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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
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Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Tao Ruspoli's Top Ten Films of All Time
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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Godard's Breathless is the film that made me want to become a filmmaker. I saw it my freshman year in college and I couldn't believe how a director could take a few great characters and a mostly hand-held camera and make a film that said so much about life in a world in which absolute values had become irrelevant (both filmically and ethically.) And what a face Belmondo had! - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Tao Ruspoli, helmer behind Fix which ropens November 20th at the Village East in NY. He gave us his top ten (as of November 2009).
8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini I'm sure this film has been on this list 100 times,
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Top 10 conspiracy films of the 70s
3 December 2009 5:19 AM, PST
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Richard Kelly’s The Box opens today in the UK, you can read my review here, and to celebrate the 70s paranoia vibe we’re posting this look back at some of the greatest conspiracy/paranoia thrillers of that decade. There are some great films here, and The Box does its best to emulate this, so you might want to look into some of these when you’re done with Kelly’s latest.
Klute 1971
Strongly following the crime / investigation genre, this film tells the story of a conspiracy theory that may be a little more personal, a little more close to home. Realistic and gritty (it centres on a prostitute); it promises the keep fans of 70’s films on their edge of their seat. ‘Don’t be afraid…’
When laboratory engineer Tom Gruneman (Robert Mili) disappears, the only clue available to detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) is an obscene letter
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Edward Woodward: A life in clips | Catherine Shoard
16 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST
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The actor Edward Woodward, best known for playing righteous enforcers in Callan, The Equalizer and The Wicker Man, has died at the age of 79. We look back over his career
Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland had the splashier roles in The Wicker Man, the 1973 occult horror set in a fictional Hebridian island demented by paganism, but it was the performance of Edward Woodward, who died today, that made that film so haunting. Woodward was cast in the role of devout Christian police sergeant Neil Howie, dispatched from the mainland to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, after actors including Michael York and David Hemmings turned it down.
It's hard to imagine how slick, pin-up performers as these would have brought the same emotional punch to that terrible, awe-inspiring climax, in which Howie hollers to God and sings The Lord Is My Shepherd as he is immolated. It's one of
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Edward Woodward: A life in clips | Catherine Shoard
16 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST
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The actor Edward Woodward, best known for playing righteous enforcers in Callan, The Equalizer and The Wicker Man, has died at the age of 79. We look back over his career
Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland had the splashier roles in The Wicker Man, the 1973 occult horror set in a fictional Hebridian island demented by paganism, but it was the performance of Edward Woodward, who died today, that made that film so haunting. Woodward was cast in the role of devout Christian police sergeant Neil Howie, dispatched from the mainland to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, after actors including Michael York and David Hemmings turned it down.
It's hard to imagine how slick, pin-up performers as these would have brought the same emotional punch to that terrible, awe-inspiring climax, in which Howie hollers to God and sings The Lord Is My Shepherd as he is immolated. It's one of
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- Catherine Shoard
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Heat and Logan’s Run Blu-ray Reviews
10 November 2009 10:26 PM, PST
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Catalog titles Ftw. I am one of those rare people who enjoy being “double dipped.” I like upgrading to Blu-ray if I love a film, because you only get to watch a movie for the first time once, and so a different and better transfer is a reason (at least for me) to get excited about a film you’ve seen a number of times. When I would go see something in the theater on multiple occasions, I’d often go to different theaters (or failing that, different seats). My reviews of the Blu-rays of Heat and Logan’s Run after the jump.
Heat is one of the great American films. It took me a while to come to that, and I still think that Michael Mann’s finest film is The Insider, but there’s no denying Heat. Robert De Niro stars as Neal McCauley, a high line criminal who knows how to rob.
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- Andre Dellamorte
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The Death of Hollywood?
23 October 2009 2:29 AM, PDT
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“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.” – John Huston
The sagacious Huston may have been right, once, but if recent reports are to be believed, and there is no reason to doubt them, the finances of the major Hollywood studios are in freefall. Battered by both the rise of digital, and thus the manner in which people are choosing to consume entertainment, and a quickening drought in funding, production is predicted to fall by more a third over the coming year. In response to the broader global economic meltdown banks have withdrawn much of their investment in the West Coast industry ($12bn from a total of $18bn has been made unavailable) and the ascent of Internet piracy, and even the legitimate but far less profitable download and video-on-demand sectors, is ripping the DVD market asunder. Foreign language films, too, are chipping away at the assumed
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- Nick Clarke
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Review: ‘Tetro’
18 September 2009 5:15 AM, PDT
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In case you’ve forgotten the name of one of America’s most talented and under-appreciated auteurs, let me reintroduce you to Francis Ford Coppola. Forget about Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Trilogy and Bram Stoker’S Dracula for a moment. We all know and love those films, including those of you who don’t No need to raise your hands and make yourselves look silly. Coppola is so much more than these films, but they’re the only ones he ever gets remembered for.
Let me first take you back to 1974 and a little film called The Conversation starring Gene Hackman, perhaps one of the most under-rated films of all time. Next I would like to fast forward a bit to a pair of little films from 1983 called The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. After having first read the 1967 book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton in school, I fell in love
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Tetro Review
8 September 2009 8:50 PM, PDT
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What does creating three of the best films of all time afford Francis Ford Coppola? The Godfather and The Godfather Part II reign supreme over depictions of family strife, while Apocalypse Now bears the leading character’s inverted soul more bleakly than perhaps any other film. Even without counting The Conversation, Coppola proved long ago that he was a master of craft and form, with little else left to prove his deft hand.
So, 30 years after the creation of his last masterpiece, what does Coppola prove with Tetro, a film exploring a young man’s (Alden Ehrenreich, about to explode onto the mainstream scene) quest to reveal the mystery behind his brother, a failed writer (Vincent Gallo)?
He proves many things. Chiefly among them, he proves he can shoot the hell out of a movie, with a brilliant choice of framing and lighting — it’s one of the most beautiful
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Ten Directors Share Fond Memories of the Lacma
3 September 2009 9:03 AM, PDT
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James Gray (Two Lovers) remembers going to see Walter Murch talking about his groundbreaking sound and editing work on The Conversation. John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) remembers seeing the original King Kong, a "life-changing experience." Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging) remembers seeing an obscure Bette Davis movie with a packed house. Rian Johnson (Brick) one time just simply walked in without even knowing what was playing (it turned out to be Fellini's And the Ship Sails On). Those four, plus six other directors, shared their feelings with the Los Angeles Times on the uncertain fate of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and especially its beloved Bing Theater.
But some of the others aren't in the mood for reminiscing. John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) says, "seeing a film like How Green Was My Valley and Duel in the Sun on the wide screen is a whole other thing.
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Sound On Sight Radio #148 - Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola special)
25 August 2009 12:29 AM, PDT
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In celebration of the release of his latest film, the semi-autobiographical Tetro, Sound on Sight finally takes its first look at the filmography of Francis Ford Coppola, who is of course most famous for helming the Godfather trilogy. We're going to steer clear of those films for now, and instead talk about Tetro, along with the less-than-rapturuously-received Youth Without Youth, as well as rewind back to 1974's The Conversation, which Coppola produced between the first and second Godfathers.
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32 New Fantastic Reimagined Posters from Turner Classic Movies
13 August 2009 12:51 AM, PDT
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I am sure most of you remember the collection of 12 teaser posters Turner Classic Movies released last July in celebration of their "Summer Under the Stars," which is their 31-day series of films featuring a new actor every day. Well, they have debuted even more posters... 32 of them as a matter of fact, and over the next six pages I have every single one of them for you.
Seeing how it is already August 13th, here is the list of actors left to have their day:
August 13 - Gloria Grahame
August 14 - Sidney Portier
August 15 - Deborah Kerr
August 16 - Elvis Presley
August 17 - Jennifer Jones
August 18 - John Wayne
August 19 - Red Skelton
August 20 - Miriam Hopkins
August 21 - Gene Hackman
August 22 - Sterling Hayden
August 23 - Angela Lansbury
August 24 - Fredric March
August 25 - Merle Oberon
August 26 - Yul Brynner
August 27 - Ida Lupino
August 28 - Frank Sinatra
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Little Scene : Scarecrow
30 July 2009 6:07 AM, PDT
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(1973, Schatzberg)
When Scarecrow premiered (and won the Ex-aequo award) at Cannes in 1973 Al Pacino had was hot off The Godfather and Gene Hackman had just completed The Poseidon Adventure and had already won an Oscar for his role in The French Connection.
Popeye Doyle and Micheal Corleone face to face, two of the stars of the decade jostling for position. Pacino, buoyant, having just had Francis Ford Coppola fight for him to stay in the greatest family saga of all time, would walk straight into Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon for Sidney Lumet and into one of the greatest acting careers in history. Hackman, himself was about to star in the masterful The Conversation (again for Coppola) and was (arguably) at the peak of his career.
So what's this beautiful little dual character study called Scarecrow sandwiched, on IMDb between some of the most acclaimed and influential movies of the
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This 'Dog' Finally Has His Day
29 July 2009 12:52 AM, PDT
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You know the face but you probably don't know the name -- John Cazale, who unforgettably played the unfortunate Fredo Corleone in the first two "Godfather" movies.
Bam today begins a five-film tribute to Cazale -- an acting virtuoso virtually forgotten today except among his peers.
Cazale has the unique distinction of appearing only in Best Picture Oscar nominated films during his tragically brief screen career, which ended with his death at the age of 42.
"I learned more about acting from him than anybody," says Al Pacino in "I Knew It Was You," a 40-minute HBO documentary about
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Weekend Rental: Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
20 June 2009
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It was during an after screening Q&A for Tetro (the opening film for Cannes' Director's Fortnight section) that I learned that in a career that has spanned over four decades, Francis Ford Coppola has rarely worked from his own, original screenplay. With Tetro opening last week, I thought it might be fun to consider his Palme d'or winning The Conversation as a possible "weekend rental".
Circa 1974, the film might feel technologically dated, but wire-tapping, eyes-dropping and the misinterpretation of the facts are just as prevalent today as they were back then. I love Gene Hackman's perf as an isolated loner character who gets way too caught up in his work. Something to keep in mind when watching, when the film was released in theaters it was coincidentally after Watergate broke - sort of like when Wag the Dog was released moments before the whole Clinton/Monica scandal.
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Interview: Francis Ford Coppola, Tetro
15 June 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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“Tetro” is visionary director Francis Ford Coppola’s first original screenplay since “The Conversation” nearly four decades ago and it’s his most personal film yet. Arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional, it is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found, and the conflicts, disturbing secrets and complex dynamics within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. The film stars Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Francesca de Sapio, Maribel Verdu, and Klaus Maria Brandauer.
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Francis Ford Coppola Talks 'Tetro' And Whether He'll Make Another 'Godfather'
12 June 2009 3:51 AM, PDT
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'I like to think of this as the second film of my second career,' the legendary director says of his latest movie.
By Josh Horowitz
Josh Horowitz with Francis Ford Coppola and Alden Ehrenreich
Photo: MTV News
A handful of filmmakers have earned the right to make whatever film strikes their fancy and not make any apologies for it. Count Francis Ford Coppola in this group. His near-absurd level of productivity in the '70s alone (two "Godfather" films, "The Conversation," and "Apocalypse Now") has ensured his legacy but that hasn't stopped the septuagenarian from embarking on a new, more personal filmmaking path.
That personal touch began with 2007's "Youth Without Youth" and continues in the just-released "Tetro," the first original screenplay brought to the screen by Coppola in 35 years. Starring Vincent Gallo and newcomer (and immediate actor-to-watch) Alden Ehrenreich, "Tetro" is a sumptuously photographed (mostly in black and
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Review: Tetro
11 June 2009 7:03 PM, PDT
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Francis Ford Coppola may never again craft a classic like The Godfather, but after years spent toiling on bland studio fare - as well as 2007's ambitious, muddled Youth Without Youth - the director regains his mojo with Tetro, a saga of familial strife and Oedipal conflict equally indebted to '60s euro cinema and the theatrical traditions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. An independently financed gem, Coppola's first self-penned film since 1974's The Conversation is shot in lustrous black and white and marked by an old-school formal proficiency that's highlighted by an endlessly intriguing and expressive frame. It's also rife with echoes of the past, in terms of its cinematic forbearers - including The Godfather, and its focus on the shadow cast by titanic father figures on sons - as well as its narrative proper, which concerns the reunion in Buenos Aires of 18-year-old Bennie (newcomer Alden Ehrenreich
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'Tetro': Art Damage, By Kurt Loder
10 June 2009 11:23 PM, PDT
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Francis Ford Coppola in exile from his true talent.
Alden Ehrenreich in "Tetro"
Photo: American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes of eye-popping color, the picture is a riveting visual experience. But the tale it tells — of two brothers in flight from their imperious father — grows tedious, and in the end collapses into startling preposterousness.
Vincent Gallo plays Angelo Tetroncini, a man racked by obscure torment. Ten years ago, Angelo moved to Buenos Aires (where the film was shot) in order to write — a vocation his father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a celebrated opera director, had derided. ("There's only room for one genius in this family," he told his son.
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