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Farber in the Forties
23 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST
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I was going to begin by saying that it would be hard to find two consecutive sentences in the film writings of Manny Farber that do not immediately signal his unmistakable presence. But on trying the experiment, I have to amend that: it’s impossible to find even one sentence that could have been written by anyone else. One way to evoke him would be simply to string together a succession of such phrases, like comparing Orson Welles in The Third Man to “a nearly satiated baby at the breast” or describing the protagonist of Rossellini’sOpen City as “so strained, shrunken and starved he reminds you of a wet string” or writing of the home front drama The Eve of St. Mark: “the father and mother and the sweetheart...go around with a pleased-as-Punch look, as though they were eating each other and finding they were all made of delicious candy.
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Cinematical Seven: Directorial Double Whammies
13 October 2009 8:15 PM, PDT
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Reading about movies, you hear stories of some films shot in five days and other films shot over three years. Some of the poverty-row directors and B-movie makers cranked out as many movies as they could during a calendar year, while filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin and Stanley Kubrick waited years between projects (making each release a new "event"). Most filmmakers, I think, given the chance would probably release one film per year, keeping their toes in without burning out. But sometimes, whether it's a trick of the calendar, or some peculiar rhythms of timing, some of the greatest directors manage to release two films per year. And even less often, both of these films turn out great. The following is my not-exactly-extensive, but enthusiastic celebration of the one-two punch or the director's double-whammy.
1. Jacques Tourneur: I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man (1943)
The world has frankly been
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Old Ass Movies: Know the Horror of ‘I Walked with a Zombie’
30 August 2009 11:18 AM, PDT
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Every week, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents:
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
I realize it's been a few weeks since Oam has been in hiding, waiting around the corner to pounce on its latest victim, so I figured it was a great idea to come back from the break by taking a look at a fantastic example of 40s era suspense while Halloween 2: The Second 2 and The Final Destination are in theaters.
If anything, it should give you a solid alternative.
In 1942, the team of producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur released the horror film Cat People - one of the most famous horror films to date. The next year they would deliver I Walked with a Zombie, a gripping tale told in the similar trademark suspenseful style which used light and
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Podcast: Rob Zombie
28 August 2009 4:03 PM, PDT
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Metal god and psychotronic auteur Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween had an unusual twist on John Carpenter's slasher-movie gold standard, in that it treated the story of silent bogeyman Michael Myers as a sociological case study (Nathan Lee nailed it back then as "a biopic, and a superb one at that"). But even Zombie's first two features—House of 1000 Corpses and his high-water mark of a sequel, The Devil's Rejects—had proved him to be one of the more eccentric American voices in contemporary horror.
Zombie returns this weekend with Halloween II, which takes place mere minutes after the conclusion of his previous film (for which we spoke two years ago), but I couldn't tell you much more about how the new plot turns. As is becoming the frustrating norm with widely-released horror movies, the promotionally abbreviated H2 was not screened for critics, which is why my
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Repulsion (DVD Review)
29 July 2009 12:02 AM, PDT
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Roman Polanski’s second feature film, Repulsion (1965), is considered a classic of the slow-burn, first-person psychological-study genre. Just out on a special-edition DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, it messily observes and records the unraveling of the sanity of an unbalanced young woman (played by an especially delicate Catherine Deneuve) when she’s left home alone for the weekend by her older sister.
That’s really it for plot, folks; this is more of a non-narrative character study than a densely plotted thriller. But if you hook up with the film’s wavelength, settle in with it and allow the flow of images to lead you along, you’ll find yourself taking an interesting and disturbing journey.
The movie is expertly photographed by Gil Taylor (who would reunite with Polanski a year later on Cul-de-sac), who imbues the first half of the movie with a rather natural look. But once the long,
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Adam Marcus Helming Rko 'I Walked With A Zombie' Remake!
16 March 2009 12:53 PM, PDT
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Several months back, we reported that Rosebud & Twisted Pictures were producing 4 new remakes of classic Rko pictures. Now, the first of the bunch has landed a director. Adam Marcus, the director of Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday will direct I Walked With A Zombie from a script he co-wrote with Debra Sullivan according to Variety. "Adam and Deborah have created a chilling screenplay that along with Adam's vision would make Lewton proud," Fickman told Variety.
The article continues, "The film focuses on a private tutor who discovers a terrifying family secret while working at the ancient estate of a New Orleans businessman. The original was a forerunner of the corps of walking corpse films that followed. Hartley called the film one of the most valuable in the Rko library. Rko's Ted Hartley will produce with Twisted's Mark Burg, Oren Koules and Carl Mazzocone. Andy Fickman, who recently pacted
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Jason Goes To Hell director tackles Zombie remake
15 March 2009 10:08 PM, PDT
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Variety reports that Adam Marcus, who helmed Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, has been attached to the remake of I Walked With A Zombie. The 1943 Rko classic, produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur, is being updated by the new Rko’s Roseblood Movie Co. and Twisted Pictures, which has produced the Saw series among others.
Marcus also scripted the new Zombie with Debra Sullivan; the story is set on a New Orleans estate where a private tutor discovers a family secret involving voodoo. Overseeing the project is busy Andy Fickman (see item here), who’s also supervising revisitations of Lewton’s The Body Snatcher, Bedlam and Five Came Back. “Adam and Deborah have created a chilling screenplay that along with Adam’s vision would make Lewton proud,” Fickman tells the trade.
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Adam Marcus To Walk With A Zombie
15 March 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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Adam Marcus, director of the underrated, if erroneously titled, Friday The 13th sequel, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, is finally making a return to horror after over fifteen years away.The 40 year-old director has signed on to direct the remake of Rko’s cult classic, I Walked With A Zombie.Directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton in 1943, the original was a creepy, eerie affair that isn’t a typical zombie film, at least, not in the way that we understand the term now. There are no flesh-eating ghouls here – just a dark and macabre tale involving a Caribbean island, voodoo, and a patient stricken by an apparent illness which seems to involve zombie-like symptoms.The original was also only 69 minutes long, so there’s plenty of room for Marcus’ remake to expand, and hopefully, improve upon what’s gone before.Indeed, he’s already begun,
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More Details on Rko Remake 'I Walked With a Zombie'
15 March 2009 9:02 PM, PDT
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It was officially announced tonight that Rko's Roseblood Movie Co. and Twisted Pictures have set Adam Marcus to direct I Walked With A Zombie, the remake of the Val Lewton Rko 1943 classic. Marcus, who directed Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, has written the script with Debra Sullivan, his writing partner on the Val Kilmer starrer Conspiracy. You can read a bit more about the project inside.
The film focuses on a private tutor who discovers a terrifying family secret while working at the ancient estate of a New Orleans businessman. The original was a forerunner of the corps of walking corpse films that followed. Hartley called the film one of the most valuable in the Rko library.
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