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Me And Orson Welles Review

25 November 2009 11:38 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Orson Welles lives again while poor old Zac Efron continues to struggle the first time around in Richard Linklater’s enjoyable tale of board treading, rubbing shoulders with history and first love.

Efron’s Richard Samuels is a mere whippersnapper in 1937 New York, who eyes a career on the stage. His encounter with the now legendary Mercury Theatre Company, lead by none other than theatrical, and later motion picture impresario, Orson Welles, proves fruitful, as he successfully charms the notoriously fickle genius and secures a part in his new production of Julius Caesar. He also secures the eye of production assistant Sonja (Claire Danes) which brings him into potential conflict with Welles and threatens his place in the troupe.

The tease of Linklater’s film, and the Robert Kaplow source novel, is the opportunity afforded to spend time with a young and as yet unburdened by self-doubt Orson Welles at »

- Ed Whitfield

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Hollywood and Its Antecedents: Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans"

14 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

 

The Last of the Mohicans screened in Chicago on October 26 as part of Doc Films' Michael Mann retrospective.

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The auteurist defense of Michael Mann tends to overlook that his creative freedom came only after years of playing by Hollywood's rules and that even his most personal films exist within popular genres.  Mann's debt to modern Hollywood is most evident in The Last of the Mohicans(1992), a film whose very conception—a big-budget action movie with specious literary pedigree—reflects the cake-and-eat-it mentality of the latter-day blockbuster.  Over and over, it eschews detail that would allow us to better understand character, setting, and conflict in favor of violent action; and often, what remains of the former is perfunctory, and bound to cliché.  I can’t attribute these faults entirely to Mann: IMDb reports that his original cut of the film was around three hours and that Twentieth Century Fox rushed him »

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Citizen Kane? Of course I’ve seen it!

23 October 2009 2:50 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

In a recent survey commissioned by Orange, in association with Orange Wednesday, it was revealed that - shock! horror! - people sometimes lie about the films they have seen….especially if someone from Orange collars them in the street and asks them what films they’ve lied about seeing. Dirty Dancing, Taxi Driver and Gone With The Wind are all in the top ten, while 1 in 5 people have apparently lied about seeing the 1972 masterpiece The Godfather. The reason for doing so is unclear (Dirty Dancing?) but it got me thinking about those films that I probably should have seen, possibly never will never see, but if someone asked me…well, I might just say I have. Why? Because I’m just so, so ashamed! Discounting all the world cinema that has so far slipped through the net, here are my top ten movie blanks: Ben Hur Casablanca High Noon The Magnificent Ambersons »

- Nick Clarke

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20 Most Anticipated Period Films (Part 1)

18 October 2009 9:18 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

There are probably more than 100 historical movies in various stages of production, and we're only talking about movies to be released this year and the next. The exact figure is probably much higher. Anyway, why do we love watching period movies? Aside from seeing famous figures come to life, we also learn important lessons from the past. Of course, some historical dramas attempt to portray events and people as accurately as possible, while others are very much fictionalized. - - -

- - - Some highly anticipated period flicks such as Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel and Inglourious Basterds have been shown already, so what other movies will be shown next?

Here's our first batch of 10 most-anticipated historical flicks, right after the jump!

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# 10 - Pirate Radio - (Release date: November 13, 2009)

Timeline: The 1960s in England

Director: Richard Curtis

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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20 Most Anticipated Period Films (Part 1)

18 October 2009 9:18 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

There are probably more than 100 historical movies in various stages of production, and we're only talking about movies to be released this year and the next. The exact figure is probably much higher. Anyway, why do we love watching period movies? Aside from seeing famous figures come to life, we also learn important lessons from the past. Of course, some historical dramas attempt to portray events and people as accurately as possible, while others are very much fictionalized. - - -

- - - Some highly anticipated period flicks such as Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel and Inglourious Basterds have been shown already, so what other movies will be shown next?

Here's our first batch of 10 most-anticipated historical flicks, right after the jump!

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# 10 - Pirate Radio - (Release date: November 13, 2009)

Timeline: The 1960s in England

Director: Richard Curtis

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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20 Most Anticipated Period Films (Part 1)

18 October 2009 9:18 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

There are probably more than 100 historical movies in various stages of production, and we're only talking about movies to be released this year and the next. The exact figure is probably much higher. Anyway, why do we love watching period movies? Aside from seeing famous figures come to life, we also learn important lessons from the past. Of course, some historical dramas attempt to portray events and people as accurately as possible, while others are very much fictionalized. - - -

- - - Some highly anticipated period flicks such as Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel and Inglourious Basterds have been shown already, so what other movies will be shown next?

Here's our first batch of 10 most-anticipated historical flicks, right after the jump!

- - -

# 10 - Pirate Radio - (Release date: November 13, 2009)

Timeline: The 1960s in England

Director: Richard Curtis

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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20 Most Anticipated Period Films (Part 1)

18 October 2009 9:18 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

There are probably more than 100 historical movies in various stages of production, and we're only talking about movies to be released this year and the next. The exact figure is probably much higher. Anyway, why do we love watching period movies? Aside from seeing famous figures come to life, we also learn important lessons from the past. Of course, some historical dramas attempt to portray events and people as accurately as possible, while others are very much fictionalized. - - -

- - - Some highly anticipated period flicks such as Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel and Inglourious Basterds have been shown already, so what other movies will be shown next?

Here's our first batch of 10 most-anticipated historical flicks, right after the jump!

- - -

# 10 - Pirate Radio - (Release date: November 13, 2009)

Timeline: The 1960s in England

Director: Richard Curtis

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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20 Most Anticipated Period Films (Part 1)

18 October 2009 9:18 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

There are probably more than 100 historical movies in various stages of production, and we're only talking about movies to be released this year and the next. The exact figure is probably much higher. Anyway, why do we love watching period movies? Aside from seeing famous figures come to life, we also learn important lessons from the past. Of course, some historical dramas attempt to portray events and people as accurately as possible, while others are very much fictionalized. - - -

- - - Some highly anticipated period flicks such as Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel and Inglourious Basterds have been shown already, so what other movies will be shown next?

Here's our first batch of 10 most-anticipated historical flicks, right after the jump!

- - -

# 10 - Pirate Radio - (Release date: November 13, 2009)

Timeline: The 1960s in England

Director: Richard Curtis

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Bernard Hermann Tributes On Turner Classic Movies Every Tuesday In September

26 August 2009 9:43 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Hermann joking with frequent collaborator Alfred Hitchcock.

Cinema Retro reader and film historian Bruce Crawford gave us the head's up that he recently collaborated with Robert Osborne on a month-long tribute to composer Bernard Hermann. Films relating to the maestro will be presented every Tuesday in September on TCM. Here is a look at the schedule:

12 August 2009Tcm (USA) - Spotlight on HerrmannSource: Bill Huelbig, Bruce Crawford Every Tuesday in September Turner Classic Movies (Us Version) will show several Herrmann scored films.

The spotlight will be hosted by Robert Osborne.

The Herrmann consultant is Bruce Crawford.

The schedule:

1. Sept:

Hangover Square

Devil and Daniel Webster

Citizen Kane

The Magnificent Ambersons

On Dangerous Ground

8. Sept:

Five Fingers

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

The Naked and the Dead

3 Worlds of Gulliver

15. Sept:

The Trouble With Harry

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Vertigo

The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad

Mysterious Island »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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The greatest movies ever made

2 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorsese's favorites, or Herzog's? The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines. The most respected poll, the only one I participate in, is the vote taken every 10 years by Sight & Sound, the British film magazine, which asks a large number of filmmakers, writers, critics, scholars, archivists and film festival directors.

1. The Night of the Hunter, 1955

That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film. Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown out again. »

- Roger Ebert

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Stweeps #3

21 June 2009 11:03 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

More Meryl Streep Tweets. Yay, Sunday filler!

I love the variety of emotions Meryl brings out in people: reverence (wallpaper) awestruck fear (brain eating!), overrated annoyance (poopy), respect (badass)

Meryl Streep @ 600! Hee. It's a retrospective that only Methusaleh could write.

Agnes Moorehead???? No one ever speaks of her but I smile on the rare occasions that people do. If you've never seen The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) you must. I know it's hard to find (every time I search for it I get the blasphemous remake) but Moorehead gives one of the best performances of all time -- it's more than worth seeking out.

frannylovesfigs was right. It looks like Meryl really is on the cover of is Mastering the Art of French Cooking but please tell me that's a removal paper wrap? I love Meryl but if that's an actual cover that's so wrong. Julia Child... Respect.

Tomorrow (June 22nd) is Meryl's actual 60th birthday. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Festival of Preservation 2009: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, William Powell, Fay Wray, William Desmond Taylor

4 April 2009 2:08 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang’s unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money). Unlike Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor’s similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret Beyond the Door boasts a highly stylized Gothic feel that makes the viewer feel just as off-kilter as both the heroine and the hero. Stanley Cortez, who also shot Orson Welles‘ The Magnificent Ambersons, was the cinematographer. Tomorrow, Sunday, April 5, at 7pm, the Festival of Preservation will feature two rarities from the 1910s: Lena Rivers, a 1914 drama whose director is unknown, and the 1916 melodrama He Fell in Love with His Wife, directed by William Desmond Taylor. He Fell in Love with His Wife »

- Andre Soares

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