Emily Brontë's 1847 barn burner of a debut (and final) novel, "Wuthering Heights," has the not unique distinction of being an extraordinary piece of writing without any great screen adaptations to its name. Plenty of great books have been adapted into great films.
But even more great literary adaptations litter the studio rubbish heaps, the victims of crippling executive intervention, directors who took a Coppola-like big swing and missed, and most common of all, filmmakers who didn't take a big swing and ended up with perfectly fine, perfectly flat, one-for-one translations that ultimately leave you feeling the story just should have stayed on the page.
Paramount's 1992 take on "Wuthering Heights" ultimately belongs to that last category. And it's a shame, because the project had so much potential. Mirroring its source author, the film was prolific television director Peter Kosminsky's first theatrical feature (and ended up being his last...
But even more great literary adaptations litter the studio rubbish heaps, the victims of crippling executive intervention, directors who took a Coppola-like big swing and missed, and most common of all, filmmakers who didn't take a big swing and ended up with perfectly fine, perfectly flat, one-for-one translations that ultimately leave you feeling the story just should have stayed on the page.
Paramount's 1992 take on "Wuthering Heights" ultimately belongs to that last category. And it's a shame, because the project had so much potential. Mirroring its source author, the film was prolific television director Peter Kosminsky's first theatrical feature (and ended up being his last...
- 7/27/2023
- by Ryan Coleman
- Slash Film
Paul Schrader is warning about the “slippery slope” of filmmakers revisiting their work.
The Oscar winner addressed the films of Terrence Malick and George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” as examples of why films of the past should not be recut or adapted to modern times.
“I think that’s a very slippery slope. Everything changes, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Schrader told “Card Counter” star Oscar Isaac in conversation for Interview magazine. “When people like George [Lucas] work with CGI, you’re not going to recast the movie, you’re not going to rewrite the movie. You could fool with the color. I think Terrence Malick fooling with the color was wrong, and I think when Francis [Ford Coppola] did his longer version of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ it was worse than before. So I think it’s better to just let them be.”
Coppola released his...
The Oscar winner addressed the films of Terrence Malick and George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” as examples of why films of the past should not be recut or adapted to modern times.
“I think that’s a very slippery slope. Everything changes, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Schrader told “Card Counter” star Oscar Isaac in conversation for Interview magazine. “When people like George [Lucas] work with CGI, you’re not going to recast the movie, you’re not going to rewrite the movie. You could fool with the color. I think Terrence Malick fooling with the color was wrong, and I think when Francis [Ford Coppola] did his longer version of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ it was worse than before. So I think it’s better to just let them be.”
Coppola released his...
- 4/27/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
There has always been something otherworldly about Ts Eliot, a spectral quality deeply in accord with cinema. Francis Ford Coppola knew to include in Apocalypse Now (1979) a scene in which Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) reads parts of Eliot’s The Hollow Men, that in the epigraph (“Mistah Kurtz – he dead”) quotes Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the basis of the film. Dennis Hopper, playing the photojournalist, paraphrases the poem’s famous last line.
Sophie Fiennes’ superb and faithful capturing of her brother Ralph Fiennes’ stage production of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets yields wonderfully thoughtful camera movements and angles (cinematography by Mike Eley) and also takes us out of the theater space to breathe the same landscapes Eliot so unmatchedly described in Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding. He was always already there. “And...
Sophie Fiennes’ superb and faithful capturing of her brother Ralph Fiennes’ stage production of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets yields wonderfully thoughtful camera movements and angles (cinematography by Mike Eley) and also takes us out of the theater space to breathe the same landscapes Eliot so unmatchedly described in Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding. He was always already there. “And...
- 4/23/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ann Green de Toth, a screenwriter and film industry veteran who worked alongside her husband André de Toth on several projects, has died. She was 82.
De Toth died March 3 after her third battle with cancer in Toluca Lake, California, her family announced.
In 1969, she entered the industry, working with producer Jeffrey Selznick and director Andrzej Wajda, as they prepared for their film, Heart of Darkness. After marrying producer André de Toth in 1983, she worked with him on El Condor, The Todd Killing, Click of the Hammer, Prelude and Fugue for Lovers, The Silent Nine, The Professor and The Fighting Temeraire, among many other films.
De Toth also served, alongside the Ministry of Defense (Navy), as a research/production assistant on The Dangerous Game, a documentary with Hrh The Prince of Wales (aka King Charles), who was the captain of the HSM Bronington at the time.
She was a member of...
De Toth died March 3 after her third battle with cancer in Toluca Lake, California, her family announced.
In 1969, she entered the industry, working with producer Jeffrey Selznick and director Andrzej Wajda, as they prepared for their film, Heart of Darkness. After marrying producer André de Toth in 1983, she worked with him on El Condor, The Todd Killing, Click of the Hammer, Prelude and Fugue for Lovers, The Silent Nine, The Professor and The Fighting Temeraire, among many other films.
De Toth also served, alongside the Ministry of Defense (Navy), as a research/production assistant on The Dangerous Game, a documentary with Hrh The Prince of Wales (aka King Charles), who was the captain of the HSM Bronington at the time.
She was a member of...
- 3/18/2023
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Natasha Lyonne's leading roles are pretty unconventional female characters. They have a rugged androgyny that comes naturally to the actress, but it's not just Lyonne that gives them a sort of gender-transcendent quality. These characters break out of the traditional archetypes that most actresses are restricted by. In fact, they more closely resemble classic male characters — like Martin Sheen's Benjamin Willard in "Apocalypse Now."
Willard's descent into madness is memorable because it happens inwardly. We've seen women devolve into hysteria in cinematic masterpieces like "A Woman Under the Influence," but rarely do we take a female character's passivity to indicate introspection. Lyonne hoped to break out of this trope when she took the creative reigns on projects like "Russian Doll" and Rian Johnson's new series "Poker Face."
Even when women are protagonists, they are often "defined by an outer life," Lyonne pointed out in an interview with Time.
Willard's descent into madness is memorable because it happens inwardly. We've seen women devolve into hysteria in cinematic masterpieces like "A Woman Under the Influence," but rarely do we take a female character's passivity to indicate introspection. Lyonne hoped to break out of this trope when she took the creative reigns on projects like "Russian Doll" and Rian Johnson's new series "Poker Face."
Even when women are protagonists, they are often "defined by an outer life," Lyonne pointed out in an interview with Time.
- 2/1/2023
- by Shae Sennett
- Slash Film
Iceland is like no other place on Earth, and the films that take place there can’t help but reflect this. In “Godland,” Icelandic writer-director Hlynur Pálmason attempts to see his homeland through outside eyes, the way it must have looked to the Danes who claimed and controlled it until World War II. Icelandic period pieces are often set much earlier, à la “The Northman,” but this one — at once visually striking and emotionally austere, in its almost Bressonian restraint — takes the country’s colonialist past as its subject, pitting a late-19th-century man of faith against a force far stronger than him, like some kind of Arctic, art-house “There Will Be Blood.”
In the opening scene Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a Lutheran priest, is sent by the Church of Denmark to establish a parish in Iceland, not at all prepared for what lies ahead. He’s a sincere and devout idealist,...
In the opening scene Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a Lutheran priest, is sent by the Church of Denmark to establish a parish in Iceland, not at all prepared for what lies ahead. He’s a sincere and devout idealist,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Taking over three years to shoot and edit, the production of "Apocalypse Now" was riddled with squabbles, controversies, and disaster — from star Martin Sheen nearly dying of a heart attack to a deadly hurricane destroying sets. Francis Ford Coppola's fortune and mental health was at stake as he tried to keep everything afloat, including his temperamental cast.
Set during the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now" is a reimagining of Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella, "Heart of Darkness." In the film, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) searches the treacherous jungle and winding rivers for Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a faithful soldier who became a ruthless killer when...
The post Why Apocalypse Now's Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper Refused to Share a Set appeared first on /Film.
Set during the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now" is a reimagining of Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella, "Heart of Darkness." In the film, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) searches the treacherous jungle and winding rivers for Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a faithful soldier who became a ruthless killer when...
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- 4/7/2022
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Though "Apocalypse Now" is known as one of cinema's finest war epics, it's also well known for having a controversial production that involved actor disputes, near-death experiences, and a deadly hurricane. Director Francis Ford Coppola had invested millions of his own money into the project and contemplated killing himself on the hellish shoot, according to Independent.
"Apocalypse Now" updates Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" to the Vietnam War. It follows Capitan Willard's (Martin Sheen) lengthy, mind-bending journey through the jungle to assassinate the rebellious Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). The film builds up to the discovery of Colonel Kurtz, who lives in the ruins of an ancient temple where he is worshiped...
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"Apocalypse Now" updates Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" to the Vietnam War. It follows Capitan Willard's (Martin Sheen) lengthy, mind-bending journey through the jungle to assassinate the rebellious Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). The film builds up to the discovery of Colonel Kurtz, who lives in the ruins of an ancient temple where he is worshiped...
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- 4/4/2022
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
I’m not crazy about adaptations
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, by disposition. I’d generally rather see new stuff in Creative Format X, rather than a Format X version of a story that worked well in Format Q.
I seem to be in a pretty small minority in that, though. The world demands movies from their comic books, TV shows from their novels, opera from their stories about historical figures, stage musicals assembled from random songs. And vice versa: look at the deeply incestuous “casting thread,” in which random observers squee over which actors in TV-shows-based-on-books should be their favorite characters in a potential movie-based-on-a-comic-book.
On the other hand, I don’t mind as much with old stuff. A new movie based on a Shakespeare play? Yeah, Ok – that’s closer to the point to begin with. A graphic novel based on that hundred-year-old book everyone has heard of? Well, I suspect...
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, by disposition. I’d generally rather see new stuff in Creative Format X, rather than a Format X version of a story that worked well in Format Q.
I seem to be in a pretty small minority in that, though. The world demands movies from their comic books, TV shows from their novels, opera from their stories about historical figures, stage musicals assembled from random songs. And vice versa: look at the deeply incestuous “casting thread,” in which random observers squee over which actors in TV-shows-based-on-books should be their favorite characters in a potential movie-based-on-a-comic-book.
On the other hand, I don’t mind as much with old stuff. A new movie based on a Shakespeare play? Yeah, Ok – that’s closer to the point to begin with. A graphic novel based on that hundred-year-old book everyone has heard of? Well, I suspect...
- 3/16/2022
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
"Apocalypse Now" has gone down in cinematic history as one of the greatest war epics of all time. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness," it is a psychedelic journey into the horrors of the Vietnam War told through one soldier's (Martin Sheen) mission to assassinate a rebellious colonel (Marlon Brando) who lives in an indigenous village where he is worshiped as a demigod.
The "Apocalypse Now" production was just as harrowing as the story the filmmakers were telling. "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane," director Francis Ford Coppola told reporters at...
The post The Apocalypse Now Controversy Explained appeared first on /Film.
The "Apocalypse Now" production was just as harrowing as the story the filmmakers were telling. "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane," director Francis Ford Coppola told reporters at...
The post The Apocalypse Now Controversy Explained appeared first on /Film.
- 3/1/2022
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Jan Mojto’s international sales company Beta Film has sold police series “Faster Than Fear,” a hit for Ard in Germany, to three high-profile international buyers. The six-hour series has been acquired by Orf in Austria, Disney Plus in Spain, and Walter Presents in Australia and New Zealand.
In Germany, the show was commissioned by Ard under its initiative termed “Mediathek First” for shows that launch first on its streaming platform, the Ard Mediathek. The digital-first initiative, which is changing the landscape in Germany, aims to target a younger audience online, while also going after the older demographic that tends to dominate the linear audience. The series was available for streaming on the Ard platform from Dec. 30, and has drawn 6.4 million views so far. On linear TV, it started to air on Jan. 1, in late primetime, following the classic crime show “Tatort” – one of the most popular series in Germany...
In Germany, the show was commissioned by Ard under its initiative termed “Mediathek First” for shows that launch first on its streaming platform, the Ard Mediathek. The digital-first initiative, which is changing the landscape in Germany, aims to target a younger audience online, while also going after the older demographic that tends to dominate the linear audience. The series was available for streaming on the Ard platform from Dec. 30, and has drawn 6.4 million views so far. On linear TV, it started to air on Jan. 1, in late primetime, following the classic crime show “Tatort” – one of the most popular series in Germany...
- 1/19/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
A thousand releases down the line, Criterion gives us a special edition of the most creatively brilliant & innovative movie in history, as the label debuts selected 4K releases. It’s a four-disc set, with three Blu-rays that hold a huge quantity of well-chosen and well-produced extras. What can be said about Kane that hasn’t been debated decades ago? Our Declaration of Principles is to just try and tell the truth: we try a ‘civilian’ approach, sketching the film’s wonderments without assuming the reader is already a true believer in the Cinema God Orson Welles. Which Welles definitely is.
Citizen Kane 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1104
1941 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 119 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 23, 2021 / 47.96
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova.
Cinematography: Gregg Toland...
Citizen Kane 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1104
1941 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 119 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 23, 2021 / 47.96
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova.
Cinematography: Gregg Toland...
- 11/30/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: Hulu will drop six-episode ABC News limited series next week, City of Angels, City of Death, focusing on the hunt for serial killers in Los Angeles during the 1970s and 80s.
The focus of the episodes will be on notorious murders like the Freeway Killer, the Hillside Strangler and the Sunset Strip Killer, as more than 20 murderers gripped media attention in the city and nationwide.
The episodes will debut on Nov. 24 on the platform. The Hulu Original comes from the producers of ABC News’ 20/20, and was produced for Hulu by ABC News Studios and Highway 41 Productions. Hulu in September debuted the ABC News series Wild Crime, about a murder investigation in Rocky Mountain National Park.
The new docuseries will feature dramatic recreations and interviews with law enforcement as they grappled with multiple investigations. It features the accounts of retired LAPD detectives Tom Lange, Robert Souza, Bob Grogan, Frank Garcia and Jerry LeFrois,...
The focus of the episodes will be on notorious murders like the Freeway Killer, the Hillside Strangler and the Sunset Strip Killer, as more than 20 murderers gripped media attention in the city and nationwide.
The episodes will debut on Nov. 24 on the platform. The Hulu Original comes from the producers of ABC News’ 20/20, and was produced for Hulu by ABC News Studios and Highway 41 Productions. Hulu in September debuted the ABC News series Wild Crime, about a murder investigation in Rocky Mountain National Park.
The new docuseries will feature dramatic recreations and interviews with law enforcement as they grappled with multiple investigations. It features the accounts of retired LAPD detectives Tom Lange, Robert Souza, Bob Grogan, Frank Garcia and Jerry LeFrois,...
- 11/16/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
When it comes to making a movie, there are probably thousands of stories, especially regarding the financing and finding the right production company. At times these backgrounds are just as comedic, suspenseful and entertaining as the movies themselves, which is why these are also turned into documentaries, for example, “Heart of Darkness” about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”. The Asian movie industry has its own brand of stories to tell in that regard, as the film business consists just as much of shady characters as probably anywhere else, and also creative minds who would do anything to fulfill their dream of a feature of their own. Renowned photographer and radio personality Sunny Lau was probably inspired by some of them for his director debut “Sugar Street Studio”, a feature which is just as a much a ghost story as it is about the fine line between...
- 7/3/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Norman Lloyd, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur and portrayed Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s St. Elsewhere, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, as Variety reports. Lloyd’s friend, producer Dean Hargrove, confirmed his death to Variety. He was 106.
The Hollywood veteran’s eight-decade career spanned theater, radio, film and TV, where he served in a variety of roles including director and producer. While his own name may not be widely recognized, he was deeply respected within industry circles and worked with some of the...
The Hollywood veteran’s eight-decade career spanned theater, radio, film and TV, where he served in a variety of roles including director and producer. While his own name may not be widely recognized, he was deeply respected within industry circles and worked with some of the...
- 5/12/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Actor, director, and producer Norman Lloyd passed away Monday, May 10 at the age of 106. The actor, a regular staple in the classic film community, was a jack-of-all trades with a career going back to the golden year of 1939. Lloyd’s most notable credits include Alfred Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” and “Spellbound,” the television series “St. Elsewhere,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Age of Innocence,” and Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck” which he starred in at the age of 100.
Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey on November 8, 1914. Lloyd started working the vaudeville circuit in New York at age nine. When he graduated high school, he started attending classes at NYU but dropped out quickly. He worked his way up through repertory theater companies before starring on Broadway in 1935.
The budding star soon met Orson Welles, and when Welles launched his famed Mercury Theatre troupe, Lloyd was one of the first members.
Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey on November 8, 1914. Lloyd started working the vaudeville circuit in New York at age nine. When he graduated high school, he started attending classes at NYU but dropped out quickly. He worked his way up through repertory theater companies before starring on Broadway in 1935.
The budding star soon met Orson Welles, and when Welles launched his famed Mercury Theatre troupe, Lloyd was one of the first members.
- 5/11/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Norman Lloyd was the last one standing. For a long time, it looked like an extended, slow-motion foot-race between Norman and Olivia de Havilland as to who would be the final significant figure from Hollywood’s golden age to pass from Earth to the eternal cinematic firmament. But Olivia left us in July of last year at 104, and now Norman, two years older, has joined all the others who helped make Hollywood what it was. The parade has now definitively, conclusively, gone by.
In a life bracketed by two pandemics, the Spanish flu of 1918-20 and the ongoing Covid onslaught, this Jersey and Brooklyn boy born into modest circumstances first strode onto the New York stage in 1932, was the last surviving member of Orson Welles’ and John Houseman’s Mercury Theater and made his startling film debut in 1942 as the villain who fell from the top of the Statue of...
In a life bracketed by two pandemics, the Spanish flu of 1918-20 and the ongoing Covid onslaught, this Jersey and Brooklyn boy born into modest circumstances first strode onto the New York stage in 1932, was the last surviving member of Orson Welles’ and John Houseman’s Mercury Theater and made his startling film debut in 1942 as the villain who fell from the top of the Statue of...
- 5/11/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd, best known for his title role in Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” and as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s “St. Elsewhere” and famously associated with Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 106.
His friend, producer Dean Hargrove, confirmed his death and said “His third act was really the best time of his life,” referring to the many historical Hollywood retrospectives and events Lloyd had participated in over the past few decades. Lloyd often said his secret to his long and mostly illness-free life was “avoiding disagreeable people,” Hargrove recounted.
Lloyd was hand-picked by Alfred Hitchcock to play the title character and villain in 1942’s “Saboteur,” and it was his character who tumbled to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in the pic’s iconic conclusion.
But the hard-working multihyphenate gained his highest profile only...
His friend, producer Dean Hargrove, confirmed his death and said “His third act was really the best time of his life,” referring to the many historical Hollywood retrospectives and events Lloyd had participated in over the past few decades. Lloyd often said his secret to his long and mostly illness-free life was “avoiding disagreeable people,” Hargrove recounted.
Lloyd was hand-picked by Alfred Hitchcock to play the title character and villain in 1942’s “Saboteur,” and it was his character who tumbled to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in the pic’s iconic conclusion.
But the hard-working multihyphenate gained his highest profile only...
- 5/11/2021
- by Laura Haefner
- Variety Film + TV
Raoul Peck is a director who feels deep and evident comfort bringing together different manners of storytelling. His 2016 documentary about James Baldwin, “I Am Not Your Negro,” was notable not merely for the brilliance and insight of Baldwin but for its blending of the late author’s recollections with narration and explication of the times in which Baldwin lived and the figures who were his contemporaries. Over a relatively short running time, the film’s braided threads of history, of commentary, of context, and of eloquently phrased anger came together to become more — more powerful and more insightful — than even an optimistic moviegoer might have expected.
On HBO, Peck attempts to bring his maximalism to an even grander target. With the new four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” he goes beyond even the ambitious goal of using the words of a single writer to explain racism in America. He brings...
On HBO, Peck attempts to bring his maximalism to an even grander target. With the new four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” he goes beyond even the ambitious goal of using the words of a single writer to explain racism in America. He brings...
- 4/7/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
“We would prefer for genocide to have begun and ended with Nazism,” muses filmmaker Raoul Peck in the voiceover that steers his four-part hybrid docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes (HBO). “This would indeed be most comforting.” But genocide was made a prerequisite for the establishment and expansion of America — a fact as obvious to some as it is unacceptable to others. Drawing on the work of historian Sven Lindqvist, from whose 1992 book (and a line from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) Peck takes the title of his project, the I Am Not Your Negro director argues that,...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“We would prefer for genocide to have begun and ended with Nazism,” muses filmmaker Raoul Peck in the voiceover that steers his four-part hybrid docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes (HBO). “This would indeed be most comforting.” But genocide was made a prerequisite for the establishment and expansion of America — a fact as obvious to some as it is unacceptable to others. Drawing on the work of historian Sven Lindqvist, from whose 1992 book (and a line from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) Peck takes the title of his project, the I Am Not Your Negro director argues that,...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Apocalypse Now in 4K? After The Wild Bunch this is one title likely to get me to invest in a new format. Francis Coppola & John Milius’ Vietnam War epic may not be perfect, but it’s one of the most exciting movie experiences ever and one of the top achievements of the first film school generation of moviemakers. The release is agreeably all-inclusive: the original Road Show cut and the two revised versions are here along with the excellent making-of feature Hearts of Darkness. Re-tooled and polished up for picture and audio, this qualifies as a prime audio show-off disc too.
Apocalypse Now Final Cut
4K Ultra-hd + Blu-ray + Digital
Lionsgate
1979, 2001, 2019 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 147, 196, 183 min. / 40th Anniversary Edition / 1979 70mm Road Show cut, 2001 Redux cut, 2019 Final Cut versions / Street Date August 27, 2019 /
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, G.D. Spradlin,...
Apocalypse Now Final Cut
4K Ultra-hd + Blu-ray + Digital
Lionsgate
1979, 2001, 2019 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 147, 196, 183 min. / 40th Anniversary Edition / 1979 70mm Road Show cut, 2001 Redux cut, 2019 Final Cut versions / Street Date August 27, 2019 /
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, G.D. Spradlin,...
- 3/6/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In a festival where one typically expects a film debut to be youthfully unkempt and overeager, the Swiss director Andreas Fontana has premiered something most unusual with the sly and intriguing Azor: A debut that is well-composed, consummately controlled, and carefully discreet. But perhaps this approach is in order to so perfectly fit its subject matter, which is the glossy surface—all suits and business-speak—of private banking for deplorable people.Set in 1980, the film follows Swiss banker Yvan De Wiel (Fabrizio Rongione), who has been sent to Argentina to make the rounds with his firm’s private clientele, picking up the pieces left by his predecessor, currently missing. De Wiel is traveling with his elegant wife (Stéphanie Cléau) at his side, and together the pair are like finance’s Nick and Nora, securing accounts and inquiring after the bank’s missing partner with cocktails in hand. As she advises...
- 3/4/2021
- MUBI
Spoiler Alert: This article contains details about tonight’s Power Book II: Ghost Season 1 finale.
“I definitely want to say one of the great joys of my job is being able to hire and support young, creative people and that has been a great pleasure in this first season seeing this young cast to such fruition and be so great,” declares Power Book II: Ghost creator Courtney Kemp of the Starz series that just wrapped up its first season tonight. “Obviously Mary J Blige and Method Man are fabulous, and my adult actors are wonderful, but to see this younger generation come to the fore has been a true pleasure,” she adds.
The Rob Hardy directed and Randy Huggins and Aixsha Hiciano penned “Heart of Darkness” episode saw many of those actors new and seasoned push it to the limit, even by Power standards.
No mater that Tariq (Michael Rainey...
“I definitely want to say one of the great joys of my job is being able to hire and support young, creative people and that has been a great pleasure in this first season seeing this young cast to such fruition and be so great,” declares Power Book II: Ghost creator Courtney Kemp of the Starz series that just wrapped up its first season tonight. “Obviously Mary J Blige and Method Man are fabulous, and my adult actors are wonderful, but to see this younger generation come to the fore has been a true pleasure,” she adds.
The Rob Hardy directed and Randy Huggins and Aixsha Hiciano penned “Heart of Darkness” episode saw many of those actors new and seasoned push it to the limit, even by Power standards.
No mater that Tariq (Michael Rainey...
- 1/4/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: This post contains spoilers from Power Book II: Ghost‘s Season 1 finale. Proceed with caution.
It’s a little past the holiday, but Tommy’s appearance in Power Book II: Ghost‘s Season 1 finale certainly could fall under the heading of “canceling Christmas.”
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After all, Ghost’s best-friend-turned-biggest-enemy returns to New York with the express purpose of killing Tasha, who named him as Ghost’s killer...
It’s a little past the holiday, but Tommy’s appearance in Power Book II: Ghost‘s Season 1 finale certainly could fall under the heading of “canceling Christmas.”
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- 1/4/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Power Book II Ghost Heart of Darkness Trailer — Starz‘s Power Book II: Ghost: Season 1, Episode 10: Heart of Darkness TV show trailer has been released. Cast Power Book II: Ghost stars Mary J. Blige, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Michael Rainey Jr., Shane Johnson, Naturi Naughton, Gianni Paolo, Tameika Washington, Daniel Bellomy, Paige [...]
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Continue reading: Power Book II: Ghost: Season 1, Episode 10: Heart of Darkness TV Show Trailer [Starz]...
- 12/27/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
As part of its major reboot this year, the International Filmfest Mannheim-Heidelberg (Iffmh) is launching the new Cutting Edge Talent Camp to support young filmmakers from Germany and help give them a boost onto the international stage.
The Talent Camp, which is taking place entirely online this year, offers workshops and roundtables in which participants will discuss the international market potential of their projects with film industry experts.
“The International Filmfestival Mannheim Heidelberg is a festival with a long tradition of supporting newcomers with their first works, like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Frederick Wiseman or Angela Schanelec, and the festival aims to do the same today for the young and future generations,” says Cutting Edge Talent Camp head Zsuzsi Bánkuti.
The initiative, which was introduced by new festival director Sascha Keilholz and head of program Frédéric Jaeger, is open to directors and producers who are studying or have studied at a...
The Talent Camp, which is taking place entirely online this year, offers workshops and roundtables in which participants will discuss the international market potential of their projects with film industry experts.
“The International Filmfestival Mannheim Heidelberg is a festival with a long tradition of supporting newcomers with their first works, like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Frederick Wiseman or Angela Schanelec, and the festival aims to do the same today for the young and future generations,” says Cutting Edge Talent Camp head Zsuzsi Bánkuti.
The initiative, which was introduced by new festival director Sascha Keilholz and head of program Frédéric Jaeger, is open to directors and producers who are studying or have studied at a...
- 11/9/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
On Nov. 8, Norman Lloyd will celebrate his 106th birthday, which is just one more accomplishment for a man whose nearly-100-year career is filled with amazing milestones. Lloyd worked as an actor, director and/or producer in theater, the early days of radio, film and TV. He wasn’t a household name, but he has always been well known and respected within the industry — not only for his work, but for the people he worked with. That list includes Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Elia Kazan, Jean Renoir, Robin Williams, Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington, Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer.
As his contemporary Karl Malden summed up in 2007, “He is the history of our industry.”
Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter Nov. 8, 1914, in Jersey City, N.J. He took singing and dancing lessons and was a paid professional by the age of 9. He performed with...
As his contemporary Karl Malden summed up in 2007, “He is the history of our industry.”
Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter Nov. 8, 1914, in Jersey City, N.J. He took singing and dancing lessons and was a paid professional by the age of 9. He performed with...
- 11/8/2020
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
“I’ll stand one day before the Queen, not kneel, mind you, but stand like an equal, and she’ll say ‘I’d like you to accept the Order of the Garter as a mark of my esteem, cousin,’” Sean Connery’s ex-British soldier Daniel Dravot proclaims in the 1975 period adventure film, The Man Who Would Be King. And with those words, and the epic death scene which followed, Connery completed the saga of a long-germinating work from one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors. John Huston was Hollywood royalty. His father, Walter, was an acting icon, and his offspring have all gone on to distinguish themselves as part of the Huston Dynasty.
Connery was of course no stranger to acting royalty himself. Eventually knighted in 2000, he also got to play King Agamemnon in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits in 1981, King Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...
Connery was of course no stranger to acting royalty himself. Eventually knighted in 2000, he also got to play King Agamemnon in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits in 1981, King Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...
- 11/2/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Stargirl creator and series EP Geoff Johns used an appearance at the DC FanDome virtual event to tease one “big” return, plus some DC character debuts.
In a light and lively Q&a moderated by actress/DC’s Stargirl director Lea Thompson and featuring cast members Brec Bassinger, Amy Smart, Yvette Monreal, Anjelika Washington and Cameron Gellman, Johns responded to much raving about the season finale’s epic group fight — which included Hourman sparing Solomon Grundy’s life — by saying, “I’m excited for people to see more of Grundy. He’s not gone just yet. [There’s a] cool story idea for Grundy coming up.
In a light and lively Q&a moderated by actress/DC’s Stargirl director Lea Thompson and featuring cast members Brec Bassinger, Amy Smart, Yvette Monreal, Anjelika Washington and Cameron Gellman, Johns responded to much raving about the season finale’s epic group fight — which included Hourman sparing Solomon Grundy’s life — by saying, “I’m excited for people to see more of Grundy. He’s not gone just yet. [There’s a] cool story idea for Grundy coming up.
- 9/12/2020
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
As Spike Lee releases new war drama Da 5 Bloods, we look back at the ways cinema has represented the 20-year conflict
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, which is released on Netflix on 12 June, is the newest entry in cinema’s decades-long fascination with the trauma experienced by Us soldiers during the Vietnam war. But this 1979 film from Francis Ford Coppola, adapted from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, is still the big one: a widescreen vision of chaos, a nightmare from which Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard is trying to awake.
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Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, which is released on Netflix on 12 June, is the newest entry in cinema’s decades-long fascination with the trauma experienced by Us soldiers during the Vietnam war. But this 1979 film from Francis Ford Coppola, adapted from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, is still the big one: a widescreen vision of chaos, a nightmare from which Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard is trying to awake.
Amazon/YouTube (£)...
- 6/5/2020
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Tarence Ray and Tom Sexton from the Trillbilly Worker’s Party take Joe and Josh on a cinematic journey through the South.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Deliverance (1972)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Boogie Nights (1997)
In Bruges (2008)
The Birds (1963)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Blind Side (2009)
Moneyball (2011)
Next of Kin (1989)
Speed (1994)
Gravity (2013)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Hustle and Flow (2005)
Black Snake Moan (2007)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Black Snake (1973)
Mandy (2018)
Sling Blade (1996)
One False Move (1992)
The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
George Washington (2000)
Prince Avalanche (2013)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Halloween (2007)
Joe (2014)
All The Real Girls (2003)
Chrystal (2005)
The Accountant (2001)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Wild River (1960)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Ladykillers (1956)
Baywatch (2017)
Tin Men (1987)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Mad Max (1978)
Mad Max 2 – The Road Warrior (1980)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Coal Miner’s Daughter...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Deliverance (1972)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Boogie Nights (1997)
In Bruges (2008)
The Birds (1963)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Blind Side (2009)
Moneyball (2011)
Next of Kin (1989)
Speed (1994)
Gravity (2013)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Hustle and Flow (2005)
Black Snake Moan (2007)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Black Snake (1973)
Mandy (2018)
Sling Blade (1996)
One False Move (1992)
The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
George Washington (2000)
Prince Avalanche (2013)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Halloween (2007)
Joe (2014)
All The Real Girls (2003)
Chrystal (2005)
The Accountant (2001)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Wild River (1960)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Ladykillers (1956)
Baywatch (2017)
Tin Men (1987)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Mad Max (1978)
Mad Max 2 – The Road Warrior (1980)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Coal Miner’s Daughter...
- 5/5/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Lust-filled treachery in the steaming tropics! He dared to love a cannibal empress! Taglines like that suggest that it wasn’t easy to sell Carol Reed’s phenomenally good adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s classic, a tale of human self-degradation and malevolence in the tropics. Long difficult to see, it’s finally here to dazzle a generation that might appreciate its superb performances. Forget Lord Jim and Colonel Kurtz. Trevor Howard’s back-stabbing Peter Willems shows us the price of total betrayal: permanent banishment from humanity.
Outcast of the Islands
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1951 / B&w / 1:37 flat / 100 93 min. / Street Date April 29, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Aissa, George Coulouris, Tamine, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Peter Illing, Betty Ann Davies, Frederick Valk, A.V. Bramble, Marne Maitland, James Kenney, Annabel Morley.
Cinematography: Edward Scaife, John Wilcox
Production Design: Vincent Korda
Second Unit Director: Guy Hamilton...
Outcast of the Islands
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1951 / B&w / 1:37 flat / 100 93 min. / Street Date April 29, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Aissa, George Coulouris, Tamine, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Peter Illing, Betty Ann Davies, Frederick Valk, A.V. Bramble, Marne Maitland, James Kenney, Annabel Morley.
Cinematography: Edward Scaife, John Wilcox
Production Design: Vincent Korda
Second Unit Director: Guy Hamilton...
- 4/18/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: Ben Affleck will direct King Leopold’s Ghost, a fact-based drama about the plunder of the Congo by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 1800s. One Community, which co-financed Just Mercy, is financing development with an option to co-finance the film. Farhad Safinia (Apocalypto) is writing the script. Affleck is producing through his Pearl Street Films banner alongside Martin Scorsese and Emma Koskoff-Tillinger through his Sikelia Productions banner. Harry and Gina Belafonte are also producing, with Pearl Street’s Madison Ainley exec producing.
Safinia is basing his script on the Adam Hochschild book: King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. The film covers an atrocious piece of history that is every bit as bad as the subtitle infers. Set at a moment when European countries were racing to find ways to carve up the natural resources of Africa, Leopold became...
Safinia is basing his script on the Adam Hochschild book: King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. The film covers an atrocious piece of history that is every bit as bad as the subtitle infers. Set at a moment when European countries were racing to find ways to carve up the natural resources of Africa, Leopold became...
- 11/21/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
For this latest review round-up, I’ll be diving into a trio of films that couldn’t be any more different from each other: Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, The Gallows Act II, and the bizarrely funny Greener Grass from directors and former members of the Upright Citizens Brigade, Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe.
The Lighthouse: Honestly, I’ve struggled with my review of The Lighthouse for quite some time. Not because I didn’t like it—filmmaker Robert Eggers does impressive work here once again—but because I’m not sure how much I have to contribute in the way of real discourse. The film has only been on the festival circuit and in theaters for a relatively short time, and yet I feel like I’ve already seen many great discussions on it that were beyond anything I might bring to the table myself. But suffice to say,...
The Lighthouse: Honestly, I’ve struggled with my review of The Lighthouse for quite some time. Not because I didn’t like it—filmmaker Robert Eggers does impressive work here once again—but because I’m not sure how much I have to contribute in the way of real discourse. The film has only been on the festival circuit and in theaters for a relatively short time, and yet I feel like I’ve already seen many great discussions on it that were beyond anything I might bring to the table myself. But suffice to say,...
- 10/30/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
David Crow Oct 20, 2019
The Godfather director, Francis Ford Coppola, says Marvel movies are "despicable" and "the same movie over and over again."
It’s fair to say that some in the old guard of Hollywood have complicated thoughts about superhero movies in general and Marvel Studios ones in particular. While the Marvel formula has produced more than 20 box office hits in a row like a well-oiled machine, the steady output of product infamously turned off Martin Scorsese, who recently shared his thoughts about why they’re “not cinema.” Now Academy Award winning legend, Francis Ford Coppola, is backing Scorsese’s claims and taking it a step further by calling Marvel movies outright “despicable.”
Speaking with journalists in Grand Lyon, France, where he was being awarded the lifetime achievement prize by the Lumière Film Festival, Coppola did not mince words when he talked about the state of American cinema.
According to Yahoo News,...
The Godfather director, Francis Ford Coppola, says Marvel movies are "despicable" and "the same movie over and over again."
It’s fair to say that some in the old guard of Hollywood have complicated thoughts about superhero movies in general and Marvel Studios ones in particular. While the Marvel formula has produced more than 20 box office hits in a row like a well-oiled machine, the steady output of product infamously turned off Martin Scorsese, who recently shared his thoughts about why they’re “not cinema.” Now Academy Award winning legend, Francis Ford Coppola, is backing Scorsese’s claims and taking it a step further by calling Marvel movies outright “despicable.”
Speaking with journalists in Grand Lyon, France, where he was being awarded the lifetime achievement prize by the Lumière Film Festival, Coppola did not mince words when he talked about the state of American cinema.
According to Yahoo News,...
- 10/20/2019
- Den of Geek
Spencer Mullen Oct 11, 2019
Crisis On Infinite Earths, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Rick and Morty, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
An episode of Rick and Morty showed Rick at his worst yet inspired Elon Musk's Tesla "Sentry Mode."
"How far can a show take one clever, trippy premise? On a less capable series, episodes like Rick and Morty’s “The Ricks Must Be Crazy” could have been a disaster. But in the hands of Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, and lead writer Dan Guterman (who also wrote “Interdimensional Cable 2”), the story of Morty and Rick going inside the microverse battery of Rick’s car artfully layers joke upon joke as it dives deeper into a series of concentrically smaller universes, but it’s the episode’s B-plot happening back on Earth that had the biggest impact on popular culture."
Read more at Inverse.
Here's how Sesame Street...
Crisis On Infinite Earths, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Rick and Morty, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
An episode of Rick and Morty showed Rick at his worst yet inspired Elon Musk's Tesla "Sentry Mode."
"How far can a show take one clever, trippy premise? On a less capable series, episodes like Rick and Morty’s “The Ricks Must Be Crazy” could have been a disaster. But in the hands of Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, and lead writer Dan Guterman (who also wrote “Interdimensional Cable 2”), the story of Morty and Rick going inside the microverse battery of Rick’s car artfully layers joke upon joke as it dives deeper into a series of concentrically smaller universes, but it’s the episode’s B-plot happening back on Earth that had the biggest impact on popular culture."
Read more at Inverse.
Here's how Sesame Street...
- 10/11/2019
- Den of Geek
Buffy Summers isn't the only one battling to keep the Hellmouth from being opened. Angel #5 is out now on shelves. Also in today's Comics Corner: Aliens: Rescue #3, and Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance #1.
Angel #5: "After teetering between Sunnydale and Los Angeles, Angel now knows exactly what his mission is to make sure the Hellmouth stays sealed! He'll stop anyone who gets in his way, be it friend or foe, vampire...or Slayer.
Creators
(W) Bryan Edward Hill (A) Gleb Melnikov (CA) Dan Panosian
$3.99."
To learn more, go to Boom! Studios' website.
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Aliens: Rescue #3: "The Colonial Marines are the best at what they do, and what they do is kill bugs. Amanda Ripley takes her command deep into a nightmarish Heart of Darkness--a massive Alien lair.
Creators
Writer: Brian Wood
Penciller: Kieran McKeown
Inker: Jl Straw
Colorist: Dan Jackson
Cover Artist: Roberto De Latorre
Genre: Science-Fiction
Publication Date: September 25, 2019
Format: Fc,...
Angel #5: "After teetering between Sunnydale and Los Angeles, Angel now knows exactly what his mission is to make sure the Hellmouth stays sealed! He'll stop anyone who gets in his way, be it friend or foe, vampire...or Slayer.
Creators
(W) Bryan Edward Hill (A) Gleb Melnikov (CA) Dan Panosian
$3.99."
To learn more, go to Boom! Studios' website.
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Aliens: Rescue #3: "The Colonial Marines are the best at what they do, and what they do is kill bugs. Amanda Ripley takes her command deep into a nightmarish Heart of Darkness--a massive Alien lair.
Creators
Writer: Brian Wood
Penciller: Kieran McKeown
Inker: Jl Straw
Colorist: Dan Jackson
Cover Artist: Roberto De Latorre
Genre: Science-Fiction
Publication Date: September 25, 2019
Format: Fc,...
- 9/26/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Astronaut Roy McBride is unflappable and known for it, out-reputed only by his own father who casts on him a shadow akin to that of the dark side of the moon. His father has been gone a long time, disappearing after a quest to Neptune in the pursuit of intelligent life took him and his crew beyond the detection of home-base. We’re introduced to the younger McBride only briefly before we see him survive a crisis when the space station he’s working on is hit by a mysterious surge of energy that sends him flying from just outside earth’s atmosphere and crashing to the ground. After a quick recovery, he’s brought into a confidential briefing where his informed that the cause of the surges—which are growing in number—is near Neptune, where the Lima mission brought his father before he lost touch with command sixteen years ago.
- 9/21/2019
- MUBI
Seek out the nearest jumbo screen and let filmmaker James Gray, a renegade visionary with a big reach and a knack for sneaky mischief, sweep you off ad astra (that’s “to the stars” in Latin). Getting lost in the space conjured up by the writer-director and the brilliant Dutch-Swedish cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema (Interstellar, Dunkirk) to screw with your head and throw off your equilibrium is part of the fun. Plus you’ll have Brad Pitt for company, which is good since he’s giving one of his best...
- 9/17/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
How many pages does it take for seven kids to defeat a killer clown? And how many hours does that translate to when adapting the story to screen? For fans of Stephen King, the answer always seems to be “never enough.” The pop pulp shiver-giver inspires in readers a kind of ravenous insatiability that has thwarted his false-alarm retirement and felled more trees than the fires blazing in the Amazon rainforest. That same appetite helped feed the excitement for director Andy Muschietti’s “It” — a monster hit two years ago, earning more than $700 million — and ought to bring audiences back in even greater numbers for “It: Chapter Two,”
From the “Lord of the Rings” saga to the “Avengers” sequels, length confers a kind of false legitimacy on middlebrow entertainment, no matter the medium. When first published in 1986, “It” was by far the longest-winded of King’s prolix books (outgassing “The Stand...
From the “Lord of the Rings” saga to the “Avengers” sequels, length confers a kind of false legitimacy on middlebrow entertainment, no matter the medium. When first published in 1986, “It” was by far the longest-winded of King’s prolix books (outgassing “The Stand...
- 9/3/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Ad Astra is finally here. Lifting off this week at the Venice film festival with enormous ambitions if somewhat limited thrust, James Gray’s long-awaited sci-fi adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (that nicely malleable of texts) expands like a supernova without ever quite inspiring the introspection it needs to thrive. The result is a rarity that should be seen, regardless. It’s a deeply personal film about human nature from a beloved filmmaker who has been given the largest canvas imaginable–with all the trimmings–that ultimately proves a bit of a slog.
Set in the near future, Gray’s seventh film as director (it was co-written with recent collaborator Ethan Gross) follows the story of a man who is sent to the edges of the solar system to find the one person potentially capable of saving Earth from impending doom: his dad. Brad Pitt stars as Major Roy McBride,...
Set in the near future, Gray’s seventh film as director (it was co-written with recent collaborator Ethan Gross) follows the story of a man who is sent to the edges of the solar system to find the one person potentially capable of saving Earth from impending doom: his dad. Brad Pitt stars as Major Roy McBride,...
- 8/29/2019
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Lionsgate and American Zoetrope are releasing “Apocalypse Now Final Cut,” the third version of Francis Coppola’s 1979 war epic, to commemorate the film’s 40th anniversary. While multiple versions of any mainstream movie are unusual, everything about this movie was unorthodox.
On Oct. 14, 1969, Variety reported that Warner Bros. bought the script by John Milius, with Coppola to produce and George Lucas to direct. They envisioned a scrappy 16mm film for $2 million, to lense in San Francisco, Louisiana and Thailand.
The project remained in limbo until Coppola revived it. He told Variety in February 1976 that filming would begin in a month, on a $12 million budget, with United Artists aiming for an April 7, 1977 release. The movie finally opened Aug. 15, 1979, after endless shooting in the Philippines, on a budget of $30 million-plus.
At the Cannes world premiere in May 1979, Coppola stunned the press conference by comparing the prolonged production to America’s role in...
On Oct. 14, 1969, Variety reported that Warner Bros. bought the script by John Milius, with Coppola to produce and George Lucas to direct. They envisioned a scrappy 16mm film for $2 million, to lense in San Francisco, Louisiana and Thailand.
The project remained in limbo until Coppola revived it. He told Variety in February 1976 that filming would begin in a month, on a $12 million budget, with United Artists aiming for an April 7, 1977 release. The movie finally opened Aug. 15, 1979, after endless shooting in the Philippines, on a budget of $30 million-plus.
At the Cannes world premiere in May 1979, Coppola stunned the press conference by comparing the prolonged production to America’s role in...
- 8/23/2019
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Did you know that Brad Pitt has another Oscar-y movie — besides “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” — that is landing this year on Sept. 20? Well, now you do thanks to this exclusive IMAX trailer for “Ad Astra,” directed by James Gray (“The Lost City of Z”). The actor, who has been lingering on the Academy Award overdue list to be recognized for his thesping abilities for far too long, might have a shot with his lead role as astronaut Roy McBride, who is blasted into space to find his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones), a renegade scientist whose experiments could harm the solar system.
The epic space odyssey, which will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this month, also stars Liv Tyler as Pitt’s wife as well as Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga and Jamie Kennedy. When Gray first announced his plans to do the film — whose...
The epic space odyssey, which will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this month, also stars Liv Tyler as Pitt’s wife as well as Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga and Jamie Kennedy. When Gray first announced his plans to do the film — whose...
- 8/21/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
British actor Tim Roth is to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award in recognition of his “exceptional contribution to the art of film.” The ceremony at the Sarajevo Film Festival will be held on Tuesday. He will hold a masterclass on the same day.
His first screen role was the lead in the controversial Prix Italia award-winning TV movie “Made in Britain.” Roth’s second project came immediately after, starring in Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed film “Meantime.” As his success continued, Roth starred in more than 15 film and television projects including Stephen Frears’ “The Hit,” for which he won the Standard Award for best newcomer, Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and Robert Altman’s “Vincent and Theo,” in which he portrayed Vincent Van Gogh.
Roth gained worldwide recognition for his roles in two Quentin Tarantino films,...
His first screen role was the lead in the controversial Prix Italia award-winning TV movie “Made in Britain.” Roth’s second project came immediately after, starring in Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed film “Meantime.” As his success continued, Roth starred in more than 15 film and television projects including Stephen Frears’ “The Hit,” for which he won the Standard Award for best newcomer, Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and Robert Altman’s “Vincent and Theo,” in which he portrayed Vincent Van Gogh.
Roth gained worldwide recognition for his roles in two Quentin Tarantino films,...
- 8/19/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Spencer Mullen Aug 16, 2019
Apocalypse Now, David Fincher, Gilmore Girls, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
The discovery of ancient "superdeep" diamonds reveal glimpse of the early days of Earth.
"The primordial Earth’s active volcanoes and shallow seas would be unrecognizable to earthlings of today. But deep underneath the surface, scientists suspect there are traces of the planet’s chaotic past. Thanks to some some “superdeep” diamonds in Brazil, described in Science on Thursday, we now have confirmation that there’s an ancient reservoir holding clues about the early evolution of our planet."
Read more at Inverse.
Here's why Logan Huntzberger was the best boyfriend for Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls.
"One of my favorite sports is discussing Gilmore Girls and I consider it a sport because you need quick reflexes, strong breath control, and the ability to take a lot of pain. The most grueling of all discussions:...
Apocalypse Now, David Fincher, Gilmore Girls, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
The discovery of ancient "superdeep" diamonds reveal glimpse of the early days of Earth.
"The primordial Earth’s active volcanoes and shallow seas would be unrecognizable to earthlings of today. But deep underneath the surface, scientists suspect there are traces of the planet’s chaotic past. Thanks to some some “superdeep” diamonds in Brazil, described in Science on Thursday, we now have confirmation that there’s an ancient reservoir holding clues about the early evolution of our planet."
Read more at Inverse.
Here's why Logan Huntzberger was the best boyfriend for Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls.
"One of my favorite sports is discussing Gilmore Girls and I consider it a sport because you need quick reflexes, strong breath control, and the ability to take a lot of pain. The most grueling of all discussions:...
- 8/16/2019
- Den of Geek
Note: This is a spoiler-free review of the first three episodes of Mindhunter season 2. We’ll have a full spoiler-filled review of the entire season next week. After a long hiatus, Mindhunter returns for an all-new stylish season – one overflowing with doom, lit by flashlight beams cutting through clutching darkness. One gets the sense of escalation […]
The post ‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Goes Further Into the Heart of Darkness appeared first on /Film.
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- 8/15/2019
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
From Marlon Brando’s extraordinary cameo to Dennis Hopper’s crazed photojournalist, Coppola’s epic ‘definitive’ cut of his brilliant 1979 war film is triumphant in restating the inhumanity of empire
‘Someday this war’s gonna end,” is the sage comment from surf-crazed Wagner enthusiast Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, brusquely played by Robert Duvall. In fact, when Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose epic masterpiece Apocalypse Now was first unveiled in 1979, the Vietnam war had only ended four years previously, and the succeeding Cambodian-Vietnamese war (where the film’s climax is set) was in full swing.
Coppola’s bad trip into south-east Asia was co-written by John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr. It was inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, Herr’s own Vietnam reportage-memoir Dispatches and maybe at one further remove by Rudyard Kipling’s lines about the Us taking up the white man’s imperial burden.
‘Someday this war’s gonna end,” is the sage comment from surf-crazed Wagner enthusiast Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, brusquely played by Robert Duvall. In fact, when Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose epic masterpiece Apocalypse Now was first unveiled in 1979, the Vietnam war had only ended four years previously, and the succeeding Cambodian-Vietnamese war (where the film’s climax is set) was in full swing.
Coppola’s bad trip into south-east Asia was co-written by John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr. It was inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, Herr’s own Vietnam reportage-memoir Dispatches and maybe at one further remove by Rudyard Kipling’s lines about the Us taking up the white man’s imperial burden.
- 8/7/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Amongst a particularly strong month for new theatrical releases, one that’s near the top of our must-see list is Francis Ford Coppola’s reworking of his war epic, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut. Following a Tribeca Film Festival world premiere, the 4K restoration of his Vietnam War film, presented in Dolby Vision Hdr with Dolby Atmos sound, will arrive in IMAX theaters on August 15 & 18, followed by a 4K Ultra HD release at the end of the month.
Ahead of the release, a new trailer has now arrived, which features an introduction by the director who says it his favorite version of the film. Nick Newman caught it at Tribeca, saying, “More a reigned-in second stab than radical reworking, it suggests where he’d turned right or wrong, shows an affable stubbornness in the retention of lesser-liked pieces, and at day’s end maybe breeds further ambiguity as to what really shapes a masterpiece.
Ahead of the release, a new trailer has now arrived, which features an introduction by the director who says it his favorite version of the film. Nick Newman caught it at Tribeca, saying, “More a reigned-in second stab than radical reworking, it suggests where he’d turned right or wrong, shows an affable stubbornness in the retention of lesser-liked pieces, and at day’s end maybe breeds further ambiguity as to what really shapes a masterpiece.
- 8/5/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
1. Aisha Harris, “Lion Queen (Beyoncé) Has Her Say,” New York Times (July 20). New Horizons in Democratic Theory Dep’t: “To hear Beyoncé speak is such a rare occurrence that any instance of it, no matter how fleeting, feels special, like catching a glimpse of a shooting star.”
2. Bruce Springsteen, Western Stars (Columbia). Battle of the Bands: Harry Nilsson v. Glen Campbell. On the record, it’s a draw, and really, who cares? Off the record, the world is smaller without Glen Campbell. It isn’t without Nilsson. And it isn’t bigger with this.
2. Bruce Springsteen, Western Stars (Columbia). Battle of the Bands: Harry Nilsson v. Glen Campbell. On the record, it’s a draw, and really, who cares? Off the record, the world is smaller without Glen Campbell. It isn’t without Nilsson. And it isn’t bigger with this.
- 7/24/2019
- by Greil Marcus
- Rollingstone.com
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