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Iconic Shots: Empire Captures 50 Picture Perfect Film Moments
16 November 2009 5:39 AM, PST
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It may be an advertising grab if there ever was one, but that doesn't make Empire's Picture Perfect: Iconic Movie Stills feature any less impressive. The popular British film magazine's online arm has assembled 50 of the most memorable scenes from the history of film and delivered them in a glorious high resolution gallery. After browsing through much of the gallery, I clipped one of my personal favorites -- from the opening T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park -- to share with all of you above. Other great moments include one of the more beautiful shots from Hitchcock's The Birds, Al Pacino sitting in his throne-like arm chair in The Godfather Part 2 and the savage Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) heading out toward the fringes of life in The Searchers. Just to name a few.
Head over to Empire and see the entire gallery for yourself, then come back and let me know which pics are your favorites in
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- Neil Miller
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Pass notes No 2,683: Cinématon
15 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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The longest film ever made, all six days of it
What's that? The world's longest film.
How long is it? One hundred and fifty hours. That's six days. Or, if you prefer, six economy-size bags of Revels, three furtive bottles of gin, at least 12 trips to the loo, two sore buttocks, a pair of red eyes and one overwhelming sense of the utter pointlessness of human existence.
Not a date movie then? Don't be so sure. You could date, snog, get engaged, marry, conceive your first child, have a thing with someone else in row seven, divorce, have torrid make-up sex and settle in for the long haul with your original date all before the closing credits.
I'll bet it's French. Of course it is. Cinématon will be shown in Avignon later this month. Director Gérard Courant had the idea in 1978 and has spent 31 years making it. The film consists of three-minute,
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Orci and Kurtzman Talk ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ and ‘View-Master’
14 October 2009 11:35 AM, PDT
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Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman have got to be two of the most popular writers in Hollywood right now. Like, love or hate their work, as script writers they have turned into a very hot commodity and are quickly becoming the “go-to” guys for sci-fi scripts. With projects like Star Trek 2, Cowboys & Aliens, View-Master and multiple Fringe episodes on their plate, they have no shortage of work (which in this economy is a good thing).
Recently the great guys and gals at Collider were able to talk to Orci and Kurtzman and they managed wrangle some really good information from them in what turned out to be a lengthy interview. We’ve already discussed the parts about Star Trek 2 and their decision Not to be involved with Transformers 3, which they confirmed during this same interview. You check out the entire interview here, but I’ll go through
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- Paul Young
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Wagon Master - DVD Review
11 October 2009 10:02 AM, PDT
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.But .hell. ain.t cussing. It.s geography.. John Ford.s favorite film finally stampedes onto DVD. It.s not the picture we think of when we think of Ford. It.s not going to supersede The Searchers in fame, but it.s obvious why he liked the picture so much. Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) is leading a group of Mormons across the plains to establish a settlement. They approach horse traders Travis (Ben Johnson) and Sandy (Harry Carey Jr.) to lead them through the hostile territory. They encounter a traveling medicine show led by Dr. A. Locksley Hall (Alan Mowbray), who imbibes too much of his stock, along with showgirls Denver (the lovely Joanne Dru) and Fleuretty (Ruth Clifford). The group
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- Jeff Swindoll
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Directors We Love: John Ford
16 September 2009 8:15 PM, PDT
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On the comprehensive movie list site, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, John Ford currently ranks #4 on the list of the all-time 100 greatest film directors (with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini ahead of him), though he has placed more films than anyone else, 18, on the list of the all-time top 1000. I think the reason he doesn't rank higher is that he was one of the few great film directors to be fully appreciated in his own time. He won the Best Director Oscar four times -- still a record -- and took home an additional two Oscars for his wartime documentaries.
Welles was once asked whose films he studied when he made Citizen Kane in 1941, and he replied: "the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford." Of course, even by the time he was an "old master," Ford would continue to make films like They Were Expendable,
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT
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Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
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Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds
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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT
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Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
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Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds
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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT
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Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
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Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds
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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
23 August 2009 12:04 PM, PDT
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Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Running Time: 153 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
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Quentin Tarantino has made an illustrious career by breaching B movies’ concepts, characters, dialogues and setting and advancing them to his own films, transforming trifling B movies into exceptional A movies. His latest attempt actually destroys that formula ending a streak that started in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His sixth feature film which opened in Cannes Film Festival last spring is a gathering of past ideas without the slightest utterance of a beating heart. Integrity at least flowed resolutely in Tarantino’s previous characters, all of whom set out to inspire pain and inflict wounds. They had kn owledge, motive and a bountiful plot that rapidly encouraged their conscious to do what they had to do; set out for revenge. In Inglourious Basterds
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Blu-Ray Review: Criterion Edition of Akira Kurosawa’s Legendary ‘Kagemusha’
20 August 2009 6:43 AM, PDT
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Chicago – Now that he is widely recognized as one of the best filmmakers of all time, it’s almost hard to believe that there was a period in the career of Akira Kurosawa when he couldn’t get financing to make a film. Kurosawa went through a very dark time in the ’70s, punctuated by his disastrous experience with “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” and needed the weight of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas to help with his comeback, “Kagemusha,” now available in a beautiful Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
I adore stories like the one behind the making of “Kagemusha” because they reflect the ripple throughout the ages that comes with amazing creativity. In the excellent special feature, “Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa,” the interviews draw a definitive line from John Ford (whose “The Searchers” influenced Kurosawa) to Kurosawa’s work to “The Godfather” to “Star Wars” to “Kagemusha,” which itself inspired countless filmmakers.
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Maggie Q Joins Paul Bettany's Priest
13 August 2009 1:26 AM, PDT
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Maggie Q: Which actress has just signed on to join Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet in the horror Western, Priest, playing a vampire huntress extraordinaire?Maggie A: Maggie Q.Yes, the Live Free Or Die Hard star has joined the cast of Scott Stewart’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to Legion (a movie which is generating all kinds of positive buzz), a demented thriller about a vampire-killing priest (Bettany) and a sheriff (Gigandet) who team up to hunt down a group of bloodsuckers that have kidnapped Bettany’s niece.Q will play a priestess who rivals Bettany in the vamp-killing stakes (sorry) in the movie, which is based on a TokyoPop comic that had the good sense to recognise that the only way to improve upon the basic plotline of John Ford’s The Searchers – and, indeed, virtually anything - was to introduce vampires.Screen Gems, which also backed Legion, is
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Lana Wood joins cast of the Horror Movie "Renovation"
3 August 2009 1:58 PM, PDT
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From Plenty O'Toole to Plenty of Thrills!
Follow the announcement of DJ Perry and Fred Griffith signing to Rampant Entertainment's Yuma, Az thriller "Renovation", their .Book of Ruth. co-star Lana Wood has signed on to join the cast. Fans of her past horror/thrillers like "The Fool Killer" with Anthony Perkins and 1982's "Satan's Mistress" with the late, great John Carradine will enjoy her return to the genre.
For this role Lana stated, .I will have to get in touch with my dark side!.
She has starred opposite such legends of the screen as Sean Connery ("Diamonds Are Forever") and John Wayne ("The Searchers") directed by such masters of the screen as John Ford. Now director Robert Gwinn will step up to the plate and direct a script by his producing partner Charles...
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Lana Wood to star in thriller 'Renovations'
30 July 2009 9:38 PM, PDT
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Lana Wood, sister of the late great Natalie Wood, acts in horror films! She's just signed on to be a part of the cast of Rampant Entertainment’s Yuma, Az thriller Renovation alongside DJ Perry and Fred Griffith. Lana previously starred in macabre movies like The Fool Killer with Anthony Perkins and 1982’s Satan’s Mistress with the recently late John Carradine. She was also Plenty O'Toole in 1971's Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.
For this role Lana stated, “I will have to get in touch with my dark side!”...
She starred opposite such legends of the screen as Sean Connery (Diamonds are Forever) and John Wayne (The Searchers) directed by such masters of the screenas John Ford.
Lana last produced the 1004 made-for-tv The Mystery of Natalie Wood, a bio about the life and mysterious drowning death of her sister, actress Natalie Wood.
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Ten greatest Films about America
4 July 2009 6:48 PM, PDT
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1)Nashville (1975)
Robert Altman’s Masterpiece captured America in the 70s like one else: All its confusion, disappointment, and uncertainty. The film follows 24 different characters over a period of as few days in Nashville just before a political fundraising concert. We take a peak in the lives of country music superstars, hippies, aspiring singers, mothers, producers, liberals, conservatives, radicals, Christians. We see how America has changed and how our moral system had been skewed by Vietnam, Watergate, the Kennedy assassinations and the sexual revolution. Illustrates perfectly what john Lennon sang “Strange Days Indeed.”
2)Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
There are few scenes in movie history more powerful than Jimmy Stewart’s impassioned speech on the house floor. He says what every American wanted to say. These politicians are more loyal to their parties and think of people as numbers they need to get reelected. Frank Capera’s idealistic film has not
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- Anthony Nicholas
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Review: My Sister's Keeper
26 June 2009 7:02 AM, PDT
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I'm not ashamed to say that I cry at the movies. Not frequently, but occasionally a story and its characters will grab hold of me to the extent that I'm completely caught up in the emotions and feelings being expressed. Films as disparate as John Ford's The Searchers and Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express have caused me to weep with joy, relief, and sorrow.
Despite a relentless barrage of scenes evidently designed with the sole goal of jerking tears, Nick Cassavetes' My Sister's Keeper did not make me cry. It is, however, one of the most glorious-looking terminal cancer pictures I've ever seen. Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel (The Black Stallion, The Natural) paints the oft-mundane proceedings in an otherworldly glow, as though the transition to the next life had already begun. That's the guiding principle of the movie as a whole; even though an inflammatory and emotionally wrenching issue
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Cam Gigandet Not Actually Playing Another Vampire
15 June 2009 12:10 PM, PDT
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When we reported last week that Cam Gigandet would be playing a vampire in the adaptation of the TokyoPop graphic novel seriesPriest, the story seemed like a pretty simple twist on John Ford's The Searchers, substituting vampires for Native Americans. Boy was I wrong about that-- the Wikipedia entry for the series has given me a massive headache. And now it looks like Gigandet's character isn't even a vampire, disappointing legions of Twilight fans.
Talking to MTV, Gigandet said the vampire rumors were a bit exaggerated. .I think there was some miscommunication that I was a vampire but that.s not the case. I.m not a vampire..
Instead, he says, "There are vampire-esque creatures in the movie, but it.s really a battle between good and evil. Paul Bettany and I are on this journey to rescue someone that we love, and it.s just this fascinating ...
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Shall we gather at the river?
11 June 2009 1:11 PM, PDT
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The first time I saw him, he was striding toward me out of the burning Georgia sun, as helicopters landed behind him. His face was tanned a deep brown. He was wearing a combat helmet, an ammo belt, carrying a rifle, had a canteen on his hip, stood six feet four inches. He stuck out his hand and said, "John Wayne." That was not necessary.
John Wayne died 30 years ago on June 11. Stomach cancer. "The Big C," he called it. He had lived for quite a while on one lung, and then the Big C came back. He was near death and he knew it when he walked out on stage at the 1979 Academy Awards to present Best Picture to "The Deer Hunter," a film he wouldn't have made. He looked frail, but he planted himself there and sounded like John Wayne.
John Wayne. When I was a kid, we
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Remember That TCM List of Influential Films? Here's a New Variation...
10 June 2009 2:18 PM, PDT
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Back in mid-April Turner Class Movies (TCM) revealed a list of their Top 15 Most Influential Films of All-Time. Shortly thereafter Kris Tapley at InContention.com started polling his readers to come up with another variation of the list and today the results are in.
Some of the complaints about TCM's list had to do with the fact it didn't include a film after 1977's Star Wars and it had two John Ford/John Wayne films. That was, of course, on top of people getting upset over what films were left off the list, which is just one of the motivating factors for Tapley's attempt to take another stab at it.
I have included the In Contention list directly below and movies with an * indicate a film that was also on TCM's list. The only thing I wish this list had was reasoning behind each title, but since it was
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- Brad Brevet
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Cam Gigandet Can't Stop Playing A Vampire
8 June 2009 8:04 AM, PDT
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Cam Gigandet is apparently a guy who knows a meal ticket when he sees one. He was the head of the villanous crew of bloodsuckers in Twilight, but that's not enough vampire action for the former O.C. actor. He'll star opposite Paul Bettany in Priest, an adaptation of a graphic novel that's set in an Old West ravaged by a war between man and vampire.
And yes, once again, Gigandet will be on the side of the undead! Mostly. According to THR he'll play a part-vampire sheriff who helps Bettany's warrior priest rescue a girl, Gigandet's love interest and Bettany's niece, who has been kidnapped by evil vampires. Convenient, eh?
I don't know anything about the graphic novel, but I'm guessing it's deliberately evoking the John Ford film The Searchers, which found John Wayne rescuing his niece from Indians, accompanied by a young man who is part-Comanche. Though I
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The Searchers on Blu-ray for Under $8
5 June 2009 9:04 AM, PDT
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The Searchers on Blu-ray Disc starring John Wayne is currently on sale at online retailer Amazon.com for a measly $7.99.
The limited low, low, low price has vaulted The Searchers into Amazon's top 10 hourly bestsellers chart for Blu-ray where it currently enjoys the number 8 slot.
Click here to grab The Searchers on Blu-ray for $7.99.
Strong sales for The Searcher have pushed back the shipping date to 7-13 days. That's better than the title being sold out entirely, which is possible if this price holds up for a few days.
Some other Blu-ray titles heavily discounted at Amazon include I, Robot and Dark City for $12.99 each.
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