It Happened One Night" (1934), "You Can't Take It with You" (1938), "All the King's Men" (1949), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "On the Waterfront" (1954), "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "A Man for All Seasons" (1966), "Oliver!" (1968), "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979)30, and "Gandhi" (1982). The specially designed package offers cinemaphiles a genuine Hollywood collectible, complete with slipcase, synopsis of each film, details on the Oscar win for each title and artwork from key movie scenes. As with all of Amazon's Gold Box bargins, the deal price will end at midnight.
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- Peter Sciretta
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What's the most fashionably influential movie of all time?
9 September 2009 4:00 AM, PDT
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Turner Classic Movies is honoring New York's Fashion Week with a list of the films it has deemed the most sartorially influential of all time. First, a look at their Top 15 (in chronological order):
Pandora's Box (1929)
Letty Lynton (1932)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
And God Created Woman (1956)
Auntie Mame (1958)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Shaft (1971)
Annie Hall (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Flashdance (1983)
Most notable is the '50s- and '60s-heavy lineup -- which perhaps makes some sense, as films were likely the dominant way style was passed from Hollywood to the masses (as opposed to the TV, Us Weekly and internet of today). And there's no arguing with the likes of Breakfast at Tiffany's (which I would deem the most fashionable movie of all time), Bonnie and Clyde, Shaft, Annie Hall, Saturday Night Fever, and Flashdance.
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- Jennifer Armstrong
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Old-Fashioned American Uplift: Capra’s ‘You Can’t Take it With You’
7 June 2009 12:15 PM, PDT
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You Can’t Take It with You is a classic case of good old-fashioned American optimism, a celebration of family and small-town values courtesy of Frank Capra, who made a distinguished career out of such things. By the time of its release in 1938 films like It Happened One Night and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town had already made Capra a household name, a premiere chronicler of the Depression era national mood and a primary spokesman for cinema’s ability to serve as a tonic, spreading good cheer among audiences that had experienced too little of it.
That history looms over every frame of what is one of the original quirky family dramedies, a direct ancestor of the entire genre of independent filmmaking devoted to such ventures today. It instills even the more banal, dated moments with particular resonance. One can sense in Capra’s joyful indulgence of the sheer chaotic nature of the life of the Sycamore
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- Robert Levin
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TCM Unveils Their List of Top 15 Most Influential Films of All-Time
13 April 2009 12:08 PM, PDT
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Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has just released their official list of top 15 most influential classic films of all time, the latest element in the network's 15th anniversary celebration and the launching point for a new feature at TCM.com in which the network says it will post a fresh list of movie favorites each day (although it actually looks like it is only going to be a weekly feature). The feature will be called TCM Dailies and will usually highlight five films, with a constantly changing theme. The lists will run from serious to silly, such as TCM's favorite car-chase movies, best slap scenes and top sequels.
Perhaps the most unfortunate thing is that TCM will just be listing the films and not necessarily showing them. This would have been even bigger news had I been able to tell you the 15 films featured will be shown on TCM over
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- Brad Brevet
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The Reelist: It Happened One Night
11 March 2009 7:00 AM, PDT
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of It Happened One Night, the wonderfully fizzy Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert starrer from 1934. Directed by Frank Capra, this was a Code-flaunting sweet-tart of a screwball comedy, and the Academy responded in kind; along with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs, Night is one of only three films to win the 'Big Five' categories at the Oscars (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Screenplay, and Director).
This week, the Reelist pays tribute to one of the best movies of all time with a list of other romantic comedy classics that go down like a gulp of champage on a starlit night. If you haven't seen any of these flicks, grab your best guy or girl and get thee to Netflix (or, preferably, your local indie video store). A swell date night is guaranteed.
(Apologies to My Man Godfrey, The Philadelphia Story,
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Why Do So Many Romantic Comedies Suck?
11 March 2009 12:16 AM, PDT
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A reader sent in a link to E's interview with Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (featured to the right) and the interviewer asks the two stars of the upcoming 500 Days of Summer, "Why do you think so many romantic comedies suck?" A valid question and Deschanel beats around the bush to ultimately come to the conclusion that once you tell the same story 100 different times just with different people it kind of gets old. Gordon-Levitt believes the films seem to fall into the trap of pandering to their audience rather than say something true, which sounds to me like a roundabout way of saying filmmakers are treating the audiences as idiots when they aren't.
I haven't seen 500 Days of Summer yet, but I have heard good things, but this question of why have romantic comedies gone so far downhill in the recent years is something I have talked about with
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- Brad Brevet
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The Ultimate Guide to TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Begins Here
31 January 2009 5:56 PM, PST
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From this Sunday, February 1 through Tuesday, March 3 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) begins their annual 31 Days of Oscar, which brings you night after night of Oscar winning and nominated films uncut and commercial free on TCM and I have put together for you a mini guide for films to look for each day so you can either sit down and enjoy them as they play or set your DVR to record them for later. Either way, this is a great way to knock off so many of those classic films from your must see list.
First, how about the TCM video montage preview. Can you name the films?
Now, for the full schedule you can click here to download the Pdf or you can browse TCM's online calendar at the 31 Days of Oscar official site. Because one thing is for sure, even though I list films for every single day below
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