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“Burlesque Lives”
By Raymond Benson
Kino Lorber and Something Weird Video continue their collaboration to present “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture” with Volume 12—the double bill of Peek-a-Boo and “B” Girl Rhapsody, two documentations of burlesque revues from the 1950s.
The delicious and suitably sleazy pictures in the “Forbidden Fruit” series were made cheaply and outside the Hollywood system. They were distributed independently in the manner of a circus sideshow, often by renting a movie theater for a few nights, advertising in the local papers, and promoting the scandalous title as “educational.” It’s certain, however, that in this case both features in Volume 12 were not educational in any way except to provide the experience of burlesque shows to audiences who were unable to view them in person.
This reviewer, who usually welcomes and enthusiastically supports all the volumes in the “Forbidden Fruit” series,...
“Burlesque Lives”
By Raymond Benson
Kino Lorber and Something Weird Video continue their collaboration to present “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture” with Volume 12—the double bill of Peek-a-Boo and “B” Girl Rhapsody, two documentations of burlesque revues from the 1950s.
The delicious and suitably sleazy pictures in the “Forbidden Fruit” series were made cheaply and outside the Hollywood system. They were distributed independently in the manner of a circus sideshow, often by renting a movie theater for a few nights, advertising in the local papers, and promoting the scandalous title as “educational.” It’s certain, however, that in this case both features in Volume 12 were not educational in any way except to provide the experience of burlesque shows to audiences who were unable to view them in person.
This reviewer, who usually welcomes and enthusiastically supports all the volumes in the “Forbidden Fruit” series,...
- 8/9/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Tempest Storm, the often-flame-haired striptease artist, burlesque performer, star of early Russ Meyer films and later a rock generation icon, died Tuesday in her Las Vegas apartment. She was 93.
Her death was reported to the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Storm’s longtime friend and business partner Harvey Robbins. Storm had been suffering from dementia and recently underwent hip surgery.
Robbins was at Storm’s home when she died, as were a nurse and Las Vegas burlesque performers Kalani Kokonuts and Miss Redd.
According to the Burlesque Hall of Fame, Storm was born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman, Ga, and at the age of 20, already twice-married, moved to Hollywood. At first working as a cocktail waitress, she soon found work as a striptease performer with the Follies Theater. She adopted the stage name Tempest Storm in 1950 and, shortly after her arrival in L.A. became friends with neighbor Marilyn Monroe.
The list of famous acquaintances,...
Her death was reported to the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Storm’s longtime friend and business partner Harvey Robbins. Storm had been suffering from dementia and recently underwent hip surgery.
Robbins was at Storm’s home when she died, as were a nurse and Las Vegas burlesque performers Kalani Kokonuts and Miss Redd.
According to the Burlesque Hall of Fame, Storm was born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman, Ga, and at the age of 20, already twice-married, moved to Hollywood. At first working as a cocktail waitress, she soon found work as a striptease performer with the Follies Theater. She adopted the stage name Tempest Storm in 1950 and, shortly after her arrival in L.A. became friends with neighbor Marilyn Monroe.
The list of famous acquaintances,...
- 4/21/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Dynamite Entertainment's "Bettie Page" #5, available November 29, 2017 is written by: David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and J. Bone:
"...you know that thing where your flight back to 'NYC' is interrupted so you can be debriefed at a secret government base, only to find that base under attack by giant radioactive monsters?
"And you can't get another flight back home until you defeat the giant radioactive monsters? Well, our 'Bettie' can handle it..."
"Bettie Page" #4 written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier is now available.
""...someone wants to enslave American minds, but just who is behind it all? The 'Sky Science Cult'? 'Pacific AeroSpace Technologies'? But none of them is a match for 'Bettie Page', as our high-heeled heroine goes toe-to-toe with the worst 1951 has to offer in the fourth and...
"...you know that thing where your flight back to 'NYC' is interrupted so you can be debriefed at a secret government base, only to find that base under attack by giant radioactive monsters?
"And you can't get another flight back home until you defeat the giant radioactive monsters? Well, our 'Bettie' can handle it..."
"Bettie Page" #4 written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier is now available.
""...someone wants to enslave American minds, but just who is behind it all? The 'Sky Science Cult'? 'Pacific AeroSpace Technologies'? But none of them is a match for 'Bettie Page', as our high-heeled heroine goes toe-to-toe with the worst 1951 has to offer in the fourth and...
- 11/27/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Dynamite Entertainment continues resurrecting sexy 1950's pin-up "Bettie Page" as a comic book series, with "Bettie Page" #6 available December 20, 2017, written by David Avallone and illustrated by Esau Figueroa, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantler:
"...'Bettie' goes to the 'Cannes Film Festival' and although her film 'Invasion of the Space Commies' isn't up for the 'Grand Prix' award, that won't keep our plucky heroine from chasing spies along the 'French Riviera'..."
"Bettie Page" #3, now available, is written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier:
"...between cultists, creeps, spies, mind-control rays, flying saucers and the 'Lapd', 'Bettie Page' has had just about enough of everyone's crap.
"So watch out, Hollywood elites. Now you've made her mad..."
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said Avallone, "when Dave Stevens used her to...
"...'Bettie' goes to the 'Cannes Film Festival' and although her film 'Invasion of the Space Commies' isn't up for the 'Grand Prix' award, that won't keep our plucky heroine from chasing spies along the 'French Riviera'..."
"Bettie Page" #3, now available, is written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier:
"...between cultists, creeps, spies, mind-control rays, flying saucers and the 'Lapd', 'Bettie Page' has had just about enough of everyone's crap.
"So watch out, Hollywood elites. Now you've made her mad..."
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said Avallone, "when Dave Stevens used her to...
- 10/2/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Dynamite Entertainment continues resurrecting sexy 1950's pin-up "Bettie Page" as a comic book series, with "Bettie Page" #3, available September 27, 2017, written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier:
"...between cultists, creeps, spies, mind-control rays, flying saucers and the 'Lapd', 'Bettie Page' has had just about enough of everyone's crap.
"So watch out, Hollywood elites. Now you've made her mad..."
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said Avallone, "when Dave Stevens used her to inspire the ingénue starlet of 'The Rocketeer'.
"She’s such a compelling figure, with such a fascinating life story, that I was thrilled when Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybandt asked me if I could build a comic book mini-series around her.
"After a lot of research into the life and times of Bettie, I chose to put...
"...between cultists, creeps, spies, mind-control rays, flying saucers and the 'Lapd', 'Bettie Page' has had just about enough of everyone's crap.
"So watch out, Hollywood elites. Now you've made her mad..."
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said Avallone, "when Dave Stevens used her to inspire the ingénue starlet of 'The Rocketeer'.
"She’s such a compelling figure, with such a fascinating life story, that I was thrilled when Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybandt asked me if I could build a comic book mini-series around her.
"After a lot of research into the life and times of Bettie, I chose to put...
- 9/23/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Dynamite Entertainment's "Bettie Page" #2, available August 23, 2017, is written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier:
"...'Bettie' takes on Hollywood as the 'B-Movie Queen of the Space Commies'!
"Bettie gets in over her head with the shadowy 'Sky Science' cult! Bettie unleashes chaos at the 'Griffith Park Observatory'..."
Dynamite Entertainment's "Bettie Page" #4 is written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier:
""...someone wants to enslave American minds, but just who is behind it all? The 'Sky Science Cult'? 'Pacific AeroSpace Technologies'? But none of them is a match for 'Bettie Page', as our high-heeled heroine goes toe-to-toe with the worst 1951 has to offer in the fourth and final Hollywood chapter of 'The Secret Diary of Bettie Page'..."
In the doc feature "Bettie Page Reveals All" from Single Spark Pictures,...
"...'Bettie' takes on Hollywood as the 'B-Movie Queen of the Space Commies'!
"Bettie gets in over her head with the shadowy 'Sky Science' cult! Bettie unleashes chaos at the 'Griffith Park Observatory'..."
Dynamite Entertainment's "Bettie Page" #4 is written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier:
""...someone wants to enslave American minds, but just who is behind it all? The 'Sky Science Cult'? 'Pacific AeroSpace Technologies'? But none of them is a match for 'Bettie Page', as our high-heeled heroine goes toe-to-toe with the worst 1951 has to offer in the fourth and final Hollywood chapter of 'The Secret Diary of Bettie Page'..."
In the doc feature "Bettie Page Reveals All" from Single Spark Pictures,...
- 8/20/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Dynamite Entertainment's "Bettie Page" #4 is written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, with covers by Joseph Michael Linsner and Scott Chantier, available October 18, 2017:
""...someone wants to enslave American minds, but just who is behind it all? The 'Sky Science Cult'? 'Pacific AeroSpace Technologies'? But none of them is a match for 'Bettie Page', as our high-heeled heroine goes toe-to-toe with the worst 1951 has to offer in the fourth and final Hollywood chapter of 'The Secret Diary of Bettie Page'..."
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said writer Avallone, "...when Dave Stevens used her to inspire the ingénue starlet of 'The Rocketeer'.
"She’s such a compelling figure, with such a fascinating life story, that I was thrilled when Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybandt asked me if I could build a comic book mini-series around her.
""...someone wants to enslave American minds, but just who is behind it all? The 'Sky Science Cult'? 'Pacific AeroSpace Technologies'? But none of them is a match for 'Bettie Page', as our high-heeled heroine goes toe-to-toe with the worst 1951 has to offer in the fourth and final Hollywood chapter of 'The Secret Diary of Bettie Page'..."
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said writer Avallone, "...when Dave Stevens used her to inspire the ingénue starlet of 'The Rocketeer'.
"She’s such a compelling figure, with such a fascinating life story, that I was thrilled when Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybandt asked me if I could build a comic book mini-series around her.
- 7/31/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Dynamite Entertainment has resurrected sexy 1950's pinup "Bettie Page" as an action hero for a new comic book series, written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worley, available July 17, 2017:
In the documentary feature "Bettie Page Reveals All" from Single Spark Pictures, and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, Page narrates her own story prior to her death at age 85 in 2008.
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her).
"But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"This 100-minute film is the only one authorized by the famed former pin-up as the official film biography on her life.
In the documentary feature "Bettie Page Reveals All" from Single Spark Pictures, and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, Page narrates her own story prior to her death at age 85 in 2008.
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her).
"But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"This 100-minute film is the only one authorized by the famed former pin-up as the official film biography on her life.
- 7/18/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Dynamite Entertainment has resurrected sexy 1950's pinup "Bettie Page" as a new comic book series, written by David Avallone and illustrated by Colton Worely, available July 2017:
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said writer Avallone, "when Dave Stevens used her to inspire the ingénue starlet of 'The Rocketeer'.
"She’s such a compelling figure, with such a fascinating life story, that I was thrilled when Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybandt asked me if I could build a comic book mini-series around her.
"After a lot of research into the life and times of Bettie, I chose to put her in Hollywood at the start of the fifties and the beginning of her modeling career...built on some corners of her real biography, and the real history of the time. I hope I’ve made my fictional Bettie as funny, as sweet,...
"Like a lot of people my age, I ‘discovered’ Bettie Page through comics," said writer Avallone, "when Dave Stevens used her to inspire the ingénue starlet of 'The Rocketeer'.
"She’s such a compelling figure, with such a fascinating life story, that I was thrilled when Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybandt asked me if I could build a comic book mini-series around her.
"After a lot of research into the life and times of Bettie, I chose to put her in Hollywood at the start of the fifties and the beginning of her modeling career...built on some corners of her real biography, and the real history of the time. I hope I’ve made my fictional Bettie as funny, as sweet,...
- 4/19/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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Chicago – “The Hollywood Show” is an exciting gathering of celebrities and memorabilia for movies, TV and pop culture fans. The latest edition is coming up – March 24th-26th, 2017 – at the Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare Airport Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. Among the TV and film stars scheduled to appear is Ed Asner (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show”), Stefanie Powers (“Hart to Hart”), Angie Dickinson (“Police Woman,” original “Ocean’s 11’), Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s Island”), Charlene Tilton (“Dallas”) and Richard Chamberlain (“Dr. Kildare,” “Slipper and the Rose”). Detail link below the Slideshow.
To give you an example of the celebrities that appear at The Hollywood Show, photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com took Exclusive Portraits at last year’s Fall show in September. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below.
Chicago – “The Hollywood Show” is an exciting gathering of celebrities and memorabilia for movies, TV and pop culture fans. The latest edition is coming up – March 24th-26th, 2017 – at the Hyatt Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare Airport Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. Among the TV and film stars scheduled to appear is Ed Asner (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show”), Stefanie Powers (“Hart to Hart”), Angie Dickinson (“Police Woman,” original “Ocean’s 11’), Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s Island”), Charlene Tilton (“Dallas”) and Richard Chamberlain (“Dr. Kildare,” “Slipper and the Rose”). Detail link below the Slideshow.
To give you an example of the celebrities that appear at The Hollywood Show, photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com took Exclusive Portraits at last year’s Fall show in September. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below.
- 3/21/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
The post This Week In Trailers: How to Build a Time Machine, Bad Rap, 100 Bullets, Pistol Shrimps, Tempest Storm appeared first on /Film.
The post This Week In Trailers: How to Build a Time Machine, Bad Rap, 100 Bullets, Pistol Shrimps, Tempest Storm appeared first on /Film.
- 4/17/2016
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Although this article doesn’t explicitly contain any significant spoilers, it is always advisable to watch a film before reading about it too deeply.
In his own words, the intended audience for Russ Meyer’s films was “some guy…in the theatre with semen seeping out of his dick.” His work in the sexploitation subgenre is credited with bringing nudity and sleaze into the American cinematic mainstream and his gravestone declares him ‘King of the Nudies.’ And yet his magnum opus has been reclaimed as a work of female empowerment, a subversive text that has inspired music videos by the Spice Girls and Janet Jackson, lent its name to a New York women’s bar and even been referenced in Xena and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite dismissing it after a first viewing in the mid-1970s as “retrograde male-objectification of women’s bodies and desires further embellished by a...
In his own words, the intended audience for Russ Meyer’s films was “some guy…in the theatre with semen seeping out of his dick.” His work in the sexploitation subgenre is credited with bringing nudity and sleaze into the American cinematic mainstream and his gravestone declares him ‘King of the Nudies.’ And yet his magnum opus has been reclaimed as a work of female empowerment, a subversive text that has inspired music videos by the Spice Girls and Janet Jackson, lent its name to a New York women’s bar and even been referenced in Xena and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite dismissing it after a first viewing in the mid-1970s as “retrograde male-objectification of women’s bodies and desires further embellished by a...
- 7/12/2015
- by Jamie Lewis
- SoundOnSight
Have you ever heard a parent say, “I’m not especially fond of children, but I love my own!”? That’s kind of how I feel about zombies. So when I got the offer from Blanc/Biehn Productions to make my feature directorial debut, guess what…
Yep: zombies!
If you’ve followed my career as a horror critic, you know that while I try to be as fair and balanced as possible, I’m always at a slight disadvantage when reviewing zombie flicks because they’re my least favorite.
So why, when actress-producer-uberwoman Jennifer Blanc-Beihn and highly imaginative executive producer Lony Ruhmann approached me earlier this year about writing and directing a saucy suspenser based on one of Lony’s loglines – “pinup girls vs. zombies” – did I say yes?
Anyone who knows me well enough to know I don’t love zombies should also know that my passion for style,...
Yep: zombies!
If you’ve followed my career as a horror critic, you know that while I try to be as fair and balanced as possible, I’m always at a slight disadvantage when reviewing zombie flicks because they’re my least favorite.
So why, when actress-producer-uberwoman Jennifer Blanc-Beihn and highly imaginative executive producer Lony Ruhmann approached me earlier this year about writing and directing a saucy suspenser based on one of Lony’s loglines – “pinup girls vs. zombies” – did I say yes?
Anyone who knows me well enough to know I don’t love zombies should also know that my passion for style,...
- 5/21/2014
- by Staci Layne Wilson
- DreadCentral.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 22, 2014
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Music Box
The 2012 documentary Bettie Page Reveals All takes an intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, the legendary pin-up queen Bettie Page.
The first and only authorized film biography of the “Queen of Curves,” the movie is filled with iconic and rare photographs and film loops, including unseen images from private collections, the real Bettie Page emerges from 40 years of enigmatic seclusion to tell her story in her own words via audio interviews taped a decade prior to her death in 2008. With her lively Tennessee twang , Bettie recounts her life — from humble beginnings as one of six children in an impoverished Southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous 50s pin-up model, to a short-lived first marriage and series of torrid affairs, up to her retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career.
Also...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Music Box
The 2012 documentary Bettie Page Reveals All takes an intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, the legendary pin-up queen Bettie Page.
The first and only authorized film biography of the “Queen of Curves,” the movie is filled with iconic and rare photographs and film loops, including unseen images from private collections, the real Bettie Page emerges from 40 years of enigmatic seclusion to tell her story in her own words via audio interviews taped a decade prior to her death in 2008. With her lively Tennessee twang , Bettie recounts her life — from humble beginnings as one of six children in an impoverished Southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous 50s pin-up model, to a short-lived first marriage and series of torrid affairs, up to her retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career.
Also...
- 2/13/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Sneak Peek more footage from director Mark Mori's critically acclaimed documentary feature "Bettie Page Reveals All" from Single Spark Pictures, opening again theatrically across the Us, late November 2013.
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her). But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"With the release of 'Bettie Page Reveals All', a feature-length film by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, the world at last gets to hear Page's story, narrated by Page herself in the years prior to her death at age 85 in 2008.
"The compelling 100-minute...
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her). But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"With the release of 'Bettie Page Reveals All', a feature-length film by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, the world at last gets to hear Page's story, narrated by Page herself in the years prior to her death at age 85 in 2008.
"The compelling 100-minute...
- 11/14/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Review by Sam Moffitt
I love strippers! Always have and always will. Having said that I have never been to a real burlesque show. Oh, I’ve been to tittie bars, sure, tittie bars, absolutely! Four years in the Navy and having been a bachelor all my life (I am engaged to a wonderful woman so cut me some slack here) I’ve been to plenty of bars where topless dancers do their shimmy and shake and hang from the pole and all that. But that isn’t really burlesque.
I can remember growing up in St. Louis in the 60s and 70s and looking at ads in the Globe Democrat and Post Dispatch for the Grand Burlesque downtown (was it on Washington?) and the Stardust Burlesque on DeBaliviere. How I wanted to go to those theaters, how I wanted to see Evelyn West and her $20,000 (was that the dollar amount?...
I love strippers! Always have and always will. Having said that I have never been to a real burlesque show. Oh, I’ve been to tittie bars, sure, tittie bars, absolutely! Four years in the Navy and having been a bachelor all my life (I am engaged to a wonderful woman so cut me some slack here) I’ve been to plenty of bars where topless dancers do their shimmy and shake and hang from the pole and all that. But that isn’t really burlesque.
I can remember growing up in St. Louis in the 60s and 70s and looking at ads in the Globe Democrat and Post Dispatch for the Grand Burlesque downtown (was it on Washington?) and the Stardust Burlesque on DeBaliviere. How I wanted to go to those theaters, how I wanted to see Evelyn West and her $20,000 (was that the dollar amount?...
- 9/16/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mayra Veronica's music video for "Ay Mama Mia" is super sexy -- even if the sultry singer is nowhere to be seen in it!The curvaceous singer, who famously dated Reggie Bush after his breakup from Kim Kardashian, just released a burlesque-packed video ... featuring the bods of legends like Bettie Page and Tempest Storm.This isn't the first time Bettie and Veronica have crossed paths though -- Mayra has modeled for the pin-up inspired Bettie Page clothing line.The song has already hit it big on the Billboard Dance charts. What do you think? Sound off below! Read more...
- 1/20/2013
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Sean Penn was born to play famed gangster Mickey Cohen in "Gangster Squad" -- so says one of Cohen's famously well-endowed ex-girlfriends, who tells TMZ, Penn and Cohen have more in common than you might think.84-year-old Tempest Storm -- one of L.A.'s most famous burlesque dancers -- dated Cohen back in the late 1950s ... and according to her, producers nailed it when they picked Penn to fill Cohen's shoes in the film.
- 1/11/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Sneak Peek the teaser trailer from the new documentary feature "Bettie Page Reveals All" from Single Spark Pictures.
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her). But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"With the release of 'Bettie Page Reveals All', a feature-length film by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, the world at last gets to hear Page's story, narrated by Page herself in the years prior to her death at age 85 in 2008.
"The compelling 100-minute film is the only one authorized by the famed former pin-up...
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her). But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"With the release of 'Bettie Page Reveals All', a feature-length film by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, the world at last gets to hear Page's story, narrated by Page herself in the years prior to her death at age 85 in 2008.
"The compelling 100-minute film is the only one authorized by the famed former pin-up...
- 10/17/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
From the SexSells website (www.sexsells.name), comes word that the new documentary feature "Bettie Page Reveals All" from Single Spark Pictures, will debut during the "Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender" April 5-8, 2012 @ the Century Orleans 18 Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada :
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her). But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"With the release of 'Bettie Page Reveals All', a feature-length film by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, the world at last gets to hear Page's story, narrated by Page herself...
"...shooting to fame in the 1950's with her fetish modeling and racy pinup photos, 'Bettie Page' continues to enchant and inspire multiple generations of women (who continue to emulate her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs) and men (who long for her). But the story behind her allure, the real person underneath that timeless youthful, sexy image, has been a mystery for the ages -- until now.
"With the release of 'Bettie Page Reveals All', a feature-length film by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Mori, the world at last gets to hear Page's story, narrated by Page herself...
- 3/29/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Calling someone a legend before they celebrate their 21st birthday might sound hyperbolic. But, in the case of burlesque dancer Tempest Storm, it just might apply -- with a notable caveat.
Storm, a fiery redhead known during the 1950s and '60s as "the Tempest in a D-cup," was born on Feb. 29, 1928, a leap year.
That means even though the calendar says she is turning 84, she is only celebrating her 21st birthday.
Some people might be a little anxious to wait 84 years for their first "legal" drink, but Tempest Storm says she never drinks so she is looking forward to other aspects of her unique once-every-four-years birthday.
"It keeps you young," she told HuffPost Weird News. "Certainly, my fans always know the date."
Yes, they do, according to Laura Herbert, the official historian of the Burlesque Hall of Fame, a Las Vegas institution dedicated to remembering or honoring dancers like Gypsy Rose Lee,...
Storm, a fiery redhead known during the 1950s and '60s as "the Tempest in a D-cup," was born on Feb. 29, 1928, a leap year.
That means even though the calendar says she is turning 84, she is only celebrating her 21st birthday.
Some people might be a little anxious to wait 84 years for their first "legal" drink, but Tempest Storm says she never drinks so she is looking forward to other aspects of her unique once-every-four-years birthday.
"It keeps you young," she told HuffPost Weird News. "Certainly, my fans always know the date."
Yes, they do, according to Laura Herbert, the official historian of the Burlesque Hall of Fame, a Las Vegas institution dedicated to remembering or honoring dancers like Gypsy Rose Lee,...
- 2/28/2012
- by HuffPost Weird News
- Huffington Post
Disc Dish recently spoke to Leslie Zemeckis, director of Behind the Burly Q, a documentary that looks behind the scenes of the burlesque industry, the popular entertainment vaudevillian entertainment that thrived during the fist half of the 20th century. The film primarily focuses on the men and women who performed on the burlesque circuit — the dancers, comedians, singers and musicians who took to the stage to entertain the masses at a time when they needed it (i.e. The Great Depression, World War II, etc.).
Behind the Burly Q is available on DVD from First Run Features for a list price of $24.99.
Dd: So, why a documentary about burlesque?
Lz: In 2005, I was doing a burlesque-inspired show in Los Angeles [entitled Staar], and I became fascinating by the burlesque world, particularly the dancers and their lives on the road. I don’t think people today understand just how substantial burlesque entertainment was at one time.
Behind the Burly Q is available on DVD from First Run Features for a list price of $24.99.
Dd: So, why a documentary about burlesque?
Lz: In 2005, I was doing a burlesque-inspired show in Los Angeles [entitled Staar], and I became fascinating by the burlesque world, particularly the dancers and their lives on the road. I don’t think people today understand just how substantial burlesque entertainment was at one time.
- 4/18/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Growing up, there were many things I glimpsed on TV or in movies that were from a time way past my own, that stuck in my head and floated around in there without any context like individual clouds. Some of those things were old black and white images of women gyrating nude or mostly nude on a stage, or lying seductively in huge oysters, or dancing with large feathered fans they maneuvered tactfully about their naked bodies. As far as I knew, they were just old-time strippers. I was a child of the 80s and 90s, and don’t know exactly where I saw those snippets of old motion picture from the early 1900s – perhaps on a TV show or a movie that for whatever reason had to use some of that archive footage of those dancing beauties; or perhaps I just caught something more modern that simply re-enacted what...
- 4/10/2011
- by Savio Pham
- JustPressPlay.net
Exclusive: Showtime has picked up the documentary Behind the Burly Q, from first-time filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis, which is executive produced by her husband, Robert Zemeckis. Behind the Burly Q, which chronicles the art of burlesque's golden age through the stories of the performers who lived it, will debut on Showtime on March 31. Featured in the docu are interviews with Alan Alda, whose father was a straight man at burlesque performances, journalist Nat Bodian, who wrote about the shows in the 1930s, Lorraine Lee, who danced for the likes of Bonnie & Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd, Abbott & Costello, Tempest Storm, who still performs today, and the notorious Blaze Starr. Below is a trailer:...
- 2/8/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Filed under: Columns, Cinematical
With Christina Aguilera's decidedly un-burlesque turn in 'Burlesque' -- which prompted real-life burlesque queen Tempest Storm to say: "Burlesque is sensuous moves, expression, showing your personality with your eyes and your smile. There was no connection with the audience whatsoever in this movie" -- I started thinking back to her more thematically appropriate movie work. Though she wasn't in the actual film, Aguilera helped reinvigorate "Lady Marmalade" for Baz Luhrmann's frenetic production 'Moulin Rouge.'
But the real musical gem of 'Moulin Rouge' is not in the obvious musical dalliances. "Lady Marmalade, "The Sound of Music," "The Show Must Go On" or "Material Girl" are all obvious, mainstream songs that fit into the story and the grandness of the production. But at one point, the melancholy and consumption-ravaged Satine (Nicole Kidman) barely whispers out the beginnings of a song:...
With Christina Aguilera's decidedly un-burlesque turn in 'Burlesque' -- which prompted real-life burlesque queen Tempest Storm to say: "Burlesque is sensuous moves, expression, showing your personality with your eyes and your smile. There was no connection with the audience whatsoever in this movie" -- I started thinking back to her more thematically appropriate movie work. Though she wasn't in the actual film, Aguilera helped reinvigorate "Lady Marmalade" for Baz Luhrmann's frenetic production 'Moulin Rouge.'
But the real musical gem of 'Moulin Rouge' is not in the obvious musical dalliances. "Lady Marmalade, "The Sound of Music," "The Show Must Go On" or "Material Girl" are all obvious, mainstream songs that fit into the story and the grandness of the production. But at one point, the melancholy and consumption-ravaged Satine (Nicole Kidman) barely whispers out the beginnings of a song:...
- 11/30/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
Filed under: Columns, Cinematical
With Christina Aguilera's decidedly un-burlesque turn in 'Burlesque' -- which prompted real-life burlesque queen Tempest Storm to say: "Burlesque is sensuous moves, expression, showing your personality with your eyes and your smile. There was no connection with the audience whatsoever in this movie" -- I started thinking back to her more thematically appropriate movie work. Though she wasn't in the actual film, Aguilera helped reinvigorate "Lady Marmalade" for Baz Luhrmann's frenetic production 'Moulin Rouge.'
But the real musical gem of 'Moulin Rouge' is not in the obvious musical dalliances. "Lady Marmalade, "The Sound of Music," "The Show Must Go On" or "Material Girl" are all obvious, mainstream songs that fit into the story and the grandness of the production. But at one point, the melancholy and consumption-ravaged Satine (Nicole Kidman) barely whispers out the beginnings of a song:...
With Christina Aguilera's decidedly un-burlesque turn in 'Burlesque' -- which prompted real-life burlesque queen Tempest Storm to say: "Burlesque is sensuous moves, expression, showing your personality with your eyes and your smile. There was no connection with the audience whatsoever in this movie" -- I started thinking back to her more thematically appropriate movie work. Though she wasn't in the actual film, Aguilera helped reinvigorate "Lady Marmalade" for Baz Luhrmann's frenetic production 'Moulin Rouge.'
But the real musical gem of 'Moulin Rouge' is not in the obvious musical dalliances. "Lady Marmalade, "The Sound of Music," "The Show Must Go On" or "Material Girl" are all obvious, mainstream songs that fit into the story and the grandness of the production. But at one point, the melancholy and consumption-ravaged Satine (Nicole Kidman) barely whispers out the beginnings of a song:...
- 11/30/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
In 2008, a performer named Runaround Sue told me she made a call to 150 burlesque artists in NYC and got Jonny Porkpie, Legs Malone, and Nasty Canasta to join her for a raunchy romp: tassels spinning from every body part, stripping down past the bikini line, peek-a-boo fan dancing, and serious body contorting illustrating that sound business advice from Gypsy: "You Gotta Have a Gimmick." Remember, Mama Rose resisted the degradation of her child vaudeville act into burlesque. Now, a new documentary directed by Leslie Zemeckis, Behind the Burly Q, reveals a history of this corner of show business. Gypsy Rose Lee gets a moment or two in this film, noted for her oratory skill, but the film's real stars are the flaming red-head Tempest Storm, the demure Blaze Starr, Kitty West who was in her heyday Evangeline the...
- 4/24/2010
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
When Sydney Pollack was making "Out of Africa" in 1985, he considered the problem of how to film Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in love scenes that were not explicit, yet were erotic. "When I have Streep and Redford together," he told me, "I don't want to see them strip naked and writhe around in bed together. The challenge was to find love scenes that would have emotion and passion and yet not violate a certain place where we want to see them. There are two really sensual love scenes. One of them is the undressing scene. I always like scenes like that. I think they're sexy. I tried to make a sort of passionate dance out of them undressing each other. The second scene consists of three absolutely terrific lines I took out of a screenplay that was written in 1973 when Nicholas Roeg was going to direct this project. It's only three lines,...
- 3/13/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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