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Who Wants More Noir? Columbia's B-Movies Hit The Roxie

17 September 2009 12:56 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

More good news for my favorite film genre! Back in May, I attended and wrote about the great “I Wake Up Dreaming” noir film festival at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater, hosted by Elliot Lavine. Showcasing old and rare B-movies from the 30s to the 50s, the festival was so successful that it was extended for another week.

Consider this a further extension two changing seasons later, as starting this Thursday Mr. Lavine will once again bring 22 rare noir gems to the Roxie for two weeks of betrayals, knife-sharp suspense and treacherous women.

This time around, the films are newly restored 35mm archive prints from Columbia Pictures—directed by acclaimed directors like Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang, Samuel Fuller, Don Siegel, and king of gimmicks William Castle. As with “I Wake Up Dreaming,” the films are shown as double features: two films for $11.

This collection offers a couple of noir-horror hybrid, »

- Arya Ponto

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Films From A Singular Vision

12 August 2009 10:49 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Call it the invasion of the one-eyed auteurs.

In a clever bit of programming, Anthology Film Archives in the East Village is mounting a retrospective of movies by directors who, for one reason or another, had lost sight in one eye.

The series features two films each by five helmers wearing eye patches: John Ford, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh and Andre de Toth.

"After many years of studying classical Hollywood cinema of the 1940s-'50s, »

- By V.A. MUSETTO

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Culture Warrior: The Triumph of John Hughes

10 August 2009 11:24 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

For somebody associated with making some of the most resonant teen comedies in modern cinema history, John Hughes still doesn’t receive enough credit—mainly because, before John Hughes, there really was no such thing as the teen comedy. Teens have controlled the marketplace for quite some , so it’s hard to believe that before the early 1980s only a marginal selection of films were directed specifically at this audience. By the late 1950s, teen taste had become the largest, most marketable, and most potentially profitable controlling factor in setting music industry trends, cemented by Beatlemania in the mid-60s. The film industry, however, possessed no equivalent. The only films directed specifically and exclusively toward teens around this time were beach party movies like Where the Boys Are (1960), which were nothing more than forgettable, silly, squeaky-clean romps that sold tickets based on the appeal of bikinis and the then-popular subgenre of beach rock, but »

- Landon Palmer

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Fall Preview: Repertory Calendar

5 August 2009 11:17 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Joe Dante presenting "The Movie Orgy" in L.A., a rare stateside appearance of Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda for a retrospective in New York and the Fantastic Fest in Austin are just a few of the events that serve as the perfect antidote for the endless stream of summertime sequels and toy-based franchises.

More Fall Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]

[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]

[Breakout Performances]

92Y Tribeca

While the 92Y Tribeca is taking a well-deserved break in August, the cinema space comes roaring back in September, beginning with hosting the Fifth Annual NYC Shorts Festival (Sept. 10-13), followed by a late night "Labyrinth" sing-along complete with trivia and a costume contest (Sept. 25-26), and a Michael Winterbottom double bill of "Code 46" and "24 Hour Party People" (Sept. 30)...In October, the 92Y Tribeca will premiere "Zombie Girl: The Movie" (Oct. 2), the doc about 12-year-old filmmaker Emily Hagins and her quest to make a zombie movie, followed by hosting the Iron »

- Stephen Saito

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Broken Embraces - Poster

28 July 2009 11:16 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »

Broken Embraces is a four–way tale of amour–fou, shot in the style of ‘50s American film noir at its most hard–boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful, with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers. Broken Embraces is an original screenplay written by tPedro Almodóvar which see's him once team up with Penelope Cruz following their successful collaboration on Volver, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. The films also star Lluis Homar of Bad Education and Blanca Portilla of Volver. Regular Almodóvar contributors, such as Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave and Lola Dueñas have also joined the cast. Veteran actor Ángela Molina, who starred in Live Flesh, »

- Leigh

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Rebel with a Retrospective: Nicholas Ray at Film Forum

22 July 2009 5:23 AM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

Is there really anything to say about this master filmmaker which could be more persuasive than Jean-Luc Godard's famous proclamation that "The cinema is Nicholas Ray?"

The retrospective at Film Forum, which began with a week-long engagement of In a Lonely Place, and which runs through August 6 with fourteen other films, is a gift to the residents of Manhattan and its outer-lying boroughs. Undoubtedly a peculiar type of gift, the kind that you might not seek out on your own, the type which can only come from your bohemian uncle, the family pariah you've admired since adolescence. »

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Animalada (review)

19 July 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

A Heaven of Horror Sergio Bizzio’s Animalada (2001) Synapse films. What is the greatest love story ever told? Is it the one where dad delivered a pizza to the girl next door only to then realize he had been living next door to the love of his life without even knowing it? Or, maybe it’s the story Aunt Jane tells about her Mexican lover, who treated her like a princess for three months, writing a page about his love for her in a diary that he’d later give to her on the day they were married.  Or maybe it’s not as peachy clean as that, as mom and dad, as Jane and Mexico, as picture perfect so to speak. Maybe it’s a much more obscure tale of love, filled with the cottony softness of a Snuggles commercial packing the hard hitting bluntness of the raping of a brick. »

- Detroit

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Please Don't Let Me Love You: 'In A Lonely Place'

16 July 2009 3:29 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place is one of the most heartbreaking love stories ever committed to film. It's certainly one of the most poignant pictures (violently poignant at times) within the canon of film noir, a genre haunted by doomed love. Noir love -- the kind that causes characters to throw that "Baby, I don't care" caution to the wind -- is frequently a cynical fancy that won't survive the angst and ugliness inside the man or outside in the world. Its happiness is typically intense, but brief. Love or lust often motivates action in noir, particularly via a femme fatale (as in Double Indemnity or Out of the Past). But it also holds up a mirror to myriad themes, largely existential, that hang over characters with profound malaise. Ray approaches the torments of Camus and Sartre with In a... »

- Kim Morgan

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In The Nick Of Time

12 July 2009 3:27 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

It's been 30 years since the death on June 16, 1979, of Nicholas Ray, the hard-living Ameri can filmmaker lionized by the French New Wave. ("Le cinema, c'est Nicholas Ray," Jean-Luc Godard once said.)

To mark the occasion, Film Forum is offering a 15-film showcase of Ray's work. It opens Friday with a week's run of "In a Lonely Place" (1950), a crackling noir with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, one of Ray's four wives.

Bogie plays Dixon Steele, a cynical, self-destructive screenwriter suspected of killing »

- By V.A. MUSETTO

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Trailers for Sheridan's 'Brothers' and Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'

3 July 2009 4:47 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I will never understand why movie studios allow for their trailers to debut on "Entertainment Tonight" with that shoddy logo slathered on the video and an ugly bootlegged version of it showing up online, but that's what we have here when it comes to our first look at Jim Sheridan's Brothers, which stars Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman and is set to be released by Lionsgate on December 4. The film was expected to be a potential Oscar contender last year, but didn't make it to theaters and will, instead, make an awards season run this year. The film is a remake of Susan Bier's Danish-language war drama centering on a man (Maguire) who is sent to fight in Afghanistan while his black-sheep brother (Gyllenhaal) cares for his wife and child. Check out that trailer below and stay tuned as I will add an official version to the site once it becomes available. »

- Brad Brevet

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I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Five Films About Loneliness)

2 May 2009 9:29 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

1. In a Lonely Place (1950; d. Nicholas Ray)

“I was born when she kissed me.

I died when she left me.

I lived a few weeks while she loved me.”

Not just the title, but the entire picture is suffused with loneliness. Dixon Steele, played by Humphrey Bogart with a thin sheet of icy reserve over a deep reservoir of roiling anger, is filled with contempt toward himsef, for the compromises he has made as a Hollywood screenwriter, and toward everyone else, because they are so clearly beneath even him in their feeble attempts to make lasting contributions to society.

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- Peter Martin

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King Of Kings Tops Jesus Film Poll

12 April 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Movie legend Cecil B. Demille's The King Of Kings has topped an Easter-flavoured poll to find the best film about Jesus' life.

The 1927 film, starring H.B. Warner, beat director Nicholas Ray's 1961 remake and 1964's The Gospel According to St. Matthew to top Time magazine's new list.

Also making the top 10 are Godspell, The Last Temptation of Christ, Passion of The Christ and even Monty Python's Life of Brian. »

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Poster for Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'

3 March 2009 12:40 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Okay, so it doesn't have ectoplasm goo as does the new motion poster for The Haunting in Connecticut and it is actually a bit redundant, but since I am anxiously awaiting the November 6 release of Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces this new poster as found by The Film Experience keeps the movie in the spotlight if only for a minute. The film reteams Almodovar with Penelope Cruz and the plot itself gives you a little more insight into the design: Broken Embraces is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" and Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful," with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers. »

- Brad Brevet

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Thirty Five Seconds of Bliss: Broken Embraces Teaser

20 February 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Lush wardrobe colors, a Penelope Cruz being carried around by multiple older men, and a wall littered with former “flames”. You can't get much out of 35 seconds, and I'm not about to make some sort of analysis here before just appreciating the images and score, but for what it is worth, Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces is looking to do exactly what Todd Haynes' did with his homage to Douglas Sirk – bring the 50's to the forefront. To be released in Spain well before Cannes, I'm looking forward to catching this one on the Croisette.  Broken Embraces is a 1990s-set drama is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli's The Bad And The Beautiful, with signature Almodovar themes such as Fate, »

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Teaser Trailer for Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'

19 February 2009 2:34 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Well, well, just a few minutes after we learn Pedro Almodóvar is one of Entertainment Weekly's top 25 active directors he get a teaser trailer for his new film Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos) afilm starring Oscar nominee Penelope Cruz as the two pick up where they left off with Volver. Broken Embraces is described as a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" and Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful," with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers. Check out the teaser below and stay tuned as hopefully Sony Pictures Classics will release some images and an official release date soon. »

- Brad Brevet

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The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Holds Rare Screening "Wind Across The Everglades" At Cinema Paradiso

26 January 2009 6:53 AM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival held a rare screening of a Christopher Plummer film, "Wind Across the Everglades" on Saturday, January 24 at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Plummer also attended the event and received a Lifetime Achievement award.

The showing was a rare occurrence for the film, which had very few showings in Los Angeles and New York in August and September of 1958. It has never been moved to DVD and has not been shown on television in recent decades. It was a onetime collaboration between director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause) and screenwriter Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront).

The night began with a showing of the 1958 movie, Plummer's second film in his movie career. He starred as Walt Murdock, a 19th-century Florida game warden who declares war on local bird poachers in the Everglades in the turn of the century in early Miami, Florida. Co-stars in the film include Burl Ives, »

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2009 | 2008

16 articles from 2009

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