By Todd Garbarini
Film historian Douglas Dunning has informed Cinema Retro that Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 and Ahrya Fine Arts will be presenting the 50th anniversary screening of Sam Peckinpah’s influential 1969 film The Wild Bunch and special guests are scheduled to appear at both locations. The film stars William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmund O’Brien, Warren Oates, L.Q. Jones, Jaime Sanchez, Bo Hopkins, Strother Martin, Albert Decker, Emilio Fernandez, and Alfonso Arau and runs 145 minutes.
Please Note:
Screening #1 is on February 26th at the Playhouse 7 at 7:00 pm, and at press time W.K. Stratton, the author of a new book, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film, will participate in a discussion after the screening. He will also sign copies of his book at the theater.
Screening #2 is at the Ahrya Fine Arts on March 2nd at 7:30 pm.
Film historian Douglas Dunning has informed Cinema Retro that Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 and Ahrya Fine Arts will be presenting the 50th anniversary screening of Sam Peckinpah’s influential 1969 film The Wild Bunch and special guests are scheduled to appear at both locations. The film stars William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmund O’Brien, Warren Oates, L.Q. Jones, Jaime Sanchez, Bo Hopkins, Strother Martin, Albert Decker, Emilio Fernandez, and Alfonso Arau and runs 145 minutes.
Please Note:
Screening #1 is on February 26th at the Playhouse 7 at 7:00 pm, and at press time W.K. Stratton, the author of a new book, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film, will participate in a discussion after the screening. He will also sign copies of his book at the theater.
Screening #2 is at the Ahrya Fine Arts on March 2nd at 7:30 pm.
- 2/14/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: Apropos of absolutely nothing (and definitely not in response to a certain world leader taking disastrous steps towards dooming the environment of the only inhabitable planet we have), what is the best film about the end of the world?
Erin Whitney (@Cinemabite), ScreenCrush
It’s a hard tie between “Melancholia” and “Take Shelter.” One is a devastating meditation on depression, isolation and death, and the other is a dramatic masterpiece that evokes the dread and anxiety of a looming end. They’re very different films (and coincidentally opened within months of each other), but both end on final shots that left me breathless.
This week’s question: Apropos of absolutely nothing (and definitely not in response to a certain world leader taking disastrous steps towards dooming the environment of the only inhabitable planet we have), what is the best film about the end of the world?
Erin Whitney (@Cinemabite), ScreenCrush
It’s a hard tie between “Melancholia” and “Take Shelter.” One is a devastating meditation on depression, isolation and death, and the other is a dramatic masterpiece that evokes the dread and anxiety of a looming end. They’re very different films (and coincidentally opened within months of each other), but both end on final shots that left me breathless.
- 6/5/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
I have the full rundown on the notorious spacey alternate ending to this sci-fi winner by design specialist Saul Bass. The ants are taking over, and they mean business. World conquest begins at a research lab in Arizona, where Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy and Lynne Frederick try to hold out against super-intelligent hormigas that cut them off, build sophisticated weapons and instantly adapt to any chemical attempt to stop them. Phase IV Blu-ray Olive Films 1974 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 84 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford Cinematography Dick Bush Insect sequences Ken Middleham Art Direction John Barry Film Editor Willy Kemplen Original Music Brian Gascoigne Written by Mayo Simon Produced by Paul B. Radin Directed by Saul Bass
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Olive Films Blu-ray of the intriguing Sci-Fi curiosity Phase IV appears to be a newer, cleaner transfer than the older DVD.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Olive Films Blu-ray of the intriguing Sci-Fi curiosity Phase IV appears to be a newer, cleaner transfer than the older DVD.
- 11/17/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“The earth was created not through the gentle caress of love, but through the brutal violence of rape.” So begins the improbable 1972 Best Documentary Oscar-winner The Hellstrom Chronicle, a deliciously hyperbolic insect study that marries beautiful microphotography with a Herzogian view of nature as a deceptively idyllic stage that sings with the relentless harmony of murder. It has, as its narrator, one Dr. Nils Hellstrom, an irreverent doomsayer who claims that his name has been connected with words like “fanatic” and “heretic,” and who claims to have lost “two fellowships, one assistant professorship, and even a few friendships” as ...
- 1/18/2012
- avclub.com
I had never heard of The Hellstrom Chronicle before seeing it posted as a Blu-ray release from Olive Films. Now, I think I'll be showing it to everyone I know. The film is disarming in its sincerity. The passion with which Professor Nils Hellstrom addresses the camera when talking about his fears for the future of humanity is alarming. Olive Films' Blu-ray presentation of this film is quite solid, the only thing that bums me out is the lack of bonus material for this film that is begging for context. However, don't let that keep you from watching it, it is a masterpiece.Professor Hellstrom, a famous entomologist, is so shaken by the savagery and ferocity of the predatory insect world that he films this "documentary"...
- 1/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
"Dream death-match to be sure, but I just noticed Koji Wakamatsu is actually making a new film based on Mishima's life," wrote Sanjuro six months ago, sparking a discussion in the Forum. 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi, with Arata taking the lead and Terajima Shinobu (Caterpillar) playing Mishima's wife, "focuses on the events of November 25, 1970, when Mishima entered the Tokyo headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces along with four members of his private militia, the Tatenokai," wrote Nicholas Vroman in May at Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow. "Seizing control of the commandant's office, Mishima delivered a rambling speech from the balcony hoping to inspire a coup d'etat. He then returned to the office and committed suicide." He also notes that Wakamatsu's been blogging throughout the production. And today, Wildgrounds has posted the first trailer (above).
"Eco Sci-Fi" is the theme of the October issue of Electric Sheep, featuring David Cairns...
"Eco Sci-Fi" is the theme of the October issue of Electric Sheep, featuring David Cairns...
- 10/24/2011
- MUBI
Did anyone else catch "Cinema Verite" over the weekend? The dramatic telling of the making of "An American Family" debuted on HBO, and I do believe it deserves an award for the most on-the-nose movie of all time. Was it a gag to make a movie about the beginnings of reality television by presenting the most scripted-y script ever written (by David Seltzer, who wrote the Oscar-winning doc "The Hellstrom Chronicle" around the same time the Louds were being filmed)? The best/worst part came early on when Diane Lane, as Pat Loud, spoke the line that was basically the equivalent…...
- 4/25/2011
- Spout
For the past year Warner Bros. has been moving forward with development [1] of Tales From the Gangster Squad, a movie based on La Times reports about attempts to curtail the movement of organized crime into La in the '40s. A litany of possible directors [2] was considered last year, including Ben Affleck, Paul Greengrass, Darren Aronofsky and more. Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) finally got the job [3], and WB has now greenlit the film and casting is in progress. No one is cast yet, but Deadline [4] reports that Ryan Gosling has been offered one of two key cop roles, and Sean Penn has been offered the role of La crime kingpin Mickey Cohen. I don't know enough about the cop roles to do more than accept that Ryan Gosling will quite possibly be a solid lead lawman. But Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen could be beautiful. So many of the actor's roles...
- 3/30/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Television and film producer known for Roots, The Thorn Birds and Willy Wonka
David L Wolper, who has died of heart disease aged 82, called his 2003 autobiography simply Producer. The modest, unadorned title gives no hint of the long and varied career it covers. According to Wolper: "A producer is a person who dreams. Good producers make dreams come true."
The word "producer" evokes thoughts of a crass, cigar-chomping entrepreneur, more interested in profit than art. Wolper both conformed to the stereotype and confounded it. His flamboyant showman side was on display with his staging of the spectacular Hollywood-style opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, which consisted of a four-hour musical extravaganza, with 84 pianists in white tuxedos who played George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on white grand pianos, surrounded by 300 dancers. In 1986, he produced a celebration of the 100th anniversary and restoration of the Statue of Liberty,...
David L Wolper, who has died of heart disease aged 82, called his 2003 autobiography simply Producer. The modest, unadorned title gives no hint of the long and varied career it covers. According to Wolper: "A producer is a person who dreams. Good producers make dreams come true."
The word "producer" evokes thoughts of a crass, cigar-chomping entrepreneur, more interested in profit than art. Wolper both conformed to the stereotype and confounded it. His flamboyant showman side was on display with his staging of the spectacular Hollywood-style opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, which consisted of a four-hour musical extravaganza, with 84 pianists in white tuxedos who played George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on white grand pianos, surrounded by 300 dancers. In 1986, he produced a celebration of the 100th anniversary and restoration of the Statue of Liberty,...
- 8/16/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
I wish there was a trailer I could share with you to show off Cane Toads: The Conquest. This 3D documentary, which premiered last night at Sundance, is director Mark Lewis' return to the subject of his film Cane Toads: An Unnatural History. I'm a sucker for oddball nature docs, and with the exception of The Hellstrom Chronicle (which needs a DVD release, like, now) they don't come much more oddball than Cane Toads. In lieu of a trailer, here's a roundup of info and a few enthusiastic reactions to the film. Why do people like the movie so much? Perhaps because it features "the first 3-D dog acid trip sequence in cinema history." I'm not making that up. Read on! The basics: In 1935, 102 cane toads were imported from Hawaii to Australia. The idea was to control a beetle that decimates sugar cane crops. What no one considered at...
- 1/28/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Veteran editors John Soh and Frank J. Urioste will be honored with the American Cinema Editors' Lifetime Career Achievement Award on Feb. 18 at the 57th annual ACE Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton.
The honorees were announced by ACE president Alan Heim.
Soh's credits include The Hellstrom Chronicle, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1971, and the miniseries Hiroshima, which received the Humanitas Prize in 1996 and earned him one of two Emmys.
He also edited episodes of the television series "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" and The Cousteau Odyssey, for which he received an Emmy nomination in 1980. He has been nominated for the ACE Eddie Award seven times, winning for 1988's Infinite Voyage: Unseen Worlds and 1996's Hiroshima.
Urioste has been nominated for three Oscars for Robocop, Die Hard and Basic Instinct. He also has served on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and serves on the advisory board of the Academy's film editors branch. Since 1998 Urioste has served as senior vp in the feature development department at Warner Bros. Pictures.
The honorees were announced by ACE president Alan Heim.
Soh's credits include The Hellstrom Chronicle, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1971, and the miniseries Hiroshima, which received the Humanitas Prize in 1996 and earned him one of two Emmys.
He also edited episodes of the television series "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" and The Cousteau Odyssey, for which he received an Emmy nomination in 1980. He has been nominated for the ACE Eddie Award seven times, winning for 1988's Infinite Voyage: Unseen Worlds and 1996's Hiroshima.
Urioste has been nominated for three Oscars for Robocop, Die Hard and Basic Instinct. He also has served on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and serves on the advisory board of the Academy's film editors branch. Since 1998 Urioste has served as senior vp in the feature development department at Warner Bros. Pictures.
- 1/24/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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