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Top Ten Underrated Films (Of All Time)
2 September 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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Great movies sometimes do not hit it off with the audience upon first viewing. Not even the sublime Citizen Kane found much appreciation on its release in 1941, taking over twenty years and critical re-discovery in order for everybody to agree it was a pretty special movie.
Cult films are different (and this is not a list of cult movies) – those do tend to find an audience (usually people who become hardcore fans) allowing the film to become celebrated in alternative ways – as opposed to garnering a multitude of awards.
This is a list drawn up of films I consider under-rated; overlooked; not thought about; dismissed, and so forth. I am not suggesting they should be regaled as masterpieces anointed and placed in a cinematic pantheon of greatness.
Compiling lists is very tough and as this is limited to a mere ten films, some wonderful films did not make final cut.
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- Martyn Conterio
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The Keep heads for the big screen in London
9 July 2009 12:37 PM, PDT
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Heads up U.K. classic horror geeks. It's your lucky day. Michael Mann‘s cult fright flick The Keep is set to get a rare theatrical screening at the London BFI next month. Based on the novel by F.paul Wilson, The Keep was first released in 1983 and starred some of today’s most well know classical actors including; Jürgen Prochnow, Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne. A major box office flop on its release, it has now gone on to become a firm cult favorite among horror fans and despite countless calls for one, the movie has yet to receive the proper DVD release it deserves. Booo. For more details on the screening, head over to the BFI’s site.
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The Keep heads for the big screen in London
9 July 2009 12:37 PM, PDT
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Heads up you lucky U.K. - classic horror geeks. Michael Mann‘s cult fright flick The Keep is set to get a rare theatrical screening at the London BFI next month. Based on the novel by F.paul Wilson, The Keep was first released in 1983 and starred some of today’s most well know classical actors including; Jürgen Prochnow, Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne. A box office flop on its release, it has now gone on to become a firm cult favorite among horror fans and despite countless calls for one, the movie has yet to receive the proper DVD release it deserves. Booo. For more details on the screening, head over to the BFI’s site.
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In My Opinion: Ranking the Films of Michael Mann
29 June 2009 4:54 AM, PDT
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The films of Michael Mann
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Ranking the Films of Michael Mann
In advance of this Wednesday's release of Public Enemies I thought it was only fitting to take a look back at the films from director Michael Mann and see how they would sort themselves out in a quick ranking session and what a wild last few days it has been.
On Thursday, last week, I saw Public Enemies, later that night I watched Manhunter, the next day I watched Thief and The Last of the Mohicans -- then the weekend arrived. In a matter of 48 hours I watched Heat, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice and Collateral all in an attempt to make sure my mind was completely refreshed and ready to sort things out.
You will notice I am only ranking nine films since I have never seen The Keep (1983) and it wasn't available through Netflix
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- Brad Brevet
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Now it's Videodrome being remade
26 April 2009 9:36 PM, PDT
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Variety reports that Universal will release an update of David Cronenberg's Videodrome—despite the fact that the original was a box-office flop for the studio upon its first release in 1983, only to subsequently become a cult classic. Ehren Kruger, who penned another video-themed horror redux, 2002's The Ring, as well as its sequel The Ring Two, has been set to script.
Kruger will also produce the new 'Drome with partner Daniel Bobker, and the trade reports that this version will—groan—"modernize the concept" of a pirate cable station devoted to sex and violence that can warp the minds and bodies of those who view it, "infuse it with the possibilities of nanotechnology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller." Cronenberg himself is not involved as of now, but René Malo, the Canadian distribution veteran who owned the rights to the original, is on board as an executive producer.
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