First off, let's make one thing clear. We're not scratching our heads at Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" making the BBC's 100 greatest American films. That movie, of which an image accompanies this post, not only made the list, but ranked appropriately at no. 25. It's the rest of the selections that have us scratching and, yes, shaking our heads in disbelief. A wonderful page view driver, these sorts of lists make great fodder for passionate movie fans no matter what their age or part of the world they hail from. There is nothing more entertaining than watching two critics from opposite ends of the globe try to debate whether "The Dark Knight" should have been nominated for best picture or make a list like this. Even in this age of short form content where Vines, Shapchats and Instagram videos have captured viewers attention, movies will continue to inspire because...
- 7/22/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Every now and then a major publication or news organisation comes up with a top fifty or one hundred films of all time list - a list which always stirs up debate, discussion and often interesting arguments about the justifications of the list's inclusions, ordering and notable exclusions.
Today it's the turn of BBC Culture who consulted sixty-two international film critics including print reviews, bloggers, broadcasters and film academics to come up with what they consider the one-hundred greatest American films of all time. To qualify, the film had to be made by a U.S. studio or mostly funded by American money.
Usually when a list of this type is done it is by institutes or publications within the United States asking American critics their favourites. This time it's non-American critics born outside the culture what they think are the best representations of that culture. Specifically they were asked...
Today it's the turn of BBC Culture who consulted sixty-two international film critics including print reviews, bloggers, broadcasters and film academics to come up with what they consider the one-hundred greatest American films of all time. To qualify, the film had to be made by a U.S. studio or mostly funded by American money.
Usually when a list of this type is done it is by institutes or publications within the United States asking American critics their favourites. This time it's non-American critics born outside the culture what they think are the best representations of that culture. Specifically they were asked...
- 7/21/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
From left to right: Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Hal Prince, Robert Griffith, Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins
Updated through 5/9.
"Arthur Laurents, the playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway's landmark shows, Gypsy and West Side Story, and created one of Hollywood's most well-known romances, The Way We Were, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan," reports Robert Berkvist in the New York Times. "He was 93."
Regarding West Side Story, "Mr Laurents's book gave a contemporary spin to the tale of Romeo and Juliet. The Montagues and the Capulets, the families of the doomed young lovers, were now represented by the Jets and the Sharks, warring street gangs in Manhattan. It was a plot device that had been discussed several years earlier by Mr Laurents, the director and choreographer Jerome Robbins and the composer Leonard Bernstein. Initially, Bernstein was to have written both the music and lyrics,...
Updated through 5/9.
"Arthur Laurents, the playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway's landmark shows, Gypsy and West Side Story, and created one of Hollywood's most well-known romances, The Way We Were, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan," reports Robert Berkvist in the New York Times. "He was 93."
Regarding West Side Story, "Mr Laurents's book gave a contemporary spin to the tale of Romeo and Juliet. The Montagues and the Capulets, the families of the doomed young lovers, were now represented by the Jets and the Sharks, warring street gangs in Manhattan. It was a plot device that had been discussed several years earlier by Mr Laurents, the director and choreographer Jerome Robbins and the composer Leonard Bernstein. Initially, Bernstein was to have written both the music and lyrics,...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
Sofia Coppola's familiar tale of a lost and lonely Hollywood actor is brought to life by two superb central performances
Writing to his agent in 1936, F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that back in 1920 he'd attempted to persuade Dw Griffith, then the world's most famous movie director, that "people were so interested in Hollywood that there was money to be made in a picture about that and romance in the studio". Griffith, however, "was immediately contemptuous of it", and despite the success four years later of the comedy Merton of the Movies, Hollywood was reluctant to look seriously at itself. Well, things certainly began to change shortly thereafter. In 1937 there was A Star is Born, one of the most downbeat movies about success in Tinseltown, and then came several major novels, including Fitzgerald's unfinished and posthumously published The Last Tycoon and two highly critical works of fiction by friends of his:...
Writing to his agent in 1936, F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that back in 1920 he'd attempted to persuade Dw Griffith, then the world's most famous movie director, that "people were so interested in Hollywood that there was money to be made in a picture about that and romance in the studio". Griffith, however, "was immediately contemptuous of it", and despite the success four years later of the comedy Merton of the Movies, Hollywood was reluctant to look seriously at itself. Well, things certainly began to change shortly thereafter. In 1937 there was A Star is Born, one of the most downbeat movies about success in Tinseltown, and then came several major novels, including Fitzgerald's unfinished and posthumously published The Last Tycoon and two highly critical works of fiction by friends of his:...
- 12/12/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
New York – Jerry Bock, who composed the music to some of the most memorable shows in Broadway history, including the melodies for "Fiorello!" and "Fiddler on the Roof," has died. He was 81.Richard M. Ticktin, Bock's attorney and family friend, said the composer died Wednesday morning at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y., of heart failure.Together with lyricist Sheldon Harnick, Bock wrote the powerful score to "Fiddler on the Roof," one of the most successful productions in the history of the American musical theater, having an initial run of eight years. It earned the two men Tony Awards in 1965."He was wonderful to work with," said Harnick, who collaborated with Bock for 13 years. "I think in all of the years that we worked together, I only remember one or two arguments — and those were at the beginning of the collaboration when we were still feeling each other out.
- 11/3/2010
- backstage.com
• Michael Lohan thinks daughter Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend Samantha Ronson hijacked her MySpace blog and was the real author of the post about his supposed other child, whose existence he refutes. • The Hills star Lo Bosworth is a bargain shopper. • Marilyn Manson says he doesn't have a girlfriend, despite recent public make-outs with model Isani Griffith. • Donatella Versace dons a leather bodysuit. Yikes. • Dear peeps behind the latest revival of West Side Story, coming to Broadway in February: Thanks for casting Step It Up & Dance winner Cody Green! We're so there! Love, Rise 'n'...
- 12/26/2008
- E! Online
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