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'70s behind-the-camera greats: How Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond put the cinema in cinematography

18 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

Last night on PBS, I caught the reverent and fascinating documentary No Subtitles Necessary: László & Vilmos, a look at the art, influence, and longtime brotherly friendship of the two most fabled Hollywood cinematographers of the 1970s, László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond. Like anyone else immersed in the classic American movies of that time (and, really, who isn't?), I knew who these two men were, understood a few things about their art, and had a dim awareness of the fact (coincidence -- or something more?) that they were both Hungarian émigrés. I was amazed, though, at how much I didn't know, »

- Owen Gleiberman

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Vilmos Zsigmond: From Hungary with Cameras

12 November 2009 2:35 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A new documentary about film-maker Vilmos Zsigmond shows the risks he took filming secret footage of Soviet troops in Hungary

The visionary Hungarian-born cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond does not care, I suspect, to dwell in the emotional terrain of the past. Perhaps the roots of that lie in the dying embers of 1956, when Soviet troops invaded his homeland and crushed the Hungarian revolution. To look back then, as he fled Budapest with clandestinely shot footage, would have meant death. "We had to be careful," Zsigmond says, "because the Russians had killed people just for taking still photographs."

Zsigmond's life is the subject of a warmly received documentary by James Chressanthis called No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos, which has just reached Los Angeles. The Laszlo in question is the late, great cinematographer László Kovács, Zsigmond's spiritual brother and companion on that fateful flight to the Austrian border more than half a century ago, »

- Jeremy Kay

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Angelina Jolie and Her Father Have Settled Their Differences

11 November 2009 4:30 AM, PST | Celebuzz.com | See recent Celebuzz news »

Despite her sometimes cutting demeanor, Angelina Jolie is apparently the forgiving sort. It just takes her a while to do the forgiving. Jolie's father Jon Voight tells Us Magazine that, after a 7-year period of estrangement, he and his daughter are on friendly terms again. The Salt actress broke off contact after Voight appeared on Access Hollywood in 2001 and begged his daughter over the air to seek help for her "serious mental problems." But Voight, 70, says that all was forgiven in February, when Jolie "made the initial contact" and the two "met face-to-face" to set aside their differences. Since then, the Deliverance... »

- Celebuzz

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Halfway House: Burt Reynolds and Deliverance

5 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

It's not one but two season debuts in one post as the Fall season of Tfe kicks off. Your favorite series return every day this week. Enjoy.

monday monologue showcasing fine combos of actor & screenplay

halfway house (series premiere!) halfway through the day, we stop a movie 'bout halfway through... what do we see?

What to do with a dead body... what to do? That's always a (movie) question. Fifty-three minutes into the classic Deliverance (1972), the shit has hit the fan or, rather, the men have already squealed like pigs. Four increasingly unhinged friends are now freaking out over the fresh corpse in their midst. Drew (Ronny Cox) in particular wants to be done with their time in the woods and turn things over to the law. Burt Reynolds has the answer (as well as an unforgettable rubber vest but let's not get distracted) in arguably his greatest role.

You let me worry about that, »

- NATHANIEL R

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We’re Live Blogging Behind The Scenes Of The MTV Movie Awards!

31 May 2009 7:40 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

We’re a few hours away from the main event but you don’t have to wait for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards for the fun to begin. We’ve got our correspondents all over the gold carpet, inside the auditorium, basically anywhere the action is happening. We’re all over it. Enjoy our live blogs throughout the evening for everything that’s happening behind the scenes.

6:17 p.m. Et: Nearly three hours before the show, we’ve spotted our first celebs back here — Generation Award winner Ben Stiller is all smiles in shades walking in with “SNL” writing legend Robert Smigel. Oh, and there’s another celeb literally on the arm of Smigel. The one and only Triumph is here, stogie and all!!

6:22: You know it’s the MTV Movie Awards when you stumble upon a guy dressed as the popcorn statue.

7:08: Justin Bobby grabbing a cigarette backstage, »

- MTV Movies Team

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[DVD Review] Without a Paddle

18 May 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

A God-awful cinematic experience that could just as easily be re-titled Homophobia in a Canoe, Without a Paddle is an ugly, badly conceived Frankenstein's monster of a film that hacks large chunks out of such beloved classics as Stand By Me, The Goonies, and (of all things!) Deliverance and misguidedly sews them together. John Boorman’s iconic white-water nightmare, depicting a group of cocksure Atlanta businessmen emasculated and nigh swallowed whole by the unforgiving wilderness, is unparalleled in the annals of man versus nature. But – who could have imagined – it's an idea that loses something when played for potty humor and frat-boy giggles.

Incorporating the real-life legend of D.B. Cooper, the infamous highjacker who parachuted out of a plane over the Pacific Northwest with a bag full of money and was never seen again, the film opens with four young boys in a tree-house swearing they will someday track down Cooper’s treasure. »

- Neil Pedley

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Jon Voight's Long-Lost Hal Ashby Comedy

10 April 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

While journalist Nick Dawson was researching his new biography, "Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel," his interviews with Jon Voight (who won an Oscar for Ashby's "Coming Home") revealed that a director's cut of a long-lost Ashby/Voight collaboration still existed under everybody's noses. 1982's "Lookin' to Get Out," which had its world premiere last week at the Sarasota Film Festival as part of an Ashby retrospective tied to Dawson's book, will finally be available to audiences when it hits DVD on June 30th. Voight and Burt Young co-star as Alex and Jerry, a couple of small-time New York gamblers -- lovable losers, both -- who escape to Vegas when their debts come knocking at their door. Pretending to be a casino owner's close friends while he's out of town, the two foolishly exploit their free comps to try to win back their losses, much to the chagrin of the returning tycoon, »

- Aaron Hillis

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Dying Breed (Horrorfest III Flashback Review)

29 March 2009 4:31 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

The Australian production Dying Breed proves that the survival-in-the-woods strain of horror film is anything but. The tried-and-true ingredients are present and accounted for: two young couples, a forbidding wilderness for them to venture into, weird and foreboding supporting characters, cannibalistic killers and plenty of graphic mayhem. And a little bit of based-on-reality garnish always adds an extra frisson, so the movie begins with a flashback involving the notorious Alexander Pearce, a.k.a. “The Pieman.” Back in the 19th century, when Australia served as a penal colony, Pearce escaped imprisonment on the island state of Tasmania and survived by consuming the flesh of his fellow escapees. He was recaptured and hanged for that offense…but could his bloodline have survived into the present day?

That’s not the question zoology student Nina (Mirrah Foulkes) is seeking to answer when she heads into Tasmania’s forests. She’s on the trail of the Tasmanian Tiger, »

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Vinyan (DVD Review)

18 March 2009 10:37 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

After his controversial and much-debated Calvaire, director Fabrice Du Welz leaves the Belgian backwoods and Deliverance territory behind for the jungles of Southeast Asia. Vinyan (coming on DVD from Sony Pictures April 7) is likely to prove just as polarizing to viewers, and while the film has its share of shortcomings, I found myself drawn into this haunting, hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness.

“Heart of darkness” is an apropos term, as Vinyan not only recalls Joseph Conrad’s symbolic story, but Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s loose but equally allegorical film adaptation of that 1902 novel. Six months after losing their only child in the Southeast tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) and Paul (Rufus Sewell) are watching a documentary about orphans living in the Burmese jungles when Jeanne stops the film. She is convinced that a boy in a Manchester United shirt is their son Josh. Paul is initially skeptical, »

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More Cast Members For Killer Inside Me

8 February 2009 4:15 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

I've never been a huge fan of Kate Hudson, to the point that I was pretty excited to see her name on a list put together by Yahoo! Movies of actors the site is tired of seeing. Unfortunately, we're going to continue seeing Hudson, at least for a little while longer, since she's still getting work. Hudson is among a group of actors who has signed on to The Killer Inside Me, reports Screen Daily. Along with Hudson comes Elias Koteas (Shooter), Bill Pullman (Independence Day), and Ned Beatty (Deliverance), who join previously announced headliners Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba. The movie is a noir psychological thriller based on a novel by Jim Thompson. A few of those actors get me excited, but I have to admit the news that Hudson is joining the cast just makes me wonder who will throw the bigger hissy fit - Alba or Hudson. »

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National Film Registry Recognizes Sf, Fantasy

31 December 2008 6:55 PM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

Every year, the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry names 25 films for historic preservation.  This year’s list was announced yesterday and we applaud the inclusion of several genre offerings including The Invisible Man and the first Terminator film.  The Perils of Pauline, the first movie serial, makes the list and is seminal for the way it influenced moviemakers and storytellers, notably comic book writers, ever since.

Here’s a look at this year’s list:

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

John Huston’s brilliant crime drama contains the recipe for a meticulously planned robbery, but the cast of criminal characters features one too many bad apples. Sam Jaffe, as the twisted mastermind, uses cash from corrupt attorney Emmerich (Louis Calhern) to assemble a group of skilled thugs to pull off a jewel heist. All goes as planned — until an alert night watchman and a corrupt cop enter the picture. Marilyn Monroe »

- Robert Greenberger

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